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 you you you you you you you you I'm going to go through the agenda for Monday. I have a lot of own business. And the first is going to be a second reading of an ordinance for these own 1701, 1705, going to go out from the seat to commercial. The HMC use manufacturing conditional use. That's going to be our city planner. It must be Kenny Thompson. All, thank you. Good afternoon. afternoon y'all. This is the second reading on this resounding over here on colonial drive. There's been no new information from the first reading. You know, would be happy to go through any of the information again or answer any other questions you have. But other than that, we'll be asking on Monday to go through this on second reading. He needs up again for a second reading of Lord of Reson 510 North Cornell Street and manufacturing to R2, multi-final family resident. All right, and again, this is the second reading on this rezoning. Again, there's been no new information. It has come since the first reading. And so Monday night, we're asking for you to approve this on the second reading, a rezoning this to our team. I believe during the meeting last time, we addressed any questions, but she got even a pad. So if there's anything else that comes up Go please. But at this point we've heard nothing else on this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think we will have a lot of them here several hours of new business, but Well, the first is the city of Toronto's 24th, have a long tacked military and it's something we have to do every year, but for ourselves and the school system, they'll scare me like that. We have a family. They'll scare me like that. Don't call me. It's filthy, bro. It's filthy, bro. But we have the approval of a resolution of a urgency for the adoption of an ordinance on 1st and 2nd reading at this one meeting in the Monday night. We'll also have 1st and 2nd readings under resolution of emergency of an ordinance to set the City of Townsville 2024 have a more tax milled rate. And I have a good Melissa Creole. And she's also going to be doing a Tomlitz School Board of Education in 2024, School of Tax Millage Rate. Same thing, approval of resolution on emergency for adoption of an ordinance on first and second readings at this point, meeting. And then the first and second readings under resolution of emergency for that ordinance. You set the Tomlitz school board of education in 2024. School of Tax, Millenium, Drain, and Lesson Creek. Good afternoon, Kamsel. I do have a kind of a timeline process that I wanted to with you with y'all for the reason of the first and second reading and the emergency, that what we do at all in one meeting is kind of like where the timeline is. So I'm going to go through that first and we'll talk about the two different real traits So what it is is we have we are the living authority for the recommended authority which is a city school board So the living authority is I can't miss out here any other governing authority that exercises the power to let the add more taxes to carry out the governing authorities' purposes. And the City of Thomasville is a living authority for the city's tonsils for education. So the board cannot let the attacks. I can only recommend the military. So here at the timeline, I wanted to show you between the time that they have to do that to the time that we have to approve it, is what I'm going to show you as a follow. So the Living Authority receives a tax tag just to usually run the first of August. We have to calculate a rollback rate. That rollback rate is used to calculate the value of a meal of tax for what the revenue will be for that year. And as the Reckoning Authority from the school board, they set the tent and millitrate no later than the third week in August, which is usually their regular school board meeting. If the tent and military is higher than the rollback rate, they have to have three public hearings for that. And they have to all be advertised prior to those meetings. And they all have to have to happen within a good second time. Fortunately for us, there was no increase this year they are going to face Duke did recommended at the rollback rate and that's where they're going to they want us to set it. So as a loving authority we also must advertise the recommending authorities millage rate one week prior to us as a loving authority to approve it which we did it ran last week will we'll actually it ran Saturday. We usually ran that the first week of September so we can do it at our regular meeting on the first meeting of the month. As an Olympic Authority, we must advertise the city's military as well when we prior to the first council meeting, which we've already done that and that military is also at the same room. Our military's are approved by both the recommending and the living authorities and then the tax bills prepared and mailed out no later than the first-room. Our millage rates are approved by both a recommending and the living authorities, and then the tax bills prepared and milled out no later than the first of October. Kind of this goes, gives you a timeline of when that, all that happened from the time that the school board set their tent of rate to how the advertisement's done. When they actually voted this year, which they did vote on the 27th the school board did They also have to advertise before they're they're recommending setting of that military and then we as loving authority have to Advertise as well as the well as our city military and On September 9th our city council will vote in first and second reading under resolution of emergency because of this timeline for the approval of those militants. So on our first agenda, we do have an approved for resolution of emergency for the adoption of it ordinance on first and second reading at one meeting and this is for the city's abelorm tax military. We had not let it appropriate tax since 2012. Therefore, the military for the City of Thomasville for Abelorm will still be at zero mils. So what we do is we're going to consider the adoption of a resolution of a emergency first, for the adoption of the ordinance on our first and second reading at this one meeting. And they consider on a first and incident reading under the resolution of emergency and ordinance to set the military at zero meals for the city ever long tax. Any questions? Thank you. No courses. Yeah, I was noticing that. And the other part of that is we do have to wait on the state as well to approve our digest. And we've had to wait a little longer this time because there was something on the county side that wasn't part of our other advertisement. So we have to wait. They actually, I think, believe I just talked to them this week. They just approved it yesterday. So it's not put us behind, but just where I like our schedule to be for calculations. Because I've got to get calculations done too and get them balanced before we send, of course, and tax goes out. So we're finally, hopefully by Friday, we'll have that the states of Peruvian will be able to work on those calculations as well. Gosh, there's no pinn penalty for that, is it? No, sorry. So when we received those taxes earlier in the year of approximate estimate or whatever, they're not setting stone. I mean, not beginning of the year. It happened a couple of months ago. Is that the April and May assessment that you usually get? Yes. Yes, ma'am. That's just an assessment from the county, from what they assessed your values on them. That's not an actual bill itself, because there's no military set at that time. Okay, that's just an actual assessment of your property. Okay, because I know a man went up and I was like, what for? I mean, but anyway. Yeah, that's the same. So I have an impact on what they do with the military. Okay, it does. Because if they do the property value higher, they would have to raise the millage rate because the property value went up. And so they just assessed on that. So let me ask you because I'm still trying to get to know, is it that the city will be the agent that will vote for it? Is that because what is in our charter or is in our ordinances or what because if we can't do anything about it I just want to know and make sure why we're doing it that's all. And it might be that it's mandatory. It's because you have the levy authority and the recommending authority and we are the ones that have to levy the tax. The school board cannot levy a tax. That's why you all have to vote to levy the tax. Under George the law, the City Council doesn't have any utility to a rise or something different than that, pregnant, and gray, actual work. Okay. Thank you all. Okay, so the next one will be our school board of education's 2024 school tax military. Just what we talked about as a recommend authority, the board of education started to determine each year what amount of money will be necessary to raise and buy taxation to defrate the expenses of the public schools. And just what you were getting at is because of the increase of the public schools. And just what you were getting at is because of the increase of the property assessments, they were able to actually do the recommending rollback rate to still bring in what is needed necessary for them to function as a public school board. So as a loving authority, like I said before, county or municipality or the governing authorities, we exercise that power to levied that tax to carry out the governing authorities' purposes, which is to levy for us to collect for that. Thank you because I really wanted the people in our communities to know just what we see it. Yes ma'am. And just what you are saying why? Okay. Yes ma'am. So for the city board of education, we are to consider adoption of a resolution of emergency for the adoption of an ordinance on the first and second readings at this one meeting. And also we will consider a first and second reading under the resolution of a emergency. An ordinance to set the Thomasville School Board of Education 2024 School of Tax Military at 15.115 Mills, which is the recommended rollback rate. Any questions? Thank you. Great question. Thank you. All right, next we'll have a resolution to approve the Georgia Park Transportation and Sustainable Devalication Letterize the Mayor of Mayor of Proxay and the Son of all this serious related documents to execute the City's letter and intent for a replacement of the Taxiway A. Liding of the Thomas School of Municipal Airport, the Mayor of Garrala's Chamber. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. This is for the second Nintendoative allocation letter that we received from DDoT for the replacement of the taxiway alpha edge lighting. This provides us with the means to address from the runway safely and to allow folks, passengers and pilots to make their way at night or inclement whether to the taxi way or rather to the apron and provide services. The state is provided us with a TA letter of using our bill fund to $130,500 and our match local month will be $7,250 for the design process. This will be for fiscal year 2025. The edge lighting has reached its lifespan. We've already encountered some difficulties with the ins of the taxiway. The lighting is actually out on the ins of the taxiway. So this is really to replace the lighting that should be replaced by about this time. You see the extent of it, it runs about 6,000 feet of lighting and cover both the taxiway and taxiway steps. So what we're looking for is requesting the action of the Council to ask for us the mayor and the mayor put Tim to sign related documents and that's sort of an excuse to contract one. This is the lights on the runway. It's the lights that are associated with the taxiway once you land on the runway. It's the lights that are associated with the taxiway. Once you land on the runway, then you would exit the taxiway. And that would allow you a means to move around the airport to go to a hanger or to go to the apron. That's actually the lights. Yes, sir. The blue lights on the airport and the white lights would be the runway. Blue lights for the taxiway. We have quite a few taxiway lights. This taxiway Alpha is really reaching its critical lifespan and again with this buried cable it is degrading enough to the point where we're actually losing lights on both. There's a photo of the beer right around. Yeah, photo. The runway that we just did the line of sight project carols the yellow lines there We're way four to two. You might be able to see the ends So the taxiway outfit is that roadway if you will that parallels the run You let that put it up the line itself The light itself. The light itself. Wait a minute. So it's the stock with the blue globe lights on it and that to see that across the field. Those are all the taxi waves that we have on the airfield. And this contract will provide us with the ability to replace the lighting, it's just associated with that one taxi value. I wasn't life's man on them. About 20 years. All the new ones be LED. Yes sir. So we already got a amount that this will cost and how many. Yes man they 600,000 is what is currently scheduled that. Federal share would be about 47,000 state about 66,000 and what is currently scheduled at. Federal share would be about $47,000. State about $76,000. And the local share would be about $45,000. So local share is. Local share for the design is $7,250. And then for the construction, it would be about $ 45,725. I guess I'm confused. The local sheriff for you just to put the lights will be about 45,000. Under construction. Under construction, because you have to construct the runway itself or what? No, no, man. It's just the lighting itself. They'll run on very things. They'll trench it, run the lines for the lighting, and they'll replace the stops and cans of society with the lights. OK. All right, I got you. Thank you for explaining it. It's several miles. That's what cost them. And then our wonderful government makes us spend a hundred and something thousand dollars to give them a design. Yeah this is just for the design. Oh, it is 130. 50 is just for the design. It's just for the design that they make you submit. And so luckily our portions only 7200 of that but I guess go back to the other, can you go or show in the runway again? So that's a little over a mile the yellow lines you have to run a continuous wire for that entire length and get all level and they make you submit a plan the state does the FA because it's through the DOT and I guess it's a 130,000 for the for the plan just it's through the DOT in I guess it's 130,000 for the plan. Just for the paperwork. And that's certainly covered both sides of the taxi boat. And that does not include, I know there's some discussion about the 1432 is we don't know anything on that or. That is a, that's funded by GDOT and dot and just the state and that would be at 25 75. This is federally right for the main I got you so that's a 30 hour second. So that's in addition to what we talked about spending before. This is a second round of spending. This is a 7-liter that they're providing us with funds to do a project in here. Once you're with the many of these projects are 95% funded through GDOT and FAAs, we're typically on on the hood for 5% on the construction. 45,000 is fast. We typically pay 5% depending on the project, but typically between the FAA and G-R, they're going to make 95% of the funding project for the construction. And so when you add those together for their funding, G.N. and the other. So you're saying that the 45,000 is 5%, or not, you're not saying that right. I mean, I'm asking pretty close. You get combined into two, to get the 45. And that's 600 and 1000 plus. First, and then whatever this one's gonna be. Whatever that. You get to get this one's going to be. Whatever that. It's good out of the construction. Okay. Your estimate was 400. 477,500 is the federal share. State shares 76,000 and are 75. And the local share would be 45,000. 600,000. Okay. So they're going to give us. It's an 80 measure that we have to address, correct? Yeah, absolutely. The total, say that again, the 40, the state was... The state is a 76,875. The federal tier is 47,500. So they're basically giving us 550,000. So we're all sure we'll only be 45 total, but this is not, this is going to take some time to do correct. This goes on in the next year. We have to get it approved first, I got you. in the international relationship to resolutions that are approved. The new National OV-7 participation forum connects with the State of Georgia, joining in a national settlement that authorized the mayor, the mayor of Courtene to execute related, participant form related to the documents. This is something that we've been having back before you were here, time out in OV-7. This is something we've been having back before you came here to town, Illinois, and I'll be with you in seven minutes. Mr. Tensay. Thank you, Chris. Good evening, Council. So previously, the city entered into an authorized joining settlements with CVS Walgreens team, a towered in Walmart in connection with the National Nuclear Water Glitter Gage, which I think you're probably all familiar with. And this latest is just a new round with Crowger as a defendant, deadline for joining in this seven-grainers September 11th, 2024. This one is not as well publicized for the city as the previous settlement options. It's also a smaller suit. Croger's project settlement is about $1.2 billion dollars anticipated to be paid out over an 11-year period. The state of Georgia is already joined in with a number of the other states as part of the National Assembly. And Georgia's projected allocation is approximately 4.59% of that 1.2 billion. Georgia's, as a party, is releasing all claims it has against Kroger, likewise a time-spot where they join in as part of the settlement. It would release any claims on it and they have againstroger, and connection with the epidemic. To the extent that Thomas was allocated to sell the proceeds, I reeling up the settlement agreement is going to require Thomas building to use it for opioid remediation. Some examples of that provided by sending increased distribution of the locksmith or NARCAN I think is the common term of training for its use, funding prevention programs for media campaigns, medical provider education, for bachelor's private practices, and then funding and training for first responders for pre-restroversial programs. Just some examples of the remediation steps that can be taken. No guarantee that this is necessarily receiving anything by the same stroke. There's no cost to the city in joining in with the settlement agreement. And so for your approval on Monday, I have a resolution that will authorize the mayor, or the mayor of Pro Tem, to sign the participation forms which in turn authorize a join in on the so-called glad-answered questions and council members. I hope we can get some of that money. In that settlement does it say that it will come directly to the city if we get something or will it go to the state and the state has to? It will run through. It works like the previous. There will be several different funds and there will be eventually there will be some go to the state and the state has to. It'll run through. It works like the previous. There'll be several different funds. And eventually there will be some, hopefully that will flow down to the city, but that will run through a series of different processes through the state first. So the state first? Yes, ma'am. We're joining through the turn. You're going to go back to the people. OK. That's perhaps through you, ma. Okay. That's a pass for you, friends. Thank you. So that percentage would be 4.5 out of 1.2 minutes, about 55 million spread over the state of Georgia. That's right, we'll move just many cities. And they go through, they've got a ruder, they used to try and delineate, who's been damaged and they allocated with that ruder. So we might get $5,000, $10,000 or something. Maybe with the previous we've gotten around 30 or so. I think we're 80. OK, we'll think about about 80. But it's spent a little bit. But again, nothing that we're giving up or other active city credit. It's very specific when you spend this on the property. Yeah, yes. Basically, remediation damage control would be a way to look spend the authority. Yeah, that's the remediation damage control. And that has nothing to do with the Narcan grant we got earlier. What was separate? But potentially, you could buy more of it. You could buy more as it expires or whatever. So we don't have to buy. Gotcha. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks a Mark. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. It's just a little precursor to that. We signed this original agreement back in 2021 with the ground. It's rather an unit that we're not here, but basically it's a power purchased agreement for solar energy consumption. We're not purchasing into actual capital purchases. A plant is simply a kind of factor of pure energy from that solar installation. So they've had several hurdles over the last few years. It was originally spent the whole line of 2024. It has not gone to construction yet. So this is a third amendment to that agreement that Eric's going to present. And hopefully this is the final one. And we'll get that to you with that you that, that does some right in June. Getting a minute or so, and Council great news. We can go straight to the end of the, oh, bolts. So the original development company was Pobview Solar LLC and has recently been purchased by La Nia Energy Development Company LLC. So the change in this amendment is, so the price increases to $41.50 per WHO fixed with a cat price of $45.50. Guaranteed commercial operation date extended to January 31st, 2026. So they're saying that that's when it will be operational. Then there's also a new termination date of 180 days following January 31, 2026. At this time, the EGOOM power can terminate the project and collect the termination payment if project is not commercial. That means complete and active. Additionally, there's going to be another 3 million in additional security that will be posted in favor of me at power. Should the project not be commercial by the guarantee date? This brings it to a total of $6 million available for delayed damages or termination. Delayed damages have been increased to $8,000 per day from $4,000 per day. That will be effective first day after January 31, 2016. So just February 1st. Media and ex-recommendation is to continue the project with new development and all of our, so we've got some additional stipulations in there. So, me and will not get that entire 6 million that'd be distributed across the members and that's part of this solar agreement. Are there any questions? There's a pretty big safety net there, and then we're six million available for delayed damages. So we would, the tunnels, we would get a substantial portion of that, this thing, that's the fault. So you're from the next year, it should be an operation. So January 3rd, first of all, 26th should be a long one. It should be, but it's been the same two of the last four years. So this is September. That's our recommendation. 15 months from now. So the staff is requesting that the City Council consider a resolution to authorize the mayor of mayor for theative signing, excuse me, the three to the power purchase contract between me and the CIA and Tulsa and all necessary related documents. Are there any other questions? Just out of curiosity, what is the price difference between a solar that, showing it says with a cap of 4550 versus our standard nuclear option? Do you know off top of your head? What's your problem? I know off top of your head? What's your name? I'm off top of my head. So it's around markets going to be stored in the 7-8 cent kilon hour range compared to the $78 compared to 4. I mean $70 to $80 compared to 4 in the VT. What makes it? So it would be cheaper for solar? Yeah, so we're getting this at four, basically. That's why I was just... So the Santa would be like 4.1 cent, 4.1 cent. Right, compared to 8 cent for person powerful now. Gotcha. And that's a lot of them for 20 years. But me egg is buying this as a pool and so they can... I guess what my question is, this just authorizes us to go along with me Ag because we're in me Ag. Is that where I'm understanding? So we already have an agreement for this project. This is a third minute to continue set project. So essentially, we're actually going to kick it off now with this new company. And so we're still trying to pursue one for additional resources as you were saying to us cheaper and everyone as part of it gets the grant energy check mark. Right. So the original company that was selected for construction of it they're unable to finish the project. So now we have to decide with me Ag what are we going to do? Do you go with a new provider to step in and finish the project? Do you abandon it? There's already an investment there, so I guess me Ag feels like the best course of action is to go with the new developer, but there's some clawbacks in there to make us whole, should the deal fall apart. The cap price on that original was about $33 or $34. That's $44. It's still a great deal because it's locked in for the next 20 years. We don't have any risk in it. They're building all the cap X's, their responsibility, we just agree in the buy. We agree in a lot of power, solar energy from them for the next $20. Should they be able to provide it? Right, if they can't provide it, we're not locked in. At this point, if they can't provide it, we get a check. You can check portion of that. And if they make you to probably ask what would you be, probably $1 million. So before they guarantee wasn't there. It was a lot smaller. Oh, OK. So there was a lot more. Right there. There's a little more leverage at play now. Okay, let me ask you, does that income, if everything gets running and going right, does that come in a dividend to the city? Either just get a limit under our energy portfolio, we will give it a chance. We won't come in, we won't get any of it, how will we see it? So to show up as a line item, we're going to have a m if I make a watch, then we have coal, then we have nuclear, and then we have some natural gas. So all that's kind of blended in there, and the ads are responsible for managing that portfolio what gets used in wind. Obviously, some were using on today's, an afternoon, like today, not too much time. That kind of goes away. It's another dispatchable resource that we have and it's kind of blended into the portfolio. And so the customers will use it by, wow, I mean hot. They won't never know it, okay, but it's happening. And so, and I know you were part of the original conversation, this started from an initiative to Walmart, where they get their buy-in-the-fruit-newable energy credits. So we are obligating a program this somewhere around 6% of megawatts of that 10 to Walmart. So they can also, some of their hardware admission and renewable energy credits. So they get tax credits on these things. We'll get a little bit as well on the balance that we have left and we can also sell those credits if we so choose to another provider or not provider but another customer. And then our flip-flip. And so this has been about five years in the making. It gets pretty complicated. Of course you know, he knows how it's going to all shake out for these renewable energy projects, not what that might ask. So we have another line out of it saying solar, right? You all never see it in the owner. Our 17 pays me at. Yeah. Okay. But we'll get, we can check a box that says we have solar now, too. Well, it happens our portfolio. It does. And we got, we got across now too. Well it happens our portfolio, it does. And we got across the board, we got everything we look with. We tried through, we got solar, we got coal, we got nuclear, it's not a meeting nuclear, it counts, it's not a meeting, it's almost. But it makes it look good. You sure? All right. This ends in the end. Yeah, I was about to say, can we send her a? We send her a message. She's not here today. Thank you. Thanks, Eric. Thank you. All right, and the next we have to do approval of Grant, financial management and administration procedure and policy. Our grant is very paying itself. Good evening. How are you? Good. and procedure in policy are going to lose very pain in self. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Yeah. There is a growing need to partner with outside agencies to meet the needs of our community. And to meet those needs, we need to have the capacity to do so. There's a lot of laws and regulations that are required. So the policies and procedures that we're recommending will help to protect the city basically. They're the grant policies procedures for financial management. They're going to help to establish internal controls to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal requirements establish internal policies and procedures and to provide guidance for our partnering agencies to know what policies and procedures and to provide guidance for our partners to partnering agencies to know what policies and procedures are needed. So Monday we're going to ask the council approve and adopt the financial policies and procedures. This is for federal grants primarily. Any questions for that? Can he bring somebody in to help with that? Or do they just train our people who are talking about those, how to keep everything together and moving forward? Would you just talk about? There's a uniform guidance that is required. Our staff has received training on that. And each grant is different. This policy procedure is actually mirrors what we required to use for the community development block grant. We've adjusted it slightly to work with our staff and our procedures, but it still is meets the requirements of the uniform block grant. Or I mean, excuse me, the uniform guidance. So there's not anybody that there's training available and we've taken that, but it's a uniform law grant. All right, excuse me, the uniform guidance. So there's not anybody that, there's training available and we've taken that, but it's not something that we were required to do on a regular basis. Each funding agency like EPA, they have their own training, but it's not something that is required necessarily. We're doing this proactively to make sure that they show that we're showing that we're being compliant. We're getting more and more federal grants. We're wanting to be proactive in showing that. This is new. I don't know that many cities do that. But we know that this is going to show that we're going to be compliant. We know that these procedures will keep us in good standing with the funding agencies. So is there you're seeing that to approve a grant financial management so that grant is a up to or is it so? It's not a grant. It's not a grant. This is not a grant. This is our policies and procedures. Okay. Just in internal, it's like our financial policies are great. This is kind of an amendment to the grant policies. So this is just how we internally will manage the process that we manage financial grants and how we do sub grants. Okay. So we're going to be receiving funds and then giving them to outside agencies it's how we manage and attract those funds. I thought that's what you were saying but I just wanted to make it. Ultimately even if we give those grants to other agencies, the city is responsible. So we've got to be very careful how we do that and this procedure keeps it consistent, makes sure that we can track and share where those funds have been spent and how they've been spent. So it's a extra lay-in protection for the city. And those are where they report back to us how they spend in the money. They have to. They have to. Every dollar has to be a counterpoint. These are public funds. So anything that we receive and then subsequently give out, we are ultimately responsible for. So we have to make sure that all those funds are cracked. OK. So this just kind of outlines how that will be done and how we'll keep track of every day. All right. Is this give us more favorable position to the background? It doesn't hurt. It's not a requirement. For the grant that Eric's going to be presenting, they want to know how we're going to manage it. This is more being proactive. It's not necessarily what we have to do, but I thought that it was a good way to go ahead and incorporate it for future grants as well. So it's not just for this grant, it's just for all federal grants. Any other questions? Thanks, Pam. Thank you. Next we'll have a motion to offer out a Mayor of Brooklyn to sign a step for partnership agreement with the Thomasville Community Development Corporation for their environmental and ago the community change of climate grant. I know it's a mouthful, but our ask is up to $20 million. I believe we're just a little shy of the 20. So we're going to try to rub some paintings together. She wouldn't even mark off that $20 million mark. However, so we must have a partner with a community-based organization through a statutory agreement. Previously, this was requested to submit the grant application for a program. Now, a statutory partnership agreement is a part of the grant. The term partnership is not used in a legal definition, but in a sense a convenience by EPA. So, I'm a part of this agreement and I'm hitting it really high level. So I'll implore you to read those 22 pages through that document. So, I'm going to put an important disagreement and I'm hitting it really high level so I'm plowing you to read those 22 pages through that document and we'll kind of go through the exhibits really quick. However, see a tell us some responsibility. All of this sort of program is, we're the lead advocate. We will have the ultimate responsibility for the overall management, compliance, performance oversight and reporting responsibilities for entire of the grant. We also have the liability. Now we also must approve sub-wort funding and share compliance. So we'll be a pass-through for our partner which is TCDC and any of our collaborative entities and so forth. We're also responsible for following strategy which is blue-shreduction three. And that's going along with the Big Mayor Projecting so on, we'll cover a project map later. Here is TCDC's responsibility. They're statutory partner. They are responsible for the core of the strategies. Then there's a lot there, but they are also doing a lot. I won't read each one of you, them to you, we've covered them before. You have any questions about it? I'll be more than happy to answer them or I'll turn it over to Earl, which is probably much better resource on answering those questions with that slide. Now the government's plan structure. So this is kind of where the community community kind of comes in and whatnot helps out. However, we had to really dig down in all this. So the committee, we made up of community members and the name of this committee would be the environmental committee, Justice Community Grant. Community Chage Grant, implementing committee, that is a mouthful. But we will report those ECJC. The City will appoint five members and TCDC will appoint four members. ECJC shall be a recommending board. TCDC board shall vote on recommendations. So ECJC will vote on the recommendation. It's a tongueswister. They said a couple times. So ECJC will vote on recommendation, they'll confirm TCDC board, they'll vote, and then they'll other, say yes, we'll have a recommendation, go back, work on it, and then they'll send them over to the city where you're going to go to the follow-up checks and approval. Essentially, all that will be is all the TCDC side is going to be eight, you guys are in compliance, and you is going to be eight you guys are at the plants and you're gonna go meet the check of the box in your Party program Okay, the ECJC let's just say the committee the committee the ECJC or report back to the TCDC correct okay correct and then the TCDC for the city. Essentially. Okay. Now does that have to come before us? Well, it depends on the problem. So if it's a the city's side, one percent is going to come for you, you're all because it is going to be a public works project. We are dictated by public works law so forth and so we can't just say hey we want you to do this. It's going to be the same as if we bring a road project or something like that to you. It's going to be as if anything else. So essentially we'll go out and bid on our side and then we'll bring the bids before you all we'll give you a recommendation as usual you found a vote on who to award me contract to sort of TCDC It's going to be partnership with the city correct, okay, so the city will have a lot of projects so now They'll have their own set of projects and TCDC will have what are the Contained that work up works is that is there a percentage of that 20 million dollars that the city would do in the other percentages what the Correct correct don't put me on the second numbers So try to do as 50 50 as much as possible I want to say ours is sort of the now point three million and remaining amount is going to be TC DC But their projects are spread across the community as a whole. And each one of the strategies is a different type of project. So for the bulk of it's going to be their resiliency hub from the presentation. That could be sort of $25-$70 million. I don't, I haven't looked at the budget. You're on, you're getting good. Oh, okay. So $5-$70 million is what we're looking at in the ZILC hub and then we'll expand with that. Then the other facet of it is the micro grid. Then the dollar goes somewhere and there's also that's not only a project. Air pollution, all of that stuff. The pollution, everything. It's a lot. So essentially their project is going to be going over a course of three years ours Well, once it's done is done where we come in on partnership is law of the federal grant management side and that that's where our heaviest lift is going to be in this partnership TD's When they be, projects would they have, overall, you said, going over the city, or over the city? Would they have projects for renovating houses, this type of stuff? And the reason I said that, because I'm shooting for the fort about houses and such. Part of the rent money, I have a piece of, which is also about $9 million, will be for neighborhood improvement grants. We're going to take the city's current program and basically expand that. We're looking at doing total of 45 houses within three-year time period. That's what you said, 45 houses, I mean, building them already. Yeah, but improving. Improving them. So each house will allocate, we're asking for $40,000 per house, which is going to be a drastic improvement over what we're doing right now. So we'll actually be able to make more of a significant difference. So the goal is, at $40,000 a house, doing 15 houses per year, which is going to be, it's going to be really, we're caught in 15 houses per year. And the end result will be 45 houses that have been basically almost totally renovated. And a lot of the sense of roots, flooring, plumbing, things like that nature. And so it's a great deal. Okay, how would the individuals know, would they have pli-a-form, how would you mark it? How you mark it? Well, we've already set up so far for the city's neighborhood, Rubikland, well, these are very similar applications. So we already have that set up for that process. We have an application process. We have a neighborhood committee that actually determines who has the greatest need and where the money goes. So we're very transparent process only. We have set up. And I think I've asked this one, I'm sorry, about its own income, right? You know, everything that TCDC will do would be. What we're talking about. Look at the income or look at the need. Looking at the need and looking at the neighborhood. Right now, we prioritize older adults, children, like those, that's a big priority. But if you look at, at some point time, doing the next couple months, we, come back and do a rundown of what we've done this year. But mostly it's been older adults that want to stay in place and do the things that keep your house safe. Like roofs, floors, and plumbing. OK. OK. So do we have the grid already? No, we're still up in the closet. But we're still doing the heavy lifting around now. Yeah. It would be the recommending board to the piece of these. Yes. So the committee will be recommending board. And also part of their mission will be making sure that the money is going to the targeted neighborhoods and the people that we're trying to serve. It's just wonderful. Also, my next question, I mean, you got other folks that stand in how they need to be renovated. My thing is, how are we going to let them know? I mean, because others don't get out there. How do we get to them? How do we get in mind that the notice is available? Yeah, it's hot. So we're going to get the same process that we do right now. We don't go door to door in the communities. And we basically hand out information about it. So we're going to door that or campaign to it. We have social media. Last time we did church announcements. So we get deep into the community and put this information out. I know you did a walk through the walk a while back. Now is that one way? That's one way. OK, you see? Three of those walks before and really do another one coming up in the next probably 60 days. OK. Because I was just thinking, you know, we have a lot of help, a lot of elders that need the houses be dead and don't have any means of doing it. But the thing about how do we notify them? doing's real good. So one idea you can do, zones in your consensus with the GIS and whatnot and send out individual melons because our target community is elderly. They still get meld, they're re-meled, they're going to get a lot of... No, I had someone call me. I said, we didn't find it, but I think she's found it. All the people we can So go ahead, this is the project area. It's a little blurry ahead of what we're talking about. for improvement. Additionally, you see that red plus? That is the resiliency, that's where the old Douglas School gym is and then to the right of it, the low green X, that is going and I renovated that's where it will be as well. Now if you go a little north, that's how the Radar Orange, the color is looking improve all those areas. Also, you improve the capacity downstream, which is everything in those shaded areas. and the sewers and all we'll be trying to look at not an exclusive group, so there's another group within these areas and so forth. So, Exhibit A is going to be the CED strategies. Exhibit B is going to be that government structure, so please read it. Exhibit C is TCDC strategies. plan and we are requesting the council authorize mayor of their attempt to sign the Sassar Appartition Agreement with also community development corporation for the environmental climate justice community change your answer program. Any questions? Just quick question. I know this question probably with the arrow also. I know we're targeting to do a city we got face one in the face two over there. I don't know where we at on that on that on that project now. Did you grant? Yeah, but what about fletch of bill are we targeting? It should be on the census stretch. So fletch of bill is in there, Steve is reaching there, Carol Wheel is in there, do a season here. So what is this line right here that separates the gray from the lighter? The blue one? No, no. The black line that comes around and separates the gray. What's the gray? What's that? You talk about the one that's right down the middle? Yeah, the black down the middle. What street or whatever that is? I could tell you honestly. Okay. The fold is just an outline of those census tracks. What is the problem with the right-back street or whatever that is? I could tell you honestly. Okay, okay. The whole is just an outline of those census tracks. So if that's all it is to the case, census tracks. I can get you to show you the own from that side of in or that side is out. So the rule on shaded area is not when the census tracks. Okay. Alright. Okay, I got you. Okay, thank you. It's about half a tail. Yeah. It looks good. It's a good amount. I'll just say that you're Eric, and Pam, and Pearl, and Katie, and they've all been put a lot of work into this. What do you do to me about Tim? What Tim said? I can say that's for laughing. But he, you know, he has been through this multiple times with a fine of tips and help. So, you encouraged to read all 77 pages of that document. It's a little light reading. But he's been through it already, so he signed all over. Okay. It's going to be good. Let's see the picture he signed all over us. Okay, it's good to see the guys. It's, it's, it's, it's. You'll see the bitch. It should be wonderful. Okay. See the b-n-o-sh-o. It's work probably. You know it and then what can they're saying it's gonna be done. It's gonna be good. There's a lot of bad, where he's pooled in. So I'm gonna look for a guy out there. It's just a $20 million dollar. That's a fact. I'm gonna fetch you. Chop. I'll thank you. Thanks Eric. This will have a motion to approve out how a lot of things could be till packing to be in one for all of these. Look at it. Oh, right, he's Jackson. Got to open up. That's reserved for the Mayor and your Melissa Creole. What's your opening date? They want to be opened by 18. 19. Is it the 19? What's the 20? The pen was round 20 of September. I think the 19th is their grand opening. The 19th is the 19th. 19. So I have a motion of approval for alcohol lysis for retail package, a beer line for all these at 1530 East Jackson Street. The applicant has went through the all applications and paperwork for approval locally and through the state. So my request is for counseling, is there a motion to approve the deputy and wine license for all these? Preparated Georgia located at 1530 East Jackson Street. Any questions? No, here's Atticuria RC Refresh, my memory. What's the local tax rate on that? No, we get it on the sales piece. We do. We have a well not with package. No, that's just mixed right? That's more just mixed. Okay. More of the restaurants that we get a monthly excise tax score is 8% from the from the extra. Gotcha. And this this right here would the normal sales tax whatever get your chosen tax use sells me stocks next we got another motion to prove our policy to be something beer wine and liquor pouring and catering for broad street public LLC also known as the Dalton public look at you to 13 outside broad street listen this this is for our as the Dalton public, located to 13 South Royal Street. Listen. Yes, this is for our, the public that's opening up at 213 South Royal Street. So what they are wanting is alcohol license for retail, consumption of beer, liquor pouring, and also carrying license for that. At that address, that applicant is also been through all the paperwork and applications for approval, local and for the state. So my request is for Council to consider a motion to approve the exception of your line of the pouring and catering license for broad street public LLC also known as the dog and function at 2.13 South Wall Street. This would qualify under the 8% of the country. Give me a minute, sir. What does it mean that we located, I mean, it was 2, 30. This is next to Tosco, though. So who's? It's Tosco, though, the one between it. I'm on Fraud and Ja'am. Runnington across in some way, that Tosco, they're right there by the plaza, it's right there, it's right next to the Italy. It's connected to Tosco, it's part of their location, it's just got a separate address to it. Maybe it's that owner. That's wrong. Understain, we're moving through all of them. Yes, sir. So when we look at downtown, do we have several liquor pouring downtown. We have a plaza and that will be a second. Four or five. That would be four or five. Thank you. We have a motion to approve the limit. The Council police departments, bill with security fee, the Y'all are by your shame here. Good evening, Councilor Mayor Pro Tem. So I'm coming before you for a motion to approve the amendment for the Timesville Place Farmers' Billable Security Feeds. So when we're talking about that, it's extraduitous silence. It's think of it as officers who are all dead. It's not officers that are actually working for the police department on the talk is doing security events outside of that time. So, extraditions we defined it as a sign of a major employee that are outside of the employees normal sign and work schedule. Some of those examples where you'll see them working with securities would be like football security game, Thomas Bajani, Thomas university, the many kids football that's going on with the stadium, general security, event traffic control. The biggest one that we have is AMH, working security there, and then also when we see a third-party vendor called Extraduity Solutions and what they do is they handle all the client interactions. They do the in-bossing for the clients and they also do the collections of the scheduling of officer's work in those events and then officer payments. So EDS, one of the benefits of using them is that they don't guarantee that when officer works a security event that the city will be paid for that officer's time. Like in the past, where the city would use to, if we worked in event then we would have to build that outside vendor and they give us the money. But this is just built assured already because they're vated that money will be paid. So currently the bill will rate for a TPD officer working one of these outside venues. It's $40 an hour with a $3 minimum. So looking at that, officers working to build well assignment or paid at their normal time and a half-array, this is how we do that. It's set up so that with that $40 when we first went into it, is that there would be enough money left over between the officers time and a half-array and that $40 that it would pay for the using of the vehicle, it would pay for their workman's comp if something was to happen, so it would cover all of those areas. But what we're finding now, because of paying increases in its been a while since we've increased this $40, is that the current average of overtime rate for a police officer somewhere around $4,327 and now are this collectively. That's also using some exempt employees overtime rate for police officers somewhere around 43, 27 an hour, and that's collectively that's also used in some exempt employees that do work some of these events that may drive that number up a little bit, but it's somewhere around 43 dollars an hour, which is more than the 40 that we're currently charged. So with the EDS, this is looking at one officer, I pulled out, and this is looking from January this year to August of this year. This officer worked 202 hours at Archbald Memorial Hospital. At this time and a half rate, which is $40.37, the officer made $8,164. But AMH built at the $40 an hour, they were built $8,090. Which left a difference of $164 that the City of Thomasville had to pay for that security service. So when this is just a breakdown, the senior packet, it's just a breakdown of all of the events that we worked this year and how many hours they will be able to get all of more at the $40 an hour. So you can see at the bottom that the Alps were at $3,200 and I think that's $86 an hour last year for some of the $131,457. And you can say that AMA is there one of our biggest provider at 90,000 dollars on this 91,000 dollars. How long does it take enough to receive this pay for doing this overtime? So there's two ways that we go about it when we look at an exempt employee and an non-exempt employee. So for a non-exempt employee they will put that so if they work in the event this weekend it goes in on their time sheet it would be classified the time and a half and they'll get paid on their regular pay. Okay so nothing to have to wait on., not only people have to wait on that or the exempting avoid because they said the contract is ready. So if I work one in August, I'll get paid until September. So sometimes it can be over 30, 30 days turnaround on that. So you said three hours minimum, right? So you have to at least have $120, $120, $9 or $30 to say that you will, like me being a vendor, we'll give that officer. Suppose my event is only because it's a large crowd. My event is only an hour and 45 minutes. But we still got a pen for the three hours. And do they stay around then until everybody leaves? Or do they stay around to everybody leaves? OK, I just wanted to make sure. So you're looking at an officer. The new ask officer coming in on the Saturday morning at 7 o'clock in the morning. I don't know how many will show up for an hour and a half. It's just not worth my time getting dressed, coming to town. That's why we do the three hour minimum. So the proposed increase from 40 to $45 an hour for non-exempt employees, $55 an hour for exempt employees. And the reason we did the 55 is that, currently, those officers that are exempt, or exempt employees, say, from the captain to a major assistant chief, they're going to make less money, currently, than would an officer that's lieutenant or a sergeant when we looked at our contract and ready. So to make that fair we just went up to $55 an hour because you're not going to pay those exempted boys a common hat so there has to be some measure there which is that contract different. So now who's considered exempt? So that would be a captain in the buff. Captain in the buff, OK. Those are folks that just don't their extent from overtime. OK. So their salary employees. OK. So who chooses the people that the officers that will come out to that event? So it's not the way how it works is that you hasn't been that you decide, generally how it happens, is to say to the state for easy, is to sit in permit in the end, that you will meet with the police department, usually it's, I don't know what it means when I'm alone with embassies, when see what you wanna do, when decide how many officers that can safely do that at the end. And then you'll have me me or you'll tell me, and I want to do this event with this amount of time. So what usually happens then is I'll give you the number to EDX. To actually do these solutions. You call that National Clearing House Center. And you tell them I'm having them, you know, this day I'm spoken with major hares. We decided I need to say four officers having an email this day. I'm spoken with major hares. We decided I need to say four officers put us back into this town. And then what they do is they put that into their software system. Every officer at the police department has an app on their phone or you can have it on your computer. So when a job comes available, it's open to everybody within the police department. If officers, yesterday signs him on an event, say at 8 o'clock in the morning, he cannot sign in, or she cannot sign into another event until it's been 24 hours. So it kind of gives everybody the equal opportunity to take them to an event. Now there are some events that will require that that a supervisor is on side, like a Thomas Files school football game, because of the type of the banging is, the number of officers working, you've got to have operational playing and plays, but also we've talked with the EDS, because there are times of officers who maybe just not want to work in a van, but that there are there is a position still open within that adent, then what they would do is they will call back that event order and say look this price is going up from $45 an hour now and 55 because nobody at the $45.00 and I will rate once the war can work. So there's things in within the play, but the big fair that you should have. So you, but there's company, he's coming. He calls the officer, well, the officer cats an app on his phone or computer. He decides, well, I want to work this event here. He signs in for it. That locks everything in. OK. Is this a different company from one from a year to a go or I mean last year? It's the same one. Oh, you just come in because of the change and the income, the increase. We just want to make sure that the cost that the city and curves is covered. It's not meant really to make a lot of money from it. It's just if it's going to cost us $43.27 for that officer to work that event, we need to be getting back at least that. And right now we're taking a loss on it. So we also have a policy that we don't just change a rate without you all approving the rate. So that's what this is for. We've got a lot of, normally we would change fees, rates, things like that as part of the budget, but there's a lot that's coming up towards the end of the year. So in this case, it's better to get ahead of it, let you all approve it so that it's not such a big hit to the budget this year. This is on the end of 2024 but it's going through class use as a 40 increase. We'll just take a fact. Who would just take a fact? After Monday. Okay. Okay. Then I saw on the packet there's another fee for like use a car like a cruiser or something like that. We already have that included in our piece too. Is there anything we have to add on? No, there's no add on. There's other cities that do the add on. But generally, when our ops are good, so worse than that, they're taking the crews or even like that. So all that's just padded into it. So the captains, majors, and all of them, they sign up last or something if whatever's left. If they need to or do they sign up just like the Resort offices which would be 55 instead of the 45. Correct. So the way it usually works is a job will sit there maybe a month and nobody signs up. You stand to the last week, two weeks, nobody still signs up. So it's pretty much to be new. It wants to work. Because you've got to look at the hospitals, the biggest, biggest user. That's already planned out almost six months ahead of time. What's left over, or the football games, or the walls, the runs, all of these little smaller events. So that, you know, people are already working a full time, for the other job and the working security. So these other events, you know, it's almost trying to find somebody to work in. So just to break it down, so the $40 dollar and hour rate, currently right now, with EDS, the city fee for that is only $36. Now, because EDS takes 10% out, the managed to ensure you get your money and do all those things they did. So they'll take the top out of the top of the $4. So that's where we see now the average overtime rate where it all is, was $4.3 an hour, but the city's on recruitment $36 out of that 40. So, if we move into the $45 an hour just for those not exempt employees, the city fee is now $40.50 that they're getting, the EDS is getting $4.50 and the customer's paying the $45. So, that's a little bit more palatable, but then when you add in somebody that is an example that is working, now when you're being charged for $55, I'll certainly, the executive boy is not making the figures out, but you have an extra pattern, or you're just like you said, he's not lying to the paying for it and somebody else is a dint. So just for last year, 2023 billable rights, you can see I broke it down. The EDS, they received $131,000 from the vendor. The revenue that the place the part that got from that was $118,000. EDS collected the $13,144 dollars which is at 10 percent So then we look at the $45 an hour rate Now the city when you use them the same amount of hours there's 3200 hours that we were last year EDS would now charge it out of 147,000, almost 148 officers cost for that security as 127,000 same as last year. And then the revenue that the city would get from that, is $133,000. So now we're not in the negative, you know we're in a positive, but almost $6,000 just by going up that $5,000. But they, uh, exempt our non-exempts for it. And then this is what you were asking. This is from Jasper George. I found online. They're regular rate that they charge for police officers. They're thinking $1 an hour. You said they got it broken down different. Hollywood bases were all the way up to the use of a flat fee for a vehicle if you used it, which is still more than the 45 that we suggested. This one is from Savannah. Their extra duty is $40 a day, which is like hours now, but what you don't see is down there, no charge of administration fee, no charge of force for city vehicle fee, which now puts them at $47 out, which is still more than what we're asking. And then the last one, this is Columbus. They charge 6450 for the police officer. And then you see, as they go up in the rain, they charge different mountains, and then they use another plaque thing for the cruise. So we're just requesting that the City Council prove the billable security thing for the $45 hour of a non-exempted for ease in 55 and the non-exempt. We request the Council to take appropriate action, authorize the mayor of mayor of pros and team deciding on this. So, Dr. you're relating to the security and the increase in any questions. I'll just say this is we're not making plenty of this. They barely cover and cost it. It's a really a service to the community. And Archbohl is our biggest consumer of this. And I've spoken with them directly. They knew they were probably going to have to ratchet this up It is our biggest consumer of this and I spoke with them directly. They knew that we're probably going to have to ratchet this up officially over the next few years as our cops increase and they're okay with that. But they are also okay with it, they're sign of all the land. We do have one staff report. Mayor Proctin, we have a Main Street program report from our Main Street Director, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I can't tell what to say. You're an idiot. Oh, you're an idiot. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. I'm going to take a break. Good evening, Mayor Prattam and Council. I'm Rendy Avery, I'm Main Street Director, and I'm here tonight to talk about our Main Street Program. Our Thomasville Main Street Program was founded in 1981, and our mission is to foster and enhance the offendingand-dick identity historic care to our community on Thomasville. Downtown Thomasville will be a dynamic and creative city center where people will want to live aspire to work, love to play, and long to return. Our Main Street team we have April Norton who serves as our managing director of marketing communications. I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, and I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, and I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, and I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, and I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, and I'm a former mayor of the state of New York, community, which is a Georgia exceptional Main Street, and how we received that designation history are monthly reporting that we turn in, and at the end of the year they named many must of Jim's community. Fun fact, we were the first in Georgia to earn the Great American Main Street Award. This past year we were awarded the 2023 downtown family year at the Georgetown Conference. And last week we hosted the 2024 Georgia downtown Conference here in Thomasville. We were going to cap at 250 attendees and we ended up with 377 downtown professionals from around the state. It was a record breaking conference with a number of attendees, a number of money raised for Georgia Downtown Association and for the number of sponsors. City of Thomasville was awarded two awards. With our partnership with Thomasville Center for the Arts, we're the premier partnership award for the state and the best place-making project for the Arts, where the premier partnership award for the state and the best place making project for the state for our African-American and the Arts Black History Month celebration. Our Main Street program, we follow the National Main Street program by four points and that's economic fatality, design, organization, and promotion. We'll start with economic vitality. It's to build a diverse economic base, catalyze smart new investment and cultivate a strong entrepreneur shift ecosystem. system. Part of our economic vitality is our annual events. Our office does all the planning and implementing of our downtown events. This next year we'll have our 104th Rose Show and Festival. This December we are 38 annual Victorian Christmas. We do the Christmas and Thomas Stills, zip and chalps, and extended hours. The Black History Month Parade and Celebration will be held Saturday, February 1st, this next year. We do our first Friday concerts March 30th, December, excluding July. The Stinna Annual Sidewalk the Sunna annual sidewalk sales are twice a year. There's usually fall in February and we have one planned for September 21st. The autumn artisan market, which takes place at the Ritz Amphitheater, will happen this year on September 28th. And our holiday open house, it always falls on the Sunday before Thanksgiving and it's our kickoff to the holiday season. So lots of our stores and restaurants are open for a shopping event. And then we partner with our merchants to house the preschool costume parade downtown and that's for all the local church preschools that are located downtown they bring their students and all emergency pull-out for trick-or-treating. We recruit businesses for downtown. This past year we had 15 new businesses and that created 56 jobs. I have with y'all our numbers for the 2023 year and that will break down this year compared to the past five years. But we had 8.4 million in private and public investment in 2023. And one way we could showcase our new businesses downtown, our three ribbon cuttings. We work hand in hand with Andrew Goodland, who's our economic development director with our business recruitment. One way we help property owners is we have listing on our downtown website, Thomascogea.com. You can list your properties there, and we keep that up today. Our department offers the SOD grant program and that's a local matching grant that is for the building the SODs that are in public right away. In 2022, we had 10% of the salary have for a total of $65,394. In 2023 we had three complete the SOG grants. That was $13,763.37. And so far this year we've had six basalt grants or 60,000 and we've got two applications in hand and three more trees have inquired about the program. Our next category is design and that is to create an inviting inclusive atmosphere, celebrate historic character, and fostered accessible people-centered public spaces. We have a great partnership with the Thomas Gole Center for the Arts, and through our Wildlife Art Special, we have the Seven Bronze Cultures that are located throughout downtown. The Black History Committee this year, we worked with six artists that we were able to commission to paint photos to hang downtown during the month that you're wearing. And that is the award-winning project that we won last week. You see the bronze sculpture of the leaves, and that is from the Tape Road Initiative through Center for the Arts. And then each April, they have flocked, which is the new Art Initiative Downtown. This past year, I'm sure you saw all the guitars that were up and down West Jackson Street in the amphitheater. We have community partnerships. One of our favorite projects is with Hands on Thomas County. Each Hands on Thomas County Day, we have volunteers in the community that help us decorate downtown. We have students. Usually we end up with central high school that helps us central key club and they help decorate the the trees with Christmas lights on West Jackson and Madison and then we have several groups that help us with changing out the bulbs for the light bulb you see broad street. We have our local Boy Scout Church that put up American flags along the east of West Jackson for Memorial Day, July 4th and Veterans Day. And then we work with community groups to put bows on our benches. This month you'll see all the gold bows and that is for Childhood Cancer Awareness. We also work with organizations to place poll banners along West Jackson Street. See, there's a Thomas University there, but usually they're promoting an event. Our office updates, all the way finding signage that you see downtown. We have quite a bit of movement, but we try to have those updated at least twice a year before Victorian Christmas and Roe Show. The benches that you see downtown are part of our commemorative bench program and individuals are able to recognize a business organization or loved one. And once you purchase a bench from our office, we provide a plaque that goes on the bench with memorial. Our office also manages the rentals for the Ritz Amphitheater and the Municipal Auditorium. In 2023, we had 10 rentals per page. Organization, and that's to build leadership and strong organizational capacity and share broad community engagement and forced partnerships across sectors. We have the Main Street Advisory Board and the Downtown Development Authority. Our Main Street Advisory Board meets monthly. They follow this four-point approach during all meetings which is to design, organization, promotion and economic fatality. Mayor Motley serves on this board and it consists of eight other community members. Our Downtown Development Authority meets every other month and they are responsible for promoting the economic development in the downtown business district. Our DDA is able to offer DCA incentives and they are the ones that we present the SOD grants to and they approve those. Councilmember Scotch has Dane serves on this board. We have the Black History Committee. This is a very hardworking committee that meets monthly set timber through February to plan and implement the Black History Month in celebration. We've got Mrs. Cindy Brown, who serves on this board, with eight other committee members. We keep up with our merchants and keep them informed is through individual merchant visits. We do quarterly merchant meetings and we send out a monthly merchant memo with everything up today of what's going on. We try to do cross-promotion of anything they have going on. We have on our event calendars. We're sharing on our social media. Promotion, which is to market districts defining assets, communicate unique features through storytelling and support the biomedical experience. Our office is located in the Visitor Center and we operate the gift shop there. We have all Thomas Goe Merchandise and we have a lot of visitors believe it or not. Between January through July, we've had 3,878 visitors and everyone that walks in, we asked them where they're from, how long they're staying, what they plan to do, and we keep a tally right there in the office. We've had 51 that have come in wanting a relocation packet this year, and then we've had 294 people reach out to us for guide request, and that could be for the visitors guide, shopping and dining that they have interest of coming to Thomas School. Our Downtown Dollar Program is huge. It's sold in $10 increments here in the Visitor's Center. In 2023, we had $233,570 sold and downed $10 and they go right back into the downtown businesses and to the state we have 114 that are participating now. Another way we promote our merchants, about the summer and holiday loyalty cards and our educator appreciation cards, how the summer and holiday loyalty cards work are on the back of the card for every $20 you spend the merchant signs off. And once you've marked off 10 spots, you can turn it into participating merchants or to the visitor center. And it's for a chance to win an overnight stay at the Marriott Fountaine. So those numbers keep growing each year. The holiday loyalty cards, we had 1,658 cards turned in for a total of $331,600. And for last summer's loyalty card, we have 857 turned in for 171. The educator appreciation cards, all of our teachers and retired educators look forward to that every year. And they're active, August through September, and the merchants will put a discount on there teachers and retired educators look forward to that every year and their active August-thirstep timber and the merchants will put a discount on there. They usually do 25% off a one-time buy so our teachers really look forward to that. And I handed out a few of these but we're in charge of our marketing pieces and we work with our marketing department to get these out and about but we're in charge of our marketing pieces and we work with our marketing department to get these out and about. But we have our shopping and dining guide, the delicious dining guide, which restaurants are open on what days and what their hours are. The Visitors Guide, which we have a brand new design as of last week. We've got these in. We have the Hunt the Loss Quail Rat Car, our first Friday Sip and Shop, the Ro Show Victoria and Christmas Rat Car, our Main Street Statistical Report, and then we also work with regional magazines of providing Thomas Phil and getting on the calendar of other websites. And we're really big on our digital marketing. So following us on our Instagram and our Facebook pages, we're up to 27,000 followers on our Facebook. And then we also try to do the digital billboards for advertising for our events and to just shop down to you. Can we have any questions? I think I do have a comment. OK. I think I do have a comment. I thought you all for this week, for the last week, and the weekend that was there, you did an awesome job. I just think it was really nice and put together and I loved the couple of events that I did attend. The but is that at those events there was no diversity for City of Thomasville and I thought that that was a... I just felt like, I don't know, you know how I feel about things like that, but I just felt like there should have been some diversity in our representation as not ours, but our city, I mean our city group that was hosting and everything and there was none. But I don't want to bring it on it because it was really nice. But I do want April and whoever is doing that to kind of look at kind of getting some diversity. I don't know if what I have not seen tourism. I don't know what kind of diversity in that. I have not seen anybody from the DDA. I guess I don't know what kind of diversity in that. I have not seen anybody from the DDA. I guess I don't know what kind of diversity there. I have not seen anyone from, what's the other one? Mark and Dede. So they should have answered. Yes, I have not seen, I mean, I don't know if they have diversity, maybe you know, but I have not seen any. So I'm just saying that we need to look at putting some diversity in it because Thomas Phil, the makeup of Thomas Phil is diverse, but we're not there. That's what I'm saying. Okay, great. That's all. It was nice. Really nice. I am too good,. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you. Thank you, Y'all for submitting that application. Thank you. April, just now we do have one citizen to be heard as long as we have any staff. Oh, yes, Mr. Kimley, Homer, Homer. Good afternoon, my name is Emily. Yes, Mr. Kimley, Homer, Homer. Good afternoon, my name is Mr. Kahn. I have a question concerning the water. And people are in the rest of the territory. There's no water. There's no running water there. There are three at the rest of the territory. There's no running water there. There are three at the rest of the territory. There's no running water there. There are three at the rest of the territory. There are three at the rest of the territory. I'm a piece of rest and I would have a lawyer there's one more out there. I contacted the cemetery and asked about what a piece of rest she said was not on the floor. Okay. You spoke with somebody at the cemetery? Yes, I think it's an email number. I thought it meant it. I followed whoever's got. Okay. That's first ever. Thank you very much. Thank you. So you have to sit for so long. I'll give that message to us. But anytime you have something about that, you reach out to see the angels off the roof. Get out from that for you. That's all we have. I'll just let you say, let's keep the Ingram family in prayer. She's a past dispatcher for the Times of Police Department. She recently passed, I'm not sure when she passed, but carry your Ingram. Oh, yesterday. Oh gosh. Yeah. Yesterday. Yeah. She worked for the police department for a long time. She's my dispatcher. Yeah. She's my dispatcher. Yeah. She's my there one. Yeah. Also, the, on the other side of the ladder, shooting there, the ladder, I think four dead, nine injured. Well, let's just keep those folks in press also. Now, we're blessing to the thumbs real Field and nothing like that happens here but let's continue to pray for that. That's all I have. That's all you have. This sir, it's June, 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. I'm going to get some more. I'm going to get some more. I'm going to get some more. I'm going to get some more. I'm going to get some more. I'm going going to lie. Well rested. How's she doing at night? We actually have the opposite. We have to wake up Oh yeah Yes, the people Just because they're just out of the blue and drunk and so like You feel bigger you you you you you