you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. aid but still. I call the City Councilor of Shocked, Otter. Could you sit down, please? Thank you Mayor Brutten. Good afternoon, everybody. We'll start by going through the draft agenda for Monday night. It's a pretty short meeting. We have one out of the seat. This is going to be the first three. We'll be in the code of policy about creating a new session, 11-22, captioned Urban Camping. That'll be City Attorney Mr. Tim Sanders. Thank you Mayor and Council. This is a proposed ordinance that would implement a regulatory regime for camping on public property. This is in response to recent spring court case city of directs pass be Johnson, which that was decided with the US spring court last year, which everybody was watching to see how things played out. And the short of it is that in wide with Brent, we miss counties now, they regularly like canton on public property, cruise citation spines, and even the carceration about violent and given them then, which was the principal issue in grants pass. The goal of this ordinance though is to change to heavier, which is that canton on public property, and also provide a means by which, and see if they were removed personal loans that are situated on public property. Basically, it's all camping on public property. The definition of camping, as you've written your description, paper is actually derived from the majority of the statute, which finds camping and prohibits it on state property. Specifically, though, in the ordinance, it does not prohibit the normal customary use of parks and other property. You give some examples here in this slide to illustrate what that means. In the instance of violation, there's a mandatory written warning first in a appeal process for that first written warning. And then after the written warning, and if there's a appeal, if there is an appeal filed, then there's a punishment for the next violation and set forth in the general mental section, which is Section 1-7. The ordinance also provides for a means about which to remove personal longing for been an issue issue in connection with some matters we've had on public property. Basically, the ordinance prohibits a storage of public property, personal property on public property, and it authorizes the city's employees to remove those personal belongings and the situations even in which there's a new represent for the notification process. In the notification required, that notification required to have at least how the belongings may be claimed in terms of where, when they can be found with another required to store for more than 30 days and after that, cities offer us a treatment property as abandoned as a matter of. There is an exception in which the employees find that there are Harrison Blonde, who are their unsanitary, or the last presented danger to health, or hazards to see personnel, and they don't have to continue to store those they may dispose of immediately. It doesn't provide, the ordinance does not provide for a fine or other punishment, by all the violation of prohibition on storage, personal longings. Again, it is tied to the campy provisions, which does have a penalty under Section 1-7. Again, this is just a reiteration of the temporary storage of the court disposal. I'm asking you for your first reading of the Soreness to the Nund and I'm telling you about creating a new section 11 of 22 captioned urban camping, by answering questions that you may have or give out to the presentation. I know we have problems now with hominists and I air you know, and I sit in everything. Do we perceive that to become a more of a problem than it is now? Because the thing about it, we think there was a whole behind the Burbrook King and Rose, I think there was behind it. So we flushed them out from over there and they went with different places in the city, Stephen Deparcks, Stephen on the sidewalks and everything. And I understand that we are with the written warnings and just type of stuff. Do you think that could be some mental stuff going on here? You know, I don't have any specific statistics on the numbers of homeless and homeless bills. Do you think that could be some mental stuff going on here? I don't have any specific statistics on the numbers of homeless and homeless bill, the police department, they have some better data there in terms of where we are and now we're all working to say a team month ago when that large camp was disassembled. But I think there was a period of incidents I think such with such with that, where we're seeing some issues of campaigning in public parks, that's worth things. My sense, and this period of example, through observation, is that those instances have decreased. Yeah, I think that, you know, regionally in national events, when you continue to make sure you have a hard issue, you're going to try and wrap your hand around. and this is simply an instrument's higher than you would expect to be as far as homelessness. It is. I think not too, I know we got to deal with the issue itself with the warnings and everything. I think it may be locking them up but then locking them up and not doing it in a home. I mean they're gonna get a free meal, sleeping, a place to sleep at. Going in front of the judge, judge getting my written notice and they're been going to streets again and there's a rotation in not to doing everything. I don't, this is a problem that we, I don't know, we got to put our hand on some kind of way. This is one way, but still we're gonna stay out of that problem. That's something we can discuss. If I'm not mistaken, I remember that this came about after they removed those homeless folks from that property behind Burger King and we found that a lot of folks were going into our city parks and then we were starting to get complaints from our citizens about that. So the first thing we did was we established the park rules that had the hours of operation there. And then this was the second part of that. But at the time, Tim advised us that we needed to wait and let the other cases work their way out to make sure that this was something we could do. We didn't want to pass an ordinance that we ended up finding we could not enforce. So that's why there's such a gap in that park, the park rules in this one. Yeah, I agree with you. And this specific public property, if you got a private property owner that allows... That's up to them. Was it what was happening in the hub, Burger King there, you know, private owner of the house? I don't want to stay there. of the street street street over the off the Alps Alps street Yeah same thing track Burger King there, you know, Proud owner of the state there. I'll free off of all. Let's treat the street. Let's treat all of the world. Oh, it helps. I felt street, yeah, same thing, property. So can we go back to the slide of, go back, there? Sorry. So the first thing we'll do is a mandatory written morning. Yes,'am. And that, what does that do? That moves them to somewhere else. Because you're the homeless, you're homeless. Yes ma'am. And this is, you know, is not an ordinance designed to tackle homelessness. It's to deal with potential accretion, a lot of camping in public spaces. And you'vevent A Gritch Pass scenario, they had a incredibly high number in public spaces. And so the whole point of the written warning is just that, you have someone written one for their charge. And there's a mandatory written warning that's not optional. And there's an appeal as well that's built in for deep process concerns, which I think are, the deep process issues that are wrapped up with this particular CRU unique. And so it's very intentional. There's a mandatory recording of the folks at the charge. But I'm just trying to figure out, because this is a written warning is also taking people to jail, I guess, afterwards and all of that, where we fill up our jails because there are a lot of homeless people. And the thing is, is that when we go in and do a written warning, just like we did on Felfstreet, we move them, but they just go somewhere else. I mean, every time they're moved, and I know I go to these homeless coalition meetings, and every time they're moved, because they don't have anywhere to go. We have mental health in there. We have all kinds of people having issues that it is hard for us to deal with. Less lonely anybody else. And I know our police department is really working hard to try to get this under control and the homeless coalition is trying to help and try and to help them to go to mental health. We also have a mental health person who can go out with them and when they're escalating something else you know they can help. I just don't see if they if we really follow this I can't see how it's gonna help. Well and I think to reiterate the purpose of this ordinance it not to solve the Huntersmith's issue because it will, it can't. The Huntersmith's issue is multifaceted and this ordinance is not designed to attack it. It's simply to help prevent what can occur in a grants pass situation where you have a accumulation of camping going on about property and you have an abundance of health safety issues that follow along with it and they would have a grants pass particularly the key problem they had camped on public property with hundreds of people in it and all sorts of problems arise. So this is merely to provide a mechanism to avoid that particular contact with the Q situation but by none means is it designed to try torial attack on this issue, which is a multifaceted, very complex problem that most of you need to struggle on with how it was arrested and won't watch it before. Did we also talk to the homeless, did you, Mr. Sanders, talk to the homeless coalition people about what they're seeing and how it is, I still can. I know what you're saying. I understand. I just don't see how this will help. I see going into the park and getting them out, but where they go is somewhere else set up. So I mean, because they have nowhere to go until they get involved with homeless and all of that and they help them as much as they can. And then what happens to the right back on the streets? Why? Because that's where they are. I mean, with inside, that's where they are. And I don't think that we want to fill up our jail with homeless people because that's all you can do to own that second one. I just don't see how this can help us. And I know we're not trying to solve it. I just don't see how it will help us in any way to accept for if it was the park or something, but not, I don't know, I just can't see it yet. Maybe I'll see it after we talk about it a little bit, because I don't see it yet. Yes. The number of homeless registered with comments, county cares is 227. That's a lot. That is a lot. That's county wide, but I think much of them are here in the perimeter. Yeah, now, mountain standing, most of camp out in places to get the city on some in the county. So it's just a pray, that's something we got to deal with I guess. So you're asking us about voting on this I just think we should at least talk to the homeless coalition because you know what and see what they're trying to do before we put something together. That's just me and I know I'm just one person but yeah, I think that we should. I mean with 227 homeless people out there and probably even more that we aren't counting. That's a lot of folks. That's just me.. That's just me. And they answer to him. Mr. Baker. Good to go. Good. All right, thanks, sir. Thank you. And that's really the only item that we have on the agenda for the day. We do have a couple of staff reports for you today. We have with us John Crawford, who is the Coleman-Tallic strategies at about Austin. As you know, we engage that company back in December of 24 to be represented at the State Capitol for legislative affairs. So he's going to give us a 2025 legislative update. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Everybody's having a it up. Beat. All right. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I can't help but everybody's having a good day. It's a pleasure to be back at the outset. I wouldn't like to tell you that it is a great opportunity to come to our strategies that the world will see. Your Thomasville, hope you guys are pleased at what we've been able to do so far. for, I'm going to give you a little bit of a recap of what's happened or what happened in the legislative session. I'll try not to give you a little bit of a recap of what's happening or what happened in the legislative session. And I'll try not to bore you with details, but if there's a certain piece of legislation, I don't get too much. You have an interest in it. You want to ask questions by all means. Stop me and ask a question. And then I can kind of give you some thoughts on where I. I think we're sort of headed politically in the Georgia and have that might impact where we head into the 2026 session as well. But the general assembly convene, no money. I think we're sort of headed politically in Georgia and have that might impact where we're heading to the 2026 session as well. But the general assembly convened on Monday, January the 13th. They had 40 legislative days, personally, per the Constitution to get his business done. And they adjourned, signing, died this past Friday at about nine o'clock in the evening. I will tell you that is a rarity that they finished well before midnight and I will tell you that the Senate decided to go home about 9 o'clock and that took the House of Representatives completely by surprise and I'm going to be interested in seeing what the political fallout from that might be as we as we move forward. As you know, Thursday, March 27th, with City of Thomasville Day at the State Capitol,. We have good response from you guys locally and we had a really good response. I thought from the folks in Atlanta the night before we had a nice dinner, Senator Watson came, Representative Taylor came. The next morning, thank goodness, Representative Cannon kind of saved our morning as you'll recall. We had some traffic issues to use to see the Atlantic closed all the streets around the capital. Didn't tell anybody they were gonna do it. So some of the guests we had arranged meetings with, simply couldn't get to us. But I think we saved the day. The delegation got to spend a little bit of time together in a camp, had a nice photo, and then had a real good recognition in the House of City Chambers and what you guys doing with that. Chris White and I snuck over to EPD, the Environmental Protection Division and I think had what was the beginning of a productive series of conversations that the city is going to have with EPD about the wastewater permitting issue and the challenges around that new permitting and what that presents to the city. And then on Friday on signing day day we were able to get Senator Watson, Representative Taylor and Representative Cannon to sign a joint letter to the director of EPD Jeff Kown also expressing the concerns the city of Thomas Phil has about the new permitting and asking for any type of relief that EPD might be able to work with the city on and I think we were working at least on some ideas and yet to see where they're going to conclude but I think there's some things in play. Getting back to the general assembly there were 1,309 bills introduced since they went to working January. The House passed 496 of those bills and the Senate passed 450 bills together. And this is what really matters. The General Assembly passed 260 bills that cleared both houses. They make their way now to Governor Kemp for his signature or his veto or his inaction. And of course in Georgia, if you't know if he takes no action at all the bill comes automatically without his signature. He has a tomato 15th to the side of his going to veto any legislation he's got 40 days and as of this morning the last time I looked he had signed six bills and some of those six have some implications for cities in Georgia so I I'm going to run through those really quickly. House Bill 58 allows local governing bodies like the Thomasville City Council to pass some ordinances that restrict the flight of unmanned aircraft, they drones, over mass public gatherings. So you now have that freedom of with you so choose. House Bill 67 was the amended FY25 state budget. The general assembly added $4 billion to the original FY25 budget. That's a big deal for us here in South Georgia in particular because half of that $4 billion ad about $2 billion was for relief efforts because of Hurricane Helene and a billion dollars of that $2 billion in Hurricane relief was aimed at the forestry and the agriculture industries which combined or far and away the largest industries in the state of Georgia. I think we probably all know some people in those industries that were very adversely impacted by the hurricane. And the general assembly, and I will tell you this, the $2 billion of storm relief was stunning. The largest amount of relief the state of Georgia had ever passed before in response to a hurricane, which $270 billion. So this was a monumental relief package that you stayed put forward. So that's a good thing for communities across South Georgia. Was that our state money or did the federal government give me? That's an addition to what the feds are going to do. Now I will tell you that some of that relief money will be used to frontload some money like for some municipalities and counties for debris removal and then when the federal funds hit, gee, this is going to keep that money. So some of it is taking the place of some federal money, but nonetheless, it's good to frontload it because I think as you all probably know, sometimes the federal money will it's very nice to get get it moved slowly to get to this final destination. So that's part of that. Another important bill that you all I think probably know something about is House Build 92 and that was a bill that was passed sort of in response to some of the opt-out, opt-dead actions on House Build 581 which passed last year on the floating sales tax exemption. What House Bill 92 does, it does three major things, and I'm going to count it read here because I don't want to get it wrong and it's a little complex. What the first thing it says is that if a local taxing authority adopts a military that exceeds the estimated rollback rate that was provided in the annual notice of assessment. So if you get your angle notice of assessment and then when you actually get your tax bill it's higher than what you were assessed. Then that taxing authority has to point that out in bold ink on the actual tax bill. And it has to have language that basically says your tax bill that you're receiving is higher than what we told you it was going to be. says your tax bill that you're receiving is higher than what we told you it was going to be. And here is a name and a telephone number of somebody at the taxing authority that you can call and that's what it's complaining to. We won't say that exactly like that, that's what it means. Also, the second thing to build does, if any attacks and authority elects to opt out of the homestead exemption that was provided for in last year's House Bill 581, that taxing authority and that taxing authority has not implemented a base year, value homestead exemption, or an adjusted base year homestead exemption, that each tax bill issued by that tax authority has to have in bold ink, language that says the taxing authority chose to opt out of tax relief for homeowners and it also must contain the name of the telephone number, the person you can call it, the expression concerns there. Another thing it does is it provides an exemption of local sales and use taxes on capital outlay expenses by school systems in county and school districts that did not doubt. So if your school district opted out of the provisions of House Bill 581 and it does the capital outlay project, it's got to pay local taxes on all the expenditures and the materials. If it stayed in, they'll be exempt. And then the last thing that it does that I think a lot of local governments are interested in, it extends the deadline opt out of the provisions of House Bill 581 to March 1st of 2026, 2027, 2028, and 2029. So it tries, what it's trying to do, obviously, when the General Assembly passed House Bill 5801, I don't think they anticipated the number of local municipalities, counties, and school systems that were used to opt out. I think they thought that the local, local will of the citizenry would compel those folks to stay in. But a lot of people, a lot of entities have opted out. So this bill was passed in response to that to say, well, if you opt out, we want your voters to know that we have done everything we possibly can at the general assembly level to keep you in on homestead on property tax relief. That's what House Bill 92 does. I have a question about that. Yes, ma'am. So if the school system opt out, I think I will do it. Which means that our taxes will not go down with the school on the school, right? It means that we still have our same taxes. Well, what it means that they opt it out is it means that the school system has decided to not be in the program set forth at a House Bill 581. It doesn't necessarily mean the taxes will go upward out of you. It just means they are not going to, they're not going to play by the rules laid out in House Bill 581. That's all that means when they opt out. I know about the upper down. I know that you know we get a different tax every year. because they have to do a millage rate. So what I'm asking is that I know that the county taxes will be decreased, maybe up to 50% it seems like. But the school system would not be because we didn't go down. I mean, they didn't opt out. I mean, it could go down with the military But not really go down to that amount. I understand what you're saying And I think the best way for me to answer that question is the military that your school district sets I mean, it's that's what you don't pay. It's still going to be up to your school district set a military that it's not It's not going to be governed by the language in the House of Goh-Fatfield. Will they have a chance to op in before? Current bill says you need to... that it's not going to be governed by the language in the House of Go. You're seeing all the taxes they have to say that we opt out. If you opt, if you opt out. So we don't have taxes but people are going to distinguish between the school and us. So we're going to be getting a lot of calls. Probably so. Oh, okay. Modifies for being a number to direct them to you. Okay. We're going. Senate Bill 36 is the Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That was a high-profile bill. In short, it means that governments who can frame Joe the religious freedom of individuals can be sued. So that depends on any action that you guys might will take. House Bill 137 increases the threshold for projects on bidding from $100,000 to $250,000. I would think that would be something to say, in the city of Timesville, all cities and counties would be happy about. Again, I just don't want to just read a list or just some of the highlights. I don't know if this is an issue in Thomasville, a Haskell 399, or residential landlords to have instinct staff. That's what I have over here to ask you. And as 10 in communications, I think that's popular bill. Seems to be a good common sense bill. Did it pass in the government assignment? I asked it so much for the government's own Senate bill 12 is an open records bill that I think was pretty good I spoke to the cities in the business community wanted it clarified that in the event Open Records request even when a business is doing is doing business where they Where entity, the open record for a still has to go to the government entity, you can't go to a private business. And I think that, I think that was really, that was the cost year of the law, but there was a, there was a state Supreme Court case, I believe last summer, they kind of caused a little push that you know that. But I, I think the law was the law. Senate Bill 13 allows Gifa to loan money now on natural gas projects, not just water. So that's a good thing. There's a city that wants to have a natural gas project. I want to back it, just for a minute, I'm reading the handwritten note I made after this. One thing going back to House Bill 92 and House Bill 581. I had some conversations with the Georgia Municipal Association and with the leadership of the Houseways and the INSCUA. I think for cities like Thomasville, next legislative session, there could be a conversation around having a municipal option sales tax, a most for cities like Thomasville, who can't take part in the floss from the home state exemption because you don't live in a property tax. But if the city of Thomasville wanted to have an discussion about once in sales tax to go to water sewer projects, I think the legislature might be in a position to want to want to pass that next year certainly municipal association would be for that. And I know a couple of the other municipalities that we represent on the government of the fair side would be interested in that. So it's not long now, but I think that conversation couldn't be had next legislative session. So keep that in mind. Another big one that passed, you know, Torre Form got a lot of play this year. You heard a lot about civil liability reform. There were two bills that impacted municipalities directly. We, we, we, we bad at 500, we passed one and what we could do. We thought we were going to get passed on signing nine with the Senate in a garrern that kind of ended that conversation. But Senate bill 298, it allows for direct appeal on community rulings. The current law would say if a judge were to rule against sovereign immunity in the case of the municipality or municipal officer, you would have to wait to the end of the case to appeal that decision. And now if a judge works a rule in an immediate case, and a municipality or a municipal officer wanted to appeal it, they could appeal it directly and get a decision at that point. That's a big deal for cities and counties. I'm sorry for cities. Counties already had that option under, because they're political subdivisions of the state. The bill that did not pass was House Bill 531, and that for rich caps for municipalities and that became a big deal. I think you know the city of Milton was it was a very large judgment and there is no currently there is no cap for municipalities there are caps for counties in the state. We the cities were asking for the same treatment as the state in the counties give which is a $1 million per individual and an accident and $3 million per accident. The bill came out of the House Judiciary Committee with a cap of $3 million and $5 million with some quiet talk that what they're probably going to do is raise the state's caps as well. the state and the state and and county caps have been raised in about 30 years. It's been the best in the cap for several decades. We thought that bill was going to pass and as I say, I think we were looking forward to be called late Friday night but when the center of the year it stopped. So that bill will be inflated when they come back next January. So that's the bill I know that would be municipal association. We'll want us to pursue that. I would think all cities in general will want us to pursue. Something else that I think might impact City of Thomasville, House Bill 423, which is next generation 911. And that basically would tie your cellular service to your 911 and have point in contact where we want to sell calls coming in. It updates some terminology. It gives some authorities to the Georgia Emergency Communications Authority to set up some statewide standards so that you don't have a piece of mail 911 systems across the state. And there was a study committee that passed in tandem with that bill because now that they have made this a law that we have to have this, question might lead to mine for municipal leaders is how we're going to pay for this. And there's going to be a study committee that's going to be doing what the summer looked at financing in hand and mechanisms to pay for next generation 911. While we're talking about study committees, they set up several just because of the legislature passed. and sick and hand and mechanisms to pay for next generation 911. While we're talking about study committees, they set up several, just because the legislature passed a resolution to establish a study committee, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be appointed and it will meet. But there are study committees on next gen 911 funding. There's a study committee that might happen on the state board of registration and used motor vehicle dealers and used motor vehicle parts dealers. Very important piece of legislation, I think for South Georgia. And this one I think will meet because it's a critical issue. But there's going to be a house study committee on improving access to internal medicine in rural Georgia. And I think that's an issue that we all think about in our part of the state. House study committee on election procedures. I believe that one will be appointed and it will meet. There's a Senate study committee on implementing the fair tax. I don't know if that one's going to get formed or not. I do think this one will, you know, A.I. is becoming a really important issue in the Senate study committee on artificial intelligence and digital currency. I think that's the committee's going to meet. And then there's one that may or may not meet on franchise fees. I just, I don't know. There were several bills related to municipalities that did not pass. I've got three pages of them. I don't want to bore you and reap them. There's some that I think will probably be good. There are a couple related to SDS and how SDS is negotiated between cities and counties. And of course we will watch that very closely. Anything, any time SDS comes up, we watch it very closely. Oh. There's one video I'll be talking about. should be closely. One bill, I thought at House Bill 244, local government audits, and it would extend the amount of time the local government had to respond to audits, I think that would have been a good bill for smaller cities in Georgia. A couple of bills that I thought would pass related to law enforcement, first responders, providing education grants for spouses of those lost or disabled and well on a duty. I thought that one was gonna pass, and it's not that anybody was against it and didn't cross the finish line. And then I'm gonna close a little bit of discussion on what they were talking about when they adjourned Friday night, because I know that's a big deal, it's a big deal, the Thomasville. And that was the issue of speed cameras and school zones. That issue became very, very contentious. It's my opinion that that's why the Senate adjourned. They actually passed two bills. The Senate passed, the House passed two bills and they got to the Senate put amendments on both bills and passed them and sent them back to the House and when those two bills went back to the House of Senate and adjourned, those bills were supposed to come back to the Senate for final passage. And I don't think the Senate wanted to address them on its face. It doesn't sound like it's that big of a deal, but there is a tremendous amount of money involved in the schools on the speed camera issue if you didn't know that. bill that would have outlawed them all together. No electronic devices can monitor the speed of anybody in the schools on the first day I read that up, hope somebody spoused it. The other bill would have made modifications to the amount of find that can be charged. As I say, the house passed both of those bills out several weeks ago. The Senate put amendments on both bills and when they left the Senate chamber, that's where the Senate decided to stop business. Now we'll tell you the house, the house has had a work-pull on compromise. I don't know what something to compromise. I'll be honest with you. I probably should have taken a look in the quarter of the day. There's a compromise bill that passed the house and it will be in the center on day one next January. So this issue is not going away. It just got running down the road. There's a tremendous amount of politics at play now and if you don't know, 2026 is going to be an election year. I saw this on the sign and won a name, Representative's Office on a white board. It said that the House of Representatives were in some state of Georgia and the Senate runs for higher office. It kind of feels like that a little bit. It kind of feels like half the Senate is running for something. So there's going to be a lot of, there's going to be a lot of jockeying and positioning in the next legislative session in advance of the Governor's race, Lieutenant Governor's race, the Attorney General's race, and the U.S. Senate race. That's going to obviously impact a lot of what goes on in the next session. I do think some things to look for in the next session is people stake out what they're going to run on with her positions are going to be, I think tax credits are going to be a big deal next session. We heard some of that during the budget discussions this year, how much money to state of Georgia, and depending on your point of view, on tax credit gives away or forgives in taxes. And it's somewhere up to about $17 billion a year that state of being in hell these tax credits the state can be collecting. There's one thought that we could do away with the entire state income tax. If we just do away with all the tax credits, but as you know, tax credits are important. You can not be development, things like that. So I think tax credits would be a big deal in the next legislative session. I think depending on how things play out at the federal level, if you don't know, there's some interesting things happening in Washington right now. And depending on how those things play out, I think it's going to be interesting to watch and see if the political party still line up along the pro-president Trump and the end-half president Trump for lack of a better term. I think it's going to be interesting to see how that unfolds. And that's going to drive a lot of what comes up in the next legislative session. I feel like I've talked way too much. I'm going to stop. But if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. And if you don't, I'll be happy to get out of your way. I do have one if you can't answer it. about this house bill 399. Okay. And I needed to know if, when it's, when it's signed, will the state enforcement be enough or will the city have to do their own ordinance? All right. This is what the title of the bill says. It requires owners of single-family and new clickplexer-owned homes to hire a local property manager. The manager must either be the owner, a licensed real estate agent or a local family member. The contact information for that property manager must be given to the tenants, must also be provided the local code enforcement. So we have to get into a look. We're like any other law in the state. I mean, if you get a property owner and they've not done that, I will. So we have to get a look. Do you have any other law in the state? I mean, if you get a property owner and they've not done that, I would, you would enforce the law. So that would not apply to what be payable units? It's the same thing on what these declines from home. I thought it said apartments. That would apply to what the work they could have done. It won't. Doesn't sound like it. It doesn't sound like it. I thought I thought I read where it said like it out of state. It was one that's talking about out of state property owners. Is that it? I thought it was 399 that I read. What are the I'll research it. I'll see. It could be a minute down the bill language. I mean, I'll take it with you. Thank you. I'll see. I'll see. It could be a minute down in the bill language. I mean, I'll take a look at it. Thank you. I'll look at Chris Lane. Thank you. If you would, John, I'd like to tell me about the about many of the trip that DC might be a bit unusual. Well, I do think, you know, much like we had in the city of Thomasville, they had to understanding that things in Washington are a little bit in flux, but I know that you submitted some congressional direct and spending requests for the city. I think they're a good request. I mean they make sense. Your house member is only appropriations to me. Congressman Bishop is very influential in appropriations. I think it would make some sense for a delegation. I don't know if it would be the same number of folks who went to Atlanta, but I think I think a delegation of Thomas Phil officials should probably go to Washington this summer to meet with staff. And I told Chris, everybody wants to go up there and meet with a member of the preacher, maybe the senator or the member of Congress, but really it's really critical that you need with the staff because they're they're going to control I mean that 23 year old staff members going to control where that stack of paper your project is on the members desk and they put a tremendous amount of faith in their staff so we spent a lot of time at Colman Talley and I've spent a lot of time over my career called to make a relationship with staff because you can think about it it's today, and they just let you keep up with all of it. So I would encourage you to have some discussion about going up there this summer. There's a lot of appropriations calendar, usually by this year, in the appropriations year in Washington. We have a calendar, we know when decisions are going to be made, and some offices accepted requests some didn't. I mean, the Doge committee and all of that has kind of thrown some just some curve balls to it because things aren't happening up there the way they normally happen. And that's not a political statement. I don't mean that to be critical or supportive. I'm just telling you that it's different than it normally is. we don't know where the end result of a lot of this is going to be critical or supportive, I'm just telling you that it's different than normal he is. So we don't know where the end result of a lot of this is going to be. So with that knowledge, I've encouraged all of our clients to continue to do what we've always done until somebody of this says, you know, we're not going to listen to that or we're not going to accept your request. So I would tell you that it's there's probably some merit in the going up there. Out other clients I have we're planning those trips now. So with other other missparadies you're gonna go. Anything else? We appreciate the opportunity. Next we have Brandy Avery, who will give us an update on the rules. We have the screen. Good afternoon, council. We are hearing up for the 104th Annual Rowshow in Festival, April 25th and 26th. So I want to go over our schedule of events. We hope you'll join us for... We kick off Friday morning at 9 a.m. here out front for Orchid's own parade. Following that, we have the Roe Show ribbon cutting, which is at the big top tent on Remington, and it's at 1 p.m. We'll have Thomasville High School Band performing and we'll have local dignitaries in our Rose Queen there. Following that ribbon cutting, we will head to the Garden Center for the standard flower show. And then we'll have the Rose Parade at 7 p.m. This year's theme for the parade is where Rose's rain heritage blooms. So we're looking forward to seeing all the entries for that. Following the rose parade is the street dance. And we have a band out of Atlanta coming, R&B Incorporated. So we're excited to see them take the stage. And then Saturday, the Civic Garden Club will have their ribbon cutting, and it will be at the same location as last year under their big top tent, and we'll have the Rose City Symphonic Band playing for their opening. At the same time, we kick off the Rose Best Market, at the Amphitheater, and Thomasville Police Department, we have in their opening. At the same time we kick off the Rose Fest market at the amphitheater and Thomasville Police Department what we have in their car introduction so they're expecting between 150 to 200 cars and we'll have them lined up on North Broad and around the courthouse. And then that's not it we'll have Rose Fest finale the Amphitheater on Saturday night. And we'll have local band, Billy Burton, and the Professor Bull Forest. So a few new elements we have this year is the Police Department. We'll also have a concert playing on the courthouse long during the car and truck show. So we have an additional concert. and then we've added back the trolley rides. So we'll have the trolley taking people to every flower show. So standing be event that way. It's a big weekend. It is big weekend. I know that's a lot. Did you all get a I'm going to brush her in this morning. Ah, did you go? Yeah, I'm joking. We'll make sure we don't get too much help. Is that, is that you? Are we getting that? Because of someone? this morning. You got one? Yeah. We're getting that because it's a lot more. We're going to be able to get it it to Brandy? We'll give it to you just giving that. I'll take your sum out there. We'll get it. Great. Thank you. Any questions Brandy? Doing good? Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you. Yeah, from Tim is all we got for tonight. For the same thing. All right. Let me do this right?