An opportunity to look at the meeting minutes.

Make a motion.

All right.

All in favor.

The minutes pass.

All righty.

Brett, am I?

No, I've got the wrong one.

Somebody help me out here.

Oh, thank you.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council.

Brett.

Her hair is longer than his.

So this is a request to adopt a job classification for water wastewater treatment plant electronics technician senior.

This is what we're doing is adding a career progression step for the electronics technician.

Currently, we do not anticipate reclassifying anyone into that position, but we want to make it available so that they know as they progress through their career that it's available.

No new FTEs.

Okay.

I'll make a motion.

So all in favor.

All right, that passes.

Okay.

And the next one is a request to adopt a court referral monitoring specialist job classification.

This will go along with their new program recently started and municipal court.

In this position, the and it will not be any new FTs similar to the next one or the previous one.

But the employee that would be in this role would be responsible for doing monthly check-ins with clients and drug screens.

I'll make a motion.

Second.

All in favor?

Thank you.

All right.

Ms.

Stewart.

Good afternoon, Council.

It's not often that we have uh the two of you together on Sunday.

No, it's a rare sighting.

So this would be an ordinance to amend 10-13, which is the parking citation fines.

This would be to increase obstructing traffic, loading zone, and overtime parking.

All three were previously at $19.

Obstructing traffic and loading zone would go to 104 and overtime parking to 25.

Okay.

Any questions about raising these fees?

So the obstructing parking structural party be like people double parked at these food places out here where the traffic can't get by on university coming that way or 5th street going west.

Right.

Well, will this include delivery trucks?

Is that right?

Yeah.

Mr.

Director, are we going to be able to enforce that?

Yes, sir.

We can when officers are driving through a senior somebody calls.

Okay.

And parking enforcement also writes these citations.

They can write those?

Yes.

Oh, okay.

Those are all within the city code, so it's not going to be a traffic citation.

Okay.

It's just a parking ticket.

Yes.

Not just a parking ticket, but yes.

104.

Yeah.

It would get my attention just in case anybody wondered.

Any other questions about this?

Make a motion.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

All right.

That passes.

Bam.

I'm back.

So this is a request to update section 19-52 of municipal code.

This relates to the pay for our police and fire pay plan.

So currently the mayor can authorize up to a step nine in the pay plan as we get ready for RSA conversion, and we hope to attract more experienced officers and firefighters.

This will allow us to increase the starting pay, not increase the starting pay.

Let me rephrase that.

My suspicion is Chief Director.

My suspicion is once somebody's got 10 years someplace, it's slim that chance that they'd come here.

I don't know, but they might.

Yeah, I think with RSA, it opens about New York.

Y'all are well aware right now, they're not gonna come if they've got um that much time invested.

We have talked to people at our other agencies that are interested in coming over that are higher up on their uh their time with their department, and one of the things was they would lose money coming here, but with the lateral pay would help people that out because TPD does have a lot more opportunity to do different things that smaller departments do not have.

Right.

Um we're currently with Sarah Steen right now, finish up a lateral transfer recruitment video.

Um we have to have that out soon and just take full effect of the lateral transfers that we hope we're gonna get once we go on our side.

And and to clarify this, and and we we spoke, but if you're supervisor to know the per department and you transfer here, you'd have to go through the same steps as anybody else.

Yes, sir.

You start uh at the bottom.

Um we do have with our lateral transfers, um, they go through our same use of course that somebody who've never been in law enforcement goes through that pass those tests.

Um they come to our training.

Our training is currently four weeks uh for phase one, two, and three.

Um, and after that they go to a uh secondary fourth phase that is two weeks.

Um sometimes, especially if somebody's local, um, if they were at the sheriff's office or UA and and they're a little more advanced of an officer, there is an abbreviated training period, but it is still um 10 weeks of training, and they have to be passed on by their FTO.

So it's it doesn't matter who you are when you come in, you have to meet our standards and learn our policies, and we have to make sure that you're policing the way that we want you to police.

But it wouldn't take the normal year.

No, that's quick.

Question, can you walk me through any?

So this will allow the mayor to start somebody at 11 instead of nine.

Instead of nine.

So currently too however, right?

Yes, sir.

So currently the way the code is written, um, the mayor can authorized up to a step nine starting pay um in the public safety pay plan and up to step 12 in the non-public safety pay plan.

So if we hire someone, they're a lateral transfer.

We look so somebody comes from UA or who's right, right, and they're certified.

We will look at their years of experience, and based on the years of experience, we will offer an additional pay as a starting salary based on how many years they have been a certified offering.

Numerically were those 11 and 9.

Okay.

So um step nine, hold on, I have it.

Step nine is $70,280 and 50 cents.

So we would increase it to step 11, which is $73,838.44 cents.

So we could offer up to that.

Another question, just out of curiosity.

If someone moves in here, transfers here from out of state.

Do they have to go to the academy or is it good at a two-week refresher to learn state laws and make sure, and that's only if APOS is good with it, it depends on their experience.

Bay Post allows them to go to two-week refresher, or if they got to go through the full academy.

But they would go through our same FTO program to make sure they have the training that we require.

Uh, because our policies and procedures are gonna be different.

Yes, sir.

So many places.

Okay, any other questions?

Second.

All in favor?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Hi.

We'll let you take Zach's place.

I appreciate that because he is of the plague right now.

So I'm proud he didn't come.

I am glad that the plague is not in my office.

So uh what Mr.

Pons was going to be bringing you and what I'm bringing you this afternoon are uh some zoning code updates that have been through the planning and zoning commission with unanimous recommendation at the November meeting.

Uh and now counsel they're in front of you to pass on to the full council if you so choose.

Um so just as a quick reminder, of course, y'all uh blessed us with the brand new zoning ordinance in December of 2024.

We began implementing that new zoning ordinance in January of 2025, and we have had this continuous feedback loop, and we've been so thankful for that feedback loop from those who are designing under it.

Um, our architects, our engineers, the home builders, um, the folks from the EDA, and we have been keeping tabs on little things that aren't quite working the way we thought they would.

Uh, and so of course, y'all remember we've had two updates so far within the zoning ordinance.

We talked about drive-throughs back in May of 25, and then we updated uh regarding town homes in June.

So this update is far more comprehensive.

It touches 53 total sections of the zoning ordinance, but mostly with cloud uh clarifications and revisions.

So we reached out to the stakeholder groups back in October, bounced all the the recommended changes off of them at the time.

Nobody came to the planning and zoning commission um in opposition to any of those changes.

We've resent the the proposed changes to them ahead of today's meeting.

And y'all can see on pages 11 through 15 of your packets, you'll have those overview sheets, what's changing just quickly, and then all of the red line text follows in the rest of your packet.

But so far nobody has complained about it.

No, sir, and they've they've been very positive with hey, thank you for noticing that.

Thank you for getting that change.

Any questions?

Sure.

Um Zach called me last week sometime.

Yeah, yeah.

And I appreciate it.

And what I had asked is if there were any changes of substance.

I realize that somewhat subjective.

Sure.

But if he would brief this committee on the says it was a handful.

Handful uh things of substance, sure.

Uh there were okay.

Well, this is gonna be my subjective thoughts on what's a substantive or not.

Uh so you've got a couple of areas where we just completely left out the membership in terms of office for the zoning board of adjustment.

That needs to go back into the zoning or back into the zoning ordinance.

Um, it got forgotten completely.

Um for convenience stores, Mr.

Eatman.

I know you've come across this uh with the convenience store that's in downtown right now.

Uh, right now they are age restricting of substance.

We want to say that in the definition of a convenience store that there's no age restriction to enter the premises.

Um that'll help clean up that issue that Mr.

Eatman's having right now.

Yeah, uh continuing on through that uh areas annexed into the city as they come into the city, uh, if they are in the lake area within the immediate buffer of the lake.

You know things come in as that base zoning SFR1, but you saw um gosh, it's been a couple months ago.

Grant McCabe had a piece of property that was on the lake that had to rezone from SFR1 to Lake Residential instead when it should have just come in as lake residential.

We want to make that clarification uh happen so it's it's one less step for folks.

Um we also are making sure to clarify that uh conflicts between the historic preservation commission and the standards of zoning that the HPC's rules and their design regulations or their design guidelines rule first.

We provided some clarity.

So in the old zoning ordinance, uh when there's a conflict between the zoning ordinance and the historic preservation commission's design guidelines, the HPC's design guidelines are gonna ru, they're gonna win.

So something uh with a setback, especially because the positioning of a building or something along those lines.

If the design guidelines say that let's take Guildswood, for example, Guildswood has a very uh a very deep front yard setback.

We want Guildswood to continue to be maintained the way that it is, and so those design guidelines are gonna win over zoning.

Okay.

Um help me out here.

That's a good thing for HBC, right?

100%.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, it's a good thing.

Um we want to provide some clarity regarding non-conforming uses.

That term discontinued uh refers to the actual non-use of a property, regardless of any intention of the property owner to resume such use as a later date that provides a lot of good clarity for Mr.

Pons and in his office.

And what's an application of that?

Somebody closes for a little bit and they say, I'm I'm coming back.

I'm coming back.

I'm uh I'm a tobacco store next to another tobacco store, and they close their doors and they say, but I'm coming back, I'm coming back.

Their intent may be to do so, but if they don't come back within those six months, that use is considered non-void.

Would that apply to um residences in the historic district that are grandfathered for more than three non-related?

But you know, right now if they break that usage for six months, correct?

Yes, sir.

They forfeit the grandfather.

Yes, sir.

That's a great example.

Does that stay valid?

Yes, sir.

So any other questions, y'all?

Anything else?

All righty.

We have a motion.

I make a motion.

All in favor?

Uh all right.

Thank you.

That passage.

Thank you.

Ms.

Cross.

All right.

Would anything from the committee?

Y'all have anything to add this afternoon?

All right.