Oh really?

Okay.

Okay.

Yes, the arrow.

It's like maybe a car.

Oh, sometimes it was value over 60 dollars.

Yeah, I was in the answer was called state, huh?

I guess that must be the only one.

Oh, you come on.

I guess you didn't say late jobs.

Are you sorry?

Good.

Oh, if y'all uh if you ever do a meeting a community meeting like I've asked, I like I let everybody know, like if y'all want to stay away, we should just ask.

We'll be there.

Okay.

They have them everyone.

I forgot.

I'm going to drop off tomorrow.

What time you leave?

We have to stay in the heels.

I get it too.

Crazy.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

God, we thank you for this morning.

For this day.

We thank you for life, health, and strength.

Lord, we s we pause to recognize that present and invite thy spirit to guide us and the leaders in this meeting.

And bless us, oh Lord, in the name of God Jesus, we pray.

Amen.

Pledge of the flag.

A point a chairman to review bids for project number L C R 401 lock park inclusive playground and amend the budget as necessary.

A point a chairman to review bids for project number CP 3140.

Appoint a chairman to review bids for project number DR.

Two public works new facility phase two.

And amend the budget as necessary.

An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the city of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 521 Kingsley Street.

Letitia Michelle Fontenau Boardwalk Investors with Union Bank as Secure Party.

Ken Joseph Fontno, Shelley Michelle Fontenau, Heritage Management Services with Union Bank as Security Party.

Malcolm J.

Fontenau, April Nicole Fontenot Thomas, Kim Latrice Fontnault Poulard, and Harold J.

Tibetal owners, subject to a tax sale to the state of Louisiana.

An ordinance authorizing the settlement of a claim against the City of Lake Charles in the suit styled Ronald C.

Richard versus City of Lake Charles and Michael Cartwright.

Docket number 20258 Division F on the docket of the 14th Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcashu, State Louisiana.

The council may decide to go and hold to hold an executive session to discuss those matters.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 2217 Broad Street.

Frankie Jordan Dyer, owner with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on condemnation of a structure located at 902 Camillo Street, garage only.

Matthew A.

Mackintosh, owner with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 1729, Broadmore Drive, Larry Jean Thomas, owner with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on condemnation of a structure located at 3704 Brentwood Drive.

Esther Jane Arquan owner, subject to a tax cell to Barrios Investments LLC with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on condemnation of a structure located 2725 Louisiana Avenue, Holly Rider, Brule, and Zoe.

Gaspard Ryder owners with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 704 11th Street.

JMB Real Estate Investment Group, LLC owner with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on condemnation of a structure located at 1021 15th Street, Eva Christiana, Russell owner, subject to a tax sale to the state of Louisiana with the companion ordinance.

Resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 2110 Railroad Avenue, Andre N.

Walker, Brittany Ann Walker, Denver Jerome Withers, and Javon Ramsey Yoakam, owners with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 2107 Clorinda Street, Julius Lee Fontenneau Senior, and Jennifer V.

Fontenneau, owners with the companion ordinance.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on combination of a structure located at 2105 Clorinda Street.

Julius Lee Fontenau and Jennifer Valmont Fontenau owners with the companion ordinance.

A resolution of the City of Lake Charles verifying the review of the municipal water pollution prevention.

Documents for Plant A, NPDES permit number LA 0036340, AI 4838.

Plant B C N P D E S permit number LA 0036366 AI 4839 and plant D LA 011870 AI 117690.

And then it skips down to number 28.

Introduction of an ordinance authorizing the removal of the Yale sign on Center Street at Sycamore Street and authorizing the installation of a stop sign on Center Street at its intersection with Sycamore Street, creating a three-way stop.

And that's all that I have.

I don't have anything tonight.

Mr.

Billboard.

I don't have anything tonight.

Mr.

Fondale.

Did we have the properties?

Did we visit with the umore stop sign?

That was the last thing that I just read in the case.

It's number 28 on 28.

Okay.

The draft.

That's all I wanted to come in.

Yes, sir.

So yeah.

Mr.

Young.

Uh yes, sir, Mr.

President.

I just want to thank several city employees who uh came to a town hall last night.

It was very much seen by uh the residents that were there and appreciated having their expertise.

Uh and so uh for Miss Wendy Robinson, Nicole Miller, Mike Castille, and Sergeant Amund uh with the police department.

I just have a lot of gratitude.

That's it.

Mr.

Bisna.

Oh, working on the record, yeah.

Uh I got a couple things then.

Uh the paperwork we I asked for the paperwork for the uh approval of the sports complex, the site.

Have we received any documentation that the council can have?

We received the we've received the uh confirmation that they've submitted it that the uh site we'll get that though.

Okay.

The other thing is uh Mr.

Harvey asked me to ask about the paperwork to show contributions to Sayer Street Fund and the Enterprise Extension Funds that we uh discussed in the last meeting.

It said uh that those documents would be given to the council.

Do you want a status report on it or when we gonna get them?

But we we've we we pulled down all the allocations that went for uh enterprise, so we still have to pull the ones for Say.

Okay.

So that means it goes back to when uh from the first construction too.

Okay.

Um we were supposed to receive a final copy of the late Charles Rebound projects.

Mr.

Um Mr.

Cardone was working on it and he had spoken.

I think I was the last one that he had to talk to.

Right.

And he had that in order.

That'll be forthcoming as well.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh Miss Wendy, I should have emailed you, but I just wanted confirmation.

Have we moved that speed bump on uh 22nd back?

Remember what we we spoke about it a couple of months ago.

Yeah, we put them out, but one of them we had put too far up.

You remember we discussed it.

The uh email just said that the uh the resident when we come when you're coming off of Fifth Avenue between 22 and 23, we put it down, but we put two of them too close, so you got a good speed when you get off of Fifth Avenue.

I want to say we did that, Mr.

Marks.

Uh I will go back out there and check.

Please do, because he he left a message on my phone.

That we that they were too close together.

Yes.

It's it's on the right.

If you turn off a Fifth Avenue onto that alley, it's right there.

No, it's not.

That's where we would like it.

You know, when you turn there, we would like it to be right before that first driveway because they got a good a good space to to gain speed in that alley.

Okay.

I matter of fact, I'll when I get off tomorrow, I'll take you some pictures and that'll give you clarity on that.

Okay, I I I think I know that, but I'm gonna check back too with our um with our traffic and comms too, because coming turning off of there and to get right to the speed.

It's a good little ways from the from the turn on.

So I mean put it putting one there.

We just want to make sure that it's it's it's yeah, because I think the old one was there previously, and we replaced them with new ones.

We just want to make sure that we're following all the guidelines as well.

But I'll check as well.

And I'll get you some pictures of it.

Thank you.

Uh I got a complaint from Mr.

I wasn't supposed to say his name, but a guy on Miss Paula, uh, you remember him with the blue van and had all the cars in the yard in that same area.

Well, he called me back and say some of those cars, they put some more cars back there.

So if we could look at it again, it's in that you you remember the one I'm talking about, had the blue van.

They thought some drug activity.

We have that property scheduled for hearing.

We're just waiting for the hearing date.

Good deal.

So uh, you know, irregardless, if he puts cars there or takes them away or whatever, if he's not completely compliant, it moves forward.

Okay, gotcha.

Uh do we have any progress on the plans for the hotel between the city and that the group that we were dealing with?

Talking about renewed Lake Charles?

I don't know.

I can't remember what it was called.

That's who it is.

They they've uh they want us to update the uh the hotel study, the CBRE documents to reflect the sports complex and any type of uh changes with that.

So we're talking to them uh on two fronts.

One is what would be the cost of that because that's the that was a commission study that the city did.

They want us to do it at our expense.

And also looking at if we do that, do we need to go back out for another RFP because if the uh if the if the landscape is changed for that, do we need to do an RFP just to make sure that we're getting the best the best competitive uh project on the lakefront?

So if they don't choose to pay for that, that halts everything.

No, we we can we can pay for it.

It probably it's probably a valid request, but if we do that, we're seeing if we have to do another RFP for uh proposals on that.

Gotcha.

Uh the other did we have a clear up?

I know we went uh Mr.

Stutz, we decided to go with the uh what is it called?

The plat number instead of the address for the uh across the street from Gospel.

Correct, yeah.

You corrected it.

Well, we did it in the ordinance last week, didn't we?

We we put it under the um what's the number call?

Parcel number number.

So that that'll that would suffice.

Last week at the meeting, correct, Ms.

Renee?

Yes.

So we the ordinance itself was amended by y'all and it references the parcel number.

Okay, so the parcel number was good enough to go forward.

Yeah, and once you pull that parcel information, it actually has the uh property description.

Okay.

Uh I I want to bring back up.

We talked about this, Mayor, maybe in your first couple of weeks.

We used to have a citizens review board.

Uh it I might be using the wrong name, but we had a citizens board that was um communicated with the police department.

It was formed.

I think you might have been on the council.

Miss August talked about she was a part of it.

I remember that, yeah.

Yeah.

Uh I would like for us to look at renewing that, bringing that that board back.

I don't know, uh, might have to tweak some things with it or find the information that governed it before, but I think that that would kind of help our police department out as far as having a um, I guess a direct line to the community, you know, having some people speak from the community or deal with them on a regular basis.

So if we could look into that, see about bringing it back.

Okay.

I'll I'll look at that.

I I do I do recall it.

I'll find out what the parameters were and give a report back and see if we need to tweak anything.

Okay.

And the last thing I have, I wanted to pick your brain to see do you think we need to I for my understanding we're coming up close to the moratorium put on all the houses that we were tearing down were allowed to leave slabs.

We talked about it before.

And I think we coming up on that time.

Can we do some sort of media blitz or send some sort of notice out to all of these uh particular properties so they'll know they have a limited amount of time to crack that slab and move it?

Okay, to do that.

Because we're gonna run into another problem with that if we don't get out in front of it.

Uh slab removal.

That's already torn down.

Yeah, what we did when when we first started tearing these houses down, we were allowing them to leave the slabs.

Okay.

But we had made up that we were gonna come back after a certain time and they would have to remove those slabs.

You know, so it's a lot of properties out there still with slabs.

So that would be uh I'm taking it that that means that the property on the that our first responsibility do it at their cost, and if we go and do it, we put a lien on their property.

Exactly.

Okay.

Wasn't it nine months, Mr.

Marks?

I I think we had gave them, I want to say a little over a year.

Okay.

Because we were still, but I'm I'm looking at this list today that we got, which is awesome compared to what we was doing before.

Yeah, you know.

So we don't want to uh defeat the purpose of tearing all the houses down, and we still got all these slabs.

Uh other than that, that's all I have right now.

We have a few um, we have a few, well, one person that wanted to speak at this time for the uh community to speak, Mr.

Gary Jackson.

State your name and address for the record, please.

My name is Gary Draud Jackson.

I reside at 2335 Klein Street.

And what is it that you want to talk about?

Okay, the issue is uh I wanted to talk about 1103 Fournette Street.

Uh-huh.

No longer have a house there, but but uh that's why I'm here.

Um I got instructions from Mr.

Rubin about six weeks ago to request a meeting with Mr.

Hester and his supervisor Doug uh Garris.

Bigarish.

And they were supposed to invite somebody from the fifth floor uh community development.

Uh six weeks I uh been waiting.

I haven't heard anything about a meeting or anything else.

What was the meeting supposed to be in regards to?

In regards to 1103 Fournette Street, they they tore the house down, and I was asking for more time because I had to do a double succession.

Uh huh.

Uh they told me on the fifth floor, somebody told me from the community to go up to the fifth floor and that and ask them, did they have a program?

They said, yeah, if your house damage that bad, we would tear the house down and and put and uh build you another one.

But the thing what about it is they said I couldn't get on the list at that time that I had to have the property in my name.

So somebody from the fifth floor directed me to a southwest Louisiana law firm, which I paid them to do a double succession.

And all this time, I'm telling them I need more time, but they tore the house down two days before I got the property in my name.

Did you come up here for an extension?

I've been I I've been coming up here uh, you know, I came on February the 27th of last year.

Uh-huh.

And they told me in that meeting that they gave me time to tear down myself.

Uh they was gonna tear down when I come back 30 days later.

So I came back 30 days later and told them no, I couldn't find nobody to tear it down.

But you know, they told me I was talking to the wrong person that uh Mr.

Hester didn't, but that's the only one who put the sign on the house.

But since then uh he told me to request a meeting about that from these different departments.

Okay, so the meeting you did request the meeting, you just waiting for the meeting to happen.

Yes, sir.

Oh well I can tell you this much.

Mr.

Bigueras has been out uh for a while.

I think he's scheduled to be back tomorrow.

Okay, so if it's all right with you, could you check back with Mr.

Rubin tomorrow?

And we'll have some get some status report on it, Mr.

Rubin.

I'm sure Mr.

Rubin.

Okay.

I have a question.

You said that uh this that you had talked about this in February of last year.

A few months ago.

No, February of last year, they called me in to uh tell me, tell me that the house had to be torn down.

Had to be torn down, so they gave me 30 days.

So in that 30 days, you know, I you know I didn't find anybody to tear down, so when I came back to report, no, it ain't been torn down.

They put in motion to tear it down.

But at the same time, I was waiting on these papers to come in.

I guess the question is that was more than a year ago.

Did you come back before this council the body didn't ask for more time?

No.

Okay.

No, I I didn't come back before them.

Uh you know, I thought the house was told down, that was it.

But you know, uh I believe I didn't get have enough time after I done told them, you know.

Well well, Mr.

Jackson, if you don't mind, uh mayor you do.

No, I'm through.

If you don't mind, can you check back with Mr.

Rubin tomorrow?

Yes, sir.

And we'll get some sort of information about where we need to go from here.

If there's anything we can do.

Okay, because uh if when y'all do get me a meet uh meeting, uh my sister will I'm not a business-minded person, but my sister wants to, you know, be at the meeting so she could explain everything.

When the meeting is set up, you can bring whoever you want to bring.

Good.

All right.

All right.

Thank you.

All right.

Anyone got anything else?

Nope, Mayor?

Anything?