If you know there's no out of pocket, you're gonna you're gonna call an ambulance more often.

I say no, yeah.

People will abuse it from back then that primary is a big issue.

No small percentage of people account for a more sense of cards.

Yeah.

Well, we're just about the membership thing and then you're saying insurance company, then I can I guess because you people would tend to use it.

If you don't have to come up with any money, you just call amateurs go.

Some people boy, they just want to go around for a ride.

That actually happens.

Oh, I know.

I don't understand.

Yeah.

I mean, the consequence of the decision if it's not clarified.

Yes, sir.

Okay, I'll look at it.

I'm sorry, I did not say this.

I don't see a lot of people here.

Uh a regular guy.

I'll respond to it.

Sure.

Do I want to pray?

We don't just do prayers.

Go ahead and do it.

I'll do it in the middle.

I guess I need to google it first.

I would raise Calic.

We don't do we don't do impromptu prayers.

Well we don't do that either.

We follow the calendar.

Well, somebody on the road.

We're gonna call this meeting to order.

These guys gonna lead us in the prayer.

Mr.

Weatherford is gonna lead us in the pledge.

Lord, thank you for this opportunity to gather, guide our discussions with wisdom and help.

Let's listen to one another with open hearts and minds.

Grant us clarity and spirit of unity and a productive meeting.

Amen.

Amen.

All right, please repeat what we'll pleasure.

Ms.

Renee.

Well, we we would do it after you read in.

You want to you want me to read in first, or you want to do the read in first and then we'll do the guests.

Okay.

Appoint a chairman to review bids for project number CP 3414, Southwest Water Treatment Plant Backup Power Improvements.

Appointed chairman to review bids to purchase one new rear load of refuge truck for use by the Public Works Department, Solid Waste Trash Division.

Appointed chairman to review bids to purchase one new three-wheel sweeper for use by the Public Works Department Streets Division.

Appointed chairman to purchase one new six-yard dunk truck for use by the Public Works Department Grounds Maintenance Division.

Appoint a chairman to purchase one new four-wheel sweeper for use by the Public Works Department Ground Maintenance Division.

Appoint a chairman to purchase traffic control products under a 12-month contract with the option to renew for an additional 12 months for use by the public works department communications and traffic division.

Public hearing and consideration on alternation of shoreline of Calcashoe River to install timber deck and covered boat slips and remove and replace existing damaged bulkhead by installing riprap and fill for bank line stabilization at 20 River Road, an ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 3023 General Twining, Gertrude and Savoy and George Watch and Savoy Estate Owners.

An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement with Motorola Solutions for the purchase of 70 APX N70 XE mobile radios for use by the Lake Charles Fire Department utilizing Ascension Parish contract number 51022.

An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into a professional services agreement with Allied Universal to provide comprehensive security detail coverages for City Hall, the Transit Division Building, the downtown lakefront, and other buildings as needed.

Introduction and final action of an ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Louisiana Department of Treasury relative to a line item appropriation contained in Act 461 of 2025 RLS for the Prion Lake Road Pedestrian Bridge over Contraband Bayou.

A resolution accepting project number CP 3376 Chenault Air Force Base 12, well Chenault AFB, 12 inch water loop as substantially complete and authorizing the advertising of the 45-day lien period.

An ordinance amending section 24-5-3071-5A1i of the Lake Charles zoning ordinance relative to Nelly Lecher District Overlay Standards.

An ordinance authorizing the settlement of a claim against the city of Lake Charles in the suit style Asia Mesh versus Union Carbide Corporation et al.

Docket number 2024-4641 Division G on the docket of the 14th Judicial District Court Parish of Calcashoe, State of Louisiana.

An ordinance amending section 12-5.3 of the City of Lake Charles Code of Ordinances relative to permit uses.

And that's all that I have.

Okay, at this time we got uh a couple of guests, I think it is.

Uh Mr.

Billy Vincent from uh Cadian Amulance.

Good afternoon.

My name is Taylor Richard.

I'm the regional vice president for Acadian Ambulance Service.

We wanted to come here tonight, and this is Billy Vincent, who's our community relations supervisor, Jason Fuselaire who also works for Acadian with us.

So again, we wanted to come tonight and just give the council and the mayor an update just about a little bit of the things that Acadian Ambulance is doing within the city of Lake Charles.

So what we're providing tonight is just kind of a big overview of just a snapshot of all the things that we do within for Acadian in the city of Lake Charles.

So just again, kind of talking a little bit.

Biggest thing that we're always doing is making sure we have enough ambulances to respond to the emergencies in an appropriate amount of time.

So for the month of September, you can see we ran a little over 2,500 emergent calls within the city limits of Lake Charles.

Our average response time to be at an emerging emergency is eight minutes and 39 seconds.

So that's a fairly good average response time when it comes to national standards.

That has also been on a good downward decrease for us and responding to emergent calls.

So again, just really talking about some of the big things that we do when it comes to our contribution and providing medical services and providing good patient care.

If you look a little bit too and over into that second column of clinical outlook, so we we also track the quality of how we're you know treating our patients and saving lives whenever it comes to getting someone into the back of an ambulance and getting them to definitive care.

So all of these things again look like a lot of kind of numbers and things, but those are all really critical measures of what we measure to make sure that not only do we get to the emergency in a quick fashion, but also how are we treating our patients?

Are we helping them in bettering themselves to get before we get to the hospital?

A little bit just about kind of Acadian in general.

Our operation here in Lake Charles on Enterprise Boulevard, we we have about 112 team members at work for us.

That's an annual salary, about 6.7 million of what we you know in salary that we pay out.

Um the building on Enterprise Forest is our main headquarters for all of Calcashoe Parish in Lake Charles.

So when you look at the building, we've been in there.

Five subs.

Yeah.

So it's been a great location for us.

So the right side of the building is our operations, and then the left side of the building is actually what we consider it's called the National EMS Academy.

So it's our training division of a for us for Acadian.

Um that National EMS Academy is the second largest producer of EMTs and paramedics in the nation.

With the only school that produces more EMTs and paramedics than the National EMS Academy is UCLA in California.

How they're doing it, I don't know, because we're producing anywhere from about 2,500 to 3,000 people a year throughout our company.

That's four states, 14 locations.

Here in Lake Charles, we produce about 300 people a year through our program.

So that's people coming to get their EMT certification, their EMR, their paramedic certification, or any type of recertification.

So one thing that we wanted to come talk to you about a little bit tonight is just the capability that we have specifically in Lake Charles to be able to train, educate, and give people careers.

We have six EMT classes a year.

That's one semester long.

It's college credit.

We have 12 EMR classes a year, which is a little bit more of a short-term training.

It's about two weeks in length, but it gives people looking for careers opportunity to get into the EMS field.

Um through COVID and this, you know, all the staffing things and all these different things.

This has been something for us that's really helped us to be very successful here not only in Lake Charles but in the rest of our company to be able to provide good adequate trained staff.

We've learned that we have to make sure that we're training these people in a very high quality standard, and we take it into our own hands to make sure that we're providing the best education that we can.

So one thing again that we just really wanted to get out and you know ask for your help.

And if you're looking at anybody's looking for a career, we we're always looking for good people to be able to go into our academies and train.

We not only train for us, but we train for all of our other first responder agencies within the area too.

Uh we have a great partnership with Lake Charles Fire right now that we've been able to put some firefighters through an EMT class to be able to give them that training too.

It's where there's even more certified people that show up on an emergency.

That's been a great, great thing for us, and we're very blessed to have the Lake Charles Fire Department to take that training and be a part of that too.

Um so again, you know, we very much love your, you know, again, if you have a constituent that comes across and that's looking for a career, please send them our way.

We we'd love to be able to talk to them and see if this this field fits for them to give them a career.

We for our own employees, we offer tuition assistance 100% free.

So any person that works for us can take all of their training at no cost.

So EMT become a paramedic, which is a little longer training, right?

It's a two-year training.

We cover all the cost of that in an effort to help to build career paths for people as they continue to come through.

Naturally, you know, we have plenty of alumni of a KDN that are now doctors and PAs and nurses or working a different career.

But what we've learned and what we really pride ourselves on is spending a lot of time making sure that we're continuing to educate and to train and to grow our staff to be able to provide the service that we do within Lake Charles.

Um one other big thing that I really just wanted to talk on tonight a little bit is is community CPR.

So this is a really important thing that I you know we would love to be able to get out more in the community.

So when the a big emergency happens, right?

When someone goes into cardiac arrest, the biggest thing that's gonna save their lives is someone being trained in CPR.

CPR in the past has was, you know, and I think we all know maybe we took it in high school or school or something like that, where you know you do chest compressions and you give rescue breasts and these kind of things.

American Heart Association has really updated these standards to where it's just hands-only CPR.

So the portion of giving rescue breasts always wasn't the best thing, you know, for people, and and you know, science has really proven that what gives the best success rate for someone to survive this event is someone doing good quality CPR in a very quick fashion.

So one thing that we wanted to kind of just bring tonight is is we would really like to continue to work with the city of Lake Charles to be able to offer more community CPR events.

These events we offer for free.

We go out into the community, you know, we have all of our mannequins set up.

Sometimes you know, we'll provide a good meal and just get people to come out to be able to learn how to do community CPR, right?

Someone something happens, how to dial 911, how to start the chest compressions, and have that to be able to have a better chance of survival.

The other piece that falls in line with that too is having an accessibility to an AD, an automated external defibrillator, right?

You know, the thing that charges and that you push the button and those kind of things.

Um we would absolutely love to work with y'all to look at how we can better enhance the city of Lake Charles access to ADs, whether that's in convenient locations throughout the city, you know, um big sports arenas or you know, big city halls or things like that, really good access points to where we could have these for the community to use if there's an emergency that happens, right?

And it's proven there's some studies that show specifically Seattle, Washington has the best cardiac survival rate.

The reason they have that is because they have the most AEDs and the most trained citizens in the city of Seattle.

We at Acadian think that we can take this project here to Lake Charles.

I I think that we really can do something that's can really impact someone's life moving forward, and it's something that we can track.

Like this is something that we really really can look at with the amount of people, how many ADs we have placed, and we can on the you know, with the incorporation of the hospitals look at what the survival rate is once we've done this training or implemented this plan.

So again, a part of it is just one for us to come tonight and just introduce ourselves again and just be very transparent and kind of give everybody you know an update of where we're at.

We'd love if y'all would like to, for us to continue to just come every once in a while and give you updates on what we're doing in the community, but also too again, kind of that second asking kind of twofold, right?

Again, if you if you have someone who's looking for a career, we'd love to be able to talk to them to potentially see if the EMS field is a good fit for them.

And second, you know, we'd love to continue working with y'all in the city to be able to figure out how we move this plan forward for a really good effort when it comes to potentially saving someone's life.

So another thing that we have too that we we'd love, so we offer sponsorships out to the community, right?

We'd love to give everyone here just some sponsorships.

So if you come across someone who says, Yeah, I might be interested, a nice little certificate with a QR, you a QR code on it, that that person could submit and put your name on it.

That way we can then reach out to them and give them that sponsorship.

So again, every we'd like to offer y'all all these sponsorships to give out.

Um that's it.

So and mayor, just a little background.

I don't know if you remember.

Uh some months back, I brought to the council about the uh situation at my church.

A lady had had a heart attack in the church, and just so happened after speaking to Billy and and uh his boss uh found out that a bunch of things were happening at that same exact time.

It was other people that needed ambulances, and that's what made the the uh the trek so long.

It took I think 11 minutes.

11 minutes for them to make it to the house, and that's not the average, right?

Right.

So um he heard us talking about it on the council meeting, and then we reached out and I met with them and we talked about some things uh the AED program that Seattle has.

Uh they have some ideas about potentially finding sponsorship in Lake Charles and putting it starting maybe in the downtown area and putting it throughout the city if that's something you'd be interested in.

Um we've discussed it because uh I'm very familiar with the Seattle model because we use that in some of the uh industrial cases that I had.

And especially since we're heavily industrial area and we got a lot of water, it would be good for our citizenry to know how to administer CPR so that even if you run into a situation where there's we have uh unusual amount of occurrences that there's people right down on spot that can go ahead and do that.

So I know at our church, our particular church, uh we're talking about sending people to the uh to the uh through the program to get certified in CPR, uh, especially ushers and people that are there, but also we purchased two AEDs to put in the church too.

So I think it's gonna be life-saving.

I think it's a demonstrated model.

I think uh Seattle, when they did that, most of the citizens, believe it or not, in Seattle, uh, because of the suicide rates in Washington, that's why they started that program, and they've reduced their mobility their mortality rate pretty significantly.

I think they leave the country in outcomes now.

They do, yeah.

Yes.

So I think that would be perfect for our area.

Yeah, one other thing y'all shared is the program going into the high schools.

Yes, so actually it's I brought into you right here.

We have uh the open house is coming up at the beginning of December for our explorer program for that, and that's high school students that are interested in a health care career, maybe come on board with us uh through that uh explorer program, and then they actually go out to things like Magnesi games, baseball games, uh community events, they get taught CPR, and uh they are integrated into these things that we do in the community so they get their feet wet at the beginning to see how and where they want to move forward with that career and helping away and and council also as a recruitment tool uh because uh the the those uh people that work with Kitty and our first responders uh as a recruitment tool, not only would they get training and jobs, but they also qualify for our home program and first-time home ownership incentives.

So not only can you go out there and get a job and a career, but there's a way that you can get into your first time home buyers program too.

Any questions?

Mr.

Just wanted to make a comment.

Um I think most people know this, but um I want to thank y'all for y'all.

I know y'all stand by all the high school football games.

I officiate football and um I think may I've been doing it for I don't know, eight years or so years now.

I think y'all only had to um respond once, actually bring somebody off the field.

But I know it gives a lot of people peace of mind, and that y'all are there if something does happen and so on, you know, breaks a leg or you know, has a heart attack from the stands that that y'all are there to take care of people.

So thank y'all for providing that service because y'all do that as a community service.

Yes, it's free, right?

Right.

The the community CPR event you talked about.

Would y'all host that at your training facility or would you host it somewhere else?

We so we could do it all over.

So last year, here before we partnered with Parson Rex, and we did a community CPR event.

All right, and so we did it kind of at some different locations through the city of Lake Charles.

So we we've done it before.

We can we we love our building.

We have plenty of space there, we got some big training rooms.

We'd love to be able to host it there or wherever we came.

Um LDH Dr.

Cavanaugh, um, there's an actual thing going on right now where they want to get this in the community even more.

So we would like to host an event um similar to what happened in my fiat years ago at the Cajun Dome where there is a large-scale CPR event that occurs.

And yes, we would like to find a venue that can house that event and partnering with y'all and get the community to do a mass CPR training event.

And it's in the beginnings of talks.

I talked with uh Memorial Hospital, I will be talking with St.

Pass Hospital, and try to get them all on board as partners to have people there to help with this event.

We're trying to see if we can make this happen maybe springtime 26.

Yeah.

Okay.

Count us in.

Yes, sir.

Uh where each group on this.

Hold on.

No, you're right.

Go ahead.

So yeah, the explorer program is for high school students.

I think 13 all the way to it's 21, but usually it's freshmen, you know, it's a seniors that are interested in it.

Yeah, just wanted to say hugely appreciative of the investment uh that you made in Nelly Letcher Cultural District.

That was a real catalyst for getting a couple of other things moving there.

Um, but more so your community involvement is bar nine.

Uh as Mr.

Weatherford said the football games are nice, but any time I called with downtown at Sundown or Culture Fest, you guys were always willing to come and help with those be present.

And um, with regard to the CPR trainings, I like the massive event, but bringing them into the neighborhoods is is very valuable.

I I did take one of your CPR classes at uh College Oaks, and there were several people there that didn't have transportation, so if we can bring that to the neighborhoods, I think more people will have access to it.

And and thank you for doing that.

We're fairly mobile.

We can go wherever we need to stop.

Any other questions or comments?

Who would who would we talk to about getting that set up?

Yeah, so any of us at the bottom, all the way at the right hand corners is some of our our team's contact information.

So again, reach out to us and or or Billy and Jason, myself, we can absolutely we'd love if y'all are okay to come back, you know, once a month or every other month just to kind of continue to give updates as we continue to work through this.

But um, we're absolutely here.

Give me a reading.

Um, I'll be working with the hospitals and others to set up the mass training.

And then if y'all need community events, we would love to partner and maybe set up an actual rotation that goes through the community centers because you are all right.

Thank y'all.

I know we're in there.

Uh all right.

Moving on.

The other person is here.

That was another one.

All right.

We're going at this time.

Um Mr.

Weatherford, you got anything?

Um I just wanted to thank our um traffic group um responded really quickly to a constituent that had a concern about most about parking in his neighborhood, but also about speeding.

So they're doing a traffic study now, and um maybe coming with uh um ordinance to um have no parking around his home.

Um and also wanted to um item on the agenda.

Um just wanted to make sure that um y'all are aware wanted to thank um our local delegation, especially Jeremy Stein, who got um the um item on um that we're gonna take action on uh I believe next week, where the state um is funding a um pedestrian bridge on Pran Lake Road bridge.

I don't know how often I I drive it all the time because it's on my way home, but it's really dangerous um bridge.

Um a lot of pedestrians walk on that little bridge with no shoulder um all times of the day and night.

Um where a lot of them think a lot of them are casino employee.

Well they're in the service industry, so they're in dark uniforms, and uh I think we're very lucky that no one's gotten hit and injured or even um died on that walk.

So that's gonna help a lot.

Um and the state's funding that for us next to that bridge next to Almstead shipyard.

So Mr.

Bible.

Oh, you do, Mr.

I'm in.

Yes, sorry.

This moment we talk.

Oh, first I want to thank uh public works and the city of Lake Charles for how fast they respond when I when I do call them daily, I get no hesitation from Ms.

Wendy and her crew or Miss Paul and the crew.

Ms.

Paul almost know when I'm coming.

They can see me come off the elevator, but I I do want to ask a question about repeat offenders.

Is it anything in the ordinance?

I know we all be nice, but I think we use a lot of time dealing with the same business or the or the same house.

At what point of it do is it uh does it go to the next step when you become a repeat offender that we handle it different okay.

Um we do have a process that if it is um for grass or junk and debris or whatever, it has to be the same thing the next time.

But if the city has the opportunity to go in and um abate the violation, then um we can file an affidavit the next time.

And that affidavit is good for a year where we can go in every 30 days and cut and clean the property.

Um if it's excessive, um where it's happening over and over and over again over several years' time, we can bring them to administrative hearing.

Years, yes.

Okay, because we have the affidavit in effect.

Um, you know, we usually don't bring them to administrative hearing unless it's like um we call them high profile cases where it has a lot of violations on one piece of property.

Um and then we walk them through the process of cleaning the property themselves.

We found if the city goes in and continually cleans it whenever it's an excessive amount of violations.

You know, it goes to adjudication.

They can't pay the bill or whatever.

But if we make them clean it, then you know eight out of ten times, they won't do it again.

So the process we have right now is we do an affidavit, it's good for a year.

We can go in there every 30 days and clean it.

Um now that you know we do have people that call excessively or call once a month to make sure that the property is cut.

You know, we can't stop that.

So with the the people that call in.

But uh with the affidavit process, we can get we can catch it sooner than later.

Okay.

Okay.

And yes, all the cost goes towards the property owner.

So that's it.

Mr.

Fundale.

Umly thing I have is the um it's the it's Booker T Washington Court.

Um Channel Street is what it is.

Uh I I contacted the housing authority, but people are living in those buildings that they got over there.

Uh I don't have two calls where they step outside their door and folks are looking at them from these vacant buildings, especially on Saturdays.

Um they have a down fence further up, but maybe we can get some patrols by there or something.

It increase a little.

Uh, but I got with the housing authority, they know about it, but I I just uh I've been getting a lot of calls.

And also there's a ditch right there.

Um it's in the back of the housing authority property, and it runs in that little alleyway.

Oh sorry and the owner was complaining, he'd been keeping up with it for years, cutting the grass on it, and he's gotten older, and he he said it's time for us to do a little uh on that.

So if we can get we can look at that.

Uh also there's property, and I never got with uh um the property over there by the railroad track right by I 10.

Is it becoming a dumping zone?

Um soon as we get it cleaned up, they dump something else.

Could we make a round by there every now and then to just make sure it's picked up?

It's the north side.

Is that the same place where that boat was?

Yeah, where the boat was.

I think it's it's Railroad Avenue, I think is what it's called.

You're talking about the one closer to the YMCA on the other end.

Uh I'm talking about the one closer to the YMCA right there by the truck stop.

It kind of goes from the interstate to the truck stop.

Um it's not that bad right now.

I passed there every so often.

Also, is their dark and road in in Lake Charles?

I uh I think we need to contact uh Gulf states because I I put it in the app before and they hadn't repaired it yet.

Um there's two things I found that uh when people are dumping illegally, they'll actually uh take a little pellet guns and take out the lights anyway.

But yeah, also uh I know we still do it.

We can close that road off.

There's no no one living there.

We'll take a look at it.

I know uh when we had we used to have some dump sites we would put their cameras out there and you could pretty much track who's going out then.

And maybe that's what they're doing.

That might be what it is.

They they're shooting the lights out so they can jump, huh?

Well, it's been an ongoing thing since I and I got people that just go travel it to let me know when it's out.

Mr.

Fondell, you're talking about the road to be closed off.

Which road are you talking about?

What's the name of it?

Uh I think it's Railroad Avenue.

I'm not quite sure what the name of the road is.

Miller Center.

It goes across the highway.

No, it's not.

This is on this is next to the railroad track.

But I'm talking about that street goes all the way across.

All the way to the north side.

Yes.

You're talking about behind the bus station.

It runs from the you got easy to um to truck rent.

Yeah, that road there.

They intersect.

Remember when we had the person that would try to put a business back there?

Yeah.

That same street.

No, no, not that on the other side.

It's South Railroad Avenue.

Um it's uh the next street over where the church street, you know, where Frujet Road goes underneath the um the overpass.

It's it's that Railroad Avenue right there.

Yes, yes, yeah.

It's a high spot for tire dumping, no, but I'm just gonna do it.

Whatever dumping.

So and we still got the boat that they're hiding it on there.

Yes, I got in touch with the guy from the parish, and he actually they're going through the process of the certified mail.

They have to have delivery.

Um the state police is gonna help them move the boat, but right now that's good.

Uh out of sight out of mine.

He told me he put it behind the trees to where I couldn't see it.

So, yes, they are still working on it.

Yes.

Um that's all I heard.

Thank you.

Okay, Mr.

Young.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, got a lot of help this week from public works, uh, planning and the police department.

So I want to say thank you to those departments for quickly helping.

Um and a word about the uh veterans day ceremony.

Uh I've gone to a lot of those that the city has put on, and that was absolutely the top.

That was the best.

And so a word of thanks to uh Tanya Senegal in the mayor's office and Kelly Missell uh in planning.

I know that both of them have a heady heavy hand in that.

Uh, and then the way that recreation made the park look, even veterans were commenting on that saying it it you know it had never looked this good.

And so I just think that the way a community supports and recognizes its veterans is important.

It says a lot about Lake Charles that we do that, and we should keep that up.

Also wanted to say uh give on a word to a word of thanks to three of my colleagues, Mr.

Fondell, Mr.

Marks, and Mr.

Bilbo, uh all veterans, and so thank you, gentlemen, for your service.

I know we've got other members in the council chambers.

Mr.

Vizeno, yes, indeed.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

For veterans, that's that's that's a yeah, we got a majority up here.

I learned something new every day.

That was that was impressive.

Thank you guys.

Thank you for your service.

Also, I got an email from a lady and uh I had to get with Mr.

Harvey saying um when are they going to be bought out?

She's lives on Fitzer Rider.

And they they did a public meeting where they told the people they were getting bought out.

They know that they're they're they're doing the right-of-way acquisitions now, so they should be being contacted uh any time.

They'll get notices, they'll get formal written notices of the of the proposed amount and what how much they're gonna take.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you sister.

Oh, I'm sorry, they'll get formal written letters with them the property that's proposed to wrong about um I think they're doing the appraisals now, huh?

Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm not quite sure I know which one you're talking about, but they have reached out to hit a public meeting.

Yes, sir.

I think there's there's four or five of the homes we're looking at trying to acquire.

Okay.

I I'll send you the email so you can contact her, okay?

Very good.

Yes, sir.

Ms.

Bees up.

Uh I don't have much.

I just want to uh uh say again, like everybody said, all the departments, public work, uh properties, they they've all when I call uh it's like things happen.

I I can't tell you how nice it is to call, and actually people see something after they contact us, they see some results.

It's not always resolved, but uh I can't say enough about the team.

So thank y'all so much.

Thank you.

Thank y'all.

Mr.

Harvey gave me a few things.

Um one of them, which uh what Mr.

Fundell said, he wanted to know the status of the land acquisitions on Fitzer Rider, so y'all can probably communicate with him that on the north on the west side of Fitzer Rider.

I mean Fitzer Ride, the west side of Railroad Avenue on the north side, that's also becoming a dump site by Mount Pilgrim Church.

They got a uh little alley in there, and every week somebody's dumping something, whether it be icebox, or you know, and it's it's lit over there for the most part.

So um that was an area that he was concerned about.

Okay.

Um, and that's all I had from uh district A.

For myself, do we know the the the uh the status of second harvest?

In terms of the uh are they gonna where they're gonna locate?

Um are they going through with the project?

Yeah, we did.

We met with second harvest.

Uh uh, they they did meet uh apparently the first time we met, they didn't recognize what the full parameters of the grant recipients were, so they went back, they actually uh came back, said that they've they've uh narrowed the scope of what they wanted to do.

They had the uh a resiliency hub that was gonna be across from the uh the um National Guard on Legion Street, but they had a lot a lot of things on the outside, like a farmers market and all that.

So they're doing away with all that they're full slowly concentrating on cooking meals, they're supposed to give up to about 3,000 meals uh uh per day if they need to, but they also uh recognize that if there's a uh adverse weather event that the use of that building may change into recoveries, like like bringing tarps or the uh potable water, independent charge station.

So we we met with them last week and they came in, they had retooled everything, but they're I think they're on board.

Um I have a sidewalk.

Well, got some apartment complexes, new apartment complexes on Power Center Drive off of Fifth Avenue.

Uh it's the uh they got the gas station on the corner of Power Center and those two um apartment complexes.

For some reason, the the contractors are leaving those rocks over the sidewalks, and it's causing people who uh travel on wheelchairs and different things to have to veer out into the street.

So if we can, and and it's damaging our sidewalks uh on that side.

So if we could take a look at that, I'd appreciate it.

Also the stoplight at the corner of Highway 14 and Power Center Drive.

If you go there at the busy time of day when school letting out and things like that, they sit at that light a long time.

You might get two cars through the light, and that's on all four sides.

So if we can get uh maybe a traffic study done and see if we could extend those lights a little bit to free up that traffic that's bargaining up uh power center drive and highway 14.

Mr.

Marks, I believe that's gonna be a state, but we can send the state your request and get them a look at it.

Okay.

Um have a turning signal, huh?

Yeah, they got one, but it's on is one is to the They don't have one going left.

Yeah.

Coming out of they got them always.

I think one of them is bad because I got the same complaint about you can't turn when you're coming out of power center.

Yeah, it doesn't last long, I'm sure.

It doesn't last long.

I have a couple like that too in my area.

The other thing is for the edification of my colleagues and myself.

I would like to have a chain of command for every department from the bottom to the top.

Who reports to who and who reports to who own up?

You understand what I'm saying?

I I would like to have that sent to all the council so we can understand just how the departments run and who we're talking to and you know how how everything works in those various departments.

The other thing I would like to have is a current pay for all city employees, including salary, administration, and the council.

Uh I'd like to have to see where we are, because we getting I am getting questions about raises and different things like that.

So I'd like to educate myself on the uh the knowledge of, you know, when we tell people we can't pay them, it's not just because we don't want to pay them.

It's understanding how the money is being used throughout the city.

So if at all possible, I'd like to have that sent to all the council members, as well as I would like to know how many non-traditional positions we have throughout the city that don't that are not ordered by the charter.

I know we have some positions that we've created over the years.

I'd like to have uh a count of those as well as the salaries of them uh emailed to the council as well.

Mr.

Marks from I um under the charter, if you're looking for the charter, there's only seven departments that's identified by the charter.

All the other ones are not identified by the charter.

But I guess what I'm talking about is if you got a lead in the department and then you got an assistant.

There's some assistance that wasn't originally, maybe I'm saying it wrong, the charter.

When they're when the jobs originally started, they didn't have those positions.

Now we have some of those in different areas in different departments.

You follow what I'm saying?

Like I give you an example, wastewater.

Wastewater we have the utilities manager, the utilities manager, what an original position that used to fall under the public works director.

So now we have that position.

And I'd like to know how many other positions like that we have throughout the city.

Uh, you know, just for edification to know, and I like that sent to all the colleagues.

Uh I have a house on the corner.

Well, it ain't on the corner.

If you turn off of Fifth Avenue going on to 18th Street, headed west.

It's the third house on the left-hand side.

That house, Miss Paula, we've had trouble with for the longest.

And now that the weather is changing, people are starting to go in there and sleep, and this house from the exterior, it looks like it's in good shape, but it's torn up.

And the house has been um red tag, matter of fact, it's blue tagged.

It's been that way for going on a little over three years now.

And I think we need to do something with it as far as going forward and uh have it having something done with it.

Uh that'll be it.

That's all I have right now.

With that, we'll move on to the portion where the public speaks.

I have no cards, but I know sometimes people don't fill out cards.

Is there anyone in the audience that wanted to speak at this time?

No.

Mayor?

I have nothing today.

Ms.

Cordon?

No, sir.

Anybody else?

Meeting adjourned.