08/16/2016

[0:00:00] order before we have our invocation tonight i'd like to make a statement on behalf of our south american fire department unfortunately we've lost one of our good friends of our city for many years one of the best people to ever represent our city it's a very sad week for us with the passing of former fire chief ron white the south haven fire department and the city of south haven mourn the loss retired chief ron white chief white passed away sunday afternoon for natural causes with family and friends by his side chief white retired in january after proudly serving the citizens of southampton for 42 years his wisdom vision and leadership made a significant impact on the city of south haven and throughout the entire region it will be greatly missed words seem inadequate to express our sadness our deepest condolences go out to miss anne ron jr missy and the entire white family please join us in honoring chief white and his family in a celebration of his life and his career visitation will be from six to eight pm on thursday august 18th with a memorial service friday august 19th from 1 pm to 2 30 p.m both services will be held at clonay hills church at 7701 highway 51 north in south haven the family is asking that any donations be made to the mississippi byrne foundation in memory of fire chief ron white he will be missed by many um personally he was special to me in my first three years uh our first two actually first three as mayor uh he was uh acted as a mentor to me you know spent a lot of time with me educating me on the fire operation and i know i'm just that pales you know to the experiences and the relationships that many other people here in this room and our city had so um anyway we just want to pay tribute to him with a moment

[0:02:02] of silence uh before uh gallagher leads us in prayer and after that if everyone will stand and uh will be led by the pledges of the league a pledge of allegiance by the honor to scott ferguson please stand with us at this time heavenly father lord we come before you and we just want to thank you for chief white's service to our city lord pray that you would be with the family lord that you would send your holy spirit to comfort them lord we thank you for making a path of salvation for each and every one of us lord if we choose you these things we ask in your name amen i pledge amen 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 okay first on our agenda this evening is approval of the minutes uh first of all for the august 2nd 2016 meeting and then after that we'll need another motion for the budget workshop special meeting on august 5 2016. mr move we approve the minutes of the regular meeting of august 2nd 2016 with any additions deletions or corrections a second we have a motion ballroom in pain second ballroom in brooks is there any

[0:04:04] discussion hearing none roll call remember yes yes yes yes yes okay and that motion carries now is there a motion to approve the minutes for the august 5th budget workshop special meeting mr mayor i mean we approve of the minutes of the special meeting of the budget workshop on august 5th second we have motion pain second modern and flores is there any discussion [Music] hearing none roll call yes yes okay that motion carries our next on our agenda is a flu shot agreement uh mr chris wilson okay so we're going to make a motion to close the meeting and then we'll do another one to open the budget here is that correct nick yes okay so is there a motion to close the public meeting at this point second we have a motion gallagher second of all kelly is there any discussion hearing none all in favor say hi i'll post say no eyes have it motion carries uh the uh public meeting is closed now is there a motion to open the budget hearing hearing is there any discussion hearing none all in favor say aye aye all voters say no i was having motion carries will now start the uh big budget hearing the mayor board um and residents of southaven this is going to be a lot of what you can recall from the workshop and what you've seen over the last several weeks of the week as we've prepared your fy 2017 budget again the priorities is laid out for

[0:06:06] this year and this budget do remain the same as many years as many years in the past public safety public infrastructure regarding drainage and roads city beautification continued revitalization and sustaining strong fund balances and this budget sets does meet those priorities starting off which is general fund alone we received some over 47 million dollars of requests from city departments and our target budget had to be 41.9 million so that was the work that was uh before you to the workshop and as we've gotten to this point the basic highlights of this of this budget includes balanced budget there's no prior year cash reserves or prior year money brought forward to to make it balanced there's no property tax increase there's no fees increase there's no utility rate increase there's no sanitation rate increase we are over 3.2 million dollars investing into roads infrastructure drainage beautification there are new positions in this budget as requested and as the department has came and prioritized the new police department position is major we have four new positions in utility department to keep up with their work they continue to do two new dispatch positions one new public defender in court once one spray tech position in parks and four new public work positions for uh again a new crew there there are a few select target targeted market-based salary adjustments within the fire parks planning and building clerk i.t dispatch again these are not city-wide raises in this balanced budget one thing that we did also we got our final quote on this morning was what is proposed and is included in this balanced budget is to offer a 100 000 life insurance policy to your firemen and policemen currently all city employees are offered a 25 000 life insurance policy at no cost to them it is in this budget to

[0:08:09] increase that to 100 000 for our first responders which i think is a one that will help in recruitment and will help the retention and given the line of work they do i think it's necessary that is included in this budget you'll see the 17 is compared to 16 16 again 71.6 million dollars in this 17 proposed 66.4 66.5 and that's really as we finish some of these capital improvement projects those funds are just being expended and they're not obviously not replenished and the next one you've got just kind of a schematic of your full-time employees by area which you'll see 63 percent of all of your full-time employees are dedicated to public safety and as we go forward with total budget by fund general fund is 66 percent tourism is two debt service is 11 you've got utility at 17 and sanitation at four percent and again as we break down the general fund by percentage 53 of your general fund is public safety with 13 dedicated to parks we have seen another slight modest uptick in assessed valuation for 16 the counties they their reassessment roles brought us up about three percent and that is reflected also in your projected revenue so the modest three percent increase in assessed valuation and on the property tax revenues next one should be your millage rate which has remained consistent since 2009 again you can see the 01 06 years those upticks were for some park bonds over the years with the millage assessed to that we did one mil cut and 09 has been consistent since then this millage allocation back basically what it does every dollar that comes in 69 cents that dollar goes to general fund tax and 31 cents goes to debt service and this is important too because we see

[0:10:15] general fund revenues this used to be inverse where sales tax is a greater percentage of our general fund than property tax you generally like to see property taxes a higher percentage because it's more stable than sales tax and solidifies our tax base and sales tax as you see this course this is updated through august to where our revenues you can see the early 2000s really sales tax spiking you see the difference regarding the recession right there at 9 and 10 and working our way back up again what we've budgeted that orange line is budget revenues again you'll notice we are budgeting again less revenues than we receive because again this fy 17 budget has to contemplate any law transfer sales tax once tanker joins the state rebate program and those sales tax dollars go back to the state to pay off the work up to 34 million over the years we have to adjust our sales tax accordingly so we again are budgeting less than we're actually receiving in sales tax to accommodate for that potential sales tax loss every dime a general fund property tax brings in 17.075 is in the budget and your public safety expenses are nearly 24.5 million dollars so literally every dime that we receive in general fund property tax does in fact go to total safety again with tourism taxes another one as you know the repealer is up this year so we again we have to budget dramatic drop off because we can only budget nine months for the first nine months of fy17 during the course state legislature extends to repealer we will come back the budget amendment to revise that but um again that's through august we budgeted this year 1.8 and we are right on pace to uh to hit that utility and sanitation rates again these haven't changed uh for 2017. these are the same i don't believe we've had a rate increase in

[0:12:17] three or four budget years in water or sewer no sanitation rate increase and again this actually the chart that shows the stable since since 2013 your water sewer rates have been stable no increases and again this is a major part that's driving our budget our um general obligation debt principal balance you'll see dramatic decreases in the 20 21 23 years that's when the majority of our park bonds begin to roll off so we've got we're approaching the time when a lot when we're paying off the majority of our park bond debt and next slide you will see the actual um annual debt service and you see those dramatic drops and what we're paying annually um coming up and you think 20 20 21 is not so far away but it's 4 4 budget years away but again this is a it's um you've heard from your departments we try to accommodate their requests and priorities if necessary but again you know 47 million requests for 41.9 million available revenue it is it is balanced it uh it's a solid budget commitment again the public safety and public infrastructure really that's really what we're doing and all this available all this information is available on our website the details about your breakdown and this information has been the best problems thank you chris appreciate it thank you and i'll be happy to answer any questions we'll start start with the board any questions regarding it or comments or requests or changes from the board than the comment of thanking chris and his department and the department heads for the hard work they put in to create a balanced budget for the four straight year i also department heads understand the reality of limited resources we know we have some potential improvement expenditures we're going to have to make some tough decisions on

[0:14:19] down the road again going back with some of that debt you're going to have some freed up funds in the next few fiscal years we've talked about that but you know as far as delivering the public services your department is a real good job of knowing the priorities and really focusing on those and not getting too far out there on your request well the capital improvements we've made in the city over the last three years yeah this year alone you're doing over two million dollars in uh asphalt and overlay point is key to note that many cities use uh jail bonds for a lot of things that we're doing repetitively in our annual budget so i'm happy about that i know we this board has uh supported that 100 and um you know we've made a lot of progress you know as i've said many many times since 2013 we've had some catching up to do with infrastructure and we've been able to do that without issuing any new bonds we've done that with our annual budget and very proud of that and part of that you know we made the best amendment to move one million dollars we took 500 000 from your operating your fund balance and you've upped your uh sales tax revenue half a million dollars you get that one million operating funds and 16 to go back on those some severely distressed streets we're on pace now to be able to put that 500 000 back into your fund balance and such so uh that plan we've increased our credit rating and it's stabilized and others municipalities are having a hard time so i think there's a lot to be said for chris yeah s p yeah s p continues to give us a favorable outlook um again we haven't issued any sense of refundings last time we were rated so but those strong fund balances well it's also important to note and i also appreciate the fact that we're reinvesting into the city of south haven because we're investing in ourself which is going to provide a good stable tax base for ourselves and for the entire city for the years to come and that's important thank you chris for

[0:16:21] uh and ford and mayor for being able to work hard to do this those policies we're happy to execute any other specific questions about any line items among the board or and then we'll we'll um address the uh anyone else in the audience who would like to ask questions or speak but uh with the board is there any other line items or anything specific that anyone had questions about or that would like to change okay hearing none at this point i'd like to invite the audience if there's anyone in the audience that would like to ask questions if they have any questions about anything in the budget please come to come forward and identify yourself and we welcome any questions okay seeing no one come forward hearing no questions um is there a motion to adjourn the budget here we've got a bunch of honor with florida second baltimore brooks is there any discussion hearing none all in favor say all posts saying no i just have it motion carries the budget hearing is now closed now is there a motion to reopen a public meeting so we've got a motion by kelly second of all and brooks all in favor say aye aye all opposed say no i just have the motion kerry's public meeting is now open and we'll proceed on with the next item on our agenda which is our police shot agreement he's going to address that name mr nick just an manley between the city and the walgreens to allow the flu shots for the employees of the city as part of the health care plan you make that motion

[0:18:25] second we have a motion volume brooke's second ballerina pain is there any discussion they come here i think it's either here or at walgreens is that correct hold on yeah they can go to walgreens and they'll come here i think we set up for three and there's no charge to the employee or the city any other questions or discussions hearing now roll call yes okay that motion carries next on our agenda is the ordinance for telepath franchise this is a an ordinance for our franchise the telepath which is related to ceasefire they are going to be in the next couple years and i've already started to feeling fiber optics throughout the city for internet access at this point they're in all of desoto county tonight bring this uh ordinance before the board you can't under the under laws and systems are under the statutes instances of the franchise agreement you have to introduce it and then be in the clerk's office for home review for at least two weeks then you take it up for pass it at the next board meeting but we've gone back and forth to the moment agreement the agreement will allow for use for right of ways for a fee of five thousand dollars but also in the event of video or teller or audio video or audio and the five percent revenue will kick into two and a half percent run into the city which is the other agreements we have with comcast and att arrangement so tonight just brings us the board's attention putting on five let the public know in the minutes of being the file in clerk's office uh we won't officially take action until the next board meeting though but

[0:20:27] any questions you may have i'm gonna try to address tonight as well or with an export meeting but no action to take just let the board know it's on file percentage of the statute so no no action at all okay next on our agenda is the contract renewal for term contract utilities and public works stay in your down mayor board thank you this is the renewal of the primary and first alternate term bids for the public works utilities tournament of the primary contract was awarded to triferma last year with a first alternate contract to l t services they help us actually been helping us with the drainage projects and emergency work that may come up our contract allowed a one year period with a renewal up to four years this will be the first request of renewal it allows allowed for a cost index increase which in looking back over the past year has amounted to a 0.6 increase in the unit prices we're asking for board approval tonight for this increase from another year another renewal year for the primary bid for tri-firma at that rate increase and the mayor's authority to execute and then i need another request another for the same for the first alternative so we're making a motion for you to authorize a marriage assignment contract approve the renewal of a one-year period for addition to the term contractors with the primary insight first is for the primary contractor are both of them uh 0.06 percent is that just like costing that's a cost

[0:22:31] index increase for both of them it was allowed in both contracts i'll make it in motion second okay on the primary we have a motion by alderman ferguson second alderman payne is there any discussion hearing now in a roll call yes utility public works contract okay on on the alternate we have a motion by alderman brooks second baltimore ferguson is there any discussion yes okay that motion carries as well thank you thank you dan all right next on our gen is a contract for sro this is the contract with the county school board to allow for the city to provide an sro officer will reimburse the city 12 000 towards the cost of our sro sro for the um student resource officer for those schools in the city of south haven is that per school yeah we have a motion ball with alderman ferguson second ballroom pain is there any discussion but there's an srno at every school right correct is there any other discussion are you known roll call yes okay that motion carries

[0:24:39] the next honor jen is a contract with kft fire trainer off c for the southampton fire department our chief roger corn mayor board this is a maintenance contract on our four-story drill tower at our training center it includes computer components and the burn props and maintenance and parts throughout the year and annual visits to take care of the actual service and maintenance it is a proprietary system and it should be considered about the soldiers apparently we approved kft as the sole soil provider for fire trainer equipment this president of the state second we have mushroom and brooks second autumn in pain is there any discussion hearing none roll call yes okay that motion carries thank you thank you next on our gen is a resolution for sanitation assessment okay it's just all that we're doing is passing a resolution for the [Music] few very few citizens that refuse to pay their sanitation cost a lot of this is in areas where we do not provide water service so they're getting a separate invoice for the sanitation and some have for whatever reason uh refuse to pay that so there will be an assessment um to recoup that money to the market mr mayor i believe that we prove that without the resolution for assessing unpaid sanitation fees that presented on this date let's see we have a motion balance second of all in pain is there any discussion were yes

[0:26:43] they're receiving the services just not paying for it right correct well they're continuing the streets at this point they're not receiving wait this is for the back because they we they're not receiving the service anymore this is to collect the fees that were that had not been paid without why they weren't receiving the service we've collected the cans yes all right so what does yeah what's happened to the trash yeah we have the idea well the kind of enforcement issue yeah they started doing that i'm not burning it are they that's another as nick said these these are for the ones that um owed money refused to pay even after the campus but we're not allowing residents to opt out of getting trashed though right correct we just the issue became is we they were not paying we were getting they were getting a service they weren't paying for either right so we were collecting that what's the success they can pick up their garbage can if they want to continue to get the service that's how we're treating it it's important to note that the fee that all the citizens pay is based on the number of people paying it so if you have some people not paying it that affects the cost for the city in general which puts a bigger burden on setting that price or keeping a consistent price on the sanitation fee for everyone in the city right but we're we're going to continue to collect these residents homes though no no no no that's why they can so we don't really know what they're doing with trash at that point if it's still sitting there sitting out there becomes kind of issue so they they have the right to dispose of as long as they don't violate code enforcement or other sanitary rules of the city or the illegal burning environment as long as they're not breaking any other ordinances they i mean that's their right to dispose of the trash i will admit i don't know how just i don't know how you dispose of them for less than 12 i mean how do you think about that um okay they just it seems like we're kind

[0:28:46] of letting them off out of the program now well we're doing all we can legally to enforce it i mean we're looking to see what we can else we can do as far as um we'll give a rally on that and see if she becomes if they we keep providing service we're not paying for it then we're giving a service they're not paying for at that point it only comes to effect for those people who don't receive the water bills so the only way you can anybody cannot if you see a registered water bill it's all the same deal we don't receive the water this is interesting about now it comes in but if you continue to provide the service somebody's not paying then you're giving a free service to someone but you can't do that either so that's kind of interesting he was trying to figure out the best way to handle it okay test assessment going against their property taxes it goes against their taxes and again as nick said this is a very from a percentage standpoint it's a very minor percentage of the people that receive it so so do we bring the cans back out after we've received the assessment that's right if they want the services just keep assessing the car okay is there any other discussion hearing on roll call yes okay that motion carries next on our agenda is a resolution for filing of liens this is just the resolution of all the links that can be on properties

[0:30:50] we may be converted to assessments to the city so we moved second we have emotional modern florence second water in pain is there any discussion yes that motion carries all right next one agenda is a resolution granting authority to claim private property uh mr mayor but we adopt the resolution granting authority to clean private properties presented on the state second we have a motion monument brooks second arm and kelly first of all is there any discussion among the board hearing none is there anyone in the audience that would like to speak regarding any of the properties that are on the list hearing or seeing none roll call yes okay that motion carries next on our agenda is our planning agenda just wendy cooper yeah so this is a titled item so i think before we go into any discussion with it we need to take it off the table it's the pinewood developments is that the only thing that's on the internet that's the only thing that's basically all we're doing the pinewood development at our last meeting we tabled that and since then we've done some research and it does need to go back before they they propose an amendment to it so it needs to go back before uh before the planning commission so at this point we just need a motion to take it off the table and hoping to back up our discussion to do just that i'll make that motion so exactly okay motion by alderman flores second alderman gallagher all in favor say all posts say no i just have motion carries the item is back on the table and again just to

[0:32:53] basically say that again that's that's all we need to do at this point is send it back to the planning commission uh with the amendments and then ultimately after they uh post proper notice and have their hearing it'll come back before the after their recommendation they'll come back before the board of volunteering right we tentatively have it on the planning commission for the 29th and back up to the board on september 6th so if anything changes obviously we'll update it from there but those are your tentative dates right now well actually we don't need any any action tonight but just just an update and then uh was there anything else that you we're not voting for we gotta put it back we got it back we gotta table it again though do we not i don't know just you could just vote tonight to set the hearing in front of this board for september 6th that's why that's fine that's what i thought okay all right so we're setting the uh here we keep sending the hearing date back again so the motion was made by brooks was there a second second ballroom in ferguson any discussion in this 40 the notice issues are all cured by the red sign now notices are out um like i said they are tentative if there's any hold ups at the planning commission level we'll revise that we do have their revisions if if you want to have them in prelude so you can start studying it's a big developments 280 acres um i'll be happy to send that out to everybody and you can start with your questions but we've alerted all the residents with child homeowners associations um we have talked to planning commissioners everybody's on board uh the applicant is on board as well so hopefully it'll be smooth by the time we get back up to you guys let's just go to the revisions they were talking about last time yes there's some additional changes in the text and i can send that out to you as well but the primary thing is the warehousing has been removed from it so okay any other discussion okay here you know roll call to uh set that here yes yes okay motion carries thank you

[0:35:00] okay next our agenda is the mayor's report just i'll be quick tonight just want to tell you a few things uh first of all um we have the previous ordinance committee met and discussed a revision to our transient vendor ordinance and at this time just uh updating you that that is um being done at this point so after the suggestions and everything that was discussed in the committee meeting that's been revised and then when that's complete that'll be brought back for the full board to vote on mainly the reason for that is we have uh witnessed a problem at times the transient vendor situation has gotten out of hand uh you know we just simply don't want to look we don't want to look like a fair in the city i mean we want people that um you know that uh businesses that pay property taxes and invest in our city it's not fair to them that people come in and spend no money in the city no commitment and they can be here one day and go on the next that's not fair to the other businesses that make a commitment to the city of south haven it has got to be somewhat of a problem with the new tanker development there's many that have come in it's a distraction to some of the shoppers a lot of a lot of solicitation in the in the aisles and it's become somewhat of a problem so that's why we're revising it but uh and when that's done that'll be brought back before the full board to vote upon any questions about that between now and then i'll be happy to answer those um we talked about our budget that we've been committed to beautification in the city we um [Music] we want to put a good foot forward we want to know that when people come to our city that they notice the community pride that we have it makes us economically attractive for attracting new business we got a list of things that we can that we have plans to do but with the 2016 money we've been working hard for many months whitney's done an extensive amount of work on this and we're working on city entrance signs and basically what that

[0:37:02] is the green signs that you see at all the entrance points of the city of south haven many of which are bent and fallen over just because they've been up there for so many years we're going to replace those with a new decorative sign that's a two posted sign that has a extremely attractive design letting people know that they've entered one of the best cities in the state of mississippi and so we're going to we'll have those done we're finalizing the order now and we hope to have those installed by year end hopefully november 1. along with that you may have seen this and some of the other cities maybe in collierville madison we are going to order decorative street signs so at the arterial intersections where you see the typical green signs we're going to replace that with a decorative sign that has the city logo on it and um it's extremely attractive and it just shows pride it lets people know that they've entered a great city and uh and at the arterial intersections are the focal points so we want to make a statement and let people know that we have pride in south haven you know and they know that when they've entered our city so anyway those will also uh be a part of that order and uh we have the money budgeted for that uh came in much less than we budgeted for it so we're happy about that and again hope to have all that installed by year end and then lastly i just want to again as alderman flora said earlier i'd like to thank everyone for the work on the budget all the department heads did a great job with a limited amount of time with our workshop you know prioritizing and i want everyone that works for the city to know and all the people the city to know that the department heads do a great job of going to bat for their employees uh as chris mentioned earlier it's it's it's not possible for us to say yes you know to every request but um as we listen to their top three priorities uh extremely happy that we were able to get the three parties done for most and uh although we'd like to do everything obviously we have to

[0:39:05] be very conscientious of the budget and uh and we try to get as many requests you know granted as possible but i thought we did a really good job with that and again i'd like to thank chris his work with that i'd like to thank the board members all of you for coming through the time that you spent to make sure that that it is does meet the goals of what we're trying to accomplish but i'm happy with the budget but again thank you for all the work on that and that's all i have this evening uh next one agenda is a personnel docket mr mayor i'm sorry i'm sorry i need to pull the glasses back out um next on our agenda is our citizens agenda and we did have uh one person that signed up to speak uh mr gary weber is in the audience would you please come forward good evening i am i'm here on behalf of the residents in the rambles the 55 and older community and we'd like to see if the city could do something in helping us curb the soil erosion and getting rid of the divided when it rains the river mud in the streets all that's dragged down to our driveways garages into the homes and then when it dries up you've got a dust mold out there people cutting through driving at you know probably speed they shouldn't be at and we've been working with the contractor and uh people for nine ten months and we're not getting nothing done um three weeks ago there was eight inches of mud out there took a front end order and four people four hours to remove it at the y of the uh the road there at vineyard drive in sagewood and then all that funneled down our street they jumped it off in the curb and left it and we've been working with them ever since and we've pretty much hit a stone wall and

[0:41:07] the city has been good about sending a street sweeper out he comes out and spends three four hours trying to get the mud off the streets for the dirt after his drag and we appreciate that thank you but i think it's a waste of everybody's time and money because we could be stopping that erosion back at the source so if we could get some help from the city and look into that we'd appreciate it if you've got any suggestions we can do uh we'll gladly do it well mr robert we actually after we got your request friday we did discuss that in our department head meeting this morning and there's some information that we can share with you that may i don't know if it's the ultimate solution but as it may help explain why it's such a problem mr dan cordell would you would you help us with that explain basically what we want to talk about is what the problem is the silt screen that's on the vacant lots you know they haven't you know had a home built on them yet those lots uh you know we've had for whatever reason last several years we've had tremendous you know flood events and rain and sometimes the requirements that our city has are not sufficient to keep all the dirt you know inside the silt screen and sometimes it doesn't leak out onto the roadway but mr cordell is our city engineer and uh he's an expert on flooding he definitely is he's had lots of experience with flooding in southampton so don't make you in the board um i can't i don't know how long he's been struggling with this i do know that as of june um he had gotten he had gotten through to us so we went out at whitney's request look because we're usually uh in-house uh code enforcement has an inspector that does the erosion control inspection we went out in in june and bottom line the site was not in compliance with the erosion patrol measures now since then i've made the contractor i know he's been in contact with you we had the contractor deal directly with him and we made a list of

[0:43:09] things that he had to do at that point it was about four acres um the contractor was behind there were some areas that were bare that didn't meet the permit requirement since then we have made him grass most all of the site and he's gotten the curtain gutter in and lining some dishes so there's less exposed area before emotion there is still one corner that is protected by seal fence now seal fence is one line of defense and it's a very weak one when it comes to erosion control and it's not there to provide protection of a four acre site but for the area that it's protecting it's about the only thing you can do other than the contractor finish i have looked at the shop i don't know exactly why the contractor hasn't finished this area because it's literally about the size of this room so when these rains are gone we'll be back out there and we'll get them to grass here stabilize it and hopefully that'll eliminate that erosion to that location he's also going to put in some swales at the intersection where there's water sitting uh where the the the sediment builds up also because it's sitting there so it has time to come out there's never no matter what improvements you do there's there's never a zero balanced game you're going to get some erosion from any bmp it's a best management practice it doesn't cure everything so some of it is a nature of the construction and the development in this instance there were some time extensions in the construction process where they did not adequately control now they've been very responsive to our inspections they've never not done anything we asked them to do but i will say they probably were not timely as they should have been in getting grass established so there's still one area there it's only protected by civil fence now the silt fence was put in correctly it's strong but it's holding back a lot of sediment and they are only a seal fence only going to protect you from like a two year size

[0:45:11] event so you think well that's going to find the way around you know two year size event it's very small so the range we've been getting is is what's causing that bmp is not gonna secure all the sudden that's going down so we're gonna have them clean that area up get grass established because that's the long-term engage and then they won't need the the seal fence that may take another couple of weeks but we want to do that before the rain season the winter season gets when you get grass going so i tell you all that to tell you a plan but that's not that's so fast on right there by the stop sign now and uh right at that line the corner is about it's about it's about down right now on this last rain right and as soon as the rain has been stopped they're supposed to come out there and fix all that and i know they have it yet but it's got to be one of those things when it's the storm stop so we'll get on them and get out there and get those seats i did contact the contractor and the developer yesterday so they're aware that we've got to get this fixed and that you were coming up so we're going to get them i got there if you have any questions for me and then i was aware we talked about not to get ahead of you i want to open up the floor to you but we talked about some of your other concerns one was straight lines correct and uh in the street lights that are in the subdivision or the standard distance between them like there's a plan to put them after so many houses like six houses and that's the way it is now at this point do you feel like there's a is there a need for is there do you feel like there's a need for another another light or there's um there's one street light right at the the clubhouse and that's right at vineyard in sagewood and then they put one probably 50 60 yards to the north and to the east on jade which is on the north side of that racetrack and there's still three other five plexes to the east of that that have no lighting and our side on the bottom side well brook there's two five plexes that are occupied and they've got the third one in the brick stage and then

[0:47:15] the fourth one in the framing stage and we sure could use some lights back there it's it's just dark and and you know we've asked and people say you can't do it until it's so much complete whatever well there's 60 percent completed right now on that racetrack of those five plexes so we were just wondering if there's a possibility we could get something done you know the days are getting shorter and people ask me all the time hey when we get some likes i guess because i'd like to talk about it you know i don't know but anyway um that and then also some speed limit signs we can get them we've actually followed people stopped it and we got people in our own subdivision we asked them how come you're going through there at 50 miles an hour well there's no signs that's no excuse i do believe that city says it's 2025 in residential areas you know i don't know if we can if that can be helped out or anything maybe maybe not i don't know i don't know when you're going to put them up but we appreciate we get something done with that too sure i understand that i didn't want to share one thing with you in which what you were told i want to clarify a little bit when there's a new development the streets are not actually the cities until they are do get to a certain level of completion then the street has to be dedicated to the city so until the street is dedicated to the city we don't have the authorization to put uh to put street signs up so that's that's the reason they're not there oh okay but now we can we can monitor that as we move towards that point obviously we want to ensure traffic safety and the speed limit doesn't matter to us so we'll definitely put the signs up at that time but that's why they're not out there now just want to give you a straight answer why they're not doing that now the lighting we can again we can uh go look at that again and if there's an area that we can put the lights up we can we can definitely have somebody go back out there and double check that on the lights we appreciate that and if they want to contact us we can show them what's there you know we gladly do that okay we can do that was there anything else that we missed that was what we talked about no sir you said great i appreciate your time thank you for thank you george i appreciate it we uh uh we did not have the library on there

[0:49:22] but um the board has the board can give me approval uh that motion exactly so we have a vote from alderman flores secretary kelly to allow the library to speak all in favor say out all right any opponents say no i just have it motion carries please come forward thank you i'm caroline garnier and i'm the head librarian at the mr davis public library and we want to thank you all for the support you've given the library over all the years we're proud to be part of such a dynamic city and we're here to continue the work doing we do to support our citizens we had another successful summer with over 5 000 people attending 85 programs during a 10-week period in june and july we had 3743 people total register for our summer programs that's adults teens and children we added a number of adult programs this summer and are continuing our exercise and craft programs into the rest of the year we have a couple of new staff members so i've given them some of the things that we've never gotten around to doing so we're excited that we have some new programs starting with local authors and we have uh new computer programs and new book clubs starting so that's exciting to have some new new staff members who aren't already all worn out we have a computer tutor who comes twice a week to work with individuals and we do monthly computer classes again one of our new staff members doing that we've added a tutoring session for spanish speaking students after school which actually started this afternoon we had three families attend so we're looking forward to that growing because we are starting to provide more programs for spanish-speaking families we do have a bilingual staff member we are continuing our partnerships with local businesses and community groups i i know that you have gotten the information that we were asking for an additional 9 500 to be added to our library budget that would allow us to update our science and technology books

[0:51:26] as you know those date pretty quickly we'd like to also add some magnolia book award materials to share with the teachers in the desoto county schools the magnolia book award is a statewide award that students themselves choose at all the age levels kindergarten through 12th grade and our children's librarian eddie moore who many of you all know has worked on the committees for that and we'd like to expand that into the desoto county schools there are not a lot of schools participating in that so i think we could add to that and then we also want to expand our work with families affected by autism that's a very large number in the desoto county schools many families have more than one child with autism and for the last four years we have really worked on our outreach to those families to make them feel more welcome at the library and we'd like to continue that work with some additional programs and projects and materials so thank you for your time thank you very much i just wanted to add my name's eddie hughes i'm the director of first regional library of rickshaw and margaret says apart we also asked the county for funding for a bunch of new laptops to go with the hopefully the materials that we can purchase for a stem program here so we appreciate everything you do for us thank you very much yes sir thank you okay next one on our jen is our personnel docket uh mr mayor i believe we approved the personnel documents presented on this date second alderman ferguson is there any discussion hearing on roll call yes yes yes yes okay no motion carries all right next on our agenda is our city attorney's illegal update nothing this evening next on our agenda is our claims docket mr mayor i moved we have pre-claimed

[0:53:28] docket and the amount of 2 million 70 300 363 and 23 cents within you uh including domain checks and payroll we have a motion of honor in pain second ballroom and brooks is there any discussion hearing none roll call yes mr mayor moved to improve docket number two in the amount of two hundred and sixty dollars a second second we have a motion volume in pain second arm and brooks is there any discussion yes okay that motion carries as well okay all right next on our agenda is there a motion to determine the need for executive session absolutely thanks we have a motion alert gallagher second alderman kelly all in favor say aye aye all opposed say no i just have motion carries the need this evening is claims and litigation against the city infrastructure and police economic development and personnel on the southland police department now is our motion to declare executive session a motion by alderman payne second alderman gallagher all embarrassed all foes say no i just have motion carries the mayor board will now enter executive sessions all right

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