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From YouTube: Black Mountain Board of Alderman Meeting (May 8, 2017)
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Regular meeting of the Black Mountain Board of Alderman from May 8, 2017. To view the agenda or future meeting agendas, visit townofblackmountain.org
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A
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B
Under
announcement
this
week
we
had
a
meeting
at
the
clubhouse,
and
this
was
a
meeting
of
the
put
on
by
the
League
of
Municipalities,
of
which
we
are
a
member,
and
this
covered
cities
in
about
8
or
9
counties,
I
guess
somewhere
around
us,
and
everyone
came
to
the
clubhouse.
It
was
quite
good
all
the
board
members
were
there
and
city
staff.
The
lead
provides
a
tremendous
opportunity
for
small
municipalities
to
have
a
representation
in
Raleigh.
B
B
They
have
the
power
to
do
that.
They
have
the
power
to
come
in
and
take
our
waters.
They
have
the
power
to
come
in
and
revoke
our
charter
and
anyone
else's
charter
in
the
state.
So
it's
good
that
you
have
an
organization
called
the
League
of
Municipalities
so
that
we
can
get
together,
pool
our
talents,
our
ideas,
our
thoughts
and
especially
our
energies
and
our
feet
to
mobilize
to
go
down
to
fight
for
things
that
are
good
for
you.
B
The
citizens-
and
this
is
definitely
one
of
the
best
things
that
we
can
belong
to
in
that
wind-
that
we
can
participate
in
there's
different
things
that
has
that
effect
to
put
all
the
different
departments,
especially
police
department,
without
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
training
body
armor.
So
there's
lots
of
programs
all
across
the
board.
B
D
D
Always
talk
about
fund
raisers,
often
be
more
being
more
like
friend
raisers,
and
that's
how
I
see
the
Greenway
challenge.
We
see
that
as
an
opportunity
not
only
to
raise
some
funds,
which
we
know
how
expensive
greenways
are,
but
also
a
way
to
really
educate
the
community
about
the
importance
of
greenways.
We
have
some
really
important
partners.
I
want
to
definitely
acknowledge
Pisgah
brewing
who's
been
there
from
the
first
year
on
who
always
offers
a
free
use
of
the
venue.
D
There
are
some
cost,
but
it's
a
considerable
gift
that
they
make
to
the
community
by
offering
a
free
venue.
Of
course,
we
have
all
of
the
local
sponsors
that
contribute
to
the
running
of
the
event
and
contribute
directly
to
the
greenways.
The
commissioners
all
participate.
They
work
really
hard.
I
took
this
event
on
four
years
ago.
This
is
my
last
year
doing
it
so
next
year,
I'm
actually
going
to
run
in
this
instead
of
running
the
event,
and
we
also
want
to
acknowledge
our
appreciation
to
the
aldermen
for
your
support
of
the
greenways.
D
D
So
thank
you
for
getting
behind
the
people
and
supporting
and
supporting
the
grants
and
doing
all
the
hard
work
to
keep
the
energy
going
on
tremendous
projects
that
are
time
consuming
resource
consuming,
but
very
important,
and
so
I'd
like
to
just
give
a
little
gift
to
everybody
for
their
work
on
the
greenways
and
on
you
undergarments
to
lose
your
back,
and
this
is
the
net
Gator
that
we
hand
out
to
the
participants,
and
it
was
all
the
sponsors
lair.
You
also
get
it
home.
G
I
H
Now
she's
putting
up
my
pictures:
okay,
yep
today,
I
plan
to
talk
about
three
plants,
one
for
people
and
two
for
bees.
The
preservation
of
all
these
are
connected.
Mullein
next
whitefall
asters
in
goldenrod,
as
you
may
know,
bees
and
other
pollinators
insects
are
very
important
to
our
food
supply
and,
as
you
may
know,
there
is
getting
to
be
a
big
problem
with
honeybees
being
able
to
survive
the
winter
in
the
fall.
H
This
is
quite
fall,
asters
how
they
look
when
you
see
them
from
a
distance
it
shut
up
next
and
there
they
are
again
and
the
gray
those
fall.
Those
brown
stalks.
Those
are
how
they
look
right
now
in
the
winter,
because
I
want
you
all
to
be
able
to
find
where
they
are.
These
two
plants
are
the
most
important
sources,
sources
of
fall
stores
for
the
bees.
Without
them,
the
colonies
of
bees
are
weak
and
less
likely
to
survive.
H
The
winter
next
there's
goldenrod
in
its
natural
habitat
and
as
you
can
see
where
the
mowing
took
up
the
goldenrod
stopped
there
on
the
right
is
the
goldenrod
plants
like
they
look
now.
If
you
see
them
in
the
field,
the
reason
I'm
telling
you
this
is
because
what
has
been
happening
is
that,
just
about
the
time
these
plants
start
to
bloom,
they
are
mowed
down
to
benefit
the
bees.
It's
that
these
plants
should
be
let
stand
until
early
November,
please
look
out
for
them
and
try
to
leave
them
standing
whenever
it
possible.
H
Next
now,
I
know
that
the
town
does
not
look
kindly
on
the
building
in
this
picture,
but
what
you
may
not
know
is
that
this
building
is
protecting
behind
it.
The
most
diverse
colony
of
plants
that
support
beneficial
insects,
including
honeybees
and
many
native
pollinators
that
I
have
ever
come
across.
H
This
photograph
was
taken
in
the
middle
of
the
summer
before
the
goldenrod
and
asters
were
in
bloom,
but
they
are
part
of
the
green
exuberance
you
see
here.
I
especially
want
to
point
out
the
Mullens,
those
tall
thick,
leaved
ones
that
are
in
the
front
row.
If
you
can
make
them
out
closer
to
the
knot
at
the
track,
but
right
below
the
regular
most
of
the
green
stuff,
mullein
is
a
significant
medicinal
plant
used
to
make
cures
for
cough
sore
throat
and
in
this
site,
has
the
most
outstanding
colony
of
Mullen.
H
H
Now
all
those
beneficial
plants
are
gone
and
as
of
today,
they
shall
no,
they
show
very
little
sign
of
ever
coming
back.
Next,
that's
what
it
looks
like
today.
I
took
that
picture
this
morning,
I
heard
once
that
the
what
okay
yeah
I've
got
one
little
pair
I
heard.
One
says
the
railroad
had
an
agreement
to
not
just
that
the
town
had
an
agreement
with
the
railroad
that
kept
them
from
spraying
inside
the
black
many
mountain
city
limits,
but
that,
but
maybe
that
was
never
the
case-
maybe
the
railroad
disregarded
guarded
disregarded
in
the
agreement.
B
J
H
J
My
name
is
Weston
Hall
100,
Portman
Villa
I
wanted
to
talk
about
a
dilapidated
buildings,
not
the
one
that
miss
Dee.
Dee
was
talking
about
for
the
one
when
you
get
off
the
highway,
I
think
I
say:
exit
64
and
it's
the
old
Kentucky
Fried
Chicken
and
the
old
huddle
house
just
had
a
couple.
Citizens
come
up
to
me.
J
Actually,
seemingly
a
lot
of
citizens
come
up
to
me
and
say
have
a
setting
thing
about
these
dilapidated
buildings
that
have
stood
empty
I
guess
for
a
year,
maybe
two
years,
and
there
have
been
some
letters
to
the
editor
about
them.
But
I
haven't
seen
much
change.
We
did
call
jrn
I
think
is
the
holding
company
and
they
said
that
they
are
paying
somebody
to
I
guess
keep
these
properties
up,
but
there's
a
broken
window
in
the
huddle
house.
J
I
think
where
we
there's
a
robbery
at
one
time,
maybe
a
year
ago,
and
it
still
still
has
not
been
repaired
and
it's
the
first
thing
that
people
see
when
they
come
into
Black,
Mountain
and
I.
Just
was
hoping
that
the
town
would
put
some
pressure
on
this
company
to
to
do
something.
Also
I
was
going
to
talk
about
the
traffic
around
Port,
Manila
and
3rd
4th
Street,
and
the
police
Black
Mountain
Police
have
done
an
excellent
job
and
crack
it
down.
J
They
were
out
there
for
the
past
couple
months,
they've
been
out
there
strong,
but
we
also
need
something
done
like
the
traffic
strips
or
something
like
that
and
notice.
The
speed
limit
has
been
changed
on
Charlie,
Street
and
Dougherty
Street,
which
is
a
great
job
and
applauded
to
tamper
to
swift
action
on
that,
but
we
still
need
some
work
done
as
far
as
traffic
calming
devices
and
hopefully
we'll
look
into
that.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
K
Hi
Julie
blight,
205,
9th
Street
and
I
have
a
couple
of
green
ray
related
items.
First
of
all,
I
want
to
thank
the
agreement,
commission
members
and
the
volunteers
from
town
and
the
town
staff
who
were
there
Saturday
to
help
with
the
Greenway
discovery
tour
thanks
to
Larry
and
his
dog
who
joined
us,
but
we
had
a
good
crowd
and
it
was
a
good
opportunity
to
show
people
the
connectivity
at
the
future
of
our
greenways.
It
was
very
much
fun.
K
So
thanks
to
everybody
who
came
in
second
of
all,
I
want
to
follow
up
on
what
may
be
our
Sobel
said
earlier
about
describe
not
to
drive.
We
have
several
items
this
week.
We
have
a
walk
and
bike
the
school
day.
Wednesday
people
can
meet
at
the
church,
the
Baptist
Church
at
7:00,
or
also
stop
by
the
plant
Creek
Greenway
trailhead
we'll
have
coffee
there
from
dynamite
Roasting
for
parents
who
web
walks
their
kids
to
school
so
come
and
join
us
weather
permitting
Friday.
K
We
will
have
a
bike
rodeo
at
the
behind
Black
Mountain
elementary
school
from
four
to
six.
We
will
have
bike
helmets
to
get
away,
we'll,
be
teaching
kids
bike
skills
and
then
we'll
let
them
ride
around
the
field.
So
good
luck
with
the
weather
and
then
Saturday
Jill
Jen
built,
remove,
eligor
rise
will
be
leading
a
town
bike.
Ride
from
town
square
at
9:30,
so
I
want
to
encourage
people
to
participate
in
those
events.
K
Now
for
just
a
minute
I'm
going
to
take
off
my
green,
we
have
and
just
speak
as
a
citizen,
because-
and
this
has
to
do
with
one
of
the
items
on
your
consent
agenda
for
a
public
hearing
on
the
land
on
White,
Pine,
Boulevard
and
I
want
to
talk
about
that,
because
I'm
going
to
be
out
of
town
next
month.
Briefly,
so
if
that
land
is,
you
know,
you
are
going
to
be
considering
rezoning
that
land
and
what
happened
to
that
land
may
affect
our
garden
Greenway.
K
So
if
you
ask
me
if
I'm
happy
about
that,
I
was
saying,
but
if
you
ask
me,
do
I
trust
to
town
to
work
with
us
to
make
sure
that
that
Greenway
remains
intact
in
some
form
and
that
the
connections
remain
there
and
that
safe
connections
are
there
that
so
people
can
continue
to
use
that
Greenway.
Yes,
I
trust
the
town
to
do
that
so
and
again,
I'm
speaking
only
of
myself,
we
haven't
discussed
this
at
the
Greenway
Commission,
so
why
wouldn't
be
thrilled
with
that
I
think
we
can
work
around
that.
K
I
do
want
to
say
this,
though
I
want
us
to
be
really
mindful,
as
we
make
this
decision.
I
think
this
town
is
just
really
developing
explosively.
There
is
a
lot
of
green
space
that
is
privately
owned,
is
being
developed,
and
that's
going
to
continue
so
I
think
it's
really
important
that
we
look
carefully
at
our
publicly
owned
black
mountain
parks
and
our
green
spaces
that
we
as
we
decide
what
to
do
with
them,
because
once
something
is
built
on
a
piece
of
green
land,
that's
gone
forever.
K
That
green
space
is
gone
so
I
just
want
and
I
know
that
our
town
will
I.
Think
the
people
in
our
town
will
look
carefully
at
this
and
think
long
and
hard
about
the
benefits
rezoning
that
land
for
the
town
now
and
the
benefits
for
resulting
that
that
land
now
or
further
in
the
future,
like
20
30
40
years.
What
will
the
impact
on
the
town
and
the
citizens
and
the
quality
with
community
be
so
I
just
want
careful
consideration
gone.
Thank.
B
G
Good
evening
mayor
and
board,
it's
an
honor
to
speak
to
you
again
tonight
we
are
going
to
go
over
the
fiscal
year,
17
numbers
that's
at
March
31st,
where
3/4
of
the
way,
through
the
fiscal
year
we're
going
to
be
going
over
some
budget
numbers,
actual
numbers
and
some
percentages
for
both
this
year
and
the
prior
fiscal
year,
I'm
not
really
going
to
go
over
every
number
on
these
pages
I'm
going
to
go
over
some.
That
I
feel
are
important
that
you
should
know
about.
G
G
Both
of
those
taxes
are
on
a
three
month
lag
time,
so
we've
really
only
received
a
half
years.
Payment
and
50%
sounds
good.
You'll
see
that
in
the
prior
year
we
were
at
about
54%
and
what
that's
sort
of
telling
us
is
that
in
a
lot
of
past
years,
our
actual
sales
and
franchise
taxes
have
exceeded
budget
and
they're,
probably
not
looking
like
they're
going
to
do
that
this
year,
sales
tax.
G
G
G
Would've
sigh
just
want
to
point
that
out
on
the
next
section,
we
talked
about
expenditures
from
the
general
fund.
You
know
that
you
can
see
in
both
years.
We
were
right
at
75%
on
both
of
those
the
fire
department
in
planning.
They
both
look
a
little
bit
high
and
that's
really
because
of
some
capital
purchases
for
fire
and
planning
a
lot
of
our
capital
projects
funds.
G
We
the
transfers
that
the
general
fund
give
to
these
capital
projects
when
they
come
up
for
some
reason
when
they
come
out
of
the
planning
department,
mostly
because
josh
is
a
key
player
in
these
things.
So
we've
made
a
lot
of
those
transfers,
but
but
in
effect
none
of
those
numbers
are
all
that
significant
on
this
next
page,
we
again
break
down
general
fund
expenses.
G
G
G
Our
capital
spending
is
also
very
high
this
year,
that
has
to
do
with
the
down
payment
on
the
fire
truck
and
a
lot
of
pavia
items.
That
jamie
has
got.
Let's
see
down
below
the
bottom
section
here.
Is
the
water
fund
I'll
point
out
the
other
water
revenues
are
just
doing
great,
and
this
is
really
impact
fees
and
water
taps.
G
That
would
be
about
it
in
water,
I
guess
next
next
slide.
Here
we
talk
about
the
Gulf
Fund
I'll.
Just
look
at
the
total
Gulf
revenues
were
up
about
forty
five
thousand
dollars
from
last
fiscal
year.
At
this
point,
if
you
remember
the
busy
months
at
the
Gulf
are
really
April
through
September,
so
we're
hoping
these
last
three
months
will
get
us
pretty
close
to
budget
by
the
time
the
year
ends.
Also
that's
when
a
lot
of
memberships
come
due,
so
we're
happy
with
the
progress
being
made
there
as
well.
G
This
next
slide
shows
our
cash
holdings
last
year.
At
this
point,
we
had
about
1.8
million
dollars
more
than
we
do
right
now
about
1.3
of
that
was
in
the
settings,
trust
fund,
which
in
some
ways
really
wasn't
that
it
wasn't
entirely
the
town's
money
we
were
sort
of
holding
it
for
all
the
work
being
done
up
there.
The
remaining
difference
represents
the
down
payment
that
the
that
we
made
on
the
fire
truck.
It
was
about
$400,000,
so
there's
nothing
really
out
of
too
crazy
with
that.
G
We're
going
to
go
on
to
the
debt
schedule
and
see
if
this
works
now
the
heading
that
didn't
quite
work
out
well
here,
but
we've
made
a
lot
of
progress
on
debt,
and
basically
this
this
slide
does
not
represent
the
payoff
on
the
pool
debt
that
it
looks
like
the
board
is
going
to
we're
going
to
go
ahead
with
once
that
pool
that
gets
paid
off
will
be.
It
will
be
paying
about
three
hundred
and
twenty
thousand
dollars
a
year
on
debt.
G
It
will
go
down-
maybe
five
thousand
dollars
a
year
going
forward
unless
we
pay
off
something
else
which
a
lot
of
the
interest
rates
are
pretty
low.
So
what
we
might
look
into
those
ideas
so
that
that
320
and
315
to
310
is
what
it
will
be
in
the
next
couple
fiscal
years,
not
too
long
ago,
our
debt
payments
were
over
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars.
So
we
made
a
lot
of
progress
there,
and
this
last
page
shows
our
current
capital
projects.
G
The
watershed
restoration,
we'll
probably
be
doing
a
budget
amendment
next
month
on
that,
because
josh
has
we
received
word
on
a
sixty
thousand
dollar
grant
on
that
I
think
there's
a
couple
two
to
three
different
projects
in
town,
one
at
the
library
one
at
the
golf
course,
and
one
on
Cherry
Street-
that
church
streets
are
sorry
Church
Street
that
will
probably
be
getting
to
in
the
next
six
months
or
so
the
Riverwalk
Greenway.
We
all
know
about
that
and
the
Tomahawks
green
stabilization.
G
This
hasn't
worked
out
at
the
golf
course
I,
just
sort
of
show
you
expenditures
today.
We
actually
just
wrote
a
large
check
on
that
week
or
two
ago,
so
we're
getting
close
to
spending
most
of
that
grant.
We've
also
just
recently
set
up
the
the
Veterans
Park
capital
projects
fund.
We're
saying
we're
going
to
set
that
up
later
in
the
meeting,
but
so
that'll
be
another
capital
project
that
we
have,
but
that
is
about
all
that
I.
Have
anybody?
Has
any
questions
I'm
happy
to
try
to
answer
them.
G
G
B
B
G
G
F
The
only
thing
I
just
want
to
make
statement
is:
is
the
town
needs
to
be
reminded,
I?
Think
in
we've
gone
from
14
total
debt
through
wood
that
we
had
five
and
a
half
years
ago,
and
with
this
last
the
food
we're
paying
off
we're
going
to
be
down
to
four,
that's
ten:
that's
we
played
off
early
or
on
time.
E
I
L
L
Cram
work,
thank
you,
hi
I'm
little
noise
Donnell,
and
this
is
little
farily,
and
we
would
like
to
thank
you
for
inviting
us
tonight
to
give
our
annual
report.
Oh,
we
realize
that
you're
well
aware
what
we
do
and
what
we
have
done.
So
we
thought
we'd,
give
you
a
glimpse
of
what
goes
on
behind
the
scenes
at
our
monthly
meeting
in
order
to
follow
along.
You
all
should
have
our
agenda
in
your
packet.
M
L
Members
sign
in
currently
we
have
49
Black
Mountain
residents,
who
are
members
of
our
committee.
Our
members
show
their
appreciation
in
many
ways
whether
it's
attending
a
monthly
meeting
were
attending
monthly
meetings,
workdays
caretakers
of
garden
sites
working
on
our
subcommittees
or
other
activities.
Our
members
are
the
backbone
of
the
Beautification
Committee,
and
without
them
our
ideas
would
not
take
root.
The
photos
you
see
in
this
picture
is
from
our
April
meeting
and
we
have
25
members
and
one
guest
speaking
of
guests
at
our
meetings,
each
speaking
of
guests
at
each
meeting.
L
They
attend,
as
they
have
heard
about
us
through
various
ways,
either
through
notices
in
Black,
Mountain,
News,
our
web
site,
facebook,
page
or
word-of-mouth.
Naturally,
not
every
guest
joins
our
committee.
One
guest
thanked
us
for
our
work,
but
she
could
not
join
as
she
told
she
told
us.
It
was
too
much
hard
work.
After
hearing
this
I
was
confused.
I
thought
I
thought
it
was
just
having
fun
our
secretary
takes
excellent
minutes
and
sends
them
to
the
town
clerk,
and
she
also
keeps
us
on
agenda
for
the
treasurer's
report.
L
The
clothesline
sale
is
unique,
as
the
members
offer
garden.
Excuse
me,
as
the
members
offer
garden
related
services
at
a
set
price.
This
is
your
opportunity
to
purchase
items
offered
by
beautification
members
need
your
garden
weeded,
want
custom
sold
patio
furniture,
pillows,
walk
away
with
an
herb
garden,
purchase
a
gourmet
dinner
for
four
come
early
as
these
items
sell
quickly.
M
So
we
have
5
consistent
committees
with
the
Beautification
Committee
and
they
are
consistent,
look
garden
sites,
publicity,
Swannanoa,
Correctional
Center
for
Women
and
Town
Square
maintenance,
our
town
square.
So
I'm
going
to
tell
you
briefly
about
each
of
those
in
2000
and
2015.
We
said
it's
one
of
our
goals,
making
a
consistent
look
in
town,
which
means
that
we
decided
to
no
longer
have
all
the
hay
rides
around
town,
but
that
we
would
build
planters.
M
The
planter
you're
seeing
here
is
built
by
a
local
person
and
the
artwork
on
it
is
done,
but
either
Tecla
watching
Daniel
Watson
or
done
it
Julia
burr.
So
each
planter
will
have
art
on
it.
These
32
planters
will
be
in
the
historic
district
of
town
and
we
are
hoping
that
they
will
go
in
soon
and
very
soon.
M
Eight
members
of
the
committee
will
be
tending
these
particular
planters,
our
garden
sites.
This
is
one
of
our
garden
sites.
With
some
of
our
members
working.
We
have
28
members
in
town
in
the
committee
who
maintain
20
garden
sites
in
town
each
member
who
joins
the
committee
has
given
the
opportunity
to
tend
to
site.
We
feel
that
these
garden
sites,
let
the
people
who
live
in
town
and
the
visitors
to
town,
know
that
black
mountain
cares
about
how
it
looks.
M
Never
was
the
devotion
to
a
garden
site,
more
evidence
in
this
past
summer,
when,
during
the
drought,
you
can
see
members
of
the
committee
carrying
their
water
jugs
into
their
different
garden
sites
to
water,
their
gardens
members
routinely
spend
three
to
four
hours
a
month
tending
their
garden
site,
and
we
also
have
two
larger
sites
where
we
have
work
days.
On
average,
we
spent
eight
hundred
and
forty
hours
a
year
just
on
our
twenty
times.
M
Our
next
committee
is
publicity
and
we
use
publicity
not
really
to
to
their
own
horn,
but
to
keep
the
community
informed
about
what
we're
doing,
because
we
think
the
community
needs
to
know
because
it
gives
them
pride
than
what
we're
doing
and
it
gives
them
pride
in
our
town.
I
remember:
it's
maintained
the
Facebook
site
and
our
website
page
I
encourage
you
to
go
visit
both
of
them
they're,
not
hard
like
mountain
beautification,
the
Swan
and
all
correct
Center
for
women.
M
M
We
think
it's
important
not
only
to
teach
the
women
horticultural
skills,
but
also
to
give
them
the
experience
of
contributing
to
the
community
and
also
receiving
the
grateful
appreciation
of
the
community
and
I
can
tell
you
that
the
women
are
blown
away
each
workday,
because
everybody
stops
and
thanks
them
and
they
all
say
they've
never
had
that
happen
before
our
last
ongoing
committee
is
the
town
square
committee
and
2016
the
town.
The
committee
was
given
the
opportunity
to
maintain
the
gardens
at
Town
Square
and
recognizing
Town
Square
as
a
focal
point
in
town.
M
M
Members
of
the
Beautification
Committee
have
worked
over
eleven
hundred
and
ninety
hours,
digging
in
the
dirt
and
black
mountain,
and
if
we
were
to
be
paid
just
minimum
wage,
we
would
get.
We
would
be
saving
the
town,
eight
thousand
nine
hundred
dollars
and
that
is
not
health
insurance,
not
retirement,
not
sick,
pay
not
vacation
day,
but
what
we
received
from
you
in
doing
this
is
a
lot
more
than
money.
It's
your
gratitude
and
we
really
are
grateful
for
you
during
the
meeting.
M
M
M
M
M
We
have
been
giving
for
four
years
grants
to
local
organizations
when
they
have
an
idea
for
creating
something
that
makes
Black
Mountain
even
more
attractive.
This
is
a
Black
Mountain
elementary
school.
Also
Swannanoa
Valley
museum
received
this
year.
An
invisible
hands
at
Christ
Community
Church
received
a
grant
to
build
a
garden
at
Nana's
place,
so
that
will
be
in
their
backyard,
but
we
think
that's
an
excellent
thing
to
have
for
them
to
be
doing.
M
Then.
Last
last
year
is
one
of
our
goals.
We
felt
like
that
alleyway.
That
was
at
the
bottom
of
what
led
up
to
Cherry
Street
between
your
Oakland
verandah
was
in
dire
need
of
work,
and
so
the
committee
said
is
one
of
its
goals
to
repair
that
alley.
We
got
so
beautifully
done
that
that
Mary
Leonard
white
said
let's
rename
it
to
watch
and
walk
and
then
with
y'all's
approval.
We
renamed
it
for
watch
and
walk
in
honor
of
Dan
and
Thecla
Hawaiian
for
all
that
they
have
given
to
this
town.
M
M
This
brings
in
vendors
and
visitors
from
all
over
the
southeast.
We
have
four
free
workshops.
We
have
an
opportunity
to
recycle
your
plastic
containers
which
you'll
hear
about
in
a
few
minutes.
It
is
an
excellent
representation
of
the
excitement
that
goes
on
in
Black
Mountain
and
it's
located
at
the
mana
Vista
Hotel.
M
So
we
ask
you
just
to
stay
tuned
for
other
work,
that
we
do
in
Black,
Mountain
and
other
ideas
that
come
forth
from
us
seems
like
one
idea
of
springs
forth.
Another
idea,
so,
at
the
end
of
all
of
our
meetings
to
make
sure
that
people
want
to
come
back,
we
have
a
drawing
for
door
prize
and
we're
going
to
ask
our
town
manager
to
make
the
drawing.
M
M
M
B
I
Make
one
comment
before
us
before
a
living
Lindell
sit
down
is
that
we
did
Angela's
apply
for
a
Appalachian,
Regional
Commission
grant
for
the
planters
and
benches
downtown.
We
don't
I
know
you
thought
I
was
going
to
say
exactly
I
know,
we've
not
heard
word
yet
on
whether
we
receive
that
really
what
that
does.
Is
it
compresses
the
time
line
for
for,
and
this
F
is
the
most
things
that
we
do.
If
we,
if
we
don't
get
the
grant,
it
would
take
a
little
longer
to
make
some
of
these
improvements.
K
N
Rainbow
recycling
well,
it's
garden
fever
time
of
year,
and
that
means
that
stacks
of
empty
flower
pots
start
invading
garages
sheds
and
sides
of
houses.
But
that's
where
we
come
to
the
rescue
with
our
special
recycling
collection.
Now,
in
its
ninth
year,
held
at
the
Black
Mountain
Garden
Show,
our
two
minutes
from
a
video
showing
our
event
last
year
will
help
you
see
how
our
drive-thru,
at
the
back
of
the
library
parking,
lot
works
and
and
give
you
a
sense
of
just
the
volumes
that
comes
in.
It's
incredible.
N
N
That
will
make
a
considerable
difference
in
helping
us
to
be
more
efficient
because
it
comes
in
fast
and
furious
and
it's
hard
to
keep
up
with,
and
that
will
help
us
a
lot
the
end
they
can
be
broken
or
intact
and
all
are
made
available
for
reuse.
So
we
have
growers
as
a
weld
individual
residents
who
would
like
to
make
use
of
them
we're
happy
to
see
the
mundo,
but
whatever
does
not
go
for
reuse
gets
recycled.
N
N
We
have
these
bright
green
fliers
quite
evident
they're
all
over
town
they're
at
the
Chamber
and
at
the
library
are
also
available
from
us
and
in
Fargo
recycling
board,
and
just
a
note
and
I
forgot
this
last
year
that
if,
for
any
reason,
you
can't
make
it
to
this
event
or
find
somebody
to
take
your
stuff
to
the
event,
you
can
always
take
your
pots
and
trays
to
Lowe's
and
even
the
low
stores
they
will
responsibly
recycle
them.
So
that
is
an
option.
B
B
I
Matt
consent
agenda.
Yes,
sir
Thank
You
mr.
mayor
you've
got
the
adoption
of
minutes
from
your
April
6
agenda
session.
April
cancel
regular
session
a
budget
workshop
on
April.
The
19th
I
think
that
you
all
had
received
a
copy
of
your
closed
session
minutes
from
the
from
the
April
April
25th.
So
those
are
your
the
minute
that
you
have
to
approve.
We
have
a
call
for
a
public
hearing
for
the
budget
that
is
to
be
held
on
Monday
June,
the
19th
at
6
o'clock
p.m.
in
this
room.
I
If
you'll
recall
the
board
meeting,
the
regular
board
meeting
for
June
is
June
the
12th.
This
is
a
special
meeting
for
the
public
hearing
for
the
budget
on
June.
The
19th
you've
got
a
call
for
public
hearing
and
we
had
a
lot
of
tall
public
hearings
for
June,
just-just
and
I'll
just
read
through
them
briefly,
but
you
have
a
call
for
public
hearing
for
text,
amendments
to
add
parks
and
open
space
and
indoor
and
outdoor
recreation
areas.
I
We
don't
list
parks
and
open
spaces
in
our
table
of
uses,
and
even
though,
obviously
we
have
a
lot
of
parks
and
open
space,
and
this
makes
a
correction
to
the
land
use
code,
to
define
indoor
and
outdoor
recreation
areas
and
to
and
to
allow
them
in
in
district
that
they're
in
and
districts
that
they
can
be
in
in
the
future.
It's
just
it's
just
a
update
to
the
land
use
code
periodically.
We
we
find
those
oversights
and
make
those
changes
as
we
move
forward.
I
You
have
a
a
call
for
a
public
hearing
for
text,
amendment
appeals
and
variances.
Basically,
right
now,
our
land
use
code
requires
us
to
advertise
that,
in
the
paper,
in
addition
to
advertising
within
200
feet
to
all
the
property
owners
with
200
feet,
of
where
an
appeal
or
a
variance
occurs
and
put
and
posting
the
property
we're
not
required
by
the
general
statutes
to
put
that
in
the
paper,
you
are
for
some
other
the
opportunities
that
we
have
to
make
changes
to
land
use
code,
the
debts,
but
change
them
and
make
like
rezoning.
I
But
this
is
not
one,
and
we
would
add
that
what
we
would
ask
that
you
have
a
public
hearing
to
do,
amend
the
land
use
code
to
take
that.
Take
that
section
out
what
ends
up?
What
is
it
happened
there?
There
are
unnecessary
expenses
with
the
newspaper
and
it,
and
it
just
requires
an
additional
level
of
advertisement
that
sometimes
doesn't
doesn't
serve
the
public
as
well
as
well
as
it
should
and
like
I
said.
I
I
You
have
a
call
for
public
hearing
to
rezone
17
white
pine
drive
from
tr4,
which
is
town
residential
to
a
live
six,
which
is
which
is
office
and
institutional,
that
is
the
property
where
the
community
garden
and
and
at
the
disc
golf
and
the
and
the
section
is
there
at
the
end
of
white
pine
driver
where
grey
eagle
and
station
to
and
and
that
parcels
that
are
associated
with
that,
the
parts
of
the
property
across
the
interstate.
That's
a
part
of
Veterans
Park.
I
I
There
is
obviously
opportunities
for
improvements
to
the
community
garden
opportunities
for
expansion
at
the
property
that
been
mentioned,
including
the
future
opportunity
for
potentially
a
daycare.
Those
things
would
require
a
different
kind
of
different
zoning
jurisdiction.
If
you're
going
to
make
any
of
those
improvements,
it's
not
zoned
properly
for
it
for
any
improvements
that
might
occur
there.
Currently.
I
So
we
request
a
public
hearing
to
make
it
at
least
consistent
with
the
piece
of
property
on
the
other
side
of
the
interstate,
that's
associated
with
Veterans,
Park,
in-bee
li6
and
again
that's
a
call
for
public
hearing
for
June.
Then
you've
got
a
budget
amendment
for
renovations
of
the
Public
Safety
Building.
I
This
is
a
seventy
five
thousand
dollars
to
the
capital
reserve
fund
that
we
have
set
up
for
improvements
ultimately
at
the
public,
public
safety
building
and
improvement
to
the
fire
department
quarters
that
are
there,
and
we
do
this
at
the
end
of
most
of
our
fiscal
years.
Fortunately,
in
the
last
few
years
we've
been
able
to
to
set
aside
money
in
capital
reserve
funds
and
that's
what
this
does.
I
Then
you
have
a
budget
amendment
for
improvements
to
Veterans
Park,
and
this
we
had
a
a
special
meeting
last
week
and
was
associated
with
with
this
and
what
this
budget
amendment
does.
Is.
It
sets
up
ninety
thousand
dollars
in
a
well
well.
The
new
business
is
going
to
set
up
the
capital
project
ordinance,
but
but
the
this
budget
amendment
will
transfer
ninety
thousand
dollars
from
the
fund
balance
to
the
capital
project
fund
that
you'll
set
up
later
in
the
meeting
to
four
eight
and
eighty-five
thousand
dollars
of
that
is
used
to
purchase
the
property.
I
I
Excuse
me
that
we've
applied
for
with
with
the
Parks
and
Rec
trust
fund
with
with
the
purchase
of
that
property,
because
the
property
is
valued
at
a
higher
amount
in
the
purchase
amount
that
we
were
able
to
do
what
work
with
the
property
owner.
We
will
get
credit
for
that
for
our
match.
In
addition,
you've
been
fortunate
enough
that
Kiwanis
has
offered
some
stability
to
provide
money
for
a
pavilion
which
is
part
of
our
part
of
the
grant
just
so
that
people
know
well.
I
Some
of
the
grant
portions
are
there's
a
pavilion,
a
playground,
the
purchase
of
the
property
stream,
Bank
restoration
and
trail
improvements
that
go
along
with
this,
with
this
grant
and
with
the
with
the
purchase
of
the
property
at
a
discounted
rate,
get
to
count
that
towards
our
towards
the
grant,
in
addition
to
Kiwanis
contribution,
we're
able
to
make
improvements
at
Veterans
Park
in
a
much
discounted
rate.
If
we
get
the
grant,
I
will
point
out
Casey
you'll
correct
me
if
I'm
wrong,
but
we
did
I.
Think.
I
As
I
mentioned,
we
were
going
to
plopper
a
waiver.
That
would
say
we
had
to
buy
the
land
before
we
actually
applied
for
the
grant,
but
it
wouldn't
count,
but
we
could
still
count
it
towards
the
grant.
So
we
were
granted
that
waiver
we
can
apply.
We've
applied
for
the
grant
this
year.
I
think
it's
true
that
we
can.
I
If
we
work
awarded
the
grant,
we
can
apply
for
the
grant
again
next
year
and
still
use
that
same
waiver
and
count
the
credit
for
that
piece
of
property,
regardless
I
think
I
think
it
was
the
consensus
that
that
was
a
wise
expenditure
to
expand
veteran's
park
and
use
that
property,
but
we're
hopeful
that
we
can
also
apply
that
towards
the
grant.
I
mean
this
is
a
budget
amendment
so
that
we
can
start
that
process.
D
I
I've
probably
gone
over
this
in
the
budget
amendment
portion
of
the
of
the
consent
agenda,
but
this
your
first
item
of
new
business
sets
up
the
capital
project,
ordinance
for
a
veteran's
park,
improvement
and
a
capital
project
fund.
Basically,
the
reason
we
would
do
that
is
because
we
anticipate
that
expenditures
would
happen
over
over
the
life
of
or
over
over
more
than
one
fiscal
year.
So
if
you,
if
you
set
up
the
capital,
plug
your
ordinance,
then
that
money
carries
from
year
to
year,
we
will
start
with
$90,000,
that's
for
the
purchase,
the
land
plus.
I
It
gives
us
a
little
bit
of
extra
money
for
appraisal
and
some
things
we
that
we
may
need
as
we
go
forward
as
we.
If
we
get
the
grant
and
as
we
make
improvements,
whether
we
get
the
grant
that
we
make
improvements
on
our
own,
we
within
a
amend
we
use
budget
amendments
to
amend
the
capital
project
ordinance
over
time
and
then
all
that
money
back
down
that
way.
But
this
sets
the
ordinance
up
support
the
the
budget
amendment
you
approved
earlier
in
the
consent
agenda,
so.
C
I
Thank
You
mr.
mayor.
Secondly,
you've
got
a
code
amendment
to
allow
bicycles
to
travel
on
sidewalks
in
town.
As
you
may
recall,
a
few
months
ago
we
had
a
presentation
about
a
bicycle
plan
and
we're
trying
to
implement
some
of
those
suggestions.
Some
of
those
are
more
complicated
or
time-consuming
or
or
have
some
more
logistics
involved.
I
But
here's
one
that
that
we
think
that
will
have
an
immediate
impact
on
people
and
what
we
like
to
do
is
a
adopt
an
amendment
to
allow
bicycles
to
travel
on
sidewalks
throughout
town,
except
for
sidewalks,
located
in
the
central
business
district.
So
so
it
would
end
it
and
I
think
if
you
were
to
talk
to
lieutenant
off-spinner
or
anybody
for
anybody
else
in
town
I
think
they
would
probably
note
that
people
already
ride
their
bikes
on
sidewalks.
I
B
E
I
And
so
I
really
I
think
yes,
I,
think
that's
that's
accurate
I
think
most
people
realize
and
they
get
downtown,
that
it
is
complicated
to
to
maneuver
around
around
the
people
that
are
there
there.
But
there
are
areas
for
the
rep,
mantri,
Road
and
other
and
other
ends
down
70
in
other
areas
where
it
still
does
make
sense
to
do
you're
exactly
right
to.
A
F
I
I
do
think
that
there's
still
some,
you
know
obviously
there's
some
some
level
of
safety
of
safety
and
important
and
sharing
of
even
of
the
sidewalk.
But
this
does
this
doesn't
mend
our
code
to
do
to
allow
it.
Instead
of
somebody
even
would
fall
and
saying
he
saw
a
kid
right
on
the
sidewalk
and
then
weak
not
allowed
to
now
look
now
they'll
be
allowed
to.
B
I
E
I
That's
even
better,
we'll
just
remind
you
of
the
mushrooms,
so
I
would
remind
you.
Do
you
have
next
Monday
you've
got
a
joint
meeting
with
the
Planning
Board
at
4:00
p.m.
is
to
discuss
the
Complete
Streets
model
that
VOT
uses
when
designing
highway
improvements,
and
so
I
think
we
have
bed
at
four
o'clock.
That's
that's
a
joint
meeting,
obviously
between
you
all
and
the
Planning
Board
may
17th
give
a
budget
workshop
at
9:00
a.m.
I
here
at
Town,
Hall,
Thursday
May,
the
18th,
the
new
police
chief
Sean
Freeman
sees
was,
is
the
innocent
just
for
the
public's
information.
He
was
the
chief
in
beach,
mountain
and
he'll,
be
starting
on
Thursday
mate,
maybe
a
thief
and
we'll
have
a
swearing-in
and
a
meet-and-greet
at
9:00
a.m.
if
somebody
wants
to
come
by
and
see
him
please
feel
free
to,
and
then
you've
got
your
irregular
June
meetings.
I
B
Like
to
say
something
about
this,
what
Dede
was
speaking
about
about
the
spring
inside
the
city
limits
week
for
years
here
there
was
spraying
in
this
board
and
I.
Don't
know
whether
or
not
is
before
I
got
on
the
board
or
whether
the
board
actually
passed
or
whether
we
just
simply
requested
the
town
manager
to
go,
see
Southern
Railway,
but
they
did
cease
that
activity
inside
the
city
members,
so
they
were
just
primarily
just
mowing
with
that
huge
machines
they
put
on
the
side
of
the
truck
now
somewhere
along
the
line.
B
It
looks
like
that
the
Southern
Railway
either
there
was
a
change
in
personnel.
There
may
been
a
change
in
policy.
I
just
want
to
think
that
it
was
just
a
change
of
personality.
They
never
did
get
somebody
retired
somebody
went
ahead
and
came
in
and
then
they
just
subject,
people
just
spray.
The
whole
thing
I
know
that's
my
opinion
visit
a
lot
of
other
people
spoken
to
me.
If
we
could
try
to
get
back
to
that
and
not
spray
inside
the
city
limits.