I'm going to go to the next one. You can go to the next one. I can't see. Yeah. You can go to the next one. Yeah. Or you can go to the next one. You can go to the next one. I can't see. Yeah. You can go to the next one. Yeah. Or you can go to the next one. Yeah. Or you can go to the next one. Yeah. Or you can go I'm going to get those people and be on the show. I'm going to get those people. Hey, friends. You need to sustain yourself. You need to be like this. I'm just going to try and secure the whole thing. I got to keep sort of struggling. I'm just going to take that partner. I got to solve to solve it. Just to do it. Try this already. Are we ready? Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, July 2nd. It is now 4 p.m. and I call to order the meeting of the Appalachicola City Commission. Please stand for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. the meeting of the Appalachicola City Commission. Please stand for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. First is Father, we thank you for the opportunity to come to stand before you and to stand before your people to do the will of your people God. We ask that you will grant us wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Lead and guide us in the direction that you would have us to go, God. We thank you for who you are and for what you're doing. We thank you for this great city of Appalachia Cola that we call home, and we ask you to continue to bless it. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. May I have a motion to adopt the agenda? Motion to adopt the agenda. I have a motion by Commissioner Grove. May I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Elliott. Discussion? Here in none. All in favor? Aye. Motion carried. agenda is adopted as presented. At this point we will have public comments. I have two cards. If there are any other cards or any other public comments that would like to be made please hand me or submit your card. Linda Buchanan. Thank you, ma'am. Mayor Ash, council members, Mr. Wade, Mr. Hartman, except you're not Mr. Hartman. And, Steve, thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today. My name is Linda Buchanan, and I live at 218th Street. Although I have been a member of both the Symmeteria Community and the Historical Society, I continue today as an individual citizen representing Marbunz only. I want to recommend to you the adoption of language to the municipal community that will define what is acceptable use of municipal symmetries, particularly historic symmetries such as Chestnut Street and Smoking. At your meeting of May 7th, Mr. Hartman's guidance team is correct. Several of you were viewing towards banning commercial activity of any kind Chestnut Street cemetery, but he correctly advised you that there was no way to prevent the public from using the area during the day and time. Your meeting recording includes phrases like sacred ground, appropriate use, etc. But I believe your attorney gave you correct guidance because presently there is nothing in the municipal code that offers clear guidance on what kinds of activities are permitted in our historic summer hearings and what is not permitted. I would give you copies of this brief document which includes a section of the surveyed George's municipal career entitled, Cemetery Tours and Special Events. There is a paragraph about approved activities and then to very brief paragraphs entitled, restricted activities from which I quote. The municipal cemeteries are not for sensation or entertainment purposes. Any tours or events marketed as haunted, paranormal, or involving ghosts and other activities or events to turn into offensive, sacrilegious, disrespectful, or disruptive to the dignity and character of the sanitary will not be permitted. This is about policy, not about personalities. I do not personally know the people who conduct the commercial ghost tours in Chestnut Street sanitary, and no doubt they are good people. But their responsibility for defining acceptable use of an historic cemetery is yours. The cemetery is not a public park. You have a good city attorney and very capable city manager. The latter of him does not have any administrative staff to take calls on the new sequester public use of land. I also wish to know if you can approximately send the United States citizens buried in Chestnut Street, Symmetry. According to all guides of the National Park Service, we're going to national cemetery operations and the American Battlefield Minimums Commission, where you can work casualties, bury your receives. Their visitor policies are very much in alignment with the civilian municipal current excellent provided above. Thank you for taking this matter on the consideration of the new future to revise the municipal current regarding the proper and respectful use of our historic sanctuaries. Thank you. Thank you. Elizabeth Milliken. I'm Elizabeth Milliken. I live at 11th Street. I'm here to ask this afternoon to ask that the city start the process to add to the municipal code or wherever appropriate some language for tours and events and all municipal cemeteries. Previously I have been here expressing my belief that cemeteries are sacred ground. As a member of the Chestnut Street Cemetery Committee, I have researched and established the list of family contacts who have ancestors buried here. In the past few weeks, I have talked with, or written to numerous families, and every one of them appreciate the great work that's going on in the cemetery, but are opposed to ghost tours. I have discusses with Joanne McDonald Fowler, Lee Smith-Bazette Smith, Jan De Cosmo, Bill Rob and John Zingarelli, England Hoffman. With a wonderful grant that's underway to restore Chestnut Cemetery, it is my hope that the city will now require any tour to focus on the history of the cemetery and the people buried there and not some occult entertainment. I have discussed with the Cemetery Committee that need to change the name from our twice yearly tours from ghost tour to historic tour. Linda gave you a copy from Savannah, but closer to home, I'll provide you with information from Pensacola St. Michael's Cemetery regulations regarding paranormal activities. The city must maintain all cemetaries, a sacred ground. My great-grandfather is in chessnut. My grandparents and my parents are buried in magnolia. I have not discussed this with any clergy yet, but I am certain that one tenant of the Christian faith does not permit any occult activity in a cemetery, whether it's sayancesonses, which is dancing or ghost tours. Now is the time to establish standards for all of our cemeteries. My request is at the City Commission tonight or soon, direct the City of Turning to Draft Similar Words for our Code and regulations for activities in all municipal Thank you. Are there any other public comments? Are there any other public comments? Thank you. New business? FEMA flood plain CRS. New business manager waiter you going to take that or would you the motion. Commissioner Grove, a second by Commissioner George to approve the new CIS period to one year. And may I also ask that Commissioner Grove, Commissioner George, that you add to your motion that will be included in the ordinance to add up to 20% of property or appraisal assessment or some language of that sort. Keisha will get with staff to incorporate the correct language for the citizen and the resident being allowed to use up to 20% of the adding 20% to the property or appraisal assessment value. Yes, I'd make that an amendment. Commissioner George. Oh, my second. Have a motion, any second. I'm motioned by Commissioner Grova, second by Commissioner George. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Pop-em building. We also had a workshop regarding the Pop-in building. Mr. Hammond and Mr. Snyder, they present it to the Commission the Options or their recommendations or their comments regarding the restoration or building a and you build in what I gathered from the discussion is that the majority of the commission, please correct me if I'm wrong, would like to secure the area and memorialize the building, create and have renderings or plans created for the future site the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the buildings, the workshop. Commissioner Grove and George, I'm sorry. I thought we were asking for another workshop to get more details to kind of parse through the actual components of the grant. Because there were questions asked about the cost estimates for the various aspects of the project. I mean, whether we want to make a decision, do we? I don't know. Do we come to a consensus about wanting to leave the pop and building there for some undetermined period of time. And abandoned using any of the grant funding that we currently have to try to address that problem. I mean, I. Again, what I and I'll open it up, but I know there were a majority wanted to go ahead and secure that area. Correct. Okay. I think Commissioner Grove and I didn't hear this from anyone else wanted to make sure we memorialize the area? Yeah, I wanted to use the, if we were tearing it down, we would leave it there until we were able to do something with it. So that's going to entail securing it. So nobody gets hurt also to use some of the lumber and metal for for future building. All right. Okay. But that's going to determine that's I would like to know if we were to take the sidewalk money and the lighting money because we want to keep the dock money. The only other expense is tearing down the fire station, the dock money. Would that bring us any closer to renovating that building? So let me go for the workshop. So for the workshop, there will be a discussion regarding what the future of the site would look like what the fund and where the fund will come from. And what is the future of the site? Right? Commissioner Elliott, you had a comment? Oh, no, just agreeing, yes. But it seems like the three options on the table when our engineers and architects have timelines, our three options are renovate, demo and rebuild, or demo. So I think we could probably give them direction on whether or not we have come to a consensus on either demo and rebuild or just demo period or rebuild. I think that's the clear direction that they need is whether or not we're trying to renovate that building or not. We can figure out the rest later. Marie, will you give us some guidance? Please. I think it's important to note that this decision isn't just to give these guys some guidance. This is for us to communicate to commerce. Every deliverable from this grant has to be done within 15 months. I'm worried about the deadline. We have a meeting with commerce tomorrow. They know we're discussing this tonight. They want to know what the decision is going to be. The consensus that I was hearing and you can correct me if I'm wrong I know everyone is not in agreeance was to high fence the area, secure it and change the scope of this to come away with a plan set for future project which would include demolition. It wouldn't happen through this funding but this funding would pay for the plan set for future project, which would include demolition. It wouldn't happen through this funding, but this funding would pay for the plan set. That's possible within 15 months. And we could have workshop after workshop to talk about how it looks, what's the purpose of it. My worry right now is what are we going to communicate to commerce? What's the scope of amendment going to be? If we schedule a workshop to talk about it, three weeks out, it's just more time that we don't have. And this is holding up everything. Commissioner George, that answer or muddy the matter, what are your thoughts? I guess there's agreement that I didn't see. I mean, I think that we're completely off course spending $3.9 million on beautification while we have this problem that we're gonna let sit there for another indetermined period of time with no concrete prospect of getting money to do a renovation or a demolition. I mean, I'm disappointed that this is being brought to us with these deadlines pending where we could have had a more constructive conversation about this. And I think the outcome would have been, let's take the money and solve the pop-up building and forget about sidewalks and lighting. I mean, I'm really embarrassed that we'll spend city money on sidewalk and lighting and keep the pop-up building there and whether it's spent stall for whatever whatever still a safety hazard with no prospect of what we're going to do with it in the future to have a set of plans that don't have a funding source. I mean, I just I think we've wasted so much time, like I said at the beginning of the workshop, six years after her came Michael three years after the award of this grant. We're just having this discussion about the pop and building and we're now going to take it out of the equation with like sure money we have today. So that's just my opinion. Can I comment on the Taiwan one? We keep referencing the six years. We did not get the agreement from Commerce signed and executed until April 13th, 2022. We had to procure grant administration engineers. We had to have site visits with all these guys. There's a lot of work on there and that has gone into this. There hasn't been a lot of lag time. And in an ideal situation, this is funded through commerce. They would ask for an extension from HUD because it's federal money. They are not willing to do that on this go around. They want to get these projects tied up. We haven't had six years to do this. We haven't been kept in the loop of this. I mean, you're I understand your answer, but it doesn't address my concerns. So for the purpose of this discussion, there's $3.9 million that's been allocated toward the waterfront. The pop-up building renovation, our construction, is going to cost anywhere from 6 million to 11 million dollars. So even if you take the 3.9 and direct it toward the pop-up, you still short a quite a substantial amount of money. And if we have the opportunity to move forward, I think that's where we need to go. It's a let's just move forward on how we proceed with the waterfront and finalize in this grant. So what say you commission or are there any other discussions? I have one more. Commissioner Grove. Would there be, I just take to see it sit there through storms and come down in a storm and be all over the river and all over the road and damage other things nearby properties. So would there be any, would it be a possibility of taking down to the bottom floor and storing the rest of the materials further on land so they don't collapse? Would there be money to do that and just have it be for the time being a doc. I mean, this is a simplification of it, but I'm just trying to think of in the meantime, so we don't have it collapse and us have to clean it up and spend. Yes, the ability to demo part of the building, our point is not to take the whole building down where it could expose the the under-service more growth environmental issues, more difficult permitting. We can look at that. We have demolition in our plan set for the fire station and we can include a portion of that. We probably have to figure out how to short up so that if we took the top off and left the lower portion, just make sure that it's safe. And maybe it would be a little bit more less susceptible to hurricane force. Wind. The whole level concept is by September 2025, we'll have workshops. The whole concept is by September 2025, we'll have workshops, we'll decide what we want to do, Brett and Ham and architects will come back with some additional renderings. We can start talking about some alternatives that memorialize the building. At the end of the day, we'll have a set of plans on the shelf shovel ready to go when that money becomes available. That's the way I understood it. In the meantime, we'll finish up the pure designs and do the beautification of the water street, commerce street over the battery park, we'll come in with our renderings and drawings of that. We'll do a workshop on that, make sure you guys got what we want there. That's kind of the way I understand it. We'll get two or the three things done. The third thing, we'll have a set of plans on the shelves ready to go for funding. It's not like you have the beautification already mapped out, and the sidewalks already mapped out. You just have general ideas of this. I do. I'm waiting for my survey to come in. Once I have that done, I've got street to street to street tie this sidewalk here. This sidewalk is built there. We're missing a light here. Let's do some landscaping there. Here's a nice spot for some But the majority of the money is going to be spent on replacing docks Essentially, that's the first that's the first task. I mean I would say 80% of it is going to be docks I Degree with the the the the length of water streets about 4500 feet the the the the length of water streets about 4,500 feet. And it's milling and resurfacing. It's not it's not a really expensive sidewalk construction. You know, it's not not that expensive of a deal and contractually get in and do that. That were pretty quick. But if there was a way to take sidewalk money and put it in the pop and building to stabilize it, would that be something that would be? Sure. We're going to have to put it into the pop and building to stabilize it. Would that be something that would be? Sure. We could be good. I mean, this is all I don't want to crash into the middle of what staffs already proposed. But it's commissioners. We don't we're kind of been in the dark until now. We can we can we can look at things and be vacation to eliminate. And and and put some of that money maybe into taking some of the pop and building apart and stabilizing it. Yeah. That's not an reasonable one. I would think so. I mean, the idea of the Certainly from a standpoint liability standpoint legally. People can access the building now. And it's and they are accessing in them. Yes, are there to there are actually two places inside the building for I know people have been sleeping. I find in. No question about it. They had activated. Happened. Certainly, having forbid something should be in it. Harvard, domain, or what have they called it? You're limited to a certain amount. But again, you don't want to see anything that you want to say to each other. And so that might be a problem, I'm not going to a certain amount. You don't want to get into a certain amount. And so that might be a problem, obviously, opportunity. Down to part, it's already collapsing. If I get it, look at it again. The only reason we said not to here completely up. Once you do that, you know, it's, and I'm not saying don't do it, I'm just saying my advice would be kind of, fit tight and see if you could work out a different way. Only because of my past experience. You know, we had surveys, we had everything showing what was there and we did it in the best interest of state funding. Ready to do something. Otherwise you can pull off. By the way, I think you want to have happened. So we're to keep in. We have no one whatsoever. the right to the I'm not going to interfere with staff's needs to. Commerce are. I just need a very clear answer on what we're doing to communicate to commerce. If there's any kind of fuzziness, they won't take kindly to that. They might recommend we pull pop them all together. And I understand this feels last minute. Staff did not know the pop and building wasn't this bad of disrepair until Brett went in and did all sorts of stuff to tell us. So this is something we've been sitting on for a year to keep it from any of you. This was new to us. We're presenting it to you with the timeline that we're presenting it to you with the Tom one that we're facing. Manage away. I just wanted to just a reminder that all these projects in the CDBGR over front were all approved by the commission. Staff didn't bring these up by ourselves. These are all been part of this project, not alone the lighting, the sidewalks, pop them, everything was all in the lighting, the sidewalks, pop them, everything was all in the package, it's all been approved. So what say you were taking something out? I mean that's in the cost of increase so we're considering. I make a motion that just one moment, one moment please, we want to be mindful and respectful. Commissioner George, where is your statement complete? Where is your statement complete? Were you finished with your statement? Commissioner Elliott. I would make a motion that we accept the recommendation to not rehab the pop-in building. And we'll hold a workshop at a later date to decide at the specific course of action on a rebuild plan. In a chime in, so my takeaway from that, if I communicate that to Commerce, they say, oh, so you don't want to rehab it, you're pulling it out, of course. And so I need to elaborate on it a little bit. I would need to say we're not rehabbing the building. We want to walk away with a plan set as the final deliverable for the pop-in building. And that is feasible within the 15 months. I'm looking at the original budget that was submitted for this. And it all is kind of all over the place because you get bids and everything is going to change. In the original quotes for the pop-in building, We estimated around $360,000. What our engineers are telling us is with all of the dock work and all of the sidewalks and everything, we're going to have to cut costs somewhere and the pop and building is already in such a state of disrepair. We can't do what the scope says now. So we're going to have to make a change somewhere. I don't know if that helps, but in summary, for not going to repair, we just need to tell commerce. If we expect this funding to pay for the plans, we need to tell them that soon, because we'll have to do a scope of amendment and work it in. Okay, so I made a motion to accept the recommendation to not rehab the physical structure, not the $10 million option. And that I mean we would workshop this specific what direction the plan would go and we'll decide now, if you can, if we schedule the workshop, it's to talk about what do we want it to look like, what's the purpose. We can do that later. But for now, I kind of need a decision in a direction on where yes, we're not going to rehab the building, but in the same motion, we make a motion to change this deliverable and run it up to commerce if we can come away with a plan set for the future that we will workshop at a later date. Go ahead. If you have a question. For the sake of efficiency here, I'm going to withdraw the unfinished motion I have on the floor. I just feel like we really don't have much of a choice here. From my meeting and from the discussions we had earlier, this is a tear down. Here it into story. But we don't necessarily want it to be a tear down because we don't want to end up abandoning any rights we have with DEP for any land leases or anything like that. Okay. But there were also in a situation where this hurricane that's coming right now, God forbid, wherever it decides to go, could very well be the hurricane that spreads the pop-in building. Yonder. Problem solved. could very well be the hurricane that spreads the pop and building. Yonder. Problem solved. Well, however, and we also have a liability issue because we're very well aware that this place is not secure. People are sleeping in it. We have to do something. We need direction for commerce to tell them what, what do we want to spend this money on? And it needs to be clear. So, do we want to spend this money on and it needs to be clear. So do we want to rehab? I say no, that's $10 million. Do we want to rebuild? I'm not sure about that because we also had a very informed discussion about why would we rebuild on the tip of the Appledg Cola River where these warehouses were put just because they needed to have that access. called a river where these warehouses were put just because they needed to have that access. We don't know what kind of problems we could get into a DEP when we, even if we left it and started looking at it because we just don't even know things shift. I don't see the point of taking $3.9 million and throwing good money after the bad and you just basically put a band-aid in some tab on a very ugly scab, whether we loved it or not. We have to do something. I'm not even sure that I think a pavilion is a good idea anymore. I think there's many ways that you can honor an old building. There's many ways we can take the materials, we can store them, we can, I mean anything. But we have to do something because this, to me, is similar to the botanical gardens where you don't just throw money away because you don't like what happened or why it happened or how long it happened or anyway. Okay, so that being said, I make a motion that we amend the deliverables and report it to commerce that we are not going to rehab the pop and building. We're going to secure it. We're going to look into ways to see if we can minimize the building itself while still protecting the infrastructure to keep DEP off our back. I've been put it that way. In the motion. My motion. My motion. What about the deliverable would be a set of... And the deliverable would be a set of plans that can be. It could be a set of plans that maybe have option A, B, and C. It could be anything from a fantastic, I don't know, statue built out of the materials the mirror tier the materials or it could be another whatever but anyway so let me say my amendment is to amend the deliverable to report to commerce that we are not going to renovate the pop-up building and that we are requesting amendment the government is requesting an amendment to the scope in order to provide a set of plans on the shelf. I have plans, shovel ready. shovel ready plans to be able to make a move if we are able to get money and it actually makes sense in the future to build. microphone please. microphone. the microphone please. The estimate that we came up with 10 months ago, whatever it was, for the total project, which was a 3.9, that's just not enough to get everything we want done. So we'll get as much as we can done and then we'll have a shovel ready set of plans that we discuss over the next couple months. Brett and Rhonda are ready to look at different ideas what we can do. And one of the ideas might say, just get rid of it, take it right out of there because it's an eye sword. It's not going to do anything up to a nice pavilion. up to a nice pavilion. So that way it defines our goal, but it also gives us the ability to have these workshops and determine what are these site plans going to look like, or is it even reasonable to build out at that place? That may be one of those things. But at least we'll have the Congress will get a set of plans. I make a motion. I would second the motion. It's slightly amended to use the phrase stabilize the structure. Thank you. You're in stabilize, yeah. Thank you. Okay, so I have secure area, stabilize the structure and walk away with a plan set for possible future uses. Thank you. Have a motion by Commissioner Duncan, a second by Commissioner Grove discussion. Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carried. Thank you. Motion carried, four to one. I apologize for not asking for the name. With Commissioner George opposing. Thank you. This is the drainage basin. Also, Scott, we're funded and Cindy did the first one, administered the phase one. And we're asking the commission to award administrative role to Cindy Clark. You've heard the recommendation from staff. What say you? the recommendation from staff. Motion that we approve staff's recommendation. Motion by commission to grow. May I have a second? Second by commission or Elliot discussion. Any opposed? Motion carried. here and none all in favor. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Dr. A. Dr. A. You're going to do basin analysis engineering? Start. The, this is a request to offer the drainage basin analysis work itself to do berry. Do berry, if you remember back in 2019 performed the first drainage basin analysis that had an emphasis on the priority drainage basins. They did a great job and we are using that as the template for moving forward to complete the rest of the drainage basin analysis and because they are familiar with the project they are also one of the city's continuing services contractors. The recommendation is to award that to do berry. To prepare a task order not to exceed 250,000 with 50,000 to be left for change order work and any administrative. You've heard the recommendation of staff. What say you make a motion that we approve the staff recommendation to approve Debarian's contractor. Have a motion by Commissioner Grove man have a second second by Commissioner Elliott discussion. Here and none all in favor. Aye aye. Any opposed motion carried. Thank you. Thank you. FDOT traffic signal maintenance. That's right. That's right. You'll agree that we have within the certainly we're here to maintain the lights that we have on. Which would be the traffic light and the school lights, the lights and the caution light. And they give us a little under 6,000 bucks, I think, to do that by some annual agreement. The recommendation of this city manager has been made, what say you? Make a motion that we accept the FDOT traffic-like maintenance agreement. Have a motion by commissioner Elliott, may I have a second? Second by commissioner Grove, discussion. the committee. Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any questions? Any the original plan was approved by the commission. There were some changes that were made to the plan related to this quickly lines which will be where the where they're removed from and then the solid blue lines is where the new walkway will be placed. The brick wall, the bricks will just be moved to that area. Um and the recommendation is to approve the the changes. the a recommendation by staff to approve the amended landscape plan what say you a motion that we approve the updated a lot of the park landscape plan second motion by commissioner Elliott is second by commissioner grow discussion hearing none all in favor? Aye. Motion carried. Rules of procedure, manager Wade. The act we had a last meeting went back and made the changes into the draft. I added those into the draft that we have in the packet and ask the commission to approve the packet that I have. Well, the changes are there. And for the record manager wait, and I know Clark has gone through great detail and providing those changes. Yes, she did a great job. the work. The work shop there were two items I think that were discussion. Um, a second. I didn't print color. I'm sorry. I didn't print color. I was looking for my red. Print. Um, so one was to change the meeting time to four o'clock. the one was to change the meeting time to four o'clock. That was one that was for discussion and I presume that is included in. The other that was a great discussion or was in flux. City clerk can you right off hand identify that particular one. the I'm looking for the time as a meeting was listed. Thank you. There was one other item that was of. I believe the other thing that we spent the most time, the agenda was modified to reflect what we do now. I think it's adding an additional the it was the rule 28 the second paragraph there we instead of I think it's adding anything we did with strike and we struck recommendations at the request of the city commission city attorney or city manager so then now it just reads committee shop So then now it just reads Committee shall provide guidance to the City Commission in the development of policy Committee shall not attempt to manage the administrative operations of the city the three minutes to five minutes and those changes are included in the draft. So it's whether or not we want to pull, except the rules as presented or change. What say you? There was another correction from the I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I'm going to say that I and seeing it haven't gone through the emails yet today. Come in this morning. On Rule 28. I did. 28 in the second paragraph. The last sentence of consensus was to delete everything after the word authority. So, omitting the language, the committee members are prohibited from will not be involved in directing staff. That did make it into this draft. It's not included in the draft. Item 28, it ends with, or enforcement authority, the committee members are prohibited from will not be, well, there's a little bit of a typo right there, but it has added at the end of that paragraph will not be involved in direct data. It was to be deleted. The language that we formed a consensus on is included in the workshop minutes or the May 21 workshop and it says, paragraph one Senate seven, commission agreed to strike the remainder of Senate four. And then there's a, that paragraph written out without that language. And I was deleted after what word? I'm not sure if that was about that. that the job. Okay. I'm going to scratch through that. Also, delete committee members are privated from will not be involved in direct next to that. That's doing the address as well. All the way to the end. I'll make that change. It's like it's left over from a line through. You know what I mean? That's probably where they took it. So you have before you a revised draft or a draft with 28, rule 28, the last sentence and the second paragraph that will be a straight through any further discussions or what say you. I would like to make a motion to approve the amendment to the rules with the correction that was noted to rule 28 and also deleting the change in the draft to change the meeting time from six to four and the draft changed to change the public comment time from five minutes to three minutes. Second motion. I have a motion by commissioner George and a second by commissioner Grove. discussion. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Opposed? Opposed? Motion carried. 3 to 2. The meeting time will revert back to 6 p.m. the meeting time will revert back to 6 p.m. and a lot in five minute time for public comment. And that concludes unfinished business. I did dispose of that, yes. Mayor Commissioner comments? First I want to thank Mr. Chip Sanders for a job well done. There was an accident down at Riverfront Park. One thought thank him for his bravery in making sure that we did not have a fatality. I also want to thank Commissioner Grove for donating the rings that are now hung and thank staff for getting those rings in place in such a time of manner. the and and and and and two rings that we put up and then somebody brought in two new ones. Okay, so we had a double, okay, and also earlier, let's please, Mr. Crons for making that donation as well. Please, let's get, I would like to have plaques and resolutions created to be awarded to be presented to them, please. And at the August meeting. So we talked about a workshop for the pop-up building, but we did not set a date or time. What say you? I mean, they said as soon as possible. So I think we should probably go for as soon as possible. The end of July was thrown out. If the commission could agree on maybe at least two dates, I could run them by hand and design to make sure they can be here. And then we'll go from there. Or if y'all want to sort it out outside of here. So the last week of July is not, I'm not available any of that week. Which week? I'm sorry, not the last week, the week of July 22nd through the week of July 22nd through July 22nd. Now we could aim for the 16th if that's, if we think that's early in a late, like maybe the 16th and then another one that last week of July and then let him tell us. The 16th and the 30th maybe, there's like two weeks, which mean that. So we can pitch both of those dates at Hammond and if those dates work for them, can. And also, will you ask them if 6 p.m. is adequate or will they prefer an earlier workshop because they will have to recognize him and his team. He didn't come for this and he didn't know as well. As him and his team, they have worked tirelessly to getting those flow legs installed and greatly appreciate all the time effort that they have put in. Rhett, if you want to come up and just give a brief statement of what it means to you and the staff to have those flowbacks installed. I'm going to thank everybody for holding. Helping everything we got and getting all these systems put in and everything and float that dog has been a blessing on getting this system up and older and everything. We've had some pretty major rain events and no shut down and not say it's never going to happen again but so forth and I'm blessed and having it and there's saving a lot of time and energy first going out I mean you stood and thought you saw it's out 36 I was straight working on now we hardly ever knock on wood, going out forward anymore and anything. The biggest portion of it, we can tell when somebody's going to have a problem before they end up having a problem too. So we've got sewer back up and we're going to know that's backing up before the people call us up or call y'all up, you know, complaining and everything. So that's one of the biggest things to you. Thank you. And we will be asking, and we are asking the community, the residents to clear the area where those flow racks are located. We do have some and they have been work entitlessly to get those areas that have been covered or so it's going to be critical that the community, the residents, keep those areas cleared. That is necessary. So if we get complaints about, you know, it's too close for the driveway issue or something along that and while we're on that, we all received an email from Mr. Montgomery regarding the flow of the back that's in his in the alley in his back in the back of his house. And he's asking that it being moved. Brad is going to tell you why it's not a good idea to move that. One of the, if y'all ain't looking at emails and airplane, the one at maritime using them is the one that sticks out the worst. If you look at that picture he's got, he even put on there, he couldn't even find the pit. Well, the reason we put them right beside them is because if he would have just took and hit right beside either side of it he would have hit the pit. So we took and cleaned it off and took another picture of it with a cleaned off because they built flower beds every now or park cars on them. We've got trailers parked on them and people's like why didn't know that was anything for us you know but they're monitored there, anybody can go out and I can tell him how you just look for green box, tap on each side and you'll hit the pit. We have a certain select few commercial district mostly that 11C food, up the Creek Roll Bar, where we've moved the pit up a little bit from the monitor from the pit because it's a commercial district and there's trucks pulling in and out, making deliveries and everything and it would be run over constantly all the time. So that was one of the sections we made right from the very beginning of all this back in 2020 on the decisions is to put them up further to the building so they wouldn't be run over. One of the biggest things is the trash piles. We go through the alleys all the time and people just dump trash on top of it and then it's covered up so we can never see it or grass has grown up around it. We don't see the pit, especially at three o'clock and morning riding around trying to find it. Now we can locate it right off the box and just go up there and touch either side of it and it's right there, then we can uncover it. But that's one of the biggest things is trying to get the trash out of the others because then it'll pick up or now there's no more. And the trash trucks. Correct. Explain to them why it's important for the pedestal to be in close proximity. That's a close problem, see. One of the biggest things is the further away it is, the less control it has on the pit itself. So it takes more pressure to push up to that point to make it fire and pull the sewage out. The closer the monitor is to it, it fires. It's got better performance of firing and everything. And that's one of the other reasons we have it so close to the pistol. I mean, to the pits. And with having a number of staff out, being able to one person. Oh, yeah, one person. Yeah, that's one of those things. Like the 11C food and all that. We had to have two people to adjust it and everything. I mean, monitor the right needs to pit, we can just sit there and look at the lights and everything and adjust it all by ourselves. Thank you. I just had a question because I haven't been to Mr. Montgomery's house to look and see if there's another option because he's saying basically that that's the driveway that he has used historically and is there, I mean, is there room for him to go around the flow back and adjust his driveway some? I mean, is that something that we could assist him with? I mean, you know, just. Well, he was in the emergency parking his car two feet to the left. Okay. Thank you. In his driveway, we went over and measured from the edge of the pit, not where the pit is. The monitor is on this side. His driveway is on this side. So the concrete part of the pit, we measure from this side to the other side of his all driveway. It's 20 foot across. Okay. Average parking at Wal-Mart, Piggly Wiggly, between the lines is 18 foot. Okay. So I mean, and then he's also got everyone on the other side. He's got another whole open spot. He's got a man parked in the middle of it that they can pull over and have more parking for, you know, other people. Thank you. I just want to make sure that the conversation, you know, a reasonable conversation was had. And that we looked at it. Thank you. Any other questions or comments for RIT and his team? Commissioner Grove? I think it bears repeating that the parking analysis is a new and that we have a new, Any other questions or comments for RIT and his team? Commissioner Grove? I think it bears repeating that the parking in the alley is a new phenomenon. We were never allowed to park in the alley and people have kind of may not realize that the alley are the cities and they are there to provide services, whether it be water, sewer, and at one time it was garbage. So I think that we need to highlight that, maybe even social media, just tell people that don't cover the pits, don't park on top of the pits, because if they have to access them with a vacuum system, if something clogss up they have to get down in the pit Like you said there's several where people have landscaped over it. You don't even know what it is You know parked Equipment over it. So we have to have that access if we're gonna provide services And that was one of the other things too is the driveways that people's putting into these alleys and everything And that was one of the other things too, is the driveways that people's putting into these alleys and everything. They puttin' this dolemot down and then they puttin' rocks over the top of it and they cover up our pits because when we go out in the middle of the night, I've actually had to be out on a four street between fourth and fifth street. It took me almost two hours to dig through that pit with a pickaxe to get down there to shut it off because it was already messed up drawing the town down. And see we only have a certain amount of time, time that thing messes up, the time to get out and fix it before it brings the rest of the town down. Because every time a pit messes up, it's no one only affect that area of their effects, all the way up the best western from downtown all over. And along we wait the best western from downtown all over in the long way way to worst off it gets. Even that's something we can educate through PNZ2 is just constantly telling that you can't just build a driveway in the alley. You can't just rock it. You need to get first off, you should be getting permission so that these type of things don't happen. But it seems like we need to really push an educational message out there. And that was like, then, during encroachments that people's gotten for the fences and everything, we've got one that's right down on four street, that's behind the fence, it's actually inside, and we can't get to the end without, and that's the one I got trouble for years ago for cutting the irrigation lines at least to get into our pit because they was running all the way across the top of it. But then we had to go back and fix the irrigation lines because I cut them and everything. But it was across our utility and we couldn't get into it. Yes. One with this particular resident, Mr. Montgomery, the resident Mr Montgomery also about the complaint regarding his driveway in the alley stating that the city approved the driveway and for us to restrict the access to his driveway will pose a legal issue for us down the line. So could we as the staff received some type of direction on how to handle that because his pushback would be well PNZ approved my driveway in the alley they've been using that driveway for a number of years. We will defer to legal get with legal that. Get a legal opinion on that. Thank you. Rhett. We appreciate all that you and your team know. Thank you so much. Madam Mayor. I do have a comments last suggestion on that. We could similar to like the encouragement agreements and whatnot. We could advertise now and start letting people know you need to get your pits uncovered. And when we go into our next budget season, I would suggest adding a fine specifically for covering those pits. And so now we've got, I mean, a new budget takes October 1, right? October 1. So that gives several months for people if they've got landscaping over it, if they've got driveways built over it, they've got a grace period to get it uncovered because if they're having to go out there and spend their time and work overtime and do that, somebody needs to be compensating for that. I totally agree. I think this staff has been asked to send letters to everyone that staff had to go out and uncover and spend two hours whatever that if they do cover that will go into place. We will start finding. So we are in that educational phase so that letting them know that this is where we're headed. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes my comments. Commissioner Grove. Sorry, this might be a little overwhelming, but I didn't want to just email it to you because it's kind of easier explained, but a couple of things. Reporting on the restoration of the Appalachical Abbey, I've got one in here for Shinidra 2. This is the new website, so if you'd like to stay in touch with what's going on the oyster restoration, the last meeting we met, I think it must have been May 30th. This is for Shadron, sorry. The FWC reported that they were 87% done. So we're through another month, four weeks. So they're probably near completion of the pilot study, which is great news, because then we can show that the oysters are growing, that things are going well. However, not approaching is going on, and when we approach the last money we're going to get for the full restoration, because this is to prove that the oysters are growing and are doing well, and if they're not doing well, then we're not going to get to money. So always have issues. And FWC was awarded actually three positions in their whole organization, but one is going to be full time here, which is a miracle to get a full time position through the state these days, and it's going to be all about the oyster restoration. So I'm hoping we get that person high and find a place to live. The US Army Corps of Engineers contacted staff in the mayor a year ago and ask about potential projects that they could partner with. Appalachia Cola is an EJ community meaning that it's economically disadvantaged. And Travis and I have met about this a couple of times. And I talked to Cindy who's been a part of, she did the vulnerability study and adaptation plan, which we have to have those in place to be able to get money from the resilient Florida program. So I was gonna suggest that we ask the core engineers to take those plans and take them to the next level and do kind of mitigation to suggest projects that would help mitigate and flooding from storm water and storms. So the letters do as soon as we can in July kind of get our foot in the door and there would not be a cost. So I don't it's we've been running to to make this deadline and figure out what to do with this offer. It's possibly a long shot that we get to help but it feels like an opportunity lost if we don't put in for it. There's information. I don't think we have to vote on it because there's not any expenditure. It would be working with the staff to ask the court to help us. It could be another year before the project is even encumbered. So, but I hate to miss the deadline of July. I, like he said, as soon as possible. He's afraid the program's not going to continue. In the future and this would be getting our foot in the door, we would get if we were selected, then it would happen, but it may not happen in future iterations. Also, there are Commissioner Jones, the chair of the Commission of Franklin County, asked me to be on a committee for my day job and for my position as a commissioner. And it's the Technical Assistance Committee for DOT and essentially what this has been put together by the Appalachia Regional Planning Council and it's to get the rural communities right around us, Jackson Liberty, Franklin Gulf, Calhoun, all of those together to talk about what are transportation priorities for us. And then we're going to come up with a list of transportation priorities. All of this just started. And they gave a list of there's five. Sorry, there's five projects within four different areas. One is safety, one is access, and one is connectivity. The other one is more things like electric charging stations, those sorts of things. So it's gonna email the commission. I've got a printout here. Email this just so you could, if you have any request, you want me to put in, it's all coming up kind of fast. But it explains what's needed on there, and what I'll email you is they had one meeting that I wasn't on the committee yet, so I wasn't there, but it talks about safety. That would include things like bicycillines, street lighting, intersections, journaling, request, rumble strips, and then connectivity has different aspects to it. System, I'm sorry. It's called ACEs and that's automatic, connectic, electric, e-shared. So it's a lot to think about, but you have something that comes in your mind, the one main artery that we're concerned with is 98. So for us it would be the bridge, anything that would change there, pedestrian crosswalks on 98 that might be able to be improved in some manner. And we'll put this together. and the rest of the projects that we're going to be able to be improved in some manner. We'll put this together. There are three representatives from Franklin, Me, Cheryl, and another gentleman in the east of the county. We're supposed to have our projects together to submit in a couple of weeks. Then the committee is going to pick the top projects. So if you have any additions you want to make to this please let me know. I will email the documents I've handed out and this other document that shows you what the categories are. It's kind of complicated, I'm sorry about that but I hate to not offer it if you have any input. But mainly it's going to be 98. The good thing is, Commissioner Jones said this today in the meeting, the good thing is they want rule input. And if we all put our ideas into the pot with other people's ideas, there might be some connectivity there and some ways to make all the communities get something good. So at least we're at the table now. And we had one other thing. A meeting came about. Oh, sorry. When would you like this return back to you? I believe, sorry, I had it written down and now I don't see the date. I know when we're getting together, I'll give you that in the email. I thought it was mid July, but I know up till August 1st was when we were going to put them all together. So, um, in July, there were some people serving the Hill community and a lot of people bumped into them and a lot of questions came up. And somehow, Commissioner George texted me and I was to radio thing and said, do you know anything about this? And I said no. So essentially they came up with a public meeting and within about six hours and it was all hurried and not done well. So I had asked that division of historical resources staff come down to discuss some of the issues. The people who were doing the survey were looking at, there was some leftover hurricane Michael money, so they were looking at the Hill District and what had been documented, what had not been documented, way back when we would be Marshall had looked around and he had done the nomination for many, the whole historic district, he included the Hill only in a cursory manner. He was not able to go in and further research all and document all the housing and building structures up there. So the HR had money and they said, hey, let's go to Apogcle and finish this and flush it out. So Sarah, a link, Lincato is going to hopefully come down on July 11th from 5 to 7, and we were going to meet here to kind of get a better idea of the pros and cons of doing it, although I don't think there's, I think it's just lushing out what was never there. So they have a high interest in preserving the Hill and highlighting it. So I'll let them explain themselves, but that's going to be July 11th, 5 to 7 here. All I had. That was a lot, sorry. Thank you. Commissioner Duckin, do you have anything? Just simply that I wanted to think the chief and Ashley Webb, I had a little thing at my house with the Duke energy people driving through the yard. And I got a little hotter than the collar, so I do apologize. But I wanted to thank them. They came out so quickly, and they were so kind, and they did a good job of getting everything sorted out. But I just wanted to thank them. And I'm a little embarrassed too, but... Bobby didn't arrest you. At least Ashley didn't put her in. I don't even think they threatened me with arresting me. So, I think there was a nail commissioner dunk, and you know we can't do that. I mean, that's why they were saying that. But thank you, seriously. I appreciate y'all. Thank you. Thank you for mentioning chief because chief you is all over social media but do you want to tell us I think it's a great asset to your team and the usage is great. So congratulations. Right. Oh, commission to Duncan. I'm sorry, commission to George. We need to schedule a special meeting to set the tentative millage rate for the upcoming fiscal year, which needs to be done in July. Since we're tentatively setting a special meeting, a workshop date on the 16th, we could do it the same day. I mean, it should be like a five minute workshop. So it could be added ahead of the 16th workshop. 16th of the 30th. The 16th to the 30th. It was the deadline. When does the the military? Okay, so either the 16th to the 30th. So either one if the architect doesn't able to make the 16th workshop, we could do it on the piggyback at on the workshop on the 30th as well. What next week. We can make the 16th workshop. We could do it on the piggy back it on the workshop on the 30th as well. Would next week be too early? Because I'm going to, I'm not for that meeting. Next week be too early to do a special meeting for that because I've got a, I'm going to have to request a special meeting next week. If it would work to piggyback that on that meeting. We know about that. I'm not gonna bring it up just a minute. Okay, label you have the documents ready before them. Okay. And the other thing I had was about Chestnut Street Cemetery. I appreciate to do the comments by Linda Buchanan and Elizabeth Milliken today. I had sent to Attorney Hartman last month a copy of Savannah's cemetery regulations. I didn't make an ask, I just sent it to him and said, you know, please review this for future cemetery discussion. So now that citizens have brought this issue forward, I think it would be a good idea to have to specifically direct attorney Hartman to review those regulations and see if there's some reason. I mean, he seemed to think we couldn't do something like that, but I think we should direct him to study the ordinances of other cities and come back with some recommendations. If so you will menu you will um a menu or email to attorney Hartman to that effect or you asking for direction. I'm asking if everybody else thinks that's a good idea and I mean that doesn't commit us to anything to have him review. Any objections? Hearing none. Okay, we will ask Attorney Hartman to review that for a bridge and give us an his opinion on that. There was also one from Pensacola, I think that was given tonight as well. St. Michael's was given, but I believe St. Michael's is a private cemetery and we need to focus on municipal cemetery. I did that research about five years ago. So I did learn that that. Right, Pensacola, the cemetery is actually owned by a private foundation. So, for Savannah, their ash will municipal cemetery, same as ours. And Josh, I'll send you and dance some other information as well. All right. All right. Yeah, we've had this. Okay, that's all I have. Thank you commissioner Elliott. Yes ma'am. Only two main things. First one is. We did bring on our new higher code enforcement officer. I have not gone down to City Hall yet to meet him, but I will probably next week once all the festivities are over. But I have gotten some comments from residents about noticing Cheds, fences, additions, pop up around town that were not on the PNZ agendas. So as we're getting the new guy in, maybe we can kind of have a little bit of an audit, kind of get some of that tamped back down. And then the second one is just a brief update. The P3 board for affordable housing has not officially met yet, but I did go, had a great meeting with Mr. Bill Williams over at FCO, kind of got a brief overview and tour of what they're doing and he is the rehabilitation or reintegration officer director. And so we talked a lot about how we can utilize this partnership and relationship. If you go out to the Sheriff's Department and you look to the left of it, there's a ton of cleared out land, I've just totally already clear cut ready to go. Those are some of the acres that are going to be included in this affordable housing proposal or possibly used in a industrial sense as where the other part of this project is we have to do job creation. That is how we entice triumph into giving us money for this project. So if anyone has connections or knows anybody that works in light manufacturing, we've reached out to Dave's Killer Bread, another company. I cannot remember the name of that builds airplane propellers. Anything like that, those are creating jobs that we need here that put food on the table. They keep people employed. Anything like that. And just coming up with more ideas on things that would be useful for the area around. Part of that would be finding developers or contractors that you know would be willing to put forth. Their qualifications for RFQs trying to build lasting relationships. Trying to get the land trust involved, the Franklin County land trust involved as well, to see how they would like to be involved, because the goal is to keep the majority of the housing within a trust to maintain that it is affordable. And the issue is the biggest step for me is, you know, doctors, nurses, not so much school teachers, law enforcement though, you know, these are jobs that are when you look at the pool of jobs in this, in our local economy, those are going to be some of the higher paying jobs. And they're going to come with benefits. They'll have access to things like hometown heroes and other grant programs that can help them. When you look at the blue collar workers in town. They aren't going to be as great looking on paper for trying to get any of these mortgages to buy these homes, even if they're affordable, even if they're in the trust. So I want to have an arm of this be, and it kind of goes along with job creation too, have an arm of it to create either a separate housing authority board or a committee that would actually manage the property. So we would also be creating more jobs with that, manage that, and can have rental units as well that can also help people step from living with your parents or living with your roommates to, OK, now you're renting a place that you can actually save money for, get the credit that you need to then step up and buy that house. So it's all baby steps right now, but I will bring information as often as I get new information and everyone feel free to reach out with ideas. If you want to come to a meeting sometime and we start having them, that'd be great. And that's all I got. Thank you. I also want to thank each of you for your participation in volunteering on different committees outside of the city. It's to have someone from the City of Appalachia Cola at the table is valuable and it is admirable. Thank you so much for each of you that participate outside of the city. Manager Wade. I'm going to have a manager wait. Other than the updates have. In the packet I have a couple of things. One do very handled the Leslie Street procurement for construction services. The bid opening was Friday. We got four bids and we did have a little better that was well within the budget so they are putting that packet together now I talked with Josh Bikesley said they'll have it they'll have it ready they're trying to get it ready today for me to present to the meeting band and have it on the agenda so I told them I would try to call a special meeting next week I'll try to send something out tomorrow. If Tuesday works for everybody, I'll do it Tuesday. And it'll probably be a pretty quick meeting. All right. Is everybody available next Tuesday? What the night at what time chose? I'm sorry, I'm manager. I guess it be I guess six o'clock if that's what we're going to in our meetings. Commissioner Duncan is not available. But is everyone else available? Yes. And would that be a proper time to do the budget? Okay, for them. I had that to it, so we're not too birds out. But one's done that night. All right. I'll send something out tomorrow about that. And the other thing is I'm being asked by staff. Everybody's taking time off on Friday. We're gonna be short staffed. The state of Florida's been given Friday off. Franklin County gave their staff Friday off. Port Saint Joe gave their staff Friday off and Gulf County gave their staff Friday off. What's saying you as the mayor says? That goes to you guys. My office is closed on Friday. We have Thursdays the 4th of July so we stay up. I don't have a problem with it. I personally don't, but that's, I'm just one person. I don't have an issue with it either as a matter of fact. This actually came up for me when we have the courthouses, typically the rule is that the courthouse is closed. We're closed, right, to my office. But there are times now when the courthouse is still open, but then the state maybe has closed. The public defender's office, the state attorney's office. So we selected it last year and added it to the calendar because sometimes it's just the best way you can kind of give staff a perk to when you can't give them anything else that's more tangible. It's just a plan in a day off. So I say okay because I'm not going to be here. I'm going on vacation at three o'clock in the morning. the the we're fine I have no issue with us closing on Friday. We do need cohesion though because if some city offices are going to be open or some closed we need to have to be open. We have to be open. If some city offices are going to be open or some close, we have everything either open or closed. If you give the word, we're all closed. Yeah. I would prefer for everything to be closed. Unfortunately, Friday is like my Tuesday. I will be at work. But you guys have a good idea. I think that's a good idea. Fortunately Friday is like my Tuesday. So I will be at work. But you guys have a great day. I'll send you pictures. Um. Commissioner George, Commissioner Grove. I mean, it says a permanent holiday. I mean. It's what it boils down to with the city is it's a staffing issue. Everybody's taken off because it's a long holiday weekend. There's we're going to be have we'll have I think three people at city hall. On Friday. The state gave their people off the county gave their people off saying Joe that's the ones I called I just was talking to the city manager from saying Joe this morning and he told me that they were got they gave their people off. That's the one I called. I just was talking to the city manager from St. Joe this morning and he told me that they gave him Friday off. I asked him about golf county. He said, yeah, they give him, give him off to people who are asking me about it. I asked you guys, it's not a recurring thing. It's just a one time thing. It's not a recurring thing. It's just a one time thing. So anytime it would, if the fourth was on a Monday or a Thursday, Tuesday or Thursday that you would turn that into a, I'm not asking for it off. I'm just saying, I've been asked is, I think it's a commission decision rather than mine, but I have a daughter's appointment that day, so I'm not gonna be there anyway. I'm kinda givin'. See the need, daughter. I think the question here, this is just a one time approval for Friday, July 5th for the city to be closed. Yes, that's, that's. I think the city, business of the city should continue so I would not be in favor of. Okay. So can I have a motion? I make a motion that we approve for one time a special day off on Joe Friday July 4th for the city staff. I have a motion by Commissioner Duncan a second by Commissioner Elliott, discussion. Commissioner Grove. You got a comment. I'm listening to the question. Could you come to the... Yes. I'm not understanding the motion. My question immediately is this a paid holiday or is it just closing and we can take vacation off? I don't know what you're okay. Thank you. Commissioner Duncan, do you want to clarify? I will amend my motion to clarify that make a motion that we approve a special day off on Friday, July 4th and that it be a paid holiday for the city staff. Thank you for the request for clarification. Commissioner Elliott, are you going to amend my second to that effect? Discussion? July 5th. Right, but they're closed July 4th already. Forgive me, thank you. Thank you. I meant Friday, July 5th. July 5th, thank you, sir. Yes. Yes. We have a motion and an amended motion to approve July 5th at the end of the day. the motion and a motion to approve July 5th as a paid holiday extended holiday one time event. Any further discussion. Hearing'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. I'm not a woman. Commissioner George do you have any comments for manager way new comments Commissioner Grove Commissioner Duncan No, thank you. Thank you Miss Mathis You have any comments or in any comments or for the finance director Commissioner George Commits Commissioner Grove? Duncan? No thank you. I have no questions but I keep forgetting to come by and see you because I really want to see how much money the fee collection machine has made, especially since snapper season started because I know I know that it's getting juicy in there Yes, and again, thank you to the police department because we have quite a few citations People have been subsidizing that budget people have been calling my office I've been waiting till snapper seasons over to look at the final code. Yeah. Because it's full every morning when I get by. And this is just a side note because I know we have mentioned this before, but kind of the goal with that is, you know, in the comprehensive plan, it talks about reestablishing the port of Appalachia Cola and doing that, you know, connecting these parts of the waterfront that we have, these new dogs. If we connect all of them together, that's money, that's tourist dollar, that we're harvesting, that we can spread back out into our own assets, that's not coming at the taxpayers expense, so that's, I think, something we should also look forward to. Thank you. Attorney communication, do you have anything for, Josh? Thank you. Thank you. Attorney communication. Do you have anything for, Josh? Thank you for sitting in. Attorney Hartman has been under the weather. And we thank you for sitting in and being on standby for us. Thank you. Constantly agenda. I have a motion to approve. I have a motion to approve? Make a motion to approve this. Can I have a motion? by Commissioner George, a second by Commissioner Grove. Any further discussion? I mean all in favor. Hi. Any opposed? Emotion carried. Department reports are included in your packet. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, please reach out to the Department head or city manager wait. If there is no further business before this body may I have a motion to adjourn. I so move. Have a motion by Commissioner Elliott. May I have a second? Second by Commissioner Grove. All in favor. Hi. Meeting adjourned. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you.