The City Council convened to approve new personnel classifications for IT and Public Works, pass a resolution regarding local legislative bills for the upcoming session, review text amendments for sidewalk cafes, and table the discussion on associated fee schedules pending further community input. The meeting also included a discussion on a proposed state legislative bill to regulate businesses operating as bars under restaurant licenses.
Legislative Agenda Resolution:
Sidewalk Cafe Text Amendments:
Sidewalk Cafe Fee Schedules:
Bar vs. Restaurant Definition:
Passed Unanimously:
Deferred:
Next Steps:
First up. And of course I have piled all things up on my agenda. Jason or Lashonda, I don't know. Or both y'all go tag team. I was volunteered, sir. Okay. Yes, afternoon. This is uh for the creation of a field services manager job classification. I will uh go ahead and answer uh a couple of questions. This does not represent a new FTE. Uh and this uh increase from another position is budgeted is within IT's budget. This is not represent an increase, Mr. Russell. Uh so this uh what's driving the need for a vote? Absolutely. Uh three years ago we took over the uh the job of managing the city's fiber optic network from public works at the time we had a field service, we had a uh fiber optics supervisor and uh two technicians over the last three years that the role that that team plays has increased significantly. They are now over all the uh security cameras that the city has as well as now the access control for the city's security in addition to the fiber optic uh networks and the city's uh physical networking and equipment. Uh as that uh need has grown uh and as we have worked through things such as construction projects that we have in parks, there is a need to review plans and design plans, and so as over time that position and that group has gotten to be more important in its responsibilities. We felt that creating a uh manager uh position versus what is currently now a supervisor position was one to the increase and and work that was that accompanied that and technical expertise and is it a change in pay classification for the it is a different classification than the supervisor, yes, sir. How many people does it affect one? Just one, yes. Any other questions? We have a motion. I'll make a motion. Second, all in favor? That passes. Thank you, Jason. Mr. Green, I think you have something similar. Yes, sir. I do counselor. Good afternoon. Hello. I'll start by rolling my eyes at Lashonda because I was voluntary. I got you. I do want to say Lashonda and her team did the heavy lifting to get us to this point, so I greatly appreciate that. This construction superintendent job classification. You may recall from our department budget presentation uh for FY26. These are two positions that we had in there for uh request of approval to add some mid-level management support to our uh streets and drainage division. Uh so this position or classification will function as a prioritization of work, uh handling quality quality control, as well as looking into uh just over our overall workflow and uh safety compliance. So budget-wise, this is a new classification, but it does not increase the budget of public works because we have made other adjustments in our operations uh for salary-wise, where we have eliminated some vacant positions to re-order and make room for these two positions. Any questions? It'll create two self two of these positions. Correct. Does it eliminate whatever they were? They're not those two are now going to be a little bit more. So what we have what we've eliminated are other work functions within public works that included a supervisor position, a heavy equipment classification, and several of our concrete finishers that gave us room to create these new management positions. And are they gone all the time? Yes, sir, they're gone all together. And our salary budget benefits on the whole have gone down for public works.