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Bossier City Council Meeting March 19, 2019

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Welcome to the virtual city council regular meeting this is Tuesday March 19th 2019, it is 3 p.m. we will start with a call to order. The invocation.

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Yeah, ok invocation by councilmember Jeff Darby and the Pledge of Allegiance by councilmember dawn Williams.

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That's great, thank you, Father for this state that you've allowed us to see. We thank you, Lord God, for your greatness, for your goodness. We thank you for your mercy. We ask you Lord God, to direct us in this meeting and we pray for those who are here. We ask you to bless those families who are represented. We thank you for those who serve citizens. We ask you Lord to help those who are suffering in other places, and we ask that you will give them recovery in the name of Jesus, I pray, amen,.

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Please turn all turn your cell phones to silent or turn them all roll call. Mr.

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Mchenry here mr. Larkin here.

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Erwin there.

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Darby here.

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Free here mr. Williams, here.

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All right I need to approve the minutes of the March 5th 2019 regular meeting and dispense with the reading so move. Second,.

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By councilman Williams second, by Councilman Harvey, please cast your vote.

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I was ready for my pin.

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I'm still alive.

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This guy, who else where's.

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Now counsel, we have one add-on request today: it'll be number 15 under new business, adopt a resolution authorizing the hiring of a permanent part-time gym, monitor for who to park Parks and Recreation. First and final reading.

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I'll make the motion that we add item 15 to the agenda. Second,.

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First, by Councilman, Darby second by council and Montgomery.

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As there any questions from the audience on this item, adding this out him to our agenda all right council, please cast your vote.

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That's the only add-on that we have counsel all.

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Right I need the.

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Emotional commotion, we.

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The gene as amended.

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First by Councilman, Harvey, second, first black councilman Williams, second by Collison and Harvey, to approve the agenda as a minute. Please cast your vote.

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All right, no ceremonial matters, a recognition of guests will go straight to committee reports. We have Stacey Fernandes our finance director with her monthly finance report.

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Good afternoon Council I've distributed the financial statements for February 2019. On page one is revenue by fund for all funds together, one hundred and twenty two percent better than budget for the general fund sales tax for one hundred and six above budget page or expenses by fund mert, 80%.

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Page three is sales tax. The second section is a year-to-date collections and we are down 2.6 percent two prior year, but we're still 106 percent of budget.

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Basically, help me with these numbers here the dates. Alright, the dates the same two 28:19, the first two, the dates are the same as the second to the.

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First, two are the month collections and then the second set one month collections.

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Okay, page four is on Manning report. We are 33 below budget and we are one less than last month.

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Page five, the water at Sumer, financials.

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For the month for two hundred thirty four percent negative, the majority of these reasons is because we revenue is down and it's because we've had a very wet January February, so we're hoping that we can catch these up over the summer and the year-to-date rolling is at 52%.

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The year-to-date to budget, though, however, is two hundred and eighty five percent.

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We've also had the expenses. Yes,.

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Associated with the water issues.

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With the testing and the chemicals treatment truly.

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Had normal circumstances that exponentially essentially affected the budget, so hopefully we're moving on to smoother waters. Yes,.

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Sir, any questions.

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Stacy thank.

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All right, our next committee report would be with more cuts in our City Engineer, with his monthly project update.

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I regret to tell you that shed roads not much farther along that was a month ago.

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They were pouring some concrete. Are they they.

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I drove it at two o'clock today, that's an hour ago, there were three guys with hand, tools close to Benton Road. There were two guys with hand tools close to airline Drive. We still have to patch some concrete grind: some concrete seal, some concrete and stripe. Some concrete Councilman Darby asked about damages last month. I think we calculated him through the end of March was going to be a hundred and eleven days or was it a hundred and eleven thousand dollars? I?

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Think is what and that, as soon as they finished at the end of March they're not going to.

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Viking Drive we've got all our right-of-way mats done, we're running tidal, doing the title, work, I'm, gonna, thirty three parcels we need to acquire will be at 95 percent final plans by April, the 12th. That's when the highway department guys come to Tanner. We walk the project, the plan in hand and it's kind of a milestone. We were getting close to having a set of plans then, but of course we still need to acquire the 33 parcels and do some utility relocations coleman streets doing good, since we lowered it to avoid Fort Smith park.

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Should have my 90% plans by the end of this month and then we'll have a plan in hand for Coleman Street innovation Drive. We just got a letter this morning, I think it's called the decision document Jimmy's gonna. He is reviewing that to see. If we can go to the next step, which is mitigating the wetlands, then we can put the project out to bid Walter. Oh Big B, the phase one, the us 80 portion. We were kicking and getting it out there. We started a week ago today.

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Contractor they typically work six days a week and it's going well and it's going to be better than shed right.

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Walter, a big B phase to the bigger project went to Vicksburg last week to visit with our friends at the core about some drainage issues. We got some direction from them. We know what to do now. It's going to involve a little redesign but shouldn't be any big deal, Pam's doing good with the right-of-way acquisitions. We had 33 parcels to buy we've closed on, 18 of them and Pam's got a little momentum going she's doing about one a week right now. She tells me the east bank parking lot downtown. It's finished turned out pretty nice.

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We got a punch list, a few items left to go, one driveway hose water. It's going to have to be removed and replaced, but contractor understands that shed Road I to 20 high mass lighting, the project of councilman freeze. We've got that design. We shared it with Wilhite electric, our good friend there. He put an estimate out of four hundred and forty four thousand dollars. We only have four hundred thousand budgeted, so we might need to plus that budget up a little bit if we choose to go forward with bidding that project or you.

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Could kick it in.

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We'll take donations absolutely.

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How much would that work out monthly.

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Stripes on the Parkway and Swan Lake wrote our contractor understands that his contract is over with April the 30th and so we'll just look for him to be finished by the end. He worked this past weekend. He didn't work today, he's all over the place, but he understands he's supposed to be finished by April 30th.

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Our rina projects I'll put a list in front of you. The projects we've done at the arena today. The next big project is to replace the roof. It bits made of 7th it's estimated at one point: three: five million dollars and that's all I got counsel. If you have any questions anything.

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On the Kroger Walmart tie-in.

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Not to my knowledge, we've.

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Got Platt mark and I have to argue about the fact that we're trying to put two entrances into the parking lot instead of one which would make it easier because it leaves out another entity, and so we have to have a discussion about that before we really get into the mix with them. It just seems like it's a little heavier sledding to add another party and to ask Kroger to agree to two entrances into the parking lot. Okay, thank you.

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Thanks counsel,.

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Thank You Maura all right adopt.

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An ordinance to appropriate $500,000 to come from the riverboat gaming capital fund to be used to pay for shed road construction cost overruns. Various change orders into supplement engineering design final reading so.

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Ma'am second, first.

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By councilman, early second by councilman, Williams questions from the audience questions for the cast. Your vote.

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Adopt an ordinance establishing regulations, fees and procedures for street performers by an act enacting section 22 2 through 22 11 of the buzzer City Code of Ordinances final reading. So.

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First, by Councilman, Harvey's second, by councilman, Williams questions from the audience. Questions from the council cast your vote.

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All right, your business, witness.

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Opening of sealed bids for bid number P won 9-0 seven 2019 asphalt street project.

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Council there are no addendums to this bid. The engineer's estimate is five hundred and twenty five thousand and the budget is.

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The first bid is from Benton M Brown LLC.

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The bid bond is included is for 474397.

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Four: three: nine nine point: one three.

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The next bid is from earnest contracting LLC. The bid bond is included. It's for five hundred eighteen thousand four hundred 12.5 one, eight four one: two point: zero: zero.

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The next bit is from specialty track hoe and dozer Service Inc. The big bond is included it's for five hundred, fifty eight thousand six hundred ninety nine dollars: five, five: eight six, nine nine point: zero, zero Stacey.

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This one wasn't on the list.

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It's out of mine in the mayor's copy.

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Discrimination: she don't like that. I.

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Guess not that's what make sure we're putting everything in the right.

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Please write in especially.

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The name of the time was special David. What's.

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The entire name specialty.

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Track hoe and dozer service.

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The concrete repairs, because no.

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Her says asphalt was.

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Okay, this is the last one for asphalt. This is from TL construction LLC. The bid bond is included. It's four five hundred ninety six thousand two: ninety five, forty five, five, nine six, two nine five point: four or five ask that you accept the reading of these bids. Somebody.

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Montgomery second, but councilman Williams.

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There's your 50,000 mr. free thank.

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Opening of sealed bids for bid number P won 9-0 eight on-demand, concrete repairs for utilities.

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For no addendums to this bid and the budget and the engineer's estimate is one hundred and fifty thousand is from the water and sewer operating budget.

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The first bid is from C W and W Contractors Inc. The bid bond is included it's for one hundred, ninety nine thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. That's one: nine! Nine, nine. Five, zero point: zero: zero, the.

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Next bid is from David B Wommack contracting contractor LLC. The bid bond is included. It's for three hundred fifteen thousand four twenty five sixty that's three one: five, four to five point: six: zero.

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The next bid is from our VP Construction Inc. The bit bond is included it's for two hundred, forty six thousand five hundred dollars, two four: six: five: zero, zero point.

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Asked the to approve the reading of these bids.

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I'm under advisement, that's.

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What normally, when it goes over budget they taken under advisement on.

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This, though, there's really not anything, you can do so thing we ought to do, is approve it and, by the way, their winter. Fifty.

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Like I'm at home,.

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First, by Calvin, Williams second, by Councilman Montgomery. Please cast your votes.

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Fleeting glimpse.

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For bid number P one: nine zero five sewer, sub-basin BC fourteen rehabilitation project.

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Council there's one addendum for this bed had changed the specs and bid forms drawings, provided questions and answered and had a list of the non-merit mandatory meeting attendees the engineer's estimate and the budget is 2 million. Ninety three thousand from the sewer capital contingency fund.

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The first bid is from David Lawler Construction Inc. They acknowledged the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for 1 million, eight hundred ninety three thousand five hundred six dollars, one eight, nine: three: five: zero six point: zero, zero.

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The next bid is from J bar corporation. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included, it's for two million five hundred, ninety five thousand twenty two dollars and ninety cents, two, five: nine: five, zero. Two two point: nine: zero.

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I'm not sure how we're supposed to handle this, but we received an envelope from this company and they bid on bid sinks. So we thought it was a duplication and we didn't bring the bidsync bid. But this was strictly the bid bond with no.

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They bid it electronically. Yes,.

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So do you know how we hand all that we've.

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Got to get there Ben do.

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You want to, can we just move it to? mmm Can we just yeah.

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We spun it and let everyone go get it push it to the later on. In the meeting to finish this.

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On this project,.

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We open the rest of the biz and then you can come back with that other bit.

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Is it on your desk.

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Read them slow.

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Next bid is from Portland utilities, construction company LLC; they acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million, eight hundred twenty eight thousand two hundred seventy two dollars and forty cents. That's two, eight two, eight two, seven two point: four: zero.

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The next part, the next bid is from pulley construction Inc. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million. Ninety one thousand three hundred dollars: two: zero: nine one: three: zero, zero point: zero, zero.

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Let me just move this to later on. The agenda can.

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We do that for us, okay,.

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Do any table at Jimmy to make a motion to table or just go forward just.

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Make a motion to move it to the end of the agenda and we'll call it back. Make.

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The motion we move this to number 16. Second,.

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Part councilman Montgomery to move this agenda to number 16 and seconded by Councilman Larkin.

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There any questions from the audience on moving this to the end of the meeting.

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All right cast your vote.

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Have to vote on the.

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It's already on there we're just moving it: okay, hearing to review the recommendation of demolition and removal of a dilapidated structure located at the following legal address: 54:19 daffodil street Bossier, City Louisiana, seven, eleven twelve.

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Council this case was started back in August of 2018. The letter was sent, it was signed for by Allison sellers notice, condemnation was filed and we gave for the honor to be able to take and work with the insurance company. It's been seven months at this time and the house is still there and we've been receiving several complaints and stuff about the condition of the house. I would ask at this time stuff that basically, that allow us to condemn it and remove it.

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Office was appointed to provide notice to miss sellers, and she is here today counsel the house burned as I understand. She now has possession of her insurance proceeds and has contracted with a contractor, and they would like to address the council with your permission,.

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Please state your name and your address for the record. Allison.

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54:19 daffodil Bossier City, Louisiana, 7, 11 12.

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House caught fire in June and it was under investigation up until about a month ago. I've just now received my check two weeks ago. I got a contractor, that's adorable, and you know how my hands were tired. I wasn't able to touch it. The fire marshal says I'm not allowed to touch my property, so I mean I understand. It was a bother to everybody, but it was to me too I lost my home.

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So your intent is to rebuild.

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That's your contractor. Yes,.

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Just come on: stick your name to it! State your name in your.

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Id Justin thorne with by you contractor services, Allison contact me about three weeks ago and I, went out and looked surveyed the property we're waiting on her mortgage company to get the check in hand before we can start work. But we could very quickly have this house torn down cleaned up. We have to have an engineer, support on the slab before we can move forward and then we can, within six months, have the house faster than that. But just saying for the courts at least six months have it rebuilt and.

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You've got your check.

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Insurance check last week so.

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You are going to demolish the house right.

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Right demolish it and we have to get an engineer's report to report on the slab, see if we can go on that slab. If not, we have to remove this lamp, but as long as it's structurally sound, we can rebuild the exact structure just like it was there's. No. The.

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Complaints I'm receiving there concerning this dilapidated house on a lot. How long will it take to.

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Get it oh, no I can have it within a week. I could have it off and cleaned up. Well,.

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How long's the engineer gonna take to give you a decision.

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He said three days: I.

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Recommend we give them 30 days, 30 extension and then you wouldn't mind either responding back to you and saying: we've begun we've demolished and you can report back to the council. So my motion is to give them 30 days to complete this process through the engineer, get their checks and get everything in lined out and get their plans or.

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Right so I can.

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Demolish before the engineer's report, that can be done fast as soon as she gets her funds and her Motors Company approves the to move forward, which they want that they want to get the house back online yeah.

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Way, I'd be.

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Pretty fast I make it in 30 days an.

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Extension and then for them to you'll report back to the council that everything's moving forward or it's not fair,.

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I have a first by councilman Montgomery, a second by Councilman erewan and a third by councilman, Williams and.

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A fourth floor council.

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Questions on the art from the audience on that extension, all right are we ready to vote cast your vote.

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Nothing up refresh refresh.

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Was telling me a joke.

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Introduced an ordinance to appropriate six million dollars to come from the 2018 LCD, a bond fund to be used to design, develop and construct improvements at city recreation areas. First rating make.

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The motion that we continue his proposed ordinance for 30 days. Second,.

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First from Council Montgomery, second from councilman Williams questions from the audience on continuing questions from the council.

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Okay, he made the mission council.

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Montgomery first read motion and councilman Williams. Second,.

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Introduced an ordinance appropriating 1 million dollars from the 2018 LCD a bond issue for improvements in renovations to the Bossier City animal control facility. First reading, so.

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First, by Councilman or one second, my counselor and Harvey questions from the audience. Questions from the council cast your vote.

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Introduced an ordinance authorizing $300,000 to come from the jail, a municipal capital building fund for a retaining wall around the police, evidence and storage buildings to prevent flooding. First reading.

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By councilman, Larkin and second by counseling and Irwin questions from the audience, questions from the council very.

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Adopted a resolution authorizing the hiring of a recreation specialist three for Parks and Recreation, first and final reading.

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Second, first by counseling, Williams second, by Councilman, Berwyn questions from the audience question from the house. I.

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Have one, yes, sir: is this replacement.

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Or is it a new position.

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Additional questions, Castro burped.

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Adopted resolution authorizing the promotion of an officer to a sergeant, a sergeant to lieutenant a lieutenant to a captain for the Bossier City Police Department, first and final reading. So.

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By Councilman Harvey, second, by councilman, Williams questions from the audience and questions from the council cast your vote.

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Adopt a resolution authorizing the hiring of one police officer for the Bossier City Police, Department, first and final reading, so.

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By councilman Williams second, by councilman Larkin, of course, is from the audience questions from the calcium cast you're back.

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Adopt a resolution authorizing the hiring of one jailer for the Bossier City Police, Department, first and final reading, so.

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Ma'am the first.

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Black councilman urlan second by councilman, Williams questions from the audience. Questions from the council cast your vote.

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Adopt a resolution authorizing the hiring of one police officer for the Bossier City Police Department, first and final reading, the.

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Move second, first.

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Black councilman Williams second by Councilman, Hardy questions from the audience good questions from the council cast your vote.

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A proof report, a final change order for CenturyLink arena asphalt, paving rehab an increase of twelve thousand three hundred and twenty five dollars for a final contract amount of four hundred. Eighty three thousand seven hundred forty dollars and seventy five cents move.

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First by councilman, Montgomery second by councilman, Williams council. Please cast your vote.

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Mark that really dress the place up really did yeah.

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It's very good really.

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Accentuates and preserves the integrity as well, so.

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Approved for a permit fee waiver for us bowfishing, open april 5th through the 7th 2019 so.

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By Councilman Darby second, by Councilman, Montgomery cast your vote. Ls.

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My computer has fried fried you say.

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All the regression going on today can.

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I just give you my vote. Yes, so the fishermen are gonna have a pray. Oh.

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Not necessarily free there we're gonna escort them. My we're gonna escort them to the launches os.

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Coach great, but it's just not like we're, not gonna like shut.

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It down what's gonna, be more than anymore. Okay,.

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They're gonna be practicing.

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I'm gonna turn it off.

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Okay, so open voting. Oh.

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Mr. Irwin is a Yank all.

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Right, you wrote.

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Adopt a resolution authorizing the hiring of a permanent part-time gym, monitor for who your Park, Parks and Recreation first and final reading, so.

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Move second, first by councilman, Williams second, by Councilman, Montgomery.

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Questions from the council cast your vote.

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All right we're gonna, go back to witness opening of silk bids for bid number p1, 9:05, sewer, sub-basin, BC, 14 rehabilitation, project, I'm gonna, go ahead and read all the bits that we've got thus far and then add the last one. The first one that was on the record is David Lawler construction for 1 million, eight hundred and ninety three thousand five hundred and six dollars.

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The second one is J Barkin corporation, two million five hundred ninety five thousand twenty two dollars and ninety cents, Portland Utilities, Construction, Company LLC, two million eight hundred twenty eight thousand two hundred seventy two dollars and forty cents and pulley construction, Inc, two million ninety one dollars: two million ninety one thousand three hundred dollars and.

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The last bid is from p.m. construction and rehab LLC. The bit bond is included. It's for 1 million, eight hundred forty nine thousand nine. Fifty four twenty five, that's one, eight, four, nine, nine five four point: two: five.

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Hard to tell on this electronic copy.

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Take them under advisement and you confirm whether.

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With what the mayor asked top make that motion we take bids under advisement until it can be determined that all the requirements were met and complied with said. Okay,.

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First, by councillor, montgomery second, my councilman Williams- to take this this bit and put it under advisement. Until we can confirm they met the minimum knowledge, they did all.

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Right well and all other specs were met on the electronic bid form.

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All right, that's true that electronic bid is dated and timed correct. Yes, sir okay, so if there was any question as to it being the lowest bid, it.

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Was dated in time prior to the closing.

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They're good, thank you.

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Any other questions from the council cast your vote.

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Mr. Arvind, your back work play.

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On there it is a.

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Couple of reminders don't forget to RSVP. That's.

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Me that's what that's.

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Okay, any announcements there.

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Just reminded that early voting is started, didn't.

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Any other announcements, alright guys have a great week.