Jan 27, 2021 Metropolitan Council

THAT WISDOM IS ENTERING THEIR HEARTS AND KNOWLEDGE IS FILLING THEM WITH JOY.

THAT'S YOUR WISDOM.

WHAT SAVED THEM FROM EVIL PEOPLE WHOSE WORDS ARE TWISTED.

MAY THEY TRUST IN YOU WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS AND NOT DEPEND ON THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING? MAY THEY SEEK YOUR WILL IN ALL THEY DO? AND YOU WILL SHOW THEM WHICH PATH TO TAKE.

I PRAY THAT THEY WON'T BE IMPRESSED WITH THEIR OWN WISDOM.

YOU SAID JOYFULNESS, THE PERSON WHO FINDS WISDOM, THE ONE WHO GAINS UNDERSTANDING THAT WISDOM IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN SILVER AND HER WAGES ARE BETTER THAN GOLD.

WISDOM IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES OR NOTHING.

WE DESIRE CAN COMPARE WITH HER WISDOM OFFERS US LONG LIFE IN HER RIGHT HAND AND RICHES AND HONOR IN HER LEFT.

SHE GUIDES US DOWN TO LIFE OR PATHS AND ALL HER WAYS ARE SATISFYING.

THE LORD.

AS WE GET THIS WISDOM AND DEVELOP GOOD JUDGMENT.

WE THANK YOU.

THAT WISDOM PROTECTS US.

AND AS WE EMBRACE HER, SHE WILL HONOR US GETTING WISDOM IS THE WISEST THING THAT WE CAN DO.

YOU SAID THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE FOUNDATION OF WISDOM.

SO GOD HELP US TO LISTEN AS WISDOM CALLS AND TO HEAR HIS UNDERSTANDING RAISES HER VOICE.

MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND PROTECT YOU MAY THE LORD.

SMILE ON YOU.

BE GRACIOUS TO YOU.

MAY THE LORD SHOW YOU HIS FAVOR AND GIVE YOU HIS PEACE IN JESUS NAME.

WE PRAY.

AMEN.

AS A POINT OF PERSONAL PRIVILEGE, A FEW WEEKS AGO, A VERY DEAR FRIEND OF MINE ON A VIRUS.

OUR, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WILL BE LED BY MR. DONALD, AND I'M PROBABLY PRONOUNCED THAT CORRECTLY.

SO WHY DON'T YOU PRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME T COUTTS MAJOR DON T COUTTS, LASER DON TEAK HOUSE FROM THE SALVATION ARMY.

THANK YOU, SIR.

I INVITE YOU TO JOIN ME.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

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AND AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CORONA VIRUS, DETECTIVE CHARLES FITZGERALD DOBSON FROM AMERICAN LOUISIANA, A MEMBER OF THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK.

HE SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS FOR 27 YEARS AND ACHIEVED THE RANK OF FIRST SERGEANT BEFORE RETIRING IN 2007.

UH, FIRST SAW IT IN DOCS AND SERVED IN DESERT STORM, OPERATION, IRAQI FREEDOM AND OPERATION NATURAL FIRE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA IN 1999, HE CHANGED CAREER PATHS AND BECAME A BATTERY CITY POLICE OFFICER, OFFICER DAWSON COMPLETED THE POLICE OFFICER BASIC TRAINING ACADEMY.

IN 2000, HE WORKED SIX YEARS AS A PATROL OFFICER BEFORE BECOMING A DETECTIVE IN 2006, DETECTIVE DOBSON WAS ASSIGNED TO THE VIOLENT CRIME UNIT AND IN 2017, HE WAS PROMOTED TO SERGEANT AND PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE SQUAD AND DETECTIVES OF VCU.

UH, CHARLES DAWSON WAS MARRIED TO MISS ANITA DAVIS AND THE FATHER OF TWO SONS, CHARLES AND VINCENT, CHARLES VINCENT AND IVAN.

AND HE WAS VERY, VERY PROUD OF HIS CHILDREN AND HE WAS VERY PROUD TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS AS A BATON ROUGE POLICE OFFICER.

SO WOULD YOU PLEASE JOIN ME ON A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR DETECTIVE CHARLES DAWSON? THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS ALWAYS WANT TO THANK ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE HERE, UH, FROM CITY PARIS, BEING WITH US THIS EVENING.

AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE ALL OF THE COUNCIL.

IT'S ALL THE COUNCIL ADC.

WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND ALL THE COUNCIL WORK? LET'S

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GET HIM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR KEEPING EVERY ONE OF US ORGANIZED.

THERE YOU GO.

IS THERE A MOTION? I NEED AN

[Adoption and Approval of Minutes]

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES MOVED BY OMAROSA SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN HUXSON ASHLEY, IF YOU WOULD, WOULD YOU PLEASE

[Introductions]

READ THE INTRODUCTIONS SECTION 2.12 INTRODUCTIONS.

NUMBER TWO, RECEIVING THE ANNUAL REPORT OF PROJECT APPLICATIONS IN THE NORTH BATON ROUGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ZONE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDINANCE ONE SIX TWO ONE FIVE BY COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR TREASURE I'M PLANNING DIRECTOR NUMBER THREE, AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED ANDREA WILLIAMS AT AL VERSUS THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AND THE AMOUNT OF $10 MILLION INCLUSIVE OF, UH, INCLUSIVE OF COSTS, INTEREST ATTORNEY'S FEES.

AND THEN THE OTHER AMOUNT SUCH AMOUNT IS TO BE PAID OUT OVER FIVE YEARS IN FIVE EQUAL PAYMENTS AND APPROPRIATING $2 MILLION FOR THE FIRST ANNUAL PAYMENT FROM FUNDS INSURANCE RESERVE FUNDS COMMITTED FOR CLAIMS AND JUDGMENT FOR SUCH PURPOSE.

SUBSEQUENT ANNUAL PAYMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED FOR AN ANNUAL ANY ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET.

THIS ITEM MAY BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION BY COUNCILMAN CLEVELAND, JR.

ADJUDICATOR PROPERTY INTRODUCTIONS, NUMBER FOUR, LOT FOUR SQUARE FOUR SUBDIVISION DAYTON, METRO COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER FIVE LOT 19 SQUARE THREE SUBDIVISION BABIN, METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER SIX, LOT ONE 18, A SUBDIVISION SHADY ACRES COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS NUMBER SEVEN, LOT 24 SQUARE, 15 SUBDIVISION SMILEY HIGH HEIGHTS COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER EIGHT, LOT THREE SUBDIVISION.

WHAT WOULD LAYER, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER NINE, LOT FIVE AND SIX SUBDIVISION DAVIS LOTS COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.

NUMBER 10, LOT 62 SQUARE 35 SUBDIVISION SOUTH BATON ROUGE COUNT DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 11, LOT FIVE 54 SUBDIVISION MELROSE EAST COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX, DON JR.

NUMBER 12, LOT 83 SUBDIVISION PARK ADDITION SUB UH, METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 13, LOT 64 BATON ROUGE TERRACE COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 14, LOT FOUR SQUARE 38 SUBDIVISION SOUTH BATON ROUGE, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 15 LOT D SUBDIVISION TRAVIS TRACK COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE, NO NUMBER 16, LOT THREE SQUARE, TWO 94, SUBDIVISION LAKE PARK, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 17, LOT 14 SQUARE TUBE SUBDIVISION BABIN COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 18, LOT 15 SQUARE TUK SUBDIVISION BABIN COUNCIL, DISTRICT SEVEN COLE, ALL ITEMS THAT REQUIRE READING AND BEEN READ AND EMOTION TO INTRODUCE ALL ITEMS AS IN ORDER THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IF YOU WOULD REFER TO YOUR SEPARATE SHEET FOR CONDEMNATIONS, UH, THERE A MOTION TO INTRODUCE ALL ITEMS, MOTION BY COUNCILMAN DON.

SECOND BY OMAROSA MOTION CARRIES.

IF HE WAS REFERRED TO YOUR SECOND SHEET, UH, FOR CONDEMNATIONS,

[Condemnations]

WE ONLY HAVE TWO CONDEMNATIONS JUST EVENING, UH, AND I'LL READ THEM AS THEY HAVE BEEN STATED BY DPW AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS ITEM 42, UH, DESIRE STREET MINISTRIES IN CHILDREN'S CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION, INC 38 52 EAST BROOKSTOWN DRIVE.

UH, THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED FROM NOVEMBER 24TH AND IT WAS BEING RECOMMENDED THAT WE DEFER FOR 30 DAYS IN ITEM 43, JAMES VAN KURTZ, CHARLES DUDLEY.

JEAN CURSE.

ED WAS JOANNE DAVIS, KIRSTEN DALTON CHALLENGED CURSE, JANUARY, 1849.

LEE DRIVE, UH, IN DISTRICT 12, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ROCCA.

ARE THERE ANYONE? IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS 42 AND 43.

ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS 42 OR ANY OF THE CONDEMNATIONS? NO ONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE COUNT OF NATIONS COUNCIL MEMBERS.

IT'S ONLY YOU AND MYSELF, MS. ROCKMAN 30 DAYS.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 44 COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBER, COLON.

MA'AM SO I'M GOING TO READ NOW WE'RE GOING TO DEFER ITEMS 42 FOR 30 DAYS AND ITEMS 43 FOR 30 DAYS ITEMS 42 AND 43 FOR 30 DAYS.

IS THERE A MOTION TO MOTION BY NOEL? SECOND BY ROCK, THE MOTION CARRIES ITEM 43, EXCUSE ME.

ITEM

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44.

APPOINTING A PRESIDENT.

AND VICE-PRESIDENT FOR THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SEWAGE COMMISSION FOR THE TERM JANUARY 1ST THROUGH 20 JANUARY 1ST, 2021 THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2021 BY THE BOND COUNCIL, ADMINISTRATOR AND TREASURER.

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WOW, GOT IT.

SECOND BY GREEN.

ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE ALL LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT COUNCILMAN GUNN FROM VICE-PRESIDENT SECOND BY ROCKER? WELL, YOU YOUNG LADY AND YOU YOUNG MAN HAD BEEN APPOINTED PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BATON ROUGE SILICA.

MISS CONGRATULATIONS.

45.

UH, I THINK, UH, GO AHEAD.

GO AHEAD, COUNCILMAN HUSTON.

I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO LET ALL OF OUR NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS KNOW THAT YOU ALSO ARE ON THE SEWAGE COMMISSION MOVING RIGHT ALONG MORE WORK, MORE WORK, UH, ITEM

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45.

I REVOLUTION PROVIDING FOR CANVASSING THE RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION HELD IN CHENEY, BILL FIRE PROTECTION, DISTRICT NUMBER SEVEN OF THE PARIS OF EAST BATON ROUGE.

THE STATE OF LOUISIANA ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 2020 BY THE BOND COUNCIL.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 45? NO ONE HERE.

COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE BY NO NOEL.

SECOND BY THE CHAIR.

NO, I'VE BEEN SAYING NOEL LIKE THE CHRISTMAS SONG.

OH, I APOLOGIZE.

YEAH, NO.

UM, UM, MOTION CARRIES ITEM 46

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FOR SENDING IN THE DIRECT MCCARTER QUOTE TO COUNCIL DECISION TO ORDER RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 16, 2020, AND A MATTER OF SITTING IN BATON ROUGE, CITY OF BATON ROUGE AND SAMUEL JOHNSON, 32 75 AND A STREET PROPERTY IS BEING RENOVATED AND PUT BACK INTO COMMERCE AS A RENTAL PROPERTY BY COUNCILMAN COLE.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 46, HAVING NONE MOTION BY THE CHAIR? SECOND BY HUDSON CARRIES ITEM

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47.

WE'RE SITTING IN OUR DIRECTOR AND THE CLERK REPORT TO COUNCIL.

THE DECISION AND ORDER RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 IN THE MATTER OF CITY OF BATON ROUGE VERSUS JESSE POWELL AND DOROTHY NORMAN PILE NINE 62 NORTH 47TH STREET.

THE PROPERTY IS BEING RENOVATED SO THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER CAN MOVE BACK INTO A HOME BY COUNCILMAN COLE.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 47, HAVING NONE MOTION TO APPROVE BY THE CHAIR? SECOND BY DONE MOTION CARRIES 48 WAS

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SENDING IN.

I RECORD THE CLERK OF COURT TO CANCEL THE DECISION IN ORDER RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2020 IN THE MATTER OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE VERSUS ABRAHAM KAY CODER AND JERRY CAR CARDHOLDER 48 11 SHERWOOD STREET, THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD AND IS UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP BY COUNCILMAN COLE IS ANYONE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 48, HAVING NONE MOTION BY THE CHAIR.

SECOND BY GOLDIE MOTION CARRIES

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ITEM 49 WAS SENDING IN CANCELING THE DECISION IN ORDER ISSUED ON DECEMBER 21ST, 2020 IN THE MATTER OF CITY OF BATON ROUGE VERSUS WANTING TO JACKSON, ROSIE ADAMS AND LARRY JOE ADAMS, 28, ZERO FOUR AND 28 20 GRACIE STREET.

THE OWNER PLANS TO RENOVATE THE PROPERTY BY COUNCILMAN COLE.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 49, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION TO APPROVE BY THE CHAIR? SECOND BY GOLDIE MOTION CARRIES ITEM 50.

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WE'RE SENDING IN THE RECORD IN THE CLERK OF COURT TO CANCEL THE DECISION IN ORDER RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 30TH, 2020.

THE MATTER OF CITY OF BATON ROUGE VS DONALD LEE HOOPER.

SHARAY ONE FIVE SEVEN, THREE, TWO WOODMONT STRIVE.

THE OWNER BOUGHT THE PROPERTY AT THE SHERIFF'S SALE ON OR AROUND DECEMBER 16, 2020 WITH THE INTENTION OF RESTORING IT AND MAY NOT HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE PROPERTY WAS CONDEMNED BY COUNCIL MEMBER.

ANNE MOROSA.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 50, HAVING NOT COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE BY BAROSSA SECOND BY THE CHAIR CARRIES

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51.

WE'RE SENDING IN THE RECORD AND THE CLERK OF COURT, THE COUNCIL, THE DECISION IN ORDER TO RECORD ON DECEMBER 22ND, 2020 IN THE MATTER OF CITY OF BATON ROUGE VERSUS JAMES PATRICK FERRY OWNER STATED HE HAS NOT BEEN FINANCIALLY ABLE TO REPAIR THE HOUSE, BUT HE WANTS TO KEEP THE HOUSE AND RESTORED.

HE HAS CONTACTED AND MET WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO MAKE THE NECESSARY REPAIRS TO COMPLY WITH THE BUILDING CODES BY COUNCIL

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MEMBER.

MOROSA.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 51, HAVING NONE? IS THERE A MOTION MOTION BY AMOROSA? SECOND BY GOLDIE MOTION CARRIES 52

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AUTHORIZING THE IMPOSITION IN THE COLLECTION OF AN ANNUAL FEE WITHIN THE PARK FOREST, EAST CRIME PROVISION IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AND THE AMOUNT OF $70 ON EACH PARCEL AND LAND LOCATED IN THE DISTRICT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS, BEGINNING JANUARY 1ST, 2022, AND ENDED DECEMBER 31ST, 2031 BY THE COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATORS AND ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 52.

ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 52 COUNCIL MEMBERS.

IS THERE A MOTION TO A PROMOTION BY DONE SECOND BY M BARAKA MOTION CARRIES 53

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AUTHORIZED NAME POSITION THE COLLECTION WITHIN THE SOUTH BURBANK GRIND PREVENTION AND DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT HAVE AN ANNUAL FEE ON EACH IMPROVED PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT AND THE AMOUNT OF $100 FOR A RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE OR $25 FOR EACH UNIT AND THE CONDOMINIUM RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL STRUCTURE WITH FOUR OR MORE UNITS, WHICH FEES SHALL BE LEVERAGED FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS COMMENCING ON JANUARY 1ST, 2022 TO BE USED IN THE AID OF CRIME PREVENTION BY THE BOND BY THE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON LINE 53 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY SECOND BY DONE CARRIES 54

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WRITING A RENEWAL OF A FIVE-YEAR PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT ESTIMATED AT $4,000 AND $24,029 FOR JAMES AND ASHLEY FOX SMITH LOCATED AT 75 EIGHT ST.

CHARLES STREET BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR.

IS ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 54 SHOWING NON COUNCIL MEMBERS? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 54 MOTION BY GREEN SECOND BY MO CARRIES AUTHORIZATION

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FOR THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND OR TERMINAL THE AIRPORT COMMISSION TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE PARODY SHOP, LLC ABATING, UNPAID PORTIONS OF MINIMUM ANNUAL GUARANTEE PAYMENTS FOR THE PERIOD OF APRIL, 2020 THROUGH DECEMBER, 2020, ANY AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $50,000 BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR TO ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 55, SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE BY DON SECOND BARAKA MOTION CARRIES 56 AUTHORIZED

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SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER INSIDE OF RASHIKA TERRIO CITY PRAYERS AT ALL 48,000 PLUS COURT COSTS AND THE AMOUNT OF $94 FOR THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $48,094, WHICH AMOUNTS SHOULD BE PAID FROM THE ACCOUNT DESIGNATED INSURANCE AUTO LIABILITY.

BUT THE ATTORNEY OF RECORD IS KEYLESS OR A MILES AND MILES LAW FIRM BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 56 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVAL BY ROCKER SECOND BY THE CHAIR MOTION CARRIES

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57 AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED DOROTHY JOHNSON VERSUS THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AT ALL IN THE AMOUNT OF $15,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $379 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $15,379, WHICH AMOUNTS SHOULD BE PAID FROM THE ACCOUNT DESIGNATED INSURANCE AUTO LIABILITY.

ATTORNEY OF RECORD IS JENNIFER L COACHMAN OF ALVIN, DEAR KELLY AND DAMARIS LLC BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 57 SHOWING NON MOTION BY SECOND BY COLEMAN MOTION CARRIES ITEM 58

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AUTHORIZED SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED PAULETTE CHROM VERSUS THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PARIS OBESE BATON ROUGE, MURPHY J PAUL JR IN THE U S DC MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA AND THE AMOUNT OF $19,950 AND APPROPRIATING $19,950 FOR SUCH PURPOSE.

THIS MATTER MAY BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

ATTORNEY ON RECORD IS JENNIFER G PRESCOTT OF AVID PRESCOTT ATTORNEYS AT LAW BY THE PARENTS' ATTORNEY.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 58 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS, THEIR EMOTION MOSTLY TO APPROVAL BY THE CHAIR? SECOND BY HUSSON MOTION CARRIES 59

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AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF MATTER ENTITLED JANICE DRAW HORN DAVIS VERSUS BATON WAS POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $35,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $98 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $35,098, WHICH AMOUNTS SHOULD BE LEVERAGED FROM THE ACCOUNT DESIGNATED INSURANCE AUTO LIABILITY ATTORNEY OF RECORD AS MICRO OF THE LAW OFFICES OF AM TONY CLAYTON APLC BY THE PARENTS' ATTORNEY.

ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 59 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY ROCKER.

SECOND BY HUSTON MOTION CARRIES ITEM 60

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AUTHORIZING MAYOR PRESIDENT TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE DIVISION OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES OFFICE OF SOCIAL SERVICES WITH LOUISIANA HOUSING CORPORATION FOR THE LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF 548,383

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BY THE HUMAN SERVICES DIRECTOR.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 60, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 60 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBER GO THERE IS MS. BERNADINE HERE.

MR. CREDIT? CAN I READ THE EMAIL PUBLIC COMMENT REAL QUICK? THAT'S OKAY.

UH, THIS IS FROM JAKARTA JOHNSON, UH, IN THE 12TH GRADE ON BEHALF OF THE URBAN RESTORATION ENHANCEMENT CORPORATION PRE-LAW INSTITUTE, WE SUPPORT THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT AND THE ENTRANCE INTO A CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF THE DIVISION OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICES OFFICE OF SOCIAL SERVICES WITH THE LOUISIANA HOUSING CORPORATION FOR THE LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, WE BELIEVE THIS WILL BE A BENEFIT TO THE ENTIRETY OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH AND THROUGH CHALLENGING TIME IN THE MIDST OF A PANDEMIC, THIS GRANT WILL GIVE LOW INCOME FAMILIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLOCATE FUNDS TO OTHER ESSENTIAL HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES, SUCH AS FOOD, WATER, RENT, INSURANCE, ET CETERA.

PLEASE, PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

CONCLUDE PUBLIC COMMENTS, COUNCIL MEMBER GO.

AND I AGREE WITH THE PUBLIC COMMENTS, MS. BERNADINE WAS JUST RIGHT HERE.

SHE RAN AWAY.

I DIDN'T SAY OH, NO, NO, I'M SORRY.

I WAS SAYING THANK YOU FOR COMING UP.

I'M SORRY.

I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK YOU TO DESCRIBE FOR US WHAT THE INTENT OF THE FUNDS ARE FOR HOW MANY FOLKS DO YOU THINK YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SERVE USING THESE PHONES? GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.

SO WHAT'S BEFORE YOU IS JUST THE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF THE LIGHT HEAT PROGRAM.

THERE'S JUST THE ADMINISTRATIVE PART.

THERE'S ANOTHER AUTOMOBILE COMING FOR.

YOU WILL BE ACTUALLY WHAT WE WILL PAY ON BEHALF OF LOCAL RESIDENTS TO HELP WITH THEIR UTILITY BILLS.

SO THIS IS JUST THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE .

THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE THAT WILL COME BEFORE YOU THAT'S ASHLEY, BUT GOES TO BACK TO THE CUSTOMERS AND TO TRY AND HELP THEM WITH THEIR UTILITY COSTS.

SO THIS IS FROM AN ANNUAL ALLOCATION.

THIS IS NOT CARE EXACT DOLLAR.

THIS IS NOT OKAY.

REGULAR PROGRAM.

VERY GOOD.

HOW COULD SOMEONE CONTACT IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN SUCH PROGRAMS, UH, YOU CAN CALL OFF THE SOCIAL SERVICES AT TWO, TWO FIVE, THREE FIVE EIGHT FOUR FIVE SIX ONE, AND A DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT PLACE LOCATION FOR YOU TO TAKE YOUR APPLICATION BASED ON WHERE YOU LIVE.

THAT YES MA'AM AND WHATEVER COMMUNITY CENTERS IS IN YOUR PROXIMITY.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM DO TO OPERATE THIS PROGRAM.

61 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND OR BRONCO TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES WITH MONTANA ASSOCIATES, LLC, IN CONNECTION WITH THE PS TWO 79 UPGRADE PROJECT FOR A FEE NOT TO EXCEED $65,000 BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE DIRECTION DIRECTOR.

MA'AM THANK YOU.

MA'AM GENTLE LADY FROM BELLAIRE HIGH SCHOOL.

UM, I THINK IT IS MORE OF A PERSONAL PRIVILEGE.

YOU, YOU HEARD THAT THAT WAS THE ONLINE SUBMISSION WAS FROM A 12 YEAR OLD FROM YOUR REC.

UM, YOUR REC, UM, USUALLY COMES TO OUR COUNCIL MEETING AND ALLOW THEIR STUDENTS TO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS.

UM, AND SO YOU RECORD ACTUALLY IN MY DISTRICT AND THEY ASKED ME TO READ THAT YOUR EQUITY'S ESTABLISHED IN 2017, THE PRE-LAW INSTITUTE INTRODUCES HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO CIVICS LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

VIRTUALLY THE GOALS ARE THAT STUDENTS WILL GAIN AN INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGINS OF LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

STUDENTS WILL INCREASE THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF CIVICS AND ENGAGE IN COMMUNITY CITIZENSHIP, AND STUDENTS WILL SUCCESSFULLY PREPARE FOR AND PARTICIPATE IN A MOCK TRIAL.

AND HE ALSO COMES TO OUR COUNCIL MEETING, BUT, UM, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO NAVIGATE THEM COMING TO THE LIBRARY, BUT THEY SUBMITTED THEIR OWN LINE OF, UH, COMMENT TODAY.

SO THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WRECKING.

THEY'RE WATCHING VIA VIRTUALLY AND, UH, FACEBOOK LIVE, RIGHT? THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER GREEN.

IS THERE A MOTION? I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AT THIS TIME ON ITEM 61, ITEM 60.

SO MOVED BY GREEN SECOND BY GOLDIE MOTION PASSES, ITEM

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IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 61, ONE SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY ROCCO.

SECOND BY HUDSON MOTION CARRIES, AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR,

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PRESIDENT OR BRONCO TO EXECUTE A SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT.

NUMBER EIGHT FOR THE CONTRACT WITH THE SAP GROUP INCORPORATED ON AND WHITE INCORPORATED AND JOINT VENTURE FOR ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH ZACHARY AREA TRANSMISSION NETWORK IMPROVEMENTS, PROJECT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $107,364 AND 75 CENTS BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE DIRECTIONS.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 62? IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 62 SHOWING 90 COUNCIL MEMBERS WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AT THIS TIME.

MOTION BY NOLO.

SECOND BY MOKE MOTION CARRIES ITEM 63,

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AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

GRANTED THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $58,800

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TO PURCHASE FIRE-FIGHTING EQUIPMENT AND HERE BY THE COUNCIL BUDGET OFFICERS, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 63, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 63, SHOWING NON COUNCIL, THE MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, NOT ALL AT ONCE.

WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AT THIS TIME.

MOTION BY MOST SECOND BY ROCKER MOTION CARRIES ITEM

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64, AUTHORIZING MAYOR PRESIDENT SUBMITTED GRANT APP TWO MINUTE TO SUBMIT A GRANT APPLICATION FOR LOUISIANA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY WATER AND RICHMOND FUND RAN ANY AMOUNT UP TO $64,500 ON BEHALF OF THE CHANEY BUILDING PRIDE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS BY THE COUNCIL BUDGET.

OFFICER, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 64.

ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 64 SHOWING NON-COUNSELING MOTION BY ROCCO.

SECOND BY NO MOTION CARRIES ITEM 65

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AUTHORIZING THE MERIT.

PRESIDENT'S EXECUTED AN AMENDMENT WITH WILLIS ENGINEERING AND SCIENTIFIC LLC.

TO THAT CONTRACT ENTERED INTO EFFECTIVE APRIL NINE, 2018.

TO INCREASE THE ALLOWABLE COMPENSATION BY $57,000 $57,500 TO AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $75,000 BY THE DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 65? ANYONE SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE BY ROCCA SECOND BY DONE MOTION CARRIES ITEM

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66, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT'S EXECUTED CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION COSTS SERVICES WITH GM J K M CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANTS, LLC, FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOON BR CAPACITY PROJECT WHO PAROLE IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $74,880 BY THE TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECT ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEMS 66 SHOWING NON MOTION BY ROCKER.

SECOND BY HUDSON MOTION CARRIES ITEM 67,

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AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO ACCEPT AN EXECUTED GRANT AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE BATTERY CITY CONSTABLE'S OFFICE FOR THE 2020 THERE'S 2021 DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION DARE PROGRAM IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $74,452 BY THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? I DO SEE WE HAVE AN OUTSTANDING MEMBER OF THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, SIR.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK ON RIGHT? THANK YOU.

MY NAME IS SERGEANT JOHN CALLED THE VETERANS HERE, THE COMPANY, PRESS THAT BUTTON DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE MICROPHONE AT THE VERY BOTTOM.

YEP.

THERE YOU GO.

OH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HOLD IT.

HOW'S EVERYONE DOING? I'M SORRY, JOHN CALLED THE VENUES HERE.

THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE.

I'M BRENDAN THE BED, THE DARE PROGRAM.

WE'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR 20 SOME YEARS.

I'VE BEEN TEACHING DAMN FOR 14 YEARS.

I ALL DO IT.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO BRAG, NOT BAD ENOUGH TO COMPLAIN.

WHAT'D YOU GOTTA BREATH TO DO THAT.

YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.

AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE TO A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER, DON SECOND BY RAKIM MOTION CARRIES.

I'M SORRY.

COUNCIL MEMBER GO TO SINCERELY APOLOGIZE.

NO PROBLEM.

THANK YOU, MR. DUNN FOR BEING HERE.

CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR WORK WITH THE DARE PROGRAM IN THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM? WE TEACH 27 SCHOOLS PER YEAR.

THIS YEAR WE HAVE 1,716 KIDS.

WE TEACH THE INNER CITY KIDS.

WE TEACH THEM ABOUT DARE.

WE TEACH THEM ABOUT ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO, THE PURPOSE AND THE USES OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO, THE LEGAL AGES.

WE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT BULLYING, PEER PRESSURE.

SELF-ESTEEM HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE OR THE DARE DECISION MAKING MODEL.

AND BASICALLY I'M A FATHER TO A LOT OF KIDS WHO DON'T HAVE FATHERS AND WE HAVE FIVE DARE OFFICERS.

WE HAVE THREE FULL TIME AND TWO PART-TIME.

SO BASICALLY IS I JUST GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND EVERYBODY RUNS OUT VEHICLES BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHO WE ARE.

AND WE DO A LOT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE EVENTS WHERE WE ARE THERE AND WE REPRESENT THE CONSTABLE'S OFFICE AS WELL, BUT THEY COME TO SEE US.

THEY DON'T COME AND SEE THEM.

IS THE DARE PROGRAM FEDERALLY FUNDED.

YES IT IS.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT YOU DO FOR THOSE KIDS, PARTICULARLY.

ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? YEAH.

PROVIDING SUFFICIENT FUNDS TO REFUND ALL OF THE OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THESE BOUNDS BEARS, SEWAGE COMMISSION REVENUE BOND SYLVIE 2011 EIGHT TO PAY THE TERMINATION PAYMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE TERMINATION OF THE SWAP TRANSACTION BETWEEN THE EASTBOUND PARIS, SEWAGE COMMISSION AND BANK OF AMERICA AND A, AND TO PAY THE COST OF INSURANCE OF THE SERIES 2021, A REFUNDING BONDS OR ALTERNATIVELY AUTHORIZING THESE BOUNDARIES, PARIS SEWAGE COMMISSION TO REMARKET THESE MERITS SEWAGE COMMISSION REVENUE BOND SERIES 2011, EIGHT, AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF ANY AND ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE OF A SERIES 2021, A REFUNDING BONDS OR ALTERNATIVELY AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF ALL DOCUMENTS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE REMARKETING OF SERIES 2011, EIGHT BONDS AUTHORIZING AND SELECTION OF THE UNDERWRITERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE SALE AND DELIVERY OF THE SERIES 2021 REFUNDING BONDS, OR ULTIMATELY AUTHORIZING THE SELECTION OF THE REMARKETING AGENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE REMARKETING OF THE SERIES 2011, EIGHT BONDS AUTHORIZING THE PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF WHAT THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT RELATING TO THE SERIES 2021 REFUNDING BONDS OR ALTERNATIVELY AUTHORIZING THE PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE REOFFERING CIRCULAR RELATING TO THE REMARKETING OF THE SERIES 2011, EIGHT BONDS AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATED THERE TOO BY THE BOND COUNCIL BY THIRD GRADE.

IT HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOTIONED BY DON AND SECOND BARAKA MOTION CARRIES ITEM

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68.

THIS MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT LONG A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THESE MEREDITH PARIS SEWAGE COMMISSION TO MAKE APPLICATION TO THE STATE BOND COMMISSION FOR CONSENT AND AUTHORITY TUITION, NOT TO EXCEED $175,000 REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS SERIES.

OH, EXCUSE ME.

$175 MILLION REVENUE REFUNDING BOND SERIES 2021 EIGHT OF THESE BARRON'S SEWAGE COMMISSION FOR THE PURPOSE OF

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REESE.

69 AMENDING THE 2021 CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET FOR THE CHANEY VILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 68? ANYONE WHO WOULD SPEAK ON ITEM 68 COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY HUDSON SECOND BY ROCKER MOTION CARES.

MR. GOATEE.

I THINK WE HAVE BOND COUNSEL IN THE LIBRARY.

OH, I'M SORRY.

WHO'S HERE.

HELLO.

GOOD AFTERNOON WITH BUTLER SNOW.

THANK YOU, TOMMY.

THIS LANGUAGE WAS CONFUSING.

LIKE IT WAS ON A BALLOT TO BE VOTED ON.

CAN YOU JUST PUT THIS IN LAYMAN'S TERMS OF HOW THIS HAS BENEFICIAL FOR THE CITY PARISH? WHAT WE'RE DOING THE 2011 EIGHT BONDS ARE SUBJECT TO MANDATORY TENDER ON MARCH THE 19TH OF 2021.

UH, THEY WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN 2011.

UH, THEY WERE REMARKETED IN 2018 AND AT THAT TIME ARE NOW SUBJECT TO MANDATORY TENDER ON MARCH 19TH.

AT THE TIME THAT WE SUBMITTED, UH, THE RESOLUTION.

THE REASON WHY IT HAS ALL ALTERNATIVE PROVISIONS IS IT WAS UNCLEAR, UH, WHETHER OR NOT THE, IF THE COMMISSION WOULD PROCEED WITH A REMARKETING OR A REFUNDING OF THE BONDS, IT HAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE REFUNDING OF THE BONDS WOULD BE MOST BENEFICIAL.

CURRENTLY THERE IS A, AND I WOULD LET A MUNICIPAL ADVISOR SPEAK TO THIS, BUT AS WE UNDERSTAND IT, THERE IS APPROXIMATELY $6 MILLION WORTH OF CASH FLOW SAVINGS BETWEEN NOW THROUGHOUT THE REMAINING TERM OF THE BONDS.

THAT LAST PART WAS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

SO, SO IT'S A REFINANCE THAT ACTUALLY SAVES THE CITY PARISH SOME MONEY.

ANYTHING ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE IS ANYONE STILL LOST? LIKE I AM.

IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S GOING TO SAVE THE CITY A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.

THAT'S IT? I THINK THAT'S WHAT I INFERRED.

THAT'S IT.

THANK YOU, SIR.

MOTION.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? I'M SORRY.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION BY ROCCA SECOND BY HUSSON MOTION CARRIES ITEM

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SO AS TO APPROPRIATE $339,000 FROM THE DISTRICTS FUND BALANCE ON A SIGN FOR THE PURPOSE OF REPLACING A REC FIRE TRUCK BY THE CHENEY VEAL FIRE CHIEF AND COUNCILMAN.

NO.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 69 SHOWING NON COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY NOLO.

SECOND BARAKA MOTION CARRIES ITEM 70

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A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN ANNUAL PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX TO THE SHERIFF OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE CURRENT PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT OF $3,693 AND 26 CENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CAPITAL AREA FINANCE AUTHORITY AND A RENAISSANCE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BY COUNCIL WOMAN, CAROLYN COLEMAN.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 70, ANYONE HERE ON 70 SHOWING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE A COLEMAN.

SECOND BY ROCCO MOTION CARRIES COUNCIL MEMBERS.

[ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES]

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ITEMS 71 AND 87 TOGETHER, WHICH ARE ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES LOCKED 25 SQUARE 46 SUBDIVISION SOUTH BATON ROUGE, METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER PAULINE NITIN AT $4,000

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72, LOT 64 SUBDIVISION PRESCOTT PLACE.

METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE HIGH BIDDER LIKE DAMN YOUR ASS FOR THAT $1,000 73 LOT 13 AND 14 SQUARE 53 DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER TOWANDA CANNON, UH, $3,600 74 LOCK 31 AND 32 SQUARE 50 SUBDIVISION BANKS, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN, HIGH BIDDER, FELICIA GREEN, $100 LOT BEAT DASH TWO DASH A SUBDIVISION ALGEBRA TWO ACRES COUNCIL DISTRICT 12 ROCKER, HIGH BITTER CHASE WEATHERLY $95,000, 76, LOT 90 SUBDIVISION EAST DAYTON HIGH BID THEM MILO POWELL, $100 77, LOT 91 SUBDIVISION EAST DAYTON DISTRICT SEVEN.

HI BEN, A MILO POWER, $100 78, LOT SIX AND EIGHT SQUARE, TWO SUBDIVISION LELAND COLLEGE ANNEX COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS, HIGH BIDDER NITA MARTIN, $100 79 LOT D SQUARED TWO 19 SUBDIVISION OF STROMA COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BETTER TOWANDA CANON $300 LOT 24 POINT PLUS SUBDIVISION, MONSANTO HIGHLAND FARMS, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BITTER SHELDON BILL'S $2,000 81 LOT 51 SQUARE AT NINE SUBDIVISION, SOUTH BATON ROUGE, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BITTER.

I REALLY JONES $1,000 82 LOT FOUR AND FIVE SQUARE 11 SUBDIVISION, SCOTLAND ADDITION, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.

HIGH BETTER FRANCES AGE, ROYAL $1,500 83.

GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS. WE'LL GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS, A 21 DASH ZERO ZERO ONE TWO FOUR AUTHORIZING MAYOR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE CONTRACT AMENDMENT.

ITEM 83 LOT 21 PLUS SQUARE 17 SUBDIVISION UNIVERSITY PLACE.

METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS, HIGH BETTER LORENZO LANE, $1,000 ITEM 84 LOT ONE AND THREE DASH EIGHT SQUARE SEVEN SUBDIVISION RAPPOLO BELOW ADDITION, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE HIGH BETTER ROOSEVELT IN ROWS.

$55,000 ITEM 85 LOCK 12 SQUARE ONE OH FOUR SUBDIVISION SOUTH BATON ROUGE COUNCIL DISTRICT.

THEN 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER MARBLE COLEMAN, $100 86 LOCKED 32 SQUARE 11 SUBDIVISION NORTHDALE.

METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER LAMONT HAPPENED $5,400 ITEM, 87 LOT EIGHT SQUARE 12 SUBDIVISION FOUNTAIN PLACE COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE GREEN HIGH BIDDER TOWANDA CANNON, $10,000 ITEM 71 AND 87.

IF THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 71 THROUGH 87 SHOWING NONE MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 71 TO 87 BY AMOROSA.

SECOND BY HUDSON MOTION CARRIES.

WE'LL

[ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS]

NUMBER ONE TO THE CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES WITH KIM PRO SERVICES, INC FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE HERBICIDE APPLICATION PROGRAM FOR CANALS TO ADD THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF HER $20,000, 562 AND 50 CENT BRINGING THE TOTAL CONTRACT TO AN AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED $662,122 AND 50 CENTS.

BY THE END OF THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE, BIG 21 DASH ZERO ZERO ONE THREE ZERO EIGHT.

RESOLUTION APPROVING AN ANNUAL PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX TO EASTBOUND WHICH PARIS IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THE PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS OF $35,461,626 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE CAPITA AREA, FINANCE AUTHORITY AND SEAFOOD INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES BY THE MAYOR PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.

IS THERE A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES, TO ALLOW THE ITEMS, TO BE INTRODUCED MOTION, TO WAIVE THE RULES, TO ALLOW THE ITEMS TO BE INTRODUCED BY GREEN SECOND BY HUDSON.

NOW WE'LL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES.

ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK.

PLEASE DO SO SHOWING NO ONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES.

WE WILL NOW VOTE ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES WE WILL NOW VOTE.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS SEEING NONE ITEM PASSES? WE NEED A MOTION TO INTRODUCE TO ITEM.

UH, COUNCILMAN DONE.

THE RECORD REFLECT THAT I WAS STAYING FROM ITEM EIGHT.

COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN, ABSTAIN FROM ITEM A.

GOT IT.

NEED THE MOTION.

INTRODUCE MOTION BY GREEN SECOND BY, UH, HUDSON, ANY OBJECTIONS, MOTION CARRIES.

SEE

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A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CALLING OF AN ELECTION BY THE CENTRAL, EXCUSE ME.

THESE ARE ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.

THESE ARE EMERGENCY ITEMS. SEE A RESOLUTION TO PROVEN TO CALLING UP AND ELECTION BY THE CENTRAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

NUMBER FOUR PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA ON APRIL 24, 2021 FOR THE PURPOSE OF AUTHORIZING THE RENEWAL OF THE 11 COLLECTION OF A 5.0 MEALS AD VALOREM TAX FOR SALARIES, EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND OR PAYMENT OF DEATHS AND TO A DEBT SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND THE $32 PER APP ANNUAL SERVICE CHARGE ON ALL PROPERTY, SUBJECT TO TAXATION WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CENTRAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

NUMBER FOUR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE FACILITIES OF THE DISTRICT AND PAYING THE COST OF OBTAINING WATER AND FOOD AND 500 RENTALS FEES ALL FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS BY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

NUMBER FOUR, IS THERE A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES? IS THERE A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES MOTION BY HUDSON SECOND BY NO.

NOW WE'LL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MOTION TO DO ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES.

ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES? NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ITEM.

NO ONE HERE TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM.

COUNCIL MEMBERS BACK TO YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MOKE.

UH, YES.

COUNCIL MEMBER.

SO, UH, WE'RE FIXING THE PASS.

THE, WHAT I'VE SEE IS THE LAST LEGISLATION, AS FAR AS WE'VE BEEN THROUGH SEVERAL THINGS WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS TONIGHT AND DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT I WANTED TO TAKE A QUICK POINT OF PREFERENCE IF I COULD.

UH, WE HAVE FIRE CHIEF, UH, STEVEN BRANDS COME AND IF OUR TEAM, WHAT DO YOU ASK THEM? IF Y'ALL COULD COME UP FOR A SECOND? I DON'T THINK HE WAS EXPECTING THIS, BUT I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF, UH, OF SERVING WITH THESE TWO AS A FIREFIGHTER.

UM, WHAT DID HE HELP TRAIN ME? AND OF COURSE, STEVEN BRAND'S COME.

UH, I HAD A JUNIOR FIREFIGHTER PROGRAM WHEN I WAS A FIREFIGHTER, AS STEVEN WENT THROUGH ONE OF THOSE PROGRAMS, UH, UNDER ME.

BUT, UH, I JUST WANTED TO TELL Y'ALL THANK Y'ALL FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.

UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ON THE FRONT LINES ALL THE TIME AND I JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE Y'ALL AND AS IT CHENEY, BILL FIRE CHIEF IS NOT HERE, BUT, UH, ALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND ALL THE FIRE DAY SHALL DO AN AMAZING JOB.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

WOULD ANYONE OF YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING, ONE OF THEM, HE CALLED YOU UP.

YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING COME ON TO THE MIC SO WE CAN HEAR YOU WASC HIM IS, UH, WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, BAKER FIRE DEPARTMENT.

UM, WILLESDEN SORRY, BUT I BELIEVE SO.

I JUST RECENTLY RETIRED FROM BROWNFIELD, UH, LAST YEAR, BUT, UH, STILL THERE AS A CAPACITY OF ASSISTANT CHIEF AND, UH, STILL DOING THINGS FOR OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE I GREW UP THERE.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT APPRECIATE EVERYTHING Y'ALL DO FOR US.

AND WE APPRECIATE YOU WHEN YOUR SERVICE, OUR COMMUNITY.

AND I'LL JUST ECHO WHAT, UH, WHAT'D.

HE SAID, UH, IT'S MY FIRST TIME APPEARING BEFORE Y'ALL AND UH, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, BUT, UH, IT'S, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE LIKE CALCIUM MO MENTIONED SEVERAL ITEMS COME BEFORE Y'ALL IT SEEMS LIKE ALL THE TIME DEALING WITH PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCIES AND IT'S A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.

I THINK A LOT OF TIMES WE HAVE Y'ALL'S OVERWHELMING SUPPORT, BUT WE DON'T TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED.

WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE Y'ALL AND, UH, LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, FOSTERING THESE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS IN THE FUTURE.

GOOD NIGHT.

ITEM ADA COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEM MADE THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS, BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, METROPOLITAN CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING OR REPLACING PARKER EWEN WHOSE TERM EXPIRED ON JANUARY 1ST, 2021.

IT'S BEEN MOPING ABOUT BULK.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND BY HUDSON MOTION CARRIES ITEM D ITEM D THE APPOINTMENT BILL BATON RULES CONCURRING IN THE MAYOR'S APPOINTMENT OF WILL CAMPBELL TO REPLACE TED MAJOR.

THE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2020 SECOND.

THE CURRENT BALLOT AS WILL CAMPBELL BY THE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATION COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR TREASURER.

WE NEED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES MOTION BY DONE SECOND BY A MOKE.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES, SHOWING NONE.

THERE ARE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES.

WE'LL NOW HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ITEM.

THEY DIDN'T WANT HIM TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM, SHOWING NONE BACK TO THE FLOOR, UH, MOTION BY HUDSON.

SECOND BY DONE ITEM CARES.

WE WILL NOW MOVE TO APPOINTMENTS, APPOINTMENTS

[88. 21-00058]

DISAPPOINTMENT IS FOUR OR FIVE-YEAR TERM PARKER.

YOU AND HARRISBURG REQUESTED TO BE ARE REAPPOINTED.

AND MARIE MCCULLOUGH

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HAS SUBMITTED A REQUEST TO BE APPOINTED TO THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT.

UH, IF THERE IS NO BULLSHIT TO A POINT, EITHER ONE OF THESE GENTLEMEN, WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE MACHINES, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KNOLL.

89 CAPITAL AREA TRANSIT CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING OR REPLACING PETER BRO, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2020.

UM, SO I JUST RECENTLY TODAY MET WITH PAT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT DOES AND, UM, KNOWING THERE WAS NOT ANY, UH, MR. MCCULLOUGH HAD SAID SOMETHING EARLY ON, BUT WE HAD NOT RECEIVED IT IN THE PACKET.

AND, UM, I DON'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON MR. EWING ON HIS, HIS, UH, I DIDN'T KNOW, HE EVEN INTENDED TO A SECRET APPOINTMENT.

SO I WOULD, UM, PREFER TO GIVE IT AS DO ANALYSIS TO DEFER IT ONE MORE TIME.

MOTION TO DEFER SECOND BY BANKS.

HOW LONG, HOW LONG DO YOU WANT TO DEFER? 30 DAYS MOTION TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS BY COUNCIL MEMBER NOLS.

SECOND BY BANKS, ANY OPPOSITION MOTION CARRIES 89,

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THIS IS A THREE-YEAR TERM COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MATT THOMAS HAS REQUESTED HIS NAME.

BE WITHDRAWN AND READ THE RIGHT.

HAS THE QUESTION, HER NAME BE WITHDRAWN.

SO THE ONLY TWO APPLICANTS ARE PETER BRO.

AND ANNE TRAPPY.

UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPOINT ONE OF THESE, IF NOT, WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE MACHINE.

SO THE TWO MEMBERS ON THE BALLOT OR PETER BRO, AND AN TRAPPY COUNCIL NUMBER ROCKER, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO GO ON THE RECORD AS IT'S STAINING THERE, I HAVE A POTENTIAL CONFLICT, SO I WILL BE ABSTAINING ON ALL.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER.

HUSSON MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT MR. GRO, ANY OBJECTIONS, ANY OBJECTIONS? MR. BREAUX HAS MEMORY OF POINTS TO CAPITA OR TRANSIT ITEM, 90

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CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTED OR REPLACING ERICA GREEN, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2020.

THIS IS A THREE-YEAR TERM.

CURRENT VALID IS ERICA GREEN.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE ON THE MONEY? ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ERICA, SERVING ON CASP BOARD.

ANYONE HERE? ANY, IS THERE ANY NOMINATION, ANY MOTION? YES, SIR.

I'LL NOMINATE THE DISTINGUISHED COLLEAGUE FROM BELLAIRE HIGH SCHOOL.

THAT'S RIGHT.

MOTION FOR ERIC GREEN.

IT HAS BEEN ERICA GREEN HAS MEMORY OR POINTED TO CATS, ITEM 91

[91. 21-00061]

CONSIDERATION FOR REAPPOINTING OR REPLACING LINDA PERKINS, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2020.

THIS IS A THREE, A TERM, A BOTH SAR REQUIRED AGAIN.

MATT THOMAS HAS A QUESTION TO WITHDRAW HIS NAME AND READ THE RIGHT HAS REQUESTED TO WITHDRAW HER NAME.

SO THE APPLICANTS ARE LINDA PERKINS AND TRAPPING LIST AS A MOTION TO APPOINT ONE COUNCIL MEMBER MOLT MOTION TO REAPPOINT MS. LINDA PERKINS MOTION TILL THE POINT PARK AND SECOND BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.

ANY OBJECTIONS, MOTION CARRIES ITEM

[92. 21-00063]

92 PLANNING AND ZONING SUBMISSION.

ONE APPOINTMENT TO REPLACE DONNA COLLINS LEWIS ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

THE TERM EXPIRED ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2020.

THIS IS A FOUR YEAR TERM AND IT MUST BE A COUNCIL MEMBER.

A CURRENT BALLOT IS SHOWN A BANK'S IN GENERAL ROCCA.

UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPOINT EITHER ONE OF THESE LADIES, IF NOT, WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE MACHINES.

UM, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, NOMINATION MOTION TO NOMINATE MS. BANK SECOND BY DONE ANY OPPOSITION MOTION CARRIES.

CONGRATULATIONS, MS. BANKS, YOU HAVE BEEN APPOINTED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PLEASE.

PLANT IS ON THE COMMISSION CORRECTLY, FINDING OUT CHANGE ORDERS OR NON-FINANCE ACCEPTANCES ARE GOING

[Items 93 & 94]

TO TAKE ITEMS 93 THROUGH 94 TOGETHER 93, DELMONT GARDENS, BRANCH LIBRARY, MECHANICAL IMPROVEMENTS, CONTRACTED DOVE GROUP LLC.

FINAL COSTS $209,605 AND 58 CENT ITEM 94 RIVER CENTER, EAST WING PARKING GARAGE, LIGHTING RENOVATION, CONTRACTOR TNE ELECTRIC INCORPORATED.

FINAL COSTS 315 AND $412.

THERE ARE PUBLIC HEARING ON IDLE.

NOPE.

OTHER THAN HEARING, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEMS? 93 AND 94 MOTION YOU WANT TO SPEAK? OR THE MOTION COUNCIL NUMBER DONE? HE'S GOING TO BE BABA BABA NINE TO THREE ON THIS SEEMS TO BE ABOUT $2,000 IF I'M CORRECT, BUT IT'S CURRENTLY FOUR SEEMS TO BE OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US WHY? YES.

WHEN WE BID, WHEN WE BID THIS PROJECT OUT, WE WASN'T SURE ABOUT THE COST WE WERE WITH THE BASE STANDARD FIXTURE AND ALL THE GARAGES.

WHEN THE BIDS CAME

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IN, WE DECIDED TO UPGRADE THE FIXTURES TO GET BETTER FIXTURES.

THEY'RE VANDAL PROOF, THEY'RE HIGHER EFFICIENCY, GIVE THEM A LOT MORE LIGHTING.

WE ALSO TIED THE GARAGES INTO OUR GENERATOR SYSTEM IN THE UPS SYSTEM.

SO THEY WILL NEVER GO DOWN.

NOW SAW THAT, THAT WASN'T IN THE, UH, ORIGINAL, NO THAT WASN'T IN BECAUSE I ESTIMATE WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE HIGHER WITH ANNOYING, WITH THE CONDITION TO REMEMBER PROJECTS BIDDING.

WE WENT WITH JUST THE BASE FIXTURE, WHICH EVERYONE BID ON THE SAME FIXTURE.

AND THEN WE DECIDED TO UPGRADE THE FIXTURE.

WHEN THE PRICES CAME IN AS LOW AS THEY DID.

HOW OFTEN DO WE CHANGE THE SCOPE OF WORK AFTER THE PROJECT HAS ALREADY BEEN WELL SCOPE WASN'T CHANGED.

WE JUST CHANGED THE FIXTURE ITSELF.

AND THEN WHEN WE SAW THE PRICE OF THAT, WE DECIDED WE COULD GO AND ADD MORE INTO THE GARAGE IS JUST TO GET FOR PUBLIC LIFE SAFETY.

AND IT ALSO HELPS TO KEEP FROM THE HOMELESS OUT OF THE GARAGES AND OFFER JUST SAFETY WITH THE LIGHTING.

ANYONE ELSE? ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL MEMBER, HUDSON, BUBBA.

THIS IS, THIS IS JUST A FINAL ACCEPTANCE FOR THE CHANGE ORDER THAT WE DID.

WE DID THIS CHANGE OVER THE LAST YEAR.

THE OTHER COUNCIL DID PREVIOUS CHANGE DO THAT, CORRECT? THIS IS THE FINAL, EXCEPT THIS JOB IS COMPLETE.

THANK YOU BOB.

TO KEEP UP.

THAT'S GOING TO WORK, SIR.

COUNCIL MEMBER MODE.

IN WWTP ADMINISTRATION, BUILDING RENOVATION, SITE TECH CONSULTING AND CONSTRUCTION LLC.

YOU TELL HIM NOT TO SPEAK ANYONE ELSE.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE COUNCIL DUNK COUNCIL MEMBER DONE SECOND BY HUDSON MOTION CARRIES AND 95

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$400,062.

ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 95, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 95, HAVING NONE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION THERE, OUR 10 A MOTION TO APPROVE 95 AT THIS TIME.

MOTION BY GREEN SECOND BY MO MOTION CARRIES OTHER ITEMS. NUMBER 96,

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RECEIVING A REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SERVICES ON THE PROGRESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY PARIS OPEN DATA POLICY BY THE INFORMATION SERVICES DIRECTOR.

THANK YOU MORE ERIC AFTERNOON.

GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL, UH, ERIC ROMERO, DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SERVICES.

UM, SO WOULD Y'ALL HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU ALL SHOULD BE A COPY OF THE PRESENTATION AND A COPY OF OUR 2020, UM, OPEN DATA POLICY REPORT.

SO COUNCIL WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON BECOMING A MORE TRANSPARENT CITY PARISH GOVERNMENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

NOW, THE CATALYST FOR THIS INITIATIVE WAS THE, UH, 2015 LAUNCH OF OUR OPEN DATA BR PORTAL OPEN DATA IS THE IDEA THAT DATA CAN BE FREELY USED AND SHARED BY ANYONE ANYWHERE.

WE COLLECT AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DATA HERE AT CITY PARISH.

IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, WE COLLECT IT USING TAXPAYER MONEY.

AND SO IT'S ONLY RIGHT THAT THE DATA BE MADE FREELY, UM, TO THE PUBLIC.

WE'VE SEEN SUCCESS OVER THE YEARS.

UM, BUT WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE A CLEAR, CLEARLY DEFINED STRUCTURE AND APPROACH TO OUR TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS.

SO IN DECEMBER, 2017, UH, MAYOR BROOME AND THE METRO COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED AN OPEN DATA POLICY.

THIS POLICY CREATED, UH, THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH WHAT WORKS CITIES, UH, BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPY'S INITIATIVE AND SUNLIGHT FOUNDATION.

UM, THE POLICY DEFINE AN OPEN BY DEFAULT MANDATE.

SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT ALL DATA COLLECTED BY CITY PARISH WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN THE OPEN DATA BR PORTAL POLICY ALSO ESTABLISH A DATA GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE WHERE ALL THE DEPARTMENTS CAME TOGETHER TO ACCOMPLISH SHARED OPEN DATA GOALS.

IT INCORPORATES OPEN DATA REQUIREMENTS INTO PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING IT PRIORITIZE DATA, UH, FOR RELEASE, UM, BASED ON CRITERIA, SUCH AS FEASIBILITY PUBLIC VALUE.

AND IT REQUIRES US TO PROVIDE THIS OPEN DATA REPORT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

I THINK SO AS WELL, EVERYTHING IN 2020, OUR TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS WERE EFFECTED BY THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

INITIALLY OUR STAFF'S ENTIRE FOCUS WAS ON SUPPORTING CITY PARISH COVID RESPONSE.

HOWEVER, WE STILL MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND HAVE A WORKING TOWARDS THE GOALS OF THIS POLICY.

IN 2025, NEW DATA SETS WERE ADDED TO OPEN DATA BR AND WE HAD RETAIL FOOD INSPECTIONS, GREASE TRAP PERMITS, AND MUSKEGON WROTE AND DATA.

SO OPEN DATA, IT'S NOT ALWAYS PROTEIN.

UM, CITY PARISH EMPLOYEE DATA AND ANNUAL SALARY WAS INCLUDED.

THOSE ARE TWO OF OUR MOST POPULAR DATA SETS.

UM, SINCE 2018, WE'VE ADDED, UH, 20 DATA SETS TO THE PORTAL.

THERE WERE OVER 270,000 PAGE VIEWS IN THE, UH, 2020 BETWEEN OUR OPEN DATA AND OUR GIS PLATFORMS. AND TO DATE, WE'VE HAD NEARLY 5 MILLION PAGE VIEWS ON OUR OPEN DATA SITE ALONE.

WE'VE ALSO INTEGRATED DATA AND DIGITAL MAPPING INTO THE DEPARTMENT OF MAINTENANCES, HERBICIDE

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AND SPRAYING PROGRAM, ALLOWING CONTRACTORS TO PROVIDE MORE ACCURATE COST ESTIMATES AND STAFF TO EFFICIENTLY MANAGE SPRAYING ACTIVITIES.

WE ENHANCED OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, COMMON OPERATIONAL PLATFORM TO INCLUDE DATA FROM OUR NEW COMPUTER, AIDED DISPATCH OUR NORMAL ONE SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED IT INTO OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS, REAL-TIME CRIME CENTER.

AND WE HELD OUR FIRST ANNUAL CITIZEN DATA ACADEMY MORE ON THAT IN JUST A SEC, OF COURSE, WE USE DATA TO SUPPORT THE CITY PARISHES COVID RESPONSE.

WE QUICKLY SAW THAT ACCURATE DATA SHARING WOULD BE NEEDED IN ORDER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO MAKE CRITICAL DECISIONS THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC.

SO WE TOOK PROACTIVE STEPS TO BEGIN COLLECTING THE DATA NEEDED TO SUPPORT THOSE EFFORTS.

ADDITIONALLY, A SERIES OF DASHBOARDS WERE USED INTERNALLY BY LOCAL HOSPITAL OFFICIALS, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND OTHER KEY STAKEHOLDERS.

WE PROVIDED DATA TO THE RESIDENTS TO HELP BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PARISH LEVEL EFFECT OF THE CORONAVIRUS OUTREACH IS CRITICAL IN OUR TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS BECAUSE ONCE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE DATA AND THE TOOLS THAT ARE FREELY AVAILABLE, THEY USE THEM.

COVID FORCED US TO EMBRACE VIRTUAL MEETINGS LIKE JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE, WHICH ACTUALLY INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN OUR EVENTS.

OUR OUTREACH EFFORTS, UH, TOOK ANOTHER LEVEL.

UM, TOOK ANOTHER, ANOTHER LEVEL UP WHEN WE, OUR FIRST CITIZEN DATA ACADEMY.

SO THIS WAS A THREE COURSE TRAINING THAT TOOK USERS FROM THE BASIC OF OPEN BASICS OF OPEN DATA AND GIS THROUGH ADVANCED PROBLEM SOLVING, USING THE TWO PLATFORMS WHILE MAKING DATA AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IS IMPORTANT.

SHOWING THE CITIZENS HOW TO USE THE DATA AND THE TOOLS THAT WE PROVIDE IS PARAMOUNT AND, UH, MOVING OUR TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS FORWARD MORE THAN 50 CITIZENS PARTICIPATED, AND WE'RE ALREADY PLANNING OUR NEXT DATA ACADEMY.

UH, SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES HAVE REACHED OUT AND COMMENDED US FOR THIS.

SO MOVING ON, UH, IN 2021, WE HOPE TO FINALIZE PUBLISHING, UM, DATASETS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED BY OUR DATA GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE IN 2019 AND 2020 AND TARGET NEW ONES FOR PUBLICATION LATER IN 2021, WE'LL WANT TO INCLUDE DATA FROM THE RECENTLY IMPLEMENTED REPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

SO THIS IS GOING TO INCLUDE ALL CRIME INCIDENTS FROM BRP D OF COURSE, BUT WE ALSO WANT TO SEEK APPROVAL FROM THE CHAIR OF BAKER CENTRAL AND ZACHARY TO INCLUDE THEIR CRIME INCIDENTS.

AND THEN AT THAT TIME WE'LL BE ONE OF THE FEW COUNTIES OR PARISHES IN THE COUNTRY.

THAT'LL HAVE, THAT'LL HAVE A HOLISTIC VIEW OF ALL THE CRIME INCIDENTS IN THE, IN THE COUNTY OR A PARISH.

WE WANT TO EXPAND THE USE OF LOCATION-BASED APPLICATIONS TO CREATE EFFICIENCIES ACROSS ALL DEPARTMENTS.

AND FINALLY, AS OF TODAY, WE LAUNCHED OPEN BUDGET BR THAT'S BEEN TWO YEARS COMING NOW, I THINK, UM, POSSIBLY LONGER THAN THAT.

UM, SO YOU'LL NOW BE ABLE TO SEE THE CITY PARISH BUDGET IN A USER-FRIENDLY FORMAT.

UM, THOSE OF YOU THAT'S BEEN ON THE COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET BOOKLETS LIKE THIS, AND IT'S, UH, EXTREMELY DETAILED, BUT FOR THE LAY PERSON, IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD TO, TO DIGEST.

UM, THE NEW PORTAL WILL ALLOW YOU TO DRILL DOWN ON VARIOUS REVENUE AND SPENDING CATEGORIES AND IT INTEGRATES WITH OUR OPEN CHECKBOOK BR PORTAL.

SO NOW YOU CAN COMPARE BUDGETED VALUES AGAINST, UH, THE ACTUAL EXPENSES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

AND I WANT TO TAKE A QUICK MINUTE TO THANK THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE WHO HAD STAFF WORKING, UH, TO VALIDATE THE DATA ALL THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS.

THANKS.

UH, ANGIE AND LINDA, LASTLY, UH, RECOGNITIONS, UM, OUR PROGRAM RECEIVED SEVERAL STATE AND NATIONAL RECOGNITIONS OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE RECEIVED ESRI SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AND GIS AWARD FOR OUR USE OF GIS TO IMPROVE G UH, CITY PARISH EFFICIENCIES.

AND FOR OUR TOOLS USED DURING COVID RESPONSE, THE LMA LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION RECOGNIZED OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, COMMON OPERATIONAL PLATFORM AND ITS FOR ITS COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR THE SIX YEAR IN A ROW, THE CENTER OF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RANKED BATON ROUGE AS A TOP 10 DIGITAL CITY.

THIS YEAR, WE WERE NAMED THE THIRD MOST DIGITAL CITY IN US, UH, IN THE U S AMONG MID CITIES, MIDSIZE CITIES.

SO THAT'S BIG TO BE RANKED THAT HIGH WHILE WE'RE PROUD OF ALL THESE RECOGNITIONS.

WE ALSO REALIZED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF WORK LEFT TO BE DONE.

SO I WANT TO THANK OF COURSE, THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR OUR TRANSPARENCY EFFORTS AND TO REMIND EACH, EACH OF YOU THAT I'D BE HAPPY TO, OR THE TEAM WOULD BE HAPPY TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS THAT YOU MAY HOLD VIRTUALLY FOR NOW.

BUT, UM, HOPEFULLY IN PERSON LATER IN THE YEAR WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS FOR HER, SHE DOES AN OUTSTANDING JOB WITH TECHNOLOGY.

IF HE NEEDED HIS HELP ON HOW TO SEND EMAILS OUT TO YOUR DISTRICT, I'M NOT ADDING MORE WORK TO HIS TABLE, BUT I CAN SHOW YOU, YOU CAN HELP YOU DO THAT.

IF YOU WANT TO SEND EMAILS OR NOTIFY.

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THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.

IT'S JUST A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH COUNCIL MEMBER, GO THERE ONLY TO ENCOURAGE YOU, ERIC, AND, AND YOUR TEAM.

THANK YOU ALL FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO.

UH, A GOVERNMENT THAT IS TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE IS THE BEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

AND SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT Y'ALL DO TO ENSURE THAT OUR CITIZENS HAVE FULL ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER.

I JUST WANTED TO EXTEND THOSE KUDOS TO YOU TOO, ERIC, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T REALIZE THAT EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH WAS THE FIRST MUNICIPALITY IN THE STATE.

AND IN FACT, WE BEAT THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, UH, WHEN IT CAME TO OPEN BUDGET BR PROJECT, RIGHT? AND SO TO ADD OPEN BUDGET ON TOP OF THAT NOW, UH, IS JUST EXCEPTIONAL.

AND IT SHOWS THAT WE ARE REALLY A LEADER FOR THIS STATE AND REALLY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

SO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS.

RIGHT? SO TO ME, THIS IS JUST, UM, JUST THAT YOU COULD COVER ALL THE THINGS THAT, UM, ERIC AND HIS STAFF DOES.

AND, UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY GREAT, NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL STAFF THAT WHEN WE BEGAN DOING THE ONLINE LEAD, THE WORK THAT THE COUNSELING ADMINISTRATION AND YOUR STAFF DID TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WEBEX, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT'S, THAT, THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK, UM, TRAINING PEOPLE, SENDING SOMEBODY TO BABYSIT ME, EVERYONE COUNSELING WAS EXTREMELY EXTRAORDINARY.

UM, I THINK HE HAD THE, UH, I, I WAS, I THINK IT WAS, UH, MR. KELLY AND, UH, MR. KELLY WAS, HE DOESN'T WANT TO MAKE SURE I WAS ON MUTE AS OFTEN AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME.

SO THAT IT'S SO THAT I OPENED MY MOUTH, HE WOULD SAY ARE YOUR MUTE.

SO, UM, I DO WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, ANGIE, I MEAN, IS IT APRIL WITH AMY? THAT'S ALL TAMMY, TAMMY, AND THEN TAMMY ALSO MADE SURE THAT, I MEAN, THE PHONE SYSTEMS, EVEN A FILING SYSTEM TO ALL DONE THROUGH YOUR DEPARTMENT AND, UM, JUSTIN PRE PRE OLA IS LIKE A LICENSE.

TOP TOP-NOTCH HE HAD JUSTIN'S IN OUR GIS.

YOU WOULD THINK, I MEAN, HE DOES, YOUR STAFF IS JUST AWESOME AND YOU'RE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB WHEN I'M AMAZED PEOPLE SAY, BUT I THOUGHT YOU HAD A DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND I'M LIKE, CAN WE JUST, NOT EVEN JUST, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I COULD GO ON AND ON ABOUT WHAT A WONDERFUL LEADER YOU ARE, UM, ERIC, HOW HELPFUL YOU ARE, HOW WONDERFUL YOUR STAFF IS, THE FAR RANGING.

UM, WE, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I THINK IS HELPING US GET SO MANY ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES OFF IS BECAUSE, UM, YOU ALL HAVE, EVEN PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO GO TO GIS AND IDENTIFY PROPERTIES IN CERTAIN AREAS.

UM, SO, UM, THERE, YOU KNOW, SO ALL OF THAT IS, I MEAN, JUST MAPS.

I JUST YACHT IS GREAT.

THANKS A LOT.

BE A TEAM EFFORT.

I HAVE A GOOD TEAM DOWNSTAIRS AND B2 COME TO VISIT US.

IF YOU CAN FIND US.

I BET YOU CAN, BUT, UH, BUT WE HAVE A GOOD TEAM DOWN THERE.

AND, UM, IT'S, IT'S ABOUT, UH, JUST PUTTING THE BEST PRODUCT FORWARD, THE, WITH THE WEBEX AND THE VIRTUAL, UM, MEETINGS, UH, THE REASON WHY WE WANT IT TO BE SO ENGAGED IS THAT WE WANTED IT TO BE TOP NOTCH AIRTIGHT.

WE SAW TOO MANY CASES OF ZOOM, BOMBING AND MEETINGS THAT JUST DID NOT GO WELL.

AND, UM, THAT'S, WE'VE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYTIME THAT, THAT THE CITY PARISH HAD A VIRTUAL PRESENCE, IT WAS TOP NOTCH.

NUMBER 97, DISCUSSION OF A MOTION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE FILED BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY AND THE INJURY WILLIAM VS.

YEAH, WE CAN SEE THAT.

YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING AS OPPOSED TO RECEIVE THE REPORT MOTION TO RECEIVE SECOND.

I MEAN, MOTION REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED.

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CITY OF BATON ROUGE, CIVIL SUIT BY COUNCIL, WOMAN BANKS, COUNCILMAN BANKS, COURTNEY, WHICH ONE ARE BETTER.

OH, SORRY.

COUNSEL, WOMAN.

WE NEED TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ITEM, PUBLIC HEARING.

IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 97, ITEM 97 SHOWING NONE NOW COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS.

ON THE, UM, THE SETTLEMENT AND JUST FOR THE, UM, COMMUNITY, UH, WITHOUT GOING INTO ANY TOO MUCH DEPTH.

SO, UM, I GUESS THE EASIEST WAY FOR US TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS IS TO REFER TO, UH, I KNOW YOU SENT AN EMAIL THAT KIND OF UPDATED US

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SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT TALKED ABOUT IS, UM, THAT, OH, NO.

SO IT'S, I'LL SPEAK IN GENERALITIES.

UM, IF, SO, EXPLAIN WHAT INDEMNITY IS IN GENERAL IN IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES OR TWO INDIVIDUALS OR BY ONE INDIVIDUAL OR ONE PARTY AGREES TO MAKE THE OTHER ONE WHOLE IN THE EVENT THAT THE OTHER PARTY IS MADE TO PAY ANYTHING OR ANY COSTS OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE IN GENERAL.

THAT'S WHAT I MEAN.

SO, UM, IN GENERAL, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A CONTRACT.

THIS IS PUBLIC, RIGHT? THIS PART, THE QUEST THAT JUST SAYING WE HAVE A CONTRACT IS PUBLIC, BUT WHERE I THINK YOU MAY BE GONE, IT'S PROBABLY NOT, BUT I'LL WAIT AND SEE COUNCILWOMAN, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A CONTRACT THAT HAS, UM, A BENEFIT TO THEIR OFFICES.

I'M TRYING TO PHRASE IT RIGHT WHERE IF THEY ARE FOUND AT FAULT FOR SOMETHING, THEN THE UNION THEN IN THEIR CONTRACT, UM, IF THERE'S A SETTLEMENT THEY CAN DO, IS IT THE UNION WOULD PAY OR THE CITY WOULD PAY, I CAN'T TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE SPECIFICS OF THAT.

AND IN ALL FAIRNESS COUNCIL, WOMAN, YEAH.

I HAD TO BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

I TALKED TO YOU PRIVATELY ABOUT IT, BUT I JUST CAN'T TALK ABOUT THAT ON THE RECORD, BECAUSE THAT WILL GO INTO HOW WE INTERPRET IT AND HOW WE PLAN TO HANDLE IT AT ANY TRIAL.

SO I REALLY CAN'T.

SO THE, BUT THE CONTRACT AND THE, THE, THE LANGUAGE REGARDING INDEMNITY IS THAT PUBLIC INFORMATION.

WELL, THE CONTRACT ITSELF, I THINK, HAS BEEN RELEASED.

SO THE CONTRACT PEOPLE CAN READ FOR THEMSELVES AND SEE WHAT'S IN THERE.

AND SHE WAS A PART OF THE CONTRACT AND YES, I'M SORRY.

SO WOULD YOU SAY, SO WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE, UM, THAT YOU THINK THAT, UH, THAT BEING IN THE CONTRACT, NOT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW, WHY WAS IT ADDED TO THE, IS IT NORMAL TO BE IN CLASS? I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION CAUSE I DIDN'T, I WASN'T A PARTY TO THE CONTRACT.

AND WHAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD BE LIKE IF YOU WERE GOOGLE, WHAT WOULD BE SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF HAVING AN INDEMNITY CLAUSE? IT DEPENDS.

I REALLY CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION BECAUSE I CAN'T, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT COUNCILMAN BECAUSE IT DEPENDS ON SO MANY DIFFERENT SHIT'S WASTE.

I'LL TELL YOU, LIKE I TELL YOU, LIKE I TOLD YOU BEFORE, AGAIN, THAT IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES OR TWO ENTITIES WHEREBY THEY WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF AGREEMENT WHEREBY ONE TAKES ON THE RESPONSIBILITY.

IF SOMETHING HAPPENS THAT THEY MAY DO IT, THAT'S IN GENERAL, RIGHT.

THAT THEY MAY AGREE TO PAY THE OTHER PERSON OR OTHER ENTITY BACK IN GENERAL.

UM, BUT THE TERMS VARY, THE AGREEMENTS VARY, THE CONDITIONS VARY.

SO IT JUST DEPENDS.

SO IN A CASE WHERE, UM, LET'S SAY IF THERE IS A MOTION OF SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND THERE ARE TWO TO TWO PARTIES, UH, FILE A MOTION FOR THE SAME SUMMARY JUDGMENT WOULD A JUDGE HAVE TO RULE ON BOTH ARE THAT'S UP TO THE JUDGE? I DON'T KNOW.

I WILL TELL YOU, UM, WHATEVER IT'S FILED, IT GOES INTO THE RECORD AND THE JUDGE MAKES THE DETERMINATION ON WHAT HE OR SHE WILL HEAR AND HOW THEY RULE.

SO WHEN SOMETHING EMOTIONAL IS THAT PUBLIC.

THE MO THE FILING ITSELF, AS PART OF THE COURT'S RECORD, UNLESS THERE'S A MOTION TO SEAL, THAT'S FILED WITH IT TO KEEP IT OUT OF THE VIEW OF ANYONE OTHER THAN THE PARTIES.

SO IF THAT HAS NOT OCCURRED, THEN ANY MOTION OR DOCUMENT THAT'S FILED INTO THE CLERK OF COURTS RECORD CAN BE ASSESSED BY ANYBODY OR ANY CITIZEN TO HAVE SEVEN, EIGHT COMPUTERS.

THEY'RE ON THE THIRD FLOOR, IN THE CIVIL DIVISION OF THE 19TH JDC, WHERE ANYONE COULD WALK IN, IF YOU HAVE THE CASE NUMBER, OR EVEN THE NAME, LOOK UP THE CASE, AND THEN GO BACK IN NUMBER BY DOCKING NUMBER BY DOCKING NUMBER TO LOOK AT SOMETHING, OR YOU CAN SEE ALL, EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN FILED IN THAT PARTICULAR CASE.

THAT'S NOT UNDER SEAL.

OTHER THING IS, UM, IT WAS ONE LAST THING.

SO ONCE A JUDGE MAKES A RULING, IS THAT ALSO DEPENDS.

AGAIN, IT DEPENDS ON WHETHER THE JUDGE, HE, OR SHE WANTS TO RELEASE IT.

TYPICALLY THE JUDGE WILL RENDER A JUDGMENT OR ORDER OR SOME KIND OF RULING AND FILE IT HIM OR HERSELF WITH THE CLERK OF COURT THAT THEN COULD BE PUT ON THE RECORD IN THEORY.

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UM, AS IT RELATES TO WHENEVER THERE IS A CASE WHERE YOU HAVE DISCOVERY RESPONSES, UM, AND THERE'S A DEADLINE SET FOR DISCOVERY RESPONSES.

DOES THE, DOES THE JUDGE LOOK AT THE DATES OF THE, BOTH THE PLAINTIFF AND THE DEFENDANT? ALL THAT'S UP TO JUDGE? SO LET'S SAY BOTH PERSONS MISSED THE DEADLINE.

IS THAT, THAT IS IT WITH THE, IF THE PLAINTIFF AND THE DEFENSE, WAIT, AM I GETTING THE DEFENDANTS BOTH MISS THE DEADLINE FOR DISCOVERY? IS IT, WHAT IF WONDER? WHAT IF SOME, ONE OF THE PERSONS ASKED THAT IT'D BE THE ANSWERS BE REMOVED? YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? YEAH.

IF THERE ARE DISCOVERED RESPONSES TO, AND THAT THEY DIDN'T IDENTIFY WITNESSES AND ALL THAT, AND IT MISSED THE DEADLINE, THE ONLY WAY TO JUDGE WOULD, WOULD THROW THAT OUT IS IF ONE OF THE PARTIES REQUESTED BECAUSE OF THE DEADLINE BEING MISSED.

I THINK I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, AND I CAN'T ANSWER THAT BECAUSE I'M NOT THE JUDGE.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES ON THE CASE.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE INTENDED SITUATION IS.

NO, NO, I KNOW.

I KNOW.

I MEAN, I KNOW YOU'RE NOT, EXCUSE ME.

THAT WAS A 40TH SLIP.

I APOLOGIZE.

SLIP.

I'M SORRY.

I DON'T THINK THAT YOU'RE A COUNCIL WOMAN, BUT I JUST, YOU KNOW, I GOTTA BE CAREFUL BECAUSE I CAN'T ANSWER ANYTHING THAT IS RELATED TO THIS CASE.

AND THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF MOTIONS.

FINALLY, YOU KNOW, THIS THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF MOTIONS FILED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS IN THIS CASE, A LOT OF FIBERS, A LOT FIVE BY THE OTHER SIDE, SOME ASKING FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS TO BE RESTRICTED OR REMOVED AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

AND I'M NOT GOING TO GET ON THIS MICROPHONE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT I THINK NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

BUT IN GENERAL, I CAN TICK.

I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT.

I'M GOING TO DO.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS, UM, I, WHAT I DO, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO MAKE IT NEXT IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

I KNOW COUNCILMAN, UM, CONSUMMATE DONE HAS THINGS AND I DON'T WANT TO MIX IT UP.

MA'AM YOU CAN JUST CALL ME, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT.

YOU AND I, SO THAT'S WHAT I'LL DO.

MY ONLY THING IS I AM REALLY A STICKLER FOR TRANSPARENCY.

OH, YES.

MA'AM.

I AM TOO.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M AT THE MICROPHONE.

I AM TOO, BUT I'M BOUND BY MY LICENSE AND MY CREED NOT TO RELEASE CERTAIN INFORMATION.

UH, IT JUST, AND I GUESS PART OF THE THING IS THAT THE MOTION, MY, FOR ME, MOTIONS ARE BEING FILED.

I WOULD ASSUME WHERE THE CLIENTS ARE.

WE, THE CLIENTS ALL 12 OF YOU ARE THE CLASS AND THE MAYOR.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.

MA'AM MY, MY INITIAL CONCERN IS THE FACT THAT THE MOTIONS WERE FILED MY WORD 12 DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

AND I HATE WHEN THE MEDIA IS CALLING ME ABOUT MOTIONS.

I DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT.

SO I DO A LOT OF READING ON, UM, WHAT IS IT, THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIENTS AND ATTORNEYS AND SO MANY OF THE QUESTIONS AND THE CONCERNS I'VE HAD THROUGHOUT THIS CASE IS BECAUSE I READ ONE THING ABOUT THE CODE OF ETHICS AND THE CODE OF CONDUCT WITH THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION.

AND THEN I SEE THE OPPOSITE.

AND SO FOR ME, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I DON'T LIKE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE ORDER.

I, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S, UM, MANIPULATED IT A LITTLE BIT, TALKING ABOUT EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.

THIS SESSION HERE I THINK HAS BEEN MANIPULATED.

BUT THEN EVEN WHEN WE GO, WHEN WE LEAVE OUT, WE GET DIFFERENT RESPONSES EITHER IN BEHAVIOR OR ARE OF VERBIAGE.

THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

THAT'S BEEN OUR EXPERIENCE, MY EXPERIENCE WHERE I DISAGREE WITH THAT.

AND I'M SURE YOU WOULD, BUT SO THE WHOLE THING ABOUT IT IS, UM, I, UM, I WILL CALL YOU OKAY.

BUT, BUT IN DOING THAT, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR MY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TO BE SAID, UNDER CLIENT PRE WHAT IS IT I'M TRYING TO SOLVE ALL MY COLLEAGUES, EVERYTHING THAT WE SEND COUNCILWOMAN AND THE EMAIL, THAT QUESTION.

CAUSE HE WAS ABOUT TO CUT ME OFF.

I KNOW YOU'RE ABOUT TO CUT YOU OFF.

I GOT TO BE AT THE ANSWER COUNSELOR, BUT I BE QUIET.

ABSOLUTELY.

IT'S LIKE, IF I SEND YOU QUICK ANSWERS QUESTIONS AND YOU WOULD, AND YOU ANSWER, CAN WE HAVE A SUMMARY OF THAT QUESTION, ANSWER BE SENT EVEN UNDER CLIENT, WHATEVER PRIVILEGE TO ALL MY COLLEAGUES, I WILL SAY WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IN THE FIRST PLACE.

EVERYTHING THAT I'VE EVER TRANSMITTED TO YOU, COUNSEL, WOMAN, OR ANYBODY ON THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN DONE TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE

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COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UH, AND LET ME GIVE YOU YES.

MA'AM CAN I GET FINISHED? NO, PLEASE.

THE OTHER PART I WANT TO SAY IS THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT'S HAPPENED.

YOU SEND US QUESTIONS BEFORE THAT, UH, COURTNEY HUMPHREY AND OR MYSELF HAS SPECIFICALLY ANSWERED AND RECIRCULATE IT BACK AROUND TO ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS.

SO, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'VE DONE FROM THE BEGINNING OF COUNCIL, SCARED MAN, REAL QUICKLY, UH, MS. BENCH, YOUR TIME IS UP.

AND IF YOU HAVE MORE COMMENTS YOU LIKE TO MAKE ABOUT THE ITEM, I'LL GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO, SIR, BUT, UH, MS. BANK SIDE, I EXTENT YOU'RE NOT ASKING ME ANY MORE QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM.

I JUST GENERALLY, I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT I DO, UM, DISAGREE WITH COUNCILWOMAN BANKS, UH, INTERPRETATION OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN EXECUTIVE SESSIONS, IN ANY COMMUNICATIONS I'VE HAD WITH THE COUNCIL.

I THINK ME AND MY OFFICE HAS BEEN TRANSPARENT FROM THE BEGINNING.

OUR DOORS HAVE BEEN OPEN FROM THE BEGINNING.

WE'VE MET WITH SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, ANYONE WHO WANTED TO ME, ANYONE WHO WANTS TO ANYTHING THAT WAS IN OUR FILE, WE'VE MADE, UH, EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE HAD AVAILABLE TO EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER FROM THE BEGINNING BY EMAIL, IN MY OFFICE, THAT YOU CAN COME IN AND LOOK AT EVERY DOCUMENT, EVERY VIDEO WE HAVE IN THIS CASE AND MAKE YOUR OWN ASSESSMENT.

AND WE, AND WE HAVE COUNSELED YOU THAT WE THINK THAT YOU SHOULD DO THAT BEFORE YOU TAKE ON ANY VOTE OR CONSIDERATION OF THIS CASE.

UH, SECONDARILY, UH, WE'VE BEEN OPEN IN TERMS OF EVERYTHING WE FILED COURTNEY HUMPHREY, AS YOU KNOW, WHO'S ON THIS CASE WITH ME HAS BEEN, UH, DILIGENT IN MAKING SURE THAT EVERY HEARING THAT WE'VE HAD, SHE SENT A, UH, SUMMARY AFTER THE HEARING SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT WENT ON AND WHAT HAPPENED.

AND ANYTIME A COUNCIL PERSON HAS SENT OUT AN EMAIL TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, WE RESPONDED BACK TO EVERYONE TO ENSURE THAT EVERYONE GOT THE ANSWER AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.

MY DOOR CONTINUES TO BE OPEN.

IF ANYONE WANTS, I'M GOING TO GET MYSELF ON THEM ON THE RECORD TO ME, PEOPLE HAVE IT ALREADY.

BUT IF ANYONE WANTS TO CONTACT ME, YOU KNOW, I'M HERE, YOU CAN CONTACT ME.

I'LL BE GLAD TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, OR COURTNEY WILL OR DEALEY MORRIS.

WHO'S THE THIRD LAWYER ON THE CASE, COUNCILWOMAN GRAY DON'T GO ANYWHERE COUNCIL AND THE COUNCIL ON THE GREEN.

OH, JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

IN REGARDS TO THE SUPREME COURT DECISION ABOUT JURY TRIALS DURING COVID WHERE, WHAT, WHAT WAS THE DECISION ON THAT AS OF RIGHT NOW? YES, MA'AM, I'M SORRY.

AS OF RIGHT NOW, THE SUPREME COURT HAS STATED THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MORE JURY TRIALS SET BEFORE MARCH 1ST, EVERYONE THAT IS CURRENTLY SET, THEY'RE GOING TO ALLOW TO GO FORWARD AT THIS TIME.

AND WE JUST MISSED THE CUTOFF IN TERMS OF THIS CASE, WHICH IS MARCH 1ST.

CAUSE THAT'S WHEN I TRY BEGINS, WHICH IS MARCH 1ST.

SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE AREN'T GOING FORWARD ON MARCH 1ST FOR RIGHT NOW FOR A FIVE DAY SETTING.

MEANING FROM THAT MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY TO TRY THIS CASE AND JUST MORE VINE HAS NOT INDICATED OTHERWISE COUNCIL MEMBER MOKE.

UH, SPEAKING ON THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.

UM, AND I, I KIND OF AGREE WITH YOU ON EXECUTIVE SESSION AND, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BANKS.

I, I DON'T KNOW, I'M NOW KIND OF CONFUSED AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND EVERYTHING.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE WOULD ENTERTAIN THE IDEA OF GOING INTO THE SESSION, BUT I DO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS OUTRIGHT ASKING.

UM, YOU TALKED ABOUT EMAIL AND EMAILING EVERYBODY, THOSE EMAILS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S OVER EMAIL ADDRESSES, THOSE ARE STILL CONSIDERED PRIVATE AS WELL.

YES THEY ARE.

AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

A COUNSELING MODE AND THE REASON WHY IT IS BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE ONE THAT WE SENT Y'ALL TODAY THAT COURTNEY SENT OUT TO Y'ALL TODAY, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EMAIL, WE HAVE IT IN BRIG.

I THINK SHE USES BLACK OR LIT RED LETTERS.

AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE THAT SAYS, ATTORNEY CLIENT WORK, PRODUCT PRIVILEGE.

SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT'S INHERENTLY PRIVILEGED.

BUT WE DO THAT JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYONE WHO PICKS IT UP AND SHOWS THAT THEY DON'T LOOK AT IT AND THEY DESTROY IT.

BUT ANY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MYSELF AND ANYONE OR ANY GROUP OF YOU IS PRIVILEGED PER SE.

SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE ANY SPECIAL MONIKER.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO HAVE ANY SPECIAL REVERT ON IT.

IT IS PRIVILEGED.

AND ANYONE WHO OBTAINS THAT OUTSIDE OF THE 12 OF YOU AND THE MAYOR IS BOUND BY A LEGAL PRIVILEGE OF AS ANOTHER ATTORNEY TO TAKE THAT IN IMMEDIATELY DESTROYED.

THEY NOTIFY ME THAT THEY GOT IT INADVERTENTLY, AND IF THEY FAILED TO DO IT, THEN THEY CAN BE BROUGHT UP FOR DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDING.

SO THAT'S WHY WE COMMUNICATE BY EMAIL.

I THINK THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

NOW THIS, THIS RIGHT HERE, THE MOTION TO CHANGE VENUE AND STUFF.

THIS DID I SEE ON THE THING? IT'S THE OPTION OF EXECUTIVE SESSION.

LET ME SAY THIS.

BEFORE WE ENTER INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION ON 80 ITEM, WE HAVE TO KNOW THE PART OF PUBLIC THAT WE CAN'T DO.

SO ON THIS PARTICULAR, WE DID NOT NOTIFY THE PUBLIC THAT WE PERHAPS WAS GOING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

SO IN ORDER TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS THIS ITEM, WE HAVE TO REINTRODUCE IT AS AN ITEM THAT CAN'T BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

THEY TAKE IT BACK UP AND AT THAT TIME, BUT WHEN HE MADE A MOTION TO DO SO, WE COULD NOT NOTIFY.

WE COULD NOT THAT, UH, THE PERSON WE COULD DO, MAKE A MOTION TO DEFER.

AND THEN, AND THEN GO, OKAY, QUICK

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QUESTION.

DO, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE, ARE WE ON A TIME SCHEDULE WITH THIS OR THE MOST FOR VENUE? YEAH, NO, IT'S ALREADY BEEN DECIDED BY THE JURY.

AND WE'RE JUST PROVING YES OR NO.

WHAT DID YOU SAY? IT'S JUST A DISCUSSION COUNCILWOMAN BANKS JUST WANTED TO HAVE, AND I KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO ASSUME WHAT SHE WAS GONNA SAY.

I THINK SHE JUST WANTED TO DISCUSS THE FILING ITSELF, BUT IT WAS RULED UPON ON, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO, THE JUDGE HEARD THE MOTION.

I APOLOGIZE.

I THOUGHT A DECISION THAT WE WERE FIXING TO HAVE TO, IT'S JUST, JUST DISCUSSION.

SO YOU GUYS, OKAY.

JUST, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, WE COULD NOT DEFER THIS ITEM BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SAY EXECUTIVE SESSION WOULD HAVE TO BE REINTRODUCED AS A NEW ITEM.

WHAT EXECUTIVE SESSION I ADDED TO THE ITEM, AN OPTION FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THE ITEM BEFORE WE COULD DISCUSS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

SO I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR ON THAT.

NO, I, I I'VE HAD MINE BE JUST DISCUSSION.

I JUST DIDN'T WANT IT.

APPRECIATE COUNCIL MEMBER DONE.

I WAS GOING TO ENTERTAIN THE MOTION TO DEFER AS WELL AND GOT THAT REVELATION THAT THE PRO TIM GAVE US, BUT EVEN WHETHER IT WAS A DEFERRAL OR RE BRINGING IT BACK, I THINK THIS ITEM HAS BEEN COVERED RIGHT.

SENIOR COUNCIL WOMAN.

THANKS ITEM NUMBER 98.

AND LET ME BE CLEAR, OUR COUNCIL MEMBER HUSBAND.

I JUST WANTED TO THROW OUT AN IDEA, UH, IF IT'S THE GOAL OF THE COUNCIL TO GET TOGETHER AS A GROUP, UH, TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION TO DISCUSS THE ENTIRETY OF THIS CASE.

I THINK THE MOST PRUDENT THING TO DO WOULD PROBABLY BE TO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING, WHICH IN WHICH WE ADVERTISE THAT WE'RE GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, AND THEN, AND THEN DO IT THAT WAY.

IT'S JUST AN IDEA.

I'LL THROW OUT.

IT'S NOT NOTHING TO DO TONIGHT.

UH, BUT THREE OF US, I LOOK AT, I GET IT AS WE HAVE SEVERAL NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS.

UM, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE A FRANK DISCUSSION AS A GROUP, UH, ABOUT THE CASE, ESPECIALLY WITH TRIAL PENDING.

SO I DO WANT TO BE A SPONSOR OF THAT.

UM, AND SOMETHING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT AFROBEAT, THAT'D BE COUNCIL MEMBER, HUDSON COUNCIL, NUMBER ROCKETS.

SO I WAS, I WOULD SECOND THAT MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.

WE HAVE NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS AND I THINK THEY NEED TO BE BROUGHT UP TO SPEED.

IT'S DIFFERENT GOING INTO THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND SITTING AS AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT AS A GROUP COLLABORATING AND DISCUSSING THIS ITEM AND THE HISTORY OF THIS ITEM, I THINK IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE AND MAKE SURE NO ONE'S MISSING ANYTHING.

SEEING NONE? UH, WE GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL.

MA'AM SO I THINK IT'S AN ORDER THAT THREE OF THREE OF US GET TOGETHER SCHEDULED A SPECIAL MEETING AND THEN DISCUSSED ITEM AND EXECUTIVE SESSION.

SO I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER, ROCCA, HUDSON, I DON'T KNOW WHO THE THIRD COUNCIL, WOMAN GREEN.

AND SO YOU ALL WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE ACTION.

I TRY TO SET A SPECIAL MEETING FOR ONE DAY, UH, NEXT WEEK AT BOSTON.

YEAH, ONE DAY NEXT WEEK.

AND THEN WE'LL GO FROM THERE ON THE GREEN.

I JUST HAD A QUESTION FOR OUR, UH, COUNSELOR ADMINISTRATOR.

WHEN, WHEN SAID IN THAT MEETING, DOES IT HAVE TO BE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS? I'M ONLY ASKING BECAUSE WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING COMING UP.

POSSIBLY WE DO TWO DAYS BEFORE.

I THINK IT HAS TO BE 48 HOURS NOTICE.

CORRECT.

AND WE CAN USE THAT TIME.

YEP.

CORRECT.

SO YOU CAN CALL A MEETING, UM, THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE INSIDE THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, UH, AS LONG AS THE PUBLIC NOTICE, UM, CLEARLY STATES THAT DATE, TIME AND PLACE FOR THE MEETING COUNCIL MEMBER MOLT.

UH, QUICK QUESTION.

IF WE DO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE WOULD HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM BOTH PARTIES, BE THERE TO ASK QUESTIONS.

OKAY, WE'VE DEALT WITH THIS BEFORE.

THIS WILL BE UP TO THE DECISION OF Y'ALL AS A GROUP, IF Y'ALL WOULD ALLOW THEM TO COME IN THERE.

WE'VE KIND OF BEEN HESITANT ABOUT THAT IN THE PAST, BECAUSE I THINK IT KEEPS US FROM FREELY BEING ABLE TO DISCUSS THE MATTER WITH Y'ALL IN THE MANNER THAT WE'D LIKE TO, UH, I GUESS YOU COULD DO A COMBINATION OF IT WHERE WE WOULD HAVE A SESSION WHERE WE WOULD TALK WITH Y'ALL AND THEN MAYBE Y'ALL COULD ASK THEM TO COME IN.

THAT WOULD BE UP TO Y'ALL'S DECISION IN THE, IN A GROUP DECISION UNIFORMLY THAT Y'ALL WOULD WANT THEM TO BE THERE.

I CAN'T STAND THE WAY IN AND I WON'T STAND IN THE WAY OF THAT.

I MEAN, I, I WOULD TELL YOU, THEY'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK FREELY TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE 12 OF YOU IN A MANNER THAT I THINK IS NECESSARY TO EXPRESS WHAT I NEED TO EXPRESS FOR THE CASE, UH, AFTER THAT IT'S UP TO Y'ALL HOW Y'ALL WANT TO PROCEED.

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NINE, EIGHT, DISCUSSION.

THE MOTION FOR SANCTIONS FOLLOWED BY THE PARIS ATTORNEY AND A DRINK OF WILLIAM VS.

CITY OF BATON ROUGE, CIVIL SUIT BY COUNSEL, A WOMAN BANKS.

UH, IS THERE ANY ONE HERE TO DISCUSS THE ITEM, ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE ON ITEM 98,

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I THINK IT IS APPLICABLE.

EVERYTHING THAT WE JUST STATED ABOUT THIS ITEM IS APPLICABLE TO NOW, SINCE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING, UH, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL ON THE BANK, I'LL DEFER TO YOU BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU MUST SENIOR ELDER ON THE COUNCIL, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE, UH, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S BUTTER ALL BREAD, BUT I DO THINK YOU'RE REALLY GONNA HAVE THE SPECIAL MEETING.

WE CAN DISCUSS IT ALL TALKING ABOUT LEADING THE WITNESS, BUT I, UM, I, I CONCUR, I THINK, UM, IF ANYTHING I WOULD LOVE TO, IF IT, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON THE TIME AND LIKE YOU SAID, UM, WE MEET WITH THE PARISH ATTORNEY TO GET EVERYTHING OUT AND MAYBE AT THE END, OUR BEFORE, WHATEVER, IF WE BRING IN, UM, THE PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY, UM, BUT DEFINITELY ALL THAT SHOULD BE ABOUT THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST.

AND SO I'M COOL WITH THAT, THAT THAT'S SO, UM, WE, WE DON'T NEED IT.

LET'S JUST A DISCUSSION SO WE CAN MOVE, WE CAN MOVE ALONG.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS, NUMBER 99

[Items 99 - 104]

THROUGH ONE OH FOUR, UH, ITEMS, UH, SPONSORED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN.

HE, UH, WE'D HAVE TO TAKE THE ITEMS AND I HAVE TO READ THEM SEPARATELY, BUT I THINK YOU WANT TO ASK ME, ASK THE QUESTION ABOUT, TO TAKE THEM ALL TOGETHER AND, AND THEN, UH, ASKED FOR A MOTION TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS, COUNCIL MEMBERS.

I REQUESTED THIS INFORMATION IN ADVANCE.

UH, THOSE OF YOU GUYS WHO'VE DONE THIS BEFORE.

NO, IT'S TOUGH TO RECEIVE A REPORT AND READ IT AND PROCESS IT IN FIVE MINUTES.

SO I WANTED US TO GET THE INFORMATION IN ADVANCE, BE ABLE TO EVALUATE IT AND THEN BE ABLE TO COME TO THE COUNCIL, MEETING WITH OUR QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS.

SO ONCE I REQUESTED THE INFORMATION IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING, SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO I REQUESTED THE REPORTS FROM ASKED FOR MORE TIME TO DO THAT.

SO I WANT TO GRANT THEM MORE TIME TO GET THAT INFORMATION TO US IN ADVANCE SO WE CAN EVALUATE IT PROPERLY.