Yes Good evening ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the regularly scheduled March meeting of Ashbur City Council. We appreciate you being here. We've got quite a few guests tonight. I hope that you will find that we move through our agenda very expeditiously, but we will allow appropriate adequate time for any discussion. So we don't want to cut anybody off or short-trained any of our decisions tonight. If you will, stand and join me in a moment of silent prayer during which time I ask you to keep two people specifically in the prayers. We have an empty seat out here tonight, Katie Snuges, our councilwoman had niece her degree a couple weeks ago. She was out claps during her therapy and recuperating. So she knew that she would not be here tonight. Linda Carter is actually on her way. She got detained and has run a little behind. And many of you may know that our county commission Terry Darrell Frye had a family tragedy a couple of weeks ago, and just keep that family in your prayers tonight when you pray and ask you to join me in the moment of silent prayer and we will follow that with the glitch of allegiance. I'm going to go to the next room. Thank you. A pleasure. A pleasure to do the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God in the visible liberty and justice is wrong. Thank you. I take this opportunity to introduce a couple of special guests tonight. We have Sitbacker on the back row. We have Samuel Hussey and Chris Murk, Mazda Riegos. and Christopher Mazarego's, the Troop 513 Boy Scouts from America from Flag Springs United Method Church and we welcome you tonight there here working on their citizenship page. So good luck in your scouting endeavors. The first item on our agenda tonight is to I would like to call the Director of North Carolina Zoo Pat Simmons. She is here to give all of us a brief introduction to the new vision plan for the North Carolina Zoo. What's so much? Hello everyone and it is certainly my pleasure and honor to be here. Thank you for inviting me. I hope for all of the rest of you I'll turn around and look at you just real quick. I hope you enjoy this as well because the whole point of this presentation is to give an idea of what the North Carolina Zoo can do with this community and what we can maybe accomplish together. So let's get started. You know, we like to think that the zoo is the pride of North Carolina. And there's lots of reasons for this. You know, when North Carolina Zoo was founded, it was community citizens like you that got together and you created a grand vision. This was 40 years ago. When North Carolina Zoo was founded, it was community citizens like you that got together and you created a grand vision. This was 40 years ago. And when you did that, you weren't just thinking small. You were thinking big, unique, first class, and truly second to none. And that's what you ended up creating because between public and private partners, we were able to accomplish the first state zoo in the United States. The world's largest natural habitat zoo. It's professionally anchored in science and education. And it is globally unique because this zoo has 2,200 acres. Now to give you an idea, 500 acres are actually developed. It has 2000, almost available to it. And the zoo that I came from in Ohio, well, we could put the entire zoo in your elephant exhibit. Not only is the zoo fabulous, but this is a great state. You know, North Carolina is one of the fastest growing states in the nation. Tourism is the second largest industry and North Carolina is the sixth largest tourist state in the nation. So think about that. What can we do to bring people into this area to benefit us all? Well, one of the things that we have learned is that people don't want to just come and look at animals and be there, they really want to have an experience. People are looking for that opportunity now. In this particular picture, those kids happen to be playing tug-a-war with that tiger. Now, wouldn't that be kind of fun to do? I don't think any of my animal keepers will let me do that, but I think it would be great. The other thing you'd like to know is that the location here is amazing. You know that so often people say Ashbro is in the middle of nowhere. You can't get to it all these other things. The bottom line is no. The world's going to be running over here soon. 61% of all North Carolinians live in the central region of the state. In a one and a half hour drive, we reach 6.1 million citizens, and now think even bigger. What if we reached out to the entire Eastern Seaboard? If we did that, a one day drive, we would reach 100 million citizens. Now wouldn't it be nice if all those folks on the Eastern Seaboard stopped here instead of going on the Florida. That's a tourism director. In case anybody didn't know. The other thing you might like to note is this particular slide is the projected population density for 2030. And the dark counties are the ones where the greatest population growth is going to be happening and you notice where the elephant's at. We're right in the center of that so we're perfectly located not only to grab those folks off of the eastern seaboard but also to serve our citizens locally. And we know that the more people we bring into the zoo the more partnership opportunities will have. So maybe we can partner for hotels or sports hubs or other kind of activities that create a density of experience here. That density of experience will help people who run businesses hire good people because they want neat quality of life. But it will also make it possible for people to stay longer. Heads and beds mean money for our operations here in this community. Now, I've got three slides here that are number slides. And these slides are up here to tell you a story. Numbers can be so boring, but these kind of say something interesting. This slide has to do with capital, what we use to build things at the zoo. And in the first 20 years of the zoo, the zoo was building like crazy. We created North America and we created Africa. And you can see $35.5 million was put in by the state. When that money was invested in the zoo by the state, the private partnership came through with another $16.2 million. So you can see that people are willing to spend when they know that there's opportunity. Attendance almost doubled during that time, starting at around 350,000 and up to 670,000. Now let's look at the next 10 years. That's the middle column. The state put in zero money. Zero. There was a little bit of money in repairing renovations. Things fall apart. But when that money from the state dried up, look what happened to the society partner capital. That's our money that comes from private citizens. It almost dried up too. It went down to $1.6 million. And then the other thing to look at is the attendance. The first 20 years, whenever you build things, you get momentum and people keep coming and coming and coming. We almost hit a million visitors in that third, 10-year period of time. But then, because no capital went into it, it almost dropped in half in that same period of time. So that goes to show that we have to stay aggressive and keep moving. In the last 10 years, everybody has been working together and trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. You'll see that the states put in some money, the states put in some repair money, the community citizens have come through with almost $10 million during that period of time and we've stabilized attendance right around the 700,000, 700,000 person mark. To me, we're stabilized. Now we're ready to grow again. Looking at other slides, this particular slide just shows those same time periods and basically it shows that for every dollar the state invests in operations, the zoo actually matches it or comes close to matching it with an earned revenue dollar or a donated dollar. So when you pay your admission at the zoo, you're actually literally paying for 50% of the operations. And then this particular slide shows what could happen if we get some investment from the state. 25 million right now is in the Connect and C bond. That money would be available to the zoo to do some interesting and exciting things. We believe we can put 10 more million with that from private. We think that we can take our 700,000 visitors up to a solid 825,000. The other thing is we would add 1,320 jobs in the community and we would also be looking at about a half a billion dollars of economic impact every three years. That's money that spends out to the rest of this community where residuals come to everybody who lives here. If you think really big, which I love to do, what happened if we got 200 million? Well, about 25 million for sure would probably come in privately, but that 100 on front of that second column there for 125 million are partnerships. These are the people that would come in and invest in us for hotels or other kinds of activities and enterprises and they would be putting that money into the zoo. We think we could get at least one and a half, probably two million solid visitors and we would bring in almost a billion dollars every three years in economic impact. Those are the kind of things that I like to see happen for a community. I like to see that kind of change happens because quite frankly it's simple. All ships need to rise with the tide. And so if the zoo can start to raise the water level for everybody in economic impact then I want everybody else to come along with us. So how do we do this? Well, we created a vision. And these are the folks that work with us. You know these guys, they're here. And we went to work to try to figure out what could we do that was truly unique. So we created a bee-hag, a big hairy audacious goal, a bee-hag. And this bee-hag is like shooting for the stars and landing on the moon. But ours was how do we become the most visited guest destination on the eastern seaboard, basically from the cities of the northeast to central Florida? How do we get them into North Carolina and then keep them here? We don't let them back out. That's probably about a $500 million plan. Now, don't get on nervous or twitchy. All these kind of plans are really big and they're really big numbers. But when you carve them up bite-by-by, you get through it all. And I'll show you how we're going to propose to do that. So let's look at the vision. Phase one. That's the one that's currently in the NC Connect bond, 25 million from the state and 10 million private. We would be building a whole new, exhibit complex, plus some interesting fun things. What would we accomplish? Well, we would accomplish first renovating stream side into an Amazon experience so you have unique and new and interesting animals. This could happen relatively quickly. Then we would move on and move our animals out of the old African pavilion into new bamboo, bamboo holding. You see, the animals are currently in a place they need heat and they have none where they're at. It's just the bottom line you got to take care of your business. Then the African pavilion would need to come down. The zoo has American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums accreditation. Only 10% of all the licensed zoos and aquariums meet that standard. This community has a zoo that's in the top 10%. That's pretty cool. If we don't take care of our failing infrastructure, that accreditation could go away. If that accreditation goes away, polar bears, and other things like that go away as well. We want to really keep this place professional. And then we would add tigers. How about orangutans? And then let's look at other animals that we might get into. Maybe we take you through a kangaroo walk about or get you nose to nose with the world's largest dragon. And let's go even further. Let's take that experience out into the safari area of the zoos, African plains. Let's put you on a truck and take you right out among those animals. Maybe it'd be something like this. And not only during the day, but perhaps at night. And then let's get you up into the trees. We have tons of trees on our 2,000 acres. Let's use them for something good. Now, that's phase one that you would see. Of course, I showed you a 500 million dollar plan. So let's look and dream where we could go next. Let's say that the next level of the plan comes through. How about if we start by building a tourist center? People will be coming to the zoo from all over the Eastern Seaboard. Once they're here, let's get them booked into all of these other attractions. Let's book their hotels for them. Let's keep them here. And then when they come to the zoo, let's make it a journey away from their normal life. Let's take them in maybe higher over the trees in a gondola. Not any kind of gondola, but how about a glass-bottomed one that you can see something like this right at the zoo. We have the world's largest natural habitat zoo. I can guarantee those city zoos cannot come close to this kind of experience. And then we'll land you not anywhere but in hometown that North Carolina. Let's keep the vernacular of our beautiful state here and let's keep talking about the wonderful things we have. And then also, look at unique eating experiences, maybe even unique eating guests so that when you have friends and family come into town, you book that table. We'll get you in. Have other places here available. Maybe we can have meetings or setups or the farmer's market. Pull people together here in a central space. And then let's move people out into the zoo in unique ways. Walt Disney said, happy people have happy feet. Well, six miles of trails at North Carolina Zoo is not necessarily conducive to happy feet. So let's get you off your feet in the round. Now what happens while you're out there and you've done your night safari, you've booked that, but while you're there you see this unique space jutting up out of the woods. You don't know quite what it is, but you can see that there's eating areas kind of off these verandas that have got great views and in fact what you find is an exclusive upscale 100 bedroom spa and resort that in the morning you could actually have breakfast with animals like this. Wouldn't that be wonderful to be booking that way out in advance? Can't you just see an entire wedding party booking this so that they have their wedding and then they also get up in the morning and have breakfast with a giraffe? Of course we'll keep our existing favorites. Those are the animals you know and you love. They're there. They'll be with us forever. They're wonderful. But then while you're there, maybe you hear some unique things going on and you find out that we're actually having an entertainment center. Some sort of amphitheater that brings people in, maybe 10,000 of them for a bluegrass concert or rock concert or even anything that you might find particularly interesting, the point is, is bringing a lot of people in at one time and then when they're done, they spill over into the community to spend their dollars and put heads and beds. When they get up the next morning after their great event, let's take them into the woods at the zoo. 2,000 acres of woods can do some cool things and let's have these great experiences through those woods. High climbing adventure, but how about once you've done your hiking and your biking, the whole point of the space is to get to Purgatory Mountain. Now I know of no other zoo in the world that has a mountain right in the middle of it, and we do. Going on from there, we know that the zoo is all about conservation, education, and really important biological, important things that go on out there. We would continue that effort, conservation and action, continue our education outreach, but we would also get you nose to nose and up close. You know, those are the kind of pictures that people moms especially show. Their future daughters-in-law of when their son got chewed on by a goat. Phase 5 is going to be a renovations and upgrade. What about a conference center? What about increasing our education center to include international folks and make it a bigger place? And then what happens if we're able to create a lower expense extended stay experience, maybe a three star hotel that we currently don't have in other places. This is a partnership opportunity or other activities like camping. And then finally, you know we just completed our polar bear exhibit. Well, by the time we get done with that, on my hero probably is, why does that polar bear? But it will be time to renovate that again. But let's do it in a new and unique way. How about if we make sure that we have animals that need protection, but let's give you the experience? Maybe you could actually swim with the manatees. Get nose to nose with stellar seals, walruses. The whole point is we want to create a nature-based experience next second to none. You see, when you go to Disney, Disney is a fabulous place to go to. It's big, and it's someplace you put on, I want to do list. But when you get down there, it's all artificial. Think about it. Everything's concrete, everything's built, everything's designed. That's cool. It's a neat experience. Here, our immersion is just in the natural landscape you already have. And the other part is that if we were able to do this, it would be like bringing in a manufacturing plant of 1 a thousand employees. Yet we'll never leave the state. And so that, folks, is the vision of what maybe could happen. And the whole point of this is lots and lots of cool ideas. Let's get going with them, but it's us together. It's that public and private partnership. Public and private partnership, I talked about in the very beginning, that created the zoo in the first place, and it's gonna be what takes the zoo to the future. Thank you. Thank you. Assembly, any questions of the council? That's impressive. John and I saw that last week, a couple of weeks ago, and it was so impressive. We thought the rest of the group ought to see it. And we appreciate you coming tonight and sharing that with us. It's a lot of hard work putting the vision of that magnitude together. Tonight, we also have two special guests that are should have introduced in the beginning but Deputy Director of North Carolina Zubanjom Pee was here in support of this and our Tammy O'Kelly who is our tourism director, tourism development authority director and I want to publicly commend you for being appointed to her third consecutive term as the chairman of the North Carolina Tourism Council. Hold state life. We've got one of the best tourism people in the whole state right here in Randolph County. Thank you. Okay. Councilor is there any item on the consent agenda that you would like to remove from the eventual discussion? Hearing none, I will entertain the motion to approve the consent agenda as presented Mayor I move we approve the consent agenda as presented Motion from mr. Berks. Do I have a second? Mr. Swears Discussion all the papers say aye all opposed. Thank you motion carries First item in our community to develop. Item six is only in case RZ16-02. The legislative zone hearing on the applicant to reach zone proper and locate it. 11, 12 South Cock Street. Just to know them. Thank you, Mayor. Before I begin, for those in Cochistry. Just to know. Thank you, Mayor. Before I begin, for those in the audience who are planning to speak this evening and are not identified on the agenda, if they would, if they could please clearly print their name so that the city clerk can accurately spell them for, spell those folks in the minutes. That would be helpful. Tonight's Resonant Request is to a general use district. Therefore, it involves only a legislative action of the council. No need for a sworn testimony this evening. This is a request filed by Tina Asbill, a property owner of the property at 1112 South Cox Street. This is a request to rezone the property from the ONI, Office of the Institutional District to Medium Density Residential District, which is the R7.5 District. There is one parcel ID number involved in this request. The property is just over 19,000 square feet in size. Currently there is a single family residence on the property. If you look at the history, the zoning history on this property, this property was re-zoned from R7.5 to 0.9 back in 2007. So this is a request to take it back to the preceding district. On the screen, I have kind of a big picture of the zoning pattern in the area. The subject property is outlined in red. If we zoom in a little closer, you can kind of see the zoning in the area. This property is a low, low, and high. And then we have R7.5 directly around it in all directions. But you can see some of the office and apartment and conditional use office and higher density residential district that kind of characterizes what you see as you go down South Cox Street with a mixture of houses and office type uses. I've included a topographic map as we always do. There's nothing that were the in terms of photography on the site. I will note that this is in here three of the center city planning areas. So there are some overlay standards and heightened design standards in this area of the city. The area of photo gives you an idea of the development pattern in the area. See this is just south of Stowe Avenue. And real close to where Dr. Walker is developing his office on South Cox Street. There is a subject property seen from South Cox Street. It's the view looking north back towards town on South Cox Street and this is the view looking south towards Dixie Drive. Look at some analysis on the request. I'll note that South Cox Street is state maintained. It is a minor thoroughfare. It's important, as we always do, to note, when a property goes from residential to non-residential, that sometimes that leads to some non-conformities with current uses. And that was a case here that single family residential use became legal non-conforming as soon as that office and an institutional zoning was applied. That has some limitations on expansion and sometimes on financing from somebody were looking to purchase the property. This will eliminate that issue. This is in a city activity center which just recognizes that there's a mixture of uses that compatible need to remain compatible to be successful. Primary growth area, we have all city services obviously in this area. We look at the city's land development plan for some guidance on other goals and support negative towards requests and find several that were supportive. We don't really believe there's any negative towards this request. That leads us to recommend that this property be rezoned back to the single family residential district that's requested. We have several, you know, plan elements that support that. The plan of board reviewed this request last month and also made this application forward with positive recommendations. I would believe for the reason I mentioned that this is a reasonable use after rezoning and it is consistent with our LAP and recommend approval. Thank you. Any questions or a missed another? Okay, is anyone in the audience who would like to address council regarding this request? Okay, we'll move to the deliberative phase. Councilor, what are your wishes? I heard based on the staff recommendation and evaluation of the consistency statement, I moved that we approved the request. Well motion to approve Mr. Cabarreal, do I have a second? Thank you. Second Mr. Carter in discussion. Mr. Murray, I would just add a comment on the area of our country, Central Business District, six four years continued to be in transitions. It's been over several years. And I support this request, if this is what the land on the Wies is, that's fine. But I would just kind of throw out of my thoughts that the college should have commented. I wouldn't see this as an impediment to others continuing with the office and institutional utilization of the properties in that area Moxford directs vacations will be it up just all that share Thank you We have a motion to approve this request. All of them say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Is that helpful? Mayor, just for the record, that was a combined motion to approve the request and the evaluation of the consistency statement. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The clerk has noted it. OK. Item 6B. Acknowledgement of receipt. No, I'm sorry. Consideration of a request to extend the town of La La La between the preliminary and final flat subdivision reviews for Springwood Town O. Thank you, Mayor. The City subdiv Southern Vision ordinance requires that final plat be submitted within 12 months of a preliminary plat approval unless the council grants an extension. In this case, the council last approved a preliminary for the Springwood Town Home project, which is at the end of Springwood Road, at your meeting in March of last year, the owner and their agent has filed a request for an extension that time. They are developing that project now, so we would recommend the council grant that extension. Any questions? I will entertain a motion to grant that extension. Mr. Murrow, do we grant the extension of the request? No motion. Mr. Loffitt, do I have a second? Second. Second, Mr. Berks. Any discussion? All the favourites say aye. All opposed? Thank you, motion carries. I will open a public here and to obtain citizen input on the identification of economic needs and desire economic development activities as part of the City of Ashworth potential submission that will community develop a lot of ground applications. Thank you, Mayor. Prior to the city's submission of any application for funding through CDBG program. We must first hold a public hearing to receive input on any possible project and how the CDBG funds would be used. We have been looking for some time at the Technomor real project as one that can be supported by this program, meets the program for Rameters, which I'm going to put up on the screen right now. If you think back we've actually held a couple of public hearings on this project. We were anticipating getting an application to the Department of Commerce late last year. It's taken a little bit longer for the railroad and Technomorph to come to terms on their lease, which is what we need to move forward with the application. Happy to report to that has finally been finalized. So we do anticipate being able to move forward. Hopefully next month, we'll just have to wait to see. But in order to do that, we wanted to go ahead and have a hearing just to make sure that we're following the proper process to do so. The council knows just for the public, this is a project that will construct a railroad spur to serve Technomarx new facility up on West Central Avenue. Everyone knows Technomarx is headquartered here in Ashbro. It's one of the largest plastic injection motors in the U.S. If we receive this funding, we're looking for $490,000 in CDBG funds to construct that rail spur. Under the program, 60% of new hires would be required to benefit low-end moderate income. That's part of the requirement of that funding, economic development funding. This is a $26 million investment that Technomark is making here in Ashbro. So we are supportive and hoping to get that application into the department here shortly. But now would be a time air to allow comments, if any, from the the floor about this application. Thank you Mr. No. Any questions? Mr. No. Thank you. Is anyone in the audience that would like to address the council tonight on this item involving CDBG funding or any economic development needs. Okay. Now what do you need? You don't need any action. We don't need any action. The council's already authorized us to submit it. We just have rehearing this this step of the process so thank you close your hearing to item six D and speed limit request from the OT thank you mayor the DOT is asked for city concurrence to raise the speed limit on hold and see how we 49 as that roadway merges on to NC 49. I can see the fire truck coming, so I'm going to wait for it. I think, you're wrong. Sorry, I think Chief Wright does this to me. I'm in the process. When the last time that I just heard somebody come by here every single day. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. You have a short agenda. But you clear it's eight o'clock. But anyway, this is looking to raise a speed limit on old 49 as it merges on to 49 at our western city limits. The state has indicated some safety concerns due to the differences. If you've been out there, you'll know that the speed limits on the two merging roadways are different. Theot is requesting that the city concur with raising the speed limit on old NC 49 to match that of highway 49 so that the vehicles can be merging at similar speeds, which they believe and we would believe are safer. Following the merge both lanes would then begin the 35-mile-hour reduction at the same point that's currently on there for Highway 49. No change to 49. Speed limits is requested. It's a little hard to see, but the early area in Brightred is the area to be affected by this Requestion Council concur. But we would recommend adoption by reference of the ordinance the city attorney has prepared for your consideration this evening. Any questions? You all have the copy of the proposed ordinance in your packet. A little entertaining motion approved by a reference. May I move you to adopt the ordnance by reference? I will motion by Mr. Bell, but I have a second. Okay. Take a miss card. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. Motion carries. I will pose motion carries item 68. You're going to tell us about a long pool. Yes sir. Yes sir. The North Carolina Housing Financial Agency has announced that it is accepting applications from eligible agencies for its, what they call their essential single family rehabilitation loan pool program. This is a program that addresses essential repair needs to owner occupied homes with low to moderate income residents who also meet certain special need criteria, and those criteria, those income criteria is that the household be below or less than 80% of the area median income. This is, I'm going to mention our urgent repair program here in a bit in the update on where we stand, but this is a very similar program to that. The nice thing about this program is that the criteria is a little more flexible. So both in terms of needs and in terms of income thresholds for applicants, this is a more flexible program. Like the Urgent Repair Program, special needs include the elderly, disabled, children exposed to lead hazards. But it also now includes veterans as qualifying persons. So it adds that to the criteria that would make one eligible assistance of up to $25,000 is provided to homeowners via deferred, zero percent interest, subordinate mortgages, which are also forgiven like the urgent repair program, but in this case, for given at a rate of $3,000 per year. Agency's within Randolph County are eligible to apply, but only one entity can be awarded per county. Funding starts at $175,000 as a set aside for this program, and then there's the ability to seek more funding if you go through that initial allotment. The primary challenge that we have for this program, which is where it's a little different than the urgent repair, is that unlike that program, the recipients who receive the funding have to serve the entire county. So as, in the case of the urgent repair, we were able to just operate within the city limits. And under this program, they're looking for operation throughout the county, which I completely agree with. We got flooded with calls from folks out in the county where seeking assistance with our repair phones that we could not help. So, you know, we're typically limited in operating within the city limits. So we're going through to see if we can't maybe partner with another agency here in the county to seek that funding and then maybe be kind of somewhat of a sub applicant and administer the program here in in Nashville. So it's a pretty tight time frame to get this in we have to apply by Early next month, so we need to find a partner pretty quick But we're gonna talk to the county and and maybe some other municipalities to see if we can do this But good program we we are hopeful that we can maybe bring some money here. Just to update you on our current urgent repair program, this is the program that provided $50,000 from the Housing Finance Agency in the city provided a match of $5,000 to that assisted us in getting this award. We have seven recipients that have been selected by the Redevelopment Commission using our assistance policy. We have four applicants that are currently on the waiting list. We opened BIDS last month. Four of those seven projects, we received BIDS from three different contractors on all seven, which was nice. For two of the homes, negotiated final terms. Each of the bids was higher than what we're able to spend because these homes are pretty rough shape. So we're going through the process and we've already done so with two to identify what are the most critical of the critical needs and we've done and so we hope to be able to do that with the other five by the end of the month. We're looking at average repair costs of about $7,100 per home under this program, but these folks are very low to low income households that don't have resources to make these critical repairs. So this is also a good program that's underway now. Well, the benefit of the audience would you just pretty much highlight some of the types of repairs we're dealing with there. Well most of the repairs deal with water intrusion in one way or another. A lot of roof repairs that were looking at are waterproofing because they have several of these homes that have had water intrusion for quite a while. Water bathroom floors right. Bathroom floors. We've had we have some pretty dire electrical situations too that we're looking at. The bathroom floor is right. The bathroom floors. We've had, we have some pretty dire electrical situations too that we're looking at. So it kind of, it's a pretty broad variety, but they're really, they are essential type of areas. There's no cosmetic or aesthetic type of repairs that are going on here. These are really structural type of issues that we're trying to make. And the intent of the program is to keep them from being injured or from having to leave their home and to go somewhere else. Thanks, sir. Any questions of travel regarding urgent repair? I just like to say this is an opportunity because those other applicants that are on the waiting list that we currently have possibly be rolled over and to if we can get the rent money on the other an opportunity to cover those other four as well as negotiating with another entity and maybe being able to help those others that were desperately in need of some stuff that happened in the county. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Nohling. Oh, Council, you all have in front of you a copy of an article. I want to share with you a little bit. And the business North Carolina might have been marked as a nation. It's titled Jerry's World, but it's really about downtown Ashboro. It's how I liked the lot of the improvements that made me downtown Ashboro in the last few years. Really interesting little article. Three pages talks about the new restaurants. It talks about some of our old restaurants. It talks about the theater and a lot of the things that we're so proud of downtown Ashboro. So if you have a chance to read it, I would recommend that. That was a point in time for public comment periods. And what anyone in the audience that like to address is helpful tonight on the matter of cities. And your floor really, I'm excited to take it out for you and be quickly to set the thank the council for having had your time. And also, thank you for passing the resolution and support of the PICC and I'm looking forward to contacting next Tuesday or maybe next Wednesday. I'm saying that, we have so much money to move for the zoo and up on one of our RCCs. I thank you very much for your help. I want to mention the millions for water and sewer infrastructure statewide. This is important to our state. We can... I heard on TV though, they... This is similar to your mortgage on your home. You borrow the money up front and you make payments on over the years. This is what we're trying to do with the Connect NC bond package. It allows us to do a lot of repair quickly that we would possibly never be able to do if we had to pay for it over there as the money came to me. So I would encourage each and every one of you to go to the polls and please support. I'm going to connect to a kind of bond. Thank you. Anyone on your silver like to address the council? And I know, go ahead Mr. Brown, come on up. You'll need to sign the book, print your name there. And anybody who speaks will need to print their name in the book simply for the purposes of correct spelling for our written row. All right, it looks like you guys are pretty busy tonight, so I'm not going to take up a lot of your time. I know you'll appreciate it, especially if you're an ACC fan. You haven't had a team playing tonight, you probably want to get home and watch that. But I'm here to talk to you tonight and I don't know if all of you know me, my name's Bill Valentine. I'm a retired loan boss for all of us and my passion and my love is Ashworth. I love Ashworth and more than that I love the Ashworth Police Department because I got my start right here in I was before Clark Bale was an attorney. And I never was. I was never a mom. But I started with Ashford Police Department 1977. I came in detective. I left in 89. I went over to the Sheriff's Department for about a year. Now I got on with the state with the license in February. I spent the next 20 years with them so I retired for 34 years. One of my passions of course is law enforcement. Now what I want to talk to you guys about tonight to the council is the need that and I've talked to chief by this for a new police department. I don't know how many of you's been over lately to the police department and toward the department, but I would encourage you to do that. I went over there last week and looked through the department. In 1991, I believe it was, when they moved over there, I had just left the police department. And they had, we were already talking amongst ourselves, we had already outroomed the department, the building before we got in. And at that time, they were only supposed to be in there 10 years. Now I'd already left. I went to the sheriff's department like I said. But in 91, 10 years, I mean, you know, they've been in there a long time. And when you go in there, it's just amazing how everything has broke up. There's no continuation to anything inside that department. Now in 1989 when I left, and I could be wrong on these figures because I'm going from memory, and you know, if you look at my my hair my memory is not good as it should be but there were about 30 employees with the police department counting everybody. Well right now they have almost 90 employees over there in that building. Now of course they're not all in there at one time and we realize that but the thing of it is is in order for the police department to grow and to do the job that needs to be done in the city of Ashboro is time to start talking about it. Now I know that a new police department is not going to be built next year's budget understanding and I've had a chief understand that. But now some time for the City Council. You guys to start talking about this and entertaining that idea. It's not to win the need is there and you gotta do something quick. Now it's a time to do that and I would encourage you to do that. I had a lot more I'd like to say I'm not going to say it. I would like to say this though is that I have a plan. I have a small plan. Whether you take it or not I don't care but it's a plan and I hope you get I hope it gives you thinking but my thinking is this. Out of the budget the City of Ashboro has, you could take a minute amount, $250,000 a year, and set that aside starting next year. In five years, that's $14 million. You've got set aside towards a new police department. During that five-year period, you can be talking about it, deciding what you want to do, where are you going to be? My idea is you build a place for me on North Federal Street, somewhere between Kibba Drive and Preston Street. That way you've got easy access to all the citizens of the city. And I know that's a lot, that's expensive property, I understand it. But that's mine. But the whole thing is this. You can't keep waiting. This has been pushed down the road. The can has been kicked and kicked. I don't even know if anybody's talked about it at all. I have no idea. Now it's a time. I would encourage you guys to start talking about it. They need a new building. In order to serve the City of Ashbur, they need a new building to keep us safe. He can't even get his people in the building. They have a meeting room just outside the lobby area. When you walk into the lobby, you go into the next room. It's a conference room. It holds 20 people. He's got 89 employees. He can't even meet with everybody at one time. And then as he has a meeting in that room, everybody in the lobby can hear what he's talking about. There's no secrecy there. And he needs secrecy for some of the things he calls loud. It's just one of the issues there with that building. Evidence, they've got seven evidence rooms. They house between 10 and 12,000 pieces of evidence in seven different rooms. One of the rooms is way down the hallway and other six is where we're here on this end of the building. It's just not conclusive of what the police for our needs. So this is a whole thing. I want to encourage each of you to get together. Start bouncing ideas off each other, talk to each other. It's a real need. Fortunately, it's not a critical need right now. There might be some place holes, because it's say different. But it's not a critical need now. But it needs to be talked about, it needs to be discussed. And I think that if you do that, starting now, then in five years or so, you'll see that it was an easier decision in waiting until the crutch of things when you have to do it right then either because of a federal mandate or whatever. Grant money. Maybe there's some grant money I don't know what I do know is this. I'll come to you with ideas, but it's Charles to find the money without raising taxes. But I saw I've got to say it. I don't know if any of you have any questions in office. Any questions Mr. Ballantown, you're exactly right. That building was, they agreed that building when they moved into it. And in the life of a 200 and a 200 year old plus city a 10-year plan is not adequate. When we buy a building or build a building or do any kind of planning, we need to be talking 25 to 50 years and not 10 to 15. So that, unfortunately, turned out to be a case we are aware and we do talk about the need. Fortunately, it's not a critical need in this point, but it's fast becoming a critical need. And I would prefer you to use the word privacy and not secrecy. I understand. I understand. Okay. Thank you, sir. We will take your comments under advisement and I know that the manager is constantly planning ahead. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in audience who would like to address the council? I just want to say one thing. If we get everything in the zoo done, we are going to need a bigger poster. Thank you. That's all I have to say. Well, unfortunately, unfortunately, the need if the police department is going to be dreaming about a lot more than the zoo. I mean, it's society in general is driving at me. And who would have guessed 15 years ago that we'd have almost 90 employees and most of those are sworn officers. And Chief, you do a good job for us. Thank you, sir. Proud of you. Okay, we will close the public comment period and move on to item 8. Michael Anderson, the engineering, 8. As a petition from Habitat. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We have received a petition from Frannexations from Habitat Humanity of Randolph County for approximately 0.63 acres of land. On a located at 832 P. Street Street, you have in your packets of resolutions prepared by the city attorney, the directs of city clerk to take the required action. We recommend adoption by reference. Any questions? I'll entertain a motion to adopt my reference if you are so inclined. Mayor, I move that we adopt my reference. Thank you, Mr. Birx. Do I have a second? Second. Second, Mr. Moffeck. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Thank you, motion carries. Did we just take care of a two- I didn't wear it. We'll need to get here in the second. All right. Go ahead, Michael. In anticipation of your action, the city clerk is prepared a certification of sufficiency of the petition. And in a lot of certification, you have in front of you the resolution prepared by the city attorney, setting the public hearing date for April 7, 2016. City Council meeting on the question requesting the annexation and we recommend adoption of our reference. I'm going to take a motion to approve adoption by reference. We also move that we adopt this by reference. Motion will have Mr. Burke's. I have a second. Second. Mr. Moffitt, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Most precarious. The item 8B consideration or resolution requesting a legislative enactment to DNX, certainly property owned by Pamela Cidon-Cannon. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. As you just stated in order to DNX, legislative action is required. You have in your package resolution a question requesting such legislative enactment to DNX approximately 4.56 acres on by families of North Cannon near 49, OVNC, Highway 49 South, and we recommend adoption by reference. Okay, just for the education of the audience, this is a piece of property this homeowner outside the city limits obtained that was part of a larger industrial tract that was inside the city limit. It was actually a back door connection to a different road and the company decided to sell it. The owner bought it. It is outside the city limits. Her house is outside the city limits but the property that sold all the business that sold all was in the city limits. And we discussed this last week. Everybody had counsel. I mean, last month. The council hall is aware. So council, where are you wishing? I mean last month the council hall is aware so council or your wishes There are moved we adopt resolution to DNH Mr. So exempt that satisfy you yes, okay. Thank you. Do I have a second? Thank mr. Sawyer's Any questions come in on favor say aye. I'll post some carries thank you Okay Item 9 is Keller We have with us tonight, Lena Keller, who is volunteer with the Enane Society, Rand Milk County. She's going to talk to the council regarding tethering. You all have received the packet from John. These are pictures and information that I send in to you. I want to thank you for letting me discuss the problems that affect the city of Ashboro and Randolph County and is the issue of tethering of dogs. I've been active in animal rescue and Randolph County for 12 years. And this is an ongoing problem that can be easily solved. Many North Carolina counties have outlawed tethering dogs already, and Randolph County has taken a step to better the lives of these dogs that have been suffering with the neglect and abuse on the end of the chain. The longer it takes you to make the decision to take these, let these dogs get off their chain. The longer they suffer. And I guarantee you they suffer when I am out in these places, you just couldn't even believe the mentality of people not having a doghouse for their dog. Why? Because the tree, it's tied to the tree. It's OK. That's its shelter. And that's just not good enough. And this has been going over years and years and years. As I deliver shavings every winter, it brings it up on me. It really makes me get fired up because I'm out there. People will message my Facebook page or call in on our Humane Society line and they'll say there's a dog tied out in the rain, no shelter or it's freezing, it's sitting out there shivering and we take shavings to them. And it really helps because it helps me get in the door. When you give somebody something free, they open up a little bit more and then we say, how can we help you make this better? I've taken the tire and rubber companies over there. They save plastic barrels for me and I cut them, I cut the lids off and washed them out and we use those stag houses for people that have none. And we will take them out. And the Humane Society will purchase the shavings for us. And then I go out and deliver. I deliver the last three years that I've delivered. Ashboro Animal, or I'm sorry, the Humane Society will purchase the shavings for me, but it's on my own time and my own gas money that I go out and deliver this and take the chance to get yelled at or, you know, and I yell back. So I'll say, I'll get you fired and I'll say, no you won't, I'm a loan to yours. But I do, I get pretty fired up when I go out and I see a dog that's in such distress. And they just suffer a very, a very special kind of neglect. Most of the time, no food and no water also, but also no love, no attention. They get these puppies for their kids. And the puppy grows up and nobody wants to train it, so it ends up out on the end of the chain, and they don't care about it. Sometimes it's in the county too, like it is the humane sight of Randolph County, but we're everywhere. We're in every city. I pull dogs from Ashvar, we pull dogs from the shelter. A dog right now is waiting for me to pick up tomorrow morning at Ashboro Animal. She's pregnant, ready to drop puppies and it was in the city, down toward South Fayetteville Street, toward McDermott Street. Down in that area, she was running around by the, the main, the habitat for humanity building. Somebody, and I asked somebody to please get her and hold her onto her and they called me too late yesterday but I, she called me again this morning. I said take her to Asheville animal, we'll get her heartworm tested. What I do is I volunteer, I'll take that dog into my home. She will have her puppies at my house. I will get them vaccinated, dewormed, get them ready for adoption, and I will get them adopted out, and we always fix mommy and have her adopted out. We never leave a mommy behind. Also, if I get overwhelmed, if I get sick with the flu or something we do have the ability to transport our puppies up to Martin's bird Martin's field SPCA Now we we don't get any monies everything we put into the dog our vaccines and our deworming and our time in our love We transport them up there and that's that. We have no say where they go. A lot of times, North Shore Animal League comes down from New York because they don't have the problems that we have down here with the puppies being born in the countryside. So they want our puppies up there. So they'll come down there to get them. As I go through the pictures that I had sent you, Gracie, I went out to these people's house and it was down on First Street last summer. And I walked out and all I was going to do was give these people some fleeing medicine. But when I saw her, I couldn't leave her there. She was the first picture. Her neck was so infected. She had such mange and bacterial infection. I told them that they either would they surrender her to me and I explained to him how expensive it was going to be. And I said, and I explained to him how expensive it was going to be and I said and I will be calling on control and I said your other two dogs back there in the pen. I'm sure they're not have rabies and you'll be fined. I said so what would you like to do? Oh you can take her. I'm there good. I am a chainer and I put her in my car and I take her. So that was in the city. Litters all the time, we take puppies and Marie, Marie, Chrisco. She helps me a lot. We share the responsibility. She's got big yard. And we go over there and we sit in the late summer and all these puppies are run around. And we get them healthy and happy and we ship them to Martinsville. And the next little guy that I showed you was Goober. Goober coming my yard. And if next little guy that I showed you was Goober. Goober coming my yard. And if a dog makes it to my yard, he doesn't make it out. He was so filthy and dirty. And he had this really stinky leather collar and this chain hanging down. And I didn't name him Goober at first. And they're like, oh my God. So I taught him and I got him in my pen. I have a small pen out bath that I put the rescues in. Well, after I got him a bath and I took his collar off and he was so sweet and he was just so goofy. And I named him Goober. Eventually he went in my house and it took him a while. He didn't like being inside. He didn't know what that was. And he would breathe really heavy and he was like over, but a week he was taking my spot on the couch and he took me over. But that tells me they have learned to trust a human. If he takes my spot on the couch, he's trusting. Next little girl was Delilah. Somebody called and she was at a construction site, hanging there. No food, no water. She didn't have anything. And I went out there and oh my God, she was just horrific. And it took me a lot of catcher, but I took food out and I lay down. It was really weird. This was really funny. I just watched something on my Facebook page about a little girl. They couldn't catch a dog and she started whining and crying. And the dog came over to her. I lay down and I started whining and crying. And then damn dog came over to me. I'm there. Oh my God. So I grabbed it. I heard it up and got the leash over. And she's watching. She was eating and we took her home. But we had to use the nice herb. But she was off the street at least and she was too old and she was a little too far gone that we couldn't save her. Next, my next little dog and all these, you guys know all these, these are less than a year that I'm telling you about. These are all within probably six months that I've done this. Penny was a little fat little pregnant thing up at the shelter and they call me and they said they got this little pregnant girl. I said all right I'm coming up I have an opening. So I take her home and she has her babies in about a couple weeks and the shelter manager, John Cosmean, she says Lena that lady that surrendered her dog, Penny, she wanted to know what you were gonna do with her after you had, after she had her puppies. And I'm there like, hmm, I said, give her my number and I'll see, because I wasn't sure at the time. I'm thinking she ain't getting this damn dog back. But I thought after I went through all the puppies and I got them adopted and I got her fixed, I thought, you know what, let me see how Penny meets, acts when I meet her. So I had her meet me at Ashbro Animal. And when Penny saw her, she was so happy, happy to see her. And I thought, all right, this dog can go back to its owner. Normally, I rarely do that, but normally, I did that that time. All right. And the next little guy is the four little bookers that were at Randolph County Animal Shelter, barely able to eat themselves. And they're sitting in the office and they're great shivering. And I went up there for another dog. And I looked at Dean and I said, do you want me to take those dogs? She said, really? I said, I can't leave them here. So I ended up taking six dogs out there that day. And I'm a very responsible rescuer. I do not pass on a bad dog. Whenever this dog angel came into my care, she's the white pit bull. She thought I was going to beat her. Every day I would go out and she thought I was going to beat her. Every day I would go out and she thought I was going to beat her down. And she was really good and she was fine. We had the babies and she'd grow a little bit and nobody else could touch the babies but me. And we were doing pretty good and I thought she was going to be okay. But the cat went into garage and she was in a baby pool. I put them in a baby pool. I picked up the cat and she went for the cat and I went like this to protect the cat and she beat me. And I am a firm believer that once a dog either attacks and kills another animal or bites a person, there's too many nice ones out there and I took her up the shelter and I cried and Renee Bryant was up there and she says you're okay and I'm there like no, I have some put angel down and she's there. What's the matter? And I told her she bit me but it broke my heart because it really wasn't her fault. It's just these people, the mentality and this is what we have to deal with in day in and day in and day out with the Humane Society. The next set of puppies in the woods I call, there is this dog down on North Fayetteville Street, Beasley Road. Every year I take a litter of puppies out of there. I have tried the crate. We put a dog crate in there. Put her puppies, the night before, they were only day old. Stuck them in the crate. I left for the day. 10 o'clock at night I go out there. She would not go in that crate. I had to take those puppies out of the crate, put them back in the tree trunk. So every year, can't catch her. Every year we take, we call them puppies in the woods. I get a litter or two. Most of the time it's just one, though. And we get them adopted out and get them healthy. But this is all stuff that a lot of the stuff happens in the city. And I want you to be aware of that. It's just not Randolph County. There's a lot of bad situations in Randolph City. That's why I kind of want to speak to you and show you the packet because visual aids. I hope it helped. When somebody tells you this dog, this is horrific out there or horrific down there. You don't get it until you actually see it. I have stopped at over 40 chain-top dogs since Randolph County did their voted on their course. So I stop and I go to every house, even though I don't know. Sometimes I know it's in the city, but I go to see the situation. Sometimes I don't know. Sometimes I know it's in the city, but I go to see the situation. Sometimes I don't know it could be on the board or I'm not sure. But I do go, but I have stopped at over 40 in Randolph County so far, that have dogs unchanged. The last call I got that I wasn't sure whether it was in the city or not, but come to find out I did. It was on Pennwood Avenue, that's in the city. They have horses, but it's horrific. I walked in there, and the person told me it was terrible, and I thought, well, I'm gonna go check. When I pulled up, I was like, oh my God. Gave them shavings, gave both houses, they're Hispanic people, both of them. But I snuck the pictures because I wanted to be able to show Mickey from animal control. I messaged him and sent him the pictures and I said, would you check this out? And he went there and he told me he said, other than the white horse being a little on the way, there's no, they're not being illegal. I'm there shortly we can do something. So I ask you as city managers to make some stronger laws so that they can't do stuff like this. There's plastic stuff, broken plastic all through the yard that the horse must chew on. I don't know, and the dogs, it's just terrific. course must chew on. I don't know, and the dogs, it's just terrific. So I asked, we need stronger laws. Like Mickey said, he can't do anything. He's been out there several times. Nothing he can do though. As far as he's concerned, everything's okay, not good, but okay, and he has no recourse. So that's one of the things I ask you to do to make a stronger animal welfare laws. And the last picture, John, only sent you the one. It was with the wire in the neck. I don't think you guys got to see all four of them. That dog's neck was so rotten and stunk so bad, she'd come off a mothat road. And we picked her up and the people just didn't care. She had the wire hanging. It was late at night. We cut the wire off the best we could with wire cutters. And the next morning took her to Ashboro Animal. She had to stay there for a couple weeks. But it's from chaining a dog with a wire, you know those wire tethers, the thin wire teth, they decided to wrap that around her neck and that was her chain. So we just need stronger laws and I really hope I just wanted to make sure that you've seen the pictures, visual effect, and that you vote for a resolution to get these dogs unchanged from their whore that they have to deal with every day, day in and day out. Oh, and one other thing just so you know this one too. We offer any dog that's tied outside a free voucher, a spanute voucher from in them from Humane Society. Nobody wants it. They want to breed. So a lot of these dogs are just for the purpose of breeding. They don't want them in their house. They want the dirt and the puppies and the stuff to be outside. But we do offer it. They don't accept it. But thank you for your time, and I appreciate it. I know I was laying down. Thank you, Elena. Do you personally familiar with any areas of the country that do differential licensing? No. We do. I can look it up. Would you like me to check in? Yeah, differential licensing is a deterrent to people that claim to want to breed. Right. You pay all dogs or licensed or take a casing. You pay $5 for one that's fixed, spayed or neutered, and $ or $50 for one that's not. Yes, I have a different license saying it is a somewhat of a deterrent. The big problem with that is enforcement. You know, enforcement is always the issue and that's the issue we have in Randall County. Well, while the county did an anti-tankering ordinance, it's almost impossible to enforce without people like you going to make an end to their vacuaries in five minutes. But I'm telling you, I am a pretty much a pit bull myself and it would have never got passed if I didn't. I was in front of the board nine times. I started my track of January 2015, and I went in front of the board every month, and I said, I'm back. You know. Maybe we can fix that here tonight. Oh, okay. Yes. A few more minutes. All right. Great. You know, I have, I'm fostering two dogs right now myself, my wife is. She is, but I am. We know who loves her. But we do have a problem. We do have an issue. And unfortunately, and it's not just in animal control, it's in code enforcement and so many other things we do. We are in a position, by themselves in a position where it's impossible, almost impossible to legislate good sense, proper conduct, and concern for others. And as much as we try. And so we're going to, we have an ordinance tonight that we're going to discuss next. Okay. And maybe you won't have to keep coming back. Okay. But I appreciate your work. I know. And I want to clear up one thing. You say it, it wasn't exactly clear for the record. I want to make sure that the record shows that you guys adopt out a lot of animals. You're sales through SPCA and human society. You don't send all of your animals to my house. Oh no, we only do it if we're overwhelmed. We have two or three letters to deal with. Yeah. And the these two Saturdays ago at the PCA. So there are many of these puppies. Yeah, oh yeah. There are a lot. I have adopted out thousands. I've been doing this 11 years. Thousands of puppies have been through my household and have gotten adopted out. And I find good house for them. It is very true. What? There are not enough homes for all these animals. Right. We need to stop cleaning the mess up afterwards. We need to play a new game. We need to prevent this. And the human society solely thinks that span neuter is the answer. So all right. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is our animal control supervisor for the city of Ashbur. Russell, come on up and make your presentation, please. Everybody. I haven't met you yet. I'll get up with you after the meeting. This is my critical boss. Okay. That's what we need to be in. Tonight, well let me start over. Yesterday I met with the city attorney and the chief, and we went over some of the wording tonight. I'd like to discuss the anti-tethering regulation, which would fall in chapter 91, section 20 of the Asheville City Animal Control ordinance. Because we are, we fall inside of Randolph County, the attorney and I agreed that it would almost mere Randolph counties with one exception. And with the beginning, tethering means the act of time, chaining or restraining a dog, a fixed object with a rope, chain or other device in order to keep the dog confined. The owners may tether a dog or dogs for a reasonable period of time to allow for waste elimination or exercise. This is the meat of the ordinance. Exceptions to the tethering law would be an emergency situation, but it has to be found by an animal control unit to have a cause, to have been caused by unique circumstance triggered in isolated incident such as the house burnt down, tree fell on their fence, natural disaster of some sort or another and we would go out there and talk to the homeowners because when America Red Cross comes in they can't always take their dog to the hotel they were put in, so we will make an exception for the tethering at that point, or find another means to board the animal if the homeowner or the animal owner cannot afford to board it themselves. The exception to Randolph counties, the number four, the tethering of a dog on a 24-hour a day basis is unlawful. For the sole and limited purpose of evaluating the valedity of accessing a civil penalty pursuant to the provisions found in this chapter. The observation by an animal control officer of a tethered dog or dogs on the same property during the same approximate time of day, the approximate time would be, if I went out 1031 day and within an hour, say 1115 the next day on consecutive calendar days Shall be prime of face-up Evidence that the observed dogs have been unlawfully tethered for the 24 hour period And if this is approved it shall take effect Along with Randolph County January 1, 2017. And one story I would like to add to that, this would be an extra an additional tool in my bag to lawfully get me on the property before something bad happens. Evidence to that, this past Saturday I got a call to do a welfare check. A dog was tied out, tethered to the back porch, porch stood approximately four foot off the ground. When I arrived, the dog was dead. It had gotten twisted up tangled up and hung itself This was Saturday morning When I asked the owner of the dog when was the last time she checked on her dog She told me Wednesday With the tethered law, everyday citizen doesn't have to understand it, because all they're gonna hear is, Asheville City has an anti-tethered law. Soon as they see a dog tethered out, they're gonna call me, and I will be able to get there before the dog hangs itself. Thank you. Any questions? The way this ordinance is structured, we don't have to go at 9, 10, 11. We don't set time limits. Right. It's structured. You can't tell the right. Exactly. And then there's just a few exemptions. So like Russell said, he goes out of 10 tomorrow morning. And then the ordinance for 10 on January the second 27th, and goes back at 11 15th and next day, that's evidence. If the owner said, I took him in all night, you weren't out here, and you can't prove me. Don't have to. You can't tell you're done with that, except for certain exemptions. So that's why we're structured in that way. And I think that complies with what the council's goals were and what the do. As Royce will say, now we have a unique ability to partner with the main society and volunteers and we should take advantage of that. And we would, I'll tell you what, I would do it myself and I'm sure any of our members would. We would sit there for two or three hours and that's what you need and just to make sure in video. And then you can have the video in court and say, look, I mean, I'm waiting for the drop. Yeah, one clock at night if I needed to. Whatever it takes. But it's a recording also because when it has to be a little penalty, a little penalty. Yeah. Exactly. And then you can see where this primer facial is. I don't have to prove the dog was out there. They have to prove the dog was not. So it makes it a little easier on us to do the right thing. Yes, man. I have someone who's already contacted me on the street. They live on Megan Street. And the neighbor across the street keeps their dog tethered out there all day, barks all day and then at night they bring them in and the neighbors are elderly in that neighborhood. So what you're saying is the guy would have to prove, like if he put it out the next morning at 9 o'clock or 8 o'clock, and you come by at 10 o'clock and it's out there the next day at 10 o'clock, and he's going to have to prove, which he could by the neighbors saying, well, it does start barking and he takes it in every night, but it barks every day. I've been over there every day all the time till they come home. Yeah he would have to prove. There's some ordinances and other jurisdictions that put a exact time limit. You can't tether more than nine hours than a 24-hour period. That basically sets it up to where I have to sit on that house for 10 hours to make sure that Doug was out there for the 9 hours. Whereas with this one, I do not. Here's an alert reasonable period of time. We don't actually define reasonable period of time, but for exercise and waste of elimination it's certainly not for your forearms. No. And in my personal opinion, it would be one to two, but it all depends on the breed of the dog on how much they need of each. There's movement. I have something that contributes to exactly that argument. In the city of Randallman and the middle of downtown, there are some individuals that tie their dogs up 24-7. And so Chief Leonard approached them and said, we have an anti-tathering ordinance. The dogs can't be out for more than nine hours. How long have the dogs been out? Two minutes. And every time he's approached them, it's been just a few minutes. So I said, how do we fix this? I said, give them my name. I will help them build a fence. And he said, how do we fix this? I said, give them my name. I will help them build a fence. And he said, they don't want to build fence. So there's got to be a reason why to fix this. What can we do? And he said, I'll tell you from my perspective, the only way you're going to allow me to be able to enforce this is to say there is a zero-hour-definn ordinance. No hours are they able to be out unless extreme circumstances exist. And that was from the police chief. Ultimately, I would hope that at some point, down the road that we could get to a prohibition of tethering, unattended tethering, complete prohibition of tethering, unattended tethering, complete prohibition of unattended tethering, meaning that if you're out there with the dog, you can tell her, but if you leave the dog, you have to take the dog with you. It's reasonable. Common sense isn't always so common. For the record, I need you to identify yourself for the recording. I'm sorry, I didn't identify myself because I did not live in the city. My name is Renee Bryant, and I live in Randall, and I'm not here. Thank you. And I thank you for your time. Sure. Well, that's certain. I've identified yourself for the tape. We'll find out. OK. Can you pull that old extractor They are a part of yourself for the taper. Bill Valentine. Okay. Can you pull that ordinance back there? I have a foot there on the number three, which says about an emergency situation. Yes, sir. What's the present an emergency situation? No, no, no, no. I mean, I can see somebody with a tree falling on. Well, not to think about it, I've tried to abuse that law. But if it's a long thing I say, it continues for weeks. We would weeks would have to be, they would have to find another house. I would rather that they take the animal or something. But I'm talking, this circumstance, and the triggers and isolators that occur. Now that occurs, I've seen an ounce of air, take a last awhile before insurance companies know I'll get you in there. But like I said, we would work with the Amazon to money in place before the dogs, or they could find it relevant to move the dogs to. But immediately, if plenery, though we have, that's what we're going to have to go with until we make sure everybody and everything is safe and secure. And then we will worry about that later today. So emergency by definition is your temporary situation at a permanent nation. I understand. And I guess my concern was that I can see what people would try to have an emergency every day. Is that what you're trying to say? You have an emergency file. You can't enter it. So you have a $10 per unit. The dollar. The savings. But that would pretty much later for months. The dollar will be ten months. The dollar will be ten months. The dollar will be ten months. The dollar will be ten. I'm saying that. I'm just fine. I'm sorry. Well, people will be able to abuse that through the emergency. No, because I would have a report when I went out to that emergency call, and it would be a 24 to 48 hour period to correct the situation because in emergency the homeowner or the pet owner, their mind's not there, they're thinking, oh I've just lost everything in my world. So I'm going to give them a little bit of time to get settled back down before they have to correct the situation. You give or take it all depends on the circumstances and you murder them? Or be assessed on the individual basis? And I'm sure there's enough organizations out there would step in the hills. Yes, yes. That's right. If we were able to, like, get rid of all the other mess that we're trying to clean up, we would have, we would be able to put that out there. Yes, that's pretty sad. Well, it's just like you see it a lot of times they're not thinking about that animal at that time. The animal's safe. They're not thinking about that. They're thinking about everything. Okay. We need to be addressing the council. I'm sorry. You can't have a conversation back and forth. And I have a clarification on one thing that you've got number three up here. When you initially spoke to this, you said that we would provide shelter for the animal in that emergency situation. By we, who was we? As for a city is contracted with Randolph County animal shelter and I'm sure they would help. You know, and I would, I'm used to work for Randolph County animal shelter and animal control. And I know all those guys and we're all animal lovers. So I'm going to want to see you. I'm going to want to see you. Yes. And this PCA, you may have society, animal shelter. We'll find. And that's what I thought you meant. But I just want for clarification, say, when you said we will find shelter. We would provide shelter, I think, with your words. OK. Very good. I don't know the question. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. You identify yourself. My name's Ma'am Auxen-Dine. I'm a beside at I live in the city. I work with Ruggler Rescue, and we have taken in the last street. I have personally rescued six dogs who were either tethered, runnabloons, abandoned, and this lady has been on my street to two different residences that had dogs tethered. I'm the dog police. I can get down the street and I can spot a dog that's tethered out starving a mile away. We've gotten a lot of rescue, so our rescue, the display, has been on my street. On a positive note, maybe the people didn't know about the ordinance, but when she took the pie around, both those dogs got great blocks. Maybe there are a lot of people that would see abandoned, starved in the house, where I'm willing to take them in. Just totally starved in abandoned type of trees. But there are other cases on a positive note that possibly with a little education and some help. Those are people who have opportunity at the January 1st to be born to live in a warning or would it be an automatic fine. But some deserve the automatic fine. They truly think. This is going to fall in with our regular ordinance. And the first time we get caught out is a verbal warning. The second time we get caught out is a written warning and then it's a money citation after that. So this is just going to go straight into effect if passed by the board January 1st. That's a person has to be a home to get that morning. Can it be placed on their bill? If I know one family in my neighborhood. They may have issued a board to you guys anytime you ever call that. Well, we, uh, we have a new schedule. We work 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Sunday. I don't know that much. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. How many dogs can it hurt the the city own? Three dogs can a person in the city own. Three depending on their size of their property. Okay. So can you see one more? Unfortunately, unfortunately, there's oxygen there. We all know sitting in this room, those those that love animals know that certain people do actually love their animals and don't know how to take care of them. We also know that certain people should not own animals. We have two of the best animals that control officer working for us right now that love their job and do a good job for the citizens of Ashboro. City limits don't go quite as far as what you were thinking earlier today. We don't go all the way down through the Habitat building. Quite that far. But anyway, I think the enforcement is ordinance. It's a step in the right direction. These guys will be allowed. They will be given a new tool for the tool box, it will be allowed to use their discretion and determine if these people truly love their animal thing. Just don't know better or actually following the category where they should not own pets. And I know. I'm pretty good at animal control. Thank you. I'll see you in a good way. I'll have a free shake. Well, we're proud of what we were able to recreate when we got back into the business. We've got two guys here doing a good job. So, yes, ma'am. I just want to say that because Randolph County, they do, they're found with each call, and they resorting criminal charges that are open to their victims. Arzaskalay, it's all in our regional animal control ordinance that was passed when we started, and the penalties are going to go right in line with that. I feel like the firemen load, and they, they want to highlight that. All right, animal control over just 26 pages. This is just one little, really, part of it. This is half of the age of 26 pages. The enforcement. Enforced from from and after January 1st, are we, uh, does that mean that officially they can tell the up to January 1st, are we going to start, uh, lady, people don't know how the tethering is a violation of our code. What do we, what do we talk about here, Jeff? I thought we were going to want to know. As soon as it's, As soon as we adopt it. As soon as we adopt this, it's me and the chief are going to get together and do up a little flyer and hopefully get some resources. Please do that. Exactly. And that's going to immediately start the so-called education period. Education period. And then it's immediately. So as of January 1st you know I take it it's sir yes that's correct is there any consideration to a sooner-dated four-winner weather October 1st or something like that I mean you know just seem to me like that if it don't matter if you give it nine years or nine months notice it's gonna be the same people at the end of the thing It's the same notice that we all know that But if we could get this started by don't say the color weather I think there's some benefit of that the animals and You can you in addition we've got the two the two free warnings anyway. You're gonna go through that sooner or later It just doesn't really like that's an extended period of time and the warnings. You know, just for my personal standpoint, I think this is a softer start than I want to see. I think Jeff did this just to stick in line with the Randolph County is when it goes in effect but that is the correct statement. There's been the January 1, 2017 is not a magic number date anything like that. It was picked though as just being a carryover of the idea that we wanted as much similarity as we could get. We have a few variations but as much similarity as we could get to what Randolph County has going on because they have an educational effort underway. They're talking about January 1, 2017. Is there day? Our folks are going to be very proactive in engaging in the educational effort. And it just seemed it created the most harmony to synchronize them on the same dates. That was the driving factor on it. There's no other magic issue about it. Well, the brush on the rider doing their job, we weren't worried about it in October anyway. I can't. In a perfect world. Chief, are you okay with what we're doing here? I am. Thank you. And in fairness, if I may say no, and I'll be really brief, all the other provisions are already in place as far as in the abuse section that talk about if you're choking the dog or exposing it to any other clearly established abuse. That's already in place. You can write charge. And he's very good. He didn't get credit. He worked with the police department on the incident. He gave the example of Russell did of, but actually, I'm correct, he drew charges, did you not? Yes sir. Yes sir. There are options to deal with egregious circumstances between now and then. Okay. Quickly. Yes, ma'am. Well, the warning could go. It comes into effect tonight when you vote. Yes. And then but the fines will not start till January 1, 2017. We would prefer not to. We would prefer not to. We would prefer. It's an educational effort of what is going to happen, how you will be subject to penalties. We do not like putting it into effect unless there's going to be full enforcement. Because it's just a legal position of the city that we never put our officers in a spot to where we say they could do something, but then tell them, don't do it. In this way, they're being told. So you said that from the now or January 1st, this one they get these two warnings on January 1st. Now, they have the regular enforcement mechanism that's in effect on January 1, when this new section comes into effect. Between now and then, they're going to undertake an educational campaign to advise people of what's coming as a matter of law, what they should already be doing as a matter of practice and ethics. It should prepare them so that that way there's no claim of undue surprise or anything else happening when the full enforcement mechanism comes into place on January 1. And as I read it, actually you can find them first. Yeah, there's no. That's a, you were absolutely. Yeah, there's no that's a you're absolutely correct. That's a great point. You don't have to do the written morning or the verbal warning. It's the greatest we can find them first time out. Go right ahead. Okay. Correct. It's it's it's an enforcement plan that the police department and I will pro-hazard appears to be a very good one. The Mr. Bell racer is what ordinance does not prohibit moving right ahead once it's in effect. Well ladies and gentlemen, it's not perfect, but it's stepping right direction. And in perfect world, we could just say absolutely no gathering. No, we have sand or butch. So Russell, thank you for your hard work. Chief, thank you for your hard work. Chief, thank you. Jeff, thank you. And staff, I know it's been a long time coming. We have not adopted it yet, but we've promised a lot of that. And we have been working on it. OK. Council, you have in front of you the proposed ordinance for adoption. I will gladly take a motion to adopt by reference. Mayor, I move we adopt the ordinance by reference that presented. I have a motion by Mr. Bell. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Ms. Carter. I mean, discussion. I would have one item of discussion. I was discussed with Mr. Sugg before the meeting, and I would like we as a council to direct staff to come back not to delay this action. But to consider adding and strengthening further to allow under the remedies and penalties the seizure of animals, multiple violations, to allow under the remedies and penalties the seizure of animals, multiple violations, in addition to monetary penalties. As monetary penalties may be accumulative and they may be graduated, but they don't pay it and they're like the civil action and we have an empty judgment. So I'd like to direct staff to investigate I hit the next civil action and we have an MP judgment. I'd like to direct staff to investigate what and all we can then add seizure of the animal if there are a pun repeated violations, not certainly not under single violation, but if there are repeated violations, we address it that way. Are we going to define repeated? Well, I think we just we direct that with all that and come back to the Director's day. And to give you an example based on that conversation where I would research will be focused is that under the current structure, if you have a fourth and subsequent offense within a rolling 12-month period, that's a $150 fine. What we may focus our research on at this meeting is with the general consent not asking for a vote because you've got a motion and second pending right now on this one. But as a discussion, we will focus our research on once you hit that fourth and subsequent offense where we've already maxed out and you'll continue to get more $150 fines. But say that's at the point that we start looking at the ordinance specifically authorizing seizure of the animal once that points reach. Each event each offense and each day is a separate offense. Well, if you get two dog pets, each offense they will be for the number of dogs, number of that you got involved. So you can talk about the substantial penalty. But that's how we'll focus research if that needs to what everyone has in mind. And we can bring back, because we have point now in January 1, so we'll look on that and see if we have something that works and we'll consult more with animal control since there's subject matter experts. And go from there. Okay, we have a motion in a second. All in favor say aye. That's how you're mildly. All opposed. Motion carries unanimously. Citizens are on notice. We will not tolerate abuse of these events. Thank you. Staff, thank you very much. Thank you, Jeff, everybody. Item 11, our safety coordinator, Steve Pei, it was a report on Department of Labor Safety and Inspections at Public works and public utilities. Yes, good evening, Mr. Mayor and the Council. I just wanted to give a report on January 12th this year. We had North Carolina Department of OSHA, occupational safety and health. To start off, the reason why they're here is that we basically have six different departments. We have the public works, which is of course our public works building and facilities. And then we have public utilities, which is water plant, wastewater plant, and water insure maintenance. So the criteria for why they came to do an inspection was our dark raid, which is our days away from work, restricted duty or transfer duty caused by recordable injuries. And we were high in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and 15 were not too bad with some of the paramets. So what that does is it triggers them saying people are getting hurt while they get hurt. So they want to come and look at us. So on January 12th it came to do the inspection and the first part was about a two and a half three hour inspection of my records. All right, all our training records, all our reports and all the different things that we had to indicate the worker comp injuries. So that all went really good. Overall we went to public works And they inspect everything I imagine. Some of you are in where they would be looking at the Department of Labor. And they look at things like fire extinguishers, do you have training, how they're blocked? They looked at equipment that you use. They looked at your training records. Did you train this person? What have you been done? So when we went on the tour, the compliance ups came out of Winston-Salem, and she's been doing this for a while. So we looked around, and she wasn't concerned with Opsis. She was concerned with equipment. So during the public works inspection, we received three serious violations. In the inspection, we received three serious violations. Okay. Some of the violations were non-serious. There were no willful violations which is great. That is a violation where I would say we knew we were going to get somebody heard. The inspection areas we were received a citation where we had a fire extinguisher that was blocked by peace equipment indicating you can't get to that if you need to. So that was a fine of $1,950, but we corrected it on scene. A few of the violations we corrected immediately. The next violation was something that you really don't get into a lot. It's center fleet maintenance shop lifting straps. And it's under the construction 1926 and the 1910s that if you use constructions and some you know what a sling is or a lifting strap they have to be inspected by a competent person before he choose and ours were not being that and a competent person is a person that can acknowledge hazards see the hazards and have the authority to correct them. So, in with documentation, if you do not document, it didn't happen. So they gave us a $1,950 fine on that. The other one was grinders. Miners stop that they're going to find anywhere. Doesn't matter where they go, They're going to find these. Grindr, the Grindr wheel was not in compliance. It was not a quarter inch away from the workplace, the work rest. So little minor things like that, that they got assigned. Otherwise, overall, everything like that, in that whole facility, so public works and facility maintenance those were the only violations now we received a citation total of 5,850 dollars so that was for that area public utilities with the other area they got us for again machine guarding. We have some band size that we're not guarded, that we're probably 30 years old, and then probably didn't have guards on them back then. So they received, we got fines for $1,950 to that. And again, another one with grinding wheels, another $1,950. So it cost us a total, we were citation was $97.50. All have been corrected. We had some abatement dates to me. They have been corrected. I actually yesterday was the final date. And we might be revisiting again. They have the open door now to come back and look at us. But again, through all that with what the city has to come up with those minor violations, it was pretty good. And we say they're corrected. Any questions on it? We ordered to board that mayor. We were proud of our safe workplace. We can fully intend to have safe workplace. We complied with all our directives. We're fully aware of ladders and steps and elevators, but we mislived in slings. We were fully aware of all our guards, but we didn't think about the 30-year-old bandsaw stuff. Minor things that you could get lost in, the straps, documentation of the straps, we've gone through. I've done 220 people in OSHA training right now. We finished completing them. We did a confined space this morning that we found out we had some issues with confined space and garbage trucks. No one thinks of it. Past that wasn't out of it. And we are now documenting everything. Because we're documenting every inspection, everything that we have. So you have to have a competent person training to inspect the sling to document just like if you're going into confined space, since you got to fill out a permeate. Right. In permeate. And I have that for slings. Yes. And what it is, it was a synthetic. What do you do? Or a transportation insurance. Right. You do it for a transportation insurance? Correct. And I'm thinking tomorrow, we'll be doing it for slings. For slings, and you do pop-laying, just you do. Yeah. So, and then they throw out of there if you look in yeah, so but a confident person we train on confident person for trenching and short, you know, but it's not in that it's not in that car no, no, and and pretty much they in the warnings now I was put I noticed for a bunch of other stuff but in the warnings you know she talked about the synthetic slings the chain you know I mean I've been around it for years and I've never inspected the chains and documented I inspected it you know the links and everything and now they're they're looking at that. We could easily tell you to account that it was okay to turn it on the new one. Should we probably do that? Yeah, yeah, we're looking at alternatives on everything, anything that we can get away with to make it safer. Thank you, Steve, appreciate your work. Thank you. That's always an out opener. You hate to see those guys coming in, but at the same time, the farm system, you put them on the floor doing a great job and that you found out where you were. They have. And you've taken care of them. Now it's done. Exactly. We always talk about it. It's a large complex organization with lots of moving parts. Yeah. OK, Trevor, you want to give us an update on all America's city application. Yes, Mayor thanks. The city's 2016 all America city application has been submitted. Thanks to dedicated working group that includes Mayor Smith, Mr. Ogburn, and also Justin Lepton, the Planning and Planning Department, who really took the lead on getting our application together this year. Justin's actually off this week or I would have had him up here to talk to you more about this, but he's done a really great job getting us what I think is another top notch in the middle. And he really deserves a lot of credit for getting this all together. The committee that they work on that's used an open application period and selected three focus programs. You do have the reports at your places. Those programs were ran off county partnership for children, community and schools, backpack pals program and Ashboro Highs second-chains breath fist which are highlighted in the program. If you'll know there's a lot of data and figures that are presented which was important to the to the lead that reviews applications. Just to note, at all three of these protocols, showcase cross-sector collaboration, inclusiveness, diversity, all the things that are look for finalist programs. And this year's theme was ensuring all children are healthy and supported. It's just seed in school in life. We think these three programs really highlight the communities that are here in this. Justin wanted me to be sure that in addition to the mayor and manager that we also recognize some folks, I'm just gonna read real quickly, who helped get this together. And that is Elizabeth Mitchell, Brian Toth, Andy Adelson, and Andrew Oliver, Pam Hyton, Dean Pollard, Bob Langston, Joe Torre, Shane Bryson, and Mary Liz, who all served on the advisory group that had been putting this together. You also want to be sure to recognize Kathy, Oman, E-Neg, Michael Triggan, Jill Jackson, Lisa Hayward, and Paula Owens, who helped the team bring these stories to life in the applications. So, finally, I'll start a little via announce next month, so I'm certainly expecting to get another group out to Denver this year. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Any questions or questions? Good work. Thank you. We'll keep our fingers crossed. Absolutely. Like a Leonard, you've got to update on our recent renovations here. Thank you Mr. Mayor. As you know last year we started the renovations, partial renovations throughout the city all a couple of rooms at a time over the next few years starting with the council chamber which turned out to be great. We have now moved to the City Manager's office and Joe Ann's office. We have removed the wall between Joe's office and City Manager's office and pulled up the old carpet, which was installed in the early 90s. We were very, very, very, very police department. And we've uncovered a beautiful, terazzo floor underneath that needs a little work, but similar to what's in the hallway there, but we're gonna try to keep that and clean it up. We're gonna have to do a little work to it. We've also removed the wallpaper and the cement that are in the city manager's office, and removed the wallpaper and the cement are in the city managers office and remove the drop ceiling and removing the drop ceiling we found a beautiful shadow box type crown mold so we're gonna leave that because it was far off. Doug worked in to kind of finish it out without having a drop. See when in the build or in that room we'll be putting the chair roll back up and in painting everything similar to this green color this in here and the walls the lava water was in here. In Joe's office we moved it was the copy room removed everything out. Many years ago it was the City Manager's personal restaurant in the back and then the anti-rim in the front. There was a center block wall that was tore down between the two. We're going to be cleaning that ceiling up as well. Partly putting some sort of exposed beam to cover up the remaining portion of the center block wall and being new sheet rock in there. Her's also has a trasa floor as well. And that's about it. Where's your new copy of the workroom? New copy of the workroom is in Trevor's main office there. We moved some stuff out for them and eventually we'll do a little more in there but right now it's kind of back in the corner. We'll be putting the mailbox and everything back there as well. Mayor Joanne's been here more than 30 years so she gets a wind she moved up. That's a window with that little extra 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 come to the forest tonight. On Saturday, March 19th, week from this Saturday starts with the human race by Centennial Park. And the Habitat for Humanity is having food trucks that day after the human race and the food trucks going to hang around into the evening and there is a brand new event. I think Patrick's Day party in the park that day with music. It's got a couple of different bands on the stage that starts it. It eventually starts at 3 but food trucks will be there at lunchtime and only into the afternoon and evening. That's the 19th. We need to come up with. Yes, they're married. They're brought here by Good Pratties. March 20th. See how it'll be closed. But animal patrols open. The police department fire department, water plant, wastewater plant. It's a few of those get to be all normally married. We talked about having the workshop, the 24th of March. farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm, farm he wants to come. So we would ask the council April 7th is our regular council day and would like to have a general fund cap on a pretty much workshop on the 21st. So put those two days on your calendar. We'll have that at April 15th. We'll have that at public. The regular council meeting will be here in the 21st of the public works and have dinner in our usual 530 time. The other thing is we're passing these in each direction. The for the public and for the media. March the 28th is a Monday and we like to have a public information workshop from 436 30 and public works on the Church Street Resurfacing and Restriping Project. That project will start on Monday 8th, April 18th. It's 20, sir. OK. It's for the 22nd. Councilmember Monk exists. The mayor pro-10th. 22nd, the mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. 22nd, the mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. The mayor pro-10th. The Laughland and our fire station and Ashborough High. So please mark your counter and come that day. We've been briefed on that. That's going to, what they call a street dot project. But Trevor's briefed the Council and the Redevelopment Commission on that and that's all. Now, the postcards are actually going to go out to the property owners so we can get them back. We always make sure that you get that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We have a third problem. I was thinking, good, good. We have a third problem. You don't tell me what you're going to do. They have a Jeep rally. All right, that's those cards right there. They're going to be ready have a Jeep rally. All right, pass those cars back there. They're going to be ready for everything. These are rally cars. They change us to the church street here at the high school, basically, with a car. We're taking all of them, road die. We're taking half of four lanes of travel to two lanes north of Southwood Center, turn lane and that's designed to make the road a little safer and slow cars down and we'll have a share lane. Both sides? Yes. Both sides. A share lane is not a bicycle lane, but it is a bicycle lane, but it's called share lane. So that will be a welcome improvement to church street. OK. Any other calendar events that we need? All right. Jane. Yeah, he's starting to mean it. Thank you all for your work with animals and getting done what needs to be done caring for those who don't can't speak and we appreciate everything you do for that. I'm done. Mr. Burke, I've seen many things on social media research and in the do-tale and the Courier Tribune recently, with regards to the continuing deterioration of the North Ashboro area, and perhaps that scenario in our future discussions that we really need to start working on some sort of revitalization plans for North Ashboro. You should be a thriving place when I was a young man, and it is not so much that today. So that's an area that we really need to start shifting some of our focus, I believe. Absolutely. And I realized that just last week there are four empty bank buildings up there. So the branch bank banking has changed, which is part of it, but there are no branch banks in North Ashbury and there were four that have closed in the last two or three years. Didn't use the other sunwalk, has moved into the first bank, every model in the first bank. My thing is, in appropriate time to simply resurrect some interest in the North Fable Street Improvement project. North Fabulous Street Improvement Project. You know, we have the Ronald. There's been, finally, my personal change in the Division 8 office. And there's some personal, you know, as you can tell by church trees, remember when we were told that you don't lose inter-paranoling anymore? Yeah, clearly we did. And if the Peemont Triad RP RPO meeting last time, the subject was brought up and I was given an indication that it could be a subject might have been for sure. So that might be something that we can work for. It could work for our types. It goes all the Liberty Road project states on the last name. You know, they doubled the spin, spin triple spinning on the Howard Department. So, best time to ask is when they got it. Very good. Thank you. Anything else? No, nothing. I'm just excited to see that where the warm I've been, the flowers in the flower screen. Springtime. But that's what I like about leaving an ass for you. That all for the day. Of course, can't. Something to say. I like to wish never to have birthdays or a city of marriage. Trying to catch up with me. I'm going to have to do something like that. I'm going to thank you for this. This is what it was. I'm going to turn 20 first. I catch up with you for a bath. I can't remember that because this is don't But she keeps down public roads on time to town. Sorry. It's your way to easy to remember a daughter's birthday Charlie I just come in always the sitting employees. I have two citizens voice a concern or recommendation to me I Approach the appropriate Department managers and they were taking care of expeditiously and Again, that's thanks to the quality of workers that we have the city of Ashboro Okay workers that we have the city of Ashboro. Okay, anything else? We're adjourned.