 All right. Mr. Brennan. Present. Mr. Rickerman. Here. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Duvall. Here. Mr. Vines. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Vincent. President Ma'am, thank you. Mr. McDowell, would you please bust us with the word? Sure. We hope and pray that each one of you had a joyous and. Happy Christmas is coming. Lord for all that you've done for us as we approach the. Add that season. We pray and thank you for the blessings you've already bestowed upon us. We pray that the advent of. The creator in our lives. That we are fortunate to feel his presence. Touch us as we go through these hectic days. And allow your presence to heal. We ask it in your name. Amen. Thank you so much, brother. Thank you so much. There are no amendments. Madam city manager. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? Yes, sir. We don't have an amendment. All right, please, please. I'm sorry. Just holding item 29, Mayor Benjamin. The council calendar next time. And as well as additional executive session item. To 31, which would be adding the state of South Carolina. And Allen Wilson turn in general versus the city of Columbia. Under legal advice. Okay. Super. They cover everything you're going to say. Yes. Okay. Super. Okay. With those amendments. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? So. Move. All right. It's a move in second. Any discussion? I'll move the previous question. Call roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Okay. Okay. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Mr. McBowell. Yes. Mr. Deval. Hi. Mr. Barn. Mr. Davis. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. At this time, we would ask council to approve the minutes from October 20, 2020 and November 5, 2020. move move move move move move move. But miss divine second by Mr rickerman discussion move the previous question car car roll. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. And counsel prior to taking up the city council discussion action items. I think you're going to get a kick out of this. And I just had to do it. We need to recognize a 50 year. As of today. Employee. Mr. Oscar Davis who is on the line with us because I told Robert Anderson. But Oscar, Mr. Davis has been one of our longstanding, solid waste employees. He started as a laborer. He's worked his way up to operator lead. He can drive anything. He has a CDL. He can drive any piece of equipment, Robert says we have, and always with a smile. He said he told him that I wanted him to join us today, and he just brushed it off. The humble guy is smiling, but he's just the epitome, I think, of what we want our children to be, humble and hardworking and, you know, just stood the test of time. You know, Robert, he gave me a few tidbits. He said, to just think about the year Oscar started, we celebrated the first Earth Day. A new car averaged about $3,600 and was 36 cents a gallon, and a stamp cost six cents. The minimum wage was $1.45 per hour, so with that, I wish we could. And Tamika and Will weren't born yet. Very true, but with that, I mean, still, this isn't to say he's leaked. Even though this is just his 50th year, he's still going strong, and so I just wanted to share that. I think Oscar was featured in a new story back in the summer, and he just loves to still come to work every day, and we certainly appreciate him. Oscar, if you're listening, I can't see you in person today, but I've got a little something for you. I heard you're a steak and potatoes kind of man, so I'm going to send something on your way for you and your family to have dinner and on me, and we just so, so appreciate you. Robert, are you an Oscar on? We are. If Erica could turn my camera on, he could, he's asking for it. Oh! Yeah, we love to see you both. Look, you have to turn your camera on, Robert. He turned me off. There you go. There you go. There he is. Hey, Robert. Hey, Oscar. How you doing? I'm good. 50 years. I really had a hard time telling Oscar earlier that I was seven years old when he heard it here. And happy birthday, man. Hey, hey, thank you so much. This puts life in perspective, man, 50 years of service serving the people. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your commitment to the people of Columbia. It's so rare in the world we live in nowadays that you hear about folks who have jobs for five years or 10 years, five decades, and you are a role model for a lot of folks. So thank you on behalf of the people of the city. We have to have some follow-up conversations on this, too, to reason. Yes, sir. Absolutely. To recognize them. That's amazing, brother. Amazing. So I wish I could. I got so many people on the screen. I was trying to get a good screen shot, but I can't get them. So we'll figure out. Well, if he talks and then we put it on speaker viewed. Will that work, Erica? Robert, say something. Oscar's sitting right in front of the camera. Oh, is it? Oh, yeah. It shows up better on Zoom on YouTube than it does on Zoom. Robert, you just get a great picture of Oscar and it makes you circulated to all of us. And brother, may God bless you for many, many more years and just thank you on behalf of everyone. All the citizens and the folks in the city of Columbia who serve us over these years. I'm sure you got some stories, man. I want to hear them someday. You know, if I ever suspended him and I know we're on live TV, I did it one time. He regretted it though. I regret it. All right, good deal. Take care of yourself. Be safe out there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you all. Take care, brother. Thank you. That was that was the one of the coolest moments of my last year. And I tease, I tease as well. And to me about not being bored, Daniel and I would probably could still wear diapers. One. Thank y'all for allowing me to do that. I knew you would want me to. Absolutely. That is amazing. You know, just a comment. That is a, that is super. I've always told folks it's, there's a difference in working in government. And public service. I usually refer to it as public service. That way you're, you're true to the cause and the reason that you're in it. In the first place. So for 50 years, it had to be something. There's got to be something about what he's doing that he likes. I mean, Good deal. I'm a city manager. Thank you. With that, Mayor Benjamin, if you have any comments prior to. Situation. We want to hear from director Tinsley. I did make a comment. We'll make a comment about the article about when we, Chris, trying to do the great article on when we go back to normal. And you know, we're going to do what we've always done, which is follow the data, follow the science, and we want to make sure that we, we not only make sure that we protect the health of our staff and the citizens who come and visit with us, but certainly our fellow colleagues on council. The, I will tell you, we are, we are eager to be back together. This group actually genuinely likes each other and love each other. So having a chance to get together, but we will make sure that we continue the model of the, the type of the age or that we want others to engage and understand the importance of physical distancing, especially right now as COVID continues to hit record, record numbers. So, but I just want to thank everyone on this call and certainly mostly to our citizens who have indulged us as we try to do the right thing. We're going to keep on doing that. And hopefully by, by we closer to the late spring, early summer, we'll have an opportunity to get back together. So just leave that for director Tinsley. Yeah. To jump in. And Mayor Benjamin, I think to that point, if I could add the, the approach that you all have taken and allow me to take has allowed us to still have folks like Oscar working every day, but in a safe manner. I think people sometimes, and we don't want them to be thinking about the services that they need because they should just, it should be seamless and they should be getting them. And so I think that, I think that, you know, the frontline staff, I have to give a shout out because they haven't missed a beat. I mean, we, we have remained working. There may be some offices that we've closed intentionally to keep everyone safe. But 80% of our staff is working on the front lines every day and the other 20% are just working differently. And that is so the water is clean. And so I think that's a, that's a great question. And I think that's what the municipal government does. To Mr. Davis's point about public service. And so that should be seamless to our citizens. And any question about, you know, not being at the normal. You know, a council meeting may be virtual, but everything else is still going strong for the most part. So thank you all for allowing us. Thank you for bringing up your question. And I think, I think Chris had asked that question as well out of 2,300 since March. And those positive cases typically have come from, you know, just social interactions not in the workplace. So we, we appreciate that the effort you've allowed us to continue down the path in a safe way. Hi, hey, can you hear me? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yep. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm Mr. Mayor and members of the council, Madam City Manager, just a brief COVID update on some of the numbers. I know everybody's watching these very closely is what is happening around the country right now. So worldwide now we're over 63 million cases, global cases of COVID-19. And unfortunately there's we're north of 1.4 million deaths globally due to COVID-19. Here in the U.S., as of today's numbers, we're over 13.5 million confirmed cases, 260,000 deaths for COVID. Our case numbers reporting out as of this afternoon for our state, right now we stand now as of today at 205,004 cases, we're over 200,000 cases to date. As of yesterday's report out, the new case counts, confirmed case totals, we have an additional 1,297. That brings our positivity test rate to 17.6%. And unfortunately there were 13 new confirmed deaths. As of yesterday that brings our confirmed total to over 4,000, so 4,091 to date. So here in Richland County, we are now, our case count stands now at 8,875, and we had 79 new cases as of yesterday's reporting. It's interesting to note over the last 14-day reporting period in Richland County, we've had 1,297 new cases. So we continue to average between, in Richland County, between 70 and 90 new cases daily. Now the upstate is really spiking pretty good, but here in Richland County, we've continued to maintain between a 70 and a 90 new case per day. It's nothing like we were seeing in July, but we're definitely starting to see some increases. So for Richland County, the report out today is 284 confirmed deaths, unfortunately. So with the case counts by zip code, the highest zip codes over the last 14 days are 29063 with 105 cases over that 14-day report out, 2901 had 107, 290210 had 100, 290223 had 130 cases and 290229 142. As of the November 25th report out, 39 of the 46 counties in our state have a high recent disease activity rate, with only seven listed as medium. So Richland County continues to be at high hour 14-day recent disease activity incident rate was 306.7 per 100,000 with our test percent positive rate at 10.4 percent. Additionally, the state recovery rate is estimated at 91.3 as of the 28th of November reporting sample and the state fatality rate is at 2.08. So just the statewide, there have been over 8,000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the past week. So our state is averaging over 1,000 new, 1,200 new cases per day. And for that report period, our average statewide positivity rate is 14.9 percent. Statewide hospitalizations remain high. There is sufficient fiscal bed space as the bed utilization rate still remains at 75 percent. It has remained within that 72 to 76 percent in the most recent past. The ICU bed utilization rate stands at 76 percent. So as of today's report out as of last night, there are 980 patients currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. 201 of those are in ICU and 84 are on ventilators. And our state public health officials continue to aggressively evaluate case counts, positivity rate, and hospitalizations. And just as of today, DHEC urges continued vigilance with a focus on prevention measures as we await vaccines. So that concludes my report. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you, Harry. Always helping us keep the facts and data in perspective. And we encourage everyone, you know, we get more and more encouraging news on vaccines and hopefully we'll have a role in helping influence the rollout of the vaccines in a responsible way, equitable way that makes sense for tamping down the acceleration of the virus. But in the meantime, we want to continue to encourage everyone to keep wearing your masks, keep physically distancing, keep washing your hands, the very basics and that will help us all stay safe much, much longer. But there's light at the end of the tunnel and it's good to see that. So let's just keep doing our part. Thank you so much, Harry. Thank you. Thank you, Harry. Thank you. Mayor Benton and council, there was a letter that came out today. I hope it went to you. I couldn't tell from the way we received it from the DHEC interim director thing to local government officials. If you don't have that in your inbox, we'll make sure we'll forward it to you. Good deal. Let's keep on trucking. Okay. Right now we have an update from the Central SC Alliance, Ms. Tracy McMillan, the interim president and CEO. Welcome, Tracy. Thank you so much for having me today. I really do appreciate everyone allowing me just a few minutes to update you on what's been going on here at Central SC and I will try to be very cognizant of your time today. So if you have questions, just jump in and ask as I move through the presentation, but I'm always available to answer questions later if you want to catch up with me then. I'm going to try to share my screen. Make sure you guys can see. Can everybody see that? Okay. Okay. So Central SC has been around for quite some time since 1994 and our mission is to engage in regional economic development to nurture prosperity by representing the city of Columbia and the eight counties in the heart of our state. While the city and the counties that we represent all have their own unique needs and assets, the region creates synergies with the sheer goals and resources that eliminate duplication of services by fulfilling our mission to lessen the burden of government. Synergy of regionalism propels us quite a bit because we have greater visibility with the population of a million roughly in this region and it gives us the opportunity to be very diverse and the recruitment of companies and talent that help raise the standard of living for the city, which in turn increases a lot of things like wastewater, wastewater revenues, sales and hospitality taxes for the city as well. So we have been here in the office since May 1st, hard at work as soon as things are picking up after the initial lockdown of COVID-19. Our staff of seven, we kind of see as an extension of the city staff that we're always on call to the economic development staff with a wide range of custom services. And while our staff might be small, I always like to think we're mighty as well and we have an extensive experience amongst us that we can bring to bear at a moment's notice. We've had quite a bit of change recently as of July 1. I fully assume the role of interim president and CEO. And while this change was under difficult circumstances for us, we have taken it as an opportunity to evolve. So we began somewhat of a listening tour going out to speak with our member counties as well as the city to truly understand what they needed from us and how we could change to make things better. And one of the ways that we did that was realigning our team with our mission. And I'll just hit on a couple of highlights for you. One of the big things that we saw is lead generation is so critical to our members that David King, who was our VP of marketing, shifted over to become our VP of global business recruitment. And we did this because it was important to really be truly focused solely on that lead generation, not only for the region, but to provide that targeted lead generation service to the city because you guys have unique needs and targets. That was one of the big things that we changed recently. When we shifted David's position, we had to kind of backfill that marketing lead. So Carrie Turner took over as our director of marketing. She's a true creative and an asset to this organization. I can't say enough good things about her. But she's really driven a lot of our agencies. And Carrie is our director of research. She's been in this role for quite some time. But I mentioned her because she's phenomenal at what she does in providing services to our members. And she is a critical component to those top three truly important things, lead generation marketing and research that we provide. So economic development, as we all know, is a highly competitive landscape. We're all looking for that needle in a haystack project and it's not easy. COVID complicated that quite a bit more. And as we've all seen everything shifted to virtual meetings and webinars. So we immediately looked at doing more on our own and generating webinars and meetings that were virtual. And we've done that focusing on industry groupings and biogeography, especially looking at doing some more tech targeted type webinars moving into next year to follow the city's interest. And some of the targeted recruitment programs that we are currently working on with Ryan and his team. We did hire on a newly generation firm this summer. So we're really excited to have a really solid lead generation firm behind us now that's very research based. And we're looking at adding in some new programs you can see that we've shifted with some of the growth industry focused for COVID-19. But we also have implemented a new LinkedIn program where we are targeting companies through LinkedIn. Our first round of this is going to be focused on the life sciences industry and then we will be launching into other industries when we see success from that fall out. Another really interesting and unique tool that we have available is Gazelle. It's an artificial intelligence online lead generation tool that we've also made available to the city staff. We can use this to use business intelligence to identify growth companies to help support our lead generation efforts made it forward. I'll just touch on a few of the marketing items that we're working on again because of COVID we really had to change our direction a little bit and pivot. Virtual is so important so we've really partnered with the city to continue expanding a library of photos, videos and really tagging in those testimonials and success stories to better tell our story as a community and in a more cohesive way across organizations. Two of the collections of videos we already have available for the city is the city's existing industry and quality of life video. There's also one available for Richland County and the region all on our website for you to view. And then one of the other really important things we have done is start a property drone video program. And that is so that the clients that we're speaking with these companies that are interested in taking a look at the region can see for themselves what these available sites and buildings have to offer. The first two we did for the city is Bull Street and the Enterprise Campus at Midlands Tech. And we will continue building out this program as Ryan and his team see fit and they need additional videos we will jump in and help out. But we're also partnering with some of the brokerages around Columbia just to make sure that we are expanding that collection of videos as quickly as possible. We do have quite a bit of in house design capability. We're working on a lot of different things, one of which is a lot of different industry sector specific brochures as well as county and city specific brochures. We do a lot of E blast direct marketing to companies and site consultants right now our database is a little over 2000 so it's quite large and covers across the globe that we know either have projects and play or or may have them moving forward. And you can see an example of us highlighting the Enterprise Campus and one of those E blasts recently on the right hand side of the screen. One of the big initiatives we took on this year and if anybody's ever redone a website you know it's a huge overhaul, but we launched a new website in the spring to enhance our messaging. And in tandem with that we rebranded so you'll see it across our website but we're we've rebranded as the heart of South Carolina because I think it really speaks to who we are as a community. We've relaunched and rebranded our made in Central SC campaign. We feel like this is very important because what really speaks to our ability as a workforce in a community are the things that we are able to make. And so we created this logo that we have shared with companies around the region that they can put in their branding as well to share and take pride in what we make here in Central SC. I'll just touch on social media for a second because that's so important in today's world. And that's something that we've really amped up in working with the city to make sure we're supporting the news and events that you guys have going on, and that we're highlighting your properties and marketing materials the right way. But also making sure that we are being creative and adding to that. So one of the really interesting things we've done lately is the five fun fact series. It's a little video that talks about some of the unique things going on right now in the city. One of the other big initiatives that is so important moving forward for us is expanding our collaboration. It's not something that admittedly we've done very well in the past and it's very important to us moving forward. So we launched our insights from the heart of South Carolina newsletter this year and we are now running that quarterly to update all of our stakeholders on what's going on. You should all be receiving that but if you're not please reach out to me I'm happy to make sure you guys are on the list and you're receiving it to the right email. We are also very focused on making sure that if our members have action plans or initiatives that are important to them that we are helping in any way that we can. And one really unique effort that took place is the Columbia Action Plan. This was very unique in the sense that it brought together Richland, Lexington counties and the city of Columbia along with a CRA and the University of South Carolina. All after the same goal of being more competitive and recruiting knowledge based jobs. And this collaboration was launched in the summer. Central I see has taken a lead role in the marketing aspect of that, but we will continue to work in all of the different components of that plan to help me that effort forward. I know everybody's probably heard about the mark Anthony brewing announcement that happened recently, the $400 million 300 job announcement in lower Richland and we couldn't be more excited about this for so many different reasons. It was important because of the collaboration again that happened between the city and Richland County and Central SC, but we were all able to play a part to make this a team effort and make it a successful win for this region. I will try to share with you guys. There is something called a story map that we developed for this program. And we did this because when Mark Anthony brewing first came to town we knew we had a very, very limited time frame to really showcase what Columbia had to offer. Tiffany Harrison, the deputy director at Richland County came down to visit us and she said I need your help. We have to showcase the city, and we need to do it quickly and only have time on the bus from the airport to the site. And so Kate bugby and Kerry Turner on our team quickly went to work and figured out how to put together this story map so that as they rode in the bus from the airport to the site. They can see all the assets of the city pictures videos all embedded in this display, and they could learn more about what the city had to offer. And even at the end when they land at the site, they can see the industries nearby, they can learn about the infrastructure of the site, the rail, the nearby airports and port. So it really gave them a feel for their surroundings. And we are, we have taken this initiative and launched it out to our membership made it available to them to use for future prospect visits. And, and just to do virtual visits that makes a lot of sense in our current environment. So we'll see the right a really neat hand sanitizer label we customized for the project when they came in and we did all that in house as well. So again we were really excited to be able to have such a great team put together to really make this a reality for the Columbia area. So currently in the city of Columbia contract agreement with us includes a lot of different things, a lot of which I've already touched on. These are sort of our core services available to the city, but we're always open to suggestions and ideas and would love to hear more from from you all if there are things that you're interested in us helping the city with membership in the City Alliance is on an annual basis, and it's only for governmental entities, including the city and the eight counties. And they are the only ones that have access to our services as a as our membership. I will say one of the things that we also wanted to change going forward is our transparency so we are working very closely with our local developers including Ryan Coleman and Kay Hampton and their team. To make sure that we are transparent and all that we do. So, early summer, we created this SharePoint site for our local developer team so they can easily access any resources, see upcoming trips and events. And moving forward we're going to have a dashboard for performance measurements that they can see live on a daily basis. All that to say that the city's current position with us is is for a half year so running July to December. And what we would like to ask is that the city consider moving back to a full time year round membership that would take us July through June, and allow us to strengthen our partnership by better aligning our services and deliverables for the city, and by providing that uninterrupted service to you around. And again, I'll just reiterate I think it's so important to have everyone's input and please feel free to call me email me contact me anytime, but I'm happy to take any questions or comments for me today as well. Let's go ahead to make a and then Howard. Tracy, thank you for that presentation it was a very good presentation and certainly our condolences on Mike, he will be missed. I think that the information given is is really good to help us figure out the partnership and and the asset of having someone like Central SC. I think the data dashboard that you talked about is critical for us to understand where we are on deliverables where we might need to tweak. And what return we're getting on our investment. Do you have an anticipated date that that would go live. Thank you for your question. No, we currently do not have a date for that we have some other things in the works and unfortunately we have to shift around our internal system a little bit to make that happen. But we were hopeful that early next year that would be available to all the local developer teams said the city's economic development office they already have access to the SharePoint site, but certainly the dashboards we hope to have early next year. The information that will be on the dashboards is that is that able to be produced in a hard copy form for Ryan to share with us. Yes ma'am we can certainly look at that depending on what type of information you would be interested in seeing and develop something specific for the city. Thank you. You're welcome. This is Howard of all two comments number one. There is a town in South Carolina near Clemson South Carolina called Central South Carolina. I am sure they're going to like the publicity that you're doing with your rebrand made in Central South Carolina. The second comment is I did not think that we were going to a half a year membership. I thought we were going to the level of membership that did not include an extra bonus that the city of Columbia had thrown in for a number of years. But we were going to the same level of membership that other cities had. Councilman DeVall for your question as well. So the latest contract we had in years past the city was a full time year member but in recent years there was a reduction in the funding available to us for membership and in fairness to the other members the other counties. Our membership is a steady rate for the whole year and there's not a partial membership available. So what we did and what we thought made the most sense was to at least provide the services to the city for half a year to be able to provide you with as much as we could. Tracy, I think this is probably the first time the council and I am hearing that explanation of the half year. The way we've done all of our contracts and understand what you're saying about the rate and how you all I guess we calculate a rate but that wasn't Mr. DeVall is right that wasn't understanding the council had we simply you know we reduced the amount and came up with some services that we thought were indicative of what that amount reflected with the reduced amount so we never looked at it is as being half a year versus whole a whole year of services but if that's the way that you are interpreting it. Then you know so be it but that is not the understanding that the council nor I had. He's my apologies for the confusion. I do believe it's in our contract for the half year it was one of the ways we compromised to try to still provide services but these are the same services that we provide them an annual basis to all of our other members that pay the full rate. So it was really the only fair way we we could figure to make it work with the city at the reduced rate, but we are happy to look at options moving forward if you guys have a better way we can work together to make this work. It's probably timely to have an offline discussion about about membership in the Alliance and the terms that we discussed over the years with Mike and David primarily Tracy but yeah that's a as the primary advocate for the Alliance of Council. I just said we need to have a level set so we'll we'll we'll do that postase maybe a quick call me, Teresa, Brian, and we'll go from there. Yeah, so. All right. Thank you, Mr Mayor. Yes, I will. Yeah, well, this Wilson could you share any agreement we have with sent rusty with council member so we can review. Yes, sir, we'll do that. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you. Let's keep it moving trees. Yes, sir. The next items are your can make up your consent agenda Mayor Benjamin and Council items for through 21. Is there a motion. I'm a little bit of a consent agenda items for through 21. The second. Second. Any discussion. Moving to the previous question. Yes. You're muted Daniel. Yes. All. Hi. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Hi. Thank you. Moving to a period of ordinances second reading item 22 is ordinance number 2021 06 approving the use of certain funds of the city of Columbia, South Carolina in order to acquire construct, equip and develop land and improvements within the bull street facilities and motion. No, it's not approved. The second. Second. Discussion. With a previous question. Yes. Mr. Rick, and then. Mr. McAllum? Yes. Mr. Bob. Hi. Mr. David. Hi, Mary Benjamin. I. I'm 23 zoning and planning matters for first reading. 17 to 53 design and development city center design development guidelines the leading three point five four. Is there a motion moved? Is there a second? Do you second the ed? Yes. Second by Mr. Dowell. Discussion. Say nothing with the previous question. Mr. Mac, Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. MacDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Thank you. Ordinance is first reading item 24, Ordinance number 2020 one, zero seven, consenting to the inclusion of property in a multi-county industrial business part. The Gable Oaks affordable housing project of 5530 Randall Avenue. And a motion. McEwlatoon. So moved. So moved. Move to a second discussion. I'll get Daniel. I just was curious. Has anybody met with the developers or something. That's always been an area of challenges and I'm excited to see some reinvestment and to do whatever, but I had not heard anything about it until the agenda came out. So if someone could just brief me at some point, that'd be very helpful. Absolutely. There's an email in your inboxes and I know Mr. Davis has been in a lot of discussion regarding the project with the county having passed similar ordinance last time. And I'm going to step away for a second. This is an exciting opportunity for us to continue to use these tools to not only hopefully incentive more affordable housing, but preserving affordable housing. So I'm very happy to support this. Madam Clerk, I vote aye. In favor of this similar discussion, I vote aye. I'm going to step away, Mayor Pro Tem, for a moment and I'll be right back. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Davis. No, just follow up on Daniel's question. I, you know, chat a little bit with, with Missy Daniel and I can fill you in on little conversations I've had with Yvonne McBride. She sort of, sort of walked along on this because it's in her county district. And so we've had some conversations. They've had, they're in a minute, they've concluded that basic conversations with the developer. And as I understand it, as of Friday, they are in agreement and it's ready for the third reading. Yes, there's some language in there that, that they were working based on the history of the property. That's basically it. All right. And how, how Mayor Pro Tem, we got a message from Missy Gentry with a paragraph that she suggested that we add to this. Can we ask the clerk to please include the following the city is communicating with colleagues at Richmond County regarding this ordinance and as a mayor of modifications being made that will address safety protocols for the property. First reading is being approved with acknowledgement that the city will receive a final credit agreement document for this project from Richmond County following their December the eight County Council meeting. That document will be the version considered by the city for second reading if first reading is approved. All right. Sam, yeah, I'm just saying that was an attachment to her email. I think she sent. So how would you you included that as an amendment to what we're doing now in 24. I think we just added it as a comment, not as an amendment to the. All right. All right. If the clerk would just add it does a comment. Councilor McDowell. Yes, sir. I want to comment that that language points to proper property management, keeping property managers to task for for for these. So I applaud that additional language that the county worked in there. Well, I also thank you, will also applaud that. Also, I've had some conversation with Council, Councilwoman McBride. And I think she was the chair is the chair of the Economic Development Committee. And I think in that part of as Sam has said, that would be certainly an addition to our to what we're doing here at Gable Oates. Any other statements? All right, we're not including this as an amendment, but an attachment to item 24. Is that correct? Right. All right. And sir, if you would, if you'd move to approve this, would you indicate would you indicate? Yes, ma'am. Call the road. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Vernon. Yes. Mr. Rickleman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Mr. Davis. Hi. We already received an affirmative vote from the mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Madam City Manager. Yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. Moving into resolutions. Item 25 is resolution number R2,02100 authorizing the purchase of 62 49 Yorkshire Drive in Columbia identified as lap 13 block one in Yorkshire, Richland County. Walter way burns as the former owner as trustee under the revoked trust agreement of Walter Ray Burns stated April 29 2019 project named Yorkshire stormwater improvements as part of our second. Second. Second. Second. All right. It's been moved and seconded. Um, Madam City Clerk, would you call the roll please? Mr. Vernon. Yes. Mr. Rickleman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Thank you. All right. Madam City Manager. Item 26 resolution number R2,020104 authorizing the city manager to execute an encroachment license agreement between the city of Columbia and Dominion, South Carolina or the rich tech space to pipeline project on People Street in Richland County. I move approval. Thank you. Is there second second second by Mr. Rickleman, Madam Clerk, Would you call the roll please? Brennan. Yes. I recommend. Hi. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Thank you and city manager. Yes, sir. Other matters item 27 council is asked to approve the installation of one speed hop on Holly Street between Rosewood Drive and burning drive is requested by the public works department motion to approve. Second, is there a second second by Mr. Rick, I'm Eric, if you would call the roll please. The burning. Yes, sir, recommend, I Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, bye. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. Hi, did the good Reverend break anything all the time? All the China's gone. And the silver. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Protel. Thank you very much. Item 28, Mayor Benjamin is a final other matter council is asked to approve a four way stop at the intersection of Claremont Drive and kennel work road as requested by public works department. Is there a motion? Move move them. Secondly, any discussion? Move the previous question. Mr. Brennan. Yes, Mr. Rickman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. And we we took 29 off the agenda. Do we have any any council committee reports or referrals? Not that I know of Mayor Benjamin. Mr. Davis. Now there's a message to the clerk. We did not set a date for the the last recommendation for the Economic Development Committee. Will. So if you can do do a little checking with now the two colleagues and we need to set a date on it. Yes, sir. I'm working on those emails now. I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. Erica. Yes, sir. We also we also at our last meeting talk not talk through but administrative committee. We need also to do that to do that scheduling also. Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. And Erica, we're taking a close look at the at the meeting agenda or proposed scheduled agenda proposed for next year and we'll wrap it up in that next meeting. Okay. All right. Thank you. Do we have any citizens online, ma'am? No, sir. Super. All right. Well then, Mr. McDowell. I mean, Mr. Duvall. Mr. Mayor. I'm sorry. Again, please. I'm sorry. Before we get started, I just wanted to take a point of personal privilege. Actually, right now, as we are speaking, the home going services for Ms. Burke are beginning for those. The Columbia community grew up on Ms. Burke's cooking for many, many years. And she was actually on the very first businesses that the empowerment zone worked to grow her business. And so I just wanted to take that that point of personal privilege to say that we will certainly miss Ms. Burke in our community and we give our condolences to her family. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you to make it. Thank you so much. No more input. Mr. Duvall, you have a motion? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to move we're going to executive session for receipt of legal advice related to matters covered by 20 client privilege pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 COVID-19 hate crimes ordinance. Receipt of legal advice related to pending threat and no potential claim pursuant to 30-4-70a. Sally versus Officer Myers. Strom versus City of Columbia. IJ Inc. versus City of Columbia. State of South Carolina. Allen Wilson, Attorney General versus City of Columbia. Discussion of matters related to proposed location or expansion of services to encourage location or expansion of industries or other businesses pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 Project Richmond and Project Cross. Discussion of negotiations incident to propose contractual arrangements pursuant to 30-4-70a-2 public art project. Segrod naming rights. The comment and 22-21 divine. I just want to note for the record that's LJ Inc. just important to make sure we note that. Thank you. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. All right. Any discussion? With the previous question, Carcaro. Mr. Brennan? Yes. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Thank you, ma'am. And thank you, everyone, for signing on the day.