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SIMPSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL BUSINESS SESSION May 13, 2008 6:30 p.m. City Council Chambers- 118 N.E. Main Street
CALL TO ORDER: Mayor: Call the May 13 th , Business Meeting of Simpsonville City Council to order. Thank you all for coming tonight, sorry we are running a little late, we were downstairs working on the budget. Mrs. Bridgeman, will you call the roll please?
ROLL CALL: Councilmember Bridges: Here Councilmember Garrett: Here Councilmember Sanders: Here Councilmember Bagwell: Here Councilmember Curtis: Here Councilmember Larson: Here Mayor Waldrop: Here
INVOCATION: Mayor: Is there any one here that would like to ask blessings upon this meeting in your own personal way? Ok, Councilmemeber Larson, would you ask blessings upon this meeting in your own personal way.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Mayor: Would all of you join us now in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag please.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF 04/15/08 and 04/22/08 Mayor: Thank you. Councilmembers you have in your packet the minutes from the April 15 th and April 22 nd meetings and I am sure you all reviewed those. I will entertain a motion in that regard at this time. Ms. Bagwell
Ms. Bagwell: I move that we accept the minutes of the April 15 th and April 22 nd meetings
Mayor: Thank you Ms. Bagwell, do I hear a second?
Mr. Larson: Second
Mayor: Mr. Larson seconds. Any corrections, additions or comments or questions? Hearing that, I will call the vote. All in favor signify by saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it is unanimous, minutes are adopted.
REVIEW OF MONTHLY REPORTS Mayor: We have monthly reports, do you have them in your packets? Everyone has the monthly reports and I am sure you have all reviewed them. Those are provided by department heads and thank you again for providing those for us. We do look at those and sometimes read them, we like pictures. Any comments on that by anyone? All right, thank you very much.
CITIZEN COMMENTS Mayor: Next, is the portion of our meeting that we allow public comment. If you called ahead and asked to be placed on the agenda we will give you 4 minutes to speak to us. This is a business meeting so we will listen to anything you have to say but will not respond to you and not engage in conversation with you, we reserve that for the workshop meeting two weeks from now. If you signed up when you came in the door we will give you two minutes to do that. We only had one person to be placed on the agenda tonight, so I will call him now, Mr. Dominick Morabito. If you will just state your address for the record please, your time will begin.
Mr. Morabito: My name is Dominick Morabito of 103 Coral Vine Road here in Simpsonville. I really have no comment, I just signed up just in case anyone had any questions that I would gladly answer. If there is no questions then I can just sit down
Mayor: Thank you, you can save that three minutes and forty-five seconds for the next time, we will add that for you.
Mr. Morabito: Thank you.
Mayor: All right, that was the only sign up we had, I mean the only call ahead that we have. Now we have the sign ups and we will allow two minutes. And first on the agenda is Meg Hawes. I know her, she’s been here before. Mrs. Hawes, will you please give your address please for the record.
Mrs. Hawes: Yes, My address is 223 Deer Spring Lane. I just wanted to come tonight and thank you all and thank the city for its participation in Music on the Square for the Upstate Women’s Club. We managed to hold off the rain, we set up, we had a good time and things went well. We were able to do some really good work on raising funds for charities that night as well as we raised about 200 can food items for Golden Strip relief. I just wanted to thank you all for your help and I am looking forward to next year.
Mayor: Great. Thank You. It’s great to pass that to our community members here. All right, next is Mr. Jack Cox. Mr. Cox, will you give us your address?
Mr. Cox: 707 Davenport Road. I am here to thank you for your plans to widen and refurbish Davenport Road. Also, to make a request, because there is a little risk in walking, we would like to see something that controls the folks that speed, stop signs, speed bumps, whatever it takes. As you probably know the goings on there, so anything you could do or the neighborhood could do we would sincerely appreciate it. Thanks.
Mayor: OK, thank you very much. Robbie Davis. Give us your address Mr. Davis. Didn’t know you were living there now.
Mr. Davis: I feel like I do sometimes. Robbie Davis. Recreation Department. 310 W. Curtis Street. I know you can’t give me any feedback tonight. I have spoken to Mr. Hawes and kind of got a nod of approval to sign up and speak to you tonight. I would like to move forward with a project that the city may be interested in that will benefit us and the population down the road. We had a crew come to us and talk to us about a special needs field. We think it’s a great idea and we would like to put it at City Park to revitalize City Park. With the addition of the special needs field, maybe a special needs playground and then hopefully Mr. Larson, with his work with the Kiwanas Club, we can even enhance City Park even more. So this is something I just want to make you aware of, I hope I can get a nod of approval to get a layout or something like that. It would take no tax payers money, we fill like we can raise the money with the budget. We have a seventy five thousand dollar pledge to get us started. I won’t name the company now, when we get everything in place, hopefully we can do some good PR and get it out there. It will challenge other companies to do this. Whether it will take a year or two, we don’t think it will take that long but it is something that we have been kind of missing in recreation is hitting that population. I know that the City of Mauldin has one but we don’t want to compete, partner maybe, that a second park in our area wouldn’t hinder but only enhance. We want to go one step further and go with the adult autism group. It is just something we feel that, that group come near and dear to our hearts and we think we would like to pursue that and just wanted give it to you for information tonight and hopefully come back to you with a proposal and get that vote instead of that nod maybe and we can get going with this
Mayor: I don’t hear any disagreement with you going forward with that and maybe develop a plan and bring us the details and we will do the official vote and that sort of thing.
Mr. Davis: Thank you. Mayor: Next is Mike Proffitt. Mr. Proffitt, if you would just state your name and address for the record.
Mr. Proffitt: Mike Proffitt, I live at 200 Boxelder Lane. I am here to discuss the expansion of Century Plastics. I am basically representing our neighborhood, they asked that I speak to you in there behalf so that we have this on record. We want to let it be known that we are opposed to the rezoning of residential lot to an industrial lot. With that being said we would like to go on record concerning the following. It has been stated by the city planner that the extension of Century Plastics will not affect the character of our neighborhood. We trust that the city council will see to the enforcement of compliance of issues to assure that our quiet neighborhood keeps its character. The wall, fence or compact hedge or other type of evergreen foliage or combination of fence and shrubbery shall be provided along the side of rear lot lines where any commercial service is adjacent to residential district. We also understand that the property in question is in a flood plain and the large expansion of trees back behind our neighborhood cannot be disturbed due to that flood plain area. And that came to a meeting that Ms. Tammy had in a meeting to discuss things with Mr. Morabito. After meeting with Mr. Morabito and touring his facility and the property in question where the expansion is to take place, many of our concerns have been relieved. Mr. Morabito seems to be concerned about the noise issues that have been spoken about and has agreed to monitor those noise issues more closely. We also agreed to the idea of a regular community meeting with him, so we know what is going on at his facility from time to time. He has stated that his intent to be a good neighbor to us and we to be a good neighbor to him as well. We hope with Mr. Morabito and the city council and our residence, we can work together to maintain our neighborhood character to ensure the security of our property value and to address issues that have been previously stated in previous meetings. Thank you.
Mayor: Thank you. Next is Anji Nelson.
Ms. Nelson: I am Angi Nelson of 400 Catus Court. I am speaking on behalf of SIMBA tonight. The Simpsonville Downtown Business Development Association and we put in our permit for our fourth annual concert music series which was called Music Hour at the Clock Tour. We are proposing to have a concert on the third and fourth Saturdays of June, July and August on South Main Street at the Clock Tower. We would block off the parking lot, which is basically South Main Street from West Curtis to Danny’s filling Station or perhaps to Trade, depending on how many vendors will be participating. We will have live music that will set up on a stage that we would like to have the utility flat bed from the City for a couple of those concerts with the smaller bands and then we will borrow on from the Chamber of Commerce for the others. We will have vendors and businesses participating, all of which will have a Simpsonville Business License.
Mayor: Thank you for that. Once we get to that portion of our agenda tonight, I’m sure one of these to amend the agenda to add your request and I’m sure we will vote on this.
Ms. Nelson: Ok, I have a sample flyer.
Mayor: Ok that would be great. Give that to the clerk and she will pass it around.
Ms. Nelson: Thank you.
Mayor: Thank you.
CITY ADMINISTRATORS REPORT Mayor: Ok that concludes our citizen comment portion of the program tonight so we will go right to the city administrator’s report. Mr. Hawes, tell us what you got.
Mr. Hawes: Yes sir, Mayor and Council. I want to touch on where we are at Heritage Park and the Amphitheater. First in our report here, all of the underground water and electrical connections to serve best for the vendors are complete. Duke Energy delivered the transformers for the additional electrical service two weeks ago. Additional street lighting has been installed as well on the main road through the park. We are waiting delivery for new Schmooney speed limit signs that will be installed along the road through the park as well. These have a light and whimsical appearance and play off the City of Simpsonville’s mascot. The amphitheater’s stage house is on schedule and will be ready for use May 23 rd . Final concrete floors for the premium seating area in front of the stage are this week and next. As a matter of fact one of the final floors was done today. Air condition bathrooms and the back stage area will be completed soon. The rear entrance road to Howard Drive is under construction now and should be complete by July 4 th . It will be usable at Freedom Weekend Aloft, it just wont be paved, as will all aspects of current round of improvements to the park and the amphitheater. Infrastructure projects otherwise, contractors have completed work on the Hunters Woods sewer project. Final curb rephrasing was the final step after the road was resurfaced. It is a beautiful job I think, it looks really nice. The Davenport engineering project is underway with surveying work now complete and right of way plans and construction plans to be done by the end of this month. Final construction plans should be complete by mid June. If there is no unforeseen holdups construction should begin in late summer with this project. So, bidding could occur in the month of July, which is what we anticipate. Completion of the project with a late summer construction is slighted for April 2009, so it will carry on through winter with final resurfacing. The downtown streetscape project will reach a major milestone with removal of overhead utility lines and polls on May 23 rd . Some of the polls starting going up today, I don’t know if you noticed it out there but they were removing the old polls that were holding the old traffic signals and the wires for those. So we have new traffic signals operational today, so you get the new LED signals hanging from mast arms, it’s a very nice looking appearance. I think it’s a great addition to downtown and to Simpsonville in general. The mast arm traffic signals are of course operational so all the old wires and signals will be removed as well. Median installation and crosswalks striping of Southeast and Northeast Main Street will begin May 27th. We decided to hold up on that project until after Freedom Weekend Aloft because of the time frame of getting the polls down. We wanted to make sure the polls were out before Freedom Weekend Aloft and that’s what our intent is. We continue to work with Duke Energy on the installation of street lighting leading into downtown From West Georgia Road Bridge and the Fairview Road Bridge. The Amphitheater movie series is excited to announce that we have booked and outdoor movie series at Heritage Park movie series that will run on Tuesday nights starting June 10 th and running through July 15 th . All movies in the series will be free to the public and will be shown in HD and 3.5 Digital Dolby Surround Sound on a large inflatable movie screen set up at the amphitheater. The planned line up will be ET, Shrek with Shrek 3D as an added feature, Transformers, Madagascar, Jurassic Park and a Christian theme movie called Facing the Giant. Food concessions will also be available for all of these films. Event information, the next council meeting is a workshop and special voting meeting, set for May 27 th at 6:30 PM and the next council business meeting is set for June 10 th and I think more than likely, even though we haven’t set this officially yet, but I believe we will be setting a budget meeting for next Tuesday at 6:30 as well.
COUNCIL COMMENTS Mayor: Ok, thank you Mr. Hawes. We will now do council comments and let them to ask questions or make comments about what you just said. But before I do that, I got to ask what speed limit is the Schmooney going to display for us at Heritage Park?
Mr. Hawes: We decided that it is best that we use sort of an unusual number so people would notice it and we are looking at 19 miles an hour.
Mayor: That’s why I asked. All right, council comments, Ms. Bagwell
Ms. Bagwell: I would like to thank public works for getting that curbing in Hunters Woods taken care of. I have heard nothing but good things about that curbing, that it is wonderful and looks new on both sides, so thank you for that. The other thing I would like to say is I would like to thank Betty Waldrop, Paul Howell with Senator Ingles office, TSA and US Air for the incredible trip and for those of you who did not make it, it was a wonderful trip. So I would just like to thank those people for making it happen for those veterans in WWII.
Mayor: Thank you. Anyone Else? Mr. Larson
Mr. Larson: You said that on the Davenport Road that it should begin in late August?
Mr. Hawes: Late summer, probably will be late August, early September.
Mr. Larson: When will it be completed, how long will it take?
Mr. Hawes: It will probably be through April 2009, however many months that is. 8 months I believe.
Mayor: So it will go through the winter?
Mr. Hawes: Yes. It is more of a rebuilding of the road no just a resurfacing.
Mayor: Ok, anyone else? Well I also wanted to mention the honor flight, there were a lot of people who made that happen and it was such a wonderful event. If we start naming individuals we are going to miss somebody but there is a couple that just must be mentioned. Some of those are Ron Bridges, for his somewhat limited help but he brought his wife, which was the greatest thing he did. Joan Bridges was very instrumental in making this happen and especially making it a welcoming for these guys. There were at least three or four hundred people there. Six Hundred? Well that shows how I estimate. The manager at Greenville Spartanburg Airport that it was the largest crowd they have ever had there to greet anybody so thank you for that. Patty Sanders went on the trip along with some of the rest of us and was on the board of directors and started that whole thing. And other council members gave us moral support, they had real jobs and that sort of thing but most of all, most people who contributed this, would have been able to do it without money and everybody was so generous, we appreciate that. There is talk that there will be other trips like this so get your wallet loosened up and we will give you another opportunity to help with that. What a great project that was for the city.
PUBLIC HEARING- AX-208-05- Lathan Property Mayor: All right with having said that, it looks like the next thing on the Agenda is a public hearing to consider annexation of what we consider the Lathan Property, AX-2008-05, Mr. Dyrhaug, I want to ask you to shoot that off, tell us about what is going on.
Mr. Dyrhaug: I will briefly introduce this request, this is a petition of annexation of a property that is a little over 10 acres, it is owned by Bell Garrett Lathan LLC and it is at the Northwest Intersection near West Georgia Road and I-385. The property is currently zoned C-2 and it will remain C-2 and the applicant hasn’t submitted any immediate plans for that property but in my understandings, the property is being marketed by quality commercial development. If there is any questions that come up I will be happy to respond to those in more depth with my staff report when that comes up in the agenda.
Mayor: Well I think you have given us enough information to kick off a public hearing. Mr. Parliamentarian, you correct me if I get off on the wrong track here cause this is kind of a new procedure that we use here, but it gives the public an opportunity to give input on the front end side. So I here by declare the hearing in this manor open. Is there anyone here that would like to speak in the favor of this annexation of the Lathan Property that you just described. All right is there anyone who would like to speak in opposition to the annexation of this property that you just heard described. I love a hearing when it works, so hearing no comments, I here by declare the hearing closed and we will move forward. Thank you Mr. Dyrhaug, stay close cause you will be getting up again in just a moment.
NEW BUSINESS • ORDINANCES- 1 st Reading
Mayor: Al Spain, our building codes enforcer/ inspector is going to speak about electrical codes
Mr. Spain: Thank you Mayor, members of Council. It’s been awhile. I’m glad to be here tonight to request the council adopt the mandatory codes that are required by the state building codes council and also the permissive codes which we utilize also in our day to day work. Codes that need to be adopted are the 2006 edition of building codes, residential code, fire code, plumbing code, mechanical code, fuel gas code and the energy conservation code, 2006 edition. We are also asking that you adapt the 2005 edition, which is the latest edition NEC. we also request that you adopt the permissive codes which include 2006 property maintenance code and the international existing building code which is a new code that just came out this year that gives us a little more insight in what to do when somebody wants to change a building from one particular use to another. We would appreciate your consideration in this matter. I will be happy to answer any questions you might have.
Mayor: This sounds like something that is easy to consider since it is mandated by the state. So really all we are doing is confirming what we have been instructed to do. So I will entertain a motion in that regard. Ms. Sanders.
Ms. Sanders: I move that we accept the for mention codes as recommended by Mr. Spain .
Mayor: Thank You Ms. Sanders, do I hear a second?
Mr. Garrett: Second
Mayor: Mr. Garrett seconds. I don’t think we need any discussion but I will give you the opportunity. Ok, hearing none, I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous and we have done our duty. Thank you Mr. Spain, go forth and enforce it.
Mr. Hawes: He can after second reading
Mayor: Aw, I hate when you point out mistakes, I knew that.
Mayor: All right are we warmed up? Mr. Dyrhaug, talk to us about AXZ-2008-03.
Mr. Dyrhaug: Ok, this is first reading for this request. This request is a petition to annex into the city, a single property that is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Hwang. It is currently in the county-zoned R-S. they have requested to rezone that to PD. It is about three acres in size and right now it just currently has a single-family residence on it. On the wall, I will just point to where this is located, right here, this is along West Georgia Road which runs here and this is Neely Ferry Road right here, so its just back behind where the Bloom Shopping Center is along West Georgia Road. There are no immediate plans to develop this property yet. But being consistent with what we have done with other properties in that corridor, we recommended to them to rezone to PD, enabling us to see a little better design on that property and on that development in exchange for flexibility in ordinance requirements. There was a public hearing request before the planning commission last week and the planning commission did vote unanimously five to zero to recommend approval for this request for rezoning.
Mayor: Ok, thank you Mr. Dyrhaug. I’ll entertain a motion in this regard. Mr. Curtis
Mr. Curtis: I make a motion. I move that the city approve the annex the property listed at AXZ-2008-03 and rezone this property to PD district.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Curtis. Do I hear a second?
Mr. Larson: Second
Mayor: Mr. Larson Seconds. Any discussion? Ok, hearing none, I’ll remind council this is the first of two readings. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. It passes our first reading.
Mayor: All right Mr. Dyrhaug, tell us about 2008-04.
Mr. Dyrhaug: This next item is a petition to annex the property owned Gressette Limited Partnership into the city and rezone that property. The property is currently zoned R-S in the county and the request is to rezone it to R-M within the city. It is actually a portion of the large property owned by Gressette Limited Partnership. It is about 49.5 acres and is currently undeveloped. This map on the wall gives you a better idea where it is located. The red hatched area that is just behind Heritage Park along Burdette Road that runs at the top here and this is Howard Road over on the side. Again, there are no immediate plans for the development of this site but any plans would have to comply with the R-M zoning district. This item was also reviewed and public hearing was held last week before the planning commission and they did vote unanimously again, five to zero to recommend the approval for this request to rezone this piece of property. The staff like wise supports this recommendation and like wise recommends council approve this annexation and rezoning.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Dyrhaug, I will entertain a motion in this regard. Ms. Bagwell
Ms. Bagwell: I move that we follow staffs recommendation and accept AXZ-2008-04, the Gressette Property and rezone from R-S to R-M
Mayor: Thank you Ms. Bagwell, do I hear a second?
Mr. Bridges: Second
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Bridges. Any discussion? Ok, hearing none, I’ll remind council this is first of two reading. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous
Mayor: All right Mr. Dyrhaug, AXZ-2008-05- The Lathan Property.
Mr. Dyrhaug: We just had the public hearing for this item. This again is the first reading for this request. This is a request to annex a piece of property owned Bell Garrett LLC, it’s currently zoned C-2 and will remain C-2. It is one piece of property that is just over ten acres in size and is presently vacant and being marketed for high quality commercial development. This map on the wall is intended to give you an idea of the location of this property, which is hatched in red here. This is I-385, this is West Georgia Road running along the bottom of the property. You can see that this is at the intersection of I-385 and West Georgia Road. We did not have any comment at the public hearing that we just had, but staff would like to indicate that it supports this request in an obvious location for commercial development and we would like to encourage high quality development there so we are excited that this is there intention and we will be excited to work with him. So therefore staff recommends that this annexation be approved.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Dyrhaug, I’ll entertain a motion.
Ms. Sanders: I motion that we follow staff’s recommendation and approve for rezoning AX-2008-05.
Mayor: Thank you Ms. Sanders. Do I hear second?
Ms. Bagwell: Second
Mayor: Any discussion? Ok, hearing none, I’ll remind council this is the first of two readings. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. Mr. Dyrhaug, thank you.
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Mayor: Mr. Hawes you were going to talk about the annual budget
Mr. Hawes: Mr. Mayor and council, the February city council had a budgeting retreat that basically kicked off our budget process. Throughout this process, I’ve been working with department heads and city staff in developing a workable, tight, efficient budget that fulfills the needs of the city and the desires of city council, with regards to the service to the citizens of Simpsonville. We feel that this is a workable budget and as proposed, it totals out the total revenue of $12,692,000 and total expenses $12,692,000. So it is a totally balanced budget as required by the state law. This budget includes a number of positive improvements and changes throughout the city such as the rescue vehicle for the fire department, which will probably be the biggest single item and improve vehicles for the police department and new software for police and administrative departments and so forth without getting into all of the line items. This budget is up for first reading at this point and I know we will have another budget workshop next Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. this is a first reading of that budget, and we will review it further at that time
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Hawes. I’ll entertain a motion in that regard. Mr. Larson
Mr. Larson: I make a motion that we approve the budget FY-2008-2009.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Larson. Do I hear a second?
Mr. Curtis: I second
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Curtis. Discussion? I think its fair to say this is a work in progress and we will be having those meetings and it may change, perhaps not. With no further discussion, I will remind council that this is the first of two readings. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous
TEXT AMENDMENTS- 1 st reading • TX-2008-02- Design Overlay Districts Mayor: Mr. Dyrhaug. Talk to us about the text amendments to our Design Overlay Districts.
Mr. Dyrhaug: This text amendment was discussed at our workshop meeting a couple of weeks ago in some depth so I won’t go too deep into it again. Just a reminder this text amendment is for an overhaul to article seven in our zoning ordinance, which deals with design review and this is something planning commission and planning staff has been working on for over a year. To just bring to you up to remind you again, some of the things we discussed last meeting, the basis of this text amendment is that it gives teeth to some of the themes that were highlighted in the strategies for the future of Simpsonville. It applies some of those strategies to development with zoning ordinances and regulations. As a reminder, the planning commission helped this item, there were no opposition presented at that hearing. The planning commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of this text amendment.
Mayor: All right, thank you Mr. Dyrhaug. I’ll entertain a motion.
Mr. Larson: I move that we accept the planning commissions recommendations for the Design Overlay District.
Ms. Sanders: I second
Mayor: We have a motion and a second. Any discussion?
Mr. Curtis: Just a clarification. This is final or second reading?
Mr. Dyrhaug: This is first of two.
Mr. Curtis: First of two, ok.
Mayor: If I remember I will remind you of that. Any more discussion? Ok, hearing none, I’ll remind council this is the first of two readings required. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. Thank you Mr. Dyrhaug.
RESOLUTIONS • CDBG Service Funding Allocation Mayor: Now I will swing it back over to Mr. Hawes for the CDBG funds from GCRA.
Mr. Hawes: Yes sir, Mayor and Council. GCRA receives funding from CDBG that is allocated to the city of Simpsonville and we can allocate that as long as it meets federal guidelines. A sector of that funding is for service programs and the City of Simpsonville has in the past has reviewed applications and consideration of what programs are appropriate for city funds. City council has approved sub-recipient allocations of the CDBG funding for those programs. This typically used to take place in August. The GCRA sped up their formula and they need to have this done at this meeting and this meeting only. So what we did was we continued what we did last year rather than getting into the validity of other applications that may or may not be appropriate for city funding. We felt, the staff, it would be appropriate for city council to continue to split funding where as the golden strip center receives eight thousand dollars from the service program and funding, that is the exact same as is was last year and year before. The senior citizens program and youth program divides the rest of the funding where senior citizen program receives ten thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and the youth program receiving six thousand dollars. This requires just a simple motion for allocation of these funds.
Mayor: We need to pass a resolution?
Mr. Hawes: That is correct.
Mayor: All right. I will entertain a motion.
Ms. Bagwell: I move that we accept the resolution of the CDBG Fund service funding allocation as was done last year.
Mayor: Thank you. Do I hear a second?
Mr. Curtis: Second
Mayor: Mr. Curtis seconds. Thank you Mr. Curtis. Any discussion?
Mr. Larson: Talking about the youth programs, what are you talking about?
Mr. Hawes: That is underprivileged youth scholarships for those who may not be able to afford the costs of youth padding for football or any youth program in the city. The city will subsidize those in this program and take care of that as a scholarship.
Mr. Larson: And that goes through the Rec. Department?
Mr. Hawes: Yes
Mayor: anyone else? Ok, hearing none, I’ll remind council that this only requires one reading. I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. All right Mr. Larson did you have some interest in amending the agenda?
Mr. Larson: I would like to make a motion to amend the agenda.
Ms. Sanders: Second
Mayor: Ms. Sanders seconds to amend the agenda. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous to amend the agenda to do whatever it was that you said you wanted to do. Would you like to make a motion?
Mr. Larson: Yes I would like to make a motion to allow SIMBA to have their summer concerts at the clock tower.
Mayor: Do I hear a second?
Ms. Bagwell: Second
Mayor: Ms. Bagwell seconds. Any discussion? Ok, hearing none, I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous, we look forward to seeing you there all summer.
OLD BUSINESS • ORDINANCES • AXZ-2008-02- Century Plastics- County S-1 AND R-S to City I-1
Mayor: Now we will move on to old business. That would be again with Mr. Dyrhaug. Tell us about the second reading for AXZ-2008-02.
Mr. Dyrhaug: As you noticed, this is second and final reading for this request and this petition is a request to annex in the city and to rezone two properties along Neely Ferry Road. These properties are currently owned by Mr. Morabito that is zoned S-1 and R-S and have been requested to be rezoned as I-1. These properties have a total of about 10 acres. And I just want to note that the applicant held a meeting with some of the residence of the neighboring subdivision which is Neely Forrest and meeting was also attended by Ms. Bagwell and Mr. Larson. There was some good discussion throughout that meeting and some issues were raised. It seemed to me that the general sentiment that they were happy the meeting was held. Some of the concerns were alleviated. Mr. Morabito went as far as to invite those residence to tour his facilities a couple of days later. Just hearing tonight some of the comments from citizen comments, it sounded like that went well. So just a reminder. This is second reading. The planning commission voted back in the public hearing at a count of four to two to recommend denial of this request but staff has indicated its support for this request and recommends that the request be approved.
Mayor: Ok, thank you Mr. Dyrhaug. I’ll entertain a motion
Mr. Larson: I would like to make a motion that AXZ-2008-02 be rezoned and annexed in the city.
Mr. Curtis: Seconds
Mayor: Mr. Curtis seconds. Any discussion?
Mr. Larson: I just want to make a comment that I went to the Century Plastics and that tour. Ms. Proffitt was there and I was happy she turned out and I learned more about the situation and I think from the comments from some of the citizens and from the Morabitos, we can have a good working relationship. I think the differences can be ironed out. Anyone else?
Ms. Bagwell: I would like to refer back to the meeting, I would like to thank the citizens that took their time to show and I would like to thank Mr. Morabito and several of his staff that came and we had good discussion. Just to reiterate what Mr. Larson said I think quite a few good things came out of that meeting.
Mayor: Anyone else? I would like to commend all of the parties involved and also Ms. Bagwell and Mr. Larson for taking their time to go over there. Sounds like maybe we have a understanding. With no other discussion, I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous.
B. PUBLIC WORKS EQUIPMENT PURCHASE Mayor: All right Mr. Hawes, you going to tell us about Public Works Equipment Purchase.
Mr. Hawes: Well actually Mayor we are still gathering research on that item and I request we take that up at the next workshop, the 27 th workshop. More research is necessary for discussing it at this time.
EXECUTIVE SESSION Mayor: We have a need for an executive session to discuss a Personnel Matter regarding Administration and to discuss a legal matter regarding Administration. I will entertain a motion in that regard.
Mr. Garrett: I make a motion we move into executive session.
Mayor: Thank you Mr. Garrett, do I hear a second?
Mr. Bridges: Second
Mayor: Mr. Bridges seconds. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. We will go into recess to go into executive session. Thank you for being here. We may or may not come back from upstairs.
AJOURNMENT Reported back at 8:02pm. The Mayor reported that no action was taken. I’ll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting.
Ms. Sanders: I’ll move to adjourn the May 13 th Business Session Meeting
Mr. Curtis: Second
Mayor: I’ll call the vote. All in favor signify with saying Aye (AYE) opposed no. Aye’s have it, it’s unanimous. Meeting is adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted,
Cathy Bridgeman Interim City Clerk |
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