Through your grace and mercy, we're here today, Lord.

We pray and act that you bless every family representative here, that you bless my colleagues, the administration, and everybody here that's trying to make Lake Charles a better city.

In Jesus Christ's name we pray.

Amen.

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And to the report.

One nation under God.

Indivisible liberty injustice for all.

CP 3544, Hodges Street Waterline Extension.

Appointed chairman to review bids for project number CP 2894, wastewater treatment plant A, McNabb, and Klein Street, Emergency Sewer System Rehabilitation.

Ordinances for on public hearings.

An ordinance ordering demolition and authorizing the City of Lake Charles Center into an agreement for demolition of a structure located at 1509 Pearl Street, Edward Gallian Jr.

and Jules J.

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

Another demolition at 621 Bank Street, Earl Melvin, Anthony Welts, Danielle Malow Wilts, and Monique Michelle Wilts, owners.

Another demolition at 2123rd Street, Cecilia Petrie owner.

Another demolition at 1716 22nd Street, Ryan Keith Gillary Owner.

Another demolition at 1302 11th Street, Stephen Daniel Peters, and Betty Louise Allen Peters owners.

Another demolition at 1400 McNabb Street, Isaac Jackson Estate, and Beulah Antoine Jackson owners.

Another demolition at 1300 Wendell Street, Austin Rogers, Fontno Estate Owner.

Another demolition at 738 Iberville Street, swimming pool only, Nakia Yvette, Gillary owner.

Another demolition at 304 Calcashu Street, Betty Jane Jefferson, Lisa S.

Jefferson, Leslie M.

Jefferson, and Jessica L.

Jefferson owners.

Another demolition at 312 Maple Street, Marlene Johnson Marks owner.

Another demolition at 1400 North Shaddock Street, Cleveland Nash, and Oviara Nash owners.

Ordinances for final action.

An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lake Charles, amending resolution number 313-23 to authorize the City of Lake Charles to modify the location and scope of RCIP LDI, City of Lake Charles, LC, Second Harvest 0084, and further authorizing the purchase of a vacant lot, parcel number 00751405 from Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church to construct and own a primary community resilience hub in accordance with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development National Objectives for the US of funds from the CDBGDR program.

An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to allow more than 10% cumulative increase for a change order for project number CP 3426, wastewater treatment plant A, operational reliability improvements, collection system hardening.

An ordinance amending Section 24 of the City of Lake Charles' Code of Ordinances by adding Section 24-5-203.1 relative to outdoor lighting.

An ordinance adopting and levying the annual property tax millages for the city of Lake Charles for the tax year 2026.

An ordinance authorizing the city of Lake Charles to enter into a cooperative endeavor agreement with the Calcushue Parish Sheriff's Office to fund two sheriff office, Sheriff's Office Employee positions to the real-time crime center, an ordinance amending the City of Lake Charles Code of Ordinances to an Act Section 13-37.5 to provide for a prohibition against laundering on Border Lack Drive, the Lakefront Promenade, and all other city-owned property not specifically addressed by ordinance during designated hours.

Resolutions, a resolution accepting project number CP 3242, Southern Sewer Loop Sunset Lift Station Rehabilitation as substantially complete and authorizing the advertising of the 45-day lien period.

A resolution accepting project number CP 3339, Lakefront Parking Garage Phase 2 as substantially complete and authorizing the advertising of the 45-day lien period.

A resolution setting date for public hearing on condemnation of a structure located at 740 Cleveland Street Cleveland Street, Russell Foster owner with a companion ordinance.

A resolution ordering and calling a special election to be held in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, the city on December 12th, 2026, or such other election date prescribed by the legislator of the state of Louisiana as an alternative for such date in accordance with law for the purpose of submitting to the electors residing in the city qualified under the constitution and laws of the state of Louisiana propositions for authorizing the renewal of the levy and collection of certain special Avalon taxes for the purposes described here in making application to the State Bond Commission in connection therewith and providing for other matters in connection therewith.

A resolution authorizing the amendment of the City of Lake Charles' CDBGDR action plan with HUD to move the proposed Lake Charles Fire Department campus from the previously identified Sixth Avenue site to a site on Broad Street.

The next item, the title was changed after it was sent out as a carryover.

A resolution amending resolution numbers 81-14, section 13, and 150-97, section 10, regarding the rules and regulations covering the city council of the City of Lake Charles for procedures relative to comments by the public during city council and agenda meetings.

Ordinances for final action, an ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles, Louisiana to designate the American Press as the official journal of the City of Lake Cost, Louisiana, for the period of July 1st, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to implement the 2026 pay matrix for the Lake Charles Police Department.

An ordinance amending ordinance number 20542 adopted May 6, 2026, creating the positions of Chief of Administration and Chief of Operations within Administration Strative Division of the Lake Charles Fire Department relative to certain applicant eligibility requirements.

An ordinance authorizing the City of Lake Charles to accept the best proposal received from the crest for proposals issued for a developer to design, build, finance, own, operate, and maintain a food and beverage and recreational establishment on one acre more or less to be leased in track three of the lakefront of the City of Lake Charles, all in accordance with and as authorized by Title 41, Section 1214 of the Louisiana revised statutes of 1950 as amended.

An ordinance approving the City of Lake Charles' 2026 Action Plan.

This ordinance will authorize the City of Lake Charles to make application to the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD for its 2026 Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, and Home Investment Partnership Program funding allocation.

An ordinance amending the city, amending the code of ordinances for the City of Lake Charles by adding Chapter 25 to establish the local health care provider participation program in the City of Lake Charles in accordance with the Louisiana revised statute 40 colon 1248.1 to 1248.10.

The next item is the companion ordinance, and then there's an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the City of Lake Charles Center 2 of cooperative endeavor agreement with the merchants of Walnut Grove Incorporated to permit the construction of public parking on City Rideway and an ordinance to reconsider ordinance number 20563 passed and adopted on May 20, 2026 regarding amending resolution number 313-23 to authorize the City of Lake Charles to modify the location and scope of RCIP LDI City of Lake Charles LCR Avenue Revital 0088 in order to transfer funding to the Gossport Community Center to construct a recreation facility in accordance with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's national objectives for the use of funds from the CDBGDR program.

And that's all that I have.

When I got out the call that morning and I saw Ms.

D and everybody, when is it card on Marshall?

Everybody that's sitting here made me feel like it was family.

I know it seemed like we argue a lot or would disagree, but it it made me feel that much better when I got to call them on and to see everybody who came in from all walks of life in the from this department.

It really did me and my family justice.

You know, not just it just made us feel better.

And second, I want to, if y'all don't mind, my my niece called me today.

Uh she graduated from Cornell University, and now she's attending Howard University and um in law school, and she had an interest in city stuff.

I said, Well, come on down and just say, hey, I said, if you want to see it, you're gonna learn a lot of it right here.

But you gotta wait.

You gotta wait till I just wanted to it was amusing.

And on a other business, uh a couple of months ago, I clicked on a video.

Uh these young adults fighting in some of our prominent places in Lake Charles.

And I guess once I clicked on one of them, now it it all comes.

I'm not a great Instagram, Facebook, and now all of them come to me.

Every time I wake up on a Monday morning for the last four weeks, I see young adults gathering behind the Civic Center to have fights in the video.

And I know how much we want to say we done agreed to this real-time crime stuff, we done agreed to wages for hire to increase or ages, but I didn't see any of the police force out there.

This video was seven, eight minutes.

You can get from late Charles to Iway in that time frame.

And I just want to know what what are we doing?

Because I don't want nobody to come say, man, y'all, y'all saw this going on, and what are we doing to address it?

Because the violence is getting more and more in depth every time I look at these videos.

It's almost embarrassing to even look at it, but I'm starting to see it every time I wake up Monday morning.

And it's it's it's a plan.

They gather together in a group at the thing when you cross I 10 is the first thing you see when you come into Lake Charles.

And I just don't think that's a great look for the city, or whatever we can do to start putting a hold on to this.

Mr.

Mark spoke on it one day.

Uh I don't know, I don't know the answer.

I'm I'm not, yeah, we just need to do something to try and contain this.

Ms.

Bilbo, I appreciate you bringing that up.

Just to address the the latest video that surfaced on the uh July 5th following the 4th of July.

That's probably the most recent one.

And by the way, I feel your pain because that's that's on my feed as well.

Every time I open it up, it seems to be something.

Uh that incident actually occurred about 511 a.m.

And just to give you guys a little bit of background, obviously prior to the 4th of July.

Uh we had an additional 18 officers at work through the 4th of July from 7 a.m.

to midnight.

Um, unfortunately, we didn't have anybody to work over after that, and uh it happened at 511 a.m.

on Sunday morning, which is mind-boggling, but just to address that incident, it's currently under investigation.

Um detective division.

They're working as we speak to identify the people involved.

Beyond that, we've I've stationed an officer there between 10 p.m.

and 6 a.m.

beginning last night and running for the duration until we pull them off.

So we'll have an officer at the Civic Center.

I'm sorry, at the event center every night.

Um item 21 that you guys have in front of you.

It may seem like something small, but allowing our officers to have the opportunity to be proactive by issuing and no loitering for the event center is enormous for us.

I have four patrol shifts that are waiting with baited breath for next Wednesday when that goes hopefully goes into effect.

That will allow us to be proactive and not reactive to things that are going on at the event center, and I think you guys will see a stark change uh on that.

Hopefully, there'll be no more videos coming from that area.

Um again, thank y'all for considering that.

I very much so appreciate it.

I hope I answered your question.

Okay.

I really don't have nothing for district C today.

Huh?

Mr.

Mr.

President, can while the chief is up there, can can we ask some questions?

Thank you for coming, Chief.

Yes, sir.

I was hoping that Chief Chief would be here.

I apologize for him not being here.

He's in Bat Rouge, unfortunately.

I just heard you say about working over and being uh proactive.

Yes, sir.

We had an event at the Civic Center that was televised.

We knew it was happening, we knew it was gonna take place.

Yes, sir.

I watched that video, Mr.

Bibble talking about, and it took almost the length of the video, and I still didn't hear siren.

I didn't hear uh no no no kind of warning that the police are coming.

If we being proactive, what happened with the event that police the police presence wasn't there until the parking lot was cleared.

Yes, sir.

The parking lot was cleared following the event.

Like I said, the the red, white, and blue, red, white, blue, and you event, our officers were there until midnight.

And uh Sergeant Scott Doherty, I talked to him specifically, he was the last officer to leave.

And when he left, Border Lac Drive was clear.

Those folks by video, we saw them coming about 2 30, 3 o'clock in the morning, and then that erupted at five.

But what I thought we had discussed, and and maybe not you, but we had discussed making patrols back there.

We we we do, but uh also gentlemen, you have to remember it was it was Saturday night and a Sunday morning.

I had nine police officers and three supervisors working that night handling calls all over the city.

They make periodic patrols where they can.

And you have to bear in mind, again, item 21 is going to be clutch for us because if our periodic patrols go through and there's a hundred people out there, but they're not doing anything that allows us to take any police action, then they're just there.

There's there's not a lot we're able to do.

There it's not illegal for them to be there.

There because there's currently not not a no loitering organs.

That is item 21, which will allow us to actually take proactive action when those people gather there.

So excuse me, item 21 will not allow people just to visit the correct.

If unless I'm unless I'm mistaken, it's no loading organize.

Oh, it's still open to the public.

They're just not allowed to gather and loiter there.

We'll have to warn them and then cite them, and then if need be remove them.

So what what is our plan going forward to be proactive throughout the city?

I know we hear a lot of talk about the civic center.

And and I just want people to know we're concerned about the whole city.

Absolutely.

Not just the civic center.

Us as well, and I understand this is a how do you eat an elephant?

It's it's one bite at a time.

Uh we we know they're going to gather, folks are going to gather later in the evening at the civic center.

So again, this is I think our first step.

And we have a multi-pong approach.

I've had multiple meetings, not only with our department, but I've spoken with the sheriff's office.

I don't if it's okay with you, I prefer not to get into specific tactical or strategic plans.

Um, but it's what we are absolutely working on it, Councilman, for sure.

You mind if I go into mine next?

Oh no.

Because it leads into this.

No, no, no, no.

I was gonna go to you anyway.

I guess Ms.

Bilbo, you're done.

Hold up.

I was I don't want to throw bad reviews, but I didn't seen even myself when I was a young man got pulled over, and within minutes, they got six cop cars around.

So I'm I'm watching this video.

How long it was, Craig?

Eight, nine, ten minutes that that we had, and we didn't see any.

And we have a real time thing that's supposed to watch when things happen, they they they see text messages and and stuff to computer generated and that y'all see, right?

I um not real time.

Real time crime scene, yes, sir.

That's not true.

Oh, we hadn't done it yet.

No, sir.

That's on the agenda, I believe, for to fund positions for that.

For us, the sheriff has limited.

We haven't had action.

The sheriff had it.

So the sheriffs can see this and still nobody react.

You see a bunch of people interacting at at four in the morning.

Yes, sir.

And you can see this, and still no one Well, uh again, we we we can't technically see that not on video.

We we don't have we don't have we don't have real time access to it at this point.

The officers can't see that from where they're at.

Real-time crime may be able to see it, but that is like as uh uh uh Mr.

Studio pointed out that is the sheriff's office, they would dispatch their units to that if if need be, if they saw a need for that at that point.

And I guess at that point, until I guess seven, eight minutes of the fight at that point.

There really wasn't anything legal running on.

Uh up until uh you're right, but yes, sir.

Up until the fight began, there were there was nothing overtly illegal.

You can loiter there.

And unless unless the officers are on scene to make a reaction, someone has to notify us of that.

And when we were notified and our notification came in as a shots fire called at 511, we had eight officers respond to the scene, along with several units from the sheriff's department.

But by the time they got there, it was it was over.

But we were supposed to have a strategic plan because that was a hot area.

So to say that we won't other calls, there should have been somebody patrolling that area so that when that congregation started, if they seen the police presence, it would have never happened.

Sir, I'm I'm gonna tell you that we've had uh there's other videos.

I don't know if you've seen them of our officers out there with their blue lights on and the folks on the other side of the road making comments that they can't do anything to us because we're just sitting here.

That it's the blue lights won't drive them away.

It just unfortunately it's we're in a kind of a different time, I would guess.

Used to, if I saw blue lights as a youngster, I would probably leave as well.

But that's just not the maybe folks are just emboldened now.

Um but again, there's there's multiple videos of our officers out there citing people on one side that where there is no loitering and the folks that are on the other side on the on the west side of the uh Mortal Act watching and and videoing and commenting on it.

Okay.

I get you.

Again, sir, I I uh all of you, I appreciate you all having item 21.

We are stoked about it.

We can't wait for it to go into place.

We have plans and we're very much so looking forward to it.

Okay.

The the other thing I had is um and I I'll just say since I'm into my stuff, I'll just say it.

There was something that happened here a couple of weeks ago that I was very disappointed in.

Uh I don't think that my colleagues, the administration, people coming to these meetings should ever have to worry about something uh getting attacked for something that happens in the meeting.

And I was very disappointed that the chief was here and that everything was allowed to go like it went.

I'm gonna go back to not necessarily the police department, I'm gonna go back to when we hired this security firm.

I I was adamant in my belief that it does us no good to hire a firm that cannot do anything when an altercation happens like it happened two weeks ago.

And I believe that if we had the city police here in City Hall with the face and the presence, these type of things don't happen.

Would you would you agree that that a LCPD presence would be greater than what we have now?

I I don't know if the presence would have been greater.

The the response likely would have been different different.

Yes.

Now here's the deal.

I'm I'm Ms.

Councilman, I'm I'm not gonna jump into say what they can and can't do.

That might have been an individual moment with that that particular security officer, he could have taken action.

Again, I'm speaking out of school on that.

I I don't know.

Uh also to your point, just I've I watched uh a copious amount of surveillance video from from that day.

Uh we had the the chief had been here.

The chief was in his unit leaving.

He was not here when that he was not in the building when that occurred, and this the officer that we had working that night had also exited and came back to intervene.

So it we it wasn't that we weren't here and didn't act.

We we responded once it happened, but the meeting was over and they had exited.

So tell me in in your experience, what happens in a situation like that?

Nobody was arrested but a in my opinion, a councilman was was put in harm's way.

What what is our policy for that?

Were the were the officers notified that any type of incident occurred where someone should have been arrested?

Yes.

There who advised and I'm I'm I'm unaware that that occurred that that an officer was made aware that a battery had occurred or I I informed the chief and the officer that was there about the whole incident.

We stood out there and we talked for several almost an hour of about this particular thing.

I I'm unaware that I I watched a fair amount of video.

I'm unaware of any conversation that took place where we were notified.

Had we been notified, some someone should have been detained and citizens issued at least.

The police officer had to restrain the person.

He when he arrived, he was again watching the video when he when the officer arrived on scene, that gentleman was standing outside, he placed him in a in what we call an escort position and walked him away.

Because I believe it might have been yourself was was saying get him out of here.

And he did.

He did exactly what was asked.

But he had to restrain him with force.

I I again we're kind of saw that with my own eyes.

I walked him all the way across around the building.

I told the chief as well that something needed to be done.

They walked the person to the car, yet nothing happened.

I I don't remember seeing the officer have to restrain him.

I some someone else restrained him.

I saw the officer.

I didn't see the officer having to utilize what what we would consider that level of force.

Well, I don't know about the level of force, but the officer had to grab him and walk him around the building.

And the chief was right there when this took place.

So I'm saying I not necessarily to you, Chief, but I'm I'm saying to the administration, like I said before, this is not gonna work.

You know, we've never had situations like this to happen before, but I would hate to think that if it was one of the city workers, the mayor, uh Mr.

Cardone, any one of these council members to be put in that situation again, it's gonna be a problem because we gotta worry about how it looks.

But if somebody run up on on me, I know my manhood gonna kick in to the point to where I'm gonna have to protect myself because I don't know.

I watched the video and and and it was a bad situation, and I just think that we need LCPD patrolling this, the city council meetings at all times.

Because what's going on now, I mean, the world is just different.

Well, uh Council Marks, what what I'll say is what we'll have is our officers will stay until everyone's gone.

Mr.

Mark.

That way there's someone in the building.

If I might just make a comment, the police officer here.

And we've had a meeting with Allied.

We understand what took place there, and we've tried to address that situation, but we've also had a meeting with the police department.

They're here and they're gonna remain here until everybody is cleared out in the future.

So we'll have a presence here from the police department.

We are addressing it, and we've mapped out a planned path forward.

And if we could, I think maybe that's something we could discuss at a later date, kind of bring y'all up to date of what our plans are in order to make sure this place is safe and secure and stuff like that doesn't happen.

And I appreciate what you're saying, Mr.

Codon, but I'm gonna go back to what I said from the very beginning.

I mean, this is part of the city police.

This is part of their purview, you know.

And I think that if if we got to pay over time, however, it has to happen, we need that presence that that if I see that chief right there somewhere, I'm subject to not do something, as opposed to if I see Ally.

You know, I'm I might just take a chance with Ally.

I have that effect on people.

So Mr.

Marks, that's what I'm saying.

They're here and they're gonna remain here for right now.

They will not leave until the meeting, until these meetings and everybody's gone.

I'll be here tonight until we all are all gone for sure.

So much.

We can talk about it offline, but I'm not just talking about the meetings.

I understand.

Okay.

Thank you.

Um the other thing I have is behind I get calls in the village.

I'm sorry, Chief, I'm I'm through as far as the city police.

Uh the ditches behind the village.

We have to do something about that.

I know it's uh Mr.

Cardone has educated me before that's gravity drainage, but it falls in the purview of our constituents because we got an apartment complex on one side, and we got the village on another side.

And the uh Mr.

Hanschett told me the other day, well, how can we keep the ditch on O Park so clean, but we can't keep that ditch clean.

You know, I I tried to explain to them about gravity drainage, but residents not trying to hear that when they got rodents and rats and all that.

So if we can get somebody to take a look at that urgently, the other thing is I think that we're putting a lot of responsibility on the contractor that we have for cutting grass for adjudicated properties.

I'd like to like to see us visit, maybe having more than one contractor, because with the rain and and the increase in the uh adjudicated properties, it's gonna be hard for one contractor, unless he just got a hell of a crew to keep up with what we got going on through the city, and we constantly getting reports from individual councilmen about the grass, and you know, I I don't think we see it as much, you know, because we're not involved in it, but I know Miss Paula, she's in the mix of it.

So I'd like to us to consider maybe opening another contract up.

I don't know, you know, how we do the funding or or what would be the things with it, but we need to do something in regards to that.

Um again on McKinley Street.

Well, I ain't gonna I ain't gonna just say McKinley Street.

Oh, yes, ma'am.

It's okay.

I'm sorry.

Okay, it's all right.

I'll talk to you about it.

Okay.

Uh McKinley Street in the in the uh village again.

The village is being taken over by homelessness.

And I'm not saying that to make the homeless people out that you know, if I didn't have a place to stay, I'm going to sleep where I can sleep too.

But it's becoming a problem now, especially since uh the housing authority has started to clean up and start knocking down some of these houses, they're even breaking the wood off the houses that people have secured.

You know, so I I don't know what the remedy is to it.

I just think we need to highlight again, we might be stretching the uh the LCPD a little thin, you know, to have them uh go off in there and have to be concerned about that as well.

The one of the things that was brought up to me, and I like us to visit it is at the corner of Roosevelt, and I don't know what the street it hooks into, but Roosevelt goes into a curve.

Every time it rains or we have substantial rain, that area floods.

Uh Greenwich Terrace, uh Grimwich Boulevard, it floods.

And one of the things that was bought to me, which I thought it was a good idea, I don't know how cost effective it would be, is to make get with the uh housing authority where we're tearing down some of those houses on Greenwich and do sort of a little retention pond, a mini retention pond right there where that water will have a place to run until it subsides because these people are always on pins and needles when it when we have a thick rain because the rain is coming up to their doors uh uh at the southern part of Roosevelt Street.

Uh also at the end of again, I'm in the village this week.

The each street that runs into Roosevelt, Roosevelt comes all the way around.

It starts on Fifth Avenue uh off of um, can't think of the name of the street.

When you come out Fifth Avenue, you get on that street and you make the right on the Roosevelt, and it goes around on the curve.

But they have several streets that dump into Roosevelt.

I like to get some signs, some some arrow signs at the end of those streets because one resident told me that a car continued to run and ran straight into the front door.

So I'm I'm hoping that if we put some signs, those yellow signs at the end of each one of those streets.

I think it's gonna take three signs.

What would you what do you want the signs to say?

Just the just the arrow, left right arrow.

Okay.

The left right arrow.

Also, I want to thank uh Miss Wendy, uh Public Works, because I've called them several times.

We've been having in the old park area.

We're having uh the thing Mr.

Bibble talked about and Mr.

Harvey in regards to the landlords putting properties out, just dumping everything on the street, and they've been doing a great job going around and picking up, you know, as best they can uh the trash, so it's not leaving and hanging in the streets because what happens is people go dig in the bags.

Once they put it out to the street, it becomes a free-fall, and now our workers got to go back and clean all that up.

But they've been doing a great job uh on that, and I want to say kudos to them.

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

President.

All right.

Thank you, Mr.

Morris.

Um, Mr.

Harvey.

I don't have anything, Mr.

President.

All right.

Mr.

Fondale.

Um I wanna uh I want to cut um commend the rec department again.

The mayor and I visit uh um a summer camp at McMillan Park uh where they um they put on a camp for the kids in that area and uh it we had a uh a company supporting that that uh that camp and it was real good.

The uh what was the company actually was what is Woodside?

Yes, what's that?

Woodside and the the young I call a young lady, I got all this gray hair on my head.

The young lady sat there and read a book to the kids.

Uh I I'm I'm gonna have to practice my book reading, but that y'all are doing a very great job and and that area really needs it.

Mayor, uh I want you know, it's it's the mayor's administration.

I really appreciate what y'all are trying to do there.

And uh that area really needs that uplift.

And if uh somehow um retired folks want to go read, I'm gonna have them call the rec department because uh uh sparking a mind where the child goes a long way, you know.

And um I I just wanted to comment on that.

The the other thing that um uh I wanted to mention, I mentioned to Chief, the guy might be here today about the basketball thing, and uh I won't get into it anymore.

And um he has a card.

He has a cardina, yeah.

Okay.

So you're here.

I just wanted to know I talked to the chief, but you're free to come up.

And and the other thing that uh I I think with with the uh with uh Kroger's getting torn down.

I want to commend the uh planning and zoning for working with that owner.

It's been a long road and the work with that owner, the owner sold the property, and and now it's one of those things we just didn't tear something down.

It actually works its way through the system, and and that building will be back in com that lot will be back in commerce, and sometimes we just got to be patient, you know.

Uh, and uh I I want to commend uh the planning and um zoning for I know they work with the guy.

I uh I'm uh I've seen all the paperwork and and that was a great job.

I'm glad that's done.

Kroger's is down, and we got a new building coming.

Thank you.

Mr.

President.

Yes, sir.

I forgot two things.

One is I want to let the public know the city that there's an app that you can go on when you got a light out on your street.

Uh as much as the city wants to help you, that's it's better to go on that app and put your light in, put the information in, and entity can get through it faster than having us go through the administration and have to reach out and get those people to do that.

Also, I want to thank Ms.

Ms.

Bruce for this this list they gave us that we're getting now about our property standards issues.

But I I I just have a question.

That's the inspector that's assigned to that particular case.

Um for instance, um the uh council members that are um in the mid-lake Charles and Southern Lake Charles.

Um we have an inspector that's on the the west side, the east side, and then south, the west side, the east side.

And it has a lot of the uh council districts within their areas.

So that's just the inspector in charge.

Okay.

Okay.

Gotcha, but thank you for this sheet.

That's it, Mr.

President.

All right.

Mr.

Reason.

Uh yeah, I just have a couple of things.

And I know this issue's been brought up, and it's really for you, Mr.

Stutz.

These these Oxford houses or sober living houses or whatever they're called.

Uh I know a lot of people, my my my fellow councilmen have brought these up a lot of times.

And I know there are some federal protection involved in this, but what I want to know specifically is the federal protection, you don't have to answer now, but just some want to give you some of my thoughts.

Is the federal protection with the residents or the operation of it?

And I and I ask that because I have one now and I have a very active community, Greenfield Circle across from SJ Welsh, that is really doing their research and they have some very good technical questions.

But the operation of it to me seems it's a business.

And I know there's a lot of people we've had the same conversation.

It's a business, and and yes, the people living there have some federal protection for HIPAA or whatever reasons.

But if it's a business, they have to have to have an occupational license, they have to get registered.

Is it considered a commercial property and all these things?

Well, this the specific thing I have now is I have one of the residents there that's running a mechanic shop.

And and I've talked to uh uh Paula and her crew have done an excellent job.

Uh I have I I stay in contact with them, they give me updates.

But the residents aren't satisfied.

So I actually went out there myself and spoke to this gentleman, and I got all the evidence that I need.

I could I could go to court tomorrow about him running a mechanic shop, and he promised me he was gonna stop and relocate.

I even offered to help him find a shop.

He still is running his mechanic shop.

I mean, sometimes he has three or four people sitting in his driveway just waiting.

Is he permitted for that mechanic shop?

He's he has nothing.

And we should be able to stop that.

I want to go write him a ticket.

I'll do it myself if I have to.

I don't know what authority I have.

The send property standards bring to their attention.

But uh there's a lot of technical information about these operation of these facilities, and I know the residents there probably have some protections, and I'm all for that.

But the operation of it, do they have occupational license?

Are they paying taxes like Mr.

Bilbo brought up one time?

I mean, all these things.

Yes, and then they go one step further and just push the envelope.

And I explained to him that we're not mad at him, but if you owned a piece of property here and you cared about your property value, you wouldn't want this going on either.

That's why I pleaded with him.

Let call me.

Here's my number.

I'll help you find a shop, but we got to do something because it's just it's getting out of hand.

I would have go ahead, Mr.

Stewart.

I was just gonna say to the best of my knowledge, there's nothing in our ordinances right now that would violate any of the equal protection clauses.

So we're free to enforce all the rules we have on the books now.

So that should be reported to property standards, and it should be a good thing.

Oh, yeah, no, it should be.

No, they're they're doing a fantastic job.

They're staying on top of it, but even above property standards, shouldn't that violate the the statute of the house itself?

You mean the the zoning for the house?

No, no, I mean it's mechanic shop.

It's uh um residential property.

Right.

And it's a resident in a sober living house, in some way that should violate if it's running a business out of a zoning of this particular place, but if it's not in compliance, it's not in compliance, and we can we should be able to shut it down.

Because I think we got rules with the sober living houses, what they can and cannot do.

Yeah, and that would be a violation.

Correct.

I mean, we need to cite them, and if they don't comply with the citations, then we need to address it as a as appropriately required under the ordinance.

I presume it's in the neighborhood, right?

It's in absolutely not on McNeese Street on the corner.

So I would it's deep in the neighborhood.

It's residents.

I don't think I'm not asking for answers, but yeah, today I think you know my reservations deals with other issues than what you described.

What you described, we should be able to stop, and we should be able to police that and preclude.

I mean because you can't have a the other reservations I have have nothing to do with the guy running a mechanic shop, somebody not having proper occupational license, they need to have all that.

And if they don't, we'll treat them just like we do in the middle.

Yeah, I I have no complaints about the sober living house.

Yeah.

Just happens to be one, and he's running McKinney.

And I don't think we should treat sober living houses any better than we treat other citizens or any worse.

That's that's the basic.

I could have made it short.

Yes, sir.

So my next I'm sorry.

But uh, and I know we talked about homeless people all the time.

Uh and I know uh Miss Wendy and them had them picking up trash underneath the overpass at 210 in Nelson today.

There's an encampment of about eight there that are just living under there, and they're doing shift work on the corners.

Uh please, please, please, Chief.

We we we know there's some some ordinances we passed, but there's been a state law in effect forever, as far as I know, about on and off rents.

So when you say they're taking shifts, they're paying taking ships panels and not taking shifts with a jobs.

No, no, and I've seen a more than a small amount of occasions spending their money on lottery tickets at tobacco plus.

So thank you.

That's all I happen to.

I want to bring something up before we go any further.

It was fine.

Uh Craig had to help me with this, but last time when they was in office, I think they passed uh ordinance to how far a gas station could be from each other.

I want to see if we can put in something how many tire shops that we can put in a certain area.

Because it seemed like we got a new one just popping up.

You know, I just I don't know.

Tire business must be very profitable because like every time I turn a corner, you got a gas station, then you got a tire shop.

We need to try and limit it because we losing space on other potential businesses because now we got tire shops everywhere that's not filing rules anyway, it's just putting more trouble on Miss Pauling them because they all not being right.

We got to force them to be right.

So whatever we can do to limit how many they can.

I know we did that with gas stations, right, Craig?

Yes, sir.

So I don't I don't think we limit there was a spacing requirement for the service stations, what the council, I believe, ended up doing.

Um Councilman Billbo was setting stretcher provisions for setbacks and also providing a cost to uh to have for each pump.

So there were some things put in place that really limited where they could go.

Okay.

So there's some different topics.

Whatever we can to slow this progress down.

I'm not a lawyer, but it's something we can do to limit how many we can put in a certain area because they go into certain areas.

I know they for some reason they flock in the district C.

So I don't want them to have to flock nowhere else.

But still they flock in the district C.

Huh?

It's a high tire area.

It's a high tie area.

I don't know.

It might be in it might be Gerson Memorial and the Speed Bumps.

I don't know, but they're getting fixed.

It's time for them to retire.

Yeah, yeah.

So check into that for me.

We got it.

All right.

Is that anyone else have anything?

All right.

Um item 27.

If we could send out the agenda fact sheet to all the councilmen.

Um, before the meeting, you know, in the next couple days, so we just have a chance to it's the one about um amending our rules and enforcing our rules.

I think Mr.

Stutz sent us uh email earlier.

And I and I'll briefly the only the only change is to change the maximum amount of time from 12 to 9 and how you can divide that between rebuttal and to make it very explicit a rule that we've already been applying about donating time.

Those are the only changes.

The rest of it was just uh enforcing the rules as they are, and of course, any of those rules can be changed during a meeting by two-thirds vote.

I mean, I say changed.

You can provide exceptions with a two-thirds vote any time you want to do that.

Okay, I wasn't aware they were one guy.

I just want to make sure everybody had it before the meeting.

I had sent out an email describing what I was gonna propose, but but you're correct.

We need to get the agenda fact sheet out to everybody.

Okay, but uh but I did just explain the only change.

Right, perfect.

All right, all right.

We do have a uh looks like we have three or four cars, three cars for tonight.

Um start with the one on top.

Um Mr.

Vizina.

Just um you got issue with people playing basketball all night um in the street.

Yes, sir.

And we we as I understand we already have an ordinance against playing basketball on the street, but if you could just come up here and state your name and address for the record.

My name is Paul Visena 436 Scarlet Street here in Lake Charles.

Okay.

Um yes, we have what what I have and I think it would help everything I've heard tonight, because this is the first meeting I've ever been to.

But uh what I've heard it would free up a lot of your officers from from coming to my street, okay.

In the last year, we've probably had 30 units and and and I that's low balling, 30 units on my street alone.

But because I'm I'm retired, Federal Bureau of Prisons for 25 years, and the neighborhood kind of sees me as the enforcer of anything goes on, they call me.

Okay, if it's two o'clock in the morning, five o'clock in the afternoon, whatever it is, they want me to see what I can do about it.

So I try to you know, talk to people and I try to get things settled down.

My issue is right now, and it was the morning of Friday morning, 4th of July morning at 2 o'clock in the morning.

The only reason I was really up is is is out of bed is because my grandson had it had he worked his car broke down, and he needed to ride, so I went and got picked him up and brought him home.

Well, I get up and bought it the basketball playing going on right in the street.

There's one guy and a five-year-old child and a seven-year-old child out in the middle of the street, and there and I know basketball don't seem like it's a it's a nuisance, but it is when you're trying to sleep, okay.

I have an 81-year-old neighbor across the street, which she's she has she still works 40 hours a week as a caregiver for a young young young lady, which, you know, handicapped young lady.

And so she can't sleep.

So she said when she can't sleep, she calls me, okay.

So I can't sleep.

And I looked up the ordinances, and the ordinances, you know, I called a I he she called the cops, okay, first time.

And so they come over, and I was going to bring my grandson.

I said, Well, I'll I'll talk to them when I get back.

You know, so I go back and I talk to her.

I said, sir, I said if you don't mind, I said it's two o'clock in the morning.

Can you stop playing basketball?

I said when you hit the it sounds like a gun going off when you hit the backboard of that that that that go.

I said, people are trying to sleep.

I said it's gotta be, you know, uh so I looked it up, and it's that we have ordinances in place right now that says that a temporary or permanent goal cannot be set up on the street or in in the easement of the street.

Okay.

So I said, okay.

So the cops come and I told him that.

He said, Oh no, you know, it's better him him doing that than being out committing other crimes.

I said, So we're gonna overlook this and let that go.

I said, even the noise, they say the noise is not bad, but I said he I said he's breaking that the the goal is on the street.

I have pictures, I have videos.

What street is that on?

Scarlet Street.

Which is off of Calm.

Right.

It's off of common.

Yeah, you have to come off of Commonwealth.

You gotta come down Patrick.

But what what I was trying to make these same people understand we had cars on before was because that street on Scarlet Street, and I know your police department can't be around.

I'm not trying to put you all down, but the traffic down there because Castle, you know, has two buildings he rents for two different businesses.

Mr.

President, the time has expired.

You how much do you need a couple of things?

Just a couple of minutes.

Okay.

If I could.

Yeah, sure, because we know we know as a vibe, and my suggestion is is it a property standards violation?

If it is, it's not.

Okay.

It's a city ordinance.

Well, also, well, one thing I'd like to say real quick, and I ended my time running out here.

It have a city council address to basketball on the city streets.

Okay, on on this is dated uh January 19th or 15 that it was put into law, not not ordinance, but it's actually made a law that no no sporting activities could be placed played in the street, period, without a permit by the city.

Could you stop real quick?

Let's say we need a vote to give you uh extra men and please vote.

You need a motion in a second.

I'm sorry.

Okay, motion to give him a motion, I'll second it.

Any discussion?

Please vote.

Um by go ahead, Mr.

You have two more minutes, sir.

Okay, thank you very much.

I I do appreciate it.

But but what I'm trying to say is we have uh a units that are coming and and they're they're arguing with me about this, and it's time that I I don't want to take away from.

I'll tell them now, I said I don't want to take time away from y'all.

I had five units there, ten cops the other night, and uh my neighbors across the street, you know, she's 81 years old, she comes out, she's under under a carport, and she says, Can y'all please just have them stop playing basketball in the street after 10 o'clock, you know, when the noise orange is supposed to be.

And they told her, if you don't get back in your house, we're gonna handcuff you and put you in the car.

I have issue with that, okay?

I really do.

And then other things, I mean, it and then these two minor children running around the street.

It's not they have to during the day they ride the bicycles wide open down the street and they cut across from one driveway across the street.

And like I said, the two businesses with castle, and then they have a uh church daycare right there.

Parents are running late, the people running late for work, and they try and they're trying to get there quickly.

The speed limit's 25.

They're going in excess of hours uh uh 40 miles an hour.

Okay.

One of those kids cutting across, they're not gonna see that car coming.

Okay, so one of them's gonna get killed, hurt seriously.

And like well, when I mentioned the officers, I would say I'm gonna hold y'all uh uh responsible because you know, negligent.

Because I'm telling you this.

And that's when they said, Oh, well, we gotta go.

We gotta go, and then they packed up to leave.

I said, wait, we hadn't addressed any issues here.

Okay, but that's what they told me.

You know, when I said new, you know, negligence, but that was uh I'm out of here.

Boom, we're gone.

Everybody get in the car, let's go.

That was the end of it, okay.

But this is an ongoing problem, it's been going on for months.

You know, I I've only called Friday morning, and I then again Monday morning.

I get burned.

Noise.

So I get up, sure enough.

There he is, playing basketball again.

So I called two cop cars come, and they talked to me, not to him.

Now, all this hot time there just sitting there, he's still playing basketball.

Not one out of eight cop cars that came since Friday morning to Monday morning.

Not one cop went knocked on the parents' door to say, hey, uh, can you is the gold still there?

It's still there.

I got a picture up right here for you.

You want to have it?

Sure.

So these five-year-olds out five year old and a seven-year-old.

Well, that's violating curfew.

One thing.

The additional two minutes is expired.

What sir?

You just give me the address if you if you 437 Scarlet Street.

437 Scarlet Street.

Can I just show them this one picture real quick?

Yes.

Please, just real quick.

It leans over the actually over the street.

I know where it's in.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

Thank y'all very much for your time, and I apologize for going over my own.

It's okay, you know.

You're not bothering me.

And the the chief deputy is gonna give you a call.

Absolutely, like I said, but myself and Councilman Fondell just spoke about it outside right before the meeting.

I said, I'll call him first thing in the morning.

I just haven't had a chance today.

I wish we'd had a chance to speak before this, but I'll call you tomorrow and we can discuss this at length.

Trying to talk to somebody.

Right, but you sp I believe you spoke with Sergeant Andrew Malvo in our our professional standards division.

But I'll give you a call tomorrow.

Thank you very much.

Yes, sir.

All right, I think I saw Mr.

Geary leave.

I don't know if he's outside, but he had a card, so I don't know if he had to leave.

Uh but if Mr.

Geary is nearby, um what we'll do is we'll skip over to the next.

And I'm having trouble reading.

There he is, okay.

All right, Mr.

Geary.

You're up.

Well, good afternoon, President.

Uh name and address.

Oh 2205, Highway 14, 70601.

Oh, the reason I'm up here, I'm revisiting the rejection of our last tax.

Y'all making a great mistake because it was over and we'll defeated.

What I want to suggest, you involve the citizenry and the process.

How these taxes work for them.

Not only these taxes, but these projects on the streets and you know, all this stuff, they don't understand.

So I'm thinking I suggest that to the last uh administration, they didn't do it.

But they come back and involve the children.

You know, showing them our civics, but it involved the adults.

I think I'm just suggesting to the new ministries.

So you basically saying for us to give out a little bit more information.

A little more information about it.

You ain't tell them how to vote.

Right.

But they need to understand, y'all, and they could go through the council having their meetings with the general republic.

But y'all, hey, y'all taking a risk, and I'm gonna tell you, y'all put it in December 16th.

Well, you didn't put it in midterms.

That's being slick.

They've been doing that for years.

And I'm gonna tell you, you I don't know if y'all remember.

Went back and uh went up to Paris, so for get that arena.

Solford voted for that arena just out of software, but they come back and slammed it on the main tax.

But they also at the same particular time, they wanted to renew, but the renewal is like two years out.

See, they're playing that slick game, people not crazy.

And with this abatement tech with the state doing, giving away all these tax dollars, and it's putting the burden on us with that tax abate.

Hey, I don't believe in giving away our resources and then paying them to take it.

So that's just another history for me.

And I think y'all need to consider that.

Well, it gotta come from the administration.

And the administration did say transparency.

That's the biggest problem with our government.

Well that that's part of our plan, Mr.

Gary, just to let you know.

Before the tax come up, we're gonna be having meetings, and the mayor's gonna be explaining that he said he would put it out there for the community.

Not just the taxes on the project when y'all do streets.

They got a process.

Gary, if if you don't mind, uh uh just this past uh Thursday, we did a state of the city address where we addressed all that the projects that have been going on for the past year.

We addressed the challenges that we have.

One of the challenges was crime.

One of the challenges was the tax renewals and exactly what those tax renews pay uh uh pay for, and plus we're in the middle of our budgeting process, so we're gonna give a lot of information about what that shortfall is gonna mean for the services that people take.

So we're gonna be very transparent about that.

And then the other thing, y'all, which y'all required by law, y'all go beyond what y'all do with the taxes, you know, just preserving them.

So y'all got a cushion with that already.

But y'all need to be better explained in the situation.

I didn't see what you uh said.

Miss uh Miss Katie, is it is that on the uh the mayor's state of the city?

Is that on the website?

Yes, sir.

The uh state of the city address was live streamed on our YouTube channel, and I posted that link this morning.

So it's on the Lake Charles City Hall Facebook page in its entirety.

And then about being that slick stuff, putting it on, because you know we already know what the deal is the average person.

When you're putting it on less turn up, that's why they're putting it out there.

And that's being slick with the people.

Mr.

Mr.

Gary, we're we're we've been very clear that this election is gonna be on December the 12th, so uh, we're not gonna police jury following right behind y'all.

With you know, saying they're gonna hold a at the same time instead of the main.

I don't know what they do.

All I know just bringing up, I'm not trying to be negative, I just want to be a citizen.

We're just only doing what a free man is supposed to do, whether you like me or not.

And I'm not trying to you know critique y'all, but we gotta do better because this conservatives hadn't we hadn't won with this conservative we had in this town.

And it hadn't worked well for us.

Look where we are.

Man, I'd be 70 years old this month.

Mr.

Gary, your time is expired.

That's right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

All right.

Uh have someone speak about the Charles Promenade and looks like the last name is Jacobs.

I can't quite read the first name.

State your name and address for the record, please.

I'm sorry.

No, no, you're fine, no, thank you.

Good evening, guys.

My name is Shade Jacob.

My address is 420 Mill Street.

Thanks, Charles Louisiana.

You guys were talking about it's actually ordinance 21.

On the agenda?

Yes.

So it's the item 21.

The law item 21 laudering.

I go run at the civic center around eight, nine, sometimes three o'clock in the morning.

You have citizens that be walking at the civic center, not bothering no one.

You have people out there fishing.

So you're gonna say that you're gonna put a no laudering and we're gonna have to start writing tickets.

No, laudering just means you can't just be hanging out there.

If you're running and you're walking, you can't.

So you have people sitting out there actually talking to each other as a community, and you're saying now you can't walk, you can't sit there and actually have time with your family out there.

Because I see it all the time.

I run every day there.

Chief.

So I I'd like to go ahead.

And I think I'm gonna, I think I'm he's probably gonna echo what I'm gonna say.

And don't leave because I want to touch base on something else before you leave.

This gives the the officer has discretion.

If you're out there fishing, or you're out there running, or you're you're doing what you're supposed to, that officer has discretion to say, keep driving.

This gives us some teeth to stop what's been going on, all the things that we've been talking about.

Those officers have discretion to do those things.

Am I correct?

Yes, sir, you are.

So I I do understand.

And when we first put this here in place, when the chief did it, we passed an ordinance about uh trespassing and stuff.

I was opposed to it because I I like going to civic shirt, I'm a runner.

When I was a kid, that's where we'd hang out.

And I absolutely agree with you.

Like, what are we doing?

This is a public place.

There's a goal here to stop the negative things from occurring.

When somebody's fishing or running or what or walking, holding hands, that's what we want being done then.

And this gives us some opportunity to be proactive and stop those things.

The negative things.

And if I can add to it, uh for the last few weeks, we've been dealing with situations where people are basically entertaining other people on social media.

Yeah, but what's happening is in order for them to get the most likes and everything else, they want to do it in the most public place, which is the lakefront, which is our front, our front uh porch.

Uh a couple of weeks ago, I'm out there with my with my wife, and it's not even 10 o'clock, and there's a car doing cutting donuts and spinning out, and I I called 911 and asked the police to come out there and get them as soon as the unit come out there, a whole bunch of cars just left.

So the the bigger problem is if people want to do that kind of mayhem on private property, that's between them and the and the property owner.

If they're doing that in the public area, that puts the public at risk.

That's a public nuisance, a public danger.

And what we're trying to do now is to put an end to it by when people start gathering and they're up to that kind of stuff.

The police now have some some tools to go in there and start issuing tickets, telling people to move on, make arrests.

It's not to try to punish the law abiding people, but at the same time, you don't want to run out there and this mayhem breaks out and you're caught up in the middle of it.

So we're this is just like uh the Mardi Gras.

We're gonna be proactive about getting these things under control, and as they we get those under control, we'll adjust.

It's a fluid situation.

But right now, weekend after weekend, we're having people going out there, degrade themselves, fighting, creating mayhem and eventually and somebody uh we the real time crime unit picked up a person going to a white car and taking three shots in the air.

And that's gotta stop.

It it that will not happen in this city.

Uh, we're gonna protect you, but we're not gonna we're not gonna say that we we can't do anything about it because this is and it's not just late Charles, this is happening everywhere, but we're just not gonna let it happen here.

So I have another question.

Yesterday I ran ran.

We had two police officers out there on a Monday night.

Do they do that on a Tuesday?

Do they do that on Friday, Saturday night?

You gotta think about it.

The clubs close at two o'clock in the morning.

You need to have officers from two to six o'clock out there.

No, ma'am.

The donuts that I saw, it was 9 45.

We were out there at 9 45 p.m.

and people are doing multiple cars doing donuts.

So it's not it is it's groups of people.

I mean, they're they're drag racing down Nelson Road.

That it's just it's just uh it's the summertime, so I guess that people have these things going.

We're gonna try to find ways to put that energy on, but wherever they're doing this kind of activity, we're gonna put an end to it.

And uh, like I said earlier, at this point from 10 p.m.

to 6 a.m.

starting last night.

That's why you saw an officer there.

We'll have officers there every night for until further notice.

Okay.

And when you run it, just don't stop for too long, or we're gonna get you.

I was just asking.

Okay.

Okay, thank you.

You're welcome.

All right, good.

All right, and would you have one final card?

Um Miles Brown.

Miles Brown, 1020 Fourth Avenue.

Uh, I just want to concur with what you said, Councilman Marks, about the uh security thing here, because I think it's important that we do have police instead of allied security, because judging from the security footage, you can see that the security is not gonna do anything when something goes down.

Um I made that pretty clear in the meetings on December 3rd and January 21st about how the Allied security, nothing against them.

They're gonna be pretty much like substitute teachers.

Nobody's gonna take them serious.

So um I would like to say that hopefully after this six-month contract is over with, y'all do figure something out with possibly having the police or some other law enforcement agency because people actually have more respect or actually might have a restraint on doing something instead of just seeing the security here because it might embolden to do something else.

Even worse.

But the issue that I really had was that you actually had a security guy there and he just watched.

And if all he's gonna do is watch, then what are we paying our money for?

Because we were told that this contract was gonna be around $50,000, but then on the news it said it was $5,000.

Either way, this is not money being well spent.

So uh I think security is very important.

If it does cost more to have somebody that's paying overtime, I think it would be much better.

But I've noticed coming in here every time there's always a breach in security.

And I don't want to go into detail because I think it's something that y'all should probably address before people realize these breaches, but I've noticed it every time I come in here.

There's an easy breach in security when people come in here.

So uh one thing I would like to add is that I noticed at the city courts and uh 14th judicial court, they actually have it to where they have a metal detector to put your bag through.

And I would highly recommend y'all start doing that instead of them just looking at your stuff and hopefully they see that there's no weapon.

So um that's pretty much what I have uh as far as the security thing, but I think this is a good lesson learned that hopefully y'all can find something uh after this September 20th, or whenever this six-month contract ends.

And on an end note, um I just want to thank property standards for uh fixing the grass on Fourth Avenue.

I know that was an issue every time the high grass, but uh it was fixed, and hopefully it just continues that way.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

We don't have any other cars.

Administration have anything.

No, we're good.

Meeting adjourned.