 Thank you so much. Thank the public for being patient as we got ready for today's meeting and a couple of technical challenges, but we're all here. Now, we'll call this meeting to order. Madam Clerk, would you please call the roll? Certainly. Good afternoon. DeBranne? President. Mr. Rickerman? Here. Mr. McDowell? Yes. Mr. DuBois? Here. Mr. DeVine? Here. Mr. Davis? Here. Mayor Benjamin? Here. I believe that starts when I call the order or even when Reverend McDowell gives the invocation. I'm convinced it actually starts when I hear the clerk say good afternoon. I'm not sure she has ever started the meeting without saying good afternoon or good evening and Erica, your voice is special in your special position. That always makes you feel good. I'm not sure why I decided to say that. Oh, thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Reverend McDowell, would you give us a word, please? Would you please, would you bow your heads with me? Creator and merciful body, the voices of protest are all around us. There is a sense of calmness that has enraptured our city. Our prayer, of course, is to pray that this calmness elongates itself. The many voices that have resulted in damage, calamity, and particularly the anxiety of our residents as they have tried to maneuver through this situation. Lord, we ask today that as we meticulously weave ourselves through this crisis, not only the crisis of COVID-19, but also the crisis of human loss, damage, property of evil. Lord, we simply ask that as we gather today that you might touch us individually, touch us individually and yet collectively, that we might do the things that are necessary for the city of ours. Our nation continues to turn topsy-turvy, violence everywhere. And we would simply ask that in the memory and the legacy of George Floyd that you might embrace and encapsulate this family with your love, let not a mess overrule the positive and the miracles that has already taken place not only in this city, but some very small but yet significant, the miracles that has taken place in the lives of residents. We ask it and claim it in your name. Amen. Thank you, Reverend McDowell. I want to thank Reverend McDowell Councilman DeVine. Well, some of you may have also been on the call yesterday, but not visible. We had a wonderful day of mourning and lamenting and preparing to spend some time as a city joining another a league of cities. And just given America some time to mourn the 100,000 loss to the coronavirus and the disease it causes. And it seems like everything's been coming so fast and people have been turning in isolation and people have been losing jobs and losing opportunities to prosper. And we've not yet taken the time just to cry, just to cry the mourning and lament. And yesterday we had a wonderful convening of the Abrahamic religions at Rabbi Epstein and Reverend Wright from Shannon Baptist and Reverend Nolan Blakin from Historic West, the United Methodist and also Imam Hamashahid. And it was a wonderful opportunity just to pray. And this is all planned before obviously the events of the last week or so, the protests and the subsequent even violent outbreaks we had across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death. And it was an opportunity just to have a chance to mourn as we show many families across this state, the city and even this country and world have not had a chance to even be able to be there with the loved ones as they take the last class. And it was again edifying. We did it together as a community. So thank you all. Thank you Reverend Dahl for my share of the program and to make it just being there physically. So thank you. Thank you. Let me say manager. Yes, sir. Mayor, council at this time, we would ask for you to approve the minutes from March 17, 2020, March 20, 2020 and March 26, 2020. All right, second. Any discussion? Move the previous question in court. Call the roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. Recommend. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Vines. Hi. Mr. Bezos. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Mr. Duvall. I don't see a step in here for the adoption of the agenda. And I would like to make an amendment to the agenda. Is this the appropriate time? Would you like to have a motion to adopt it? Please put a bug and then word in the one motion as we can. Okay. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion. We adopt the agenda for the day with the following amendments. I would like to add the discussion, the appointment of the Midlands Housing, to me, what's the name of your group? The Affordable Housing Task Force. The Affordable Housing Task Force. And I would like to discuss the reappointment of an airport commissioner whose term has expired and needs to be reappointed. Okay. And we had the, okay, I wasn't expecting that one, but absolutely. Well, we'll do both. And I guess I'd ask in addition to the second part, have we done the traditional or disconnected from that applications? Have we done applications for the slide? I was just an opportunity to reappoint a sitting commissioner. We had done an application process previously and it was on our agenda previously. We didn't get to it, but we have a person that can feel that by reappointment who has. Okay. This is a reappointment. This is a reappointment. Can we have staff check that? I thought we did reappoint that, Howard. I've been trying to get it checked. Who is it? Carol Fowler. Was, we need to have a discussion about that. Okay. All right. We can discuss with, that's actually how our call for what was the agenda and approve it and amend and approve adopted agenda about it. That's a motion. Is there a second? Second. A discussion, a further discussion. We'll take those up to the managers as appropriate. Move the briefs question for Carol Fowler. Mr. Vernon. Yes. Mr. Rickman. Hi. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Hi. Mr. Devine. Hi. Mr. Davis. Hi. Mayor Benjamin. Hi. Thank you. At this time, our first city council discussion. I don't think there'll necessarily be any action items regarding the COVID-19 update that we have continued to maintain on our agenda. Mayor, I don't know if you have any updates in particular that you'd like to share. I know there's lots of activities that we've continued to push out for the business task force. And we certainly want to discuss some testing options that a branch of the resilient Columbia effort that we've been working on with staff and some external partners. And we have Kay Hampton, our deputy director in economic development here with us today to talk about that specifically. The only thing I would add, Mayor, is just we continue. I've sent you all a comprehensive email about city facilities and just our operations have continued the way they were. We've always been open and working just working differently, remotely staggered. We have not opened Washington Square, which would probably be the next public facing facility as far as conducting business in our city until it's fully assessed. We continue to work on that and implement some protective measures for the public and for staff. So if you have any specific questions about any of that, just feel free to ask me. But just so the public's clear on that, continue to do your business online for the immediate future. Very helpful, Theresa. No, I think obviously we're still seeing significant testing across the state. We're seeing some great coordination between different agencies. Of course, as you have more testing, you're going to have more positive cases. I was doing a whole lot of the coordinating of the various testing agencies and facilities and businesses myself and Theresa and Pam were kind enough to give me the spreadsheet queen who's taken that over and been working with so many different disparate agencies and pulling some things together. Mike will not be in selfish, but he has to be in selfish, was just to make sure that as much testing, as much of leveraging of contact tracing, as much as available, I mean, disparate sources for being focused on the communities of greater need in Colombia and the poor points of our city. I understand we're part of the region, but we really want to focus on the needs in the city. And I've been very pleased with the coordination with the DHEC and Prisma, with NUSC, with several of our private sector partners. And it's going really well. I'll let Kay dive in and how we go forward. It's amazing to see our regular communication change, lose things in the right direction. Obviously, DHEC had already articulated the obvious priority areas based on zip code, or based on age, or he's being associated economic status, but there are some places they were not yet looking and we directed them to those places and put them in the housing authority in some other places. And they work with some others that we may have put on the table and pulled folks together. And it's amazing things just kept moving and we've gotten a really, really high rate of negative cases. That's been very encouraging, very encouraging, particularly with some of the most vulnerable communities, including some of our senior housing facilities, sometimes no positives at all. That's a different document than it just is. And based on what we've seen in other states. So you don't want to, you don't ever want the overall cloud of the pandemic that is cast over the entire community that ever have not allowed you to see those silver lights. We got to make sure we identify those and we celebrate those. So, Kay, maybe go ahead and tell folks about some of the upcoming testing opportunities in the end that you want to talk about. Sure. Thank you, Mayor. If I can, I'll just share my screen. And can everyone see my screen? Okay. So I've been working very closely with the Mayor and our Chief of Staff and the Director of Emergency Operations and we prepared a testing strategy for the City of Columbia, focusing obviously on our high risk population. And that would include our senior housing facilities, prisons and jails, group homes, and then targeted high risk areas. Currently, DHEC is doing the testing for all of our senior housing. And like the Mayor mentioned, we're seeing positive results, meaning negative cases in those areas. As I go through this presentation, you'll see where MUSC is a potential partner with some other stuff. So I've got them listed as a potential partner for some of our other targeted high risk areas. Additionally, we went out and we put a message out to our businesses with high personal contact and hospitality industry. And it happened right before things started reopening that Kroger Health set up a mobile site at the fairground. So we provided information to our business community, small business community about that opportunity. And they were able to take advantage of that as they were going back to work and be able to be tested and be sure that they were able to open up safely if they chose to do so. And then the third part of our strategy since we are a city and we have many people coming into our city is to make sure our corporate business has information on opportunities that are available. And MUSC is a potential partner for those companies and they can be contracted for nine hours of testing. And if the business is located in a high risk area, this can potentially be done for no cost. If there's no questions on this slide, I'll move to the next one. So we've got three major sites going on right now. Kroger Health was at the fairgrounds. They just finished up their testing on May 30th. They administered just shop 2000 tests over seven days and they're now working to add an additional six days of testing at that location and more information to come on that. At the same time, Walmart on Garden Ferry opened a site last Friday and they will have testing available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. with the ability to scale if necessary. And then upcoming on June 19th and 20th, DHEC and Prisma Health will be located at Benedict College for testing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. And the site will be to the left of the stadium with an entrance from Chunoch and exit on Pinehurst. Our most recent development with testing is a potential partnership with MUSC. MUSC does its partnership. It's testing in partnership with Doctors Care. They provide their own logistical setup but traffic support would be needed. They need one week's notice to set up a mobile site. They've used the nasopharyngeal swab testing, which has a 5 to 15 percent more sensitivity than the nasal swab that is commonly used to test for COVID-19. Starting in June, MUSC has the capability to do antibody testing at no cost to the city for high risk areas. And the antibody testing that they provide has a 99.4 percent sensitivity and 95 percent specificity. Testing can be provided at sites determined by Columbia City Council and city staff. MUSC has the capability to provide fast pass for hospitality and personal contact employees at any mobile site or dedicated hours can be provided for those industries if it is deemed necessary. MUSC also has the capability to provide a no ID requirement for testing sites as long as an organization provides an email for them to provide results. Any larger business who wishes to have testing provided to their employees can contract with MUSC and receive the nine hours of testing. Or larger businesses can utilize the city's locations and high risk areas to have employees tested at no cost. Our next steps will be for us to determine where we would like our sites to be located. I recommend using a city help dashboard.com. You guys get a moment to take a look at that and use the following criteria. Obesity, income inequalities, diabetes, high blood pressure, and similar criteria. Most of the city, if not all, will qualify as high risk using these criteria. Council chooses to test in an area that is not high risk, for example, a business district. But like I said before, most of those business districts qualify in one of those areas. Testing can be contracted with MUSC for a nine hour testing day. We'll also need to determine a testing schedule and it's recommended that we do a staggered schedule and be prepared so that testing continues through the winter and the fall. And that's kind of good for questions. Thank you. Any questions for Kay? Yeah, I just heard you talk about the testing method and the swabs. Is it going to be the swab testing like at the fairgrounds where the person does it themselves or is there going to be somebody who actually administers the swab? There'll be someone that would administer it. But MUSC is also working on a different type of testing where they can administer it themselves. Okay. I have a concern, especially when you go to certain areas, if someone's going to be asked to do it themselves, someone from MUSC was saying that those tests people don't always get as deep as they need and so they may come back negative, but it's because they didn't test correctly. So I was just concerned about that if we're going to take it out into the community. Yes. Okay. So the MUSC recommends that we use the veneza pharyngeal swab which is the one that you're talking about rather than the swab testing, the native swab. Okay. How are we, Kay, I've got a question. This is Will. How are we communicating to small business owners, hospitality, establishment owners, this outlet for employees to use? So what we did is we went through our business associations as well as our own economic development contacts and we use social media. Additionally, as we move into this, we're going to need the help of everybody in obviously our public city of Columbia PR department does a wonderful job and they push out this information as well and it's on our resilient Columbia website as a link to DHEC's page that shows where all the mobile testing sites are. But we're going to need to work with, I recommend working with our churches, working with our business associations, Rotary, any nonprofit organizations, as many organizations as possible that we can push that information out to you that they can push it out to their contact with us so that everyone knows. And one last question for you Kay. Thank you for this wonderful research. Have you gotten from these various testing sites, testing groups, what the return for results period looks like? Is it getting shorter and shorter or what? It is. Most of them have results within 48 to 72 hours. Some of them are faster. Great. Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Mr. McDowell. I can't see anyone. So y'all can speak up. Kay, let me ask you. You said say a word, an additional word about high risk areas. Sure. So the City Health Dashboard was actually recommended on a Bloomberg call with the Mayor and that dashboard gives you a lot of information about your demographics. So I guess high risk criteria for COVID-19 is obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, but also income inequalities fall into that as well because they may not have adequate healthcare to be able to take advantage of this. And so these mobile sites, if you don't have insurance, it's free. If you do have insurance, they're going to use your insurance information. Kay, how extensive is the dashboard itself? It's pretty interesting. It has a lot of information on it. Okay. It's very well done. It's very well done. It does a big job of staff using a bunch of different sources to put some really good content on there. Okay. It might be worth, Theresa, getting someone maybe on the phone with Ed just walking and walking through it, but it's very well done. Thank you. I'd like to see that too if you set something up. Kay, can I follow up on something you just said? So it's free if they don't have insurance. If they do have insurance, the insurance is, they file a claim with insurance. Yes. That's how most of the sites are operating. Okay. So I think we need to make sure if that's the case, it needs to be clear. And there's someone not through us. They went to go get a test. They did their insurance. Apparently they haven't gotten their deductible yet. And so they got like a bill for like $300 and they were shot. So this wasn't through us or anything, but if we're going to be, people are going to be testing and it's putting out there through us, we need to make sure it's clear on the way things build. And then I guess we need to find out if insurance doesn't cover it all or if they haven't met their deductible, if they're going to get a bill, we need to make that clear so that people aren't shot. Okay. All right. Any other questions for Kay? Kay, you've been doing an amazing job. And again, it's really just taking a whole bunch of really quality, disparate efforts or that could easily be going in different directions. And I think in some communities are going in so many different directions and having someone like Kay help and just kind of coordinate them. So for us, it helps cover the four districts of the city, the communities that need it the most, but with everyone and I'm just really encouraged by this work. Can we figure out what maybe with some introductory comments to this document? Theresa, could we have Cal and Michelle share with the delegation as well? Just make sure that our legislative delegation, they can make decisions, particularly in the State House over the next month or so about how to dispense the $1.9 billion or so. And I want to make sure that they're fully aware of the kind of work we're doing here in the city. We sure will. And just a few other just logistical things I'll mention here regarding testing and executive session, but thank you Kay so much for your heart and Harry and Pam and Ryan and all of y'all know that have kind of been working on this kind of subgroup for Resilient Columbia. Yeah, all good stuff. Y'all have been grinding so keep it up. Thank you. Okay Mayor, unless are there any other COVID-19 related updates you wanted to give Mayor Benjamin? This also acknowledges that some of the testing sites, particularly the Prisma, the testings that we've been to today, that we're working to add some other components to it, some celebrity components to it. I also encourage a lot of younger people to get tested, which is a major challenge we have there. So with this, it's an ongoing process, so we'll see how those announcements go. All right. Okay, sounds good. Well, moving into another important topic as we are approaching our budget workshop, our fiscal year 2020-2021 proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, a first reading today, a public hearing and first reading today, Mayor Benjamin and Council. Mr. Recap, for you a couple of highlights of this challenging budget, Ms. Missy Kauffman, our Budget and Program Management Director will take you through a few slides. Well, I don't know if you're going to do slides now or at the public hearing Missy, I'm sorry, I guess now. Maybe you may be on mute. You may be on mute, Missy. There we go. You got me now? Yes. Are you doing the slides now and then for the public hearing, is there any additional information rolling right through? So I just wanted to be clear for the council. Right. I'm not doing the public hearing slides right now. I just have a few to just talking through about what. Okay. Just to mention that we have the public hearing presentation here in a little while, as we present that to City Council. We also have a budget revision motion based on what was discussed at our previous budget workshop for the additional allocation for the reduction in the transfer from hospitality tax general fund to make a motion to revise that. The budget was advertised with a transfer of 2.7 million. And so during the last conversation with the council on the budget, we had revised that to be an additional $1.2 million reduction in the transfer. So that 1.2 could be spent on the hospitality tax fund. And so since the budget was advertised that way, we need to make a motion to revise it. So the public hearing materials that you will see this afternoon reflect the budget as advertised, but we do reference the fact that the additional revisions that would be noted should City Council decide to accept the motion. I just wanted to see if there's any conversations or questions around that. No. So probably, I mean, I plan to spend some time this past weekend driving to Howard and to Mika as I've been from Howard just had time to talk about tax between now and we would make our final decisions. I'm prepared to make the motion today to reduce the transfer of a 1.235 million. So it stays in the hospitality fund and we can meet the needs of all our partner organizations, but still wants to dig a little deeper there, had a couple of ideas that we'll get one more shot at, but appreciate the work. I really appreciate the work that we've done so far. At what level? The thoughts that I have, Daniel? Yeah, I just was curious because I know we had talked about cuts and some are a little deeper than we all had discussed and wanted to talk. I'm just wondering, you know, what that would entail. I just had a couple more notes about, and literally it was really just trying to cobble together different amounts of funds, identified funding here and there and a lot of charitable and comprehensive manner problems to do that with all of you and maybe in one document. And it wouldn't be a lot more. I mean, I think we're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars more. I'm sure it would be much more than that. We got to continue to make sure we fund, you know, all operations. But I think as much as we can do and obviously know we've had extensive conversations with our organizations and other organizations we support, obviously everyone's affected significantly by the pandemic. But even if we all come out of this and involve their obviously event this year, they'll plan that and they need to be funded on their events. For the first quarter, starting in the second quarter that will be handed to the third and fourth quarter. But just making sure we're really just thinking out loud, in which we can kind of right-size this and where we're doing as much as we can where we have any regular city operations. So, but it was a it was it was six-figure Daniel, not seven. All right. But I'll follow with all of you with exactly what I've been thinking. Just having a moment to breathe. I've got many of us out. All right. Okay. So, there are, you know, the questions about the public hearing just got items. The only other item of note that we wanted to point out is that we do have some remaining budget items for discussion. Not proposing discussions today unless the council wants to take them up today, but just just a reminder of some decisions still for consideration as discussed last time. What we have included in the budget for county services and homeless services, we also have a contract. The other items we're pointing out are those things that we have contracts with and just want to point out what we may want to do. Those items for going forward to and then it would include that forward for the general fund specifically. In relation to hospitality tax as just mentioned, there's just whether it's how the allocations with regards to committee or line item. We do fund river alliance and historic Columbia and one Columbia. They are contractual items. If you have any questions about those, we're prepared to discuss as well as accommodations tax. The general purpose 5% fund. We currently find together we can read in one Columbia portion of the other portion of the one Columbia contract from those 5% funds. Ms. I will say we will have an opportunity to discuss some of our nuts and bolts and agreements, disagreements. I do feel very strongly about the different hospitality associations. I know I don't have unanimous opinion amongst all of you, but I do feel very strongly that citizen of partnership should be treated the same as the other organizations and not see if the cuts have been proposed. Obviously I want to see some type of room as we all seek to bounce back some room also for North Columbia Business Association to also help their member organizations move back into the economy. I wasn't trying to start a debate right now. You can say something. Certainly I wasn't trying to start a debate, but that was top of mind. So I wanted to make sure I shared that. I was just going to say I agree with you and I hope that we can be called I think last year's conversations about how do we try to bring about some parity amongst the different business associations. Gidehaber and I had really endorsed the concept of looking at some sort of a tier and how we structure them. So I think this might be, we may not be able to do it in its entirety this time, but I think moving forward that is the way to go so that some, they all are trying to do the same things and it's just a question of having the necessary resources and also work with them as they go to look for resources beyond what the city might be able to get. You agree with that, Howard? Yes. I have shared with the mayor a proposal that I have been working on and it's about a 25% cut from last year's allocation and it does include the North Denoma organization, but I think we need to hold this conversation until we can have a more thorough conversation about the HAT rather than debate it today. I think we can take care of most of our main organizations and the ones that will be able to operate under the next 12 months of restrictions based on the virus. All right. Yeah. Again, I wasn't trying to start a conversation about when I did want to make sure that was clear. So thank you. Keep going, Miss A. That's all that we wanted to bring up for this portion of the workshop today, mayor. Again, staff is prepared to assist city council with any information you might need and making these decisions or having these conversations and ready for that time. Again, we weren't anticipating that we were discussing today, but ready if that was desired. What time is the public meeting? I'm sorry. Daniel, then Ed. What time is the public meetings? I'm sorry. It was noticed to be part of this meeting. Thanks. Mr. Duvall. No, sorry. It's part of it. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Okay. And would you say, Miss Dow? Yes. Missy, could you go back to that first slide? Will you go back to the numbers chart? This one? Yeah. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. All right. I thought I, yeah, I got the right figure. Thank you, ma'am. I got it. Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. You're welcome. Mr. Mayor. Missy, I'm sorry. Are you done? Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Missy. Mr. Mayor, I was, I'm attempting to send you a chat notification, but Chief Jenkins, those are working a building fire at Epworth Children's Home. Heavy fire and smoke, but I'm awaiting confirmation that all the staff and children have been vacated. Please let us know. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yeah, prayers. Okay. Yeah, please keep us posted throughout the meeting. Missy, again, thank you. You and the whole team, Theresa, as I prepared for the testimony before a Congressional Conference Committee, which seems like it was two months ago. It was just on Friday. But just making sure I was prepared with good information, solid information, able to articulate not just the macro needs for cities across the country, but specifically would have made the Columbia so good data, good information. Thank you for sharing our issues here in Columbia, always being included in a national discussion. Thank you, Mayor. At this time, we will take up the consent agenda, making sure we have, we don't have any additional items or deferrals, do we, Erica? No, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. Consent agenda items 4 through 28. Move approval. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, move the previous question or call roll. Mr. Brennan. Yes. Mr. Rickerman. Aye. Mr. McDowell. Yes. Mr. Duvall. Aye. Mr. Vines. Aye. Mr. Davis. Aye. Mayor Benjamin. Aye. Thank you. Item 29 through 31 are a few additional zoning planning matters for second reading. Item 29 is the zoning map amendment for 2.57 acres, Southwest Road B Road and 482 Brick Yard Road. Teresa, available on mind. Just one second. Before we go into the agenda, I know we talked about a day of morning on the man who talked about obviously the pandemic and we referenced the protests regarding George Floyd and everything else. But I feel like as you're living something, I think you kind of realize how much we're not talking and dialoguing. I did want to at least make sure we spend some time really acknowledging what not just the American family, the global family, but what this city in particular went through has gone through the last week or so. I mean, folks were deeply hurt by the events of Saturday in particular and how many people found Saturday as a manifestation of expressing their deep hurt over years of systemic issues. And I just want to take a point to say on behalf, and I've talked to all of you one way or another, how thankful we are for the people of Columbia, how thankful we are for the incredibly Brazilian business community that has been making their way through this incredible pandemic and trying to get the legs back up under them. And so I'm particularly down under this. I spent about an hour this morning with Bill Dukes and Blue Marlin and his staff and talking to all of his employees who were really frank and candid about the experience they had this past weekend, but not only this weekend, but also just over the course of their lives and life experience. And I spent some time obviously yesterday and throughout the weekend with the protesters, both the bass and Jordan were out there for all the right reasons. I'm speaking to the humanity and the inhumanity we saw in Minneapolis last week. And this was a we had a moment last weekend last week where even in my advanced age, I saw so many different people of different persuasions, many of whom rarely agree on anything. Everyone agreeing that people from the far left and people from the far right, everyone in between. Just watching a life snuffed out before your eyes just broke so many hearts and had people caught in a way in which we hadn't seen before. And then the watch of a smaller group of people take that level of peaceful protest and turn to something it was never supposed to be was painful because it took away from a conversation that we're all needing to have and still need to have about ways and it made this country better. And then and some folks watching might not might not might like like this and it really doesn't bother me at all to see the strength and the restraint on Saturday of our police officers. Obviously, I don't know everyone who's out there. I know we had the city police department, Sheriff's Department, State Patrol and so many other entities probation parole were not there unified and and you had a number of protesters who legitimately felt that that their humanity had been recognized maybe for a significant period of time and they were emoting in ways that obviously depending what they were doing was acceptable or completely unacceptable. And then you had men and women in uniform who were who often derided almost as if they're robots and they don't suffer from the same hurt and pain and suffering that we that we all do and love our family members. And there was this constant yelling over each other or this silence and then it manifested in something much larger than in something like I'd ever seen quite frankly in this city and like many of you I wept. I wept and I can't think of any other way to say it and it hurt and hurt deeply. And I just want to take a moment to say thanks to Skip Holbrook, thanks to Chief Holbrook and my Ron Kelly and his team, Sheriff Lott, thanks to our public work staff who Chris and I and Henry and three of us were out there picking a trash in front of Justice Square how they got there quickly, abated the graffiti, worked with the private sector, moved the cars, replaced glass and in a you know almost perfect setting raised the city flag, the state flag and the American flag right where they belong and and what was meant to be a very clear statement on the resilience of our city. We've been a whole lot, we've been a lot together and and to see the reaction of our city and our leaders but it's not just the seven of us we have leaders of all shapes and sizes, our incredible staff led by Teresa but men and women who just stepped up and I want to make sure that as we go forward that we rewind and go back to that painful point we all shared last week, that painful moment and that we continue to commit ourselves to true dialogue, a real dialogue about those things we can continue to work on and improve and do better. We try to do better all the time but now unlike 30 years ago when everybody got the same news from the same three network news anchors or local news from Susan, Audie Fisher, what have you, now we all get that news from so many different sources and no right people who have thoughts and ideas and pains and stories and how do we move that forward. We began last week on one journey, some folks try to take us off that journey on Saturday and then we got ourselves right back on the path to to to recognize and true human dignity in a way that which we're actually listening to each other and that was a long way of just saying thank you to to you all talk to every single one of you, Daniel came out that later and to me and Jamie were riding the streets and giving on going surveillance but everyone fully involved in in in every single thing that was happening so Howard, thank you Sam, thank you Will, Ed, Daniel and Tamika, Teresa obviously no skipping and Aubrey and Harry and the sheriff's not on here but the entire staff our response which has not been universally helpful but but but has generally been been been if not appreciated respected by by by the people that we represent and we still want to represent every single day is I think indicative of a very special place and we got to make sure that as we move forward these next several days and weeks and months that we kind of really remember that we're in a very special place where we have a kind of constant architects of this of the building this more perfect union we got we can't worry about Minneapolis and Oakland and New York and Louisville and everywhere else right here this corner of the world that God's put us in this position to to to manage for this period of time we got to do something with it we've got to do something with it we can't miss this moment and I apologize nobody got we got a lot of work to do but and I know we're going to talk some a little bit more later about about some things but as we're going to them the imaginations of our agenda I just think I just didn't say thank you to y'all thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you Rep Mr. Mayor just just a word of not only thanks because you thank us but it was because of your leadership because of Ms. Wilson's leadership and every member of the staff that made and we were sitting texting and trying to comprehend this event it was you all who stood on the front lines and for that you're welcome for thanking us because of your leadership you allowed us to look beyond ourselves and of course do the necessary things it's almost it's almost like we've turned a mess into a potential miracle it could have been far more devastating our chief was Johnny on the spot all of those persons who assisted Johnny on the spot so it's because of this collaborative movement that allowed allowed us to see some hope some possibilities the question that I've been asking myself how do you turn a mess into a miracle how do you allow how can we allow those businesses that was disrupted it return to a sense of quasi quasi-normacy I'm determined and I'm convinced and I will work and I'm sure my colleague will do the same it's a mess but miracles comes out of the messes thank you thank you thank you thank y'all thank you Theresa you're back to do your job okay that was that felt like it needed to be said too because we do I don't know I'm not quite there yet either and we're just moving along conducting business because we have to um but you're very right to acknowledge that a lot of us don't have time to process things as we're in the midst of it um so thank you for that um Pam did you have a quick update from from Chief Jenkins at it at work yes ma'am I did I spoke with Chief Jenkins Jenkins and he let me know that the building was a storage facility that they had on Epworth campus that mostly contained um linen and different types of um of supplies that they had um it's on the opposite side of campus so there were no children near the the property and there were no no um people in the building there were people in the building but they left the building once the fire um was in there so no one is injured and there are no no um as he knows right now there are no no injuries or deaths right now so just want to let you know that it was a storage facility not near the children and um they're still trying to get their fire under control thank you thank goodness certainly okay so these three zoning matters item 29 is the 247 acres southwest rugby road and 4802 brickyard road in um richland county the um second reese christus the motion is davis i i move to approve uh item 29 uh 30 also is that right and 31 please and 31 31 yeah yeah there yes sir yeah and then maybe one or two points of discussion later yes are these three items are related so yes sir second second good um some discussion mr. just that um you know we we um i think we followed councilman mcdowell also sort of participated in some of the dialogue we got in item 29 um and i think it's it's typical of of uh where we know we need to go as far as uh decent affordable housing and and there's always a dialogue prior to but the effort to get input from the existing neighborhoods um and i'm i'm i'm comfortable that the due diligence on on behalf of the um the body that wants to um provide the housing i think they've done as best as they can do they've uh taken the necessary steps and uh and provided input that that was educational in a couple of the meetings i sat in on and i've i've um had the opportunity to also dialogue with some people in the surrounding areas um straightforward conversations but at the end of the day the bottom line is uh this project uh is not only is it consistent with our goals but it meets it and it has it meets an immediate need in that particular area and so um i was just surprised that uh there was a i guess sort of a turnaround on on the vote on yesterday so and i'm sure the others are the same but but this is uh this is point blank spot on when it comes to uh the goals that we have on the tables right now to to meet the needs in this housing need the um all right any other discussion who agrees question mr davis um quote color of mr brennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr varn not voting mr davis hi mayor benjamin all right thank you thank you i'm sorry can i just make a statement up i want to make make it clear um because i know we do sign something to say the reason i'm not voting um is not because mr bishop is a member of of school board which i think somebody said is because um the church has been a client of mine in the past and maybe in the future so it is a legal conflict for me to vote on that yeah i understood thanks thanks mr varn mayor benjamin at this time we would ask that um we open a budget public hearing um for the 2020 21 budget as we um just discussed and of course the first budget ordinance number 2020 050 to raise revenue and adopt the budget for the city of columbia south carolina for the fiscal year 30 2020 2021 uh there's also a related related ordinance for first reading um mayor it is item 33 ordinance number 2020 046 amending the 1998 code of ordinances of the city of columbia south carolina chapter 23 utilities and engineering article 7 stormwater management section 23205 stormwater service charge rates um being that we are not having any rate increases this year proposed um proposed for the for the budget um we needed to make that adjustment for the stormwater service charge rate okay thank you thank you um city manager um so how many different uh platforms we utilize in the day to um have public participation i'll let our clerk explain yes sir we are using public input dot com the calling number was posted along with the agenda actually included in the header of the agenda and at this time we have one caller on the line who's waiting in the speaker queue i have not received any emails related to the budget thank you so much thank you so much um we'd love to hear from that caller now okay i believe it uh mr roger lori okay hey roger hey dr dr lori roger you on yet not quite sir one moment okay all right uh my name is roger lori and mayor and the council members it's good to be with you all uh you all did a great job it was happening in our city in our country in our world thank you so much uh i'm speaking on behalf of the columbia international festival thank you for all of your support in all past years this event is more relevant today than ever in the past with all the things that are happening in in our country in our city in our state columbia is a very diverse community representing nearly 200 nationality and cultural groups i think probably about seven to ten percent of our city population is born outside the country and live in our city right now and columbia international festival had 24 years of success this past April we were to have our 25th big anniversary celebration but we all know what happened the COVID-19 postpone the event we have not canceled it we hope to do something in a smaller scale in the fall one of my request to you is that please carry forward the budget we have approved for the fiscal year 2020 i'm spending money to be carried forward to the 2021 we're going to have something in the fall to celebrate the 25th anniversary and also please uh give us at least 50 000 dollars for that this current i know we're not going to the financial constraints and i understand but this event is so important for our community to bring us together so diverse but become one columbia as the mayor says so we really need your support to bring our community together this event brings more people together from diverse backgrounds than anything else i know my time may be up but thank you so much for your support and i can i count on your continued support for this event thank you all for all that great work all day thank you dr lori thank you so much i could say more if i have more time but i'm just out of maybe i have a two-minute limit is that right that you you have no more time raj i'm just messing with you raj please give me any questions i'll be glad to answer no raj please give you a fantastic i'm not sure if she's still in your but very proud of her um no no no no questions but um um we're going to take do everything that we can obviously to um to take advantage of carry forwards um and obviously the opportunity to to pretend to use funds that were appropriate this year for next year's event i think it's i think we're going to be we're going to be incredibly hard-pressed if not impossible to see increases in anyone's budget we're we're all we're looking at some really significant indeed across the board um touch but but i but i understand the request and and believe me um having participated in your event so um over many years they are fantastic and yes uh representative of of uh of what it means to live in a strong and diverse city so so so thank you um and we'll we'll uh we'll be we'll be we'll be talking soon brother all right that's um uh anyone else um ma'am clerk no sir there are no other callers on the line all right super thank you thank you ma'am any other uh email communications or what have you i need to be ready for the record no fair all right thank you all right um do we have an additional presentation from missy right now or yes so this is the actual budget public hearing slides let's do it okay thank you good afternoon again everyone hello um today we are presenting the fiscal year 2020 2021 proposed budget the proposed budget that is before you today um represents a total budget of 137 million for our operating budget which includes our general fund water and sewer fund stormwater fund parking fund hospitality and accommodation tax please make up your city's operation operational budget and missy that's down how much of a last year i don't have my last year's numbers in front of me so that is down um right at 32 million dollars from last year thank you all right yes sir 32.5 thank you the budget was developed with a focus on continuing continuing of operations continuing to provide excellent day-to-day services and fulfilling our city's financial obligations making sure that our debt service payments and other financial commitments are preserved um this proposed budget as we've talked many times over the past few weeks there are impacts we have on our budget with the relations to COVID-19 in particular the revenues that we anticipate that we need to develop our budget with um primarily those revenues that we expect to be impacted of those that are um most likely coming from economic drivers or consumer spending this would be our general fund including our business license our user fees the transfer from hospitality tax and then also to we had mentioned the fact that our loss collection we also um proceed those being decreased as sales tax revenues come in of course we are not aware or know how long these impacts will take place so we will continue to monitor as we go throughout our budget year we have mentioned several times we anticipate amending the budget again in the fall as we monitor the collection parking funds we of course expecting impacts on our street meters our event parking and then parking garage revenues and then our special revenue hospitality and accommodation tax both our state and local accommodation tax collections we'll start with the discussions regarding the general fund again the general fund budget as advertised is 138.3 million dollars this is a reduction of about 24.6 million from the current year budget amended budget it's about four million dollars reduction from prior year actuals the budget is in balance is required by state law we have not proposed any knowledge or rate increases the budget was built using um FY 18-19 actuals as our base with some adjustments for various areas that we know of to be that would have been increasing the current current just for year going forward business license permits local option sales tax as we've mentioned their rate rate millers rates or fee increases but with the local option sales tax impacts we anticipate that those credits that property tax owners will see will be reduced and that may translate to most folks as a property tax increase when in fact it will be reduction in the credit that they would receive from the sales tax generation as far as the general fund impacts of expenditures of course those revenues go down so will our ability to spend so department's budget was developed focusing preserving personnel and maintaining service levels as they are we've not proposed any additional positions no increases in personnel or increases in service delivery or enhanced programs our goal of course is to maintain existing service levels but understanding that some of our programs and services will be impacted just by nature of the need to continue social distancing practices and other limitations for instance when there are summer programs will be impacted for our parks our swimming pools that we anticipate some service levels like that to be impacted just by that type of activity the department's budgets were built using current year staffing levels which means that they have what's remaining for their operating costs of course that's also mean they are absorbing any increases to salaries that would have occurred since the past fiscal year as well as any other great increases in our merit I mean our retirement increases that were into effect this year fortunately the state has not proposed an increase in the next fiscal year so we we're not having to absorb those with our budget you know and all that means that departments will have will have a very tight budget in which to operate with these supplies and services of course we've also suspended our capital replacement program which would be a fleet replacement for the general fund we've not proposed any issuance of a lease this coming fiscal year of course that would be one of our expectations as we amend the budget for next time in anticipation if we do have additional revenues or find ways for additional revenue streams or better better projections than what we have made our capital lease program would be one of our first items to come back and of course we're not making any projections for our capital improvements which would be our city facilities our public buildings our parks our police fire stations playgrounds and so forth at this time the budget does represent our best case scenario that means that there could be additional impacts that we are hoping we will not have to make additional reductions to the budget a lot of that will depend on as we see some of the reliance on our budget that come from our transfers again from hospitality tax we also do have a transfer from our parking fund so we will need to continue to monitor as we go forward we don't have a lot of information about what department's budgets are including this coming fiscal year at this time because departments are still going to be revising their budgets to meet the budget allocations that are being presented to you today we have provided to be counsel with a list of various items we are suspending in order to help manage our funding levels anticipated funding levels going forward Missy this is Will can I ask one question real quick and I apologize I should have asked you this slide seven the previous slide you went through the general fund the department general government just a quick summary of what departments fall into that category yes sir that would include our general administration includes our HR our public relations includes our finance department our IT department and includes our support services it includes the mayor and council's budget it includes the legal department great thanks so much absolutely so next we have our water and sewer fund our enterprise funds which would include our business type activities our water and sewer fund our stormwater fund our parking fund we'll start with the water and sewer fund which is proposed at 168.6 million water and sewer is a proposed decrease of 2.2 million from the amended budget that amendment again is from the the the decrease of the fact that the amendment that we did for this fiscal year was for the additional transfer to the general fund for COVID-19 so we use fund balance for that purpose we have not reflected that use the fund balance in the proposed budget so it's it's net it nets out to be a decrease overall water and sewer sales total 157 million and additional revenue sources other revenue sources from just from water and sewers activities is 11 million and then again as previously mentioned there is no rate increase for toast our water and sewer expenditures the total budget again 168 million is about budget our department might present 101 million of the total budget which is about 60 percent in our budget our water and sewer fund departments include our utilities department our engineering department public works some general services and some other activities which but also include expenses for better non-capital repairs to our water and sewer system that would not be included in the capital so a lot of that budget is not just personnel it's also the construction activities that are not capitalized as the staff has shown and demonstrated here recently we are utilizing a lot more technologies to deliver our services and we'll continue to do so and move in those efforts as we continue in this coming year the AMI project is proceeding as scheduled we also have more online opportunities to interact with our customers including chat type of opportunities and an additional way that our customers can interact on the self-service type nature and then of course providing more information to our customers to be able to make their own decisions and information about their their water and sewer services debt and includes 40 41 40 basically 42 million dollars which represents about 25 percent in the budget it does reflect the prior year debt debt service payments as well as issuance of future debt in this coming year the operating budget also reflects the cash or the system revenues used for our transfer to the capital improvement program which is this year's proposed at 14 million or eight percent of the total budget and again includes the transfer to the general fund which is 6.8 million 6.1 million two million of that 6.1 is for continued COVID-19 response efforts moving on to our capital improvement program and our capital improvement fund the total CIP for the proposed year is 40 million dollars which is a decrease of 80 million from 80 million that budget is broken down as to 15 million for water improvements and 25 million for wastewater our capital improvement program is funded in part with cash and also from bond proceeds we're using approximately 14 million as previously noted from our system which is about almost 30 percent of our of the funding stream for our CIP is cash and another 26 million in bond proceeds even though the reduction in the CIP is proposed we are still meeting our EPA deliverables and we of course maintaining our financial metrics which are very important for our water and sewer system in order to continue the financial integrity of our system this is a little more look at our water improvements our water CIP is 15 million it's broken out back categories of our water plant improvements our water quality project utility relocations system expansion and then other of course the several noted projects there for your information on the wastewater improvement side of course this would be the larger bulk of our system CIP which is 25 million when focusing on rehab 35 percent capacity which would be system expansion for 19 percent and then utility relocation at 12 other would be a various various activities of our continued city program management for the consent decree and then other projects moving on to our stormwater fund the proposed budget is 14 million for FY 2021 there's very little change in the proposed budget from the current year which is just that reflection in the use of fund balance at this time again no rate increase proposed on your agenda today for approval is the stormwater ordinance deferring the five-year rate increase that would have taken effect in this year proposing that it be delayed for one year in response to impacts of COVID-19 on our customers department's budgets for the stormwater funds make up 50 percent 56 percent of the fund as you may recall from going through prior stormwater programs the number of our stormwater activities are performed by city staff and city crews includes maintenance of our systems as well as construction other construction maintenance efforts we do transfer upon our CIP to our stormwater capital improvement fund of one million or seven point five percent of the budget the stormwater fund also includes the transfer and direct cost allocation to the general fund five hundred sixty thousand which is about four percent of the budget and then debt services two point four million this is the current debt schedule this does not anticipate any new debt being issued in this coming fiscal year stormwater improvement fund is a twenty million dollar plan for this coming fiscal year again it is funded with a combination of one million from cash and then nineteen million from bond proceeds existing bonds moving on to our parking fund the parking fund budget is a total of seven point seven million the decrease of three percent from the current fiscal year again as mentioned the revenues we anticipate being impacted from our parking fund as a result of COVID-19 it does not reflect any rate or fee increases at this point this budget does assume returning to normal operation for this coming fiscal year so a lot of dependent upon being resuming all of our normal parking operations and enforcement efforts as far as parking fund expenditures the total budget is seven point seven million department budgets at this point represent four point one million it's fifty fifty three percent of the total budget just like our general fund our parking fund will be made up of a reflection of current year staffing with adjustments for operations to be able to um stay within the allocation proposed for FY 2021 the budget does include two point seven million in debt service payments which is about 35 percent of the total budget that is existing debt not need that missy yes sir can you can you go back for just a moment i think it was stormwater allocations um slide back if you would yes sir doing that now all right back no come come back to you yeah no not that slide the next the one yeah yeah improvement um there's two two items there that i want to just ask for clarification and one of course is the the Belvedere the stabilization project there in Belvedere in the A.B. and uh alan benedic i can't really see this the alan benedic the alan benedic um for three hundred seventy five thousand and of course do you have a specific question or are you just asking for information about those just asking about those yeah if you would okay actually uh Clint is going to answer questions about that um and maybe to be able to describe the project hey uh councilman um good to be with you alan benedic by retention pond is a project that we've got slated to move forward in the coming year for for cip um and that would be design services starting with that and then followed by um construction when we're ready so um that is a project that we've identified and um we believe we're helping improve water quality as well as um you know provides from runoff reduction benefits as well Clint Clint now that's after demolition yes sir that that is that'll be by retention um so it's low impact development it's part of the um the the redevelopment of that area okay all right all right what about i'm sorry i'm sorry councilman that that's also we're we're trying to do that that project is a public private partnership as well so we'll be you get a lot of community involvement there that's great what about the what about the velveteer uh string so so yes sir um velveteer is one that we continue to work on um and we've got the um the cost estimates in place and we know what it's going to take to do it and um and so that's a project that we're um continuing to work with the county on and to potentially split the cost of that one that's great okay now that's that's now is that the itch that is included in the partnership with sir okay all right that is the the stream bank restoration um for for the the damage that occurred you know during october 2015 flooding and some just over time the damages that have happened there okay thank you that's what i needed thank you sir thank you miss yes sir missy this is will i could you go to slide 17 real quick while on stormwater slide 17 there at the bottom you have and i didn't notice this in the other expenditure models you have a reserve figure figured into this if the if the reserves aren't met do they carry forward and do all the other um i guess pools of budgets do they have reserves built in so our water and sewer and our stormwater funds that funds do have um these reserves built in by um nature of our bonding yes those funds will roll forward they become part of the fund balance the general fund also includes we have a reserve on our fund balance it's not a budgeted reserve per se um but it is it is reserved out of our fund balance on our boat and do that would you say in the past let's take a snapshot of three years have those reserves um gone forward because they haven't been um drained in the current year um we have not ended those funds in a deficit if that's what you think if that's another way to sort of answer the question you're asking that's another way yeah right so those funds to be rolled into those funds would be rolled into the fund balance of the system they're not accounted for as a year by year they rolled up collectively at the fund balance wonderful thank you last we have our um special revenue which would include our hospitality tax fund and our accommodations tax fund first being the hospitality tax which is seven million it is a reduction of four point one million over the current year budget um almost 37 percent reduction of course there's revenues coming in from hospitality tax we anticipate being impacted hospitality um in fact the hospitality industry due to COVID-19 um because the hospitality tax debt has debt issued on it debt service is a priority for funding it must be funded from us and pay for so our debt service is reflected at three million that it's current debt there is no issuance of new debt at a hospitality tax as was initially intended for the um family part rehabilitation which that project is now on hold um that uh due to the um of course the projected decrease in the budget of course any um as we end this fiscal year should there be any savings um either from revenue collections or from um full ticket allocation those funds would be carried forward and they'll make uh part of the budget amendment we look at in the coming year and of course as we monitor collections and make any anticipation people continue to monitor um this fund as well as others as previously mentioned we know that um let's see how's that playing out so far i mean i'm even thinking about dr luri's uh request earlier um uh they're not having this year uh obviously happening next year do we see do we see some opportunity there to to uh leverage some um f y 1920 funding into meeting some of our traditional organization needs for 2021 so normally normally by this time we would have you know of course we would have had collections for a couple more months we would only have june collections but um so we we've allowed for collections to be delayed um for the past two months or we we don't have those revenue collections to really make a determination um as far as requests were carried forward from organizations those were due this past saturday um so we have not finalized what has come in in terms of groups that have requested their funds to be carried forward and to know which funds have been and in this case offered so i guess short answer is a little early to be able to give you those kind of estimates um but we are our goals to give you that information as soon as it becomes available so um obviously we have to meet that service under our bond requirements uh so we're gonna i'm gonna make a motion for council support to increase the allocation amounts uh to close to 2.6 uh million okay and we'll see you okay all right thank you okay thank you so the budget isn't as it's advertised is a $1.3 million but as as suggested or as as provided as a motion will be provided um in the in the proposed revisions as there's currently um we really recommend that we were able to make an additional reduction transfer to the general fund which would make available 2.5 million um for allocation this means that the transfer to the general fund instead of being 2.7 million would be one million five hundred and four thousand the the chart that is included on this slide reflects the allocations of what we need to currently propose for budget revisions next our accommodation tax this is um the accommodation tax that is um for our date accommodation tax this proposed budget is 1.4 million it's a reduction of 1.2 or 46 percent of course we are anticipating the accommodation tax to be pretty significantly impacted hotel occupancy rates due to COVID-19 those occupancy rates rates that the hotels are able to charge for those hotel rooms would have obviously an impact on the revenues collected state laws pretty explicit about the allocation of accommodations tax city council relies on the accommodation tax committee typically there are two groups that are funded out of accommodations tax um we have not made suggestions or recommendations about where how those funds would be allocated uh are those in councils normal breakout of 85% to the current colombian 15% to lake murray we've not made any any forecast of those and at this time excuse me the only remaining amount is the five percent general purpose fund which is based on the proposed budget is 72 000 that is a reduction of four from the current year fairly significant amount of from 2.7 i mean from a 147 000 um dollar reduction so that's more than half of the allocation we have used those funds in the past to fund um primarily together we can read um one half of the one colombia contract as well as some other um community promotion type um allocations to the council is made um the transfer of the general fund is is stated for in the state law as 25 000 i will say i mean obviously everything you just said is very important including the organizations that um may not be funded i'm particularly concerned and i know we obviously have as much latitude as possible between h tax and a tax and the like that deep a cut to one colombia greatly concerns me i mean the role that it's grown into playing as a as a rolling convening organization of the entire city of the arts infrastructure cultural infrastructure the city we we we need them now more than ever so we do want to spend some time between now and second reading revisiting that as well so i want to put that on the record as well for the push pin in that one too yes sir thank you yes sir so that concludes the presentation portion of the budget public hearing um mr mayor you have your thank you missy yes sir mr duvall mr mayor thank you missy for your presentation uh and we have all talked about this is going to have to be a fluid year of adopting the budget today to meet state law requirements but in future months we will adjust the budget there's one figure that we won't have that opportunity to adjust and i think if you can i'm sorry how if you're not talking if you guys there's a lot of background or maybe the same but how it's all that it okay there's one figure in this budget that i think is probably the most important figure that we have to consider in the next few months and that's our allocation of the local option sales tax i believe us in october that we have to tell the county the amount of money from the sales tax that we expect to get to give the tax credits to the people from the city of columbia who pay property taxes on their tax bills this year uh i think probably almost a hundred percent of the people of the city that pay property taxes don't understand that 30 percent of that tax bill that they would normally get is paid by a local option sales tax and if we guess if we set that figure too low then they're going to have a tremendous tax increase when they get their bills next in november and december and start paying them if we set that figure too high and we don't collect that then the city is going to eat that loss so i think we need to give very serious consideration to what amount we're going to tell richland county to use as the city's contribution of the sale local option sales tax to calculate the taxes this year that's the only figure that i can think of in this budget that is going to be inflexible in a very short time uh we can make adjustments and just about everything except what we tell the county on a local option sale that's extremely important thank you um theresa you make sure um both jeff and missy and of course let's let's do a detail there it's very important yes especially these tenuous financial times thank you howl jeff have you been in any discussions yet with richland county in that regard i know he's been doing a lot of discussions with some of his counterparts and other cities and have it yes we've i've talked to some of the other communities that the concern that councilman deval shares is a concern of all of us and across the state that actually had the local option sales tax was an offset that we do not have any numbers right now and he did mention it would be october it'll be the end of august first week of september so when we start getting our collections uh in july we'll be spending probably those next six weeks trying to crunch and come up with the best way to make the estimates um i don't know that the county is going to be able to delay that timeline because they've got to prepare the tax bills so unless they're going to delay tax bills going out in october they're probably still going to want it from us within early september as we go through the summer we'll talk with them about that as well thank you all right um any other comments i if not i have a motion uh for um miss coffins presentation um a move of approval along with uh motion to revise the f y 2020-21 for both budgets to decrease the transfer from the hospital for a new allocation of $1,540,000 that is a motion is there a second you're all muted second the motion that's thank you thank you howard thank you ed for being in spirit lips but you're muted uh moved moved seconded uh any further discussion mr mayor is that is that in slide number 23 the figures you just proposed is that that is in 23 right sir exactly all right great thank you sir thank you mr brendan and mr um rick and then what what's the intention of that money that going to the committee that going to what um like overall i think we're gonna have to figure out um obviously maybe in our subsequent kinds of conversations we mentioned earlier how we um break that down between line item organizations the various organizations um given missy and and and jeff uh and staff latitude to figure out how this fiscal year affects the next fiscal year's going to require a lot of flexibility so so the answer is yes you know kind of all all the above i i assume i'm going to do some line item organizations um i think we need to have a committee a committee process i think that committee process needs to be even a deeper dive and more informed than it ever has been as we as we look at how we closed out this fiscal year and um i just i this this shift obviously is a significant amount from the transfer of into age tax of 1.235 million in addition to what was already set for in the original proposed budget so i'd say that's a work in progress now but let's at least make sure that as we work through the this delta there's this different challenge to get we actually do it together so i think i think if it's it's it's it's yet to be determined and i think it's going to be organization by organization i think it's going to be um season by season you know um who some folks are more focused on um on events in the fall events in the spring and we're going to have to really do some deep dive in on uh what's essential was not you know um so uh hopefully we can we can get a heightened level of communication and elaboration that might help us uh get to something that helps us get through this uh while while while we get to hopefully what what what might look like a sense of normalcy next year can we between now and second reading get um how that the how that's going to affect the budget as planned by the city manager because i mean it's not a small amount of money no absolutely i think i think they've adjusted accordingly they've already adjusted accordingly what i what i think we do need to have a deep dive in some of the issues that you'll have referenced some that i've referenced um about our larger hospitality organizations that are all not created equal from the beginning uh hopefully all will seek the same types of equity and parity that sam talks about um uh so often there's some of different balance sheets and others everybody's impacted by the crisis this i'm not trying to throw this into the mix but if if if if some received some degree of of ppp we need to know that and figure out how that how that falls into the discussion and and uh of of all the organizations to some critical organizations critical meaning that they really add value to other things that we do um ten thousand dollars much more important than a hundred thousand dollars over here to a well funded organization so it's going to require much more of a deep dive uh that um we're going to have to we're going to have to kind of figure our way through are you proposing that we we block out time prior at our next meeting i mean when do you i think we're gonna i'm hoping today but i'm hoping to do in that and i don't know um terry said this this is one of the one of the times we call on on john whitehead in the committee uh did john still chair the committee no terry degis terry i'm sorry terry i don't believe me john's in the john's in the next official year he's in the shadows always um but leading on john's experience and terry's been a long time member as well so leaning on them and the committee to some degree and our staff's got so much going on right now so we can if we can lean on them in some way that allows us to come and compliment that um i've raised the issues that were on my on my mind and as i know you all um have several is as well um let's let's uh let's just make sure we we do a deep dive and then at least as much as we know now and it's been said some things will evolve we we need to we need to kind of have the ability the ability to be agile and as more data becomes available a week if we can adjust accordingly but i'm fine doing it daniel i'd probably be more fruitful if possible everybody's got so much going on right now to me as our our uh i think god for our committee as as as that committee that does if they might be able to help us kind of weed through some of the challenges as well yes sir mr duvall and obviously many of you might want to be in the mix um as well too yes sir mr duvall mr mayor this is such a special year with with so many twists and turns i think this is a year that the council needs to step up and and uh handle this ourselves um we don't have enough money we have everything except for the kill all hornets and godzilla right now so it is a special year don't jinx us oh lord uh yes that's that's the duvall you i mean mr davis you're still on mute but i agree howard i agree okay mr davis you're still on mute sam i know you think it looks like you're waxing poetic too but you're still on you're still on mute what i'm saying is i i think as we um as we uh move forward we probably need to be more um diligent about i guess um interim looks at where we are financially i know there can't be a long stretch but we've we've got to intermittent any take a look at it see where we are take a look at it see where we are um and the deep dive now prior to final approval i think we have to be creative but i'm comfortable that we all are really in focus on on what we what we're faced with this time around but um i i have a tendency of arguing for i'm not arguing but rooting for the smaller organizations um i don't know how much we can do on the front end about of this for them as opposed to maybe them getting lucky uh intermittent you you're on mute again sam somehow you're back on mute someone didn't like what you were saying probably probably i'm just saying that uh the smaller groups um you know we we can do what we can for um and maybe they they may get lucky doing some of the i don't know why you keep you keep muting sam i don't know why you keep muting do you hear me now yeah i can you keep muting um here i have no idea why okay anyway um i'm i'm okay we just i think the key is um what we do when we take some of the uh intermittent reviews of where we are financially and everything else should fall into play it's not that much we can do about um i guess special special looksies or a special set aside right now you know thank you bro thank you get um what we'll need to do uh just as it seems like we're leaning towards uh deep dive as council um let's just make sure that it as us to spit ball in open environment as much due diligence says we can get from the committee who engage with these organizations get their written written packages get their spoken presentations you know the whole nine yards they can give us some direction let's let's lean on our staff and and then we'll have a chance to maybe maybe uh really do some um some real debate over over the document but i'm i'm game i'm game so all right um mr. mayor moved a previous question all right and uh we'll look for the first vote mr. brennan yes mr. rickamon hi mr. mcdowell yes mr. duvall hi mr. von hi mr. david hi hi and thank you and missy um but you jeff jan and the budget team therese um thank you we we the ability not only to be uh detailed and thoughtful and obviously conservative um and how we budget but but not kind of giving up on our bigger hopes and dreams it takes a lot of takes a lot a lot of a lot of work and then and then obviously you got you got your your micromanaging group of seven here um who's with those things that you every day let's just keep on keep on responding to every day every hour i i wasn't talking about you daniel i was saying you know i can't help me i've been doing this for a minute i'm not coming at all now no we're saying this is this is the people who will listen to us right they're particularly our organizations that you know um are really dependent uh on on our partnership uh the public's partnership these are public funds that we control um we we we are listening we feel you're paying we're going to work with this together i'm convinced we can get through this together and our call accounts with us too so we're listening thank you mr. mr. mcdowell mr. mcdowell was your motion just to correct the transfer of the hospitality or was it uh not uh 2020 oh it was actually both but i don't mind i need you to i need you to approve item 32 and 33 mr. mayor i think so yeah but that but that but as the motion was stated i know that's what your intent was yes sir i move i move approval item 32 any discussion with the previous question card call roll mr. brennan yes mr. rickamon hi mr. mcdowell you don't need it yes mr. duvall hi mr. vine mr. davis hi mayor benjamin that was as amended with the motion earlier okay all right the motion to transfer the uh one by two three five things okay all right i move approval item 33 second in discussion with the previous question card call roll mr. brennan yes mr. rickamon hi mr. mcdowell yes mr. duvall hi mr. vine hi mr. davis hi mayor benjamin mr. mayor also was um just wanted to make sure do you all need us to assist in convening all of you or a small group of you to talk through h-tags or are you going to work on that on your own i'm perfectly good with you working on it on your own but i do not want to do it on our own let's let's see if we can take those two predicate steps first of all getting um uh i raised a few issues and uh several of us have let's see if we can if we can consolidate at least all those different interests in one document um and then a very specific response to daniel's question about how these proposed i saw in the earlier document how how we currently see that being broken down between line item organizations of previously funded organizations of what might go to the committee specific response to that then if whatever whatever engagement we can have um and everybody's so crazy right now with with with terry and her committee i would just find it helpful um uh and look at um obviously a preliminary look at what what missy referenced earlier about uh some of the carry forwards and obviously we know that money's there yet but we know that we will have an opportunity maybe somewhere in midfall uh to take another look at what that looks like and and handle eight stacks uh then and then us talking again i mean i and i think it needs to be this i think it needs to be all the information and then all of us talk okay and you would like that before second reading that could be helpful yeah yeah y'all y'all cool with that everything sounds good to y'all yes thank you okay thank you thank you okay ordinance second reading item 34 ordinance number 2020 024 concerning to the inclusion of property in a multi-county industrial business park at washington and assembly by washington and assembly llc in richland county and mayor i do believe there's been follow-up by staff on the questions regarding parking and the historical designation um i i want to say to the council members satisfaction that asks for the information okay good i move approval discussion from the previous miss duvall well uh i wanted to talk about the parking and then ask mr rickham and uh if he's had any success in getting the parking up it looks to me like they are asking they've got 676 beds in this proposed uh complex they only have 405 parking spaces they've got a lot of bike space 175 bike bicycle spaces so they're about 169 car spaces short of having a car for everybody that's going to have a room there and the way these projects work you have five people or four people in a room and each one of them is going to have a car so where are those 169 cars going to go hopefully they won't have cars and i think we're going to but by the time we get done at the pace we're going to have autonomous vehicles um the um you know obviously that that the stack corner that part of assembly benefits from the same um requirements is is downtown and that we if you don't have to have parking there's some here obviously honestly what we need parking more parking to rogers we have some some great deals in the works um i'm happy with the significant progress here i'm hoping and praying that if we get things back on track some of the nearby development that um so me having um discussing will also help um mitigate uh those needs um but uh hopefully some of the conversations we had previously our previous meeting around around building a multimodal society really starts starts to take take take hold and uh become a reality but uh it's another specific uh questions earlier have been addressed um but i know i know that there will be addressed to full satisfaction so i want to try to do so right now i did have a follow-up conversation and they have reached out and then come up with some options uh for additional parking not 160 i think whatever calculation you had howard there i can't remember but it was uh over 50 percent um of that number um that they had some options to get to add to that if necessary so that helped me out a lot um because you can't there's not going to be based on what the other empire and several other student housing um that i reached out to um not all their parking they had about 75 percent that had cars uh about um now this is a little further out i agree but i do think that having a conversation with those guys yesterday and i took the time out to to talk with them and i feel like that they've got a plan if if they need to add more parking even beyond that um as you know they're just gonna pass the cost on so i think the reality is they've reached out some um different uh property owners and come up with some options if necessary it's not one for one i'll be honest about that there's not one for one but i think they did a significant amount of work to come up with some good solutions and um and i know i see i saw sam's hand go up i know we also had discussions around the historic preservation and the contribution that's been confirmed prisa uh yes sir i think ryan discussed it with mr davis ryan do you want to report out to the full council yes ma'am um uh we we we talked with uh andrew savoy uh of crg last week uh discussed the two outside standing items with them regarding the parking and the historical markers um they've obviously um kind of committed to doing their part on both we're in the process of um reconnecting andrew with robin weights at historic columbia i think andrew would like to see maybe some some um possible proposals of what different marker scenarios would look like i know the sd 63 some of the way finding stuff has been recommended as an option as well um they want to do their part uh they want to contribute to this as well and so we'll we'll continue to kind of get that discussion along the way and um i think come up come up with an option that everybody will be proud of at the end of the day absolutely and i want them to do the part and uh um and uh but i'll also be very explicit that from the very beginning their part uh was a was a significant financial contribution or articulated the document with historic columbian columbia sd 63 um the major part of the discussion is this expansion of the way finding signage recognizing significant portions of significant historical sites throughout that that district and it was a it was a it was a i know five at least a five-figure commitment and that is the condition of this approval so um i want them to do the part but they're going to do the part so uh let's let's let's make sure we come up with a bow on that between now now and uh next time we talk about it um we'll give you this question for color role mr brennan no mr rickamon mr mcdowell yes mr dovol no mr vine hi mr davis hi hi mayor benjamin hi thanks thanks to um all of you on both on both all sides of this and just the due diligence sort of what's been doing um so thank you very much hi all right thank you um next message again sir mr mayor real quick um i hate to keep belaboring because i'm always thankful for uh approved budget on first reading or and second reading hopefully but i see some notes coming in from mr palin regarding you all meeting on h tasks before second reading you appears that you're approving the amount as adjusted i don't know that it's i'm hoping we'll have a productive discussion with you because i just don't know if we're gonna have some of the information you need as far as the numbers um on business license revenue coming in et cetera um so this idea carry forwards and that sort of thing it may be july honestly before we would have better numbers to work with so do you think just being real clear right now for the groups that i know that they're wanting to have some information too but i hate to just sort of have this stringing along and we keep trying to get there without accurate information but jeff i see your note to me you want to speak to that is it realistic to think it will have enough information to give counsel over the next week or so before we would meet again so on h tax i just want to be clear that when we start talking about the carry forwards um as they the the various groups have made their requests so we'll be tallying that all up but i i don't think we should leave here thinking that there's all the funds have been collected um that we'll be able to meet all of those requests for the carry forwards um and because we're short we're we are short in collections right now well over three million on this year so we've offset that by 925,000 coming not going to the general fund to help offset some of that but then we also don't know until july when we get the june collections and really where we're going to be at so i we have to be cautious to know that you know there may not be enough funds for all the carry forward which may change some of the discussion depending on what the priority becomes of the different requests for the carry forward um now i don't think that affects at least the amount that missy has proposed today in the h tax on the fact that part of it so the um i've taught my head i'm sorry i don't have it right in front of me the 2.6 million that part is is a solid number based upon our current projection so that won't be affected by the carry forward but the when we do talk about that and the requests that came in we'll have to see if we're going to make that and then and if we don't then depending on the priority what everyone's setting for how they want to spend it they may want to take a look at the carry forward requests that we can't fund it's just that we aren't going to know those numbers until after june's over because we don't know what the collections are going to be in years past we could always make really good estimates because we can look at prior years right now for the month of may from what i saw at best we collected maybe 30 of what we had budgeted which is to be expected based upon what's going on it's just that i don't know how robust june is going to be to help make up for some of that as well good and we can certainly continue to try to get the information you all have asked for and we're you know i know you wanted some information from the committee or to it's your decision i know this year but maybe you have to assist with looking at some things but it's up to you i just want you to have all the information you can't know absolutely we can't make informed decisions if you don't have the information yet so that's so let's let's let's continue to play that part by year and but it shouldn't impact you on second reading approving the amount you know right it shouldn't but as it relates to existing budget and obligations the things that we can discuss and talk amongst ourselves to clarify let's try and obviously you know this is an evolving story so we'll get more information when it comes to truly available okay so i'll just sort of play that by ear if we actually do a meeting before your next meeting in june i guess i was just wanting to be clear on that okay item 35 is the first resolution on your agenda resolution number r 2020 061 certifying building site as an abandoned building pursuant to the south carolina abandoned buildings revitalization at title 12 chapter 67 session 12 67 100 of the south carolina code of laws is amended regarding property located at 1544 main street in columbia south carolina in rickson county i'll move approval is there a second second discussion we'll move the question for color all mr vrennan yes mr rickerman mr man now i'm adjoin me yes i'm sorry thank you mr duvall hi mr vine hi hi mr david hi mr benjamin hi thank you item 36 resolution number r 2020 062 city of columbia south carolina support fair direct federal emergency support to reopen and rebuild local and so move the second discussion question i mean i said mr mr vrennan is this is this nationally the city's what is can somebody explain this briefly yeah this is a resolution that cities are passing ask for direct allocation of the new stimulus money coming down wonderful thank you move the previous question for color all mr vrennan yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr david hi mr benjamin hi thank you moving into a period of appointments you all have the columbia tree and appearance commission the airport commission was added the affordable housing task force and the central midlands regional transit authority and i wanted to add i meant to earlier mr mayor and council that i think you can take up a council i know that mr vrennan had expressed interest in for the cm rta i know your reappointment is before you but um i believe the council appointee could be made as well i would be in addition to the existing i don't even know what you yeah i wouldn't i wouldn't want to knock out the current reappointment but just for future appointments i would love to have council's consideration and the timing on that is whatever you whatever you see fit i'm not sure i was hoping um i would have clarity for you mr vrennan on the timing of the council appointee or reappointment i'm not quite sure which one of you are serving right now is that council appoint appointed representative i don't think we have a council here right now i think i think tia i think we okay i don't think we do can we can we can we hold the the comment appointment if it's if unless there's some sense of urgency coming from the comment do a quick dive uh i'm going to uh who's back up now i'm going to do that derrick huggins i like i'd like to return derrick um yeah that's the only thing that's before you mayor i was just asking about the council appointee because mr vrennan and i had talked can we get some clarity though on um on the count pointy i mean i think it's important if you got any who wants to have someone uh you know there so i mean one of our one of our colleagues i think i mean derrick's been invaluable and we we went to save this we went to save their dog on dog let's skip rta he doesn't go without derrick's leadership so i want to recognize that um but i'd love to dig a little deeper and see if we can find out there's a opportunity to you know there'll be a little bit of some discussion around really restructuring the board and what that can mean um for um uh an additional c we need a council c too that's the one we're saying that and if we can get that negotiated we would we give mr brendan in there uh bugger appreciate that man yeah i'm with a reappointment of mr huggins just a second discussion with a freshen carl roe mr vrennan yes mr rickerman you know you're a mute down mr rick the thumbs up i'm not sure that's put that in the record mr mcdowell yes thank you sir um mr duvall hi mr varn yes hi mr davis hi hi thank you the columbia tree and appearance commission mr mayor who do we have up uh i apologize i've been asked this report who do we have um by henley if i if she wants and she wants to continue to serve no she won't she'd be a new appointment new a new appointee okay that was awesome it moved the appointment is that second second all right any discussion with the previous i'm sorry did she feel an out of city see she didn't live in the city yeah she's a district too she's pretty close she's a close but she ain't in the district she's a three iron if nothing else um is that is there a residency requirement for the board i don't know i just was asking what what spots you're feeling there is no residency requirement a residency requirement and we got other folks who don't live in the city um so we got to make sure obviously it's modified it if that we do know by the area of the county but probably people active non-regulated all city things uh if you at least want to die during the city and a treasure um so i'm fine with the with the with with the appointment let's make sure the record does apply that's it's not district um two or three without a city okay um with the previous question mr vernon yes mr rickerman hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall yes mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi mr duvall i think we had the airport commission has that been confirmed carol fowler uh is up for reappointment she has finished her first term on that and about six months ago she um asked for reappointment and we had it on the agenda and didn't take care of it that night and then we got covid i'd like to hold this for discussion on a later date i'm in a looking well uh it wasn't on our it wasn't on our agenda i haven't had an opportunity um so i'd like to hold possible i'm not disagreeing with your game um my case let's move it to the next agenda properly noticed um if there's some issues we need to discuss i support this file as a reappointment um but y'all y'all y'all figure that out and we get on the next agenda properly um notice and also erica do a deep dive make sure we make sure we hadn't already taken enough head to but if we haven't let's make sure we address it okay we looked at it and her term didn't expire until february and it was on the march 17th agenda and it was scheduled to be on march 17th but it wasn't heard so i think we're we're in the clear on that well proper let's properly notice it and then we can we can take it i shouldn't have questioned Howard i apologize councilman devolve thank y'all all right so we're so we're saying that we will take this up at our next meeting yes sir all right thank you yes sir all right um any uh i think that's all all we say the agenda do we have any sensible housing house and i don't know the other is is that mr byron or who's one who's out yes yes sir um we uh the mayor mentioned in the state of the city that we were going to uh re-up our affordable housing task force and i asked him if i could handle this and he said yes so i've worked with staff to try and pull together a great task force um we have our first meeting tomorrow i mean excuse me next tuesday so i'd like council uh to point uh the following members i'm sorry i should have this in front of me erica i got it okay i've got um lauanna solz representing homeless no more reggie bonner from the bonner group who is an affordable housing developer john ando from the comet sue berkowitz executive director of south calana apple seek legal justice lester young from just just leadership jenna from more from united way julie and avan executive director of mercy jim zeke who is uh the representative for more justice uh brianna brenna all britain who has worked with homeless veterans with fast forward jeff armstrong from family promise and jeff latter larrimore from midlands housing trust uh fun uh these are the members who have been asked and have um have agreed to serve if appointed and i know that mr rickman mentioned adding a affordable housing builder um think reggie bonner fills that however if council members have any additional suggestions i don't want the committee to be too big but if you have any additional suggestions we're open to that but i wanted to go ahead since this is our last meeting before the task force is scheduled to have our first meeting i wanted to go ahead and get this appointment and then if we have any additional ones we can appoint those later so i would so move the appointment of those people all right just a second that's all right mr drick yeah you you can go ahead and carry that throughout wait for daniel i don't i don't have a suggestion now i just i will may have some folks too i know to mickey you want to kind of keep it not too big so it can be working but there's a lot of nonprofits in there and to make this successful we got to have some people who understand how to leverage dollars and do things in the private sector so if there's one other spot that maybe we could fill i don't know will i know you run across a lot of these people more than i do but i just i think it'd be helpful for your group so they can maximize because this is very important to the community oh yeah i know definitely i this i just don't have only person i thought of addition in addition to mr bonner was kevin connelly and i didn't get a response back from him but no i would welcome some a suggestion so daniel will you do have one um and if you have one you know within the next day or two let me know so they absolutely i will i think it's a it's a wonderful list you have there to mika um and i would say my only suggestion is somebody add somebody that has knowledge of historic tax credits and abandoned building tax credits kind of that that adaptive reuse approach that that we can plug in for for housing solutions we have a lot of wonderful um legal folks in the area that might be a good part of part of your team for that and i can i can give you some suggestions yes please do let me god thanks great i'd like to do the same thing if you don't mind sure yes yes we don't want to be too big but of course uh i've got one or two persons who have shown some interest in this kind of this kind of experience now and let me just say i said i don't want it to be too big but i i don't mean i don't want to exclude anybody i mean this all the things that we do are important but this is such an important issue what we do know is that the more people we have involved the more uh voices and partners we have to move our agenda forward to actually you know getting the community involved in the solution so i welcome suggestions these were just some folks that i know we've worked with in the past and have a particular expertise but if you guys can give me some names we're scheduled to meet next next tuesday at 11 so if they you can get them to me and they can be part of that meeting that'd be great if not i can meet with them after that meeting and then get them looped then after next week great appreciate you taking it on davis well now i i can with them next week if not uh ad can carry my water for me with his appoint pointy thank you thank you i may give you want to make a i may all right we have we've voted on this yet i'm sorry no no with a brief question mr brennan yes mr rickamon yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall yes mr vine hi mr davis hi i have engineers hi thank you thanks mayor all right i'm uh citizen any public participation one sign of the speak erica not at this time nothing good thank you madam for all right all right um madam city manager we have we have any other items to add uh for executive section discussion discussion minister all right mr duvall you give me the pleasure mr may i move we'll go into executive session for a seat of legal advice related to matters covered by attorney client privilege pursuant to seco 30-4 s 72 legal advice pertaining to COVID-19 discussion of the employment of an employee pursuant to 30-4 s 71 municipal court is that a second second all right i'm with a previous question park all right mr brennan yes mr rickamon yes mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi hi mr davis hi my invention hi so while my face is on the screen but i'm in the room just want to ask council for um i was in the state law of uh the city ordinance here's the mayor of the authority uh to call a curfew and council has to ratify so for yesterday's declaration of june 1st to 745 we need to make sure we ratify that decision there's no effort tonight to impose a curfew and obviously we'll always with the advice and council of the chief and city manager exercise authority that i have under state law in the ordinance but we need to at least ratify last night action is there a motion i move we ratify the mayor's actions i'm calling a curfew last night second second move by mr duvall second on mr rickamon in discussion with the previous question park all right mr brennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell you're muted add you're muted add yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi do we have a non-debatable motion to adjourn mayor before you adjourn you might want to say that the 11 p.m curfew is still in place it's still is still in effect and is set to expire on on june the ninth and obviously we'll continue to monitor both the state p.m public health concerns between now and then and the council feels needs to meet again we'll consider we'll consider that thank you thank you uh uh is there a motion to adjourn so move a second a move to this question park all right mr vrennan yes mr rickamon hi mr mcdowell yes mr duvall hi mr vine hi mr davis hi mayor benjamin hi y'all have a good evening