 Adam City manager. Mr. Rickman. Here. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Valdura. Here. Mr. Vines. Mr. Davis. Here. Mayor Benjamin. Did I call you Mr. Rickman? Huh? I was making sure I included you in the roll call. You did. Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Mayor Benjamin is out of town on official business and his, his divine is also out of town. So we're here. Mayor Benjamin is trying to call. He will be calling. I'm sorry. The mayor will be calling in and we will connect him as soon as the technical folks can work that out. Yes, sir. Right. Thank you. We're going to ask Chief Jenkins to bless us with the implication. All right. Let us pray to the one who sits high and look low and blesses us all. Our father, we thank you right now, Lord, for just allowing us to be in this place for a long time. We ask, Lord, that you just bless this council, Lord, as they go about doing the people's business. We thank you, Lord, for them. And no matter where, Lord, we ask that you give them knowledge, wisdom and understanding to do your will. We thank you, Lord, for our city manager and all her staff, Lord. We thank you, Lord, for all of those folks who are gathered here tonight. Amen. Just to do your will. We ask that you continue to guide us, lead us, Lord, and just keep us, Lord. We ask for peace, Lord. We ask that you bless this city, this county, this state, and these United States. We ask, Lord, these blessing. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Madam, Mr. Davis, at this time, we would ask council to adopt the agenda as outlined. Madam. I'm sorry. I have a couple of requests. Yes, sir. I'd like to withdraw 11 from the consent agenda and 14 from the consent agenda. I'm sorry, Mr. Bedouin, 13, 11 and 14. 14. Okay. Um, maybe I changed it. Never mind. Hold on. Um, 15. Right. That's the park. Yeah. 15, 11 and 15. 11 and 15. 11 and 15. And you're asking just to take these separate correct. Okay. Motion in order. Those in favor. Move. We adopt the agenda with the additions and deletions made by Mr. Badera. Thank you, Mr. Rickerman. Second. Mr. Mcdowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Badura. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. Thank you. Oh, he's in. Good mayor. At this time, we will ask council to adopt consent agenda items nine and 10 12 through 14 and 16 through 20. So moved. Second. Mr. Rickerman. Hi, Mr. McDowell. Yes, Mr. Duvall. Hi, Mr. Badura. Hi, Mr. Davis. Hi, Mayor Benjamin. Would you like to take up item 11? Yes. I just need, um, I know we discussed this a little bit, um, and I just want to make it, uh, maybe do some clarification to the public if I can ask Missy Kauffman or somebody from staff to, um, look at table, I mean, number 11 and go through the details into what this funding is about. What is it doing? Please. Yes. Our staff comes for this is, um, uh, ask of our council to approve change order number three to the contract for environmental services associated with the community development block grant for disaster recovery funds. Um, our disaster recovery program, the award to ESP Associates Inc. in the amount of $450,000. This firm is located in Fort Mills, South Carolina. And I go ahead, Missy. This may be a team effort between some of us, but I just want to start. These are services required by the federal government through HUD before we can do any work on the repairs of the home. This is assessment for the scope of services needed to make repairs. Okay. And the question that I received is, was this for a specific property? But from talking to you and everybody else, it's not for one specific property. It's a bunch of properties that we're doing assessment on and environmental studies. Well, I've already 100 properties. That's right. Okay. Over 200 properties. That's all I needed. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Missy. I move for approval. Second. Mr. Rickman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Item 15. Council has asked to approve an amendment in the amount of $133,000. I'm sorry. I thought it was 15. 15. Okay. And this is an ask of our council to approve an amendment in the amount of $133,108.15 to the design bill contract for the Hampton Park Neighborhood Center is requested by the Parks and Recreation Department. The original award to Solid Structures LLC, a minority business enterprise woman, was in the amount of $637,000. The firm is located in West Columbia, South Carolina, and we also request the council's approval to execute the amendment in a form approved by the city attorney's office with final approval by the city manager. Mr. Davis is here to answer any questions. And the only point that I want to make here, and I'm not against the consent agenda item, is the change order amounts. It seems like we've got, in the past few meetings, we've had change orders exceed 10%, 15%, that kind of thing. And I'm just worried that we just want to make sure that we're covered in the contract agreement that we go into with the vendor or whoever else like that. And I don't know what is the contract agreement on this, whether tariff is covered under the contract or not. I just, we want to watch for every penny that we spend, especially when it comes to change orders. And that just, it's just a large amount of money for it to be cost of living or cost of materials gone up, that kind of thing. I just think you would need to be considered vigilant about approving rubber stamping change orders like that all the time, especially with big amounts. So in general, we do, we will look at any new policies that we can put in place on the overarching amount. Typically, Mr. Bedora, it may have something to do with what you just just described, if there's been a cost materially that changed. I think in this particular situation, we were going through some national issues regarding tariffs, but I'll let Randy speak to that. So we look at that very closely when there are major amendments that almost double, or in this case have doubled or triple the cost of the contract. And my other point is, are we, do we have that fine language in the details in the contract that we signed with the vendor and all that? And maybe if that's the case, maybe we need to look into that and so that we can protect the taxpayers, I think more than anything else. Sure. We're going through a process overarching with finance staff to look at change orders, amendments, renewals. So we'll include your concerns as we're going through that process. That would be awesome. And I think the building and the park is much needed for the building to be there. Yes, we fear you were very supportive of the park. I am questioning the cost. I'm just, yeah, I'm questioning the actual change order. I'm good, Randy. I'm fine. I appreciate it. That's the case of the matter was that the increase in construction cost and materials resulted in a significant increase. It's a state of art facility, but it can need more technology in the building itself. We want to have what District 1 has. Well, he's still going to need more money to make the park more electronically up than. So I think that's, you know, we could use that money for that. So even with the change order, we're still online, in line with our budget here with what was officially approved. Yes. Well, there's not a significant increase in those in those same daughters. What was a significant increase from the start of 637? The bottom line is that we still we still balanced out what the original budgeted amount still accommodates where we are today. All right. Just for the for the public's information, change orders do occur in contracts. And this is basically a process we go through usually for clarification or and that there are no issues with this one. So it's perfectly within the rules of contract. I move for approvals. Thank you. Second. Second. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Yes. Hi. Mr. Bedura. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Mr. Davis, I'm just double checking myself if council would indulge us. I want to make sure that your motion for the consent agenda. We I took it all the way through item 27. So I don't think so. Let's make sure we if if okay, if you could approve a motion for consent agenda items 21 through 27. So I move. Thank you. Second. Thank you. Mr. Rickerman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Bedura. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mr. Benjamin. Mr. Davis, after two presentations, if possible, could we move the appointments up? I know. Mayor Benjamin, we're trying to accommodate his time that he can have with us on the on the phone. So if we could do two presentations and then move the appointment period up, is that okay? Unless there's any objection, I don't see a problem with that. Is he wants us to do the appointments or defer him to next meeting? No, sir. I think you can do the appointments. I think we were just trying to accommodate his time that he has with us on the phone to participate. Are we ready to make the appointments? I think so. Okay. After the presentations. We'll do presentations and then and then appointments if that's okay with you all unless your preference is to defer. I prefer to have both of them back. Okay. Mayor Benjamin, is that your colleagues are suggesting they just defer until the next meeting? Mayor Benjamin was saying that that there was no unreadiness on his part to participate. But if that's your preference, he's okay with deferring. Okay. Move to defer then. I don't know. So moving into a period of presentations, our first is the recognition of Mr. Michael G. Cotherin as the July employee of the month to be presented by Mr. Harry intensely our director of emergency management. Here, Madam City Manager. Good evening, Mr. Mayor by foam and members of council. Thank you for this opportunity to recognize one of our outstanding employees. I'd like to give you a brief a little bit about Mike. Michael Cotherin has been employed with the City of Columbia for 13 years. He actually began his service as a public servant as a volunteer firefighter with the Columbia Fire Department in 1991. He quickly showed his potential and rose to the rank of district chief over fire station 22 in Lower Richland. His talents were noticed by the department leadership and he was hired full time with the City of Columbia as a volunteer coordinator for firefighters in 2006. And then soon was promoted to the rank of division chief for the fire administration for the fire department. Mike transitioned over to emergency management in 2018. And as yet again, quickly shown how vast his expertise and ability as a change maker to our office. Mike is a typical Mike is the type of individual that holds himself to very high standards of excellence and takes personal ownership for outstanding service to our city. He is the type of employee you can give one or two sentences to regarding an idea or project and he immediately goes to work and comes back with a finished product that is far above what you were thinking. He looks for ways to make it better. And he does it. He sees it. He owns it. He solves it. It is that simple. He is a staunch asset to our city. And his level of service does not go unnoticed by those around him. He is continuously serving and is always ready to help ask anyone who has worked with him, or anyone who has he has called upon for help to help that someone is called upon him for help. And they will tell you the same. He is the go to guy. Mike's level of competence and expertise is comprehensive and it flows into all aspects of the city's largest spectrum of being a service provider. He has provided workable solutions and multiple projects from the office of emergency management in our emergency operation center. While we were in the initial phases of our newly common operating picture software last year, he was able to implement the system without any training. And during our Hurricane Florence spin up, he was able to develop a system where we could live stream video back from our police officers to the EOC. He even tested a drone operation from the from the ceiling from the roof of the EOC to make sure that we had the capability to drop life jackets on potential rescue sites if we had any flooding operations. Again, simply put, that is forward thinking. He has also enhanced the radio communications capability in their EOC and other city departments. He set up our new incident management software solution for writing incident action plans for our public safety departments and was key on the onsite training for the police and fire departments personnel. Mike has also worked with city IT and support services to staff to ensure the citywide video security camera systems are fully operational in the EOC for monitoring. He leaves no stone stone unturned and leverages all available technologies and carrying out his duties. He's also organized the EOC for maximum efficiency. He recently worked with the police department to design a small alternate EOC setup with supporting systems at the CPD location on bluff road in the annex. We now have an operational alternate city EOC location and the police department has a special operations command center that they use during special events and significant events. He also works with outside agencies the same. His collaborative actions that placed him on statewide committees such as the Palma de User Group Meeting Oversight Committee. Simply Mike always takes the initiative and outclasses in developing new methods approaches and solutions. He is a master at developing systems and efficiencies. His level of creativity and resourcefulness and the ability to anticipate what needs to happen and develop a workable reasonable results makes him a true asset and he is a team player. I have received multiple comments from other department heads and official stating they wish they were working with Mike. In summary, Mike exceeds expectations and excels at every level. He is the epitome of a model employee and brings exceptional value and effective contributions to our city in the first team. He demonstrates an extraordinary drive and fulfilling his responsibility and instilling enthusiasm. I am grateful to have him on our team and honor to recognize Mike as our July 2019 employee of the month. Mike is present with his lovely wife Cynthia and his mom Linda and his dad Don. Congratulations Mike and thank you for your service to our city. Mr. Davis and members of council, I think Harry said it best. Mike really is the go to guy. I told him he has great job security because all the other departments try to steal him all the time. And I can speak first hand to the fact that he really takes pride in making others around him look good at a recent statewide conference. He helped meet tremendously and Harry with a presentation I was doing to all the state managers and administrators. So he is just a godsend. We're proud of you. Please share this with Cynthia. Don't take it all. Use it for yourself. And I know Cynthia's mom is here too to share in your our next presentation is item 29. Columbia is 29. Hiroshima. Visual remembrance day proclamation. Honorable Sam Davis. Thank you. Madam city manager. This is a significant recognition for a worthy cause. And in celebration with you. I'd like to read a few captions from the proclamation if you permit me. Certainly. Thank you ma'am. This is a proclamation and whereas on January 25th 2018 the bulletin of the atomic scientists moved the hands of its doomsday clock to two minutes to midnight. As close as it has ever been set in its inception in nineteen forty seven this setting the failure of war leaders to deal with looming threats of nuclear war and climate change and stating the world is not only more dangerous now than it was a year ago. It is a threatening it is as threatening as it has been since World War two and whereas mayors for peace which is working for a world without nuclear weapons and safe and resilient cities as essential measures for the realization of lasting world peace has grown to seven thousand seven seventy two cities in one hundred sixty three countries and regions with two hundred thirteen U. S. members representing in total over one billion people. And whereas mayors for peace representatives including the mayors of Hiroshima Nagasaki and Des Moines observed and took part in the treaty negotiation at the United Nations and whereas without participation by the United States Russia and other nuclear armed states on July seven two thousand seventeen by a vote of one hundred twenty two I the majority one the majority of the world's countries adopted a historic treaty to prohibit the possession development testing use and threat of use of nuclear weapons now and therefore I Steve Kate Benjamin mayor of the city of Columbia South Carolina along with my fellow members of Columbia City Council do hereby proclaim this day the city's honors and recognize August 4th two thousand nineteen as Columbia's twenty ninth Hiroshima vigil remembrance day thank you good evening I'm Elaine Frick I'm a member of the planning committee for the August 4th Hiroshima vigil remembrance day and a member of one of the sponsors the Columbia Friends meeting Quakers I want to thank Mayor Benjamin and the city council members Davis Badura McDowell Isaac Devine Duvall and Rickerman for the proclamation honoring and recognizing this twenty ninth annual Hiroshima vigil remembrance in Columbia I especially thank Mayor Benjamin who I understand is here with us during his capacity as the recent president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and when he was there he signed the mayor's for peace 2020 vision resolution mayors for peace as the proclamation mentioned is is is for a world without nuclear weapons and for safe and resilient cities that are both essential for measures for realizing the lasting world peace so there are now almost eight thousand member cities and in the United States two hundred and thirteen member cities including Charleston South Carolina and we hope the Columbia will soon be able to call itself a mayor a member of the mayors for peace project so I just want to tell you one one project that member cities do that we're already starting to do is planting of second generation a bomb survivor ginko trees after Hiroshima was destroyed out of the ashes sort of miraculously came these ginko trees and persimmon trees there were a few that that are called survivor trees and so what they do is share seeds from those Hiroshima trees with cities that want to plant them so when on our committee has courageously started growing them and I'm very pleased that the city of Columbia's Parks and Recreation Department will be planting one of those symbolic ginko trees in the near future when it's ready for planting in a section of the Vista Greenway we've already decided where with them it's near Philly Park at the corner of Taylor and Lincoln streets and a plaque will identify the significance of the tree grown from a seed from the Hiroshima survivor ginko next to the ginko tree the city will also plant a peace pole more than 200,000 peace poles that were Japanese inspired have been planted around the world with the message may peace prevail on earth written in four languages one on each side I've brought some flyers if anyone wants to learn about what peace poles are and I you can find many of them around the Midlands at schools and churches and we in there will be one of course in the Vista Greenway so I invite members of City Council and the mayor to come to our August 4th Hiroshima Remembrance event on August 4th I think flyers have been distributed around you can also find us on a Facebook page remembering Hiroshima our children need to be reminded of the past atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki so that we do not repeat them to form or drastic effects for humanity and for our planet thank you very much for this thank you good evening and thank you so much for this honor Elaine has told you about mayors for peace and we're so thrilled that Mayor Benjamin has taken an initiative to help us realize this important proclamation we would like to have a world that's free of nuclear weapons and we'd like to have it done by next year that's the hope of mayors for peace I don't think that that's ridiculous I think that if we could just take a look at the reality of what nuclear weapons do then we would all say that this is not something we want we can't even imagine what it would be like if we had a nuclear war so it's time for us to say no and we commend Columbia for saying we don't want our city bombed we care about the people we care about their well-being this is the goal of mayors for peace the responsibility of civil societies is to bring a way of thinking that presents the values we wish to live by I don't think anyone in this room would say that they're against peace and I heard Councilman Davis mention that in the indication the reality of nuclear weapons we must all recognize is that they are tools of immense destruction and as a very wise person said say guru every creature on this planet holds its life phenomenally precious not just human beings nuclear weapons would destroy the creatures as well as the human beings men women children we must have the courage to work we must have the courage to say that this is important that we honor the preciousness of peace and we must recognize what we can do and that's what you have done today as our nation plans to spend a trillion dollars in the next 30 years on nuclear weapons and as our own state is poised to be a part of the creation of plutonium pits at Savannah Riverside this proclamation gives moral voice to recognize we cannot hold human life in such low regard that we can count another life worthless thank you Columbia City Council and Mayor Benjamin for being a voice for peace thank you Mr. Davis I'd like unanimous consent to move to item 45 which is another presentation item 45 is resolution number R 2019 065 approving the honorary naming of the 100 block of Isaac Street between Farah Road and Benedict Street and Farah Road between Isaac Street and Juniper Street the Reverend Trion Eichelberger way thank you Teresa yes I think we all remember Reverend Eichelberger and his track record of serving the community in the city of Columbia is well known and he's left some footprints and and a legacy and we are pleased to to recognize him and his his contributions to to our city our capital city that said I'm going to ask the members of the family to step up and we will so recognize him this is for the purpose of designating a portion of the street in which he lived on for honorary purposes and that date the ceremony is August 2nd emotion Mr. Davis I'll entertain a motion second second thank you I Mr. McDowell yes Mr. Duvall I Mr. Badura I Mr. Davis I mayor Benjamin Mr. Davis impossible we will jump around just a little bit more until we get the seven o'clock for your zoning public hearing but if you don't mind opening up a public hearing for item 36 is that okay yes ma'am okay item 36 is ordinance number 2019 045 amending the 1998 code of ordinances of the city of Columbia South Carolina chapter 14 offenses and miscellaneous provisions article one in general to add section 147 firearms recovered from crimes or criminal activity okay so move to speak public hearing you want to open it up right yes thank you sir who can you get the city attorney to summarize the certainly Ms. Knot serve Mr. Wright the council's asking for a summary of this ordinance this ordinance was prepared to provide a way for law enforcement to have a system in place for firearms that are recovered from crimes or for some sort of criminal activity and what it does what it puts in place is if people report when the firearms are actually stolen or lost beforehand that there's a hundred and fifty dollar fee that's waived if you report it within believe 14 days so what the purpose is to encourage people to actually report when firearms are stolen or when they're lost so that you know they won't have to pay the fee and hopefully that would at least notify law enforcement when a firearm is lost or is stolen so that's the basic purpose of this this ordinance is to encourage those people to actually report when things are well firearms are lost or stolen Patrick is that fee is that the minimum or the maximum amount of dollars it's just the fee so if if they actually report it within that time then that fee is waived but if they don't report it within I think 90 days then they have to pay the fee okay and and that only works if the firearms is registered by the owner's name already because if you find it in a crime scene and it's not been reported stolen but it came back that it's registered to mr. Smith or whatever I'm not picking on mr. Smith so that really so but it also it we want to encourage everybody to register the firearms report and it's stolen firearms to help the authorities get those guns off the streets and off the gangs and everybody else that does the other legal question I have now are we crossed with all state and federal laws when with this ordinance we're not we're not crossing or or doing anything that we're not supposed to write this this should be fine because it's just it basically is part of a procedure for law enforcement when the firearms are recovered so it's not we're not regulating firearms we're open to any other bit of information okay anyone signed up to speak I don't see I don't see any signatures for that so we now close the public hearing I move for approval second hi yes I thank you moving into a period of ordinances first reading so moving back to item 31 ordinance number 2019 046 amending the 1998 code of ordinances of the city of Columbia South Carolina chapter 8 environmental health and sanitation article to nuisance is section 831 nuisance the definitions a and b move approval move Mr. Rickman hi mr. Mcdowell yes mr. Duvall hi mr. Vadura hi mr. Davis hi Mayor Benjamin item 32 ordinance number 2019 058 authorizing the city manager to execute a lease agreement between the city of Columbia and 1233 Washington Street LLC to move second mr. Rickman hi mr. Mcdowell yes mr. Duvall hi mr. Vadura hi mr. Davis hi mr. Benjamin item 34 ordinance number 2019 060 amending the 1998 code of ordinances of the city of Columbia South Carolina chapter 12 motor vehicles and traffic article 1 in general to add section 1219 alternative payment of fines a temporary program and I didn't know if the council needed a explanation or summary of the particular program that we discussed it in detail during the work session mayor Benjamin I know you were are very supportive of this program and brought it to our attention as well could we not miss Wilson give is miss Madeline they here is she here miss Gentry's here and can give you a overview I'm sorry Ellen's here okay yes if we could just get a capsule or so that's general public get some idea about that yes it's L Matney as our parking services director good evening once again it's an honor again to share the excitement of the upcoming donations for citation program that we were so grateful to have learned by means of our wonderful mayor and what the city of Las Vegas has recently approved donations for citation will give those Parkers who have received a city of Columbia parking citation issued during a short period of time between August 7th and 14th the ability to exchange dollar for dollar for school supplies the Parkers will be required to bring in their citation a receipt in the school supplies and will make the exchange at our office at 820 Washington there after the two week period that you may bring in your citations to be exchanged you will have an additional two weeks as grace period to bring in those citations any citation dated before August 7th is not eligible and any citation dated after September 7th is not eligible only during that two week period of time the is the 21st right you said the 14th I just want to confirm it is the 21st 21st you're correct 7 and 21 correct thank you the donations that are received then will be gathered in the parking office and donated to a local organization the city has worked with why not you too they will disperse throughout Midland schools thank you thank you move approval second sir recommend mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall mr. Valdore mr. Davis mr. Benjamin item 35 ordinance number 2019 061 authorizing the city manager to execute an air rights development contract between the city of Colombia and breakwater LLC remove second Mr. Rickerman I mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall I mr. Valdore I mr. Davis I mr. Benjamin we've got about five minutes mr. Davis so let's see what we can take up potentially the resolution we can clean clean up we can move into a period of resolutions item 46 resolution number R 2019 060 authorizing the city manager to execute a professional services agreement for the housing first program between the city of Colombia and the University of South Carolina so I moved second mr. Rickerman I mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall I mr. Badura I mr. Davis mr. Benjamin item 47 resolution number R 2019 061 authorizing the city manager to execute a professional services extension agreement between city of Colombia and the United Way of the Midlands for the regional coordination of homeless services in the Midlands so move second mr. Rickerman I mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall I mr. Badura I mr. Davis mr. Benjamin item 48 resolution number R 2019 062 authorizing the city manager to execute an inclement weather center service agreement between the city of Colombia and the United Way of the Midlands for operation of the inclement weather center move second mr. Rickerman I mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall I mr. Badura I mr. Davis I mr. Benjamin I item 49 resolution number R 2019 066 authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement between the city of Colombia and the Midlands Housing Alliance Inc. for the 20 for 2025 Main Street for fiscal year 2019 2020 to move second mr. Rickerman I mr. McDowell yes mr. Duvall I mr. Badura I mr. Davis I mr. Benjamin item 50 resolution number R 2019 063 authorizing the city manager to execute a license agreement between the city of Colombia Dominion Energy South Carolina Inc. Bull Street Development LLC South Carolina Department of Mental Health and Paramount Locations LLC for the new Dominion Energy South Carolina Inc. Bull Street Development Electrical substation site. Yes we have some I explained this I had several folks call me and were not quite clear they made it sound like there was a franchise agreement to for distributed power and it was confusion and in the write-up that was written. I'll be glad to explain it. Dominion currently has a substation on the Bull Street property that's being relocated the area it's being relocated to we have utilities adjacent to the site that so this is a license agreement for the areas where our utilities and their utilities cross each other. I guess I don't outside of the right away so it's on private property. Yeah I don't I guess I don't understand the license agreement part and and that's the part that I couldn't explain to folks because I don't know what we're licensing. We're licensing the ability for our utilities and their utilities to coexist. If they're in the right away you're right that's covered by the franchise agreement so they don't need our permission to be in the right away they just have to adhere to those requirements. This will be located on private property some of which is currently owned by mental health some maybe owned by scanner or Dominion sorry that's a habit hard to break. So the license agreement is required when it's outside of the right away because the franchise does not cover that. So I guess for a deeper dive in that what does that actually mean when we're saying license are we receiving a fee for that or are we just giving them right away. It's not our right away to give we are agreeing with each other us and Dominion that we will coexist some lines may cross each other that will coexist in those areas. A lot of this area they already have easements so we've got to get their approval to cross their easements. Kind of a strange terminology. It is we agree for because when I think a license I think somebody's getting something in return usually a cash payment. They do have a master services agreement with Hughes Development for the Bull Street site and this this document references both that agreement as well as our Bull Street Development Agreement. So the master service they is like our bulk contract essentially. I don't want to speak for them that I would relate it to that. Yes. At no time Dana is here if he wants to come up and speak on behalf of Dominion at no cost to us at no cost. That's right. This has been about a year process to get to the point that staff of both Dominion and the city are comfortable with this document. Yeah I still don't understand why you call it a license agreement doesn't doesn't fit what's being done. I move approval. Second. So they're the master. So they're selling power to the other folks. They are providing power to just like they do all over the city and their entire territory. They're providing power and their master agreement. So does Hughes sell power then to the other folks that are there. I'm confused. This agreement is really between the city and Dominion. It actually it's all parties because Bull Street Development is part of it and so is Department of Mental Health. Right. It references their master agreement with Hughes as well as our Bull Street agreement with Hughes because all of those documents are partied to the license agreement and the license agreements required because of both of those other agreements. Move the previous question. Mr. Rickman. Hi Mr. Macnawell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi Mr. Badura. Hi Mr. Davis. Mayor Benjamin. There's just one other item and then we can open up the public hearing for the zoning. Other matters item 53 Councils asked to approve the installation of a four way stop at Blossom Street and Holly Street to address safety issues at the intersection as requested by the public works department. So moved. Second. Mr. Rickman. Hi Mr. Macnawell. Yes ma'am. Mr. Duvall. Hi Mr. Badura. Hi Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Certainly. First starting where. We're going to start with item number 42 is. An amendment it's a text amendment or request to amend the text of 17258 to permit hotels motels and tourist court in neighborhood commercial district which is C2. So move. I know. To speak. Really go away. Is anyone signed up to speak on to this. So of course since you're up on the podium we're we're this is a I guess to allow hotels and motels to build on a C2 zone property. Normally C1 and C2 is adjacent to the neighborhoods. It's it's a little bit more. Soft or scale than a hotel or restaurant or C3 in that case. So now with this amendment we're allowing hotels and motels to come and build hotels on C2 which is a neighborhood adjacent properties. Usually it's the middle is the is the parcel that separates neighborhoods and commercial corridor. I think I've shared my concern with this. I've talked to some neighborhood leaders in it's especially in Shandon and a couple of other neighborhood they're all shared their concerns with me about this. I don't know that I'm 100 percent there yet. I think I just want to make sure that I understand this correctly you're allowing hotels and motels and C2 parcels correct and that affects every every parcel that is a C2 in the city. And just for clarification we started this process because we are working on economic development advances and in these neighborhoods they prefer not to have a C3 they prefer to have a C2 which already allows restaurants and multiple uses that have a lot more traffic than a smaller motel like if you remember the Whitney which is a perfect example of a hotel in that district. We've had a planning commission we've had multiple meetings with folks I fully support this and with that I make the motion that we move forward on item 42. Second. Aye. Yes. Aye. No. Aye. 43 and 44 Miss Wilson are associated. Thank you. 43 is a land use amendment to twenty two fifteen Divine Street. This is to modify the land use classification from urban core community activity center to community activity corridor. We found this when we were looking at the map amendment which is next it was more than likely when we were doing the land use plan it was improperly identified so this is just to make this consistent this is the land use not the zoning this is to update that. Signed up to speak. I move item 43 for approval. Aye. Yes. Yes. Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you Mr. Mayor. The final is a map amendment. This is number forty four at two to two one Divine Street also to two oh four Lee to two one five Divine Street request to rezone the parcel from office and institutional C one to neighborhood commercial C two. I want signed up to speak. We'll move. Second. Aye. Yes. Aye. Aye. Aye. We will proceed with number thirty seven. This is an annexation at thirty nine oh two Eureka Street. It's a request to annex and assign a land use classification of urban core residential small lot and assign a zoning of single family residential. Some move. No I want signed up to speak for it. Some move. Mr. Rickman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. involved. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. An annexation at three nine three seven left road request to annex assign a land use classification of urban edge community activity center and a zoning of C three. This is no no one signed. Pardon me. Yeah this is near Atlas Road on on bluff. Some move. Isn't that the gas station. That's the dollar tree. It's under construction. Yeah I guess. They're general. Good. You've been there. Second. Second. Mr. Rickman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. DeWall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. It pleases council number thirty nine and forty are are related. It is a request to confirm both the land use classification of recently annexed land and confirm the zoning of recently annexed land at one one one sparkle buried crossing road. The land use classification would be regional activity corridor a C three and the zoning would be C three. That's general commercial. Yeah. No one's signed up to speak. It is some move. Second. Mr. Rickman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. DeWall. Aye. Mr. Badura. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. And item forty one has been withdrawn at this time for amendments. That is the amendment to the eating and drinking establishments. We're going to bring it back. And that concludes your public hearing. We have some some people that have signed up to. Speak to. One or two different items. One Mr. Derritha Bull. Vacant lot ordinance. No that we didn't address today but. It's not on the agenda. It's not on the agenda. I know. To address this vacant property. And not ordinance that code enforcement introduced. The only the only challenge Derritha is that it was not on the agenda. The. But we didn't know that until we got here. We were prepared to just you know express the opposition to it. Please do. OK. We'll hear your comments on it. OK. Number one. The ordinance is really asking citizens of Columbia. To do something that has never been done before in this area. Although I know and I'd researched and found that this type of property ordinance is going on throughout the country. In large urban areas that have a black population that's really in terms of finances therefore. They're taking property and they also have an agreement with the company out of Florida called Prochamps. I don't know if you all have taken any money from Prochamps not yet but they will be approaching you. They've already made three billion dollars from other cities. But the thing about it is that property owners to keep their property up to code. The problem is there are some houses that people own that they have boarded up. Or they are they are not meeting the code because of finances. And you're also asking in that ordinance for people to register their property which is kind of ridiculous considering that every property in this city every grain of sand is already registered with the tax office. Now code enforcement is saying that they need to go in 50 dollars to go in your property to tell you what's wrong with it gives you a fine and you have a certain number of days to do it. Number one code enforcement is already paid by the city of Columbia and their job should be to go around and find out about probably should know where the properties are. So why are we going to pay another hundred dollars and a fifty dollars for this kind of stuff. Number two you all will end up if these people do not cannot pay. You take their property you tear down the houses and you charge them six thousand dollars for the demolition of their own property. Now this is really a problem. It sounds to me as though you all are trying to make sure poor people in the city is interested in your minority that you have nothing. And that's just one of the many arguments I could go on for more time but we only have three minutes and stuff but I want you to consider the fact that if you pass this ordinance you need to pass and find another bill where you have some great money to help people stay in the city and keep their property up rather than stealing it. But I will have more next time since you all deferred it and the thing too is this when you say something is on the agenda then the next thing we know is deferred and pretty soon we won't hear anything about it and then it passes. So I want you to make sure that we understand because there are a lot of things on this agenda that we listen to the data we don't understand. I don't know what professional services are and a lot of other things. So we need to be sure that your agenda is understandable by the community that you serve. And I want to remind all of you that you are our servants. You are not our bosses. So you need to make us aware and help us understand what you're doing. I thank you. Ma'am I thank you for being here and I do want to let you know the reason that ordinance was deferred is because there are a lot of people have a lot of questions about it. Yes we do. Yes we do. And if you have anything else you want to say I imagine that one of these gentlemen would be glad to yield some time to you. Now I'm going to let them talk. OK. Who's who's going to speak just I'm on the list. State your name and where do you live. My name is Mr. Mostafa. I live 21 01 Ridin Ridge Road. I'm an advocate for the people. I'm a pen and bank on Queen Mother Bull. The cold enforcement the cold enforcement is not in communication with the city ordinance. There's a breakdown somewhere. OK. There's a serious breakdown. What we're trying to understand is where is the programs at the rehab federal programs that should be able to help the elderly and the poor folks and rehab in their homes. You guys should have it as I look at your agenda. You got grant money C.B.G. grant money for a whole lot of things but it should be easy to find money to help rehab. When you take a look at both cities most cities have rehab monies to help those who need roofing who need windows need whatever. So what are we doing. You guys was elected to serve us for the people by the people of the people. We want the same thing in our community as you put in other communities. Let's be real clear about that because our black communities don't have the same thing in other communities. And we don't really see you guys until it's time to do what for election time. And that's a no go. That's a totally no go. So what we're saying is that this injustice going on when it comes down to taking elderly homes and poor people homes and then charge them 319 dollars to cut grass because they ain't able to cut the grass 319 dollars. That's ridiculous. OK. A thousand and then six thousand dollars to tear their home down and then end up getting their home and you're leaving them homeless where we got a homeless problem as it is. This is inhumane if you will. But you guys represent us. So the question that we ask when you guys remove from your seats or retire from your seats. The question is what would you say that you serve the people. Well that you leave a legacy. Can we respect you when you leave or you just sitting in a seat. We won't change and we want it now. We want to be respected just like everybody else just like everybody else for the people other people body people as Queen Mother Bulls say you guys not our bosses with your bosses with your bosses and I can assure you there's a change coming as Sam Cook will say there's a change coming. Thank you very much. My name is Jane Sanders and I would like to talk about code enforcement also. Two weeks ago someone called me and said that the bulldozer was in front of my nephew's house to tear down. We have permits with the city that code enforcement is not working joining. If the guy don't call me the house pushed down but what is going to be said after it's gone. Can you put it back. Now we have permits that show we don't put new roof on new plumbing new wiring new insulation new floors. So where is the communication with the city and code enforcement that they are working together to make sure these things don't happen. Another thing that's going on they're sending letters to abandoned houses with no mailboxes and when they return they say well we tried to contact you. But you know where to send our tax bill. My nephew get his tax bill at Omer Street every year but in this case the letters that for for condemning is going to the house where there's no mailbox but if you know how to find him to make him pay his taxes on the house and you should be able to find him with other things. But another thing a judge should be the only one to determine whether you can tear down a house. Miss Thompson House was torn down. I know they kept the grass cut the house boarded up. So what was the reason for tearing it down. Miss Beff your house. We got 30 or 40 houses being torn down in our neighborhood. We want the bulldozers to stop today until we work out the situation where we can stop can is how we don't mean we're going to stop because somebody is getting money for pushing down all those houses. The six thousand dollars that you pay and push down the house you could give it to that person and we could take young people out of the neighborhood and teach them how to paint teach them how to shangle teach them how to do plumbing work do roofing work. This is where this money need to be spent instead of giving to somebody to bulldoze down other people. I can't stand to see it when I ride by and see a house going that I know people that live there. Children was raised there. So we're going to have to put a stop to this today and we are tired and sick of the situation that we're in. And we need jobs in our neighborhood. We need our youth to be able to go to work. Farrell Main Street of Fairfield Road. Monacella is dead for our young children to be able to walk out the houses and walk to a job. There's nothing on our roads. But if you go down here five points there's plenty work for these children to walk to and get to to go to work. Our children have to leave out of here and go all the way to Hoverson to get a job. It costs them more to go to work and come back home than they make on the job. We want the money that's supposed to be in our neighborhood spent the grant money that we were supposed to get four or five years ago. We've never seen a dime of it. Where is that money? We want to know where that money went for those that grant money back five years ago. We're not. We just tired. We got young men in our neighborhood is making eight dollars an hour nine dollars an hour trying to raise a family. And you know that neither one of you all could buy a house and raise a family affordable homes to buy. How can you afford a house making ten dollars an hour twelve dollars an hour. What are you going to live at. You can't build nothing. You can't buy nothing. You've got children. You've got three or four children going to school. It came before it to pay pay insurance to play sports. We live in hard times in our neighborhood and you all need to come in the neighborhood so you can really see what's going on. We have cookouts. We have. We have an organization called. Us Feed Us Stop the Violet Movement Vision Walkers. And we cook in different neighborhoods every week. So we need you all to come out to these neighborhoods and see how the children and people are living in these neighborhoods. Maybe you will think differently when you ride by instead of riding in. Come in and see what's going on. We got problems. Our children can't even count. Can't even read. We need better education systems in our school. We got a lot to talk about and we are always complaining that we ask them for too much. We need the same other neighborhoods. Thank you. Thank you. This one. Just one one one one point. Appreciate everybody's comments. As Mr. Rickman said that there have been some. Comments. Overall about the ordinance. Now one of the things I would strongly suggest that you do that when. That you let us know when we have discussions on the audience and give your input. OK. I mean that that's that's one of the starting points in terms of. I'm sorry. Well one of the things I'm suggesting that you do is the agenda for city council is published in advance. You can find it online. And if you're on the mailing list they would get copies of the agenda. Correct. So I'm I'm you know it's part of the process and I don't think anybody up here disagrees with anything. And we've had interactions and discussions over a period of time. But the question is does those come come conversations continue James for example you know I'll tell you one thing that where I was today and then we're going to have to end it. I was at a meeting with with bankers for the NC the national where banks are required to. Give back to the communities. But CRE. But the part but again that the question is do you know about that and I would I would ask why or we have to figure out a way that you get that kind of information in advance. So let's keep talking and everybody knows and all of you know how to reach me. I think you know how to reach anybody else up here. If if if if it comes to that. So I'm just saying so that we can we can let everybody go home that we can communicate with you to let you know when when workshops and training sessions are going on from the from community development where they talk about helping small businesses helping small businesses when it this is my first time talking with you my man. So I'm just saying to you we're not trying to hide from you. I think some of us would be the last persons you would imply that we don't want to talk to you. But we need to keep talking OK. Thank you. May I ask that you know that the Book of Washington Heights neighborhood meets on the third Thursday. And if you would get with our counseling maybe this type of information we can have a workshop of some sort and because I don't want anybody to come and be ill informed and I want everybody to have the right information so that they can communicate intelligently with what with what the process will be on the various ordinances. Can I can I can I can set that up. I'll be more than happy whenever Councilman McDowell is able to do that and then we will get everybody there so that they'll understand. Let me just make a comment and it's not that I'm defending Councilman McDowell or any one of us. But let me let me just tell you that the city staff has been working on this ordinance and we are welcoming any feedback from residents, neighborhoods, whatever. All I need from y'all is give me a couple of contacts named that we can give to code enforcement and city staff that we can meet as a group, neighborhood, individual. Councilman Badura, the city code enforcement comes to every one of our meetings and not one time did we know that Ms. Belfill's house was on the chopping block. They're there. The north region and metro region, police officers are there. Let me just be specific about that. Let's talk to code enforcement officers. Let them get all the feedback from you so we can do whatever we can to address your concerns. As you know, there's a lot of other people that agree with you or don't agree with you, but this is what democracy is all about. We've got to bring everybody together and find a common goal. And that's what I want you to ask them if that's okay with you city manager to reach out to you and talk to you. We look forward to you coming and engaging with our community. You see they're very active and we look forward to you all coming and engaging with our community. We really do. Thank you to our councilman. We know what you're going through and he's right there still just a phone call away. I just say one thing, it's there in a way that we can stop. There's demilations, you know, until we talk and find out what's really going on because just recently we had to come up with four to five hundred dollars to save someone's house. I will hope that we can stop until we all come with agreement because what is going on is that these people can't afford four to five hundred dollars to pay taxes. They barely live on a fixed income of eight hundred dollars. So if y'all can just reach just put a hold on until we all come up with a solution as far as keeping these out of their home. I totally agree with you. One of the things that I think is crucially important is that we sit at the circle. We sit around the table. We get at the table and we talk through the issues. You can go ahead and go because I mean you can go ahead on a leave because it's like you not interested in anything it's just like y'all jump in and you got to get out and go. I'm just saying that we got of course we're trying to get some across. What I think what I think is necessary what I think is necessary I've had come and we're all on the chair. We're all on the same page. That's what we do and we're here to listen. So let's treat each other with respect. What we can do I think one of the reasons why there is perhaps some disjointedness is that when you don't talk to each other rather than rather than assuming that something happened or something didn't happen we'll talk. We'll talk. Thank you. May I say something? Mr. Davis I think sometimes in the midst of persons passions we look beyond what we need to look at right in the center of things. This is perhaps a good example of what we ought not to do. And what we ought not to do is to be to jump on our chairperson our person who's leading this meeting or to insist or to even inject that something has been done and transparency is not is not doable. I think what we're doing is we can sometimes the reason why this meeting was deferred is that as you see we don't have everybody even in place to even talk about an issue. I would think that that as we consider what we've heard tonight that we can either and express some civility about who we are, what we want to get done because the conversation ought not to be in the corner but it should be around the table. I wanted to make down you know you've done something very good something that I have been trying to get done for a while I'm glad you did it in terms of bringing community association head leaders together. I think y'all have a meeting scheduled for that. The only problem I have with it is that it's for people who are on the executive board of the different associations. And that's the information that I got. I wanted to verify that with you. So anyone can come and what it is let me just give you all an idea of what we are talking about what we are talking about what I insisted on doing was to bring in communities together and collaboratively talk about the issues so that everybody know exactly what's going on not only in your area but the area across the street area over here. The Wavley area has just been divided up into about six communities there was one large community but what we did was to bring those presidents together so that collaboratively we could talk individually about our issues about the issues that sort of evolve in each one of these communities and it's working and I hope so. It's working and I think the way it's working is that we're getting around the table and they are talking to each other and not at each other and I think that's the genius of bringing it and not only the Wavley ML King Park Arrington Way and Historical Wavley not only are those communities talking but you got other communities in the city that we've endeavored to do the same thing Arsenal Hill Governor's Hill and several other DNA so you would hope that that kind of effort would metastasize and that persons really sent a real effort of collaborating with each other. Well I'm happy to know that all persons in the community if you have something to say that we can come to the meeting because that wasn't delivered one of the concerns I have is that Wavley community we have several streets starting at C3 as well as a lot of land that's been made open and we do not need a bunch of people coming in deciding for us we need to get with you community leaders and come up with a plan of what we want our community to look like in the next five years especially Jervais Street, Hardin Street, Millwood and Taylor streets those are four major business streets and we need to make a plan that's going to be beneficial for us as a community because Wavley is a very, very historic community not just that part that you label the story but all of it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other business? I'd like to make some comments. Go for adjournment. No, not yet. There's a few items that I'd like to discuss city manager council and staff or whatever. One of the items last week we cut the ribbon for the hawk signal on Millwood I noticed that same day or the day after I think it's House Street right there at the entrance of the hawk signal and stop line where the line that people coming from the side road doesn't know there's a hawk signal that is activated so they weren't paying attention to pedestrians so they could run over the pedestrians or not pay attention to the stop sign because the traffic stopped, they stopped so if there is any way possible that we can put a red light connected to the hawk signal red light that if it's the red light is flashing on the hawk signal it makes sense and I think this at the hawk signal I think it's, I want to say either house or line but it's right there at the hawk signal It's House Street So I would love for y'all to look at that and see if that's possible I don't think it's going to be that cost effect, I mean that much of it The other thing that I want to discuss with you guys is the the boil advisory that we receive via email and you guys send out in the media, we're hoping that the media to communicate that with the citizens I would love to tab or link the garbage app that we have for people where they register the address, you get notification what it is Thursday collection day or Thursday recycling day or Friday trash day to make that available to the water main break notification system so in other words the 3300 block of Hayward if they have a water main break and you need a water boil advisory send a text to those people who are registered for that street that there is a water boil advisory if we can make that happen with the staff or app or whatever you want to do the other thing is as we dealt with some of the residents today in Shandong the MRI meters, the automatic meters started to be installed in neighborhoods I talked to Clint already I think other council members may want to know what the schedule is if we can get that to us or maybe put it on news media or whatever we need to do so we can communicate with the neighbors about that and the neighborhood and the last one and I know this is a tough subject but I think somebody has to say it so yesterday news report we're talking about Columbia housing authority and the updates and the new director that's coming in I would love to see if we can get an update from the director the new director about the mission or the new things that the CHA is doing to improve the quality of life for the housing any reports from the chief or fire chief, police chief or anything else that we can include to inform the public that we're doing everything we can to ensure a better quality life for the CHA residents and of course to bring justice to all the whole drama that we've had a crisis that we had with CHA and Ellen Benedict not that I'm picking on anybody I just think that is a good time for us to get an update from the new director and the mission and what we're doing and of course what the city staff is done to help them move forward if that's possible and you can coordinate that with the new director in the next couple of weeks or so that would be great I wonder most interesting things that has happened miraculous things that has happened with Ellen Benedict Court is that 269 families now have permanent housing now permanent housing so out of the midst of tragedy something triumphant beams forth out of 211 persons 269 families are permanently located in tragedy but yet a triumphant march to permanency thank you I move to adjourn those in favor aye yes aye you get this