 Yes, sir. Good afternoon. Mr. Taylor here. Ms. Harvard Dr. Bussells here, mr. Brennan present mr. McDowell mr. Duvall Mayor recommend. Thank you a few words please and to conversate over the business of this city of ours we ask for grace and mercy we ask that you might continuously be with each one of us such as in a very in a way that might lend itself to sensitivity and yet awareness and of course in continued enhancement of our city we could not pray today without remembering the three athletes who were killed at this past week University of Virginia gun violence continues to ravage our cities our nation and Lord we ask for a simple and yet profound statement that might lend itself to to peace and a denier of all those things that are taking place in our cities and in this nation of ours three young men gunned down unnecessarily allow this violence to turn itself into a peaceful resolve so that persons who bring this kind of violence in our cities and in this nation might resolve itself to peace and an understanding of your purpose and your will for our lives bless us and keep us loud heard us to sense your presence amen amen afternoon mayor and council at this time we would ask that you all please adopt the agenda holding items 22 and 23 is there a motion second there's a motion to second any discussion hearing non-seeing numb bird 22 and 23 hearing non-seeing none madam clerk could you read the roll mr. Taylor all right mr. Herbert dr. Bussles I mr. Brennan yes to McDowell yes mr. Duvall mayor recommend I this time we would ask if there's any public input on agenda items as listed is there anybody that wants to speak on agenda item we will have obviously a public hearing where you have an opportunity to speak on any of those items at that point as well seeing none here now we'll move to the next madam the approval of the minutes item one is council approving the November 1st 2022 council meeting minutes the move the motion is there a second second motion in a second any discussions changes concerns hearing non-seeing numb madam clerk could you read the roll mr. Taylor I mr. Herbert dr. Bussles I mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall mayor recommend moving into a period of presentations item number two the diabetes awareness month proclamation the honorable Edward H. Macdowell mayor pro Tim thank you madam city manager mr. Mayor just a personal privilege just before I read this proclamation if I could I do want this city and each one of you to celebrate Benedict College this past football season the Tigers won the CI I'm sorry the SICA championship their record was 11 and 0 I certainly want to congratulate coach Barry dr. artist and of course members of the Benedict College family for their due diligence in making this a real plus for our city I would thank mr. Mary at a lot of that later date that we recognize I can't get the whole football team in chamber because there's a hundred members but I would certainly want us in at the appropriate time to recognize dr. artist and coach Barry for their work and for this expanding our city and the view of our city and to this state thank you so very much I will add to that Reverend Macdowell that we've been working on that we hopefully have gotten the flag the Benedict flag up good and also we also want to cheer on because on November 26th they go to round two that's right towards the national title here in Columbia and excited about that for for the Benedict Tigers great isn't that wonderful thank you so thank you mr. and thank you for what we're going to continue to do an HBCU school having achieved the first time in history Benedict winning this championship and moving to the second round that's why they go by the best at DC the best that's right as you know that this month is diabetes awareness month and I'll say to you all as I said earlier today once upon a time it was called sugar but sugar ain't sweet diabetes is not sweet it's a devi devastating disease that hits each one of us and I think and I think that it is important for us to recognize it today but in the course of history and in the course of time diabetes has become a 12 month emphasis on what is taking place in this city of ours two nine two oh three the largest number of amputations in the state and perhaps in this nation of ours one out of six African-Americans are being affected grossly with diabetes high blood pressure hypertension hypertension heart disease and kidney failures one out of three persons will die every eight minutes from diabetes is this serious I think it's serious not only for our city but for our nation and particularly serious serious for our council we've looked real hard as health issues and particularly heart disease and diabetes diabetes has been risen above the crowd so let's be resourceful and again without looking at any of my colleagues there are consequences consequences when you become a diabetic tremendous consequences Mr. Mayor if you would allow me to read this this proclamation whereas diabetes is the seventh I'm sorry is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States more than 37 million people in the United States have diabetes and one out of five don't know that they have this disease 96 million have diabetes pre-diabetes and more than eight in ten of them don't know that they have this dreadful disease whereas diabetes is the eighth leading cause of death in South Carolina over 500,000 adults in South Carolina have been diagnosed with diabetes and another 120,000 persons have diabetes but are not aware 1.4 million have diabetes in all that in all over the world all over the state whereas people with diabetes have medical expenses approximately 2.3 times higher than those who do not have this disease total medical expenses for a diet for diagnosed diabetes in South Carolina is estimated somewhere around 4.3 billion dollars in 2017 and whereas in the United States for both men and women the diagnosis for diabetes is highest among American Indians I'm sorry African Americans and those who are loud and Hispanic African Americans and in South Carolina whereas in South Carolina there is a perplexing number of folk who find themselves in crisis whereas in South Carolina it varies significantly by education level 20.0% of adults with less than a high school education have been diagnosed with diabetes while only 9.5 of those with a college degree have been diagnosed now therefore I Daniel Jay Rickman mayor of the city of Columbia South Carolina along with my fellow members of the Columbia City Council do hereby proclaim November November 15th as diabetes awareness month in the city of Columbia diabetes awareness month thank you all for your attention today just be reminded there are consequences Dr. Trashler Dr. Zimmer with you all come and those from DHEC and as we present this at this time we will have our second presentation which is item number three the Tommy Suggs Day Proclamation the honorable Daniel Jay Rickman mayor well it's a great honor to to be able to sit up here today and talk about one of my favorite Gamecocks Mr. Tommy Suggs and Tommy has spent 50 years not only working in our community but also broadcasting and being being there play-by-play good bad and indifferent season after season there but I wanted to take an opportunity to honor you for your 50 years of commitment to our community to the Gamecock nation but most of all Columbia because that's where your heart has always been and Jane thank you very much for sharing him with 139,000 people in Columbia South Carolina we appreciate it because we know it's a family effort and a lot of sacrifices both in business and in well I guess both of them are considered business even though football is your passion Gamecocks are running through your blood because I know it's very garnet from top top to bottom but I did want to recognize Tommy for his his 50 years in service to our community Tommy Suggs was the president and CEO of is the president CEO of Carolina's regions of hub internationally resides here in Columbia South Carolina where we're very grateful but he also manages over 10 offices through North and South Carolina he was previously the president CEO of Kenan Suggs the largest independently owned insurance risk management and benefits company in the Carolinas Tommy spent 23 years in banking before purchasing Kenan Suggs in 1996 and in his career with 12 years as executive vice president chief banking officer and board member with South Carolina federal savings bank before selling to a multiple multi-state holding company Tommy has served as the president of the Chamber of Commerce to South Carolina National Nature's Conservatory Leadership Columbia chairman of the Providence Hospital Foundation chair of the University South Carolina Development Foundation and until earlier I did not know that I must address you as Dr. Suggs now I did not realize that you had received an honorary doctorate degree from the Darla Moore School of Business in 2011 and obviously a frequent speaker at bank banking schools of various conference throughout the region but Tommy was also recognized as the Columbia Regional Business Report is the 2020 business icon and awarded the community champion in the icons awards a vision he's received the bill and Paula Bethay 2020 you USC alumni award and now he's gonna receive the Tommy Suggs day here in the city of Columbia so therefore I Daniel Rickman the mayor of Columbia South Carolina along with my fellow council members do hereby proclaim November 15th 2022 is our favorite Gamecock Tommy Suggs day and urged my fellow citizens to join me in celebrating Tommy Suggs and his 50 years of service to business and broadcasting across the Carolinas Mr. Suggs this thing on perfect thank you mayor and thank you councilman and thanks thanks to all of you as well in 1967 I left a farm six miles outside of Lamar South Carolina to come to the University of South Carolina and play football not necessarily to get an education quite honestly at that time but I did get one certainly and I've adopted this city and sort of this university and I am so forced to be able to give back and broadcast is just a small part of it I love this place I've given a lot of time and effort here I'll continue to do that I'm fortunate to have a wonderful wife and a great daughter-in-law here mother family couldn't be here but I love all you guys thank you so much for this recognition thank you thank you mr. mayor while everybody's coming back their seats just a quick point Tommy I just like to say thank you I've had the privilege of banking with you at South Carolina Federal being insured by you getting to listen to you but most of all you've been a great neighbor and a great member of district four and I would just remind everybody old saying that behind every good man stands a great woman and Jane Suggs has done wonders for the Tanglewood neighborhood association so thank you both appreciate thank y'all madam city manager yes sir item four is the I don't know if I'm actually saying this right the G alpha accelerator program launch mr. Joe Queen in interim executive director for Groko good afternoon thank you and congratulations mr. Suggs it's awesome building community is very important to me and and our group of innovators down in five points I'm Joe Queen in and I'm a volunteer trying to help build a technology community here and I wanted to stop by and express my thanks to the city council for your support of a program that we recently launched it's called G alpha it's part of a international accelerator program companies that have gone through there raised over a billion dollars so far and and there's some great successes and so we're hoping to have a similar path with programs that go through there with your support we open up the applications just last week and as of the moment I stepped in here we're already halfway full which is extraordinary considering how far we have to go in Columbia it also demonstrates the need for this project and we're going to run another cohort in in about 90 days after we finish this program so really just a quick thank you for your support everything you're doing matters the Columbia community is showing up and we're very very grateful thank you thank you this time we will move into our consent agenda items five through eleven is there a motion there a second second is there any questions concerns comments mr. Taylor I spoke with mr. Taylor earlier and I would just ask that on a future work session that we include an explanation of the capital police program yes that a future work session yes sir it's out beyond the December 5th whichever next one available no sense of urgency at some point okay when you have room this sounds good any other discussion or questions concerned on the consent agenda not madam clerk could you read the role please mr. Taylor hi mr. Herbert dr. Bussle hi mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell mr. Duvall hi mayor Rickman hi ordinance is first reading item 12 ordinance number 2022 is 103 concerning to the inclusion of property in a multi-county industrial business park GSM of north main LLC and peak drip beverages LLC is there a motion second there's a motion in a second any discussion questions concerns seeing none hearing none madam clerk could you read the role please on item 12 mr. Taylor hi mr. Herbert dr. Bussle hi mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes to do all I recommend I item 13 ordinance number 2022 1 to 1 authorizing the city manager to execute the second extension option of the lease renewal agreement with truest bank branch banking and trust company formerly known as BB&T for the use of 30905 Enzer Avenue the Lutheran survey building for an ATM is there a motion to move there's a motion in a second any discussion questions concerns hearing none seeing none madam clerk could you read the role on Adam item 13 please mr. Taylor or mr. Herbert dr. Bussle hi mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall hi mayor Rickman hi item 14 ordinance number 2022 1 to 2 authorizing the city of Columbia South Carolina execute and deliver an equipment lease purchase agreement in the amount of not exceeding nine million dollars between the city and the lessor they're up to defray the cost of acquiring certain equipment and other matters relating there to you I'm move approval is there a second second so we have a motion in a second questions concerns noting mr. Taylor's comment about a future update on the capital lease program is there any other questions I just for clear I was making the assumption that was going to be approved and on the consent agenda next week yep next meeting any other no comments uh madam clerk could you read the role please mr. Taylor mr. Herbert dr. Bussle hi mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall hi mayor Rickman hi at this time we will move into our public hearing and first readings for zoning planning matters and miss Hampton is here to assist starting with item 15 the annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 20.54 acres elmgren street yes ma'am thank you so that is a request to annex the property assign a land use classification of urban edge mixed residential and assign a zoning of residential mixed district that's r.m. to at the time of annexation have there been any any updates or changes since so we have heard through third party that the contract has expired however we have not received any direct communication from the applicant about his request how should we not ask you about it should we defer this or I have been told that the contract had been I would deny it we did we denied it on 714 yeah so I'll entertain a motion I move that we deny the application second a motion in a second any discussions concerns questions hearing none seeing none item 15 could you read the role madam clerk mr. taylor miss herbert dr. bustle aye mr. brennan yes mr. mcdowell yes mr. duvall aye mere recommend aye thank you item 15 has been denied thank you number 16 is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 6505 north main street it is a request to annex the property assign a land use classification of community activity corridor that's ac2 and assign a zoning of community activity center cac at the time of annexation is there anybody here to speak against or in favor yes sir we have quite a few folks signed up on this okay do you have a list already or yes sir starting with mr. james starne's mr. james starne's good afternoon mr. mayor members of council i'm james starne's president of the north 21 terrace neighborhood association i'm joined today by our vice president mr. james hankins our secretary mrs. indy leitner and a number of neighbors from north 21 terrace and surrounding communities we come in opposition to the request for annexation and zoning change our reasoning is that we are concerned about the aesthetics of our neighborhood we are not excited about having parking of vehicles at the interests of our neighborhood we in no way would want to inhibit the applicant from making any kind of financial gain possible but we are interested in preserving our neighborhood we have the support of surrounding neighborhoods in our efforts to make that northern gateway into the city something that everyone can be proud of as i said and at the planning committee when you exit i20 onto north main coming towards the soda city the first thing you see almost as the Pepsi Cola plant we want to add to that community we are interested in making sure that that community does not we have a an apartment complex that is being constructed on one side of the street and a proposal for basically a parking on the other side we are opposed we with much respect to the applicant at the last meeting the applicant mentioned being uh interested in helping the community none of us have trucks that we need to park there none of us see any benefits to the community the applicant mentioned having surveyed the community we've not been able to find anyone who has been surveyed in the press after the meeting the applicant mentioned being willing to continue the fight we are not interested in fighting we're interested in what every other person in columbia is interested in preserving the integrity of that neighborhood and we offer our assistance to you to making sure that that gateway into the city is something as i said that you can all be proud of and we ask that you please deny the request thank you very much thank you mr. starnes miss single terry i'm going to single terry the executive director of the wildly kennedy foundation also the president of the united alliance of north columbia neighborhoods which is a coalition of home associations in that community north columbia businesses we have some business owners here as well as churches and our uh group has been meeting for the last several years to try to work together as a unit to better two nine two three we are definitely opposed to annexation or the change in zoning for this specific facility we believe that this facility in what their proposal will continue to add to the crime and the negative perceptions in that area we used to see with people parking trucks and things that nature that can increase the sense of prostitution sex trafficking drugs other crimes will be also handled in that area as well we have current uh residents in that area who tend to be more mature but we also are looking to grow the community and we expected some lot of new families coming in he's as was mentioned early we have 280 apartments coming there which could be right across the street from this um location 605 main street also and across the street from that on the other side there is a um property that's owned by a recent kind of school districts we don't know exactly what they'll do right now but in the future we intend it would be something to do something with children we're concerned about this type of facility that close to any children we have not to mention other elementary schools in that area um that would be also impacted by this um we are asking that you um would consider uh not consider the proposal to make the changes um we also are concerned about traffic in that area overall we're trying to grow two nine two three and we believe that this will hurt us and our growth to break other businesses into the area because they see this kind of blight um crime um we need to bring businesses in that area and we can only do it with us raising the standard of the community and showing it in its best light thank you miss single terry i believe this is craig samson correct good afternoon sir do not represent anyone other than my wife myself the neighborhood in general and insulted last prime areas again entering the city from i20 you want to lock that up under six eight ten inches concrete asphalt turning into a parking line we have a ta on the other side of 20 we have another truck stop on the other side of i20 there is that's always been mentioned housing already being constructed idea of putting a truck stop for a storage facility literally for other people's trash and i'm using it that way putting a truck stop next to a residential district the quality of life for those people will be terrible it's 24 hours a day no it's already no i live in the neighborhood the highway is dead it's bad enough with the trains but that's nothing we can do anything about my wife and i've lived in that neighborhood for 30 years we hate the fact that in order to go do anything we have to leave the neighborhood how to go to far sacred to do anything you should go to the mall but the mall closed the blight just passed from river drive literally all the way out to blackwood everybody just skipped that every uh except for councilman Davis i liked him the the efforts he made going down toward north main street columbia college improvements of the sewer drainage the roads really like the work he did i didn't see anybody else trying to do that but he did that i liked it about him again i'm just insulted at the lack of vision for that area as presented by a truck these persons the truck stop we wanted to be a destination we want people to come from lexington to north columbia we want people to come from southeast to north columbia we want something out there something for us to do something for people to do something for just to space it you know the african-american community i can give you a history lesson but we're there because we are allowed to be there that's it the geography the topography of that north area terrible but that's where we are that's what we've been allowed monicellar road river drive there's a 300 foot drop between i guess that's broad river and when you eventually come across the river you come up to north main street there's nothing no economics nothing if i leave you with an example it would be what was done in carlo newman's old high school forest drive area they took out high school somehow or another again tax base is different i understand that but they actually had a vision that created something for the future nobody in this room right now i think in 50 years you're gonna be alive i know i want you want what you do here today is going to affect many generations down the road i don't want you just to allow an effect of car wash a remote controlled business to be set up such that these persons and their consigns their their issues can just sit back and collect rent take money out of the neighborhood for the next 50 75 years again to me the visualization of a handcuff is what you're trying to do what they're trying to do they're trying to take the last the last prime piece of property real estate which only became available because persons past its life moved on i'm pretty sure i'm past my time but one second a few years ago we were all very insulted in the neighborhood when somebody somewhere made a decision to shut down a part of farrow road and try to make a bike zone four lane road in the tube i don't know who did that but it was very short sighted what we in the neighborhood saw it as as an attempt to create a traffic stop zone at that time we had uh what was that live pd every time we looked at live pd this original a lot was sitting right on the farst right no no fontane under that bridge with somebody black in handcuffs or they were on broad river road in the area where we black and brown people live never wordy out in lexington i digress but what i'm saying is rather than further constrain any development in the area in which we live i don't think anybody doubt their munch if any i think like the brussels i've seen you out you appreciate your time thank you sir mr serguei hello everybody i don't think that people is on the same where we're trying to do they was thinking we gotta have a truck stop don't know we actually looking for the parking spot for commercial vehicles yes but not everything storages yes we got our apartment building uh some other people who live arounding they're looking for the storages their own cars their own bolognese boats trailers commercial vehicles yes also but i'm not gonna give all my land for the whole commercial vehicles down there i mean it's so i'm gonna lose my money on it i mean it's gotta be have to be a big space on it too so it won't be truck stop people no people usually it's gonna come more that's gonna be for the local people only not for the people who's actually do uh over the road trucking besides i want to talk about that too um if you give me a little better time so i can explain more this parking spot for the commercial vehicles will be only for people who's live actually in this area people come to work get their truck do their stuff come back they do have their own spot they're not gonna park anywhere on the surrounding areas just like they do right now and again you guys know if your church big semi truck was parked right off run of your church and nobody cared about it for some reason he's in the city don't don't get me wrong he's doing pretty good job he's get a little better out of the road but still he's covered the view up for this chance and that was accident could be happened especially with the kids when they go on right to your church and it's not only that area you guys talking about crime i will appreciate if we're not gonna talk about prostitutes or drug deal or something i got nothing to do with that only thing i want to put a space for the people who actually want to use it leave their stuff now if we talking about the trucking business big commercial vehicles a problem is not gonna put a maximum maybe 10 maybe 20 just to help the state just to help to stay because state cannot provide the parking spot for the commercial vehicles it is a problem big problem especially for another businesses let's talk about uh ta truck stop who's actually half a mile from me or pilot truck stop who's actually a mile from me i mean we all surrounding when i talk to the uh when i talk to the management donor they say we do have a problem with the parking spot not for uh people who's actually they do have a problem with the people who local people they come back they park the trucks donor and they leave the truck sitting for a week they don't put a fuel on they don't spend any money at all but the truck and they cannot do anything but and people actually also who's own those trucks they have no way to go they would like to have a parking spot somewhere but they have no way to go so now we're talking about money perspective just think how much those businesses losing in one day one day if they just left the truck local truck parking under here so i got a little bit of calculation right here at the ta truck stop at this time fuel it's a five dollars and 29 cents otr drivers if they don't see parking spot they're not gonna stop and put a fuel on the reason is because every time when they put a fuel on at least 100 gallons they have a free shower and if they don't have a free shower they're not gonna put a fuel on because the shower is discussed i believe it's like $15 or $12 or something like that but if you do it every day or twice a day we're talking about a lot of money for the otr driver who's actually driving from state to state now if they cannot put it you got about 30 more seconds and then we'll have to wrap it up can i get a more time so we can so i can explain how much money are we talking about it's a lot of money we we got a we have a whole lot of people on the issue and it's really supposed to be three minutes we gave mr samson a little extra time we're going to do the same with you but it's about 30 more seconds please bottom line if if i can get at least 10 trucks 10 trucks the state can make about three million dollars of revenue on taxes other business is going to be happy because they still got to do business with us boats people everybody has a boats rvs nobody can find a parking spot for the boats or rvs i got a huge rv and i park my rv in georgia because i cannot find a parking spot here i mean they do have a but it's small i can't even turn it down there same thing with the boats people want to buy a boat they have a money but no parking spot and everybody's in the trouble same thing with the people who's actually moving from point a to point b like we got a bunch of apartments right now it's it's a build down there where they gonna store it they come in three four days earlier they need a big spot for their you know to put the spot where they gotta put it i call so many places at the u-hole they said oh yeah we do parking spot i mean we do have a container but not right now in two weeks in case of the rule open thank you mr sarah gay thank you for your time miss little my name is tyra little um i was born in this neighborhood and is what we're talking about right now um it's always been a very proud neighborhood and so to see that you continuously have different people that are trying to come into our neighborhood and just do what they want to do um i have to kind of echo what the gentleman said back there is it's an insult but the issue here is that coming off of i 20 that is the gateway to come into the city and we want people to come off of i 20 feeling proud about the area that they're riding through um so far since this gentleman have actually purchased this area this that actual property he has a big old eyesore of a burn pit there i mean it is it is huge and so it seems like everything that he's doing is actually taken away from bringing any type of beautification to the area or anything um our other concern is that in some of what i'm saying i will be echoing what everybody else is saying because we do have the same concerns you have 288 units that are coming you know we know about the crime area what that actually brings when you're talking about trucks when you look at the ta flying j they all have had to actually have extra security there as well because it creates an environment where people see trucks they're coming to see if there's any other services that they can do for them and in order for them to get paid i mean this this is a known fact we don't need any additional parking for any other trucks in that area as the gentleman stated himself that the ta is a half a mile down the road i think it's probably less than half of a mile you have flying j we don't need anything else like that there we need something that is going to help stimulate the economy over there we don't want to bring any other traffic so i'm not going to take up a whole bunch of time because again i'm echoing what everybody else is saying but i asked that today that you all deny um this gentleman's request thank you for being here miss a little mr reed probably gonna say a little bit of what everybody else said of course everybody knows it's a gateway people keep talking about the flying j and ta there is also another truck parking space across the street from the mcdonald's it's a little gas station but off behind it they park trucks but let me keep going the hopes of i think everybody in here that's against this project is to eventually become an extension of the work that's been done on north main street down to fairfield road and if you put something such as this open parking it does not lead to any kind of economic development or somebody wanting to move in the other thing is commercial vehicles and the gentleman talked about putting trash in other people's neighborhood i'm not a i didn't grow up here but i've lived here for the past 30 years people in 29203 there isn't an abundance of people that own campers boats or semis that will be using this facility these are people that are coming from somewhere else and dumping their trash as the gentleman said in somebody else's neighborhood and the gentleman the developer was talking about the money that could be made the money that could be made he will be the one making the money people that park don't spend money they park and they leave if they don't live in 29203 they're taking their money back to 29223 29290405 all the other places and my last statement is as far as gateways go there are three gateways left in columbia and as the gentleman said those gateways are all brown broad river road north main and two-notch road and those those areas are severely overlooked the blight the vacancies people are moving out the mall used to be something everybody moved out everything around the mall fell apart and i just hope that you deny this request um and i'll leave it at that thank you mr read mr david lewis very good evening as well as to the council thank you for having this opportunity sir could you pull the mic down a little bit so everybody can hear you yes as i looked at the title that the gentleman mentioned community activity center we've been talking about parking lot sir do you know what a community activity center is its purpose what it does what it supposed to provide not talking about the truck stops because why did you name sir please direct all your comments thank you a community activity center but what you are perpetrating is a lie if you look at the definition and you have not took not one time to put out a proposal to the neighborhoods those 21 terrorists all the surrounding area tell them what a wonderful good community activity center that this would be why do you take the time if it's so beneficial he failed to do that and again why well for a sake of his own profit well for the sake of other people who may have been in here with him to provide an opportunity to make money and go these are the questions that i ask all the time if you don't come into enough 21 terrorists in the surrounding areas and bring to the table what you are planning to do providing opportunities for people to park knowing what the reputation in history of surrounding areas is but yet your different is calling it a community activity center you don't even know what the definition of that and what the purpose of that is but yet you want to bring greed into our neighborhoods into the gateway allow him to do that opportunity would provide not only columbia not only the state but the rest of the nation or how easy it is for the city of columbia to be con don't be con by a con artist thank you thank you mr. Lewis reverend dicks mr. mayor good to see you ladies gentlemen of the council i stood here some 40 years ago to try and ask for some zoning changes for our church and one of the things that council at that time advised us to do was to first get in touch the neighborhood organization neighborhoods are important people invest their last into their neighborhoods it's where they go home to rest to play with their children to walk their dogs to listen to the birds chirping in the trees i happened to have purchased about a year ago the piece of property across the street there from the subject property here i put about a million dollars into my investment four wasn't it sir a million four million four you're absolutely right sir we have worked conscientiously to work with the neighborhood organizations there to be sure that what we do does not conflict with the dreams that they've had long before i was born long before i bought property into that neighborhood i want to be a neighbor i don't want to be an irritant to the neighbors i have been working at night in my building to hear the rhythm of diesel engines moving trucks about the subject property i have gone down the sidewalk to walk toward the historic place that you have down the street on the right just before you get to the fire department and as i look across the street that subject property i see the tandem trails from the trucks across the grass where there's no driveway there wide enough to get those trucks in there so to just hop over the sidewalk which means that later there's going to need to be some repair to those sidewalks i've also looked down the road there from my driveway and thought about maybe there needs to be a traffic light at mason and north main and the state says no because of the visibility problems we can't put one there and i've often thought what it's going to be like to track the trailers and are these trying to merge into north main from the apartment complex and a parking place ladies and gentlemen i respect for the request that you all would deny this request thank you gentlemen thank you ladies thank you rose simons see miss simons uh mr right jimmy right good evening to you all today i'm not going to take up too much of your time i just uh reverendix spoke so eloquently about uh what is needed in our communities that i'm definitely don't want to take away from what he has said and what so many of our community members have said as well but it was only a month ago that we were here in this chamber with the city planning commission to uh to speak about what we want in our community and what we don't want in our community and i can remember because it's still it still stays with me that what are the intentions of what people want to bring to our community because the intentions are the only things that are truly pure that are within each and every one of us and the intentions that we saw at that particular time was when the when the planning commission asked him at least three to four different times what was it that he wanted to do with the property and he could never or did not choose to speak about what he wanted to do on that property it was not it was not until the community started speaking about what we knew he wanted to do in the community that he only came back to speak about exactly what he wanted to do so when he had the opportunity to speak about what he wanted to bring he chose not to but only when the community spoke is when he came forward and said what he really wanted to do and so i have a problem with anyone that when you have the opportunity to speak your truth that you choose not to until the community comes together and speak about our truth now you want to come forward and speak about what you really want to do that's a problem for us because that means that you have some type of intent that's in you that's going to go against the community and so we ask that you please do not allow this particular business to be a part of the fabric of our community because it does not represent who we are what we are and if we allow that to take place then it opens the door for any other any other or any other negative intent to come to us you're opening the door or another gateway for negative energies to come to our community thank you thank you sir pastor mcallum pastor mcallum i read that correctly council any questions concerns comments mr. mayor i make a motion we didn't deny the application there's a motion there's a in a second any other comments questions yes i do want to take the give it the time that it deserves um and whenever i am going to give a negative decision i try and meet with developers um and so i did meet and if you don't mind me calling you surge i met with surge on the property um gave him an opportunity to explain to me exactly what he wanted to do um we discussed some options is there something else that you may want to do on the property um and i will explain to you all what i explained to him um you know i grew up in 29203 and my grandmother knew miss monty and every time we wrote down fair road my grandmother would say i wonder what's she doing today you know because they were older women um and so that particular piece of property um has historical value for most of the folks who grew up in that neighborhood it's also a very beautiful piece of property and so if i am trying to choose between put a development that's not beautiful and leave it as green space i would rather it stay green space until we can find the proper um thing to put there now i will say to the folks who have issues with with trucks and my daddy was a truck driver my cousin is a truck driver my uncle is a truck driver um so i don't necessarily automatically assume that that truck drivers and leaving their trucks um leads to crime but i do understand the point that you all are trying to make um and so i can't support it and and we've discussed this for those reasons and then there's a nelson storage right up the street so i mean i think that there are other options there and there are a lot more things that are more compatible um and i shared that we have the the um the plan for north columbia it says right there we really want retail or more housing and so anything inconsistent with that i think would not be um good for the area and for the corridor so for those reasons i am voting in a negative thank thank you miss harbert any other comments questions there's been a motion to move the question madam clerk could you read the role certainly mr taylor no miss harbert i am voting yes to deny excuse me how are we doing that then voting to deny okay the motion is to deny so i yes would be in favor of denying it with respect to the birds chirping in the trees i'll vote to deny yes sir and the bees flies miss harbert yes to deny dr bustles yes to deny mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall may i recommend i thank you thank you our next case is number 17 this is an annexation a future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for several properties in the 1500 block of Atlantic drive and 2030 balsam road it's a request to annex the property assign a land use classification of urban edge residential large lot and assign a zoning of residential single family medium lot is everybody here to speak for or against this um item got a motion in a second any other comments questions hearing non-seeing now madam clerk could you read the role mr taylor i miss harbert i dr bustles i mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr mcdowell i'm sorry may i recommend yes thank you number 18 annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 1008 likes lane request to annex the property assigned a land use classification of community activity corridor and a zoning of activity center corridor at the time of annexation is there is there anybody here to speak for or against this item may i make the motion to approve so there's a motion is there a second second got a motion in a second any discussion hearing non-seeing now madam clerk you read the role mr taylor hi miss harbert hi dr bustles hi mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi may i recommend i 19 an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 1903 hazelwood road in 1842 pressley street request to annex the property assign a land use classification urban edge residential and assign a zoning of rs f1 is there anybody here to speak for or against this item may i make the motion to approve second got a motion in a second any discussion hearing non-seeing now madam clerk could you read the role please mr taylor hi miss harbert hi dr bustles hi mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall may i recommend i thank you number 20 annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for unincorporated portions of 3815 arshar and 0.56 acres of northeast side of climate road request to annex the property assign a land use classification of urban or residential and assign a zoning of residential single family large lot at the time of annexation is everyone here to speak for against this item hearing non-seeing none do we have a motion i move approval is there a second second motion and a second madam clerk could you read the role please mr taylor hi miss harbert hi dr bustles hi mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi may i recommend hi your final annexation is an annexation in future land use and zoning map amendment for 37.675 acres on the south side of i-20 this is near Percival request to annex the property assigned a land use classification of community activity corridor and a zoning of general commercial at the time of annexation is there anybody here to speak for against this item mr mayor i'll make the motion to approve second we've got a motion and a second any discussion hearing none seeing none madam clerk could you read the role mr taylor hi miss harbert hi dr bustles hi mr brennan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi may i recommend numbers 22 and 23 are combined it's a future land use map amendment and then a zoning map amendment those two together we deferred them you deferred those okay thank you well that makes it quicker is that both 22 and 23 yes sir all right pardon me for that number 24 is a zoning map amendment for 14.75 acres on the north side of lost creek drive a request to rezone the property from large lot reserve llr in a portion within the floodplain to residential single family large lot also portion remains within the floodplain is there anyone here to speak on this issue or against may i make the motion to approve there's a motion is there a second second i heard you i'm sorry i just want to make sure miss herbert heard we had a motion and a second on item 24 so make sure you knew that was moving forward yes is there any comments or concerns yes sir please come to the podium yes sir as you guys going through the approval process right is there a possibility of considering selling this or considering this property to be available for sale to current residents of the neighborhood or is it just depends on whoever the whoever owns the property okay all right thank you yes sir name for the record please it's your name for the record please oh it's uh should i spell it it's a s e r g e y r a z i m thank you thank you thank you sir i believe it may be under contract which is why you are seeing it here for rezoning so yeah we heard to madam clerk could you read the role we have a motion and a second mr taylor miss herbert dr bustles mr brinnan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall americamen i thank you i do want to go back just i did have a question just come up from the applicant about 22 and 23 was that deferred within your agenda item that it was deferred when you were making changes to the agenda okay just wanted to make sure that was the case that's what i thought okay so number 25 pardon me this is your last case for this evening you may remember well when we made the changes to the text amendment the last time that there were some clarifications requested of residents we made that that it was signed to that evening and this is coming back to you that same language that we discussed the evening motion to approve there a second second any questions concerns hearing non-seeing none madam clerk could you read the role please mr taylor no miss herbert i dr bustles i mr brinnan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall i americamen i that concludes your zoning public hearing thank you a period of resolutions item 26 resolution number r 2020 2095 certifying a building site as abandoned buildings pursuant to the south carolina abandoned buildings revitalization at motion to remove second got a motion in a second any questions concerns comments you would like to note that that comes with a recommendation for approval from the i'm sorry mr taylor it didn't i couldn't hear you hello hello now would you know for the record it comes with a recommendation for approval from the economic development committee item 26 item 26 for the record it is noted that it does come from the economic development committee with a with a recommendation and we have a a motion in a second so madam clerk could you read the role mr taylor or miss herbert i dr bustles i mr brinnan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall i americamen i thank you item 27 an event resolution resolution number 2022 096 authorizing consumption of beer and wine only at the south carolina oyster festival and the 1600 block of blending street on sunday november 27th 2022 with a rain contingency of saturday december 3rd 2022 is there a motion second got a motion in a second any comments or concerns questions hearing none seeing none madam clerk could you read the role mr taylor uh miss herbert dr bustles i mr brinnan yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall americamen i item 28 under other matters council is asked to approve contract amendment number six for the water and sewer line repair warranty program marketing agreement as requested by columbia water on october the 19 2022 award to home serve us a court at no cost this request is to exercise the option to extend the term of the agreement for an additional three years this firm is located in norwalk connecticut is there a motion is there a second a move into a period discussion mr duvall you can do your annual or semi or mr mayor annual protest thank you for recognizing me mr mayor i had a long speech prepared but due due to the long meeting we've had today in several meetings we've had a day i will be more brief than just to say that i do not approve of the home serve projects i think that they are taking advantage of the city and the citizens of the city with this program i did have a question for mr shealy i have noted that home serve is now advertising on tv for the home serve service does that go into the city's computer so that we bill for home serve on our water bills no sir we don't we don't bill for home serve directly so they have a relationship with the customer they bill the customer for the private service lateral insurance we get a seven percent beautiful deal do they pay us the fee for those that they are getting into their network in the city columbia any customer water sewer customer that signs up one of our customers that signs up for the service line agreement we get the seven percent commission whether it was by marketing through written or or mass media okay mr mayor clint uh we talked maybe last go around about the marketing efforts by home serve and how it kind of mirrored looks official from the city of columbia we've gotten away from that that mirroring effort correct we have yes sir and um we also get proofs of their marketing materials and we review those with our communication staff and and approved those before so we're looking for that wonderful and we still have that special assistance for um paying uh water bills that comes from the portion of the home serve payments is that correct yes sir we absolutely do and best to help um qualified customers that that have are having a hardship case for water and sewer bills and her um yells instructions we're also looking at potentially expanding that program for folks that have private sewer lateral defects that aren't part of the insurance program but that we've notified them that they do have a defect so we're looking at how much assistance we can give without depleting the fund and trying to work through those logistics as well great thank you sir you might get my vote next year if you can come up with the lateral pipe payments so there's there was a uh motion any other comments other than if you haven't signed up for it 59 dollars a year will save you thousands on issues um i believe in it it has worked it saved thousands of folks money i know mr. devolve doesn't like it but it is a good program hold a previous question so we can move in the previous question madame clark could you read the roll yes sir mr. taylor no mr. harbert i dr. busels no mr. brennan yes mr. mcdowell yes mr. devolve no mayor rickham i item 29 fiscal year 2022 2023 community promotions grant program recommendations miss missy kaufman budget program management and grants director good morning city council it's good to be with you this evening as mentioned by miss wilson city council approved allocation for a funding for community promotions grant program next slide please we don't see the slides yet so yeah we're it's just a summary too of of of the packet right and then you have material that was included in your agenda 144 140 thousand dollars in uh funding available well funding available for community promotions grant program we received a total of 19 applications um a staff committee reviewed those applications and recommended funding for 15 of those applications funding requests total 381 thousand so of course we had to be able to make allocations within the 140 thousand dollar budget the allocations are we categorized and loosely categorized the recommendations based on some of the program recommendations for for applications to include beautification projects public safety quality of life senior programs wellness and youth the committee applied those allocations based on different reviews of those applications and based on some different criteria in terms of evaluation of the of the projects themselves the um is there a list available of the organizations that were so it was attached to your agenda today it was attached today it was it no it was attached on your agenda from friday it was actually was attached last wednesday and then attached on friday can you can you make some copies just take a minute and get some copies for everybody did all of council see the memo and the council materials I had I had seen it but I had mine printed so I can't well some did some did but it was there so I'm just verifying thank you I mean if we can do we why why she's making copies and give a few minutes can we just maybe let dr bustle's the opioids did with that that's fine so as we discussed at the last city council meeting the city of columbia has an opportunity along with a lot of other local jurisdictions across south carolina to apply for guaranteed funding as a result of this large opioid settlement with pharmaceutical companies that the state of south carolina won and so the first round of what they call guaranteed um political subdivision funding applications are due december first in order for us to apply for those funds um our our our ideas for what the funds will be used for must fit fit under their abatement or prevention slash treatment strategies that somehow directly or indirectly address substance misuse or related conditions that can keep people from engaging in opioid opioid use and so we wanted to have a brief discussion today based on staff feedback in terms of the strategies that we should consider and then move forward with applying keep in mind that we do need to make a decision today because should we not apply we lose this funding and this funding is allocated specifically for us over the next 10 years 2.6 percent of this uh settlement will be allocated to the city of columbia and that is based on population so i believe staff is going to come up and provide recommendations they were provided already through your agenda packets but we can go through them yeah i love do you want us to print those out for you no i have that i just thought that they would be summarizing it for us that would be wonderful we can do that i think we sent them out ahead of time because i think it's more for the you also it's more for the yeah it's more for the public to just yes ma'am i was just saying that i think we're also asking as you previously asked your colleagues for feedback on what we did send so the first item is expanding and these are all again part of the zeros part of the guarantee political subdivision funds and so there were identified poor strategies and approved uses so we simply tried to provide a chart that i hope you all have in front of you that identified the approved use and then the staff's recommendation for how we would um suggest the funds be utilized so the first one for nalax naloxone or other FDA approved drugs to reverse opioid opioid overdoses expanded training for first responders community support groups and families the cities propose use of for that category would simply be to fund training for first responders from subject matter experts for proper management management of addiction related incidents to include tactics for dealing with both patients and potentially hazardous substances on scene this would fall under cpdn cfd current and they already partner with dehec to do this but we'll verify if that partnership will continue or if we need to begin requesting funding from the settlement funds to provide our own training is that y'all want to go one by one and no i just wanted to hear based on some of our council priorities i think those are in line with especially given our emphasis on public safety um if these are if this is the direction that council would like to go obviously there's a lot of different strategies but i agree with the staff recommendation that perhaps focusing on our first responders and some of those training programs would be a good start um also keep in mind that we would be eligible to apply every year for guaranteed um subdivision political funding as more money comes in from the pharma settlement so we can always look at another strategy next year okay and then the additional approved use in that same core strategy was training regarding naloxone and other drugs to treat overdoses um for first responders uh education and again cpd and cfd are currently partnering with dehec on this one is as well and we would simply um verify that we can continue this or begin requesting funding to provide our own supply uh another approved use in this core strategy to increase availability and distribution of naloxone and other drugs that treat overdoses um for the first responders and outreach workers again cpd and cfd would utilize this continue their partnership and utilize the settlement funds to provide their own supply if necessary we also for this um approved use recommend that the rapid shelter columbia staff um receive assistance in getting naloxone and other drugs that treat overdoses for clients at the rapid shelter columbia that's awesome yeah i really like that idea that's really great okay so moving into the next core strategy is the medications for opioid use disorders distribution and other opioid use disorder treatment the approved use is to provide the education and awareness for the medications for opioid use disorders training to emt's law enforcement and other first responders most of these and that type of category of assistance fall within cpd and cfd and they're already partnering and we would um continue that or use the funds to provide our own education and awareness training the next core strategy expansion of warm handoff programs and recovery services um the approved use to expand warm handoff services to transition to recovery services and we would explore using the funding to contract with partners to provide services for clients at rapid shelter columbia we would also for another approved use provide comprehensive wraparound services to individuals in recovery including shelter transportation and job placement training this again could be utilized at rapid shelter columbia with our partners and hiring additional social workers pure recovery coaches or other behavioral health workers to facilitate service expansions again exploring using the funding to contract with partners to provide services for clients at rapid shelter columbia the next strategy well this is the approved use in the same strategy engaging nonprofits faith-based communities and community coalitions to support people in treatment and recovery and to support family members in their efforts to support the person with OUD opioid use disorder and the first suggestion here is to award grants for nonprofits faith-based or community organizations who provide support for people and families affected by OUD and the second recommendation for that approved use is to partner with the current center described below um we'll have to look and see where we describe that to initiate and maintain pure led addiction intervention programs in the city of columbia another approved use support stigma reduction efforts regarding treatment and support for persons with OUD including reducing the stigma on effective treatment the recommendation is to create PSAs literature billboards etc that reduce the stigma and prevent opioid overdoses training regarding naloxone and other drugs to treat overdoses for first responders education and again coordination with the current opioid prevention programs to provide public service announcements for the community through various media the next core strategy is prevention programs the approved use is funding for community drug disposal programs and the recommendation from the staff is to expand the disposal of drugs by purchasing additional equipment that can be used at cpd or purchase a mobile drug disposal unit the second approved use train first responders to participate in pre-arrest diversion programs post overdose response teams or similar strategies that connect at risk individuals to behavioral health services and supports and our recommendation is for cpd and cfd to continue their current partnership or to request funding from the settlement to provide our own education and awareness training and then the final core strategy is the evidence-based data collection and research analyzing the effectiveness of the abatement strategies within the state the approved use the first one is provide funding for evidence-based media campaigns to prevent opioid use our recommendation is to create such a campaign to prevent opioid use through PSAs videos and commercials and the second approved used is to support opioid abatement research that may include the following a dashboard to share reports recommendations or plans to spend the settlement funds showing how the opioid settlement funds have been spent and to report this program strategy outcomes and we recommend that we create such a dashboard so yes sorry so based on and I really appreciate the staff going through and thinking through various ways in which our work can plug into the abatement strategies my recommendation to counsel is to maybe narrow it down to three or four areas and the ones that I think resonate the most with our discussions and priority areas is training around naloxone and you know some of the prevention piece given that we are taking a trauma-informed approach for rapid shelter among other things I also believe the pathways initiative can fall under one of those prevention strategies as well that you know down the road could help support that work given that we're integrating behavioral health into our first responders and then of course I think the last area then would then focus on looking at ways in which we can continue to partner and collaborate with community-based organizations to advance some of these approaches so that would be my recommendation to counsel those kind of three major areas I do have a question I was wondering how much I don't know if that's the right question are we well equipped with naloxone as far as the fire department and police department right now I only say that because on Chicago PD they have at least once every episode so I don't know if Chief Holbrook's here but I haven't they haven't indicated to me that there's a lack of it and I know that they have embarrassed us all using it when they need to Mr. Mayor yes so with our with our rapid shelter and I guess our homeless services in the past we've seen or we've reached out and we've worked with folks from the region that are experienced homelessness I think the same I wonder is does the same I guess approach apply here that we will be serving people from outside of the city limits based on the the figures that we are allotted it wouldn't make sense for us to you know follow these pillars and these goals that Dr. Bussles talks about but also bring in our local neighbors to follow those those initiatives with us you know if we're going to the extent of creating a dashboard and education you know reaching out across the river west Columbia Casey even Lexington County and beyond it just seems like a bigger bang for the buck and the bigger public health step there so so maybe not just operating in our our little silo here with the funds that were given and I don't know if we're capable of making that type of decision tonight for that larger approach but I just think if everybody's getting the percentage of the settlements we should all make it worthwhile in the pursuits for the ultimate end game any other questions comments I just like to echo what Mr. Brennan said especially on the rapid shelter type programs because we do tend to get as we've talked about we get a hundred percent of the burden that we carry the cost on and I do think it's it's absolutely worth worth us addressing Richland County Lexington County other municipalities here that are participating in this opioid settlement that look guys if you know if we're going to have to if we're going to be tasked with addressing a hundred percent of the problem you got to participate in the cost I think that's a great point I will add that our next regional meeting homelessness is part of that but I think the opioid and the other makes a lot of sense they definitely cross pollinate and it's a good good way to tie everybody in I think we'll add that to it I did have a question Dr. Bussells I read I think today or yesterday that Walmart settled three point one billion dollars opioid settlement do you know if that is going to get passed out to the different states where walmarts are located or is that an application process we're I'm not sure the money that right now is coming is from Purdue and Johnson and Johnson so if if that is the case that would have been a separate lawsuit that we would find more found out more information about at our next meeting on December 8th but I will report back to you thank you do we have a timeline that you'd like feedback from council um on this or we I guess we could say by the end of this week but that half that would probably be at me or okay and I will I would ask that any additional feedback come to me or miss Benjamin preferably miss Benjamin because she was actually making the notes and putting this together so that we can get it turned in in a timely manner thank you yes ma'am thank you thank you all so much um or do y'all have all your copies now I'm sorry if you didn't have them initially okay so we'll ask for missy to come back and address any questions regarding item 29 the community promotions grant program recommendations mr. mayor just before miss colman do your do your part just man may I have may I say a word yes sir I buy into the opioid opioid tradition and what has taken place in our cities and in our nation relative to to this very addictive deadly drug and I understand where we're going with the opioid what we want to do with the opioid grant and that sort of thing but there are other more deadly drugs out there and I just spoke to the mayor I just leaned over to him and just say it simply said there's that fentanyl there's marijuana now that is just as deadly especially when it's when it's combined with marijuana so somewhere in this process while I support this whole issue of opioids and what we're going to do with it I also think that we ought to be mindful that there are some other drugs out there crack is not dying or evaporating away it is still just as addictive as any other drug and we need to be very careful and be very mindful that one one of the one of the rolling stones of course does not necessarily say that we're at the very end of this journey this is a this is it becomes it becomes very obvious what we want to do with opioid addiction but it is just as addictive as some other things and I think that's the part that I'm most interested in is that if we're going to take one part we need to make it all inclusive and we need to make sure that drug addiction is not just an opioid addiction but it could be very well a marijuana a crack or a harrowing addiction so let's be mindful of that as we move forward thank you Reverend McDowell thank you miss Kaufman I'm sorry I miss it it's okay good evening okay we'll start over here so city council will approved again community promotions funding for 140 000 the application program timeline was october the city received 19 total applications or 381 thousand dollars in request the city council committee reviewed those applications and has made recommendations for funding of 15 of those organizations again funding was funding requested was more than double the funding amount available so they had to make you know hard decisions on allocations so the recommendations that are before you are reviewed and recommended by the committee we have categorized those applications or those allocations just broadly based on the structure that was included in the application guidelines for beautification programs public safety quality of life senior programs wellness and youth you will see that some of those are fairly evenly spread the request equal was pretty close to the same portion of the allocations that are recommended for funding so city council is asked to consider those recommendations for funding and if you have any questions we're glad to answer start at one end or the other and just go down and let everybody ask any questions um mr taylor can you talk a little concern with the homeless dinner dinner when we are I think trying to reduce the number of feedings and centralize those things for volunteer efforts at the rapid housing center and I just so happened to know a little bit about that program that they have at their church um and it's specifically for homeless youth but it's a routine um and it's at their facility so it's not like they're out feeding people or anything um and I've been invited to some of them but I haven't had a chance to go out there but it's not like some of the issues that we've discussed and I also don't know if we take you at our facility I think it's also broader use of homeless not meeting unsheltered homeless but homeless meeting um not necessarily with the permanent residents um the question that I had um oh was with Homeworks America do we still fund them out of CD we used to fund them out of community development too there has been funding I don't know what the conditions are those funding programs currently now um I don't know there's a grant application right now that that project okay but they have been a recipient I think in terms of submitting applications when those grant programs are available I think um some of the same kind of questions I had around Homeworks and if they are eligible for other funding I'd like to free up those funds for um organizations that are focused squarely on you know beautification place making talent retention engaging youth and um Mayor recommend and I had the opportunity to learn a little bit more about Crash Course Columbia which gives young graduates and those that have recently moved to Columbia a really great understanding of all the things that the city has to offer they have a two-day intensive tour um all around Columbia where they get hands-on experience with our companies and our restaurants and so I'd like to actually see us increase that funding to to 10,000 um and if we're able to um open up the Homeworks um funding I think that that's possible and then I had some of the same concerns I think about the um safe space dinner um but also recognize that you know to Councilman Councilman Herbert's point that it is focused on youth um but you know we've also found that there's over 40 40 faith-based organizations that are doing some kind of feeding in the city of Columbia so while their work is probably you know really wonderful if we had to prioritize I would be open to potentially funding something else can I respond to the home the Homeworks I mean just for clarification Homeworks is a part of beautification um because they're helping restore people's homes so I wouldn't treat that as it's not in in asking that question I wasn't trying to say could it in community development I just knew that we had done it in the past and based on a response we aren't going to be doing the same thing so there won't be an option over there for Homeworks there won't be that option and I'm sorry I want to go back to this um the safe space dinner different than the feedings that you all talk about this is a dinner where they sit down and have programs with the children this is not a come get a meal and go home it's totally different and it's more comprehensive and it's consistent so obviously as you can tell I'm very supportive of it and I wouldn't want it to be reduced at all. Uh Mr. Mayor I'll say this for the first year of putting out called action for community promotions grants and council's willingness to put this in the fund it's great to see so many community partners apply for it with wonderful categories um senior programs and wellness I'm very excited to see the lorry center included on this um is one of the only uh dual senior health and wellness centers here in the city of Colombia but uh thank you to staff for uh for pulling this together for us with wonderful recommendations I'm good any other questions how would y'all like to proceed do y'all want to get some more information and have them come back to us at the next meeting with an updated recommendation or would y'all like to to move forward at this this point it sounds like there's some information needed to know a little bit more about what's happening on the cvdg uh I think program information around obviously the the programs at safe space there seems to be questions there um can we move move forward the the line items that we're on agreement in and well I think I'd like to do that with more discussion and if we defer it I really want us to be real clear on what it is we're expecting to get back because that that could take us into uh we don't have much more information other than what we've already told you but we can go and inquire some more and then well I mean maybe the simple thing would be is just to share the applications that people have questions about I mean are we providing is this homework's getting other funding you know can there be a supplement does it have to be 25 if they're getting other money can't is there a way for us to support those all those organizations I think understanding the program about the youth if there's more to this and it is providing a service then can we take a look at it I mean I think it's it's what we should do well and just because I saw clarity we don't have youth in our programs at all so I would note it is addressing a segment that we aren't doing at all so that becomes a programmatic that becomes pro programmatic Tina I think it gives us an opportunity to expand what we're doing for just two thousand dollars that's one of the reasons why I say mr. mayor did I think there needs to be some deep diving again into the into these issues I am not ready to segmentize the list without getting a full without getting a real good unclearity wise of the issues that are there so you all want us to tell the groups that will be next month before the next meeting is 17th correct December of next council meeting we don't have anything until the fifth that correct December six six ever see mr. Taylor did you want to say something I thought I saw your hand miss bustles I just uh I mean I just like to have more of like a work session type of environment to just kind of talk a little bit through it but I think I'm fine I just there was one organization I'd like to see an increase in funding for but I don't know how we do that based on how things are allocated now I'll just say for the record that I'm okay with staff's recommendations are they what I would personally want absolutely not I would change some things but for purposes of this process I am okay with accepting the recommendations that have been presented I'm okay with the staff's recommendation mr. mayor let me just make one comment I want to go back to this home situation we spent I have I have a real issue again the city of Columbia not city council is perfected the art of moving homeless people across our city back and forth the all time one of my issues is is having this at a location that's remote from all the other service providers too um with what we're spending I just think on this particular type of grant program we don't need to we're at a hundred dr. bustles a hundred homeless providers in Columbia today hundred programs not providers programs I mean I just I have an issue with I understand you have an issue but until you tell tell me that we're already addressing this segment then I understand you have an issue but until you can tell me that you're addressing this particular segment in the way that they're doing it I don't see that it's duplicate so and I don't even know if we offer services to these youth I mean we don't have we don't have you we're not a youth services program our rapid shelter is for 18 and above so would y'all be amenable that we hold one um Columbia opportunity resource homeworks and reformation until we get some more information and improve the others at this point why are we holding homeworks and I'm not trying to be funny but why are we holding because I want to confirm about the the funding to make sure that we we're doing because there are questions there those are the three that we have questions so let's do all three that we have questions on right but as we were discussing earlier make sure the staff knows what you're looking for homeworks uh Columbia opportunity resource and and homeworks isn't funded through community development they haven't gotten funding since 2017 are they eligible for that funding yeah there's a grant available there's a notice of funds availability and they applied for it if they were eligible but they they haven't been funded through any of those programs since 2017 my only clarification for all of you is the things I think that you all are bringing up are things you've got to sort out with each other I don't think there's anything else the staff and I can do to help you sort that out it's not a I mean it's up to you all to move the funds around you're totally free to do that if that's what you would like to do I have a suggestion can we pull those three out vote for and then if we want to vote for them separately or individually oh like tonight like tonight and the only reason that we're also um I guess encouraging you to make some decisions about it is because these groups are just constantly asking about it so if the decision is not going to be made tonight we just want to be able to say that with clarity that we'll do it the first meeting in December all right so I'm gonna put something on the table let's let's the reality is here is is two things homeworks you y'all have assured us that that it's a very good program very supported what we have here is is Columbia resource we'd like to see some more funding there so how do we take enough of 5,000 to make it a 10,000 I'm putting this out is a question and possible to to make it to 10,000 by reducing a little bit from everybody else bringing it up so it's still balanced we only have 140 to work with and then because I don't think there's a big disagreement there we hold 15 or it says 15 on here the Lutheran program and vote for it separately is that a possibility can we bring that to a compromise is that work for everybody let staff figure out how to to adjust the others I've got a question mr. mayor um is Columbia opportunity resource one of our and actually councilman chairman Taylor can probably answer this from our last committee are they a economic development partner with the city of Columbia economic development they're not okay thank you they have received funding from the city in the past for different programs they were started by mayor recommend and councilman councilman to meet guys like divine the program is part of us retaining that talent I think we need to put some more money and I'm be honest about it I think it needs to happen what I don't want to just go penalize one now that we know that there's the other so the question becomes can we reduce the others by amount that's equal across the board to make that an additional 5,000 added to cooperative if you took me I don't think it should be up to the staff and I don't move anything else around these are the recommendations but if that is what you're suggesting and the two that are in question are one and four why wouldn't you put ten to ten thousand dollars more to one and split they both would have 15 so what you're saying is put make make uh core 10,000 make homeworks 20,000 I was actually saying 15 and 15 but it makes a difference to the staff I don't think it I think 10 is I think 10 is good 10 and 20 would be in 20,000 homeworks are you okay with that okay get it over with and then we will hold out reparation Lutheran church to be voted on separately so can I have a motion to that I do have one question just again just just for my understanding this was put on our agenda Friday is that correct no it was on it was a part of the packet on Wednesday and so I just want to be clear for the record that the motion is to approve everything on here make that one change and to leave off the one thing that is has the least amount of money allocated to it at $2,000 well just so we can vote on it separate okay whoever wants to that yes man it's only two so move yeah okay that oh that that work for everybody yes so what we're going to vote on that separately or do you want to or do y'all want to just vote on the slate come just vote on the slate vote on the slate mr. mayor I just want to make it clear we're spending millions of dollars addressing a homeless situation I feel for the youth I think we have plenty of programs for our youth that are homeless throughout the hundred and something things that we provide I think this is a bad message we're trying to bring these homeless services under control in the city of Columbia and create some accountability and I just think when we go to funding other special things like this we're telling everybody out there you do what you want to do and we're going to support you I mean I mean I've seen the work that we've done I've seen the money we've invested in pathways in the Rapid Housing Center and again I'm just telling you I think this is a very bad message this and I'm a big fan of this church I like what they do their location is on Divine Street again I said earlier we do a fantastic job in Columbia South Carolina of walking our homeless back and forth across the city I think Stewart Mungo said it yesterday in a meeting better than I can we've mastered the art of taking 200 homeless people and make them look like a thousand I don't think this is probably in the right place and I think it sends the wrong message I would prefer not to vote against the whole slate but I cannot support it with this on here and I think I tell you I think for the folks who have expressed the the concerns that we've had we didn't come to this conclusion of addressing the homeless because everybody was quiet about the issues that were going on is that the two thousand dollars for reformation is the only thing that's holding you up yes sir let's pull it all right let's do what and I'm sorry I just have to take it off I just have to respond to because Mr. Taylor if you're going to use that analysis you need to use it for homeworks of America because the city actually does put money into assisting elderly people disabled people with getting their homes up to par and if you're using that same rationale of we're doing this so we shouldn't be funding other people then you would apply it there Mr. Herbert I would beg to differ I don't think that I've had anybody call and complain about carpenters fixing up people's houses they couldn't be fixed up I get calls about people's houses falling apart not in your district but in mine Mr. Mayor may I may I propose we take the two thousand dollars from Reformation Lutheran Church move it to Columbia Opportunity Resources make that seven thousand dollars and leave homeworks as it is homeworks is a good approval that's satisfying you Mr. Taylor so you're recommending to take the the two thousand out of Reformation take it Reformation and move it up to Opportunity Resources and leave homeworks out of it 25,000 okay I'm totally against that but I just want to make sure that's what you're saying so was it did you make a motion I make the motion that we moved the two thousand dollars it was for Reformation Lutheran up to Columbia Opportunity Resources make that seven thousand dollars the second discussion you're not doing the 10 and 20 we're not doing the 10 and 20 anymore not with it with the emotion that was just put on the table so you can put a subsequent motion or we can move forward 40 second joke or he's making a second to Mr. DeVall's motion he made a second when Mr. McDowell moved the first motion I didn't record a second the first motion I think was the he just he was Mr. DeVall said he was gonna make a motion he didn't make a motion that's what Mr. Reverend DeVall seconded something that hadn't that been made yet so but there's a question though question is moving the 2000 up to Columbia Opportunity Resources and voting on the slate and just as a point of order so did we didn't decide or have a first and a motion and a second on moving Columbia resource this was discussed and it was just discussion no I'll make a subsequent motion to take 5000 from homeworks and put it to Columbia Opportunity Resource giving it 10,000 total and vote on Reformation Lutheran separately second they're second where are you moving your fourth 5000 to Columbia Opportunity Resource from homeworks you're taking and I and I'm taking and I'm removed I'm just asking to vote on it separately well we got a motion on the floor in a second so and now we have a subsequent motion is there a second the subsequent motion or does it fail it was second I second it's Herbert I second the motion all right so we need to devote on the first one I mean the second the most recent that which that second motion is to move 5000 to community resource and remove referration Lutheran from the slate as a separate motion so that's a motion on the floor so Mr. Merritt so your subsequent motion has become well we got a vote on it first yeah what I'm asking is that your subsequent motion has become your main motion yes yeah ready and to restate the subsequent motion again the motion is to move $5,000 from community opportunity resource from core from core I'm sorry from homeworks to poor and to remove Reformation Lutheran line item for consideration as a separate motion so you got we're gonna have $2,000 left over no that line is just gonna be voted on separately another substitute motion oh goodness to move the 5,000 as you did and move the 2,000 from Reformation to core as well do we have the second we got a vote on what we have supple quick motion there's second a second bit all right so there's a second so now the question is so it's 12,000 the core and 20,000 so we have a motion you're second I'm sorry can you restate the most recent motion again most recent the most recent is to move 5,000 from homeworks to core move 2,000 from Reformation to core making it 12 homeworks at 20 removing Reformation Lutheran church from the funding in this cycle I say that correctly well it's not this cycle this is all we have just call it a question madam Clark point of order are you calling the question are you calling on the third subsequent motion that's correct are you calling are you calling the question the motion as is of the original subsequent the most recent the lawyer talk I did a layman's layman's term is the most recent motion so your subsequent motion is now your main motion is that correct that's correct your main motion has become your your subsequent your third subsequent motion has become your main motion so the what if I remove my motion and let Mr. Taylor's motion be made clean that would be the easier thing because you would have to vote on each one of the subsequent motions not at the first one passes not at the first one passes so the first one passes the first one didn't pass no the one that we're voting on now if it passes we don't go we don't have to go back to the previous motions well if that's the case then the third time around that's your main motion that's what that's what we're saying that's what we're saying so Howard what you what you just hold on madam clerk um I think yes I we can't have three motions on the table we had a main motion and a subsequent subsequent motion we did we need to dispose of the subsequent motion I withdraw my motion exactly right now if there is a withdrawal on either party how it would do is like the bustles with your hers we're right at the point of a main motion is that correct if they do that yes sir close enough to give my word and they would have to say the right I just said it yeah I'm sorry I just withdrew my motion okay motion withdrawn Mr. DeWall I would withdraw my motion so the motion so well this is about as hard as fixing one of our water leaks good so we have a motion remaining to move the five thousand dollars from homeworks to core and move two thousand dollars from reformation Lutheran to core that would be the motion left that motion main motion correct yes sir it's the only motion madam clerk the only right thank you mr. Taylor mr. Herbert no dr. bustles aye mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes mr. DeWall may I recommend aye thank you thank you very much we appreciate this support and thank you missy city council committee referrals reports a new business item 31 the task force to prevent an in homelessness September 21st 2022 report and strategies the honorable oddity bustles if you haven't heard from me enough today I get to talk to you about our final report that has been entered onto the record and will be available to the public for those that are listening remotely this is months of hard work that this council all collectively put in to create and most importantly it's months of hard work from our task force that had lots of diverse perspectives meaningful respect perspectives that led to a list of strategies both short term and long term that can hopefully address homelessness in a meaningful way what what I really like about this report is that you'll notice in the italics that some of the things that we've recommended are already in motion you've heard a lot about you know rapid shelter columbia the hiring of our city's homeless service coordinators you know some of our work around making sure that we are enforcing our different codes and ordinances and so i hope that more of these items over the next several months years continue to be crossed off the list but if there are any questions I'm happy to take them but thank you to the task force thank you to my colleagues councilman Brennan and councilman McDowell as well as the mayor for helping make this possible thank you doctor bustles for all your hard work on that and you know having the rapid shelter and seeing folks continue to start to use it and really as we look forward to a permanent solution to to help our unsheltered I want to thank you and the committee for their hard work it wasn't easy but it is allowing us to advance making sure that each individual has an opportunity that we can help provide services and get them into the necessary shelter they need temporarily as we continue to move forward on finding a permanent solution and permanent housing for our unsheltered 32 economic and community development committee november 8th 2022 report the honorable joey taylor junior thank you miss wilson just a quick report it's now officially I think just the economic development committee so we didn't address any community development stuff yet as I believe they'll be in a committee created for that we did receive a report on the status of the city's ed partners which was was very good very lightning by mr. Mr. Coleman we began the discussion of a five-year city on real estate plan how we can take what I consider some non-performing real estate assets that's blank pieces of property that are just holding the earth together not paying taxes and frankly not contributing to the vitality of neighborhoods or commercial districts and looking at our properties and looking at it over a five-year a five-year window of where we want to be five years from now and how we get how we get these into the market and frankly in some cases what what buildings we may want to see built I mean things we may want to get to go ahead and move to the market like 22 21 divine street and other city city buildings lastly we we went over we went over the measurables for economic development that we included in the economic development plan that was presented to council the city manager and approved and I just wanted to just remind everybody to touch on those things as we will use December 31st the year end as our benchmark date and we'll track these on a calendar date but some of them are census related and tax related and it's very difficult to track them on a on a fiscal year those measures four measurables were business license growth year over year reported to council quarterly announcement announced the number of new jobs announced in capital investment really including the tax paying portions only city center population growth year over year with quarterly updates counted by new living units that have had construction began and what we'll do is we'll take the multiple the number of units times the census district or census average of population per unit is the means to track that and I would add that some council persons have requested that other areas be tracked on the number of new living units so if you have anybody has an idea Mrs. Harbert's already advised us on which ones that she likes anybody else has others that would like to be tracked we'd be happy to to put those into the process but I think one of the goals that we talked about was was increasing the number of specifically of our city center residents to a comparable number I'll say Greenville and Charleston to really create a more vibrant downtown more shops and things like that and the last we'll begin to look at city revenue streams p tax a tax h tax water and sewer revenue from inside the city you know just to make sure we're getting the ROI that we see that the citizens should expect you know on our efforts so I think we'll get the we'll look to those to be reported by Ryan on a quarterly basis and I think it'll be a really neat way to go overall it was a very very good meeting we have now standardized by the way our meeting date to the it's one o'clock on the second Tuesday of every month that's correct yes sir mr. Taylor is is bull street included is one of the census by the city center I would put them in the city you had mentioned that once before and so I would include those as our city center number any other questions any comments any referrals unrelated city manager Wilson can you just keep us posted on the comment that councilman Taylor made about separating the committees and where we are at a later time I think that would be directed america and I don't I'm working on it okay y'all made a little complicated but I'm getting there I have nothing to do with this one mr. Deval then mr. Brennan mr. mayor the public safety committee met today and we would like to refer the resolution on nursing home cameras back to the full council and make put it on the next agenda please for the record I recused myself from that conversation for the simple reason we have some investment positions it's just a living and also miss Herbert did the same so that's what we're referring to you taught yourself it was that discussion you didn't have a conflict it was well thank you mr. mayor I'd like you know fallen up on I guess good timing with chairman Taylor's economic development reports smart growth as we move forward sustainable sustainably minded growth that we hope to see there's an ordinance out of Charlotte that deals with the paving products that they use moving forward I think the river keeper mentioned Bill Stangler I would like to send that review to the environmental and infrastructure committee you know the use of coal tar paving products in our our surfing projects moving forward both in the public and private market taking coal tar out of the river now let's let's be mindful I think I referred that to Clint to look at and review the the Charlotte ordinance and then so that they staff could get it back to go to committee to do so that's coming your way fantastic thank you I have a question for related to that for assistant city manager Shealy I've had CPAC reach out to me a couple of times about an ordinance that's kind of been I know they've been working closely with you all and have asked if they can come to a committee meeting of the environment and infrastructure and so if we do decide to hold one that was something I had on my list as potentially discussing with you all to see if it's at a place that we could review it yes ma'am and um chairman by patrullis and I spoke also and um I he would like and the manager and I chatted about this he would like to address the entire counseling work session if possible and I think y'all had talked about that but if we do have an ENI committee we'll certainly put that on there as well and we were looking at maybe the first of the year for scheduling their briefing I have to be january yeah sounds good mr. mayor just for oh mr. taylor then mr. uh mr. devolus just a source of information uh the administrative policy committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow at 10 o'clock and uh we will have bring something back to the council thank you sir yes sir have three referrals in and I'll have to trust you to refer them to the proper committee number one is the plan to for enforcement of our cbd signage ordinance now that it's been you know how are we going to enforce that that going forward that's that should get a public safety second would be in line with with mr. rennan's deal we've had some discussions about about switching over to a water-based utility paint and whichever committee is going to look at at the asphalt type things unlike for them to to look at creating a city policy to to switch to water-based utility paint I think we had passed that on that's one of those that's going to refer once I figure out how to do this so it is definitely on our radar and thank you for reminding us and then the third one uh we we talked about it I don't know whether it was at a work session or council meeting but I think it's I think we probably need to officially refer to to a committee and that's what do we do with the green herby curbies that are in front of commercial buildings you know and looking at other alternatives I believe mr. anderson has some concepts I think it would be good for the staff to discuss a minute I don't know whether that's the environmental committee or what but I just think it would be good for us to begin those discussions to and I think mayor you brought it up once about how to remove some of those things off the front to the back maybe there's some substitute programs we do for for people that have the ability for for say a dumpster that we somehow work something out there I just think it's something we ought to take a look at I got three items I need to come far okay we'll get that scheduled here is Herbert I did have some referrals to and I don't know if this goes to community development or economic development but Greenville has a program used to attract grocery stores a rebate kind of program and I've already asked Jeff to look at it but it does need to be officially referred to the correct committee and I think that would go to economic development and then we kind of discussed this today whether or not there is any interest on developing a panel on violent violent crime and bond reform because we've been having circular conversations but the question is do we want to go ahead and set up some folks help us tackle those issues that would be that would definitely get a public safety this from the committee what is it again a violent crime panel on violent crime and bond reform we previously had and is this it was ad hoc short term in 2012 2013 any others I think we're done with committees at this point we'll work on finalizing the other at this point we're at public input if there's anybody still left here other than staff who'd like to speak seeing none hearing none Mr. DeVall I'll entertain a motion Mr. Mayor I make a motion we go into executive session for receipt of legal advice related to a pending threat and a potential claim s e code 30-4 s 70 a two davis versus city discussion of matters related to the proposed location expansion or provision of services encouraging location or expansion of industries or other businesses in the area served by the public body pursuant to 30-4 s 70 a 5 22 22 main view apartments discussion of negotiations in this proposed contractual arrangements pursuant to s s e code dash 4 s 70 a 2 executive management and leasing second we're going to the conference room a few slides for one of the items so it'd be best to go downstairs but we can we have it prep but if you want to stay up here we need to we can go down yes mr. Taylor hi mr. Herbert aye dr. Bussles mr. Brennan yes mr. McDowell yes mr. DeVall all right mayor recommend thank you all