 I mean, I think if we need to, we should be able to get close to here. Give me the high sign. Most staff's going to have to go. Anyway, once you get past that, there's way to go. Thanks. So it won't be a pass on. Oh, you're here for the lease. Right. Oh, they come. I'm going to be the big man. We don't make change. I think we've got to do that. I think, I think glass be back again. People like, hey, I don't know where that other one is. You know, it used to be one. It used to be one here, but I don't know where it is. Somebody has taken, it's a tall chair and it's not here. I will tell you something. You know, we always have an attitude. That's between us. Hello, Mr. Mayor. Hey, how are you doing? Hey, Jane, how are you? Ann, is this on? Okay, okay. Good evening. Could we have your attention, please? We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting to order at 7 o'clock p.m. Monday, 2nd of March. I'd like to welcome all of you that are with us this evening. If we just take a moment for silent meditation, please. Thank you. I ask Councilman Brown if he would lead us in the pledge. I'm the God, and indivisible, and with liberty and justice for all. Madam Clerk, could you call the roll, please? Mayor Bell. Present. Mayor Pro Tem Cole McFadden, Councilmember Brown. Here. Councilmember Cattati. Here. Councilmember Davis. Here. Councilmember Moffitt. Here. Councilmember Shewell. Here. Mayor Pro Tem will be late. She's at the service headquarters. We have a little bit different setting, but I'm going to ask if we have two proclamations to present. Alexander Johnson, Urban Farsi, manager. If you would join me, and I'm going to see where we can join. I guess down there. Mr. Mayor, while you're getting ready for that, I'll just note that there have been people recently who have told me that we should change Alex's title to the City Lorax. It is. Dr. Seuss's birthday. Do you book coming out too in August? Anything else? All right. It's the same. Okay. This recognizes Arbor Day, and it speaks to the fact that Arbor Day is officially recognized as an annual observance by the state of North Carolina, whereas trees provide numerous environmental benefits to the Durham community by lending some of shade, buffering winds, operating year-round temperatures, reducing glare, filtering the air of pollutants, absorbing noises, diminishing erosion by retaining soils, and reducing runoff, building soils, providing habitat and food for wildlife, reducing energy consumption, absorbing carbon dioxide, whereas trees beautify the city, enhance the value of property, and provide pleasant surroundings for residents and for new and existing businesses, whereas planting and care of trees is a living testimony of Durham's commitment to the health and welfare of present and future generations, whereas involving the community in expanding and caring for Durham's trees is included in the city's strategic plan. Therefore, I, William B. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do have ever claimed March 14, 2015 as Arbor Day in the City of Durham, and encourage and call upon the residents of Durham to observe this day in recognition of the value and benefits which trees provide and to promote the planning and care of trees within the city of Durham. Witness my hand, Corporate Associate of Durham, North Carolina, this is the second day of March, 2015, and I'm going to present this to Alexander Johnson, along with a few other titles and comments you might have heard. Good evening Mayor Bell and members of Durham City Council, and thank you Mayor Bell for issuing the proclamation. I'd like to invite our Arbor Day partners to stand with me as we accept this proclamation. We have Joel Reitzer with the City's General Services Department, Tony Dotlik with Keep Durham Beautiful, and Tobin Fried from the City and County Sustainability Office. This year marks 32 years that the City of Durham has been recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree City USA. It is a significant accomplishment and one that shows how the city has valued our trees as greens and green space for decades. Being recognized as a Tree City USA means that for 32 years our city has had an observance of Arbor Day complete with a mayoral proclamation, an urban forestry program that supported with a minimum of $2 per capita, and a tree ordinance. Our city plans to observe Arbor Day on Saturday, March 14th from 1 to 3 p.m. with a community tree planting and a tree seedling giveaway. I'd like to invite all of you to attend the event and to help plant over 100 trees within the Old West Durham neighborhood. Volunteers should meet at the Greystone Baptist Church parking lot at 2601 Hillsborough Road. There will be a tree planting demonstration and then we'll divide into groups to plant trees that are sponsored by the Old West Durham Neighborhood Association, Keep Durham Beautiful, the City of Durham with tools and gloves provided to volunteers. In addition to planting trees we'll be giving away free tree seedlings to Durham residents. Attendees will be able to choose from 11 varieties of seedlings and receive guidance on tree selection and planting from Durham County Master Gardener volunteers. Tree seedlings are being provided by the City County Sustainability Office and Keep Durham Beautiful. The Arbor Day event is made possible through a strong collaboration with Durham neighborhoods, the Department of General Services and our partners in the City County Sustainability Office. Keep Durham Beautiful and the many members of trees across Durham. This tree planting will make a real difference. We appreciate that our residents frequently volunteer to join us in community tree plantings which bring neighbors together for a common goal. Improving the appearance of key Durham streets such as Main Street and incorporating green infrastructure into our rights of way also ultimately supports the City's strategic plan for a thriving, livable neighborhood community. Tree plantings like this are happening throughout neighborhoods in Durham this season and help build a community that enjoys the many benefits that a healthy urban tree canopy provides. Please join us in celebrating Arbor Day this year. Thank you. Ms. Constance McClary, President. This proclamation recognizes multiple sclerosis and Ms. McClary is the service manager of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for the Greater Carolina Chapter. This speaks to the fact that MS is a neurological disease of the central nervous system affecting 2.3 million people worldwide and each hour someone is very newly diagnosed according to research by the National MS Society. Whereas the National MS Society Greater Carolina Chapter reports that in our state more than 13,000 people are diagnosed with MS and the disease generally strikes people in the prime of life between ages 20 through 50 and causes unpredictable effects in which the progression of severe day specific symptoms cannot be foreseen and the cause and cure for this often debilitating disease remain unknown according to research by the National MS Society. Whereas the National MS Society Greater Carolina Chapter is committed to a world free of MS, heightened in public knowledge about and inciting to the disease where since 1946 the National MS Society has been a driving force of MS research and written sleep pursuant prevention treatment and a cure as invested more than $868 million in groundbreaking research according to the research by the National MS Society. Whereas funds raised through the National MS Society fuel the efforts of nearly 380 research projects globally totaling 50.6 million annually at the best medical centers and universities and other institutions throughout the United States and abroad because of this MS research has never been more helpful than it is today. Whereas discovering the cause finding a cure and preventing future generations from being diagnosed with MS is an important test that all Americans and North Carolinians should support. Whereas the city of Durham, North Carolina recognizes importance of finding the cause and cure of MS, a chronic and often devastating disease and expresses its appreciation and admiration for the dedication that the National MS Society Greater Carolina Chapter has shown towards the future free of MS. Now author for our William V. Bilbell, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina do hear my proclaim March the 2nd through March the 8th 2015 as MS Awareness Week and request all citizens to take note of this observance by encouraging others to learn more about the MS and what they can do to support individuals with MS and their families. Witness my hand in Corporal City of Durham, North Carolina this is the second day of March 2015 and I'm going to present this to Ms. McClary for any comments that she may have. She said I said it all. What she said is I said what she gave me to read. That's important. Let me ask for their comments by members of the council. Councilman Moffitt. Yes. I wanted to echo what the city manager said on Friday at our budget retreat. Just the appreciation with a lot of folks there but not really with the public. Just the appreciation for all the work that so many of our city staff are doing and have been doing over the last two weeks to keep the city up and running. So part of that was Alex Johnson who just left the city forestry department and you can drive around and see how much work they have left to do. It's been public works and the police and the fire and everybody else it's out there and doing the hard work. Thank you. Any other comments about the council? Councilman Cattardi. Just to let people know that in the back of the room many staff are going to be leaving in the next five minutes so just bear with us. You'll have more space. I probably should have announced while we were here but I assume everybody knows that there's renovation work going on in the city council chambers for that reason we are holding our meetings here. We recognize the city manager for any prior items. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Good evening everyone. For a priority item this evening if I could take just a few minutes following up on councilmember Moffitt's comments to give a brief recap of where we are with the snowstorm recovery. Take me to just a few minutes. The public fair staff has some clips of some pictures and some videos that they wanted to show as well but certainly as we know beginning last Wednesday evening through Thursday morning we experienced between four inches of snow in southern Durham all the way to eight inches of snow up in the northern parts of the city which for us is certainly quite a bit and that led to a number of power outages, significant poor road conditions, school closures, what have you. Beginning really before the storm even began the city of Durham employees were out in full force to do everything they could to try to make the roads prepared to be ready for snow removal and during the event providing rescue services for stranded motorists. We had folks online ready to keep all the vehicles up and running. We had over 30 vehicles that were prestorm working in 12-hour shifts spreading over 1100 tons of salt and 22,000 gallons of brine mix to prepare but then as we know once the storm hit that engaged our folks to work continuously in 12-hour shifts to do snow removal, the vehicle maintenance crews are working overnight to ensure that all of the equipment was able. You may have even seen on, I believe it was on Thursday evening CBS Evening News we were part of the story and some of our, one of our employees in particular was interviewed by one of the national reporters that we were all very, very proud of. It's indicated the fleet management did quite a bit of work, fire crews are out rescuing, responding to emergencies but also rescuing stranded motorists as well. Of course the Durham Police Department doing much the same. Had a few statistics. We had over a thousand calls for assistance during the storm event. We responded to, police responded to a total of 37 accidents initially that was on Thursday, Friday there was an additional eight accidents. We had some accidents with injuries but nothing too serious. We agreed that most everybody took the heat and stayed home but we did have a few folks who ventured out and entered into some unfortunate situations. General Services Department's Council Member Moffat said was out in full force responding to dozens and dozens of issues just like this with trees across roadways. We are still fielding quite a few calls for storm debris removal and some issues with trees in or near roads so we'll be working on that over the next several days. Of course the Solid Waste Department ended up with lots of challenges because this was really a kind of a two week event for them. The prior week they had had a difficult time getting all of their collections done but I am very, very proud and pleased to report that by the end of Saturday afternoon they had completed all of the routes for the two week period with the exception of yard waste and I thought that was very remarkable and well deserved thank you to those folks for all that they were able to do to get us caught up. So just want to quickly again say, following Council Member Moffat that how much I appreciate the work of all of our employees who are working tirelessly when the storm was on the horizon the wheels are well oiled believe me. It takes very little on my part and the staff just knows what to do gets it done and they just do a terrific job so I wanted to say thank you and document that for the record. So if you had any questions we do have some staff here that will be glad to answer any other questions you have. Questions? Thank you. Recognize the city attorney who in your prior times I really can't compete with that priority item so I have no priority items. What were you doing during the storm? The lawyers were heeding the advice of the manager and staying home. Likewise City Clerk. No items Mr. Mayor. We will proceed with the agenda and prior items come first. If our item is either by the public or the council we will discuss that later. Read the head and rejoin the consent agenda items. Starting with the approval of item 1, approval of city council minutes. Item 2, citizens advisory committee appointments. Item 3, Durham Board of Adjustment appointment. Item 4, interlocal agreement between the city of Durham and the city of Raleigh for the community. Scenario planning initiative. Item 5, interlocal agreement with North Carolina Department of Transportation and the city of Raleigh for the regional freight plan. Item 6 is contract for Parsons brick and off for the development of the regional freight plan. Item 7 is frontier telephone settlement and I'll pull that item. Item 8 is FY 2014-2015 second quarter financial report. Item 9 is the bid report for January 2015. Item 10 is proposed sale of mission placed by upset bid parcel ID 1-10-153 CityTrack 2286. Item 11 is sale profit between the city of Durham and North Carolina Department of Transportation for the progression enhancement project located at 4702 Old Chapel Hill Road parcel ID 140067 CityTrack 1911. Item 12 is lease of a portion of Duke Park parcel 1092-72 to the Durham Bicycle Cooperative. Item 13 is proposed conveyance of various property interests to the North Carolina Department of Transportation for Austin Avenue widening project. Item 14 is construction manager at risk contract with Len Lease, U.S. construction Inc. for the police headquarters complex and I'll pull that item. Item 15 is architect contract with O'Brien Acres and Associates PA for the police headquarters complex project. I'll pull that item. Item 16 is contract with Morris and McDaniel Inc. for promotional testing and assessment services. 17 is the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development Construction Inspections contract amendment. Item 18 is utility relocation to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, Austin Avenue bridge number 93 replacement. Item 19 is a contract amendment for ST 257 Carr Street extension. Item 20 is North Carolina Department of Transportation construction agreement to repave guest road. Item 23 is an item that can be found on the general business agenda. Item 25 through 26 items that can be found on the general business agenda as public hearings. I'll entertain a motion for the approval of the consider general with the exception of item 7, 14 or 15. Second? Second. Second all in favor of the motion they can present aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed the motion passes unanimously. We'll move to the general business agenda. Item 23 Mister can we ask any staff that can leave to please go ahead and leave and otherwise maybe move from your seats and go into the conference room and then we'll get you back in here as need be. Thank you. While they're leaving I think there's some students here for what's just happened is we just approved a whole bunch of the agenda. Most of it's done but we have the public hearings and three other items. We'll need to have everybody try to find a seat or move away from that door just to be sure that we can have access in case of fire. There are some seats up front so please if you can find a seat we appreciate you taking a seat. Over here on the side there's some seats over here as well. There's a few more seats please. Over here there's a few more seats. We just really need you to move away from the back door back there. Okay we're going to have the 2014 annual police crime report by police chief Jose Lopez. Yes Jose Lopez chief of police city of Durham. About 2014 crime report. The police department's quality report covers the department's six performance measures as listed. The report also includes additional statistics and information about significant accomplishments and highlights. Part one violent crime was up by 15 percent in 2014 compared to 2013. This was driven by an increase in aggravated assaults and robberies. Violent crime accounted for 15 percent of part one crime in 2014. The rise in violent crime was caused in large part by a significant increase in the number of aggravated assaults. We noticed that there was an increase in the number of shooting into occupied houses and vehicles and in many cases there were multiple potential victims. Our aggravated assault statistics are calculated by the number of victims not by the number of incidents. We've continued to focus on aggravated assaults by gathering intelligence conducting targeted patrols and working with the community. Our robberies were up in 2014 after hitting a 23 year low the year before. During 2014 we made several arrests of people charged with multiple robberies. Property crime was up 2 percent in 2014. The number of reported motor vehicle thefts was the lowest in 15 years. During 2014 we continued our residential awareness program known as RAP which focuses on residential burglaries. 87 percent of the burglaries in 2014 were to residences and 18 percent of the burglaries did not involve forced entry. During 2014 we identified businesses with large numbers of shoplifting reports, met with the managers, and discussed ways to reduce these incidents. We have investigators who share information about business larcenies with other area law enforcement agencies to help us identify trends and suspects. Our clearance rates for 2014 were above the FBI national average for cities our size in all categories except aggravated assault and overall violent crime. Our clearance rates improved in all property crime categories in 2014. This slide shows part one crime and property crime rates per 100,000 since the year 2000. The violent crime rate dropped 22 percent in that time and the property crime rate is down by 41 percent. We were unable to meet our targets of responding to 57 percent the priority one calls in under five minutes. We also were unable to meet our 5.8 minute average response time target that we have set. Our sworn positions were 99 percent staffed at the end of 2014. The positions are now fully staffed since we started an academy in February 2015. There are currently 28 during police recruits in that academy. Our non-sworn positions were 90 percent staffed at the end of 2014. These positions are currently 94 percent staffed with seven vacancies. I'm very proud of the work my employees do with the community. This is particularly evident during the 2014 holiday season when during police department employees reached out in many ways including adopting families for Christmas, providing Thanksgiving and Christmas meals and making donations to various organizations. In the next few slides you will see some examples of their work and the community. And you can also read about many other during police department community activities in your report. In one holiday initiative District 3 investigators partnered with Walmart on new Hope Commons Drive to provide gifts for 27 children and 15 families. 180 toys were collected through a Toys for Todd Challenge sponsored by the Forensic Science Division and District 5 staff. The challenge was also supported by contributions from police headquarters staff district 1 substation staff and Vega metals which located near the downtown substation. Officers of the great unit, the gang resistance and education and training donated $300 to the volunteer center of Greater Durham's holiday outreach efforts. Officers from Squad 4C distributed winter care packages to the homeless. The packages included hats, gloves and other items as well as information about programs offering assistance. Investigators from District 1's Criminal Investigation Division made a donation to Duke University Hospital's cancer unit. The donation was used to meet the needs of patients and to help cover some holiday expenses. The downtown Bike Unit 30 served meals to more than 200 people at the Durham Rescue Mission in December. They also gathered toys and canned food to donate to the mission. These are just a few of the many holiday initiatives conducted by our employees. Thank you. I have some questions. I have some questions and also had some comments I wanted to make that this spurred me to think about relative to the budget presentation the other day. Just maybe food for thought. First thing I wanted to do though was I just came from a board meeting of the Durham Housing Authority. And as I mentioned to you earlier they were very appreciative of the extra officers that were involved in this. They were very appreciative of the extra officers that you all have put into a couple of their housing communities recently. And they feel that it has been really beneficial. And they've been a whole board was expressing appreciation and the staff. So I just wanted to not only pass it on to you but to tell the public that. So thank you. So I have some questions. One of them is about the aggravated assault. I wonder if you could talk a little bit about what strategy you could employ to get a handle on these. It's really the one category that is driving the increase. I wondered if you had any thoughts to offer on that. We noticed the same pattern starting in January. Late December January reference to shooting into occupied and nonoccupied dwellings also shooting at motor vehicles. And we started to find out where it was occurring. We noticed some areas where it was occurring quite a bit. We've taken various of our specialized units and redeployed them in an operational setting in those targeted areas. And we've been going out and addressing the issue of the shootings. Now we also went into these neighborhoods with people from the community. We went with PAC members. We went with our faith initiatives clergy and police officers and to some of these neighborhoods we went door to door and let the community know what was going on first of all in their community as far as the shootings asked for any information that they may have gave them information relative to crime prevention and how to get information to us and let them know the purpose of the enforcement action that was going to be occurring and the larger number of police presence that they were going to be seeing. And we have to say that so far it's been paying out very well for us. We've got to reduce amount of shootings not a total elimination but an extreme reduction in the shootings. And that's how we're going to be moving forward. We're looking at other neighborhoods that we want to go in with the community and let the people in the community know that the police aren't there just because we want to be there. We're there because the violence in that community is calling us and but the weather of course has made that almost impossible and when the weather gets better we're going to be back to doing that and which is one of the ways in which we're addressing some of this violence is going out into community and letting them know that we're going to be there and that there may be issues relative to police presence. I think it's great you're doing that and I appreciate the fact that you feel that you're improving the situations. Thank you. There's a chart on page 11 of police recruits it has two columns on the right one is Durham residents total and the other is Durham residents. I wasn't sure what the difference between those two columns were but just I'd like to know that at some future time. On that slide 11 you're looking at the report. Yes. I'm sorry page 11 report. I can get back to you in reference to it. Here's the thing about the chart that there was a lot of good things in this report and one of the disappointing things though is that when we're successfully recruiting more minorities and more Durham residents into the force or into trying to apply for the force you all are making progress there you can see by those numbers in terms of getting people to apply. Six out of the 14 African American males did not pass the written test so here's my question. Do applicants who fail the written test find out what their deficiencies were? If they were close to passing can they work on these deficiencies and come back and take the test again and how long do they have to wait? I have to get back to you because I think that we're careful about what we tell them reference to the test we don't want to have someone have an advantage because of the test but one of the things that I'm doing is speaking to different members of our community, community groups and asking them to take people on board with their groups and organizations and prepare them to become police officers and prepare them because I mean there's so much that we as a police organization can do but I think there are many individuals or many groups in our community that can help us as far as diversity is concerned and making sure that people within their communities and there are quite a few of them out there so they can get them ready to become police officers so we can have more Asians, more Hispanics, more African Americans, I mean all. Great. I just think of this, you know, I could, I know how we have a lot of organizations in town that do tutoring, you know, I think about for example what the Achievement Academy of Durham does with GED candidates and other people who are striving to achieve educationally. If we have a person who is otherwise well qualified or we feel close on the written test, I wonder if we shouldn't think about that as some way to help get them over and above so I just want to offer that as something to think about. And we allow them to come back and retest after a certain period of time but I would, you know, I would love to have agency contact me and say we'd like to identify individuals in this community that we want to prepare for your police academy and not just in the written but also in the exercise mode because I think we're getting beaten out by Burger King and McDonald's. You know, making it difficult to get through our entrance exams. Yeah, I was thinking the African American males in particular though they were passing the physical test but some of them were having trouble with it written. But anyway I appreciate your comments. I appreciate you're getting the fair and impartial policing off the ground so strongly. It looks like you've got a good schedule set up for the training of the first cadre of frontline officers and I was wondering how it's been received so far by those who have had the training. I've yet to have anybody give me any negative feedback relative to it. Many of them walk into it, you know, being a little suspect because of past but then when they go through it they realize that it is a totally different type of training. When we're talking about diversity training we're talking about how we think versus how we should think and which is I think what's important. We need to accept the way we feel and the way we think and look at things and then deal with it at that aspect relative to learning how to think about something. And when officers come out have they had a positive response? Yes, they have. All that I've spoken to have had a positive response relative to it. Great. I also want to thank you and the whole department, especially those of you all from the top for your support of the misdemeanor diversion program. And the support that you all are giving is evident and it's important. My question on this is how are we training our frontline officers to figure out when someone should be referred to the misdemeanor diversion program? That training started way before the misdemeanor program went into effect and we've brought in individuals who will part of the program to teach our officers also and teach our supervisors. We've written down some training for them to memorandums. We've let them know how the program works and then we've also brought them in and just gave them roll call training and they also have the availability of speaking to a supervisor at any point in time if they have any questions or concerns about it. And on the police site they can go on or whatever information they need but quite clearly I think they're getting the message at this point in time. So the training is all your frontline officers are being touched by this training in person in some way. And also investigators too because they wind up engaging individuals who could go into this program. I know the program is new but as it goes on I would love to know how many referrals the department is making as it goes ahead. I also am impressed with the call in program for the minor offenders in the drug market intervention and it said you had nine people in that call in program. I guess it's been going for a few months. I wondered if you had any idea how that was going so far. Is it working? The current one I don't know. I know that in the past we've had individuals who've gone through the program and have done well. Whether it's working or not it depends on what your number is satisfactory for you. It's a very difficult program it costs a lot of money and a lot of time to do and we have to put a lot of resources in it. So we constantly have to reevaluate how we're going to continue with it. It's also sad to realize that it's difficult to identify individuals who would qualify for that program that we encounter because they'll have so many arrests or so many other issues that won't allow them to qualify for the program. But we do keep moving and looking for different ways not only within our ranks but also looking outside of the city to see what other police departments are doing and possibly adapting what they're doing in order for it to work for us. Well that seemed really innovative and again I'd love to hear how that goes once you've kind of got a feel for it. I also want to congratulate you on the CIT program and training where you all continue to be I think doing a whole lot. And I noticed there were 3,548 calls for service with a mental health component. I wondered if you had an estimate of the number or the percentage of those 3,500 which are responded to by someone with CIT training. In other words is it most of those calls with a mental health component that someone who has CIT training responds to or is it only a small portion of those calls? I think that when someone is identified that there's a mental health issue, officers are dispatched who are CIT qualified. In many cases officers who are very few who are not CIT certified when they encounter such an issue you'll hear them calling out for someone from CIT. And we also when we encounter people with mental health issues officers may put in a referral through our mental health outreach where we have social workers who are working with the police department and police investigators and police supervisors in order to do follow-ups so that we can bring them in with alliance and other mental health. Our mental health outreach program I think is one of the first that this country's seen and it's just not been talked about a whole lot. But they continue to do extremely great work with minimal resources and we're hoping to expand it and we also have been enlightening a lot of other police departments throughout the country relative to the importance of dealing with mentally challenged individuals in a law enforcement manner. Well I appreciate your leadership on that and again I'd be interested in some point in trying to understand kind of what the numbers are because 3500 is a lot of people to encounter with a lot of incidents to encounter some with a mental health component. I know we have limited officers who have the C training and we trained 24 last year it looked like and I'm not sure what our total frontline officer trained is but I'd be interested in knowing a little bit more about that at some point. And I know that you do a lot of ride-alongs to the extent that I think you've already won a shirt or something. Yes. So I would say that maybe you might take an interest and ride with the investigator that's working with our mental health outreach program so you can see firsthand the follow-ups that we do with individuals who are mentally challenged. That's great I would love to do that. On the Human Relations Commission recommendations great progress on that congratulations on that I know this has been a lot of heavy lifting on the part of the department I'm glad you're continuing to pursue any ideas for an incentive program to have our officers live in Durham and I'm really interested in open any ideas you might come up with that that we could afford but I hope that you all will think about what those are because that is how's it going so far with the written consent requirements for consent searches how would you say that's being received and how do you feel like it's going? As far as being received the officers are doing what they know they have to do through the policies and procedures of this organization and I know that they're asking for consent people are giving consent. Consent hasn't stopped because we're getting the signatures it may have slowed down but it hasn't stopped and they're moving forward hopefully once we roll out body cameras that we might be able to sit back and talk about the issue of whether or not we need to get that signature because by then I think that I'm hopeful that first of all the trust in this organization has been reestablished and also that the citizens will see that these encounters will be recorded. Thank you and congratulations on making good progress on the body cameras as well looks like you all are doing well with that and I appreciate that answer about the consent searches. Chief I wanted to just mention one thing because as I reviewed these figures it gave me a lot of thought about your budget request that we discussed last week and so I just wanted to give you my perspective and it's kind of preliminary I know but just something to think about. The crux of the case that you were making the other day is that violent crime especially aggravated assaults has gone up this year and that to turn that trend around we need more line officers on the street and then I'll step back and I'll look at that great chart that you've got I look at that's you know let's just let's call the Bill Bell or the Eugene Brown and Diane that we see that over that period of time and the time that you've been here in previous the crime has gone down significantly and if you took the chart back a few more years you would see the same you know this is a national trend but Durham has been especially in recent years continuing to drop when other cities have not it to the same extent. So when I look at the bigger picture here's what I see. I see 15 year trend or more of crime going down I calculate about 40% down since 2000 that's less than what you said and even farther down if you take the chart farther back into time and that drop in crime was accomplished with the same number or fewer officers on the street than we have now. So what I see now is with a one year spike in violent crime almost all of it driven by aggravated assault category and property crime this year is the second lowest annual total ever which congratulations what I don't understand is why that is an argument for more police officers in other words it seems to be hard to make the case that a one year spike in what is essentially a single crime category requires more police officers when we didn't argue over the past 15 years that a steadily and rapidly dropping crime rate required fewer officers so I don't think that logic works and I think that's why we had four such different estimates from Chief Burwell of the possible number of police officers we needed presented in our budget session I mean one estimate was we needed one organization's formula we needed zero one we needed 111 which would be 20% of our additional to our force so I think that that's there needs to be a different logic in a different case for increasing our number of frontline officers and I said the other day that I thought there might be a different facial logic that we have increased the number the population of our cities increased so much 26% I believe since 2000 but then I thought to myself well 95% of that population it increased had occurred two years ago when we had the lowest crime rates ever and so I don't really think that that is really a case either but let me just tell you what I do think is more compelling at least to me is the potential for policing that's a little different community policing as you have said where the officers get out of the cars have time to interact with the community that seems to me to be really important and so with your budget request I know what I'd like to hear is I'd like to understand specifically how that might be accomplished and what that might look like what I've noticed is that every police force around the country now says is doing community policing you know that looks different in different places some are some aren't but what are the best community police practices and what are the best departments around the country doing for community policing it's what I'd like to hear in the budget request and what does that mean specifically in Durham and how would adding more officers allow us to do that better how would allowing more officers allow us to do that better that's what I'd like to know and if I'm convinced about that then I understood the specifics very well I'd be inclined to support the funding of this so those are just my thoughts I wanted to offer them I don't necessarily you don't need to respond to them now but as you as you as you continue through the budget process I hope you'll keep some of that in mind. Thanks Councillor Michelle. I concur with most of that so chief I just want to say thanks for the detailed report and also appreciate the follow up on the relations commission recommendations it really is good to see that we've accomplished most of those and we'll also look forward to hearing more about the impact of those. I did have a question did have a question on the miscellaneous marijuana report data and either now or via email later can you clarify what you mean by self initiated and also what is flagged down and that was on the drug self initiated marijuana only arrest table. We can get you that. I didn't know if you wanted to comment at all on the non sworn staff vacancies it was 90% in the report you just mentioned it's 94% but it's considerably lower than your sworn officers which I always thought that was our harder challenge to keep those positions filled. We've been filling those positions just this month we filled a couple of them so they've been part of the process they also have to go through a background so they have hired you a month or so ago going through a process then we have to wait until the background comes in and then to fit you into the position. So do you expect that percentage to increase? We're going to work towards it we're going to look to see if we can hire and fill those positions. Okay on a humorous note I wanted to compliment whoever came up with the name Operation Bahambag it's nice to have entertaining points in a police report sorry I also wanted to in a serious note congratulate all the officers that were noted for going above and beyond in saving lives and I wanted to note a particular concern about the EMS response times again that's county EMS particularly after the comments at the last retreat but I think that was highlighted in the report as well and let's see I had a similar question regarding filling the physical test and what prescreening we can do to sort of help people get through that and then lastly I just wanted to note that at the last Project Safe Neighborhoods meeting they noted that there was a challenge actually getting parental participation in the juvenile diversion program so that's discouraging when a kid's being offered an alternative and you can't get the family to the table so thanks again. Thank you I can ask Councilor Davis to come from the market in that order. Thank you Mr. Mayor. I'd like to ask the chief about working with community groups at a recent work session there was accusation from a citizen group that they had had difficulty meeting with you or your staff and I think when you all left you sort of had a conference at the hall so has that criticism evaporated or are there would you say that folks are indeed having access to you and your department. I stepped out with those individuals who said that they had not returned their call and the reason why I did not return their calls because they never called me so we did sit down with the group and we have been in conversation with the group we had already had a meeting set up scheduled it was the second scheduled date they were having a problem with the date and we did sit down and have a very progressive meeting with them relative to not only protest but other things in the city we challenge each other and we're waiting for them to get back to us but as far as might not returning phone calls or having someone return phone calls for me that was not happening Thank you Mr. Mayor. Yes so I have three things now I believe I read in one of the papers some comments by some of those people that met with you that seemed fairly positive in the newspaper they must be true then. No okay well I just it was just about the experience of sitting down talking with you right I think there was an article relative to in the Herald's son sorry Jim who spoke relative to that meeting and the outcome of the meeting that was an article. So second thing is you've talked a number of times about aggravated assaults in the number of incidents versus the number of victims and it finally occurred to me tonight to say why don't you report on the number of incidents as well if you feel like that would tell a better story. The number of incidents if you have the data you know just the number of actual incidents rose 12% while the number of victims was up by 23% because we had quite a few shootings so that did that did rise also. And then finally I know that it's not in the fiscal year in which you just reported or the calendar year in which you just reported but there was an article a week ago in the Durham news one to Jim which was about the police the activity that they did in district one with the boys and girls club which I just wanted to compliment the department on that I know it's just emblematic of all of the kinds of work that you do like what's on the screen but you know to me it's about helping people our youth understand that police are not they do not need to fear the police but it's also like to me long term like helping kids think about the police as a career down the road I think that's really important changing the statistics on how many people in the force live in Durham isn't going to be something we can do easily in a year or two years but long term thinking so all in all well done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. I was getting ready to recognize you Victor you have two minutes on the side. I really would like to have two minutes please. But the first thing I would just like to thank our officers for the support that you folks have given our young people out in the community so thank you very much I want you to know that. I apologize for my glasses but probably from now on you'll be seeing me where them I have I have some serious eye issues but Mr. Mayor I'm very concerned and I probably could speak speak on this issue and there are probably thousands of thousands of African Americans in this community and probably feel the same way I do. We have some serious issues going on in this community with black folks being murdered with African Americans being murdered in this community and with the crime that is going on in my community I see a city council group here and I'm not trying to beat up on anyone but not one of you this evening has stated anything about the children that have been shot in this community over the last several weeks we make national news because three people three young folks are murdered even though they said Chapel Hill which we all know that that incident really happened in Durham but that's okay it's terrible that three students lost their lives but several days before that incident we had two children in this community one was shot and one was stabbed and several days before then we had several persons that were murdered in the African American community nothing on CNN nothing nothing nothing nothing on CNN nothing coming here in my city officials speak not one of you not one of you have stated well what are we going to do about the black folks in this community that are being murdered not one thing I'm not going to have a discussion about this because you haven't been present doesn't mean issues haven't been raised trust me so I appreciate you having an opportunity to come speak but I just want to let you know that I'm not the only one that's concerned about this I've spoken many times about black on black crimes in this community I've spoken many times about black on black crimes in this community we had two kids that were stabbed and I didn't know you aren't with me 24-7 except that I take it very seriously as all other members of this council as does the administration I said myself and members of this council take this very seriously I said myself and members of this council take this very seriously just like you speak for thousands of black people as mayor of this council everybody on this council takes this seriously you hear what you want to hear you go where you want to go well that's your privilege and I allowed you to do that we're going to move to the next item which is public hearing matter consolidated annexation Hendrick south point phase 2 public hearing matter city county planning department all notifications for these items have been provided as required by law this is four separate actions by city council related to the annexation of the Hendrick south point phase 2 development first is a utility extension agreement to allow the applicant to serve the development with city water and sewer service second case PDG 1401 the petition for contiguous annexation submitted by the property owners for the site the budget management services department has performed a physical impact analysis based on the most intense use permitted by the requested initial zoning and the analysis projects that the estimated revenues will exceed expenditures immediately upon annexation third pursuant to state law city council is required to apply an initial zoning to newly annexed property no 2 is the requested initial zoning of commercial general with the development plan for the site this would this zoning would allow up to 150,000 square feet of non residential development the development plan includes several commitments that are above and beyond ordinance requirements including a wall berm and additional landscaping on the western property line restrictions on lighting construction and loudspeakers and construction of all the traffic improvements required by the traffic impact analysis fourth the council must adopt a consistency statement as required by NCGS 168 383 the staff recommends that the council approve the extension agreement voluntary annexation in initial zoning for the Hendrick south point phase 2 development and on January 13, 2015 the planning commission recommended by vote of 12 to 0 approval of the initial zoning and any questions again this is a public hearing let me ask the public hearing is open let me ask first of the questions by members of the council if not we have one person to sign up to speak for this item Louis cheek let me ask is anyone else that wants to speak on this item either for or against just being a public hearing if not I'm sticky up three minutes well and members of council my name is Louis cheek I represent Hendrick automotive group in this matter this is phase 2 of the auto park development in the old Kennington Heights neighborhood phase 1 was on commercial about a year ago Hendrick was requested by the council to close on all phase 2 properties at that time and that has been done we have worked closely with the abron drive neighborhood to ensure that the auto park will not be intrusive in phase 2 aspect of it the first six text amendments on the development plan resulted from that collaboration you've received a letter from Steve Bikino attesting to the cooperative spirit of the discussions we believe that we have a high quality development that Durham will be proud of the planning commission unanimously requested recommended approval and we thank you for your support thank you I'll be glad to address any questions the council may have although the other persons that want to speak on the side of this being a public hearing if not I'm going to close the public hearing as a matter of fact for the council I reckon this I support this but I do have a couple of questions for staff the first is what is the street impact fee credit and why does this applicant have such a credit I think I may refer that to bill judge in our transportation department and then sort of going along with that would be why there are no impact fees for parks are open space bill judge with transportation can you repeat the second part of that question yeah maybe this would not be for you but the first would be what is the street impact fee credit why does this applicant have this credit and then the second part would be why there are no impact fees okay yeah so far as the street impact fee credits the developer is required to make there we have a street impact fee ordinance based on it's based on square footage for retail a certain amount and for improvements that the developer has made that are above and beyond basically turn lanes in and out of the site that provide additional capacity to the roadway network they get credit for those in this project that included widening bay at bill providing additional southbound lane for the frontage of the site so they've received credit for those for those improvements that they can then apply towards those impact fees so they likely won't end up paying any impact fees related to streets I got it so that has to do with then I was thinking it had something to do with the credit they previously had they're getting the credits because of the work they're doing on the streets on this phase of the development well a lot of it was related to phase one but they're also making additional improvements with phase two so they are paying impact fees they're just paying them a different way I'll refer to someone else on the parks thank you because there's no residential development proposed there's no parks impact fees my second and last question is on page 10 it says that improvements may be required of this development under what circumstances would they be required is that referring to the traffic improvements I have to I took these notes a few days ago and I'll be doggone if I can remember let's see yeah this is the phrasing the following improvements required of other developments that may also be required of this development that refers to roads yes those are improvements that are also required of the NC 751 south development so in their traffic impact analysis they assume traffic from both developments but if this developer as they're currently progressing moves forward and they can show that the improvements aren't needed to provide an acceptable level of service with their development they would not be but it just depends on the timing it's likely that they're not going to have to make some of them based on their current rate of development thank you let me ask other questions comments if not I just want to comment that the list of proffered committed elements the the additional committed elements that we saw I thought spoke well of their willingness to work with their neighbors and if we've reached that time I'll make a motion and if not then I'll be happy to make a motion at the appropriate time are the other questions if not declared the public can be closed matters back for the council there are two motions required for this first motion has three subcomponents extension agreement volunteer annexation petition and zoning map change entertain a motion on that item it's been properly moved and second any questions here none called a question all in favor of the motion indicate by C&I those opposed the motion passes unanimously a second motion requires adopting a consistency statement is required by GS 106A-383 it's been properly moved and second any questions here none all in favor of the motion indicate by C&I those opposed the motion passes unanimously we move to item 26 which is a public hearing on FY 2015 2016 physical year budget and capital improvement plan good evening Bertha Johnson budget and management services yes this is a public hearing on the fiscal year 2015-16 budget and the fiscal year 2016-21 capital improvement plan City Manager will present his budget on May 18th and there will be a hearing on that budget on June 1st I'm happy to answer any questions we have thrown into questions by members of the council we have one person who has signed to speak on this item Stephen Hawkins Stephen come here come to the podium yes sir thank you for giving me the opportunity my name is Stephen Hawkins I live at 654 North Hardy Street apartment B and I just want to remind the council of its continued support of Northeast Central Durham and then I want to remind you that in order to attack homelessness we have to attack it from all aspects so that means whatever we do here in Durham if we are seriously trying to fight homelessness in Durham we need to include it in everything that we do thank you you're welcome I'll get us the public hearing if anyone else wants to speak on this item Mr Peterson you have three minutes I've asked I think last year a year before last that to city over the next several years to set aside about five million dollars to work with our young folks in this community there is no way that we're going to take a serious bite out of crime unless we get a handle on these young men and women who are involved with criminal activity I heard the police chief said that the crime is going down and I've shared with you he's only talking about the part one crime you still have the part two you still have violent crime going on in this community one of the ways is to try to help these young men and women to get some job skills partner with these companies that we're throwing a whole lot of monies they're doing business here I was over at a facility today and I'm not trying to say anything wrong did not see not one young African American male at that facility and we're putting millions of dollars at this facility every year they get monies I didn't see not one young African American male working over there on that property and Mr. Mayor and city council members and those who are working on the budget I'm going to ask again to set some monies aside bring some individuals in this community who have some understanding of economic development for the African American community to have some understanding of putting young black men to work in this community instead of keep billing jails and courthouses this community Mr. Barnfield and you're the city manager you got to help take the charge you got to take the bull by the horn in this community many of us are tired turning on the news seeing all these young boys constantly in trouble with the law it greased my spirit and many of us have been out here for years trying to work and help with these kids but our hands are also tied we don't have the monies you guys do we're not asking for any monies we're just saying you guys if you want to develop the programs develop the programs and run the programs you have a beautiful building Mr. Mayor and the city council approve the Holton Resource Center that building should be packed with various resource programs carpentry, fiber optic, telecommunications some various fields of even the medical field that these young men and women can go into you don't have to have a PHD to be a nurses assistant you don't have to have a PHD to have x-ray technology to do x-rays in the hospital you don't have to have those kinds of big skills but we need to do something in this community and thank you Mr. Mayor and city council members anyone else that wants to speak on the side of them this being a public hearing on the budget proposed budget and CIP just for the record state your name and address and you have three minutes my name is Larissa Saibol 24-10 power place in Durham I just want to speak very briefly to say that the coalition for affordable housing and transit looks forward to working with you all and with the manager and planners and community development and neighborhood improvement services and other groups on ensuring that we've got the funds for staff and other resources to make sure that we plan for affordable housing around transit that we reserve the land and also that we have the funds to assist people that need funds in order to that all of Durham people of all incomes will be able to live near transit be able to get to work to school to hospitals and other places that they need to go it's a great opportunity with the investment that our community is making in transit to also make sure we make a great investment in the people so they can take advantage of this opportunity thank you very much welcome Tevin Armstrong come on down you have three minutes my name is Tevin Armstrong City Council Mayor how y'all doing I just wanted to say that Kanda what I always say about the youth I volunteer at this D3 community was called D3 community outreach and the owner is desperately working to get funding and I know this isn't about you know getting funded right now but the budget maybe if y'all could like I don't know slide a little something to the side for the you know for the youth because the community we're desperately trying to revive well not revive but you know try to curve the youth towards the right direction and I can just see them slipping away like and they're looking at the you know the people in their neighborhoods and they're following the wrong nuances so I seriously think it's imperative for the generation coming up behind me that they got the right direction so they can come they can grow up and do the right things and not just fall into the jails and the courthouses and stuff like that and just be and drag through the system for the rest of their lives because then y'all ain't going to have to take care of y'all ain't going to have to take care of us you know so you know it's a fight but I think it's very important that we have some money for these youth groups so they can get some help and they can be guided the right way and that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to say Tevin it's good to see you not on your crutches. I guess that means you had some successful surgery and congratulations I think we're all happy to see that. Anyone else? Not I'm going to close the public hearing and entertain a motion to accept the comments recognized councilman market. Before we do I want to just indulge me for a moment I want to take a moment and just thank everybody for coming the people who spoke I do want to we've had conversations there's two things I want to say real quick we've had conversations about part two crime in the past it's in the report you read the report you'll see that part two crime is down this year over last year which was down over the year before so I just want to like put into the record the actual numbers in 2012 there were 8,993 part two crimes in 2013 that was down over 500 and then this year it's down slightly so we're trending down. The second thing is I just want to correct something that was said earlier where Ms. Peterson is correct is that the horrific crimes that happened in Chapel Hill did occur in Durham County just over the county line but the media does have it right they were in the city or in the town of Chapel Hill it doesn't really matter where they happened she's also right it doesn't matter whether how much press a crime gets they all matter they all matter to all of us and I know they do but I did want to correct that any further comments, questions I'm not going to take a motion to accept the comments as part of the public hearing and CIP proposed CIP, second second all in favor of the motion, those opposed the motion passes unanimously. We'll move back to those items that have been pulled on the consent agenda and Ms. Peterson looks like you have all the pull items so I'm going to bite you up let's deal with items 7 first followed by are you there? 7 followed by 14 followed by 15. And that's a short and since we have some time here Ms. Peterson you have three minutes this time and item 7 is frontier telephone settlement. Yes and that's what I wanted to ask Mr. Baker. This is basically Mr. Baker some settlement that the city seems to oh frontier can you share a little bit about that? It's 300,000. Well and I'm not sure if there's anyone from the administration that wants to. Yes Jim if you want to speak to that and then I'll to the extent that you don't distinguish between the typical settlement and what we're doing here I'll jump in. Jim Sukup, emergency communications director. What this is was a negotiation based on interpretations of tariffs and what we would owe 4-9-1-1 fees as opposed to our current provider with intrado being a next generation system and we were on the cutting edge of going to such a system it's not clear cut as to who owes what to whom and this has been a negotiation that's been going on for five years and they wanted considerably more amounts than what we agreed to settle for so it's all part of surcharge funds and does not affect the general fund at all or any of our taxes. And Mr. Baker I'd like to talk to you a little bit off record offline about this but I would like to say this publicly I would like to just ask then it sounds like that we are doing business or Frontier is doing business here in the city is that what the public should get an understanding of what is going on? They are licensed to do business in North Carolina and they are doing business in the city. Okay I would like to ask this city government to ask Frontier get ready how many of our local people that they have hired and they've been in Durham for at least two or three years now maybe even a little longer and I don't want to be wrong. I don't know Mr. Mayor how long they've had a contract with us but this is where the rubber hits the road people and this is what the mayor's poverty program is really about. How are we going to get our young people employed and if this company, if Frontier is doing business in this community with tax dollars from these kids' parents and families and mine and yours let's try to ask them and we're not trying to tell them who to hire we just want to know well you've done some hiring you've been doing some hiring how many of our Durham citizens have you hired thank you Mr. Mayor. You're welcome, entertain the motion on this and I've moved second it's been a problem to move from second all in favor of the motion and I those opposed. Mr. Mayor can you please ask Mr. Bonfield to get that information I really would like to know. You asked on the record and I can tell you off the record that there are opportunities at Frontier and in fact I can tell you about one that you might be interested in but I'll talk to you off the record on that. I'm speaking might as well stay up there you have item 14 the police headquarters. I was looking here and also I didn't get a chance to mention too Mr. Mayor I have a little time. You have three minutes on this item. Okay I missed my page but I believe it was page 8 yes here it is 8 of 8. Is this the company that you folks want to have them to do the contractor work which they only have one African American male working for them? Am I reading this right? On page 8 of 8 I don't know if that's the same page that you have but anyway I would like to know how many African Americans and I distinguish between other minorities. I don't group all minorities together. Okay my ancestors and many people of color of African Americans in this country we had over 200 some years of abuse in this country and a lot of the programs that are put in place even on the federal level is because of discrimination against persons of color and I know that this city has tried to do their best to make sure that companies are hiring people of color but my concern now is because we have so many various persons of color now in Durham, a diverse population. I want to make sure that African Americans and particularly our men are being employed in this community so Mr. Mayor I would like to get some kind of report. Is this company here to say right now about how many African Americans they have hired and how many they have worked with them now and how many do they plan to hire and that's basically my same question on the other one also Mr. Mayor so if those two companies are here if there's somebody representing them and Steve this is where I could use your help out. You asked the police chief a lot of questions about crime now I need for you to step up to the plate and ask these companies how many men are they hiring from Durham even if you don't want to use the word African American. Ask them how many Durham residents even we even have and I don't want to embarrass anybody here but we even have white males in this community who are struggling who are trying to make ends meet with their families when you go out here on these construction companies and you see car plates from Texas from California from New York and my state New Jersey wait a minute what's going on here so let's try to get some report Mr. Mayor and city manager if we're going to be throwing out these kind of dollars that these companies to come in and build and design and develop I want to get some kind of report of how many of these young men that they're planning to hire and the subcontractors because many of you know that I do have a background in copper cable and fiber optic as well as in construction. You raised some very valid questions and the information is here we are ahead of ourselves to a certain extent because we have a disparity study that's coming up at our work session that I'm sure is going to garner quite a bit of discussion so it is what it is unless the administration has some of the comments they want to make on what's on the report so then right now on the report it's only one black male that's working that's working for this company. Actually Lynn Lease has their own internal workforce statistics there but also they have engaged Calis Construction Company a minority company, African American owned company and they have committed 40% of the pre-construction work to go to Calis Construction Company which is a Durham company and the first phase of this all we're committing to is the $215,000 for the pre-construction services right now. Then subsequently once we achieve a guaranteed maximum price at the conclusion of design then they will coordinate with the city's, Lynn Lease will coordinate with the city's economic and workforce development department in preparation of a workforce development plan that will serve as a plan for engagement with the city's workforce. So that plan will be developed and submitted for approval and execution prior to the issuance of guaranteed maximum price so that will include and I would say this in the construction here for risk contracts that we have conducted over the past half a dozen years here in Durham we have set these workforce development plans up and we have exceeded our participation in each and every one of these contracts and so it's been a very good mechanism for us to have construction management risk where we can go in and help go out to the market, pre-qualify companies and engage in them. So with regard to the architectural firm I will say this with regard to that of Brian's Atkins architects and engineers they do have one African-American partner who is here with us this evening and in addition to that they are also committed to a development plan of their entire team which exceeds the amount of percentage that was set up for the design contract. Well I do know Mr. Mayor that the city does use the word minority very broad but what I want to make sure and I hear what you're saying I want to make sure and Mr. Bonfield we need to make sure I'm not sure now who is on your staff that I know you used to have folks that kept up with that of course not here tonight so and I know she does too but we need to make sure that when we say minority that's a very very broad that's very broad and you know that's very broad. We define it more specifically. Yes I want to know how many African-Americans companies as well as how many African-American young men in this community are getting jobs with these two projects that's coming down to Mr. Mayor. You're quite welcome. I was suggesting this piece and maybe you want to come back to our work session on well you don't have to come I'm just offering because the disparity study is going to be presented at that time and a lot of questions. Yes. I just want to comment that we don't have just a person working on this we have an entire department that works on making sure that we get as much work to minority African-American and other minorities owned women and minority owned businesses as much as possible so I'll move the item Mr. Mayor. Exactly. It's been proper to move the second and all in favor of motion indicate by saying aye. Aye. Motion passes unanimously. Ms. Peterson I thought you said you had the same question about 15 which is architect contract for Brian Acton's PA for the police headquarters complex and I thought Joel had answered that. Am I reading this right? Is that four million dollars? A little bit close to five million dollars? Am I reading that right? I don't know what you're reading from. Okay all right well a number of 15. Am I reading that right? Okay okay all right so it seems that you folks have already put something and I apologize Mr. Mayor I really wish that the work sessions were televised because some of us can't get all down here to these meetings all the time. Some of us are trying to do some other things also. You can't ask questions if you aren't at the work session even if it's televised. I'm sorry. I said you can't ask questions if you aren't at the work session even if it's televised so you can stream if you listen to it online. So you can listen to it on your computer it's streamed. The audio is streamed. Okay okay but anyway I want to ask what African-American company are you working with here? Brian Acton's. Okay are they? They have one of their partners as African-American. You have a senior partner in the firm who's been with the firm 20 plus years. Okay and okay and so and but these folks are actually going to do the building right they're going to help do the design. Okay the design. Okay so they so they're getting close to five million dollars and they have one African-American employee self-contractor. Is that what you're saying? They're in the audience I don't know. No but is that what you're saying? Okay but anyway Mr. Mayor I'm not here to beat up on anybody. Hey but I am here to empower and y'all may laugh. Okay you can laugh but when black mothers in this community are losing their children because their boys don't have jobs you folks start going to some of those funerals or you start talking to their children. This isn't a funny matter. It's not funny. There's nothing funny about this. What I'm trying to do and many of my people cannot come here every night. They can't come out here on on a Monday evening and many of them do but they watch and they see and they see how I'm treated and they tell me about it. Oh Mrs. Peterson we don't like how they make fun of you or how the mayor cuts you off and how people are watching this. So I'm not here for a show but I'm here to try to empower my folk. So here's my question. The city has brought in and trained young people in copper cable and fiber optic. I'm hoping whoever you folks are working with when it's time for that project that you guys try to get some of these kids around here and some of the black subcontractors. We have a lot of black subcontractors in this community who can do construction stuff. We need to make sure that they are brought to the table and like I said I know who's missing mayor. Deborah Giles Deborah Giles is she here tonight? Well she needs to be here so we can ask her questions because this is her. Has she been brought in on this Mr. Mayor? She has. Okay well I really wish she was here tonight because she could sort of tell us how many African Americans have been hired. You're three minutes up and I'm sorry? You're three minutes up and I'm cutting you off. I know you're glad it's up too Mr. Mayor. I'm not glad. I appreciate it but you understand what I'm talking about as well as Mr. Bonfield and the other city council members. I entertain a motion on this item. It's been properly moved and second the questions. Let me finish the meeting and speak please. I carried a motion. All in favor of the motion. Those opposed. The motion passes unanimously. Is there anything else to come before the board at this time? If not the meetings adjourn at 8 28 p.m. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Well cool is the queue.