Georgials PendkCily FORT VALLEY Wins Catyyba USA/ lya Whle  CITY COUNCIL SESSION MEETING AGENDAI MINUTES DRAFT  MAYOR. AND COUNCIL TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024 @ 6:00PM CITY HALL, 204 WEST CHURCH STREET  Present: Mayor Pro Tem- Fred' Van Hartesveldt, Council Juanita Bryant, Councit Laronda Eason, Council Carla Gowen (LATE- arrive 13minutes and 48 seconds aftermeeting started) Council Henry Howard, Council Sandra Marshall, Interim City Administrator Gary Lee, Recorder Heather Mathis  Absent Mayor. Jeffery Lundy  I. II.  CALL TO ORDER- Mayor ProTem VanHartesveldt 6:02pm  INVOCATION- Council Eason III. PLEDGE OF ALEGIANCE IV. ADOPTION OFTHE AGENDA  -Mayor Pro Tem-The city administrator has asked for something1 to get ont the agenda. Something Council Bryant-would like to approve the agenda at the remove number twot from the resolution  that came up Gary! Lee-we're goingt to wait we're just notr ready, yet.... Mayor Pro Tem-we have their approve this agenda. Cani Iget some agenda?  Mayor Pro Tem- ist there as second Council Marshall-Isecond Mayor Pro Tem- is there any discussion? Council Marshall- well the discussion... Mayor Pro Tem- sO you OK with it? Council Marshall yes I'm OK AlL approved. V. a. minutes?  Mayor Pro Tem-OK no discussion, lalready to votei for approval of the agenda. Sayl  MINUTES REVIEW AND APPROVAL City Council Meeting  Mayor Pro Tem- all right the vote to approval of minutes, dol Ihave a motioni fort the approval of    Council Bryant-motion Mayor pro1 Tem- dolhave a second Council Howard- second Mayor pro Tem-any discussion  Council Marshall- have yet to read the minutes! Ijust got them like everybody else,  Mayor Pro Tem- are we ready for vote? Ini favor, please? Council Bryant Council Howard Council Eason-I  VI. ANNOUNCEMENIS  Mayor Pro Tem- announcements there are a Trojani for al Peach County high school on. July 27 and theyl have ay variety free activities fort the community games. Activities will bet their game trucks will be there. The sponsors have donated at least $1501 to be listed ont the event. We get some money out there. Peach County healthy heroes will be having something July 26 ist fromi the Peach County health Department from 11to 3 and thet final announcement is the Cityi is lookingi into providing cooler centers that hei is coming our way we will be projected to do what we didi int the past, sowe just make sure we have stations available and ready to helpi it was hot and make sure we we wanna Council Bryant-T Thursday we will have a prayer visual ini front of the city hall fort valley for our  make sure health protection ourselves are there any other announcements?  communityi int front of City Hall. VII. Employee of the Month  Mayor Pro Tem -thank you. Are there any others?  Public' Works Walter. Johnson-ls a pleasure to announce that Ronnie Daniels employee of the month for public works His remarkable employee he's! been with us since 1995. He's probably one ofi the! hardest working employees for1 the city of Fort' Valley all the special events. Make sure everything is set up. He exempt wherei the model of the city were caring is the way of life he put care Police Chief Flores- for the month of May police department has selected Brandon Wilburn ast the monthly employee I think that's him walking in right now. abouti the young man he's actually from the state of Mississippi. He came over herei to Fort valley several years ago and was recently promoted to Saturday about a month and al half ago and we went on promoted him becausel his dediçation and: service his commitment toi the citizens of the city of Fort' Valley and definitely for his commitment toi the entire council City Hall every time we call this man to come in for anything regardless, or what iti may be better and l've never heard him say anything negative and he's always shown up on time so the entire police department came together and selected Sergeant' Wilburn as lemployee of the month for May. This is how committee he is he's offi today. He's taking his wife out Fire Chie Woodard- I chose the entire fire department and we're gonna use this money to do something for them this Friday. Ichose this because Igiven some duties that came through without bark or anything. Iwant to make sure lappreciate all of them and SO. And just wanna let1 them know the job that they're doing the entire fire department employee of the month.  into all his work andicongratulate Ronnie.  to dinner and he rerouted, just tol be here with us thank) yous sir.    Admin Gary Lee-lwanti to knowt this person because we were thrust into this wel hadi to stepi into and wet took the challenge, but this lady has been a ride with me, she's heri int the morning and she's here even when everybody's gone and I'm proud to work with her Rhonda' Walker She's from Ashburn and thet first thing with people from Ashburn. and when wel had our conventions, the first thing people say Says you, guys stole heri from us im appreciative she smart knowledgeable. She knows all thei intricate parts that help and she has been a warrior out there She said with the development housing working cleaning the whole yard she's done a wonderfut, job Shei is alll bark her barki is just al bark. Always tell her you get what with sugar . tell him I'mi the sugar. She's the salt. Mayor Pro Tem- I'm an exercise Authority go back to announcements Carla Gowen wasn'there, sO Council Gowen-lapologize for being late you guysl Iwas sitting on the car side oft the road. My car died. After two hours sittingi in the heat and decided to leave my car. IThey said they will bet there in  Whati is Iwouldn't knowwhere to be without her.  Ididn't bother but todayi is her birthday. Happy birthday.  the morning sO.  VIII. PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS MAYOR. AND COUNCIL  Mayor Pro Tem- OK we have the first person address in! Mayor council Tessa Horton in regards to the Mayor Pro Tem-we can go backi toi that.....we have a. ....I have no name creating at fort' Valley City Administrator Gary Lee-I met with at few gentlemen that I've known and we talked about creating a fort valley development authority and sO I've done one of those I did that ini the city that's right next to us sO' we created one that functions in the cities, the gentlemant that Iwould like to bring up Keith come up andi introduce yourself and just talk abouti itj just a discussion abouti the Keith Faircloth- thank you mayor pro tem, council members good afternoon I'm Keith Faircloth, and we havel been working with a number of businesses here and we're looking to reinstate Fort valley development authority our goal is to drive technological development here in Fort' Valley. Ispent the last 10 years putting technology in rural America. And we would like to dot that here. Youguys  Peach festival is Tisha here. City administrator Lee- she's oni the: zoom development Authority  development, authority.  have any questions ?  Councilmember: Bryant -introduce: your other members Keith Faircroft- Donald can you guys stand upi introduce yourself?  Donald Mathis - hello I'm Donald Mathisi i've been in business in Fort' Valley for over: 20 years. Iwork Javier Rodriguez-hello I'm. Javier Rodriguez Eltapito, my1 family has been here for over 30y years andI  ini the downtown area. Donald Mathis  would love to see the town growi in a positive direction.    Jeremy Rosier -i'm. Jeremy Rozier. Ihave Rosier restorations. just recentlyr moved back to Fort valley. Sol I've been away for ai fewy years. Iwork with Keith before and decided that whenlmoved Irvin' Williams-hello my name is Irvin Williams i'mf from Miami Florida and I've been herei for about 20 years and just love fort valley andl I want to do whateverlcan to help the community. Keith Faircloth- ify y'all have any questions on what we would like to do and we would like to use, the same resolution that we use with a previous city where we help create the development authority.... City administrator Lee- speaking what you guys are trying to bring toi the city of Fort Valleyt they don't Keith Faircloth-OK; yeah sorryl work fort the advanced technology based from Georgia Tech. We have no obligations to them. We've been working out of Atlanta. Until the pandemic, and then it wasn't a good time to bei in Atlanta. I'vel been working out ofa a log cabin for a couple years. We also ont the board for Kennesaw research at Kennesaw State' Where we been working with a couple of their professors, and we learned that we can drive fundamental. stem research into these areas where we can actually use that to drive the economic development in the some of the poorest areas of Georgia! But mopodysrealylargetngs technology into rural Georgia that's what we're  back to Fort Valley that we could bring this here. sO we're here.  Councilmember Bryant well would like to have a copy oft the resolution  know what to asky you  looking to do Keith Faircloth- - no  Council Bryant- this is a comment this would not affect the DDA either...  Council Bryant -1 they're two separate entities.... You need to explain that and they can get grants.. City administrator Lee -this is an authority, an authority especially from a development standpointi it doesn'tobligate our city, andi it will partner in conjunction to actually be a conduit to acti to follow opportunities through lactually created one call the Warner Robins development. Authority andy you still have the county. We have Peach County development authority It doesn't affect that. Sothis will bei inside of the city. economic development inside the cityi is different from industrial development authority, development authorities iny your counties are moret factories, buildings, and stuff of that nature. where is cityi is everything, is everything. plans building restaurants a whole 9 yards in the city. It's av whole different animal. Soi it's different soi it needs al lot more pieces to actually do it...a lot of cities have multiple authorities that they use each one has different powers that they use sO we uset those powers that they are that they! have in order to move development, sO these gentlemen came to me looking at something oft this magnitude these: smart city concepts and thisi is where everyone is going, the smart city concept starting with smart concept concept technology infrastructures electricals al lot of things are actually changing. And this is something  that's moving cities along and this is something1 that they specialize in Faithcloth-we actually just did a smart city grant with the city of Eastman Council Gowen- and the mani that youj just introduce those that will bet the board  Faithcloth-well we need seven, buti that's five of them. Council Howard -can we get something on paper?  Faircloth- yes sir    Council Eason-amitounderstand that you're bringing the board to us. We're not creating the City administrator GaryLee -it has to be approved throughyous guys. They have to get approved Council Bryant-you've got this resolution we need to take this resolution to fine-tunei it Council Marshall -lwould like to say that Ihad noi idea that wel had a meeting that you guys had talked about what councilwoman Bryant would to bei fair andj just to the people Ineed to1 take a look at this and do my research and1 then bringi it back to1 the tablei then for the cityl do not wanna make a decision with the people don't knowidon't know, and this was) just presented to me Council Bryant, he was just presented to us wer need read everything as a whole. They presented this resolution that they use in other places we would get a copy of1 this andi find tunei it along with Citizen- what project havey youl have a specifically identified withi fort the city of Fort' Valley or is there an ideai to capture the traffic tol help create ?a smart city sounds veryi innovative, but wel have to think about the current amount of people here we want to move it how we want to attract businesses to come herei the cityl limits small We do have the ability to annex Faircloth-well when are things are working on fore example is for the Camellia Society down at Massey Gardens wow focus on the city we're looking at the census block region as well One of the other areas we looked as well Where the main areas is working at the produce state and State Do you have a detail plan oni howi to work with them and howy you gonna help them Connect with Faircoth-creating cash flow to her generate businesses to keept the economic.... Mayor pro Tem-if you get out the paperwork to the city administrator and he can geti it to us and we  board?  Faircloth-it is an independent from state government  whati they're doing. This authority.  City Administrator Gary Lee -right he was just bringing an example  the city administrator and the attorney.  University Boulevard which is ini the city partners that will help them grow! because we don't could try to do something on the next meeting  IX. RESOLUTION  City administrator Gary! Lee-lwanti to let him introduce himself. Ijust wanna give her overview. of what we're here to do. i'vel been doing economic development for over 20) years. sO what we have wanted to dol here ini for valleyi is creative master plan for us to growi into show us how we're gonna grow and then tot takei it and l've done: some these things before j just brought some of my relationships that wel havet toi forty valley to create those things into utilize those and from that point, that's how we met from with the architect design firmi in the country and I'ma al let him explain thatt to So I'm heret to go to master plan is very exciting fort the cityf for Valley. Ithink we'vel been working on this for sometime we are the number two architecture firm we hope development for Valley, which includes for Valley State University, and all of the companies that are here for valley and also basically looking at land lucid as well and ways to utilize land for housing Margaret single family  you and introduce to you Philip Blow Mr. Blow-good evening, everyone    livingf for the newr municipal complex that will bel heret thet fire: stations basic for your downtown corridor. We've been working with Ticie Horton. Working with Dr. Marble and SO we work with the city and people with different authorities to figure out the best way to plan out the roadithinkt that  we share this with you guys you guys should have that the plan. Council Gowan-is it the same plan we had at few months ago Council Bryant-Iwould like to make a motion to except the master plan  Mr. Blowy yesf feel a lot long Council Eason -I second Mayor Pro Tem-1 further discussion?  Counçil Goen-Icantremember whatl Ihad for lunch few days ago let alone something1 from at few months ago. Ifeel that we should be presented with a copy before we vote oni it. it's tool bigofa Mr. Blow-call over the master plan, design, standards condition assessment projects, phase 2of the master plan of development finance through the general data collections that captures the vision of the employees or within the city andi the companies here as well as university, architectural, mappingr networking, and such a suggestions for planning will present it to the city face wel have the architecture options for different areas, suggestion, physical, and other space the endless of opportunities so basiçally what they're sayingi is we create the prodigy planetary master plan with the master plan upi to youi into the phase 3i is final and thet final plan sO that means that for Valley State University will be a part of the master plan any entity or building that here will be a part of the master plan Bird is planning to do electrical sO that you'll be able to see their layouti int the master plan. We will advance the recommendations intoi implementation: sO what reputations for the city we willi improve implementation strategy tol have al blueprint of the plan. The plan will be organized and shortly and equalizer with the development map. lustration showing how each area within the city will be connected and Ihave ar map of the city hot sO you can see allt the areas connect for1 thet final master pan. There are three key sections int the final master plan which includes listing projects and site and limitations sO whatever project that the state has anyf future or plans to view, it will list those development projects scheduling assessment and select buildings forr reconstruction so basicallyi if the downtown is putting really do due down, we have the design standards other downtown as well as restructure int the weird space and sO on. Citzen- can you say more abouty what1 the plans arei for the downtown area? Mr.Blow-see that that's not our plan that's the cities plan of the downtown development Authority SO we work with them and we puti it on paper: sO it's not our plani is more: so the downtown development authority plan sO we'll work with them on paper and Iwill sayt that the innovation of Georgia is a part of that as well SO we wouldn't be working with this is what so it's not gonna be like this is what your downtown is going to look back look like it's gonna bet feedback,  project. last time we were: supposed to pay an amount of money  Any other questions? City administrator Garyl Lee- yes  Mayor Pro Tem-has the city attorney reviewed this agreement?    City Attorney. Jim Elliot Mayor Pro Tem-this is. Jim Elliot so Ireviewed the initial plan C don't knowi if they change remade but Ihave not seen. I'm not surelwould like to take al look at the latest version Mayor Pro Tem- he seen the original, but there has been changed. Hel has not seen the plan and he Council Bryant-the additional changes that have been made are they listed so that Elliot Council Bryant- so that's the same one that he did youj just took out the the cost. Mr. Blow- yes itt took out the cast the only traint that made we took out the cost  of the agreement.  would like tol have al look at1 that sO we need to get him a copy of that  Mr. Blow-he has a copy ofit Mayor pro tem -anything else? Council Gowen- the cost  Council Bryant-no we're not paying for nothing so it's not a dollar amount on here Mr. Blow sO based out the master plan SO what it cost to develop the area sot the reason' why we were the charger fori thei miserimean, we would liket to charge the city, but sO that we decided not to charge sO potentially there might be opportunities for us to develop certain areas and that's what Mr. Blow- no the number that causes that was taken out and so the architectural plans are actually  we use as well  Council Goewn-you're not charging us for anythingi int this paper yours sO fora a small1 fee, but we decided to do this with no cost, but that's.... Citzen- questioning why don'tt the e council have a copy of the plan Council Eason-the plan is right here (holding upt the plan)  Mayor Pro Tem-there's motioni to approve on thet floor.this is the discussion this number to schedule Council Marshall this is the same plan that we had last monthi that had $79,000 int the contract and  with vote discussion Mr. blow -correct (AlLI but Council Gowen) Mayor Pro Tem-that passes four to one dolhave a motion? Council Bryant-motion Mayor Pro Tem-second? Cancel Eason -second Passed (all)  that's ally you did was take that out, correct  Mayor Pro Tem -SO we're ready to vote.... all int favor, please raise your hand.  Support new board members for1 the housing Authority, Miss Mary Edwards and Sandra Deloach...  Mayor Pro Tem- any discussion? Readyt to vote alli in favorl... Resolution to appoint board member of historic commission Mayor Pro Tem-Missie do you want this selection? City administrator Garyl Lee -Miss Tisa....  Tisa -cany you make a correction for1 the minutes fort this meeting? The correction is the historic preservation historic board not society it's an appointed board by mayor and council.    City Administration they yearly Ticie commission board  Mayor Pro Tem-the resolution needs to be corrected from society on the agenda historical Society he's not government friended, and they will meet regularly at the house as significant house int the community, but they preserve sO we have no authority over them, sO the commission board is City administrator GaryLee -these are the resumes they were sittingi in to make the suggestions for Mayor Pro Tem-are there more than we need? Do we have to select fromi this group or can we just Tisa no: sir each mayor and council should a point ai individual to serve on the historic preservation commission board. Ithink yous guys have at totall Idon't know the total appliçations that youl have based off the charteri the city charter to those applicant are disqualified because one tives in the county and the other is already appointed to a public board so according to your charter, they have to be living within the cityl limits city of Fort' Valley, and also they cannot hold a public office soi it's two people there are disqualified ont thereldon't knowi is Miss Heather Mathis pull them out or not  decided by the council  whoi they would like to be a part of them: sO that's why each one oft them  take them out?  Council- no she didn't Mayor Pr Tem-which ones are disqualified Tisa-Go ahead, Miss Heather  Heather-I sent them the email that you sent me, but I'm bout to go grab iti fort them. Tisa -thei first one should be. Joel theme. He lives within the county and the other one is Miss Doris Turner. Ithink that's her last name she's already appointed to the housing Authority board. City administrator Gary! Lee -each city administrator sell points a member support selects one of Tisa-correct each council membership appoint one member and the mayorship point member to the commission and the requirement was they havet to have a minimum 10y years at thei time of their appointment and at all times again liket they should not member no public office andi ity was to have them staggered in order to achieve the staggered term. The initial appointment to the commission should be one member for one year three members for two years and three members for three years sO thati it was put as the mayor to coincide with the mayor time so1 the mayor is to pick one member for one) year andi then you have the other two council members.Ican'ti remember whot they arel but the other two council members excuse met three council members to pick the twot thet two year andi then) you had to members for three years. Soi is supposed to coincide with each ending term withi the Maire termi in 2025 and then youl have council Bryant and council Gowan and council the Hartsville whent they're turned in sO that they will bet the ones that do for1 thet three members for thet three years and1 then youl havel Marshall council Easton and council Howard, who would be the ones for1 the members int three years so she should have all that on the resolution that you guys are Siriadministrator, Gary! Lee-miss Hortoni in relationship to the grant that we received is significance Tisa-the reason why we aski for the historic preservation committee board to be appointed this has been going on since last year of April to have this board up in establish in order for the downtown  the applicants  the one they end up, appoint thei individuals after group of those applicants  toit    development authority to have their opportunities. One thing they're goingt to aski is when we apply do wel have historic preservation commission board thent that we don'thave one if we wanted to do Improvement on some historic buildings cannot get certificate for appropriateness which the historic preservation commission board will have to designate that certificate for the scope of work thaty we want to do or any different type of historic building. We just wanna make sure with the downtown development of authority being that we do havei this newr research program with UGA that going forward we can make sure we have the opportunity to get different1 funding by having these different commission boards or whatever in place and1 this is one thati is extremely important because it does go hand-in-hand with the downtown being that we have al historic district downtown. And also all these members that appoint tonight they would need to go through their mandatorytraining which is in September in Columbus andi it will be September 181 through the 20th.. sO it was suggested to also suggested to the Maire council to do your seven members also duei to officials for planning and zoning/Director ift the city goes forward ift the city goes forward Director and for your downtown development chair/Director if we go to that point to make surei that we have everything covered because all of it goes hand in hand with the plan and zoning with downtown development, authority, and historic preservation commissioner board. Mayor Pro Tem-l don'tthink we need ar resolution to do this because each council member select somebody so see int the Bramson the application! Iwasn't told that Iwas supposed to pick somebody and and so if we tryt to do that now1 the same person and1 they were gonna have to stop and doi it again and we need to circulate amongst us and find out who we're goingl Iwould knowt that person is already going so that we could pick somebody else solthink we should turn this back in Council Bryant- pick someone and formi the names to Lee so1 that he can sort out City administrator Gary! Lee-I can get that and submit that to at former where you guys can be ablet to Tisa-Mayor Pro Tem yous guys should have atready had the names to go through to make a decision to make at foreign decision of which person you thinki it's qualified to be appointed to get those  to Mr. Lee to sort out who's gonna do what select, and you can choose the applicants  positions but yes Council Bryant-motion Council Gowen- second  Mayor prol Tem-1 thisi is a substitute motion to table... Mayor Pro Tem- Is there a second to the substitute motion Mayor Pro Tem- any further discussion alli in favor say L...  (allI)  Mayor Pro Tem-OK1 this is tablei till we geti it to all this is sorted out. Tisal you were not available when it was time to discuss maybe council but we can get to that. Would youl like to speak to us now? Tisa-l was on1 the agenda to speak ast far as fori the Georgia peachfestivallbought wanti to say thank youi for1 the support and we also brought you guys at token of our appreciation. Mr. Garrett Lee has thel bags. idon't know ify you guys have them or not, but we did do a1 token of appreciation inside the bags are a glass blown Peach that wel havet for one of our vendors start upi that did for us and you also have a pendant that says Georgia peach festival and al little note that says thank) you for your    support and we look forward for our continuous partnership and collaboration for next year. Hopefully we can grow! bigger for our Georgia peach festival and also it has the dates for1 thet festival City administrator GaryLee-lwould like to ist to be able to do this he came here information piece fromi the police department. He and Ihave, just bonded and Iwanted to: say thank you and to  for next year. Youguys enjoy and be safe Mayor Pro Tem- Mr Lee...  remove the name of intern off of him and to name him as chief of police.  Mayor Pro Tem what dol Ihave Council Gowen- Isure will Mayor pro Tem-dolhave as second Councit Bryant- second Mayor Pro Tem-any further discussion  Chief Flores thanks all thei important figures to help him serve the city of Fort Valley and is sworn in  by Judge Kim Witson X. DEPATMENTS Department  Fire-welfare check inspections include most of the time small things like smoke detectors activities included fire drills, and the learning choice daycare for really still Hair start the learning tree and event completed last month the pancake breakfast brand fort the boots where is over $2000 completed the smoke detector blissi if anybody still needs a smoke detector int the city please stop byt thei fire department will be sent to For Renti in regards to repairs for the nature. The citizen class last week we doing another check for the. Juneteenth program physical training 40 hours of emergency training 24 hours of construction and liket to say we do have two newi instructors under department now 16 hours of maintenance 12 hours of hazmat and then 12 hours of training so buy hazard 196 hours of training total that'll be for the fire department. Anybody have any questions Mayor Pr Tem-the hydrant on the across fromi first Baptist Church it has been leaking for abouta year. It's been reported to the utility commission, buti it's still leaking enough that that my dog can stop and have a drink out ofitifi it's close, somebody is paying for al lot of wasted water Idon't know howt the hydrant maintenance fits into that but somebody out to do something to that hydrant. Chief Woodard -there are a couple of thoset that youv were referring to we have when they! have anything to shuti it off, buti it's the mainline. We could tryt to close it off but without strippinganything Chetwoodar-idiantnear anything else aboutt that with a couple glass we could ropei it off Council Bryant-that sounds good.Idon'tk know what to do. That's whyl I'm asking. Council Bryant-that's whatlasked what willl be done about the hazard that's there  but side.  Council Bryant that building what did they put on doing with that?  Citizen- for safety precautions just worried about    Council Marshall-thank; you chief for all thej junior team doi is there anyway' we could puti it Chief Woodard Wei try to put something on sO we could tryt to cover the whole back oft the building. Code Enforcement Officer' Walker-in regards to that building we have assess that buildingi it did collapse. I've been constantly trying to contact the owner of that building, but it does put out hazardous to try to keep thet traffic down because that building could crumble becausel it has collapsed and people still go through it we try to enforce that, but at the end of the day wel have to aggressivelyt tryt to get the ownert tol be demolished, even though iti is part of the downtown area. There's really nothinge else to save it because it's been crushed it cannot: savei that particular building. know people don'tv want anything time down int the downtown area, but sometimes we have no choice, just like the house burn down we have to1 tear it down beforel I leave today.Iwilli try again to contact the owner. They are aware that that building because it happened ont the weekend and they are aware that the building has collapsed. Wej just had to have people or these owners have to take more responsibilityt for their properties andi that's what notj just with that building but with other buildings because what we' 're gonna doi is try to contact try to doi inspections once we get all oft this buildingi inspector. We're gonna inspect all of those building down downtown becausei it's notj just that building but if you look at the storefront, it's been like that for quite some timey you'l see that al lot of paper al lot of whatever cover ont the front and you cans see thati there is this water that's leaking from the rooftop on the rooftop so it's the owners responsibiuty and it's been liket that for quite some time and that cannot be our excuse to let these owners do this and leave them here liket that sO wel have to come up with a solution and get them to. They're gonna have to because we're gonna be conducting inspection is the next couple of weeks and once we get our building inspector, that's thei first thing on our agendal is to go and conduct those expressions and one things we talked about doingt the Peach vessel with thet firetruck we use the firetruck to get ont top and raise it and you cans see the damage that's donet to a lot of those by walkingy you cannot seei it buti if you get upi in the air and you can see everything and sometimes, you can't see because they're lock tot those doors. Ican't just walki inside with the lock sO everybodyi isn'tt from Fort Valley that own those building sO methodi ist toi try toi find the method and to make those people be more accountable. I'll call them and I'UL1 talk to them about that building, but we would definitely be doing some expressions becauset that building is shagi is that he collapsed that building needs to come Police- we have drones we could puti in the air that way you can assess the property Council Bryant-I just want to see something done before something happens and we need to aggressively to do somethingimmedlatey before to keep somebody from being hurt from watking City administrator Gary! Lee-that is ap pass forl kids. I've been there and I've seen them happen and I'ves seen it and just walked through them and hadi to tell them the wall could fall ony you. Iti is not  something across the top ofitt to cover for the building top or anything?  Councilor Bryant- canlask Miss' Walker  downi its entirety.  through that path  safe.    Interim Public Works Director' W.. Johnson-as far as public works if we need to be tol build a wall to put over into temporaryt to tike av wooden wall to cover the walk to, and sO they won't be able to walk Mayor Pr Tem-can we have Mr. Lee seei ifi ifv we could be expediting removal and: see what steps are council Marshall just wanna thank you chief and yourself as far as myj job as a champ person for allowing me to come out and watch thet train. Iwenti to the barn. The barn with thelappreciate) you and1 thet team for allowing me toj just come out and learn al little bit more about what thei fire Council Eason-l have a question about one of our trucks. Is it my understanding that when you ChiefWoodard ity was purchased used in 96. Ididn't purchase it the previous chief he's the one who  through we could put av wall on each side.  beingt taken  department does thank you sir purchase purchase it used purchased the vehicle.  Council Eason-and who inspects that thet truck  Code' Woodard-we have a new annual inspections everyyear sO everyyear looks like the seatbelt need to bet thel harness needs tol be replaced  Council Eason-and thel best of your knowledge isi in standard service...lwas noticing thel bucketi it Chief Woodard-the harness oh that's not considered part oft the truck, butl will look to see ifit  needs to bei inspected Council Eason- youj just have one Chief Woodard-yes  Council Eason-it's sO weird if we expanded withi that be.. about getting in the truck when expansion takes place  ChiefWoodard well we approved our building and we talk about doing expansion then we will talk  Finance  Council Bryant-congratulations  Mr. Madison- finance committee notes. oh. June 17,2024 we're about 74 before a revenue June 17 on American council they spent spending admin is it 55% of total overall spending municipal court 27% police department at 57%1 fire department: at 77% streeti is 86% stone at 55% at 55% is at 59% and sanitation is at 50% sO we're behind as far as expenditures for the cityf for valleyi is out of the revenue. We received our loss and $.60 we receive $581 and, your receive our 120 $4065.25 and we already seen her 700 and $.74 as far as we have about 2008 spots we have one expenditure from that andi that wast for O'Reillys fori twoi forklifts to repair the works vehicles we still have al bounce of City administrator Lee-I wanted to say that was fori the Livi in public works when Iwent over therei it was sliding down a car was on. It would just slide down soi it was a safety. O'Reilly gave us ag great Mr.Madison-add: 2015 splats whichi is dedicated to Missouri and public safety. There's one experience or out of that account that wasi for we still have 1,000,275, that account 2021 supplies forr new courthouse fire station, we still have about four for 2022 spots no expenditures fromt that  581,000 andi that works police department  quote for that so wanted you to have that replace the one.  account we have $145,000i int that account the next bank account questions    Council Marshall-ARAP Apple funds how much do wel have Mr. Madison -approximately $432,000 in that account Cancel Marshall-howi much money do we have left for roofing? Mr.Madison-That was 300,000. We haven't event touched that. Council Marshall -andi fort the handicapped grant? Mr. Madison-how: about 50,000  Council Marshall-and 1know you got a link from Public' Works back in December for1 the $500,000. Mr. Madison-yes we are able to move that back until the end of the physical year September 30is Ok andi the $200,000 from the AARP for backi in December fort for the DDA where is that money? Mr. Madison- you still therei if you look ati ifyoucould get the raspberryl last page gives you the total  Youmove that from the: sanitation department did you move that back?  when we will move it bac Council Marshall-this September 30 Council Bryant-congratulate him Mayor Pro Tem- congratulations Mr. Madison- just recently got married  City administer to Garyl Lee- we were allowed it we broke it upi into expenditures police department got for 50,0001 fire department got 1 million polarworks 31 million building renovations andi fort the Good afternoon Public works. We may take all the cemeteries. We had a decoration to clean up downtown. We cut the grass and all the departments and1 for1 the Peach festivat we stayed andi make sure the rest and we: also did all the cemeteries Willow Lake Goodwill, and Oaklawn maintain all the vegetation. good, all the lake was 49 Taylor Road wei take all drain ditch in the city of Fort Valley. We City administrator Gary Lee-we also went Goodwill cemetery. - wanted to praise for something1 that hit something and busted open and they got out there and repaired it. And we got Mr. Rook to go out Interim Public' Works Director-we're working on it. We're trying tol Mr. Wade. The other did call me and we're supposed to go out there and assess those potholes. We're trying to research but we're trying to get said the county would kind of help participate in repairing those potholes. Interim public works Director W. Johnson-mr. Mccae. He maintains most buildings and pit words, police department. He changed lightbulbs, anything pertaining tot the building and change the lightbulbs. Iti is senior citizen, sitting and keeping the bugs from the citizen citizens when they come for the events he's doing ar really great jobj just maintaining our maintenance man. Ibuilta a specialist. He's getting really professional and, bring al lot of professional personnel to do some of that work and the Parks and Recreation they still maintain all the parks from every square craft park and we did al beautification oft the park help with the cleanupi for the peach festival. Ig guess put them out we didn't put them out tooi fast, but the onei in the ground they bloom, butl Idon't knowwhether  new City Hall. Wel have another 21 million for that soi it was $7,000,081 allotted  Public' Works-  have to try to maintain public works compact.  there and assess it.  Council Bryant- Mr.. Johnson the potholes  Council Bryant-so you're working all those and you seeing those    the heat or what water the blooming great some of them are coming back with time and hopefully we water them threei times a day andlwould we are water but likel Isaid wel have no control of our mother nature hal hai it goes had a sunlight real highi int the morning and went through those baskets they are coming back andi there are: some that are thriving really good. They got the moisture from the ground as fara as the shop we repair some hydraulic on our big truck. change lawnmower blades repair we eaters had al back pass changed and oil changes and replacing tires and the big dump truck had an air condition we're gonna have tol have that changed int thei front rear rotor andi for Stonewater 281,064 we collected and the collection where Street Curry and Campbell Drive and peanut Drive we swept 82 street and downtown and duei to the storm cleanup replace 26 debris and debris and we maintain it with a semit truck andi the and we maintain this any questions any Cancel Howard can you see about the purple hose over there across from Tapatio andi the flower Council Gowen-I was told that you could put a patch on top ofit. It's not gonnai fix. It's something Council Howard-it needs tol be cut down all the way around and then you can't put on top ofit Citzen-I have a question Mr. walll Iwas wondering, what did you go to the county to 961 ride on the Interim public works Director-that's the DOT just like right downtown where the road is downtown. City administrative Gary Lee-that's DOT responsibility. They werei in conjunction with the city and Council Marshall-I have a question there's a1 trucki int the shop for twin 30001 for repair a garbage  comments or concerns  bed?  Interim Public' Works Director- yes sir about a drain. It needs to be properly repaired. because you're not fixing the problem.  other side? Could you couldi tell where the county and the city! hits We have put in a report to DOTi in regards to cutting the grass that DOT1 too.  the county.  truck trucki is it at the shop?  Interim Public works Director- it's stilli int the shop City administrator Garyl Lee-that's the one that we: spoke about  Council Marshall for 23,0001 for thet truck are we not using somebody locali that could maybe give us al better deal just like we did with the wel have al local small business that we could uset to fix City administrator Gary! Lee-that was already ini the shop before we start discussing. That's something that I'mi talking with them about in regards to giving some of our local businessesa Interim public works Director- Is shot department says is ift they can'ti fixi it then they do outsourceit Council Marshall-I just wanna make sure we're giving our small local business is the opportunityto fix our vehicles. let's try to get people like. Jeff or some people around the same opportunity before City administrator Gary! Lee we arei trying to make sure we send our stuff local and may be al little bit more higher, but we're trying to steal can try to stay local so these are some things that we're going to be asking you guys do we. get our plani in ordert to do these things toi try to get everything local Councit Marshall-the speed bump over there by the youth center is by the playground is still out  chance to geti it.  we sent it somewhere else    Interim public works Director-we are replacing them. We also replace some on Moore alone when Council Bryant-my concern was that was we have some kids who be out there playing andi isj just  they come downithink we kind of slowed them down. We have some people.  open  Council Howard- you're not threw a Calhoun Interim public works Director- no still workingi in it.  City administrative Gary Lee-we're also working with Notheren Southern on our railroad crossings Council Gowen-l1 told my husband Iwas going to ask this. There's a speed sign who owns this those do they belong to the city? And do we know where they've been there? Not been used. Citizen-My Husband and Isaw a motorcycle speeding while the police watch why didn't they go get  Imterim pubic Works Director-no, they don'tbelongi tot the city  the motorist? Motion to adjourn Council Bryant -Motion Mayor Pro Tem-Dolhave a second Council Gowen- Second Meeting Adjourn 7:48pm  Council Gowen- it's a danger, the police officer is not allowed to pursuit.