 All the way down. For which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Excellent job, dear. Excellent job. All right, Reverend Dowell, would you bless us with a word? He's not here. OK. Well, actually, I guess I was probably actually supposed to ask the clerk to call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Dear. Mr. McDowell. Mr. Duvall. Present. Mr. Baduran. Here. Mr. Devine. Here. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Benjamin. Mr. Mayor Pro Tem Devine. Please, I want to give us a word. Thanks. Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for this meeting. Thank you for all of the citizens who are here to watch us do the citizens' work. Lord, please bless this meeting, bless all of our deliberations, make them be thoughtful, and make us do everything that uplifts your kingdom and this city. Let us all of our decisions be pleasing to your side and pleasing to the citizens. All this in your name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Mr. Devine. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? We move. There's a second. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, we move the previous question. I'm sorry. Mr. Baduran. I'd like to hold number 14, please. All right. Held for discussion. Now we're holding until July. OK. All right. So we'll move 14 from the agenda as a motion to approve the agenda with the exception of item 14. Don't move. Second. Any discussion? Move the previous question. Call the roll. Mr. Rickiman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. The public input related to the agenda items. MC Manager. Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, this time we would ask Council to approve the May 7, 2019 City Council meeting minutes. Is there a motion? So moved. Second. Move in second. Any discussion? Seeing none, move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickiman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda items 10 through 13 and 15 through 19? So moved. That's good. Move in second. Any discussion? Seeing none, we'll move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickiman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. All right. At this time, we would ask Council to approve the budget ordinance's second reading, number 20, ordinance number 2019-038, to raise the revenue and adopt the budget for the City of Columbia, South Carolina, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020. There a motion. So second. Second. There's a discussion. Move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickiman. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Item 21, ordinance number 2019-039, amending the 1998 Code of Ordinances of the City of Columbia, South Carolina, Chapter 23, Utilities and Engineering, Article 5, Water and Sewer Rates, Section 23143, Water Service Rates, and Section 23149, Sewer Service Rates. There a motion. There a second. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, move the previous question. Clerk, call the roll. Mr. Rickiman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. No. Mr. Devine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Moving to a period of presentations, item 22 is the recognition of our June 2019 employee of the month, Officer Alvi R. Vareem III. At this time, Chief Williams, Skip Holbrook, our Chief of Police, and Corporal William Beatty, Police Corporal will come forward for the presentation. Good evening. Thank you, Ms. Wilson. Good evening, Chief. Council, very privileged tonight to recognize one of our young, rising police officers. Officer Vareem came to us in 2016. He has recently joined the SWAT team, becomes a full-time member, I think, just in the next couple of weeks. He represents the diversity that we strive for as a police department. He comes to work with a fantastic attitude, very professional, has had some interactions with some of the distinguished members of council before, which ended on a positive note. We had a hard time getting him out of the backseat, I guess. Yeah, it was very compliant, from what I understand. On a personal note, what I would say about Officer Vareem and I think Corporal Beatty, for one, recognizing Officer Vareem and taking the time to put him in for this recognition, it's important that we recognize our officers anytime they do things above and beyond a call of duty. But I think what we see with Officer Vareem is someone that gets it, that understands our philosophy and our mission at the police department and what it means to have a heart of service. One of the things that's particularly impressed me since he's been here is we have a job shadow program where officers can volunteer their time and work on their days off with some of the more senior officers. He's taken an interest in criminal investigations and shows up on his day off frequently to shadow some of the more experienced detectives. He is a very unassuming, quiet leader. He does not lack confidence. He has a swagger about him, which is what he likes. He can pull off wearing sunglasses better than most of us. But all joking aside, I congratulate you on this recognition. And Corporal Beatty, again, thank you for recognizing him. He works for Captain Chris Roberts here in the Metro region and his executive officer, Vandell McCary, and they report to Major Ori. Of course, they're here to support and recognize him as well. Awesome. Thank you so much. So Officer Vareem, if you're with Captain Roberts and you're clearly part of the A team, I think all of y'all have a swagger in that region from what I've noticed. In all seriousness, I hope that you are married. You can share this if you choose to or not. If you have a look, you should share it, I think. But anyway, you be safe with swat or investigations or whatever you do. That's always our heart for service for you all. We want you to be safe in what you do, and we thank you. I don't know if it's a privilege or not to be called by a CPD officer. But I was called right in front of my house. And of course, I had done several things coming home. Wait a minute, now wait a minute. Of course, Sir Vareem pulled me over. I had the necessary paperwork. He was very, very professional. CPD officers, as I said to Chief Holbrook after that, I couldn't remember the name. I just simply said that was a young man who was very thorough. You should have read your ticket. Well, he was more gracious than a ticket. And I appreciate that. But you were the epitome of professionalism, and I thank you for that. And I promise that when I see you again, I'll be shaking hand and not pulled on the side of the road. Thank you so much for your service. I wouldn't have told that story. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Our next presentation is the hunger project, Dr. Tamara L. Burk, director of the Columbia College Center for Leadership and Social Change. Good evening. I was struggling to hear back there, so I thought I'd have to speak up. So I don't think it's the mic. I think it's my hearing. Again, I'm Dr. Burk from Columbia College. This is Lauren Fleming, my boss. And tonight, my paparazzi, did you get a picture? We want to brag on City Council on the Columbia College webpage tomorrow. And we are here tonight to talk to you about the hunger project, which essentially means we are here to invite you to a party, but also to help you plan it. And I'll briefly tell you the story. And the story is that one of the programs that I run at Columbia College is Place Fellows Program. And we had some of our Place Fellows do a feeding children everywhere project at Spring Valley Baptist Church. And they fell in love with this nonprofit who create meals, dry nutritious meals, exhibit A. For families, they have served 60 million meals in 49 countries. Anyway, we were asked to think about doing this by a representative of the nonprofit. And we thought about it, and we discussed with him, and we said we would do it, but on one condition. The condition is that the foods stay local. We have our own issues of food insecurity that are significant. I'm a proud resident of 29203 work very often with that community. And so long story short, on August 24th in the gymnasium at Columbia College, we are going to be packaging 30,000 of these meals. And we are currently soliciting support in the form of sponsors, but equally important people to help us with wisdom on how to distribute these meals to the best of our ability. We've met with Richland One School District and several other folks. And also, we are looking for some serious social justice warriors to show up, literally roll up their sleeves and help us package these meals. It's like an assembly line. And so we would love to let you know about it and ask for your support in sharing the word, sharing the idea with any like-minded people. And I invite each and every one of you to come volunteer on that day. Any questions? No. Keep doing the great work. OK. Thank you so much for your time. Tamara, would you mention the date again? Oh, I'm sorry. And oh, I forgot something really important, and that is to thank my very favorite councilman. Sorry, Major Benjamin. My favorite councilman tonight is Sam Davis. So tonight, you qualify that real quick. Whoa. I'm sorry. He's my people. He's my people. So I just want to give a shout out to him. He's always supportive. I pick up the phone and I just say, I have an idea for the community. And he's like, OK, what's next? I know what's next, Tamara. It is August 24th. It's a Saturday. It'll be in the morning on campus at Columbia College. We have given you packets for each one of you, the folder that has Columbia College on the front with detailed information in it. And if any of you would like a sample, we brought samples we have enough to share with you. If that's of use to share with other folks, it is called Red Lentil Jambalaya. And as a Yankee, I figured that would go over well in the South. So I'm hoping that's true. But if any of you would like to help share, including have a product, we'd love to share it with you. Thank you. Excellent. Go forward to it. Good. All right. Thank you. Our next presentation is an update from Capital City Lake Murray Country, Ms. Miriam Atria, President and CEO of the Capital City Lake Murray Country Regional Tourism Board. Thank you, City Manager. And Mayor Benjamin and members of City Council, thank you for allowing us to be here this evening and to share with you a little few things that we've been up to. Just in the last 10 months, we have featured Columbia and Lake Murray at the Grammy Awards. Thank you, Vicky Davis, our special events coordinator and at the Country Music Awards. And we were even on the Duck Dynasty Tour going across the United States telling the story in an editorial and an ad about all this region has to offer. And yesterday, Disney called us. So we're going to set up a special show from Disney at the fireworks next week on Lake Murray as they debut the new release of Lion King live from Lake Murray. So we are television, television contacts and spreading your message around the United States. But we continue to see the best results and the best use of our money through travel and TV shows and sharing outdoor experiences and outdoor experience shows to spread our tourism message. Television is continuing for us into August when Eric, the travel guy, will be coming to film our region in August for the television show that he will air across all the PBS national networks. Included in this show will be tours of, he'll be experiencing all of our attractions and special venues. And so he will be trying to tell people how cool it is to visit this area. But inserted into that show will be our normal TV tourism ad. We've just announced Cody Webb, a rising country music star from this region will be serving as our ambassador for Lake Murray country as he travels across the United States as a rising country music star. He filmed his John Boat video, his John Boat song on Lake Murray and had use of Councilman Rickerman's Lake House to do so. But that's being released in July and look out because there's a fishing tournament that's gonna be created from this video. We continue to spend 50% of our budget on direct marketing. Just in the last year, we had the big bass tour here twice in the fall, 677 fishing folks and in the last month, over 800s. So tonight we wanted to show you, or introduce you to Trip, meet Trip. You may have seen around town Staycation Week promotion going on. And our numbers are still coming in because Staycation Week is June 21st through June 30th. I tell our staff, this is a new baby, we have birthed. This year, we are crawling, but we have promoted this across a 750 mile radius. We have bookings coming in. Some of the early numbers from the seven customized vacation packages, the Family Fun package and our Lake Enthusiast package had the most sessions on our website across all of our Facebook mediums and touch points. Interesting, the Civil Rights and History package had the longest views on our mobile and desktop websites. They spent over 3.15 minutes on that one package. So tonight we wanted to share with you some examples of our promotion of Staycation Week because we will continue on and next year we'll be running with this. We already have a lot of packages being booked outside that week and we already have packages that have been booked from outside our region, from Charlotte, from Virginia. So we'd like to share some video promotion right now. During our staycation, we are going to check out the Children's Museum, ziplining at the zoo, tubing down the river, and a massage for Mom at the hotel spa. Thanks Trip. That trip. Staycations are great ways to get away without the hassle of travel. Ooh, nice. Welcome to Hotel Triathlon. Check in to Staycation Week. Great rates, great packages. Vacate your way. We've partnered with WIS and Palmetta Weekend. Vacation is a vacation spent in an area not too far from home. Capital City Lake Murray Country invites you to discover your own backyard during Staycation Week. Let's explore local attractions available in the family-friendly vacation package. Enjoy a fun-filled vacation in Columbia, South Carolina, and Lake Murray Country. Head to the wild side at Riverbank Zoo and Garden with over 2,000 animals, and cool off at Waterfall Junction. This package gives you the option to purchase the Cool Pass, which includes admission to the Riverbank Zoo and Garden, Adventure Children's Museum, and the South Carolina State Museum. There's even more to do as you tour historic sites in downtown Columbia, including the South Carolina State House and Grounds. For more information on this staycation package and others, visit palmettowheakend.com. A staycation is a vacation in an area not too far from home. Capital City Lake Murray Country invites you to discover your own backyard during Staycation Week. Let's explore attractions available in the Civil Rights History Tour package. Columbia's Main Street has been a stage for a number of defining moments during the Civil Rights Movement of 1963. Columbia has captured this history and invites you to explore these significant markers by taking a tour through Columbia SC 63. There is also the option to tour all historic sites in downtown Columbia through historic Columbia. After your tour, enjoy shopping and dining in the Vista in downtown Columbia. For more information on this staycation package and others, visit palmettowheakend.com. So to sharpen our pencils and make this even more impactful next year, we will be offering placations for visitors and staycations for locals. We've learned a lot of lessons. We will not have Staycation Week. We won't be offering this campaign from spring to spring through summer. So that will expand our timeframe to book the packages. Finally, I said we've done a lot with television. Our Tourism Ad has played this year on the following channels. Discovery Channel, American Outdoors NBC Sports Network, CBS Sports Network, Destination America Fox Sports North, South, Southwest, and Midwest. Pursuit Channel, Wild TV Canada, The Action Channel, The Outdoor Channel, The Sportsman's Channel. So also, stay tuned for announcement of a national parade of 40 plus foreign countries in November 2020. Those people will be in our region for seven days. And we've also lured a very special Fish and Tournament event that will be aired on CBS Sports in 2020, plus all those seven days were at the hotel rooms in Columbia. Every day, seven people in our office are working hard to promote Columbia and Lake Murray, but we could not do it without the city of Columbia. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Maryam. I was wondering why Rita was wearing her hat when she came in here earlier. She was trying to be incognito with her big TV debut, I guess, but. Ordnance Second Reading, number 25. Ordnance number 2019-033. Authorizing City Manager to execute a 12th Amendment to Purchase Agreement between the City of Columbia and Bright Myers 2001, LLC, for the sale of 5.97 acres Capitol City Stadium. I want to move with the following amendment. I'm going to amend paragraph eight of the 12th Amendment to the Purchase Agreement shall be modified to replace the date of January 15th, 2020 to May 1st, 2020. Paragraph 11 F of the amendment shall be modified to add the following. Buyer shall pay an additional non-refundable earnest money deposit and the amount of $150,000 to the seller as follows. The sum of 30,000 shall be paid no later than two business days following the second reading of this amendment approval. The sum of 30,000 shall be paid not later than two business days following the date the buyer receives written confirmation from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. The voluntary cleanup contract for the property has been approved when the buyer agrees to submit the application for the VCC no later than July 31st, 2019. And the sum of 65,000 shall be paid not later than two business days following the third reading approval by Richmond County Council of Buyer's request for the SSRC. Buyer agrees to submit its request for the SSRC for the August 1st, 2019 meeting of Richmond County Council. If Richmond County Council does not meet on August 1st, Buyer shall submit its request for the SSRC for the September 10th meeting. And then the sum of 25,000 shall be paid not later than December 15th, 2019. Okay, sorry. Correction on number one, the first 30,000 shall be paid not later than two days following second reading approval by City Council of Buyer's application for rezoning. And I so move. Second. Second. Moved and probably seconded. Any discussion? Shane, I'm gonna move the previous question. Mr. Rickerman? All right. Mr. McNally? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Badura? No. Mr. Vaughan? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. How about aye? With the intense desire to get this done judiciously, collaboratively, and in spirit of this good cooperation with our staff, let's make it happen ASAP. Number 2019-040, amending the 1998 Code of Ordinances of the City of Columbia, South Carolina, Chapter 23, Utilities and Engineering, Article 5, Water and Sewer Rates, Discharge of Sceptic Tank Ways and Repealing. The next section, which is the use of septic tanks for public sewers, amending the motion. To move, is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Shane, I'm gonna move the previous question. The clerk call the roll. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McNally? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Badura? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Moving into a period of resolutions, resolution number R-2019-055, authorizing the city manager to execute a First Amendment to Purchase and Sale Agreement between the City of Columbia and HRT Realty LLC and any documents necessary to consummate the purchase of 1601 Assembly Street. Motion. So moved. Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? Shane, I'm gonna move the previous question. The clerk call the roll. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Badura? No. Mr. DeVine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Okay. Governorель? Aye. Mr. Davis? Not까지. dûig V Name, hope to stay with the city manager from Kentucky"] Now let me give you a quick review by mere larcaline. Bill Gates, captain of state, Commission Bill 1, question or call roll. Mr. Rickman. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Badura. Hi. Mr. Devine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. Moving into a period of appointments, Ms. Jenkins will come forward to assist. We have the Food Policy Committee, Citizens Advisory Committee for Community Development and the Commercial Revolving Loan Fund Committee. Ashley. Yes. So the last time we deferred it, and there were only actually four applications for food policy, and we've received two additional applications for it, and you'll see that updated on the back of your first page. We're still only looking to fill four if you also choose to, and I know the last meeting it was discussed whether or not you wanted to keep food policy the same size because you all are interested in potentially reducing the amount of members. I know that was mentioned. What's the rationale behind reducing the amount of members? It was just mentioned because there may be too many people. It was, I forgot who mentioned it. It was a few meetings ago. Ashley. Yes, sir. The ones, the applications in our notebook, these are the additional ones, is that right? Yeah, the two, well, there are two additional from what you've had before. There should be actually one additional because last time there was five, now there's six. We re-advertised forward, and we're actually re-advertising for it again for food policy currently. Okay. So we have one, two, three, four, six applicants for four slots or five slots? For four slots. Okay. All right, definitely good folks. It looks like this is one of the few boards we actually have representation in every district for a change and as well as outside city limits. Two, five, three from outside. And we've made a change on all the memos as discussed by Councilman Devon so that you now see whether they live or work inside or outside or whether there's outside a city limit, so on and so forth. Thank you. You're welcome. The, I'll be happy to offer up some, are there any dual office holding issues with the Director of the Comet? We'll be fine. I'm serving on the Voluntary Committee. I think he should be. All right. Sir? Mr. Ando. I'm not the right one, right? Food policy? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't. All right. I worked with Richard Chesley many years ago in his role at DHEC and he'd be a fantastic subject matter expert in some of the issues the committee discusses. Obviously, Ms. Brown is a nephron, a good corporate citizen. Do you guys have any suggestions? If not, no. I'll be happy to make some motions. All right. I move the nominations of Richard Chesley, Jernando, and Victoria Brown to the food policy committee. We'll have a thought on the on the fourth and the and the nomination Ms. Draft. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Second. To move Ms. Chair. All right. Any discussion? Move the previous question for Colorado. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. DuVall. Hi. Mr. Badura. Hi. Mr. DeVine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. So, you received an updated Citizens Advisory. Really, the only change was that in between when it was deferred the last meeting and today, an additional application came in and that was Ms. Ms. Parthenia Luke and she's listed as well as the information in her application. She's very impressive. I met with her PhD student at the University. And a grad student and an adjunct professor. Yeah, very, very impressive. I move her nomination. Second. Discussion. Seeing none, move the previous question for Colorado. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. DuVall. Hi. Mr. Badura. Hi. Mr. DeVine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. Oh, Commercial Evolving Loan Fund. Hold on a second. Is that the reappoint? We've got all the folks who are eligible who want a seeking reappointment are eligible. Correct? Yes. They are and it's listed. Ms. Bishop, Mr. Snell, Ms. Rushing, Ms. Abraham. What do all would be their second terms? I move. You also need an additional appointment for attorney. So far there's been one application and it's listed. Mr. I'll point Jonathan Riddle. Mm-hmm. There's only one application, but he is an attorney. And that's the mm-hmm and that's actually a board requirement that we're seeking to fulfill. We could always for district two for actually his home and work. Mr. Riddle, Jonathan Riddle, who applied for the attorney. Let's do the reappointments. We'll take up the new appointment. I'll draw my motion. Let's do the reappointments. Okay. Mr. Rickerman's motion and I forget who's seconded it. Second. Any discussion? I move the previous question. Court call roll. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. Mcnawl. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Thank you. Thank you, Ashley. Mr. Mayor, we do have one additional item that is coming under the consideration of matters discussed during the work session, but do you want to take up the accommodations and hospitality tax committee recommendations first? Uh, sure. Why don't you take up your work session item first? Okay. So this item is the Rosewood traffic calming measures proposal that our staff has worked on, Mr. Honorable Mo Badura. Thank you, Theresa. I know the Rosewood neighborhood council has been looking at this study or the speed humps or traffic calming devices for a while now. I think they started 2013 and they didn't get the rest of the neighborhood to, I guess, concede or agree. And now we come back with a different map and I believe there's a couple of neighborhood presidents that if they wish to make a comment, please come on forward and do so. And after you'll finish, maybe we'll take an action. And I welcome any other council members feedback or comments on that, if you like. I know we talked about it in count and work session today, but we're here to listen. Thank you, Mayor Benjamin. Council members, Mr. McDowell, Mr. Badura, Mr. Davis, Mr. Vine, Mr. DeVall and Mr. Rickerman, I appreciate your time. These measures are desperately needed in Rosewood. We are an up and coming area which, mind you, we've been there for many years as a part of Columbia, but they're needed. Accidents have happened repeatedly at certain locations. Some of the streets are actually speedy. Just, it's like a NASCAR track going on. It can be during the day, it could be at night. People are running stop signs, but we actually need stop signs in certain areas. Rosewood is a very eclectic group. We have people that have been there many years. They've raised their families. We've got the USC students that have come that are coming in. We've got the Jim Hamilton Airport that utilizes many of the streets in Rosewood to get to many of the places they want to be in Columbia. We ask for your help in going on ahead and passing the resolutions or the proposed streets speed humps, traffic, excuse me, stop signs to be able to make our citizens safe that are in Rosewood. I ask that you please go ahead and pass this. We do have the DOT on board, and we can actually go ahead and start having safer streets if this would be passed. And I ask that you do this for Rosewood and for the city of Columbia as a whole. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, thank you sir. Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to speak. I just wanted to say that I bought my house on south bottom about three years ago. I thought it was like a neighborhood. Am I speaking up a little bit? Can you hear me better? Yeah, I'm going to make sure they can hear you. Oh, okay. Is that better? That's better. It has a beautiful street south bottom road, you know, oak lined street, cute houses, you know, in the area. And that's why I bought the house because it just looked like a nice, you know, quiet eclectic neighborhood. But after I purchased a home three years ago, I found out pretty quickly that it was not a quiet street. And the cars that would drive down that street would drive so fast that you could feel the wind coming off of the cars. And I think it was last week there was a t-bone collision. And these aren't just fender banners that are happening on the road. These are high impact collisions. You know, I think the previous one that happened, the woman had to be taken off into an ambulance. So I just wanted to let you know that ever since I moved there, Dave Brewer with the city engineering department, I've gotten to know him by first name because I immediately knew that it was a problem that needed to be fixed. And I appreciate you guys here in it. So thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to move, uh, approve this proposed, uh, traffic, uh, possible speed hand location at the Rosewood neighborhood count area. Second. Okay. Discussion? Seeing none, I'm sorry. No, I just want to add for the record that, um, Mike Miller did send an email on behalf of the neighborhood. It's been discussed and wildly, um, supported. So I just wanted to add that for the record as well. All right. Um, with the previous question, quote, Colorado. Mr. Rickle. I bless you. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Badura. Hi. Mr. Vang. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. Um, one more comment if I may, um, just to clear, uh, the process and how is it this moving more forward. My understanding is, since we passed this, um, proposed map, uh, the staff will take it to DOT to get the actual permit to install the speed humps and the four-way stop signs at the proper locations. Uh, once that we receive that permit from DOT, uh, we can move forward and install all the traffic designs. Correct? Thank you. Just want to clear that to the record. Sorry, my mic wasn't working for a minute. Accommodations and Hospitality Tax Committee recommendations for fiscal year 2019-2020. Ms. Dee Dee Banning will assist. Our A-tax and H-tax, um, committees met this year for funding recommendations to council for the 2019-2020 year as given to you in the spreadsheets and asking for your approval on those. Can we start with the accommodation first? Please. I'm losing, I'm losing. All right, um, we really want to thank the committee for the incredible work again this year, a relatively new committee, um, but still with the sage advice of, of, of some of our senior members and how much John, John, you're a meritist, so whether you, I don't know what you, what you officially are. But, uh, John, um, continues to add value, uh, and tarry your great leadership. Uh, this is, uh, my recommendation of the Solar Week Council and this is, uh, what I propose we do in the form of a motion, uh, we accept the committee's recommendations with the, uh, current exceptions with leave, of course, to go back and make additional changes as we, um, seem appropriate, uh, that, um, we do not fund the Gamecock Club. We read that, I think they had a banner here and significant resources, uh, they ought to be able to fund traffic issues, uh, around football games, uh, in their budget. I'm also proposing that we do 1% across the blood cut, the committee recommendations, and to the line item organizations. It's not a lot of money. If you can do it at $50,000, you can do it with $49,500. Uh, that will allow us to free up some funding, uh, that will be disposed of and appropriated in the front, in the, in the, uh, uh, filing way, uh, an additional $30,000 to the recommendation of the committee towards the City of Women Project, um, to Historic Columbia, additional $18,000 to the International Festival, initial $10,000 to the Auntie Karen Foundation, additional $13,000 to Hip Hop Family Day. Yes, additional, all in addition, uh, that is the motion. Was there a second? Moved and seconded. Discussion. Minor changes, all meritorious projects and consistent with the, uh, comments of the, of the committee is, if there are more resources to go around, never, um, no one ever likes monkeying with the, with the, uh, messing with the committee recommendations, but, uh, I'm thinking totally, we're, we're, we're sympatico, um, great job, as usual. Ms. Devine. Just want to say yes, I usually say I don't like to mess with the committee's recommendations, but as, as acknowledged earlier, I think they do a yeoman's job with, you know, a lot, um, so, you know, I think that we've been able to at least try and look at some of the organizations. I do want to just say again, I said in the work session that staff and I will be meeting with the organizers, um, of Black Expo, um, I, I'm fully supportive of their new direction with economic empowerment and particularly with my interest in closing the wealth gap and addressing, uh, economic prosperity, um, particularly in minority communities, I really feel like we need to, they're not going to be able to do that with the $10,000 allocated by the committee, but I do think in working with staff we maybe can look at some things, but I just want to put it on the record that I may be coming forward, um, and after we meet with staff, um, with some additional requests, because I know that their requests over the years has continued to get fun of cut, but they do, if they're going to put on an, uh, an event, they can't do it with $10,000, so I just want to put that on the record. Thank you, Ms. Avain. Any other, uh, feedback? Seeing none, with a previous question, I'll call Ro. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McNahill? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Badura? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Thank you, Steve. Mayor Dean? Accommodation tax. Mayor Benjamin? Do you need to approve the accommodation tax? Yes, sir. Uh, I'd like to make a motion to approve the accommodation tax, uh, spreadsheet that was presented at the council. This question? Seeing none, with a previous question, I'll call Ro. Mr. Rickerman? Aye. Mr. McNahill? Yes. Mr. Duvall? Aye. Mr. Badura? Aye. Mr. Vine? Aye. Mr. Davis? Aye. Mayor Benjamin? Aye. Mayor Benjamin, while I certainly agree with the comments regarding the Gamecock Club and the funding there, um, we'll want to make sure that our officers are taken care of without any type of this discussion. Absolutely, we need to, we need to- It should be well enough funding to do that without the- Absolutely, and we need to insist that the Gamecock Club pay for it. Yeah. And let me also make a comment if, if I, we, uh, as the mayor said, we appreciate the comments that you made on the spreadsheet for every line, what, you know, whatever the status of that applicant or that organization. So that gives us a little bit of feedback into what you guys talked about, what kind of feedback or what kind of, how you made up with that some a lot of those decisions. So thank you for the heads up and the feedback that you've given us. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you. No other citizens have signed up to speak. And I'll entertain a non-debatable motion to adjourn. To move. Okay. I'm sorry, Mr. Rickerman. For the report. Yeah. I just, we, we had a lengthy public safety committee meeting today and had report from the fire chief, the police chief, we, we talked a lot about, um, what helps us flows in our needs, obviously for the future, but also the, the number of service calls and how it's important to have these, these entities all equally invested in our basic services. We also discussed, uh, speed hump installation policy and I'm going to submit to the clerk this sheet we received today, um, and ask that council that we have this put on our next agenda to adopt. It's a criteria because we're having more and more, um, neighborhoods looking for ways to slow down traffic. I think the biggest point in here is under item three, which basically says that, you know, based on the locations, the neighborhood is responsible for obtaining, obtaining occurrence of 75% of the residents on each affected block and 100% of the properties, funding proposed traffic calming devices. I think one of the challenges as we've had as decisions have been made, some people have bought and sold or other people weren't sure and suddenly they got a sign in their front yard that says speed hump being located here. So we want to make sure that everyone is fully engaged in the process as we continue to move forward. We are looking at other traffic calming opportunities that could be bumpouts, that could be four way stops. A lot of it is tricky as you know in the city, the majority of the streets are DOT streets and then there's a portion of streets that are city and county owned. So we'll be bringing this up in our July meeting to adopt. So we have a published process so everybody can equally follow. We discussed speed cameras and school zones. We're going to do a test in a school zone with a speed camera, which will be a permanent item, which would allow us to achieve speed calming in another way. It would be a civil defense when you got your little black and white in the mail, not a criminal. And then we have foregone for the next meeting, the siren technology, because you weren't there today, Mr. Durer. I know you had a conflict just so that you could kind of tell us what your thoughts were. We discussed a little bit, but weren't sure where you were headed. And then we receive proposed amendments to noise ordinance that we are working on so that it gives us the ability to actually enforce the noise ordinance. We have some tweaks to be done by legal and look to have that the second meeting in July. So the second meeting, so that'll be online after the fourth. And you'll be able to see that. That was our busy morning. Good deal. It does sound like a very busy meeting. Any other reports from committee or referrals to committee? The motion to adjourn. I think there's one pending already. I think we've moved in the second at the haven't we? All right. With the previous question, I'll call the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Durer. Aye. Mr. Vines. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mr. Benjamin. He's a. Aye.