Council Tuesday, February 24th.

Please stand for our invocation led by Pastor Tony Legier, Public Safety Chaplain, and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Good morning, everyone.

And I'd like to say my cell phone is off, sir.

I prayed the best prayer I could last week with my phone steady ringing, but it was before you made your announcement for everybody to turn their phones off.

So I apologize.

Our father, we give thanks to you.

We humble ourselves before you.

We recognize even the day is a gift from you.

And so we pledge to steward it well.

We pray, Father, that you would help us to manage to look for opportunities to be a blessing to people, as we will see and hear and witness from this dais this morning.

Bless our leaders, those who give oversight to a wonderful community.

And we pray most of all that we would have your mind, and we'll honor you with our choices.

In Christ's name, Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Roll call, President Small here.

Vice President Gregory.

Here.

Councilmember Penn.

Here.

Councilmember Ingram.

Here.

Councilmember Reynolds.

Here.

Council Member Fleming?

Here.

Councilmember Woods.

Here.

Statement of rules.

And good morning, everyone.

Good morning.

It's good to see everybody this morning.

Welcome to our February 24th, 2026 meeting.

At this meeting, we do have rules.

At this time, I ask that anyone have any type of electronic device, including cell phones.

Please at this time put on the offer to vibrate position, the off or the vibrate position.

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When addressing the council, the speaker must give his or her name.

Must contact the city clerk office no later than two o'clock p.m.

the Thursday prior to the council meeting.

The subject that he or she wishes to express at the Mobile City Council must be identified and retained to the city of Mobile Business.

Anyone who has not given proper notes to the city clerk office and wish to speak on a non-agenda item would not be allowed to address this council.

Each speaker is allowed three minutes to address this council.

A bell was signed to indicate the end of two minutes.

One minute remain for summarizing.

The second bell indicates that your time has expired.

When addressing this council, there'd be no personal address to any individual council members.

All statements are to be made to the chair who will recognize any council member who wishes to respond.

To maintain the corn, that would be known to applause or public outcry allowed.

Approval of minutes from February the 18th.

So move.

Second.

Prophet movement second end of discussion.

All in favor?

Hi.

All opposed.

Minutes approved.

Communications from Mayor Chair Gides.

Good morning.

Morning.

Um this morning I want to make sure that I highlight some of the cleanup efforts that happened during Mardi Gras.

Some of you may have seen that I joined in on some of those services, but our public services staff continues to do a phenomenal job.

Between January 30th and February 22nd, we collected more than 36,000 pounds of trash and garbage.

We worked to recycle everything that we could, which uh came to almost 11,000 pounds of recyclable materials with just third over 3,500 pounds of beads, just beads.

Those beads were donated to Augusta Evans.

Uh this kept a tremendous amount of waste out of our storm drains, our waterways, and our landfills.

Um in Mobile, we strive to keep Mardi Gras clean and green, and that's only possible because of the dedication of our public works and city employees.

Uh I also want to thank the citizens who helped to do their part to minimize trash to recycle all the litter and debris throughout Mardi Gras.

We continue to work with our new transit provider via uh via is already improving existing bus operations and mobile.

They've been at it for just right at 90 days, and they've already made the system more dependable and more efficient.

The wave system is fully staffed.

Um late can late and canceled routes are down from about 20 percent.

One in five buses were either late or canceled to right at zero percent now.

Um our dispatch scheduling time, the time that it takes to dispatch buses is down 75%.

This is the result of VIA's focus on technology, and it's a first step in our comprehensive redesign of the transit system.

We want to meet the needs of those who depend on public transport transportation, but we also must appeal to those who have a choice.

In order to expand our operations, we need to create a system that people choose to use, even if they have their own means of transportation.

In March, we'll be presenting some branding and design options to the citizens.

And I've gotten a sneak peek at them, and I'm excited to share some of those with you.

The new system itself will launch in July.

Buses, trolleys, and on-demand transport options will be available.

And I just want to thank VIA and their team for continuing to work with us.

I met with their CEO over in January during the National Mayor's Conference.

They're excited about what's happening in Mobile from a company level.

And I got to tell you, I think we found the perfect partner in VIA.

Finally, I know Chief Glisten has a special recognition that he wants to make.

Fire Chief Barry Glesson wants to present a special recognition to the Mobile Fire and Rescue Department's community risk reduction division.

I'll let him share the details, but they were recognized by the Alabama Fire College for installing the most smoke alarms of any fire department in the state of Alabama, and they've done it for how many years in a row?

Four years in a row.

That's incredible.

Chief.

Thank you, Mayor.

Council.

So I'd like to bring up our community risk reduction division members that we have here today.

One of the things that this is accomplished across the board has been reducing the number of fire fatalities in the city of Mobile.

That's something that we're striving for of having zero.

And by doing this, since we started this program back in 2017, we've installed over 15,000 smoke alarms in City of Mobile residents and making sure that they're safe.

And you know, this matters because we're trying to make sure that the early detection of any type of hazardous conditions, whether it be carbon monoxide, smoke from a fire, and we we want to make sure that this is a constant for the community.

One of the things that we're also looking to do is ask for y'all's support because we want to expand this into special needs areas with bed shakers, uh, things for the hearing impaired, and also for uh blind uh members of our community.

So one of the things that I'm asking from each of the council members is to provide some discretionary funds to help support activities that will transpire in y'all's districts.

And what we can do from there is we're gonna have our smoke alarm blitz, but have community outreach to make sure that this word gets out to our community members, and we want to make sure that we continue to lead the state in the most smoke alarms that get installed every year going forward.

So I'd like to present this to uh our community risk reduction.

Great to see you.

And uh, I know we also want to recognize our firefighter of the month, Chief.

Yes.

Hey, Chief, Mr.

President.

Are y'all installing these yourselves?

Y'all are out there turning the screwdrivers and so our community risk reduction guys, they're installing some of those, but we also do our um smoke alarm blitz where we have other members that are on the department that are on engines and rescue trucks that come out and help us do that.

So whenever we do a blitz in a neighborhood that we communicate within y'all's districts, we're going door to door knocking on residents' houses, letting them know that we're here to install smoke alarms, but we're doing this uh as fire department members.

Mr.

President, Mr.

Penn.

Um thank you, Chief, and thank you to the whole department.

I believe that we have one of the best fire departments um in the world.

You know, um the type of work that you all do is just amazing.

One, if you haven't had the opportunity, I actually saw the blitz, and it's amazing to see all the cars.

They have tables out there, they have tents, um, they have giveaways for if kids want to come up as well.

The community service outreach is just amazing.

So I just want to commend all of you all and thank you so much for your service.

Thank you, sir.

Ms.

President.

Yeah, Ms.

Woods.

And uh, Chief, I know you mentioned um discretionary funds.

Uh, if you will, could you send us an email of what the asthma would be?

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

And one more, um, I have actually gone with the crew uh putting smoke detectors in homes, and it's it's a great program to for you all to do and for the residents, of course.

And we need to, you know, continue doing more of them and alert the residents as to you know why you're doing this because sometimes we go and knock on the doors and they're like, Why are you here?

And we're doing we're doing a great service so that uh you know, we can help with that as well to get the word out to everyone, let them know that you're coming and you'll be in this neighborhood, and um the reason that they they need to let you in to put the smoke detector up.

So thank you, everybody just what you're doing.

We really appreciate it.

Mr.

President, I also want to thank the chief and his staff.

Um, I had several uh residents to reach out because we put it in the newsletter, and they were so excited to know that it was a free service, and the fact that they told the other neighbors about it.

So thank you all for what you're doing, and uh continue to do the excellent work that you're doing for our communities.

Thank you.

And we appreciate that in the newsletters, and I I get all of y'all's newsletters, and we like seeing that in there and getting that that word out to our community members.

Thank you.

Thank you, G.

And March 10th will be our next one, and it is you're Greenwich Hills neighborhood.

So I believe that's in uh Councilman Fleming's.

Um I'm gonna call up uh William Coates.

Um he's gonna be the uh February's uh employee of or firefighter of the month.

And um, so one of the things uh this necessarily he responded to a call on his part-time job up in Jackson, Alabama, and this was something that was on the news uh recently at the end of January, where a homeless individual was found inside of a uh trash truck that had been dumped from a uh dumpster.

And um he stepped up with some of the leadership roles and the skills that he learned in our training academy and was able to uh essentially lead this rescue and get this gentleman out safely and transported um for his injuries.

And you know, talking with uh him in this morning, um, you know, a lot of what he learned was from the training and the the type of services that we provide here locally uh with the city.

So uh today we'd like to recognize William Coates as our firefighter of the month.

Congratulations to you, man.

Thank you, Chief.

Uh I'll say I had the honor of speaking with Mr.

Coates prior to coming down here today, and he showed true leadership.

He had the training necessary to step up and lead in a situation where not everybody was sure what to do to help this individual.

So I thank Firefighter Coates for his efforts.

Uh I do have two proclamations, and then I'll turn it over for the business.

Do I have Ms.

Carrie McNair here?

Come on up, Miss McNair.

I'll sit here and read this proclamation and I'll come up and bring it to you.

But um, this is a proclamation of the Office of Mayor, whereas the City of Mobile, Alabama is pleased to recognize and observe the month of February as Colangiocarcinoma Awareness Month in commemoration of all patients and caregivers impacted by the rare and lethal cancer of the bile ducts.

And whereas the bile duct cancer five-year survival rate is between two and thirty percent, and the mortality rate has increased dramatically in the last decade.

And whereas there's currently no cure for calangiocarcinoma, and whereas foundations like the Calangiocarcinoma Foundation, research and teaching hospitals like USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute and Rare Cancer Advocacy Groups have increased bile duct cancer awareness research and education that will bring improved outcomes for patients and earlier detection and treatment and potential curative methods.

And whereas the City of Mobile, Alabama, and the Office of Mayor are committed to continued support for research into treatment and a cure for calangiocarcinoma.

Now, therefore, I, Spiro Charagotis, the 109th mayor of the City of Mobile, do hereby officially recognize the month of February, 2026 as Calangiocarcinoma Awareness Month in the City of Mobile.

And I would love if you have anything to address to the council, I'd love for you to.

Well, first, wonderful job on the pronunciation of something that's really hard to say.

So calangeocarcinoma is cancer of the bile duct.

So it's part of it's one of it's a liver cancer, so it's up inside your liver, and it is really rare and it is really deadly.

So it's not even in the top 10 for the number of patients that get diagnosed a year, but it's a top 10 killer for both men and women of cancer deaths.

Um at USA Health, you know, I've gotten the chance.

Um, I actually work at USA Health because my aunt died from callangial carcinoma in 2019 after just 17 months of diagnosis, extremely healthy individual and then sick for 17 straight months.

Um, so the best way you can get an early diagnosis, establish a primary care doctor, see them every year and have blood work.

They need to know who you are, and they need to be keeping track of you.

There's no other way to screen for this.

Um, and sometimes we do have people who defy the odds, like Fred Newbauer, who is um this gentleman standing here with me today.

He has had this disease for six and a half years, and I'm so proud to know him.

So, Fred, do you want to say something?

Certainly.

Uh, first mayor uh cherugatis and counsel, thanks so much for recognizing uh this awareness month for calangiocarcinoma.

As Carrie mentioned, it's been uh 20 years that the foundation was formed, and we've made great strides and progress, but unfortunately, it's one of the cancers that is continually to increase in diagnoses, mainly due to the lack of uh real tests to diagnose it early, and uh most of us are stage four at the time we are diagnosed.

So, from a standpoint of uh longevity, that's why uh it there are a lot of uh deaths with this cancer, but we're making great slides.

I'm an example of that, and uh this is my third time before the council.

I hope to make this a habit.

But uh, I want to thank you very much for this recognition, not only behalf of myself, probably five or six patients here in the area, uh both in Mobile and Baldwin County, and then for all the patients nationally, and I'd like to thank Carrie for getting both the RSA buildings in uh Mobile as well as Montgomery illuminated last Thursday green.

I don't know if anybody noticed it with all the Mardi Gras colors, but that the city was lit up green in honor of uh of our month.

Thank you very much.

Oh, yeah.

Last but not least, Miss Marley Williams, I can see her hanging out in the wings up there.

If you'll come down, Miss Marley Williams is Miss Jubilee Teen, uh, and we are here, she is here to accept this proclamation uh for March 2026 is Disability Awareness Month.

Um this proclamation from the Office of Mayor, whereas individuals with disabilities are an essential and valued part of our community whose unique abilities, perspectives, and contributions strengthen the city of Mobile.

And whereas every person deserves to be seen, respected, and included, and disability should never limit opportunity for participation or success.

And whereas raising awareness about disabilities helps build understanding, break down stereotypes, and create environments where all individuals feel supported and empowered, and whereas recognizing disability awareness month provides an opportunity to celebrate diversity, highlight advocacy efforts, and promote accessibility, equity, and inclusion for people of all abilities.

Now, therefore, our spirit is the 109th mayor of the city of Mobile to hereby proclaim the month of March 2026 as disability awareness month in the city of Mobile, and I encourage all citizens to recognize and observe this month to reflect on its importance to our community.

Thank you.

Hi everyone, I'm Marley Williams, your Miss Gubili's team for the Medell Area.

I just wanted to come and thank you all for this proclamation.

Through my community service initiative, everybody can.

I promote inclusion for all people with special needs.

But inclusion begins with understanding and understanding begins with awareness.

So recognizing this month as Disability Awareness Month truly does make an impact on the special needs community.

My goal is to make a community where inclusion isn't just said, but it's lived every single day.

Thank you.

And that concludes my remarks.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council, we uh are honored uh this morning to have a few students in our presence.

Uh first, I would like to recognize some students that is following a shout out in our legal department.

Um they are from the floor, Baker and Viger High School.

We'd like to ask them to stand up and welcome to our Mobile City Council meeting.

Also, council, um, the month of February, we celebrated Valentine's Day, we also celebrated Mardi Gras, but most important is uh part of American history, which is black history.

And uh, we have a young lady this morning by the name of Leia Fights uh from Mary B.

Austin Elementary School, fifth grade, and she's gonna come down this morning just to share a moment of black history with us on this morning.

Let's give her a hand clap as she comes.

Good morning.

I will be reading experts from a poem called A Hill We Climb, which was recited by Amanda Gorman during the inauguration of Joe Biden.

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where could we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry, a seed we must wait.

We brave the belly of the beast, we've learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and the notion of just isn't always just this.

And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.

Somehow we do it, somehow we've weathered and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished.

We, the successors of a country, and a time where a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of being mayor, only to find herself recited for one.

And yes, we are far from polished, far from pistine, but that isn't mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters, and condition of man.

And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.

We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside.

We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.

We seek harm to none and harmony to all.

Let the globe, if nothing else, says this is true, that even as we grieved, we grew.

That even as we hurt, we hoped.

That even as we tired, we tried, that we'll forever be tied together, victorious.

Not because we would never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.

Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own bond of victory, and no one shall make them afraid.

If we're to live up to our time, then victory won't line the blade.

But at all the bridges we've made, that is the promise to glade, the hill we climb if only we dare it.

For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.

This is the era of just redemption.

We fear as inception.

We did not fear prepared to be the hairs of such a terrifying hour, but within it.

We found the power to author a new chapter to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.

Why once we ask, how can we possibly prevail over a catastrophe?

Now we assert.

How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?

We would not march back to what was but move to what shall be.

A country that is bruised but whole, beloved but bold, fierce and free.

We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation.

Because we know our inaction will be the inheritance of the next generation.

Our blunders becomes our their burden.

But one thing is certain.

If we merge mercy with might and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children's birthright.

So let us leave the country by better than one we were left with.

With every breath from my brows pounded chest, we will raise this one, this wounded world until a wonder is one.

When day comes, we step out of the shade, a flame and unaframe.

The new dawn balloons as we free it.

For there is always light.

If only we're brave enough to see it, if only we were brave enough to be it.

Amen.

Um, thank you, Layla, so much for coming down.

Amazing job.

Layla is one of the youths that I used to work with at the Boys and Girls Club, and she is so smart, so talented.

She's an amazing dancer as well.

Um, and I'm just so proud of you, Lady.

Keep going.

Thank you, Leila.

Madam Clerk.

Monthly finance report.

Good morning.

Morning.

Uh, I'm actually gonna give the finance report next Tuesday.

We needed a couple extra dates to to get the numbers finalized, and um, we need the opportunity to meet with the mayor and go over that information.

However, I do want to say that this is um the busiest time of the year for the finance department, uh, along with the audit that's going on currently.

We have business license renewal, uh, and of course, Mardi Gras.

Uh, also want to thank my staff for all their hard work.

Uh, they put in extra hours uh working during the holidays as well as after hours and weekends to get the job done.

So I'll have it ready for you next week.

Thank you.

Adoption of the agenda.

So move second.

Prop the move and second in the discussion.

All in favor, aye.

All opposed, genders adopted.

Appeals we have requests for wave of the waiver of the noise ordinance on March the 7th at Broad and Washington Streets, May 2nd at Government and Deveran Street.

So move.

Second, probably moving second in the discussion.

All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed, appeal passes.

Public hearings today is the public hearing to consider the proposed conditional use permit for property located at 1356 Government Street, 120 Espagno Street, and 1356, 1358, and 1360 Contai Street.

This opened up the public hearing for this particular said item.

Is anyone present that would like to address the council on this item?

If not, this public hearing is closed.

This opened up the public hearing for this particular said item.

Is anyone present that would like to address the council on this item?

If not, this public hearing is closed.

Today's a public hearing to consider the application of favor of residential care for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a shuttle service.

This open up the public hearing for this particular said item.

Is there one president would like to address the council on this item?

Would you like to say anything?

Okay.

Is anyone else would like to say anything on this item?

If not, this particular public hearing is closed.

Presentation of petitions and other communications to the council.

Walter Moore.

Good morning, City Council.

Morning.

Good morning, now and staff.

My name is Walter Moore Jr.

I live at Po 11 Chin Street, CHIN.

OBL Alabama 36610 in the Africa Town area.

The reason I'm here, I need the city council to untie Mobile Police Department hands so they can do their job.

On the 18th by 11 30, I called a non-emergency number.

But anyway, so about 30 minutes later, a sergeant called me.

He said, Man, he said, I know what you guys are going through out there with that noise.

Matter of fact, it's the company.

So Rockwater is uh Roger Group, and then APEC, the uh asphalt company is 1920, Bay Bridge Cut Off Road.

But anyway, they read behind my house.

One thing separating us is a ditch.

So anyway, back at 12 30.

Sergeant called me and said, Man, I know what y'all going through because of the tailgates.

Bam, bam, the noise or near violating the noise or he said, I tell you what, if the city council untie their hand, tie my hand, I help you out.

So that's why I'm here today to please untie mobile police department hand so you can help us out.

I tell you guys, you guys got a diamond and rough idea.

You're putting in a welcome center with millions of dollars.

And these companies here, they don't even fit in nowhere that I know of.

I don't see them.

But anyway, if you can polish this diamond, you have a billion dollar tour industry out there.

So I'm asking you.

Relocate them and untie mobile police department hand so they can help us out.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you so much, Mr.

Moore, for coming down.

Let me get this straight.

Yeah.

You don't see it.

Did I see it?

Look, yeah.

No council member do not have no mobile policeman hand tied up.

Okay, that's gonna I don't call his name, so I ain't wanna, you know.

Yeah, I'm just putting it out there on the record.

You know, so they can't get uh uh citation.

We do not have no control of the mobile police department.

Who I need to talk to?

Hold on for a second.

But uh we have our public safety director here.

I think uh Commander Grays would like to say something.

Okay.

Uh I hate that you're going through that.

I think our problem right now is that we don't our noise ordinance does not apply to commercial businesses.

It's a noise ordinance.

Our North Ordinance is for music and things that are relative to that, not commercial businesses.

Uh I'm looking at our ordinance now, and it unfortunately does not cover where businesses are making noise in the function of their business, even if they are but to a residential neighborhood.

So that's something that we need to address.

Yes, yes, sir, because I'm sleeping now.

I mean it's uh that means all night.

Yeah, every hour one hour and back up because bam.

Yes, sir.

If I'm asking our attorney if you can just go ahead and look into that, but are we gonna go and look into that, Mr.

Moore, by going ahead and strengthening our ordinance?

See that smile, don't you?

Yes, sir.

But again, no council member.

I'm gonna hold you.

Don't you know no sir?

Your council representative right down here, you know.

I see I see I got you.

No for three.

I got you, but thank you so much.

But uh, we're gonna be working on it.

And God bless.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Mr.

President, I do have a vice president.

A question.

Um years ago when um some of the private garbage collectors were emptying dumpsters and making noise.

Was that not part of the noise ordinance?

Yes, and we stopped them from doing it.

Yes.

What we are doing.

What we currently have, we have what I would deem as a gentleman's agreement where we've had people actually just do it not because of the ordinance, but because of the inconvenience to people.

Uh, but the ordinance does not uh the ordinance doesn't speak to anything other than music.

Excuse me.

It doesn't speak to anything other than music.

Uh it speaks to a number of things, but it does not speak to uh anything that is relative to uh commercial business operating as a commercial business, making noise that is a citation uh well citation should be should be issued.

So we cannot issue a citation to a business uh if they're functioning within the operations of their business because our our ordinance does not allow us to.

So maybe the dumpsters was specific to the dumpsters because we changed their hours.

I'm looking at the dumpsters now uh in the ordinance.

If I can pull it up, uh it does talk about dumpsters, however, the dumpsters provision is in the section relating to the emptying of dumpsters and to the delivery pickup or raising of any dumpsters or in near residential areas between the hours of 10 p.m.

However, the dumpsters provision is in the section relating to the emptying of dumpsters and to the delivery pickup or raising of any dumpsters are in near residential areas between the hours of 10 p.m.

and 6 a.m.

Yeah, so it was specific.

It shall not apply to the following circumstances, and then it goes into those circumstances.

Okay.

Uh so that's where we are.

Okay, so probably what we need to do, Jonathan, is look at amending the ordinance to make it more of a general sort of a thing.

Would that work to untie the police officers' hands when there are these types of complaints?

I think we're ultimately we'll have to have a conversation uh beyond that.

So maybe in a public safety meeting of some sort to the I understand that, but that that would be what we would look at doing as that would be the path that we would have to go.

Yeah, right.

Okay.

All right, right.

Ramsey Sprague.

Good morning, city council.

My name is Ramsey Sprague.

I live at 63 South Fulton Street in Mobile.

Uh been working with the Africatown community since 2013.

They founded my organization, the Mobile Environmental Justice Action Coalition.

Uh, and uh we've been very involved in the the many faces of the city in the last 13 years uh to try to resolve many of these issues.

Uh it's kind of disorienting to see so many new faces uh in person for the first time.

So I'm taking it in, it's a moment of personal privilege.

Uh, but I'm here uh in my function also as the chair of the environmental and justice and climate justice committee for the mobile NAACP because we received a whiff of a policy that seemed to have uh some impacts that were not appropriate.

We were told that they would not enforce the noise ordinance on that block.

There was a time about six years ago when the city attorney, uh then city attorney Ricardo Woods told me that the city would not enforce the zoning ordinance on non-compl uh non-conforming uh businesses uh because there are many structures that were left on residential properties that are dilapidated and are in non-compliance that make visual blight something that's an impediment to the revitalization efforts in Africa town.

Uh noise is no different, and we raised concerns at that point, hadn't seen any improvements there, but we're determined to see improvements when it comes to the noise ordinance.

I really appreciate the ability to review any proposals that do come forward to make sure that they are satisfactory to make sure that our residents are very satisfied with the outcome.

I appreciate y'all's time and then really want to just uh get this behind us so that we can move forward.

Uh, we are here today with uh the business developer for APEC, uh the new owner, uh Michael Weaver, the previous operator of the facility and owner of the facility.

We're in communication.

This is about this ordinance and this policy that appears to exist, and we don't want it to exist in the way that it does.

Thank you.

Coach Marlon Winston, Mr.

President.

Uh uh Councilwoman Ingor.

Uh, first of all, I want to thank you for coming out and and collaborating with the business owners so that we can come to a resolution.

But I do want to add that we will follow through with council to try to move forward to see what we can do to address this matter.

Thank you all for being engaged.

Thank you.

Okay, Grace.

I just wanted to add that one of the problems also is that the zoning, uh, that area is zoned for commercial business.

So that's the that's the gray area that needs to be figured out.

Mr.

President.

Mr.

Woods.

Um you know offhand is that is that I or you recall.

I mean, I can find it, but I would have to um refer back to the zoning map to give a confirmation on the zoning, but there are some areas that are what we would consider legal non-conforming, so they may not sync up exactly with the actual zoning designation.

But I'll I could um follow up with the council on what the exact zoning designation is.

Thank you.

Coach Winston.

Good morning.

Uh want to recognize the mayor and the council members.

Oh, that little lady, man.

She's I deal with a lot of kids, so that speech she just gave should go.

Well, there should go.

I want to give her another round of applause.

Because these kids are very important for our community and our society.

So I'm here to speak about your full name.

Pardon me?

Your full name.

Yes, I'm uh Coach Marlon Winston.

I mean I am the community safety director of Guardian Angel Address in LLC.

We provide professional curbside addresses to help the commer uh first responders locate homes faster.

On average, uh average delay uh is like between two to six minutes uh with poor address visibility uh in rural areas that can exceed up to eight to ten minutes and urban neighborhoods uh with poor numbering, it can also concede up to four to six minutes.

And when you have uh situation where you may have a call that is a cardiac arrest call, uh it could survive could drop seven to ten percent per minute with our CPR or defibrillator.

Uh when you got a situation uh where it may take four minutes, that would drop the survival rate down to 40 percent.

Uh, when you have uh structural fire that may be just a room fire, fire increase it doubles in size every 30 seconds, approximately every 30 seconds, uh 30 to 60 seconds.

So that room fire can end up being a whole structural fire.

And when you think in terms of how dense and populated mobile is and how it is on the rise and how it grows, and how we do have a lot of people here through travel season, mighty grow.

I do like a lot of youth sports.

People come in, they go to the to the convention center, they have family members come in, and when accidents happen, uh I done talked to a lot of the first responders, they have situation where they where they don't have the proper uh tool, and not just a basic address to find where they uh where to locate.

You know, it's different if you got a house that sit way in the back.

You can't see that day, night, it don't matter.

You can't see no address, and when and this is time sensitive, and every second do matter.

I want to thank you guys for the um opportunity to come up here today uh and what you're doing in the community and for the uh small business people like myself, but that's something that needs to be addressed.

We got uh the city is building communities uh and re uh restoring uh properties and communities throughout the city.

These are some of the good spots that we can start right there and make this happen because um I got the manpower.

I'm willing, I got a lot of youth that that um I deal with that I can get out there also and pitch in.

So please feel free to call.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Joshua Jones.

Morning, counsel.

Morning, mayor, chief.

It's been a while.

Um Joshua Jones, 8831 Kinston Court, Mobile, Alabama.

Um for y'all who don't know, my name is Joshua Jones.

I'm currently the director of HALO, which is Mobile's um first hospital-based violence intervention program.

Um, prior to this, I served as the youth violence prevention coordinator for the city of Mobile.

Um, and my current doctoral research is centered on focusing on evidence-based violence reduction strategies.

Um over the past year, I was blessed to be one of 16 individuals in the nation to be selected to participate in the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reforms, Violence Reduction Management Institute.

During that time, we studied municipalities across the country that have successfully reduced homicides and examine how they implemented those strategies.

The reason I said all that to say is I don't stand here today just speaking just as another commentary.

I stand here for somebody who's speaking from practice, uh, from research, and as a national collaborator in this work.

I agree with the sentiment that was pushed forward last week.

There needs to be a call for unity when it comes to gun violence.

We've lost way too many lives, but that unity must be rooted in strategy.

Um we reduce the issue of violence to black on black violence, we risk debating identity instead of building solutions, and we risk dividing ourselves.

Nationally, when we think of violence, when there's been both victim and offenders identified, about 81% of white homicide victims are killed by white offenders, and about 90% of black homicide victims are killed by black offenders.

Violence in America is overwhelmingly intracial across every group.

And that's a pattern that reflects proximity, not racial pathology.

So I think we need to frame that uh properly because when we frame violence as a black problem, we remove collective responsibility.

And when we remove collective responsibility, we lean more into confirmation bias.

And violence in Mobile is not a black problem.

It's a public safety issue.

It's a public health issue.

It's an economic stability issue, it is a systems issue.

And until we collectively start to frame it as such, our understanding of this issue will continue to be fragmented.

So I want us to consider a couple of things.

Council, can I stand in one more minute?

Yes.

Okay.

One more minute.

Got you.

New Orleans dropped roughly from 73 homicides per 100,000 to 33 last year.

Baltimore from 59 to 23, Detroit from 49 to 26, Atlanta, 33 to 16, and my brother in Philly from 34, 33 to 14.

My work in NICJR, we studied these cities closely, and the patterns are consistent across the board.

When cities align focused deterrents, uh credible community intervention, hospital-based response, and data-driven enforcement, the homicides will decline.

That's not a question.

And I also want to note that at the end of 2023, beginning of 2024, Mobile was presented with these same strategies to move forward.

Hospital-based violence intervention was part of that.

Halo was a part of that.

And studies have shown that violent reinjury ranging from 40 to 60% is reduced among participants.

What you're looking at in front of you is a clear So, Mr.

John, what would you like from this council?

You know, I won't I want you to say look at the folders in front of you.

This is a strategy that I think we need to look at.

I think also these are evidence-based approaches that not only y'all need to champion, but we need to get behind as a community.

We need to take true investment in what's needed, that is investment in capacity building, investment and building an ecosystem that directly addresses this issue.

Dr.

Gerard Tate, I'm looking forward to working with you, establishing this ecosystem, but it needs to be intentional.

We got to move beyond commentary into action.

And the questions or comments from this council?

Yes, Mr.

President.

Ms.

Ingram.

I thank you, Mr.

John, Mr.

Jones, for coming out and sharing the importance of evidence-based interventions.

Um, so thank you for that.

And that it's a collective responsibility.

Um, but I want to echo again that at the end of the day, um, as I stated last week, I'm calling for unity, accountability, and action during our 100th anniversary of Black History Month.

So as we reflect as a people, I get to say to the community and all that I want us to reflect on how we can find evidence-based strategies to address violence, period.

And I'm going to echo again, it does take collective responsibility, but we can't get any of this done as you just stated yourself without us coming together with unity to identify research-based solutions.

So again, thank you for sharing the strategies with us, and we look, I look forward to reviewing that to support the work that I've already started because it cannot just be about posting and grandstanding.

So thank you.

Indeed.

Mr.

President.

Mr.

Penn.

Thank you, Mr.

John, for coming down, of course.

Um, had an opportunity to work for you, work with you in the past and and working now.

Um, and I agree we have to figure out solutions.

Um, and there's multiple ways.

We got to come together from a city to nonprofit to your organizations to everybody coming to the table.

And I look forward to figuring that out.

Um, I'm proud of the work that we have done, but like you said, we could do more.

So, whatever out ways that I can support, let me know.

Thank you.

And in that you will find two flyers, one for uh lunch and learn tomorrow that you all are more than welcome to attend that talks about this more in depth ways that we can approach it from a collective's uh standpoint, and then also on uh you have another flyer later on.

I think it's 23rd of March, where we speak directly to the youth, myself, Dr.

Ashley Williams at USA Health, a youth empowerment program that we would like for you all to share um for all your young people to come out uh to talk about violence as well.

Is the lunch and learn open to everyone?

Yes, it's open.

Now, people who register before they will receive a lunch.

So if you come tomorrow and you didn't register, you probably ain't gonna eat, you might want to eat ahead of time.

But if you come, you will still be able to participate in the uh uh the lunch alarm.

All right, I'll share that information.

Indeed.

And no questions or comments from this council.

All right, thank you so much, Mr.

Jones.

Estella Trotter.

Good morning.

I hope I can read my own writing today.

Um I'm gonna pose some questions today.

Let's get your phone.

My name is Estella Trotter.

I'm gonna pose some questions today, and it's concerning the lack of transparency.

And in this case, it's about the qualifications to become the executive director of the housing authority.

Just hold up, hold a minute.

You you signed up this morning for a proper vetting of potential appointees.

Right, this is talking about vetting.

But stick to the subject, topic, potential appointees.

You can start back.

Okay, I I I started, but it goes into vetting.

Give me the opportunity to talk.

The qualifications to become an executive director.

Did the uh did the terminated executive executive director meet the requirements?

One core requirement was at least five years of public housing experience.

He posted a letter July the 12th, 2024.

Pierce stated that they knew I didn't have public housing experience.

Who are they?

I'm skipping over some stuff.

Okay.

Um the personnel board vets the candidates that apply for the position, and the mobile housing authority is the last to vet the executive director candidates.

If Mr.

Pierce said he was not, they knew that he was not qualified.

How did you pass the person bell uh personnel boards vetting?

They and it's required that they do a thorough investigation of the candidates.

What are the backgrounds of the Mobile Housing Board?

Commissioners.

The mayor appoints them, and the city council approves them, makes the final approvement, uh uh approval.

The executive director is hired by the Mobile Housing Board commissioners.

Are the commissioners qualified?

Piers was hired in 2019.

Why did he wait five years later to reveal to the public on the Mobile Housing Board's website that they knew he didn't have public housing experience?

Was it part of a deal?

It was obvious that the fight and meetings with local government and the mayor's office was over mass land being bought, sold and sold and buildings and building and not building for thousands of displaced public housing residents.

Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna just wing it at the end.

And um the housing board, who vets them, how they qualified.

They had that they are interviewing for an executive director, they interviewed 10 people, they didn't have a quorum.

How does that happen?

How you be a housing board?

You didn't have a quorum, but yet you're vetting for an executive director.

Olivier Charles.

Members of the council mayor, good morning.

Thank you all for allowing me just a couple of minutes to address you this morning.

First and foremost, none of you threw me anything at Mardi Gras.

I'm offended.

But hopefully that doesn't count.

Hopefully that doesn't count against my time.

On January 22nd, my team was being good citizens.

Our executive team, we were enjoying the state of the city address when we got something that no college president ever wants to get.

We received a threatening message to our campus and our students in our community.

What that actually was was not a threat.

It was a manifesto that was very detailed that had streets and entry points, and it certainly seemed like somebody studied us to really establish some weak points.

So in that moment, we had a protocol and we reacted.

Crown hall kind of became our command center while the mayor was giving a very good address to the city.

But but we enacted our protocols.

The first phone call I made was to Ricardo Woods, who gave me Chief Jackson's phone number.

And then ironically, God puts the right people at the right place.

But by the time I called Chief Jackson and spent a few minutes on the phone with him, um, I got in a car from the two-minute ride from Crown Hall to campus.

Uh we already had a SWAT team on campus.

We had drones in the air, we had uh federal response, we had state officers there.

Um, and before I even made it to campus, I received a phone call from Chief Graves or from Commander Graves.

Uh so I wanted to come today to simply just say thank you.

Uh thank you for your support and your leadership as a counsel.

Thank you to the mayor for his leadership.

Uh thank you, Commander Graves, and and thank you to Chief Jackson.

I know sometimes in law enforcement we don't say that enough uh to our public officials to really thank them for their support.

Um just wanted to say that to you all and let you know how much we at Bishop State appreciate our partnership and our friendship with you, and to know that you have our backs and in a moment like that where we have 5,000 lives in our hands that we have to protect to know that our city uh and our public officials and our officers stand behind us just makes our job a little easier.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Ordinances held over 6408.

Consider the modification.

I'm clerk.

Anybody sign in?

Oh sorry, got kind of carried away.

Uh I apologize.

Mr.

Hill, Reggie Hill, uh, regarding 0817 resolution 08176-09123, 01158-08182, 08214, 21200, 08196.

Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

Uh to the citizens and stakeholders of Mobile Greetings, Reggie Hill is my name.

Um, when you control a man's thinking, you do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder.

He will find his proper place and will stay in it.

Carter G.

Woodson, Omega Man, founder of Black History Month.

Knowing this, I still arise today to continue these pertinent conversations pertaining to city business.

My plan last week uh was to present something different, but after having certain conversations, I believe that we can address a little bit further before I submit some of those things in writing.

And uh ironically, the agenda items today actually relate directly to what it is that's being presented to you all.

I want to begin first with 08 214.

Uh, this is actually the strain drainage, excuse me, the storm drainage component.

Uh, I'm actually uh excited whenever I see anything like this.

I've been an advocate for this for years.

So any time that we can increase this amount of money, it's gonna be good.

Now we only see 27,000, so we need to be going into the millions.

And on these ugly projects, as the gentleman from district four would say, but this is a start.

Uh but let's get into some more of the crucial uh matters that should be of concerns mobility.

It's like 08-176.

Uh there's 744,000 for video detection systems.

We just heard someone speak to investment when it pertains to public safety.

As well, we see uh whether this is uh with 08-um nine six, uh, where we're going resources into the civic center, uh, where we have 116,000 08 that's 182 going into public safety vehicles.

Uh, we are discussing on 01, that's 158 Claiborne Street Garage.

Um, and we spent what 52 million dollars into parking down into the city, but we don't know how that's gonna return to us.

It appears to me that our focus of our investments are not in place, and we want to actually eradicate the issues that seem to be prevalent to the citizens of mobile.

And what we're gonna say on today's agenda alone, we have over a million dollars going into public safety book for vehicles and things of this nature for cameras, things of this nature of Gulf Coast Technology Center, things of this nature surveillance that is not really making a difference.

We need to reevaluate how it is that we're spending our resources.

I would love to see at least 100,000.

We find these other things, what is it?

$500,000 for some for some statues or something for you can go and tap on the screen that's on the agenda today, but you can Google these same matters, these things that were that we're saying we're gonna use that from the unassigned fund balance.

I would like to see a hundred thousand a thousand dollars go towards organizations that are actually making the difference within the community.

And we have those things right here before us.

So as it's been mentioned before, it is is one thing to grandstand about it, but you all know that the solutions are there.

You all know that the options to actually get something done are in place, and there are data-proven metrics that could do it.

And these things are going in year year round.

Like we have a lot of people who come down here and ask for resources annually.

They put on one or two or three events, that kind of thing, but then we also have services that go in day by day, week by week, and going to the people who are not getting the services that are needed.

A lot of these other youth agencies as well.

You have to pay to be a part of that as well.

You are probably already on a good track and getting your references to where you're going, but the ones who are least uh the lease of these who don't really have any support, we need to start investing in that.

So we'll continue this and finish those things next week.

Thanks for the floor.

Okay.

Ordinance is held over 6408.

Consider the modification of a previously approved plan unit development for property located at 580 Providence Park Drive East.

So moved.

Second.

Second.

Properly moving, second in discussion.

All in favor?

Hi.

Aye.

All opposed.

Item passed.

64009.

Consider rezoning property located at 7211 72 21 Cottage Hill Road from R1 to R3.

Uh motion to lay over two weeks.

Second.

Proper movement second in discussion.

All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed.

I laid off for two weeks.

CIP resolution selled over 08176 approved purchase order to a CADIS U.S.

Inc.

for intersection video detection systems.

So moved.

Second.

Proper move and second ending discussion.

All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed.

Item pass.

Resolutions held over 01158, authorized agreement with OVG parking to operate and manage the Claiborne Street Garage.

08178, approved purchase order to Empire Truck Sales for Dump Trucks.

08182 approved purchase orders to LCM motor cars, the Honda Core, Sheffield, Lake Traverse, Jeep Grand Cheroke.

08187 approved purchase order to stage right corporation for staging for mobile arena.

Approving purchase sort of Stivers Fort Lincoln.

A machine for Mobile Arena.

Authorizing contract with Alabama pool work for repairs.

Miss I wanted 21.

Did you call out 21200?

Yes.

I was asking to yes, take that one separate.

So I can add my name to it as a sponsor.

You just want to add your name to it as a sponsor.

Yes, oh, yeah, we can do that.

Okay.

Um for repairs and improvements for swim foods at Joseph C.

Dodge Community Center, Hillsdale Park and Community Center, John Kidd Park.

21201 authorized contract with Clark Greer, Latham and Associates for resurfacing tennis court at Copeland Cox Tennis Center.

21202 authorized contract with engineered cooling services for chiller service and maintenance at various city locations.

21203, authorized contract of lease online for forensic equipment, software and services.

25204 granted permanent easement to Alabama Power to provide service to Mims Park.

60205 authorized settlement agreement and release of claims.

So moved.

Second.

After moving second in discussion, Ms.

President, uh Mr.

Penn, I'm just excited to see all these different repairs and fixing our pools and improvement.

Um this is gonna give us the opportunity to have the pools ready um by uh Memorial Day so that our community and our families can enjoy um swimming in our CDL mobile.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Okay, Mr.

President, uh Vice President.

Uh Councilman Penn kind of beat me to the punch.

I was going to say the same thing about the repairs and improvements for the pools.

There is one in my district at Hillsdale.

So I'm happy to see that, as well as all of the pools throughout the city at our recreation centers.

The other um item on the list 21-201 is uh resurfacing tennis courts at Copeland Cox.

This is an ongoing thing that we have to do out of the tennis center.

It is well used, and uh these courts don't hold up forever, so we have to do regular maintenance, and I'm happy to see this happening out at Copeland Cox.

Thank you.

And other discussion.

And we added uh councilwoman Ingrid as the sponsor correct clerk.

All right.

All in favor, aye.

All opposed, item pass.

Ordinances being introduced for the first time, 64010 through 64011.

By council rules, these will lay over for one week.

Consent resolutions being introduced for the first time.

09206 through 6211.

Move to wave the rules for immediate consideration of these resolutions as read.

Second.

Proper move and second and discussion.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed, rules waived, Madam Clerk.

09206 transfer funds from District 6 discretionary account to County Hudson Senior Center to assist with the Stone Ridge HOA meeting.

37207 and 208 are recommending approval to the ABC Board for issuance of a retail beer table wine off purposes only license to corner market on Highway 90, and for issuance of a retail beer table wine off purposes only license to corner market on Shilina Road.

58209 and 20 and 210, authorized removal of weeds group 1675 and assess cost for removal of weeds, repeat wheat link group 98, 621.

Amend resolution 60 1559, adopted December 30th, 2025 to change the name for the release of claims.

So moved.

Second.

Proper move and second and discussion.

All in favor, aye.

All opposed.

Resolution passes.

CIP resolutions being introduced.

08 to 12 through 092 13.

Per council rules, these resolutions will be laid over for one week.

Resolutions being introduced for the first time.

08214 through 37220.

Move to waive the rules for immediate consideration of resolutions 08-214 and 21-218, with the others being laid over for one week.

Second, properly moving second in discussion.

All in favor?

Aye.

Rules waive, Madam Clerk.

08214, approved purchase orders to butler complete services for storm drainage, vegetation, and debris removal.

21 to 18.

Authorized contract with Alabama Pool Works for necessary repairs and improvements to swimming pools at Figures Park and Community Center.

So move.

Second.

Moving second in the discussion.

Yes, Ms.

President.

Mr.

Penn.

Just want to let the public know that 21218, these uh funds was transferred.

Um so they are already in place.

Um and this giving us the opportunity to approve all the pools together.

So this will be at my my second pool in my district.

Um, so that's the reason why we're waiving to make sure we put everything on track to get completed by that date.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

In other discussion.

All in favor, aye.

All opposed.

Item passed.

Announcements.

District six, councilman woods.

No announcements, Mr.

President.

Uh District 2, Councilwoman Ingrid.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Um, I want to start with uh first of all, congratulating our district two residents on Thursday, February 19th.

We had approximately 75 district two residents to attend the second quarter district to all communities meeting.

Uh, the purpose of that is really to engage empower the community with knowledge, resources, and tools so that they can be actively involved throughout the community.

I want to thank uh the residents again for their attendance, but the questions also their willingness to get involved.

Many signed up to participate and volunteer with litter and and things like that based off of the survey survey.

Uh a special thanks to the honorable judge Shabani Hall and the Honorable Judge Christopher Artlich for their attendance.

Um, as we're working to empower the community members, I'm asking if city administration would consider um, please consider a way to ensure equity for access to public services.

Um, like I said, at the via um community meeting we had, we had about 13 city administration staff, but we didn't have any for Texas Street.

So if you could please consider a process to ensure equity in terms of city staff attending to answer questions and so forth.

That would be greatly appreciated.

I also want to thank public works and mobile police fire and the fire department and the police department for the support at the Trinity Garden Parade.

I mean, just the first class service that they provide, customer service, not just with the customer service, but making us feel safe and then going back and making sure that our communities look as if we've never had a parade.

So just thank you for that coordination and that collaboration.

It really makes a difference.

That's all I have, Mr.

President.

Thank you.

Thank you.

District 4, Councilman Rumbles.

District 5, Councilman Flynn.

Uh, yes, sir.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Uh, to the citizens of District 5 crews, um, and specifically to the Holland Woods subdivision crews are wrapping up the sidewalk project there as we speak.

I would like to thank all the residents of Holland Woods for their patience.

Um, minus a few little touch ups and laying some aside uh in certain areas the crews should be out cleaning up this week, and they will be moving hopefully next week to the ravine wood subdivision to begin there.

So be on the lookout if you live in that area, uh, try to be patient.

Um, there's going to be a lot of improvements being made to the area.

Um also probably moving into next month.

Just a reminder of the Dolphin Street project from Robins Rub to Sage Avenue.

Um, just given some of the recent traffic accidents we've had in the city.

Just slow down, be careful, watch out for the workers and be on the lookout for that work to start.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilman Fleming.

District one, Councilman Penn.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

This past weekend we have one of the largest communities parade, um, I believe, probably in the world, um held in Trinity Garden in District 1.

And I just want to give a big shout out to the organizations that participate in this particular parade, to um every police um officer, fire department, um, and public works, just did an amazing job with cleaning up the community.

I was out there on Sunday morning, and they was just everywhere.

So just thank you so much for your support.

Um, and then also I would like to announce this Friday.

Um I will be sponsoring an event with the Mobile Museum of Art called Art After Dark, celebrating Black Art.

We will have local artists as well.

Come out.

Um, this is a hundred years of Black History Month.

It's the opportunity to celebrate, uh, and it's from six to nine.

Uh we have live music.

Um, you're gonna see different exhibits, um, and it's open and it's free.

And so you can go to my page as well as in my newsletter, how to sign up as well as Mobile Museum of Art.

Thank you so much, Ms.

President.

Uh Vice President, District 7.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

President.

Appreciate that.

Um, I too participated in an end of Mardi Gras season uh event on Saturday.

This was in the Mobile Terrace neighborhood.

It is their annual motorcade.

We had a lot of floats, um, uh really fancy I call them cars, uh, convertibles with a king and a junior queen, and just a lot of throws and some music.

The uh Marching Tigers uh came out from the city.

So a great event.

The community came out in force to to grill out to have fellowship with one another.

And um, the parade was very well attended, very well attended.

The only thing that marred it, and y'all probably saw this on the news, um, was that some gunshots were fired.

Uh, I was in the parade, we were at the very back of the parade, and by the time we got back to the starting point, um, apparently everything was over.

Uh, we never heard anything, didn't see anything, other than the police told us that there had been gunshots fired, and a photographer who was there had witnessed at least the sounds.

He didn't see what had happened, but he was in the vicinity and uh was affected by what had happened as well.

But um, according to police reports, um, some individuals we don't believe they were from the neighborhood, but some individuals um apparently got into an argument and fired guns, which happens a lot, unfortunately.

The good news is that the parade continued on.

It didn't affect people being out of the community, they continued grilling and um nobody was hurt.

Uh, some of the gunshots did um the shots hit some cars.

So I guess that is the the silver lining for that.

Um police are still looking into this.

Uh there is nothing new on who was involved in this, but I don't want that to impact the Mobile Terrace neighborhood because that neighborhood, those residents who live there are doing the best they can, and they are coming out as a community to celebrate uh being together during Mardi Gras, and um I celebrate them as well.

And thankfully the police were there very quickly because we had a number of them with us on the parade route.

And I just want to thank them for their very quick response.

And uh that is all from District 7.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Vice President.

And greens to the citizens of District 3.

Uh we are still trying to finalize our location for our Easter egg hunt and our community meetings.

Uh, thought we were going to be able to give out those dates on today, but we are planning on releasing those dates on next week and locations.

Anything from the administration?

Motion to adjourn.

Prop the movement second in.