I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you the The City Council of the House. Bill for Monday. In the case of giving Bar Royal Baker the pleasure of leading the council member, Scott Chastay. Heavenly Father, we come before you today in humility and faith. We thank you for all of you have given us and the many blessings in our lives. We ask for your guidance and strength. Show us the way and fill us with the courage and wisdom. Help us remember your loving grace and be faithful in our service to you. Give us the patience and understanding to face lives' challenges with grace. We ask these things in your name, amen. Amen. Bless the living. To the flag of the United States of America to your 9th. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, first thing on the agenda, in a motion, then a second, approve the regular meeting minutes for September 23rd. I get a motion. Motion by Mr. Chastain. Second. Second by Ms. Brown. All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. First is a proclamation national community planning month. Mr. Chesting. All right, big planning departments. Y'all do a lot of good work. Y'all know this is some of my care passionately about and it's very important to our community. So I read this project, mate. Whereas, changes cost them and affects all cities, towns, suburbs, counties, rural areas, and other places. Whereas, community planning and plans can help manage this change in a way that provides better choices for how people work, live, and live. And whereas, community planning provides an opportunity for all residents to be meaningfully involved in making choices that determines the future of their community. And whereas the full benefit of planning requires public officials and citizens who understand, support, and demand excellence in planning and plan implementation. And whereas the month of October is designated as national community planning month throughout the United States of America in its territories. Whereas the American Planning Association and its Professional Institute, the American Institute of Certified Planers, endorsed National Community Planning Month as an opportunity to highlight the contributions, sound planning, and plan implementation make to the quality of our settlements and environment. And now therefore, I, Scott Chestay, on behalf of Mayor Todd Bobley, of the City of Thomasville, Georgia, do hereby recognize October of 2024 as National Community Planning Month, and take our city planner and staff for continuing to do an outstanding job for the City of Thomasville and its residents. So done this 14th day of October of 2024. They'll do a fantastic job, and I appreciate it. Or, it'll be a nice meeting. Thanks. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. I'm going to pitch it. You did. I'll send it to the background. I can't hear the middle. It's a little tough on me. Thank you so much. I'm really, really happy. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next Mr. White, recognizing Hurricane Helene Stone response team. Yes, Dr. Bismillah. The other would come in and get the team in here. So what we have before we deny it's just really a small sample of our team members that it tapes and we're still in the thoughts. It's going to be a room full. That's all right. So as I said, pulling off a storm restoration like Helene requires the efforts of the entire city. You know, we start planning these restoration efforts really when hurricane season begins and more importantly we really start focusing on that when that cone gets down to our you know showing up on that map and we're in harm's way and so we started putting together the response effort for Haleen I think on Sunday afternoon of that week and we hit on a Thursday and you got representation representation. Pretty much the entire city here, public works, electric, gas water, sewer, support services, police, and fire. So it really takes the whole organization to pull off what we do as well as we do. And I just want to. Congratulations and I appreciate it. The whole group. Here it comes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to y'all. Me and Mr. White was out early Friday morning about seven o'clock Friday morning and I was amazed that streets was clear. Everybody was out working doing everything. Even Mr. Thompson was in a hole trying to cut off some gas. And so thank you to all y'all's support and thanks for all that y'all do for the City of Thomasville. And let's start with another one in the Atlantic. y'all support and thanks for all the job to do for the city of Thomasville and let's start with another one in the Atlantic. So yeah someone called me and told me that they heard them out there at 3.30 in the morning clear. Oh yeah. Yeah. And I really do appreciate that. I do because you know that was just like oh it's brown. They were I hit 3.30 in the morning. I said wonderful., it's brown. They were, I hit three and three third in the morning. I said, wonderful. Yeah, but I think the first stop me and Mr. White have was on Hancell Street and the man come out and said, I saw the tree fall, then I heard him at 330 cutting it up. Yeah. So thank you all for y'all's hard work and dedication to the city of Thomasville. And I know our citizens really do. Appreciate what y'all do for us. Thank you again. All right. Next on the agenda census, we heard, remember census, you have three minutes of Mr. Sanders will time, will be the timer. And please give your name and address. And when you speak, first is Arlene Hampton, 2019 South Bartlett Luther King Drive, Miss Hampton. Yes, I get up noon and hello to all the new appointees. It's my pleasure to be here today. I have some documents that I want to submit for record and before I leave, I'll send those for record. I am speaking on behalf of the community because I'm meant for the community. So I don't know if I get the 10 minutes or all from stuff. To the three, I'd like to know that before I get started. But here we go. There are those on the city commission that have openly stated that they do not want to look to our past. They say they should look, we should disrespectful to our heritage and to those who have fought long and hard for victories, for victories seen to date in our Black communities. To forget our past as a fallacy which is misleading and dangerous, we must not forget our past and then inequities imposed upon our communities and be acts to let us move forward as I've stated and meaning before me. If we don't remember our past, we're bound to repeat them. So why are our black communities always asked to forget our past when others are allowed to embrace and build upon theirs? I submit to you that instead of forgetting our past, let's embrace it, build upon it as we move forward in hopes of abiding or equitable future for those who have had to suffer inequities, discrimination and divestment. So with that said, I tell you, I'm going to engage in some, what we call some good trouble tonight. All right, we know that recreation is the foundation for inclusion, social health interactions, engagement, and teamwork. And it is this mechanism to build upon strong communities, serve as the primary place for children, and families, and individuals to gather together. The benefits of social activity, physical activity, we have brain health. We know that the benefits include thinking, and who think, and cognition. Children between the age of six to 13, they have reduced short-term fils and anxieties for adults, reduced depression, anxiety, reduced health, reduced cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and more. So we know that activism and action are essential to the struggle to promote positive change, lead to equity, diversion, and inclusion, for just some words that some people will not have us to engage in today. However, you know that for a long time, I've been coming up here since 2019. I've been asked in the City Commission where are the recreation facilities in our community? Not one time of me coming up here, and not just me, others, where we told that we could have access to the fields that T.D.U. uses. Not one time to know the city or the City Commission, City staff, not one time that they tell us that our children could play on those fields. So all this time, the benefits that they could have gotten for help, we get, what's that? 30 seconds. Okay, we didn't get. However, we learned about this two weeks ago. The fields are available to the community. However, TU has locked the gates and we're not allowed in the fields. So we've asked that these fields be open to our kids to play on those fields. I'm not against to you. They'll be the first one to say I'm not against to you. I am a graduate. I'll stand in my now to graduate from to you. They stop me to get my master's degree. So I'm not against to you on four of them, but I'm also for the community, 1553, Egg and Butter, Egg and Butter Road. It's Candy, actually. The one in the real name is Conchetto. It's a town in any way. Good evening. And yes, my name is Candy Henderson, 1453, Egg and Butter Road South. And my mission continues to be 100% renewable energy by 2035. And my printer's not working, so I have to read this off my phone. Good luck. When I spoke last Wednesday, I was sharing some history. It was clear in 1990 to the United States Congress and to the Bush administration, that was that first Bush administration, and to the Bush administration, that was the first Bush administration, and the fossil fuel industry, the burning fossil fuels was a large contributor to global warming. This was 1990. They were about to work together to mitigate the effects looming on my horizon. But the fossil fuel industry chose to downplay the science in the eyes of the public in order to maintain their problems. So they kept drilling and selling and promoting the burning of fossil fuels. And they are doing it to this day in 2024. Drugs and fires, extraordinary rain and flooding are some of those effects understood and predicted in 1990. However, no one thought the effects would be seen this soon. But here we are, and why am I telling you this? Because the fossil fuel industry is trying to promote natural gas, which is essentially methane. Gas far more potent producing a greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. The fossil fuel industry is trying hard to convince you and many other energy providers that number one, they say natural gas is good for your bottom line. Number two, they say natural gas is good for your customers. And they say number three, that natural gas is good for the environment. None of that is true. None of it. Number one, excuse me, the cheapest way to reduce electricity in 2024 is solar. Not my statistics, folks. Number two, burning natural gas in the home produces volatiles, that is gases, that are harmful to your customers and their children. And that's been known for a long time. It's a fossil fuel industry. 30 seconds. Didn't let that happen. Number three, in the production of natural gas, there are leaks of methane. And as I said before, it is more potent than carbon dioxide. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Ms. Henderson. Next is Ms. Rose Major, 404 South Morton Luther King dry. Miss Major. Hello everybody. I'm just going to continue with Miss Captain left off that she's talking about the fields. So the question is that we have, we say how does the community have assets to the volatile part which is inclusive to the baseball fears during the week. After school and on the weekend, Census City does not work 24-7. Will the City Commission make a motion to make these Pacificers open and not locked? And they say that, like saying like how you open it up at the morning time, and then like close it up in the evening, so you don't have to begin on somebody having to come and unlock it, that makes sense to me. And not only that, I think you mentioned about having like a person, but what if somebody want to just go out there with their child or their children and just teach them how to play softball? It should be open if nobody uses it. That's what that's what you want. Anyway, it's there that the Shiraean H, it said that the Shirek Hatham, October the 12th, 2024, we would tell that there has to be an organized team, which I just mentioned, and that being allowed to play from the ball field, is there a civic ordinance or a resolution that requires that a team be formed to play on these fields? Or can you become, but our children, people come with their children and you know play out there. And if so, ask the department here to kind of discuss the document and the requirements that will next meet. Why have the Park Direct Relations Committee overlooked the need for quality park facilities and amenities on the soft side of the public's vegetable for so long, when other parks that are not readily accessible except by vehicles were appropriately maintained. While I was sitting on parts on the side side of Thomasville a lot to deteriorate when other parts were maintained. In 2021, Congressman Bishop announced a 212,000 federal grant prepared as part improvement. What improvements were completed with these funds? Why were there no grants submitted to maintain the recreational structures on the side side? For years residents have came to City of City Commission's meeting during open comment to both circumstances only to walk away from no answers, no follow-ups. We're requesting that City Commission's requirement to City Department case and appropriate staff to attend City Commission meetings to answer questions relevant to the Department during the same commission? These individuals should have a knowledge to answer the concerns and citizens from who they work. And that concludes my statement. Thank you, Mr. Mate. All right, next on the agenda is adopt the agenda. Could I get a motion of second to adopt the agenda? So motion by Ms. Brown. Second. Second by Mr. Baker. All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. Next on the agenda is new business. Aye. Mr. Ken Thompson city planner first reading of the ordinance to annex and reason 3472 South Pantry Boulevard Tulsa George All right, thank you. Good evening mayoring council as we've discussed at the workshop on Wednesday That applicant is requesting to annex into the city and to have their property re-zoned to R1A, as you can see, which aligns with some of the existing properties in the adjacent vicinity. Again, as we discussed on Wednesday, this R1A zoning does fit with the surrounding properties, does align with the city's comprehensive plan and was approved by our Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendation to you. And so tonight we would ask that on first reading that you would approve the resoning, the annexation, the resoning request from this property to R1A. And I'd be happy to answer any questions or go back through any of the material that we had presented during the workshop as well. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. How many houses did you say was gonna fit there? 20, so in the application, they said in 20 to 30, which would be on the 14 acre property, that would be about what would be allowed under the R1A zoning. All right, thank you. Kind of get a motion at a second. So moved. Motion by Mr. Chastain. Second. Second by Mr. Baker in discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. All right. Thank you. V. Radifier, Mr. Chris White. Radifier resolution to clear local state of emergency as a result of Hurricane Aling. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. If you're discussing we did last week. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did. We did, we did. And that helped in that process. So can I get a motion in a second? So moved. Motion by Ms. Brown. Second. Second by Mr. Baker. In discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. Resolution to the support of Georgia Recreation Park Association annual membership. I like all of this. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Good evening, as you'd say. We are here again tonight asking the same thing. We did last Wednesday in the workshop to ask for your approval for a resolution. It supports the City of Thomasville Parks and Recreation Department joining the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association. Nothing has changed since last Wednesday. You might have any questions. I'll be happy to answer them right now. Mr. Owens, this is the wise already a member of it. So we can be a member of it. But this will help us hopefully move forward with some grant money for. Yeah, and some other things. I mean, it allows us to identify some more grant funding to build a brand for the parks recreation department that we're trying to do per the master plan that we had in 2023. They can be stored. Got to get a motion in a second. So moved. Motion by Ms. Chastain. Second. Second by Mr. Brown. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. Thank you, Mr. Awards. Mr. Thompson. Resolution to apply a commit matching funding for land and conservation fund grant applications for Balfour part renovations. Thank you. I can even again mayor and council. Again as we discuss on Wednesday what we are asking for tonight is an application for the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant for BAL4 part. This is a Georgia DNR grant. It comes on a two-year cycle so we are only able to apply for this grant once every two years. The maximum amount for this grant which we are requesting to apply for is $500,000, which would require a minimum $500,000 city match. However, the city is pledging a minimum of $1,000,000 towards this grant application and if it were to the grant, the $500,000 it would come from the Lane and Water Fund as well. So for Balfour Park as we again as we discussed this would include all of the area along Pine Tree, Mark Luther King and up even including the area around Barnado and the the ball fields and the application for this. The pre-application is due at the end of October if we were were invited back to the second round, that will happen in spring of this next year. And we would expect that work on this would begin as early as fall of 2025 for this first round of improvements at Balfour Park. And so tonight we're asking that you would consider a resolution to apply for the land and water fund grant grant application And to commit the matching funds into allow the mayor or mayor for a team to sign all documents for that Thank you, Mr. Thompson get to get a motion in a second Motion by Miss Brown second second by mr. Chastain in discussion All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. All right, next, Mr. Topps of the game. Resolution to approve better war for the purchase of Paradise Park phase 1 improvements and to authorize the mayor of Bruntam to sign this area related documents to execute the contract. Mr. Topps. All right, yes sir. And again, as we discuss on Wednesday, this is our last land and water conservation fund grant. This was a Clyde4 in 2021. The grant was received in 2023 and for this grant, it is essentially a land and water conservation fund grant that will match with the total of $200,000 towards the Paradise Park project. Again, as we discussed, this includes the historic carriage walking paths at 3.4 mile walking, walking loop, benches, tables, trash receptacles, connections to sidewalks in the community trail and improvements to the parking lot. As I'd explained on Wednesday the city did receive one bid for this even though we had three plane holders. And while the full bid amount was roughly in the row of 1.6 million with the bids and the alternate bids, we were able to determine that we find all the necessary work for this can be done for 1,399,729 dollars, which would be allocated to the sole bitter of Grainsvacko for completion of all the work within this phase one. And so tonight we're asking the council award the contract of this to Grainsvacko for the state of the amount utilizing funds both from the Land and Water Conservation Fund grant from 2018's floss, Houton Motel, Tatex Tellers, as well as Parks and Rake funds all will be used to cover this full amount. Thank you Mr. Thompson. Good to get a motion of a second. So motion by Mr. Chastain. Second. Second by Mr. Baker. You need a discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. As you know, thank you Mr. Baker, any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. As you know, thank you Mr. Thompson. Oh, you're back again. One more. Resolution to apply, commit matching funding funds for a Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program Application for Phase 2, Renovations to Paradise Park. Yes sir, thank you. So again this is the last grant project I have on the on the document today This is for the phase two portion of Paradise Park and this is using the Georgia Outdoor Stewardship Program grant As I discussed earlier this grant is typically only available to parts of regional significance or regional parks conservation lands however with the Kind of with the the landscape of Paradise Park the presence of the long-leaved pines Paradise Park does have the potential to be a strong applicant for this for this grant and with this there have been several partners, local partners that have agreed to pledge any matching funds necessary for being able to pursue this grant project. So the GOSP grant is available for up to $3 million with a required minimum match of 25 percent. As I've discussed, private donations have been committed to cover the match and so ultimately the any funds for this would be not being incurred by the city. This is also a grant that is due here in October with a pre-application. The second level application is due May of May 30th, 2025, and then we will know in full whether we have received this grant on the summer of next year in 2025. And so with that, tonight we're asking council to approve the submission of the Georgia outdoor stewardship program grant for a sum of up to the maximum amount of the grant which is $3 million and authorizing the mayor or mayor pro-tim design all necessary and related documents. So Mr. Thompson we got local groups and citizens this committed to $750,000. In a minimum of 750,000, yes sir. So how often can you apply for this grant? So this grant, so this is, it is an annual grant, so you were able to apply for this every year. Thank you to the groups or citizens. Yes. Committed $750,000. Can I get a motion in a second? Motion by Mr. Chess Stank. Second? Second by Mr. Baker. In his discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. Item G, Middleissa Creole. Motion of service manager. Motion to approve low income, home, energy assistance program, LIHEAP agreement between the City of Tulsa and Georgia Department of Human Services Division, a family and children services and to authorize the mayor or mayor pro-tem to sign the agreement and related documents. Ms. Creel. Good afternoon, Mayor Cancel. I'm sure that Mr. Perlo had gone over this discussion with you all on Wednesday for just to kind of give you a preview or a review. The LIBEAT program is provided for low-income families with monetary assistance to pay for electrical services provided by the City of Thomasville. The Neighborhood Service Center is the liaison that fields all applications, as well as the disbursement funds from the defects office to the City of Thomasville. In 2023 and 2024, the residents of the City of Thomasville received $701,937 of the process through our LIHEAP program. Applicants will receive funds based on an annual income level and household size. These funds will be $350, $450, and the worth $500. So it is the request of the city for the city council to authorize the mayor of mayor part 10, to sign all necessary documents related to the low income energy assistance program occurring between the City of Thomasville and the George Department of Human Services division of Family and Child Resources. Thank you Miss Creole. Good to get a motion of a second. So moved motion by Mr. Baker. Second second by Miss Brown in discussion all in favor say aye. All right. It is unanimous. That is the agenda, Mr. White. You don't have anything to discuss, sir. Nothing from the front table, Ms. Brown? Yes, I do want to say thank you to everyone who came out to the Balfour Park on Saturday. We had a very good discussion and kind of wanted to make sure everybody knew that that park and what we're trying to do is not new. We've been coming up here since 2015 trying to make sure I was not on the council, a lot of these on here were not on the council. But we have gotten to the point and come to the point where we are trying to do phase one and phase one is our own pine tree, boulevard. We wanna make sure that that is not a that a do. We wanna make sure it is what we need and what we're going to do, it seems like, is that we're going to find out everything that we can put in there. The money's making sure we can secure most of the money. And just make sure that things are right when they go in the first time. We have really worked, worked, worked. You can ask a couple of my teammates over here because they've been out here too. And we've been in here almost every meeting, either out talking to or talking to the city managers because you are the third one that we've talked to. So it's not like it's not being done. And when we get to the point where we can get this done, we just really want to be organized and how we go forward to get it done. Nobody's want to, you know, forget anything. We just want to go forward to try to get this done and put it then in our pass again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Mr. Chistain. I just want to tell everybody thank you for the storm response. I know appreciate Chris Sherrill. Y'all checking on me in the morning. Tired on this, Chia? I guess you'd had enough. But certainly do appreciate everybody and coming together and getting things back up and operational. I know we've been hit hard several times and it's not a fun process, but we certainly appreciate everybody's hard work. All right. Thank you to our employees for the work that they did because we avoided a really, a disaster. And we still had a number of trees down but we responded to it and thank you to the citizens of Thomasville for staying off the streets so that we couldn't get it cleaned up. Thank you for all that you do. We are adjourned. I'm full of money. I'm full of money. you you you you you you you you Thank you.