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A
A
Good
evening
and
welcome
to
the
Wednesday
July
5th
2023
meeting,
we
are
recording
tonight's
meeting,
live
on
City
Master
YouTube
channel
and,
as
with
all
of
the
meetings,
we'll
have
a
we'll
stand
for
the
Lord's
Prayer,
followed
by
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance.
A
A
Any
discussion
you
know
all
in
favor,
please
say:
hi
hi.
Can
you
post
thank
you
moving
on?
We
actually
have
a
pretty
light
agenda
tonight,
after
extremely
busy
June
hope
everybody
enjoyed
Regatta
and
all
of
the
festivities
surrounding
it.
A
We
will
move
on
down
the
agenda
and
I'll.
Ask
if
there
are
any
reports,
recommendations
or
other
business
upstanding,
select
committees
of
council?
How
are
you
done?
We
will
not
have
any
reports
tonight
or
bills
are
on
second
or
third
reading.
A
If
there's
anybody
here
would
like
to
address
City
Council
on
the
mayor's
office
now
would
be
the
time
for
public
comment.
Please
come
to
the
podium
and
introduce
yourself
name
and
address
please
and
make
your
statement
please.
B
Yeah,
okay,
Debbie
Beeman,
Walnut,
Street,
y'all,
I
love,
Madison,
I
came
here
for
years
and
years
and
years.
My
kids
grew
up
coming
over
here
with
me
when
I
got
an
opportunity
to
move
over
here,
I
was
so
happy
because
I
just
love
this
town,
it's
a
beautiful
town.
It's
just
beautiful
over
here.
It's
like
a
movie
set,
sometimes
at
Christmas
time.
B
When
you
walk
down
the
street,
you
feel
like
you're
in
a
wonderful
life
or
something
I
do
at
least
but
since
I've
gotten
over
here,
I've
learned
a
lot
of
different
things
and
some
of
those
things
are
not
good.
That's
like
the
houses,
I
live
next
to
I'm
sure
you
all
heard
at
709.
Walnut
have
been
abandoned
since
I
have
lived
there.
B
The
Jenkins,
Property
I
have
actually
found
a
murder
man
in,
and
that's
very
disturbing.
That
is
hard
to
forget
about
too
I
have
a
health
drug
addicts
homeless
in
the
backyards
they
go
in
the
backyards
because
these
properties
have
been
empty
and
it's
all
down
through
Walnut
Street.
If
there's
an
empty
building,
drug
addicts
are
homeless
or
whoever
will
go
in
them
and
stay
which
I
can't
say:
I
blame
them,
but
still
it's
it
doesn't
feel
safe.
B
Okay
and
once
once
I
found
the
murder
guy,
it
was
like
okay,
this
has
got
to
be
the
last
straw.
They
are
constantly
coming
up
and
down
on
a
constantly,
and
somebody
said
how
do
you
know
they're
homeless,
well,
they're
carrying
sacks
of
clothes
or
shopping
carts
full
of
their
belongings,
all
the
time,
that's
kind
of
how
you
know
and
plus
they
just
look
a
certain
way,
but
that's
beside
the
point.
The
point
is
the
buildings.
B
Now
these
two
buildings,
next
to
me,
I,
can
only
talk
about
mine,
but
I
have
seen
them
on
screen
at
Public
Works.
They
have
been
totally
abandoned.
The
Jenkins
family
has
never
not
once,
even
when
that
man
was
murdered
and
I
found
him
I
thought.
Maybe
one
of
them
would
come
by
and
say:
oh
I'm,
sorry
that
happened,
but
nothing
nothing!
You
hear
nothing,
they
do
nothing.
B
They
tore
up
the
back
of
the
pla,
the
back
of
the
building
and
it's
wide
open,
bigger
huge
gap,
and
they
do
have
a
fence
on
there
now,
but
I'm,
pretty
sure
kids
can
climb
fences
and
I'm
telling
y'all
it's
a
dangerous,
dangerous
fact.
In
the
back
of
that
building
the
Cornerstone
bought
the
one
next
to
me
and
I
already
knew
ahead
of
time.
That
was
going
to
be
a
hot
damn
mess
and
it
has
turned
out
to
be.
They
are
literally
doing
nothing
over
there
next
door.
To
me
nothing
one
side
of
that
house.
B
It
was
Planet,
it
was
going
to
be
demolished
and
then
Jan
V
gets
involved
and
it's
all
historical
and
everything
and
don't
get
me
wrong.
My
son
is
director
of
historical's
preservation.
Society
I
taught
him
these
things,
but
you
can't
save
everything
and
I've
asked
link
from
Cornerstone
that's
several
times.
B
What
did
you
all
find
out
about
that
place?
They
were
going
to
get
the
the
wood
aged.
You
know,
and
he
has
never
ever
told
me
what
they
found
out.
No
answers
whatsoever
on
Cornerstone
to
that
place.
Next
door
and
I'm
telling
you
a
nice
good,
Big
Win
might
blow
that
over
also
onto
my
house.
It's
just
all
scary
and
it's
scary.
There's
there
are
people
in
this
town
that
I
feel
now.
B
This
is
my
opinion
y'all
that
that
have
had
empty,
abandoned
slummy
buildings
for
so
long
and
they
have
gotten
away
with
it
with
no
recourse,
no
conduct
yeah.
You
all
gotta,
get
this
straightened
out
and
we're
not
giving
you
30
years
to
do
it.
I
personally
feel
like
these
people
with
these
properties
that
do
not
take
care
of
them
need
to
start
being
fined
need
to
start
having
liens
there.
If
you
don't
hit
them
with
with
money,
they're
not
going
to
do
anything,
they
just
don't
care,
they
don't
care
about
the
neighborhoods.
B
Like
those
people
there
in
my
neighborhood,
they
don't
care
about
me
finding
a
dead
guy.
They
don't
care
about
the
drug
because
they
don't
live
there.
They
don't
care
I
care,
I
care
about
Walnut,
Street,
I
care
about
my
house,
I
care
about
this
town
and
I'm,
not
loaded
with
money
or
anything,
and
to
me
the
bottom
line
is
agreed.
They're
not
made
to
do
anything
and,
and
something
needs
to
be
done-
the
city
tries,
but
the
city
can
only
do
so
much
I
just
think.
It's
a
damn.
B
Shame
that
the
city
has
to
tell
people
straighten
up
your
yard,
make
it
where
it's
not
going
to
fall
down,
make
it
where
there's
people
living
in
it
so
dead
people
aren't
found
in
it.
When
you
have
an
abandoned
house
y'all,
there
is
no
reason
for
these
people
not
to
go
in
it's
open
season
with
abandoned
houses,
even
if
they're
falling
down,
they
will
still
go
in
them.
A
Well,
I
just
want
to
say,
I
understand
the
stress
that
you're
put
under
as
a
resident
in
an
area
where
there
seems
to
be
a
larger.
You
know:
proliferation
of
blighted
and
Abandoned
and
vacant
buildings,
and
for
the
last
three
and
a
half
years
we
have
literally
targeted
millions
of
dollars
toward
that
Corridor.
It
is
a
long,
lengthy
process
to
reverse
the
negative
impacts
from
30
years
of
something
sitting
empty
in
in
a
neighborhood
we've
made
progress,
there's
still
progress
to
be
made
in
many
instances.
A
We
don't
have
the
policies
ordinances
to
deal
with
it,
but
we're
investigating
those
and
then-
and
in
other
instances
you
know
we're
dealing
with
a
construct
of
an
unsafe,
unsafe
structure
statute
and
then
also
the
legal
prospects
or
legal
process
when
someone
does
not
keep
their
property
safe
and
maintained.
So
that's
not
a
nuisance.
Last
year
alone
we
managed
over
425
nuisance
cases
and
we
identified
over
100
unsafe
structures
and
we
are
going
through
the
court
system
right
now.
A
As
you
know,
on
Walnut
Street
in
Moody
Park
because
of
unsafe
structures,
and
when
you
get
into
the
court
system
because
of
property
rights,
everything
gets
bogged
down,
the
you
did
say
something
that
is
100
accurate.
One
of
the
things
you
said
was
100
accurate.
Is
the
property
owner's
responsibility
to
maintain
the
property
so
that
it
doesn't
become
a
nuisance
and
an
unsafe
structure
for
in
a
neighborhood?
We
firmly
believe
that
and
I
do
believe
you
as
well
that
the
way
to
get
the
action
you
want
is
either
incentives
or
penalties.
A
We've
concentrated
very
heavily
on
Crafting
the
incentives
and
then
building
the
organization
so
that
we
can
have
the
right
code
enforcement.
It's
a
long,
lengthy
process
we're
making
progress.
It
just
is
not
a
quick,
quick,
Quick
Fix
unless
you
really
have
a
Cooperative
property
owner
with
the
means
to
acquire
the
grants
or
funding
in
order
to
repair
the
properties,
but
we
are,
but
we
are
making
progress.
A
There's
probably
a
dozen
properties
in
that
Corridor
that
are
beautiful
now
that
have
previously
been
been
abandoned
and
vacant,
but
I
thoroughly
understand
the
stress
that
it
put
places
on
yeah.
B
And
on
residence
and
I
just
want
y'all
to
continue
to
figure
out
ways
if
they
refuse
to
take
care
of
their
buildings.
If
they
refuse
to
do
anything,
and
they
know
it's
dangerous,
they
need
to
be
fine.
I
I'm
telling
you
I
think
hitting
them
in
their
wallets
is
the
only
thing
that's
going
to
face
some
of
these
people
flat
out
because
they
don't
seem
to
respond
to
anything
else.
Y'all.
Do
thanks.
Thank.
A
You
Dave
anybody
here.
Anyone
else
would
like
to
address
Council
of
the
mayor's
office
with
public
comment
right
now,
I'll
move
into
mayor's
comments
and
really
it's.
This
June
was
extremely
busy
and
successful
month.
In
many
many
ways,
I
have
a
list
of
nine
or
ten
things
here
to
talk
with
you
about
I
won't.
Do
it
just
for
trying
to
you
know,
keep
the
meeting
brief
I
would
encourage
the
community
and
Council
alike.
Go
to
the
city
of
Madison
website.
A
Look
at
all
of
the
content!
That's
there
look
at
our
newsletters
there's
a
lot
of
information
about
the
projects
that
we're
working
on.
It
tells
you
exactly
where
they
are,
whether
they're
on
the
hilltop
or
whether
they're
downtown.
We
have
dozens
of
great
things
happening
across
the
city
and
you
can
track
it
all
through
the
projects
page
on
the
City,
Madison
website
and
I
believe
we're
going
live
tomorrow
with
the
Crystal
Beach
webcam.
A
So
those
who
are
interested
in
monitoring
the
progress
of
the
construction
of
the
new
pool
they
can
go
to
the
Crystal
Beach
project,
page
on
our
website
and
link
to
the
webcam
and
watch
it
in
real
time
and
leave
it
on
your
TV
all
day.
Regatta
I
think
was
extremely
successful.
Our
estimates
are,
we
had
about
20
000
people
on
the
riverfront
plus
their
kids,
for
the
fireworks
Saturday
night
and
around
8
000
8
000
people
lining
Main
Street
for
the
parade
plus
their
kids
on
on
Friday
night
and
I.
A
Think
that
we
got
a
committee
in
the
city
and
all
the
the
boat
teams
and
everyone
across
the
community.
All
the
volunteers
did
a
really
good
job,
putting
on
a
big
festival
and
also
responding
to
you
know
the
weather
issues:
City
Madison,
Street
Department,
our
public
safety
law
enforcement
fire
didn't
they
did
a
phenomenal
job
with
some
very
diff
under
very
difficult
circumstances,
because
the
work
of
the
city
continued.
A
While
we
were
also
prepping
and
cleaning
up
after
the
parade,
but
also
responding
to
emergencies
during
Festival
I
was
in
the
pits
with
Governor
Holcomb,
and
we
were
talking
to
the
firemen
who
were
there,
you
know
to
respond
any
potential
emergencies
during
the
Regatta
and
A
call
came
in
for
a
rescue
eclipse
of
fall,
State
Park
and
they
had
to
leave
so
those
guys
were
literally
still
on
duty
24
hours
a
day.
Chief
chief
washer
and
his
team
had
several
calls
in
the
middle
of
the
night.
A
You
never
saw
it
because
those
guys
are
truly
professionals.
I'll
leave
it
there
there's
a
lot
more
coming
in
the
month
of
July.
Our
next
council
meeting
will
be
Tuesday
July
the
18th
and
then
we're
also
starting
this
week
to
digest
we'll
have
a
meeting
with
the
Army
Corps
of
Engineers
and
we'll
start
digesting
the
data
from
the
Crooked
Creek
Watershed
study
I'll
park
it
there.
If
anybody
else
has
any
questions,
let
me
know
please
go
to
our
website.
You'll
see
a
lot
of
information.