 and your name we pray. Amen. Good afternoon Mayor and Council. At this time we would ask that you adopt the agenda with the removal of item 2 from presentations. So moved. Second. Mr. Bailey. Mr. Brown. Ms. Herbert. Dr. Bussles. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mayor Rickerman. Moving into a period of public Yes. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Mr. McDowell. Yes, that I am present. At this time any public input can be received related to items on the agenda that do not require the public hearing. There will be a time later for the public hearing related items. And at this time, Mayor, I think we may have a few individuals signed up to speak. Yes. Yes, we do. Gabriel signed up for item 33. Oh, that might be public hearing. So there's none that are. Oh, none that are. So I'm thinking there are any others, Mayor. Okay. My public. That's okay. Thank you. Approval of minutes number one. Council has to approve the February 6th and 20th, 2024 work session and February 20th, 2024 council meeting minutes. So move. Mr. Bailey. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussles. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mayor Rickerman. Thank you. Presentations. Item number three, the Finkland Pharmacy Proclamation. The honorable Tina Ann Herbert. Thank you, Ms. Wilson. I don't know if any of you all are familiar with the Finkland Pharmacy that's been on North Main Street for almost 37 years, a little over 37 years. It's very dear and close to my heart. My very best friend, if I could say so, got his career started there and now he's traveling all over the place and he's a writer, by the way, and very, very, very successful. And I've been watching the family all of these years and they are closing after 37 years of service. And so I wanted to acknowledge them. I'm going to ask Michael Finkland to just come and stand. He doesn't have to speak. He made sure that I understood that. But I just want to give you all a couple of highlights. Finkland Pharmacy, a family-owned local pharmacy, has been a staple in the community for over 37 years. It was founded by like Leon Finkland. Leon Finkland was the valedictorian of the 1967 class of Jefferson High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in Albany State University and he graduated from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1972. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and a founding member of the Zeta Epsilon chapter at the University of South Carolina. He and his wife, Linda, had two kids, Michael and Jeremy. And Michael and Jeremy both have worked in the family business. He first started out as the medicine shop under a franchise, but then was able to have his own independently owned Finkland Center. And then we had the pleasure of him joining our, where is Felicia? I can't see, joining us at the North Main Plaza. He came there in 2016 and was welcomed by the community representatives from Jim Clyburn's office and of course members of City Council. And so we wanted to recognize you all as you close. You have contributed so much to the community and I will read the last sentence, which I think is the most important. As a family pharmacy, Finkland pharmacy cared about their customers and made visiting their pharmacy convenient. Finkland pharmacy striped to be the local pharmacy that the community could depend on to keep prices competitive and fill prescriptions in a timely manner. Finkland pharmacy took enormous pride in being a neighborhood pharmacy that supported the community and knew their customers by name and treated them like family. Therefore, on behalf of Mayor Rickerman, we do declare today March 19 as Finkland Pharmacy Day and Michael pharmacy, Michael pharmacy, Michael Finkland will be receiving this on behalf of Finkland Pharmacy. Thank you, Councilwoman Herbert. Our next presentation is item number four, the social work month proclamation. The honorable Daniel J. Rickerman Mayor. I'm going to read the proclamation. I'm going to let you have an opportunity to tell us a little bit about all the work y'all are doing, but introduce the young ladies with you to professional social workers open the doors for access and opportunity for those in need through direct services through in assistance and obtaining services such as housing, transportation, meals, health care and caregiver support. This year's social work theme, empowering social workers, inspiring action, leading change, embodies the need for society to support social workers so that they can continue to do the life affirming work and help address societal needs. Professional social workers use their education training and commitment to fix problems that some cannot and others hope they will simply go away. Professional social workers are dedicated advocates for change in policy legislation to strengthen the safety nets to make critical differences to so many working daily to ensure that people of all ages, creed sexual orientation and nationalities have access to adequate resources and services. And professional social workers throughout the Midlands are on the front lines in our communities every day making a positive difference in the lives of our residents. So therefore I Daniel recommend Mayor of City of Columbia along with my council members who are here today do hereby proclaim March 24th as social work month throughout the City of Columbia. The Midlands area of South Carolina encourage all citizens to take the time to honor the professional social workers for their dedication to individuals, families, communities through legislation, advocacy, civil service delivery, research and education. And I just want to take a minute to give y'all a hand and thank you so much. And I know there's a lot of other groups represented here, but the floor is yours. Ms. Simons. Thank you, Mayor. I didn't know I was going to have to speak, but that's okay. Black girls in social work. Like you mentioned, Mr. Mayor, social workers, we fix problems. We find solutions in black girls was a means of a solution within the social work field. It's just as any other community. There are problems. There are things that fall through the cracks. And as a new graduate after I graduated with my master's of social work, I realized that there was an issue and I wanted to find a solution. And the issue was that a lot of black women within the social work field experienced a lack of community, a lack of support and a lack of resources as we thrive within the profession. And so in true social work fashion, I created just a Facebook group. That's all that we were at first. And then here in Columbia, South Carolina, we met for the very first time in 2018. And we had a self care meetup just for burnout prevention, and just to experience empowerment and connection. And to this day, we have grown to over 20,000 affiliates and members throughout the country. So just something that I started on a lunch break working for the Department of Social Services here in Richland County. We've grown to be so much more and we provide professional development, personal growth and networking opportunities to black women in the community. And we are very honored to represent not just black women in the community, but all social workers and change agents throughout the state of South Carolina and throughout the country. And so we really thank you for this recognition. Mr. Mayor, as you all are going to take the picture I did, she didn't seem to want to get up there with the group, but our own now staff on our staff, master social worker, Camisha Hepard. So it's a wonderful thing. Yes. Okay. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Item number five, the Community Development Week Proclamation. The Honorable Daniel J. Rickham and Mayor. And Mayor, I'm going to go ahead and read for the record the additional two proclamations that are all related for the wonderful work in our Community Development Department, the National Fair Housing Month Proclamation and the National Financial Literacy Month Proclamation. So where's our community development staff? Get up here in the front. Come on, we got to celebrate y'all too. Come on all you staff. Usually the first ones to jump in on a picture. You know, I don't even know where to start, because all of these are so important. You know, we don't have enough months to give everybody a month. We're going to have to start doing weeks because there's so many great reasons to celebrate. We just saw the Social Workers Month. We got National Community Development Week Fair Housing Month National Financial Literacy, which really intertwined. And first of all, on behalf of City Council, thank y'all for what y'all do day in and day out. Some of you are new. Some of you've been doing it for a long time, but every day y'all are making a difference. And we're excited about the opportunities there before us. But this gives us an opportunity to celebrate a little bit. I'm going to try to read a little bit of each one of these because if I try to read all of these, I won't make it through the meeting. The week of April 1st through 5th 2024 has been designated as National Community Development Week by the National Development Community Association to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Community Development Block Grant, which we continue to fight for every year and we thank our congressional delegation for continuing to send money to us in the 34th anniversary of home investment partnerships in the home program. The program provides annual funding and flexibility to local communities to provide decent, safe, sanitary housing and a suitable living environment and economic opportunities along with the home program. It provides funding for local communities to create affordable housing opportunities for low income. And as y'all know, in the city of Columbia, we need lots of units and we're continuing to find creative ways. We've had an opportunity to visit other cities, not only with our staff, but our city manager and others from Atlanta to Charlotte really to see what other cities are doing and how we can be creative. I just lost the lens. Be creative on housing and how we can make sure that everybody has an attainable opportunity in our community. Then I'm going to skip over to the Fair Housing Month real quick. The month of April has designated National Fair Housing Month to recognize and celebrate the 1968 passage of Title VIII of Civil Rights Act into law which prohibited discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of dwellings and in other house-related transactions based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status or handicap status continuing to help countless thousands of Americans achieve the American dream of obtaining safe, decent, affordable housing. 56 years later this landmark legislation has helped and continues to help countless thousands of Americans achieve the American dream of obtaining safe, affordable housing. That's the other thing that we want to continue to grow in our community is housing and in a city that has 53 percent rental we really want to grow more home ownership and have more opportunities and we're doing our part with the help of our partners and our relationships in P3 to bring some of those realities to life and get people into first-time home ownership which as we all know is the quickest way to achieve generational wealth. Last is we got a tie-in National Financial Literacy Month dedicated to improving financial literacy and the effort to ensure that all Americans have access to trustworthy financial services and products. 2024 marks the 21st anniversary of April as the National Literacy Month. A milestone that underscores the timeless value of financial education in our rapid evolving economic landscape. Financial literacy can help families establish, maintain healthy financial habits to improve the quality of their life, financial education to help citizens become more knowledgeable about finances and develop skills and strategies to manage personal finances savings and credit development which we all know those come hand in hand to make sure that we're planning for the future and we want to make sure that every citizen has an opportunity to participate and every citizen has an opportunity to have a place that's safe and affordable to live in our community. With that Felicia I'm going to turn it over to you before I present these three proclamations to you all. Thank you mayor. You so eloquently read the proclamations and explained the reason why we're here today but I do want to outline we've got several events planned to celebrate National Community Development Week. Actually it kicks off March 1st April 1st excuse me is when the National Community Development Week kicks off and we'll have a press conference schedule at Hyatt Park on that day at 11 o'clock in the morning and of course we also have a day of service schedule in partnership with the Columbia International University the RAMSERV organization so staff members here will be partaking in a day of service. Now of course we have and we want to certainly celebrate our 50th CDBG which is Community Development Block Grant anniversary that is a huge milestone that we're excited to celebrate because it has done so many wonderful things for the residents here in City of Columbia and we'll be off celebrating this 50th celebration in partnership collaboration with our CCN which the Columbia Council of Neighbors so if we have any of the members here this afternoon I would like for them to stand as well. Come on CCN, don't hide. So staff and the members of Columbia Council of Neighbors have been working hard to plan this event it's actually scheduled for April the fourth at the Columbia Alumni Center it will start at 5 30 in Corsiola Partake and we'll celebrate dance eat real well and it should wrap things up around about 8 30 that afternoon so but just just a brief overview of the things we have planned we do have some other events playing for the rest of the month of April such as homebuyers workshops and financial literacy sessions as well. That's wonderful. So as the proclamation you did just read just a moment ago the financial literacy we actually recognize one of our partners which is the Richmond County Library for the second proclamation that was read. Please stand up so you'll be recognized. And then of course the Fair Housing Proclamation we will also recognize our partners with the South Carolina Housing excuse the South Carolina Human Affairs and we have those staff members sitting over here and so we want to celebrate everyone that's here and receive their proclamations. Well let's bring them all up front. Ready Mr. Mayor? So I'm ready. That was a whirlwind of presentations but thank you all for doing that. Wow. They are. Well we will move forward then with the Consent Agenda items 8 through 25 and I know that item 21 we may want to have some comment on so I'm not sure if you want me to hold pull that one off or go ahead and vote okay okay yes sir. Motion to approve. Second. We've got a motion and a second. Any comments, questions, concerns I think there's something for item 21. If I could just get staff clarification of exactly what we're doing. Yes sir. Are you talking about item number 21? Yes sir. So that's in your district. It is actually a DOT safety improvement project. The bounds of that safety improvement project begin at Hazelwood running down Coffman Road and it ends at Charlestown on the east side it incorporates Hallbrook and Trailwood Lane. Because of the increased width of that intersection and the turn lanes that will be occurring there's about 950 feet of our water line that's in the way so we'll be having to relocate that as well as about 1100 feet of 8 inch gravity. During this process this particular contract that is before you tonight is to pay for our design consultant to help us relocate it that will be reimbursed we expect under the Act 36 part of the DOT assisting once water lines and sewer lines are being relocated. And then as it gets to construction we expect that to be in contract so we expect minimal disruption to our water customers and sewer customers. And when will it start? Right now they just began the design so we're thinking probably a year out. Okay. Yes sir. All right thank you. Thank Dana. Any any further discussion or questions any other items? Hearing none seeing none Madam Clerk could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussells. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mayor recommend. Aye. Thank you. Our public hearing items will begin now with the first reading for zoning and planning matters and Ms. Hampton is here to assist. Good evening the first item I'll wait just a moment for the presentation to come up. Thank you. First item on your agenda this evening is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 8352 Park Lane Road. There we are. The request is to annex the property assign a land use classification of community activity corridor and a zoning of community activity center corridor for the pending annexation. Do you have any questions? I don't have we heard from the public. Is there anyone here to speak for or against this item? It's item 26. There is no one currently signed up. Okay no one no one is signed up Ms. Herbert. Move for approval. I've got a motion for approval is there a second? Second. Motion is second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none Madam Clerk could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussells. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. May I recommend. Aye. Item 27 annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 7613 Garner's Ferry Road. The request to annex the property assign a land use classification of urban edge regional activity center and a zoning of commercial general commercial district. Is there anyone here to speak for or against this item? There's no one signed up. We had no one signed up. Will this is in your district? Yes. May I motion to approve? Got a motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. I have a motion to second. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clerk could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussells. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. May I recommend. Aye. 28 is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for multiple addresses and parcels on Fernandina and Piney Grove roads. It's a request to annex the property assign a land use classification of regional activity corridor and a zoning of general commercial district for the pending annexation. Is there anybody here to speak for or against this item? There's no one signed up. There's no one signed up. District one. Mrs. Herbert. May I move for approval? Got a motion for approval. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clerk could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey. Aye. Mr. Brown. Aye. Ms. Herbert. Aye. Dr. Bussells. Aye. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. McDowell. Yes. May I recommend. Aye. Your next case is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 10 Bluff Road, a portion of and 1035 Dryfus Road and 1025 Dryfus 1017 Dryfus. This is a request to annex the property assign a land use classification of urban core neighborhood activity center a zoning of light industrial with portions in the floodplain. Is there anybody here to speak for against this item? There's no one signed up. I did have a question, Ms. Hampton. Staff recommendation was approval of annexation but denial of zoning classification. Yes, sir. And as information to this is related to the rezoning at number 32, which is a portion that you see. It's the triangular portion that's already in the city. Yeah. So, yes, the policy established here through the capital city mill district was to established mixed use zoning classifications in this area as opposed to light industrial. So, that is that is where staff got that recommendation was because it is light industrial instead of the mixed use. So, a zoning classification we would look to would be either the employment campus, one of the activity centers like a community or a neighborhood. It is currently a warehouse building. Part of it is released. The other part is not in this being marketed for sale for release. Pardon me. There was no one that signed up. Is there a motion? A motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. A motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Item 30 is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 1100 Sandy Oaks Road 11.14 acre portion. It's a request to annex the property, assign a land use classification of urban edge residential small lot and a zoning of plan development district for the pending annexation. Do we have anyone signed up? Is there anybody here who would like to speak for or against this annexation? This is district for Mr. Brown. Motion to approve. Got a motion. Is there a second? Second. A motion and a second. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none, seeing none. Madam Clerk, could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Proceeding into zoning map amendment for 1115 Green Lawn Drive. This is a request to rezone the property from residential single family large lot to office and institutional. Has anyone signed up to speak on this item? Mr. Mayor, there was one individual who called in to the city clerk's office. I'm happy to read her comments if you would like me to. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. To whom it may concern, I am writing on behalf of myself, family, and neighbor Mr. Keith to express our strong opposition to 1115 Green Lawn Drive in Columbia, South Carolina. This is a small family neighborhood and we are completely opposed to turning a family home into an office institutional district or any type of commercial property. So please do not rezone the family home. Please leave the property as is. Sincerely, you'll align the gowns and Keith Amos. Is there anyone here to speak for against? Yes, sir, please. Afternoon, Mayor. Afternoon, Councilman. I'm Keith Amos. I'm a local business owner and I have a property across the street from such property. It is a two-story home that they're trying to get rezone commercial institutional. I'm not instilled what the institutional part is all about, but there is mostly residents in there with small kids and it's enough traffic offices. The house has been on the market for probably about eight or nine months and it's not selling. They're trying to get it rezone from residential to commercial to improve the market of it, but as I say, it's a business owner who lives, who works there. My neighbors have come to me at concerning the fact of amount of traffic that a commercial property with brains that are already busy area. And as I say, it's a business owner who works there. I would like you guys to keep it around residential, sir. Thank you. Thank you for being here, sir. One question for you, sir. What's the name of that business? Yes, sir. Good. I want to get your advertising for this meeting, so. Is there anyone else to speak? Yes, sir. I got a long distance phone call. I got drawn away. My name is John Blackman and I'm the applicant for this. So I'm not sure what has been said before. Just to give you all a little history of myself because Mr. Rick knows me, but the rest of you don't. I started my career with the Go City government in the early 80s with the Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Development Block Grant number four. It's been eight years on the City of Columbia Planning Commission, which I enjoyed tremendously. So this on the surface might look like an easy question because this looks like it's a neighborhood. There's a ditch that runs behind all 18 of those lights that are on Green Lawn. It's up to 8, 10 feet wide. This is a complete barrier. Excuse me. The west side of Green Lawn is an island. The right side and the right up for the Planning Commission stated that there were several OI properties across the street, including his barber shop. The Planning Commission, I was sort of dismayed, made it sound like I was trying to create a strip mall on that whole side of the street. Well, there are a few O1s across the street, but if you see below that there's some more O1. There are 65 acres on the east side of Green Lawn that is office and institutional. I can tell you by being at open houses at this property the traffic on that road. It is the cut through for police, ambulances, fire trucks. We got an appraisal done, we had it under contract and people didn't qualify, but the appraiser said it's located on a busy four-lane road and will be hard to sell a residential house there. That's for humorous because it's a two-lane road, but it feels like a four-lane road. There are two operating businesses across the street. You notice there's a little purple triangle up closer to Leesburg Road. No, no, no, no. The other side of the street, my side of the street. It's a dentist office. Years ago that was zoned Urban Transitional District, which we had when I was on planning commission and it was for areas like Wildcat Road behind McDonald's that cuts through to Jackson Boulevard. Places that look like houses but aren't good raising kids' houses. So urban trans just, you know, you could have a commercial business there as long as you maintain the look of a house. They did that with this dentist office. We'd like to do this with this property. And one of the things that Mr. Blackman, if you could wrap up. Okay, ER2 has for its building types, land uses, primary uses, single-family detached, accessory buildings, dwelling units, tertiary types, single-family attached, two-family, three-family, civic, institutional, small, business, employment, small, cemeteries, and mausoleums. So this is an area down the road that y'all have now classified as ER2. Thank you, sir. Thank you. It will allow this. Thank you for your time. And I sent you an email, if you'd look at that, I'd appreciate it. No, that yeah, that's that is city. Yep. Yeah, there's a preponderance of existing commercial available zoning. On the other side, yeah. Planning commission and staff obviously have denied this. We have not traditionally broken up a neighborhood like this, especially when there's other commercial there. I'm not sure how the Dennis office got there back in the day because, I mean, it's solid neighborhood around there. I'm not inclined to change that based on what I see there. I think your intent, John, is, you know, you're trying to figure out a way to do something with it, but I don't think changing that zoning in that neighborhood is the right call when there's availability all the way across. But that's just me looking at it because we've tried to keep those interiors pretty strong. I'll open it up to anybody else on council. Comment. Motion to deny. There's a motion to deny. Is there any second? There's a motion and a second. Mayor? Yes, sir. May I ask a clarifying question, please? Crystal, you said that the property borders on commercial on the other side of the road. Yes, sir. There is a there is commercial across the street. And the intent of Mr. Blackman is to take the two-story house and transition that into a commercial piece of property. It would be zoned to permit commercial uses. Yes. Is it on the same piece of property? I have not written to that property, but is that the same piece of property that has previously been zoned commercial? No, sir. It's residential. On the other side. On the other side. On the other side is commercial. Yeah, this this has been residential. It's developed. Okay. That's what I need to know. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh, motion and second, Madam Clerk. Could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Dr. Bussell? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Aye. May I recommend? Aye. Final case on your agenda this evening is a zoning map amendment and I'll remind you that this is related to the annexation and rezoning you heard earlier on Dreyfus. It's the back portion of one of those parcels. A zoning map amendment for 10 Bluff Road to rezone the property from employment campus EC within the floodplain to light industrial within the floodplain overlay. We didn't have anybody there to speak on this before. Is there anybody else? Is there any questions on council? We got a split obviously recommendation from staff is to deny this but there's also approval from the Planning Commission five five five to zero. Mr. Mayor, motion to approve? You got a motion to approve from the district representative. Is there a second? Second. So we have motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Seeing none. Madam Clerk could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Busles? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. That concludes your zoning public hearing. I will stay for the next item though. It was a carryover and I'll read that one. It's an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 1408 and 1412 Grove Park Lane. There was a concern and I do believe you have someone here to speak on this item as well and I'll be happy to answer questions after you're finished. Is there anybody here to speak on this item? Yes, sir. Please come to the mic. State your name for the record. Hello city council. I'm Gabrielle Bank and I'm the owner of the property on 1408 and 1412 Park Grove Lane. I'm here with my business partner Karen. I'm requesting the city to approve the my request for rezoning and annexation for that property and I'm here to answer if there's any question or any concern about that request. Ms. Herbert? Well, I was actually going to say so I'm councilwoman Herbert and we talked earlier today but I had an opportunity to ask all of my questions earlier today. Okay. Is there anyone else here to speak for against this item? Ms. Herbert? Is there a motion? Yes, a motion to deny. There was one more person signed up to speak. Bishop Deodor, I'm sorry. This is item 33. Karen Aaron Filami. If I said that correctly. Ms. Karen, can you get on the mic there? Thank you. Yes, my name is Karen Aaron Filami. I'm here to support Mr. Bean and his rezoning. He's a great pillar of the community. He have local business here and I would like to see his rezoning take place please. Thank you. Is there anything else you wanted to add? Him and I are business partners. Actually, he helped me in my business 20 years ago to get started and he helped a lot of people here in the city of Columbia. Thank you for coming. Yes. Thank you all for for being here. I wrote by the property and I had some concerns. I don't know if the lady is not lady but I guess the lady who was here at the last meeting had concerns about some of the calls and we've had staff to actually look into some of the emergency calls that have come to the property. And honestly that's just a little concerning to me because if you come into the city then those become our issues. And so for that reason along with a few others I do have to make a motion to deny this annexation. One question I would have from staff that they can give some more information about some of those calls that Councilwoman Herbert mentioned. You have it. You have it. I don't have all of the specific calls here. It must be in my folder. There were several calls made to CPD. None of them violent. Some new largely nuisance calls to come out. What type of nuisance calls if you can expound? Do you want me to read? I'll be great. So there were three on one day that were for fire and EMS. The note here is apparently somebody got pinned by machinery though that does not necessarily mean an industrial use and could have been by a car. And then there were two reports to meet which is a fairly general call type and is basically when a police officer or deputy meets someone on the site. They met on the site but both of the cases were cleared with no report taken and I think that's what Krista means by I mean Miss Hampton means by nuisance calls. Just calls to go out but nothing coming out of them. Thank you. And these were calls to the Sheriff's Department, correct? Correct. Right and I'm sorry there was also one documented shop request through the Umbudsman's office about an underweight dog on site and animal control had to respond. Miss Hampton I think Miss Karen wanted to make a comment. Yes sir please. So I would like to say Mr. Bean he is like a truck driver. He'd be out of town like a week at a time and him and I have sit down very closely and I ask him that he has to like get off the road or let me take over the property. I got to say that he has a big heart and he has to let me continue to manage the property so things that's going on I'm there in the city so I can address it. The issue about the dog there is a like a dog room next door so I'm not quite sure where that dog came from. I think Mr. Bean can testify that he do be on the road a lot and like I say we done been business partners for years and I appreciate if y'all give him an opportunity. He's a very humble person and yeah sir. I see the council if you have any concern and I'm not sure exactly why you denied here requesting to deny my my request but I can address any particular issue that or any concern that you have for that property. I know that the last meeting in here there was a my next door neighbor who came in here opposing my next session. I don't think that she gave any compelling reason why she opposing her just that she stated here that she wanted to buy that property to tear it down and about that property for my own use is not for sale and ever since about that property I have had that issue with at my neighbor if cause came from her I'm not sure but I'm pledging to take care of the property and meet the concern if there's any and I'm asking if you can reconsider my request. Thank you. So we have a motion for denial with a second Any other discussion? Second. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? No. May I recommend? Aye. Thank you Mr. Mayor and Council. We will now proceed with ordinances for first reading item number 34 ordinance number two thousand twenty four zero zero nine granting an encroachment to subtext acquisitions LLC for the use of the right of way areas of the 400 block of Blossom Street, the 400 block of Wheat Street, the 500 block of William Street and the 500 block of Hugie Street for the installation and maintenance of sidewalks landscaping and irrigation adjacent to 408 and 436 Blossom Street and 519 Hugie Street in Richland County. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. That a motion. Is there a second? Second. That a motion a second. Any further discussions, questions, concerns, hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? No. Mr. McDowell? Very recommend. Aye. Item 35 ordinance number two thousand twenty four zero one zero amending the nineteen ninety eight code of ordinances for the city of Columbia, South Carolina chapter twenty one stormwater management and sedimentation control article two stormwater quantity and quality control division six charges and views. There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll please? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Item 36 ordinance number two thousand twenty four zero one eight approval for conveyance of city property identified as track 401 containing point zero six six acre in Richland County. The Carolina this is for the Carolina Crossroads Project at I one twenty six near Lawan Drive and Arrowwood Road. Is there a motion? You got a motion? Is there a motion and a second? Any further discussion? I'm going to make sound. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Item thirty seven is ordinance number two thousand twenty four zero two two approval for conveyance of city property identified as track four four four containing point zero six five acre in Richland County also for Carolina Crossroads Project at the I one I twenty six ramp seat. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Is there a second? Second. We got a motion and a second. Any further discussions? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Item thirty eight is ordinance number two thousand twenty four zero two zero concerning to the inclusion of property in a multi county industrial business part collect technologies LLC in Richland County. This is one of the let everyone know I'm going to recuse myself for my own economic interest in this project. Mr. Mayor motion to approve. Got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Resolutions item thirty nine resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero one four approval for acceptance of point five two four acre and the new colonial life sewer pump station from the South Carolina Department of Transportation for the Carolina Crossroads Project along I one twenty six at LaWine Drive and Arrowett Road. To approve. There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. Seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. And then resolutions item forty resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero zero one authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at the main street Jazz Fest powered by a college as a mission to approve. Got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Now motion is second. Any further discussions? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark please read the roll. Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Item forty one is resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero zero four authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at the Congaree Vista Gilles Artista Vista Live on on Lincoln and the twelve hundred block of Lincoln Street between Lady Street and Gervais Street on Sunday April the twenty first two thousand to approve. There's a motion. Is there a second? Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? May recommend? Aye. Item forty two resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero zero five authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at the Moore Company Spring Fling Client Appreciation on Saturday April 13th two thousand twenty four at the Rear Parking Lot of twenty nine thirty one Divine Street. Is there a motion to move? Second. Second. Motion is second. Any further discussion? Seeing none hearing none. Madam Clark? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May recommend? Aye. Item forty three is resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero zero six authorizing consumption of beer and wine and liquor at South Carolina Pride out there's two thousand twenty four in the twelve hundred block of Park Street between Shrew. Is there a uh we have a motion is a second. Got a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May recommend? Aye. Item forty four resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero one zero authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at group therapies taco therapy at the twenty one hundred block of Green Street and seven hundred and eight hundred blocks of of Pavilion Avenue on Saturday April 13th two thousand twenty four. Motion to approve. Got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Okay. I have to admit this is the first time I've ever seen this one. This is a new event. Taco therapy. Um any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark? Could you read the rule? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May recommend? Aye. Item forty five resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero one three authorizing consumption of beer and wine only within Boyd Plaza adjacent to Columbia Museum of Art for CMAs arts and droughts on Friday April the twelfth twenty twenty four. Is there a motion? Motion to approve. Got a motion. I need a second please. We got a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none seeing none. Madam Clark could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May recommend? Aye. Resolutions authorizing public input on road closures these are um simply public hearings um for council's information and any individuals that would like to speak are allowed at the same three minutes to address city council at this time. The first item I'll read to the record mayor is item forty six resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero one five public input on closing of a portion of Cotton Town Way also known as Gaylar Street. Is there anybody here to speak on this item? There is no one signed up. Okay and item forty seven is resolution number R two thousand twenty four zero one eight public input on closing of a portion of Gordon Street between Barnumville Road and Waverly Street. Is there anybody here to speak for this please? Bishop, I see you behind there. Yeah. Just one quick question. Is that a preacher's minute or regular minutes? Moving right along. We give you three minutes and no passing of the plate. Alright. Okay. I grew up in in this neighborhood um and stayed there basically until I was nineteen in the Winnington Army to serve over in Vietnam. I've seen many things that happen uh in our neighborhood. I've seen the fact that at one time we we had people who were selling uh bootleg after we bought that property and got them out then the drug people came in and as many of you know that neighborhood was ran down and so we purchased a park the park and towed all the buildings down. We believe today that we can better serve our community with that road closed and what we would like to to do is to ensure that no one else would come in there and do anything to hurt our children or mess up our community. There are three things that we are as a church so we don't need no money for none of y'all. I'm not going to pass the plate. Uh we are looking at moving our food pantry. Mayor you have seen that we have over two thousand people that comes and that's it's in our church and so we want to move it out and and put a building there and make sure that the people there and the products there are safe. The other thing that we were looking at we have a lot of elderly members and saints and elderly people. We already have two properties uh two buildings already on property where we are housed in. These rents are more than affordable. The rent that they're paying is less than my light bill and so we plan to put some more apartments down there and also to make this a green area in an area where our community can come in there and be safe. These are some of our plans and standing beside me it's another member very close to me my son-in-law and we also have some other members of the congregation here who also support one of them you probably know and we thank you. I recognize that smile on face from a mile away. Okay so he won't and no I'm not talking about you chief. Mr. Mayor, members of council, it's a pleasure to be here today. My name is Ron Scott and I uh attend progressive church where I've been a member since my birth and also have the privilege of representing the church's legal council but staying here today more so as a a child who grew up in that neighborhood in Gordon street uh the particular block we're talking about was a magnet for a drug-sum job of cleaning up the area and the hopes uh to come will certainly better the community and so we are very hopeful for council's consideration and support of what we think will better the community and we appreciate the consideration today. Well first of all I want to thank you both for being here and obviously I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for what you do for the community. Um if you haven't had an opportunity to to see their pantry in action uh it's a pretty amazing machine that's moving a lot of people through um but the improvements that the church has done in that neighborhood and been a pillar there and we appreciate it thank you for what you're doing uh it's important work and and I appreciate what y'all do uh it was got to see it over the holidays and it was pretty amazing um a lot of great people the school district involved there too making sure kids get books as well so it wasn't just food there was books and there was folks there to help anybody who needed help so it's it's a a full service drive through for lack of a better description but uh we appreciate y'all being here obviously we don't take action um on this but we hear you loud and clear. Thank you kindly. Mr. Mayor. Yes, Reverend McDowell. Keep thinking. Yeah. Pardon me. Go ahead. Yes, sir. Just want to say a complimentary word some years ago a few years ago when we did have houses in that area I was a part of and saw the progress that was made when they were torn down they were asbestos related and other activities was taking place on that piece of property it was then that I had an opportunity to visit our food pantry there with Chief Chief Jenkins and of course uh since the buildings has been demolished that piece of property brings new life to Bonneville Road and Bishop it would be it would certainly be our pleasure to see that this kind of consideration be given and that uh we continue to grow in that particular part of our city. Thank you sir for what you've done. Thank you Reverend McDowell. Just want to thank you for each other. Got one more thing. We also do uh clothing. Lights. We also do clothing appliance and everything so with the expansion we'd be able to give more clothing and give more appliances lawn mowers we can give lawn mowers and all that. Thank you. Thank you sir Madam City Manager. Oh I'm sorry. This time mayor we will move into a period of City Council reports referrals and new business. Do we have any referrals or reports? Um Dr. Oddity. Um so I just wanted to give a brief update on our last um health social and environmental affairs committee. We focused mostly on um potential partners for um some of our animal services programs with a major focus on looking at the ways in which we can continue to revamp our licensing program. Staff has continued to keep us up to date on that and we look forward to seeing what the proposed changes will be after we are able to hopefully align with um Richland County's um animal services team as well um because one of the things that the committee really stressed was that if we were going to make any changes to the pet licensing program um it would have to be in tandem with the county given that most of our um surrendered pets come from the county. Um and then in addition to that I have uh two referrals. I'd like to refer to this committee um an update on PFAS and an update on the tree planting program that the city has. We had some questions arise um at a neighborhood about how we decide where and what trees are planted. So I'd like to make a motion to refer um an update on PFAS and the tree planting program for the city for the um health social and environmental affairs committee. There there's a motion. Is there a second? Second. You got a motion and a second. Madam Cart could you read the roll? Mr. Bailey? Aye. Mr. Brown? Aye. Ms. Herbert? Aye. Dr. Bussells? Aye. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. McDowell? Yes. May I recommend? Aye. Do do we know when that meeting will be because I'll have a big interest in PFAS. Um we typically meet the last Tuesday at 1 p.m. We'll get the notifications out too. Mr. Is there um any other reports or new business with that? Madam City Manager, go to public input. Yes sir. Any individuals are allotted up to three minutes to address City Council about matters not on the agenda. The items um that required a public hearing have already been addressed. Do you have anyone signed up? First, we have Ms. Diane Wiley. You got your hair done Ms. Wiley. I didn't recognize you back there. Oh, this is not done. Hey, how y'all doing? Um you know I know this is not done. Thank you. Well, it's different than the last time I saw you. Don't don't change the subject. Stop, stop, stop. I'm gonna I'm gonna address this now. A lot of times I want to say things and everybody go. You understand? We do that over. He messed up the 15 seconds. Okay, there's what I'm really upset about what happened this weekend. We had 11 shootings this weekend. That gun control, I want to know what I can do to get our neighborhoods back to where it's supposed to be. 11 in four days. That's unacceptable. It's it's an open law where you can carry a gun and it's mainly our black boys. Chief, where are you? Where are you? I feel for you. I feel for you and and uh Sheriff Lott. I feel for everybody but that should not happen. Mr. McDowell, you hear me? Can you hear me? That shouldn't happen. Yes ma'am, I hear you. I'm clear. I can't hear you. Okay, but all across uh Columbia, I mean the news was just really bad. 11 five points and then what made it so bad they tried to hide it. It was on the news came on my phone. That's unacceptable and that club that's the second time somebody like got shot at that club. The strip club. Unacceptable. It's the plan to kill up our black boys. Is that the plan? I don't know. You'd have to ask them. They're the ones doing the shooting, not us. Well where they getting the guns from? When I was that age, I wasn't thinking about a gun. This law got to be stopped. Well, I think the problem is I know it's nothing. Yeah, but I know it's nothing you can do but we can do something. We've got to come together as a community and talk frankly and address that issue together and make sure that we're getting to kids when they're younger, teach people how to deal with conflict, but this takes the churches, the parents, law enforcement, I mean people, places in behavior give us the three places that we know, but we got to do that. We talked about this Sunday at the NAACP meeting on Sunday was a majority of the conversation we had is around gun violence and. But it shouldn't have ever passed. Look, I was in the grocery store this week. I don't disagree with you, that didn't change what happened. Those folks went into there into whatever caused that over today. It's not even about theft or anything else. It's just disrespect and others. I mean the shooting that we heard two hours before the meeting that the sheriff shared with us on the radio is probably retaliation. I can't say that for sure, but that's my guess. Yeah, I'm with you. I think everybody up here is with you and I think as a community we want to change it and it's unfortunate that it's young males, but we got to figure out how do we help them not make that decision? How do we make sure that that everybody has an opportunity for a job, a safe place to live, and that we hold people accountable because we can't keep letting people out? That's not helping either if there's no penalty to the crime that people are going to keep doing it. I'm with you and we're going to continue to do everything we can and our director of violence prevention is out there pushing together. Our parks folks are planning things for kids in the summer, but we got to get folks back engaged and the church and parents and the community are a big part of it. We only can do so much, so we got to come together. 100% agree with you. I'm willing to help. Any life lost is there's no excuse. I'm willing to help. I was in the grocery store the other day and got my buggy and when I got ready to push it was a man had a big gun and I hit him I said oh I'm sorry you know man could have hit could have shot me. You know it's ridiculous. It's just like we going back to cowboy Indian town just shoot him up. It's unacceptable. It is. Mr. Wiley, I appreciate you coming to council and sharing this with us because it was wasn't really highly covered in the news and there was a black woman who also was killed at near Vegas nights or afterwards so it is a real problem. I think that we do need to do something about it and you know I'm raising two black boys in this community and I grew up here and I lost a lot of friends myself so just remain vigilant. I think we should still try to be optimistic to work where we can and still pray to because we have a it's a problem in our culture and the legislator pretty much ratified that by saying open carry no training and so hopefully things don't get worse but we have to come together and do something. I call down there to ask could I come down there to speak. Let's say you have to go do go through this and go through that but I'm gonna go down there you know if I can go to these meetings I'm getting ready to go to everybody if you're not doing right I'm gonna bring you out that's all good you know it's ridiculous you scared to do anything you know I remember time right on King Street we could leave our doors open it was so hot we didn't have an air conditioner we slept on the porch you know right on 1010 King that was where I grew up at. You know we all but that's part of what we got to rebuild is the fabric in our communities you go to neighborhoods today most people don't know their neighbors we all knew our neighbors you got in trouble you got in trouble by your next door neighbor and then you got it twice at home yeah but you get people today are afraid to to correct anybody doing it we've got to change the culture and we got to do that together so these folks here are committed yeah but chief I feel for you I really do because you don't know whether he's gonna pull a gun out on you you know and whatnot I feel for you that's a hard job that's a hard job that man takes it personally because he but he doesn't believe that anybody should lose their life and he has to make that phone call he has to call us he's got to call the school when a kid witnesses that like they did on Bailey Street how do you think those kids are going to do in school on Monday they're not gonna do good they're not yeah but I go to a couple of schools and help out they be asking me to come in especially I buy you lunch Ms. Wilder I go in this classroom hey hey sit down sometimes you know they just need some of that they think I'm a grandma you know because I could wear a wig when I go but you know they need to eat that love it's a lot of kids out there and they need grown-ups like us to go down there and say something to help them but thank you for what you continue to do for your neighborhood and for this city I'm gonna be out here now I know you will bye thank you yes ma'am Mr. Mayor we do have several others who've signed up to speak we can keep going with those but just when you're ready Reverend Councilman McDowell had a referral and he didn't get to do that yes sir they just let us know let's take that now okay Reverend McDowell would you like to give your referral please yes Mr. Mayor if I could refer the proclamation piece and the key to the city if you refer if we would refer that to the administrative policy committee yes sir is there a second got a motion and a second madam clerk could you read the roll mr. Bailey mr. Brown mr. Herbert I dr. Bussles mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes may recommend hi and mr. Mayor one more referral there was a recently an article in the Post and Courier concerning the busted plug as you know that was on I plead Taylor Street and there's been a lot of questions from the community wanting to know where that plug is gonna go so I would love to see you know that yet possibly an update regarding just plans with the busted plug to the arts historic preservation and philanthropy committee and can we put on that that the the plug relocation is going to be sponsored by the Bailey law firm don't put that part on make sure that's not on the record hey I'm trying to give your business a plug didn't know what you said earlier I appreciate this yeah I got a second on that in arts historic preservation yes okay okay we got a motion and a second so madam clerk when you get a second mr. Bailey hi mr. Brown hi mr. Herbert hi dr. Bussles hi mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes may recommend hi madam clerk excuse me next to the podium we have Wade Fulmer I am continuing regarding animal control non non-enforcement nuisance barking and the withholding of evidence from city legal why are the facts and questions presented since october important have you somehow ever known of the victims of non-enforcement of health well-being and quality of life code victims of rule of law non-enforcement many passed by victims I have known a part of my career job and advocacy often led me there the code for health and order is necessity it's only as good as enforcement and transparency when victims and code are an inconvenience to bureaucracy there must be questions response not chain delays and no answers council first referred me to public works then later to health and quality and life committee then justifiably to city legal for investigative scrutiny and I appreciate that yet the two weeks to work on proposed by public works initially is now five months since the october council meeting I believe and know that the city is better than the and the lady was just talking about the state house ruling caucuses let us be determined and hopeful that the city will do grit and transparency truth of failed bureaucracy answers to victims and system questions and assure corrections of animal control non-enforcement of code the questions again are as follows who of animal control withheld the columbia police department provided accumulated evidence from city legal thus the court who stopped animal control from code enforcement ticketing of the two after february barking incident seen and documented by a columbia police department and why related to the guns a non-option uh might be even with the dogs tongue-in-cheek transfer animal control to the state perhaps the donald henry's barking caucuses could enact another of their reckless permitless allow noise barking dogs to stand their ground and untrained guns to act as backup for their barkers i will close with this to be over and it's it's gonna it's much louder when the house is next door and you're listening to this for four hours as i did after it took 17 months for a first ticket if any of you would like to leave your addresses i'll come to your house and i'll play this after you get to sleep and let you experience what i did off and on for two years and nothing was done for 17 months thank you again i'll be back with some recoup next time and to point out some great work that the police department did and dispatch did it was not acted on by animal control thank you thank you sir sorry next we have mr don urnest after that we have athena leventis or leventis must have left then kelly having a hard time with the penmanship here sorry maybe it starts with an h i believe first name last name starts with an m living on lambard street perhaps 4003 is that mr monzen is that mr monzen i'm a big lineman monzen thank you i apologize scratching you know i was about to guess that because i thought i saw you here but i didn't want to take the chance oh sorry about that sorry um thank you and i'm i'm here on behalf of keenon terry high at park keenon terrace neighborhood association and um really a very happy time for us to peer that high at park is getting some more improvements and um i think everybody at our neighborhood association meeting last night um dr bustles thank you for being there um was one of our members that in reading the proceedings today that you were going to vote on um uh a new scoreboard um new bleachers tear down that cement block building all at the baseball park and also um probably more importantly that you're going to vote on um getting a design done for a playground and this is uh on for about a year and a half when we realized in the earlier phases of um high park renovation there wouldn't really any place for kids to play the old playground stuff would be um when they uh daylighted the the creek that runs down through the through the park now they took those pipes and they they put them out in the in the field and those became sort of places where kids could play it didn't really work um and so we're very excited to play ground in that you're going to let a a contract to mash for and to design it this is what we have in mind we want the neighborhood association neighborhood association people who are parents who have a background want to be directly involved in the planning of the park playground area uh we understand mash ground mashburn's going to design it and the city manager will approve the design little community interaction in that and we hope that as part of your approval of that spending of money that there would be a reach out to those neighborhood leaders who would like to be involved in the design of the share share those have have somebody share with the city manager who those folks may be that have an interest well that would be great and um other than that um is one other thing um this is the third phase and this has been going on since 2008 and you know for a long time we just talked about it it's in next year's budget and councilman davis was on on the councilman he would come to our neighborhood association and really get really get beat up about no progress well it's in next year's budget well sam that's what you said last year and so finally it it happened in 2022 and uh now the ballpark has been uh you know it's going to be completed what the message is when are we going to get our fence when is it going to really be a park when can people walk in the park and feel secure right now um i was talking to my wife about this and i said would you would you walk in the park she said absolutely not i said why not she says it's not safe i said well what if there's nobody there you feel safe she said somebody could just stop on north main get out of a car see me walking you know just walk over into the park and you know bother me and so i really think the completion of the park by adding a a fence and the landscaping that turns it into a park rather than just sort of a big open space uh would be and a plan to do that and the timing to do that would really be you know just to finish it off right been going on for a long time and i think people are really ready for it to be finished well your time is perfect because we're starting our budget discussions well it's that you know and we we know there's a new budget coming up this is surprise money we know this is some other kind of money that mid-year money and we're appreciated of that that it it came our way um but we'd really like to finish up thank you for coming in um we're going to we're getting that meeting set on that other issue sounds good so i'll let you know when that when they they said but they've reached out so thank you i appreciate that thank you was there anyone else who wanted to address council hearing none seeing none i will entertain a motion to go in executive session so mayor i make a motion to enter into executive session for discussion receipt of legal advice relating to a pending threatened or potential claim pursuant to sc code 30-4-70 a2 albert black versus city of columbia as well as receipt of legal advice with which relates to matters covered by attorney-client privilege pursuant to sc code 30-4-70 a2 closing of gordon street closing of cottonwood way luma's fiber of south carolina llc franchise agreement remote meetings as well as discussion of negotiations incident to propose contractual arrangement pursuant to sc code 30-4-70 a2 dmh surplus property we have a motion we've got a second uh any further discussion hearing none seeing none madame clerk could you read the role mr bailey i mr brown i miss herbert i dr bustle i mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes may recommend i will be going downstairs