 I'm a clerk. Would you please call the roll? Certainly. Good afternoon. Mr. Brennan. Present. Mr. Rickerman. Here. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Mr. Vine. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Benjamin. Here. Thank you. Thank you. Everyone please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Red McDowell, would you give us a word, please? Let us pray. Creator and merciful Father, for your goodness and mercy, for all that you blessed us with today, we simply say thank you. Thank you, Lord, for your manifold blessings. And, of course, thank you for your grace that surrounds each of us. Bless this city of ours as we continue to expand and grow. Bless us as we sit around this table, as we make policies that are inclusive and diverse. Lord, we ask it and claim it in your name. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Councillor McDowell, as always. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda with one amendment? We're going to add a metastatic breast cancer awareness day proclamation presentation as requested by the Honorable Tamika Isaac Devine. With that amendment, is there a motion? So moved. Just a second. Right. Any discussion? We'll move to the previous question or call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Yes. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Thank you. All right. Is there a motion to approve the minutes of the September 21st City Council meeting? So moved. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Move the previous question or call the roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Madam City Manager. Yes, sir. Good afternoon. We have several presentations today. All really great ones at that. And the first is the resolution number 2021-103, approving the honorary naming of the corner of Booker Street and Peetmont Avenue, Bible Way, Peetmont Lane. All right. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion? Move the previous question or call the roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Please. Mr. Mc. And those who are with Bible Way Church, would you come? Bible Way Church Peetmont is one of our, one of our churches in the community that has really reached out to the community, really has done things in the community that has been helpful not only collaboratively with individuals. This church and its pastor and members present today represents what it means to be an inclusive community. A community that is surrounded by persons who have different and various, various needs for a church that is able to meet Bishop Mac because of your leadership and members of this church. You're grateful and thankful for all. We are grateful for your leadership and of course the aimless influence that you give to this community. Thank you all so much. Bible Way, Bible Way Peetmont, please, like it. Yeah. Hi, I'm City Manager. Yes, sir. Item three, the 2021 National Fire Prevention Month Proclamation, the honorable Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin. I'm happy to read this proclamation. We're at the City of Columbia. It's committed to ensuring the safety and security of all those living in and visiting our city and whereas the Columbia Rich in Fire Department has roughly 620 career volunteer members committed to protecting the public from the dangers of fire and fire related injuries and whereas the Department's Fire Prevention Division has worked tirelessly to promote educational fire safety in our communities and whereas the fire department turned to virtual means of engaging with citizens on fire prevention and fire safety during the COVID-19 pandemic and whereas the Columbia Rich in Fire Department members conducted more than 2011 fire inspections, 106 virtual home fire safety surveys and 21 virtual fire education presentations over the course of 2020 and whereas these activities have more earned the department the recognition of the FireSafe South Carolina community for the second year in a row and whereas that designation came from FireSafe South Carolina which promotes risk reduction programs and fire departments to prevent fire related injuries in our state and whereas the Columbia Rich in Fire Department was asked to present a national conference, the best way is to virtually promote fire safety and education with the public and therefore I, Stephen K. Benjamin, Mayor of the City of Columbia and all my fellow members of City Council, do hereby proclaim this Columbia Rich in Fire Department Appreciation Day in the great City of Columbia and urge our fellow citizens to recognize and participate in its observance. All right and this is also Fire Prevention Month. Yes sir, our next item item four is the Domestic Violence Awareness Month Proclamation or Announcement. I think it must be an announcement by the Honorable Tamika Isaac Devine. And before I do that I really neglected I wanted to introduce today I have Dr. Joseph Ray who is shadowing me. He is participating in the Education Leaders Experience sponsored by Colonial Life and the Center for Educational Partnerships at USC. He is currently the Acting Director of Counseling and Placement at Allen University and Counselor McDowell and Davis. He's a mighty man of omega sci-fi fraternity incorporated so but I wanted to introduce him and thank him for shadowing and and really seeing what how his government works for him. Dr. Ray, stand. October as many people know is our Domestic Violence Awareness Month and so we have a proclamation whereas we recognize that domestic violence is a problem that plagues our communities and our neighborhoods and whereas South Carolina was ranked in the top 10 states in the nation for the rate of women killed by men according to the recent statistics from the Violence Policy Center's report on homicide data and whereas females ages 18 to 34 generally experience the highest rate of intimate partner violence and whereas men who as children witness their parents domestic violence were twice as likely to abuse their own lives than sons of nonviolent parents and whereas domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women more than car accidents, muggings and rapes combined and whereas the city of Columbia recognizes the commitment of the South Carolina Coalition against domestic violence and sexual assault and sister care to provide lifesaving resources to domestic violence victims and their families now therefore on behalf of our mayor Stephen K. Benjamin along with all members of Columbia City Council we do hereby proclaim October 2021 as domestic violence awareness month in the city of Columbia. And do we have anyone from sister care as well? Zara do you want to say anything and I would love the introduction of the sister care I think this is of course my first time ever not having Nancy Barton here so it is we want to make sure that all of our citizens know sister care representatives so if you got ladies would have speak and then I'll bring these around. So this is Ann Keeta who as you just acknowledged is the new director of sister care after 30 some years of Nancy being in that position and so we're really excited that she's here and welcome her and I look forward to working with her and everyone on the council moving forward. To the microphone. My name is Evelyn Figues and I'm the director of shelters of sister care. Thank you ladies so much for your call to work in this effort and we certainly appreciate we of course want a community where your services are no longer needed but we do know that they are really needed especially in light of COVID-19. We know domestic violence numbers have risen in the last two years and so we thank you for what you do especially in in light of all the difficulties it is to shelter people right now and to provide the services that you do. So I'm going to bring this around and Mr. Mayor I did want to make sure I reminded everyone that this Saturday we will have the 15th annual Mayor's Walk Against Domestic Violence. It will be virtual again this year like last year due to COVID-19 but as I mentioned earlier we know that domestic violence is just as important now if not more to bring awareness than it was before so we wanted to continue to bring awareness around it. So you all have at your seats a bag that everyone who has participated signed up to participate virtually will get along with water bottle, hand sanitizer, mask and a towel. So we want to make sure that people know that you can still register to sign up and walk virtually and you could take a walk in one of our amazing city parks or in your neighborhood and bring your neighbors together socially distant to bring awareness to domestic violence. Thank you Tamika for your work on this over so many years. A sort of purple bag of the junior shadow of making this all honorary of megas. There's a reference to the megas high five joke in every meeting so I got and we'll have some amazing I think some exciting announcements next week as well but again thank you for your work in the space for so long. Madam City Manager. I'm very excited to announce the Hotel Trundle Day proclamation the Honorable Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin. Very excited. I'm going to read this proclamation because it has to be read. I think to really fully appreciate the significance of this accomplishment whereas Hotel Trundle 41 room boutique hotel in the heart of Columbia's main street district was awarded in August 2021 the number five spot in USA today is 10 best historic hotels list and whereas in combination with their design education and hospitality experience husband and wife business team Rita Patel and Marcus months determined to develop Hotel Trundle after recognizing the beauty and economic potential of available historic commercial space in Columbia and whereas Rita Patel and Marcus months open home hotel Trundle in 2018 which now currently employs 19 people and 80% of their expenses go directly back to Columbia surrounding cities by using local suppliers vendors and service providers further more than 28,000 guests have stayed at Hotel Trundle and whereas Hotel Trundle is composed of three historic commercial buildings now merged into one space Rose Talbert Pates built in 1914 power furniture built in 1920 and Western Ordo 1940 the room layout of a hotel was designed around the 1920s and 40s era historical conditions of each of three buildings and whereas owners Rita Patel and Marcus months wanted to celebrate the historic architectural details found in each original building and as such Hotel Trundle now features restored brick walls original stamped in ceilings in moldings original flooring restored plaster walls and original windows and stucco facade and whereas Hotel Trundle was made possible by tax incentives from federal state and city of Columbia governments including the Bailey bill historic renovation tax credits and preservation easements now therefore I Stephen K. Benjamin mayor of the city of Columbia do hereby proclaim October 5th to be designated as Hotel Trundle Day in the great city of Columbia and urge my fellow citizens to recognize and participate in its observance I read the formal stuff and I'm going to add something to that I'm not sure even in just the three years that Hotel Trundle has been open you're going to find a business that I think more accurately represents the spirit of Columbia the adaptive reuse the historic preservation how you're so quickly becoming an intimate and meaningful and indispensable part of our cultural and arts infrastructure the way that you not only treat your customers because I hear it everywhere I go if you'd be amazed at the number of those 28,000 people you come across as we get around the country but the way that you treat your employees the human infrastructure that I know is so important to you in the way that you treat them during this pandemic Marcus and Rita you're amazing we're thankful for you and hope that God continues to bless you with prosperity as we know you'll be a blessing to this community for many more years to come so Hotel Trundle day y'all and I'd be remiss and in trouble with Melissa Lindler if I didn't say she couldn't be here because she's been a huge cheerleader for you please please thank you thank you so much this is a huge honor I tell you we both woke up super giddy today so I mean who would have thought five years ago when we said let's take on this venture and do something crazy enough to say hey let's develop our own hotel brand that there'll be Hotel Trundle day on October 5th so this is really incredible the support of the community and friends and family has just been absolutely paramount couldn't have done it without you guys and with the support that we have received and continue to receive so thank you so much thank you thank you very much I came out that this day and I met Rita and Marcus and the first three and a half years ago we put the rhythm and it was a cool day for a warm day in the heart of this city you all just made the difference you made a difference in terms of employee relationship you made a difference in the room design gorgeous and you developed into a place called yes sir I was just having a flashback mirror to my epic 45th birthday celebration okay TMI metastatic breast cancer awareness day proclamation the honorable Tamika Isaac Devine thank you so much we do know October is breast cancer awareness month but October 13th is metastatic breast cancer awareness day and so this is a proclamation on behalf of the city of Columbia whereas approximately 250,000 Americans are diagnosed with breast cancer each year with between 7507,500 and 15,000 of them identified as being initially metastatic while many treatments for breast cancer exist once the cancer metastasizes there is no cure whereas thousands of families across the country are affected by metastatic breast cancer which occurs when the cancer spreads beyond the breast to other parts of the body including the bones lungs liver and brain and much of the talk around breast cancer focuses on early detection and routine diagnosis where there has been tremendous progress in the last 30 years and whereas metastatic breast cancer affects all races and socioeconomic classes and although white women see the greatest incidence of breast cancer the mortality rate for African-American women with breast cancer is higher than white women and breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths for Hispanic women whereas while there have been treatment advances in metastatic breast cancer many of those advances have benefited a small subset of patients with specific types of metastatic breast cancer and while metastatic breast cancer remains incurable extensive research efforts are underway to address this highly unmet need and whereas additional focus is needed on the personal and social burdens of metastatic breast cancer the needs of a patient and promising research efforts in the development of more effective treatment and whereas there is still more research to be done for metastatic breast cancer so that new and more effective treatments can be developed now therefore on behalf of our mayor Stephen K. Benjamin along with all the members of Columbia City Council we do hereby proclaim October 13th 2021 to be metastatic breast cancer awareness day in the city of Columbia and we urge all of our citizens to participate in its observance and I will add that City Hall on October 13th will be lit up for metastatic breast cancer day I know today we've got Roslyn Weston and Seth Canty here to accept this proclamation you ladies would come forward and Mr. Mayor and members of city council I'll be remiss I didn't ask for a proclamation this year primarily because two years ago I actually could not get through it myself without crying so I wanted to just also recognize that October is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month and so in honor of that month I have my pink and blue nails and my pen and earrings but I definitely wanted to recognize that month for all parents who have lost a child and in childbirth thank you mr. Vine and thank all of you for getting us through all those wonderful presentations at this time we will take up the emergency ordinance which is really the extension of ordinance number 20201081 extension of emergency ordinance number 2021078 related to COVID-19 yeah certainly and we continue to see a decline in the number of cases but certainly still holding line on a on a fairly high number of deaths from COVID-19 there's some anticipation that based on on some of the data we're seeing that there may indeed be another spike after Thanksgiving I think the most important message we can continue to push to everyone is that we've got to get vaccinated we're seeing a pandemic of the unvaccinated right now the ability to withstand the effects of COVID-19 your chances go up significantly if in fact you've received one of the vaccines you want to encourage people again everyone within the son of a voice to accept and receive the the vaccine in the meantime we're going to continue to work in the regional effort we've been communicating several of us with our of course our county our friends on this side of the river for our acres those across the river as well several of them well they took a 30 a day approach some others took 60 days so we're going to continue pushing to work in a regional format as we work on these measures to try and slow the spread of the virus it's not easy it's not fun but it's necessary we're going to continue to push the spirit of collaboration and mutual responsibility as we go forward we can do this it's going to take still a whole lot of hard work but we got to do it together so unless there's some other comment I will move approval and take a second if there's some more comment we can have in the discussion second all right is there any further discussion get vaccinated weigh a mass when you endorse when you're around others um and let's uh continue to be our brothers and sisters keep with a previous freshman court call Mr. Brennan yes Mr. Rickerman aye but please get vaccinated folks the numbers in the hospital right now are continuing to be done vaccinated there's still a lot we're talking about over 90 percent and we're still having high numbers of bed use um we can overcome this if we work together so vaccination is proven please move forward on it Mr. Mcdowell yes Mr. Duvall aye Mr. Vine aye Mr. Davis aye Mayor Benjamin aye thank you city council discussion action items the first is the COVID-19 update the Honorable Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin and our situational report by Mr. Harry Tinsley emergency management director what's that director Tinsley please can we sit right thank you Mr. Mayor members of council and that is the manager good afternoon I'll be brief as the data is as the mayor said we're training in a better direction than we have been over a few weeks as far as this wave with the delta current forecast models there's additional in your inbox also but current forecast models do predict a downward training additional COVID-19 or new COVID-19 cases for the next few weeks as the trend shows and then as we get into the colder months we'll see what happens there as we know we're not out of this yet but we are trending in a better position as the last few meetings that we've had so as far as the data today confirmed case count now so today's report out stands just under 700,000 697,635 it's noted it's worth noting over the past 14 days our state has seen over 33,000 additional confirmed K or combined case excuse me our last meeting that was over 50,000 so that's a 50% or so 51% reduction so we're starting to see that downward trend which we would like to see to date there's been over 11 million tests conducted in our state today's case counts statewide confirmed were 993 confirmed cases 255 probable which brings our cumulative total or combined total of 1248 1248 our test positivity rate percentage was 8.9% for the for this report out unfortunately there were 26 new confirmed deaths reported out today by DHEC and that brings our cumulative combined total due to COVID-19 to 12,729 just as a point over the last 14 days we've had 920 combined deaths in our state due to COVID-19 that's just that's a lot truly is as far as here in ristan county our case count stands our confirmed cases stands at 54,292 today's report out was encouraging if you can consider that 72 confirmed cases 20 were probable for a cumulative report today at 92 unfortunately we have had 621 confirmed deaths in ristan county as today's report out it's also not worth noting that over the past 14 days ristan county has had 1,575 new confirmed cases over that 14-day period as opposed to our last meeting where we're over north of 3000 so we we're seeing the state reduction in this fall within our county as well we're seeing so right now we're averaging in ristan county about 112 new cases each day that's down from 223 at our last meeting and also as of the report out from DHEC on the 29th of september the recent disease activity incident rate here in ristan county remains low across all three metrics our percent positive rate for ristan county is 6.4 bed utilization for our state still hovers above 80 percent and as of the october 5th there were 1670 patients currently hospitalized in our state due to COVID-19 confirmed or suspected and that is down from 2381 from our last meeting ristan county's bed utilization rate is 70.3 they're currently as of today's numbers 98 patients hospitalized due to COVID also DHEC reports out over five million COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in our state as of october 3rd 52.7 those 12 years or older have been fully vaccinated in our state 60.8 have received at least 60.8 percent have received at least one vaccine and also in richland county our numbers are showing 55.1 percent have completed their vaccinations and 63.5 percent have received at least one vaccine and those numbers show the CDC as well we looked at those numbers 65.5 percent of those 12 years or older have been fully vaccinated 83.6 percent 65 and older have been fully vaccinated and 77.7 percent of us population as of that report sample 18 years or older have received at least one dose and lastly vaccine clinics we talked about some mobile clinics we talked about some after hours clinics at our last meeting we were partnering with DHEC we have vaccination clinics set up this month through our city parks and this is all on our city website our resilient Columbia website and also on DHEC's website but we have drew wellness to be this Wednesday the sixth height park will be the 13th that's a Wednesday MLK park will be the 20th Milrose park will be the 27th those clinics run from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. we also have mobile clinics scheduled Prisma is our partner with this for Saturday the night that's this Saturday in the Vista from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. that is a mobile clinic and then again on Tuesday the 19th from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in five points and we'll continue to work with our local partners to get additional vaccine clinics scheduled as we continue to move through this pandemic can you any questions that concludes my report thank you Harry good report I had a question today from one of our citizens are we still looking for the 5% or less over a 14-day period to give us the clue that it might be time to remove the mask and I'm not sure on the policy for removing the mask yet but I do know that CDC is still since 5% is a good indicator less than 5% is minimal community spread anything above 5% on your percent positive would be considered you have community spread but we'll continue to watch that report that out to make it Harry we saw I guess the the hospital report from the children that we got today and I've noticed the last I guess several days it's very good as the number of kids in a hospital are going down the number of children on the ventilator have gone down but it seems like the number that are waiting in the ED are going up and so have you gotten any information on why is that or I mean is it still no beds because it seems like it's going down so that doesn't seem like it would be no beds available is it they're waiting on testing I'm just kind of wondering if you can give us some insight into that I haven't had any specific discussions on that particular matter but I will say as you as you see the case counts start to come down everything else lags so then hospitalizations will pretend to continue for several weeks or it could be for a month and then those numbers will go and then unfortunately the desk lag lasts on that and you'll see that number to come out I haven't uh spoke but I can I can get something I'll shoot you an email on that so in addition thank you thank you well that's the matter of the questions Mr. Miss Medall Harry thank you so much for your for your reports yes every every two weeks they are very informative but just a word of thanks to you and members of the EOC I had an opportunity to visit and of course very informative related to a whole lot of other things that I didn't know and was able to see um spot shot of particularly thank you all for what you've done there thank you for your continued effort to keep us all informed and safe and safe but it also a big thank you for that EOC uh very up to date very modern and uh providing us with the information we need to keep this city safe thank you again thank you thank you for your support and this Wilson uh has uh a lot of support there too so thank you thank you Harry I was going to also um tell you to let counselor I can but I'm thanking you for your help along with Pam and others that um Harry's also been really instrumental in setting up our COVID-19 testing protocol for our employees that are unvaccinated and so that those protocols started this week I just wanted to let you know that as well thank you thank you thank you Harry thank you so much thank you our next presentation is the business license update Mr. Jeff Palin assistant city manager and chief financial officer and Ms. Laquisha Shannon our business license administrator good afternoon so many years in the making box and negotiation from uh the various uh cities counties organizations in the state uh concluded with act 171 76 also known as the business license tax standardization act uh today we want to go over with y'all where uh staff's at as far as the implementation uh and what the act actually does and what will mean for the city and our businesses so we'll go through our steps that we've already completed the upcoming steps here over the next two months and then we'll have a summary so at 176 known as the business license tax standardization act was passed by the general assembly in September 2020 purposes to streamline the business license process creating the same process for all taxing jurisdictions across the state this process was not optional it is required by law and cities and towns must update their business license ordinance to comply with the new law which will become effective on January 1 2022 the act also requires the south carolina revenue and fiscal affairs office to host a statewide portal for business license renewals I know we've been talking about that ability for a couple years now so it is here what's not listed up there the we do talk about the standardization so just a little bit of history we've had over over the years we've always had whether it's uh different businesses that operate different places across the state depending on what tax and jurisdiction it is they may have different types of business license requirements so this act really standardizes everything from your business year period to your renewal dates to the application so that everyone has the same application that they're filling out to the classification of businesses which is probably a very important one which we'll discuss for us to also the ability to renew online so this act has a very large effect but a very in the end it'll be a very positive effect for us so our implementation city staff along with the assistance from the municipal association has begun a multi-step process to comply and implement the act uh steps that we've completed uh back in uh excuse me back in may we converted our business license year to run from May 1st through April 30 currently our business license just runs on the calendar year January 1st through December 31st so as part of that ordinance and changing it we also extended that business license to cover that gap from this January 1st through the May 1st so that was all passed in our ordinance 2021-040 back in May the next part of the plan was for staff also working with MASC was to review all of our business license tax data for accuracy so the state's law has required that we use a standard system and it uses the North American industry classification system codes to place each business into an appropriate rate class so this will be a rate class uh all businesses will be across the state will have the same NAICS codes they'll all be put into the same class um I think I mentioned it later in the cell bring up staff staff has already gone through and we've assigned each of our businesses and this is important to us because the current city ordinances use utilizes over 150 business codes um I didn't bring a copy of the ordinance with me but it's about I don't know 50 pages thick um of that about 30 pages that are just individual codes so this is going to reduce all of our classifications down to just nine rate classes which will be very a lot easier for both the businesses and for staff to properly classify um this is the one page that y'all see instead of 26 pages so our ordinance will look a lot different when we bring that back to y'all that's great steps completed uh we've also worked on rebalancing to prevent a windfall or loss so as we change the classifications we have to update our rates that are charged for each of these so cities and towns must rebalance their business license tax rates to ensure revenue neutrality during the 2022 business license site relative to the 2020 actual revenue so city staffs weren't with MASC over the summer the revenue that we collected back in 2022 was 10,944,214 dollars the law requires that when we set the rates that we would generate the same amount we can't earn a windfall and all of a sudden just make up so after we've calculated everything we actually ended up with a little bit of a deficit of 31,000 but that would be if everyone had generated the exact same revenue so we do anticipate there'll be some differences the total business count that we looked at from 2022 was 8,592 so of course everyone will always be interested in how does this affect my business going forward these will be the things that uh Ms. Shannon and her staff are going to be communicating out to all of our businesses and to the general public but of the 8,592 we did have 165 businesses that will see an increase of a thousand dollars or more if they generate the same revenue at the same time we had 336 businesses that will see a decrease of one thousand dollars or more or less more if they generate the same revenue that leaves of the 8,500 uh businesses 8,091 businesses will see a change of less than a thousand and actually 24 of them show an actual change of zero our next steps counts will be asked to repeal and replace the current business license ordinance and class schedule with the new model ordinance and class schedule our next meeting on October 19th second reading will be November 9th 2021 and then that ordinance will take effect January 1st 2022 so staff's been working with MASC to also set up an account with MASC to allow our businesses to renew their annual license online and we anticipate that to it take effect February 1 of 2022 I'm pretty excited about that because I feel like we've been talking about that for about eight years finally after the adoption of the ordinance staff will begin to notify the stakeholders of the change of the business license period in due dates the new class codes the new rate schedule and the ability to renew online through the portal and that is just a summary there we'll also have this posted on the website so business owners can obtain the information through there and the business license office along with other financing also working with our office obio office of business opportunities economic development and others will be working to notify all of our businesses of the changes any questions yes sir jeff on the business count and the businesses the 165 businesses that had an increase in the 336 that had a decrease is there any generalization that you can make of that or is it all across the board different times yeah it's kind of all across the board the problem we had so we've looked at some other communities as they did theirs and it was very easy to generalize which industry unfortunately that over 150 business codes that I mentioned that is what makes it a little harder for us to figure out if there's just a general area that has that that had that effect both for or the positive and the negative so there's not just one area but I will say this it will allow us because we're we'll go to those nine classifications here most all businesses will fit into classes one through seven based upon their NAICS code we do have a class eight and class nine on there class eight is really just a state mandated classifications and then class nine are a handful of other industries that don't fit in the other so they've been put into the class nine we will be able to take these to compare to other communities to get a better feel for how we stack up with what we charge for the various industries because everybody statewide will be using the exact same class codes are these the actual rates that we're going to use in this in the slide yes sir that's very good Mr. Mayor yes sir we'll Mr. Palin the um so so the first interaction moving forward with the new state law businesses will interact through this statewide portal uh for business license renewal is that correct if they're if they're renewing their license yes they'll be able to go online now renewals this year won't come back they can begin on February 1st of 2022 on that online portal so all counties cities towns villages are they all going to have something of the same structure when it comes to processing calculating these business license so we're not we're not straying too far with a wild model it's all seamless what can you comment on how much time is being saved by going to this uniform approach you know when it comes to to getting a business license for a small business I would say it's going to depend upon the business if you're if your business is located in one jurisdiction you're probably used to whatever their process is however um just being online will save people time you know so it'll be quicker it'll be quicker they don't have to come down to our office you know if they have questions they can always call of course but it on our past renewal days there is a habit of a lot of people showing up at the day of so we're hopeful this will eliminate the long lines and the frustration people have having to wait for all that all everything will be able to be done for a renewal online I will add if you are a brand new business you still have to go come into the office to go through the process that will not be able to be done online but their following years renewal will be now also to answer your question if you are a business that operates across multiple jurisdictions this should save a lot of time because everyone's everyone's application should be the same and that hasn't been the case we changed our application several years back to to what the model application was meant to be but also the rate classes I mentioned it before we had over 150 rate classes that's confusing to everyone from staff all the way to the business owner if you're the business owner you may look through that and after you get real really tired of trying to find what you're classified after on page 35 you might find it so now most businesses are going to know their NAICS code you can pull it up or call us and we'll be able to tell you exactly what class that you're in you'll be able to easily look up what the rate schedule is it should be a much easier process than what businesses have been perfect thank you having to do any questions for definition I do have one so with the tax return information how was that going to happen I know before we had some people didn't feel comfortable they brought them in here well they have to be uploaded into the system that information can be uploaded into the system the online system there will be security features in place to protect that information but that can be done with the online process well thank you all notice has been are you are you done years years years in the in the making and it's great leadership and teamwork and we know we appreciate you thank you our next presentation is the Clean Water 2020 update Mr. Clint Shealy assistant city manager for Columbia Water and Mr. Brian Coney our program manager for CDM spent good afternoon Ms. Wilson mayor and council thank you for giving us a few minutes today to brief you on our our progress on our clean water 2020 program and our wastewater consent decree we appreciate your valuable time I want to start off by thanking our staff for for their efforts and continuing to provide essential wastewater services throughout a very trying time of a pandemic and and what I would only characterize as unprecedented vacancies and staffing shortages so many many thanks to them and the work that they do each day I also appreciate the program management team led by Brian Cully and CDM Smith and their continued support and excellent assistance as as we walk through this journey together and greatly appreciate their continued partnership Brian's going to share a few minutes worth of information a brief update on where we stand where we're headed and point out some what we think are really positive accomplishments to date even in light of the last year and a half that we've been through so I'll turn it over Brian awesome thank you Clint thank you council for this opportunity as Clint said today we want to walk you through and make sure you understand high level where are we with the consent decree and that critical schedule we have to report we're on track with that but also want to drill down and share with you some numbers some numbers that will show you specific progress numbers that will show you where we stand on SSOs and they'll be understanding some of the the headway we've been making and then lastly I want to wrap up by looking at how some of the projects we've been accomplishing align with some of the larger city environmental goals okay with that I'll share this with you this is the list of consent decree programs that are required in the consent decree this list has not changed and you know since the consent decree was entered back in 2014 what has changed is the right hand side of your screen which shows that essentially all these have gone in on time to the EPA with only two programs remaining and those are scheduled to go in next year so again the progress on this chart from going from all zero percent to now nearly all 100 percent on the right hand side is tremendous now these programs submitting those is sort of the beginning EPA approves and we then have to implement some of these programs are fairly straightforward to implement like the training program some are very complicated and require massive amounts of man hours like the continuing sewer assessment program or some of the ones that drive asset management so this getting into 100 percent sort of the the starting point if you will the launch point of implementing this and changing the way Columbia water does business I've highlighted three programs on there the two that are remaining to be submitted in the IR report that's further up those three are highlighted because they essentially drive the basket of projects that City of Columbia will be obligated to do to the EPA so we talk about a project ago that's really important that's a consent decree project it's probably because it was listed in one of those three programs we're now at the point that those are ones already been turned in two are essentially draft final on our side I can now tell you with a high degree of confidence the basket of projects that will be required for EPA before every other time I've presented to you I've not been able to say that we've not been at that point we still had to look and see what we're going to find so it was a huge risk of is it as bad as we thought it was is it worse is it better and so that was a huge caveat anytime I came up here and reference to 750 number I always said it depended on what went in in those program documents I'll report more on that in a minute but we're at a point now that's very different than we've ever been before so that's huge progress as we continue to to march down the path here of course nobody can come up here and speak to council without talking about COVID-19 I'm not going to be any exception to that and so a quick update with that is through the consent decree it does have a force majeure clause in there and when COVID hit we did the proper thing and told EPA hey this is probably going to be a COVID force majeure I'm assuming a force majeure event due to COVID but we don't know what the impacts are we didn't know what the financial implications were going to be that was to be determined might still be to be determined as Clint and Jeff would probably say and also the labor impacts would be able to have consultants continue on projects what about staff to do preventive maintenance work and so we were starting to come out of COVID and said okay hey it's about time for us to update EPA and let them know what we think that's about when Delta hit so we said pause we got to wait the impacts might be a little bit worse and so we're still waiting to see what happens but we are continuing to watch that working with Clint working with attorneys to see what those final impacts will be so we can make a proper ask to EPA for any schedule relief okay all right the next thing I want to mention is that in the consent decree when you read through it you see the programs and the time lines the consent decree program was meant to evolve or pivot whatever adjective you want to use and sort of go for more of an operation and maintenance how we change and do maintenance on the system day-to-day to more of an infrastructure capital improvement project delivery and so you're seeing our program kind of pivot with that consent decree requirements in the schedules I think so we're going more to capital improvement project delivery a little less emphasis on O&M which is allowing us some time to take those great lessons learned process improvements that we've done on the wastewater side and bring that over to the drinking water side okay and then of course I always want to come up here and talk about when could we get out of the consent decree and so when you look at those list of projects for example the IR reports we list of programs we look at the IR report when that's approved by EPA there's essentially seven years to do that basket of projects so assuming we take most of that time basically in 2028 is when we'll be able to write to EPA and petition to end the consent decree it's not do these projects and you automatically get out it's do these projects and request to get out from the consent decree that timeline really hasn't changed much it's maybe backed up a year we always do the delivery of the consent decree it was going to be a very long-term multi-decade type activity so right now 2028 is where we've got our eyes so yeah all right so continuing on that bar over on your left hand side is the original 750 million dollar estimate that's in 2012 dollars always has been and as I mentioned we're at a different place now than I've ever been before in terms of saying are we on target is it still going to be 750 million dollars because I'll be honest with you most consent decree programs like this where you have to go investigate the system first tend to balloon out of control and I'm happy to report to you that our initial assessment with this basket of projects we anticipate being the final one we still remain on target for the 750 that's huge that is absolutely huge that's fantastic it couldn't be happy to report that now in terms of progress on the right hand side what you'll see is how much money has counsel encumbered and improved so far that adds up to about 363 million so we're just not quite halfway yet again the cip load is on the back end of the delivery so that's all planned everything's fine there but so far 363 I think with tonight's very heavy Columbia water Columbia water consent agenda we push that number up above 363 but that's where we're tracking so far okay all right now as far as the consultant support cdm Smith is of course working alongside Columbia water staff to deliver this and you'll see our renewal on next next council meetings agenda we're targeted for October 19th so we're speaking today but our renewal should be on the next agenda and that's for the 10th year of the 11 year contract and again you'll see our program is ramping down and changing just as a consent decree in Columbia's waters needs are changing we're changing with that and so you'll see us doing a lot less on them on the wastewater side we are supporting on the water side you'll see that here in a second and really focusing on that cip delivery we're actively managing over 70 projects and most of those are large multi-million dollar projects we're tracking 120 projects and so a huge cip delivery focus here and then the last thing I want to mention about our renewal is again for year 10 like we've done from year two all the way up through year nine that we're in now 25 percent of next year's fee is going to subconsultants all of them are minority or women-owned businesses and I'm also have to report that all of those except one have offices in Columbia and that's something I've been very proud of with the Columbia program is that we're helping improve City of Columbia with Columbia based resources and I think that's important it is to me I'm sure it is to y'all I have a comment on that yes sir I'm going to save it until later I'm just looking at the the some of the totals for consent agenda and a good bit of the money four million plus a lot of that money is going out of town out of the area and I think it would be good if as we look at where you are now we as a city are able to show how much of that money is spent here number one and number two how much is really going to small and minority businesses you know our numbers still don't aren't where we said we wanted it to be and where we think we ought to be so and it's a I'm glad to see that that's that's a target but it would be good if we could Madam City Manager periodically give some updates on that that's been an ongoing concern and and but every time you look at the numbers the numbers kind of pair that out and I remember the beginning of the consent given the amount of money we've had to spend to get out from under the beds there's still a lot of money going out of this area one and two again small businesses and businesses that we say we were in the business to help and then be participants locally we're still not there so I think collectively we need to it would be good if we could really set some goals I know you have some there but if we could periodically really do a check on that in terms of progress and helping to keep our eye on the ball in terms of what we know we can do and in terms of the economy and helping to build this area and being attractive we would be we'd have something to show for it and we would be a magnet in that area thank you I think Mr. Davis the recent committee meetings that we've had where we've had those presentations is I mean within the last I know 90 days or so um in the community economic development committee we could certainly work with Brian and Clinton those to drill down on the project specific to clean water 2020 to maybe help show that a little bit clearer for you so do you think we've made some some good very good progress different programs that are in place and then also just as a reminder the disparity study is underway so I think it would be good for us to also give that process time to work and hopefully also that will probably speak to some of your concerns as well okay that's that's that's good I just just I was looking at those numbers last night and just but that's you're right that's good and then it's just unfortunate that the disparity studies take a while yeah how far along we are on progress the study um they're making good progress a lot of data collection going on right now near Benjamin um but we're I mean they're making very good progress I think we're at the point now where some of the stakeholders are going to be called in to meet with the consultants so to your point about some of our small minority owned businesses there and it actually be engaging with them as well all right that's it would be good and um uh if we could periodically you know kind of be in a position to to show again some of the taxpayers how that money is being spent who's benefiting and that sort of thing but uh I it's just an eye catcher the kinds of businesses we know we need also to be participants it's it's important as well thank you very good appreciate it and just to be clear councilman Davis those numbers I was quoted in the 25 minority women owned that's for our contract specifically not the program I just want to make sure they wouldn't uh wouldn't put too much under that I'll grow there just the history of our program contract again you see it coming down and you see that water portion growing as well as again as we try to leverage more over to the water side which I know is uh near dear to to many of the council members because that is uh systems twice as large okay so here's some numbers that I think are really important I want to dive into this so often we talk about schedule big picture stuff let's talk about some specifics real quick I won't take long I know y'all have a lot on the agenda but these numbers that are on the screen right now are very important and they're huge signs of progress and these numbers are since 2016 so we're just looking back at the last um five years or so so 155,000 that is the linear footage of large diameter pipe we have constructed since 2016 and so that's taking a pipe that didn't exist and putting a 24 inch in or taking a 24 inch and making it a 36 or 42 inch pipe that's a lot and again this is during the non cip heavy portion of the program 550,000 that's a huge number well that's the linear footage of mainline pipe we have real a bit rehabilitated you've got about five million plus feet in your system so that's about 10 percent if you were to lay that end to end you could go to Greenville or Charlotte on it that's a lot of pipe again during the non cip heavy part of this program 5,500 is the number of manholes we've rehabilitated that's out of about 25,000 so again 20 percent we've gone out there and touched 6,700 laterals this is the little pipe that goes from the mainline to the homeowner right doesn't go on the private property but this is where we get a lot of inflow and infiltration and it's where if there's a blockage you can get a backup in the house and so keeping these refreshes is huge it's also expensive that's a huge amount of progress and then 11 is a number of pump stations that have been rehabilitated but more importantly that there's another 19 on the drawing board right now so i'll bring us to 30 out of 50 pump stations huge progress coming right there so again a lot of things out in the system are changing if you go out and open the manholes again you're seeing portions of the system start to change and evolve for the better there's a whole lot more to come there's a lot that's been done already nothing that's really important a few number a few more here and i won't go through these individually but this is more inspection type activity i'll call out maybe that second bullet point on the left hand side cctv inspection of pipe we're at over four and a half billion feet of cctv inspection since 2016 so that's running a camera and a piece of pipe now if we run it through there multiple times because your rehab it which is common um that counts multiple times so we haven't done the entire system yet but we're getting there but that's a tremendous amount of cctv inspection footage particularly because a lot of it's around uh the actual rehabilitation we get a lot of our information from that now exactly you get to look in there and see is this pipe good for another 30 years we don't need to touch it and save our money or we better fix this before it collapses and now it's going to cost us a whole lot of money to fix it if we don't get ahead of time so that that investigation that preventative maintenance is huge that's how you cost effectively run a system that's implementing asset management and these are the numbers we want to have big and stay large and it's difficult to do if you don't have the staffing to it we've been doing this this is most in both in-house and contract your work um represented here in these numbers all right so sso's i know this is very important um we had the huge drop at the very beginning um due to implementing a fog program fats oils and grease and so that's tremendous but then to get that curve further down takes a lot of effort and a lot of cost and you got to implement large and timely uh cip projects and you also have to do that preventative maintenance and so we've kind of seen that number rise over the last few years which is not uncommon in consent decree programs where there's a much stronger emphasis on reporting and everything and so we did kind of see that number leak up we did see it return back to fiscal year 16 17 numbers uh this year and hopefully we can keep driving that down again spending the rest of that 750 million and getting staff in and doing preventative maintenance is the way we drive that the rest of way uh down now i'll say too these are instances of sso's don't compare this to others because you have a more stringent reporting threshold so if you compare this to just random other city your numbers will look a whole lot higher and they may be higher but a bigger reason they may be higher is because you report all spills others may only report from a certain threshold like 500 and up so just want to make sure I report that case you're comparing this to others now of course that was the frequency of sso volume or sso spills this is the volume per year this is on a calendar year basis again you see that second year was tremendous the years before that a lot of more between one to five million and so we've seen that come way down with fixing some of our biggest sso sites we're continuing to have projects go out to bed and on the drawing board to continue driving that volume number down the 1.35 million gallons so far this year just five spills account for over 850 000 of that right so again to drive volume down you go after the big wet weather instances three of those were from wet weather storms that were greater than a two-year reoccurrence level and again we just got to get the system built up to that standard another one was because we had taken on another system that had a discharge on the saluta river we took them on as a wholesale customer major wet weather event they weren't running their side as efficiently and properly as they should caused us some issues that related to one of those spills again the bigger goal was being achieved and cleaning up the rivers which is one instance there kind of kind of nailed us and that was in February four of those five instances happened in February so a little bit of a tough calendar year so far but again the overall trend is so much better than if you were to look for the back all right also notable advancements here and I'll be very quick I keep talking about the water distribution side we do have a water distribution task force that brings together a lot of different areas within Columbia water and within the Columbia municipality and brings them together for that common cause we're making a lot of advancements there on customer service both what the customer sees when they call in but also on the internal side of actually getting that resolved included in that is actually bringing contractors in to help work down that backlog it's one thing to know about a problem we've got to actually be able to fix it too and so that's a big part of what we're doing and I don't want to leave this slide before talking about alternative delivery the city is currently executing its first alternative delivery project in Columbia water it's a CMAR project construction manager at risk and that's huge that's a great tool in our toolbox to be able to bring to projects where we want innovation or we have a short timeline and with our capacity issues coming being able to have a alternative delivery tournament and legal I saw Patrick in here I didn't see Sandra right here but I want to thank those groups because doing a alternative delivery project is important doing your first one is tremendous now you've got it you can do it and so so huge advancement of where we are everything doesn't have to be traditional design bid bill charlotte's uses to great effect and I think it's something that we need to have charlotte's had great success with it and I hope you can keep us progress because I hope this is something we can use more as a tool because it really it really advances the ball it does it does it gives you a lot more flexibility as the owner may cost a little bit more but some of that flexibility depending on bringing it to the right project could be well worth it but the time saved ends up saving the money so when you put a timeline against it in our traditional manner to where we get to here time we get through all the process we're actually saving money agree completely agree completely with you on that all right so I've talked a lot about things that we've accomplished and a lot of these we need to do because it's the proper running of the system one thing engineers and I'll be the first one to raise my hand and say this is probably my fault is we don't stop and take the credit for some of the environmental benefits of our projects right so we'll we need to do the project we got it done patch stuff on the back move on to the next one I think it's important that we start quantifying some of the actual environmental benefits of these projects that were happening anyway and aligning the outcomes were feasible with some of the other cities environmental goals and so for example we've had six pipeline projects that have eliminated pump stations so these are pump stations large power users that are out there running the majority of the hours of the day that don't exist anymore we've connected them with a gravity pipe now we spent some money invested that way for a lot of other collection system reasons but there are six locations now that aren't using power around the clock there's six locations we're not going out to maintain and driving there's six locations we're not having to go out and do O and M so that's tremendous I was on a back road one day off of 20 and all of a sudden I saw a pump station back there just next to a vacant building you know it's a frontage road Joey you know where I'm at but anyway that was amazing you you hear about those things but most people don't know where they are and this one you would least expect to find at that location it's sort of a back road and it just blew my mind I said there go one anyway they're usually not in the best parts of town right because they're down near the creeks right on the floodplains are down usually where there's not you know many houses so they're out in the middle of nowhere essentially and so to eliminate that we're paying for this tremendous out of sight out of mind if we're lucky um one of the biggest users of power probably the biggest user of power at a municipality is the treatment plants we'll let the wastewater treatment plant the biggest user of power at the treatment plant is the aeration process okay and we've got a 25 million dollar aeration project that's wrapping up literally finishing testing last week so I don't have the final numbers yet but from the original um testing that we've been doing we've seen that instead of having to introduce 750 horsepower to drive the aeration we can do it with 300 because we're using better and more modern technology that is going to yield a huge power savings carbon footprint result we'll bring those numbers to you but that's literally fresh out the field from about a week and a half ago and so that's going to be uh tremendous lastly is my my last slide except for one I've got for the mayor here after this one is the uh digester improvements at the treatment plant 30 million dollars huge cost major benefit at the plant let's talk about the actual environmental uh benefits from that and this is with three of five digesters we finished testing on three they just finished the other two those are going through testing now so this only includes three of five digesters we have reduced the amount of biosolids going to the landfill per year by nine million eight hundred thousand pounds okay biosolids are the stuff in wastewater that makes it wastewater you don't like them you got to do something with them right not i didn't bring samples for y'all to take home or anything it's uh you know but to reduce the amount going to the landfill by almost 10 million pounds is tremendous hauling costar down landfill costar down we are getting um beneficial or we're just going to seek out some beneficial use of the biogas that is now being produced in much larger quantities that's coming and so this is this is tremendous and so again a nice environmental benefit on top of the project that was needed and that that that changes because the figure we were spending close to two million dollars a year just in hauling costs and others so i mean if you get to a 50% reduction when you get all of it finished we're probably seeing significant saving because right now we're paying for liners we're we're we're paying for the dumpsters we're paying for the hauling and then the landfill application which is probably close to three three and a half million so i mean potentially cutting that in half is huge savings it pays for the system itself it is and this again this is one year's figures so far but we'll bring you final figures with all five of them running but we think this is tremendous and so the last comment i wanted to have was was mayor benjamin i got to be honest with you i was a little sad when i was putting this together because it hit me this is the last one of these i'll be doing that you're going to be here for so i was like well how do i honor mayor benjamin uh during this while while uh while doing this final presentation so i wanted to thank you for being the strong supporter of infrastructure that you've been many times we've come up here these things have huge price tags and you said we're going to leave a different infrastructure legacy for the next generation than what was left for us and i want to appreciate your firm leadership and the rest of those on council that have been with you and implementing that because these benefits that you've just got a little peek of here are largely because of that so in a way i hope you appreciate this to honor you i wanted to go back to 2018 he wants a bag of solids and i didn't know you'd be wearing the same suit today so i apologize for that uh you do have different shoes on but um in 2018 you had the columbia ways in challenge trying to get the city to be more healthy lose some weight and i thought that was great i love seeing your tweets before council meetings where you're weighing in and you want to lose 25 000 pounds across the city well in terms of biosolids reduction we just did that 392 times and if i'm approximating what i remember your last weight to be i think that comes to about 49 000 mayor benjamin's that aren't going to the landfill every single year just to put nine million you know 800 000 pounds in perspective that's 49 000 mayor benjamin's that aren't going to the landfill so thank you are you implying that are you implying that after i leave council be a lot less full of those are not part of my official remarks no sir but anyway i want to thank you for what you've done so all right with that we'll i'll get back to the business if there's any questions i'll be happy to take this notice a fantastic report and i think on so many different fronts uh we were faced with some daunting challenges but it's amazing if you get the leadership this council has shown on infrastructure on water and on sewer and some groundbreaking leadership in storm water it will decide that we're going to stay the course taking advantage of of historically low cost of capital uh and show people that you can do good and do well and that most of these the cool thing about this is that usually when you're making these types of decisions and investments it really is about posterity you're thinking way down the road but we've been at this long enough it's hard enough that we're seeing the impacts and the benefits right now and i'll say this obviously um the the wisdom of bringing your team on board but i take uh this team clint joey therese all of you and i put up a continued team in the country i mean uh all of you um missy um the the grinch over there with the wallet opens it up every once in a while uh no i uh no but but jeff um henry our legal team i mean it's amazing when you when you when you put the right team together you give people the resources they need to do the job and do it well and you uh and you continue to pay attention to all those other things the human infrastructure that mr uh davis stays on every single day how we're investing locally how we're investing with small local minority owned businesses i mean it's all kind of works together and um when you do that you get these kind of results so um no we we appreciate you guys appreciate you guys and that suit is not the same suit that was for a much bigger guy dude okay uh much much bigger guy it was a good good one of you running me so i appreciate you let's have a little fun with it appreciate you so much brian this might be a clint question but when brian mentioned the electrical use at the water waste treatment plant uh we can talk about a solar farm out there is that that's still on the join drawing board yes sir we're um we're in the review queue for dominion right now for the solar format at metro we're also doing a feasibility study of putting one in our lake murray water treatment plant that would interconnect with the distribution side rather than transmission in that review queue interconnection queue is much shorter so that dominion actually helped us with with that with some advice there on on um you know where we might cite that so we're looking at the feasibility of that now while we wait in line at metro yes sir there'll be some money and some of the federal funds coming out to put in some of this the cost savings we are absolutely looking for that yes sir all right yeah other questions okay appreciate you guys thank you brian mayor benton you've already have said it but this team has been amazing i don't know where so 11 years has gone i wanted to thank um our final all the finance team business license to you for the previous meeting jeff and lakisha but also departments like human resources miss javis is always helping with staffing concerns procurement budget it's been like you said a real team effort and i'm so appreciative of them so thank you again absolutely and that brings us to our consent agenda items 10 through 31 mere benjamin and council is there a second second any discussion as previously noticed noted uh lots of serious investment in infrastructure on this agenda another tip to have in that i'm with the previous question part color all mr brennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell hi mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi thank you our next item begins the ordinances for first reading item 32 ordinance number 2021 079 authorizing the city manager to execute the first extension option of the lease renewal agreement with chewis bank also known as or formerly known as branch banking and trust company or bbnt for use of 3905 what is it what is that that i'm sorry i'm there at 18 at 18 right there at um okay well right right at the monicello and monzesses it's always been a lease arrangement mr davis the the atm there at answer okay all right okay just a formality so i'm with the previous question mr brennan i'm good i'm very good yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin thank you hi ma'am item 33 is ordinance number 2021 080 authorizing the city of columbia south rely to execute and deliver an equipment lease purchase agreement in the amount of not seating nine billion dollars between the city and the less of their up to defray the cost of acquiring certain equipment and other matters relating to new approval the second discussion with a previous question park hall roll mr brennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi and moving into a period of appointments miss jinkins would you all come forward to assist several appointments that i know she has been diligently working through thank you ashley so i just want to make a quick note with all of the boards and commissions on your memos a few applications came in they're still within the deadline but they came in over the weekend after your packet was sent so it's noted on each memo which applications they are again they are within the deadline still and their um their districting has been updated in your memo it's been added into that as well and their application is there it's just present behind the current packet you received super thank you so we're doing boozer first yes sir all right mr mayor i'd like to nominate uh cousin share davon all right second all right mr davis i was going to nominate share the ball any other nominations good name it's a good uh good guy he's got first and second and third and i give him a port so you have he has a quorum um any other nominations saying none of them with the name of shares of all charades of all charades she keys the beast uh for nomination with the previous question park paul roll mr brunnan mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr govall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi thank you next we have the citizens advisory committee for community development they currently have three vacancies i think this one is where we have mr jennifer total three big brown mr this is the one where it would be mr rickerman and myself and councilman yeah i mean two exactly and at large yes so so i'm sorry again that's districts four district two and at large yes sir yes okay all right i have my point you did who you have oh william baker so william baker is divine mr rickerman jennifer total all right and um i mean slaps again did you uh i'm sorry what honey it was uh did you did you have uh someone you want to recommend uh i wanted to recommend this pat brown so this is district one of district two district one she's applied for some other things i think you could probably do it i'm sorry she's applied for a couple other boards if you want to point or something but this one is a councilman um mcdowell appointment this commission has won where each of us make our appointments unless he wants to take that recommendation right you know she's uh she's a hard worker she's put in a lot of miles working with uh law enforcement in her right she thought and so she applied for that committee as well the law enforcement advisory committee and that's where i was thinking she would be that's that's where i'm maybe i don't know myself but that's that's oh yes sir i'm sorry there are two citizens advisories committees and they're both on the agenda today okay yes sir this is the one for community development all right help me um can you all right so i don't have a dollar no sir not it okay all right good we can move mr mcdowell do you have a nomination or who want to defer into the 19th all right so advance the names of mr baker and miss tuttle is that right yeah all right we'll move those two and then we'll uh revisit the district to appointee at the next meeting uh a second both nominations and discussion and move the previous question for pro-law mr brennan yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mr benjamin hi so next we have the citizens advisory committee for for columbia police department it has 10 um vacancies i nominate betsey groff from district four is how many vacancies ten i have a couple suggestions if i'm i'm only have one myself uh all right so suggestions and nominations to me well nominations but i don't want to thank you mom you have to see you have 10 vacancies you got 10 nominations quite a few people applied cpd actually the chief is right behind you too the spreadsheet that you all have included is from cpd and it lists all the appointees there were a few people that applied over the weekend and again they're noted on this memo and their infos included in the district chief um okay uh jeep yes sir uh miss wilson mayor council um i would my comments i would add to this is um this has been a fantastic um you know addition to our transparency and accountability at the police department they're they played important roles with um not only how we look at policy but um our review reviews of review of force and this one matters it's just been a real compliment i think to our profession and to what it's brought to our agency we have um in what was submitted to you all um through me just for your reference there's some things that are highlighted for in particular at the top are advisory council members that have reapplied and expressed an interest to um to continue service and we would recommend that you consider that um they all have provided material um input and participation over the last several years um and i think we continue to be valuable um addition to the committee um there's two in particular that highlighted that i've talked to miss wilson about mr david cochran um and this for a lot of stack house that we would also recommend and then um as you can see the the list is is um diverse and ranging it represents um all different council districts and the folks that represent um you know just all places in life different stages in life and i think any of them would be um you know a benefit to participation in this important endeavor i made one one comment um that is highlighted in um i've referred to as light pink but um that that would be one to take note of but um other than that um i don't have any other comments to add how many it's not i'm looking for the uh she's at coca oh i'll see you now they'll be talking yes sir and carlotta stock stack house is one of my recommendations it's fantastic so the so the four in green have indicated desire to be reappointed yes sir are the other sitting members uh they have they indicated a desire to not be reappointed yes we um when we thank everyone for their service we gave them an opportunity to reapply um we've had several people that um their profession took them you know either away from the city or they changed professions or uh their time that was required was you know it was not what it once was so they just declined so there's some good people there um there's some good ones good experience and uh the green stack house and copper to you mentioned the um is uh mr davis's or your just one yeah and did you say daniel bat brown that's he growl she's uh off district four district four the um all right so it's four five six seven eight so the reappointments of south stout and uh bob linn bishop waldo him the castel and the appointment of mr stackhouse mr cochran ms brown and then scrawl and we still have uh three more slots to fill is that right mrs wood yes sir ten um ten ten or or eleven ten yes okay one so something off the previous count had us at eleven members was that the reason for that in my discount of course there's one the code for yellow one two three four six seven eight nine eleven why are we making this maybe it may be replaced someone so okay so any event so you said ten it's ten uh so two more slots all right yes sir all right yeah all right so i think will has a nomination too so don't give me 20 names uh in the meantime you better you better you better speak fast well who you got oh thank you mr man i'd like to nominate uh tracy myers last okay who else you have mr myers i was looking at um name um i thought it was i thought his name was mcdaniel but daniel's name daniel's name was there who's that um name daniel's spend it at college i'm a residential life coordinator okay are we good to go with those names y'all are we good yeah all right so i'm sorry well that miss myers or mr myers myers assistant senior assistant ag okay all right so we'll add to the previously stated uh eight the appointments of myers and mr daniel's and and miss brown is on was on this as well so uh move forward those nominations there's a second second for the discussion move the previous question for carl roe mr brennan yes mr rickamon i mr mcdowell mr duvall all right mr vine mr davis all right next we have the clumpy museum of art there's currently one appointment available one vacancy mr url ellis district four has no representation url yeah okay um all right i'll third that one too any uh discussion move the previous question for carl roe mr brennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mr benchman hi next is the colombia prepares advisory committee um there are currently six vacancies i'd like to nominate jott scott jillett from district four second let's see um let's get the page that's just got um other nominations you said six yes sir okay nominate uh jennifer die abe okay did mr daniel's previous i mean we'll have to do them all right now but we're gonna have to fill this up so we'll move forward with those two nominations i'd like to nominate um miss amy hustman any other nominations i'm sorry mr mr jane harris there's harris okay all right i'm sorry how many how many slots are open on that yeah just hold hold this six slots right yeah we have four nominations so we're fine we'll move forward with the four we have and we'll revisit the other two slots next week we have the nominations of mr jillett miss die abe miss harris and his husband dr harris his husband all right second the nominations any further discussion move the previous question for carl roe mr brennan yes mr rickamon mr mcdowell yes mr guvall hi mr vine hi mr davis mayor benjamin hi we still have two more slots to fill there for my next we have the hospitality tax advisory committee appointments duval i must make the hospitality tax advisory committee has not had a function for the last two funding rounds and i'd like to make a motion that we extend the entire committee by a year and have actually adjust the time so that we still have a stagger give them all an extension of one year but keep the stagger in for the next for next year so we'll start according to you okay i'm fine with that understand so we will so um just pay attention to how they're staggered yes sir maybe um if you have some some challenges with that let us know okay but we don't have any more life appointments i think john was there forever uh so that it should be it should be easy so let me go ahead and formalize that we'll move to stand all the terms by a year yes sir i'll second it okay mr davis yeah i'm i'm trying to determine the let's see what you want to take off i don't know the existing members again um they are on the memo there's uh they're split into restaurant tours and then i can hear you oh they're on the memo and they're split between restaurant tours and um at large does anyone has anyone indicated an interest in not serving perspective and do we have any other slots that are available well the people so missy had reached out to the members of hospitality tax and accommodations tax to see who was interested in reapplying and one of the individuals who did was john whitehead what i could do is follow up with her but other than that we hadn't received any other applications from age tax from the original but has anyone indicated the desire to not serve this one of the existing members no sir are there any vacancies um there are i mean that's why we're advertising it i believe i guess i'm trying to say are there are there any vacancies in addition to the existing city members that we're talking about extending no okay they're not let's let's barrel let's let actually inform them that they're gonna all be extended for you yeah and if someone if someone indicates that they're interested in not serving i got some good books then we can fill it in yeah got some yeah one one year if they elect not to continue they should advise us if they elect not to be reappointed and they don't get the extra year we will have a vacancy right i know that missy caught and reached out to all of them individually so i'll just double back with her and so our inclination is to reappoint if uh extend everybody if in fact someone indicates they're not interested then we'll have some vacancies and we can then fill those slots okay um i'm not sure if people opt in or opt out i'm not sure what you do if you don't respond we're going to reappoint you or what have you but let's let's get some priority yes and everyone we got we have some good applicants um love the new applicants love to give them consideration if if someone indicates they don't want to serve yes sir all right so thank you so um so why don't we wait plan to affirmatively move forward uh next meeting but let's let's let's circle wagons and everybody real quick i'll do the same with accommodations tax because that's on the next one okay all right super thank you thank you thank you very smooth thank you sorry there are several committees that have met um since we were all together and there may be um a referral or two all right sure um any committee reports and or referrals mr mayor mr mr brennan i'd like to report the arts and historic committee met councilman devolve councilman um mcdowell thank you for your time had a wonderful uh presentation of the amplified columbia by lice nelgrove of one columbia i look forward to working with staff about bringing some general ideas uh forward from that presentation to discuss with um with with council um some of those being local arts assignees the local arts agency assignee excuse me um but just really good discussion about uh about the the future path of of the arts community and especially leveraging federal grants state grants uh through through an official authority that teams uh with with us here at the city of columbia so uh thank you to staff and to lice nelgrove for for for their time and their wonderful presentation you understand you guys have a really good meeting let's let's make sure whatever is we need to do i want to really defer to um margine her wise council whatever affirmative steps we need to take to go ahead and get this done sooner rather than later need to make it happen so so thank you and mr uh davis yeah um i'd like to make a referral i'd like to refer um a review of code enforcement policies to the public safety committee we gladly accept very good and uh recommendation is also that we uh maybe uh receive some feedback by the mid middle of november yes i will we have some recommendations and mr davis um you know it's been briefed on those but wants to make sure the committee process can be followed and all the council can get the same recommendations but they will result in some ordinance changes and i anticipate we can bring those changes in november good for approval hopefully all right thank you sir all right thank you miss divine um i'd like to refer to the environment environment infrastructure committee um uh providing the discussion on uh leaves and yard debris the disposal of leaves and yard debris all right all right yeah i guess you have to vote on both referrals don't we uh first i'm sorry but i'm just responding to maybe a comment regarding we leaves and yard debris uh several years ago i had suggested that we might want to take a look if i don't know how you can honestly enforce this it's usually it's not property owners but i think contract people who do lawn work they constantly blow the leaves and and the debris one into the street which i think goes into the system and also the the danger of it is that um there's a it's highly likely that someone is going to get hurt that they blow a debris into a passing vehicle i'm very scared every time i pass when i find myself just stopping slowing up as i'm coming down the street um i i would recommend that the city take a look at that there's there's some danger there accidents waiting to happen and it adds to the to the ugliness of certain streets because they just blow it in the street and the contractors do not go and collect that debris and put it in an organized uh status to like on the curve it i i know it's far off from where you're going no i mean i think what you're talking about um but i said we're renewal of the conversation so i don't think robert is here but we had the conversation a few years ago i think we were looking number one at what the county was doing we tried to talk about going in conjunction with them and then i also think that robert had some thoughts about um containers or something and we just did not um we let the conversation lapse i wanted to renew that conversation but it sounds like a wonderful a lot of contractors who are blowing debris into um the right away and then when we get some rain it gets into our our system so we do need to just provide that conversation yeah i made a wonderful maybe wonderful committee discussion well yeah i maybe staff can bring up some information on experiences elsewhere because there is a danger of blowing beer cans and other solid uh uh articles into passing vehicles all people walking mr gavis we'll let you know what we need yeah okay right first let's take up mr davis's referral a second the referral uh move the previous question court for the role mr brennan yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi i and i'll second mr davis's referral uh court please call the roll mr brennan yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mr brennan hi um other um referrals to committee any other reports from committee all right good deal relatively painless um ma'am part do we have anyone who's uh signed up to speak or anyone online are any recorded messages no one has signed up to speak and no one is online and we do not have any recorded message all right all right thank you um mr duvall you have a motion for us mr may i move we go into executive session for receipt of legal advice related to matters covered by attorney clown privileges pursuant to seco 30-4-78-2 covid-19 discussion with negotiations instant proposed contractual arrangement pursuant to seco 30-4-78-2 capital city stadium purchase and sales agreement uh riverfront part naming rights agreement is there a second any discussion saying none i'm going to move to previous question or call the roll mr brennan yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mr vinton all right thank you all thank you everyone thank you