I'm sorry I was just a little bit tired of getting started here. I haven't had time one day to apologize. Welcome to the Thursday May 5th regular escape from any of that, for a safe council. If you have an agenda, great follow-on with us. If you don't, you won't want to be on the door. In the pocket right there on the door, you can have an agenda. Please, at this time, stand and join me in a moment, sign a prayer. As you pray to any man that you are comfortable, and we will follow that with pledge allegiance? Thank you. I should have reminded you that today is the National Day of Prayer, and we started off the morning this morning with quite a gap to recognize the National prayer. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic, which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Now, so over there, a gender you have a list of items from the consent agenda. Is there anything on the consent agenda that you would like to remove for individual discussion? Hearing no request, I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as it's been presented. Mayor, I move we approve this consent agenda as presented? Thank you motion from Mr. Baal. I have a second. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Carter. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. All opposed. Motion carried consent agenda is approved. And item four, community development items item four, annual report concerning planning board activities, screening tours and budget estimates. Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. And according to the city code, one page memo has been prepared. As in your packets of details, the plan board's activities for fiscal year 15, 16 through this past Monday may second. Just to summarize the report briefly, the board has heard made recommendations on 10 rezoning cases, three tax amendment, two subdivision cases. The board is also acted on one zoning overleg plan request for approval. And the plan of board acting as board of adjustment heard and granted variances for over two cases. I'll note that one of the variances BOA 1502 has been appealed by an adjoining landowner on his scheduled to be heard in Superior Court in August of this year. It's interesting for the 10 rezoning that the board heard since July who actually occurred this past Monday. If you look at your consent agenda, those cases will become to the council next month. But the board continues to be led by Mr. Van Rich's chairman, a long time chairman of that board. I know I can speak for the playing staff when I say we really enjoy working with that group of board members. This item doesn't require any action of the council, it's just provided for your information. Thank you Mayor. Any questions? I'm Mr. Nuddle regarding this report. I have four B, proposed partnership with Randolph-Saw Water Conservation District. Thank you Mayor. City staff was approached earlier this year by staff from Randolph-Solenwater Conservation, requesting us to partner with that agency to complete a best management practice project that would be aimed at improving water quality and storm water runoff issues while also helping to educate the public about water quality issues. Those discussions have led to the district's offer to provide the city funding and there is a letter in your packet. We actually met with them today again and there's been additional funding that they are offering us and they mount totally $6,100 from their community conservation assistance program for a riparian buffer enhancement and we're specifically looking at North Ashboro Park for this project. The project that we're considering is a long and unnamed tributary to Haskits Creek that's shown on the screen there. It's important to note why this is worth while and that's really because Haskitt's Creek is a 303D impaired water body as designated by the state of North Carolina. And it's also obviously located in a public park which gives us a venue to demonstrate what a proper riparian buffer looks like to hopefully educate the public about how they can take similar measures on their property to help everyone improve water quality in the city. Under the proposal the city would provide either a 25% cash match or an in-kind match to complete the project which would be wrapped up within the next two years. So we are interested in moving forward on this project. It doesn't really require a council action. We did want to make you aware of this project. If there are no objections or questions from the council, we'll proceed with executing the agreements with the district to move this project forward. Mayor, we'd like this is a good location. This is in the center of the Mayor's Grove, the Walkin Loose Up there in the park. And that's a good spot for it too. By the way, I don't have much to read. You can't retire. I don't think so. And you're still free. You're still free. I'm pretty sure Dave, you're a good boy. Oh, okay. Thank you. I have four C and ward. Well, I'm not calling the Department of Transportation. Thank you. In December 2015, City staff submitted an application to be included in NC DOT's 2016 Bicycle Helmet Initiative. And this is a state initiative that is funded with Share the Road, specialty license plate proceeds, has been in existence through the state since 2007. All is nice to point out that this is a program that does not require any local matching dollars from the city. And the program aims to reduce bicycling related injuries to children who, according to the state on average, account for almost 20% of bicycling crash fatalities every year. Typically, according to those same figures, typically less than 50% of children will wear helmets while bicycling, even though we know that they greatly reduce the risk of brain injuries. So we found out in March that the DOT approved our request and we've actually received 48 helmets, children's size bicycle helmets for distribution, at no cost to low-income children, as a part of what will be a planned bicycle safety and education event that will occur either later this year. We have one occurring as part of the pigs and petals event already through crumbling robberts, so we may wait for some time to do a separate event and maybe in a different location to target a different population. That will certainly announce as details once they're known. I expect to be working with the APD to help put this event together. So again, excited to have these to talk to the citizens here in the city. Sure, any questions? Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mayor. Item five of the danger in Michael Lindner and the community development is over. I don't know. Gonna give us some items to concern our interest for new St. Green industrial center. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Council. Providing your packet is information as information as a copy of the exemption for project qualification-based selection process for the Manny Brooks Act. On June 4th of 2015, the City Council adopted a resolution to delegating the authority to grant such written exemptions to the city manager. You'll see that some engineering has an associate's PLLC is submitted for proposal for city site, civil and site development engineering services for new century drive development. This includes surveying services of $11,500 and engineering services of $36,865 for grand total of $48,940. Being under the $50,000 limit and based on past work experience with some engineering, PLLLC, we believe is the best interest to the city proceed with the design of new century industrial development using some engineering. Mayor, I think following all with that is a budget amendment for the cost of design services for the extension in your packet. You see a cover letter on the finance officer as well as the budget amendment. It's no additional monies required. It's just moving around in the proper line item. So I think there's one motion Except the service is Some me and the minute I do think I have them see will require another action. Okay Council items 5 a and 5 b. I will to thank the motion to adopt and approve those for question in one motion. Mayor, move we approve the ordinance to amend the fund as well to to serve us a good yes what do you see okay we have a motion well they'll have a second second thank you mr. Slyres yes you're a to ask Mr. Leonard. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion carries. I have a seat of request for an extension of time between the preliminary final plethora. Thank you, Mayor. The City Council approved the preliminary plethora for this project in June of 2015. As you know, those approvals are good for 12 months and less otherwise extended by the council. We do have a request in your packet seeking an extension of that timeframe and staff does recommend that that request be granted. Question? I have a motion to approve this request. May I move the approval request for it to be sent down? Motion by Mr. Bell to approve. Do I have a second? A second. Second, Mr. Berks. Discussing. On favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. This is the appointing time for the public comment period. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. This is the appointed time for the public comment period. If there's anyone in the audience who would like to address the City Council on items of city business, now is the appropriate time. Mr. Everhart needs you to hand him a book. I've got it. OK, he's got it. All right. I think you can address us for right there. With a microphone picking him up. Okay. Well, a couple weeks ago Trevor and I walked the city, walked the city for I don't have any miles. Well, he walked I would. Anyway, we're going by, we're all the access areas. For the handicap, we're not by all the access areas for the handicap. We're not only just a handicap, you know, when the play carers, you know, or the even healthy people. The access areas to getting onto the streets are terrible. The first place we went was to the fire department of Wayne, the corner of Wayne. That's where I was going to get a haircut one day at five points and I was trucking down through there on this thing. His stay on the sidewalk, this huckle of man went out the middle of Wayne. So fire department guys came over and had to get back into the wheelchair. The road was this much higher than the access area. Not about right? Now, thank you for the picture, Ellen. Well, the record he indicated about three inches. Three, three, four inches. We record this, our files. Last one. No one over there, sidewalks. I go to Park Street. You got no access there for hand-kept people. Except one or two spots. And there might be one like right there at Donnelly Law School, Park Street School when I was growing up when you were growing up at Park Street, but it was not too access areas only. None to get off yet to use somebody's driveway. And most of the driveway is around here crumbly, because they were built the same period of time streets were built. We had a guy named Lee to get in the access areas and all the streets, not all of them, but most of them that really used like hamstrings, bad. We got joggers, maybe carriages and everything all up down that street. You only have two exercises. Oh man. And what I got made one day is you took two trees down on the corner of the worth and down and I forgot how many feet of sidewalk but 30, 45 sidewalk no access area. It's got all that money for the sidewalk. Taking those trees down and there's no access area for a person like myself or even somebody with a walk to get on to the streets. And then what Am had pot holes on the east side of the street, you know, there were five, six inches deep, and Trevor took pictures of. All right. The one I'm asking is you know, start somewhere and repair it and start repairing. You know, grind them down. You know, they might access areas of love. That's why you see so many people in the world chose like myself at the streets. They're not using sidewalks. Because you get up on your track? Park streets, Park streets terrible. The Amstery is the next street. Randolph, it's gone. I mean, it's just, you know, it's like this. Time walks on Randolph River. I'm not even going to church. Yeah, and none existing. It's like this. The sidewalks on the ring number. I'll move that in just a minute. It's not existing. You know, the city is let all this go too far. Unfortunately, you're exactly right. We do have a sidewalk program and we do try to fix sidewalks. You're working with the right person. Mr. Noodle, you'll continue your work. Mr. A. Wehrmacht identified the worst spots and turned those in for public works to address. Yes, it's very, very important. My problem is my question is what are we going to do about it? Regardless if I turn to the end of Joe Blur the right way, it turns to the end. What is the city going to do about it? Our policy is that we fix the worst ones as we discover the worst ones and unfortunately short of a public bond referendum, we're probably not going to be able to fix them all. Well, you know, you got so much damage out there, we'll take a while to fix them all. And we regularly replace sidewalks. Do you have any figures on that? I don't have any data. I just do want to let Mr. Everhart know that the areas that we did walk. And we probably spent two hours kind of walking the downtown area in identifying where we have offsets in the sidewalk. We'll point out that, you know, church treat is slated for resurfacing in June. And my hope is that some of that can, areas of concern at Wayneman will, you know, be addressed as part of that. High-payment? Yes. I think the mailing and the work there, hopefully will help address some of that. But other areas, you know, there were pictures and a report has been given to Mr. Hutchins at Public Works about this. And today I met with the street department, and we looked at these areas in detail again. So the bottom line here exactly right, we have lots of needs, and I know Mr. Everhart recognizes that. We just need to begin the process of identifying what are the priorities, what can we do short term, and what's going to be long term? And that's what I met with the street department today. There are areas that we think we can get to here in the next few months and improve the situation. There's other that are more involved in terms of taking out entire intersection curbing to get some ramps in. So there's some that are just going to have to occur next budget year and some that we can get some that we can get here real quickly in terms of the surfacing on some segments. Yeah, and all my end worth is that grant curbing? You're not a lot. Not that we put in. Yeah, we took it out to put, yeah. But I think the, I can't be a man. You can solve it back out of the curbing concrete. You's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That's concrete. That sure it has a revenge. Yeah, you know, you actually had a valuable material. We actually had a company come in and cut our granite. It's all the granite curves. You can, it's just the best hardware somebody, pinholes. So, thank you, sir. The problem. You got to have somebody out there to make sure that you're getting this level. You know, you're going to end up in the lawsuit. It's like that place in front of Mike's. So car go down. Yeah, when you hit a sath on that, you can't, you come off the curb out of there and then you go to get up on the street, you have to go out into the street. To get up to the access area, to get on sunset, you can't even get on the train street. Well, the train is safe enough. Traveling on the wheelchair up to there. It is if everybody's paying attention. Not all of it was paying attention when we driving downtown. I've got one other problem that I wasn't going to bring up. We got a drug problem right there across from my house. I forget the lady in the house. The lady grew up with my mother, but the house is there. It's abandoned. It's abandoned. And I've called the law the other day. It's time to make a parking lot. The one right to the right of the vacant parking lot. I saw two heads. I'm stuck in the front bedroom. I saw two heads bobbing down in the creek. And a guy, a blue coat, and a hammock sack on the city on the safety ground. And Kevin, our next door neighbor left. Well, the two guys at the creek came up. The fan of going up to where the manhole was. I went to sing them and we went to call them a lot. But they came up and went straight into the Logan house. I mean the back doors just bust the house had been empty for years and years and years and probably 25 years from there. I think we've worked that. James, we used to put an extra set of eyes on that house. I thought they might have a rest over our yesterday. You made a shot, good, it's rock salt. Unfortunately, it's very close to the Salveri Street area that we're having so much difficulty with. A lot of foot traffic. A lot of foot traffic a lot of foot traffic I'm not a ball light because I can't slip I think so I see well I'm going to get tired of hearing this is a radio of a hard up to the south end street I'm not even more tired than the other very many are sick this is not an emergency but I want you to do this. You got traffic 345 plus more than that there. You had some when I called the law the other day. It was Sunday, I believe it was. It speaks black truck, where you take it. But it tends to be left to get inside of the government through there. Said he'd been on the mud run. I hadn't been out to cut for a long time, and I know where the most of the places are. Cut for a long time. And it had old dirt on it. That's how you know you got five cars in after that. And I'm not done asking. The people were passing stuff around around in the parking lot. In the parking lot, so I call 911. 20 minutes later they show up. The cars are already gone, but this one guy came in with his wife, walking, heading into town in a sea blue-green shirt, turquoise, tacky pants, and having the main guy that was doing all the daemon, they spoke something out there, but the guy in turquoise shirt went just to the apes, I don't know, that's only words I know how to use to describe it as part of my language. So they start chest button. So I call 911 again. Well they missed it. But then when the police came over to talk to me in my driveway, they got a phone call and this guy was uptown terrorizing the tank The guy in the church Well, I appreciate you calling in that's that's what none of the law is more That's why our police are paid to do so you keep calling and we will try to protect your neighborhood So you keep calling and we will try to protect your neighborhood. The best way to get heavy load. I understand. My question is, those creeks are like a highway. I used to play in them. I used to. You know, when I was growing up, everybody in here grew up here in Axford. It was playing with those creeks. You know, building dams and blah, blah blah blah. It's like a highway. And they need to be cleaned out. Thank you sir. I appreciate it. Mr. Stroud. He fell down walking my dogs. All right. He's all right. Okay. Thank you, sir. We will find that of that script. Well, you need to stay. Please do. You're talking to the right person and Trevor's talking You bet, man. Sorry about my language. No, that's fine. Descript to protect knowledge. I've got it. Let's do all of this. Okay. Thank you for being here, and we will certainly try to address those concerns. All right. I have a good time. I have a good time. I have a good time. I have a good time., Mr. Pai. You've got some reports for us on safety awards this year. Yes, good afternoon. Good evening, Marin and Council. I just want to let you know on April 19th, North Carolina Department of Labor had their safety awards for this part of Randolph County at least. And excuse me, we had actually six departments that won awards We had silver first-year award was won by the water stream of plan and then public Public works which would be operations the snow facility maintenance culture and wreck the SNAP SOTY main culture and rec, wastewater maintenance and environmental service one first year gold. And of course administrative one 22 years gold. So it was an accomplishment previously had been here and mentioned about our safety violations. So this was a good sign that we're on the right track. Mr. Mayor, you attended it. It was a very good event. I think as we keep on going, we're gonna progress and get better. So our goal is to have all departments there. Any questions for me? Thank you very much. I have to give you a great shake. your work. Thank you for coordinating all of our thank you. Thank you. Please check. You're going to hear us the annual report of the police department and counsel believe you all have a copy of that in front of you. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, Kansas Mayor. Hope everyone's had a great day. I think touch it. I'm going to add enough of it. The new I should have done in hand else. Technology don't like me. I hope everyone got a copy of the 2015 annual report of the Ashwood Police Department. Thank you. Bison, we're still to County State. We still around 25,000 people cover an area of 20 to 19 square miles. The police department right now currently has 74 sworn officers. I'll completely, so we've still got some vacate spots right now in eight full time and four part time or four part time or axi or school crossing goards. What I want to say on that is once I get a room to the next time, please. We answered 24,393 calls for service each year, which is actually, what about 26.4% being calls that required a report, which is actually up from last year on, was 1,500 calls. We had 1,733 arrests made in a reduction of 515 from 2014. One of the reasons for that is that we actually had a total of seven requirements in this past year, which equaled 169 years walking out the door, which hurts a little bit. So that's the reason that's actually down a little bit. Had average response time was five minutes, eight seconds, which was down 30 seconds. From 2014, we went down 30 seconds from 2014. Which I'm very proud of. We had 110 DWR rest. That's actually also down from. It's down 33.3%. We had 165 last year in 2014. We had 2759 traffic accidents or traffic crashes. 4,665 and 2015 we had citations and also that actually came down to 2,759 traffic citations. We and another reason for that is actually cause of reduction in force and vacancies. Next slide please. This is what I am most proud of. Our violent crimes are part one crime reports. If everybody take a look at our violent crimes decreased by 5.4.16%. I probably crimes decreased by 18.74% and in that crime decreased overall 18.117. I feel that one of the greatest reasons for this is not because that we've done a better job at anything, but we have educated our citizens. I pay a lot of this to our CRT group, and it's commending the neighborhood watches and told the neighborhoods we get a lot more people calling us now Just like Mr. Everhart said he calls when there's a problem And we encourage people to call and that has made a difference So I am very well pleased When you're when you're kind of shorthanded you have to improvise and do and come up with you have to think outside the box And our guys have done a great job at doing that. I'm very proud of them and I'm very proud of those statistics. Next slide please. Animal control. Our two guys have worked their rurions off this year. In 2015 they traveled 36,688 miles throughout the city. They answered or took 378irt reports during that year. They picked up 673 animals. Also along with those animals, they'd done 221 welfare checks. They also done seven civil citations and gave about 69 verbal warnings. And very proud of our department and how we've come along and just looking toward the future and continuing to improve any questions. Yes sir, would you give the council a little update on the school that these two guys are going through? Yes, our two animal crow guys are actually going to a class which actually specializes in animal cruelty and what to look for, what's the signs. They're not going to be doctors when they come back, but we've actually took care of that too. If we have a situation where a dog looks at me, my own nurse, and they have a question about it, we have a blue flint, we have actually one of the doctors who actually take a look at it, so that we're covered on that, but both these guys, we're getting a lot of training from them in this year. And this past year, because of just the nootis of the unit, they ain't get up at about 27 hours of training in that year. So we're looking for more of that this year. So a lot more training. A lot more training. A lot more training. A lot more training. A lot more training. A lot more training. A lot more training but the guys were doing a good job. Awesome job. But it just felt like they weren't quite training as well as they could be. Exactly. And I talked with both of them, both of them told them when they were with the county, they got very little training. Most of the training was on the job. I think we were worried about that. Yeah. Yeah. But those guys are very enthusiastic. They're more enthusiastic about dogs than we are about crumbles. And they are doing good job. They are. I could ask for two better employees. Yeah. Yeah. So they don't break with the public. Yes. And they care. They genuinely care. And that always makes the difference. People really like seeing them and talking to them. They like to say they do a great job at the community watch meetings. You know people are delighted to see the animals patrol. Matter of fact the night that you went up on the City of Fall of Road there, not City of Fall of the Old River Road, we come out of the church. He stayed with her for an hour and a half and she had a lot of questions and he stayed right there with her and he told me he told me the next day he's having a joint there. You know, he's supposed to already be at home, but he's sticking around and trying to edge that. He did a great job. Thank you. See if you did a good job. You got to do that. I think our force caught the bottom and it was good as everybody. Oh, yeah. And we've got things in the work we've got in 2015 we actually hired Marie. We've got Marie hired right now too just came out of fighting this past week Wesley and Tracy Bishop so they're all she of all bothers have nine of her grinning from here to here and have a good time. That was the other day they went through our interview and they went there. Excellent. excellent. My fact, Chip came out of... Tuesday and those story on Tracy and the West of the boat. So, you'll be seeing that in the paper. So, I'm very, very determined with what the... Just the mere quality of applicants that we get and the city of your glasses. For the council, those were the two that started with that new experimental program, the new program where they were employees, but we're able to go to school at the same time. Actually, seeing them through Billy T. And once they graduate in B.L.T. while we're doing their back then, we got them doing office stuff. So it was a pretty good fit. Their back are actually looking at another one coming up here pretty soon. The hope that it actually does meant a lot expollum. I'm going to graduate from expollum review and it's looking to be a reality. Thank you. Thank you. I'm talking to Herbert Horsche, the sharpest. She's a good girl. So looking forward to the future. Thank you. You do a good job, sir. Thank you. Water resources direct to the next floor. Water resources directed Michael Rohn. A is consideration of change order number one for the water treatment plant. Bill, the replacement. Mayor, members of the council, there are actually three items all tied to the filter replacement project at the water treatment plant. I would like to take just one very brief moment to kind of summarize the project and where we are. This project was originally bid in June of 2014. We received bids. They came in high re-rejected the bids. Opened up the specifications to allow more competition for the filter manufacturer companies. Received bids again July, I'm sorry May 7th or 2015 and we succeeded. We brought the price of the contract way down but so that was a great success but with that we opened up to a filter manufacturer and we've taken some time to actually have to get to the point where we're ready to proceed with construction. It took a long time to get there. Some medals approved, struggles with them being able to meet the specifications with their submittals and we had to work through a lot of problems there. But we are to the point where we're starting to see some progress and moving forward with the project now. With that being said, we awarded the contract in July of 2015 and gave an offer from DWI to fund the project in August 1st of 2015. So that's when we're really ready to begin the project. With that change order one is a request for $173,220.65. That's a summary of all the items we have on the agenda tonight. If you take note that the approval from DWI is for $2,082,070, that was an original budget figure that we had when we were working with the engineer. And of course the original contract price was not at least 2000. So that's how much we had value engineered the project down before we took bids. With that, this is a picture of the filter room for filters 3 and 4 in the North plant. This is the 1950 edition if I'm not mistaken. Those are metal walls and the paint's peeling off of them. We do have lead-based paint in there. Those curbs are part of the filters. The paint's chipping off into the curbs. Those filters are in pretty bad shape. So it originally should have been in the contract price but in the value engineering we took it out. The, this change order is to take those filter media out, tear everything out on the filter washes before we replace the filters, we're going to inspect the filters, repair any back concrete areas, and then coat the structures to ensure that we have a long lasting filter. Keep in mind that the original filters were from 1939 and then we had additions in the 50s and then the four on the South Plant or we're added in 1986. Even those filters are 30 years old so we're probably going to see some decay in there as well. So this request is to do the work, to take that down, inspect it, and repair the filter areas as we need to. I'd be glad to answer any questions regarding change order number one. Take the agenda very quick. I can do it either way you want. Mr. Mayor, if you don't mind, it would be best to deal with them one at a time and get a motion on each. Okay. So you go. Oh, you're recommending. I'm recommending we do. I do recommend we accept this change order. It's an increase, like I said, $173,225. It extends the contract time 156 days. There is a lot of time in being tearing down, inspecting concrete repairs, going to take time and then the coating takes time. So a lot of time evolved. Council, do we have a motion to approve this request? Mayor, I move the extension of time and the order number one for the painting. I have a motion by Mr. Bell to approve change order number one. Okay. No, have a second. Second, Mr. Carter, any discussion? On paper say aye. All opposed, motion carried. Mr. Rowling, this is a pretty interesting picture you have up on the screen. When this is all done, would you give us a before and after? I'll be right there. The same room, right? Yes. Same room. So that'll be how it works. New filter is totally different. New filter watch process is all different. So. Okay. Okay. Change order number two. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. New filter is totally different. Filter wash process is all different. Okay. Change order number two. Simple change order to request an alternator on the, there's two blowers involved in the new filter wash system. To better enhance the system, you need an alternator that switches back and forth between the blowers at the blower panel Rather than have an operator at each panel at each filter switching or trying to determine which filter which blower they're supposed to run So we requested that it wound up requiring a whole new control panel Which increased it increased the size of the control panel and several other costs. We had some reductions in a wiring that didn't need to go to each filter panel, but those reductions are included in this change order request. What this does is removes the risk for the operators having an air when they're operating the filter wash system. We don't blow air against close valves and this fixes all this problems. So those are the main concerns with change order number two. I'll be glad to answer any questions regarding that. $14,000. Yes, thank you. It is $14,000. $66,000 and $76,000. Yes. Hamilton. Mr. Mayor, I make a recommendation that we do the change order to number two water treatment plant, filter replacement project, $12,266. Okay. $12,266. Okay, another motion to adopt change order 2. It's $76,000. Yeah, it was in the video. I should have read it in the comments. Check it. Okay, I'm Mr. Berks. Discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item C. Okay, and that change order did include 145 daytime extension. Same thing. There's work. The new control panel is going to take a while to be delivered. It's going to be in the end of July until it's delivered to the site. This project was really scheduled to be completed two weeks ago. The contractor started work last week so we're starting to see some feet on the ground, the equipment's arriving, we've been receiving materials for a few weeks. They're going to start construction next week for sure we're going to see some concrete board. I'm excited. With that, the extension for this project goes through February 10th of 2017. That's how long it's taken to get the submittal process done and get all the equipment in. And the time to do the, particularly the rehab of the filters with the painting, is the longest extension of time requirement. With that, the engineering services have increased. There's been a lot of time that they've had to put in in coordinating with the contractor and the filter manufacturer to approve those submittals. And what we have is an a third amendment to amend their contract with the WING company for $39,000 to complete their work for the project. I will be glad to to amend professional services contract with amendment three for $39,400 change order. Anybody? Mayor, I move we approve the $39 $400 expenditure for engineering services for construction and construction. I have a motion by Mr. Bell to have a second. Second. Sorry. Sorry. Mr. Swearer. Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. All in favor say aye. All opposed Thank you. Thank you sir Same like all of our contracts by two or three years have been Mac breakers Literally How much of it only cover we should be to the post list now Digestric code We should be too postless now. Digestor, COVID. Yeah, down to the postless. Okay, good. Mayor, just for mind the council, we'll talk about this two or three weeks, but James Mooglet council is typically this would all be done with the big Citywide law campaign like in 86 or 95. And we've been increasing our capacity because we have to man on our system and we have a system built to support a textile industry which is not existing now. So that's why we're doing all this piece of me to do a project here and a project there of days are probably over the way we used to do it. And then on top of all that, our large water customers are more efficient than they ever mean. They don't waste water like this. It's a pass set now. I like to like dye or yarn or whatever. Thank you. I am Tim, Mr. Leonard is going to give us annual report from the airport authority. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Councilor, you have in your packets the annual report for the airport authority. I'm just going to hit briefly on a few things that the airport authority completed over the past year. Health regular quarterly meetings on July, October, January, and April. Special meetings with the City Council in August 20th, as well as a special meeting with the Randolph County Commissioners and the City Council on October 22nd at 2015. That was discussed, the proposed new terminal building design. We also reviewed and discussed quarterly safety committee reports. Reviewed and discussed status of the FBO operations maintenance anger and rentals, reviewed and discussed the status of museum operations and activities. Discussed the possible marketing strategies for the Asperger Regional Airport, reviewed and discussed the status of the apron rehabilitation project, which uses the non-primary entitlement funding. Monitor the progress of the existing terminal building renovation, monitor the progress of the new terminal building design, and reviewed and discussed annual transportation improvements, tip request. You'll notice in your packet on page seven, there's a layout showing the proposed design for the existing terminal building. I would like to say that it is coming along real well. They've got the tile and the restrooms. The area for the pallets lounge is complete with the exception of flooring. The restroom is complete for that as well with the exception of fixtures. The kitchen area has been framed in and the anticipate probably in the next few weeks completion of that as well. Specific actions, recommendations, they recommended the city, the airport authority recommended to the city council to proceed with the new proposed, proposed new terminal building design and recommended to the city council renewal the FBO lease with cardinal air if you'll remember in December we renewed that lease. We also, let's see, I believe that's it. Another update that I'll hit on that was in on the first page I showed you was for the Rampbury Head project. That was actually set to bid this past Tuesday. However, we'll receive two bids, so it has been re-advertised for next Thursday at 2 p.m. Hopefully something will come of that. That's the April and Rehab project which we receive 590,000 from the Division of Aviation. Set aside beyond our normal non-primary entitlement funding. And I'm open to any questions if you have anything. Once you rebedit, if you only get two, you're able to go forward. That's right. Yeah, yes sir. All right. Good. We're there within the allowable. If there, yeah, if there within the. Any questions. I would like to hit on one other thing. There's also a page 910 that shows the economic impact from the airport. This is done by the state every year and you'll notice the direct impact is 6 million and 60,000. The indirect is 3 million, 280,000 economic impact from the airport. Thank you. You're a good guy. You're a good guy. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and Councillor. I want to speak tonight about an opportunity, I think, out at the airport. There's about close to 500 acres of land a city has out at the airport. I've identified about 125, 126 acres there that have some potential for timber harvest. It's in basically three different blocks. There's a block, Jason Tott, he'll farm road. It's about 49 acres. There's a map of the end of that. We did. If you will advance the slide, they may not be in the order that he's speaking about. OK. But we can get an idea of what we're talking about. That's right. Thank you. Like I said, there's three different areas. There's one on adjacent to Tott Hill Farm Road. It's about 49 acres. There's another area that is adjacent to Tott Hill Farm Road and Pylates View Road. It's about 23 acres. That's the one on my left. And then there's another area that lies just adjacent to the runway proper and also extends out to Highway 49. That area is about 54 acres. So the total, total of those is 126 acres. I have made just We get two of the three Okay, okay The other one is out to 49 the other one is a lot of it is a kind of a north-south shed Blot it like just adjacent to the runway. I'm sorry. You put a model in this picture to tell what you're at. I've made just some cursory inspections of those tracks. I think that the timber out there is each block is fairly similar. The majority of the properties hardwood, some salt timber, pallet wood, pulp wood, size material. There's a little bit of pine on these blocks, but not a tremendous percentage of the total volume. Most of these areas are mature. I don't know that they will appreciate a tremendous amount. Some of the areas adjacent to the top hill farm to 498 are blocked. Also has chestnut oak, which is its value one has. This can be sold, but it's not the kind of tree that you would aspire to grow necessarily. It's a little bit of an inferior species. So from a forestry standpoint, this property is kind of done what it's going to do as far as growth is concerned. I think there's an opportunity to have a sale on some of this timber if the council chooses. I think it would be well received right now from the buyers. The hardwood especially is doing very well. So I just think it would be a good time to give it some consideration. I think timing wise in looking to the future, or a fourth out, if we were to harvest it in the near future have have sailed and what sort of timeframe link contract with that one on that one you had in Tispec. Am I actually? Well if you recall the project I handled before for a city there's a the temporary is put out for beds and you I take beds there's a minimum value that's provided to the council that it's, the timber should be worth, and providing the bids are achieved at, then the contract is awarded to the high bidder. They're usually granted 24 months to cut the timber. The city would receive all the money up front at closing before any timber is cut. So the buyer may cut it at timber at month one, at month five, at month 20, but the city would have all the money at closing. But 24 months would be typical for something of this size and scope of this project would be pretty standard. I've bring that up in anticipation that we've been pretty successful in our initial fundraising for our terminal building. And Congresswoman Walker has expressed, you know, at least, willingness to listen. Big cooperative would, you know, say, we could do the help of federal funding. And it would be good, I think, to take off to tend you this time and get the temper cut and get on with a reinforced station plan so that when we get to our terminal, we'll have some greener in. It'll be coming back up and by the time we get our plans and our money build it back, we won't be having a brand new building and a burning field. In a couple of three years, it's's pretty green again start looking pretty nice so I think that time it could be good for overall plans and appearance. Also you know assuming the council sees fit to reforest this track it's cut then of course that would be timber that would be growing for the future of the... I would favor pays and cuttings in future. That's an absence of that funding. I suppose planting would be an alternative. I can't imagine why you want to pay. Well, it helps control the erosion. You don't have a lot of runoff once you do that. How many houses does this rot or come behind bond that would be directly affected by this? The block on 49, it's an east-west block about 49 acres. There's a few houses. There's one or two to the north and also a few to the south. The western block, the land that lies to the west of the airport is also my client and his land has been managed for forestry. So his house is many feet further to the west so that he would not, unless he made a point to walk over to the property line, he wouldn't really see it. And then of course the block that's at Pallix View and top of the informant's fairly visible, it's that people would see that pretty easily. But as Councilwoman Mott said, if we can plant this back, in just a few years, the trees will be growing again, which is kind of the goal. So I think that the council's interest in there, we could get a contract from Mr. Tuggle and to counsel to approve it, and he could give us some management plan for this acreage. And then we could also look if we had, we may be even want to leave a buffer on one or two of these pieces, the buffer from our neighbors. We've been good neighbors out there. We were the first out there, but you know, it's been neighborhood development since. So, looks like we want to be good neighbors. All right, so you're a request and I are a proposal as to asking us for permission to go ahead and cruise the timber and give us a management plan, which would be your recommendations for harvest or not or reflanding and this careers thing. So, I'm working with the previous truck now, back home which is a buffer or whatever recommendation is. Right. Okay. And Mayor Prokhan Muffet's protest session was standing, I think, that she'd also include the reform station. Yeah, we have a lot of current plans. Three billion. You've been on the front row, and I wish that there's a couple of folks. Okay. Not quite. I wish it would be good. I did grow that face. I wouldn't be. What? It's been three years. Yeah. Yeah, we were on a that face I would be what it's been three years There's plenty out there 10 feet tall. Yeah, that's pretty good Three feet a year is pretty good growth. Yeah Okay Council What sort of motion is required to? I'll ask you. I'll ask if you object to this, but my initial recommendation subject, if you have any disagreement, certainly the council members feeling, it's just if the council is interested in proceeding to authorize the city manager to enter into an agreement with a consulting forester to prepare a proposal as far as a specific plan, both for as far as potential harvest and reforestation, and to bring that back to the council for final approval of the type of sale or sales to be authorized. If that's agreeable with you and makes sense to everybody. Is there a consensus or a motion here? That would be a motion that we would need. Motion to give the manager authority to execute agreement with the consultant. To consult with the forestry consultant. To the local plain. I have already given to John. I'll leave it to you. All right. We have a motion, Mr. Muffin. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Muffin. Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Birx. All right. Good morning. In the discussion. Further questions? All the favour say aye. Aye. All these motion carries. Thank you sir. We look forward to the wonderful report telling us that we're going to make tons of money. My pleasure. It made it a little easier to harvest more than that last job. Yes. It's going to be a report for the title. That's that title. It's going to be a prior street. Yeah. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's our ability to decide a regional purchase for a new station. All right, Mayor, thank you. Chief and I will be brief. We just nice to see Chief right back here. But I've been thinking back to you in the family. And excellent command team. We're able to fill in for you. One of our assistant chiefs, Eddie Cochran, sure too, just for the record. Mayor, we'll be brief. The, nothing tells the story to an old infantry officer like a map, so we'll just make you some. This is our current city limits. You'll see we've got all different, uh, probably the most unusual shape of any city in North Carolina. It, uh, it would look like a city in Florida or Southern California or Arizona. It does not look like a colonial era town which we are. That brings up the first dilemma as you notice is we're not square or we're not round. I said it if you think about North Dashburn you see that 500 or 600 feet there in the middle and then the sun looks like a snowman or an hourglass. What you see down on the bottom right, you see the trailer park and down across from the zoo and then down on the left hand or the southwest corner, you see Tateo Farm in the airport. Now, here's our two service areas. The purple border is the service area of Fire Station 1. That's 2.5 miles. And the Green Area in North Ashbur is Fire Station 2. So you see the substantial amount of towns covered with those two stations. Now the southeast corner and the southwest corner are covered by additional contracts the southeast corner and the southwest corner are covered by additional contracts with southeast corner is east side and the southwest corner is west side and the part across from the zoo is cigarette viola. Yeah, it's a Ulus. So you see that the vast majority of towns covered by those two service areas and we do work in tandem with each other. Now this is the service area of number three, which is our current site. Now I want to try to move the cursor here a moment and show you that this is the city limits line and this is where we intended to grow. That's why they're about the purchase and that overlap too. The issues become with the changes in public policy like we talked about last time. The changes in the annexation law and changes as a polite term like you just can't anymore. You'll notice we're getting like one annexation at a time now. Now since we put our policy in that you've got to have water and sewer you can't have water and so without being annexed you know that about every other month we have an annexation is usually a single family home or or something. And then you also notice that the Southern Loop is coming in this way. Here's the airport runway. It's coming in here and down and around. So that changes our whole scenario. Now, Chief Wright can tell you about running the squad truck. We're going to show you some quick call areas here. These are our fire incidents. Now we've had 577 fires from January 1, 2010 to last week. So that's about a fire a month. That's everything from us. So help me out here, is everything left for us? Yes, that's from the real good coach of the day. You've studied kitchen fires. Which is clearly not our college mate. These are real fires. Yeah, these are some size. Unfortunately, your fire department gets to a one of their at that level. Well, that is. Most of them don't exceed the basic engine response. So you know we talked about last time we added the squad truck now look now look and we talked about running the squad truck and we're running the pickup and y'all for y'all to look for it with the had the rescue crew and the AD and the first aid kit and all our officer firefighters, and EMT2 and all that. This is the number of medical calls in that same period at times. Four thousand, ninety six calls. Now that maybe somebody's broken arm, it could be a hearted, a massive heart attack. You see what good long time. Now that picture tells the story while we added the squad truck. And further on, this picture tells the story too of the traffic wrecks. Now, if we 800 and 1, the fire department responded to that. That's not how many the police went to. These are the ones, this is not the bump up in the parking lot or this is crack metal and people hurt. Now, this becomes obvious too if you look right up, available street, east and on 64, and then in the Correa Town. Now that lines up with the 4000 tickets, police chief Williams just mentioned. They're all They got to eat too. Right. So all these changes in our operational changes kind of negates the need for that third station, especially when they had the fire inspector, Vernon Mordkain from the Department of Insurance and he kind of said if his up to him he wouldn't put it there. He wouldn't make that investment. He would save it for the Southern Loop. Now since then we've had lots of interest I think that's the end of the show. Yeah. We've had lots of interest in that area. Again I just want to demonstrate. Now if you ask the public would they think the fire department had made that many calls? Again, I'll just show you. It's amazing. It's really unfathomable. Now, I've got to thank Curtis Shorthard, GISGPS technician, these are fantastic maps. So Mayor, we think this demonstrates that we really don't need for the third station right now that it may be better be positioned down zoo parkway, especially if we get the zoo city park bill because you know some of these, a lot of these accidents are in parks and then especially if the zoo takes off. So we got the 25 million, you know, in this bond issue that will be for rehab, but we expect that to come right behind it. So I think in your packet, I'm turning it over to Jeff now. Was there not in their packet a resolution to begin the process? That's correct. You wanna add to that? The resolution that you have in front of you does multiple things. It wanted to clarify property to be surplus. Two, it states that the City Council is going to adopt the negotiated offer, uh, advertisement and upset the process in order to dispose of the property. It authorizes, since there is not currently an offer on the table, it authorizes the city manager and any other necessary city official to take the measures necessary to secure that initial offer, a negotiated offer. I'll mention with that, in your voters and also electronically, you got a sample consultant agreement. The consulting agreement is one where Mr. Ogburn has had discussions with HR Gallimor who's experienced with commercial real estate here in Asheville. And within that agreement, if you go forward with the process tonight, the idea is that yes, the city can advertise with agreement hinges payment on getting a timely offer end so this process moves along to the point that in order to be paid, an initial offer has to be obtained by 5 PM on May 20 to start the process. It has to close no later than August 31, meeting the cities of minimum price, and I'll go back to the resolution. The resolution authorizes all that to be undertaken. It sets the minimum price at $207,000, $201,000, what was initially paid for the property. The resolution states it up to $6,000 can be paid to a consultant. Therefore, you get it $207,000 for the minimum. The resolution then authorizes that if that is received, it also sets up terms of sale which I can summarize quickly as as is No warranties of any type for the property only a non-want to be used to convey the property at closing That if you comply with those conditions you come in and you make an offer you also have to give a 5% deposit When you come in it has to be given to the city clerk. At 200,000, that'd be a deposit of $10,350. A legal ad would then be run. When that's run, the ad would give people 10 days, 10 calendar days to upset that bid. Under the general statutes, the calculation is that you have to, if you want to have a qualifying upset bid, it has to be increased by 10% of the first $1,000, 5% of the balance. So therefore, if you wanted to have a qualifying bid, if you start out at $207,000, the next upset bid would have to be $217,400. The city would continue that process. If someone were to come in and upset it, it would keep on until we go for a 10-day period where no one upsets the bid, then it comes back to the Council for Final approval. The resolution lays all that out. That's in front of you. The resolution also states that once the EF and offer is received, the city clerk runs the ad, no upset bid is received, you by adopting this resolution have accepted that offer, the initial offer, and we'll move forward with the closing from there. So all those actions will be taken care of if you are in agreement and want that course of action to be pursued by adopting by reference the resolution is in front of you, and I'll be happy to answer any questions. Now Mayor, subsequent to the original Arlton, the paper, we have another perspective bitters. So we already have at least two people in the development arena interested in it. So we may have the same situation we had in Wamen Avenue where I know buildings put back to use and this would be a big put back to use. Good, right, right. Well, I mean, rarely do we get to use. Good, right? Right. Well, I mean, rarely do we get to time. I mean, the public policy changed. We made operational improvements and we have interest in what may be declared a not needed asset right now at surplus assets. I want to talk about it. It's not recognized or current environment in a situation and not react to it. We think that would fill the council into public by doing that. All right. We can take part one and part two with one motion. You can take care of all of it. It was just by adopting the resolution. It takes care of everything. Thank you. You if that's what you're doing. I have a motion to adopt the resolution by reference. Here, I move we adopt the resolution by reference. Thank you mr. Birx. Do I have a second? Second mr. Bell discussion All the favor say I All opposed Thank you most you cares. I can't say enough about the job Chief right in his command team and right on down to our newest firefighter one, doing down there. Again, you don't think about them too much to you need them, and then usually you need them quick and professional. And these maps just tell the whole story. A lot of people on the map need them. Yeah. More than you think. I mean, we joke about they come by here because it's the council meeting over there. If you do the map, that's it. You do the math, that's about a fire is one fire every three days and that's what they make. They make it on a 24 hour shift they'll run eight to 10 calls. Those three graphics for, I mean, they just, it tells the story. It does. Without seeing that, it's hard to comprehend. Yep. So thank you for the presentation. Chief Wright, our condolences have been with you, and sorry you had to undergo what you family situation that you had to endure. We've been praying for you and appreciate your hard work. Thank you for the support. appreciate your hard work. Thank you for the support. Okay, item 13, Ms. Reeves, you have a resolution authorizing the city to do installment financing agreement with the VBNP. Thank you, Mayor. In the 1516 budget, the City Council approved the purchase of a variety of capital equipment rolling stock vehicles. And they also approved for this to be paid for by loan proceeds. And in September, they gave us the, you guys passed a resolution authorizing us to go ahead and purchase the vehicles and the equipment as we could get contracts out. And with the intent that we would finance at the end of the year before the end of the equipment as we could get contracts out and with the intent that we would finance at the end of the year before the end of the fiscal year. The time has come for us to do that financing. I did do request financing proposals from a variety of financial institutions and financing companies that asked to be considered on the bid list. BB&T presented the lowest bid that was most favorable to the city of Ashboro. Those were reviewed by the city manager and he approved us to go ahead and have some documents drafted for presentation to the City Council. The resolution before you would need to be adopted approving the financing bids. It is 920,000. The interest rate is not to exceed 1.69%. 650,000 of this is two fire vehicles that have been presented to you guys before and talked with you about. And then the rest is rolling stock for some of our operational departments in the general fund. I recommend approval by reference. Any questions or misraves? Mr. Alderman, do you have something to add? Mr. Mayor. I'll make a motion that we approve this by our reference? I have a motion to approve by reference by Ms. Carter. Do I have a second? Second. Make a motion for swears. Any discussion? Questions? Okay, big that interest rate. We ask the Department have been brought to quality that they have in New ZERO. Mortgage is they don't. And we have SBB and T. They have in the 1 new zero mortgages, they don't, and we as BB and T, they have any 1.69 mortgages, they don't. So I guess the city is a pretty good credit risk. I don't pay, but I have percent from that. Ultimately, that's going to be a problem. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion to carry. Thank you. Yes. Item 14. Mr. Luck, don't give us his winning proposal. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. No pressure. No, we're going to go out there and bring home the bacon. Yeah. That's the goal. So good evening. Last month when we spoke, we went over a list of items, small list of items that would be, we would be undertaking as a week prepare for our trip to Denver and the All-America City Award conference. So I just want to give you an update on some of those items tonight. The first of that is the delegation. We're happy to report that we have minus the parent guardian or two. We have finalized our delegation. Our initial estimate of 20 people was pretty much right on the money. That's, we'll have 20 individuals roughly going to Denver of that 26 will be young adults or youth. One is a recent graduate of Ashborough High School that currently works at the YMCA and is a student at a Belief East Carolina University to our current Ashborough High School students that participate in the second chance for this program. To our brother and sister, the sister is in fifth grade at Balfour Elementary and is participating in the backpack pal program as is her brother who is in fourth grade. And we also will have a young lady who is participating in the pre-K program at the growing place, who is five years old, they'll be going with us and her family. So we're happy with the mix of ages for the delegation and we're also happy with the diversity. Our delegation does match our demographic profile so we're happy about that and we're hoping the judges look strongly upon that. The next item is our presentation. Thanks to the hard work of Bob Langston at the North Carolina Zoo and Elizabeth Mitchell with the United Way. We do have a first draft of our presentation done. I don't wanna give away too many details yet, but I will say the goals with this presentation this year is to make it a little more simpler, make it a little easier to learn, easier to rehearse, and a little easier to execute. So while pretty much everybody of the delegation will be involved with the presentation, there will be less speaking parts and possibly less people on the stage. This year's presentation will be designed to communicate the success of the three purpose programs, particularly in terms of data, numbers in data. As far as preparing for it, we will schedule several private rehearsals, well not as a several, but at least one or two, and also look at similar to last year having a public rehearsal. I think that went very well, so we'll look at doing that at the Sunset Theater again this year. The next item is fundraising. We're happy with the progress we're making so far. Our goal this year is to raise around $25,000 to help fund this trip. And we're confident we can reach that. And in reaching that, a lot of the things goes to Manager Augburn. He's that a lot of the things goes to Manager Augburn has put a lot of hard work mayor Smith and other individuals of our fundraising group have reached out to several businesses several individuals and also other organizations in town to go on our sponsorships for the delegation. Lastly is the logistics of registration, travel arrangements. Next week is the week to register everyone for the conference. It's also the week to submit our initial rooming list. So we'll be doing those things next week. Shortly after that, we'll be looking at flights. So within the next two weeks, hopefully we have all the logistics of getting everyone registered, getting the flight and getting all the rooms squared away. So, it's a lot of moving parts, but it is coming together very well. I'll be happy to answer any questions you guys have. No spaking part for the minor. Oh, I'll see that. You and John can make a bad ol' about that. I'm here to struggle with this spikin part. He told you he was going to go to plan the win. I'm pleased with no spikin part. I struggled with that last year for some reason. I'm a pressure. Just and thank you, good work. We're excited about our opportunity here. The sub-jil, the water tank came up the other night in a meeting and John said, we have a plan for the water tank. You know, my child America said you got these in the summer. That's something. That'll would be special wouldn't it? Yep. Okay. John, you're going to give us an update on your... Just quickly, Mayor. Next week, we begin our... I'll chain this to our sanitation schedule now. Just reminds you that we merged street department and environmental services. Call it public services now. That's actually going really well. Monday, May 9 will be, or usual Monday route, Tuesday, May 10 will be usually Tuesday route. Thursday, the 11th will be recycling all across town. You will see there you. Now if you roll your can out and they always come, they always come at 10-15. They might not be 10-15 this time because we're going to 10-hour days. Might be a little earlier or a little later or they may be in the afternoon. And then the recycling. Now we know that people are going to put out Friday for a couple of weeks and people are going to call us because they think we've missed their can or we haven't caught there. Bear, we'll just bear with that. We'll get to it. We think this is be much more efficient. We sent about 3,900 cards to the affected. That's what the card looked like, each property owner, so it would have had John Ogburn at 537 Shannon Road if I was affected on the card. We also run a total of six ads in the Currier Tribune, that's the ad. It's in our meter-reader newsletter and It's probably on our website and channel eight So we've done about all we can except start picking up So if people ask you what happened or whatever just so you know ahead of time West Side would be Charlie. East, East, East. You're East to, you're East to, I think. Well, he didn't, it's not that we drew lots of Charlie and you were the short. I'm going to tell the story about when we went to the one arm bandit garbage cans in 1990, I worked here and they could not decide who was going to get the one arm cannon who had to keep their galvanized cans. So they drew lots, they actually had a hat in the council meeting. Mayor Trogden drew the lot out and he drew his own route. I think Mayor Trogden, God bless him, he never lived that down. There are people still talking about that today. How did that happen? And it wasn't that well all the same number was in the hat, like on Andy Griffith. It was a- Yeah, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that was, that contract's to be awarded. So you'll see construction out that way, starting probably any day now. Terri's plumber, I'm sure got it, didn't he? Yeah. So, you know, he moves quick. So they'll be out there soon. So, and it was on all the Facebook and Twitter and all that. That's just, so just, we'll let you know how it goes here in a couple of months. All right. Great. You had a clip together package of stuff here of extraneous 10L. Monday, Monday 9 to 1030. Well, actually, it has actually at the zoo there, having the new Ocelot exhibit turned open and they're all invited. You need to RSVP for that if you're going. I'm sure I've come to the Statement Building for the National Code. I know that, yeah. I'm chasing from the Statement Building. There's a lot of zoo information in here. and then we go to that. Yeah, Jason from the state of London. There's a lot of zoo information here. No, it's just a cleanser down. We made the cover in the Tar Hill pipeline. Yes, that's right. All right, that's just the zoo flyer, I think, with just a gift from the zoo. We have a do you statewide training class at the water? Okay. Also in your packet, it was the time Sunday, May the 15th. We can half away is the start of the evenings in the park. Your guys are all invited a Saturday to Carol Lons, that just why that's in there. Jazz and Tulips on the terrace. And that is a fundraiser for. As a fundraiser in that is Saturday made a 14 to four. fundraiser for Hutt is not Carol Lons. Friends of the library? Friends of the library. Okay. And so they'll have me. First plan is next Sunday. Right. In this, this is Tariel Pipeline. This is the magazine of North Town Rural Water Association. We're now hosting the site with our new sites of their backlog prevention program and you'll see the ash boroughs commonly featured in the Andrew Connor, Shannon White. That brings people to town from statewide. From statewide. And then NC Currents, the other magazine particle of was sent for this North Carolina Association of wastewater water and the plant spotlight is on our plant So we continue to garner state and national attention in our facilities Which is pretty remarkable if you think about the picture Michael showed when it's 1938 and 1968 Also mayor It's pretty remarkable if you think about the picture of Michael Schoes on his 1938 and 1968. Also Mayor here in the play. Yeah, is the comedy show, the Pre-Mother Day comedy show, is Saturday, May 7th. It's on set theater. Beginners at three last year to show with hilarious, right, mate? Good show. It was a good show. It was a good show. Very entertaining. Also, Saturday is the May Day in the East Side Park and the Comic Con is downtown. North Street will be closed. And Saturday we need to attend joint meeting with the Board of Commissioners and the Strategic Planning Steering Committee at 6 o'clock at AVS. This will be the final product of strategic plan we'll be presenting to both governing bodies. We need good support here because so much of this strategic plan is going to take us for Paris, whether next 20 years or 10 years will be handed to the commissioners and going to take some real effort to but a lot of work going into that. And so we should be there to support that. And I'll be out of town this weekend, Mayor Claire Ogburn, with the 2016 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I heard from those who said, so I got the closest I could on to Tar Hill. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more careful here. I'm a little bit more That's pretty cool. Very. No, but accomplish young ladies. No, she can't. She told me what she was going to make. Being a day out of quickly did the math and decided she made enough to live there. Well, she's going to have to make any money, but she'll be able to. Subsist. Yeah, the $8 cup of coffee she's going to have to make her own. No, it's not in the truck tower yet. All right. One other thing that you did not get a handout on and I'd like to personally encourage you to put on your calendar. Wednesday the 11th at 5 o'clock, the low sploves at on the extra drive is having their new grand opening. They spent about $2 million on that store. They're going to have a ribbon cutting in the grand opening at five o'clock on the 11th. And I think it would be nice and light of their investment here and their plans for that store. And what they're expecting out of the store that we'd be there to support their effort and their improvement of that store. It was a significant investment. I've been told as much as $2 million. So it has changed the whole store. And those of us that shop there know that because pink finding. You ever been to the Bob and Bob break. Bob and Bob and Bob. That's a plan at this point. They will be 99% finished. The weather has held them up on the parking lot. But they were expecting to redo the whole parking lot then behind on that. But they're going to have their ribbon cutting and grand opening that Wednesday the 11th set right Okay, I would hope that we could hold me there Now my whole day is June 5th coming up So I wish the June 5th and 30 June 9th. So I'm just going to go. Well, no. I got a ton of things. Yeah, I think it is. I know it is. When is he safe? Yeah. Well, that looks like an eight if you do this. We'll get to doing it for the first it. That's one of the ways. We have some June 8th. Town Hall Day and we have Councilman here tonight. Budget workshop only 24th at 530. Where will that be? We may do that mayor up at Public Works so we can spread out a little bit. All right, May 24th. That's this month before and then again. May it be month? We'll do it. 24. That's this month before and maybe again. All right. So is the public or all right, Jane, we'll start with you again. I will say I'm getting my feet wet in in city business now. So I'm getting a little bit more comfortable as I'm spending more and more time and I will say I'm continue to be Impressed by the staff then and the work in the in the extensive they go above and beyond what's what's called for you Trevor going out with Mr. Rebahart go Check for his spending two plus hours with that, checking the sidewalks and the city. I also attended a luncheon today that had to be moved to the hangar actually, the museum. And so David was there with his staff and just delighted the ladies who were so impressed with how that could have been made. So seamlessly it was supposed to be somewhere else at nine o'clock in the morning and by 1130 it was set up at the museum. It's just a, it gives me a great pride to be a citizen in Ashford. Mr. Katie? That's Katie I have to say I want to thank the council for There are calls their cards and their visits doing my Welcome, we're glad you're doing welcome. There's more than I can never had that Mr. Berks. Outstanding Mayor's Prayer Breakfast this morning, a great speaker, and it was all the speakers were good. The music was just outstanding. That family that signed today, that was just tremendous. If you weren't there, you really missed out on something. And I'll put it on plug. Then do a Christmas show every year at their church. You need to go to that. That was really good. And our featured speaker even gave me a ride out to my truck because it was raining so hard and he liked this town so much. And his wife said they'd buy a mood for you. So they're... Well, I doubt they were serious. Did you ever know that? I mean, she talked to me quite a bit about it. I didn't know what that was for a nice time. And they were greatly impressed with our little town. It was a good town. It's a good town. Mr. Martin? Well, he claimed to be an actual head of his household and then charged so I only knew to live here, show me how it's done. But anyway, on the sidewalk matter, Randy was, you know, a powerful, illustrated, you know, an actor. You know, we do need to run intended ramp that program up one way or another. There's been a tremendous increase in the highway funding. 80's been helping me out on meeting her to an RPO and been getting involved in that. That's a good place to start with scoring. We are hosting the RPO. When do we tell them what he's doing? It's here in a way. Yeah. We have public works up there. And if John and Gid, Joe, give us all that information. Everybody, if you're available, it's just for an hour and a half or so. You know, to come see how the scoring works. And how to have input into it. Because that this would be a local level project unless it gets federal funding from ADA. But we need, we've got to come up with a way to ramp that up. If you go run with the run for God people or anything like that, you might, you get to really inventory these things. And they have, they're just like the roof of the digester. They have made dirt like cycle. We got a good perspective from Randy because you know we're out walking him which is not the same thing as wheelchair and he's in that power chair and so having a lot of experience with that he got stuck so that gave us the insight on what to look for. He goes from Elm Street to five points to get his haircut in that little power chair. Just give you a state bid at his number is $145 for retrofit for a wheelchair. That adds up quick between his house and five points. But it is what it is. I think we'll prioritize my figure now. We'll walk his roots now too, so we know where. I know what to look for. And nothing but the view of the fires of the place like getting the sidewalks next to what a thing tied you up. Well, over the last few years, we've done a lot of cyber-only hire placement, but we've got a long way to go. And he's exactly right. I'm not saying otherwise. Thanks, everybody, for being at the prayer breakfast this morning. It was a nice event. I don't kind of own Jane's thing thought. And I say it all the time when I'm out. I truly appreciate our city employees and what they do. I can't remember somebody ever saying no, we can't do that. Maybe it happens and I hadn't heard about it, but what I do here is if we can't do it, we usually give them another option or do you know or something else to think about and you know being in sales and marketing even though part of it wasn't banking to be able to tell a customer well this won't work but this wheel giving them another option and our city is very good at doing that. And I just appreciate all of you. Because I just don't know how you're staying. I'm going to stay up all night, reading the market through stuff, you know. Each person has their, what I call a Bayley Wic. And I think we've got the top notch Bayley Wic people in charge. Good team. But it also goes to the leadership. Here's the top. Clark. Get in. Charlie. Just mind thereby about the farmers market. I think it is a very vital and important social event and an economic event for the growers and the sellers there. And I think my concern is that it will tend to dwindle and you know start in some loss of sellers, and I don't wanna see that. It's too vital of venue for our downtown AFR. We are having a much longer season this year because Mark's was real warm. Hard to believe now, it's 48 degrees tonight or something. Yeah. All right. The front graph at the fire station over is one is in two, and we got a good test to see today if water stood in. It didn't. It went to the good job. It's up and it's going to be nice when we get through. I think we're getting our two new trucks. One will be here in the next three weeks or so and then the new one will be in July. So we want a pretty good shake in the fire. Okay. Anybody else? May I say something? You certainly may. If I don't start crying, I am so proud of my chief of police. But I am so proud of my chief of police. He was at my church last Thursday and there wasn't a dry eye in the church when he finished. And then on Friday, a bunch of the ladies in their fellowship hall how I was talking about him. And it was about 10 of us, and then from 10 to 15 of us. And everybody in their store crying again. I mean, we just had a crying good time. This is a wonderful man. And I was presiding elder, asked us for it, and we find him. And was he a local person, he was from Ashwara. And he said, well I want you to tell you one thing, I want you all to keep him. He said you tell the city manager and the city council to keep that chief of police. Don't let him go in in place. Anyway, he was just wonderful. That's all I had. It was just wonderful. It was. I was there. He had that church rocket. And crying. And crying. Still crying Friday. So chief, when you bring a grown woman to tears, it ended all that way. I have been a fix sometimes. Yeah, chief, you did a good job. I just went home and did it. Anytime they ask me come I just say long time not behind the chief. Oh, you did a good job. Yeah. Oh, anything else? Thanks for being here everybody. Oh chief I want to show you please.