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Bossier City Council Meeting January 21, 2020

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I'm so mating for today to use D January, the 21st 2020 I'm gonna, give the invocation will have the Pledge of Allegiance but councilmember Tim large place team family father. We thank you for this beautiful day that you've, given us Lord Lord. We thank you for all the blessings that you have bestowed on our community. While we pray for those in our community who are sick or hurting Lord. Well, we pray for our military and for wisdom, Lord for our nation, our state and for us in the City Council meeting today, Jesus name.

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Macmurray's sir mr. Larkin you're mr. Darby here mr. Arwen here mr. Williams.

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Okay, so we need to approve the minutes of January 7th 2020, regular meeting and dispense with the reading. Some one second got a motion in a second.

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We comments from the audience questions from the council council. Please cast your vote.

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Okay, we need to approve the agenda.

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We have one add-on request its adopt an ordinance to declare that our emergency did exist in the city of Bossier City, which affects property, public health and safety due to the requirement to replace electrical service to plants. One and two at the water treatment plant at a cost of forty nine thousand five hundred dollars to come from the water capital, contingency funds. First and final reading.

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Anyone has their phones if you put a month silent any comments from the audience questions from the council. Please cashew butt.

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Okay, so we need to approve the agenda as amended. I think that motion we approve the agenda as amended kind of motion in a second any comments from the audience.

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Any ceremonial matters, yes to recognize, I'll, go on to committee reports, stacy fernandez, the city, finance directors, good.

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Afternoon, council I've distributed the December 2019 financials and you'll see we're trending pretty much where we did all year. Revenue is at 107 percent a budget and the general fund portion is 103 percent, our expenses by fund or 95 percent, page 3, our year-to-date collections, and if a hundred thousand less than last year, but still a strong forty nine point. Five million.

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Page four is our Manning for December we had six hundred and seventy-six employees to last month, six hundred and sixty-seven and we're still 25 below budget.

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Finally, our water and sewer for December we're at a hundred and ten percent year-to-date and they're rolling 12 months of both 67 percent. That's due in large part to a lower revenue. We had a width much wetter year in nineteen and then we're at 76 percent of budget.

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Any questions, questions.

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Counsel, thank.

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You stay. Thank you.

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Gordon, mostly the assistant city, attorneys, gonna, give our monthly property acquisition update, good.

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Afternoon Council afternoon, it's.

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Almost at Gordon.

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I'm gonna give my monthly project acquisition update first I'm, going to go to the Walter a big B carriageway project, specifically the North Area, just to let y'all know we're going. One of the most complicated parts of this is the brigham dentistry and the green, a Green Acres office complex.

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We had Charlie cool, do the design on this and basically we're taking some parking spaces away from brigham dentistry and we're going to give them the same parking spaces on a track right here that the city already owns.

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We're also going to Green Acres office, complex there's, going to be a little road right here that they're going to dedicate to the city that the city will maintain and ultimately Citizens Bank Drive is going to go from right here and then it's going to go down and connect to the Green Acres office, complex.

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What I handed out to y'all a letter that mark sent to build that better and Donnie Johnson? They represent Green Acres office complex and basically they requested just that the council pass a resolution. If that's agreeable with y'all that y'all acknowledge this letter and all that letter states is that, after a certain amount of time, 90 days after the completion and acceptance of the the project that that this road will be started, this extension of Citizens, Bank, Drive, and so what I have done is I gave you all the letter that Moore provided mr.

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Ledbetter mr. Johnson, and if it's okay with y'all I, can go ahead and prep prepare resolution that the City Council formally acknowledges at the next meeting.

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What was the theory of this? This was to offset something that happened as a result of our taking the right away. Yes,.

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Sir, this project, this road, is going to really hinder their their entrance ingress and egress from the property there's, because this is a it's going to affect this state highway. Benton Road dotd is stipulated that, in order to come out we're going to have to put a median on Benton road, and so it's gonna be a it's going to be a problem for people traveling northbound on Benton to take a left into Green Acres office complex. So this Citizens Bank Drive is just an offset because they're not going to be able to turn that way.

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We're going to just extend. So this is Bank Drive so that it meets the Green Acres office complex in their parking lot.

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That means that light is going away its citizens in their light there now, no.

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Sir, no it's gonna.

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No there's a life, but it's not going away. What was one of them mark knows this. We met with G.

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What's his name, Jim Olie.

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Yes and they went through the process of notifying and deem that that light would stay otherwise we'd never be able to get out and go laughs. That's.

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In to your plantation.

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The east yeah: why wouldn't the median just have a turn lane in it.

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It's a part of the design from what I understand and again that's an engineering question I'm, but the way I understand, there's not a turn lane. In this meeting, it's going to be a very substantial median that there's not going to be turn a turn lane possible is that is that the way it is more I.

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Was wondering how long you were gonna sit.

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Job kinda, the chain of events, was we wanted to create a new big intersection on Benton road, where the Walter or Big B, carriageway ties into dotd says: okay, but Citizens Bank Drive signals got to go away. We say please, no! So now we're looking at a design waver took about a year to get that and part of the part of the design waivers in many driveways go away on Benton road, including brigham dentist. So now they have to share a driveway with Green Acres office park.

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So now Green Acres office Park loses some parking spaces. So they come back to us. How about this driveway we're talking about? That's how we got to where we are. What.

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About the driveways to the houses.

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There's no roundabouts now.

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There's never been a.

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Red light green light intersection just north Citizens, Bank, Drive intersection and.

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There's too much going on right there to put in.

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There's a whole bunch going on right and the elimination of a lot of these driveways makes traffic flow good enough for deal to need to give us a permit to allow us to build that intersection.

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You you got you.

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A light where it feeds into mitten Road, yes,.

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Then you have a lot of citizen bank Drive. Still, yes,.

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Those are pretty close together about.

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600 feet I think.

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And so this drive that we're agreeing to.

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Kind of a back door safety valve for a Citizens Bank Drive, as well as the folks at Green Acres office park and the Brigham Dental Clinic, is.

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It going to feed into it.

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Goes underneath the bridge you see the green yes.

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That's a bridge up and over the Union Pacific railroad tracks that ties it on Benton Road and in this little driveway, we're talking about, will meander underneath that bridge. Okay.

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Then tie in over there at Green Acres all contract, all.

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Right and we're gonna build that road. Yes,.

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Sir, as per my letter, if you're agreeable, we're gonna build that road once the bridge is complete, if you try to build it prior to that, obviously it's going to be destroyed with the bridge construction time.

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Any other questions, just just the road, no utilities or anything just.

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The two lane street.

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Any other questions. Thank you. Mark.

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All right hang around more.

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Going on to the Melrose plantation project, we're still doing some acquisition work on there. We have four properties left cool engineering is doing. The construction plans for the street Manchac is doing the construction plans for the water and sewer and then going to Coleman Street mark met with dotd in December to go over the right away plans and we're expecting to those right away. Plans will be approved by March or April. That's what they indicated.

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Okay, I don't have Viking driving there, but with Viking Drive we submitted the right away plans. They had a couple of critiques, cool engineering, resubmitted the right away plans and so now we're just waiting again for the approval of the final right away plans and then, lastly, we have these two utility projects, we're still trying to work out the details with the property owners in order to close on those projects so that we can begin the projects themselves and that's all I have today.

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The most of the right-of-way that goes with the parkway is that do we know on that, the author 80 Parkway? No, the big, be carried away, big.

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B we do own most of it. We still have about nine properties. Non properties left, then we're going to have to deal with there's a couple of you know that it's the Brigham and the Green Acres office complex it's just real, complicated because we're taking little slivers away and we're compensating them. So we had to get cool engineering just a design that the parking lot you know so that we could have a plan there. The green and they'll agree to that specific plan on.

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Further, where all our constructions going on pretty well, that stuff is all that those properties in there.

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Yes, sir, the the initial phase phase- one it's you know we still have a couple of properties left like down here, a couple of expropriations. We have one property, it's the block. Investors we're having to acquire, but there's a mortgage on it, so we're having to get a partial mortgage release on that property so that we can acquire that and so far the lenders have been agreeable with that process.

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But most of it, as you can see, is green and so everything that's green. We have acquired.

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Yeah that little part where the red.

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A Hamilton admit.

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This is East Texas. That's these Texas right here in.

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So the main, the main part of the project- you have all the right away for that. Yes,.

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Sir I mean yes, sir other than you know these couple parcels right here at this corner. Mr. Jim Jim chicken Joseph young is another property, we're still working out. There's some succession issues there and so we're just having to work without how about House Council just working through those little details.

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Any other questions for Gordon good. Thank you. Yes, mark.

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I mentioned to you last time that saving Hamilton Road, for maybe a later phase, would be a way to save some money. So we decide to go through with that. I think everybody liked the idea, but that means we don't necessarily absolutely have to have those corner properties now I think it's a good idea to go ahead and acquire them. So that will own that right away when we decide to do Hamilton Road, but just wanted to point that out.

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If there are none, we'll move out to end finish, business adopt.

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An ordinance to transfer 1 million dollars from the riverboat capital projects fund into the Walter OBB carriage by fun to be used to supplement existing funds in the Walter Oh Digby carriage way, fun final reading. So.

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Ii got a motion and second any comments from the audience questions from the council. Tas complete. Please cast your vote.

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Adopt an ordinance to dedicate 1 million dollars from the 2016 sales tax bond downtown re-envisioning fund to be used to supplement existing funds for the coleman street improvements project final reading. So.

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Move got a motion in a second any comments from the audience questions from the council council. Please cast your vote.

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Putting a marker.

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Okay motion carries.

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Adopt an ordinance to dedicate six hundred thousand dollars from the 2018 LCD a bond funds to be used to supplement existing funds dedicated to the Viking drive, widening urban system project final reading.

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Got a motion and second any comments from the audience. Questions from the council.

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Council, please cast your vote.

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Adopt an ordinance to re-appropriate three million $150,000 from the land acquisition fund to be used to complete right away acquisitions for the Walter o Big B carriageway fund final reading. So.

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Second, got a motion, a second any comments from the audience. Any questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Adopt an ordinance to reappropriation dollars from the Parks and Recreation salary and benefits to contract services in the building maintenance division, to provide for private contractor for lawn maintenance at City Hall, the East Texas field station and the fire training center on shed Road final reading.

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Sir got a motion in second any comments from the audience. Any questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Adopt an ordinance to fund improvements to the industrial drive pump station and a cost of $10,000 to come from the sewer capital and contingency fund final reading.

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Motion second, any comments from the audience questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Okay, move to new business counsel.

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Number 100 new business, witness opening and seal bids for bid number P to 0-0 one, the 42 inch water main extension project. We received a request to continue this until February 4th, so we're gonna. Add this to the February 4th agenda. Okay,.

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So we'll move to number 2. Yes,.

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Sir, witness opening of sealed bids for bid number P to 0-0 two water tank rehabilitation and painting Louisiana 71 South Tower.

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Council, the engineer's estimate for this project is two million two hundred and sixty three thousand dollars from the water capital contingency fund. There's one addendum that changed, specs bid, forms drawings, provided questions and answers, and a list of the intend ease to the mandatory pre-bid meeting and the meeting agenda.

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The first bid is from Royal Bridge Inc. They acknowledged the addendum. The bit bond is included. It's for four million four hundred eighty eight thousand dollars even four four: eight: eight: zero, zero, zero.

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The next bid is from southern Road and bridge LLC. They acknowledge the addendum submit bond is included. It's for 1 million nine hundred sixty three thousand two hundred fifty dollars.

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The next bid is from TMI coding Inc. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million seven hundred eighty four thousand five hundred dollars.

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And the last bid.

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From you till I serve Company Inc.

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The bid bond is included, how I hear it is. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million seven hundred eighty five thousand two hundred dollars, two seven, eight five: two: zero zero ash that you approved. The reading of these bids.

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Council council, please cast your vote.

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I get it to show the it was the unanimous vote and the motion carried witness opening of sealed bids for bid number. There went bid number P to 0-0 three water, tank rehabilitation and painting northeast tower. The.

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Engineers estimate for this project is two million four hundred eighty six thousand one hundred dollars. There is one addendum that changed the specs bid, forms drawings, provided questions and answers in a list of the mandatory pre-bid meeting and that meeting agenda.

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Stacy, what is the engineer estimate on I.

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Think it's wrong on the tabulation emulation sheet.

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It's the same on the tabulation sheet, as it was for the last.

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Which is 2 million 486 100? If you could draw a line through that, but please.

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The first bid is from Liberty maintenance, pink, they acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included, it's for 4 million, one hundred thirty, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.

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The next bid is from Royal Bridge Inc. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for four million three hundred eighty three thousand five hundred dollars. Four three: eight three five hundred.

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The next bid is from southern Road and bridge LLC. They acknowledged the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for 2 million. Seventy two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars, two zero, seven, two: seven, five zero.

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The next bid is from TMI coding Inc. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million eight hundred eighty six thousand dollars even two: eight eight six: zero, zero, zero.

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And the last bit is from utility service company Inc, they acknowledged the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for two million seven hundred eighty six thousand seven hundred dollars, two seven, eight six, seven, zero zero!

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Ask that you approve the reading of these bids.

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Thank You Stacey witness.

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Opening of sealed bids for bid number P to 0-0 for sewer sub-basin BC zero for rehabilitation, the.

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Engineer's estimate for this project is seven hundred. Seventy four thousand dollars from sewer could contingency fund. There is one addendum that make change to the specs and provided a list of the attendant ten DS to the mandatory pre-bid meeting.

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The first bid is from day live, look David, Lawler construction ain't, they acknowledged the addendum. The bid bond is included, it's for seven hundred, thirty, seven thousand seven hundred thirty nine dollars, seven thirty, seven, seven, three, nine.

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The next bid is from horseshoe construction. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included. It's for five hundred, sixty five thousand eight hundred ninety five dollars and twenty cents. Five, six, five, eight nine five point: two: zero.

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The next bid is from p.m. construction and rehab LLC. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included, it's for six hundred, seventy seven thousand four hundred six dollars and fifty cents, six, seven, seven, four, zero six point: five: zero and the last bid is from pulley construction. They acknowledge the addendum. The bid bond is included is for nine hundred sixty nine thousand one hundred dollars. Nine six: nine one: zero zero: ask that you approved the reading of these bits.

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Okay, number five adopt.

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A resolution authorizing the engagement of an employment service for the hiring of temporary contract employees for libraries for the Bossier civic center, for the events require an additional manpower for any nighttime turnaround requirements first and final reading. So.

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Move get a motion and a second any comments from the audience questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Adopt a resolution authorizing the hyoeun if one records clerk for the Bossier, City, Police, Department, first and final reading,.

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Got a motion in a second any comments from the audience any questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Adopt a resolution amending resolution, 91 of 2019 for the organization of the City Council, providing rules for the council and otherwise providing with respect their two first and final reading.

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Motion second comments from the audience: any questions from the council. Mr.

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President I wanted to ask a couple things on the resolution.

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So under the sergeant of armed, what would it be? Wasps also consider the Bulge of PD I know we're going to have the the moisture here, but just for the purpose of having them included in the resolution.

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What do you think Jim use that we could alternate.

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Sources: okay,.

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That's my first thing that I would like to consider and then under the.

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Addressing the members of the council.

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So we we, we know that a person who comes before the council will address us, but it seems that this in this division of the resolution, we should also include that they have to address the chair and us the chair and also they cannot address the mayor as well, because he's sitting here and because someone could think it's appropriate to do that.

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Do we have to reintroduce it or.

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I think that was my last observation.

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Do we need a motion tools? Yes,.

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Sir, all right I'm.

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A polishing that we adopt mr. darvey's proposed amendments so.

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Any comments from the audience music, oh and he you got a sec, any comments from the audience. Questions from the council Castle, please about.

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That was only amendment right. Yes,.

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Sir, that's no random motion.

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That's this one's not finished yet. Oh.

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Still waiting on mr. Irwin Oh.

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Darby and mr. Montgomery.

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So that carried.

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To vote on the resolution as amended, please.

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Approve the resolution, as amended.

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A motion and a second any comments from the audience. Any questions from the council.

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So we need to vote. Aye I, don't have okay, we go council. Please cast your faith.

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I had to reset everything: I'm sorry.

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Okay, so that motion carries yes.

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Sir approved report of change order number one for the Northside Drive project for an increase of ten thousand three hundred: seventy nine dollars and 87 cents, total cost of contract with increased four hundred, seventy five thousand seventy seven dollars and 18 cents. So.

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Got a motion and second any comments from the audience questions from the council council. Please cast your vote.

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Adopting audits to declare that an emergency did exist in the city of our city, which affects property, public health and safety due to the requirement to replace electrical service to plants, one encima, the water treatment plan at a cost of forty nine thousand five hundred dollars to come from the water capital, contingency funds first and final reading.

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At a motion, a second any comments from the audience questions from the council. Please cast your vote.

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Okay, that's all of our items for new business. Are there any announcements.

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Mayor, would you like same thing, no thing that everybody have good afternoon, this meetings adjourned.