Jul 26, 2023 Regular City Council Meeting

SESSION MEETING AND THIS MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED. NEXT WE'LL ROLL ONTO OUR REGULAR SCHEDULE.

[1. Roll Call]

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EMPLOYEES FOR THE CITY OF PETERSBURG. AND ALL WHO IS INVOLVED IN PETERSBURG. JUST REMEMBER THAT WE. ARE HERE TOGETHER AND WANT THE BEST FOR OUR CITY. GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. JUST CONTINUE TO UPLIFT US WITH ALL THE RIGHT THINGS. TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

AND ACCEPT THE RIGHT THING. IN JESUS' NAME, WE PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. UM NEXT IS ITEM THREE TO PLEDGE OF LEADERS GIVE EVERYBODY PLEASE STAND AND JOIN ME TO PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE. TO THE FLAG. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ONE NATION UNDER GOD. HE AND JUSTICE

[4. Determination of the Presence of a Quorum]

[5. Proclamations/Recognitions/Presentation of Ceremonial Proclamations]

ADHERENCE TO MANDATED CONDITIONS , WHICH INCLUDE APPEARANCE IN COURT AND APPLYING APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS AND SANCTIONS FOR NON COMPLIANCE OF PRE TRIAL, PROBATION OR PAROLE CONDITIONS.

AND WHEREAS PRE TRIAL PROBATION AND PAROLE OFFICES SUPPORT ABILITY OF JUSTICE ENGAGE IN EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICES AND HELP INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY TRANSITION INTO PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS. NOW THEREFORE, I SAID, I'M YOUR PARENT BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY. BEST TO ME AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM JULY 16TH THROUGH 22ND 2023 AS PRE TRIAL, PROBATION AND PAROLE SUPERVISION WEEK IN THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, DATED JULY, 26 2023 SIGNED BY MYSELF AND THE POLITICAL COUNCIL OFFICIAL, LUCAS ROBERT CLAUSE FOR A PROBATION AND PAROLE. AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL AS WELL. JUST FOR, UM, RECOGNIZING US FOR THIS PROCLAMATION OVER HALF OF HIS 11. THANK YOU. SO MUCH.

THANK YOU. IT'S FOLDED FOR THIS, OKAY?

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ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING. FROM THIS EVENING. UH. THIS EVENING, I WILL BE DOING THE STATE OF THE TREASURY. AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS DURING OR AFTER, PLEASE JUMP IN AT ANY TIME. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. I STARTED MY JOURNEY IN THE CITY OF PETERSBURG IN 2012 IN THE CHARGES OFFICES, DEPUTY TREASURER AND FROM SEPTEMBER 2012 THROUGH 2017. I WAS A TREASURE IN THE OFFICE. AS A 2017. WHEN THE BUILDING COLLECTIONS DEPARTMENT TRANSITIONED OVER TO BE A NEW DEPARTMENT. I WAS ASKED. TO TRANSITION OVER TO MOVE INTO THE DEPARTMENT TO HELP ASSIST GET THAT DEPARTMENT OFF THE GROUND. AND FROM 2017 THROUGH 2019. I WAS A BUILDING COLLECTIONS SUPERVISOR AND LEAVING AT THE MANAGER. I RETURNED IN 2021 FEBRUARY MARCH 2021 TO HELP ASSIST WITH SOME OF THE CLEANUP. DUE TO COVID AND OTHER RELATED THINGS. WHILE I ALSO RAN FOR TREASURER. AND AS OF NOVEMBER OF 2021, THE CITIZENS VOTED TO PUT ME IN OFFICE IN MY FIRST DAY OF TREASURER FOR THE SEAT OF PETERSBURG WAS 20. JANUARY. 1ST 2022. THIS SLIDE IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OF THE PREVIOUS DUTIES WHILE IN THE BUILDING COLLECTIONS OFFICE AS WELL AS IN TREASURER'S OFFICE. AND SOME OF THOSE WERE INCLUDE THE EDITING, TRAINING, MAILING OF REAL ESTATE, PERSONAL PROPERTY AND TANGIBLE TAXES. MANAGING THE COLLECTION'S OFFICE. CUSTOMER CARE, BANKRUPTCY PROCESSING. WHEN WE'RE DOING INTERNAL COLLECTIONS WERE HANDLING THE ENVY STOPS. DEBT SET OFFS RENT WINGS. PAYMENT PLANS. THINGS OF THAT NATURE. AND THIS COUNCIL MEMBERS. I KNOW SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE NOT HERE AT THAT TIME. BUT MR MICHAEL ROGERS CEO, UH, AT THAT TIME DID HAVE A CONSULTANT COME IN TO SIT WITH ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS THAT HANDLED THE REVENUE OR TOUCH THE REVENUE IN SOME SORT OF WAY.

THEY SAT WITH US FOR SIX WEEKS. AND THIS IS WHAT THEY CAME UP. FOR THE THINGS THAT I DID, AND AT THE TIME I WAS THE SOLE PERSON UNFORTUNATELY DOING THOSE DUTIES, BUT AGAIN, WE BUILT IT UP TO WHERE BUILDING COLLECTIONS IS NOW. NEXT LIVELY. THESE ARE THE CURRENT DUTIES FOR THE TREASURER'S OFFICE. WE HANDLED THE CASH RECONCILIATIONS. DOG TAGS STATUTORY RIGHT OFF.

CONTESTING A PARKING TICKETS. REAL ESTATE TAX SALE ABATEMENTS , WIRE PROCESSING, INCOMING AND OUTGOING UPLOADING WEB PAYMENTS TO THE BANK. PAYROLL AND AP CHECK SIGN OFF UNCLAIMED PROPERTIES AND INVESTOR OF THE CITY FUND. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS IS A SNAPSHOT OF THE JUNE STATEMENT FOR OUR INVESTMENTS. UM, AS YOU CAN SEE THE G I P STANDS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. UM INCOME POOL, LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT POOL. WHICH WE HAVE BEEN INVESTING IN FOR SEVERAL YEARS. YOU WILL SEE PERPETUAL CARE SQUARES TWICE. THAT IS BECAUSE PERPETUAL CARE SQUARE IN SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND IS BEING MANAGED BY EMERGENT INVESTMENTS AS WELL. SO WE DO HAVE TWO SEPARATE PERPETUAL CARE SQUARES. THAT WAS STARTED BY MY PREDECESSOR, MR PRITCHARD. I'M NOT GOING THROUGH THEM AS FOLLOWS. SO WE HAVE A STADIUM FUND BALANCE OF $117,123.96 HOSPITAL INCOME. 15,000 POINT AND $35.05. PERPETUAL CARE SQUARES AT $318,483.06. SPECIAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL FUND $62,533.34. AGAIN THE SECOND SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP.

SORRY, YES. SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF 902,008 25 29. PERPETUAL CARE SQUARES, THE SECOND ONE AT $1,132,419. AND IT'S NOT THE SNAP NON ARBITRAGE ACCOUNT. 5,481,514. AND THIS IS NOT PART

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DUE TO NOT DENON UNDERSTANDING OF THE DUTIES AND CERTAIN OFFICES. EXCUSE ME. AND IT'S JUST UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT EVER A YOUNG PERSON. TRY NOT FOR TRIATHLON IS ALWAYS ONE OF OUR ELDERS WHO ARE SETTING UP THE HILL AROUND THE CORNER. HAVING TO CATCH YOUR BREATH TO HAVE TO GO EITHER BACK DOWN THE HILL OR MYSELF. GO DOWN. TO ASSIST THEM WITH WHATEVER THEY WERE TRYING TO DO. SO AGAIN, THIS WOULD AGAIN CREATE A MORE CUSTOMER SERVICE FRIENDLY EXPERIENCE FOR OUR CITIZENS. AND THIRD. IT MAKES MY JOB EASIER FOR THE SIGNING OF A PAYCHECK AND PAYROLL CHECKS. BECAUSE CURRENTLY THE PAYROLL MACHINE FOR THE CHECKS IS IN THE FISCAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING. SO IN ORDER FOR ME TO CASH OR SIGNED THESE CHECKS. EXCUSE ME. I HAVE TO GO TO THE FISCAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING, WHICH, IF WE HAVE THREE OR FOUR CHECK RUNS THAT DAY. THAT MEANS THREE OR FOUR VISITS. BACK AND FORTH TO THE FISCAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING. SO THIS IS AN EASIER WAY TO FREE UP A LOT OF THE TIME BECAUSE AGAIN I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE BUILDING. SO IT'S A LOT OF EXTRA WORK ON OTHER DEPARTMENTS LIKE THE COMMISSION REVENUES OFFICE.

TO MAKE SURE I CAN ENTER THE BUILDING. NEXT TIME, PLEASE. REQUEST THE RETURN OF THE COLLECTIONS DUTIES TO THE TREASURER'S OFFICE. THERE'S ONE IN MY OPINION MAKES FOR MORE FISCAL OR MAKES THE MOST FISCAL SENSE. DO THEY REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THE STATE COMPENSATION BOARD? AS I'M SURE YOU ALL KNOW THE STATE COMPENSATION BOARD. THEY REIMBURSED ALL LOCALITIES.

DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF DUTIES THAT THEY HAVE MORE DUTIES THAT THE CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICER HAS THE MORE PAYMENT THAT WE'VE SEEN FROM THE COM BOARD AND VICE VERSA. THE OTHER THING IS THE ABILITY TO HAVE PREDICTABLE, CONSISTENT REVENUE. DO THE INSTANT INTO THE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE OFFICE AS WELL AS HAVING ACCESS TO THE TRAINING THROUGH THE TREASURES ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA. I BELIEVE IN THIS WAY. WE CAN OFFER THE CITIZENS ARE MORE ROBUST CUSTOMER SERVICE EXPERIENCE. AS WELL AS WELL HAVE EMPLOYEES. WHERE WELL TRAINED IN FIRST IN THEIR DUTIES. AND THAT LEADS TO A GREATER LEVEL OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY. I BELIEVE THE CITIZENS DESERVE AND THEY PAY FOR WHEN THEY PAY THEIR TAXES. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AND THIS IS CURRENTLY THE TREASURER'S OFFICE TEAM. WE HAVE IN THE MIDDLE. MR SOLOMON HILL, THE THIRD HE JOINED THE TEAM. BACK IN DECEMBER JANUARY OF 22. AND WE ALSO HAVE MY SUPER COLLEGE INTERN MR ANDREW LORE. AND HE'S BEEN A HE'S BEEN A WELCOME ADDITION TO THE TEAM. WE DID HAVE AN ADDITIONAL STAFF MEMBER BUT UNFORTUNATELY WASN'T AN ACCIDENT EARLIER DURING THE YEAR. AND DUE TO HEALTH REASONS SHE HAD TO RESIGN. SO WE ARE LOOKING TO FILL THAT POSITION.

BUT THERE IS THIS IS THE TEAM. THIS IS TREASURER'S OFFICE. AND THIS IS THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS TIME. MACABRE. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. BRING THE MAGAS DOWN A LITTLE BIT. YES. AND THANK YOU,

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ONE. BEFORE THE YEAH. HOSPITAL INCOME. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS CREATED SEVERAL YEARS AGO AGAINST TWO AS A PLACE AS A HOLDER. I'M ASSUMING FOR ANY NEEDS FOR ANY HOSPITAL NEEDS.

WHEN I SPOKE WITH LG I P. THEY SAID THERE WAS NO REAL RHYME OR REASON TO THE CREATION OF IT. SO ALL OF THESE CAN BE USED FOR ANYTHING THE CITY CHOOSE TO USE IT FOR. BUT THERE WAS JUST EARMARKED AT THAT TIME, AND THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT ACTUALLY EARMARKED FOR OTHER THAN THE NAMES, HOSPITAL INCOME. SO THE CITY COULD TRANSFER THAT. $1000 INCOME FUNDS TO ITS GENERAL FUND. IS THAT CORRECT? YES, IT'S AS LONG AS IT'S IMPORTANT. IT'S PUBLIC USE. YOU CAN DO ANY OF THEM TO ANYWHERE IT NEEDS TO GO. SECOND QUESTION. IF THE COLLECTORS DUTIES WERE TRANSFERRED TO YOU? YES, SIR. WOULD THIS AFFECT YOUR ANNUAL COMPENSATION. YES. AND BY REALLY HOW MUCH PER YEAR. THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WOULD HAVE TO GET WITH THE COMPENSATION BOARD AND THEY WOULD GIVE A GOD AWARE WOULD GO FROM I HEARD THAT IT WAS $29,000 IS THAT VOLVO? THANK YOU. I THINK IT WOULD GO UP ADDITIONAL 10 OR 15. MAYBE, BUT I'M NOT SURE IT HAD TO BE A CALM, CALM BOARD QUESTION. BUT IN ANY EVENT THE TRANSFER OF THOSE DUTIES TO YOU WOULD RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN YOUR ANNUAL COMPENSATION. IS THAT CORRECT? I DON'T KNOW. LIKE SIGNIFICANT IT WOULD GO UP. YES. THANK YOU. MR MAYOR, I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. NEXT MR WELDON, LIKE, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. AND IF YOU CAN GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE, UM RIGHT? NO, RIGHT THERE. THE FIRST THE FIRST ONE. THIS IS A STARTING CAREER IN CITY OF PETERSBURG IN 14,002 TO 2017. THE DEPUTY TREASURER'S OFFICE. WHERE ARE YOU AWARE OF ALL OF THE CHECKS THAT WAS IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE THAT WASN'T BEING PROCESSED WHEN HE WAS THERE. I'M AWARE OF. NO, SIR. BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S REALLY WHEN THERE TOO. READ, RETRACTING THOSE DUTIES. AND ALSO, UM BEING ON THE COLLECTION SIDE. WE DIDN'T DO AND ALSO WHERE YOU AWARE OF THE DEATH THAT WAS GOING ON IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AT THE TIME OR WE DIDN'T WIN IT INITIALLY STARTED, BUT WHEN WE DID FIND OUT THAT'S WHEN IT'S REPORTED TO THE STATE. THE NEXT TIME. HAVE YOU IN CHARGE OF HANDLING CHECKS? CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHILE WHILE YOU PROCESS AND, UM WE HAVE FOUR FRAUDULENT CHECKS THAT'S BEEN PROCESSED. THIS YEAR, CAN YOU HAVE YOU COME UP WITH A PROCESS TO DECIDE WHICH CHECKS IS, ACTUALLY, UH CREDIBLE AND THE ONES THAT'S THAT'S NOT FRAUDULENT. WELL, THAT IS THROUGH THE POSITIVE PAID THROUGH THE BANK. SO I HAVE NOT. THEY PUSH IT THROUGH ON MANY OCCASIONS, AND THEY APPROVED THAT THAT'S GOOD. SO WE ARE LOOKING INTO, AND THERE'S ALSO SOME POLICE REPORTS AS WELL. THERE HAVE BEEN A FOR SOME OF THE FORTUNATE CHECKS. NEXT AND WE HAVE SEVERAL SEVERAL CHECKS THAT ARE BEING RETURNED BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT PROCESSING A FAMILY. TIMELY MATTER. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU PLAN ON DOING TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CHECKS GET PROCESS IN TIME, SO THEY WON'T BE RETURNED. I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY CHECKS BEING RETURNED DUE TO NOT BEING PROCESSED IN A TIMELY MANNER.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT PROCESS BECAUSE WE DON'T PROCESS CHECKS. UM, YES. YOU SAID THAT. THAT THAT THAT YOU DEPOSIT THE CHECK. MHM. THOSE CHECKS ARE SCANNED TO THE BANK. NEXT, UM, BUILDING IN COLLECTIONS. NEXT TO SEE YOU HAVE HERE ABOUT. WE'VE HEARD FROM SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY ABOUT, UM CONCERNS ABOUT THEIR, UM REVENUE BEING HAILED AND NOT DEPOSITED IN THE TIME.

TIMELY MATTER IS THERE IS THERE NEW STAFF WANT TO ADDRESS THAT? OR WHAT IS WHAT? WHAT IS THE PLAN TO START. DEPOSIT IN THE TIME OF THE MATTER. IS THERE MORE STAFF WOULD FREE UP THEIR

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AND I HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED THAT NONE OF THEM HAVE NONE OF THEM HAD AND AGAIN, THE FISCALLY. THE CITY MAKES OUT BETTER DUE TO OUR ABILITY TO RECEIVE MORE FUNDS FROM THE STATE, WHICH LESSENS THE AMOUNT THAT'S HIT TO THE GENERAL FUND THAT IN THOSE FUNDS CAN BE PUT IN OTHER PLACES.

ANYMORE I BELIEVE EVERYTHING. IF IT'S ALL UNDER ONE, INSTEAD OF THESE FRAGMENTED WAY IT IS NOW.

WE'LL GET A LOT MORE THINGS DONE CONCISELY MORE EFFECTIVELY AND MORE EFFICIENTLY. WELL, MR MULLINS, DON'T YOU THINK IT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE IF THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND COMMISSIONER REVENUES, OFFICE AND. ANY OF THESE OFFICES WOULD WORK. COHESIVELY WITH EACH OTHER. RATHER THAN WORRYING ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO GET OUR DUTIES BACK WHEN THERE IS A LIST HERE. I BELIEVE THE MARRIAGE ALLUDED TO A MILLION FRACTIONS THAT I SEE. OUT OF THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND YOU KNOW YOU STAYING BEFORE US. CAN TALK ABOUT ALL THIS GOING ON THAT YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT YOU ARE THE TREASURER OF THESE INFRACTIONS THAT ARE LISTED ON THIS DOCUMENT. STOPS THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU. SO MR MAYOR. IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'D LIKE FOR THE TREASURE TO COME BACK AT OUR NEXT MEETING BECAUSE. YOU HAVE NOT PROVIDED A REPORT SUITS. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN ANYTHING? THE YEAR. TWO YEARS WE HAVE WE HAVE WE HAVE A YEAR. ALMOST WELL, IT'S A YEAR AND IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY AND WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON MONTHLY OR EACH MEETING. EVERY MONTH SO I WOULD ASK THAT YOU COME BACK. AND YOU . PROVIDE US. SOME INFORMATION WITH RESPECT TO ALL THAT'S LISTED ON THIS DOCUMENT AND BE HAPPY TO GIVE YOU A COPY TO STOCK MINT. BECAUSE FOR YOU NOT TO KNOW AND WE KNOW THAT DOESN'T SAY A LOT FOR YOU. WELL AGAIN, SOME OF THOSE THINGS CAN'T SUPPORT GIVEN YOU YOUR DUTIES BACK. WHEN UNDER PERIOD YOU WORKED WITH THE TREASURER. DURING MY ADMINISTRATION. AND THE REASON WE TOOK THOSE DUTIES IS SO THAT WE COULD BECOME STRONGER FINANCIALLY. WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE NOW. AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, I TOOK THE HEAT. BUT EVERY ONE OF YOU IN HERE ALONG WITH THE MAYOR. AND THESE DUTIES WOULD NOT BE RETURNING. UNTIL THE DAY I DIE. I CAN PROMISE YOU THAT. THANK YOU. NEXT. COUNCILOR COUNCILOR JOHN. HOW YOU DOING? MR MARLINS? ARE YOU, SIR? I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD UPHOLD THEIR PROMISE THAT WAS JUST MADE. UM. IT SEEMS TO BE SOME DISCONNECT. WITH YOUR OFFICE.

AND OUR FISCAL MANAGEMENT TEAM. MARRY DID SAY, ONE OF THEM SAID. FRICKIN COHESIVE. HE WOULDN'T COHESIVELY WITH US OR WHAT? OUR FISCAL MANAGEMENT TEAM, BUT IT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT. THEY RETURN THAT FAVOR. NOW. NUMBER ONE. MOVING THE TREASURER'S OFFICE TO THE FISCAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING

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WHEN THE TREASURERS OFFICES IN THE TREASURER'S OFFICE AND FOR THE RECORD, I WANT THE RECORD TO STATE AS WELL. THAT FORMER TREASURER DECIDED THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE IN THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT BUILD. ONE STATE AT CITY HALL. SO THAT'S WHY HE OPENING UP. YEAH. CITY HALL. MR TREASURER. UM. ONLY RETURN OF YOUR COLLECTIONS AND THE DUTIES TO THE TREASURY. IF NOT ALL, DO THIS. WHAT PARTS DO YOU CONSIDER? THE MAIN PART. YOU CAN WORK WITH. IF WE DIDN'T RETURN ALL OF WHAT PARTS WILL HELP YOU OUT, WOULD HELP US OUT AS A CITY. TO MAKE A STRONGER FINANCIAL AND SMOOTHER. I BELIEVE, IF NOT ALL, THEN AT THE VERY LEAST, DELINQUENT COLLECTIONS. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT IT? LINK COLLECTIONS ARE THEY BEING COLLECTED OR NOT BEING COLLECTED? HAVE THEY EVER BEEN COLLECTED? THIS YEAR. MY UNDERSTANDING IS A MAJORITY OF IT IS OUTSOURCED TO EITHER TA CS OR SANS ANDERSON SO AS FAR AS INTERNAL COLLECTIONS OR NOT, THAT MUCH. THAT'S NOT THAT MUCH INTERNAL COLLECTION IS BEING DONE AS FAR AS I MY UNDERSTANDING IS AND THAT'S DUE TO STAFF SHORTAGE PROBLEM. I'M NOT SURE WHY I THAT'S PART OF THE CITY COLLECTOR'S NAME THAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING CITY COLLECTIONS SO MAN. THAT'S ALL THAT, I THINK. ALRIGHT, UM, COUNCILOR COVER. THANK YOU. MR MARLEY. THINK BACK WITH ME TO 2017. I WAS JUST ON CITY COUNCIL. I THINK IT WAS IN MY FIRST YEAR. WE WERE MEETING IN THE GENERAL DISTRICT COURT. COURTROOM. MR KEVIN BROWN APPEARED BEFORE US. HE WAS AT THE PODIUM. I ASKED HIM TWO QUESTIONS. ONE. HOW MUCH IS THE CITY OF PETERSBURG ROAD IN THE WAY OF BACK TAX. HE SAID. $14 MILLION. AND CITY COUNCIL COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

BECAUSE THAT WAS A DUTY ALONE. THAT'S RIGHT. IT WAS HIS. MR BROWN. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SENT ANY REAL ESTATE. ASK YOU REAL ESTATE ACCOUNTS. TO THE I WAS HANDLING THE ANDERSONS. HE SAID. 2014. COUNCIL COULDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I'M NOT GOING BACK. TO THAT SITUATION. NOT NOT NOT. AND I WOULD ECHO WHAT MY GOOD FRIEND COUNCILMAN MYERS. IT'LL BE OVER MY DEAD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILOR JONES. SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DEAD BODIES.

I FIND IT DISRESPECTFUL. TO EVEN SPEAK OF A DEAD MAN. THAT'S NOT BROWN. AND WE CANNOT HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHATEVER BROWN DID. REST IN PEACE, MR BROWN. WHAT UP? NO, NO COVER BIRTH OLD TYPE. BECAUSE WE KEEP BRINGING UP BROWN BROWN. WE KNOW WHAT HE DID. WE KNOW THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE, AND I UNDERSTAND COUNCIL'S POSITION. ON BEING LEERY OF THE TREASURE POSITION. GOING BACK THERE. DUDE IS GOING BACK TO UNDERSTAND THAT BUT WE'RE GONNA HOLD THIS MAN TO COUNTER. WE NEED TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE WHAT HE'S DOING AND NOT DOING TODAY. WE CAN HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR BROWN BROWN DID WHAT HE DID OR WHATEVER HAPPENED, WE DID WHAT WE HAD TO DO. THAT'S BROWN. THIS IS THIS IS MULLINS. THIS IS THE TREASURE TODAY. AND I WILL HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, JUST LIKE ALL OF US SHOULD ON TODAY. FOR OUR VISIONS TOMORROW. NOT YESTERDAY. MR MAYOR. I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN. THESE GUYS ARE SHELL SHOCKED ON WHAT HAPPENED. AND THE

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SO THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM. I'M NOT SPEAKING ILL OF MR BROWN. GOD BLESS YOURSELF. BUT, UM SPEAKING ABOUT PROCESS. AND I AM SPEAKING ABOUT COUNCIL'S ABILITY. TO AFFECT THAT PROCESS.

AND WE LACK THAT ABILITY. WHEN THOSE DUTIES ARE BEING SHE DID. HAS EXCLUSIVELY. THE DOMAIN. OF THE TREASURER. THAT'S WHERE WE WERE. THAT'S WHERE I DON'T WANT TO EVER. COUNCILMAN SMITH LEE. I THINK I'M GOOD NOW. HEY, MR MELON. OKAY? UM THE CALL IT THE COOLEST ICK ISSUES THAT YOU HAVE. THAT YOU BROUGHT TO US. HAVE YOU, UM, ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS WITH THE CITY MANAGER? UM NO ONE HAS REACHED BACK IN CONTACT WITH ME, SO I KNOW EVERYTHING THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT TODAY AND IN YOUR PRESENTATION. YOU WILL ADDRESS THIS WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND HE NEVER GOT BACK WITH YOU. WOW. OKAY. ACTUALLY HAD A MEETING WITH HIM. HAVE A MEETING WITH HIM. NO, YOU DID. YOU SET UP A MEETING TO TALK WITH HIM IN REFERENCE TO YOUR CONCERNS. THAT YOU YOU YOU PRESENTED TODAY. AS FAR AS YOU SAID THE CORELOGIC. YOU SAID THE COALITION EMAIL REGARDING IT AND NEVER GOT A RESPONSE REGARDING ITS AND I DID NOT SET A MEETING UP AT THE TIME. BECAUSE I GOT NO RESPONSE FROM MY INITIAL YOU KNOW? DID YOU REACH OUT TO THE MAYOR? ALL COUNCIL WAS ON THE EMAIL SUNDAY MAIL. NOT DIRECTLY . NO BUT YOU ALL WERE ON THE EMAIL. THEY GOT NO RESPONSE.

RIGHT? I THINK I THINK, UH, COUNCILWOMAN SWITCHED SMITH LEAVES TALKING ABOUT THE ITEMS IN THE PRESENTATION, NOT THE EMAIL CONCERNS, SHE SAID, CORELOGIC YOU SAID THAT AND SHE SAID YES, BUT I DON'T THINK SHE REGISTERED. SHE'S ASKING YOU WHETHER THE THINGS IN YOUR EVERYTHING THAT'S IN YOUR PRESENTATION DID YOU ADDRESSED THIS WITH THE CITY MANAGER? WE'VE HAD MEETINGS WHEN HE FIRST STARTED HIS FIRST WEEK. WE'VE HAD MEETINGS AND SPOKE ABOUT THESE THINGS. AND AS A AS WELL AS YOU HAD A MEETING YOU HAD A MEETING WITH HIM WHEN HE FIRST CAME ON, AND THAT WAS IT. WE'VE HAD WANT TO SAY TO MEETINGS. AND NOTHING WAS RESOLVED. ALL RIGHT , MR CITY MANAGEMENT TO ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION. INSTANTLY. WE DID MEET AND OF THE ITEMS IN THE PRESENTATION. I GUESS THE ONE THING THAT WE THAT'S IN HERE THAT WE DISCUSSED WAS ACCESS TO THE FISCAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING. AND I HAD INDICATED THAT I WASN'T GOING TO PROVIDE 24 HOURS SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. 365 DAY ACCESS TO THE PHYSICAL MANAGEMENT BUILDING WHEN STAFF WOULDN'T BE THERE. AND MOST AND ALMOST EVERY COMMUNITY THAT I'VE EVER WORKED IN, THERE HAS NOT BEEN FREE FLOW OF STAFF BETWEEN INTO THE TREASURER'S OFFICE. I MEAN, ONE INSTANCE IF I NEEDED TO GET INTO THE TREASURES OFFICES MANAGER IN THE PREVIOUS COMMUNITY, I HAD TO RING THE DOORBELL. AND BE BUZZED IN TO BE ABLE TO COME IN. I JUST COULDN'T WALK IN AND OUT IN THE SAME

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FORWARD PROGRESS. I BELIEVE EVERYBODY IS WILLING TO WORK TOGETHER AND IT'S NOT A US AGAINST THEM SITUATION THEN WE CAN GET A LOT FURTHER IN PETERSBURG, BUT WE'RE AT A STATE RIGHT NOW THAT IT'S ANIMOSITY. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE DYING BEFORE PEOPLE WILL GET POSITIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SO YOU BRING THAT TYPE OF ENERGY. THAT'S WHAT YOU GET. COUNCILOR LIVES. MR ISLANDS. WHO WAS NOT WORKING WITH. IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO GET. MEMBERS OF WELL. BILLING AND COLLECTIONS IN GENERAL. IT'S VERY HARD TO GET EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE TO GET THINGS DONE. WHETHER IT'S LIKE I SAID, AS WAS MENTIONED CHECKS THAT AREN'T BEING DONE TIMELY AGAIN. CHECKS ARE RAN THROUGH THE BUILDING COLLECTIONS OFFICE, NOT THE TREASURER'S OFFICE. BUT WHEN WE HAVE ISSUES LIKE THAT, IT'S WILL CONTACT AND IT'S SITTING WAIT, AND THEN WE CAN'T CLOSE THE DAY WHICH I GUESS AGAIN BECAUSE OF THIS PRACTICAL DUTIES WHICH PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND. WE CAN'T CLOSE THE DAY UNTIL BUILDING COLLECTIONS FIX AN ERROR ON THEIR SIDES OF THE CZECH ISSUES. I CAN'T CLOSE UNTIL THEY FIX IT. IF THEY DON'T FIX IT.'T CLOSE A DAY WHICH PROLONGS WHEN I CAN DO THINGS. SO AGAIN, IT'S MORE OF A COMMUNICATION. ISSUE, WHICH SOME OF THAT MAY BE ADDRESSED WITH THE COMMITTEE. WELL, I GUESS WE'RE HAVING NEW WILL HAVE A NEW I GUESS DIRECTOR AND CFO, SO WE MAY HAVE FRESH IDEAS. NEW BLOOD THAT WAY. I'M OPEN TO ANY AVENUES TO KIND OF GET THIS MOVING FORWARD. NO ONE WAS WHEN WAS YOUR LAST MEETING WITH THE CITY MANAGER? I DON'T REMEMBER THE DATE. HAVE BEEN RECENT. IT'S BEEN SEVERAL MONTHS. I WANT TO SAY SO YOU'RE MY FRIEND AND I I'M IN A POSITION UP HERE. WHERE? YOU KNOW, I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT DECIDES. AND ALL OF US UP HERE. AND NO

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ALL OF THE. PEACE AND VALLEYS THAT ARE IMMINENT, YOU KNOW, TO FLATNESS. WHOLE LINEUP THAT WHY IS IT THAT YOU HAVEN'T MEETING EFFORT. TO MEET WITH THE CITY MANAGER ON A REGULAR BASIS. I MEAN, AND I'M AND I'M GONNA SAY THAT TO THE CITY MANAGER'S. WELL I'M NOT PUTTING ALL OF IT ON ON YOUR SHOULDERS. BUT HOW DO YOU ALL EXPECT? THIS GOVERNMENT TO MOVE FORWARD. WHEN THERE'S.

ANIMOSITY HERE OR I DON'T LIKE THIS PERSON HERE OR I DON'T CARE FOR YOU HERE, YOU KNOW, LET ME BE REAL HONEST WITH YOU DENIED, AND THAT'S JUST NOT FOR USE FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM. I DON'T CARE. HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WHOEVER IS SITTING HERE OR SITTING OVER THERE. WE PAY YOU TO DO A JOB.

WE PAY YOU THE GOOD JOB. WE PAY YOU TO PROTECT. THE SAINT ITTY OF THE MUNICIPAL. AND THE SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE TO OUR CITIZENS. NOW YOU HAVE SOMEONE HERE WHO CLAP ON ONE SIDE, SOME WHO CLAP ANOTHER. BUT YOU GOT TO REALIZE IS THAT EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, OR YOU DON'T CARRY THROUGH WITH YOUR DUTIES. YOU AFFECT THE LIFE OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL IN IT. THAT'S EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM THAT WORKS FOR THE CITY OF PETERSBURG. AND SO WE'VE GOT TO COME TOGETHER SOME POINT. BECAUSE I'M GONNA TELL YOU I'M STILL HERE. I'M GLAD I'M STILL HERE. BUT I'M DON'T WANT TO EVER SEE ANYTHING LIKE EXPERIENCE. 2015 16 AND 17 ALL OVER AGAIN BECAUSE SOMEBODY DOESN'T LIKE SOMEBODY. IT'S THE WORST MESS EVER. AND THEN WE GET ON FACEBOOK. AND WE GO TO THE PROGRESS AND WE LOWNEY EACH OTHER. EVERY REPORT LIVES ON EACH OTHER. HMM. IT MAKES NO SENSE. STIRRING UP, STIRRING UP AND STIRRING UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN. RATHER THAN DOING THE DUTIES THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO DO. WHILE WORKING FOR THE CITY AND THE CITIZENS OF PETERSBURG. SO WHERE I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WANT YOUR DUTIES BACK, BUT YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS BODY THIS GOVERNING BODY. HAS BEEN THROUGH AND WHERE WE ARE TODAY. FROM A $25 MILLION DEFICIT FROM A FROM A. TREASURER'S OFFICE WHO DID NOT DO THEIR DUTIES AND YOU CANNOT SIT THERE AND TELL ME YOU DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT WAS GOING ON AS WELL. WHEN WE FOUND CHECKS EQUAL AS 500 TO A MILLION DOLLARS SITTING AT THE DESK DRAWERS EVERYBODY THAT WORKED IN HERE. WE DON'T WANT TO GO BACK THERE AGAIN. WE DON'T AND SO AS IT IS NOW. WE HAVE A FUND BALANCE. WE'RE MOVING FORWARD. THE CITY IS BETTER OFF NOW THAN WHAT IT WAS BEFORE, BECAUSE OF THAT PARTICULAR CHANGE. I CAN'T SEE GOING BACK. REALLY CUTE. I'M SORRY, MR MULLER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. NOBODY. THANK YOU. YOUR PRESENTATION. IF YOU

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THIS IS TO ENSURE THAT WE PROPERLY ADVERTISED THIS PROJECT AND THAT NO DECISIONS CAN BE DISPUTED AS A RESULT, SO IF WE COULD MAKE THAT MOTION THAT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. MR WILLIAMS. I THINK IF COUNCILS INCLINED YOU COULD JUST SAY SO MOVED. THERE'S A THERE'S A PROVISION WHERE THEY HAVE TO POST SIGNS FIVE DAYS AFTER RECEIVING COMPLETED APPLICATION . SHE JUST WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'VE PROPERLY POSTED FOR THIS UPCOMING HEARING. UH AND COUNCIL TWO. CONSENT TO THAT SO COUNCIL SO INCLINED. I THINK I'M JUST HIS IS THE PETITIONER AWARE OF IS THAT WAS THE WILL OF THE PETITIONER PETITIONER HAS REQUESTED THAT THIS BE MOVED TO THE FIFTH. SO SHE'S JUST SAYING THAT IN ORDER TO SHARE ENSURE THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO COMPLY WITH THAT PROVISION OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE COUNCIL MAKE THIS MOTION. I THINK IT'S A PROPER MOTION. THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEARD. SHE SAID, REVERTED BACK TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.

PLANNING COMMISSION, WELL PLANNING COMMISSION. THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID. SHE DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT MOVING THE DATE TO THE 20 TO THE FEAR. YEAH, I DON'T THINK. DO YOU WANT IT TO GO BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? WE NEED TO MOVE THROUGH THE PROCESS ENTIRELY TO ENSURE ITS CORRECT SO PROPERLY ADVERTISED PROPERLY NOTICED, MOVED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THEN HAVE IT COME BEFORE YOU AT A REGULARLY SCHEDULED DATE OF SEPTEMBER, 19TH. BECAUSE MY QUESTION IS I THOUGHT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ADVERTISE IT. AND THEN THEY DENIED IT. ABSOLUTELY MR MAYOR. ABSOLUTELY MR. MAYOR DO WE SEND IT BACK TO THEM TO DENY IT AGAIN? WAS THAT NOT, UM, ADVERTISING PROPERLY? AT THAT TIME, THEY DID NOT HAVE THE FIVE DAY REQUIREMENTS WHAT SHE'S SAYING. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO ENSURE THAT THEY MEET THAT THIS TIME. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR, COVER A MOVE THAT WE REFER THIS TO THE PLANNING. COMMISSION.

COUNSELOR MAYER. SECOND. MADAM CLERK. CAN YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? YES AND THE NEXT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING IS I BELIEVE THAT IS THE SEVENTH OF SEPTEMBER 7TH OF SEPTEMBER. OKAY? ALL RIGHT, MADAM CLERK YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COUNCIL MEMBER COMFORT. REMEMBER JONES SMITH LEE HIGH COUNCIL MEMBER MYERS COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK MOTIONS PASSED THANK YOU. NEXT WE HAVE ITEM BE A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION FOR ORDINANCE APPROVING THAT PETITION TO REZONE THE PROPERTY. LOCATED AT 32 87 COUNTY DRAFT AND BT GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT UM ONE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICT. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A PRESENTATION IF THAT COULD BE PULLED UP. PERFECT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO YES, THE NEXT CASE I'M PRESENTING IS ITEM EIGHT B. THE PETITION FOR ZONING AMENDMENT AT 3287 COUNTY DRIVE TO GO FROM B TWO TO M ONE FOR A PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL USE NEXT SLIDE. SO THE BACKGROUND AGAIN IS, AS I STATED, THE PROPERTY IS LOOKING TO GO FROM GENERAL COMMERCIAL TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL AND THE PROPOSED USES A WAREHOUSE SPACE FOR DISTRIBUTION BUSINESS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THIS IS IN COLLABORATION WITH PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY. THIS PROPERTY IS RIGHT ON THE LINE BETWEEN THE TWO PROPERTIES AND THE PREDOMINANT PART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT IS IMPRESSED GEORGE COUNTY SO THEY'LL BE WORKING WITH US TO HANDLE A LOT OF THE PERMITTING THIS PROPERTY IS ALSO ADJACENT TO SOME COMMERCIAL USES THAT ALREADY EXIST IN THE AREA AS WELL AS I TO 95. UM AND OF COURSE, PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY TO THE EAST. NOTICES WERE SENT TO THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS AND SIGNS WERE POSTED FOR THIS PROPERTY AND WE HAVE YET TO RECEIVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS REGARDING THIS PROPOSAL. HERE YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY AT LEAST OUR PORTION IN THE PETERSBURG SIDE. THE PROPERTY IS 4.8 ACRES B TWO GENERAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.

HERE'S ALSO LOOK AT THE PARCEL MAP. YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, RIGHT ADJACENT TO PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY. AND HERE YOU CAN SEE THE EXISTING ZONING

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WE'RE GOING TO REALLY HAVE THE ACCESS AND PARKING AREAS HERE IN THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, WHILE THE DEVELOPMENT IS PREDOMINANTLY IN PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY. AS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS, THIS DID GO BEFORE PLANNING COMMISSION ON JUNE 1ST IN 2023, AND THEY DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL STEP ALSO RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. THIS IS DUE TO THE CONSISTENCY WITH THE GOALS AND THE COURT CURRENT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SO SOME OF THE GOALS IN THEIR STATED THAT WE LOOKED TO ASSEMBLE SMALLER TRACTS OF LAND FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, AS WELL AS TO BUILD PARTNERSHIPS TO CAPITALIZE ON DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES, SO WE'RE REALLY SEEING THIS HAPPEN. BY COLLABORATING WITH PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY. ALSO STAFF MADE A DETERMINATION THAT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THIS PROJECT ARE CONSISTENT. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. THANKS.

THANK YOU. SO NEXT, WE'LL OPEN UP THE FLOOR FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ANY CONSIDERATION OF THE ORDINANCE APPROVING A PETITION TO REZONE THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 32 87 COUNTY DRAFT AND BE TO GENERAL COMMERCIALS ON THE DISTRICT, UM ONE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICT. IN THE YES, MR FLEMING. WHAT ARE YOU DOING? JEFF FLEMING, 18 19 CHICKEN STOCK AVENUE. SOUNDS LIKE COOL THING, BUT I JUST WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE IT'S IN TWO DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS. HOW DOES IT BENEFIT OR HOW WILL IT HURT PETERSBURG WHAT TAX REVENUE WE RECEIVE. WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE HIGHER TRAFFIC. WE'RE GOING TO GET THE TRAFFIC PART AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET THE TAXES WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW IT'S GOING TO BENEFIT THE CITY OF PETERSBURG IN ORDER TO CHANGE THIS. THERE'S A WAREHOUSE THAT TELLS ME TRUCKS. YOU CAN COME IN HERE. FOR 60 WAS BAD. WE JUST GOT IT DONE SOMEWHAT DECENT. SO IF IT'S INCREASED TRUCKING TRUCK IS GOING IN THERE. WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT ASPECT. WELL, PRINCE GEORGE YES, THE TAX DETACHED, UM, BENEFITS FROM IT.

THAT'S JUST A QUESTION I HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY, SEEING NO MORE HANDS. THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. NEXT UM, MISS NAOMI, TELL ME ABOUT, UM CAN WE ELABORATE ON MR FLEMING'S QUESTION ABOUT THE TAX BENEFITS OF IT BEING IN PETERSBURG COMPARED TO PRINCE GEORGE? SURE I WAS ASKING STAFF TODAY IF WE'VE DONE ANY SORT OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT WITH PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY TO REALLY RESOLVE WHO'S DOING WHAT WHO'S DOING PERMANENT NG WHO'S GETTING THE BENEFITS? DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S BEEN DONE YET, SO I WOULD DEFINITELY THINK THE BEST NEXT STEP FORWARD IS COMING TO YOU ALL WITH AN AGREEMENT THAT WOULD COME TOGETHER WITH PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY TO PROPOSE WHO GETS SOME OF THE BENEFITS, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF US, JUST GETTING TRAFFIC OR SO FORTH. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, COUNSELOR, COBRA. I REALLY APPRECIATE MR FLEMMONS POINT. IT WAS BOTHERING ME. ALSO. PRINCE GEORGE'S GETTING THE PORTION OF THIS PROJECT THAT GENERATES THE MACHINERY AND TOOLS TAX. AND WE'RE GETTING THE PARKING LOT.

HEARD ABOUT REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENTS. I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE, BUT I'VE HEARD OF THE CONCEPT.

AND. IF THAT IS A VALID CONCEPT , IT SEEMS LIKE THIS MIGHT BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY. SO THAT WE TABLE THIS MATTER. UNTIL THE. DIRECTOR OF PLANNING BRINGS US BACK. AN AGREEMENT WITH PRINCE GEORGE. THAT WILL BE MORE FAVORABLE TO PETERSBURG. AND THAT SHE CAN SUPPORT. COUNCILOR MYERS. THE MOTION IN A SECOND. THIS TIME, MADAM CLERK YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. COUNCILOR ROBERT JONES. SMITH LEE HIGH COUNCIL MEMBER MYERS COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK MAYOR PERM. BY MOTIONS PASSED, OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT IS ITEM SEE A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION FOR ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE THIS CHANGE THE REAL PROPERTY WITH THEIR STATE OF WILLIAM A PATENT. SUPPORTED BY. MR ALMOND. YOU WANT TO ELABORATE ON THIS ONE. SO THE CITY HAS

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FOR EXPENSE INCURRED EXPENSES INCURRED IN REAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS RECORDED AN INSTRUMENT TO 02302112. ALL RIGHT. COUNT COUNSELOR. WESTBROOK SECOND MOTION THE SECOND NEXT QUESTION COUNSELING JONES. BUT CAN YOU EXPLAIN ME? WHILE WE WERE IN BRACING THEM AGAIN. THIS. THIS IS THE PROPERTIES THAT WE ARE PURCHASING DOWNTOWN. WE HAD TO ASK FOR A FEW EXTENSIONS. AND DURING THAT TIME WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAD THE PROPERTY SO THEY INCURRED THE TAXES ON THE PROPERTY. ONE ON OUR TIME. A PURCHASE. BUT THEY ENCOURAGED THE YES. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE WAITING WAITING ON US. OKAY, OKAY. OKAY? ALRIGHT WITH EMOTIONAL SECOND AT THIS TIME, MADAM CLERK TREE, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL COUNCIL MEMBER CUSTOMER COUNCIL MEMBER JONES. I REMEMBER SMITH FLEE COUNCIL MEMBER MYERS MEMBER WESTBROOK PERN. MAYOR PERM. I MOTIONS FAST.

ALRIGHT. NEXT WE MOVE ON TO ITEM. E WHICH IS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE REQUEST TO CARRY OVER FY 20 TO BALANCE THE FY 2023 AND FY 2023 BALANCE TO FY 2020 FLOOR, INCLUDING. THE RESPECTIVE FY 2023 PROJECT BUDGET FOR THE PETERSBURG STATION PARKING RAP PROJECT.

SECOND READING, MR WILLIAMS. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING MAYOR. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. YEAH, THIS, UH. ITEM IS JUST TO CARRY OVER BALANCES. THE PARKING LOT WAS SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE. WE HAD THE RIBBON CUTTING AND TIME THAT WAS DONE. AND THEN THERE WERE. OTHER COSTS THAT ONCE UM WANTS TO DIRECTOR FOR TRANSIT. I REALIZED THAT THERE WAS MORE FUNDING OUT THERE THAT DRP WILL REIMBURSE THEM FOR. SPENT TO THE TUNE OF I DON'T KNOW A COUPLE $100,000, BUT THE BUT THE MONEY WAS THERE. BUT IT WASN'T CARRIED OVER ON THE BOOKS. AND SO THEREFORE THIS IS THE GET IT CARRIED OVER BACK ON THE BOOK SO WE CAN PAY THAT. ABOUT 200, SOME ODD $1000, OF WHICH EVERY PENNY OF IT IS REIMBURSABLE BACK TO US WHEN WE SPEND THE MONEY. ALRIGHT THANK YOU. NOW THIS IS THE PUBLIC HEARING BY THE OPEN UP THE FLOOR FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK ON THE REQUEST TO CARRY OVER FY 20 TO BALANCE THE FY 2023 AND FY 2023 BALANCE TO FY 24, INCLUDING THE RESPECTIVE FY 2023 BROAD PROJECT BUDGET FOR THE PETERSBURG STATION PARKING RIDE PROJECT. SAYING NO HANDS THIS PUBLIC HEARING YOUR CLOTHES. NEXT I GO ONTO MOTION OR DISCUSSION BY COUNCIL COUNCILMAN MYERS MOVED. ALL RIGHT. HAUSMANN JONES. SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND, MADAM CLERK. COULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? COUNCIL MEMBER OF COBURG COUNCIL MEMBER JONES COUNCIL MEMBERS FLEE COUNCIL MEMBER MYERS COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK. FROM MY PAST.

OKAY NEXT, WE MOVE ON TO ITEM F A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE AND SALES. GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS OF THE CITY OF PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, PROVIDING FOR THE FORUM. DETAILS OF PAYMENTS, THEREFORE, TO FINANCE THE COURTHOUSE PROJECT. MR ORMAN. MR MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AS WE'VE PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED AT YOUR LAST MEETING WHERE YOU AUTHORIZED US TO ADVERTISE WELL, THE ADVERTISE

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COUNCIL MEMBER JONES COUNCIL MEMBER, SMITH LEE. COUNCIL MEMBER MYERS CALCIUM OVER WESTBROOK. MAYOR PROM I PASSED. ALRIGHT, NEXT WE'RE GOING ON TO ITEM NINE PUBLIC INFORMATION

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PERSONS WHO HAVE NOTIFIED THE CLERK NO LATER THAN 12 O'CLOCK NOON THE DAY OF THE MEETING.

SECOND IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THEIR SIGN UP PERSONS WHO HAVE SIGNED THE SIGN UP SHEET PLAYS BY THE CLERK IN THE REAR OF THE MEETING ROOM PRIOR TO THE MEETING REMOVED FROM THE CASSETTE AGENDA. I HAVE 12345. SIX. FOR TONIGHT. WE'LL START OFF WITH MISS QUEEN SHEBA'S.

WEDNESDAY MAY HAVE CAMERON CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS QUEENS, DR TOBIAS, FOUNDER OF UNITED PARENTS AGAINST THE LID, 501 C THREE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF NON PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO REQUEST THAT THE CITY LIFT THE MORATORIUM FOR TAX EXEMPTIONS. I FOUND IT, YOU PAL 26 YEARS AGO AS THE RESULT OF MY SON BEING POISONED BY LEAD AND ALL THOSE YEARS AND IN ALL THE LOCALITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU PAL HAS A PRESENCE. WE HAVE NEVER HAD TO PAY REAL ESTATE TAXES. WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED TAXES THEM STATUS BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE . YET HERE IN PETERSBURG WILL CONTINUOUSLY BUILD THAT MAKES IT HARD FOR NON PROFITS TO DO BUSINESS IN THE CITY OF PETERSBURG. 4 64 BERN STREET BUILDING FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BOAT. 20 CLUB, WAS DONATED TO MY ORGANIZATION IN 2019 AND EXCHANGE THAT WE PAY BACK TAXES AND OTHER EXPENSES THAT HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED BY BOTH 20. WE SAVED THE BUILDING FROM BEING SOLD BY SENSE ANDERSON AND POSSIBLE DEMOLITION. YOU POUND PAID THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO TAXING AUTHORITY CONSULTANT SERVICES AND BROUGHT THE TAXES. BALANCE 02 A ZERO BALANCE IN EARLY 2020. IT IS THEREFORE INCONCEIVABLE THAT WITHIN TWO YEARS WE WOULD GET A REAL ESTATE TAX BILL FOR $14,768. AND NOW TO THE POINT OF THE CITY, THREATENING TO AGAIN SELL THE BUILDING OUT FROM UNDER US. THIS AFTER WE HAVE INVESTED IN EXCESS OF $300,000 IN HUMAN RESOURCES AND MATERIALS TO BRING THE BUILDING BACK FROM THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE AND CONDEMNATION. THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 4 64 . BERN STREET IS VERY RELEVANT TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN

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THAT IS TERRIBLY WRONG, UNFAIR AND UNJUST AND CERTAINLY PREVENTS US FROM OPERATING AND PROVIDING MUCH NEEDED SERVICES TO OUR COMMUNITY. WHEN WE ARE GRANTED FUNDS MOST TIMES, IT IS STIPULATED THAT THE ORGANIZATION BE TAX EXEMPT. THEREFORE WE ARE NOT GRANTED FUNDS TO COVER TAXES THAT WE ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PAY. SO BEING TAXED AND THIS MAN THAT PUTS US AT A DISADVANTAGE CAUSES FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THREATENS OUR EXISTENCE AS COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS. THEREFORE, WE ASK THAT YOU IMMEDIATELY LIFT THEM OR VITORIA AND PROTECTS EXEMPTIONS THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE IN 2018, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE CITY NOW APPEARS TO BE IN A BETTER FINANCIAL POSITION TO DO SO. LIFTING THE MORATORIUM, WHICH SHOW A GREAT SUPPORT FOR OUR SERVICES AND VALUE THAT NONPROFITS BRING TO THE CITY OF PETERSBURG. IF YOU ARE UNABLE OR UNWILLING TO LIFT THE MORATORIUM , THEN PLEASE CONSIDER ISSUING A WAIVER OR SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION OF REAL ESTATE TAXES THAT ARE BEING BUILT TO NONPROFIT ENTITIES. THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU, MR PASS. THE MAYOR, MR CITY MANAGER? UM, UM YES. AND I WAS JUST GONNA ASK YOUR PERMISSION TO DO IT. COUNSELOR MYERS. MR CITY MANAGER. I'VE BEEN AWARE OF THIS ISSUE. AND NOT THE TAX ISSUE. UM FOR MR BASS, BUT SHE DID PUT IN FOR, UM AN APPLICATION BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO PUT A COMMERCIAL KITCHEN. IN THE FACILITY. WHICH HAS BEEN AN EVENT CENTER FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, AND IT'S TOLD THAT IT HAS REVERTED BACK FROM A COMMERCIAL FACILITY. TO RESIDENTIAL HOW DO YOU GO FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL IN THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS. YEAH. AND I'D APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD TAKE TIME TO SIT DOWN WITH MR ABBAS AND YOUR STAFF. AND GET IT CORRECTED. I DON'T CARE IF IT SIT THERE FOR 3000 YEARS AND YOU WANNA GO FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL IT'S IN AND. AND NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT THE TAX ISSUE. SELF I LET HER FIND THE TIME TO SIT DOWN WITH MR BOND. AS WE KIND OF DISCUSSED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS. BECAUSE OF THE PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURE OF OUR ORDINANCE, UH, HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AND SEE HOW THAT HAPPENED. UM, TYPICALLY, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS ZONED FOR COMMERCIAL YEAST REVERT BACK TO A RESIDENTIAL USE . SO UM, BUT WE'D BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN. I'D BE HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH HER AND TALK THROUGH THE SITUATION AND SEE HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. YES, RIGHT. YES I APPRECIATED THE MAYOR NOW. APPRECIATE IT, MR BAY. AS WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE OVER THERE AND BURN STREET AND ALL THAT YOU HAVE INVESTED IN THAT PARTICULAR SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN YES, A CARD, PLEASE, SIR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, NEXT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO KEIRA MCCULLUM. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE GO ON TO THE LEGENDARY KIN PRIDGET. CAN. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. I'M GONNA TRY TO GET GREETINGS, CORRECT FOR A CHANGE. GREETINGS, MR MAYOR. GOOD EVENING. MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL CITY MANAGER TREASURER. MADAM CLARK. MY NAME IS KEN PRITCHARD. I LIVE AT 11 13 OVER BROOK ROAD. IN PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, AND I HOPE I'LL LEARN TO DO THIS AS WELL AS MR CHRISTIAN USED TO DO IT. I HAVE HAVEN'T SEEN HIM IN YEARS.

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WELL. BECAUSE ONE SITUATION OR SEVERAL SITUATIONS THAT WEST SIDE STREET AND PARTICULAR. THAT DEVELOPERS WANT TO REDEVELOP SOME OF THESE HOUSES THAT DATE BACK TO THE 18 HUNDREDS. BUT WE'VE GOT A ORDINANCE THAT SAYS IF IT HASN'T BEEN OCCUPIED IN TWO YEARS, IT HAS TO REVERT BACK TO A SINGLE FAMILY HOME. WELL, A LOT OF THESE HOMES WERE BUILT AND HISTORICALLY OUR ORIGINS WHERE DUPLEXES AND WE ARE. WE HAVE MADE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE SO FAR THAT I KNOW. SPEND AN EXTRA 30 $40,000 CONVERTING THESE HOUSES BACK TO A SINGLE FAMILY WHEN THEY NEVER WERE. ACTUALLY, YOU CAN IMAGINE THE SUPPORTS IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. ALL HAS TO BE TAKEN DOWN AND RE ENGINEERED.

WELL, UM AND TALKING TO A FEW PEOPLE. THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT NOT. DOING ANY MORE DEVELOPMENT IN PETERSBURG, AND WE DON'T WANT THAT. AT LEAST I DON'T THINK WE WANT THAT. I THINK WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE I RIDE BY THE HEIGHTS EVER. SO OFTEN, I SEE SOME OF THESE HOUSES THAT HAVE BEEN DESERTED FOR 10 2030 YEARS COMING BACK TO LIFE. WELL, THAT'S SO WHAT I'M ASKING IS, CAN YOU LOOK AT YOUR ORDINANCE TO SEE IF IT COULD BE CHANGED OR ADAPTED OR REVISED TO ACCOMMODATE? PUTTING THESE HOUSES BACK ON THE MARKET, INCREASING TAX REVENUE AND MAKING THEM UH, DUPLEXES IF THEY WERE OR SINGLE FAMILY IF THEY WERE THAT'S THE FIRST THING I'VE GOT, UM, ANOTHER THING. OF AND MR MAYOR. HAVE YOU GIVEN THE LIP SERVICE ON APPROVING THIS? BUT I'VE ASKED FOR YEARS IF WE COULD TAKE WASHINGTON STREET WHERE IT'S COMING OVER. I 95 AND MAKE A MERGE LANE SO THAT THE TRAFFIC COMING OFF OF I 95 SOUTH DOESN'T HAVE TO STOP. THEY COULD CONTINUE ON BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A MAJOR SAFETY FACTOR. AND IF WE LOOK AT THE CERTAIN TIMES OF THE YEAR, TRAFFIC IS BACKING UP ON THE 9 95. I DON'T WANT US TO GET INTO NATIONAL NEWS AT A TRACTOR TRAILER WIPES OUT ABOUT 10 OR 12 LIVES. BY RAMMING INTO THIS TRAFFIC, SO WOULD YOU LOOK AT WHAT COULD BE DONE TO MAYBE CONVERT THAT TO A MERGE LANE SO TRAFFIC ON 95 RAMP DOES NOT HAVE TO STOP. UM LET'S SEE. I'VE GOT . ONE OF THE QUICK THING LIKE FOR YOU TO AGAIN WE HAVE VISITORS COMING TO THE CITY, AND THIS IS ALSO PART OF THE REAL ESTATE APPEAL OF THE CITY. UM WE GET COMMENTS OF HOW LITTERED THE CITY IS AND HOW IT'S ESPECIALLY IF YOU LOOK AT THE ON RAMPS. UH, ON CRATER ROAD AND SEVERAL OTHERS. UM THERE'S LITTER. I DON'T CARE HOW FAST YOU GO OUT AND PICK IT UP. PLEASE LOOK AT WHAT WE CAN DO, UH, TO INCREASE OUR LITTER FINES AND CAPTURING LETTERS, MAYBE WITH THE TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE TODAY. MAYBE WE COULD PUT CAMERAS OF ACROSS FROM THE ENTRANCES TO THESE RAMPS AND CATCH A LICENSE PLATE HERE AND THERE AND MAKE OUR LITTER THE UP TO AS MUCH AS $2000 PER OCCURRENCE. BUT I LIKE TO SEE IF YOU COULD LOOK INTO THAT. UM THAT'S UM THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO BRING UP TONIGHT TO SEE IF YOU CONSIDER MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT. I SEE. AND I APPRECIATE YOU LIKE ME. GET TO IT. I'LL TRY TO GET SHORTER AS WE GO ON. BUT IF YOU HAVE, IF YOU WOULD ALLOW ME TO, UH, JUST MAKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS ABOUT THE TREASURER SITUATION, UM I WOULD. I WON'T TAKE A LOT OF TIME. MR WILLIAMS. IT WAS THAT BY THAT BEING ON THE AGENDA, CAN WE WELL, I THINK THAT TIME HAVING EXPIRED YOU YOU DON'T HAVE TO ALLOW THE EXTENDED DISCUSSION BUT COME BACK IN AND WE'RE HAVING A DISCUSSION.

ALRIGHT? BELIEVE YOU ONE THOUGHT , YES. 90% OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES IN THE STATE OF

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AND JUST ONE MORE THING ON MR PRITCHARD'S, UM COMMENTS REGARDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE.

I THINK EVERYBODY ON COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW THAT BOTH COUNCILMAN CUPBOARD AND COUNCILMAN MYERS HAVE SEPARATELY MADE SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO CORRECT THAT ISSUE THAT HE'S DESCRIBED AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON I BELIEVE A THIRD ITERATION, SO IT'S LIKELY THAT COUNCIL WILL SEE A PROPOSED TEXT AMENDMENT TO THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. RIGHT AND ON THAT TRAFFIC TRAFFIC THING, MR. MR ARMAND. ISN'T THERE A STUDY GOING ON TO, YOU KNOW, ASK FOR THAT FOR THAT EXIT RAMP. YES SIR. MR MAYOR THERE. CURRENTLY WE HAVE A STUDY THAT'S BEEN CONDUCTED BY B DOT FOR THE I 95 CORRIDOR, STARTING WITH THE EXIT IN COLONIAL HEIGHTS COMING TO WASHINGTON STREET. THROUGH THE CRATER ROAD EXIT AND THEN OFF TO 85 LOOKING AT ALL THOSE INTERCHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD NEED TO BE MADE. ONE OF WHAT ONE OF THOSE ITEMS THAT HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN THOSE MEETINGS IS THE TRAFFIC THAT BACKS UP. SOUTHBOUND 95 ONTO THE WESTBOUND WASHINGTON STREET EXIT AS AN AREA OF CONCERN, SO THEY'RE FACTORING THAT INTO THE OVERALL STUDY AS TO HOW TO ADDRESS THAT INTERCHANGE HOLISTICALLY, ALONG WITH THE DISCUSSION OF MAKING WASHINGTON AND WITH BOTH WAYS, SO THAT'S ONGOING. CURRENTLY IT'S BEEN A TOPIC FOR MANY YEARS, RIGHT? AND KEN ONE LAST THING WHILE YOU'RE HERE. I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP THAT THING WITH THE LETTER. I'M GONNA TAKE SOME PERSONAL PRIVILEGE HERE JUST TO TALK ABOUT IT, UH, THIS PAST SATURDAY. OKAY I'M ON 95 GETTING OFF FROM THE GRAHAM ROAD EXIT.

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I'M BEHIND A GENTLEMAN DRIVING A GOLD MINIVAN TOSSING PIZZA BOXES. BOTTLES OUT . I BLEW THE HORN. HE SEE ME PULL OFF. THEN HE GO DOWN CRATER ROAD TALKS MORE TRASH. ALRIGHT.

AND VALENTINE. HE GOT TO CRATER SQUARE. I CALLED CHIEF CHRISTIAN . I SAID, CHIEF, I GOT THIS GUY IN FRONT OF ME THROWING TRASH. SEND ME EVERYBODY YOU HAVE BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA CATCH ONE TODAY. SO NEEDLESS TO SAY, I'VE FOLLOWED HIM DOWN. CREATE A ROADIE TRIED TO ELUDE ME AND HE ENDED UP SPEEDING ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO JESSE LEE APARTMENTS DIPPED OFF TRYING TO LOSE ME. I WAS BEHIND HIM CAME BACK OUT THE CREATOR ROAD, HE HIT THE GAS AGAIN GOING THE OTHER DIRECTION.

AND I END UP RUNNING THEM INTO WHO PETERSBURG'S FINEST. THANK YOU. PETERSBURG POLICE FOR CATCHING THEIR LITTER BUG. HE WAS FROM CHESTERFIELD COUNTY. COMING THROUGH HERE, JUST THROWING TRASH ALL THROUGHOUT OUR CITY, AND I'M ASKING EVERYBODY TO PLEASE, PLEASE, WHEN YOU SEE THESE PEOPLE DON'T LET THEM TRASH OUR CITY, OKAY, BECAUSE THEY ARE DELIBERATELY DOING THROWING TRASH THROUGH HERE. AND THIS TRASH IS NOT FROM PETERSBURG BUT THANK CHIEF CHRISTIAN AND HIS PETERSBURG POLICE FORCE CAN IF YOU SEE ANY OF THEM. YOU CALL ME. WE'RE GONNA GET HIM. WE'RE GONNA TAKE HIM TO COURT. I GO TO COURT WITH THIS GUY NEXT MONTH. JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROSECUTE THEM TO LET PEOPLE KNOW WE'RE SERIOUS ABOUT TRASHING OUR CITY TIME. WE DO THAT. YES YOU HAVE TO DEPUTIZE THE MAYOR TO. UH YEAH, ANYWAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, KAREN. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE HAVE MR ROY JORDANS. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS ROY. GEORGE. I LIVE IN 18 06. WEST CLARA DRIVE. I THINK THAT'S THE SECOND TIME I'VE EVER BEEN HERE. ONE WAS WHEN WE PLAYED FOOTBALL YEARS AGO. AND THE SECOND TIME IS RIGHT NOW. UM I JUST GOT SOME QUESTIONS BECAUSE I'VE BEEN JUST THINKING OF THINGS AND SAID I WOULD COME TO MY COUNCIL MEETING ASKED SOME QUESTIONS. SO HERE GOES. WHEN I DRIVE UP AND DOWN I'M 95. AND I STOPPED AT DIFFERENT PLACES. ONE OF THE PLACES I'VE NEVER CAN STOP HIS HERE IN PETERSBURG. BECAUSE THERE IS NO ADEQUATE HOTELS OR RESTAURANTS OR NOWHERE TO EAT AT YOU CAN'T STOP AND LET ME MAKE SURE PETERSBURG THAT SEX 85 ON ONE SIDE AND 85 OR ANOTHER. SO THOSE ARE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE ARE COMING THROUGH HERE. EVERY DAVE EVERY YEAR EVERY MONTH. AND SO WHERE DO THEY GO? TO PETERSBURG. WHEN THEY WANT TO STOP OFF. I KNOW DOWNTOWN LOOK

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MR FOR ME. GO AHEAD, JEFF. YEAH. YES YES, WE DO. WE'LL WE'LL GET YOUR COPY THAT YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN AS WELL. ALL RIGHT, MR FLEMING. GOOD EVENING, JEFF LEMON 18 19 CHECK IT TOOK AVENUE. I'VE LIVED IN OTHER CITIES. WORKED IN OTHER CITIES AND THROUGH MY LIFE. I THINK I'VE LIVED HERE IN PETERSBURG THE LONGEST AND ANY OF THE CITIES I'VE BEEN IN UM AND I'M

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BUT THERE'S SOME ISSUES THAT NEED ADDRESSING THE COULD END UP PUTTING US IN LIABILITY FOR ONE THE TWO WERE MISSING THAT REVENUE. SO AND I SAW THAT AND I'VE GOT A LITTLE UPSET WITH IT, AND I WAS LIKE, WHOA! THIS DEPARTMENT SHOULD TALK TO THIS DEPARTMENT. THERE SHOULD BE A MEAN IT'S NOT THAT THEY DON'T TALK IS THERE SHOULD BE A MEANS A METHOD. THAT WHEN YOU PUSH IN FOR THIS EVENING, DING DING DING BLING BLING HERE. OH, HERE, YOU KNOW, AND MOST JURISDICTIONS HAVE THAT I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE TECHNOLOGY WE DON'T HAVE OR WHAT? BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE REALLY REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT. BECAUSE WE'RE MISSING OUT. LIKE I SAID, FOR ONE TO PUT US IN LIVE LIABILITY ISSUES. NUMBER TWO. THAT'S REVENUE. AND WE'RE DOING A COURTHOUSE. WE'RE DOING ALL THIS STUFF. WE'RE GOING TO NEED SOME REVENUE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MEXICO, TOO. WALLACE.

WAR. DO HIS WIFE. I'M NOT SURE. I CAN SPEAK, BUT I WANT TO ADDRESS THE MATTER ON 13 8. OKAY WELL, WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU AT 13 80. OKAY, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO WE'RE GOING TO KEEP MOVING ON. AND, UM. THANKS TO MOVE THE ITEM. NINE. BUSINESS REPORTS FROM THE MAYOR OF THE

[10. Business or reports from the Mayor or other Members of City Council]

AND ALSO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DOES NOT DO ITS JOB. HMM. MR LEWIS.

APPRECIATE THAT. THIS IS YOUR FIRST SOLO NIGHT. WITHOUT MR VAN BOYS. BUT WOULD YOU PLEASE PUT UP ON THE SCREEN FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE. THE. PHOTO OF LIBERTY STREET 29 LIBERTY BEFORE DEMOLITION. IT WAS TAKEN EARLIER THIS YEAR IN SPRING. LIBERTY STREET, 29.

ALRIGHT. WELL, SO MUCH FOR THAT, UM MAYBE NEXT TIME. MR ALTMAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIBERTY TREATMENT I DON'T OTHER THAN I DID. I KNOW I WASN'T AWARE THAT MR VAN WHO WHERE HE WASN'T GOING TO BE HERE THIS TONIGHT, SO THAT MAY BE PART OF THE ISSUE ON MY BEHALF.

UM BUT WE'LL MAKE SURE WE HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE FOR YOU ON YEAH. IS THAT THEY'RE CORRECT DAY.

WHEN. I THINK THE NEXT MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 5TH. BUT WE DON'T COUNSEL DOESN'T GET TO SPEAK.

TOP. MY APOLOGIES. IT'LL BE 1919 . WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT, THEN THAT'S FINE. IT'S THE PROBLEM IS CAM IS NOT OF THE ESSENCE. LET ME TURN TO A HAPPY HAPPY TOPIC. OH ON JULY 13. I WAS GIVEN A TOUR OF THE PROGRAM THAT CITY COUNCIL IS HIP HELPED THE FUND. IT'S A WALLET HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SPEARHEADED BY THE GREATER RICHMOND Y M. C. A. AND IT WAS VERY SATISFIED.

GRATIFYING. TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. UM. IN ONE CLASSROOM. THERE WAS A SMALL GROUP OF

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BUT YOU SAID EXACTLY. NOW LET'S GO TO LET'S GO TO Z. WHAT IS THE SOUND THAT YOU ASSOCIATE WITH Z? THERE WAS A PICTURE OF A ZEBRA UNDERNEATH HIS HE AND THE KIDS, SAID ZEBRA. BUT YOU SAID NO, NO.

WHAT SOUND DO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH THE Z? OKAY, TRY IT AGAIN. ZEBRA. THE TEACHER SAID, NO.

WHAT? WHAT WHAT'S THE STARTING LETTER OF THAT WORD? WHAT WHAT SOUND DO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH THIS MATTER? AND ON THE THIRD TRIAL, THE KID GOT Z. TEACHER SAID EXACTLY. AND THAT WAS VERY GRATIFYING FROM BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING. LITERACY. IN TOTAL. AND IT WAS WORKING. AND IN LARGE PART THAT PROGRAM HIS DUE TO THE EFFORTS OF THIS CITY COUNCIL, CONTRIBUTING TO IT. AND I THINK EVERY MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL FOR HELPING TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. IT REALLY WAS A VERY AS I SAY, GRATIFYING EXPERIENCE TO WATCH LITERACY BEING TAUGHT. IN THE SCHOOLS. THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN TAUGHT. PETERSBURG CITY COUNCIL HAD NOT CONTRIBUTED IN A VERY SIGNIFICANT WAY. THAT PROGRAM. SO, UM THERE ARE THINGS VERY GOOD ABOUT THIS CITY. YEAH, HARD THINGS THAT ARE HAPPY. YEAH ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING TO MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE? AND THIS CITY COUNCIL. IS AMONG THEM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. THANK YOU. NEXT WE GO TO COUNSELING JONES. OKAY? RIGHT HERE, COUNSELOR. THIS PICTURE UP HERE. OH, YES, OKAY. I'M SORRY. I'M HAVING A HARD TIME WITH THAT, MICHAEL. IT'S HAVING A HARD TIME WITH ME. UM SO, UH, TURNING FROM HAPPY TO NOT SO HAPPY. UM. THIS IS 29. LIBERTY STREET. AS IT APPEARED. IT'S SOMETIME IN THE PAST. YOU KNOW? IF YOU COULD SHOW. ALSO MR LEWIS, THE NEXT PHOTOGRAPH OF 29 LIBERTY STREET. AND HE HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE UP ON GOOGLE MAPS. OKAY? I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. OKAY, WELL, WE'RE BACK TO LET'S TRY AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER THE NINTH, OKAY? ALRIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS FOR TRYING.

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WHO FEEL LIKE THEY CAN DO IT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW NO BETTER BECAUSE WE HAVE STARTED TO TRAIN ON DOING IT TO OURSELVES. SO WHY NOT JOIN THE PARTY? SO WHEN YOU SEE STUFF HAPPENING IN THIS CITY IS NOT DON'T AUTOMATICALLY THINK IS OUR YOUTH. DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY THINK IT'S OUR CITIZENS. JUST AS EASY AS THEY THREW THEM PIZZA BOXES OUTSIDE OF ON THAT HIGHWAY. THE SAME WAY THEY CAN SHOOT A GUN. AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS CITY. AND LET US DEAL WITH IT LATER. THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR CITY. WE'RE BETTER THAN THAT. WE HAVE TO BE ON ALERT AND WATCH OUT FOR THOSE WHO WAS VISITING US VISITING OUR NEIGHBORS. WE GOT TO STOP MINING OUR OWN BUSINESS AND START MINING EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS IN THIS CITY. WE HAVE. TO AS FAR AS THE WORKFORCE AND ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF. WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY THAT EITHER WANT TO BE HERE ? WE GOT SOME THAT WANT TO BE HERE, BUT IF WE DON'T COME TO WORK, AND WE SHOULDN'T COME TO WORK TO LIKE. EACH OTHER. WE GOTTA COME. WE'RE GONNA DO A JOB. THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PETERSBURG AGAIN. AND OTHER LOCALITIES. THERE'S PURPOSE AND THIS POLICY AND WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH FOLLOWING BOTH OF THEM AND I LOCALITY. YOU KNOW, IN EVERY DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEBODY AND YOU START RUNNING TO THE CITY MANAGER OR YOU'RE RENTING ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OR YOU JUST RUN FOR PROTECTION BECAUSE YOU AIN'T FOLLOWING POLICY AND PURPOSE. YOUR PURPOSE IS TO HELP US MOVE THE CITY FORWARD. THAT'S THE PURPOSE. AND THERE'S POLICIES ALREADY ESTABLISHED. BUT IF YOU'RE IN A SUPERVISOR POSITION YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT SET OF POLICIES AND PURPOSE THAT YOU GOT TO FOLLOW. YOU HAVE TO TREAT PEOPLE WITH RESPECT. YOU GOT TO MAKE THEM WANT TO COME TO WORK HERE. WE GOT TO SELL PETERSBURG TO OURSELVES. YOU KNOW, UM. I'M GETTING READY TO, UH. YEAH. GETTING READY TO OPEN UP. A SKATING RINK IN PETERSBURG. AND EVERYBODY'S EXCITED ABOUT IT. I THOUGHT I KEPT IT A SECRET. IT'S STILL A SECRET LOCATION. HMM. WHAT WAS STRIKE ME AS ODD AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND IS HOW SOME PEOPLE THINK. IT'S TOO DANGEROUS DUDE IN THIS CITY HOW IS SOMETHING THAT'S BENEFICIAL TO ALL AGES. DIFFICULT. UH OR DANGEROUS TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS CITY. I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT NOTHING BECAUSE I GOT Y'ALL THAT'S GONNA PROTECT IT. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I GOT THE YOUTH. THE YOUTH IS SAYING COACH MARLOWE IS OUR HERO. THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID IN HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY FINALLY GOT SOMETHING. HE ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING, BUT AGAIN, WE HAD A PERPETRATOR'S COMING IN OUR CITY. DESTROYING WHAT WE HAVE. WE'RE NOT HOLDING OUR VISITORS ACCOUNTABLE. YOU KNOW, UM. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS TO EVERYBODY IS HERE. THANK YOU, TOO. EVERYBODY'S LISTENING AND WATCHING. ALL THE SICK AND SHOT IN. WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.

UM A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR BERKEL AMENITY FIXED DEFENSE OUT THERE AND CUT THE GRASS AND HEADED RIGHT FOR A FAMILY UNION THIS WEEKEND AND I JUST WANT TO SEE EVERYBODY KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. AND IF YOU'RE NOT DOING A GOOD JOB, DO A GOOD JOB DO A BETTER JOB. EVERY DAY. WE GOT TO COME AND DO BETTER. WE GOT YOU. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES. WE GOT A DUTY TO ACT. EVERYBODY HAVE A DUTY TO ACT. YOU KNOW? SO LIKE THAT, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU GUYS, MAN. I'M I'M SIX MONTHS AND WEALTH. LET ME SEVEN MONTHS IN, UH, NEXT WEEK. AND,

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BUT TO MY YOUTH, I WOULD HAVE NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE. YOU COULDN'T HAVE TOLD ME THAT I WOULD BE HERE. EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. TO YOU GUYS. WE GOTTA COMMISSIONER REVENUE THAT WE'VE BEEN OVER BACKWARDS AND MAKE SURE YOU GET A BUSINESS LIKE EVERYBODY NEEDS A BUSINESS LICENSE. OKAY, IF YOU'RE SELLING NICE BIRDS GET A BUSINESS LICENSE. WHAT'S UP? YOU KNOW? UM . TELL THE KIDS THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE 18 TO GET A BUSINESS. TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR TO BE AN EVENT OR THEY AIN'T GOTTA WAIT. LET THEM KNOW THEY CAN BE SPECIAL. RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE SPECIAL THEY'RE GONNA TAKE OUR POLICE UP HERE AND SOMEBODY'S GONNA BE READING ABOUT SOMEBODY GONNA BE READING ABOUT Y'ALL. IT'S ALL I GOT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT, UM COUNCILMAN WESTBROOK. DISSERTATION IN THAT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, UM UM, WE TRY TO KEEP THIS SHORT OF AND I THINK THAT AS I WAS WRITING THIS LAST NIGHT, UM MUST HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT AHEAD OF MY TIME BECAUSE A LOT OF THE THINGS HOPEFULLY YOU'LL HEAR IS THINGS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD TONIGHT. UM, BUT I START OUT BY SAYING DON'T WORRY. WE'VE GOT THIS TOGETHER. THAT WAS MY TITLE. DON'T WORRY. WE'VE GOT THIS TOGETHER. UM AND I DO THIS I SAY THIS APPROPRIATELY TODAY IS NATIONAL ALL OR NOTHING DAY YOU CAN LOOK IT UP ON YOUR OWN.

THERE'S ALWAYS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY. SO TODAY IS ALL OR NOTHING TO SAY. AND I USED THAT HOLIDAY TO PREFERENCE HAVING A PUBLIC BUYING. UM I THINK WE'VE HEARD FROM THE GENTLEMAN. UM MR JORDAN'S FIGURE PER FROM MR FLEMING. WE DEFINITELY HEARD FROM COUNCIL. BUT IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT PUBLIC BUYING. I REALLY STILL FEEL LIKE PETERSBURG IS STILL ON THAT UPWARD TRAJECTORY , BUT WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF STAIRS THAT WE CAN CLIMB TOGETHER IF WE ALL JUST WORK TOGETHER. UM I KNOW. RECENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN COMMUNITY MEETINGS WHERE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GOING FORWARD. HOW CAN WE CHART TO TRAJECTORY THAT EVERYBODY CAN BUY INTO? UM HOW WELL, THOSE MEETINGS WERE ATTENDED? UM I WON'T SIT UP HERE AND MISQUOTE, BUT I WOULD BEAR TO THINK THAT IT'S LIKE THIS ROOM. UM, A MAYBE A COUPLE. PINS. MAYBE 100 OUT OF 33,000. BUT IF THESE ARE THE VOICES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD THOSE ONES THAT COME UP TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENTS. UM I KNOW I WRITE DOWN WITH WHAT YOU SAY. I KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUES HE DO WHAT YOU SAY. AND WE DO I TRY BEST TO MOVE THE CITY FORWARD. UM BUT I QUESTION AGAIN. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT PETERSBURG BECAUSE WE LOVE IT ENOUGH TO SERVE IT. YOU LOVE IT ENOUGH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT IT. BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING TO REALLY MAKE ACTION ON IT TOGETHER? UM HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS CITY GREAT AGAIN? DO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THINGS LIKE COOPERATIVES? AS BEING OUR NEXT STEP. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT COOPERATIVES ARE GO AND LOOK THEM UP, THERE ARE THINGS LIKE PRODUCER MARKETING COOPERATIVES WHERE YOU MIGHT GET POCKETS THAT COME TOGETHER TO KNOW HOW TO MARKET THEIR OWN AREA. I HAVE A STRETCH OF LAND IN THE WEST WASHINGTON STREET THAT THE ASIAN COMMUNITY UM. HOMES UM, AND I'VE ALWAYS HAD THAT JOKE. I'VE NEVER SEEN A CHINESE FOOD COMMERCIAL, BUT WE ALL FREQUENT THEM TO GET OUR FOOD. HOW DO THEY GET US TO COME INTO THEIR BUSINESSES SO THAT WE CAN SUPPORT THEM AND MAYBE AGAIN GO FORWARD BY SUPPORTING EACH OTHER CONSUMER OPERATIVES. WE ARE CONSUMERS WE CAN GET TOGETHER TO HAVE BUYING POWER. UM WORKER COOPERATIVES AS A STAFF. IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE BEING UNDESERVED, OR YOU'RE NOT BEING HEARD, AND, UH YOU DON'T GET AN EMAIL READ, HOW CAN YOU AND IT'S NOT A UNION? I DON'T WANT TO GET THAT CONFUSED WITH UNIONS. IT'S JUST A COOPERATIVE OF EVERYBODY BUYING INTO A GREATER GOOD. UM A NONPROFIT. I HEARD MR ABBAS UP HERE TALKING ABOUT NONPROFITS. THERE'S A KNOT OF NONPROFITS THAT ARE TRYING THEIR BEST TO DO WHAT'S GREAT FOR PETERSBURG. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE AS A WHOLE CAN'T WAIT ON AN ENTERTAINMENT RESORT OR CASINO TO SAVE US. WE MEANING THE ENTIRE PETERSBURG COMMUNITY HAVE TO INVEST IN THINGS LIKE THAT COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN. UM WE HAVE TO HAVE COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND TALKS AMONGST EACH OTHER TO SEE HOW WE CAN HELP OUT THE PLANNING COMMISSION. UM I KNOW YOU COME TO A CITY COUNCIL MEETING. BUT DO YOU GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION? UM, ARE YOU WILLING TO HELP OUT OUR NEW PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, MR NAOMI, SCION MARK. I SAID THAT CORRECTLY. SHE'S UP HERE TONIGHT. UM, THAT'S THE PERSON AGAINST THE GENTLEMAN WAS HERE. HE COULD GO TALK TO HER. HOPEFULLY HOPEFULLY SHE HAS AN OPEN DOOR POLICY WHERE SHE CAN HEAR THE CONCERNS OF RESIDENTS TO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SEE PEOPLE GO FORWARD. UM WELL, WE EMBRACE AND COMPLY OR WATCH HER FALL. ABOUT OUR LACK OF COOPERATION.

WILL WE COOPERATE WITH CHIEF CHRISTIAN? UM, I KNOW COMING OUT OF MY ERA THERE WAS THAT STOP

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ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT FROM THAT. WHEN GOOD PEOPLE LEAVE. AND PEOPLE SAY, OH, THEY LEAVING. OH, OH, JUST WHAT. BUT GOD ALWAYS PROVIDE US WITH MORE GOOD PEOPLE. SO I APPRECIATE YOU ALL WANTED TO COME TO PETERSBURG AND I HOPE AND PRAY THAT YOU ALL WOULD DO YOUR VERY BEST. TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. BECAUSE WE DO LOVE OUR CITY. AND I THANK YOU FOR COMING. I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO RICHARD HARRIS, WHO WAS THE INTERIM UM, PUBLIC, UM, WORKS THE AND UTILITY DIRECTOR.

HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THAT POSITION, MAYBE A FEW MONTHS. BUT A JOB WELL DONE, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DO YOU, YOU MENTOR PEOPLE, SO IF SOMEBODY LEAVE SOMEBODY ELSE CAN TAKE OVER. SO I APPRECIATE YOU, MR HARRIS. I DON'T THINK I SEE YOU OUT THERE. OKAY? ALSO I WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL THE STUDENTS. UM WHO GRADUATED FROM PETERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL WHO ARE GOING ON TO COLLEGE WHO HAVE GOTTEN SCHOLARSHIPS WHO ARE GOING INTO THE MILITARY? AND WHO JUST, YOU KNOW, WANT A JOB? SO I DO WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE, UM, YOUTH. ALSO, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE. KENNETH MILLER AND MISS KEISHA WHITE AND THE HR DEPARTMENT. WE HAD ALMOST 80 STUDENTS FOR THE CITY OF PETERSBURG. AND THE FUNDING DIDN'T COME. FROM JESS. UM US.

UM, KEYS, DOMINION. DOMINION POWER. AND THESE YOUTH OF 80. WE HAVE MADE AN IMPACT BECAUSE THEY'RE GETTING PAID AND LEARNING SOMETHING. DOING THE SUMMER AND I APPRECIATE THEM GOING TO EXTRA MOUTH TO MAKE SURE THAT SOME OF OUR YOUTH ARE DOING SOMETHING DOING THE SUMMER, SO I APPRECIATE THAT. OKAY I APPRECIATE MARK KEITH AND UM JENELLE AND MASSENBURG. FOR IT'S SHOWING THAT I YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DO DURING THE SUMMER. BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY PETERSBURG STRONG IT'S A NEW DAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM. NEXT TIME. I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT. WE HAVE THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AGAINST CRIME CHIEF, UM NEXT TUESDAY.

AUGUST 1ST NEXT TUESDAY, AUGUST 1ST. SO, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING AROUND TO ALL THE COOKOUTS BRING OUT YOUR BEST HIGH DOGS, HAMBURGERS, CHEESEBURGERS AND LET US KNOW WE'LL BE THERE. TYPICALLY NO. LAST YEAR WE HAD PETER'S VERY BELIEVED STATE POLICE. UM, WE HAD MOST OF OUR CITY ADMINISTRATION GOING AROUND, SO WE'LL BE COMING TO A COOKOUT NEAR YOU. AND. I JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE AND MY APPRECIATION FOR OUR CITY MANAGER AT THIS TIME. I KNOW. UM UM, MR CITY MANAGER MARCH, ALTMAN AND I WAS IN NEW YORK. ON WALL STREET, TALKING UP THE CITY OF PETERSBURG TO MOODY'S AND STANDARD AND POOR AND FITCH. AND OUR FRIENDS AT DAVENPORT'S SPONSORED THE MEETING FOR US TO GET US UP THERE IN FRONT OF THOSE RATING AGENCIES AND WE WERE VERY WELL RECEIVED. SO JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE A GREAT CITY MANAGER. THAT IS THAT DOES A GREAT JOB PRESENTING AND, UM BECAUSE THE PURPOSE OF THE RATING ABC, UH, TRIP THAT WE HAVE WE FORMALLY INTRODUCED MARCH. ALTMAN IS A NEW CITY MANAGER OF PETERSBURG NUMBER TWO, WE PROVIDED PERSPECTIVE ON THE CITY OF PETERSBURG CONTINUED IMPROVEMENTS IN FISCAL HEALTH BASED ON AUDITED FINANCIAL TRENDS. OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS . THEY'RE STRUCTURALLY BALANCED , FY 23 AND 24 BUDGETS. AND MAJOR INITIATIVES GOING FORWARD WITH RESPECT TO THE CITY'S GENERAL FIND ENTERPRISE, WATER AND SEWER UTILITY FINDS THIRD, WE PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE CITY'S RECENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS, INITIATIVES AND FUTURE PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE FOR THE REQUESTED BOND RATINGS FOR THE CITY'S PROPOSED GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR THE NEW

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OKAY? BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR ME FOR US. KIT. CAN YOU GET THE MIC? HELLO OKAY. OKAY. PERFECT ALRIGHT, THERE WE GO. ALRIGHT UM MY NAME IS WALLACE WARDEN. I'M REAL ESTATE INVESTOR OWNED THE BUILDING AT 16 02 WEST WASHINGTON STREET. CURRENTLY RENTED TO MICHELLE AND LIKE SHE HAS BEEN WAITING ON THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR ABOUT 45 MONTHS NOW. YOU CAN'T GET A BUSINESS LICENSE. SHE CAN'T OPERATE ON ANYTHING THERE AND SHE ALSO BEEN PAYING RENT, SO I MEAN, SHE'S TRYING TO OPEN UP A CAR WASH. AND SHE PICKS UP THE BUILDING REAL GOOD. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL RAP AT 16 AND TO WASHINGTON. SHE DID A LOT TO THE TO THE BUILDING AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO I CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, PATH AND SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A CAR WASH. CAN YOU TELL ME? WHY DIDN'T MOVE TO SEPTEMBER? UM, THAT WAS ON. SO THERE WAS SOME CONCERN WITH MEETING THE REQUIRED ADVERTISING AND POSTING REQUIREMENTS IN THE STATE CODE.

SO IF. POTENTIALLY IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD, AND THAT BECAME AN ISSUE THAT WOULD NOT POTENTIALLY BE AN ISSUE THAT SOMEONE CAN BRING. TO NULL AND VOID THE DECISION OF COUNCIL SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CHECK ALL THE BOXES CORRECTLY AND FOLLOW THE PROPER PROCEDURES. THAT'S WHY IT WAS PULLED SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THAT. SO THE WIND COUNCIL DOES VOTE. THEIR ACTION IS CORRECT. OKAY YOU YOU SAID IT WAS A PROBLEM. WHAT? THERE'S A REQUIREMENT TO POST THE PROPERTY WITHIN A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS, FIVE DAYS AND WE JUST WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE'S SOME CONCERN THAT THAT WASN'T DONE. WHICH WOULD LEAD TO A PROCEDURAL ISSUE. AND WE WANT TO MAKE. WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE CAN CHECK ALL THE MARKS ON THE PROCEDURAL ISSUES THAT ARE IN THE CODE AS WE MAKE IS WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, PLANNING COMMISSION AND COUNCIL MAKE DECISIONS AND APPROVALS AND DENIALS. WE DON'T CHECK ALL THE BOXES FROM A PROCEDURAL PERSPECTIVE THAT PUTS THOSE DECISIONS INTO QUESTION. SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DO THAT SO AND I'M NOT. I'M NOT SPEAKING OVER HALF A COUNCIL TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO, BUT LET'S ASSUME THEY IMPROVE IT. IF THERE'S A PROCEDURAL MISTAKE BACK AND ENDANGER THEIR APPROVAL. OKAY? SO WHO WHO DIDN'T CHECK OUT THE BOX? WE'RE WORKING THROUGH THAT NOW, OKAY? I AM, WHEN IS THE NEW DATE? SEPTEMBER. 5TH 19. YEAH IF WE'RE GONNA DO A SPECIAL MEETING ON THE FIFTH JUST TO MAKE UP FOR IT INSTEAD OF WAITING TILL THE END OF SEPTEMBER. OKAY. APPRECIATE

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WE CAME HERE EARLIER THIS MONTH. TO GIVE YOU ALL OUR PROCESSES AND JUST OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM YEAR 23 SUB RECIPIENTS. SO IF DRIVER. TWO SLIDES CAN BRING UP THE PRESENTATION. WE CAN ROLL THROUGH IT. SHOULD JUST BE A FEW SLIDES. IT SHOULD BE INSIDE OF THE ACTUALLY. AS STATED BEFORE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL LIKE I SAID WE WERE HERE EARLIER THIS MONTH. TO GIVE YOU ALL THE PRESENTATION NOT ONLY OF OUR PROCESSES, BUT JUST GIVE YOU A OVERALL VIEW OF THE SUB RECIPIENTS. FROM THE BOARD. I WILL SAY THIS WE HAVE A DIVERSE GROUP OF SUB RECIPIENTS FOR PROGRAM 23. IT MEETS THE THREE NATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF SERVING LOADED MODERATE INCOME RESIDENTS , PREVENTING AND ELIMINATING BLIGHT AND MEETING URGENT NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. SO AS IT STANDS RIGHT HERE, THIS IS THE PROGRAM YEAR 23 RECOMMENDATIONS.

AFTER OUR FIRST MEETING, CITY COUNCIL WAS GIVEN TIME PERIOD TO PROVIDE INPUT ON SUB RECIPIENTS.

SO HERE IS OUR RECOMMENDATIONS. IF WE GO TO THE NEXT PAGE, PLEASE. THOSE HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW, WHERE THE INITIAL UH CITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDATIONS WE RECEIVED FROM COUNCILMAN MYERS.

UH SO THAT IS THE CHANGE THE CITY COUNCIL HAS RECOMMENDED AS YOU'LL SEE. RIVER STREET MARKET, AND HE BRAUN WILL BE UP. FUNDING ALLOCATIONS WERE LENDING HELPING HANDS WOULD BE MINUS TOTALLY IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF 585,507. AND IT'S STILL MEETS THE INTENT OF THE ORIGINAL RECKON. MANDATE.

EXCUSE ME ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION OF 15% GOING TO PUBLIC FUNDING. ALRIGHT IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT ONE. THIS IS A SIDE BY SIDE DEPICTION OF THE AMOUNTS THE TOTAL AMOUNT REMAINING THE SAME, BUT WITH THE CHANGES BASED ON CITY COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION, I WILL SAY THIS THOUGH MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, UM BASED ON OUR WORK THIS PRESS THIS PAST YEAR, WE BELIEVE THAT OUR RECOMMENDATION AND PROVIDES A DIVERSE GROUP OF SELF RECIPIENTS BOTH LARGE AND SMALL . NOT ONLY ARE WE USING OR WORKING WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WERE ALSO WORKING WITH SMALL NONPROFITS. THAT KIND OF HIT THOSE MICRO NICHES, SO WE JUST WANTED TO HAVE A DIVERSE GROUP.

OF SUB RECIPIENTS THAT WAY TO GO ALL PARTICIPATE IN CDBG PROGRAM AND IMPROVE OUR CITY AND MEET THOSE STREET NATIONAL OBJECTIVES. PERFECT. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION.

NEXT, UM COUNCILOR MYERS. YES MR MAYOR. I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE SUPPORT THE CDBG. AWARDS AND FIVE FOR 585. 1005 $107 WITH THE AMENDED CHANGES. ALL RIGHT, PERFECT. COUNCILWOMAN SMITH LEE BECKONED. ALL RIGHT AT THIS TIME, MADAME CLARK, COULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROAD? COUNCIL MEMBER COMFORT STAINED COUNCIL MEMBER JONES I MEMBER, SMITH LEE HIGH COUNCIL OF ADMIRES NUMBER WESTBROOK THING. MAYOR PERM. I MOTIONS PASSED. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU FOR THE BOARD. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE. AND WE WILL KEEP MOVING THE CITY FORWARD NEXT WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM C CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION TO AMEND AND RE ADOPT ARTICLES 57 AND EIGHT OF THE CITY OF PETERSBURG PERSONNEL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL PERTAINING TO DISCIPLINARY MATTERS, GRIEVANCES AND APPEAL PROCEDURES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING.

ALRIGHT SO IN SUMMARY OF WHAT'S PRESENTED HERE TODAY IS A REQUEST TO LOOK AT A RESOLUTION OR CONSIDERATION FOR RESOLUTION TO RE ADAPT ARTICLES OF 57 AND EIGHT OF THE HR PERSONNEL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL. THIS SPECIFICALLY RELATES TO OUR DISCIPLINARY MANNERS ARE

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OVERALL, IT WILL HELP STANDARDIZED. THE PROCESS AND OUR PROCEDURES FOR HOW WE HANDLE ALL THREE OF THOSE STEPS AS WRITTEN IN THE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

MISS WHITE. MR MAYOR, THAT THIS GOES A LONG WAY IN FURTHERANCE OF WHAT SOME MEMBERS HAVE.

RAISED CONCERNS REGARDING CONSISTENCY REGARDING ACCOUNTABILITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. IT'S KIND OF A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH. I THINK, MISS WHITE AND I HAVE INFORMALLY TRIED TO FOLLOW A LOT OF THAT IN HER TIME HERE, AND NOW THIS JUST MEMORIALIZES THAT PROCESS, AND SHE SHE'S ACTUALLY REFINED. WHAT YOU PREVIOUSLY SAW A GOOD BIT AND MADE IT EVEN BETTER THAN WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED. SO I TOTALLY SUPPORT WHAT SHE IS PRESENTING TODAY. PERFECT. THANK YOU, MISS WHITE. UM NEXT, COUNCILWOMAN SMITH LEE. SO MOVE. ALL RIGHT. COUNCILOR JONES SECOND MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL THE ROLL? COUNCIL MEMBER COMFORT COUNCIL MEMBER JONES SMITH, LI HAI MYERS COUNCIL MEMBER WESTBROOK. THEY'RE PERM PAST. THANK YOU SO

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AND HE DID A FANTASTIC JOB AND WE HAD VERY GOOD MEETINGS AND I THINK WE WILL DEFINITELY SEE THE FRUITS OF THOSE EFFORTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF POSITIVE THINGS HAPPENING AND OCCURRING HERE. ADDITIONALLY I WAS GOING TO ANNOUNCE OUR NEW STAFF. WHAT THEY'VE DONE THAT.

SO WELCOME. UM I APOLOGIZE TO NAOMI BEING ON VACATION LAST WEEK, HER FIRST WEEK. I WASN'T HERE, BUT I HAD TO HAVE EVERYBODY HERE AND WE'RE GOING TO BE LEAVING FORWARD. WE HAVE SOME OTHER KEY POSITIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE FILLING. IT IS A GREAT TIME TO BE AN EMPLOYEE HERE IN THE CITY OF PETERSBURG AND WORKING FOR THIS ORGANIZATION. WE HAVE SO MANY POSITIVE THINGS GOING ON THAT YOU SEE SO MANY THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. THAT WILL HAPPEN. IT IS A GREAT TIME TO BE HERE AND THERE ARE NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS AHEAD FOR US. SO HAVING SAID THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. OKAY THANK YOU. NEXT. WE HAVE BUSINESS OF REPORTS FROM THE CLERK, MISS LUCAS. ITEMS. I HAVE NO ITEMS. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE GO TO BUSINESS REPORTS FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY, MR WILLIAMS. NO REPORT, MR MAN. ALL RIGHT. NEXT IS I AM 18, A GERMAN. SO MOVE FAVOR HIGH. HI. WAIT.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.