 All right, you ready for the roll call? Yes, ma'am. Little feedback here. Mr. Taylor. I feel like I'm out of prison, Mr. Mayor. Here. Ms. Herbert. No glass. Here. Dr. Bussells. Mr. Brennan. Present. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Present. Mayor, recommend. Here. Thank you. Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, please. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, the one nation under God, the uniting of justice for all. Mr. Mayor Pro Tem, would you mind saying a few words before we start, please? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. That is by our heads, O Lord, in the midst of all of the vicissitudes of life, in the midst of all the things that's swirling around in this country of ours and yet in this city of ours, we pray for grace. We pray for grace in terms of grace that will surround us individually, collectively. We pray, Lord, for your anointing power to fall afresh upon this council, the leaders of this city of ours, so that we feel and sense your nearness in our lives. Violence is everywhere, but your grace is pervenient. We ask it. We claim it in your name, amen. For adoption of the agenda, we have no changes at this time. I would like you to approve the April 5th minutes and not the March 8th and March 15th. Oh, I'm sorry. I move the adoption of the agenda. Is there a second? Any discussion, concerns? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll, please? Mr. Taylor? Ms. Herbert? Here. Dr. Bussells? Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. May I recommend? Aye. Thank you. We're at the point where we have opportunity for the public to give input on any agenda items. Is there anybody here who'd like to speak on any of the items on our agenda this evening? Seeing none and hearing none, obviously there's nobody online, correct, Madam Clerk? Yes, correct, sir. You haven't seen that? We'll move on to the approval of the minutes. Yes, sir. Council is asked to approve the April 5th, 2022 Council meeting minutes. We'll move. Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion, any concerns, amendments? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, please read the roll. Mr. Taylor? Approved. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Yes. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. At this time, Council is asked to approve the consent agenda items 2 through 8. Is there a motion? Move approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Concerns, any discussion on any items? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, please read the roll. Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Ordinance's first reading, item number 9, is ordinance number 2020-029, granting an encroachment to LaFaye Homes for the use of the right-of-way area of the 1,000 block of Bryan Street and the 2,200 block of Clark Street for the installation and maintenance of sidewalks landscaping. A motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, hearing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll, please? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. And item 10, is ordinance number 2020-030, granting an encroachment to GSM Properties, LLC, for the use of the right-of-way area of the 1,200 block of Taylor Street for the installation and maintenance of brick pavers and concrete sidewalks, landscaping, irrigation. I move that, Mayor. There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Any concerns? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll, please? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Item 11, ordinance number 2022-031, granting an encroachment to Town Park at Bull Street, LLC, for the use of the right-of-way area of the 30 block of Fig Street for the installation and maintenance of two landings adjacent to two new residences under construction at 32 and 34 Town Park Circle in Richland County. Is there a motion? I move approval. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you please read the roll? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Thank you. Resolutions, item 12, resolution number R202-031, authorizing acceptance and dedication of streets known as a portion of East Fair Drive and Sandra Drive, located in East Fair Phase 2B in Richland County. Is there a motion? I move approval of 2022-031. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion, questions, concerns? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, please read the roll. Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Item 13, resolution number R202-032, authorizing acceptance and dedication of streets known as a portion of East Fair Drive and Legacy Park Court, located in East Fair Phase 2C in Richland County. Is there a approval? Is there a second? We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll, please? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Resolution number R202-035, approval for acceptance of conveyance of the River Shoals Water Pressure Reducing Valve Station, identified as a portion of Richland County from NKD Inc. So move. Is there a second? Second. Any concerns, questions, hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll, please? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Item 15, resolution number R202-036, amending resolution number R202-005, approving and ratifying mutual aid agreements between the City of Columbia and the City of Columbia Police Department and various law enforcement agencies and authorizing the city manager of the City of Columbia and the chief of police of the City of Columbia to execute all such agreements to add the US Department of Veterans Affairs, Columbia Health Care System to the list of agencies. Is there a motion? I move approval. Is there a second? Second. Is there any questions, concerns, discussion, not hearing or seeing any? Madam Clerk, please read the roll. Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Moving into a period of event resolutions, item 16 is resolution number R202-030, authorizing consumption of beer and wine only within the Earlwood Park Amphitheater and covered picnic shelter, 1113 Recreation Drive at the Soulfest, Rollfest Music and Bites Festival on Saturday. Motion does approve. There's a second. Second. Any discussion, hearing, not seeing none? Madam Clerk, could you read the roll? Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Resolution. Aye. Thank you. Resolution number R202-034, authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at the Earl Jam Neighborhood Concert in Earlwood Park on Sunday, October 23rd. Motion to approve. Second. Having a motion to approve and a second. Is there any discussion, any concerns, hearing, not seeing none? Madam Clerk, please read the roll. Mr. Taylor? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mayor Rickamon? Aye. Thank you all. I do have a city manager's report for you all today with a couple of really good items. We are very thankful for each of you and your support of helping the staff and I to allocate the ARP funding that we have to date. And so one of the first items on the list that you all are well aware of is our ability to get some demolitions done. And the Columbia Police Department, which code enforcement falls under that department, of course, is moving forward with the demolition of vacant, abandoned, and hazardous properties in our effort to eliminate blight in our community. Currently we have 77 properties that are identified. And what we're going to categorize is rounds one and two of our program. And round one includes 52 properties at this time that are ready or will soon be ready for solicitation of a demolition contractor. Solicitation is expected to be released on May the 1st with city council approval in June. So we're trying to move this forward pretty quickly. The timeline is approximately 90 days from solicitation to the actual demolition of the properties, that whole process for this first two rounds. Round two includes 25 properties that are ready for legal to issue a demolition order and complete the title search. So as you're aware, there's a lot of legal activity that has to occur simultaneous with us. And so we're working very closely with legal to get this done. And round two is targeted to begin solicitation by September of 2022. I wanted to make a note for everyone in our public that's listening that this is always a working list. It's a work in progress working on these properties to be demolished. It changes often daily, and we'll be adding additional properties to the list that become apparent to us that they are issues of blight. We may have to remove some from the list if they're title issues that come up, or if code issues are abated by the property owners. Because again, the city does not own these properties, but we're certainly going to be going after blighted properties that have gone through the process to be demolished. We feel that, and as I know, guidance is coming down from the federal government even more recently about cities using the ARP funds for demolitions. But we feel like the justification is certainly here in the city of Columbia. The majority of the structures that we intend to demolish are in such disrepair that the cost to rehab them would be cost prohibitive, really, for affordable housing as they stand. What we feel will happen is that hopefully the removal of these structures will make the properties more attractive for future infill development, and ideally, for affordable housing developments. The residential demolitions are already zoned for single family housing. So we are hopeful that we'll get this process going, and we feel confident that we'll be in compliance with the federal regulations that, of course, want to encourage affordable housing whenever you're able to demolish properties and put more back in their place. Another really exciting, yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, do you have a list of those? I know it's a working document. Yes, sir. Can you provide us with about this? Absolutely will. I think David may be here, but he's probably hearing you. If not, we'll definitely get that to you all. So you've been very helpful as well, Council, with particularly more recently with some recruitment and retention issues that we've been having as a city, like many across the country coming out of the pandemic and otherwise. But in an effort to increase recruitment and retention for some of our hard to fill positions, I really do want to thank all of you for your support and encouragement of us doing some more creative things. I know Mr. Taylor has made some suggestions. A lot of you have, and we appreciate that. And so with that said, we are now implementing a phased-in approach to also increase salaries for our hardest to fill positions for some of our lowest wage earners. Those are the categories that we are focusing on. And this will also fall in line with the Columbia Water Customer Response Plan, because as you know, we've made a lot of progress. But several weeks ago, we and all of our citizens were experiencing long wait times. We're still working through that backlog of work orders, but we have made a significant amount of progress. Part of that is as a result of increased staffing. And so as we've gone through that process, we've realized that some of our lowest wage earners and folks in the field really need to have a livable wage. And so the city of Columbia, in our first phase of this process, we're increasing salaries of all employees to at least 1450 per hour. This doesn't include fire, it's fire, you're a little bit different and lots of overtime, and they're really not in a situation now, thank goodness, where they are experiencing a lot of vacancies for the first time in many years. I'm very excited that our fire department has a very high rate of employment. The phase two of this recruitment and retention plan includes implementing limited pay increases in departments, mostly water, public works and utilities, to raise the salaries again to at a minimum of 1450, but in some cases more than that to address compression issues for our hardest to fill positions, our lowest wage earners. And then our phase, another part of phase two is that we're in engagement with Evergreen Solutions, LLC to complete a market analysis for all of our employees whose salaries range between 31,120 dollars, which would be around that 1450 per hour mark and $50,000. So really everyone under 50, we really want to address the employees who are making under $50,000 in the city of Columbia. We're gonna do a market analysis to see what else we need to do to address those employees. So we're moving forward with that. I had briefed you all on this before, I thought it was important to say it publicly, to hopefully build and boost the morale of our employees who work so tremendously hard every day for our citizens, particularly those in the field and particularly those in these hard to fill positions. Another really exciting thing that has occurred, and I want to bring to your attention is that our own H. Demetrius Romp, I don't know if Demetrius is here today, he is our Director of Safety and Risk Management and he's been named the 2022 Risk Professional of the Year by the South Carolina Public Risk Management Association. This is really key because we haven't always had a safety and risk director, someone who's focused on this every day. For a long time at the city of Columbia, our workers' claims have been pretty high. The costs associated with employees and more importantly than that who are injured, the fact that they were getting injured in the workplace and we're not perfect so that still happens with the type of work that we do. As a city we're public servants and we have lots of people doing lots of things in the field on a daily basis in particular, but with Demetrius' efforts and working directly with all of our department heads, since he's joined the city in 2016, workers' compensation claims have dropped 48%, which is significant and we continue to experience a consistent downward trend in our total incurred costs as well as reduced claims over the last five years. Actually in 2021 the city had the lowest dollar amount spent on injured employees and so I thought that was worth sharing and I'll continue to share these kind of tidbits with you at times, not every meeting but as relevant things, I think are important to share not just with you but with our citizens. I think it'd be great if we could get Demetrius here at the next meeting because following since he's been here and looking at the difference that he's made for us is I think is well worth the recognition by us but also for people to understand what we're doing internally, he has made a pretty big impact from the numbers I've seen over the last six months, just looking back over since he's been here, what, almost two years? Three years? It's 2016, so it's been a little bit longer. So I do think it's worth the recognition. It'd be great if we could have him at the next meeting. Okay, we'll do, sir. Well, yes. And I'm sorry, I did have one question from the demolitions with respect to the solicitations. Are we, do you know if we're gonna be doing those solicitations individually, per home or are we trying to group some together? Trying to do batches and you know, the mayor and I talked about this too, that the indefinite delivery contract, he was just saying that to me before we started today that that seems to work really well with a lot of the work we're doing with our water repair work and water main brakes and so I'm gonna ask the staff about, is that potentially a mechanism to procure our demolition contractors as well? But the notes from the team so far have said that they would start coordinating with procurement to set a first round of bidding for demo contractors and break the demolitions into smaller groups for bidding based off geographic locations, Councilwoman Herbert and so that way they felt it would be easier to bid and opens up the possibility of multiple contracts being awarded at one time. We got 52 homes in round one. Okay, and the reason why I was tuned into that is because it's considered vertical and it's an opportunity where minority businesses, they just don't do as much of the water sewer but this is an opportunity for them to actually get some contracts. So I will be sharing with Melissa to make sure that we let some of those folks know to register so they can get the information. Yes, ma'am, absolutely. We'll coordinate with her as well and Sandra to make sure we're opening up the opportunity to anyone who can participate. Thank you. I have any other questions? I did wanna take a moment of personal privilege. One, I wanted to recognize this past weekend we had an unfortunate incident here in Columbia and I wanna reach out to the Chief. I wanna thank you for CPD, our officers along with Richland County, Lexington County, Newberry County, the U.S. Marshall Service, ATF, FBI, SLED, a coordinated effort that was 9-1-1 and of course our fire department who helped tremendously, watching everybody, they were organized, they swiftly addressed the situation. Obviously it's not one that we ever want to have but it is but I did wanna just make a statement that we're focused on supporting our law enforcement to ensure swift justice for the senseless act in our community and I believe it's senseless. There's not much that people can tell me that I may change my mind but we owe it to the victims, the innocent bystanders, the businesses and of course to our city to ensure that these perpetrators are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We just cannot accept this as a community. It's our job at the city to address both the immediate and long term issues to restore safety for our citizens and in the near term we need to make sure that we continue to invest in our law enforcement officers so that they can respond quickly and effectively to restore safety all while partnering with our communities to make impactful investments. Work with our judicial system to ensure that our communities are being protected that we live in. Long term we need to address the root causes of violence in our community. We need to make sure the economic conditions are right for investment, attainable housing, jobs with advanced opportunities. So life of crime and violence is just not an option anymore. So together as a community, as a whole, both the city, obviously law enforcement, community leaders, businesses and all other entities working together we can do this. So I hope that this brings us closer together. We start working as a team all at the table to address this issue but I wanna tell you I'm deeply grateful for the chief that we have the law enforcement agencies that came together and the community as a whole who's reached out. I think today my prayers, I know our prayers are still with those victims and all those folks who were involved, how that affected hundreds of people in a short amount of time and one, I speak for myself and I'll allow council to speak for themselves as well but we're just not gonna tolerate this kind of activity in our community anymore. We have to work together, we cannot, we can't get to a point where we accept these things as oh, it's just another shooting and we've had a lot. I think we've had close to 93 shootings over the last 12 months. That's 93 too many for me. So you're gonna see us as a community, as a city council work together but we're just one part of it. This is a community wide issue. That means neighborhoods, businesses, families, churches, collectively we've gotta work together. So I hope that as we continue to move forward the victims recover, justice is served swiftly and that we can come together as a community to lower those numbers. Did anybody else wanna say anything? Yes sir. I was a part of what took place on Saturday and to my surprise it was nothing but grace at 15 persons and no one was critically injured or killed. Chief, would you stand for just a minute? Assume the position. Chief, I had you to stand for this reason. In the course of my conversation on Saturday someone asked me who I was and of course I told them and they said, and I said to them, that's my chief. Chief, you handled yourself with integrity, with a kind of posture in the midst of this crisis that made all of us proud. Proud in the fact that you were there, the city manager and our mayor and other members of this council were here with you. You made us proud that in the midst of that chaos in the mall you were able along with your partners to lead and to give to each one of us a real sense of knowing what you were doing, being prepared and of course rehearsing this whole thing some months ago. Thank you, sir. Thank you for being who you are. Thank you for being the chief of Columbia and particularly my chief. Thank you, Chief Holbrook. And Mayor, just briefly, of course I wanna say thank you to our chief and realizing that we all have a role in this, we cannot police our way out of this situation and Mayor, you so graciously gave me a mayor's fellow, Ms. Alexa Merz and I wanted to recognize her but she's been working with me looking at crime prevention and we just met with Kimberly Mitchell of our Parks and Red and they will be kicking off the National Youth Violence Prevention Week this Sunday. So it's actually very timely. I'm hoping that everyone can support all of the activities they have and she's even realizing that because of the, because of what happened this weekend she's having to change some of the discussion topics because parents and their children are having different discussions now. So kudos to the police department and our chief Parks and Red for helping us build community because through building community we can help eliminate some of these numbers and I am here to help in whatever way I can but definitely thank you so much, Chief. I'd be remiss if I didn't add that we are looking for summer camp counselors at the city of Columbia. So if you've got friends, neighbors who are looking to give back, we're not asking you to do it for free, we are paying but we would love to have more volunteers, more folks to come in and help as we provide camps this summer to give kids an alternative. So please, if you have it, please reach out to our Parks and Recs and apply. Anybody else? Mr. Mayor, I might would just add to the earlier comments. And I would say to the people of Columbia that you have a city council today that's committed, committed to economic prosperity for all. We're looking at things how we can grow small business opportunities, make it easier for people to be successful and grow companies here. And at the same time, the thing that I learned a long time ago is public safety is the cornerstone of prosperity for everybody. I wanna make sure the chief and the whole force knows that this council is behind you to make sure you have the assets that you need and the people that it takes to make sure we're as safe as any community in America. Amen, amen. Thank you for what you do and please thank the force on our behalf. Anybody else? Well, Benadaya said. All right, preacher. All right, preacher. And this is not. It's Tuesday. Wednesday. Well, the mayor gave me, the mayor said something to me on Saturday that sort of stirred my spirit, that stirred the spiritual pot. And he said to Ed, look, enough is enough. That's not a creative word. That was a word spoken by Benadaya to the nation of Israel. Enough is enough. And with your leadership chief and with CPD and with us on the back end, we're gonna make this a real statement of faith. Enough is enough. Thank you, sir. I had to say that and I promise you, I won't take up an offering. Thank you. Or at least not the second time. Not the second time. Also wanted to take a minute to mention, we have Earth Day coming up and one of the things that we're continuing to do is how we can beautify our city, how we can have a cleaner. We've talked about a safer city now. Let's talk about a cleaner city. So we're starting our first kickoff. We have several things planned over the next few months to engage citizens to be more in some cool, I think some really neat programs that we're gonna come out with and make some announcements in the next 30 days about. But I do wanna talk about Keep the Middolens Beautiful event, April 23rd, Earth Day cleanup. Booker Washington Heights neighborhood is the key neighborhood. Kickoff starts at 9 a.m. at the Bellfield Center on Grant Street. 9 a.m. as of today, we have over 97 people signed up to volunteer to help clean up in this area. We also have supplies, free lunch for volunteers. There's some prizes for those who pick up the most litter. But please go to Keep the Middolens Beautiful site, sign up, be engaged. This is the first of many neighborhoods that we wanna work together with to clean up, put pride back in as we continue to invest in each and every neighborhood. This is a start. Pride helps us take those conditions and make them right. Makes our community come together. It brings all of us together so that we all can move forward. And so I would ask if you have time, please, you can't make it a Booker Washington. Take a block in your neighborhood. Love your neighborhood. Take one block at a time. Let's clean our city one block at a time and show everybody how beautiful she really is. Ms. City Manager, I think we got City Council Committee reports, referrals, and new business. Are there any committee reports? The Administrative Policy Committee met today and there were issues and concerns as presented to Council at our last meeting. We presented those issues and we will report, give a final report May 17th at the next Council meeting. Which would be May 3rd? May 3rd, no, it won't be May 3rd. It'll be that 3rd May 17th, yes, May 17th. Are there any other reports or referrals at this time? Any new business? So we're at the point of public input if there's anybody who would like to speak on any subject, you're welcome to come to the podium at this time. I recommend Mr. John Black has signed up to speak. Mr. Mayor and Council, on behalf of the Columbia Council neighborhoods, we'd like to thank you for your steadfast support for CCN at our annual awards banquet with an attendance exceeding over 180 citizens who came together to celebrate the achievements and accomplishments within our great city. The Standing Room only attendees truly enjoyed our theme being together again. A special thank you to Councilman McDowell and Councilwoman Herbert for their financial support in addition to Columbia Police Chief, Mr. Aubrey Jenkins. And thank you, Councilwoman Dr. Bussells for your assistance and participation in reading the city proclamations. And also thank you, Shanique and the Public Information Office of the city. The winners announced were the CCN award, a special recognition went to Ms. Vivian Clark Armstead and all kind. The CCN friend of the year was presented to on point with Cynthia Hardy. I'd also like to point out that this award has previously been presented to Chief Aubrey Jenkins and Ms. Teresa Wilson. The neighborhood volunteers of the year we had four of them, Michelle Huggins from South Kilburn, Trey Turner from Galaxy, Kelly Heinz-Morris from Shandon, Norman and Donna Goldberg of Belvedere. The neighborhood program of the year was the first responders appreciation parade that was from South Meadowfield. And again, we thank the city for the proclamation that Dr. Bussells read. The neighborhood of the year was South Kilburn Neighborhood Association. And again, we thank the city for that proclamation as well. Our hall of fame inductees was Mr. James McComb Jr., Tamika Isaac Devine, Fred Hornick, Ms. Charmaine Clark from your Community Development Department, and of course, the lovely Ms. Veronica Walker. We're especially honored that Ms. Walker's son, Justice Walker, was able to fly in from Minnesota to celebrate the event with her. So we were really happy that that was able to occur. Again, thank you for your continued support. And I look forward to our meeting, Mr. Mayor, on working together to build a stronger relationship with the city government and our member communities and neighborhoods. Thank you. Mayor, no one else has signed up, but I do have an email that we received from Mrs. Diane Wiley that I would like to read into the record. You may. Thank you. So the members of city council, I would like to say thank you for helping to rebuild and restore our neighborhood. You and your staff were eager to begin work upon your arrival to city council. And you have truly proven yourselves to many of the communities within the city of Columbia. Specifically, the work that you're doing within the Belvedere neighborhood has brought renewed hope and joy to many of the residents living within the neighborhood. The repairs that are being made, which are very much needed, are greatly appreciated by our community members. We have waited a very long time for assistance and help with our neighborhood. It is with great joy and delight that I write this email to say thank you on behalf of the Belvedere community and myself as the president. I would like to also extend a special thank you to our city councilman, Ed McDowell, for all of his unwavering support and assistance throughout the past few years. We could not have done this without him. We are looking forward to working along with you and your team in the near future. Mrs. Diane Wiley. Thank you, Ms. Wiley. If you know you gotta say something, come on out. Help yourself. Thank you to all of you, especially you and you and you. But my thing is, back to the incident. Chief, it's not your fault what's going on. I know you was hurt. When I seen the thing on my email, I'm like, God, I thought it was dreaming. I had to roll back up. But it's not your fault. It starts from the home. And these are not children. Those ages are grown people. It starts from the home. And all of us gonna have to do something about these guns. You know, you supposed to have one in the house, but not to hurt nobody. But we got to do something. We got to go to the legislator to stop it. But it's not your fault. You were here to protect us. Looking forward to working with you. I'll tell you, you give me a badge. I can tell you what's going on. I retired. I think she wants to be deputized. And I told him, my policeman in our neighborhood, he'll tell you, and his name is Mr. Holmes, Officer Holmes. I tell him things he don't even know. Bad, I believe. But you know what I'm saying, if we don't take charge now, they're gonna take over. They're gonna take over. What you say here with Ms. Wiley? Shoes and kitchen spoons would solve a lot of problems. That's right, that's right. When they took prayer out of school and stopped parents from disciplining their children, that's when everything went haywire. Y'all know it. All y'all out here that had a beating from your parents. Am I right? Probably more than one, but. I only had, when my grandmother said tell the truth, I stopped getting beatings. But the main thing is I feel you, because everybody said, I know that's not Columbia. We're a good city, but whatever you need us to do, and that includes all of us in here, we got to do something, because it's sad. That could have been one of us out there shopping. But I wanna thank all y'all. I'll show you I need something to do. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Wiley. Thank you. Did we have any other emails, voice mails? No sir, not at this time. Anybody else wanted to speak? It's a motion to adjourn. I think we can name a motion to adjourn. I think you. Move. There's a second. Second. Is there any discussion about this? Any concerns about it? Hearing none, seeing none, Madam Clerk, could you read the roll? Yes, sir. Dr. Taylor. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussells. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. May I recommend? Aye. Have a good evening.