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From YouTube: Black Mountain Board of Alderman Meeting (July 13, 2020)
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Regular Meeting of the Town of Black Mountain's Board of Alderman for July 13, 2020.
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So
if
that
I
know,
there's
been
some
questions
floating
around
out
out
in
town
about
that,
but
that
is
official
state
institute
of
government
and
bunk
county's
stamp
on
it,
and
with
that
I
have
proclamation,
probably
one
of
the
the
proclamation
I've
been
looking
most
forward
to
for
ever
since
I've
been
on
this
board.
So
with
that,
mr
dewitt.
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The
purpose
of
life
is
to
live
life
with
a
purpose
and
he's
always
done
that
he's
a
good
friend
of
mine,
and
I
can't
tell
you
how
much
he's
done
for
this
town,
how
much
he
moves
in
the
background
working
with
people
to
make
things
happen,
that
town
square
up
there
it's
there
and
it
looks
like
he
did.
It
does
because
of
him.
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Comes
to
us
from
the
cry
school,
where
she's
worked
for
five
years
as
advancement
office
manager,
she
has
a
master's
degree
in
public
affairs
from
western
carolina
university,
and
I
know
at
least
I
can
speak
for
myself.
I
am
excited
to
have
her
on
board
and
her
first
day
on,
the
job
will
be
next
thursday
on
the
23rd.
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Like
I
said
four
total
comments,
two
of
the
comments
I've
already
addressed
with
these
two
individuals
by
sending
them
the
marked
up
copy
and
they
were
fine
with
it.
The
other
two
comments,
I
think
at
least
need
to
be
read,
so
they
can
be
heard,
so
one
is
from
philippa
holloway
and
she
states.
First
of
all,
please
allow
more
time
for
citizen
comment
interview
before
passing
this
change
to
the
ordinance.
The
citizens
impacted
need
more
time
to
digest
the
implications
of
the
changes
and
time
to
provide
comment
to
the
board.
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Before
passing
this
change,
given
the
implications
for
first
amendment
rights,
I
can
see
one
type
of
gathering
that
is
omitted
entirely
from
this
ordinance
and
that
is
vigils
for
people
who
have
died
often
through
acts
of
violence.
Although
helpmate
organizes
these
for
victims
of
domestic
violence
and
what
about
more
spontaneous
vigils
for
victims
of
school
shootings
that
often
occur
the
day
after
the
shooting
on
school
grounds,
those
types
of
vigils,
in
my
opinion,
should
be
excluded
from
these
requirements.
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The
next
comment
is
from
robin
josephs,
and
it
says
I
ask
that
amendment
to
chapter
43
not
be
voted
on
until
there
is
adequate
time
for
community
citizens
and
any
with
interest
in
creating
public
events
and
utilizing
public
space
to
study
the
amendment
and
provide
input.
We
are
all
stakeholders
in
our
ability
to
create
events,
speak
out
in
public
and
use
public
space
to
draw
attention
to
issues
and
events.
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What
the
budget
amendment
does
is,
just
you
can't
have
negative
cash
flow
and
a
fund
so
that'll
zero
that
out-
and
this
is
for
transferring
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
from
fund
balance
to
the
golf
phone
to
even
at
that
that
negative
cash
balance
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budget
amendment
for
water
system
service
contract-
something
we
did
not
know
before
we
took
over
the
new
customers
with
the
city
of
asheville.
Once
we
get
to
a
certain
number
of
customers,
there
are
more
reporting
requirements.
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So
currently
we
have
been
doing
monitoring
and
reporting
five
days
a
week
with
the
new
customers.
We
have
to
go
to
seven
days
a
week
which
is
going
to
cost
us
more
money
on
our
contract,
but
we
are
still
going
to
be
cheaper
than
hiring
a
full-time
person
to
do
that
and
the
increase
on
that
is
18
000
a
year
for
that
contract.
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If
you'll
recall
during
last
year's
budget,
as
we
adopted
it,
we
put
some
extra
money
in
there
for
some
greenway
work
down
below
the
swan
swannano
valley,
friends,
christian
ministry
down
on
flat
creek.
We
never
spent
that
twenty
thousand
dollars
to
do
that
work.
So
what
staff
is
asking
the
board
to
do
is
to
appropriate
twenty
thousand
dollars.
So
we
can
go
ahead
and
get
that
work
done.
We
need
to
get
that
work
done
in
order
to
get
an
easement
from
them
to
put
the
greenway
through
there.
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And
let's
see
five
missing,
this
is
a
resolution
supporting
blue
ridge,
road
interchange,
otherwise
known
as
I-4409.
Well,
I
think
we
all
know
this
is
a
funded
transportation
project
on
the
state
transportation
improvement
plan.
We
just
want
to
support
this
interchange.
I
know
it's
been
delayed
a
little
bit
just
due
to
some
funding
issues
with
eot
right
away.
Acquisition
is
scheduled
for
june
of
2021,
and
construction
is
going
to
begin
in
june
of
2023.
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That
will
be
adam
5f.
You
have
a
resolution
to
approve
financing
terms
for
sanitation
vehicles.
I
didn't
go
through
here
and
add
that,
like
I
was
supposed
to
at
the
beginning
of
the
meeting,
but
this
is
something
that
I
I
talked
to
the
mayor
about
adding
to
the
agenda.
This
is
a
resolution
to
approve
financing
terms
for
our
sanitation
vehicles.
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The
arts
and
the
afternoon
beast
expires
in
august,
and
so
this
proposal
essentially
to
give
her
another
lease
for
another
year,
the
same
rate,
same
responsibilities
and
as
josh
said,
if
you
approve
the
lease
tonight
that
doesn't
really
tell
us
where
we're
going
for
the
next
year,
but
at
least
it
leaves
her
in
a
position
to
plan.
As
you
can
know,
the
parts
in
the
afternoon
there's
no
change
from
terms
from
last
year.
Everything
is
carried
forward,
everything's
the
same.
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We
have
three
lots
down
there
for
two
of
the
two
lots
of
questions,
dr
john
curry,
who
is
a
friend
of
mine,
who's,
also
a
lawyer,
and
I
convinced
him
to
keep
practicing
this
and
stay
away
from
the
practice
of
law.
But
he
had
this
inclination
to
buy
deals
and
property
involved
this
junk
property
and
when
john
died,
his
his
kids
probably
gave
it
to
the
town
because
they
didn't
know
what
to
do
with
water
with
lots
of
floodway.
He
had
the
sewer
lines.
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It's
the
rest
stocking
some
of
you
know.
Now
we
have
a
fella
who
is
inclined
to
buy
crazy
property
to
john
curry
and
that's
fred,
alexander
fred
holmes.
Property
is
joining
this
and
so
he's
looked
at
it
and
offered
to
pay
twenty
thousand
dollars
for,
what's
shown
on
the
map.
His
pin
numbers
ended
for
909
9092
9003.
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That's
a
35
foot
wide
loft
with
a
20
foot
wide
sewer
line
he's
going
through,
and
so
he
thought
that
twenty
thousand
dollars
is
probably
a
good
amount
to
offer.
He
did
through
the
carrot
in
there
the
reason
the
town
even
considered
accepting
this
several
years
ago.
The
curry
family,
want
to
get
rid
of.
It
is
the
potential
possibly
of
coming
through
there
with
a
greenway
and
fred
says:
do
you
ever
want
it?
You
got
it,
but
he
is
over
twenty
thousand
dollars.
The
process
is
mary.
Call
that's
acceptable
to
the
town.
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There's
a
resolution
which
declares
the
property
surplus
and
technically
accepts
this
offer,
in
which
case
you
do
that
will
be
advertised
once
in
the
newspaper
and
we
still
get
any
upset
bids
within
10
days.
Nobody
else
bids
for
it.
You
can
sell
it.
Somebody
else
appears
that
we
do
that
again
till
we
get
topped
off.
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To
sell
it,
that's
not
it
it's
twenty
thousand
dollars
and
again
afraid
that
you
still
have
means
for
a
decent
roadway.
If
you
ever
do
want
to
go
that
way,
based
on
that
but
other
than
it's,
it's
just
land.
I
don't
know
it's
the
town.
Unless
somebody
knows
your
sport,
I
don't
foreign
is
something
that's
sitting.
There's
a
flood
wave
blood
playing
the
sewer
line.
Not
it's
never
going
to
be
built
on.
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Right
yeah,
which
is
you
know,
you
don't
want
to
put
much
there
because
you
get
washed
away,
but
at
the
same
time
it's
a
nice
place
for
a
picnic
or
whatever
you
know
it
could
be
so
I'd
just
like
to
let
maybe
let
josh
and
josh
henderson
take
a
hard
look
and
see
see
what
the
prospects
are
for
using
it
for
art.
If
that's
practical,
because
that's
the
only
thing
that
I
can
think
of
that,
we
might
want
to
think
through
just
a
little
bit.
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Of
go
through
this,
this
was
initiated
by
jessica.
She
came
up
with
the
questions
where,
obviously,
the
current
recent
events
brought
to
our
attention
that
we
haven't
been
upgrading
our
specialist
and
didn't
address.
Demonstrations
didn't
want
penalized
free
speech,
but
everything
got
clumped
together,
and
so
she
sent
it
to
me
in
the
notes-
and
I
did
the
rewrite.
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There's
not
a
huge
number
of
changes.
Mostly,
it's
opened
up
those
free
speech
rights
for
demonstrators
to
talk
to
a
couple
of
other
little
things,
but
again
that
normal
life
change,
mostly
just
making
demonstrations.
Clearly
we
won't
notice,
we
can
have
it,
there's
not
going
to
be
a
fee
for
public
demonstrations,
you're
exercising
free
speech
rights,
there's
no
penalty.
If
it
happens
spontaneously,
that's
fine,
but
if
you
know
you
have
an
administration,
if
you
can
give
us
some
warning,
we
can
take.
We
won't
protect
those
demonstrators
as
well
as
everything
else.
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I
heard
the
comments
earlier
about
x,
an
exception
for
vigils
for
those
who've
died,
don't
know
where
they
fit
in
the
state
of
things.
If
this
board
wants
to
address
that,
that's
probably
a
different
ottoman
to
be
dealt
with
these
the
typically
eventual
for
your
the
60
row
is
not
a
typical
free
speech.
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Public
interest
first
amendment
issue,
and
so
if
the
world
wants
to
dress
that
down,
perhaps
so,
but
I
think
it
may
be
a
little
rough
at
this
point.
We
want
to
get
something
in
place.
We
didn't
want
to
leave
demonstrators
thinking,
they
have
to
give
the
town
30
days
to
come
and
pay
a
fee.
We
want
that
free
speech,
there's
an
education
part
of
demonstrations
in
free
speech
and,
first
amendment
alliance,
that
you
may.
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However,
one
difference
is,
it
requires
the
consent
of
all
participants
for
a
new
quasi-judiciary
to
be
held
alone
and
for
the
first,
the
same
reasons
we
discussed
the
policies
adopted
without
allowing
question
judicial
hearings,
question
judicial
or
semi-trials,
it's
very
difficult
to
a
litigator,
trying
a
lawyer
to
gauge
what
he's
dealing
with.
He
can't
see
his
business
pigeon
and
there's
that
flow
of
documents.
All
these
things
that
are
hearing
that's
different
from
the
legislative
year.
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The
city
of
asheville
is
experimenting
with
it.
They
have
done
their
board
with
just
hearings
the
variances
remotely
and
that's
worked.
Okay,
I'm
told
they're
not
even
going
to
attempt
appeals
remotely
at
this
point,
but
this
opens
the
door
if
the
parties
are
willing
that
we
can
do
it
remotely
and
variances
should
work
fairly
well.
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What's
that
done
is
done
to
miss
davis
is
it
gets
her?
Having
won
the
bid
and
gets
six
months
or
five
months
left,
six
months
left
to
work
and
what
I've
gotten
from
avi-
and
this
is
I've-
talked
to
this
about
josh.
But
how
do
we
be
fair
about?
This?
Is
she's,
not
the
one
that
calls
this
mess
and
she's
patiently
waiting
is
this
is
at
least
for
a
year
and
a
half
essentially
to
january
of
2022..
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Josh,
I
got
a
couple
things,
so
I
think
alderman
stone
had
asked
for
some
coba
19
related
hours,
at
least
with
emergency
services.
Since
march
police
have
spent
179
hours
dealing
with
covenant
19
to
this
date,
and
fire
has
spent
656
to
this
day
dealing
with
covet
19
issues
I'll
try
to
give
you
updates
on
this
as
I
get
them
I'll
tell
you
so
you
know
we
did
plan
in
this
and
this
budget
year
we're
in
now
for
sales
tax
to
be
down
finishing
up
last
year.
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May's
numbers
are
down
24
from
last
year,
which
I
I'd
expected,
probably
30,
so
a
little
bit
a
little
bit
better
than
that,
and
hopefully
june's
a
little
bit
better.
But
that's
where
we
are
that
and
just
something
just
to
keep
on
your
radar.
If
you'll
recall,
we,
we
accepted
a
part
f
grant
a
number
of
years
ago
to
do
work
at
veterans
park,
and
in
that
budget
we
had
forty
thousand
dollars
pledged
from
kiwanis.
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We
have
to
finish
up
this
grant
and
we
can
probably
get
an
extension,
but
the
grant
is
supposed
to
finish
up
in
october
of
21,
so
we've
got
another
year
between
now
and
then
staff
is
going
to
work
as
hard
as
they
can
to
see
if
we
can
find
some
money
somewhere
else.
If
we
can
do
in-kind
work,
something
along
those
lines
to
reduce
that
forty
thousand
dollars
to
make
it
a
little
bit
cheaper,
but
just
just
so
you
know
just
to
be
transparent
with
you.