Bridget will you, Director Keating, will you please call the role?

Uh Commissioner Arrington, he's gonna be coming late.

Okay.

Uh Commissioner Martin here, Mr.

Redondo.

Here, Commissioner Rogers.

Here, Commissioner Williams.

Vice Chair Cutler, here, Chair Muller.

Okay.

Um, first item of business is public input.

And I'll look to our public for their input.

May I sit over here?

You can speak right there.

Yeah.

This is all right.

Yeah.

Uh and there's no clock, I see, so that's good.

Uh if you're here to talk about the Coca-Cola sign, Bridget's done a great job.

I appreciate her ushering this through two years worth of review by the boards.

Uh this is the second round here.

Um I just wanna um emphasize that I I wholeheartedly support the the commitment of fifty thousand dollars to the restoration.

The the bids from what I understand are in the last time I reviewed them or thirty-five to eighty-five, so canning has come down considerably.

They were at a hundred and hundred and ten, they've come down to eighty-five.

That that may not be the solution, there may be a cheaper solution in some of the other bids, but we're set up where we can kind of cross the finish line and get this over the hurdle.

Um and preserve the sign, restore it, pass it along to someone who wants to take care of it in Rick Ross.

He said he would take possession of it, the ownership of it, and maintain it, but it had to be restored before he did that.

So let's let's do that.

If the restoration works out where it's cheaper, let's use the balance that's being committed.

We can still get some money from the city, we'll still be advocating for that to escrow to let him preserve it, let him spend two thousand dollars a year or every two years to inspect it and and preserve it after it's been restored.

And I I just I and a conservation easement is a great solution.

We've talked about that of saying, you know, you you must take care of it.

We're gonna be watching you.

And uh landmarking would do the same thing.

Um there are some hurdles to that, but I I live in a house that is both landmarked and has a conservation easement.

I can tell you that it's um it's what's in the best interest of the house.

I've always maintained that.

But we have a lot of maybes.

Like, well, maybe we can move it, maybe we can store it, maybe you can go in the new city hall.

And I I just we we have a solution that's affordable that will guarantee its preservation.

Um even after Rick, if we can get a conservation in even after Rick owns the building, because he could sell it tomorrow.

But uh everything's everything's kind of in place.

We just need to get over that at her little the commitment of the uh uh of of the money to to help uh restore it.

So I I appreciate your time and your effort.

Hi, and thank you in three or three with Simpson Street.

And um, I I want to echo what Doug said.

I support um both the uh resolution for to transfer the easement and also the um cooperative agreement with Laura and the city for the fifty thousand dollars.

Um Doug and I back in January, Doug and I filed a landmarking application for the sign, and um was turned by down by the city attorney for reasons we don't like, but anyway, um there is some information.

Uh Doug did amazing research into the sign, and as you will see in Bridget's presentation, which I've had the pleasure of watching several times now.

And as you will see in Bridget's presentation, which I've had the pleasure of watching several times now, there's you're going to learn a lot about the history, including Pat Wright, Lafayette's first female city councilwoman.

But I wanted to talk about a couple things in the in the our landmarking application that have specifically pertaining to Laura's relationship with the sign.

And the first has to do with the easement for 103 North Public Road.

And that was dated March 15, 2016.

Section 2.2 maintenance says Lura retains the sole right and obligation to maintain the mural and to enter onto the property to do so.

The cultural what is her title?

Cultural arts director, yeah.

Um we have uh emails in that that uh Doug had gotten um relating to that.

And we also have the highway bar Coca-Cola sign maintenance plan from the conservative Deborah Ole.

Um it isn't dated, but it followed her February 2036 report to February 23rd, 2016 report to quote owner agent Roger Caruso for the City of Lafayette about how the sign was restored.

So in her maintenance plan, she had daily and weekly routine maintenance.

Any damages or alterations to the sign should be documented with photography, the date of occurrence, and any other details.