Good evening ladies and gentlemen welcome to the regular schedule meeting for April 7th of the Asperci Council. I appreciate y'all being here. We have two specialists or actually three specialists, I guess I will pick up the opportunity to introduce. We have with us tonight, St. Bryson from RCC and he has with him Carlos Mancilla and Muhammad Chaudry who are part of the Minority Mail Mentoring program at RCC which St. Bryson heads up. We're glad to have you here tonight. They came up to see a hole earlier in the week and took a tour and talked to John Auburn, the manager for a while and they know everything they need to know about City government. If you were all at this time please rise and join me in a moment of silence meditation, I ask you to pray in any manner that you see fit and we will follow that with Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. 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. Thank you. I'm going to yield a line of play. I'm going to yield a forward to Councilman Burke's who has a recognition and a proclamation to play. I'm going to be able to forward to Councilman Burke's. There has a recognition and a proclamation to present. All right. I'm going to go out here. All right. Lisa, you were joining us here. The injury, Lisa. When we all have our careers, whatever we're always pleased with, when we're recognized by our peers as having success in that industry and we've been recognized and to go out and represent your industry in a positive manner. And often when people ask us on council for different things, sometimes it's not always an easy request to fulfill it, but this one was pretty easy, so I'm very happy to do this release of it. And the proclamation is about National Auctioneer's Day. I mean, I hadn't been here a year ago, probably being challenged up here instead of meeting because I've never been to an auction right in C-town in the bank. It has a child growing up I always envisioned myself going to auctions with my grandfather. He loved to go to an auction on the Saturday of Friday night or Tuesday night in Cybers City to the horse sale because he liked to bid on stuff and sometimes the neighborhood boys on my cell, my brother tapped right back with a horse from the old because he got something bit out and he had a bite and we would go back to the next week's settle to get it. So anyway, but there's a proclamation that the mayor has signed here and it's recognizing the auction industry and this thing that are going on all around the country and we want to represent, police is here to represent, places here represent folks local, and I will use proclamation as time by the day. And this is National Auctioneers Day Proclamation. This is for April 16th, 2016. And it is a proclamation that it says, where is? Auctioneering is one of the history's almost professions. Where is auctions over the last bastion of a competitive free enterprise system. Whereas auctions continue to be the most fair, transparent, and effective means of establishing fair market value, no more, no less. Whereas auctions professionals create a competitive market place to connect buyers with sellers wishing to sell their assets for the highest dollar value. Whereas the National Auctioneers Association of this member strive to advance the auction method of marketing and uphold the highest standards of professionalism in serving the American public. Whereas auction professionals are out business owners who support their communities, whereas the National Auctioneers Day has been observed for more than 25 years by state and local governments and private organizations. Whereas the designation of National Auctioneers Day by the city of Ashville will heighten the awareness of the public, before the contributions they have auctions and auction professionals to the history of our nation and its economy. Now therefore David Smith, mayor of the U.S. Planes Saturday, April 16, 2016, has National Auctioneer's Day in call upon the community and partner organizations to celebrate with appropriate ceremonies to acknowledge these efforts. This is presented to you. I tried to make it a tone question, but I'm not some numbers during that. It's okay. I'm going to make it an auction, something obvious. I'm going to make it a very bad one. You're going to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to ask you to ask me to Yes, ma'am, I absolutely do. It's a full-time career for me. I'm based in San Francisco, I'm on the, I am the ambassador for the National Option. You're such an excellent man. I'm right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good luck next week. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, item four. Council, is there any item on the consent agenda that you would like to have removed or individual discussion? May I just for clarification on item three, ordinance amendments. There is a general fund amendment in your packet. We do not need to make a water and sewer fund amendment. There's also the housing fund we talked about extensively for their packet. It's not only a agenda, which is the urgent repair program. I think we've completed three houses and are doing six more. And the ordinance to amend the economic development fund, we had to break into two fiscal years. So this is for phase one. Phase two will be in the next fiscal year and show you the county contribution. that's what you can say. I just want to clarify that. Are there any questions of what John just told us? Any questions? Mayor, I would add item E will be a new announce, a new item on the consent agenda. It is a new general's, full conference, the requires 15 day notice of construction projects. We're still working out the language at the staff level as what is a routine maintenance, which is exempt and not so this being the first part of the year that this was the calendar year, not the fiscal year, unlike the budget amendments, that this was enacted by the general statutes. We felt it was appropriate to put it on this item only agenda that meets the requirements of the general statutes. Okay. That's why that's a new item you've never seen before. There's a reason why it's a new item. Councilor, any questions or discussion about the consent agenda? If not, I will entertain the motion. The approval consent agenda is presented. I make that motion to approve to consider agenda as presented. I will motion to approve from Councilwoman Carter. Do I have a second? Second. Second. Councilman Bail. Any discussion? All the players say aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Item five. Mr. Noell. We, I will open a public hearing. Legislative Zoning case, RZ16-03. And that's an application by James P. Maines and Patricia B. Maines to Reson property. It sticks up to each tick to drive. Go right here, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Before I begin, for individuals who are planning to speak this evening on an agenda item and are not otherwise identified if they would be so kind to Print their name in this log here so that the city clerk may accurately Spell their names for the record that would be much appreciated. This is a general district zoning request So as such it's a legislative action of the city council. There is no requirement for sworn testimony There is no requirement for sworn testimony. As you said, Mayor, this is a request by the property owners, James and Patricia Maines for property at 6.0601, E-Stix, yeah, I believe it's 602 E-Stix, you got it. I think that's a type of one on your screen there. It is a request to rezone from R15 to B2 general commercial. And it involves a portion of the property, subject property involved in this request, which is one parcel number. The total acreage of the parcel is 3-quarters of an acre. The area subject to this rezone and request is just under two tenths of an acre. This is currently a eating establishment that Golden Waffle that is undergoing repairs after the fire earlier this year. He'd look at a general overview map up on the screen. This is on the south side of the Dixie Drive Cliff Road. That triangular portion of property and red is the residential zone portion of this property. It extends north to Dixie Drive. But that is the portion of the property subject to the request this evening. Zoom in a little closer. You can kind of see A1 and A2 is the property owned by the mainstays. If you look to the surrounding land uses and zoning, we have commercial uses to the immediately to the east, north and west of the property. As you move south, we do, it is adjacent to a single family residential use and additional residential uses to the south. Concluded topographic map of the area, you can see the property falls away from Cliff Road to the east, but there are no stream or wetland issues to deal with on this property. Look at the area on map of the property again, that area that's shown in red is the area subject to the request this evening that is to take it from the Ar 15 zoning to the B2, which is what the bulk of the property is currently zoned. This is a view from Cliff Road looking northeast, capture in the beginning of that triangular piece of the property that comes to a point at Cliff Road. This is just north of there looking due east. This is looking back up, Clifth Road across Dixie Drive. We have a shot looking south and Clifth Road away from Subject Property that adjoining single family homes to the left of the photograph. And then we have two shots from Dixie Drive, this is looking east at the Subject Property current driveway and looking west. It's just a real brief analysis on this is of course East Dixie Drive is a state maintained boulevard classification under the city's comprehensive transportation plan. Cliff Road is a city maintained collector street obviously this is a general B2 zoning district, so while this is a restaurant currently approval of this request, and along with the existing B2 zoning, any use permitted in the B2 ultimately could be developed on the property. Importantly, the proposed land use map does show the entirety of this property as appropriate for commercial development. It is a primary growth area of the city. I have seven goals and policies that support the request. There's one somewhat negative towards the request. But if you take everything in the totality of our plans and the context of the area, we've provided this as a statement, pertaining to the consistency with our long range plans, the reasonableness of the request and how this request and approval of this request fits within public interest. As I said, this is commercially designated on our long range plan or land development plan. It's also within the central small area plan that supports appropriate located commercial development and the accommodation of current existing commercial facilities and expansions. This would allow uniform development of property obviously with it being split-zone. There's some limitations on how that property ultimately can be used. It's located on an established commercial corridor in Dixie Drive and that fits within the recommendations of the plan. If you don't have any environment, we sense it of areas out there. And it's important to note that there are any improvements of the area, should this request be approved, that or within the B2 area will be subject to the city zoning law. So if there is additions ultimately made in that portion of the property, there will be buffering or screening, landscaping requirements adjacent to that homeowner to the south. This request went to the planning board last month. We recommended the planar board approved this request. They adopted our consistency statement in rationale. So this does come to you with a favorable recommendation from the staff and the planar board. Sure. Any questions or Mr. No? Okay, thank you. Is anyone in attendance tonight that would like to address council regarding this request? Yes, it's right. Welcome Mr. Morgan. Thank you. You're welcome. I have a short. Just a little bit of time. So we'll be trying. Okay. Mm-hmm. Mr. Mayor, council members, planning staff. I want to thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. My name is Ben Morgan. The property address, it is minus, it is 602, 602, East Xiedrive. I am here on behalf of the property owners, James and Patricia Mainas. I'll echo a lot of what Mr. Nuddle has already said. This property, as we all know, the Golden Waffle is a landmark. In my opinion, the city of Ashbur and Randolph County, it's my understanding it's been in continuous operation until the beginning of this year since 1974. So almost my entire life. We're having a lot of changes in that. But unfortunately, with the fire earlier this year, obviously the operation had to close. In doing so, the property owners, their plans were to immediately repair and rebuild and reopen in doing so. Obviously they had to hire a general contractor, apply for building permits. And I think that's why we're here this evening. Upon doing that, it's my understanding it was discovered then. It may have been known earlier than that, that obviously a portion of the property, specifically that which is highlighted in red on the map before you know is approximately 0.19 acres that portion for whatever reason was never zoned or correctly classified as commercial. What we're seeking tonight is just to I think probably correct that which has been an existence for many many years or at least since 1974. It is a straight rezoning. We're requesting that this council approve the B2 commercial classification on the entire three quarters of an acre. Given that it's a straight rezoning, obviously we can't talk about what the use is, but Mr. Nuddle is correct in stating that if it's used for a restaurant purpose, it is my understanding that it would fall under the type C buffers and screening requirements. Obviously, the applicants and the property owners plan on complying with anything that is necessary to comply with that type C. That would be fencing and other buffers that would fall consistent with type C. General contractor has worked very closely with the planning staff and will continue to do so. Obviously, we would submit the Planning Staff's report, the Planning Board's recommendation, unanimous recommendation for approval of this rezoning, specifically that the proposed land use map is a commercial in nature. It's in the small area of plan is the central, the growth strategy map designation is primary growth. These factors, we we think clearly show that this area is commercial in nature as Mr. Nuddle correctly stated. It's you get commercial properties adjacent to the North, East and West, to the South. There is a residential property. I would point out to the South West. There's also commercial property on Cox Avenue. The cycle center property is my understanding. We think that the B2 general commercial classification is appropriate in this area and that's what we respectfully request that you approve this evening. I haven't answered any questions that I may answer if I know the answer to them. Thank you very much. Questions? Comment may be more than question per site given the framework of our foot before us in that as you correct the state. It's a straight V2, something that I think is woefully apparent for the wound here, but there are assumptions. But as you mentioned, the buffers of the types that could be with the types of, having been familiar with this entire relationship since its inception of 1974, if the owner would consider it's just a request of suggestion, obviously not a condition given the process. The fencing method of a solid fence to separate the two properties is my understanding the resident of the South has approached me and made just what was possible. And that sort of thing seemed very receptive to a fence and solve all in terms of lights and whatnot. It sounded very reasonable to me. So we're strongly suggest, please look at that and it does provide more land area for you than the plantings would. So hopefully it would be the use of wind wind. I understand. Thank you. Yes, Councilman Moffat. I have not been contacted by the the stout family the property owners to the south but I've been made aware of the concerns that they've shared with others I will pass those on to to my clients and strongly suggest that they take any steps that they can to to maintain or repair that relationship with the neighbors to the south. As I said, obviously it's my understanding, it's not really going to be an option, it's going to be something that's required. Well, one or the other or whatever, but I think a solid fence would be acceptable and helpful and I'd encourage it, I guess, as authority would yet. I will share that with the property owners. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Thank you. Okay, thanks, sure. Is anyone else in the room that would like to address the council regarding this request? Okay, we will move to the deliberative phase and ask council what their wishes are. Mayor, based on staff recommendations, I move if we approve the request, then adopt the consistency statement as it is consistent with the plan. Have a motion of Mr. Bale to have a second the Carter seconds any discussion All the favor say I all post most you carry Not one baby maker I did not want to be a mayor. They had any hand in that place not re-opened. That is probably been the single most asked question in the last six months or since the fire. When are they going to open? I can't use that as a part of the presentation, but I just think you are very good. But please do. And I don't really visit 97 before pleasing courage at solid means. Congratulations. I just want to go on record for a benefit of my dollars that I was willing to make a much. All right. Moving on. Thank you sir. I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and Street. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This item was presented to you March in 2016. City Council meeting and the resolution of intent was adopted. The resolution has been properly advertised and now is the time for the public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to address the council regarding this request from Amartelle. Okay, here he none. We have an annexation ordinance prepared by the city attorney making the annexation effective June 30th of 2016 and we recommend adoption by reference. Thank you. Council, I will entertain the motion to adopt by reference if you so choose. We are in motion to adopt my reference if you so choose. We are removed with adopt my reference. I will motion by Mr. Berks to have a second. Second. Second. Mr. Swayers. Discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Leonard. This is the appointing time for the upcoming period. There's any one audience that would like to address the council tonight on any items of city business. Okay, we'll move on to item eight. Michael Ronner, Water Resources Director, you have an analysis and recommendations pertaining to BIDs received for supply of five chemicals to the water waste factory. Yes, Mayor, members of the council. In your packet you have a BID summary. BIDs were received for our chemicals on March 15th 2016. We received BIDs for five chemicals. In the summary we recommend that contracts to purchase chemicals for liquid-allem, liquid-calcic, fluoride, sodium hypochloride be awarded per the Bids at the prices stated therein. I will state that those prices were some drop, some went up but we're breaking even pretty much on our chemical purchases for the next year. So we did pretty well. So with that I would recommend that you approve these purchase contracts for chemicals from April 16th, 2016 through April 15th, 2017. These prices are good for a. You could really be out of clear to you by once a year. Oh, we buy it depends on which chemical Yeah, okay But it is for you where we're bound for your to these prices Okay, thank you sir. Okay. You need to make a motion to pre-connect the board. Okay. That's all right. Council, we have a recommendation from staff to approve these beds. Now I have a motion to do so. Mayor, I move we approve the beds as received and presented by Mr. Rommel. Motion from Mr. Bell. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Berks. Any discussion? Mr. Bell, do I have a second? Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. The low bidder made an error in their calculation. It's a complicated formula that we are going to strive from the bid process from now on. The summary states that we would like to reject that bid based on the error from the contractor, from the supplier. And you grant me permission to rebid. I would like to go on record saying that we're trying a pilot program, hopefully in the next two or three months to use a different chemical in this process. So therefore I won't be over the threshold so we may not have to bid this chemical. So I would like to withhold having to rebid until we determine whether it's going to be necessary. But right now I need to get you to approve rejecting the low bid for yes thank you calcium nitrate just for clarification reject all bids reject all bids yes I'm sorry thank you all right for the calcium nitrate council I'll entertain the motion to reject all bids as requested by staff. He's not my commotion to reject all bids for the casting my trade deal. I have a motion by Mr. Muffet. Go have a second. Second. Second, Mr. Sawyer, is any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. There you go. I don't know if I ever say aye. I don't know how it follows. I don't know if I'm very... Thank you. Mr. Luck. Zoning administrator Dustin Luck is going to give us an update on our all-American city application and the process that we're undertaking here. Good evening. So the biggest update to give you guys is that, indeed, for the second straight year we are finally for the All-American City Award. Oh, a lot of thanks to our All-American City Advisory Group, of which tonight we have Mayor Smith, Mr. Auburn and Mr. Bryson, were a great help in putting this application together. This week I did have the opportunity to speak with our, liaison to the National Civically and get some feedback on our application. They felt, the judges felt we were particularly strong with our data, our metrics, regarding all the programs we highlighted, which is a good thing to hear because a lot of our advisory group members felt we were kind of weak in that last year. Also strong is that we included a lot of participant perspectives and stories. The judges felt that the Randall County Partnership for Children was unique and innovative by having a police officer to our city police officers visit pediatric clinics and read to children. They felt the WIC community garden project was strong because it eliminated a language barrier. They did this by distributing pretty much all of their information in Spanish and post-survey results demonstrated that regardless if the participant was a native English speaker or a native Spanish speaker, the results were the same. They were able to grow or not breath vegetables and the language was not an issue. Of the three highlighted projects, they picked one that was particularly strong, that was Ashborough High School second chance breakfast. They felt that this program tackled logistical barriers and resistance from many partners to ensure that students had access to breakfast, the program meets students where they are and allows them to access to breakfast in a way that best aligns with their schedule and needs. They like that there are plans for a future dinner program that are under consideration. They felt that was promising and also felt that the program being open to students with Fibrecy free and reduced launch was also very inclusive of low income students. So that will kind of wrap up part A of the process. That's the application. Now that we have been selected as a finalist, we kind of start part B and that's the road to the All-American City Conference in Denver and mid-June. So I thought I'd share with you guys the other finalist. Anyone want to take a guess at which city we will follow with our presentation? It's a big one. And lost a big name. Lost a big name. So you'll see some big names on there like Lost Vegas and San Antonio, loved where you'll see Salisbury and then just another collection of cities. We believe some of which that were there last year with us are back there again. So beginning tomorrow, we have our first advisory group meeting for kind of part B of this process. Our work to do, and we'll start beginning this tomorrow and probably have a good update for you guys next month. First, we want to look at selecting the delegation last year we took around 30 people probably looking at a little smaller, continued this year. The average size continues around 25. We may look at around 20 or so. We're going to start discussing who can go who needs to go. After that we'll look at creating the presentation, probably looking outside for that. We'll discuss ideas smart, maybe partnering with art skill, maybe theater group at RCC. Bringing someone to help us design and rehearse and lead this presentation. Also we'll start again the talk of fundraising, who to reach out to, to help offset the cost of travel, and then lastly, registration of the delegation and booking travel arrangements. When we're in Denver, we plan on arriving Thursday, June 16th. The only thing scheduled for that day is just registration. Beginning Friday there's an orientation for all the finalists. There's workshops. Don't have a lot of great detail about the workshops right now other than that they will be led by nationally recognized public speakers and leaders. Give us and our program leaders a good opportunity to learn from people to do this all over the country. Friday is also our rehearsal day, so we will have dedicated time to rehearse our presentation. Saturday is a big, jury presentation day, so we'll be giving our presentation on Saturday. Saturday night is a civic action fair. Pretty much what that is, it's like a... I also like to job fair, a community fair, and you have it at the YMCA. We'll have a table we can set up a backdrop, we can hand out stuff with city vash for logo, pens, flash drives, what have you. It's just a good chance for us to mark our city and also to mark it, businesses and programs that we have going on in the city. Sunday is the conclusion. The festival of ideas is mainly for our program leaders, for example, communities in schools, Ashborough High School. They will have the opportunity to present their projects before their peers and receive comments back and also learn from other programs across the country. And Sunday night is the awards reception. So we will know if we are a winner or not Sunday, June 19th. And then looking to come back Monday, June 20th. So that's pretty much our path to Denver. I'll be having to answer any questions you guys may have. Questions. Thanks, sir. We have tonight as a special guest our staying tourism director. Tammy O'Kelley. I think she's here to speak to the council. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council. Talk to the city manager about I don't know an hour and a half ago and I said do you have like a full house or a big presentation for All-America City and he said that he did not and I just wanted to share a few comments as you go forward with this process We're very excited at the tourism development authority to to see that you're not stopping, you're moving forward and going again. Ashboro has been really blessed with some unique assets, but actually a lot of them, including the fact that we have the world's largest in an internationally acclaimed zoo here. In the travel and tourism industry, it's really important for us to capitalize on all the things that collectively make a destination unique. And I think for all the years, I believe it since 1949 that only 500 cities, towns and counties have achieved the prestigious All-America City Award. So it goes without saying that you're pursuing this and should you be awarded it. It'll be another designation that we can use to market Ashboro as a, what we already know is an outstanding destination. That's why coming to the City Council meeting tonight to let you know that the heart of North Carolina visitors bureau supports you. We're very excited at the prospect of Ashboro winning the award. I didn't see anything on that list that made me have any pause about your chances in doing this. And it's certain that in my 15 years with the Torres and Development Authority and working in this industry, Ashboro was not the destination it was. When I came to my organization 15 years ago, you have tackled many, many challenges. Some of them were small and were easy and some were quite large and difficult. But the results are clear. I shared with somebody last week, I don't even remember, hardly remember where I am anymore. But wherever I was coming from, I drove down sunset because sometimes I just like to drive down through downtown on my way back and forth because it's such a source of pride for me being from here. And I drove down, oh, it was early in the morning, that's what it was, because the marquee on Sunset Theatre said, good morning Ashboro. I'll just grab my heart as I drive down the street. So, to see downtown Ashboro live in vibrant with visitors and people that live here, the city is reaping the benefits of those seats that you planted. And there's just a sense of pride that I don't remember having in Ashboro in my lifetime. I'm a little bit older than Ben Morgan, so I look farther back the 1974. The All-America City Award is highly sought after for one reason in particular and that is the immense public relations power that comes with it. There's a lot of awards that that cities and towns seek but this one in particular through the National Civic Lead is really known for that. It has a proven track record of bringing with it new development and attracting new tourists. And I want you to know that from a tourism standpoint, we will pump that status for all we can to do just that. And I think it will also of the many things that you expect to get from it. I think that it will assist us in applying for some tourism grants that are qualifying for some tourism grants. We've looked at through the years. And I think some private funding opportunities for some up-and-coming projects, most of the big one you heard about last month in the Zusevician Plan. So it's with these comments that I want to wish you well. June is quickly approaching. And I know you still have a lot of work to do but we certainly support the effort and if there's anything that we can do for you as you go out to Denver let me know. And thank you and good luck. Tammy thank you so much for being here tonight and I've got to say that so much of what we've been able to accomplish in the next program now, County last few years has been relative to your participation in support. Two years of development authority does a great job and we have city value our partnership very much and you do a great job. So, thank you. We hope to bring that home so you'll have one more tool in your toolbox. I can't wait to see all American City on one of these water tanks one of the elevated water tanks of town It's just gonna be so exciting when we bring that home and I'm Confident we can do that this year Justin Thank you so much for the hard work you put in so far. And we know that with the committee you're going to put together a great presentation, I will point out that chain Bryson from RCC with one of our team members last year. And we learned a lot last year and that's going to be evident this year. It's already evident in our application and we'll show up also in our presentation. So thank you, Tammy. Thank you, Justin. Any questions? Comments? Great. Public Works Director, Mr. Hutchins. David Hutchins will present a reorganization plan regarding changes in the street and the rural services. And for you, layman, environmental services is... Old sanitation. Carvedage. Well, if you look, we got the old organizational charts out pretty much for both departments, the street department. And as you know, current was over environmental services and he left back in December of 14. We did replace currentment. That department had us there about three months and he left so we were deciding what to do next and somebody had the great idea combining the two Well, it was not my idea, but the more I thought about the more I liked it And I won't tell them it was your idea John missing But anyway a lot of benefits to it. I heard a lot of other towns are doing it But with the merger this is an organizational chart. We're using currently It's gonna be more of a vibe to finally come out and hopefully by July, because we're having redo job descriptions, job titles. The new department's called Public Services. So everything it pertains to Street Department and Environmental Services are now combined in one department head and public works. And with the mergers so far, we've managed to eliminate one department head job and two labor positions we won't have to replace. Department Head and Public Works and with the merger so far we've managed to eliminate one department head job and two labor positions we won't have to replace. Our old street department for savings around $115,000. We still got some assessments to make but so far I know we're good with that because it's given us a little free range and some areas. Now the big one to revise the collection schedule a little bit. I got you. You're talking about change. This is something I've been looking at now. This is something I've been wanting to do this. It's current left. I'm looking at right now having the whole staff on 14th Street Department side already works 14 hours. Has staffed on Monday's and Fridays. The old environmental services they're still working eight hours a day. I want to get them up to speed on the 14th so the department will be as a whole. And to save mine down the operating side of things right now. We run four trucks on Monday to pick up residential garbage and Ford bandits on Tuesday to do the sun I Want to do it with three trucks in two ten hundred days So if your garbage days Monday your garbage day will still be Monday now after truck comes by your house at 8.30 It might not be he might come by at 8 o'clock now if we do this, but I still feel like we can easily do it with three trucks and a 10-hour day to eliminate the cost of running four trucks for two days. And any of you familiar with those trucks and equipment, they're expensive to run my house. Yeah. I always blow a hose in front of my house. I might be doing it on purpose. Yeah, that's what you're looking for. That's what you're looking for. I'm having a kid. The biggest change is recycling. Based on our values, we've been looking at that. Again, I had the idea. I got to notice when we were policing recycling, some during last summer, how quick it was to finish those routes. You know, we pick up on Thursday, then we get to other side of town on Friday. I think I can, with forward trucks, I can do that one 10 hour day. And what this is doing is freeing up labor on the environmental services side as we cross train to help on the street side and vice versa to eliminate the positions that we're not feeling. So we're kind of combined effort, cross-training a lot of people, it's given us freedom in areas and if you're all good with it, like right now, you know, the four trucks 10 hour day, we're proposing May the 9th as a start date for the one day a week collection on recycling. That'll give us time to notify all the residents who were normally picked up on Fridays that their new collection day will be on Thursday and then everybody will be thirsty. All curbside recyclances, thers. Trit. We have the equipment in our fleet, and all this is driven backwards from. I think you're not talking about it today. Any in the next week or so, they're going to start working on the landfill in maybe late summer of 17, so we'll be direct on our garbage into the land. And you know the bandits were running four days a week. They'll be pretty much parked or running four trucks four days a week. That'll be pretty much parked one day a week. And we do think we can go to three days when we have a Labor Day, or July week Christmas Thanksgiving. We can provide it. We don't have to do the fact. Yeah, we can move around, this shift can stay on schedule. And our employees can take their holiday. We would crew a lot of holiday time and we would provide them services. So for example, when we've got the equipment operators in both departments. Most of them we buy has CDLs and all that. Pretty much a requirement there. Which is trying to be those we can spray for. Modernize. Pretty much operate the same way they did it. Tammy said, oh, I don't want to see it, he's in one one. I see this is probably going to be. Well there is a given in the NESTful ranks. It was that if you continue to do things the same way that you used to doing, you're going to lose ground to it. You know, man, I like to shake it up every time. You have to run. And I will command our public work department. Going back a few years back when you guys implemented the 411-31. 311-31. 311-31. Data location. Saved as tons of money. And citizens were blessed to have the public works people we have and they're constantly brainstorming how to consolidate and save money and still provide the level of service that many cities have determined they cannot continue to provide. So we still pick up brush in front of your house, we still pick up grass clippings, we pick up the leaves. And I'm gonna tell you a lot of cities that stop doing that. So I appreciate you and what you guys are doing. This looks like a good plan to me. Thanks a lot. I like the savings, the cost savings involved. That is one of the biggest things I hear is a councilman is you're spending money, but you're're not saving me you need to be doing this out of the other and I think I commend David and all this staff for taking that recommendation that John had and let's see about doing something that's so that needs to be publicized that we are doing this to improve efficiency and save our taxpayers money. I want a new landfill opens people with an 80 mile round trip for an 80 mile round trip. So immediately we save them money. This landfill has been somewhat contentious and nobody wants to deal with garbage. Nobody wants it. In their backyard, this is going to be a good thing for Handoff County. It's going to certainly save us a bunch of money and make us a lot more efficient and cost effective. So any questions, Council? Again, our public education process next week will get the documents and the data for you guys. You guys know that. I had your hands for you, goes out and. I wonder how excellent we will have a much higher set up rate. Two, so I think it's just be just much more efficient. Okay. Everybody, we'll go on with that. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you with that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Michael Anderson, CD engineer, you have a report for me that's on Department of Transportation, Division of Aviation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You're having your packets of letter from the NCDOT Division of Aviation Day to February 19th of 2016. and it's titled Letter of Intent Commitment for State Funds, I'm pleased to announce that or to inform you that the City of Ashbrow has been awarded an additional funding totaling of $562,500 through the Division of Aviations toward the construction of a new terminal building at the Ashboro Regional Airport. The funding has been programmed to be effective state fiscal year 2016-2017, and this funding is on top of our annual 150,000 non-primary entitlement funding, which we can set back or keep for up to four years to put toward one individual project. The city manager and I will be presenting this to the airport authority on April 17th that they're regularly scheduled meeting and we'll report back to you after that point. That is good. Thank you. So any questions to Mr. Wander? I would report also to congratulate everyone on the receipt of this because it's very strategic and an Indian I both spoken with Congressman Walker. And I'm not Congresswoman. And I've spoken specifically directly about the needs at Daxbury Airport. And I'm sure you get to ask for everything. He was very impressed. We were looking at maybe a 50-50 as opposed to traditional 90-10s. That's all the thing. And obviously, those that have the most contributed for the world, the best match, you know, get the quickest easiest considerations. We hope to plan a trip, send the Washington, be sure to make a presentation and that's the groundwork for us. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Let's raise. Come down to the front, please. Tonight's winner, meeting of good news, and I'm proud of, I say constantly, continuously, I guess. I'm proud of our city staff from top to bottom. Everybody, they do a great job. I'm a great department head. And I am pleased tonight to be able to present another Another, the Judicial Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting, there's any to the City of Espera, look here on from the Government Finance Officers Association. Maybe it raises our financial officer and it's always a pleasure to welcome you and every single year the auditor stands up here and tells us every year during the auditor report what a great job the city finance people do but a good department that the data runs and a good department at the daily runs and how pleased the auditorios to come and work with the city of Ashworth's. Auditamus is not particularly easy job, but they will always have their taste cross that are high as dotted and everything they need. So there is one more time. Thank you very much. We love you and we appreciate you. So there we have one more time. Thank you very much. And I'll leave it. We love you and we appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, careful you all have in front of you a flyer for the City of Ashburn employee health fair, which comes up Wednesday at Public Works at 1032. The flyer gives you all the details, including when a door prize. It's fixed there by there. It's always a good event. And I know you've got to all show up to support the efforts of our human relations department. Let's see. I'm going to turn this cookie. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And only 21st. Thursday night night and 21st at 530 public works conference room. We have a city council workshop One of our periodic work sessions There's a Idaeth prevention committee Wednesday 27 at 9 a.m. Here action committee wins due to 27 at 9 a.m. here. Now Mayor, I do that committee is the key staff plus you and Council member Carter and Council member Swierd I believe. All right. That's our annual meeting for private federal regulations. All right. The Chamber of Commerce, no tie affair is coming up on Saturday, April 30th at the North Carolina Zoo, solar point, Klaaza. Let's join in though if you're planning to go. There's a prayer breakfast. You should all have tickets in your packets to the height for the prayer breakfast and that is Thursday, May 5th at 6.45 actually they'll start serving about 6.30 so look forward having you all there. Mary if Council members have some conflict and can't use their prayer tickets we'll get them back toian, they're pretty hot. That is a hard ticket to get if you cannot use a police turn again. Truth is, by the time we invite all the mayors in the county and all of our representatives in the rally. And our commissioners. I can't even get one. I can can even get one. I can even get one. I can even get one. Well, Raymond would probably give you her. So, you know, it's just we actually end up inviting a little bit of the other way around. It was cool. So, permanent. And the speaker this year is a former Clemson Corback. We're going to ask for it. What are your dancewear? No, Clemson thing. I had to think about that. Sorry. I'm just a little bit too quick. Actually, Mark Trollinger is going to be here. All right, Jane, have a birthday Saturday. Thank you very much. We'll all be over. What time? Anytime you'd like. Will you be there? No. Parties, Jane. We'll try to clean up. I'd appreciate that. Parties, how's that am about the All-American City once again being a fine fine-wreston and as former member of the school board, second chance breakfast very close to my heart. It was a great move because you can't teach. You can't teach how good time would be children. So looking forward to seeing what happens with that. Mr. Burke, Kudos again to Miss Reeves. I had a meeting with Thomas Tire this week. And they mentioned several of our staff members and how easy our staff is to work with. But Sally Thomas mentioned you several times and how pleased she was to work with you and how easy you made things for them. So she appreciates that. Another thing I've been going to some of the community watch programs and they are, I guess this week, will open up their 30th community watch program around the city and branching up into North Ashboro now and hopefully that will help some of our problems up in North Ashboro and get things on track up there. But it's a great program and tremendous turnout that we're getting at every location. And it's helped us. Really good. So good staff. Some of our older community watches are starting to slow down a little bit. We need to rejuvenate some of the original community watches. The Greystone Community Watch is looking for a new coordinator if anybody in the Greystone area knows if somebody might be interested in doing that. Harold Hamilton has done a great job with that, but he says time somebody else, I think. All right. There are a lot of particularly daunting challenges for reasonably email-sacking. I mean, from that perspective, but I just enjoyed tonight's positive meeting lots of good news and that's what the thing and baby got an award for exacting detail boy my shop I'm very proud of our accomplishments but congratulations Mary if you're uptown side, we'll be right up. Moments, March, and our mayor will be kicking the event off. And please keep joining we, and be closing prayers. So if you have to be uptown side, maybe the weather's going to cooperate. And big enough rain, be a good event. Ms. Carter? I'd just like to say that, please remember Katie, she's still recovering. When Joanne and I went over there and saw her, I mean she looked great, but she hadn't started that other physical therapy and I think that's taken its toll. It paid to hurt you. Oh yeah, they're paid to hurt you. Oh yeah, they're paid to hurt you. She said that was painful. But it hasn't stopped her from talking on the phone. Can't get through parts. So she's at home now. Yeah, she's been home. And people are coming and going, but people also still want Katie to cook and fix their breakfast and stuff like that. She'd be very rough on her trip somewhere, get to her, but she really ministers to that community. And I appreciate Katie and I think we all miss her when I began her. Everybody knows that Katie is quite a cook and when she worked for the city she did a lot of cooking of public works and she was mother to just about everybody who worked up there and just a great lady. Well, I got to tell you when she went went out of the claps, we're cooperating. They have a kitchen out there and they're not going to let you go home until you can get stuff out of a refrigerator and get across the room to put it on the counter and reach up in the cabinets with your grabber and do all the things that you might have to do at home in its occupational therapy. But they took it one step further with Katie Vagch who made her cook something. They took her back to the kitchen, the real kitchen, and had her cook something. So, she's, we miss her. And we were hoping she'd be here tonight, but the new physical therapy that she's taken over here has really kind of set her back a little bit. So Clark? I know it wasn't our event, but I think that the St. Patrick's Day event downtown certainly the city was ventrically involved in that. I think that went well, and I think it was well received from those folks who visited downtown by Centennial Park. And on a more summer note, I'd like for us all to remember Mike Hunter, who's, I think, Anniversary of the next Monday. I think that was Sleece Key and Ruby and the prayers and thoughts. Remember, Mr. Swears, reiterate the thing about the rise up mince march that could potentially be two or three thousand people downtown and around by Centennial Park. So it will be crowded downtown and around. So it has the potential to be a very beneficial and a movie to them for all to participate. So I think we might all be coming out. This is the next version of the million man march. And I think that even though it says minion, anybody who wants to be a woman that are coming to House mail to That's a repeat for her, and she won a some award, the kind of business journal selection, the full one. Yeah, this is her one wedding bond. She wanted to do it for you, last year. So she's quite a accomplished business person and recognized. Anybody else have anything for the good of the college? I will call it as meeting adjourned. Thank you. That's a different thing. I know he's in for Christmas and big years of work.