 Madam clerk, would you please call the roll? Good evening. Mr. Rickerman Mr. McDowell yes, mr. Duvall here mr. Vine here mr. Davis here mayor Benjamin here would you all join me for the Pledge of Allegiance? Great McDowell, would you bless us with a word please sir. Thank you, sir If you would would you bow your heads with me, please in the midst of all that? It's taking place in this city positive things as our city continues to expand itself as Lives are enriched But we simply ask that you might be with us this evening as We talk about this our city Touch us individually and collectively Allow us to feel and to sense your touch Be with each person that took time out of their schedules To come and be a part of this gathering this evening Bless us and keep us. We ask it in your name. Amen. Amen. Thank you councilman McDowell All right, do we have a motion to? adopt the agenda With these amendments withdrawing item 38 I'm going to conduct a public hearing for item 46 with defer approval a resolution number 2018-68 amend items item 40 59 And also defer consideration of items 64 through 67 all appointments to boards and commissions That is a motion is there a second second in discussion Saying none with a previous question court call the roll Mr.. Recommend. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Benjamin. Hi Mr. Palin Our next item is public input related to agenda items Keep moving next item is item number six approval of minutes councils asked to approve the May 29 June 5 19 There's a second second as a discussion Saying none and move the previous question court call the roll Hi Next item is consent agenda council is asked to approve the consent agenda items 7 through 37 Are there any items council would like to remove for a discussion? Mr. Rickenman item Hold on. Let me find the number here And I think clan is prepared to talk about it Registering Daniel Item 28 28, okay Mr.. Sheila you want to address I'm 28. That's the only one Daniel. Yeah It's our continuing contract. It's a five million dollar contract and and that's a decree Good to for everybody to understand what we're doing and where the money's being spent Yes, sir. Thank you for the for the question the opportunity provides some clarification We're entering our seventh year of our clean water 2020 program in our relationship with CDM Smith Who's our program manager? We've had we've made collectively significant efforts and investment in our sanitary sewer Collection system and in our treatment plant and I feel like we're really really starting to bear fruit and we've got some numbers Joey's going to share just a couple of highlights with you that are going to paint a picture of a utility that's moving from consent decree compliance to a best-in-class utility and so He's going to share just a few highlights But we'd like to come back in October and work session and open session in the evening and share a little more detail And some graphics that really demonstrate the progress that we've made and the fruit that we're really starting to see Right now so Thank you all for the opportunity of us to come together and talk about this this important project and The opportunity to come next month and really give some real detail what we're what we're doing within the program But with this program We are on schedule with all our deliverables with the consent decree And as a result of what Clint said, we're we're really becoming the best-in-class in what we do We're actually being looked on upon by our peers on how we operate For others to learn which is which is a good result of what we're doing But we're becoming a more proactive utility. There are other Contracts on the agenda tonight that's evidence of that looking at our sewer system investigation as some programs within this program their CSAP and our infrastructure rehabilitation program We're evaluating our system and we're making improvements to our system, which is becoming as a result We're becoming a more proactive system The mobile technology that we've implemented we're doing city works in the field now on the wastewater side And as a result of the successes from that we're going to be starting this year to roll it out on the water side So we're another way that we're becoming more proactive But also providing a better customer service to our to our customers Getting think getting from getting the call to immediately being in the field immediately getting results in the field and All that being reported back to our GIS, which on the wastewater side We've tremendously improved our mapping our how we how we keep Asset inventory of our system as an improved GIS Our asset management has greatly improved as a result of this program City works We're managing over 70 projects within the clean water 2020 program alone So it's it's really we're really improving on how we do things and we're doing on the wastewater side But but the past two years we began to do it on the water side as well taking some of the successes that we've had on the clean water 2020 program on the wastewater side Now we're rolling it over to the water side So we're making improvements to on last year and this year to our our GIS on the water side And I talked about the mobile technology that we're rolling out on the water side now that we've already seen the success on the wastewater side So all that we're improving Basically, we're improving really on how we operate making us as Clint said a best-in-class utility on the wastewater side as a result of all that Our SSOs are down tremendously Last year we had an 88% reduction volume in our SSOs from the highest year So again, how many 88% reduction awesome We looked at it several ways and we came up with the same number So I mean, it's it's amazing on how we but but on top of that this year today this calendar year So we're eight months into this year. We've had an 88% reduction from last year. So That's a tremendous reduction over our highest year. So That just goes to the success of the program Sanitary sewer overflow, yes Great work. I mean Collectively the last several years I think we've done about a half a billion dollars in infrastructure improvements across the city and region and it's a it's a big deal And it's a it's the benefit of our citizens in a lot of different ways So thank y'all for your leadership. Thank you. Let's keep on moving Keep on moving as a motion to approve the consent agenda. So move as a second With the previous question Clark color all Mr. Recommend. Aye. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Vine. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye Any interest of time it's okay if I recognize Mr. Davis to take up item 40 Recognizing the blue ribbon taxi company Councilor Davis. Thank you, Mr. Mayor My fellow council members and my fellow citizens tonight we want to Recognize blue ribbon cab company for those of you who may not know it. They are celebrating that 90th year as a cab In this city, I believe the first at the time the only minority Operative cab company in the capital city And if I'm not mistaken if you're not the only one very few left in the in the country And so in so recognizing them, I'd also like to point out that I've missed the Aaron Jenkins The uncle grandfather of our illustrious chief Aubrey Jenkins that was One of the pioneers in the company back then I'd like to share with you Also, let me recognize Mr. Sam McEwen who was instrumental in helping to So to put this together we all know Mr. McEwen Whereas The original blue ribbon cab celebrates 90 years as an established taxi company blue ribbon Was originally located on the one hundred one thousandth block of Washington Street in downtown, Columbia, South Carolina and whereas blue ribbon operated throughout the civil rights movement beginning with the driving Protesters to the sit-ins at Walworth Woolworth and SH crest department stores and whereas Aaron Jenkins was named the first president of blue ribbon following Followed by many other male presidents and in 2001 Barbara Dotson Was named the very first female president of blue ribbon and is still serving as president after nearly 20 years and whereas Blue ribbon has now has now has over 125 Drivers and independent contractors who are contributing to the economic well-being of the community and the region now Therefore, I steve K. Benjamin Mayor of the city of Columbia do hereby proclaim along with my fellow members of the I was supposed to be doing this week. He took it from me. This is just so you know Do hereby Tuesday August 14th 2018 as blue ribbon taxi company day Ninth anniversary. How about them? And miss Dotson. Thank you. You know, it's a speaking to the young man. I'm sharp over here earlier Obviously, we know the blue ribbon cars and we see them. Everyone knows that you big with this They're everywhere in Columbia But I'm not sure everyone knows all the things that you guys do for this community and have done for decades Upon decades even at a time and we were indeed two cities as a part of two different countries almost You guys have been a bridge over trouble waters with so many families and we're thankful for you and your service And I just like to introduce a few of the shareholders that came with me tonight The oldest shareholder half is 96 years old. How about that? All of us to get this done, and I thank you and I thank them Thank you Thank you the picture. I'm not sure how we're gonna do it. You can come back there. We can line up Maybe might be best to line up a lot right over here Yeah Mr. Palin Yeah, he's got a play Yeah That's Yes, sir next item on the agenda is item 39 recognition of the July 2018 employee of the month presented by miss Jacqueline Richburg interim director of Columbia Richland 9-1-1 communications with the city of Columbia in 2008 and she has risen through the ranks of our department from a call taker to a telecommunicator to her current position, which is shift supervisor Wendy is not her title Yet, it's easy to see how she has progressed to the status that she now holds and continue to evolve Wendy is notorious for volunteering to help out to secure coverage for the center She is extremely a hard worker. She never allows the weight of her daily task affects her demeanor What's unique about Wendy is She is typically always arrives At the beginning of the shift early and when she greets the other employees. She greets them by name Extending to them. Good morning Wendy's performance is unmatched and it is easy to see how she is exceptional She always goes above and beyond her daily duties while maintaining her assigned channel and consistently answers Calls and processes a high number of calls with a degree of accuracy Wendy takes pride in her work and she is the epitome of Columbia Richland 9-1-1 communications core values courtesy respect efficiency professionalism and sense of urgency So it is for these reasons is our sincere honor to present Wendy Royale as Our selection for the July 2018 City of Columbia employee of the month award. Mr. Palin Our next item item 41 is the 13th annual Dr. James R. Clark Memorial sickle cell walk Miss Yvonne Donald MA CSC EC deputy director of the James R. Clark Memorial sickle cell foundation Donald Wonderful group with me with here with me tonight and and as always it's always an honor and a pleasure to come before you and share information with City Council and the community about our annual Dr. James R. Clark sickle cell walk as you know This walk has been in existence Since 19 I'm sorry 2005 and since then we have actually awarded 28 scholarships to assist young people with sickle cell disease attending schools of higher learning We have some with us here on tonight one with us here on tonight. Mr. Timothy Griffith He is actually attending Claflin University and this is his second year receiving a sickle cell scholarship And I also have with me on tonight our new poster child. Mr. Drake Holmes Drake learn Holmes is eight years old He attends Rice Creek Elementary School and his mother Visha Jameson has been a longtime volunteer and Timothy Griffith's parents has also been longtime advocates and volunteers for the James R. Clark sickle cell foundation And that is why our success has been so great over the years as I said, we have actually awarded 28 scholarships our registration fee is only $15 our walk will be held September 8th at St. Lucy Episcopal Church Registration on site begins at 7 30 and our Pre-service starts at 8 and the walk begins promptly at 8 30 a.m. And we like to invite the Public to please come out once again and let us have one another successful walk this year's walk ambassador is Dr. Lonnie Randolph junior retired optometrist in South Carolina State Conference NAACP President Emeritus so we're honored and proud to have him on board with us this year and once again We want to invite the public to come out and each of you and we're always honored to acknowledge that Mayor Steve Benjamin and City Councilwoman Tamika as a divine of former walk ambassador So we're always so proud and honored to acknowledge that and thank you all so much for having us here tonight and All right, mr. Palin our next two items our ordinances first reading item 42 is ordinance number 2018-042 authorizing the purchase of 1-1-2-3 Columbia College Drive Richland County TMS number 0-9-2-1-6 their second And probably moved in second see if there any discussion Seeing none of the part where we the roll mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall. Hi, mr. Vine. Hi, mr. Davis Item 43 is ordinance number 2018-043 Consenting to the inclusion of property in a multi-county industrial business part Lord Place LLC Richland County Tax map numbers is there a motion? Is there a second Any discussion seeing none of the clerk will read the roll mr. Rickman. Hi, mr. McDowell If anybody wants to know the various tax numbers it was just several it was really too much for Jeff to read Anybody can go to our agenda online Thank you number 44 Next up our resolutions item number 44 is resolution number R 2018-083 an eighth lease of amendment agreement between the city of Columbia and MS joint venture for the lease of the 10th floor and 5,930 square feet of the 11th floor of 1401 Main Street Is there a motion? Move. Is there a second? Second. It's been probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll mr. Rickman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall. Hi, mr. Vine Mr. Davis item number 45 resolution number R 2018-084 Authorizing the city manager to execute a local subdivision entity agreement between the city of Columbia and Piba for participation in the state's health insurance program move approval Probably moved in seconded before we go on this if miss Benjamin, can you just so that people understand? Can you I know we've had a Committee meeting on this, but you would just briefly indicate what this is for evening, I should say As you all know, we've had some discussions and and this mic is not recently about Having some consideration for moving to the state health plan I'm more than happy to do a little bit of the presentation if you like me to but in just We've done a lot of comparisons to Trying to stay self-insured and there's Justin Justin is so good As you know, we've made such an effort to stay self-insured and have been self-insured for over 30 years And so we've we've continuously done The DDB and other plan design changes and premium adjustments in order to maintain that self-insured status, but we decided to explore the state health plan to see if it would give us some stability and some opportunity for some savings and So after exploring that we found that that would be a viable option for us And so that is what is on the agenda right now is for us to move from being a self-insured Health insurance having our own self-insured plan to moving to the state health insurance plan Which will be under Piba If you would Justin, could you go to where's my as a part of? Going to state health plan these will be the plans that we will be offering the full-time employees Health dental dental plus state vision plan basic life optional life dependent life basic long-term disability Supplemental long-term disability money plus and vision care will also be offering health dental dental plus and state vision plan and to our retirees One of the big things we considered as you all know, we were looking at possibly ending coverage for some of our retiree groups and Maybe even ending coverage for our retirees that our new hires as they retired until this Provided us with a viable option. So Once we get your vote today We will go through the process of completing our application and we will then be looking at Enrollment for the year plan year January 2019 We will be doing a big communication education Push for the plan so that everybody understands the plan Just quickly Justin, can you bring up? that comparison Spreadsheet that I've done Can you click down for me on medical? That tab that says medical great So just as a little synopsis This is kind of a snapshot or comparison of those two plans together As you all know we currently have three plans the base plan core in the buy-up And then the state plan will have two plans the health Savings and the standard so there are some gains as far as some of the Reductions in the deductibles the premiums for some groups are going to be lower Also some of the the co-pays for some of the physicians visits will also be lower Justin. Can you click for me on pharmacy? Pharmacy There will be some slight differences because of the way their pharmacy plan is Layed out, but what I did want to point out is that under the state health plan if you have certain conditions There's a no co-pay for some of your generic drugs That's for high blood pressure high cholesterol congestive heart failure Cardiovascular disease those are diabetes those that are listed so just a click for me on the premiums real quick So just some comparison of premiums Some of the premiums are going to be lower for some of our staff Some of our employees and those are our current premiums for retirees what we have Suggested is that the premiums for retirees are kept for the pre 65 retirees are kept at the same rate as our active employees So they'll see some some similar premiums But all in all I think this is a definitely an effort to help us like I said before stabilize our plan See some cost savings and provide a benefit for all of our populations when we were in in the Situation where we were going to have to decide to maybe not cover some of our populations and even not cover some of our spouses and make some other more drastic Plan changes of course, it's not perfect because nothing is so there'll be some gains and losses from moving from being a Self-insured group to go into the state health plan. We'll have less flexibility Less ability to do certain things we did when we were on our own But it will provide us with some opportunities to go to a bigger plan So that's kind of a general synopsis anybody have any specific questions. They'd like to ask We try to lay out some of the you know pros and cons last meeting Just to kind of make sure people were aware there will be some additional costs for transitioning for some of those those claims that we have not Paid out yet, so we'll have to do some residuals after the year takes place We will be in a four-year contract with the state health plan once we agree to participate so we won't be able to make that change until we're four years in so like for people to realize that We're still exploring whether we're going to be able to maintain the employee health center that's something we'll we're still looking at and We'll still have to work through some of our wellness efforts To do them a little bit differently when we're with the state health plan But all in all that's that's kind of a summary of what we're looking at what we were trying to move forward again for Some more stability in the plan And some opportunities to participate with a larger plan group Are there any questions? We will certainly be communicating this to everybody people are very anxious to hear about the plan design and What it all entails and so we'll be sharing that information starting next month and we'll be doing a wide Reach of communication Every method possible. We would really encourage people to be Engaged and to show up to the meetings that we have and to make sure they make the right decisions for themselves and their families as far as their Benefits are concerned and Pam can you address? I know this came up in the committee meeting, but As far as retirees and the defined dollar benefit. Can you just address that? So As in terms of whether or not we'll have that defined dollar benefit that council will still need to make Some kind of decision on okay, so Justin, can you go back to the state health plan presentation real quick? so One of the things that is Justin can you give me to the whole thing to the slide presentation? So one of the things that Heva requires is that Your active employees have the same rates that all their other people participants have So we'll be set with those rates and those will be rates that we That people will provide to us every year with the retirees It is up to each local subdivision what they charge their retirees and premiums So the subdivision can decide whether or not to charge them to the entire Rate what the retiree what the entity pays and what the retiree pays the premium they can charge them the entire 100% or they can do some type of combination of that. So what we've looked at was for the Pre-65 doing the same rates as we currently do So because of that and because of the way this is structured we're no longer will have the DDB as It was Remember the DDB was in place in order to lock in some of that liability and to keep that liability from escalating So we set a certain amount we're going to spend on health care for our Current and our retirees and we we capped it at that amount Well, and that's because we were having to pay claims costs administrative costs all the costs associated with having a self-insured plan so without Having to have those claim Liabilities and being locked into a group plan. We no longer have the need to maintain that that DDB at that rate Or maintain it at all really because now we are locked in with a larger group We don't have to pay claims. We don't have to pay all of those administrative fees that we were paying before There is an administrative fee associated with being in the state health plan But it's not the same concept as if you wore a self-insured entity because with self-insured you assume all the liabilities 100% so because of that we were trying to create that DDB to maintain that liability at a certain level and that's why we did the DDB for the pre 65 and the post 65 so now that we don't have that that liability issue in Quite the same way. I know Jeff's giving me the eye because we still have some liability issue Well, it's not structured in the same way We don't have to continue to to maintain that DDB right that way But we are so we are we are it is being proposed that we Are pre 65 retirees pay the same premium as our actives But the act the premiums are actually set by Piba not by us Right, so what what happens is that we pay an amount for each person week we ensure and that amount is set by Piba so with Piba's Active employees they say you've got to charge them for example here the active employee rates You have to charge 97 68 for that person to participate in the standard plan employee only we don't have a choice in that matter but The total cost for that is is exceeding that $97 is the cost we pay along with that $97 is the total cost With the retirees you can pass on that total cost the cost that we pay as an employer To ensure that retiree plus the cost of the premium So because we're a local sub we have that option to do that So we're proposing that Because that's what we've traditionally done is we've tried to maintain retiree pre 65 retiree health insurance at the same rates that we did for actives and that's been you know a Decision of counsel to keep that the same as you'll remember in several years We've wanted to increase the premiums in order for retirees to to Pay the amount of difference that it was costing us to ensure them for their claims I'm in charge that to them in terms of increased premiums So we have traditionally not done that traditionally not maintain the ddb And so what this does is this this provides us with a little bit more stability in The cost to provide coverage to to that population So the retirees will pay what actives do so if the premiums go up Their premiums will go up as well because they're paying the same as our actives, right? So so that's a good point mr. Vime what I want to point out as well is this is the proposal for 2019 We will need to look at 2020 when 2019 gets here and make a decision Do we want to maintain that and again charge the retirees for the rate at the Actives are paying we have that decision to make every single year It's up to us as a local subdivision what we want to charge our retirees for having the insurance We give them access to it, but we have the ability to charge them Whatever we choose to charge them for that premium So there are for example, there are some entities that charge They pass on all the costs to the retirees So they have to pay the employer's portion and the employee's portion And some of them do a different kind of cost share So this is what we're proposing for this year What we will see is after we're in the plan for a year They will look at our claims activity and there's a potential that they will charge us experience rate If they charge us that experience rate, we may have to pay a higher Amount as an employer to provide that coverage. So if that amount goes up considerably then we potentially could Share those costs with the retiree population If that's a decision that council wants to make because again, like you said before we're stuck I won't say stuck but we are required to pay to charge premiums for the active employees as people sets them But we have the flexibility to Charge the retirees the total amount of the premium if We want to do that if we want to set up that cost share So that that will be something that we have to decide every year So we'll know what our experience rate will be we'll know what people is going to charge us To participate in their plan and then we'll have to make the decision of how we want to do that cost share with our retirees If that when that comes up every year So that'll be a decision that has to be made We're quite generous in providing retirees with this same premium because we were looking at some significant premiums or like I said not having Any coverage whatsoever for some of our retiree groups So this is this is again continuing our tradition of being pretty generous employers and so But you know depending on what that looks like what what the financial impact is we may have to Adjust that philosophy as time goes on as we continue on the plan Thank you All right I'm sorry, I moved the previous question. I mean what the clerk read the roll Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Thank you, Ms. Benjamin We have just so everyone knows our public hearing we cannot start before 7 p.m.. So if we could Jump well, we can do fit 46 because that's not part of the 7 o'clock No, it's not Item 46 is a also a public hearing the resolution itself the approval for that will be deferred until the next meeting on September 4th Still can hold the public hearing tonight So we're gonna open the public hearing on 46 resolution are 2018 06 8 is there anybody here to speak for against? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing on that But we're not we're deferring a vote. Is that correct? That's great. Okay. All right. So can we Skip to 59 Yes item 59 Council is asked to approve the installation of 16 speed humps in the Melrose Heights neighborhood as requested by the Public Works Department just 17. That's it It's about five to 16 You broke our budget Yeah, and mr. Easley is here and he formed us that the neighborhood met last night and confirmed That's what what precipitated the change from the 17 to 16? And so mr. Anderson and mr. Brewer have the amendments So is there a motion? Move approval for 16 16. Is there a second? It's been probably moved to second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall. Hi, mr. Ryan. Hi, mr. Davis Number 60 to me You're welcome 60 mr. Bayland item 60 Councils asked to approve the installation of two speed humps on Bellefield Lane as requested by the public works department Is there a motion so moved second it's been probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall. Hi, mr. Vine Hi, mr. Davis Item 61 Councils asked to approve no-through trucks restrictions on Pickin Street between Rosewood Drive and Superior Street as requested by the public works department Their motion move approval. Is there a second? There's that get second it's been probably moved second any discussion Seeing none at the clerk will read the roll mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall. Hi, mr. Vine Hi, mr. Davis Yeah, let me ask a question. I don't know if it's for Robert or whoever I need to get some some clarity on speed bumps and areas that has Communities that has written a letter and Has not gotten any word Referencing that particular area, which areas are you talking about a railroad? Next one item 62. Did I miss it? It's the next learn the page Reverend turn the page number 62 move approval. I lost a page number Thank you. So mr. Reverend McDowell. Would you like to move approval for 62 is there a second like it? It's been probably moved a second. Oh, since we didn't say this is council asked to approve the installation of three speed humps on Barnable Road So it's been probably moved in second discussion Seeing none of the clerk read the roll mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell Ah Hi, mr. Vine. Hi, mr. Davis. Thank you Item 63 council is asked to approve the installation of two speed humps on Catawba Street and no through trucks restrictions as Requested by the public works department. Is there a motion of approval? Is there a second? I'm probably moved a second any discussion Seeing none if the clerk read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, mr. McDowell. Yes, mr. Duvall Mr. Vine. Hi, mr. Davis And we have five minutes You want to Since the appointments are deferred consideration of matters during work session, is there a yeah, I was gonna say that's perfect Thank You mr. Palin. Are there any Matters that were discussed during the work session that need to be discussed Okay, any city council committee reports, mr. Rickerman. Do you want to give a report? No Okay, any other committees need to do a report Okay, seeing none. Let's we've got we do have a few folks who was signed up And I just want to make sure Martha was here to and you were here in support of speed humps, right? Nothing else, okay? You do you want it Well, we're we're trying to buy poor She's in public. Yeah, we're trying to buy four minutes before we go to our public. She's got an item in public here Oh, you got an item in public here. Okay. All righty Okay Ms. Wagner Thank you for being here and although we do have a sign up if you would state your name and address and then just so you Know you get three minutes to speak and we will not interrupt you the note the Little thing in front of you will have a green while you're speaking the yellow will just indicate that you need to start wrapping up And then the red means you need to complete My name is Shari Wagner I live at 1727 Hamer Street and I'm here tonight to talk about an incident that happened to my sister's property at 2015 Green Street on March the 18th. I'm March the 16th My sister and I went down to her shop before the st. Patrick's Day Celebration and the shop everything was fine on March the eight 19th We go down the property on a Monday and her windows are totally come completely knocked out of her building That the even the frame has been breached by Friday she gets a letter from the police department and Saturday we pick it up and its code enforcement has told her that the windows that have been completely broken out of the front She needs to repair and get painted I make a police report at that time and the on that Saturday and the officer who comes down tells me that the windows Were broken out on on March the 18th. He was down there by two incidents Fights that broke out in front of her shop I Subsequently had to I he told me that the police would call her in a week the investigators never got a call I subsequently called down there to the police department couldn't get nobody to answer the phone left messages for two months nothing So I finally got the windows put up in two months and got it cleared by the Officer code enforcement. He says turn it into your insurance company I said no I want the camera footage of the incident that happened and I want the perpetrator who did that Arrested and prosecuted and him to pay for it Call down to Officer Whittle and he finally answers his phone and he says you called down five points and talked to Avery I said, I'm not calling five points. They never do their job. So he said I'll call you back This is on 521. I get a phone call on Monday morning not from Officer Whittle but from Penny Jackson with the claims department from the city of Columbia's insurance She starts asking me a whole bunch of questions about it I don't know and I don't even know why I'm talking to you and she finally says well I have to tell you just the police broke out your window really the police I Have jumped through hoops with the fat with the code enforcement and the police broke out my win her windows and didn't tell her I'm a citizen of Columbia, and I have a reasonable Expectations of expecting the police to call her And tell her what to come down and fix your window because it could have hurt somebody I have never gotten a call from the police department Said they've come they've committed a crime. I said they this is a felony vandalism That they turned her into code enforcement got her to pay for what they did and they refused to answer her Well, I'm down here today because I've even tried calling the the Police chief who was down there that night on film because there was a shooting there And he was told about the incident and said he knew about it, and he won't answer his phone So I'm asking you what are you all going to do about this when I'm still at the point where I can't get the camera footage I can't get the police to answer their phone or tell me I've even been down to internal affairs and All this has happened and I still can't get an answer for this and I can't even believe this Okay, and miss Wagner. We have taken what you've said the chief is is he still here? Okay, the chief is not here. Mr. Palin will make sure that chief Holbrook gives you a call and that legal I'm not sure about the footage. There might be some other things with that So we'll have legal take a look at it. I would just even like they told me somebody was supposed to been arrested I think it's a crime victim. She should she's entitled to know that Miss Wagner will make sure we've got your contact information. Mr. Palin. Let's make sure someone gets in touch with her within the week Mr. Divine, what's the address again ma'am? The address of the property was 2015 Green Street. Green Street, okay All righty, and we are at 701 so I believe miss Hampton we can get started Good evening Zoning public hearing this evening starts with a number of annexations Comprehensive plan map amendments and zoning map amendments your first is at 134 Cooper's nursery road a request to annex annex and assign a land use classification of urban edge residential large lot and a zoning of planned unit development residential Is there anyone here to speak for or against number 47? Seeing none, is there a motion so moved? Is there a second? It's been probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk would read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Duvall. All right Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis Annexation comprehensive plan map amendment and zoning map amendment at 107 123 139 160 and 167 Riding Grove Road and 1113 Old National Highway or a quest to annex assign a land use classification of urban edge residential small lot and a zoning of planned unit development residential the property is owned neighborhood medium density and RSRD and our UN PDD in Richland County Is there anyone here to speak for or against number 48? Seeing none, is there motion so moved their second second Probably moved second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none of the clerk would read the roll Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis Annexation comprehensive plan map amendment and zoning map amendment at 527 and 531 Windmint Drive and 5219 Fairfield Road or request to annex assign a land use classification of urban core community activity center in a zoning of general residential district Is there anyone here to speak for or against number 49? Seeing none, is there motion move Probably moved in second isn't any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis Annexation comprehensive plan map amendment and zoning map amendment at 2313 Apple Valley Road or request to annex Assign a land use classification of urban edge residential large lot and a zoning of general residential Is there anyone here to speak for or against number 50? Seeing none is there a motion It's been probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Benjamin. Hi, Mr. Davis Annexation comprehensive plan map amendment and zoning map amendment at 2019 Joe Frazier court or request to annex assign a land use classification of urban Ed residential large lot and the zoning classification of single-family residential. That's RS2 Is there anyone here to speak for against this? Seeing none is there a motion So moved sir second Any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis Annexation comprehensive plan map amendment and zoning map amendment at 125 Payton Road or request to annex assign a land use classification of IND industrial and a zoning of light industrial. That's M1 Anyone here to speak for or against? Seeing none is there a motion? Second what has been probably moved to second any discussion? Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis If it pleases counsel, I'd suggest taking 53 and 54 together Which are confirming the comprehensive plan map amendment and the zoning map amendment at 2716 shop road This would be a land use amendment of the IND industrial and a zoning classification of M1 Which is light industrial for 53 and 54. Is there anyone here to speak for or against 53 and 54? Seeing none is there a motion? It's been probably well one of you moved in one you second has been probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Moving into a rezoning, which is a zoning map amendment at 939 West Confederate Avenue This is a request to rezone the parcel from a planned unit development residential to RS3, which is single-family residential Is there anyone here to speak for or against number 55? Seeing those their motion There's probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Your next two items are zoning text and map amendments in order to Designate both of these structures as landmarks will take them one at a time The first is at 1633 Main Street and 1635 Main Street It's a request to rezone to add the DP to create to designate the structure as a group 3 landmark Is there anyone here to speak for or against? It's it's been probably moved by Councilman McDowell. Is there a second? Second and probably moved in second any discussion Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis Zoning map and text amendment at 1637 Main Street or request to rezone the parcel to add the DP To designate the structure as a group 3 landmark Is there anyone here to speak for or against? Seeing none is their motion. We'll move second probably move in second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none of the clerk will read the roll. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. I'm gonna request direction from Council on number 58. This is over 27 groupings of properties Where we are amending the the future land use to comprehensive plan These are future land use amendments and Ms. Deforth is here to to assist and answer any questions these have been a result of staff looking ahead at the rewrite of the comprehensive plan as well as Just doing work with other mapping issues and identifying Inconsistencies in our land use. So this is not the zoning. This is the land use that you adopted a couple years ago some of them quite frankly were just a result of Maybe not moving the line where it needed to be That that it didn't align with what actually was on the ground We are happy to go through each of these if you wish And I can I'll be reading for a little while. I can read each of these I don't think that's necessary is anyone will take direction from you Is anyone here to speak for or against or to ask any questions on 58? Seeing none is their motion It's been probably moved to second any discussion seeing none of the clerk will read the roll Could We add that you give each of one of us a copy of that just so that if some Something comes up because I've had trouble trying to pull it up two or three times Yes Mr. Mcdowell mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, mr. Davis Thank you miss Hampton and I'm gonna go back to this list real quick So we've heard from Miss Wagner Mr. Easley did you know he's gone? So he was here on the zoning and Dina Phillips. I think she was here on the same thing Melrose Okay, she's gone as well. Okay We've got Annie Murray Connie, I'm sorry You have a fancy C with the oh Good afternoon We have a problem on the 1400 block of Prescott where a young lady was found dead in a wooded area and the woody area is about As tall as I am and I'm not very tall, but and So it's dangerous and you can call in calling as a house this empty I need to be torn down and It's kind of hard waking up looking over there and up and down the street prostitutes male female young and old and Need police, you know police said, you know need to come and patrol that area instead of stopping everybody Down Main Street but I know they have to do their job, but if it was in your in your neighborhood you wouldn't want that and It's just dangerous going in your house coming out I mean, you you know, nobody want to be another big be a victim My house is right across you can you state your name for the record? I know Miss Murray signed in but you didn't so or are you the next one? Okay, so you did Marguerite Grant Miss Grant And I live in the house right across the street where Brenda Jackson was murdered last week My house is 1413 press card roll right across the street from that area. In fact this year It's the second person been killed one was right in front of my door Last year one right on the other side of my house. There's not a lot of light out there and Call them the ladies of the night They're up and down press card road in Coombe Street all night and they go back on that property and they go behind the buildings and So it's a safety issue especially for me because I live right there on that corner by myself and the city don't keep that area clean trees hanging over and Bushes everywhere so anybody can hide In fact, there was a man living right across the street in one of the buildings He used to come cross my fence and cook on my porch And he was using my property when I was at work So I get a lot of that Because of where I live and there's just no safety measurements around there. There's not a lot of light around there It's dark and I have to face that every day and right about now. I'm pretty scared our safety is I Feel like my life is in danger now Thank you. Thank you. Miss Grant. Mr. Davis. You wanted to respond? We talked I Since we've talked I've talked with the police department and the two things Definitely they're gonna start moving on one is to have that building there demolish. It's been vacant for sometimes and also You know, we talked about who about ownership rather not the church owns it or the previous owners But that that that is a priority and I agree with you on the cutback and we'll also look at increasing the lighting but I guess on on Coon as well as Prescott because you know, that's some of that foot traffic is coming from Maine so We hear you and I'm just telling you to hold us accountable for some immediate changes But but there they are aware of it and they they are working on a definite plan for it Thank you. Thank you. Miss Grant. I was gonna say mr. Palin. Can we make sure? Mr. Anderson or somebody gets would do a lighting assessment. We can definitely do that sooner rather than later Miss Grant The property as mr. Davis is talking about we would have to figure out ownership We the city can't go and want someone else's property and cut it so we need to look at Finding out who the owner is and making sure that they get that cut and then more patrols So we we can you'll see some differences, but we can respond to you On the status of that Okay, if I may say one other thing It would help if they would come along and cut down the grass cut the grass like on the sidewalks Where there are trees is not hanging over where you can hide Some of that if they can cut back some of that to that would help because they won't be able to hide there So that would help some and that's the same kind of thing we have we just have to look at that I know a lot of folks that oh it's a sidewalk the city should do it. It's really not it There's a lot of things factors that factor in that So I'm not sure it would be the city who could do it or we have to make sure holding the Adjacent property owners accountable, but we'll look into that for you Okay, thank you both for coming and we appreciate For both of you for standing up on this That is everyone that signed up. Is there anything else? All right, so is there a motion to adjourn? Second it's been moved in second no discussion. So if the clerk will read the roll Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McNally. Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Vine. Hi, Mr. Davis. Have a good evening