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A
Mayor
skip
henderson
city
manager,
isaiah
hugley
pops,
barnes
district,
one
glenn
davis,
district,
two
bruce
huff
district;
three
toyah
tucker
district,
four
charmaine
crabb
district;
five,
gary
allen,
mayor
pro
tem
and
district
six
mimi
woodson
district
7
walker,
garrett,
district
8,
judy
thomas
post
9
at
large
counselor
john
house
post
10
at
large
counselor
sandra
davis,
clerk
of
council
and
city
attorney;
clifton
fay,
columbus,
georgia.
This
is
your
city
council.
B
The
february
8th
meeting
of
the
columbus
city
council
we'll
call
the
meeting
to
order
and
we're
going
to
begin
this
meeting
as
we
do
begin
all
of
our
gatherings,
and
that
is
by
invoking
god's
presence.
I
believe
we
have
reverend
ernestine
campbell
from
epworth
united
methodist
church,
who
is
going
to
be
bringing
our
invocation
welcome.
C
C
B
Amen,
reverend
campbell,
thank
you
so
much
and
and
please
thank
your
congregation
for
sharing
you
with
us
this
morning,
epworth
has
always
been
a
very,
very
active
church
in
that
neighborhood
matter
of
fact,
when
we
first
moved
back
to
columbus
after
being
away
a
few
years,
we
attended
epworth
and
it's
a
great
great
church.
So
thank
you
next,
our
pledge
of
allegiance.
If
you
would
please
stand
and
join
me
in
a
salute
to
our
flag.
B
First
order.
Businesses
will
entertain
a
motion
to
approve
the
minutes
from
january
25th
motion
from
mayor
pro
tem.
Is
there
a
second
second
from
council
house?
Are
there
any
edits
or
any
changes
questions
anybody
has
regarding
the
minutes
hearing
none
bruce.
We
cue
that
or
we
just
take
a
voice
vote,
we'll
just
call
for
a
all
in
favor
of
approving
the
minute
say:
aye,
any
opposed
all
right
good.
The
minutes
are
approved.
B
We
in
each
meeting.
We
try
to
give
you
a
little
bit
of
an
update
with
regards
to
the
covid
vaccine
and
the
coven
pandemic
in
our
our
community,
and
it's
you.
B
Optimistic
and
kind
of
good
news,
we've
seen
the
numbers
trending
down,
they
got
pretty
high.
The
good
news
was
from
talking
to
our
front
line
health
care
providers
is
that
it
wasn't
across
the
board
as
as
severe
so
we
we
didn't
have
quite
as
many
people
that
that
were
in
critical
care
and
we
didn't
have
have
quite
as
many
that
required
ventilators,
but
we
did
see
a
lot
of
folks
still
in
the
hospital
we
got
up
to
about
180
to
190
people
at
any
one
given
day.
B
Currently,
the
numbers
are
are
going
down
we're
down
to
about
150
people
that
are
hospitalized
our
we
watch
trends,
and
this
is
just
my
opinion,
not
the
medical
folks,
and
I
probably
shouldn't
give
it,
but
we
don't
really
monitor
the
the
new
cases
as
closely
as
some
others
do,
simply
because
those
numbers
can
come
in
sporadically
and
what
we
do
use
them
for
those
to
watch
trends
just
see
how
the
bar
graph's
going.
Are
we
getting
better?
Are
we
getting
a
little
worse?
Well
we're
getting
better.
B
So
I
want
to
thank
the
citizens
of
this
community
that
are
still
you
know.
Taking
some
precautions
and
being
careful
as
we
continue
to
work
our
way
through
this,
so
it
is
good
news.
Things
are
getting
a
little
bit
better
and
we
just
and
again
with
regards
to
the
vaccines.
I'm
not.
I
would
never
tell
you
to
go
get
the
shot,
but
I
would
suggest
you
check
with
your
doctor.
B
If
you
haven't
been
vaccinated
and
asked
to
ask
your
physician
what
what
they
think
of
it
and
then
that's
a
conversation
you
can
have
with
them
all
right.
We've
got.
One
thing
we
we
really
enjoy
doing
is
recognizing
some
of
the
outstanding
citizens
that
have
contributed
to
our
community
and
we
have
such
an
individual
with
us
today,
and
I
would
like
david
helms,
invite
david
helms
to
the
podium,
and
I
tell
you
any
family
or
supporters.
B
If
you
want
to
gather
behind
david
up
here,
I
think
that
would
that
would
be
appropriate
and
I'm
going
to
ask
mayor
pro
tem
allen
to
publish
the
proper
proclamation.
G
Thank
you
mayor,
while
there's
family
and
friends
are
coming
up.
Let
me
just
say
it's
been
a
privilege
to
know
and
then
get
reacquainted
with
with
pastor
helms
recently
and
as
we
were
talking
that
he
was
involved
in
the
in
the
jaycees.
When
my
dad
was
president
of
the
jaycees,
and
so
we
go
back
a
long
way
and
the
proclamation
will
tell
you
a
little
more
about
his
involvement
in
columbus.
G
And
whereas
because
david
answered,
the
call
to
ministry
bethesda
baptist
has
been
through
three
building
phases
and
has
been
able
to
pay
off
more
than
seven
million
dollars
in
debt
over
three
years,
minister
to
care
for
the
residents
of
harris
county
and
donate
more
than
twenty
thousand
dollars
to
various
missions
and
ministries
in
two
thousand
twenty
one
now
therefore
skip
henderson
mayor
of
columbus.
Georgia
does
hereby
proclaim
tuesday
february
8
2022,
as
david
m
helms
day.
H
I
will
say
that
I
got
to
know
gary
years
ago,
but
I
do
remember
his
father
in
the
jaycees
and
I
remember
he
was
the
one
that
had
the
jc
golf
tournament
when
I
was
15
years
of
age
and
I
won
the
qualifying
to
represent
columbus
and
in
athens,
and
so
I
remember
him
very
well
and
he
was
a
great
man
and
I
always
have
a
great
respect
for
you
and
for
all
of
you
that
are
on
the
council.
H
I
want
you
to
know
that
we
pray
for
you,
we
pray
god's
blessing
upon
you
and
our
city,
and
I
just
want
you
to
know.
It's
always
been
a
pleasure
for
me
in
my
80
years
to
be
a
part
of
columbus
georgia
and
it's
a
great
city.
We
have
great
people
and
I
just
continue
to
pray
that
there
would
be
peace,
harmony
and
god
would
continue
to
bless
us
in
a
great
way.
Thank
you.
B
But
if
you
want
to
introduce
your
your
family
and
and
some
of
the
supporters
that
are
here
or
do
you
want
them
to
introduce
themselves.
H
B
All
right
and
we
we
have
one
of
our
employees
who
is
taking
on
a
new
challenge
and
that's
the
good
news.
The
bad
news
is
to
do
it.
I
have
to
leave
this
this
environment
and
I
don't
I
I'm
gonna
call.
Will
johnson
up
will?
Are
you
in
okay?
Here
you
come
well,
we
hate
to
see
you
leave
columbus
consolidate
government,
but
we,
I
think
I
speak
for
everybody.
When
I
tell
you
we're
excited
about
the
opportunity.
B
I
He
has
continued
to
lead
this
effort
in
2022
and,
whereas
will
johnson
was
a
presenter
at
the
2008
american
planning
association,
annual
conference
in
las
vegas
nevada
and
a
presenter
at
the
2012
and
2017
georgia
planning
association
conference
and
whereas
for
22
years,
will
has
been
a
valuable
team.
Member
of
the
planning
department
providing
insight
and
guidance
to
our
elected
officials
and
citizens
on
land
on
land
use
and
zoning
matters,
which
in
turn
have
made
this
a
better
community
and
whereas
all
citizens,
all
citizens
of
columbus.
I
E
I
B
J
Well,
I
don't
really
like
being
singled
out,
but
it's
done.
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
for
the
22
years,
we've
been
through
a
lot.
We've
done
a
lot,
probably
over
the
last
two
decades,
we've
seen
the
most
growth
we've
seen
in
the
previous
history
of
this
town,
combined.
J
First
of
all,
mainly,
I
want
to
thank
the
staff,
particularly
here
recently,
director
jones
had
a
family
emergency
and
he
was
not
with
us
and
we
were
in
the
middle
of
redistricting
and
several
other
hot
topics
going
on
and-
and
I
want
to
thank
them
for
stepping
up
during
that
time
and
making
sure
everything
went
smoothly.
J
Michael
mixon,
who
was
one
of
our
planners
mike's,
going
to
take
over
for
facade
board
and
our
plan
first
program,
felton
grant
our
right-of-way
coordinator
dave
cooper,
who
also
had
a
family
emergency
at
this
time,
and
we
had
trey
wilkinson
step
up
dave's
our
gis.
J
I
don't
know
what
are
we
a
gis
person,
okay
and
then-
and
we
had
rex
wilkinson-
who
I'm
not
sure,
if
he's
here,
but
he
stepped
up
and
took
over
a
redistricting
for
us,
melissa
burton
who's
the
office
mama
john
renfro,
who
has
been
our
zone
administrator
for
three
or
four
years
now,
and
the
reason
you
guys
are
kept
in
the
loop
is
because
he's
used
technology
to
get
you
to
that
point
and
linda
temple's,
who's,
probably
forgotten
more
about
transportation.
J
Planning
than
most
people
will
ever
know
and
of
course,
rick
who
hired
me
22
long
years
ago
and
he
was
in
his
40s
and
I
was
in
my
20s.
So
it's
been
a
long
ride,
we're
not
there
anymore
so,
but
I
want
to
thank
y'all
and-
and
it's
been
a
pleasure.
K
Well,
good
morning,
mr
mayor
and
members
of
council,
of
course,
this
is
not
a
nothing
but
anything
but
a
sad
day
for
us
to
have
to
say
that
one
of
ours
is
going
on,
but
hopefully
going
on
to
the
greener
pastures.
Here
we
we
think
that's
a
good
thing
for
anybody
that
wants
to
move
on
and
and
advance
himself
and
to
make
themselves
better
and
take
what
he's
learned
here.
I
hope
and
apply
it
to
his
new
job.
So
that's
that's
a
good
thing.
K
We're
going
to
miss
will
we're
going
to
miss
his
leadership,
we're
going
to
miss
his
expertise,
we're
going
to
miss
just
the
overall
cohesiveness
he
has
applied
to
this
department
over
the
last
22
years.
So
we'll
just
know
that
you're
you're
you're
leaving
us
but
you're,
not
leaving
us
completely.
We
want
you're
always
welcome
to
come
back
to
us
at
any
time.
So
thank
you
for
your
service
and
thank
you
for
being
here
for
us.
Well,
we
do
appreciate
it.
Thank
you.
L
Is
will
johnson
I
was
reflecting
back
as
you
were
speaking.
L
We
met
the
city
manager
put
together
a
ride
around
when
I
first
got
in
office.
I
think
we
won
a
band
together
in
february
or
2011
right
in
district
three
and
a
lot
came
from
that
day
and
friendships
city
manager
introduced
me
to
a
great
many
people
that
day,
but
you
were
one
of
the
ones
I
met.
You
know
one
one
of
the
ones
that
have
been
there
over
the
years
and
planning
as
a
whole.
L
L
I
mentioned
to
you
in
the
hallway
I'm
one
of
those
that
will
come
see
you
that's
fine,
just
to
see
what's
going
on,
my
kids
used
to
like
I'd,
say,
play
around
in
the
area
and
athletics
and
everything
and
had
the
opportunity
to
work
with
your
wife
before
she
left
I'm
starting
to
feel
some
kind
of
way.
L
With
her,
she
left
got
comfortable
with
you
when
you
come,
but
thank
you,
and
the
last
point
is
thank
you
for
letting
me
share
your
day
friday.
That's
my
birthday,
so
we'll
always
have
something
in
common
I'll
know.
What
your
day
is,
and
my
day
is
sounds
good.
D
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
I
just
want
to
take
this
opportunity
to
congratulate,
will
and
and
wish
him
well.
He
is
going
to
be
missed
and
when
I
I
think
about
you
will,
and
so
mayor
and
council
know
that
he
has
truly
been
what
I
consider
an
impact
player
in
the
growth
development.
D
The
success
of
our
city-
and
you
know,
impact
players
are-
are
in
demand
nowadays
that
we
are
dealing
with
what's
referred
to
as
a
great
resignation
across
this
country,
every
city,
every
county,
every
state
is
looking
for
our
impact
players.
I
look
behind
me
and
I
see
impact
players
they
together.
We
have
been
able
to
move
our
city
forward
and
place
us
in
a
position,
that's
better
than
we've
ever
been
before.
D
Because
of
these
impact
players,
impact
players,
like
will
johnson,
and
so
I
heard
someone
council
huff
just
mentioned-
laura
johnson,
an
impact
player
that
left
us
and
went
across
the
street.
I
think
about
john
hutchison,
an
impact
player
who
left
us
and
went
to
tampa,
and-
and
here
we
are
with-
will
johnson
another
impact
player,
and
I
say
to
you
that
we've
got
to
remain
competitive.
D
If
we
expect
to
retain
our
impact
players
during
this
great
resignation
where
people
are
looking
for
people,
because
they
can't
find
them
and
they'll
come
and
get
our
impact
player
players
because
they
know
that
they're
good,
so
will
congratulations
and
I
say
all
that
to
say
that
you
have
been
a
part
of
our
great
success.
You've
been
a
a
real
impact
player
all
over
this
county,
all
220
square
miles,
141
000
acres,
you've
been
an
impact
player.
So
thank
you.
D
D
So
yeah,
but,
but
I
think
about
it
so
hard
to
say
goodbye
to
yesterday,
absolutely
but
but
congratulations
and
godspeed.
Thank
you,
sir.
I
appreciate
it.
G
Thank
you
mayor.
It
seems
like
when,
when
will
came
on,
joined
the
city,
that
it
just
brought
a
lot
of
common
sense
to
the
planning
department.
It
just
things
just
opened
up
and
people
were
able
to
talk
and
I've
been
through,
probably
more
contentious
rezonings
than
anybody
here,
but
it
seems
like
when
will
got
in
the
room
with
us
and
we
started
talking
to
everybody.
It
was
just
a
piece
and
a
calm
and
and
everything
just
went
well,
so
I
I
I
want
you
to
know.
I
appreciate
all
you've
done
for
this
city.
G
The
like,
I
said,
the
many
contentious
rezonings
but
redistricting,
I
think
was
the
most
recent
was-
was
just
critical
for
columbus
and
and
you
took
that
on
and
just
ran
with
it
in
addition
to
pam
and
nancy
bohr
and
a
few
others,
but
the
the
reason
that
our
staff,
like
the
city
manager
said
it
does
so
well,
is
because
they
work
so
well
together
and
it's
just
amazing
to
watch
when
someone
has
to
step
down
or
step
out
because
of
a
family
situation
that
that
it
keeps
working.
Everything
keeps
moving.
G
It's
just
a
well-oiled
machine
and
my
hat's
off
to
all
you
guys
and,
ladies
who
work
have
worked
in
the
planning
department
and
worked
for
the
city
and
just
represented
us
so
well,
but
you
are
where
you
are
will,
because
of
all
the
folks
around
you
and
they've
lifted
you
up
and
made
you
what
you
are
today
and
it's
it's.
It's
sad
to
see.
You
leave
but
proud
that
that
you're
able
to
move
on
and
go
where
you're
going.
So
thank
you
for
all
you've
done
for
the
city.
G
Thank
you
and
thank
you
for
being
a
friend
and
being
there
all
the
times
that
I've
called
you
and
ask
those
dumb
questions.
M
M
I
remember
the
first
day
that
they
introduced
you
to
us
and-
and
you
look
so
eager
and
ready
to
go,
and
you
continue
that
throughout
the
whole
22
years,
even
when
I
would
be
a
knucklehead,
you
would
put
me
in
my
place
and
you
would
educate
me
and
correct
me
and
when
I
did
call
you
would
respond
very
quickly.
You
will
be
missing.
As
the
mayor
pretends
says,
it's
true,
especially
in
in
my
district
in
my
community.
M
M
Never
forget
that,
because
you
are
the
key
to
our
success,
we
will
not
be
able
to
accomplish
the
things
we
do
in
our
district
without
your
staff
and
the
staff
that's
around
us.
I
know
a
lot
of
communities
a
lot
of
place,
but
columbus
is
the
place
to
be.
The
staff
is
very
dedicated,
very
loyal
and
hard-working
and
from
the
bottom
of
my
heart
I
say
to
you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you
for
everything.
M
F
House,
thank
you
mayor.
Well,
we're
certainly
going
to
miss
you
because
I
know
anytime.
I
had
some
dumb
question
about
rezoning
or
something
or
if
I
was
tired
of
harassing
director
jones.
I
could
always
get
a
hold
of
you
and
you
give
me
some
kind
of
answer
and
it
was
always
a
good
one.
So
I
appreciate
that
expertise
that
professionalism
and
I'm
happy
for
you
that
you're
going
to
have
a
chance
to
excel
with
a
new
job,
but
we're
certainly
going
to
miss
you
and
you're
welcome
back
anytime.
Thank
you,
sir.
J
Going
to
marion
county
buena
vista.
I
I
Congratulations.
Congratulations.
I
know
that,
as
many
of
my
colleagues
have
said,
I've
come
to
you
with
questions
that
some
folks
think
are
would
think
were,
but
you
never
made
me
feel
like.
I
was
stupid.
You
know
and
that's
a
that's
a
big
big
job,
but
we
do
wish
you
all
the
best
and
we
know
that
marion
county
will
be
better
off
because
they
have
john,
william
will
johnson
iii
as
their
county
manager.
Thank
you.
N
Well,
when
I
first
heard
river
valley
about
this
opportunity
for
you,
I
said
I'll
I'll
be
seeing
him
still.
That's.
O
N
But
and
a
lot
of
people
are
looking
for
you
there,
I
had
a
meeting,
but
you
know
I
had
mixed
emotions
to
piggyback
off
of
what
judy
and
what
mimi
said.
I
preached
it
many
times
when
you
let
me
know,
I
didn't
know
everything
and
you
backed
me
up
and
and
said
this.
This
is
the
real
world.
This
is
what
is
happening.
N
You
were
very
patient
on
numerous
occasions
with
me
and
I
just
can't
thank
you
enough
for
your
tactfulness
and
not
only
that,
but
your
patience
with
me-
and
I
think
I
told
you
once
before
you
take
after
your
mother-
your
mother
was
very
tenacious
you're,
a
very
tenacious
person
and
that
that
ability
has
helped
us
to
benefit
as
a
city,
your
tactfulness,
your
tenacity
and
the
knowledge
that
you
have
and
so
I'll
be
seeing
you
and
the
people
in
marion
county
are
looking
forward
to
seeing
you.
P
Well,
I
had
to
get
my
two
cents
in
will.
As
a
lawyer,
I
think
we've
probably
worked
on
hundreds
of
conditions
over
the
years
to
help
lessen
the
impacts
of
development
on
neighbors
and
we've
had
very
little
zoning
litigation
as
all
we
all
know,
and
that's
because
of
the
good
job
that
they've
done
in
the
planning
division
and
when
council
passed
an
ordinance,
everybody
usually
was
very
comfortable
with
it.
P
The
last
degree
mentioned
the
uga
degree
must
have
been
the
most
important
one,
though
at
the
top
yeah,
because
when
will-
and
I
were
a
lot
younger,
we
would
run
into
each
other
at
the
georgia
florida
game.
At
least
this
year
we
can
say
we
beat
the
dreaded
gators
and
everybody
else,
but
that's
right.
We
will
miss
you
and
enjoyed
working
with
you
over
the
years.
I
know
you'll
do
a
good
job
in
bv.
Thank
you.
Q
Councillor
davis-
well,
I
just
want
to
thank
you
for
serving
our
city
and
our
community
well,
and
it's
just
refreshing
to
know
that
you
can
pick
up
the
phone
and
call
somebody
anytime
and
talk
to
them
about
matters.
You've
made
our
job
so
much
easier,
and
I
really
appreciate
that
your
work
values,
your
work
ethic
is
impeccable
wherever
you
go
you're
going
to
do
a
great
job,
you're,
a
true
professional.
Q
R
Garrett
well,
you've
been
my
neighbor
you've
been
in
my
district.
I
can
say
I
think
you're
getting
bored
and
you're
gonna
come
back.
I.
R
B
I
don't
think
there's
anything
left
to
say
will,
but
I
will
say
thanks
on
behalf
of
the
citizens
of
columbus
you've
left
this
community
better
than
you
found
it
and
that's
that's.
That's
quite
an
accomplishment.
Thank
you
mayor.
D
D
Mayor
I,
this
is
not
on
the
agenda,
but
I
I
felt
after
hearing
and
sharing
about
will
johnson's
impact
his
success.
D
You
know
we've
got
some
great
employees
in
this
government
from
bottom
to
top
from
top
to
bottom,
and
you
know:
council
barnes
texted
me
about
an
employee,
and
I
just
wanted
to
share
this.
That
and
that
employee
is
in
the
engineering
department
named
john
kennedy,
and
he
texted
me
and
then
said
called
me,
and
he
was
excited
because
this
employee
received
a
q
alert
about
a
pothole
on
jensen,
boulevard
and
council.
Barn
was
ex
barnes
was
excited
because,
though
this
employee
was
off
work,
he
responded.
D
John
kennedy
did
and-
and
he
sent
told
council
barnes-
that
he
would
alert
public
works
street
department
and
let
them
know
about
this.
Pothole
he's
off
work
now,
and-
and
so
he
did
do
do
that,
and
and
and
of
course,
public
works
responded
immediately
and
repaired.
This
pothole
in
record
time
and
council
barn
says
you've
got
to
recognize
this
john
kennedy
cat.
I
don't
know
who
he
is
but
but
but
he's
an
engineering
department.
John
kennedy
off
work
contacts
public
works
street
department.
D
They
respond
promptly
and
repairs
a
pothole,
and
those
are
the
kinds
of
things
that
our
employees
do
every
single
day
and
you
don't
hear
about
it.
What
you
hear
about
is
when
something
does
not
get
done,
and
so
council
barnes.
I
just
appreciate
you
for
alerting
me
and
we
need
to
tell
our
the
good
news
about
the
good
work
of
our
employees
and
not
let
all
of
the
negative
things
overwhelm
them
and
they
feel
like
they're,
not
valued,
and
I
just
felt
at
this
moment
was
a
good
time
to
to
say.
D
N
N
Then
I
got
a
phone
call
council
of
bonds.
We
having
someone
go
out
there
to
fix
I'm
talking.
This
is
as
quick
as
I
mean
it
just
made.
My
heart
feel
good
to
know.
Here's
a
gentleman
who's,
not
work,
he's
off
work
that
he
had
that
much
commitment
to
the
citizens
of
columbus
and
and
you're
right,
mr
city
manager.
N
N
N
B
Yes,
sir,
thank
you
councillor,
woodson.
M
Yes,
city
manager
and
and
mayor,
and
to
my
colleagues
since
we're
recognizing
some
of
our
employees
and
you're
correct,
we
have
very,
very
dedicated
employees.
I've
been
working
very
hard
for
the
past
week
and
a
half
in
a
community
with
the
aarp
reimbursement
grant,
I'm
going
to
like
small
mom
and
pops
and
educating
them
and
helping
them
and
robert
scott
is
amazing.
M
I
have
text
him
eight
o'clock
nine
o'clock
at
night,
seven
o'clock
on
the
weekends
on
sunday
thinking
he's
gonna
call
me
back
the
next
day,
but
no,
you
know
15
minutes.
The
longest
has
been
an
hour
afterwards.
I've
gotten
a
phone
call
miss
mimi
what
you
need
what's
matter,
how
can
I
help
you
and
that's
true?
We
don't
celebrate
enough.
Our
dedicated
employees
that
we
have,
since
we
recognized
the
great
job
that
will
did
and,
and
pops
came
up
with
that
one
I
couldn't
let
it
go.
M
I
couldn't
let
it
go
without
saying
how
dedicated
he
is
being
to
the
reinvestment
community
he's
an
amazing
person,
even
when
he
had
some
family
situation
occur.
I
didn't
even
know
it
and
I
text
him
and
he
still
responded
and
that's
the
kind
of
people
that
we
have
working
for
us
and
I
can,
I
call
them
angels
to
our
rescue,
and
I
want
to
say
too
that
josh
from
startup
columbus
from
the
chamber
has
been
amazing.
They
have
actually
gone
to
some
of
these
businesses
with
me.
M
M
Let
me
not
tell
his
business,
he
wasn't
feeling
good,
but
he
stayed
all
the
way
to
the
end
as
we
visit
some
businesses
just
like
that
being
sick
he's
still,
you
know
was
there,
so
I
just
think
it's
important
you're
right
to
don't
wait
till
later
give
people
their
flowers
where
we
can
sure.
Thank
you.
S
I
agree
director,
scott
and
also
josh.
They
are
doing
a
great
job
with
the
arp.
S
I
want
to
thank
chardonnay
ware
of
keep
columbus,
beautiful
and
also
director
drill,
because
I
think
it
it
was
probably
five
days
we
planned
a
community
cleanup
for
district
four
and
we
had
kendrick
high
school
students.
We
had
csu
students
and
we
also
had
some
picelli
students.
I
was
actually
shocked
that
you
know
megan
had
some
of
her
classmates
come
out,
but
the
commitment
to
to
come
out
on
a
saturday
early
in
the
morning
and
it
was
freezing.
S
You
know.
I
appreciate
that
commitment
that
that
we
have
and
no
matter
what
I
do
like
if
I
call
public
works,
because
we
do
have
a
lot
of
illegal
dumping,
and
I
know
I
I
sent
a
deputy
center
manager
lisa
goodwin
email,
because
I
was
at
a
homeowners
association
meeting
in
moore
states
and
the
main
question
that
everyone
was
asking
is:
when
are
we
going
to
get
these
cameras?
Where
are
we
going
to
put
the
cameras
I
said
hold
on?
Let
me
just
take.
S
Let
me
send
her
an
email
right,
quick,
I'm
sure
she'll
get
back
with
me
and
she
told
me
you
know
she
gave
me
the
update,
but
we
have
some
great
employees
in
every
department,
whether
it's
the
civic
center.
You
know
our
staff,
our
admin
staff.
We
have
some
great
employees,
so
I
appreciate
each
and
every
one.
B
Thank
you
yeah.
I
actually
got
a
letter
from
an
individual
about
corporal
ross
hall
with
the
police
department.
You
know
there's,
as
you
pointed
out.
Typically,
the
only
time
we
get
notices
is
if
they're
complaining
and
somebody
had
been
the
victim
of
a
hit-and-run.
They
sideswiped
his
car
and
left
him
with
damage
and
he
had
to
go
down
make
the
make
the
report.
B
Typically,
it
takes
a
while
because
it
has
to
work
through
the
process
and
he
was
in
a
hurry
to
get
it
done,
and
so
she
said,
sit
tight
and
she
ran
up
and
down
the
halls
getting
all
the
signatures
she
needed.
So
he
didn't
have
to
wait
so
just
little
stuff
like
that
that
our
folks
are
doing
frankly
in
the
midst
of
some
labor
issues
that
they
typically
have
in
their
own
departments.
So
it's
not
like
they
have
extra
time.
B
If
anything,
their
time
is
more
valuable,
but
they
still
make
sure
that
they
do
everything
in
their
power
to
try
to
serve
the
citizens
of
this
community.
The
way
that
they
expect
to
be
served
so
yeah.
I
think
it
is
good
to
to
lift
up
our
employees,
because
they're
kind
of
the
they're
behind
the
curtain
and
they're
the
unsung
heroes
and-
and
they
really
for
the
most
part,
just
do
an
incredible
job
and
they
do
it
with
a
a
spirit
of
service.
B
So
I
think
it
was
worth
worth
spending
a
little
time,
lifting
them
up
all
right.
Next
on
my
agenda,
I
believe,
is
the
resolution
authorizing
acceptance
of
donations
in
support
of
the
dream
lives.
Dr
martin
luther
king
jr,
most
most
improved
from
mayor
pro
tem.
Her
second,
I
think
from
council
walk
walker,
walker,
garrett,
somebody
I'm
trying
to
figure
out
who
it
was
all
right.
All
in
favor,
please
say
aye
any
opposed.
B
All
right
and
donna
mcginnis
from
the
auditor's
department
is
here
to
to
make
a
request.
T
Yes,
good
morning,
everyone,
as
you
all,
are
aware.
We
have
new
leadership
in
public
works,
I'm
here
requesting
authorization
to
provide
a
director,
drail
short
with
a
transitional,
departmental
audit,
and,
as
you
are
aware,
we
can't
do
that
without
your
authorization.
We
would
really
appreciate
your
authorization
so
that
we
can
take
care
of
that.
B
B
V
Thankfully,
everything
went
fairly
well
this
year
in
terms
of
the
audit.
We
were
able
to
get
it
out
on
time
and
you
know
no,
no
big
issues
or
real
findings
in
in
the
audit.
So
I'd
like
to
turn
it
over
right
now
to
our
external
auditor,
mr
miller,
edwards
he's
the
partner
in
charge
of
the
audit
for
the
columbus
consolidated
government.
I
mean
the
packets
that
were
passed
out
to
you.
There
is
a
little
binder
in
the
packet
and
that
actually
has
the
audit
presentation
within
it.
So
mr
miller.
W
Well,
good
morning
hope
everybody's
doing
good.
Today,
as
angelica
said,
my
name
is
miller.
Edwards,
I'm
with
marvin
jenkins
cpa.
W
All
I
do
is
serve
local
governments
like
yourself
all
across
the
southeast,
from
tuscaloosa
up
to
charleston
to
greenville
county
south
carolina
just
all
over
the
place
so
again
appreciate
you
having
me
here
today.
The
purpose
of
visiting
with
you
today
is
not
to
get
too
deep
into
the
weeds.
I
know
that
not
everybody's
an
encounter
that
loves
this
kind
of
subject
like
I
do
so,
I'm
just
going
to
hit
the
highlights
of
certain
things
and
I
think
you've
got
a
lot
of
highlights
to
to
bring
to
your
attention
too.
W
So
if,
at
any
time,
you've
got
any
questions
as
far
as
I'm
concerned,
I
don't
know
what
the
protocol
is.
Anytime.
You've
got
a
question.
Please
pause
me
and
ask
your
question
feel
free
to
do
so.
So
thank
you
again,
a
little
bit
about
the
firm.
I
won't
spend
much
time
we
do
a
lot
of
governmental.
We've
got
currently
almost
600
clients
that
we
service
in
the
local
government
sector.
A
lot
of
those
are
large
clients,
like
yourself,
the
gwinnett
counties,
the
augusta
richmonds,
all
those
kind
of
places.
W
A
good
example
of
that
is
on
this
next
slide
that
I
have
in
front
of
you.
That
shows
you
a
little
bit
of
some
of
the
biggest
21
clients.
We've
got
in
the
local
government
sector
by
county
governments,
and
you
all
are
right
in
the
middle
of
that
pack.
When
you
look
at
it
that
way.
So
again,
we
again
appreciate
the
opportunity
of
service
to
you
things
that
I
want
to
highlight.
Number
one.
Angelica
said
you
know
you
did
have
a
clean
audit
this
year.
W
We
do
believe
it
meets
that
very
much,
so
we
did
have
to
follow
government
auditing
standards,
that's
something
commonly
called
the
yellow
book
and
again
that
means
we
have
to
look
at
certain
internal
controls
and
test
those
make
sure
they
are
indeed
working
as
designed
one
other
thing
we
have
to
do
when
it
comes
to
an
audit
of
this
size
and
nature,
and
it's
not
uncommon
for
government.
The
size
of
columbus
to
have
is
a
large
federal
award
program.
W
You've
got
a
lot
of
urban
grants
and
things
of
that
kind
of
thing
that
come
through
the
pipe
every
year.
You
all
have
to
have
something
called
a
single
audit.
This
past
year
it
was
a
pretty
good
size,
one
in
that
you
took
in
about
21
million
dollars
worth
of
federal
funds,
that'll
be
growing
in
the
next
year.
So
when
you
start
using
the
harper
money
and
all
those
kind
of
things,
you'll
start
seeing
even
bigger
numbers
potentially,
but
this
past
year
was
21
million.
W
It
required
us
by
the
standards
to
have
to
look
at
three
different
programs.
We
looked
at
your
home
grant
program,
your
federal
transit
grants
and
your
cares
grant
program.
So
those
three
programs
represented
about
14
million
of
your
21
and
we
were
able
to
give
you
a
clean
report
on
that.
You
dotted
all
eyes
you
crossed
all
t's
and
again,
that's
not
easy
to
do.
W
If
you
haven't
noticed
already
with
the
rpa
money
and
the
cares
money
it
seems
like
the
rules
of
the
game
are
always
changing
and
evolving,
and
so
it's
very
hard
for
a
government
of
this
size
and
nature
to
stay
on
top
of
all
these
different
rules
as
they
evolve
and
change
and
again
you
all
did
a
fine
job
of
doing
that.
All
the
way.
W
To
the
very
end
I
say
to
the
very
end,
the
end's
not
even
over,
yet
I
mean
it's
just
getting
begun
on
some
of
those
programs,
but
you've
got
management's
on
top
of
the
game
and
that's
very
important
as
well.
One
other
thing
I'll
make
note
of
this
report
has
been
awarded
the
from
the
gf
away
the
certificate
of
achievement
for
excellence,
financial
reporting-
you
all
have
done
that
for
over
30
years.
W
You
are
one
of
the
few
governments
in
this
state
that
has
been
involved
in
this
award
program
that
long,
maybe
dekalb
county
might
have
been
longer,
but
I
mean
you
are
one
of
the
few
that
are
way
up
there
30
years
of
participating
in
this
program,
and
that
speaks
volumes
about
you
all
as
well.
So
again,
hats
off
to
you.
W
W
You've
got
your
government-wide
that
looks
at
things
from
a
big
picture
perspective.
You've
got
all
the
way
down
to
the
fund
level.
When
you
want
to
get
down
to
nitty
gritty,
this
particular
act
for
the
this
annual
conference
financial
report.
It
gives
you
a
lot
of
information.
More
than
most
people
want
more
than
most
people
can
even
digest.
You
know
I
work
for
a
cpa
firm,
of
course,
people
who
don't
do
government
at
malden
and
jenkins.
If
they
don't
do
governmental,
they
don't
even
know
how
to
follow
these
reports.
W
So
I
don't
know
how
john
q
public
can
do
the
same.
So
again,
it's
very
complicated.
A
lot
information
inside
that
document.
Big
picture
perspective-
you
all
are
a
large
government.
You
may
not
realize
it,
but
you
are
what
I
would
consider
be
a
very
large
government.
W
If
you
look
at
your
primary
government,
we're
talking
about
things
like
your
general
fund,
your
splash,
you
know
all
those
different
funds
that
you
have
to
do
budgets
for
you
know
all
your
debt
service
funds,
your
capital
products
funds,
you've
got
about
911
million
dollars
wrapped
up
in
that.
Okay,
that's
just
the
assets.
W
You've
got
several
pension
plans.
You've
got
different
constitutional
offices
like
your
tax,
commissioner,
clerk
or
court.
You
add
it
all
up.
That's
another
625
million
in
assets,
you
take
it
all
together,
one
big
picture
and
what
this
room
is
responsible
for
in
some
shape,
form
or
fashion.
It's
about
2.4
billion
dollars
worth
of
assets.
You
have
here.
If
you
go
with
that
same
thing
and
go
on
down
of
that
2.4
billion
about
1.2
billion
of
that
is
hard
assets,
we're
talking
furniture,
fixtures,
equipment,
curb
and
gutter.
You
know
roads,
bridges,
everything,
buildings,
that's
about!
W
1.2
billion,
your
liabilities,
your
accounts
payable
your
long-term
debt,
your
accrued
salaries,
all
those
kind
of
things
adds
up
to
about
856
million
and
then
your
net
position.
What
somebody
might
call
equity
position
is
about
1.6
billion.
That's
pretty
good!
Looking
balance
sheet,
if
you
look
at
it
from
that
perspective,
very
large
balance
sheet
and
a
very
healthy
looking
balance
sheet,
I
might
say
using
that
same
far,
right
column.
If
you
look
at
the
total
revenues,
the
total
additions
of
income,
the
inflows
it's
about-
877
million
that
comes
through
this
entirety
of
this
government.
W
That
includes
things
like
what
the
tax
commissioner
collects,
not
just
for
columbus,
but
for
the
school
district
and
all
those
others
that
come
through
it's
a
big
big
operation
about
705
million
in
expenses
this
past
year
you
some
of
these
expenses
that
you
have,
you
might
call
expenses,
but
their
capital
outlay.
You
spend
a
lot
of
money
on
your
infrastructure
of
a
year.
That's
not
expense!
That's
capitalized
on
the
balance
sheet,
but
you
look
at
everything.
W
You
had
a
positive
change
of
about
172
million
dollars
across
those
three
different
elements,
those
three
different
buckets
so
again.
This
is
my
way
of
trying
to
bring
it
all
together,
for
you
not
get
too
deep
into
the
weeds,
but
give
you
a
better
perspective
about
how
large
and
significant
this
particular
government
entity
is
I'm
going
to
stop
and
just
see
if
anybody's
got
any
questions
at
this
point.
I
Mr
edwards,
when
you're
talking
about
the
revenue
and
expenses
and
so
forth,
does
that
do?
Does
this
audit
look
at
elected
officials,
budgets,
for
example?
You
know
we
have
the
the
sheriff's
office
is
an
elected
official
and
he
has
a
budget.
The
tax
commissioner
has
a
budget.
The
clerk
of
superior
court
has
a
budget.
Is
that
included
in
this
audit
or
not.
W
It
is
it's
included
in
your
general
fund
because
the
general
funds,
what
funds,
those
different
offices
that
you
spoke
of.
So
when
you
pass
the
budget
every
year
the
general
fund
has
as
part
of
its
process.
It
includes
those
elected
officials
as
to
what
you
are
budgeting
to
provide
to
them.
Now,
once
you
go
out
to
those
elected
officials
offices-
and
you
look
at
your
particular
financial
aid,
there
is
no
budget
actual
on
looking
at
what
the
tax
commissioner
did.
What
the
sheriff's
office
did.
I
So
we
do
not.
We
cannot
look
at
this
audit
then,
and
determine
that
a
an
elected
official
spent
that
money.
I
W
They
get
to
decide
to
a
certain
degree
that
a
lot
of
it
is
going
through.
The
regimentation
of
they've
got
to
go
through
the
city
to
do
a
lot
of
things.
They've
got
guidelines,
they've
got
policy
procedures,
they've
got
protocol.
The
city
is
not
going
to
fund
everything.
If
it's
not
in
the
budget,
they
may
stop
something
from
going,
but
you're
right.
There
is
a
certain
amount
of
autonomy
that
is
in
those
offices
that
may
not
have
the
budget.
The
very
line
item
of
every
little
aspect-
you're
correct
on
that.
Well.
I
I
I
know
that,
for
example,
the
retirement
plan,
all
the
employees
in
those
departments,
are
in
our
retirement
plan.
So
we
know
how
much
that
is,
but
of
other
things
that
the
elected
official
gets
to
determine
the
amount,
and
the
method
right
may
not
be.
Is
that.
I
W
W
Not
I'll
just
keep
on
going.
Another
thing
I
like
to
look
at
is
look
at
your
general
fund
itself.
Your
general
fund
this
past
year
took
in
about
220
221
million
dollars
worth
of
revenues,
and
you
can
see
how
it
was
broken
down.
Your
big
ticket
items
are
property
taxes
and
sales
taxes.
Imagine
if
we
didn't
have
one
of
those
two
imagine
if
we
didn't
have
sales
taxes.
Imagine
if
we
didn't
have
the
lost
money.
Imagine
if
we
didn't
have
property
taxes.
This
gives
you
an
idea
how
important
those
particular
funds
are.
W
Those
particular
streams
of
revenue
are
for
the
general
fund
itself.
Another
thing
that
I
like
to
look
at
is
the
expenditures,
the
expenditures
heavily
weighted
toward
public
safety.
This
is
not
unusual
at
all.
A
community
of
this
size
you
go
to
the
augustas,
the
charleston's,
those
kind
of
places
the
savannahs
you're,
going
to
see
public
safety,
fire
and
police
is
going
to
be
a
big
part
of
what
happens
right
here.
So
again,
you
can
see
how
we
spent
the
money
at
the
general
fund
as
well.
W
This
is
a
graph
that
really
speaks
a
lot
to
me
over
the
last
couple
of
years.
Each
of
these
numbers
that
you
see
represents
a
change.
Okay,
it's
not
a
a
it's,
not
a
balance.
It's
a
change
and
what
the
change
shows
me.
If
you
see
the
middle
of
the
page
9.6,
that
was
the
positive
change
that
you
all
had
in
previous
years.
You
had
another
1.4
in
previous
years.
That's
a
good
place
to
be,
but
look
at
the
last
two
years,
the
last
two
years
you've
grown
your
fund
balance
by
29.9
and
25.4.
W
That's
tremendous
and
that's
a
great
great
place
to
be.
You
know
you
all
have
so
many
initiatives
going
on.
You
all
have
so
many
things
happening
here
to
grow
your
fund
balance
to
the
level
you
have
it
right
now
is
really
commendable,
and
it's
really
sets
you
apart
from
a
lot
of
governments.
I
think
the
next
slide
might
even
emphasize
that
even
more
you've
got
about
110
million
dollars
worth
of
fund
balance
in
the
general
fund.
W
Let
me
also
interject,
say
this:
fund
balance
is
highly
liquid.
It's
made
up
of
a
lot
of
cash
and
investments.
Sometimes
I
have
clients
that
will
have
a
nice
looking
fund
balance,
but
it's
all
in
accounts
receivable
and
things
like
that.
That
may
not
be
collected
in
a
timely
manner.
Yours
is
much
more
liquid,
very
healthy
fund
balance,
and
it's.
If
you
look
at
your
expenses
for
the
year
and
compare
your
fund
balance,
you've
got
about
60
coverage,
meaning
you
could
go
about
220
days
without
taking
in
a
dollar
of
revenue
and
still
operate.
W
That
is
a
great
place
to
be
again.
You
have
to
reflect
on
one
other
thing.
That's
very
important,
though,
and
that
is
your
picture-
that
you're
taking
right
here
is
as
of
june
30th
at
june
30th.
You
still
have
to
get
through
many
months
of
seasonality,
lack
of
revenues,
your
property
taxes.
There
was
such
a
big
slice
of
that
pie.
That's
not
coming
in
until
or
not
greatly
come
in
until
later
in
the
fall,
so
you've
got
to
get
through
july
august
september
october.
Then
we
start
seeing
the
money
start
coming
in
maybe
november.
W
That's
you've
got
to
get
through
that.
Then
you
couple
with
that.
All
your
initiatives
that
you've
got
going,
that
you
have
the
ability
to
not
wait
on
the
seasonality
of
the
revenue
stream.
There
are
many
people,
many
clients,
that
I've
got
out
there,
that
they'll
have
initiatives,
but
they
have
to
kind
of
put
them
on
pause
because
the
money's
not
there
yet
you
all
have
the
ability
to
continue
forward
with
all
your
initiatives
and
that's
a
great
place
to
be.
You
think
about
all
the
things
that
you've
got
on
the
works
right
now.
W
Your
five-year
plan,
those
kind
of
things
it's
going
to
take
this
kind
of
health
to
make
it
all
happen
and
make
it
happen
where
it's
not
going
to
be
felt
immediately
by
the
the
citizenry.
You
know
you've
got
a
good,
healthy
situation.
So
again,
I
just
want
to
say:
you've
got
a
very
good
place
to
be
right
now.
This
is
better
than
you've
been
since
I've
started
doing
your
audit
a
few
years
back
and
it's
it's.
W
It's
really
a
great
place
to
be
so
again
just
want
to
say
that
to
you,
as
I
noted
earlier,
that
was
the
general
fund.
You've
got
a
lot
of
other
funds
that
I'm
not
going
to
capture
in
this
presentation.
I
think
by
and
large
they're
all
doing.
Well,
I
don't
see
any
red-headed
stepchild
out
there.
That's
not
doing
well,
everything
seems
to
be
working
as
it
should
be.
W
We
did
do
the
I
mentioned
earlier
about
the
single
order
I
mentioned
earlier
about
the
yellow
book.
We
have
issued
those
reports
and
all
those
reports
are
clean,
meaning
again
you
did
everything
you
need
to
do
for
the
federal
grants
program.
As
far
as
we
could
tell
them
those
three
grants
we
tested.
There
were
14
million
of
your
21..
W
You
were
in
good
shape.
We
looked
at
your
internal
controls.
We
do
have
some
management
points.
We
did
not
have
any
findings.
Okay,
we've
had
findings
in
the
past
this
year.
We
do
not
have
a
finding.
Instead,
we
have
a
couple
of
management
points.
The
management
points
are
on
this
slide
right
here
we
have
five
things
that
we
recommend
you
all
give
serious
consideration
to
working
with
the
first
one
has
to
do
with
the
tax
commissioner.
There
was
a
shortage
of
cash
funds
about
230
000.
W
If
I
remember
right
that
they
were
short
of
what
they
had
as
far
as
who
it
was
owed
to
what
had
happened,
there
is
that
they
had
collected
tax
revenues
from
people
whose
checks
subsequently
bounced,
but
by
the
time
they
got
notice
of
the
bounce,
they
had
already
moved
the
monies
to
the
different
parties
out
there.
So
they've
got
something:
they've
got
to
work
with
there
to
try
to
resolve
that
situation,
maybe
look
at
how
they're
emitting
funds,
and
maybe
not
remit
until
things
have
cleared,
those
kind
of
things
need
to
be
dealt
with.
W
Your
clerk
of
court,
your
probate
court
and
your
sheriff's
office
all
had
a
little
bit
more
cash
than
they
had
for
related
liabilities.
It
gets
back
both
of
these
points
get
back
to
accountability
in
some
respects,
and
this
is
not
unusual.
When
we
go
to
elected
officials,
a
good
old-fashioned,
general
ledger
is
meant
to
show
that
you
balance
at
all
times.
I
mean
what
you've
got
in
assets.
W
You
should
have
in
liabilities.
There
is
no
equity
position
in
those
offices.
Okay,
they
don't
have
retained
earnings,
they
everything
they
have
belongs
to
someone
else.
Something
has
gone
awry
to
where
some
of
those
things
don't
always
balance.
What
I
would
recommend
is
doing
balancing
more
often
I
get
to
the
root
of
the
problem.
W
Initially,
if
you
can
figure
it
out,
sometimes
that's
going
to
be
a
needle
in
haystack
when
you
talk
about
all
the
different
thousands
and
millions
of
dollars
that
go
through
there
and
all
the
activities,
but
I
do
think
it's
something
we
need
to
stress
with
those
officers.
They
need
to
spend
some
time
looking
at
their
operations,
looking
at
what's
causing
the
out
of
balance
items
and
try
to
resolve
those
and
then
try
to
avoid
letting
them
get
any
worse
or
ever
develop
again.
That
may
mean
some
better
accountability.
W
That
may
mean
having
to
do
more
timely,
reconciling
of
items
if
you're
not
reconciling,
but
every
once
in
a
while.
W
Then
that
means
things
can
happen,
and
you
don't
know
about
it
until
it's
too
late
and
I
think
again,
we
just
need
to
spend
some
more
time
over
there
doing
just
that
item
number
three
again
is
over
in
the
constitutional
offices
with
the
magistrate
probate
municipal
court
over
here
in
the
city,
we
just
got
various
segregation
of
duties
issues:
okay,
I'm
not
sitting
here,
saying:
there's
hundreds
of
thousands
of
dollars
exposed,
but
any
dollar
exposed
is
concerned.
To
me
we
just
need
to
make
sure
we've
got
the
right
segregation
of
duties
where
we
can.
W
You
don't
want
the
same
person,
depositing
checks,
writing
checks,
doing
bank
wrecks
doing
everything
having
to
do
with
receipts
and
disbursements.
We
have
to
avoid
that
as
much
as
possible
and
create
a
situation
to
where
we
have
good
segregation
of
duties.
Sometimes
that
means
in
a
county
government
setting
that
you
actually
have
to
have
the
elected
officials
work
well
with
the
board
of
commissioners
office
and
maybe
let
them
kind
of
do
a
check
and
balance
on
each
other
that
sometimes
works.
It
depends
on
all
the
parties
wanting
to
do
just
that
and
working
together.
W
So
again,
something
I
would
recommend
that
we
look
at
here.
Item
number
four:
is
your
pooled
cash
reconciliation?
I
think
we've
had
this
point.
Every
time
we've
met
with
you
all
and
it's
just
a
reminder
of
a
concern
about
segregation
of
duties.
Again,
you've
got
to
your
your
pooled
cash.
Is
your
primary
cash
account
that
you
have
here
at
the
city?
W
It
crosses
all
these
funds
that
we
have
underneath
the
umbrella
of
the
city,
the
general
fund,
all
the
splash
monies
everything
and
we've
got
one
person
doing
that
reconciliation,
who's,
a
high
level
person,
and
we
just
think
that
ought
to
be
done
by
somebody
else
with
another
review
process.
You
do
have
somebody
looking
at
the
work
reviewing
it,
but
we
just
think
that
the
person
doing
the
reconciliation
should
be
somebody
else.
So
again,
that's
just
something
to
consider
as
well.
The
last
thing
we've
got
is
number
five.
W
W
There
were
two
things
going
on
with
real
estate
transfer,
tax
and
intangible
tax,
and
those
monies
were
improperly
remitted
to
the
city
instead
of
to
the
school
district
in
the
amount
of
873
thousand
that
needs
to
have
three
zeros
behind
it.
I
was
using
round
numbers
there,
873
000,
that
should
have
been
sent
to
the
school
district.
We
do
have
that
as
a
payable
on
the
on
the
government's
books.
So
it's
not
like
it
hasn't
been
recognized
appropriately,
but
it's
something
again
that
we
just
need
to
make
sure.
W
We've
got
a
better
process
for
capturing
what
is
due
to
the
different
parties
and
not
have
to
go
back
in
time
and
and
redistribute
such
funds.
We
need
to
make
sure
we
do
it
right
the
first
time
so
again
that
takes
having
the
right
people
in
the
right
places
with
good
supervision
and
review,
and
we
just
recommend
that
we
spend
some
time
taking
care
of
that.
So
we
don't
have
to
come
up
again
in
the
future.
W
W
Currently,
there
are
a
lot
of
leases
that
the
city
has
entered
into
that
are
not
on
the
books
because
they
did
not
meet
the
standard
of
the
previous
standards
to
be
on
the
books.
They
were
for
a
variety
of
reasons
when
now
gasby
in
its
wisdom
has
said,
there
is
no
such
thing
anymore.
If
you
have
a
lease,
you
have
a
lease
as
landlord
or
tenant
and
they
wanted
to
go
on
the
books.
W
W
It's
going
to
cause
your
financial
statements
to
kind
of
inflate
on
both
sides
of
the
balance
sheet,
because
we're
going
to
have
things
where
there's
going
to
be
deferred,
revenues,
deferred
expenses,
receivables,
payables,
whatever
it
might
be
in
this
greater
picture
of
being
landlord
or
tenant
on
a
variety
of
leases
you
all
may
have.
We've
got
some
governments
out
there
that
have
a
lot.
I
think
about,
like
the
georgia
ports
authority
that
we
serve,
you
know
how
it
works.
W
It
has
all
that
property
that
brings
in
all
these
companies
from
overseas,
and
they
have
this
the
situation
where
they
say
we
can
lease
you
the
land,
but
sometimes
those
leases
are
passed
through,
so
they've
got
them
as
a
landlord
on
one
hand
tenant
on
the
other
on
the
same
piece
of
property,
that's
going
to
cause
their
balance
sheet
to
inflate
on
both
sides.
You
all
are
going
to
have
something
similar
here
that
we
have
to
deal
with
it
june
30
of
22..
Again,
I
know
manchester's
working
on
it.
I
For
thomas,
this
is
the
leases
are
both
properties
that
we
lease
to
an
outside
company
or
firm
or
person
right,
as
well
as
what
we,
as
the
government,
are.
W
Leasing
from
others,
yes,
it'll
affect
both
sides
like
I
said
your
landlord
and
tenant
relationships
that
you've
got
and
again
like.
I
just
gave
you
the
georgia
ports
authority.
Sometimes
you
can
be
on
both
in
the
middle
of
those
transactions.
You
can
be
the
party
who's
leasing
it
from
this
guy
and
taking
it
in
under
your
name
and
leasing
it
to
another
person,
all
of
a
sudden,
both
sides,
your
balance
sheet,
grow
by
receivable
and
a
payable,
it's
kind
of
crazy.
I
don't
like
the
standard,
and
I
know
most
groups.
X
I
W
You
sure
thank
you,
sir.
Okay,
with
that
being
said,
I'm
going
to
just
stop
right
here
to
see
if
you've
got
any
questions
further
than
what's
already
been
offered
again,
I'm
available
to
answer
anything.
If
I
can't
answer
today
I'll
be
happy
to
meet
with
you
at
a
separate
time
and
provide
any
greater
details
and
insights
but
again
feel
free
to
offer
any
questions
you
might
have
today.
M
Yes,
I'm
just
curious.
You
mentioned
about
these
others
like
the
tax
commissioners
office,
superior
court,
the
sheriff's
office
and
some
of
these
others
that
you
said
what
would
you
recommend
for
us
to
to
do
an
audit
periodically
or
what
would
be
your
recommendation?
Because
these
are
elected
officials?
W
You
know
it's
not
always
the
easiest
situation,
some
governments,
I've.
I
work
with
some
county
governments.
We
all
are
about
60
counties,
some
there's
a
great
relationship
there
and
it's
an
open
door
policy.
Some,
it's
not
all
I
can
say
is
we
all
just
need
to
work
together.
I
heard
all
the
thoughts
that
you
all
shared
earlier
about
how
good
your
people
are
and
how
great
this
community
is.
Let
me
just
tell
you,
as
an
outsider,
I
think
about
the
planning
guy
that
you
were
just
will
johnson.
W
I
look
at
what
y'all
done
here
and
I
can
see
it.
You
know
whenever
I
come
here
when
I
as
I
say
that
if
we
as
one
can
work
as
one,
if
we
can
work
together
for
a
greater
good,
you
know
if
I,
if
I
was
one
of
those
constitutional
officers,
I
would
love
to
have
somebody
come
in
and
look
at
what
I've
got
I'd
sleep
better
at
night,
because
I
don't
you
know
I'd
like
know
that
someone
else
has
looked
at
it.
W
W
In
your
case
here
you
have
an
internal
auto
part
that
works
for
you
all,
and
it
is
not
within
it's
not
outside
the
realm
of
reason.
For
that
person
to
be
asked
to
go
out
to
look
at
some
of
these
different
offices
periodically,
I
think
that'd
be
a
good
thing
to
do.
It
may
mean
that
you
might
have
to
expand
the
size
of
your
office.
I
don't
know
if
they've
got
the
size
for
doing
everything
we
just
spoke
of,
but
that's
one
angle
owner.
Another
thing
is
when
it
comes
to
the
budget
process
every
year.
W
D
Mayor,
I
just
want
to
thank
mr
edwards
with
mauldin
and
jenkins
cpa
for
being
here
today
and
and
and
coming
out
and
presenting
this
audit
to
you
and
to
those
who
are
here
and
to
the
citizens
of
columbus
georgia
across
ccgtv.
D
We
are
an
open
and
transparent
government,
and-
and
this
is
just
how
we
do
it-
we
do
it
live.
We
rebroadcast
it
three
times
a
day
and
and
and
and
it's
it
runs
on
ccgtv
for
a
period
of
two
weeks.
D
We
are
an
open
and
transparent
government,
and-
and
and
that's
one
thing
I
like
about
our
city,
government
and
others.
D
So
I
have
to
write
things
down
and
then
I
repeat
them
sorry,
and
so
you
have
to
pardon
me,
but
I
heard
you
say
that
we
have
an
unmodified
and
that
translating
translates
into
clean
audit.
Yes,
that's
a
clean
audit.
A
clean
audit
is
what
we
have
an
unmodified
audit,
and
then
you
highlighted
the
federal
programs,
and
you
show
that
we
have
21
million
and
you
show
three
major
programs.
You
show
the
home
program,
you
show
the
federal
transit
grant,
you
show
the
cares
grant,
and
these
are
your
words.
D
D
D
But
mr
edwards
says
that
our
net
change
in
fund
balance,
he
says
a
great
place
to
be
with
fund
balance,
and
his
word
was
commendable
commendable
to
grow
our
fund
balance
to
where
it
is.
Today
he
said
commendable
and
and
then
he
went
on
to
say
that
our
report,
our
fund
balance
this
liquid
healthy
fund
balance.
D
Better
than
we
have
been
since
he
started
doing
our
audit,
we're
better
than
we've
been
and
and
then
he
under
other
funds
and
footnotes,
he
says
all
other
funds,
all
other
funds
are
doing
well
and
and
so
for
the
citizens.
I
I'm
just
so
glad
we're
transparent
and
they
can
see
this
on
tv
and
they
can
hear
it
here
at
city
council
we've
been
saying
it,
and,
and
sometimes
it
takes
someone
like
doug
gephardt,
he's
from
somewhere
in
maybe
in
maryland
or
somewhere.
D
D
We
talked
about
impact
players
and-
and
so
you
know
sometimes
and
and
they're
from
macon,
but
but
sometimes
it
takes
someone
from
outside
to
scrutinize
our
numbers
and
scrutinize,
what
we're
doing
and
then
come
and
tell
the
people
in
columbus,
who
think
that
we
may
be
doing
something
to
just
make
ourselves
look
good,
but
you
can't
facts
are
facts
and-
and
you
can't
you
can
do
all
of
this
fiction
kind
of
everything
and
talk,
but
that
document
that
he
has
for
us.
Those
are
facts
and
what
doug
gephardt
brought
here
two
weeks
ago.
D
D
Good
stuff,
yes,
and
so,
mr
mayor,
I
apologize
for
taking
up
so
much
time,
but
but
I
just
want
to
make
sure
the
people
get
it
too,
and
so
we
are,
I
mean
I
tell
my
team
all
the
time,
we're
rocking
and
rolling
in
this
government,
and
I
will
put
our
government
up
against
any
other
government
in
this
state.
We
are
rocking
and
rolling
and
the
people
we
are
here
to
serve,
and
so,
mr
mayor,
thank
you
for
giving
me
this
time.
B
That's
fine!
That's
what
you
you
did
forget
too,
to
mention
that
we've!
Actually
over
the
last
three
years,
we've
lowered
the
millage
rate
by
about
a
quarter
of
a
mill.
So
absolutely
so
anyway,
yeah
it's
good
news,
and
it's
it's.
I
think
it's
testament
to
the
staff
that
we
have
in
our
finance
director
and
how
meticulously
they
monitor
and
watch
over
these
funds
and
how
they,
you
know,
give
us
these
updates
on
a
monthly
basis,
so
that
we
can
track
any
problem
areas
and
we're
not
blindsided
the
public
is
not
blindsided.
Y
W
W
There
was
all
this
fear
about.
We
were
going
to
be
losing
sales
tax
money,
we
won't
be
losing
funds,
and
so
you
all
about
as
well
as
anybody
I've
seen
pulled
that
strap
in
and
said
all
right,
we're
going
to
cut
back
on
anything
that
we
don't
need.
But
then
what
happened
was
all
the
people
out
there
that
were
saying
the
sky
was
falling,
the
sky
didn't
fall.
W
You
all
still
took
in
revenues.
You
still
took
in
sales
taxes.
We
all
took
our
sabbaticals
and
went
home
and
went
to
lowe's
and
home
depot.
We
spent
lots
of
money
doing
products
all
that
money
still
end
up
coming
this
way.
So
I
think
it
was
a
combination
there,
as
well
as
federal,
grant
monies
that
have
come
your
way.
I
think
the
cares
money.
The
corona
virus
money
is
like
over.
W
D
Also,
that's
sales
tax
collection,
our
tag,
app
veloum
up,
7.3
million
dollars
not
grant
funds,
our
occupational
tax
up,
1.4
million
dollars,
no
tax,
no
grant
funds,
our
property
taxes
up,
960
thousand
dollars,
our
insurance
premium
up,
eight
hundred
thousand
dollars
and
recorded
intangibles
up,
730
000
dollars,
and-
and
so
you
know,
even
when
we
look
at
our
pension
funds,
I've
shown
I've
told
you
before
our
pension
fund
increased
by
approximately
162
million
dollars
in
18
months
from
april
2020,
going
from
466
million
dollars
to
628
million
dollars
as
of
october
2021.
D
and
so,
and
that
made
us
94
funded
in
the
general
fund
pension
and
88,
funded
in
public
safety,
pension
and
and
and
I'll
tell
you,
but
when
it
comes
to
the
the
grants
you
know
we
did
do
well,
but
I
just
want
to
be
clear
that
we've
done
well
without
those
grants
and
in
fact
you
know,
we've
we've
done
so.
Let
me
just
stop
there,
because
I
mean
you
you
talking
about
what
I
want
to
talk
about
right
now
and
I'll
preach
to
you,
because
we're
doing
good.
B
Well-
and
I
want
to
piggyback
on
on
on
something
that
was
said,
and
that
is
that,
at
a
time
of
uncertainty,
when
we
really
had
no
idea,
nobody
across
the
country
did
is
what
was
going
to
happen.
With
regards
to
the
financial
impact
of
covet.
We
had
actually
brought
in
an
economist
from
columbus
state
to
try
to
see
if
he
could
polish
up
his
crystal
ball,
and
this
council
made
some
tough
decisions
and
held
the
line
on
some
expenses
and
went
on
sort
of
an
austerity
budget,
particularly
for
capital
investment.
B
Y
V
V
V
It
was
what
was
reported
in
our
fiscal
conditions
report.
It
basically
amounts
to
about
118
days
almost
119
days
of
unassigned
uncommitted
fund
balance
reserves.
I
believe
it's
about
58
million
all
right.
Y
E
Y
D
Mr
mayor,
may
I
just
quickly
you
know:
angelica
is
our
finance
director
does
an
awesome
job.
She
has
an
awesome
team,
but
but
there's
a
quiet,
young
lady
who's,
an
accountant
and
works
behind
the
scene
and
and
she's
sitting
right
there
and
she
is
so
quiet.
Her
name
is
jody
davis,
who.
V
Who
is
that?
Okay?
Yes,
please!
This
is
jody
davis.
She
is,
as
a
city
manager
mentioned
very
behind
the
scenes.
She
is
one
of
those
impact
players.
Jody
is
so
integral
to
the
finance
department,
the
accounting
department.
I
mean
the
accounting
division
and
what
is
presented
in
these
financial
reports.
V
She
takes
so
much
pride
in
what
it
is
that
she
does
for
the
citizens
of
columbus,
and
I
actually
did
ask
her
to
come
today.
She
usually
doesn't
come
because
she
doesn't
want.
You
know
the
the
recognition
to
be
quite
honest,
but
jody
is
a
phenomenal
member
team
member
in
the
finance
department-
and
I
asked
her
to
be
here
today,
because
this
is
actually
her
last
audit.
V
D
W
V
I
do
actually
have
a
little
brief.
It's
only
seven
slides,
just
responses
to
the
management
points
that
was
presented
by
mr
edwards
here
in
regards
to
the
fy21
kafir
act.
Firm,
sorry,
no
longer
kafir
is
actor
so
to
management.
V
The
return
check
policy
has
been
revised
and
the
financial
fees
are
charged
against
revenues
collected
as
remitted.
She
did
indicate
due
to
staff
a
shortage
in
staffing.
Her
office
has
temporarily
employed
the
services
of
robertson,
grimes
and
company
they're,
also
certified
public
accountants
and
consultants
here
in
columbus
to
assist
in
addressing
some
of
the
other
management
letter
points.
V
She
did
make
mention
of
the
manpower
budget
in
her
office,
it
being
smaller
than
similar
size
cities,
which
has
a
direct
impact
on
some
of
the
internal
controls
in
response
to
the
excess
funds
in
the
superior
court.
Probate
court
and
the
sheriff's
office
again,
the
finance
department,
has
no
direct
oversight
of
these
agency
funds,
but
we
will,
in
consultation
with
the
city
attorney's
office,
discuss
these
issues
in
more
detail
with
those
elected
officials
and
hopefully
come
to
a
better
understanding
of
what
those
excess
funds
are.
V
The
magistrate
court
has
advised
that
they
there
is
currently
more
than
one
individual
involved
in
their
cash
management
in
their
cash
disbursement
and
approval
processes
she
did
indicate.
Maybe
they
need
to
do
a
better
job
in
clearly
or
better
communicating
their
internal
processes.
So
hopefully
you
know
this
to
some
degree,
won't
be
a
management
point
in
the
future
and
then
we'll
also
get
more
information
from
the
probate
court
in
terms
of
their
processes.
V
As
far
as
the
pool
cash
reconciliation.
This
has
been
a
point
for
the
past
three
years
or
so.
This
is
just
due
to
staffing
levels
in
the
finance
department.
The
account
reconciliations
were
conducted
by
myself,
a
review
by
the
deputy
city
manager,
pam
hodge,
but,
and
that
was
just
unavoidable
as
we
ended
fy
21.
However,
as
recommended
by
the
auditors,
the
finance
department
requested
additional
staffing
as
part
of
the
fy
22
budget,
which
council
so
graciously
approved.
So
this
will
not
be
a
management
point
for
the
fy
22
audit.
V
We
have
on
board
the
financial
analysts
in
the
finance
department
who
are
now
who
is
now
performing
these
bank
reconciliations.
I
mean
the
last
point:
is
the
real
estate
transfer
tax
and
in
court
intangible
recording
tax.
This
was
after,
as
miller
mentioned,
internal
analysis
by
the
current
clerk
of
superior
court.
They
discovered
the
calculations
and
distributions
for
these
taxes
have
been
calculated
and
distributed
incorrectly.
For
several
years,
miller
mentioned
that
there
was
a
873
thousand
dollar
payment
that
was
made
back
made
to
the
school
district
as
part
of
this
discovery.
I
Z
E
I
B
B
There
was
a
presentation
going
to
be
made,
we'll
just
delay
that,
and
until
we
oh,
is
she
here.
AB
AB
AB
I
bring
you
warm
greetings
from
our
georgia
state
director,
deborah
tyler
britton,
as
well
as
our
executive
leadership
from
aarp
national
in
washington,
d.c
aarp.
Georgia
is
thankful
for
our
new
community
partnership
with
the
city
of
columbus,
its
leadership
starting
mayor
henderson,
your
city,
council
members,
your
city,
leadership,
guests
and
citizens
that
are
here
with
us
today,
also
like
to
say
a
special
thank
you
to
is
lisa
goodwin
who's,
the
deputy
city
manager
for
her
leadership
and
our
efforts
and
working
with
us
to
facilitate
this
aid
friendly
nation.
AB
America
is
aging
at
a
rapid
rate,
and
this
is
why
this
designation
is
so
important.
One
in
three
americans
right
now
is
50
plus
and
one
in
five
people
in
the
u.s
in
eight
years,
in
2030,
we'll
be
65
and
older,
and
that
is
a
historic
projection
for
our
countries.
The
first
time
in
history
that
we
will
have
more
older
adults,
children
under
18.,
congratulations
again
to
columbus
for
joining
us.
AB
I
also
want
to
say
another
special
recognition
and
thank
you
to
city
man,
city,
council,
member
and
also
the
chair
for
our
river
valley,
regional
commission,
jerry
pops
barnes.
We're
really
grateful
for
your
leadership,
because
we
will
be
also
welcoming
river
valley,
missional
region
as
our
third
region.
I
want
to
invite
my
colleague,
alessandra
rose
johnson,
to
just
say
a
few
remarks.
Thank
you.
AB
Okay,
I
think
she
might
have
stepped
away.
I
know
that
yet
another
appointment
henderson
are
you
there
to.
E
AB
The
certification
is
valid
until
december
17
2023.
I
want
also
note
that
that's
not
the
end
of
our
partnership.
That's
really
just
the
beginning
of
our
tinker
partnership
and
it's
signed
by
nancy,
a
lot
advocacy
and
engagement
officer
for
our
aarp
community
states
and
national
affairs
division
east
in
washington
dc.
AB
Again,
congratulations
to
columbus,
so
excited!
You
are
certainly
aesthetic
that
that's
amazing,
like
nobody
else
we're
sitting
here.
Listening
to
all
the
amazing
accomplishments,
we're
so
excited
that
you
will
be
joining
the
aarp
livable
communities,
which
is
an
independent
affiliate
of
the
world
health
organization's
global
network
of
8,
20
cities
and
communities.
B
E
AA
Thank
you
so
much,
and
I
just
want
to
thank
kay
and
sandra
for
their
leadership
and
for
contacting
me
and
helping
us
through
this
process.
I
have
asked
holly
browder
to
be
here
because
coming
up,
holly
is
the
one
who
actually
worked
on
the
application
for
us
getting
us
to
this
point,
and
I
could
not
stand
here
without
having
her
here
and
without
you
all,
knowing
that
it's
really
because
of
the
information
that
holly
has
provided
in
this
application
working
through
the
process
and,
of
course,
with
sondra
and
with
kaye's
direction.
AA
AA
B
All
right,
mr
city
attorney,
I
think
we're
ready
to
move
on
to
your
agenda.
Oh
I'm,
sorry,
I
think
counselor
thomas
had
asked
for
a
point
of
personal
privilege.
I
Some
of
our
folks
from
the
back
back
back
in
our
counselors
that
are.
S
I
I
While
he's
doing
that,
I
will
tell
you
that,
as
a
city
counselor,
we
get
numerous
emails
every
day
from
all
over
the
all
over
the
countryside,
and
one
that
I
received
last
week
was
from
larry
hansen,
and
I
think
most
of
my
colleagues
around
the
table
also
received
this
email
from
hansen
who
works
with.
Excuse
me,
mr
hanson
works
with
the
georgia
municipal
association
and
in
that
email
he
requested.
I
I
So
I
called
counselor
tucker
and
I
said,
are
you
interested
and
she
said
yeah,
and
so
I
I
intend
to
submit
a
suggestion
to
accg
that
counselor
tucker
be
appointed
to
one
of
these
positions.
I
Some
of
you
may
remember
that
counselor
tucker
is
now
counselor
for
district
four,
which
is
the
district
where
our
former
mayor
pro
tem
evelyn
turner,
pugh,
represented
and
mayor
pro
tem
pugh,
was
very
active
in
hccg
and
gma.
The
reason
that
I've
asked
for
this
this
morning,
I'm
going
to
ask
you
for
a
an
oral
resolution.
Let
me
read
you
the
the
motion.
B
Okay,
you
got
okay,
all
in
favor,
please
say
aye.
I
I
E
B
P
All
right,
thank
you
mayor.
We
do
have
a
fairly
lengthy
agenda
this
morning.
First
thing
up
is
just
one
announcement.
There
was
a
zoning
petition
for
property
at
old
guard
road
advertised
for
today,
and
that
matter
is
going
to
be
delayed
and
re-advertised
is
anybody
here
on
the
old
guard,
road
zoning
petition.
P
Okay,
I
don't
see
any
hands
mayor.
That
matter
will
be
re-advertised
and
brought
back
first.
Zoning
vote
that
we
have
already
is
an
amendment
I
believe
on
1163
henry
avenue.
Councilor
huff
wants
to
offer
an
amendment
to
add
one
condition
to
this
ordinance
and
you
should
have
it
around
the
table
because
council.
L
Yes,
thank
you
mayor
mr
city
attorney
in
working
on
this
particular
ordinance.
For
this
particular
property.
L
We
found
a
little
bit
of
a
loophole
where
they
would
have
be
able
to
have
motorized
vehicles
on
the
property
and
all
they're
requesting
is
that
they
want
to
do
paperwork
at
this
location,
so
I
spoke
with
them
and
the
neighbors
and
everybody's
happy
now.
So
the
amendment
that
I
would
like
to
add
today
will
read:
no
motorized
vehicles
will
be
parked
or
stored
on
the
premises
for
display
or
sale,
and
I
asked-
and
I'm
now
I'll
make
a
motion
that
this
this
be
added
to
the
ordinance.
B
B
B
B
Motion
approved
item
two
from
the
mayor
pro
tem.
I
heard
a
second,
I
think
councilor
house,
any
discussion
hearing,
none,
please
cue.
It
counselor
enter
your
votes.
P
Approved
thanks,
sir.
The
next
item:
up
ready
for
a
vote
is
a
franchise
for
liberty,
utilities.
B
P
It's
approved
all
right
now
we
have
some
zoning
public
hearings.
The
first
one
up
is
property:
1104
leslie
drive,
3276
victory,
drive
going
from
residential
multi-family
and
general
commercial
to
the
planned
use
development,
it's
recommended
for
approval
by
planning
advisory
commission
and
the
planning
department.
I
think
mr
aaron
is
here.
This
is
the
housing
initiative
petition.
AC
Good
morning,
I'm
ryan
clements
of
aaron
and
clements
we're
program
and
construction
management
consultants
here
on
behalf
of
neighborworks
columbus.
My
address
is
1534
eberhardt
avenue
we're
here
today
to
present
this
rezoning
request
in
conjunction
with
the
elliott's
walk
development.
All
of
you,
I'm
sure,
familiar
with
that.
This
is
an
effort
to
provide
over
200,
affordable
housing
units
in
south
columbus
off
of
victory,
drive.
P
P
All
right
mayor
we'll
bring
that
back
for
a
vote
in
two
weeks.
Thank
you
thanks,
sir
we've
got
the
next
zoning
hearing
is
7217
warm
springs
road.
They
want
to
go
from
general
commercial
to
residential
multi-family,
2
recommended
for
approval,
and
I
believe
mayor
pro
tem
allen
will
offer
a
condition
on
this
ordinance
as
well.
P
G
Go
thank
you
mayor
fellow
councillors,
we've
had
discussions
on
this.
The
developers
were
kind
enough
to
have
a
meeting
with
the
neighbors,
and
we
talked
through
some
issues
there.
This
property
is
going
from
gc
to
multi-family,
which
is
better
in
the
situation
for
the
for
the
neighbors.
They
had
multiple
questions
and
we
answered
them
very
all
well,
and
everybody
seemed
to
be
very
happy.
The
the
amendment
that
we've
offered
in
agreement
with
the
developer
is,
let
me
read
it
real,
quick
and
I'm
putting
this
in
the
form
of
motion.
G
The
developer
and
successors
interests
shall
maintain
an
evergreen
buffer
along
warm
springs.
Road
of
at
least
10
feet
with
certain
amount
of
canopy
trees,
understory
trees
and
shrubs
ornament
grasses
per
100
linear
feet
as
specified
by
the
city.
Arbors
and
again,
a
developer
has
an
agreement
with
this,
and
that
is
a
form
of
emotion.
Is
there
a
second.
B
B
P
Okay,
well,
that
that'll
be
amended,
brought
back
for
a
vote
as
amended.
Now
the
applicants
are
here.
Would
you
like
to
say
something
just
wanna
just
tell
them
who
you
are.
U
I'm
marty
flannoy
2520,
winton
road,
and
I'm
just
so
glad
to
be
here
not
talking
about
a
tad
after
three
years.
So
anyway,
we've
got
a
local
family
here,
wanting
to
build
an
investment
property
that
they're
going
to
own
and
manage
and
maintain
the
property
currently
is
zoned
commercial,
and
you
know
there
were
concerns
in
the
neighborhood
about
the
traffic.
The
planning
department,
I
think,
has
blessed
it
that
this
would
be
the
least
traffic
that
they
would
likely
incur
and
the
lowest
density
that
is
likely
to
happen
here.
U
The
fuller
family
been
doing
business.
You
know
professional
installation,
sprinkler
systems
all
over
and
they're,
going
to
build
this
1300
to
1600
square
feet.
So
these
will
be
closer
to
the
sizes
of
homes
than
apartments
and
nice
construction.
U
U
The
minister
of
the
church
is
here:
if
anybody
had
any
questions,
but
the
fuller
family
has
agreed
to
put
up
a
privacy
fence
there,
just
trying
to
do
the
right
thing
all
the
way
around,
so
not
not
really
anything.
U
U
This
is
going
to
be
80
units,
80
units
yeah
and
on
almost
six
acres.
So
it's
it's
under
the
density.
That's
allowed
so
they're
not
maximizing
the
the
density.
U
They
want
to
do
something,
that's
nice
and
it
it
has
a
good
feel
to
it
and,
like
I
say,
the
church
is
actually
selling
the
property
they're
going
to
remain
next
door
in
my
church
and
I
think
they
feel
good
about
who's,
doing
it
and
how
it's
going
to
be
maintained
and
it's
going
to
stay
market
rate
and
that's
their
objective
as
a
kind
of
a
401k
investment.
If
you
will,
you
know.
Y
G
Mayor
if
I
could
offer
one
more
piece
of
information,
the
the
plat,
that's
in
the
report
you
have
has
been
changed.
The
developer
was
in
agreement
with
what
we
talked
about
at
the
meeting
and
it
has
they've
removed
or
realigned
the
pool
and
the
pool
house
and
those
kind
of
areas
away
from
the
neighbors
in
renwood
subdivision,
so
that
he
he
was
in
agreement
that
they
they
shifted
that
around.
So
this
is
the
current
plan
that
they're
going
to
be
operating
on
and
the
vote.
You
can
see
the
buffer
there.
P
B
P
AD
P
Next
item
up
is
a
hearing
for
property
at
5339
thomason
avenue,
going
from
single
family
residential
to
the
neighborhood
commercial,
with
conditions
recommended
for
conditional
approval
by
the
planning
department.
Approval
by
planning
advisory
commission
is
lr
partners
applicant
here
all
right
there
in
the
back
any
questions
around
the
table
for
the
applicant.
P
P
Okay,
thank
you
all
for
being
here
now,
I'd
like
to
call
up
deputy
city
manager,
pam
hodge,
to
discuss
the
districting
commission
ordinance
with
the
maps
that
have
been
tentatively
approved
at
the
state
level,
which
is
a
good
thing.
So
we
can
move
along
with
the
first
reading
and
a
vote
at
the
next
meeting.
But
ms
hodge.
AE
AE
So
this
is
the
original
map
that
was
presented
by
the
districting
commission
that
we
have
called
scenario
j.
This
was
the
map
that
we
presented
at
the
last
meeting
on
january.
The
25th
this
was
what's
outlined
in
red
is
the
recommendation
from
the
state
reapportionment
office
and
those
two
changes
had
to
do
with
midland
commons
for
district
six
and
the
airport
for
district
five,
and
so
this
is
the
draft
three
version
that
moved
midland
commons
back
to
district
six
and
moved
the
airport
back
to
district
five.
AE
There
were
some
adjustments
that
were
made
to
meet
the
state
reapportionment
office,
a
requirement
in
order
for
that
to
happen,
and
so
district
one,
no
change
from
what
was
presented.
The
state
map
is
still
the
same
district
two.
This
was
scenario
j,
and
this
was
the
state's
recommendation
and
again
no
change
from
the
last
meeting
district.
Three,
the
same
no
change
from
the
last
meeting
district,
four,
no
change
district.
Five,
this
particular
map
shows
scenario
j
which
is
outlined
in
orange.
AE
AE
This
is
moving
the
airport
back
into
district
five,
but
there
was
some
changes
to
be
made
with
removing
midland
commons
moving
that
back
to
district
six.
So
this
is
the
revised
map
from
the
state
reapportionment
office.
That's
outlined
in
red
again
with
district
six.
This
was
the
current
boundaries
for
district
six.
The
yellow
was
the
recommendation
from
the
redistricting
commission.
AE
This
was
the
recommendation
from
the
state
reapportionment
office.
That's
outlined
in
red
that
moved
midland
commons
into
district
five
after
our
meeting.
This
is
the
revised
version
of
district
6.,
no
changes
for
district
7
district
8
and
I
do
apologize.
I
do
not
have
the
revised
map.
The
only
change
in
district
7
was
moving
the
airport
out
and
those
red
lines
would
change,
and
I
just
didn't
get
the
revised
map
in
this
presentation
today.
AE
B
B
B
P
P
B
AE
And
I
just
have
a
brief
presentation:
it
really
on
the
splost
and
really
addresses
what's
on
the
city
attorney's
agenda
again,
just
to
remind
you
of
the
splost
timeline,
the
collections
will
begin
april.
AE
1St
we'll
receive
that
first
deposit
at
the
end
of
may
200
million
dollars
in
geo
bonds,
and
that
will
be
split
into
two
separate
series
and
then
the
rest
of
the
projects
will
be
pay
as
you
go
again
as
a
reminder,
these
are
the
projects
that
were
approved
by
the
citizens
of
columbus
and
so
we're
moving
forward
with
outlining
those
budgets
for
each
one
of
these
projects
and
we've
started
on
the
judicial
center.
AE
Just
the
timeline
for
the
splost
bond
financing
february
22nd
will
be
that
bond
sale.
It
will
be
for
150
million,
with
a
10-year
bond
payoff
over
the
length
of
that
splash
bond.
There
is
a
requirement
that
we
spend
down
the
proceeds
within
three
years.
That's
an
irs
requirement,
and
so
that's
the
reason
that
there's
going
to
be
a
split
between
the
200
million
dollars
is.
AE
We
do
not
anticipate
being
able
to
spend
all
200
million
dollars
in
that
three-year
time
period.
The
irs
doesn't
like
governments
to
issue
tax-exempt
bonds
and
then
be
able
to
earn
interest
higher
than
those
rates
because
they
are
much
lower
rates,
and
so
there
is
a
requirement
that
we
spend
down
the
proceeds
within
that
three-year
period.
AE
City
city
council
will
ratify
that
bond
issue
for
the
150
million
at
the
next
meeting.
That's
a
5
30
meeting
after
the
bond
sale
that
morning
the
bond
closing
is
scheduled
for
march
the
8th
and
then
projected
first
bond
payment
will
be
in
january
of
23
and
then
the
plan
is
to
issue
the
balance
of
those
bonds
in
2025
and
those
will
be
a
seven
year
bond
for
the
length
of
this
lost.
AE
L
AE
Well-
and
I
think,
parks
and
rec
is
planning
to
come
back
with
kind
of
their
timeline
for
the
pools,
but
our
projection
is
to
have
the
pools
in
place
not
this
summer,
but
next
summer.
AE
So
the
allocation
for
pay
as
you
go
projects
will
be
about
24
million
dollars
a
year
for
that
first,
three
year
period
and
then
about
16
million
a
year
for
the
next
from
year.
Four
forward
and
that's
because
of
the
debt
service
requirements
on
the
bonds,
we'll
issue
the
150
now
and
then
the
50
million
in
about
three
years
and
again.
I
Missage,
I'm
not
sure
that
that's
that
this
topic
is
actually
in
your
presentation,
but
I
was
in
a
conversation
the
other
day
with
someone
who
works
regularly
with
companies
around
this
area
to
new
companies,
startup
companies
that
are
trying
to
get
their
business
license
and
their
occupational
license,
and
all
of
that
and
one
of
the
recommended,
I
told
them
that
we
were
moving
all
of
those
offices
into
the
sonovas
building.
So
it's
a
one-stop
shop.
I
P
We
need
a
vote
on
this
main
motion
on
the
resolution.
All
right.
B
P
P
P
Mayor
I'll
call
up
the
next
two
items
together.
This
is
some
faa
federal
aviation
grants
to
our
local
airport.
P
H
B
P
Last
thing
we
would
ask
for
mayor
is
a
short
executive
session
on
litigation
and
that's
all
the
formal
agenda.
We
have
okay.
B
All
right
we'll
move
to
the
public
agenda,
and
please
remember
we'll
you
have
five
minutes
and
if
you
can't
finish
in
five
minutes,
you're
welcome
come
back
at
the
end
of
the
clerk's
agenda
for
an
additional
three
and
we
won't
start
the
timer
until
you
state
your
name
and
your
address,
and
then
we'll
begin
the
timer
and
I'll
try
to
notify
you
when
you've
got
about
a
minute
left
so
that
we
don't
cut
you
off.
B
X
X
We've
been
doing
that
up
until
last
year,
of
course,
with
kovid,
but
we're
instituting
that
now
as
a
a
special
end
of
the
black
history
month
here
in
in
february,
and
this,
this
special
tribute
concert
will
be
held
on
monday
february
28th
at
7
30
over
at
the
rainy
mccullers
school.
For
the
arts
of
particular
interest
to
to
to
you
and
to
the
community
is
a
special
part
of
the
concert
which
is
entitled
columbus
black
heritage
trail
a
musical
portrait.
X
You
all
know
that
a
very
important
part
of
our
city
is
the
columbus
black
heritage,
trail
of
6
30
points
of
interest
that
have
a
very
historical
value
to
to
our
african-american
population.
X
We
are
going
to
do
a
musical
rendition
or
depiction
of
five
of
those
locations,
one
being
liberty,
theater
saint
james
amy,
a
church,
porter,
dale
cemetery,
dillingham
bridge
and
maul
rainey's
house.
These
are
all
original
compositions
designed
to
reflect
the
the
flavor
and
emotions
of
these.
These
various
locations
in
town
and
again
this
is
going
to
be
held
on
the
evening
of
february.
X
28
7
30
p.m.
It's
free
over
at
rainy
mccullers,
and
I
I
do
want
to
emphasize
that
we
have
a
special
guest
and
that
will
be
mr
jerry
pops
barnes,
who,
over
the
past,
has
done
the
the
voice
and
narration
of
dr
king.
He
does
an
awesome
presentation
and
he
will
again
be
be
featured
on
that
that
program.
B
Outstanding
but
we'll
we'll
make
sure
that
the
information
is
sent
to
all
the
council,
so
they
can
remember
the
date
and
hopefully
we'll
have
a
good
turnout.
Yes,
sir,
and.
B
AF
AF
Them
but
corporate
council,
the
email
that
I
sent
you
earlier
this
morning,
miss
davis.
R
B
AF
Teresa
ella
mean
southern
anti-racism
network.
My
address
is
39
11
steam
mill
road.
Thank
you,
mr
mayor.
Yes,
ma'am.
Well,
basically,
I
have
a
question
exactly
what
has
been
spent
on
cure
violence.
AF
I
received
the
304
resolution
and
I
received
information
from
an
open
records
request,
but
the
cure
balance
item
is
buried
in
with
lots
of
other
financial
things,
so
I
want
to
know
exactly
how
much
is
being
spent
on
care
balance
and
what
is
it
going
for
and
what
is
the
impact
because
I
know
durham
has
spent
millions
millions
over
five
years
and
they're
shooting
up
the
place
in
durham,
like
they're
shooting
up
the
place
here.
The
program
has
not
worked
anywhere,
so
I
want
to
know
exactly
what
is
being
spent
on
cure
violence.
AF
The
other
issue
is
a
request
for
the
city
council
to
eliminate
the
crime
prevention
department.
This
in
no
way
means
eliminating
the
employee.
There's
a
single
employee
there,
and
I
know
he
does
a
lot
more
than
crime
prevention.
He
does
all
kinds
of
risk
management
all
kinds
of
other
stuff.
This
is
not
to
call
for
his
removal,
but
that
750
thousand
dollars
is
not
preventing
crime.
AF
AF
AF
Every
cent-
and
I
know
over
a
third
of
the
budget
now
goes
to
public
safety,
but
if
it
needs
to
be
40
percent,
so
be
it.
I
am
not
a
defund
the
police
person,
but
I
know
that
community
policing
works
and
you
don't
have
a
community
policing
program.
People
have
got
to
start
talking
and
they
won't
talk
unless
they
feel
good
about
the
police,
and
I
told
the
story
in
the
email
I
sent
out
about
milo,
I
meant
to
say
nosy
neighbors.
You
need
nosy
neighbors.
AF
That
will
tell
everything
my
neighbors
tell
everything.
I
tell
everything
I
am.
I
never
go
to
wild
bills
again
because
there
was
a
shooting
there.
I
would
never
go
to
that
service
station
that
mr
patel
on,
because
somebody
at
that
service
station
knows
what
happened
to
mr
patel
somebody
who
knew
he
went
to
the
same
bank
at
the
same
time
every
monday
morning.
They
know
who
had
what
happened
to
him
and
somebody
should
talk,
but
you've
got
to
have
good
community
relations
between
the
police
and
the
community.
People
have
got
to
talk
anything
I
see.
AF
AF
AF
AG
Welcome
city
council,
mayor
city,
council
and
reverend,
if
he's
near
here,
okay,
so
I
do
apologize
because
I
didn't
get
a
chance
to
get
my
copies
together.
That's.
B
AG
AG
Is
cynthia
stubbs
my
address
1209
gazebo
away
columbus,
georgia
31903?
Thank
you,
you're
welcome
again.
As
I
was
saying,
I
didn't
get
my
copies
done,
so
what
I'll
do
is
copy
and
bring
it
back,
and
maybe
someone
to
be
here
to
take
them
and
give
them
to
you
guys,
individually,
okay,
okay,
but
first
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
miss
thomas
elman,
ellman,
okay,
because
what
she
just
said
goes
directly
in
line
with
what
I'm
wanting
to
speak
about,
which
is
stalking.
AG
AG
AG
I
want
to
cover
this
in
four
ways.
I
want
to
cover
the
definition
where
I
gave
my
agenda
while
I
was
here
and
I
wanted
to
cover
definitions,
and
I
wanted
to
go
over
stalking
behavior
of
the
stalkers,
and
I
wanted
to
cover
stalking
resources.
AG
Since
I
don't
have
my
copies,
I
will
not
go
into
detail
on
the
behavioral
behavior
of
stalkers
nor
stalking
resources.
AG
I
would
just
basically
give
the
definitions
for
inflammation
and
I
will
give
copies,
bring
back
copies
for
the
rest
of
the
information.
Okay.
First,
my
definitions:
these
definitions
come
from
the
u.s
department
of
justice
spot
where
they
state
that
stalking
means
engaging
in
a
course
of
the
course
of
conduct
directed
at
a
pacific
person
that
could
cause
a
reasonable,
reasonable
person
to
fear
for
his
or
her
safety
or
the
safety
of
others
or
suffer
substantial
emotional
distress.
That's
the
definition
of
stalking.
AG
Oh,
that's
all
ooh.
Let
me
hurry
okay,
community
gain
stalking,
which
is
what
I'm
concerned
about.
This
is
from
the
u.s
congress,
outlaw
organized
gang
stalking.
They
outlawed
laws.
This
it
is
against.
It
is
a
gang.
A
ganging
up
of
members
of
community
of
the
community
who
follow
an
organizer
who
follow
an
organizer
and
participate
in
systemic
terrorizing
of
an
individual
organized
gang
stalking
can
involve
a
group
in
the
hundreds
or
two
thousands
harassing
an
a
individual,
a
single
individual
person
or
a
family.
AH
AG
R
Mrs
stubbs,
thanks
for
bringing
that
to
our
attention
that
actually
happened
to
me,
ironically
enough,
when
I
was
going
door-to-door
in
2016,
walked
past
an
apartment
in
one
of
my
neighborhoods,
and
I
was
with
some
folks
from
the
halfway
house
who
were
helping
us
clean
up
the
neighborhood
and
someone
of
another
gang
of
another
ethnicity,
basically
thought
we
were
in
their
territory.
I
guess
but
didn't
notice.
We
were
just
picking
up
trash
off
the
road
and
they
basically
chased
us
down
the
road,
and
you
know
without
them
doing
more
than
just
yelling
us.
R
There
wasn't
much
that
the
police
could
do
so.
I
mean
it's
definitely
a
serious
issue
because
it
was
intimidating.
To
me
I
mean
I'm
on
city
council
and
it
was
intimidating
the
folks.
I
was
with
to
the
point
that
we
moved
past
the
apartment
complex
where
they
were
and
move
our
cleaning.
So
it's
something
we
definitely
have
to
address,
because
not
everything
is
a.
It
gives
probable
cause
for
a
crime,
but
at
the
same
time
it
is
intended
to
intimidate
I've.
Had
that
happen
in
several
parts
of
my
district.
But
I
appreciate
you
bringing.
B
B
All
right
next
is
mr
bobby
jones
regarding
differences
in
fees
and
yard,
waste
collection
in
bulk
when
delivering
the
landfill
compared
to
fee
charge
for
yard
waste
collection
in
bulk
at
residents.
AI
Morning,
good
morning,
good
morning,
mayor
city
members,
my
name
is
bobby
jones.
I
I
reside
at
64,
58
spring
water
drive.
AI
I
had
two
truckloads.
I
wasn't
there
at
the
first
delivery
of
the
truck
lows.
I
was
at
the
second
delivery,
the
first
delivery.
It
was
overcharged
there
and
so
when
I
got
there
with
the
second
delivery,
I
inquired
with
the
miss.
AI
Why
should
it
be
anymore
for
me
to
bring
me
here,
and
she
told
me
that
those
was
the
rates
and
that's
what
I
had
to
pay
her.
So
I
had
two
deliveries
as
I
calculated
everything
it
was
like
a
87
86
charge
overcharged
versus
she
charged
me
42.50
per
ton
versus
the
34
dollars,
and
I
did
explain
to
her
what
the
rates
I
receive
over
the
phone.
So
this
morning,
prior
to
coming
here,
I
called
citizen
service
once
again
to
verify
the
information
and
the
same
information.
B
D
City
manager,
mr
mayor,
I
am
going
to
have
director
drel
short
to
come
around
and
speak
to
the
concern
of
mr
jones.
AH
Good
afternoon
everyone
I'm
going
to
first
say
to
mr
jones:
if
you
don't
mind
waiting
for
me,
so
I
can
have
a
conversation
with
you
just
to
make
sure
that
you
were
charged
appropriately,
but
just
to
confirm
what
the
costs
are
at
the
landfill.
This
were
trees,
for
fees
is
what
mr
jones
was
doing
is
fifty
dollars
a
load
from
the
time
we
pick
up
the
first
load
and
we
take
it
to
the
landfill
is
fifty
dollars.
AH
If
a
resident
takes
it,
it
is
34
a
ton
every
time
they
go
to
the
landfill
with
the
load.
So
the
difference
that
mr
jones
is
talking
about,
I
believe,
is
the
difference
in
when
the
city
picks
it
up
and
takes
it
in
comparison
to
when
a
resident
takes
it
themselves,
then
you
don't
pay
the
50
dollar
initial
fee
per
load
that
you
have
to
take.
E
D
Because
we
are
charging
for
our
truck
and.
AH
B
AI
B
AI
The
reason
why
I
took
it
the
the
lows
there
is
because
they
could
not
give
me
an
actual
date
or
time
they
was
going
to
come
and
pick
the
waste
up,
and
I
just
didn't
want
to
sit
in
there.
So
I
went
and
rented
a
u-haul
and
I
took
it
there
myself
and
that's
the
end.
Results
were
a
difference
in
in
the
prices.
I.
B
D
Mayor,
let
me
just
let
director
short
get
with
him:
okay,
and
if
there
is
a
discrepancy
in
what
is
being
shared
information-wise
in
3-1-1,
we'll
get
it
straight,
but
he
will
get
the
benefit
of
the
doubt.
If
there's
a
discrepancy,
he'll
get
what
benefits
him,
but
you
know
she'll
work,
talk
to
him
and
she'll
figure
it
out.
Okay,.
D
B
Motion
approved
from
mayor
pro
tim
second
council
house.
Any
discussion
bruce
please
cue.
It
counselors.
Please
enter
your
vote.
D
D
Excuse
me:
it
is
from
georgia,
department
of
human
services
and
the
children,
youth
and
family
coalition.
You
know
they
exist
to
provide
family
connection
activities
to
improve
child
health,
including
reducing
incidence
of
teenage
pregnancy
and
child
abuse,
neglect
and
other
risk
factors,
and
so
they
use
that
money
to
work
with
these
families.
For
those
things.
F
B
D
You
continue,
this
is
for
the
upgrade
of
emergency
management
warning
siren
system
software.
I've
got
a
lease
agreement
with
family
holdings
and
it
is
thirty
31
501,
plus
a
minus
square
feet.
It's
an
old
health
department,
space
on
comer
avenue,
and
this
funding
was
provided
directly
from
the
state
and
it's
to
the
chattahoochee
judicial
circuit
and
they
awarded
some
2
million
dollars
for
the
circuit
and
the
judges
are
going
to
use
612
797
dollars
for
rental
space
for
the
muscogee
county,
jury
selection,.
B
Motion
approved
from
councillor
tucker
second,
was
councillor
house
any
discussion.
I
Mr
city
manager
is
this:
what
we
were
talking
about
at
the
I
think
the
last
council
meeting
with
the
judicial
entities
moving
out
of
the
ice
rink
is
that
will
that
be
covered?
Yes,.
D
D
I
And
this
does
this
say
when
it
will
be
available.
D
March,
it's
going
to
be
available
march
1st.
You
know.
I
don't
want
to
place
that
as
the
date
that
the
judges
are
actually
going
to
start
at
that
location,
but
the
the
terms
of
the
lease
is
march
1st
through
december
31st
of
this
year.
I
B
We
didn't
okay,
we
did
not.
I
don't
think
we
got
a.
B
We
didn't
take
a
vote.
All
right.
Did
we
get
a
motion?
Second,
all
right.
If
we
would
cue
it
entity,
votes
for
the
lease.
B
All
right
motion,
councilor
huff,
second
from
council
gear,
to
approve
the
purchases
a
through
e
into
anyone
that
somebody
like
pulled
all
right.
Please
cue
it!
You
can
register
your
votes,
mr
city
manager,
if
you
would
walk
through
the
purchases,
please.
D
O
Okay,
get
the
grants
and
typically
they
award
them
the
following
year.
We
have
a
couple
years
to
spend,
so
I
was
kind
of
the
new
sheriff
in
office.
I
was
kind
of
slow
playing
this
one
a
little
bit
to
see
if
we
could
get
some
funding
to
fix
the
big
robot
we've
got
a
large
platform.
I've
talked
to
you
about
before
is
yeah
move
it's
in
desperate
need
of
replacement,
but
I
got
some
parts
from
another
bomb
squad
that
had
decommissioned
them.
That
I
was
going
to
use
this
money
for
and
that's
why.
O
But
it's
still
got
some
issues.
My
camera's
not
working
and
doesn't
want
to
deploy.
The
tracks
are
breaking
it's
just
it's
at
a
point
of
just
complete
disrepair
and
I
don't
have
the
funding
to
purchase
another
large
platform.
That's
why
I
was
going
with
a
small
one
and
still
got
full
eod
capabilities.
Like
still
do
render
safe
operations
disrupt
packages.
I
can
send
it
downrange.
It
can
also,
like
I
said
with
like
you
just
mentioned,
city
managers:
it's
a
smaller
platform,
it's
able
to
maneuver
in
tighter
spaces.
O
So
if
we
do
have
barricaded
gunman's
hostage
suspects,
something
like
that,
it's
got
the
flare.
Camera
infrared
got
a
nine
foot
extended
pole
like
a
camera,
looking
windows,
things
like
that
and
then
hostage
communicators.
They
can
talk
to
the
there's
someone
inside
it's
got
a
handheld
device,
so
they
don't
have
to
be
on
the
bomb
truck
with
us
like
they
are
previously.
They
can
have
a
screen
and
see
what
the
operator
of
the
robot's
seeing
without
having
to
interfere
with,
what
we're
actually
doing
on
the
truck.
O
B
D
Sir,
and
so
b
is
for
the
sheriff's
office.
It's
a
fingerprint
mugshot
live
scan,
plus
hardware
and
software
system,
it's
25
698
dollars,
and
then
we've
got
replacement
equipment
for
public
works.
It's
a
small
asphalt
truck,
it's
a
mini,
patcher
and
used
to
for
repairs
and
maintenance,
a
patch
of
potholes
and
so
forth,
and
then
d
would
be
reimbursement
of
to
the
housing
authority.
D
We
gave
you
an
update
at
the
last
meeting
about
the
termite
problem
and
that
is
91,
000,
plus
cost
of
any
unforeseen
repair
issues
or
for
architectural
construction
services,
and
this
was
a
revenue
generated
through
rental
proceeds.
The
housing
authority
managed
that
property
for
us
and
so
they've
generated
and
have
a
surplus
of
revenue
income,
and
so
we
are
using
that
income
to
to
do
this.
With
we've
got
those
are
the
purchases
and
and
then
I've
got
some
updates.
AJ
Mr
mayor
council,
thank
you
all
for
having
me
here
today
a
couple
of
weeks
ago.
I
think
I
sent
a
lot
of
y'all.
I
think
I
said
to
everybody,
the
video
of
one
of
our
programs
and
what
they
were
doing
in
the
community
and
how
they
were
working
with
several
school
programs
for
severely
at
risk.
Young
boys
and
the
mayor
called
me.
I
guess
it
was
last
week
sometime
and
said
you
know.
That
was
a
great
video.
AJ
I
want
you
to
do
like
a
highlight
of
what
we're
doing
with
with
some
of
the
money,
and
he
said
it's
been
about
10
or
15
minutes,
and
I
said
yes,
sir,
because
he
knew
it's
going
to
be
a
long
day.
Well,
we
do
32
programs.
It
would
take
me
a
long
time
to
get
the
the
over
shoot
of
those
programs.
So
what
I
kind
of
did
was-
I
started
talking
with
my
programs
over
the
past
couple
weeks
and
they
turned
in
reports,
but
it's
it's
more
numbers
and
details.
AJ
AJ
As
you
all
know,
we
have
750
000
that
is
spent
on
programming.
When
we
started
this,
we
were
funding
six
programs,
they
were
all
institutionalized
or
so
to
speak.
That's
that
term
they
use
they
were
with
the
court
systems.
They
were
with
columbus
tech,
columbus
state
and
some
of
those
things
it.
Basically,
it
was
kind
of
hard
for
the
money
to
go
wrong.
Those
are
really
solid,
proven
programs
that
were
also
getting
government
funding.
AJ
It
kind
of
went
that
way
for
several
years
and
then
thanks
be
to
god.
Larae
moore
stepped
in
larae
really
changed
the
way
we
started
doing
things
and
helped
us
expand
our
horizons
into
okay.
Let's
start
taking
chances
more
chances
on
these,
I'm
not
afraid
of
the
pushback
from
the
community
or
council,
because
I
want,
I
think,
there's
programs
out
there
that
really
don't
look
good
on
paper
that
we
could
investigate
and
they
could
do
really
good
work.
So
that's
kind
of
what
we
did.
I'm
going
to
give
you
some
really
quick
numbers.
AJ
Just
so
you'll
kind
of
understand
where
I'm
at
georgia
has
the
highest
is
the
fourth
highest
rate
of
repeat:
teen
pregnancies,
meaning
it's
at
least
a
second
time
that
those
teenagers
get
pregnant.
Moscow
county
has
1987
15
to
19
births,
one
out
of
10
young
people
will
be
sexually
abused
by
the
age
of
18
in
muscovy
county
28
percent
of
our
children
live
in
poverty.
82
per
10
000
live
in
foster
care
last
year.
Well,
actually,
twenty
twenty!
AJ
There
were
eighteen
thousand,
eight
hundred
and
six
out
of
school
suspension
days
and
ten
thousand
three
hundred
in
school
suspension
days
on
an
average.
If
a
child
is
held
back
fifteen
or
more
days
per
year,
they're
held
back
because
they've
missed
too
many
days.
They've
missed
too
many
class
assignments,
so
they
basically
fail.
If
that
child
is
held
back
more
than
twice,
they
have
over
a
75
percent
rate
of
being
held
back
to
the
or
dropping
out.
AJ
So
with
that
said,
I'm
going
to
talk
about
a
couple
of
the
programs.
One
of
the
programs
we
do
is
the
pair
program
that
comes
out
of
the
springer
system
through
covid.
AJ
They
had
a
serious
problem
of
trying
to
work
with
the
students
more
so
what
they
started
doing
with
videos,
so
they
would
send
these
training
videos
to
the
teachers
and
they
started
teaching
the
teachers
how
to
operate
that
program
that
they
were
using
through
pair,
which
is
the
theater
academy,
which
teaches
a
lot
of
conflict
resolution
and
that
kind
of
stuff.
So
what
we
saw
was
in
one
of
our
schools.
We
there
was,
I'm
gonna,
give
you
one
specific
story.
AJ
There
was
a
kid
that
was
in
a
school
who
was
constantly
disruptive
had
anger,
management
issues
was
being
suspended
on
a
regular
basis.
The
teacher
started
using
some
of
the
non-verbal
stuff
to
get
this
child
to
act
out
in
the
class
without
being
disruptive,
because
he
would
usually
either
sleep
or
disrupt
the
class.
AJ
The
kid
now
is
teaching
this
program
to
the
other.
Kids
he's
now
utilizing
this
for
math
tables.
That's
just
one
child
out
of
the
thousands
we've
done.
We
we
treat
roughly
well,
not
we,
the
programs,
3,
000,
plus
kids,
a
year
juveniles,
that's
not
including
the
adult
programs,
because
mainly
the
adult
programs
deal
with
the
jail
and
some
other
stuff.
So
a
pair
treats
hundreds
so
you're
talking
about
one
kid
out
of
hundreds
that
are
getting
the
same
program.
AJ
Let
me
turn
my
page.
My
hands
are
sticking.
I
just
talked
about
teen
pregnancy.
Young
life
has
a
program
that
operates
out
of
carver
that
deals
with
brand
new
mothers
that
have
just
given
birth,
and
one
of
the
problems
that
they
face
is.
Is
the
girls
are
constantly?
You
wouldn't
think
it?
You
would
think
it's
an
accepted
thing,
but
they're
constantly
being
teased
or
ostracized
or
removed
from
the
group
by
others.
So
what
young
life
does
is
it
puts
them
with
a
mentor
in
that
program?
AJ
That
constantly
spends
time
with
that
individual
to
increase
their
morale
and
kind
of
get
them
through
the
school
process.
It's
also
a
graduation
program
also
to
have
a
system
called
the
meadowlift
program
that
brings
in
mentors
that
are
out
in
the
business
community
and
recently
they
brought
in
a
realtor
and
they
had
two
or
three
people
within
that
class
that
wanted
to
shadow
a
realtor
that
summer,
miss
crab
or
council
crab.
Think
about
that
so
turn
around
columbus.
Recently
they
have
a
program,
as
you
all
know,
the
community
garden
program.
AJ
Let's
see
boys
to
men,
development
and
one
school
they
operate.
What
they
do
is
they
have
caseloads
of
kids
that
they
use
with
the
the
suspension
system
they.
What
voice-to-men
does
is
they
go
in
and
take
that
caseload
and
work
with
those
kids
through
anger,
management
and
positive,
behavior
type,
stuff
they've
taken
that
whole
caseload
from
that
school
and
have
taken
them
off
the
list
of
highly
at
risk?
That's
one
school:
she
works
in
multiple
schools.
Also,
that's
the
open
door.
The
open
door
family
program
has
the
matthews
promise
academy.
AJ
As
you
are
aware,
of
their
average
participant
in
that
program,
the
family
makes
ten
thousand
dollars
or
less
a
family
income
of
ten
thousand
dollars
or
less
most,
these
kids
are
homeless.
The
only
place
they
have
to
go
to
do
homework
is
open
door,
so
we've
seen
a
significant
increase
in
gpa
and
graduation
rates
among
those
kids
that
are
in
that
program
alone.
AJ
Let's
see,
we
talked
about
sexual
abuse,
micah's
promise
they're
working
with
the
court
systems
now
to
identify
children
of
domestic
minor
sex
trafficking.
The
problem
with
the
court
system
is
they've
got
too
many
people
that
don't
understand
what
that
looks
like
so
to
speak,
they're
going
in
and
they're
identifying
these
individuals,
and
why
is
that
crime
prevention
are
important
because
those
individuals
become
prostitutes
or
they
become
drug
dealers.
So
what
that's?
What
crime
prevention
is
the
same
way
with
the
teen
pregnancy
system?
AJ
We
have
that,
with
with
those
individuals,
chattanooga
valley,
jail
ministry,
we've
had
one
individual
come
out
of
there,
who's
already
teaching
the
class
and
owns
his
own
business,
who
was
in
incarcerated,
chattahoochee
valley,
jail
ministry
is
a
has
a
30
reduction
in
recidivism
over
no
no
methods,
that's
not
if
they
graduate
with
a
ged.
That's
if
they
just
participate
in
chaplain
richardson's
program,
a
30
added
reduction,
let's
see
right
from
the
start,
has
a
parenting
program
in
the
fatherhood
program
one
this
is.
This
is
especially
important.
AJ
The
it
says
one
of
the
one
of
the
tea
one
of
the
kids
responded
this.
What
what
did
you
get
interesting
out
of
the
program
she
said?
I
was
seriously
thinking
about
having
sex,
but
the
teacher
told
us:
would
you
be
able
to
raise
a
child
right
now?
What
would
it
take
for
you
to
raise
that
child
and
she
said
because
of
the
class
I'm
not
ready,
physically
or
emotionally,
to
participate
in
those
activities
again,
one
child?
AJ
As
far
as
tax
payers
taxpayers
go,
the
last
one
I'm
going
to
do
is
the
boxwood
soccer
and
it
and
the
boxwood
soccer
program
that
councilor
barnes
brought
to
me
is
very
misunderstood.
As
far
as
what
it
is.
It's
not
a
soccer
program,
it
is
a
family.
Cohesive
network
is
what
it
is.
They
also
have
a
program
called
fam
that
operates
with
it,
which
stands
for
family
and
neighborhood
network.
AJ
They
meet
weekly.
They
provide
12
families
with
food
each
week
because
they're
food
insecure
it's
down
in
the
decatur
court
area.
If
you've
never
been
down
in
there,
it's
a
severely
at
risk
area.
The
kids
are
playing
in
abysmal
conditions.
If
you've
ever
been
down
there.
Boxwood
is
the
only
bright
light
and
I
will
toot
my
own
horn
a
little
bit
and
say
that
we
opened
boxwood.
We
had
that
funded.
AJ
AJ
The
last
thing
I'll
say
is
the
we've
got
a
program
they're
working
on
now
that
it's
dealing
with
the
columbus
tech.
Again,
we've
always
wanted
to
get
back
in
business
with
columbus
tech
and
now
they're
working
on
a
program
that
the
mayor
was
at,
and
I
can't
remember
who
else
is,
I
think
the
city
manager
was
there
and
it's
a
mobile
welding
program
that
we
will.
These
guys
will
be
taught
how
to
be
beginning
welders.
So
as
they
come
out
of
prison,
they're
getting
jobs
as
they
walk
out
the
door.
AJ
AJ
AJ
Our
programs
pay
for
themselves,
there's
no
way
I'll
be
able
to
justify
a
kid
who's,
never
been
in
trouble,
but
was
severely
at
risk
in
a
neighborhood
I'll,
never
be
able
to
say
this.
Kid
didn't,
go
to
prison
or
didn't
go
to
jail
because
we
provided
a
program,
it's
just
not
possible,
but
what
I
can
say
is
we
are
saving
children.
I
argue
that,
all
day
long,
I
don't
care
who
I'm
talking
to
this
program
is
saving
children.
S
S
I
think
it
was
to
mr
lyndon
burch
and
shamika
avery
in
reference
to
their
program,
how
much
the
program,
how
much
we
spend
per
cap
like
per
person,
you
know
when
you
broke
down
that
amount,
not
not
not
how
much
we
would
spend
on
them
if
they
go
to
jail,
but
based
on
how
much
we
we
put
allocate
and
how
much
it
will
be
per
person
yeah.
We.
AJ
You
know
we
spend
750
000
a
year
and
if
you
were
just
to,
if
you
were
just
to
take
muskogee
county
school
kids
alone,
that's
300.
That's
that's
3,
000,
kids,
that
we
would
treat
basically
at
that.
You
know
that
at
that
rate
that
we're
treating
right
now
so
just
take
that
number
and
divide
it.
That's
going
to
show
you
we're
spending
like
less
than
250
dollars
per
child.
AJ
You
know
and
that's
over
a
year
period.
You
know
some
programs
are
more
expensive
than
others.
Obviously,
and
some
some
programs
are
less
or
less
expensive,
but
we're
still
spending
pennies
on
these
kids,
I
mean,
if
anything,
nobody's
going
to
like
this
response.
I
need
more
money.
There's
more
programs
out
there
that
are
doing
the
work
that
are
getting
this
done.
You'll
if
we
were
to
put
police
if
we
were
to
fund
all
the
police
that
we
could.
First
of
all
who
wants
to
live
in
that
society?
AJ
AJ
N
N
Well,
I'm
glad
you
took
the
time,
because
this
program
is
definitely
a
godsend
to
a
lot
of
the
individual.
You
mentioned
a
number
of
programs,
and
I
know
for
a
fact
that
this
gentleman
here
he
visits
all
the
program,
and
you
just
heard
council
tucker
say
you
mentioned:
tamika
average
has
gigi's
pearls,
so
people
know
to
reach
out
to
him,
and
there
are
a
lot
of
pro.
There
are
a
lot
of
organizations
out
there
that
have
been
doing
things
for
years.
N
Many
of
those
under
this
program
you've
captured
so
that
they
can
do
more
of
the
good
that
they
were
doing
without
help,
and
so
it's
this
is.
This
program
is
definitely
a
godsend,
but
it
helps
has
me
think,
back
to
the
times
when
you
were
beat
over
the
head
and
shoulders,
what
are
y'all
spending?
What
does
that
crime
prevention
guy
do
what
what's?
What
is
that
program
doing?
N
N
I
would
be
a
little
bit
remiss
though,
if
I
didn't
mention
something
you
mentioned
first
of
all,
the
boxwood
program,
they
do
a
marvelous
job
and
those
kids
did
to
have
never
played
soccer
before
you
know
it's
it's
just
it's
just
unbelievable
for
them
to
go
that,
but
the
other
part
of
it
that
soccer
was
just
the
the
hook
kind
of
like
that's
right
to
get
them,
and
but
it's
also
teach
them
cooperation
and
and
how
to
work
together
with
individuals,
manners
and
things
of
that
nature.
N
N
She
works
with
food
and
whatever
and
that's
ben
davidson's
daughter,
and
she
doesn't-
and
I
did
not
know
it-
and
I
was
talking
about
these
individuals
here
and
someone
told
me-
and
I
said
you
want
to
know
something:
glenn
davis,
so
she
keeps
it
she
doesn't
ride
on
her
dad.
She
keeps
her
very
at
my
life.
She
gets
a
little
profile
and
she
she
does
such
a
marvelous
job,
and
so
it's
a
lot
of
good
people
that
you've
contacted
that.
N
You
know
that
are
doing
a
lot
in
the
community
and
you
might
know
something.
I'm
just
going
to
agree
with
you.
You
know
nothing
happens
without
that
that
green
piece
of
paper
with
those
the
president's
order-
yes,
sir,
and
if
you,
if
all
of
this
is
being
accomplished
for
what
you're
doing
now
and
I'm
so
glad
you
have
a
number
of
marvelous
individuals
like
larae
moore
who's
involved,
who
comes
up
with
people.
N
Thinking
outside
the
box
and
what
I
like
about,
you
is
the
fact
that
you
present
you
you,
you
interface
constantly
with
the
organizations
and
that's
a
a
real
blessing
to
not
only
to
make
sure
but
just
to
give
them
that
gives
them.
I
hear
it,
you
know
he
comes
and
actually
wants
to
know
what
we're
doing
he's
actually
involved,
but
also
you
have
a
lot
of
good
members
on
the
board
and
what
I
like
about
you,
you
don't
micromanage,
you
bring
the
facts
to
them.
N
You
discuss
you,
give
your
advice,
but
but
you
let
them
carry
the
ball.
Yes,
it's
not
like
some
people
said
seth
brown
cherry
picks
what
he
wants.
That
is
not
the
case,
and
I
know
so.
I
just
want
to
thank
take
the
time
to
thank
you
and
you.
One
of
some
today
has
been
such
a
good
morning
here
on
council.
First,
it
was
the
city
manager
talked
about
mr
king
and
and
the
employees.
N
Then
then,
it
was
well
johnson
and
the
day
that
we
were
here,
it's
today
has
been
a
warm
to
me
a
warm
fuzzy
day
and
then
the
marvelous
job,
mr
city
manager,
you're
doing
manager
of
the
city.
Knowing
that
we've
got
money.
If
something
happens,
we
can
still
locate
the
government
and
I'm
going
to
give
the
mayor
a
prop
too
the
beer
that
I'm
talking
about.
That
citizen
called
me
about
an
issue
but
had
already
called
the
mayor,
and
the
mayor
had
already
contacted
with
the
lady
of
gma.
N
B
Well-
and
I
will-
and
I
appreciate
you
mentioning
one
thing-
pops
and
that
is
that
this
this
board
was
set
up
to
be
apolitical.
It
was
supposed
to
be
insulated,
not
take
so
there
wouldn't
be
any
counselors
pet
projects
or
a
mayor's
pet
project.
It
would
be
based
on
the
merit
of
the
program
is
decided
by
the
board,
and
I
know
seth
will
say
time
and
again
that
he
he
doesn't
urge
them
to
take
one
program
over
another.
B
I
And
miss
hodge,
and
I
were
on
the
mayor's
committee
to
put
this
program
together
and
one
of
the
things
that
we
said
was
we
don't
want
this
to
be
your
favorite
program,
getting
some
money.
First
of
all,
you
have
to
be
organized.
You
have
to
have
a
501
3
c,
whatever
it
is
see,
you
know
what
I
mean
you
have
to
have
a
board.
I
You
have
to
pass,
muster
the
people
that
we
put
on
this
board
to
make
these
decisions
are
not
just
you
know
my
best
friend,
there's
somebody
that
will
know
these
programs
and
mr
brandt.
I
agree
with
you
that
we
cannot
tell
that
that
young
man
in
the
video
that
you
sent
to
us-
I
don't
know
how
we
could
tell
well
if
we
hadn't
done
that
he
would
have
committed
this
crime.
You
can't
do.
Z
I
But
you
can
look
at
him
and
say
we're
giving
you
the
tools
to
do
what
you
need
to
do.
That's
right,
and
I
would
I
tell
you
I
would
put
this
program
up
against
any
in
the
country
that
makes
a
difference
in
the
lives
of
children
in
the
lives
of
people
coming
out
of
our
jail
system
in
the
lives
of
adults
that
need
some
extra
help.
It's
not
just
children
and
it's
not
just
a
former
jail.
I
It's
it's
anyone,
no
it's
people
who
need
help
to
make
sure
that
they
are
doing
the
right
thing
correct,
and
I
think
that
seth
and
his
committee
I
was.
I
was
real,
disappointed
to
see
that
ms
moore's
term
is
up
and
she's
not
eligible
for
reappointment,
because
she's
one
who
will
keep
that
reign
type.
I
So
anyway,
I
in
case
you
can't
tell
this-
is
one
of
my
favorites
so
keep
up
the
good
work,
mr
brown
and
miss
hodge,
and
I
see
the
results
of
our
efforts
regularly
when
we
hear
reports
from
you.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
what
you're
doing.
B
The
city
manager
had
a
great
idea,
we'll
try
to
implement,
and
that
is
try
to
get
some
video
of
some
of
these
programs
and
then,
instead
of
you
having
to
rush
through,
we
can
bring
back
and
let
them
tell
their
own
story
and,
and
we
can
see
firsthand
what
what
they're
doing
so,
we'll
see
if
we
can
work
on
that.
I.
AJ
Think
mayor,
I
would
say
that
that's
that's
one
of
the
things
that
we've
done
with
the
the
application
process.
Is
it's
easy
to
fill
out
a
form
and
look
good
on
paper
and
what
I
encourage
the
board
members
do
is:
go
see
the
program,
that's
what
I
do.
I
try
to
go
visit
the
program
and
see
it
because
you
really
can't
understand
what
they're
doing
until
you
go
visualize.
What
they're
doing
I've
been
fortunate
that
there's
been
council
members
here
that
have
invited
me
out
to
certain
programs.
AJ
B
D
And
miss
mayor,
I
want
to
join
you
all
in
thanking
seth
brown
and
the
crime
prevention
board
for
the
job,
the
work
that
they
are
doing
and
but
there
there
are
a
lot
of
good
programs
out
there.
Yes,
sir.
E
D
Of
good
work
getting
done,
and
and
council
thomas
mentioned,
when
this
got
started
during
the
campaign
back
in
2008,
and
I
think
it's
important
to
remember
that
this
was
a
part
of
the
campaign,
a
crime
prevention
program-
and
I
remember
many
of
the
local
ministers-
wanted
a
crime
prevention
program
guaranteed
in
order
if
they
were
going
to
support
the
local
option.
D
In
fact,
they
wanted
a
commitment
of
two
million
dollars
set
aside
for
crime
prevention.
Many
of
some
of
you
were
on
the
board
and-
and
I
even
asked
debt
city
manager
hodge-
to
pull
up
the
presentation
not
to
show
it
today,
of
course.
D
I
I
You
know
people
at
my
church
and
he
was
told
by
the
committee
you've
got
to
have
a
program
established.
We
are
not
funding
programs
to
get
them
off
their
feet.
We
are
funding
programs
that
are
established
and
he
agreed
with
that
ultimately
agreed
with
that.
But
it's
it's
was
one
of
the
things
that
and
maybe
it
was
because
deputy
city
manager
hodge
at
the
time
was
the
finance
director.
I
But
she
kept
a
tight
reign
on
on
how
we
were
going
to
do
that
money
and
we
that's
one
of
the
the
determinations
is
you
have
to
have
a
program
that's
in
place
and
if
you
do
come
back
to
us
and
give
us
a
presentation,
because
director
brown
is
going
to
come,
visit
your
program
and
he's
going
to
check
monthly
on
your
report
and
if
you're
not
doing
what
you
have
said,
you're
gonna,
do
we
cut
your
money
off,
and
so
I
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
that
that
wasn't
just
you
know
some
pie
in
the
sky
kind
of
thing
that
those
ministers
wanted.
I
There
were
several
programs
that
came
out
of
that.
That
were
very
definitely
appropriate
and
good
programs.
But
if
you
didn't,
if
you
didn't
meet
the
criteria,
you
didn't
get
the
money
so
and
I
think
that
miss
hodge
and
I
kept
that
kept
that
rain
as
much
as
we
can
through
the
time
that
we've
had
it
here.
D
Yeah
and
and
miss
mayor
just
before
I
move
on
with
the
agenda,
I
do
want
to
just
say
that
you
know
our
public
safety
agencies
are
challenged,
just
like
they
are
across
the
nation.
I
mean
I
was
watching
the
news
sunday
and
I
started
just
taking
pictures
abc
news
and
you
can
see
here
it
talks
about
tackling
gun
violence.
I
mean
these
are
photos
that
I
started
taking
of
the
television
and
it
talked
about
violent
interrupters,
interrupted
programs
being
used
across
the
country,
violent
interrupter
programs,
something
similar
to.
D
I
guess
the
cure
violence
and
when
you
talk,
hear
them
talk
about
interrupters
and
and
the
president
is
talking
about
allocating
monies
for
programs,
I
mean
they
showed
new
york
and
houston
and
chicago
all
of
these
cities
across
this
country.
D
Where
gun
violence
is
just,
you
know
over
the
top,
and
so
it's
it's
all
over
the
country
and
it's
in
our
community-
and
you
know
our
public
safety
agencies
are
working
hard
and
and
and
there
are
shortages
in
public
safety
all
over
the
country.
I
don't
care
where
you
go
and
look.
You
know
it's
in
georgia
and
it's
in
macon
and
all
benny
and
savannah
it's
in
augusta
atlanta,
you
name
it.
You
know
they're
this
public
safety
shortage
and
so
and
I'm
still
trying
to
figure
out.
D
You
know
I
know
how
people
really
think
that
elected
officials
can
control
it
and
how,
even
if
you
had
300
more
police
officers
on
the
street,
if
a
shooting
occurs
inside
a
home
where
there's
obvious
and
they
do
inside
the
home
behind
doors,
how
could
the
police
have
stopped
that
you
know
I
I'm
wrestling
with
how
people
think
the
police
can
stop
it
it.
You
know
I
want
to
get
into
it,
but
it
starts
at
home
and
you
know
we've
got
a
little
different.
D
We
got
to
do
different
differently,
but
but,
but
you
know
even
with
gangs,
they
don't
want
to
get
caught,
and
so
they
don't
do
it.
When
the
police
is
there,
they
do
it
when
there's
no
police
around.
So
if
you
had
300
more,
could
they
stop
this
activity?
D
And
so
I
don't
know
the
answer,
but
I'm
wrestling
with
how
people
think
you
around
the
table
or
the
police
chief
or
the
sheriff
can
stop
a
crime
that
occurs
behind
closed
doors
when
someone
goes
to
a
party-
and
you
know
whatever
happens
behind
the
closed
doors
in
a
residential
area
at
the
party
that
the
police
should
have
stopped,
that
shooting
I'm
trying
to
figure
out.
I
don't
get
it
so.
D
You
know
we
just
got
to
keep
working
at
it
and
try
and
find
a
solution
and
to
the
problem-
and
you
know
like
they're
doing
all
over
the
country,
we're
all
looking
for
solutions,
but
thank
you
for
what
you're
doing
and
but
I
just
want
to
highlight
that
that
the
crime
prevention
program
was
part
of
the
local
sales
tax
and
so
mayor
with
that,
I
do
want
to
go
back.
You
approve
the
purchase
agenda
and
the
one
item
that
was
an
add-on
that
I
did
not
explain.
D
AA
Okay,
mayor
and
council,
thank
you
just
again
to
give
you
an
update,
a
very
quick
update
on
the
parking
pay
stations.
You
know
we
started
the
process
of
discussing
pay
stations
in
the
uptown
area
in
early
2020
right
in
the
in
the
midst.
In
the
heart
of
the
pandemic,
we
held
our
first
public
meeting.
It
was
at
that
time
that
they
felt
that
again,
certainly
it
was
not
the
right
time.
AA
Let's
come
back
in
a
year
or
so,
let's
talk
about
it,
so
we
had
that
second
meeting
in
march
of
2021
and
when
we
had
that
meeting
they
still
again
felt
that
it
was
not
the
right
time
now
we
came
in
2020
at
the
you
know
at
the
request
of
uptown
at
that
point,
so
we
did
not
just
decide
that
we
wanted
to
have
parking
pay
stations.
They
came
to
us
and
say
hey.
Let's
have
we
think
it's
time,
and
so
that's
how
things
got
started
at
their
request.
AA
So
again,
at
that
meeting
in
march
we
told
them
at
that
time
after
they
decided
that
again
there
were
still
too
many
issues
going
on.
Let's
start
having
and
opening
that
discussion
up
in
early
2022
well,
we
did
have
our
first
public
meeting
in
january
and
then
of
course,
the
second
public
meeting
was
hailed
february,
the
second
of
2022
that
at
that
january
meeting
we
had
12
members
of
the
public
that
attended.
AA
Of
course,
we
had
staff
and
others
that
were
there
but
12
members
of
the
public
that
were
there
and
then,
of
course,
on
the
february.
The
second
meeting
there
were
only
two
and
those
two
had
attended
the
january
meeting.
So
we
did
not
have
anyone
new
at
the
february
meeting,
based
on
the
comments
that
we
received
from
both
of
those
public
meetings.
AA
The
fact
that
again,
the
overwhelming
number
of
those
businesses
that
were
in
attendance
continued
to
say
it's
just
not
the
right
time.
They
also,
of
course,
as
a
result
of
the
pandemic,
and
also
as
a
result
of
the
fact
that
they
are
still
many
of
the
businesses
are
not
operating
at.
You
know
at
full
capacity
still
operating
in
some
cases
at
50
capacity
and
still
having
issues
as
we
are,
in
others,
throughout
the
nation
in
hiring
employees
to
come
to
work,
and
so
I
think
the
gist
of
the
the
the
comments
were.
AA
The
fact
that
we
just
don't
have
a
parking
problem
in
the
uptown
area.
You
know
yeah,
you
me,
others
will
still
ride
around
trying
to
find
that
park
instead
of
just
going
to
the
parking
deck
where
there's
plenty
of
parking
but
and
and
in
essence,
there
really
isn't
a
parking
problem
at
all.
AA
So
what
we
did
tell
them
is
that
what
we
will
do
and
what
the
one
thing
that
they
did
want
is
for
us
to
assess
the
current
time
limits
in
those,
but
in
various
areas
within
uptown
to
make
sure
that
the
two
or
the
four
or
the
eight
hours
are
still
relevant
in
those
particular
areas.
Just
because
of
the
the
nature
of
the
uptown
how
it's
changed.
AA
So
we
will
do
that
in
the
meantime
and
we
will
not
come
back
and
bring
this
issue
up
again
until
they
are
ready
again
for
us
to
do
so,
and
so
that's
where
we
are
and
so
right
now,
no
parking
meter,
no
parking
pay
station
discussion
until
they
come
forward
questions.
Y
AA
Well
originally,
when
they
first
came,
it
was,
of
course,
not
this
executive
director
who
was
there,
and
so
it
started.
You
know,
prior
to
at
wolverton,
coming.
Y
AA
There
had
been
a
change
of
leadership
and
so
again
they
wanted
it,
but
then,
at
that
time
that's
when
continued
with
covet
and
not
much
has
changed,
and
so
I
think
that
is
the
drawing
factor
at
this
point.
Okay,.
AA
D
D
You
thank
you
ma'am
and
mr
mayor
next
we're
going
to
wrap
up
the
presentations
with
deputy
city
manager,
hajj
she's,
going
to
talk
about
infrastructure,
she's,
going
to
talk
about
sales,
tax
and
and
that
will
wrap
up
the
updates
for
today.
AE
Good
afternoon,
mayor
and
council,
this
is
just
an
update
on
some
of
the
infrastructure
projects
that
we
have
going
on
throughout
the
city.
Infrastructure
is
transportation
and
storm
water
and
again
we
get
funding
for
transportation
from
multiple
sources,
both
local
sources
and
state
sources
of
funds.
Storm
water
funding
comes
from
two
sources:
our
storm
water
fund,
which
is
millage
rate
and
then
the
other
local
option,
sales
tax,
there's
a
portion
of
the
infrastructure
funds,
that's
dedicated
to
storm
water
projects,
the
fort
benning,
road,
roundabout
and
streetscapes.
AE
That
project
is
getting
close
to
being
done
if
you've
driven
out
that
way,
it's
really
transformed
fort
benning
road
at
the
roundabout
and
then
you'll
see
streetscapes
all
the
way
down
fort
benning
road
and
really
has
made
a
difference
on
that
particular
corridor
connection.
There
also
to
the
follow
me
trail
is
off
of
fort
benning
road,
the
spider
web.
This
is
in
phase
one.
This
is
at
mlk
and
annette.
AE
The
roundabout
going
in
that
should
be
a
final
top
on
that
road
should
be
done
relatively
soon
and
then
we'll
begin
on
phase
two,
which
is
the
actual
bridge
over
the
railroad
tracks.
So
that
is
close
and
we
have
completed
the
right-of-way
for
that
project,
so
that
will
be
going
out
to
bid
soon
there's
some
utility.
AE
AE
AE
AE
AE
The
riverwalk,
the
gabian
basket
that
contract
has
been
awarded.
This
should
be
completed
by
october
of
this
year,
so
this
will
look
completely
different
on
the
riverwalk
reese
road
is
one
of
the
projects
that
was
recently
completed
again
to
really
transform
this
bridge
for
councillor
barnes
and
council
crabb.
I
know
y'all
were
both
very
active
in
this
project
and
so
that
project
has
been
completed
and
really
looks
a
lot
different,
better
access
across
that
bridge
for
pedestrians
as
well.
AE
AE
L
H
AE
Also,
a
lighting
project
that
the
dragonfly
trail
network
received
a
donation
for
so
they'll
be
a
complete
difference
underneath
the
11th
street.
I.
L
Didn't
want
us
to
spend
money
on
the
asphalt
and
then
all
the
water
sinks,
because
I
guess
around
along
the
side
of
the
wall,
because
I
spoke
with
city
manager
not
too
long
ago.
They
had
a
problem
and
I
I
ride
through
there
daily
and
when
it
rains
the
water,
just
kind
of
sits
to
the
side.
D
AE
AE
And
then
they'll
move
back
up
when
this
is
completed
and
complete
that
at
on
10th
street,
to
tie
the
connection
together
the
north
precinct.
This
is
up
off
of
beaver
run.
This
was
a
project
to
connect
the
north
precinct
to
sewer
that
is
done.
The
restrooms
are
back
in
working
condition.
AE
The
first
avenue
sidewalk
improvements.
This
is
in
front
of
mercer.
This
is
to
provide
that
connectivity
in
front
of
mercer
to
the
riverwalk,
and
so
this
was
just
a
small
project
that
we
worked
on
to
have
that
connectivity
with
mercer
and
the
private
sector
did
the
connection
between
city
mills
and
mercer
to
the
riverwalk.
AE
As
part
of
their
project
other
projects
that
we
have
under
development,
the
19th
street
flood
abatement,
we
have
completed
the
easements,
we're
working
on
a
permit
with
the
railroad
and
that
project
will
be
bit
out
soon:
fortson
road
and
williams
road.
That
project
will
be
out
to
bid
in
the
next
few
months
the
signal
work
at
30th
avenue,
10th
avenue,
salmon,
road
and
river
road.
All
the
mast
arms
have
been
ordered,
and
I
will
tell
you
that
the
lead
time
on
those
is
long.
AE
We
have
an
estimated
ship
date
on
all
four
of
those
projects
of
july
the
8th,
so
it's
months
and
months
of
lead
time
required
for
these
projects.
So
we
haven't
forgotten
them,
we're
just
waiting
on
the
materials,
hopefully
around
july,
we'll
receive
the
materials
on
all
four
of
those
projects:
I-185
cassida
road
interchange.
This
is
one
of
the
t-splos
projects,
that's
being
managed
by
gdot
and
so
they're
working
on
right-of-way
acquisition
for
that
project.
AE
Oglethorpe
bridge
is
a
gdot
project
and
they
are
working
on
concepts.
We
have
expressed
our
opinion
that
this
road,
this
bridge,
needs
to
be
a
signature
piece
into
columbus,
and
so
we
have
requested
that
it
not
just
be
a
standard
bridge
but
to
provide
some
enhancements
to
that
bridge.
So
that
does
represent
what
we
expect
coming
into
columbus
as
one
of
the
major
crossings
between
alabama
and
georgia.
Councilor.
L
L
D
Councillor
huff,
I
I
don't
believe
that
there's
a
signal
planned,
but
I
absolutely
agree
with
you.
In
fact,
I've
had
direct
conversation
with
staff,
okay
about
ford
drive
and
far
road,
and
it
is
an
intersection.
I
have
asked
them
to
look
at
you
know
because
I
don't
know
all
the
traffic
signal,
whatever
that's
required,
but
it's
my
belief
that
a
signal
needs
to
be
there.
Yeah.
D
D
Yeah
and
because
of
that,
so
you
know
that
I've
already
asked
them
to
look
at
that.
That's
good!
I
appreciate
it
and
but
I
absolutely
agree
because
from.
L
AE
So
military
drive
and
infantry
road
military
drive
is
the
north-south
connection
there
from
the
hampton
inn
that
will
connect
to
infantry
road
infantry
road
will
connect
from
south
lumpkin
over
to
fort
benning
and
also
provide
the
trail
connection
from
the
follow
me
trail
over
to
the
riverwalk
on
infantry
road.
So
both
of
those
projects
are
under
design
and
development.
At
this
time,
mott's
green.
AE
We
had
some
acceleration
in
this
project
cost
that
exceeded
the
one
million
dollars
that
we
had
promised
to
council
that
this
project
would
stay
within
that
million
dollar
target,
and
so
we
have
made
a
request
to
gdot
to
fund
the
difference
and
so
we're
awaiting
response
from
gdot
on
that
project,
vermont
screen
and
the
government
center
life
safety
upgrades
that
project
should
be
completed
by
the
end
of
march.
They
have
completed
all
of
the
floors,
they're
just
finishing
up
on
the
plaza
level
to
provide
that
safe
exit
out
of
the
building.
AE
Q
Councilor
davis,
mr
city
manager,
I
just
wanted
to
say
before
I
get
started
here,
I'm
not
complaining
and
I'm
not
pointing
the
finger
okay,
so
I
just
won't
say
that,
but
I
do,
I
think
we
all
receive
we
receive
calls
you
know
from
our
constituents,
and
certainly
they
ask
questions
all
the
time,
and
sometimes
it
just
just
seems
like
a
lot
of
these
projects
are
in
slow
motion
and
you
know
that's
hard
to
explain
and
then
you
look
back,
I
mean
you
can
go
back
on
the
timelines.
Q
A
lot
of
them
are
funded.
I
mean
it's
not
a
funding
issue
and
you
know,
and
then
there's
there's
other
conversations
that
we
have
of
how
we
can
expedite
these
projects
and
and
then
get
them
online
and
get
them
going.
You
know
versus
this
slow.
Q
It
just
seems,
like
I
just
said,
slow
motion
you,
you
understand
what
I'm
saying,
and
you
know-
and
I
kind
of
say
that
in
more
of
a
not
in
a
challenging
way,
but
it
may
maybe
a
more
in
a
conversation
way
when
y'all
have
your
meetings,
you
know
to
be
able
to
express
ways
to
you
know
to
how
do
we
expedite
these
projects
and
and
even
in
the
current
you
know,
economic
environment
that
we're
in
right
now.
Q
Q
I
work
all
hours
all
the
day
and
night
and
and
I
was
telling
you
I
was
going
down-
you
know
having
to
be
going
down:
whitesville
road
right,
past
williams,
road
and
and
wow
it
just
lit
up,
but
you
know
what
there
weren't
any
extra
lights
on
poles
or
anything
like
that,
but
they
went
out
there
and
then
somebody
put
reflectors
down
and
they
put
reflective
paint
down
and
it
I
mean
it
lit
up
the
road
when
I
went
through
there
and
it
made
a
big
difference.
Q
Q
I
don't
know
what
the
I
I
guess,
what
it
took
to
make
that
happen,
but
maybe
on
the
south
end
you
know
you
could
look
at
something
like
that,
because
it's
still,
you
know
kind
of
kind
of
left
in
the
condition
as
before,
but
I'm
telling
you
it
made
a
big
difference.
So
I
commend
all
those
who
got
that
done.
It
really
changed
the
change,
the
landscape
out
there.
Q
The
other
thing
I
wanted
to
share
is
you
know:
I've
been
thinking
lately
and
doing
some
stuff
on
my
own,
but
you
know
our
rideaways
are
tending
to
really
get
overgrown
in
many
many
places
to
the
point
where
it's
dangerous,
you
can't
see,
you
can't
see
sight
lines.
Animals
come
out
on
the
road,
all
kinds
of
things
like
that,
and
it's
just
getting
dangerous,
I'm
wondering.
If
maybe
do
we
have
the
ability
or
can
we
invest
in
in
a
these?
Q
You
see
these
the
dots
using
them
on
a
regular
basis
now
along
the
highways,
but
these
skid
steers
with
with
mulches
drum
mulchers
and
disc
mulchers
on
them,
where
they
just
drive
them,
and
it
just
does
a
job
for
you
and
they
just
ride.
You
know
drive
right
through
some
pretty
some
pretty
thick
stuff,
but
maybe
that's
something
we
ought
to
look
at
versus
going
out
there
and
hand
trimming
them
or
a
mower
trimming
them.
Q
Maybe
get
a
piece
of
equipment
like
that
that
you
just
drive
down
the
road
and
keep
going,
and
it's
done
you
just
do
it
one
time
and
it's
done
and
taken
care
of
now.
I
don't
know
the
safety
issues
involved
in
that,
but
certainly
people
can
be
trained
and
I
think
it
would
make
a
difference
and
would
really
help
out,
and
that
would
a
piece
of
equipment
like
that
invest
in
a
piece
of
equipment
like
that,
I
think,
would
make
a.
Q
I
don't
think
you
want
to
with
what
I
know
that
you
want
to
hire
somebody
to
do
it,
it's
quite
expensive,
but
could
something
like
that
help
our
city,
especially
on
our
right
aways?
You
know
that
would
be
a,
I
guess:
a
referral
for
public
services,
but
yeah.
I
just
throw
that
out
there
and
just
things
that
I'm
seeing
out
in
the
community
and
areas,
especially
on
the
right
ways
there
and
there
you
know
the
spring's
coming
up
and
it's
going
to
get
further
and
further
out
and
it
just
it's
a
never-ending
task.
Q
Q
Yeah
man,
you
know,
I'm
glad
you
brought
that
up
the
spraying
part
see.
That's
that's
another
thing.
Those
chemicals
are
not
they're
expensive
and
they
do
a
lot
of
damage
and
sometimes
they
miss
and
they
hit
stuff
all
around
and
I'm
not
so
sure
it's
safe
for
the
wildlife
and
and
those
kind
of
factors.
But
I
tell
you
what
those
mulchers
are
are
impressive
and
you
know
you're
talking
about
doing
something.
Q
You
don't
have
to
deal
with
again
another
three
four
years,
which
would
would
be
a
tremendous
improvement
anyway
I'll
just
throw
that
out
there
for
a
discussion.
L
Yes,
a
different
subject
matter:
I've
gotten
more
calls
on
the
bunker
hill
road
and
it's
really
ridiculous
what
they
did
and
the
constituents
understand
that
you
know
we
only
do
roads
every
I
don't
know
four
or
five
years
or
so,
and
it's
really
a
botched
project
and
you
need
to
see.
I
can't
believe
that
we
hired
someone
to
do
a
job
like
that
and
the
neighbors
were
excited
because
they
were
putting
in
a
new
road.
L
You
know
resurfacing,
I
should
say,
and
it
was
going
to
look
nice,
but
it's
it's
a
hole
at
the
end
of
a
driveway.
It's
already
sinking,
they
went
back
out
and
did
something
which
initially
it
appeared
that
it
made
it
look
like
they
ran
out
of
asphalt
and
raked
it
and
then
pressed
it.
It
never
connected
with
saint
mary's
road.
So
they
went
back
to
try
to
fix
that,
but
I
had
more
calls
yesterday.
L
So
if
we
could
please
please
please
get
that
right
because
we've
been
working,
you
know
and
waiting
for
probably
four
or
five
years
to
get
back
to
that
wrong.
I'd
appreciate
it.
AE
AE
The
us
27
custer
road,
20
million
dollar
project
that
is
completed
metra,
is
obviously
in
process
that
was
an
operational
budget
for
them
of
22.4
million
for
capital
and
operating
expenses,
so
that
is
being
spent
through
the
10-year
period
and
then
we'll
continue
after
that
as
well.
The
spiderweb
project,
which
we
have
talked
about
briefly
under
construction,
the
interchange
project,
diverging
diamond
at
buena
vista
in
185,
that
is
under
construction.
Now
the
casita
road
interchange
is
under
design
and
right-of-way
acquisition.
AE
So
this
will
be
on
the
ballot
may
24th
for
consideration
by
the
citizens
to
continue
that
t,
splost
sales
tax
starting
in
january,
the
current
one,
will
end
in
december.
The
new
one
would
start
in
january
for
this
list
of
projects.
I've
also
included
in
the
handout
that
I
gave
you
the
project
list
for
all
the
counties
in
the
16
county
region.
This
just
highlights
the
counties
in
muskogee
or
the
projects
that
are
in
muskogee
county.
D
D
D
Bam
one
and
then
sultan
two
and
then
three
because
they
need
to
hear
and
know
whether
this
what's
in
their
area
of
town
and
and
and
of
course,
obviously
if,
if
that,
if
it
doesn't
pass,
these
things
are
not
on
any
list.
It's
going
to
get
done
in
the
immediate
future,
because
the
funding
is
is
not
there,
and
so
citizens
need
to
decide
whether
they
want
this
or
they
don't
want
it,
and
so
what's
on
it
and
how
much
will
be
spent
on
that
road.
AE
Sure
so
band
one
which
would
be
the
first
three
years
of
the
10-year
period
of
a
test
lost
band.
One
would
include
riverwalk
repaving
at
12
and
a
half
million
steam
mill
road
improvements.
D
And
that
particular
one
that's
the
street
in
front
of
the
liberty,
theater.
AE
D
I
AE
So
many
finish
fifth
avenue
and
connector
thousand
andrew
road
improvement.
Six
point:
eight
million.
AE
That
would
be
include
streetscapes,
curb
gutter,
streetscapes
lighting.
AE
Correct
yeah,
okay
and
then
brennan
road
improvement
same
thing
at
the
new
roundabout
up
to
buena
vista
road,
at
9.2
million.
D
AE
That
would
be
in
band
one
in
the
first
three
years:
okay,.
I
Miss
honda-
I
think
it's
important
too
for
us
to
say
that
this
is
you
can't
pick
and
choose
off
this
list
when
you
vote
it's
all
of
these,
and
the
other
thing
is,
as
I
understand
it,
that
16
county
area,
this
will
be
on
the
ballot
in
all
16
counties,
and
it
only
has
to
pass
the
total
number
of
votes.
I
I
mean
like
I
know
last
time
when
we
voted
on
this
harris
county
voted
no
their
votes
added
up
to
a
no
vote,
but
they
were
required
because
the
other
15
counties
passed
it
to
participate
and
that
sometimes
that
gets
folks
a
little.
If
you
can
re,
if
you
can
explain
that
any
easier
than
than
that,
but
that's
it
has
to
pass
by
the
total
number
of
votes
cast,
not
county
by
county
by
county.
S
S
We
couldn't,
I
was
saying
to
them:
22.5
million.
We
can't
pull
that
to
address
what
we're
going
to
do
with
with
that.
That's.
S
And
this
is
what
citizens
have
requested,
meaning
you
know
those
kids
walk
to
school
to
diamond
yeah
elementary.
You
know
every
day
and
almost
every
day
you
see
a
car
turn
and
they're
going
over
into
that
sidewalk,
because
there's
no
real
buffer
yeah,
so
I
just
wanted
to
make.
I
want
that's
why
I
just
kept
seeing
safety
safety
yeah,
because
this
is
so
safe.
B
AE
AE
For
band
two
second
avenue,
streetscapes
18.2
million,
also
in
bands.
D
What
what
is
that?
It's.
AE
D
AE
E
AD
AE
This
would
coincide
with
a
gdot
project
that
would
be
to
mill
and
resurface
all
of
second
avenue.
Second
avenue
has
a
lot
of
bricks
underneath
a
lot
of
that
asphalt,
so
this
t-splash
project
would
be
mirrored
with
a
gdot
project
for
a
complete,
milling
and
resurfacing
of
second
avenue.
So
that's
in
band
two,
which
is
years
three
through
six,
is
the
estimate
four
through
six.
AE
D
AE
D
AE
Yes
and
there
will
be
a
project
sheet
for
each
project
that
will
explain
in
detail
each
project,
that's
being
developed
now,
we'll
have
the
map
of
where
the
points
start
point
and
end
point
and
as
well
as
the
description
of
the
project,
so
that
information
is
under
development
by
the
tia
office.
The
g.t.a
office.
AE
Yes,
so
the
total
discretionary
that
will
be
distributed
to
all
of
the
counties
is
a
hundred
and
sixty
six
million
dollars
our
portion.
We
are
getting
approximately
2.5
to
3
million
dollars
a
year,
so
our
portion
would
be
close
to
30
million
dollars.
AD
AE
Discretionary
funds
over
that
10-year
period-
and
we
have
done
resurfacing
with
our
discretionary
funds-
we've
done
bridge
replacements
on
those
bridges
that
are
not
safe.
We've
done
safety
projects
for
intersections
we've
done
trail
projects
for
pedestrian
access.
So
we
have
continued
to
use
our
discretionary
funds
for
transportation.
Specific
projects
approved
by
this
council
and.
N
Between
the
city,
manager
and
pam,
I
think
they
painted
a
very
pretty
picture.
You
know
they
say.
What's
this:
what's
the
expression
the
proof
is
in
the
pudding
there
might
have
been
guesswork
if
2012,
will
things
really
show
up?
B
S
Is
it
possible
for
us?
I
don't
know
if
I'm
sure
city
manager
probably
has
seen
this,
you
know
we
go
to
different
areas
and
it'll
say
a
sign
as
say
paid
for
by
splash
dollars
or
t-splash
dollars.
I
think
I
was
up
in
alpharetta
or
somewhere
and
I
saw
some
a
lot
of
signs
and
that
that's
like
a
reminder
that
every
where
you
go,
I
mean
it
was
almost
every
street.
E
D
S
B
D
Mr
mayor,
that
concludes
my
agenda.
B
All
right
thanks,
sir
council
boards,.
N
B
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
madam
clerk.
B
Motion
motion
approved
from
mayor
pro
tem
second
from
councilor
house,
in
a
discussion
hearing,
none
all
in
favor,
say
aye
any
post.
B
Confirmation
has
been
moved
by
the
mayor
pro
tem.
Is
there
a
second
second
for
council
tucker,
any
discussion
all
in
favor,
please
say:
aye.
Any
post
he's
confirmed
motion
in
a
second
that
the
minutes
are
received
any
discussion
on
any
of
these
minutes,
all
in
favor
signify
by
saying
hi.
Anyone
opposed
they're
all
received.
AK
AK
B
AK
However,
miss
mckinney
did
advise
us
that
she
is
no
longer
living
in
district
five
and
therefore
mr
mayor
has
nominated
her
for
one
of
his
seats
that
are,
that
is
due
to
expire
and
the
council
just
confirmed
that
next
we
have
the
crime
prevention
board.
There
are
three
seats
that
are
due
to
expire
on
march
31st.
AK
B
A
motion
to
confirm
for
the
mayor
pro
tim
second
from
councilor
house,
all
in
favor,
say
aye
any
opposed,
and
I
have
not
contacted
mr
jimmerson
or
mr
burns
yet.
But
I
will
okay
mayor
pro
tem
says
mr
jemmerson
is
interested
in
continuing
to
serve
so
I'll
place
him
in
nomination.
B
AK
B
AK
B
AK
B
B
AK
B
AK
AK
B
From
who
made
that
motion
council,
tucker
and
second
from
council
crab
all
right
all
in
favor,
please
signify
by
saying
aye.
Anyone
opposed
dr
mcdermott
has
confirmed.
AK
AK
E
AK
AK
AK
For
the
historic
and
architectural
review
board,
we
have
three
seats
that
are
open
for
nomination.
Councillor
woodson
is
nominating
tony
johnson
to
succeed,
kathy
williams
as
a
historic
columbus
foundation
representative,
and
he
may
be
confirmed.
I'm
sorry,
I'm
sorry
I'll
bring
that
back
for
the
next
meeting
for
confirmation.
AK
For
the
personal
review
board
have
two
seats
that
are
open
for
nomination.
These
are
alternate
member
seats
and
for
the
planning
advisory
commission.
Councillor
garrett
is
nominating
cal
albright
for
the
seat
of
dr
xavier
mccaskey,
and
we
will
bring
this
back
for
the
next
meeting.
If
there
are
no
other
nominations,
we'll
bring
this
back
for
a
vote,
and
that's
all
I
have
mr
mayor.
B
All
right,
thank
you,
madam
clerk.
We're
going
to
circle
back
to
ms
stubbs,
who
wanted
to
have
her
three
minutes.
You'll
be
next!
F
AG
AG
Okay,
so
I
brought
up
cyber
stalking
to
say
that
I'm
not
just
being
stalked,
I'm
being
stalked
by
individuals
and
or
groups,
but
they're
tasing,
and
I
call
it
tasing
because
it
feels
like
tasing.
AG
So
I
brought
up
cyber
stalking
because
some
of
the
whatever
they're
using
such
as
laser
pointers
beaming
into
my
apartment
unit,
I'm
not
sure
because
I
called
the
police
and
they
said
when
it
happens
again
to
call
them.
But
this
is
happening
at
a
point
where
you
can't
just
call
the
police
and
they
just
get
there
and
see
the
problem
because
by
the
time
they
get
there
it's
over
with
and
they
say
well,
you
can
file
a
restraint
order.
AG
Well,
I
can't
just
say
I'm
going
to
file
a
restraint
order
on
my
neighbors
when
I
don't
know
specifically
that
they're
doing
the
problem.
They're
tasing
me.
So
that's
not
working
and
they're
continuing
to
bob
to
harass
me
and
stalk
me
so
quickly.
I
want
to
address
what
the
city
council
mayor
manager
said
about.
AG
He
didn't
understand
why
a
community,
the
community
come
to
you
guys
or
the
police
and
say
what
can
we
after
the
problem
is
thought
has
occurred,
such
as
some
crimes
in
the
city?
You
mentioned
that
you
don't
understand
how
we
can
come
to
you.
People
can
come
to
to
the
city
council
and
ask
for
help.
AG
AG
Can
I
email
the
information
that
I
wanted
to?
I
was
gonna,
make
copies
and
stuff,
but
that
might.
D
I
I
did
not
say
I
don't
understand
why
people
don't
come
to
you.
I
said
it's
not
clear
to
me
why
you're
blamed
for
the
crime
in
certain
circumstances,.
D
You
know
not
that
they
come
to
you
it's
blamed,
you
know
it's
a
mayor's
fault
or
it's
a
council
member's
fault,
or
is
the
city
manager's
fault
that
a
crime
occurred
and
I
was
making
the
point
that
you
can't
be
inside
an
apartment
or
a
house.
So
please
don't
get
my
words
confused,
be
clear.
AF
This
time
it
starts
now
I
really
hate
to
be
ignored.
I
have
a
call
in
to
ms
hodge.
I
know
she
can
explain
it
to
me.
It's
been
into
her
for
over
a
week
that
304
resolution
where
cure
violence
is
included.
I
know
that
she
can
explain
it
to
me
now.
The
list
has
gotten
longer
when
I
saw
the
auditors
when
I
was
coming
in,
I
asked
for
their
presentation.
AF
AF
AF
We
don't
expect
them
to
be
in
people's
homes
when
there's
some
domestic.
We
don't
expect
that,
but
we
expect
the
streets
to
be
safe
and
on
that
issue
of
the
crime
prevention
department,
it's
a
slush
fund
in
2017,
I
called
it
the
most
unethical
incestuous
patronage
scheme
I
have
ever
seen,
because
tax
dollars
have
no
business
funding,
non-profit
charitable
organization,
I'm
looking
for
six
votes
to
stop
wasting
our
money.
AF
AF
AF
Six
votes
is
what
I'm
looking
for
one
three,
five
and
nine
you
will
be
held
accountable,
stop
wasting
our
money.
It
does
not
prevent
crime
to
have
an
after
school
growing
at
the
boys.
It
doesn't
prevent
crime,
stop
wasting
our
money
and,
by
the
way,
a
clerk
of
counsel,
miss
colbert.
Did
you
get
a
copy
of
the
magazine.
B
We
have
we,
we
have
a
request
to
go
into
executive
session.
Yes,
sir,
if.
D
If
I
go
to
the
grocery
store,
I
don't
expect
to
be
hit
overhead
yeah
and
but
if
I
get
hit
over
the
head,
it's
not
your
fault.
It's
not
the
council
member's
phone,
it's
a
moral
issue
and
it's
things
that
we've
got
to
work
on,
but
but
I
don't
want
to
go.
Get
hit
over
here,
go
into
this
door
well
and
and
and
and
mayor.
D
B
Well,
there's
not
a
there's,
not
a
doubt
in
my
mind
that
what
we
do
through
the
crime
prevention
program
helps
to
prevent
future
crime.
It
helps
to
cut
off
the
food
supply
of
young
individuals
that
get
swept
away
with
some
of
this
stuff
going
on
nowadays.
So
in.
D
S
Wanted
to
commend
you
on
basically
bringing
this
information
up,
and
this
is
exactly
what
not
only
we
are
working
on,
but
with
other
cities
like
right
now,
the
city
of
montgomery
is
doing
the
same
initiative
that
we're
doing
based
on
biden's
doj
to
discuss
crime,
because
crime
is
increasing
all
throughout
the
united
states.
He
was
in
new
york,
you
know
just
last
week,
it's
everywhere,
and
all
of
them
are
coming
with
these
collaborative
efforts
and
coalitions
and
different
programs
exactly
what
we
already
have
to
address
crime.
S
B
Well-
and
I
think
the
public
needs
to
remember
that
we
we
are
crime.
Prevention
is
a
keen
focus
for
this
community.
However,
so
is
law
enforcement,
so
these
individuals
that
don't
want
to
take
advantage
of
these
programs,
our
sheriff
and
our
police
department
have
put
together
a
gang
intelligence
unit,
gang
gun
and
drug
task
forces.
We
have
partnered
with
the
georgia
state
patrol
those
that
insist
on
continuing
to
get
involved
with
criminal
activity,
particularly
violent
crime.
B
We
are
going
to
get
them
off
the
streets
and
we
are
going
to
leverage
any
any
organization
that
is
going
to
help
us
do
that
and
we
owe
it
to
the
citizens.
Nobody.
Nobody
cares
more
and
is
more
concerned
about
some
of
these
senseless,
senseless
gun
violence
than
the
folks
sitting
up
here
at
this
county.
They
live
it
every
day
when
they
hear
from
some
of
their
constituents.
B
They
are
dealing
with
it
just
like
everybody
in
the
community,
and
we
are
committed
to
doing
what
we
need
to
do.
We
have
made
sure
that
we
have
put
more
resources,
we're
not
where
we
need
to
be,
but
we
have
significantly
increased
resources
to
our
law
enforcement
officers.
We
intend
to
keep
that
trend
going
and
we
intend
to
stop
some
of
this
violence
and
the
ones
that
do
commit
the
violence,
we're
going
to
lock
them
away
separate
from
their
freedom
for
a
long
time.
B
So
anyway,
we
do
have
a
request
for
an
executive
session
to
talk
about
potential
litigation
motion
from
the
mayor
pro
tem.
Second
from
council
tucker,
all
in
favor,
say
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
We
are
in
executive
session,
we'll
need
to
clear
the
room
all
right.
We
are
back
in
regular
session.
We
were
in
executive
session,
discussing
potential
litigation.
No
votes
were
taken,
mr
city
attorney.
P
B
P
B
Motion
approved
from
councillor
thomas
second
councilor
tucker,
any
discussion
all
in
favor
signify
by
saying
aye.
Anyone
opposed
all
right,
that's
approved.
Thank
you,
sir.
That's
all
thank
you.
I
entertain
a
motion
adjourn
motion
for
the
mayor
pro
tim
second
from
pop
from
council
barnes,
all
in
favor,
say
aye
any
opposed
all
right.
We
stand
available.