 Thank you for leading us today. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll? Absolutely. Good evening. Mr. Rickerman. Mr. McDowell. Mr. Duval. President. Mr. Badura. Here. Mr. Vine. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Benjamin. Here. I know we have some of our young people still in transit here, but Mr. Taka, Ms. Osborne, and Mr. Jenkins, if he's here, would you mind leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Come on. Come on, young leaders. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'd like to ask Dr. Reed White from Jones Memorial, Amy Zined Church, to please bless us with an invocation. Pastor, how are you? Most gracious God, we thank thee for the beauty of this day. We give thee thanks to God for this privilege and this opportunity to come together in this Council meeting. We thank thee for the leadership of the Mayor, all the Councilmen, all the departments that represent this city. We realize, O God, that we have gone through some challenging times, but yet, O God, we realize that you are still in charge. Now, Lord, bless this gathering. Guide each and every individual until we shall come together again. And we pray this prayer in your name. May we together say amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Dr. White. Thank you. I will make one change to the adoption of the agenda. Move Item 30 to after the Consent Agenda. Madam City Manager, is there a motion to approve the agenda as adopted, as amended? Mr. Mayor, I would also ask that you all take Item 9 off of the Consent Agenda. Yes, ma'am. All right. Sounds good. I'm still on the agenda, but off the Consent Agenda. All right. My apologies. I just want an additional note from staff for Item 10. Let me read into the agenda for you. The mentor and protégé participation percentages for Item 10 has been amended. Stutz and Williams LLC, a certified LBE, will be the mentor for this project and will perform grading and import of fill and share of 80%, $630,000, $633,000 of the total contract value. Hammerhead Utilities LLC of Columbia, South Carolina will be the protégé and will be providing clearing and erosion control services at 20%, 158,000 of the total contract value. And, Mayor Benjamin, that concludes your changes for the Consent Agenda. I would like to approve the agenda as amended. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to the previous question. Call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Madura. Aye. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Mayor Benjamin, I probably should have asked for any public input, sir, for the agenda items before we approve the Consent, but I don't think there were any. Are you moving? Just to put that on the record and to approve, Mayor, the approval of the minutes for the January 15, 2008. I'll move. Is there a second? Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to the previous question. Court call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Madura. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Is there a motion to approve Consent Agenda items 10 as amended through 26? Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move to the previous question. Court call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Madura. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Item nine. Item nine. Yes, sir. Council is asked to approve a contract for capital city ballpark demolition as requested by Columbia Water, award to Carolina Racking Inc. in an amount not to exceed $136,500, which includes contingency funding. Carolina Racking Inc., a certified local business enterprise, is located in Columbia, South Carolina. So moved. Second. Discussion, Mr. Madura. Yes. Is your microphone on, Mo? Make sure it's on. Just to explain to the public exactly what's going on with the ballpark, I know we have a contingent contract on it, and just to be fair and open to the public, this money that we're using to demolition the ballpark, number one, is in our contract that we signed with Mr. Meyer, number two, is the contingent's money that he paid, non-refundable, that we're going to use to demolish the building, correct? Correct. As part of the last negotiation with the extension of the contract, it was, there was a termination of the escrow funding, which allowed for us to use that for the demolition of this. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Move to the previous question. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Madura. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Item 30, recognition of Angel Conwell, the Honorable Mayor, Stephen K. Benjamin. This is mine. I wanted to take an opportunity to recognize one of our great success stories. Some of you will see Angel, and you'll do a double tape because you've seen it before, and you're just not sure where, and then you're not sure why you might see her out of context in this chamber in what we will say is her hometown, that Orangeburg might have a little bit of, a little bit of, a little bit of claim to you. But Angel Conwell is an accomplished actress, grace in the big screen and small screen. So many talents, and she's a wonderful example of what with faith and perseverance and when you have, as you can tell, not just incredible parents, but an entire community pouring into you what our young people can accomplish in this world. And I want to read this proclamation and then ask Ms. Conwell to address us. Where as Ms. Angel Conwell was born on August 2nd, 1933 in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to Brian Conwell and Sheila Leggett. And whereas at a young age, Ms. Conwell won countless awards locally for her acting and landing the role on August Wilson's highly acclaimed fences before signing with Willamena's Kids Division in New York at the age of 10. And where as Ms. Conwell and her mother relocated to Los Angeles with enough funds to only last a few months and on the day the two planned to return to Columbia, Ms. Conwell booked a role in the CBS pilot on our own which led to her also landing the role of Meshack Taylor's daughter on CBS's Dave's World. And where as Ms. Conwell starred in her first silver screen role when she was cast by John Singleton for the role of Kim and Baby Boy at the age of 17 and shortly after began filming the Lionsgate comedic remake of The Wash as well as MGM Soul Plane. And whereas Ms. Conwell has starred and recurred on dozens of hit television shows such as The Young and the Restless and Family Time and whereas Ms. Conwell has represented the state of South Carolina and the Midlands region incredibly well as a successful entertainer and philanthropist donating her time and talents to young people who are considering a career in the entertainment industry. And whereas the City of Columbia is delighted to recognize Ms. Conwell for her accomplishments and contributions to the community and wishes her the best in years to come. Now therefore I, Stephen K. Benjamin, Mayor of the City of Columbia, along with my fellow members of Columbia City Council do hereby proclaim today, February 5th, 2019 to be Angel Conwell Day in the City of Columbia and urge our fellow citizens to recognize and participate in its observance. Angel. Thank you so much Mayor Benjamin and City Council. I am very, very full of just joy and I'm so grateful honestly. Being in an industry that is so demanding spiritually, mentally and just demanding of your time a lot of time actually can pass and you realize that you haven't actually been recognized, you haven't even really recognized yourself and which is fine because to be honest my reason for entering into the entertainment field was, I felt it was healing I wanted to help heal people through laughter, through telling stories and I'm so grateful to God that that has happened and there's still much more on the menu still so many more things planned but I definitely could not have done anything that I've done today without the support of my family and my loved ones and just to be here and have the support of my city it means so much, so, so, so much and I'm used to working with a script so speaking from the heart and the head at the same time can be, you know, it's a little funny for me but I'm doing my best I'm just so grateful, thank you. We're very proud of you and it's so important that you get to give people the flowers and you're still on the rise and we want to encourage you to keep doing great things, to keep being a blessing to others and then that your hometown is behind you all the way. Thank you so much. Alright, Madam City Manager. A night of recognition, our hometown greats I guess I'll say so we have another special presentation, Mayor Benjamin, that we would like to make in honor of one of our own he doesn't know that we're doing this although I think he you know you can't really fool him totally, you try but it seems to be very difficult to get one over on our favorite fire chief, fire chief Aubrey D Jenkins with Columbia Richland Fire is celebrating 40 years of service. Speech, speech. We're going to let him get his bearings and run a video. I get to say something. So I'm going to read the proclamation alright and then that's it. Alright. Whereas Chief Aubrey Jenkins began his duties as fire chief for the Columbia Fire Department in July 2011 becoming the first, the entity's first African-American fire chief and whereas Chief Jenkins leads the department of 570 employees including 130 volunteer firefighters across 32 stations and whereas prior to serving as fire chief, Chief Jenkins served as a firefighter from 1979 to 1984 as a relief fire equipment operator from 82 to 84 as a fire equipment operator from 84 to 88 as fire captain from 88 to 93 as battalion chief from 1993 to 2005 and as deputy chief from 2005 to 2011 and whereas Chief Jenkins is a graduate of Oakhurst High School and earned a degree from Columbia Southern University of Fire Science and whereas throughout his career, Chief Jenkins has earned certifications to become an emergency medical responder instructor and an American Red Cross First Aid instructor and whereas Chief Jenkins has earned numerous honors and awards including becoming Columbia Fire Department's first and only fire chief to achieve a Class 1 ISO rating which is recognized as the highest rating for local fire protection and whereas Chief Jenkins was also named Columbia Fire Fire of the Year and City Employee of the month in addition to being the recipient of the 2007 Columbia Urban League Lincoln C. Jenkins award the Columbia, City of Columbia Lifesaver award, the Volunteer of the Year award the Citizen of the Year award and a recognition award for his leadership in after school programs teaching first aid and safety tips to youth and whereas Chief Jenkins serves as chairman of the City of Columbia Grievance Committee and is an inductee of the Columbia Housing Authority Wall of Fame and whereas Chief Jenkins is a member of Progressive Church of our Lord Jesus Christ where he serves as a deacon and chairman of the Brotherhood Department and whereas Chief Jenkins is married to Mrs. Vernell Trap Jenkins and they are the proud parents of sons Emmanuel and Sheldon Jenkins and whereas the City of Columbia is delighted to recognize Chief Jenkins for his service to the community and wishes him the very best in years to come now therefore Stephen K. Benjamin Mayor of the City of Columbia along with my fellow members of Columbia City Council do hereby proclaim February 2019 to be Chief Arbery Jenkins month in the City of Columbia and urge our fellow citizens to participate in this. floor is yours one more brother, thankful we are truly thankful for you and the man that you are the leader you are for us I think this is probably the first time that I've lost words y'all saw the picture of me and my brother walking down the street, me and my twin brother walking down the street which is the mayor I told him see there's some resemblance I moved the previous question I told him if he put on my uniform and I put on his on a suit with my red tie we walked around the street and he the fire chief but anyway this is an honor I'm grateful and I'm thankful the Lord has really blessed me I'm here at the city for 40 years I never thought that it would ever come to this I remember when I first came I never dreamed I'd be here that long the city has really been good to me it really has I have no complaints if I lost my job tonight I can't complain because I don't know what the city has done for me over 40 years I feel like I have the best fire department in the nation as you can see on the wall a bunch of firefighters back there I feel like they are the best I'm going to always brag on them because they do an awesome job I'm grateful to the mayor and the city council who went beyond to support both me and our department I'm really grateful to my boss to say to manager who has really supported us and been there for us and we appreciate that I don't know what else to say I mean, thank you well, in addition to this being Arbery Jenkins month which I think is appropriate wait a minute, one question is my Rolls Royce parked out there? you don't get a car we have singular honors and we also of course wanted to give you the key to the city of Columbia, Arbery very nice as you all are assembling for the photo op we want to give him his other little surprise fire chief, Arbery Jenkins city of Columbia, South Carolina 40 years of service, February 5th, 2019 with autographs and well wishes from myself and all of city council yeah, you got a long way to ride chief, where did he go? come here, don't go far I got to say something, man you don't have to stand here, I'll just say it I do want to take this moment and from a fireman to another fireman I want to thank you for everything you do you've never quit working for eight years I've known you you've never quit working, you've always did the right thing two o'clock in the morning four o'clock in the morning, five o'clock it doesn't matter you're always there for the people and we appreciate doing the right thing and we appreciate all the hard work you've done for the city thank you please just remember I got to go home tonight I didn't realize my they just snuck in on me today they just were sneaking in on me I want to take the opportunity to thank my wife because you can't be in these positions for this long and not have a good support from your wife they allow you those two, three or four o'clock in the morning I had to leave my family and I left my wife and my son I want to thank both of them they just allowed me to do my job and support me all these years so I just want to thank them publicly thank you chair I'll show you a friend I really am, thank you Mayor Benjamin I am going to jump to item 29 special presentations by you for some very well deserving young people one of which is trying to get to a basketball game at my daughter's school she's over there trying to cheer for him and he isn't quite there yet perfect, perfect Nexus coming off of recognizing Ms. Conwell recognizing 40 years of service uncommon nowadays to see that level of service and continue to rise and rise and rise he continues to give I want to take an opportunity to recognize four young people who are about to blaze their own trails Mr. Elijah Jenkins Ms. is it Tony Tony, Tony All right, Osborne Mr. Ross Tucker and Mr. Harris Mr. Robert Harris with certificates of achievement and a little bit of financial incentive to continue doing the great things that you all are doing I'll have these applications up here for the Dream Keeper Scholarship for anyone who wants to review them but I will tell you this the future in Columbia, South Carolina and in this great country is bright these these academic records was focused on leadership and most importantly at your young age is a commitment to service is so important recognizing that we've all been given some incredible opportunities because of the work of our parents and our grandparents and so many people whose names we'll never know and the fact that you all are at this young age enlightened enough to realize that you have a responsibility to help in leading this community is something we wanted to celebrate so we have certificates of achievement for all four of you I want to actually come up and I want to present you with a check from the city of Columbia, please What time is the basketball game? Who are you playing? Dad, where's your big camera? I only see you at the games with the big one and you show up here tonight with your phone? No I've known the dunk ball a couple of times Who are you playing? Oh, you got to win that game Hey, let him go He's got to win, he's got to get ready And young people we know you have homework and we want these grades I'm looking at these transcripts as you may have heard in the state of the city your transcripts are much better than mine were in the high school Keep your grades up, keep doing great things That's Stevie He should have never told us that All right, ma'am city manager Mr. Mayor an additional presentation that's really in line with the others is a city-like presentation As you all know I take honor in doing these for many of our exceptional employees at the city of Columbia On Saturday, January 19th 2019 Columbia police officers responded to a three-vehicle collision at Bluff Road in I-77 Columbia recruit firefighter Brandon Zen was involved in the collision He was struck by an impaired motorist and was left in critical condition Corporal Justin Pogue was one of the first to arrive on the scene and immediately started to apply an issued tourniquet to Brandon's leg and trying to stop the bleeding Richland County EMS arrived and transported Brandon to the hospital where he underwent successful life-saving surgery Earlier that afternoon both Richland County EMS and Palmetto Health Richland staff contacted CPD to acknowledge Corporal Pogue's life-saving actions It was stated that without the quick application of the tourniquet to the leg wound recruit firefighters in would not have been able to survive his injuries Please join me in commending Corporal Justin Pogue for his heroic life-saving actions I love what you do with City Light Teresa, are you going to say something Chief? Please It's Aubrey's done all the talking today It's not an equal time moment in March's women's history month You can't have March Maybe in about 35 more years I'll take 30 seconds to first say it's an honor and a privilege to work with you every day, Aubrey Truly is we're lucky to have you Justin Pogue, just to tell you a little bit about him he's been with the police department since 2009 but I had the privilege of promoting him to Corporal a little over a year ago He is one of many officers who's been trained with tactical first aid They carry Narcan, which is an opioid reversal agent that is for them to save someone's life and he's had the training with this tourniquet and it was of no surprise whatsoever to us to see him perform in such a heroic way It's what we do and it's what he does every day He's got a tremendous attitude He works in a great region and they're here to support him He's an upcoming leader in our department It's what it's all about It's service before self I'm so glad he was recognized for this And I'm glad that Brandon is recovering I know he's got a long recovery ahead but we saved a life and I got a wonderful letter from his mother Often times things aren't as personal like that and it's a pleasure to lead young men like him and I'm very proud of you Congratulations It's important that we don't need Hollywood that heroes walk among us every single day and Corporal, thank you for your leadership in your service Thank you so much Madam City Manager We will move into a period of resolutions with one resolution number R-2019-005 the release and abandonment of a five foot portion of the city's existing 30 foot water line Second Any discussion? Mr. Rickerman Mr. Mcdowell Mr. Duval Mr. Bedora Mr. Vines Mr. Davis and Mayor Benjamin Other Matters Item 33 Council is asked to approve the installation of one speed hump on Shirley Street in the Melrose High Road The City of Columbia, South Carolina Chapter 14 Offenses and Miscellaneous Provision Second Any discussion? Mr. Rickerman Mr. Mcdowell Mr. Duval Mr. Bedora Mr. Vines Mr. Davis Mr. Benjamin Item 34 The Columbia Housing Authority Alan Benedict Court Update and Mayor Benjamin we're happy to provide any updates as related to the I want to take a moment just to take a moment to take a moment to take a moment to take a moment to take a moment to thank Chief Chief Jenkins for the very comprehensive report made to the community yesterday of their ongoing work and make it clear we fully support that work I'm going to yield to Mr. Mcdowell for a moment of personal privilege and emotion Mr. Mayor and of course let me just say a personal word there are persons in the chamber tonight who were some of our first responders in addition to Chief Jenkins, Cold Enforcement and Police there are persons in congregations tonight and I just would personally like to see them stand Reverend Mcdowell I want to say absolutely Regina you as well stand Regina stand delayed thank you and Reverend Mcdowell just to say thank you for your incredible leadership and helping with the humanitarian response which is something quite frank and you do if you were not the city councilman just as a leader in this community helping meet the needs of the displace residents of alimony court your leadership is from stalwart and we want to thank you for your leadership there I know you have a motion that reflects the sense of council that you'd like to make but I want to thank all of our colleagues up here we all want to make sure that the right thing is done that this man has probably investigated and that there's accountability at the end of the investigation our efforts yesterday were purely to make sure that every step along the way as we can we're going to ensure that there's a transparent learning of everything that's occurred we commit to that yes I present this motion Mayor I move that we fully support the independent investigation by the Columbia Police Department supported by the Columbia Fire Department and the South Carolina law enforcement division in consultation with the circuit solicitor and heard office of inspector general and to the events that led to the deaths of two of our citizens Mr. Calvin Witherspoon and Mr. Derrick Roper is there a second? is there any discussion? with the previous question call the roll aye yes aye aye aye read also how matters for council community reports or referrals we have a few citizens who sign up to speak I believe so that's Ms.�wally Dr. White I'm not sure if you're going to speak or not you just signed up in attendance and Ms.leywe will be followed by Mr. Rajis Ohlis Good afternoon I was already here about been on that court. I had just left there, because I go to that church. And I had smelled the smell, but I wasn't thinking that that would be the case. But I was sorry to hear that. But my issue is, have y'all looked at the other residents? Because we go to Reed Street to deliver food. And that place looked terrible. It really looked terrible, the high rise. And the Marion Street looked bad too. And what I'm up here to say, don't let these things go down before we get it solved. That could have been me or you out there living like that. And it is me living like that now. Because like I said, I've been out of my house, me and my husband ever since 2015. I got snakes in my house now. And my issue too, I need somebody come to our meeting the second Thursday of this month to explain to some of our neighbors what's going on. Because I don't know what to tell them now. And Mr. McDowell, Councilor McDowell, know that Ms. Jones House, the backyard is corroding. Mine is gone. It's really bad. And I have a sick husband. And I'm tired now. That's why y'all hadn't seen me. I had to give myself a break. I had to give myself a break from this city council. Because I felt like I'm not doing anything. And I will not be the president of Belvedere and not have a say so what's going on in my neighborhood. I don't have no answer now. I got two neighbors just moved out this week because of the ditches. They said they're tired. So I don't know what to tell them. I advise y'all to come and tell my neighbors at 6 o'clock Thursday because they're going to be asking me what to do. I don't know what to do. And I'm tired now. I'm tired. I call him every day, every day. But I had to take a break. Since this has happened, and I email you all, my husband got sick. It took them 45 minutes just to get 15 miles to Hardsfield. And he could have died five miles, five minutes away if I was living in Colombia. So I just want to address this. And I'm going to keep coming back. I don't give myself a break now. I'm back for force. I'm going to be here every meeting. I have to come and stay with somebody. But I'm going to be here every meeting because I want to know what's going on. And that meeting that that man had today, he didn't ask those questions in those meetings, that early meeting today. Those questions, we didn't have that. We didn't have that. I told John, you'd neglect our neighborhoods. And we're tired now. If I have to be up here by myself, I will. Because I want the news reporters to know. 29203 and 4 needs some help. Needs really some help. That's all I have to say. And y'all doing a good job. But come in our neighborhood and see what we're doing. We got our grocery store started. This Saturday, every other Saturday until you get one, we're going to do every Saturday. It will be on Truman Street. We're going to have our own grocery store. We're going to own them. We got good members. I'll be out there every Saturday now trying to get the business going. But I need to be back in my home. I'm tired. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Wiley. Thank you. Mr. Solis. Good evening again to all the members of the city council. I'm back again. I hope all of you are doing well. As I've said before, I appreciate the council time. And I am here again. You know the issues I've brought to you before. Although I would do want to let you know, we had the pleasure of having a Columbia police officer to attend our homeless helping homeless meeting recently. And he did let us know, as far as the items that are being seized by the police, are held for 90 days. And they can be, if they are identified properly, retrieved from there. So we're going to let the people know about that. But tonight I brought something new that I'd like to read to you. This comes from the South Carolina Code of Laws, Unannotated, Title 47, Animals, Livestock, Impulatory, Chapter 1, Cruelty to Animals, Section 47-1-40. Ill treatment of animals generally penalties. A, a person who knowingly or intentionally overloads, overdrives, overworks, or ill treats an animal, deprives an animal of unnecessary sustenance or shelter, inflicts unnecessary pain or suffering upon an animal, or by omission or commission, knowingly or intentionally causes these acts. Is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 90 days, or by fine not less than $100, nor more than $1,000, or both, for a first offense, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or by fine not exceeding $2,000, or both for a second or subsequent offense. Section 47-1-70, Abandonment of Animals, Penalties, Hunting Dogs, Accepted. A, a person may not abandon an animal as due for this section, abandonment is defined as deserting, forsaking, or intending to give up. Absolutely an animal without securing another owner or without providing the necessities of life, necessities of life includes adequate water, which means constant access to a clean supply, fresh and potable water provided in the suitable manner for the species. Two, adequate food between provision as suitable intervals of wholesome food stuff suitable for the species and age, sufficient to maintain a reasonable level of nutrition to allow for proper growth and weight. Three, adequate shelter, which means shelter that is reasonably may be expected to protect the animal for physical suffering or impairment of health due to exposure to the elements or adverse weather. B, a person who violates the section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction must be fined no less than $200, nor more than $500 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days or both. Offences under the section must be tried in the magistrates or municipal court. Mr. Solis, time's up. You want to make sure we're aware of the statute or what's the point? The question is, how can we get in trouble for treating our animals this way when we don't get in trouble for treating for human beings this way? Thank you. Mr. Bill Shanahan. Hey, Bill, how are you? Good to see you, Bill. Yes, Bill. A number of you over the years, and thanks for the opportunity. I am the co-owner of the Blowfish Baseball Club. My wife and I, Vicky, own the team. And we played a number of years at Capitol City Stadium. And I was also the general manager of the bombers back in the 90s and before that, the Columbia Mets. And I got a call yesterday from the state saying that it was going to be torn down. Now, I've known that for quite a while, and that it was going to be demolished. And I just have a couple of questions that I would like to pose. In many ballparks across the country that have less history of baseball hall of famers that have played at their stadiums. When they tear down the stadium, before they do, they give the fans, the citizens, an opportunity to maybe go through it one more time. And the second part of the question is also there's the opportunity to purchase the old seats in the ballpark because I just was wondering what's happening in that. There's other things in the ballpark that have great history, maybe not to everybody, but many baseball fans over the last nearly 90 years. So I'm just wondering what would be the opportunity for that. And just a lot of great history. And we need to move on into the future. But we can't forget the great history of baseball here. Absolutely. I know all of us have some great memories there. I can only imagine how they pale in comparison to ones that you've had there, Bill. Have we spent some time, Teresa? I know that obviously mitigating the challenges with the property are a priority in the interests of safety. But if we can work out something to accommodate some salvage of memorabilia and the like and limited access, can we? She's going to sell it on eBay to make up the budget deficit. I don't know how much. But can we work? I mean, Bill's in a unique position. There may be just a handful of other people who are as intimate as the property. Can we figure that out? Absolutely. I think this was the first step, Mr. Shanahan, to get this on council's agenda to move forward with the demolition, which is necessary and you understand. We understand that. We also want to certainly be caught within any memories that can be kept out of there. So we'll work with you on that. Thank you so much. And one last thing, and I have no problem helping, if you want, it would be wonderful because of the history. I mean, Barney Drys, Mr. Pittsburgh Pirate's owner in 1920, who's in the Hall of Fame, built that field. Hank Aaron played his last minor league game ever there. Frank Robinson with the Reds. Is there a way I would be happy to help have a monument on the site, so for decades to come, people can see and read and hear about the great history of baseball. And wonderful music, as Hoody and the Blowfish played their homecoming reunion tour in 1993 at that ballpark in front of 11,000 people. So there's a lot of history at that ballpark. I'd love to work with you on that. Awesome, great idea. Great teamwork, makes a dream work. God bless you all, thank you all. Thank you, Bill, thank you. Mr. Randy Roberts, I think that's it. No other citizens have signed up to speak. I do have two announcements. One, there's a vacancy of the millions of authority for convention sports and tourism. We will post that vacancy wide for citizens to apply for that vacancy. And there are two positions coming up in the Columbia Housing Authority Board expired terms that we also will post immediately for a period of two weeks to hopefully get a wide selection of citizens who might fill those vacancies. That's it. Move to adjourn. Is there a second? Move to previous question. Call the roll. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. Mcdowell? Yes. Mr. Buval? Aye. Mr. Badora? Aye. Mr. Vaughn? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye.