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[CALL TO ORDER]
OUR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 2021 REGULAR METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING.WE'RE GOING TO BE LED IN THE INVOCATION BY BATTY SWART AND THE PLANTER OF ALEISHA.
EXCUSE ME, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY ASHER SWART, TANYA TRAINER MANILA, AND JOSIE.
CHINA AM I PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECTLY? TONY TRAN, TONY TRAINER, MY GRANDCHILDREN, AND MY SON.
OOPS, HERE'S YOUR, MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MY SON-IN-LAW.
MR. SWAN, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME UP AND LEAD US IN THE INVITATION DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE PEACE AND STABILITY THAT WE LIVE UNDER.
AND SO OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE DEMOCRACY.
WE HAD THE BENEFIT OF PARTICIPATING IN.
WE THANK YOU FOR THESE OFFICIALS THAT WE HAVE ELECTED.
WE PRAY THAT THEY FEEL THE WEIGHT OF THEIR POSITION, KNOWING THAT THEY ANSWER TO US AS RESIDENTS AND CONSTITUENTS, BUT ULTIMATELY THEY WILL ANSWER TO YOU FOR THEIR ACTIONS AS AUTHORITIES.
PLEASE LORD GIVE THESE MEN AND WOMEN WISDOM TO EXECUTE JUSTICE WELL, AND TO GOVERN FOR THE WELFARE OF THIS CITY.
NOT FOR PERSONAL GAIN FOR THE GAIN OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS OVER THE ADVANTAGE OF A FAVORED.
PHEW, WE PRAY THAT THE DECISIONS MADE BY THIS COUNCIL WILL BE FORWARD-THINKING LOOKING AT THE IMPACT ON FUTURE GENERATIONS AND NOT FOR IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION WHERE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL CAN MEND AND REPAIR DAMAGES DONE IN THIS CITY.
GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO DO SO WHERE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL CAN PREVENT FUTURE PAIN AND DIVISION.
GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO DO SO WHERE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL CAN PROMOTE SOCIAL COHESION AND COMPASSION, GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO DO SO WHERE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL CAN SPUR ON OUR ECONOMY, GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO DO SO WHERE THE MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL CAN MAKE DECISIONS, CONNECTING THOSE SEEKING JOBS AND LOOKING, AND THOSE LOOKING TO FILL OR CREATE JOBS, GIVE THEM THE WISDOM TO DO SO.
WE PRAY THAT THESE MEN AND WOMEN WILL HAVE LISTENING EARS ACCEPTING WISE COUNSEL, FROM THOSE WHO FOLLOW AFTER YOU AND REJECTING THE COUNCIL OF THOSE THAT HATE YOU.
WE KNOW FROM YOUR WORD IN PSALM TWO, THAT IF THIS GROUP TAKES COUNSEL TOGETHER AGAINST YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE SEEKING TO CAST OFF THE ROPES THAT BIND THEM AND RESPONSIBILITY TO YOU AND TO US, YOU WILL LAUGH AT THEM AND RIDICULE THEM.
LET THAT NOT BE SO OF THIS COUNCIL IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SON AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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.
I'M GONNA TELL YOU, THOSE ARE MY GRANDCHILDREN.
YOU DID, YOU DID TELL US THOSE ARE THE SAN MOROSE, HIS GRANDCHILDREN, MR. PRO, TIM, DID SHE ALSO TELL YOU THAT TODAY IS HER BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DID NOT UPSET ITEM ONE
[ADOPTION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
APPROVAL AND ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF AUGUST 11TH, 2021.AND THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF AUGUST 18TH, 2021 BY THE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR OD IS A PUBLIC HEARING.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
MOTION BY ROCCO, SECONDED BY MRL, SIR.
[INTRODUCTIONS (Part 1 of 3)]
READ THE INTRODUCTIONS? OKAY.NUMBER TWO, GRANTING A FIVE-YEAR PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT ESTIMATED AT $128,546 FOR ONE 53RD STREET, LLC, WATERMARK BATON ROUGE FOR THE PURPOSES OF ENCOURAGING PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND RESTORATION OF PROPERTY BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR, NUMBER THREE, A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ISSUANCE AND SALE AND DELIVERY OF THE NOT TO EXCEED $6 MILLION REVENUE ANTICIPATION NOTE SERIES 20 20, 1 OF THE ST.
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GEORGE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.NUMBER TWO OF THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OTHER MATTERS AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERE TWO BY ST.
GEORGE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR, AMENDING THE 2021 CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET.
SO AS TO APPROVE A BUDGET FOR THE HARVEST AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IN FOR THE REMAINDER OF CALENDAR YEAR 2021, AND THE AMOUNT OF $13,480 IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT DATED SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2020, BY THE HARVEST AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, NUMBER FIVE TO AMEND THE 2021 CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.
SO AS TO APPROPRIATE $2,031,130 FROM FUND BALANCE ON ASSIGNED TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR A LOCAL GRANT MATCH, WHICH REPRESENTS A PORTION OF THE PROJECT COST ASSOCIATED WITH PHASE TWO CONSTRUCTION OF THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, SAFE ROOM TRAINING CENTER BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, DIRECTOR, NUMBER SIX, AN ORDINANCE DISSOLVING THE AMERICANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT WITHIN THE PARISH SHOULD BE SPENT NOURISHED STATE OF LOUISIANA AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF CHAPTER 27, B TITLE 33 OF THE LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTES IN 1950 BY A COUNCIL MEMBER AND A NULL NUMBER SEVEN, AMENDING THE 2021 CAR EXPENSE BUDGET SUEZ TO APPROPRIATE A DONATION FROM ENERGY IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO BE GIVEN AWAY AT THE DISTRICT.
10 BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT BY COUNCIL BUDGET, OFFICER CONDEMNATION, INTRODUCTIONS, NUMBER EIGHT, ALFONSE ROSS AND ROSANNA ROSS 1 0 1 2 5 BOWMAN AVENUE, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER NINE, STANLEY GRAY AND KATHLEEN MARIE DORSEY, GRAY 5 2 6 4 CADILLAC STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE GREEN NUMBER 10, THE ESTATE OF ROBBIE RIGHTS AND LYNNWOOD RIGHTS.
4 4 1 3 CLAYTON STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE GREEN NUMBER 11, DIANA GO, BERRA AND JOSE RAYEZ, 8 6 2 6 HOOPER ROAD, COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE, GREEN NUMBER 12, JOE SUE DANIEL BARRIER'S HERNANDEZ, 3 9 2 5 BEACHWOOD DRIVE COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 13, SIERRA HAWK HAWKINS BUSH, NO 3 3, 2, 1, UH, CALUMET STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 14, ALAINA MARIE THOMAS 3 0 3 4 MONROE AVENUE, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE, NUMBER 15, THE ESTATE OF ALMA GRIFFIN AND SHEDRICK KIRKLAND.
AKA SHEDRICK DEVON KIRKLAND, 3 5 5 7 ELM DRIVE COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 16, HELEN, ALL BRITAIN 4 7 5 0 BROADWAY STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 17, MOSES MYLES LEONARD FOSTER JR.
DALE JACKSON, TRAVIS FOSTER DEMANTE FOSTER AND JUANITA CARTER.
3 2 5 0 DALTON STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 18, THE ESTATE OF THELMA GOLDEN 1 7 5 3 NORTH 36TH STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 19, BRUCE JAMES AND ARTIST JAMES 2 9, 6 6 WHILE OUR AVENUE COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 20 MARTHA BIRD MOTLEY FOSTER 6 1 7 MYRTLE STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 21 BROUGHT BRIAN EDWARD GRANT 1 9 5 0 WISTERIA STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 22, DANE JUSTIN SMITH, 4 4 4 0 FLEET DRIVE, COUNCIL, DISTRICT 11 ADAMS AND YOU'D HEAR PROPERTY INTRODUCTIONS.
NUMBER 23 LOT SIX DASH EIGHT DASH TWO DASH B SUBDIVISION DIRE PROPERTY COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE, KNOLL NUMBER 24 LOT EIGHT PLUS SQUARE 28 SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE EXTENSION COUNCIL, JUNE SEVEN, COLE NUMBER 25, LOT 31 SQUARE 29.
SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE EXTENSION COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN.
CALL NUMBER 26, LOT 32 SQUARE 29.
GREENVILLE, EXTENSION COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLD NUMBER 27 LOT ONE SQUARE 15 SUBDIVISION STANDARD HEIGHTS COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 28 LOT M SQUARE FOR SUBDIVISION BOWDEN COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 29, LOT 22 SQUARE 10 SUBDIVISION, SCOTLAND HEIGHTS, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 30 LOT NINE SQUARE EIGHT SUBDIVISION SCOTLAND HEIGHTS, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 31 LOT ONE SQUARE 15 SUBDIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 32 LOT 24 SQUARE, TWO SUBDIVISION ST.
IRMA LEE COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS, NUMBER 33 LOT ONE SQUARE, ONE SUBDIVISION SORT.
ADDITION, MOUTH METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 34, LOT 25 SUBDIVISION BEACHWOOD CAPITAL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 36 LOT ONE SQUARE, ONE SUBDIVISION ELLER CELL COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 37, LOT TO SQUARE.
ONE SUBDIVISION STANDARD HEIGHTS COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 38, LOT 11 AND 12 SQUARE SQUARE.
28 SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE EXTENSION COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLD NUMBER 38 LOT 10 SQUARE 28 SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE EXTENSION COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLD LOT SEVEN AND EIGHT SQUARE SEVEN SUBDIVISION UNIVERSITY CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS, NUMBER 41
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LOT 11 PLUS SUBDIVISION LANG LOWVILLE METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 42 LOT D DASH TWO DASH E DASH P DASH ONE.SUBDIVISION DW BERENGER TRUCK, METRO COUNCIL, DISTRICT NINE HUDSON, ALL ITEMS THAT REQUIRE READING, BEEN READ AND THE MOTION TO INTRODUCE ALL ITEMS AS AN ORDER COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE INTRODUCTION ITEMS MOTION BY ADAMS SECOND BY HUDSON, ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED COUNCIL MEMBERS.
[CONDEMNATIONS]
IF YOU WOULD GO TO YOUR SECOND SHEET FOR CONDEMNATION IS YOUR SECOND SHEET.I'M GOING TO READ THE DPW RECOMMENDATION.
THERE ARE TO PROCEED WITH ITEMS 75, 80 81 82 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 91 92 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 99.
AND TO DELETE ITEM 76, 79, 83 AND 85.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE CONDEMNATION ITEMS? ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON COMBINATIONS, MS. MARK AND TINEL COME ON NOW.
UH, MARY JANE, MARK, AND TAIL SPANISH TOWN.
UM, I'M PRESIDENT OF OUR CIVIC ASSOCIATION IN SPANISH TAN ITEM, 75 CAME UP FOR CONDEMNATION, UH, ABOUT 90 DAYS AGO AND IT WAS DEFERRED.
THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN EMPTY FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.
HOMER LLC TOOK POSSESSION OF THE PROPERTY AND OWNERSHIP 20 YEARS AGO.
THEY'VE HAD PLENTY OF TIME TO DO THE REPAIRS.
IT WAS FIRST APPROVED BY THE HPC SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2015.
NOVEMBER, 2019 AND 90 DAYS AGO.
WE WERE HERE BEFORE THE COUNCIL.
THIS HOUSE IS DEMOLITION BY NEGLECT.
THE NEGLECT WAS OF THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY.
SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE WITH THE PROPERTY.
SENATOR ADLEY ASKED THAT I COME, I UNDERSTAND THAT HE'S COMMUNICATED WITH Y'ALL.
HE LIVES ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE PROPERTY.
IT'S GOT CRITTERS IN THE HOUSE, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE AROUND IT REALLY HAVE ISSUES WITH THE RATS AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE HOUSE.
SO WE WOULD APPRECIATE CONSIDERATION.
UH, LAURA LOOSEN LASSIE HAYES IS HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 91 IS HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 91.
I AM A HOMEOWNER, A FEW HOUSES DOWN FROM THIS PROPERTY.
THIS PROPERTY WAS RENTED UNTIL ABOUT, UH, THREE YEARS AGO.
THE PROPERTY HAS SINCE STOOD VACANT.
THIS IS A FULLY POPULATED RESIDENTIAL BLOCK WITH YOUNG CHILDREN.
IT IS A NON-SECURED HOME WITH A NON-SECURED BACKYARD THAT HAS WEEDS HIGHER, TALLER THAN I AM.
UM, A LOT OF RODENT INFESTATION.
THE CITY DID COME OUT ON A WORK ORDER LAST WEEK TO TRIM THE PROPERTY, BUT THE HOUSE IS NOT SECURE OR EDIT AS A SAFETY HAZARD FOR THE RESIDENTIAL, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY.
PLEASE CONSIDER MOVING FORWARD ON THE CONDEMNATION OF ITEM NUMBER 91.
MA'AM THE CARLO TAPE? THE CARLO TATE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 92.
ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR CONDEMNATIONS? ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR CONDEMNATIONS COUNCIL MEMBERS? I DO HAVE SOME NOTES FROM SOME OF YOU.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO, UH, REQUEST ANYTHING ON ANY OF THE CONDEMNATION ITEMS? COUNCIL MEMBER? NO.
UH, ITEM 78, UH, THE FIRST 60 DAYS THE PROFILE 60.
ANYONE ELSE? ITEM, ITEM, NUMBER 87, DEFER FOR 60 PLEASE.
87 60 82 FOR TWO WEEKS, PLEASE, SIR.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE FAMILY THAT IS OUTSIDE, BUT 90 DAYS PLEASE, 92 FOR 90 DAYS.
ALL RIGHT, ANYONE ELSE? I'M GOING TO READ, REREAD THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WHAT ITEM? 75, 80 81 84, 86, 89, 90 91 93, 94, 95, 96 97 DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
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82 DIFFER FOR 30 DAYS, ITEM 77 AND 98 DIFFER FOR 60 DAYS.ITEM 99, 78 AND 87 DIFFER FOR 90 DAYS ITEMS 88 AND 92.
AND TO DELETE ITEMS, 76, 79, 83 AND 85.
MA'AM THREE IS ASKING FOR 30 DAYS TO A 93, 30 DAYS, 95, 30 DAYS, 96, 30 DAYS.
IT DOCTOR AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED WITH ITEM 75, 80 81 84, 86, 89, 90 91 94 97.
WE'RE GOING TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS, EITHER.
WE WANT TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS, ITEM 77, 98, 93 95 AND 96, THE FIRST 60 DAYS ITEMS 99, 78 AND 87 DIFFER FOR 90 DAYS, 88 AND 92.
AND DELETE ITEM 76, 79, 83 AND 85 87 IS 60 DAYS, NOT 90, 87, 60 DAYS.
YEAH, I GOT THAT 180 7 TO 60 DAYS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONDEMNATION MOTION BY AMOROSO SECONDED BY, UH, COLEMAN, ANY OBJECTIONS, MOTION CARRIES COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF YOU WOULD NOW GO TO,
[INTRODUCTIONS (Part 2 of 3)]
I HAVE NOT ON THE CONDEMNATION, BUT ON THE INTRODUCTION ITEM, NUMBER 32.I WANT TO KNOW IF, UM, I CAN REQUEST IT TO BE DELETED.
WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO THAT BECAUSE WE ALREADY VOTED ON IT, BUT WE CAN TAKE UP.
I MEAN, WE CAN TAKE UP THE INTRODUCTION ITEMS OR MOMENTARILY.
WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF OUR MEETING AS PROMISED IN OUR LAST MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE UP,
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UH, ITEM ONE 50, WHICH IS WHERE OUR LAST MEETING ENDED.WE WERE AT THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THE MEETING.
UH, WE DO HAVE, UH, SOME FIRST RESPONDERS WHO WERE HERE, UH, TO DO A PRESENTATION ON, UH, THAT PART OF THE MEETING BEFORE WE GO TO OUR PRESENTATION.
I DO WANT TO AS ALWAYS THANK ALL OF OUR, UH, CITY PARISH EMPLOYEES ARE HERE WITH US THIS EVENING.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND TO THOSE WHO WERE COMING UP TO DO THE PRESENTATION.
UH, WE RECOGNIZE THE NUMBERS OF COVID-19 ARE INCREASING AND YOU ALL ARE ON THE FRONT LINES.
SO NO MATTER WHERE YOU WORK, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR FIRST, GIVE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AROUND OUR BLOG.
WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL THAT YOU DO, UH, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING A PRESENTATION FIRST AND THAT WE WILL HAVE, UH, THE PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THIS ITEM.
I, UH, MY NAME IS PHYLLIS MCNEIL.
I'M EMPLOYED BY CORRECT HEALTH.
I WORK AT EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH PRISON.
UH, THIS IS TOTALLY THE ROBERTSON.
SHE'S THE DIRECTOR OF NURSING.
SHE ALSO IS EMPLOYED BY CORRECT HEALTH AND WORKS AT EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH PRISON.
UH, WE, WHEN WE, I, I'M HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT COVID.
UM, IT'S BEEN A ROUGH RIDE, UH, FOR US WHO WE'RE RIGHT ON THE FRONT LINE WITH THE, UH, DAY-TO-DAY TASK OF KEEPING EVERYONE SAFE, JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY, THE, THE REST OF THE WORLD.
UM, IT CAME FAST AND FURIOUS BEFORE COVID F BEFORE WE EVER HAD OUR FIRST CASE.
UH, WE ALL SAT DOWN WITH MORTON GRIMES TO DEVELOP A PLAN BECAUSE WE KNEW IT WAS COMING.
UH, WE WORKED WITH THE CDC, THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AS THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS.
WE BASED OUR PLAN AND OUR PROTOCOLS ON THEIR GUIDELINES, WHICH WERE SPECIFIC TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
WE, UH, WE WERE READY WHEN IT HIT WHEN WE FIRST GOT IT.
UH, WE HAD EVERYTHING IN PLACE, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COULD KEEP THE STAFF OF THE INMATES SAFE.
AND I, I DO BELIEVE WE DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB BASED ON OUR NUMBERS AND OUR STATISTICS.
UH, COULD WE HAVE OUR FIRST SLIDE? OKAY.
I CAN'T REALLY SEE IT TOO WELL.
CAN YOU SEE IT? OKAY, THERE WE GO.
SO IN ADDITION TO THE CORRECTIONAL STAFF, WARDEN GRINDS AT HIS STAFF BEING INSTRUMENTAL AND US HELPING US TO ISOLATE THE INMATES.
UH, WE HAD, WE WORKED WITH, UH, EMS, UH, DR.
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AND, UH, HIS STAFF, UH, CHAD GOT, BECAUSE AT ONE POINT, JUST LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD, WE FACED, UH, PPE CHALLENGES.WE COULDN'T GET ALL THE EQUIPMENT WE NEEDED.
WE HAD SUB PARTS AT SUB PARTS.
WE DID, WE WERE JUST GRASPING EVERYWHERE.
SO EMS STEPPED IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
MARCEL FROM LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
I WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH HER.
UH, WE, WE REACHED OUT TO THESE PEOPLE AND THEY WERE ABLE TO HELP US, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THEIR HELP.
THEY WERE SO GRACIOUS TO HELP US GET THAT STUFF THAT WE NEEDED TO KEEP EVERYBODY SAFE.
UH, DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING TO THIS, UH, MS. ROBERTSON? WHAT WE, OH, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT.
I THINK IT COMES UP LATER IN ONE OF THE SLIDES, BUT I JUST WANT TO MENTION DR.
O'NEILL WHO'S HEAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AT OUR LADY OF THE LAKE.
SHE CAME IN VERY EARLY AND REVIEWED OUR PLAN AND, UH, WAS VERY HELPFUL.
SHE EDUCATED THE STAFF, SHE TALKED WITH THE INMATE, SHE EDUCATED THEM, UH, INFORMING EVERYBODY ABOUT THE UPCOMING VACCINATIONS AND HOW TO STAY SAFE AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME.
UH, SHE HAD VERY LITTLE OF ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR US OR MS. ROBERTSON, CORRECT? IF NOT, CORRECT.
SHE, SHE EVEN MADE US AWARE OF WITH THE SHORTAGE OF PPE EQUIPMENT.
UM, SHE MADE US AWARE OF HOW LONG TO USE THE PPE EQUIPMENT, UM, WHAT TO DO WITH IT AS FAR AS, UH, SPREAD IT WITH LYSOL AND LETTING IT AIR OUT.
AND, UM, WE CAN HOLD ONTO IT FOR THREE DAYS, BUT AFTER THREE DAYS WE HAD TO GET RID OF IT.
UM, SHE HELPED US OUT A LOT AND SHE MADE US AWARE THAT WE WERE DOING A GOOD JOB AND I CAN'T THANK THOSE PEOPLE ENOUGH, REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY RESOURCES WAS JUST INCREDIBLE, THEIR RESPONSE FOR US.
SO, UH, AS FAR AS TESTING, UH, WE STARTED OUT USING A LAB ON RIVER ROAD CALLED RIVER ROAD LAB.
IT WAS PART OF LSU VETERINARY SCHOOL LAB.
UH, THEY REACHED OUT TO US, UH, I THINK, UH, DR.
O'NEILL GOT IN CONTACT WITH THEM AND THEY REACHED OUT TO US AND SAID, WE'LL, WE'LL DO YOUR TESTING.
SO THEY PROVIDED US WITH THE TEST KITS, WHICH WERE Y'ALL REMEMBER BACK IN THE BEGINNING WERE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET, UH, BUT THEY PROVIDED US WITH THE TEST KIDS, UH, AND THEY WERE GIVING US A VERY FAST TURNAROUND, 24, 48 HOURS, I THINK, AT THE BEGINNING.
UH, AND SO WE USED THEM UNTIL THEY ACTUALLY CLOSED DOWN SHOP AND WE'VE SWITCHED TO OUR LADY OF, UH, MS. SORRY, WOMEN'S HOSPITAL LAB.
UH, THEY HAVE ALSO DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB.
UH, THERE WAS NO COST WITH LSU.
IT WAS A COMPLIMENTARY THING THEY DID AT THE BEGINNING.
UH, BUT, UH, WE HAVE THE NUMBERS, UH, I THINK THEY WERE ASKED FOR THE, UH, IT MIGHT BE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A SECOND.
BUT, UH, THE TESTING PROTOCOL THAT WE USED IT FROM THE TIME THE INMATE WALKED THROUGH OUR DOORS.
IN FACT, BEFORE THEY WALKED THROUGH OUR DOORS, WE WERE TESTING THEM.
WE TESTED THEM FOR THEIR TEMPERATURE AND SYMPTOMS BEFORE THEY EVER CAME THROUGH THE DOOR.
IF THEY HAD SYMPTOMS, WE WOULD SET THEM TO THE HOSPITAL TO BE TESTED.
BUT ONCE THEY CAME THROUGH OUR DOOR, THOSE SYMPTOMS, UH, WE CONTINUE WITH OUR SCREENING.
AND YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHERE WE WENT FROM THERE, MS. ROBERTSON, THE ISOLATION, AS FAR AS WHEN THEY'RE COMING INTAKE.
UM, IF THE INMATE STATED THAT HE HAD HE OR SHE HAD ANY SORT OF SYMPTOMS, WE AUTOMATICALLY DIVERTED THEM TO OUR LADY OF THE LAKE TO GET SWAPPED.
ONCE THEY CAME BACK WITH THE DEPUTY, WITH THE DISCHARGE PAPERWORK AT THE STATED THAT THEY WERE NEGATIVE, THEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE INTAKE PROCESS AND THEY QUARANTINED FOR 14 DAYS WITH THE REGISTRY REST OF THE POPULATION OF DOING INTAKES.
IF THEY CAME BACK POSITIVE, THEN WE AUTOMATICALLY PLACED THEM ON ISOLATION.
UM, IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS SO FAST PACED.
I PRACTICALLY TOOK OVER EVERYTHING AS FAR AS THE COVID NUMBERS.
UM, WHEN WE CAME, WHEN A POSITIVE CAME THROUGH AUTOMATICALLY MADE MAJOR FONTENEAU AWARE, UM, IN THE MEETINGS, WE MADE SURE THAT THE NURSES KNEW, UM, ANYTIME THEY HAD A SUSPECT, AN INMATE THAT WAS SUSPECTED OF HAVING COLD DEAD, THEY WOULD REACH OUT TO ME, GIVE ME A CALL, MADE ME AWARE OF THE INMATE.
IF HE WAS, UH, A SUSPECT SUSPECTED POSITIVE, OR IF HE WAS, UH, HE OR SHE WAS A POSITIVE, THEY WOULD CALL ME.
AND I TOLD THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, IT DOESN'T MATTER MORNING, DAY, AFTERNOON, WEEKENDS, CALL ME
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AND MAKE ME AWARE OF IF THE INMATE WAS POSITIVE IN THE RESULTS OF THE INMATE, THEY WILL CALL ME AND LET ME KNOW.AND THEN I WOULD REACH OUT TO MAJOR AND NOTIFY MAJOR OF IT.
THEY WOULD THAT CLASSIFICATION THOUGH, THAT THE INMATE WAS POSITIVE, THEN THE INMATE WOULD BE PLACED ON A DIFFERENT LINE FROM THE SUSPECTED LINE AND PLACED ON ISOLATION LINE WITH JUST POSITIVES.
UM, NO, WE JUST WORKED VERY CLOSELY THE JAIL AND GETTING THE INMATE ISOLATED FOR 14 DAYS, WHICH WAS THE CDC GUIDELINES AND TEMPERATURE CHECKS WAS DONE EVERY MORNING AND EVERY AFTERNOON.
SO ANYBODY WHO SHOWED SYMPTOMS, UH, THAT WAS TWO TIMES A DAY THAT THE INMATE WAS CHECKED AND THEN THEY WERE CHECKED AGAIN, DURING PILL CALL WITH THE NURSE, GAVE THEM THEIR PILLS.
THEY ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TELL A DEPUTY THEY WERE SICK.
THEY WERE HAVING SYMPTOMS, OR THEY WOULD PUT IN A SICK CALL AND THE SICK CALLS GO STRAIGHT TO THE SUPERVISORS WHO WOULD AUTOMATICALLY, IF IT WAS A COVID SET, SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE I'VE HAD A HEADACHE.
UH, YOU KNOW, I NEED SOME SINUS MEDICINE, WHATEVER.
AND THAT'S THAT THOSE SICK CALLS WERE NOT THE ONES THAT WE PULLED IMMEDIATELY.
WE PULLED THE COVID SYMPTOMS IMMEDIATELY AND BROUGHT THEM, THEY HAD, THEY WOULD CONTACT MS. ROBERT SAID, WE'D GET AN ORDER TO SWAB AND ISOLATE THEM AND ISOLATE THEM ANYTIME THEY HAD ANY KIND OF SYMPTOM.
UH, SO THEY HAD MANY WAYS TO LET US KNOW IF THEY WERE SYMPTOMATIC.
AND WE WERE WATCHING THEM VERY CLOSELY.
AND THE INMATES WERE MADE AWARE THAT THEY, THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING CHARGED, UM, THAT THEY JUST CLICK THE CALL IN AND THEY WOULDN'T BE CHARGED FOR IT.
SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT, UM, EXPENSES COMING OUT THEIR ACCOUNTS.
SO DURING THIS TIME PERIOD, UH, WE FROM MARCH OF 2020 TO JUNE, 2021, WE HAD 10,056 BOOKINGS WITH HOW TO 191 TESTING POSITIVE FOR COVID, UH, DOWN BELOW, YOU'LL SEE THE MONTH PROGRESSION, UM, HOW MANY EACH MONTH.
AND WE DID HAVE SOME LAG TIME, UH, DURING THE, UH, BEFORE THE VARIANT HIT, WE DID HAVE SOME LAG TIME WHERE, UH, WE ONLY HAD TWO OR THREE PER MONTH.
BEFORE WE GO, IF I MAY ASK QUESTIONS, WHICH WE, SO BEFORE WE GO TO EACH ONE, OKAY.
SO UNDER THE TESTING, UM, WHY DON'T YOU LET HIM FINISH BECAUSE IT'S TOO LONG AND THEY'LL HAVE A HARD TIME TRYING TO DO IT.
MAY I ASK A QUESTION OF YOU? THIS PRESENTATION IS REALLY LONG AS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
SO, UM, FOR THE NUMBER OF INMATES WHO WERE BOOKED IN THE PRISON AND TESTED POSITIVE, UM, I KNOW YOU SAID AT 10,056 BOOKLETS WITH 1 91 TESTING, BUT THE, WHAT WE, WHAT THEY, WHAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN, I'M INTERESTED IN KNOWING IS HOW MANY INMATES WERE TESTED, NOT HOW MANY WERE POSITIVE, BECAUSE IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERY INMATE THAT ENTERED WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TESTED THAT ARE CALLED RECOMMENDED BY THE CDC.
SO AT THE TIME THE CDC SAID, WHAT IF THEY'RE SYMPTOMATIC ONLY IF THEY'RE, SO WHAT ABOUT THE ONES WHO WERE ASYMPTOMATIC? THEY WERE NOT TESTED, SO THEY COULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE THAT INFECTED OTHER PEOPLE.
THERE'S ABSOLUTELY A POSSIBILITY THAT COULD HAPPEN, JUST OKAY.
YOU ALL, WERE THERE INCIDENTS WHERE THAT HAPPENED TO HAD TO BE INCIDENTS WHERE THAT HAPPENED? THERE'S NO WAY OF KNOWING THAT BECAUSE ONCE SOMEBODY BECAME SYMPTOMATIC AND WE TESTED THEM AND THEY WERE POSITIVE, YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY BECAME POSITIVE, IS IT RECORDED THAT WHEN THEY WERE BECAME POSITIVE, BECAUSE USUALLY YOU BOOK THEM IN THEIR STAY IN PRISON, RIGHT? SO DURING THE PERIOD OF WHIP, BY WHICH THEY BECAME POSITIVE AFTER BOOKING, IS THAT DATA RECORDED ANYWHERE? YES.
THERE THEY BECAME POSITIVE IS RECORDING.
HOW MANY WERE THOSE PERSONS AFTER THAT? WERE THEY BECAME POSITIVE AFTER BOOKING, NOT AS A RESULT OF ENTERING THE PRISON, BUT ONCE THEY WERE AT THE PRISON, THAT'S WHAT THE, THAT'S WHAT THEY ASKED FOR.
ONCE THEY CAME INTO PRISON, THEY'RE BOOKED.
SO THEY COULD BE NEGATIVE THAT DAY, BUT TWO DAYS LATER THEY COULD BE POSITIVE.
THEY COULD HAVE SYMPTOMS. AND SO THAT'S WHAT, UM, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT, WHAT THIS IS SAYING, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT, WHAT THERE, SO, BASED ON THIS, IT SAID THAT 19 WERE TESTED POSITIVE,
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BUT SO HOW MANY OF THE ONES THAT WERE TESTED WERE NEGATIVE? I'LL ASK THAT QUESTION THEN.WE'LL KNOW HOW MANY WE COULD GET IT FOR YOU.
UM, THEN WE ALSO ASK, UM, HOW MANY ASYMPTOMATIC INMATES PRESENTED WITH COVID SYMPTOMS? WE'RE TESTING, BUT YOU'RE SAYING Y'ALL, DIDN'T DO ANY COOL.
UH, AND WHERE WERE THE INMATES QUARANTINE DURING THAT 10 TO 14 DAYS? THOSE LINES CHANGED.
THOSE LINES CHANGED, LINED UP.
THE HOUSING UNITS CHANGED FROM ONE PLACE TO PUT IT DOWN.
BUT SINCE YOU HAD TO CARE FOR THEM, AND THAT WAS INFORMATION YOU HAD TO KNOW BECAUSE YOU HAD TO KEEP, RIGHT.
SO WHERE WERE THEY HOUSED? THEY'RE HOUSED IN DIFFERENT AREAS.
WHERE WERE THEY DURING THIS PERIOD? WHERE WERE THE INMATES HOUSED IN QUARANTINE? UH, UNIT TWO LINE NINE AND 10 WAS ORIGINAL A THEN B ONE AND B TWO.
UH, WILL YOU BE ABLE TO PROVIDE ME THE TIME PERIOD WHERE THEY WERE FOR EACH LOCATION, BUT THE WORD COUNT, BECAUSE THIS IS CORRECT HEALTH PRESENTATION, RIGHT? SO IN THAT YOU HAVE, AS YOU INDICATED, YOU WORKED WITH THEM, YOU HAD TO CONTINUE TO, UH, YOU WORKED WITH THE MAJOR, WHOEVER, AND YOU HAD TO PROVIDE SERVICES.
SO THIS IS INFORMATION THAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW BECAUSE THAT'S NOT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
THAT'S WHY I GAVE A PRESENT, ASKED FOR THE PRESENTATION IN WHAT, WHAT MONTH, WHAT IT'S GOT THREE MONTHS AGO.
IT WAS ENOUGH TIME, UM, WHERE IT WAS, WHERE IT SAYS WHERE THAT'S NINE AND 10.
SO I'M GOING TO NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY FOR THE SAME PERIOD, WHICH IS WHAT WE ASKED, HOW MANY INMATES, WHERE WERE THEY HOUSED DURING THAT PERIOD? THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THE, THAT'S WHAT THE REPORT ASKED FOR.
BUT SAY, YOU'LL HAVE TO WRITE IT.
UM, PROVIDE THE PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL POPULATION TESTED MONTHLY.
SO COULD YOU GAVE KIND OF THE SAME THING ABOUT HOW MANY INMATES OVERALL, WHICH WAS THE 10,056, BUT WE WANT TO KNOW IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, HOW MANY INMATES WERE THERE, HOW MANY WERE PRESENT, HOW MANY WERE TESTED, BUT WE WANT TO KNOW THAT FOR APRIL, FOR MAY, JUNE, THAT IS, THAT IS THE DATA THAT IS NECESSARY.
AND THEN WE ALSO ASK HOW MANY WERE POSITIVE FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE MONTHS.
UM, BUT IF YOU, WE WANT TO KNOW, I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE TOTAL POPULATION WAS FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE MONTHS, MALE AND FEMALE.
SO WE MIGHT HAVE TO COME BACK AND WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING ON IT.
AND ALL THIS, THE REASON WHY I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE THIS WAS INFORMATION THAT WAS ASKED THREE MONTHS AGO, AND WE'RE NOT GETTING IT TODAY.
YOU COULD, THAT WAS THE END OF THAT SLIDE.
SO I DO WANT TO MAKE MENTION YOU ARE USING YOUR TIME AND YOUR TIME TO SPEAK IS AFTER THAT PRESENTATION INTERJECTING YOUR TIME.
DURING THE PRESENTATION 10 MINUTES.
WELL, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO, I'M GOING TO LET HIM GO THROUGH IT AND I HAVE TO PUT ANOTHER ITEM BACK FOR THAT.
SO THEY COULDN'T GIVE THIS SPECIFIC INFORMATION.
MR. COLE, UH, POINT OF ORDER, UM, UNDERSTOOD THE TIME, UH, RESTRAINTS FOR MS. BANKS, WHAT THEY ARE WHEN THEY PRESENT, WHEN THEY'RE PRESENTING, HOW LONG DID THEY GET TO PRESENT? NO, THERE'S NOT A TIME LIMIT ON A PRESENTATION.
WE WOULD HOPE THAT THEY DON'T TAKE THE WHOLE ENTIRE FOUR AND A HALF HOURS.
UM, THE PROCEDURE BY WHICH WE NOTIFIED THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, UH, EVERY LAB, EVERY LAB IS MANDATED TO REPORT THE POSITIVE CASES.
SO THEY REPORTED, THEY WERE REPORTED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THROUGH THE LABS, THE COST, UH, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, RIVER ROAD LAB DID NOT CHARGE.
UH, BUT THE COST UP DURING THIS REPORTING PERIOD TO, UH, WELL, THIS HOSPITAL WAS 18,000 33, 20 5 CENTS.
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UH, DURING THE TIME PERIOD THAT WE REPORTED ABR PARISH, PRISON REPRESENTED LESS THAN 1.3% OF THE TOTAL COVID 19 CASES IN LOUISIANA PRISONS OR JAILS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE COVID PANDEMIC, UH, IN APRIL, UH, WE HAD A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 1,098 INMATES OF THESE INMATES, LESS THAN 16 TESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19, WHICH WAS THE LARGEST SPIKE IN CASES, SINCE THE START OF THE PANDEMIC, WE HAD ANOTHER SPIKE, UH, LATER IN 2020, AND WE RECENTLY HAD A THIRD SPIKE I BELIEVE THAT IN MID MAY, 2020, WE WERE ABLE TO MINIMIZE THE CASES WITHIN THE PRISON WITH NO REPORTED CASES.THERE WERE A COUPLE OF TIMES WE JUST HAD ONE OR TWO ARE NON, UH, TRULY, UH, COMPLEMENT BY STAFF, MS. ROBERTSON FOR, AS THE CORRECTIONAL STAFF FOR THEIR DILIGENCE, AND BEING ABLE TO, UH, ADDRESS THESE INMATES AS SOON AS THE FIRST SYMPTOMS SHOWED UP AND ISOLATE THEM.
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE COULD HAVE DONE THIS IS TO BE VERY DILIGENT ABOUT, UH, THEIR REPORTING, THEIR SYMPTOMS TO US AND GETTING THE ISOLATED, UH, NEXT SLIDE.
I THINK THAT'S JUST A PIE CHART OF THE 1.3%.
UH, THE NEXT SLIDE COVID-19 CASES AND OUTCOMES, UH, STATISTICS OF THOSE WHO WERE FOUND POSITIVE IN THE OUTCOMES.
UH, THOSE ARE THE STATISTICS THAT I HAVE DURING THAT MARCH 22, JUNE 21 IS THE BREAKDOWN PER MONTH.
UH, NEXT SLIDE UH, THOSE PLACES DID MEDICAL QUARANTINE WITHIN THE FACILITY.
WE HAD FIVE INMATES WHO WERE SICK ENOUGH TO GO IN OUR SPECIAL AREA, SPECIAL NEEDS UNIT, WHICH IS CLOSE TO THE NURSES.
IT'S JUST A SPECIAL DAY, JANET, WHERE THOSE WHO ARE A LITTLE BIT SICK OR GO IN THERE.
UH, WE DID HAVE SOME INMATES WHO WERE TRANSPORTED TO OUR LADY OF THE LAKE.
IF THEIR SYMPTOMS GOT WORSE, UH, OVERALL WE HAD ABOUT 10 AT NIGHT, UH, THOSE DISCHARGED TO THE COMMUNITY WITHOUT TREATMENT.
UH, WE DON'T TYPICALLY KNOW WHAT INMATES ARE GOING TO BE DISCHARGED, BUT THEY, WHAT WE DID KNOW, WE WILL GIVE WHAT WE S WE STARTED THEIR DISCHARGE PLANNING WHEN THEY COME IN FOR INTAKE, WE LET THEM KNOW.
AND WHEN THEY'RE, UH, WHERE THEY BECAME POSITIVE, WE STARTED LETTING THEM KNOW.
BUT, UH, THERE'S SOME NUMBERS IN HERE THAT WERE ASKED FOR THAT WE'LL GO OVER LATER.
BUT, UH, THEY WERE ALL TOLD WHERE THEY COULD GO TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, THEIR PRIVATE DOCTOR.
UH, HE, MOST OF THEM HAD A PRIVATE CARE DOCTOR OF SOME SORT BEFORE THEY CAME TO, UH, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH PRISON.
SO THEY WOULD GO BACK TO THEM FOR FOLLOWUP CARE, BUT WE, OUR VACCINATIONS WERE THE ONE SHOT.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO GET A SECOND SHOT.
THEY WERE ALREADY IMMUNIZED, UH, THE END HOUSE PROVISIONS FOR INCARCERATED POPULATION WITHIN THE JAIL.
THREE VACCINATED VACCINES WERE PROVIDED TO ANYONE WHO WANTED IT IT'S A VOLUNTARY BASIS, BUT, UH, LIKE, LIKE WE SAID, THEY WERE ENCOURAGED.
UH, EVERY PERSON THEY COME IN CONTACT WITH WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM.
AND EVEN ON THE DAY THAT THE VACCINES WERE GIVEN, WE WENT AROUND AGAIN THE SAME DAY TO ASK ANY OF THE INMATES, DID THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS, THAT THEY WANTED TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS? WE OFFERED THEM THE VACCINE, UH, NEXT LIKELY EXCAVATIONS PROVIDE HOUSE PROVISIONS FOR INCARCERATED POPULATION WITHIN THE JAIL TO BE VACCINATED THERE WERE PROVIDED FOR, FOR ANY CONSENTING INMATE UH, WE, THEY ADMINISTERED A LITTLE OVER 450 VACCINES, 35 OF WHICH WERE FEMALES.
THOSE PLACES IN COMMUNITY WARRANTY.
UH, THIS INFORMATION IS TRACKED BY THE WARDEN'S OFFICE.
UH, THE ACT, THE NUMBER, UH, THE CITIZENS WHO RECOVERED BUT REMAINED IN JAIL.
THAT'S ALSO TRACKED BY THE, UH, THE WORLD'S OFFICE.
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UH, THE TESTING AND EDUCATION WE DO TESTING CONTINUALLY.UH, THERE ARE MONITORS THAT HAVE EDUCATION ON OF THEIR HANDOUTS, GIVEN TO THE INMATE, THE NURSES EDUCATE THEM, UH, WHEN WE GO AROUND AND ASK THEM IF THEY WILL, UH, TAKE THE VACCINE, WE DID MORE EDUCATION.
ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT? I MEAN, WE PRETTY MUCH, THAT'S ALL WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A YEAR AND A HALF.
UH, AND YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT THAT INCENTIVE PROGRAM THAT WAS DEVELOPED BY ONE GRINDS.
UM, UH, HE, HE DOES HAVE WHAT HE CALLS LIKE A GOODIE BAG.
I DON'T, I'M NOT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN THAT GOODIE BAG.
UH, IT'S THINGS THAT THE INMATES DESIRE, UH, AND TYPICALLY WOULD BUY FROM COMMISSARY, BUT THERE ARE ITEMS IN THAT BAG AND WE HAVE HAD A GOOD BIT OF SUCCESS WITH THE INMATES WANTING THAT GOODIE BAG.
SO THEY SIGN UP FOR THE VACCINE.
IN FACT, WE'VE HAD SOME WHO SIGNED UP TWICE FOR THE VACCINE.
HOPE SHE HAD ANOTHER GETTY BAG THAT REFUSED AND DIDN'T GO ON IT.
ONCE HE CAME UP WITH THIS CARE PACKAGE, OVER A HUNDRED AND SOMETHING INMATES SIGNED UP FOR THE VACCINE.
IF ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE ANY QUESTION, WE'LL CALL YOU BACK UP.
AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO THE PUBLIC HEARING.
WE DO HAVE SOME MEMBERS WHO ARE WISHING TO SPEAK.
THEY'RE GOING TO GO IN THE ORDER.
ALL THAT IS LISTED ON MY SHEET, WE'RE GOING TO START WITH LINDA FRANKS.
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH HIM THE FRANKS, AND WHILE SHE'S COMING DOWN, THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STANDING, UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MEETING AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, IF YOU DON'T MIND HAVING A SEAT, AS WELL AS WEARING YOUR MASK, WE WOULD SINCERELY APPRECIATE IT.
SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE STANDING, IF YOU DON'T MIND HAVING A SEAT AND WEARING A MASK, WE WOULD HAVE SINCERELY APPRECIATED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MEDIA AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
UH, LINDA FRANKS, 1235 WAVERLEY DRIVE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE, UH, COUNCILMAN BANKS FOR PROVIDING THIS AGENDA ITEM.
I THINK THAT GOING FORWARD AT THE COUNCIL, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU REQUEST THESE TYPES OF REPORTING ON A DATE ON A, ON A, ON A REGULAR BASIS, QUARTERLY, UM, IF NOT MORE FREQUENTLY, SO THAT THE PUBLIC, AS LONG AS YOU CAN BE MADE AWARE OF, IF OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE BEING SPENT CORRECTLY AND SUCCINCTLY WITH WHAT THE GUIDELINES ARE AND WHAT OUR CITIZENS WILL, UH, BE ABLE TO AFFORD.
THANK YOU FROM WHAT WOULD YOU EXPLAIN? IT APPEARS THAT COVID TESTS.
THEY TESTIFIED THAT THEY WERE NOT TESTING ANYONE ON SITE, THAT IT WAS BEING OUTSOURCED, BUT IF SOMEONE WAS SYMPTOMATIC THAT THEY WERE TESTED.
SO THAT'S A CONTRADICTION THAT I WOULD LIKE FOR THEM TO CLEAR UP.
IF SOMEONE SAID THE, WHAT THEY DIDN'T SET OUT TO BE TESTED, OR WAS THERE AN APPARATUS IN PLACE IN THE FACILITY FOR THEM TO BE TESTED AT THAT TIME? ALSO THE COURT, THE CONDITIONS OF THE QUARANTINE AREAS WHERE THESE PRETRIAL DETAINEES WERE KEPT.
THERE WERE LOTS OF SICK PEOPLE THAT RETAINED IN UNITS THAT WERE REPORTED TO HAVE VERMIN, INFESTATION, LITTLE MEDICAL STAFF SUPERVISION, AND VERY SPORADIC, UM, SUPERVISION ON THAT PART.
SO I'D LIKE TO VISIT THE SPEAK TO THOSE AREAS SPECIFICALLY, WHAT DID THEY, WHAT, HOW WERE THEY KEPT? HOW WERE THEY, UM, KEPT SANITIZED AND HOW WERE THE PRETRIAL DETAINEES THAT WERE THERE THAT TESTED POSITIVE? HOW WERE THEY ABLE TO RECEIVE THE CARE THAT THEY NEEDED DURING THAT TIME? ACCORDING TO THE CDC, EXCUSE ME, UH, FROM THE CDC THAT SYMPTOM-BASED TESTING CANNOT IDENTIFY ASYMPTOMATIC AND PRESYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS WHO REPRESENT THE ESTIMATE OF 40 TO 45% OF INFECTED PERSONS ACROSS THE SETTINGS.
SO WHAT I ALSO LIKE TO KNOW IN THEIR GUIDELINES, HOW WERE THEY PROTECTING THOSE PRETRIAL DETAINEES WHO CAME IN THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ASYMPTOMATIC, NOT PRESENTING WITH SYMPTOMS, BUT ALSO ABLE TO PUT SOCIAL DISTANCE? WHAT WERE THEY GIVEN AS PROVISIONS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE BEING PROTECTED FROM BEING, THANK YOU, MS. ALEXIS ANDERSON.
I JUST WANT TO LET EVERYONE KNOW.
ARE ANY OF YOU OVER HERE FOR ANY OTHER ITEMS, YOU GET TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
SO PLEASE, IF YOU CAN KEEP THE COMMENTS WITHIN THAT THREE MINUTE TIMEFRAME.
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YEAH.IF THEY'RE COMFORTABLE, REVEREND ALEXIS ANDERSON, UH, 2 48 STEEL BOULEVARD, AND ONE, I ALSO WANT TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN BANKS FOR BEING SO DILIGENT AND CARING ABOUT, UH, THE DETAINEES AND THOSE OF THEIR LOVED ONES FOR BRINGING THIS ITEM.
I HAVE SEVERAL CONCERNS ABOUT THE REPORT ITSELF.
THE FIRST ONE IS I WOULD LIKE CLARIFICATION FROM, UH, CORRECT HEALTH FOR WHY THE DATA THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY I ASKED FOR WAS NOT DELINEATED IN A REPORT THAT THEY HAD OVER THREE MONTHS TO PREPARE.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ASK WHERE THE DOCUMENTATION IS FOR EVERY SINGLE NUMBER THAT IS IN THERE.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK WHETHER THOSE DOCUMENTATION WAS IN FACT SUBMITTED TO THE PARISH.
AT ANY POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE DOCUMENTATION IS FOR THE TRAINING OF ANY STAFF PERSON.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE DOCUMENTATION SPECIFICALLY FOR WHEN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, CDC, OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICIALS WERE IN FACT INSPECTING ACTUAL FOLKS.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON WHY SINCE THIS REPORT CLEARLY SAYS THAT THEY HAD LIMITED PPE.
WHY WHEN VOTE A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION LITERALLY SHOWED UP ON THE DOORSTEP WITHIN 95 AT THE MIDST OF THE CRISIS, THEY WERE TURNED DOWN.
I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE DEFINITION OF WHAT A SPECIAL NEEDS UNIT IS.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT DELINEATED BASED ON THE POLICIES AND THE CLARIFICATION FROM THE CDC AT THAT TIME, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THE CAMP J NUMBERS ARE DURING THAT TIME.
18 PEOPLE FROM THIS PARISH WERE MOVED TO CAMP J AND I WOULDN'T LIKE TO KNOW WHY THOSE NUMBERS ARE NOT THERE.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO AND CORRECT HEALTH STAFFING DEALT WITH NON ENGLISH, SPEAKING DETAINEES, SPECIAL NEEDS DETAINEES, LIMITED ABILITY TO HEAR DETAINEES AND FURTHER, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW JUNE 8TH, THE LOUISIANA GOVERNOR'S TASK FORCE ON HEALTHCARE EQUITY, SPECIAL POPULATIONS RELEASED A REPORT SPECIFIC TO THE CARE AND TAKING CARE OF COVID SITUATIONS AND JAILS AND LOUISIANA, AND IT'S ESPECIALLY, AND THE PRISONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH DLC AND ACCORDANCE WITH CDC AND ACCORDANCE WITH ALL THE RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDATIONS.
I WOULD LIKE DOCUMENTATION ON WHETHER OR NOT CORRECT HELP EVER REVIEWED THE REPORT EVER MET WITH THE COMMITTEE AND WHERE THAT DOCUMENTATION IS.
BY NEXT, WE HAVE TO MAKE A HALEY SKELETON AND I GET A POINT OF CLARITY.
UH, REVEREND ANDERSON, COUNCILMAN COLE, MERVIN ANDERSON MADE A REFERENCE TO CAMP.
I JUST THINK FOR A POINT OF CLARITY, EVERYBODY MAY NOT KNOW WHAT SHE WAS REFERENCING TO.
CAN YOU CLEAR THAT UP JUST QUICKLY CLEAN? I PROMISE I WON'T TAKE 53 MINUTES.
CAMP J IS THE NOTORIOUS, UH, SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FACILITY AT ANGOLA.
AND DURING THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC, THE SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH DLC ACTUALLY CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO MOVE DETAINEES OUT OF LOCAL JAILS AND TAKE THEM INTO THEIR FACILITY.
18 HUMAN BEINGS FROM THIS PARISH WERE MOVED INTO THAT FACILITY AND SUPPOSEDLY THEY WERE MOVED BECAUSE THEY WERE POSITIVE AND THOSE NUMBERS SHOULD HAVE BEEN REFLECTED.
AND FORGIVE ME IF I CAN JUST ADD ONE REAL QUICK LINE.
I DID NOT ASK ABOUT RIVERBEND, BUT WE ALSO MOVED OUR FOLKS TO RIVERBEND.
AND SO AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO KNOW THE ACCOUNTING OF ALL OF OUR PEOPLE DURING THIS TIMEFRAME TO MAKE A HALO.
I'VE NEVER REALLY DONE THIS BEFORE TO MAKE IT
I AM THE FIRST COUSIN OF GAIL COLEMAN, DEPUTY COLEMAN, UH, DEPUTY COLEMAN LOST HIS LIFE TO COVID.
UM, HE PASSED OUT DURING DEFENSIVE TACTICS AT PARIS BERLIN, AND HE NEVER RECOVERED.
I JUST WAS INFORMED YESTERDAY BY MY COUSIN THAT, UM, SHE HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF WITH ALL HER INSURANCE AND EVERYTHING THAT SHE'S ENTITLED TO, UM, BY THE SHERIFF OFFICE, ALL OF THAT CAME TO BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN LIGHTING THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT
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UP ON FACEBOOK.I AM NOW I CAN NOT GO LIVE FOR 30 DAYS.
I CANNOT ADVERTISE FOR 30 DAYS.
UM, I WORKED AT PARISH PRISON FROM 2001 TO 2000 IN LINE NINE.
THE BUILDINGS THAT THE LADIES ARE SCRIBING AS UNIT TWO, WHICH IS CALLED THE OLD BUILDING UNIT ONE, WHICH IS CALLED IT'S THE CUBE BUILDING.
I BELIEVE WHERE THEY'RE REFERRING TO THE COBIT LINES ARE IN THE QUEUE WITH THIS F NINE S 10.
MY SON'S FATHER IS LIEUTENANT JONES.
THE FIRST FEW, WHEN COVID HIT, THE DEPUTIES WERE NOT ALLOWED TO WEAR MASKS.
WE HAD TO MOVE MY SON TO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE FOR FEAR THAT LIEUTENANT JONES WOULD BRING COVID HOME TERM FUN.
UM, AS OF RECENT, THERE ARE, UH, MAYBE THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING.
THERE WERE 30 DEPUTIES OUT WITH COVID THESE NUMBERS THAT THEY'RE REPORTING, AREN'T FACTUAL.
UH, THE, THE BEAUTY SHOP TALK.
ONE OF THE LADIES THAT WORKED FOR THE STATE GOES THROUGH THE SAME HAIRDRESSER, OUR WORK.
AND I ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
MY MOTHER IS OFFICE MANAGER FOR LOUISIANA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION.
SHE'S ON A LOT OF ZOOM MEETINGS.
UM, PARENTS, FRIENDS, AND NEED SOME HELP.
THEY NEED SOME HELP WITH THE WAY THAT THEY'RE TESTING BOTH THE INMATES AND THE DEPUTIES.
I AM ONE THAT WAS EXPOSED TO TUBERCULOSIS AFTER MY DEPLOYMENT OVERSEAS, BECAUSE THE INMATE TOLD ME SHE HAD HELPED SEE THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT DOES NOT TELL THEY SAY BECAUSE OF HIPAA, THEY DO NOT TELL THE DEPUTIES THAT THE INMATES HAVE CERTAIN COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
I HAD A NEGATIVE TEST WHEN I CAME FROM OVERSEAS THREE MONTHS AFTER I CAME BACK AND THE YOUNG LADY TOLD ME SHE HAD HELPED ME.
I CAME UP POSITIVE AND HAD TO TAKE MEDICINE FOR SIX MONTHS.
THE PROTOCOL AT PARIS PRISON IS NOT THE RIGHT PROTOCOL.
I HAVE AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, AND I LEARNED A LOT OF WHAT PARIS PRISONERS SHOULD BE DOING TO PROTECT BOTH THE DEPUTIES AND THE INMATES.
THE SERGEANT WARREN WAS THE FIRST DEPUTY THAT DIED.
HE TRANSPORTED THE INMATE TO ANGOLA, PROBABLY CAMP J I'M NOT SURE.
UH, HE WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE HE COULDN'T GET THE INMATE TO SIGN THE PAPERWORK.
BUT TWO DAYS WENT BACK TO WORK FRIDAY AND HE DIED.
SO PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU GUYS DO, PLEASE GET THEM TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
THEY'VE ASKED ME WHAT MY DEMANDS WERE.
AND ONE OF THE DEMANDS WAS FOR THE WARDEN TO RETIRE BECAUSE HE'S NOT DOING WHAT HE'S SUPPOSED TO DO.
ARE THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 50, COME ON DOWN, COME ON DOWN.
WE'LL JUST FORM A LINE RIGHT HERE.
SPACE YOURSELVES OUT APPROPRIATELY.
QUINN ANTHONY ANDERSON, 6 21 LAUREL STREET, A BETTER HAIR THIS TIME THAN LAST TIME.
UM, BUT ON A VERY SERIOUS STOVE, UM, AS I SAID AT THE LAST MEETING, UH, THIS IDEA THAT ONE OF THE DEADLIEST PRISONS IN THE COUNTRY WHERE YOU CAN LITERALLY DIE OF ALMOST ANYTHING ELSE, UH, SOMEHOW BECAME A REVELATION DURING COVID, UH, IS ILLOGICAL.
EVEN FOR THOSE OF WHO MAY VERY WELL NOT CARE ABOUT THE FOLKS WHO ARE HOUSED AT THAT FACILITY.
UH, IT SHOULD BE CONCERNING THAT A PARISH CONTRACTOR HAD THE AUDACITY TO TRY TO PULL ONE OVER ON YOU.
UH, SOMEONE THAT THIS GOVERNING BODY ALLOCATES MONEY TO, UH, CAME HERE WITH THE PRESENTATION THAT TWO WEEKS AGO, WE KNEW THE NUMBERS DID NOT ADD UP THAT SOMEHOW THAT THE DEADLIEST PRISON IN THE COUNTRY WAS ONE OF THE SAFEST PLACES FOR COVID JUST DIDN'T SMELL.
RIGHT? AND NOW WE KNOW WHY, OR AT LEAST WE HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF WHY THEY WERE INADEQUATELY TESTING.
THEY TOOK EVERY OPPORTUNITY NOT TO TEST, UH, IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO, INCLUDING NOT TESTING ASYMPTOMATIC, UH, FOLKS THAT WERE ABOUT TO BE HOUSED THERE, WHICH WE KNOW WAS ALMOST HALF OF, UH, THE COVID CASES.
SO THE THING THAT I'M HERE TO ASK OF YOU ALL, UH, FIRST OF ALL, IS THAT MANY OF YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THAT FACILITY LOOKS LIKE, WHETHER YOU'VE TOURED IT PERSONALLY, OR YOU'VE SEEN IT IN THE MEDIA.
YOU ALL KNOW THAT THE CONDITIONS THERE NEVER ADDED UP TO WHAT THE NUMBERS THAT CORRECT HEALTH PUT INTO THAT PRESENTATION WORK.
IF YOU ALL DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE, YOU ALL SHOULD CARE ABOUT.
THE INTEGRITY OF CONTRACTORS THAT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS CITY, NOT HAVING THE RESPECT ENOUGH FOR THE GOVERNING BODY OF THIS PARISH, TO BE HONEST WITH THEM, THEY KNEW THAT THIS MEETING WAS GOING TO BE HERE.
THEY KNEW WHAT THE CONCERNS OF THE COMMUNITY WERE, AND THEY DELIBERATELY DISTORTED THE NUMBERS
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AS A PAIR OF CITIZEN.I AM CONCERNED ABOUT OUR MONEY BEING ALLOCATED TO CONTRACTORS THAT DON'T RESPECT THE GOVERNANCE OF THIS CITY, THAT DON'T RESPECT THE CONSTITUENTS OF THIS CITY ENOUGH TO TELL US THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING WHEN WE CONTRACT THEM FOR SERVICE.
I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS THAT I HOPE THAT YOU ALL CAN ASK THEM IN YOUR FOLLOWUP SINCE I DON'T HAVE A SEAT AT THIS TABLE, BUT YOU ALL DO, EVEN THOUGH THEY DON'T SEE YOU ALL AS EQUALS AT THAT TABLE.
UH, MY FIRST QUESTION IS WHY DID THEY NOT, UH, TEST ASYMPTOMATIC, UH, FOLKS THAT WERE ABOUT TO BE HOUSED AT THAT FACILITY, KNOWING THAT THE CONDITIONS THAT THEY WERE COMING FROM MADE THEM AT LEAST MORE LIKELY THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON TO BE POSITIVE.
AND MY SECOND QUESTION TO ASK OF THEM IS HOW MANY CASES OF THE COMMON COLD OR FLU WERE ALSO DIAGNOSED IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS? UH, THAT'S THE END OF MY TIME.
I'M A BAIL DISRUPTOR WITH THE BAIL PROJECT AND A MEMBER OF THE EASTBOUND ROUGE PARISH PRISON REFORM COALITION.
UM, MY CONCERNS ARE HOW WE CAN EXPLORE MORE, MORE PROACTIVE TESTING AS ECHOED BY MANY OF MY OTHER PEERS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS.
UM, AND THAT INCLUDES RAPID TESTING AVAILABLE TO ANYONE IN THAT JAIL FOR OVER THREE OR FIVE DAYS.
THAT INCLUDES WASTEWATER TESTING BECAUSE WE ARE IN SERIOUS DENIAL ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT JAIL.
ARE WE TESTING THOSE THAT ARE EXPOSED TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN POSITIVE OR ARE WE JUST THROWING THEM INTO QUARANTINE? AND HOW CAN WE TRUST AN ORGANIZATION GIVEN THEIR QUESTIONABLE PAST? AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THE 49 DEATHS THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE CORRECT HEALTH HAS TAKEN OVER THIS CONTRACT.
I KNOW FIRSTHAND THE TESTING IS NOT ADEQUATE.
I PICKED UP PEOPLE FROM THAT JAIL AND BROUGHT THEM TO A RAPID TESTING SITE AND THEY WERE POSITIVE AND THEY WERE IN THAT JAIL FOR MONTHS AND WEEKS.
SO EVERYONE, THEY TOUCHED, THEY WERE EXPOSED AS WELL.
GIVEN THE ASYMPTOMATIC NATURE OF COVID.
WE'RE KIDDING OURSELVES TO THINK THAT WE'RE CATCHING EVERYONE THAT'S POSITIVE.
I PERSONALLY HAVE BAILED OUT FOLKS WHO HAVE COMPLAINED OF SINUS ISSUES SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THE FEMALE UNIT AND IN A FACILITY OF OVER 1200 PEOPLE, GIVEN THE HIGH PREVALENCE IN LOUISIANA AND THE LOW VACCINATION RATES, BOTH IN THE STATE AND IN THAT JAIL, THERE'S NO WAY THAT THERE WERE ONLY A HUNDRED POSITIVE CASES OVER THAT DEFINED PERIOD OF TIME.
THESE FOLKS ARE LEAVING THE JAIL.
THEY'RE GOING BACK TO THEIR HOMES.
THEY'RE GOING BACK OUT INTO THE PUBLIC AND THEY'RE UNKNOWINGLY EXPOSING OTHER PEOPLE.
SO MY RECOMMENDATION AND MY SUGGESTION TO THESE COUNSELORS, THAT WE FIGURE OUT WAYS TO ALLOCATE THE PROPER FUNDING SO THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS CAN HAVE PROPER HEALTH CARE.
THANK YOU FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE.
UM, I'M A MEMBER OF THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH PRISON REFORM COALITION BY AN BHOSLE AND MOTHER OF ONE OF THOSE THAT IS INCARCERATED IN EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH PRISON CRIES FOR HELP GO ON NOTICE FOR NOT ONLY THE PRISONERS, BUT ALSO THE COMMUNITY COLBY ID IS FIVE TIMES MORE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THOSE THAT ARE HOUSED INSIDE OF EASTBOUND PARISH PRISON.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU ARE PARENTS AND SURE MOST OF YOU, BUT TO ANSWER THE PHONE AND NOT KNOW WHAT THAT CALL IS ABOUT ON THE OTHER END, IT'S THE MOST HORRIFIC THING A PARENT CAN ENDURE THAT THE INCREASE OF COVID INSIDE THE PARISH.
I AM AFRAID FOR MY CHILD'S LIFE FOR OTHER PARENTS, CHILDREN'S LIFE, FATHERS, SISTERS, HOWEVER, WHATEVER RIGHT NOW, INSIDE OF THE PARISH, THERE IS A PANDEMIC, AN EPIDEMIC GOING ON INSIDE OF A PANDEMIC THAT IS A CRISIS LIVE IS A BEING LOST.
CHILDREN'S OUR CHILD CHILDREN, LOTS OF BEING LOST MY SON WITH POOR UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS AND HAVING TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES HIMSELF DURING THIS PERIOD OF COVID-19, THAT IS UNHEARD OF, CORRECT.
HELL HAS A DEPLORABLE HISTORY, 49 DEBTS.
I CANNOT STAND TO HOLD THE HAND OF ANOTHER PARENT WHO HAS LOST A CHILD BY THEIR HANDS.
I'M AFRAID THAT I'LL BE THAT NEXT PARENT I'VE HAD CALLS.
WHEN MY SON HAS BEEN RUSHED OUT
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BECAUSE OF LACK OF INTERVENTION FROM CORRECT HEALTH, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE US AN ADEQUATE AND SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF MEDICAL CARE AND THEY HAVE FAILED, FAILED, FAILED, HORRIBLY DELAY EQUALS DEATH, INCORRECT HEALTH HANGINGS NEGLECT EQUALS DEATH, INCORRECT HEALTH.HANS COVID-19 WILL SURELY EQUAL DEATH, INCORRECT HEALTH CANNES.
PLEASE DO NOT LET THESE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE FOR THOSE THAT ARE INCARCERATED INSIDE OF A PRETRIAL DETENTION EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH PRISON.
MA'AM NEXT? THE PATIENT NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE? SHERRY THOMAS 62 24 BOULEVARD, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS ASK A QUESTION.
UH, WE WERE ASKING QUESTIONS HERE, BUT WE'RE NOT GETTING ANY ANSWERS.
WILL WE GET ANY ANSWERS TODAY FROM ANYBODY? OH, I, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION RELATIVE TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU GET ANSWERS, BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU, SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE, OR IN REGARDS TO THE NUMBER OF TESTS THAT WERE ADMINISTERED, HOW MANY TESTS WERE ACTUALLY ADMINISTERED? UM, CAN WE GO TO SLIDE FIVE? NO, MA'AM THIS IS YOUR TIME TO COMMENT.
WELL, I WILL COMMENT ON SLIDE FIVE SLIDE FIVE SAYS THAT THEY WERE FREE FROM COLBY FROM JUNE, 2020 TO NOVEMBER OF 2020.
AND I SURE YOU ALL CAN SEE SLIDE PRIOR.
HOWEVER, FROM JUNE, 2020 TO NOVEMBER OF 2020, THE DATA SHOWS THAT THEY HAD 115 POSITIVE COVID TESTS.
SO THAT'S A HUGE CONTRADICTING STATEMENT TO BE FREE FROM COVID WOULD HAVE 115 POSITIVE TESTS.
AND SO I REALLY WANT US TO LOOK AT THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED AND HOW ACCURATE AND HOW TRUTHFUL THAT IT IS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY THAT THEY'VE IDENTIFIED HOW TO COMBAT COLBY, BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT SMALL PLACES AND PRISONS AND JAILS HAVE SUBSTANDARD HEALTHCARE CONDITIONS.
SO IF IT IS IN FACT, CORRECT THAT CORRECT HEALTH AND EAST VAN RICH PARENTS HAS IDENTIFIED A WAY TO COMBAT COVID.
THEY SHOULD BE COUNSELING AND PROVIDING CONSULTATIONS TO THE REST OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
WHAT I LIKE TO ALSO KNOW IS HOW MANY DETAINEES EXPIRED OR SHOULD I SAY DIED FROM COVID? THOSE NUMBERS ARE NOT LISTED.
WE ALSO WOULD LIKE THE INFORMATION OF HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE HOSPITAL FROM EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH PRISON, AND NEVER RETURNED WHERE THOSE INDIVIDUALS TRANSFERRED.
AND THEY EXPIRED AT THE HOSPITAL IN THE CUSTODY OF EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH PRISON, OR WHERE THOSE INDIVIDUALS RETURNED.
SO THERE'S MANY DISCREPANCIES THAT WE HAVE, AND I WANT EVERYONE HERE ON THE COUNCIL TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY, PUBLIC HEALTH IS PUBLIC SAFETY.
STATE YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
UM, I SHALL BRADFORD 4 8, 2 1 IN HIS WALLED ROAD, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, 70 OR 8 0 9.
I HAD A BETTER SPEECH TWO WEEKS AGO, BUT THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TODAY.
UM, SO THE MEDICAL AND SCIENCE COMMUNITIES NOW KNOW THAT 10 TO 20% OF PEOPLE DROVE 80 TO 90% OF INFECTIONS.
AND SO UNDER TESTING WAS A TRUE DISSERVICE TO THE FOLKS THAT WERE IN THESE FACILITIES, NOT TESTING PEOPLE IS INHUMANE WHEN THOSE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE MARSHALL PROJECT, THE COVID PRISON PROJECT, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY THE ILLUMINATOR FOR LOUISIANA, YOU'LL SEE THAT THEY'VE AGGREGATED DATA FROM ADVOCACY ADVOCACY GROUPS, UM, FROM MARCH, 2020 THROUGH JUNE, 2021.
AND IT'S VERY CLEAR FROM THEIR DATA THAT COVID-19 WAS RAMPID IN PRISON FACILITIES ALL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING LOUISIANA.
AND WE WERE ESPECIALLY NO EXCEPTION.
THERE IS NO WAY FOR FOLKS TO LIVE LIKE THIS AND FACILITIES LIKE THIS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE LONG-TERM IMPACTS THAT WE'VE EXPOSED PEOPLE TO WITH COVID-19.
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AND IF SOMEONE ELSE IS ABLE TO GET THE CONTRACT THAT CORRECT HEALTH HAS, WE SHOULD GIVE THEM THAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW US, UM, A BETTER WAY TO TREAT HUMAN BEINGS.ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON AM ONE 50, ANYWHERE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 50.
UM, CAITLIN BEDFORD, JOSHUA 48, 21 IN IT'S WILD ROAD, UM, WITH THE POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE.
AND WE PARTICIPATED IN SEVERAL BAILOUTS IN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS.
AND I JUST HAVE A FEW CLARIFYING QUESTIONS BASED ON THE POWERPOINT OR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, FIRST ONE BEING WORD DETAINEES TESTED PRIOR TO RELEASE.
UM, AS WE EXPERIENCED A COUPLE OF SCARES WHERE FOLKS THAT WE BAILED OUT WERE COVID POSITIVE, BUT WERE NOT GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY INSIDE THE JAIL TO TEST FOR COVID.
UM, AND OF COURSE, UH, THAT BRINGS ME TO MY NEXT QUESTION.
HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WE DID NOT RELEASE, UM, POSITIVE CITIZENS BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY? AND SO JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO CLARIFY THAT IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY, ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 50, ANYONE ELSE HERE SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 50, UH, CALEB HOMES, 24 55 WORLD WARD.
UM, MAN, I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THE POINT OR EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY GAVE PRETTY, UH, GRAPHIC, BUT NECESSARY, UH, COMMENT ON THIS ISSUE.
UH, THE MAIN THING THAT WE WANT TO CLARIFY IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S CORRECT HEALTH, GIVEN A STIPEND TO COME, COME BACK COVID UM, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T REITERATE, LIKE I SAID ALREADY, THAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS ALREADY MADE THE POINT.
THIS FACILITY IS NOT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE.
UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT ARE NOT WHERE THEY NEED TO BE WHEN IT COMES TO COVID, BUT THE EASTBOUND ROUGE PARISH PRISON IS JUST, YOU KNOW, EVEN WORSE.
UH, BUT ONCE AGAIN, THE COURSE WAS CORRECT HEALTH, CORRECT HEALTH, GIVEN A STIPEND TO COME BACK.
ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 50, WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, OUR COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON.
UM, IF THE FOLKS FROM CAREX HEALTH WOULD COME BACK UP, CAN, Y'ALL GIVE SOME CLARIFICATION, UH, AS TO THE TESTING.
SO IF I UNDERSTOOD YOUR PRESENTATION CORRECTLY, YOU GUYS ARE NOT TESTING ONSITE.
SO YOU SWAB ON SITE THERE AT THE PRISON AND THEN SEND OFF THE TEST.
SO YOU'RE NOT SENDING PEOPLE TO OUR LADY OF THE LAKE TO DO THE SWAP, IF THEY COMMENT AND INSIGHT, AND THERE ARE NEW INTAKE AND THEY TELL US AND TELL US THAT THEY ARE HAVING SYMPTOMS OF COLBY, WE GOT BIRTHED THEM.
WE DIVERT THEM AND SEND THEM TO OLENA LATE TO GET SWAB.
SO IF THEY, IF THEY CLAIM THAT THEY'RE PRESENTING SYMPTOMS AT INTAKE, THAT'S THE POINT THAT YOU SEND THEM TO OUR LAYAWAY.
UM, THE, UH, THE POINT WAS MADE UP ABOUT INMATES DIVERTED TO CAMP J AND RIVERBEND ARE THOSE NUMBERS INCLUDED IN THIS REPORT.
UM, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CULTIVATING OR CREATING THE PROTOCOL.
IS IT, ARE YOU GUYS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT OR IS IT A DECISION MADE BETWEEN YOU AND THE WARDEN? HOW DOES THAT PROCESS WORK? OUR PLAN, OUR PROTOCOL WAS DEVELOPED BASED ON ALL THE GUIDELINES FROM ALL THE CDC LDH.
WHAT I'M ASKING IS ULTIMATELY WHOSE DECISION IS IT THOUGH? IS IT WARDEN? AND I, UH, WELL, HIS STAFF AND MY STAFF.
SO IT'S A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
BUT AS I UNDERSTAND IT, YOU GUYS ARE NOT JUST RANDOMLY TESTING EVERYBODY, BUT IF, IF SOMEONE WANTED A TEST, WOULD THERE BE ANY REASON THAT THEY WOULD BE DENIED FOR IT? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
ARE YOU GUYS PROMOTING TESTING OF NON SYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE AT ALL? NO, YOU'RE NOT.
BUT WE'RE EDUCATING THEM ON THE SYMPTOMS THAT THEY SHOULD BE REPORTING.
UM, HAVE YOU FOUND THAT THERE ARE OTHER JAILS AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT ARE DOING THAT OR, OR IS THIS THE STANDARD PROCEDURE THAT ALL JAILS ARE USING STANDARD.
UM, UH, IF I UNDERSTOOD THE REPORT, CORRECT.
UM, WELL WE'VE HAD TWO ONE DURING THIS REPORTING PERIOD.
UM, WERE THERE ANY DEATHS FROM FOLKS THAT WERE IN EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH CUSTODY, BUT, BUT MAYBE THEY HAD BEEN SENT TO OUR LADY OF AWAKE.
SO ARE THERE ANY DESKS THAT WE WOULDN'T SEE IN THIS REPORT? THE TWO THAT DIED WERE AT THE LAKE.
UM, IS THERE ANY SORT OF TEST DONE OR OFFERED AT RELEASE?
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I'M SORRY.IS THERE ANY SORT OF TEST DONE OR OFFERED AT RELEASE RELEASE THAT WHEN, UH, WHEN A PRISONER IS LEAVING THE LEAVING THE PRISON, ARE THERE ANY TESTING DONE? CORRECT? YES.
UM, IS THERE ANY SORT OF SPECIAL PROTOCOL, UH, IF YOU HAVE A RELEASE OF A COVID POSITIVE PATIENT, IS THERE ANY SORT OF SPECIAL PROTOCOL FOR THAT PERSON'S RELEASE? AND THE REASON WHY I ASKED THAT IS, YOU KNOW, I, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, A LOT OF FOLKS WILL GO AND THEY'LL TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT, UH, YOU KNOW, TO EXIT.
UM, SO WHAT ARE WE DOING FOR THOSE FOLKS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND LET'S SAY, YOU KNOW, HAVING SPREADING, SPREADING, USING PUBLIC TRANSIT OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT? WELL, THEY ALL HAVE MASK AND THEY'RE ALL EDUCATED ON THE FACT THAT THEY SHOULD BE WEARING THOSE MASKS.
SO ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, THEY'RE BEING TOLD TO CONTINUE WEARING THEIR MASK, TO PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING, AND TO FOLLOW UP WITH THEIR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER.
SO, AND THIS IS MAYBE THIS, MAYBE YOU AREN'T THE BEST PERSON ANSWER THIS QUESTION, BUT I'M GOING TO ASK IT ANYWAY.
UM, WOULD IT BE WISE FOR US TO LOOK AT HAVING SOME SORT OF DIFFERENT TRANSPORT PROCEDURE? YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T HAVE A RIDE, RIGHT? THERE'S NO FAMILY MEMBER THERE TO PICK THEM UP OR, OR, OR EVEN WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THE RISK OF A FAMILY MEMBER CONTRACTING FROM A COVID POSITIVE PATIENT.
UM, BUT SHOULD WE LOOK AT HAVING SOME SORT OF TRANSPORT IN PLACE SO WHERE WE DON'T RISK SPREAD FOR CO COVID POSITIVE PATIENTS LEAVING THE PRISON.
THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR THE WARD, FOR SURE.
UM, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS EITHER, BUT, UM, UH, I'M NOT SURE WHO TO ASK.
UM, IS THERE ANYBODY IN ADMINISTRATION THAT CAN TELL ME WHETHER OR NOT CITY PARISH? UH, YEAH, I'M ALMOST DONE HERE, UH, WHETHER OR NOT THE PRISON IS ON CITY PAIR, SEWER OR IF RICK SPEAR IS HERE.
UH, LADIES, WAS YOU A LOT OF GENTLEMEN, I'M GOING TO ASK THE WHOLE QUESTION OF RICK AND BUBBA, IF Y'ALL WANT TO COME UP LATER WITH YOU, A LOT OF GENTLEMEN BEHIND YOU TO COME TO THE MIC.
SO THE A POINT WAS BROUGHT UP ABOUT WASTEWATER TESTING.
UH, BUBBA, YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT THAT, UH, IN FACT PARISH PRISON IS ON CITY SEWER.
UH, SO RICK, ARE WE DOING ANY SORT OF WASTEWATER TESTING FOR THE PRISON? UM, AND IS THAT SOMETHING, IF NOT, IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN DO? IT IS SOMETHING WE CAN DO AND WE HAVE LOOKED AT IT.
UH, THE SHERIFF HAD REACHED OUT TO DR.
PARDUE AT LSU, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THEY ACTUALLY STARTED THAT PROGRAM YET.
I'D LOVE TO SEE SOME FOLLOW-UP ON THAT.
I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY THIS IS, THIS IS ONE OF OUR BEST CHANCES TO, TO REALLY LOOK AT A VERY VULNERABLE POPULATION, UH, TO DO THAT KIND OF TESTING.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLY EXCITED WHEN WE STARTED THAT.
SO, UM, I THINK IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR US.
THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM, A COUPLE FO AND I TRIED TO KIND OF LIKE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BANKS DID ON THE SLIDE.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT SLIDE NUMBER IT IS, BUT IT WAS SHOWING STATISTICS.
THE QUESTION ABOVE, IT SAID, UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS ASKING FOR AGE RACE, UM, ALL THE DIFFERENT SPLIT OUTS.
I THINK IT'S LIKE THE FOURTH OR FIFTH SLIDE IN, AND THEN IT HAD NUMBERS UNDERNEATH IT.
UM, I DON'T HAVE THE SLIDE WITH ME.
SO IS IT THE ONE THAT HAD THE MONTHS? YES.
SO, BUT THE QUESTION UP TOP ASKED FOR A SPLIT OUT IN A BREAKDOWN OF AGE, RACE, UM, DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND EVERYTHING, BUT ALL IT HAD WAS MONTHS AND ONE OR TWO NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, BY EACH MONTH.
SO I, GOING BACK TO COUNCILWOMAN BANKS' QUESTION ABOUT HIS HORSE STATISTICS AND EVERYTHING.
I'D LIKE TO SEE THOSE NUMBERS ALSO.
I JUST DIDN'T SEE THEM COME UP IN THE THING.
AS FAR AS TESTING GOES IN EARLY DAYS OF THIS PANDEMIC AND EVERYTHING.
WHAT WAS THE TESTING LIKE AS FAR AS THAT GOES, DID YOU HAVE TO OUTSOURCE TO ALREADY DELAYED BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY PLACE THAT HAD TESTING AT THE TIME AND WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS IS, I REMEMBER DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE STUFF AND UNDER A DIFFERENT ADMINISTRATION AND EVERYTHING, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT GETTING TESTED, BUT IT WASN'T READILY AVAILABLE AT THAT TIME.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT RENT IS READILY AVAILABLE? NOW YOU CAN GET A TEST, YOU KNOW, ANY HOUR OF THE DAY AND 15 MINUTES LATER, YOU KNOW? UM, IS IT, IS THAT THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TESTING
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THEN WHEN WE EARLY DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC VERSUS TESTING NOW? OR ARE WE STILL DOING THE SAME PROTOCOL? ARE WE STILL DOING THE SAME THING AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PANDEMIC THAT WE WERE DOING WITH TESTING AS WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW? IS THAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING? YES.JUST THE DIFFERENT LABS DOING IT OUTSIDE AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL RESULTS AND EVERYTHING.
SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE COMING INTO THE PARISH, PRESIDENT, SWAB THEM, HOLD THEM HERE FOR 15 MINUTES UP YOUR POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.
AND THEN WHAT'S THAT IT'S SENT OFF TO THE LAB.
AND HOW LONG DOES THAT TAKE? UM, THE TURNOVER AT THE TIME WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED WAS LIKE TWO TO THREE DAYS.
THE TURNOVER RATE IN THE BEGINNING WAS LIKE TWO TO THREE DAYS.
AND WHERE DO THEY GO FOR THE TWO OR THREE DAYS? THEY WERE PLACED ON ISOLATION.
WE, THEY HAD A SEPARATE LINE WHERE THE ISOLATED ONES THAT WERE POSITIVE.
AND THEN THE ISOLATED ONES THAT WERE, UM, SUSPECTED POSITIVE.
WAIT, JUST SAY, WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY WERE POSITIVE TILL TWO OR THREE DAYS LATER.
SO THEY JUST, ANYBODY GOING INTO PARISH PRISON AUTOMATICALLY IF THEY WERE SYMPTOMATIC, AUTOMATICALLY WENT TO ISOLATION AND FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS, AT LEAST UNTIL THE TEST RESULTS CAME BACK.
IS THAT DIFFERENT NOW? NO, THAT'S THE SAME.
WE PUT, WE PULL THEM FROM THE LINE.
ONCE THEY TELL US THAT THEY HAVE SYMPTOMS, WE PULL THEM FROM THE LINE AND WE PLAY SOME MORE ISOLATION SEPARATE FROM THE GENERAL POPULATION.
I JUST POINTING CASE, I GUESS.
IS IT SOMETHING, IS IT, IS THE TESTING SOMETHING YOU CAN DO THERE WITH PERMISSION WITH GOD? IF WE HAD THE TESTING KIT, DO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE TESTING KIDS? WHERE, WHERE WOULD THAT ACCESS NEED TO COME FROM? WHERE WOULD THAT, IF YOU WERE GOING TO REQUEST TO DO YOUR OWN TESTING, WHERE WOULD YOU GO TO REQUEST TO GET TESTING KIDS TO US, TO THE WARDEN TOO? UH, I GUESS IT WOULD BE THE CITY PARISH BECAUSE WE'RE CONTRACTED FOR CERTAIN THINGS.
UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO GET PERMISSION TO GO AHEAD AND PURCHASE THAT EQUIPMENT.
I, I'M JUST, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIND POSSIBLE INADEQUACIES INADEQUACIES OR WHATEVER.
UH, POISON KATE POINT IN CASE PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT GOING TO NEW ORLEANS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO EITHER SHOW PROOF OF VACCINATION OR WHATEVER.
AND LIKE I TELL MY FRIENDS, STOP BY A CVS, SWAB YOUR BRAIN FOR 15 MINUTES, YOU KNOW, HANGING AROUND THERE AND THEN HEAD ON DOWNTOWN.
IF YOU'RE NEGATIVE, YOU'RE NEGATIVE.
IF YOU'RE NOT, THEN YOU GO HOME.
YOU KNOW, W THAT'S WHAT I'M WONDERING IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO ENACT HERE THROUGH CITY PARISH, WHEN THEY'RE WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR OR THEY'RE WALKING OUT THE DOOR, THAT I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TEST.
I MEAN, THERE'S MONEY OUT THERE TO, TO SUPPLY THESE TESTS AND EVERYTHING.
WE DO IT EVERY DAY AROUND HERE.
SO IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED ASSISTANCE ON, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
INSTEAD OF WAITING TWO OR THREE DAYS AS THEY'RE GOING IN AND OUT, I TURN AROUND NOW IT'S 24 HOURS.
AND AGAIN, I SAY, YOU KNOW, IF I'M GOING SOMEWHERE AND I NEED TO SHOW PROOF OF TESTING, RIGHT? I KNOW I HAVE ACCESS TO IT OR VACCINATION OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
I WOULD NOT GIVE UP ON THE FOLLOWUP WITH COUNCIL, COUNCILMAN HUDSON'S THINGS, AS FAR AS WE VOTED AT THE TIME, PLEASE, UM, PROTOCOL.
NOW HE WAS ASKING ABOUT THE PROTOCOL THAT WAS FOLLOWED OR WHO SETS THESE PROTOCOLS IS BETWEEN YOU AND THE WARDEN.
AND, AND, AND SO ON, UM, THAT WHAT YOU REFERRED TO IN YOUR PROTOCOL WAS ABOUT TESTING AND SENDING OUT AND EVERYTHING WHO SETS THE PROTOCOL AS FAR AS WHERE THE INMATES GO IN THE PRISON, OR AT WHAT POINT THEY GET SENT OUT TO SOMEWHERE ELSE OR THINGS LIKE THAT, WHO SETS THOSE PROTOCOLS, IS THAT A DECISION THAT Y'ALL MAKE TOGETHER OR DOES AWARD AND SAY, OKAY, I AM NOW GOING TO MAKE THIS SECTION, THE QUARANTINE SECTION, AND WE'RE GOING TO GO DISINFECT THIS SECTION OR DO OR USE IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
OR IF THIS PERSON COMES BACK THIS WAY, THEY'RE GOING OUT TO APOLOGIZE.
WHATEVER THE OUTSIDE PRISON AREA WAS SEXUALLY JAY OR, OR WHATEVER IT IS, RIGHT.
WHO SETS THOSE PROTOCOLS? IT'S A COLLABORATION.
WE, WE, UH, THE WARDEN AND THE MAJOR DESIGNATE THE LINES OF WHERE THE INMATES ARE GOING TO GO, WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE QUARANTINED, WHERE THEY'RE REALLY BE ISOLATED.
THAT COULD CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME BASED ON HOW MANY INMATES THEY HAVE, WHETHER THEY NEED TO OPEN A LONGER LINE OR A BETTER LIGHT OR BETTER, UH, DORM, OR
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IF IT WERE, UM, SO THAT COULD CHANGE FROM PROBABLY WEEK TO MAYBE, OR DAY TO DAY.BUT AT THAT THEY'RE AT THEIR DISCRETION, THE WORD AND THE MAJOR BASED ON WHAT, LIKE I SAID, WHAT THE, WHERE THEY HAVE OPEN, WHAT LINES ARE OPEN TO FACILITATE.
SO WHERE ARE THEY? THEY ARE HOUSED OR FACILITATED OR WHATEVER IS NOT DIRECTLY SET BY Y'ALL, THAT'S SET BY THE WARDEN AT THE PRISON.
THEY MAY COLLABORATE WITH US OR ASK OUR OPINION OR SAY, WHAT ABOUT THIS PERSON? CAN THEY GO IN THE MEDICAL AREA? OR, YOU KNOW, SO, SO WE DO, WE COLLABORATE WITH THEM.
AND THIS MAY BE, HAVE BEEN ASKED BEFORE WHO, WHO DECIDES WHEN SOMEBODY GOES TO SECTION J OR WHAT SECTOR, WHATEVER IT'S CALLED CAMP, J WHO, WHO DECIDES THAT AND WHEN DO THEY GO THERE? WELL, AT WHAT POINT SOMEBODY MAKES A DECISION THAT SAYS, THIS PERSON GOES TO SECTION CAMP.
UH, THEY, THEY ARE NOT SENDING, WE ARE NOT SENDING ANYBODY TO CAMP J RIGHT? YOU ARE NOT, WE ARE NOT.
YOU, YOU SAID RIGHT NOW, WHERE EARLIER ON AT WHAT POINT, AND WHY WAS, WHY WAS THAT DECISION MADE TO GO TO CAMP JAKE FOUR? BECAUSE OF THE FACILITY THEY HAD.
I RAN OUT OF ROOM AT THE FACILITY AND YOU NEEDED OVERFLOW.
I DON'T THINK IT WAS A REALLY AN OVERFLOW ISSUE.
I THINK IT WAS AN ISSUE OF THE FACT THAT THAT CAMP J IS STAFFED.
IT WAS A, IT WAS DEVELOPED AS A COVID UNIT.
SO THEY HAD IT OPEN AS A COVID UNIT, RIGHT.
SO THERE WAS A SPECIALTY REASON FOR SENDING OUTSIDE OF THE PARISH PRISON TO CAMP J.
THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IS IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S EITHER TOO EASY TO OVERFLOW AND YOU NEED SOMEWHERE ELSE TO PUT THEM, OR THERE'S A SPECIFIC REASON WHY SUCH AND SUCH WOULD GO TO CAMP J YEAH.
THE ONLY CLOSING REFERENCE I HAVE IS, IS TESTING WISE, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE NEED ASSISTANCE OR IF WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING, WORKING WITH OTHER AGENCIES OR WHATEVER, I MEAN, THERE'S GOT TO BE A WAY TO FACILITATE.
IF I WANTED TO GO VISIT YOUR FACILITY TOMORROW, I COULD GET TESTED, SHOW YOU THE TESTING CARD AND GO IN 30 MINUTES LATER.
IT'S SO RAPIDLY ABOUT, I UNDERSTAND IT.
I COULDN'T, I MEAN, I REMEMBER I WORKED WITH MEDICAL FACILITIES AND I WAS TOLD SUCH AND SUCH, I MIGHT BE, AND IT TOOK ME TWO DAYS TO FIND A PLACE TO GET A TEST AND I HAD TO REGISTER AND I HAD TO GO SIGN UP AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF.
I GET IT AT THE BEGINNING TODAY.
I MEAN, YOU CAN STOP BY ANYWHERE THE CORNER DRUGSTORE OR, YOU KNOW, CIRCLE K AND PROBABLY GET A TEST.
SO, WELL, THE RAPID TESTING IT'S BEEN REPORTED THAT IT'S NOT COMPLETELY ACCURATE.
AND I GOT 24 SECONDS TO SPEAK.
SO I APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING WITH THAT, BUT IT IS A FACILITATED TEST THAT IS USED IN ALL OTHER INSTANCES, AS FAR AS GETTING INTO PLACES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I'M JUST SAYING, CONSIDER IT, THINK ABOUT IT AND DO IT IN HOUSE.
UH, ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS AT BANKS? YES.
SO, UM, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE PANDEMIC, UM, CAME MARCH, WHAT? MARCH 19TH, 2020, UM, BY MAY 5TH, 2020, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAD GIVEN A HALF A BILLION WITH A B DOLLARS FOR ANY, AND EVERYBODY TO EXPAND IN-HOUSE TESTING, DEAD CO CORRECT HEALTH APPLY FOR ANY FUNDS TO DO TESTING COVID TESTING ARE ANY COVID RELATED, UM, MEDICAL ACTIVITY.
I DON'T KNOW OF ANY, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY DIDN'T, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AT MY LEVEL TO DO THAT.
AND WHAT'S YOUR POSITION AGAIN? HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR.
SO AS THE HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR, THE VISIONARY, THE PERSON WHO HAS THE DECISION-MAKER ON WHAT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE THINGS WORK IN AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL MANNER.
DID YOU SPEAK TO ANYONE ABOUT APPLYING
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FOR THE FEDERAL WORK? FIRST OF ALL, WERE YOU AWARE OF THE FUNDING? YES.DID YOU ASK ANYONE AT CORRECT HEALTH TO APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR TESTING INMATES? NO.
ANY PARTICULAR PROFESSIONAL REASON? WHY NOT? NO.
WE'VE HAD OUR METHOD OF TESTING.
I KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY HAD WHAT THEY HAD, BUT I MEAN, THEY GAVE YOU ONE POINT B OH, YOU'RE WITH A B, AND WE'RE PAYING YOU 6 MILLION A YEAR.
SO IN 20, 21 0.6 BILLION WITH A B DOLLARS WHERE WE'RE GIVEN TO EVERYBODY FOR TESTING, DID YOU HAVE AN INKLING THAT MAYBE YOU SHOULD SEE IF, IF FOR NO OTHER REASON GREEN, YOU SHOULD TRY TO GET THIS FUNDING TO BETTER EXERCISE TESTING.
IN-HOUSE ARE EVEN OUT OF HOUSE FOR THE INMATES.
OUR TESTING PROCESS SEEMED TO BE WORKING.
I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU THAT BECAUSE I THINK THAT DOESN'T SOUND GOOD.
SO YOU SAY YOU EDUCATED THE INMATES, UM, REGARDING MASKING SOCIAL DISTANCING, AND WHAT ELSE? PARDON? HOW TO KEEP THEMSELVES SAFE AND HOW TO KEEP THEM ON SET.
SAY HOW, HOW RELIABLE ARE COMPETENT? ARE YOU IN THEM UNDERSTANDING THAT EDUCATION WOULD THEY ADMIT BACK TO ME THAT THEY UNDERSTAND? OKAY.
AND NURSING, UH, NURSING 1 0 1 IS WHEN YOU TELL A PATIENT SOMETHING YOU SAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? SURE.
AND YOU HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT WHAT THEY'RE TELLING YOU IS CORRECT? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
SO ARE YOU, DO YOU HAVE EXPERTISE IN PRISON POPULATION? I'M NOT SURE.
WHAT, HOW, HOW, HOW MANY, HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE NURSING PROFESSION? 46.
HOW MANY HAVE YOU BEEN IN CORRECTIONAL OR FOUR.
SO IN THE FOUR YEARS, HAVE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF STUDY THE POPULATION? OKAY.
SO, AND I MIGHT ADD, I WORKED 23 YEARS AT CHARITY HOSPITAL IN NEW ORLEANS WHERE THE MAJORITY OF OUR POPULATION WERE INMATES.
SO BASED ON DATA FROM THE SISTERS BUREAU, IT SAYS THE AVERAGE INMATE IS 39 YEARS OLD.
THEY HAVE AN EIGHTH GRADE READING LEVEL, 80 TO 82.6 ARE UNSCALED OR POSSESSED, NO SKILLS.
27.1 HAVE LESS THAN A 12TH GRADE EDUCATION.
95% OF THEM WILL BE RETURN, WOULD PROBABLY RETURN TO PRISON.
AND OVER 60%, NO, OVER 95% OF THEM ARE RELEASED FROM PRISON, BUT 60% COME BACK.
SO BASED ON THIS VERY GENERAL DATA, AND I WOULD SUSPECT THAT THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE IN PAIRS.
HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU THAT YOUR, THE INFORMATION YOU GAVE KELP? NOT ONLY THE INMATES SAY WHAT EVERYBODY AROUND THEM.
YOU'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT OF THAT.
UM, YOU SAID, YOU SAID, OH, THAT'S OKAY.
WE, WE, WE, UM, YOU SAID THAT THERE WAS SOMEONE WHO CAME UP THERE AND SAID THEY BAILED OUT INMATES THAT WERE POSITIVE.
DID YOU SAY THAT YOU ALL TEST INMATES UPON EXIT? SO YOU DON'T, DO YOU THINK THAT THAT'S MEDICAL NEGLECT? NOT IF THEY'RE NOT, IF THEY'RE NOT SYMPTOMATIC, ACCORDING TO CDC GUIDELINES, NOT OBLIGATED TO TEST.
SO ACCORDING TO THE CDC GUIDELINES, AS IT RELATES TO EIGHT, NINE WENT TO SO MUCH, IT ACTUALLY SAYS THAT IT IS V IT IS MOST IMPORTANT TO CHOOSE, TO TEST ASYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE THAT THEY SAY UP UNTIL AUGUST.
THEY SAID YOU DIDN'T NEED TO, BUT AFTER ALL THIS, THEY CAME BACK AND SAID, YOU DID I THINK UP, YEAH.
I DID SEE WHERE THEY SAID THAT.
BUT AFTER THAT, WHEN THAT WAS THE TOP BEFORE THAT,
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HUH? I'M TALKING ABOUT A PERIOD OF TOPPY FOR THAT.I KNOW, BUT THAT'S NO WHERE IN 2020, NOW, 2021.
SO AFTER THAT, THAT THEY GOT THIS LOUD CRY, LIKE, ARE YOU CRAZY? UM, IT, THEY FLIPPED THE SWITCH AND SAID THAT YOU DO NEED TO TEST.
AND I CAN'T FIND THE THING, BUT IT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT, UM, TO TEST FOR, FOR, UM, ASYMPTOMATIC.
SO DID YOU, WAS THAT LIKE IN THE END OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALS, YOU MAY HAVE READ, I READ, I KNOW, BUT MEDICAL JOURNALS, I MEAN, I DON'T, I'M JUST SAYING, OKAY, SO THE CDC FLIPPED, THE SCHOOLS FLIPPED THE SWITCH AFTER ALL THIS OF 2020 AND SAID THAT THE COVID PEOPLE THAT, UM, WERE ASYMPTOMATIC WERE, WHICH CAN SPREAD THE COVID VIRUS AS JUST AS MUCH AS THOSE WHO ARE NOT BASED ON THAT INFORMATION AND BEING AN ADMINISTRATOR.
DID YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH ANYBODY SAYING, YOU KNOW, THE CDC HAS CHANGED THAT, UM, THEY'RE SAYING PEOPLE NEED TO BE TESTED.
THEY NEED TO AVOID LARGE GATHERING.
WE NEED TO DECIDE IF WE NEED TO TEST, BECAUSE IT ALSO SAID THAT UP TO 50% OF THEM HAD COVID-19.
SO HAVING THAT INFORMATION, DID YOU HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH ANYBODY ABOUT UP IN THE ANNEX, AS IT RELATES TO THAT? I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH, UH, MAJOR FONTENEAU UP AT THAT.
WHEN THAT CDC GUIDELINE CAME OUT, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, WE DISCUSSED IT.
AND SHE SAID AT THAT POINT WE WERE GOING TO HOLD OFF FOR A LITTLE BIT ON TESTING THE ENTIRE JAIL.
SO HOW LONG IS FROM THE DATE OF THAT CONVERSATION TO THE MIDDLE WHILE THE CHILD TALK? IT'S BEEN A COUPLE OF WEEKS.
OH, THEY CHECKED, THEY FLIPPED, THE SKIPS, FLIPPED THE SWITCH AND ALL OF A SUDDEN 2020.
SO WE, WE IN AUGUST, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ONE THAT JUST CAME OUT IN 2021.
BUT THEY, THEY, THEY, THEY CHANGED IT IN 2020, ALL OF A SUDDEN 2020 ABOUT THE ASYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE.
THE ONLY WAY I'D KNOW IS THE ONE THAT JUST CAME OUT AND THEY'RE SAYING, TEST EVERYONE, CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THERE'S MONEY, A FEDERAL, FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE TO TEST PEOPLE CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IT'S NO WAY IN A PRISON THAT YOU HAVE INMATES AT STATE, YOU ALL AT STAKE.
UM, YOU HAVE, UM, SHERIFF DEPUTIES CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT THESE PEOPLE HAVE A LOW, MOST OF THEM HAVE A LOW EDUCATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF CARE, PROBABLY DID NOT.
CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT WE, IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC, I SAW WHERE EVERYBODY WAS MAKING CHANGES ACCORDING TO THIS UNKNOWN.
BUT EVEN TODAY, CORRECT, HEALTH HAS NOT, WELL, OUR NUMBERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY DON'T HAVE EIGHT POSITIVE DOWN IF THEY ARE A HUNDRED PEOPLE THAT HAVE A COMMON COLD.
AND YOU ONLY TEST FOR YOUR DADDY GONNA SAY FOUR.
SO COUNCIL MEMBER MEDICAL NEGLECT IS ALL I COULD SAY ABOUT SOME NUMBER ROCCO.
UM, THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT AND SPOKE TONIGHT.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO, I KNOW THAT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION AND ELABORATE ON WHAT SOMETHING COUNCILWOMAN BANKS MENTIONED.
UM, THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021 RELEASED $700 MILLION OF THAT $700 MILLION.
UM, 17,290,000 WAS GIVEN TO LOUISIANA ALONE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THOSE DOLLARS WERE GIVEN TO THE PRISON OR WHO THEY WERE ALLOCATED TO, BUT IF THERE IS MONEY TO BE FOUND TO HELP WITH THOSE TESTING, IT'S OUT THERE.
UM, ANOTHER POINT TO BE MADE TO THE FOLKS IN THE AUDIENCE, IF THAT MONEY IS GIVEN AND RECEIVED BY PARISH PRISON, THERE WILL BE A VERY, UM, DETAILED MATRIX WITH REGARD TO REPORTING ON HOW TESTING IS BEING DONE, UM, THAT WILL HAVE TO BE FILLED OUT AND BY THE PRISON.
IF THOSE DOLLARS ARE RECEIVED,
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THIS WAS JUST A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, THE MORE, YOU KNOW, ON MY PART.THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER DONE.
FEW QUESTIONS, UH, FOR YOU LADIES, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE BIGGEST CONCERN FROM, FROM THE PUBLIC AND SOME OF THE COLLEAGUES IS THAT THE TESTING WASN'T FREQUENT ENOUGH OR TESTING WAS ONLY DONE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SYMPTOMATIC OR SEVERELY SYMPTOMATIC AND NO TESTING WITH THOSE WHO ARE ASYMPTOMATIC OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND WITH THE CURRENT STATE OF THINGS WITH COVID AND THE WAY IT'S RUNNING RAMPANT THROUGH THIS COUNTRY, AND FRANKLY, THROUGH THIS COMMUNITY, UM, WOULD YOU BE OPPOSED TO INCREASING THE TESTING, WHETHER IT'S ASYMPTOMATIC OR SYMPTOMATIC OF THIS AS A COUNCIL ON A ROCKET SUGGESTED AND COUNCILWOMAN BANK SUGGESTED THERE'S PLENTY OF DOLLARS OUT THERE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE WHY, WHERE WE ARE.
WHY WERE YOU GUYS, UM, TIGHT CAST ON WHO YOU WOULD TEST THE HOUSE? WELL, I KNOW THAT CORRECT HEALTH DID NOT RECEIVE THAT MONEY.
UH, SO WHEN I HAD THAT CONVERSATION WITH, UH, MAJOR FONTENEAU, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, ABOUT MASS TESTING, SHE SAID, NO, WE WEREN'T GOING TO DO THAT RIGHT NOW.
IT DOES NOT BELONG TO CORRECT TAILS.
IT BELONGS TO THE STATE AND THEY PRETTY MUCH SAID THE GUIDELINES.
IF IT'S NOT MEDICAL RELATED, WHICH BORDERS ON NOT LIKE OF MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO CONSIDER MASS TESTING.
I THINK YOU SHOULD TEST EVERYONE THAT ENTERS THE FACILITY, EVERYONE THAT EXITS THE FACILITY, INMATES, STAFF, UH, CORRECTIONS AND REGULARLY TEST OF THE ENTIRE POPULATION, ASYMPTOMATIC ARE, ARE SYMPTOMATIC.
UM, CAN YOU WALK ME THROUGH THE ISOLATION PROCESS ONCE YOU IDENTIFY SOMEBODY AS POSITIVE? CAN YOU WALK ME THROUGH THAT, UH, THE SPECIFIC LOCATION OR WHEN THEY'RE THERE, WHAT'S THAT PROCESS? LIKE, I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE SPECIFIC LOCATION, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID EARLIER, IT'S UP TO THE WARDEN AND THE MAJOR, UH, THEIR STAFF WHERE, WHAT THEY HAVE AVAILABLE, WHAT IF THEY HAVE FIVE PEOPLE OR 50 PEOPLE OR WHATEVER THAT REQUIRE.
HOW MANY PEOPLE COME IN THEN? OKAY.
SO IS THAT TYPICALLY A SALE, A DIAMETER OR A HAUL SALES IN A LIE? YOU KNOW, THEY CALL IT A LIE, ET CETERA, IN A BUILDING, IN A SPECIAL AREA OF THE BUILDING AND A CELL IS SETTLED.
SO AS YOU REFERENCED TO THE LINE, YOU KNOW, THERE MULTIPLE SALES ON THE LINE.
SO ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT YOU PUT IN COVID POSITIVE PEOPLE ON THE LINE WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT COVID POSITIVE? NO, IT'S, IT'S SEPARATED.
IT'S SEPARATE, IT'S SEPARATED AS SEPARATED FROM THE GENERAL POPULATION.
AGAIN, MY QUESTION IS, AND, AND YOU JUST OPENED THE DOOR.
THE LINE HAS MULTIPLE SALES, MULTIPLE DORMITORIES ARE THERE, COVID POSITIVE PEOPLE ON THE SAME LINE AS NON-COLORED PILOT? I'M NOT SAYING IN THE SAME CELL ARE ALREADY ON THE SAME LINE? NO.
UM, WHAT IS YOUR PROTOCOL ON, WHEN DOES THE COVID POSITIVE PEOPLE RECEIVE A FOLLOW-UP TEST TO SEE IF THE TREATMENT YOU'VE GIVEN THEM HAVE, UH, UH, DEFEATED THE VIRUS? UH, THE VIRUS HAS PASSED, SO WE WOULD SWAP THEM 10 DAYS LATER.
DO YOU, DO YOU GUYS HAVE MEDICAL OR NURSE NURSING SERVICES, PROTOCOL, A MANUAL OR HANDBOOK? IS THAT ONE YOU'RE RELYING ON A PRE COVID? DID YOU UPDATE IT POST COVID? OKAY.
HOW OFTEN ARE YOU REVIEWING THAT INFORMATION WITH STAFF? EVERY STAFF MEETING MONTHLY.
SO THAT THEY'RE BROUGHT UP TO SPEED.
UM, WHATEVER THE LATEST RECOMMENDATIONS, CDC GUIDELINES, ALL THAT STUFF ON MONDAY BASIS? YES.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN.
I'LL MAKE THIS REAL QUICK HERE BECAUSE I KNOW THE TIME HAS BEEN WELL SPENT.
I JUST WANT TO KNOW, HAS ANYONE REACHED OUT AND WHEN I'M SAYING IT, ANYONE I'M TALKING ABOUT ANY, ANYBODY, ANYBODY HAVE REACHED OUT TO YOU ALL TO HAVE A CONVERSATION REGARDING THE ISSUE AT HAND THIS EVENING? NO.
IF I UNDERSTAND, OKAY, LET ME, LET ME, LET YOU CALL ME AND TALK TO ME ABOUT COVID.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING THE ISSUE AT HAND, WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING TONIGHT? HAVE YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION
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WITH ANYONE ABOUT THIS CONCERN WHO'S HERE TONIGHT? WHO ASKS, WHO HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THIS? HAVE YOU ALL HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THEM? BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONCERNS? NOT THAT I KNOW OF.I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH PARENTS.
I WOULD BE THE PERSON THAT THEY WOULD CALL AND TALK TO ABOUT THEIR CONCERN OF THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER, BROTHER, WHATEVER, BUT I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING.
UM, THE COALITION COUNCIL, PERSONS, UM, ANYBODY WHO WOULD HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THIS ISSUE THAT'S IN PARISH PRISON, HAVE YOU ALL HAD A WITH THEM REGARDING THEIR CONCERNS? I MEAN, SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THIS.
I'VE HEARD RUMORS OF THEIR CONCERNS, BUT THEY'VE NOT SPOKEN TO HER.
TELL ME THIS, UM, THIS ATTAINING, THE PERSONS THAT ARE INCARCERATED THERE, HOW OFTEN DOES THIS HAPPEN FROM YOU ALL, YOU KNOW, YOU GO ON THE LINE, YOU SEE THE INMATES, YOU DO WHATEVER.
HOW OFTEN, OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL DO? I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION.
I KNOW I'M NOT TALKING TOO DEEP.
Y'ALL I MEAN, I'M JUST ASKING SOME SURFACE QUESTIONS HERE AND I'M JUST, I I'M JUST TRYING TO GET INFORMATION.
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, HAVE OUT OF THOSE DAYS.
UH, WHICH ONE OF THOSE DAYS DO YOU ALL ACTUALLY GO AND SEE THE PERSONS THAT ARE THERE? UM, IN THE FACILITY? UM, UH, DAY TO DAY, I DO.
UM, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHEN KOBE FIRST STARTED, UM, I DIDN'T SIT IN MY OFFICE.
I CAME OUT AND HELP THE NURSES DO TEMPERATURE CHECKS.
I SWAPPED MAJORITY OF ALL THE INMATES JUST TO GIVE THE NURSES A BREATHER.
UM, I'M ACTIVE OUT THERE JUST AS THE NURSES ON THE FLOOR EVERY DAY, NOT EVERY DAY, BUT A LOT OF THE TIME I'M OUT OF LUCK.
UH, WHEN I, BEFORE I WENT OUT ON MEDICAL LEAVE, I WOULD OKAY.
WOULD COVER THE FIRST STARTED, UH, THIS MONTH.
AND SO, ALRIGHT, SO AND SO YOU'RE NOW ON, YOU'RE NOT THERE NOW IS WHAT YOU'RE SEXUALLY, I'M WORKING FROM HOME.
I SAID MEDICAL LEAVE, BUT I'M WORKING FROM HOME.
SO THIS IS MY LAST QUESTION, LADIES RETROSPECTIVELY, YOU ALL HAVE HEARD ALL EVERYTHING HERE THIS EVENING.
HOW DO I WANT TO SAY THIS? IF YOU COULD DO IT OVER AGAIN, WOULD YOU DO IT ANY DIFFERENTLY OR WHAT HAVE YOU GLEANED FROM THIS EVENING TO GET YOU TO A POINT OF SAYING, WE NEED TO GO TO THE TABLE, SIT DOWN.
WE NEED TO SAY, WE NEED TO DO THIS, THIS AND THIS.
ARE YOU ALL THERE AT THIS POINT AS A RESULT OF TONIGHT? SURE.
I THINK WE WOULD HAVE READDRESSED.
WE COULD ADDRESS OR READDRESS THE TESTING IN THE FACILITY RIGHT OFF THE NORMAL.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO AT THE TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE FOR THAT QUESTION AND BE DONE? THAT WILL BE GOOD.
I WOULD READDRESS THAT AND I DO AGREE WITH THE POPULATION BEING SWAB, EVEN THE, UM, THE DEPUTIES AND THE NURSES.
SO YOU REALIZE THAT THERE ARE SOME HOLES SOMEWHERE AND THAT THEY NEED TO BE FEEL, AND IT NEEDS TO BE DONE DIFFERENTLY.
AND THAT IT THAT'S WHERE YOU ARE TONIGHT.
RIGHT? MY MAMA SAID DON'T SHAKE YOUR HEAD.
ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS? I THINK THE TAKE HOME MESSAGE THIS EVENING IS THAT
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WE HAVE A VERY VULNERABLE POPULATION THAT MANY OF US ARE CONCERNED ABOUT, AND WE MUST WORK EXTREMELY HARD TO GET IT RIGHT.UH, THANK YOU LADIES FOR PROVIDING THEIR REPORT COUNCIL MEMBERS.
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW TO ITEM 100.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION TO REPEAT THE REPORT.
IF NOT, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT, MAKE THE MOTION, MAKE THE MOTION, THE MOTION, MOTION TO RECEIVE.
ARE THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO RECEIVING A REPORT REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED.
[100. 21-00861]
COUNCIL MEMBERS.THIS ITEM HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO BE DEFERRED FOR 30 DAYS AND MANY OF THE CITY PARISH ORDINANCE 1 71, 9 4, PARTICULARLY THE LIST OF EXCEPTIONS TO THE REQUIRED PARKING FOR YOU INCLUDE A STUDENT WORKER, STUDENT INTERN INSURER, SOMEONE TO DISTRICT COURT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL FOR PAYMENT FROM COURT APPEARANCES TO ADD AN EXEMPTION FOR METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEMBERS AND LET THEM LET US KNOW THE VIDEOS FROM THE REQUIRED MONTHLY PARKING FEE BY COUNCIL MEMBER.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 100.
IS THERE ANY ONE OF YOU WISH TO SPEAK ITEM 100.
UH, ASHLEY, CAN YOU STAY FOR THE RECORD WHERE WE, UH, WITH THE OPINION FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT, PLEASE HEAR, WE DIDN'T HEAR BACK FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
WE INQUIRED ABOUT, UM, WHEN WE MIGHT EXPECT THE RESPONSE TO THAT OPINION REQUEST, UM, THE OPINION, UH, RESPONSE IS NOW AND WHAT THEY CALL THEIR REVIEW COMMITTEE.
AND SO THE ATTORNEY WORKING ON IT SAID HE COULD ANTICIPATE THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE ANOTHER MONTH.
I KNEW THAT INFORMATION PRIOR TO, UH, THE MEETING AND SEVERAL MEMBERS ASKED ME TO WAIT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS ITEM UNTIL WE GET THAT OPINION.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, DOING WHAT WAS ASKED OF ME, BUT IF YOU GUYS WANT TO MOVE FORWARD, I MEAN, I'M OPEN TO IT.
BUT SEVERAL PEOPLE ASKED TO WAIT TO HEAR FROM AIG, BUT WHAT'S THE PLAYER'S ACCOUNT MOTION TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS, MOSTLY TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS, SEVEN BY THE CHAIR OF ANY OPPOSITION TO THE FURNACE ITEM FOR 30 DAYS, MOST OF THEM DIFFER.
[Items 101 & 120 (Part 1 of 2)]
AND ONE 20.AND LET ME READ YOU ONE-ON-ONE AND EXPLAIN, UH, AUTHORIZING THE MERIT PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PARISH OF EASTBOUND URGE AND THE FLORIDA BOULEVARD, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
NUMBER ONE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROMOTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE FLORIDA BOULEVARD, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, AND PROVIDE A RELATED MATTERS BY COUNCIL MEMBER, CLEVE DUN AND THEIR PRESIDENT SHARON WESTERN ROOM 1 0 1 AND ONE 20 ARE TEND TO BE THE SAME ITEMS. SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A MOTION TO DELETE 1 0 1 AND GO STRAIGHT TO ONE 20.
NOW ONE 20 SAYS AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESENT EXECUTED COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BANNER REVIEWS, BALLERS IN THE KATANA CORRIDOR, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT, UH, PROMOTING THE NUMB DEVELOPMENT IN THE CORN, DOWN THE CORRIDOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS BY MAYOR, PRESIDENT SHANNON WITH THE RULING COUNCIL MEMBER HAS DONE IT.
KAREN, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEMS? 1 0 1 OR ONE 20? I DO HAVE A LIST OF REQUEST TO SPEAK AS CHRIS TYSON, CHRIS TYSON.
I'M AT A MAP NOW ON THEIR WAY.
ANYONE ELSE HERE? WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 20 OR 1 0 1.
IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER TO LATER IN THE MEETING? YES.
MOTION TO DEFER TO LATER, MOSTLY DEFER BY COUNCIL MEMBER MONK, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUTSON.
ANY OPPOSITION WE'LL TAKE THOSE ITEMS UP LATER IN THE MEETING.
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WE NOW GO TO ITEM 1 0 2.WE'RE SENDING IN THE REC AND THE CLERK OF COURT.
THE COUNSELING DECISION AND ORDER RECORDED ON MAY 28TH, 2021.
AND THE MATTER OF THE CITY OF BANDWIDTH VERSUS LAW ATTORNEY AT EVOLVE, FLORIDA TURNER BOUT SELF-ESTEEM TON OF JOBS.
THERE WERE A TON OF JOHN, A TON OF LUTEIN AND MY TEAR AND ROSENBERG TUNNEL 9 58 PROGRESS REVIEW THE PERPETRATORS AND THE PROPERTY OWNERS, FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO RENOVATE THE PROBLEM AND PLACE IT BACK IN THE COMMERCE.
ANYWAY, ITEM 1, 0 2, BACK TO COUNCIL.
IS THERE A SECOND MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND BY ROCCA AND ALGO
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GO ITEM 1 0 3 WITH SENDING IN THE REGULAR CLERK OF COURT.THE COUNCIL DECISION, THE ORDER RECORD ON MAY 19TH, 2021 IN A MATTER OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, THAT'S THE PER PROPERTY.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 3, BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION TO APPROVE OUR GREEN.
[104. 21-01081]
TO 1 0 4.WE'RE SENDING IN A REGULAR FEDERAL COURT.
THE COUNCIL DECISION ORDER RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 26TH, 2021.
THE MATTER OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE VERSUS BOTH SHERIFF, KATE OR KIMBALL
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1 46, 9 DANIEL WEBSTER STREET, REASONABLE DECISION OF PROPERTY OWNERS INTENDED TO MOLECULE PROPERTY IN THEIR OWN.THE COMBINATION NEEDS TO BE DESCENDING IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A PERMIT BY CALIFORNIA COLEMAN.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 4 COUNSEL MEMBER COLEMAN MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, GO DAY AND MOVE NOW
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TO 1 0 5 AUTHORIZED SETTLEMENT AMOUNT OF ENTIRE FACILITY WOLVES AT ALL VERSUS THE CITY OF BATTERIES IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 PLUS COURT COSTS AND THE AMOUNT OF $50 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $50,050 BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY.ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 0 5 BACK TO COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE BY ROCCO SECONDED BY GREEN.
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ITEM 1 0 6, AUTHORIZING THE SETTLEMENT IN THE CLAIM OF NICOLE JONES FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM AN AUTO ACCIDENT CAUSED BY BATTERY FIRE DEPARTMENT, FIRE TRUCK, AND THE AMOUNT OF $33,350 BY PARISH.ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 6, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK A 1 0 6.
WE GO BACK TO COUNCIL MOTION BY ROBERT SECONDED BY GREEN.
[107. 21-01128]
UH, THE SPONSOR OF THE ITEM HAS REQUESTED THIS ITEM BE DEFERRED FOR TWO WEEKS.UH, MANY OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, CHAPTER SIX.
SO TO ADD SECTION 12, COLON 4, 0 8, 3 12, COLON 40 0 8 0.6, AS IT RELATES TO DONATIONS, DROP BOXES BY COUNCIL NUMBER, THE WHITE HUSTLING.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON 1 0 7 TO GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL CALLS FROM THE HUDSON, THE MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS SHOWING THE OPPOSITION.
[108. 21-01144]
ITEM 1 0 8, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCE IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AND PARIS OF EAST BATON ROUGE HAS TO ADD CHAPTER SEVEN, COMMERCIAL PEDAL CARROTS BY TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD.ANYONE WHO ARE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 8, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 8, COME ON DOWN.
MA'AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE THAT, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BE THE FIRST TO RIDE A AND I'M JUST TELLING YOU, GO AHEAD.
YOU GOT A COUNCILMAN COLE, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.
SO TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD A BIT, CAN I GET A LITTLE CROWD PARTICIPATION? THAT'S YOUR COMFORTABLE QUESTION.
SO WHO ALL LIKES TO EAT GOOD FOOD? YOU KNOW, IN LOUISIANA, WE LOVE TO EAT WHO I ENJOY SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, OR COWORKERS.
AND IF YOU SIT NEXT TO YOUR COWORKER, YOU GOT TO RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND WHILE THERE WAS A GOOD GLASS OF WINE OR BEER DAIQUIRI OR A VIRGIN PINA COLADA.
WELL, IF YOU ANSWER YES TO MOST OF THOSE QUESTIONS, WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING A NEW EXPERIENCE TO BATON.
THEY'LL LET YOU ENJOY ALL THOSE THINGS.
BUT BEFORE I JUMPED IN INTRODUCTION, I AM CHANDRA PEERED.
I'M ONE OF FOUR CO-OWNERS OF A PEDAL PUB FRANCHISE.
WE ALSO HAVE MS. MENDEZ, CARL AND ASHLEY THOMAS, AND MY HUSBAND HEARD.
SO BACK TO THE EXPERIENCE WE LIKE TO BRING TO OUR STATE'S CAPITOL, A COMMERCIAL PEDAL CARRIAGE.
IT'S A COMMERCIAL BICYCLE THAT HAVE A SEATING CAPACITY OF UP TO 17 PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE PILOT, THE EMPLOYEE WHO IS CALLED A PILOT GUYS, PASSENGERS ON A TOUR ON AN ELECTRICALLY ASSISTED BIKE ON PREDETERMINED ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PASSENGERS ABOARD THE BIKE OR ALLOWED TO BRING FOOD AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES WITH CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS TO ADD TO THEIR ONE AND A HALF TO TWO HOUR TOUR EXPERIENCE.
SO THIS PEBBLE PUB CAN BE USED FOR A VARIETY OF, UH, ACTIVITIES, BIRTHDAY PARTIES, BACHELOR AND BACHELORETTE PARTIES, FAMILY REUNIONS, UH, CORPORATE TEAM OUTINGS GAME DAY FUNCTIONS, UH, HOMECOMING FUNCTIONS, UH, OR IN OUR CASE, THE FIRST TIME WE WROTE ONE WAS TO GET AWAY FROM LAKE CHARLES AFTER HAVING TO BACK TO THAT HURRICANES IN THE FALL OF LAST YEAR.
SO WHAT I BELIEVE THIS BUY ADS FOR RIDERS IS NOT JUST A BOOZY BIKE TOUR OR REASON TO GET FLASHED, BUT IT'S A VERY UNIQUE AND FUN EXPERIENCE, JUST LIKE IT WAS FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WROTE IT IN HOUSTON.
UM, WE PLAN TO MARKET TO ALL AGE GROUPS.
UH, I COULD SAY THIS BECAUSE I USED TO BE YOUNG ONCE, BUT, UH, WE'RE NOT JUST FOR YOUNGSTERS LOOKING FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN A BUSINESS THAT IS GOING TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO GET DRUNK ALL THE TIME, JUST SO WE CAN MAKE ABOUT I'M 45 YEARS OLD AND I HAVE CHILDREN AND THE REST OF OUR TEAM, WE'RE ALL MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS.
AND WE'VE BEEN IN OUR CAREERS RANGING FROM 17 TO 21 YEARS.
UH, SO OUR GOAL REALLY IS TO BRING SOMETHING FUN AND UNIQUE TO OUR STATE CAPITOL AND SOLIDIFY LOUISIANA ON THE MAP.
SO WITH THAT SAID, UM, A COUPLE OF
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CAMPS, I'M SORRY, STATE CAPITALS WITHIN THE UNITED STATES THAT ALREADY HAS THIS EXPERIENCE.UM, TWIN CITIES AND MINNESOTA, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UH, NASHVILLE, AUSTIN, TEXAS, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
SO WE'D LIKE TO BRING THIS EXPERIENCE TO OUR CAPITOL.
OH MAN, WE HAVEN'T FINISHED THAT LAST SENTENCE, BUT THAT'S YOUR TIME.
MY LAST THING IS WE JUST ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT VOTING IN FAVOR OF THIS ORDINANCE TO ALLOW US TO OPERATE OUR BIKES, BRINGING THIS EXPERIENCE TO OUR CITY, UH, THE BENEFITS OF ADDING MORE TAX DOLLARS TO THE CITY.
THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO TALK.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? ANYONE HERE? THANK YOU SO MUCH.
UH, WE DO HAVE SOME, UH, EMAIL COMMENTS, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, WE RECEIVED 32 EMAILS ALL IN FAVOR OF THIS ITEM.
UH, WE'D GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
WE GO BACK TO COUNCIL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER ROCCO.
SO I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SPEAKING, UM, WITH THESE FOLKS EARLY ON, THEY'VE BEEN PREPARING FOR THIS FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
THEY'VE BEEN DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.
UM, WE HAD A TELEPHONE CONFERENCE AND A ZOOM MEETING.
UM, SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM FOR CONSIDERING BATON ROUGE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
I'M EXCITED TO WELCOME THEM AND HOPE THAT, UH, EVERYBODY VOTES FOR THEM.
UM, FIRST I'D TAKE ISSUE WITH MS. SHANDRA WHEN SHE REFERENCED HER AGE AND THEN SAID MIDDLE-AGE AS SOMEONE WHO'S APPROACHING 45, I TAKE EXCEPTION TO THAT.
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE, I WANTED TO THANK THE, THE TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DID, UH, RELATED TO THIS, YOU KNOW, THE ABOUT YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF AGO, IT WAS AN EXCITING TIME WHEN WE WELCOMED BIKE SHARE TO THIS COMMUNITY, WE'RE SEEING THESE, THESE MOBILITY FIRMS AND HOW THEY OPERATE AND HOW THEY ATTRACT, UH, VISITORS, TOURISTS TO THE AREA.
AND SO, UM, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS.
WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, AND THIS IS A DISCUSSION I HAD WITH SHANDRA WHEN WE DID A, UH, CONFERENCE CALL, WHAT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, BE FLEXIBLE.
UH, OUR DOWNTOWN HAS COMMERCIAL AS WELL AS RESIDENTIAL, UH, WORK WITH OUR DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
IF YOU EXPAND INTO OTHER AREAS, WORK WITH THE PARTNERS THERE, UH, TO BE COGNIZANT OF WHEN AND WHERE YOU OPERATE.
UM, BUT I'VE BEEN TO OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE THIS TYPE OF OPERATION, UH, EXCITED THAT BATON ROUGE IS NOW, UH, ONE OF THOSE.
I, UM, JUST WANNA REITERATE WHAT, UH, MY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE SAYING.
I TELL YOU, IT'S JUST, UM, ESPECIALLY IN NEW ORLEANS SITTING ON THAT BALCONY AND YOU SEE THIS HOUSTON COMBINED PEOPLE LIKE HAVING DRINKS GOING DOWN THE ROAD ON A BIKE.
YOU'RE LIKE, OKAY, I'M DOING THAT.
YOU KNOW, SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT BEING HERE IN BATON ROUGE.
I THINK IT WILL BE A GREAT ENHANCEMENT TO THE, ESPECIALLY THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
I DON'T KNOW HOW LSU WILL TAKE IT, BUT, UH, I THINK DOWNTOWN, IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT.
I FEEL LIKE I WAS LIED TO JUST A FEW MOMENTS AGO.
WHEN YOU TOLD ME YOU WAS 45 AND I'M THINKING THERE'S NO WAY, NO WAY YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, OVER 30.
SO ANYWAY, WHO, UH, HOPEFULLY CONGRATULATIONS EARLY, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.
AND, UH, I WISH YOU THE BEST IF THIS PASSES, TELL SOME OF THE BANKS MY PHONE.
UM, PARISH ATTORNEY, I GUESS WHOEVER DID THIS, WHOEVER COULD TO ASK A LEGAL QUESTION ABOUT PERMITTING.
SO THIS IS FOR DOWNTOWN SPECIFICALLY IT'S FOR THE CITY PARISH, RIGHT? SO WE COULD GO IN, THEY CAN GO ANYWHERE, UM, DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THE TAXI CAB TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD APPROVES THE ROUTE.
SO WHAT ABOUT SPECIALTY THEN? CAUSE I'M THINKING, ESPECIALLY THAT, UH, SO AGAIN, ROUTE WISE, TAXI BACK TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD, UH, WHAT IS INTENDED RIGHT NOW IS WHEN THE APPLICANT SUBMITS THEIR APPLICATION, THEY ALSO SUBMIT THE ROUTES THAT THEY WANT TO TRAVEL.
UM, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT'S PARISH WIDE IS JUST GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, A LOT TO REGULATE.
UM, ONCE THE PREFERRED ROUTES ARE SUBMITTED, THE TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD WILL TAKE THOSE CONCERNS INTO CONSIDERATION.
UM, MORE THAN CERTAIN CONVERSATIONS WILL BE HAD WITH THE TRAFFIC DIVISION TO SEE IF THESE ROUTES ARE A GOOD FIT, IF YOU KNOW IT'S FEASIBLE.
UM, AS FAR AS SPECIAL EVENTS ARE CONCERNED, UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TALK REGARDING DOWNTOWN DEVELOP A DOWNTOWN DISTRICT AND A TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD HAS BEEN TALKING TO THE DOWNTOWN, UH, THE, TO THE DVD.
UM, THERE'S ALSO CONSIDERATION OBVIOUSLY TO THE LSU AREA.
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CAUSE I WAS THINKING BECAUSE I DEFINITELY WANT THEM IN MY DISTRICT, ESPECIALLY BEING, I DON'T, I WOULDN'T NECESSARILY SAY IS CONDUCIVE FOR LIKE DOWNTOWN OR LSU, BUT IF THERE'S A SPECIAL EVENT LIKE FOR A PARADE, LIKE WE DO EITHER PARADE OR, UM, FOR LICENSE FOR ABC LICENSING, LIKE IF THERE'S A, UM, A SPECIAL EVENT AND THEY GET A DAY WHERE THEY ARE ABLE TO WRITE, UH, GET A PERMIT JUST FOR THAT OUR TIME PERIOD.AND THEY GO TO ABC JUST FOR THAT OR IN, WHEN YOU DO A PARADE, UH, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SPECIFIC THAT WE HAVE TO GET TO BE RPD.
SO, AND THIS COULD BE WHERE CA I DON'T KNOW IF NOT, I MEAN, I WANT THIS TO GO THROUGH, BUT IT, AT SOME POINT, CAN WE AMEND OUR MAKE PROVISIONS WHERE LIKE, IF I WANT THEM TO COME FOR A PARTICULAR EVENT AND, YOU KNOW, A PARADE OR A FESTIVAL THAT WE'RE HAVING IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE PARISH AND THE ROUTE IS JUST FOR THAT DAY AND PEOPLE COULD DO THAT.
I DON'T SEE WHY NOT, BUT JUST SO THAT WE'RE CLEAR ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE TO GO TO ABC.
NO, I WAS GIVING THE EXAMPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEE, YOU CAN GET A FULL LICENSE, BUT IF HE DOES DURING THE EVENT, LICENSE IS TEMPORARY.
AND I'M TRYING TO GET A, I'M TALKING ABOUT A TEMPORARY ROUTE FOR SPECIFIC DAY TIME IN THE EVENT WHERE, WHERE PEOPLE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, UM, OF THIS EXCURSION THAT WILL ADD TO THE, YEAH.
SO ABC, ABC IS NOT, UM, IT'S NOT NECESSARY FOR THIS, SO THEY DON'T NEED TO GET A LICENSE AT ALL.
SO I COULD JUST, I COULD JUST, BECAUSE I SEE WHAT THE DOG IS, THE ROUTE IS APPROVED BY WHOM A TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD FOR ONE DAY ARE, HAS TO BE APPROVED FOR ALWAYS, NO, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE APPLICANT WANTS TO DO.
SO IF THE APPLICANT POD FOR ONE DAY OR THE APPLICANT, IF THE APPLICANT HEARS ABOUT AN EVENT IN YOUR, IN YOUR DISTRICT AND THEIR ROUTE IS NOT ALREADY APPROVED FOR THAT, THEY CAN JUST COME TO THE BOARD AND SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO GET APPROVED.
UH, AND DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, AND COUNCIL ON BANGS THE DISTRICT, UM, THERE'S AN EVENT HAPPENING THERE.
YOU KNOW, THE ROUTE THAT'S ALREADY APPROVED DOES NOT COVER THIS AREA.
WE WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO THEN TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD WOULD TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION OR RUN INTO AN ISSUE WHERE THEY SAY, UH, WE CAN'T DO IT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO, BUT, BUT WE'RE CALLING OUT STREETS FOR THE EVENT.
SO IT'LL WORK FOR THE EVENT, BUT OTHER DAYS IT WOULDN'T WORK.
AND SO I WOULD JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY DON'T SAY, WELL, THIS IS NOT EXACTLY CONDUCIVE WHEN I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT ONE AGAIN, WHERE THE STREETS CAN BE CLOSED ANYWAY.
THEY CAN GET, THEY CAN GET APPROVAL FOR THAT PARTICULAR EVENT.
BUT AS FAR AS ABC IS CONCERNED, ABC WAS AN EXAMPLE.
I DID NOT MEAN FOR YOU TO GET A CALL.
NO, I JUST WANT IT TO BE CLEAR BECAUSE I CAME TO THAT WITH ABC, BECAUSE I WAS TALKING ABOUT, UH, A TEMPORARY LICENSE AS AN EXAMPLE.
THEY DON'T GO IN FRONT OF ABC AT ALL.
THEY ON A BIKE, DRINKING IS NOT A MOTOR VEHICLE.
THEY READY IS THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS.
AND ON THE HEELS OF COUNCILWOMAN BANKS, I ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT SAFETY WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND THE FACT THAT SHAUNDRA AND HER CREW IS BRINGING IN SOMETHING HERE TO BATON ROUGE AND YES.
AND SO MR. MAY APPROACH HIM, AM I IN ORDER TO MAKE A MOTION AT THIS POINT AND I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION? OH, EXCUSE ME.
UM, THE ORDINANCE, UM, HAS BEEN WRITTEN UP AS OF NOW TO BE EFFECTIVE UPON ADOPTION, BUT TAXICAB CONTROL BOARD HAS ASKED THAT IT'D BE, UM, EFFECTIVE 30 DAYS AFTER ADOPTION TO ALLOW FOR TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, UM, PAPERWORK IS IN PLACE APPLICATIONS, THAT OTHER THINGS ARE, ARE IN PLACE.
UH, SO THAT THEY'RE READY TO GO, WILL THIS DO FOR THE APPLICANTS 30 DAYS LATER? AND WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING? WELL, THE APP, THE APPLICANTS STILL NEED TO, NOW THAT THE ORDINANCE EXISTS FOR THE, FOR THEIR VEHICLE, THEY STILL NEED TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION.
OKAY, WELL, YOU MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE 30 DAYS AS AMENDED.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, BUT I WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO GET WHAT THEY NEED.
UH, MAY I PUT THEM, I DON'T WANT THEM TO NOT BE ABLE
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TO.SO WHAT IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION? WE'RE GONNA ASK, UH, THE POWER OF ATTORNEY TO EXPLAIN THE 30 DAY AMENDMENT.
SO AGAIN, THE 30 DAY AMENDMENT IS SO THAT THE TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A NEW PATIENT HAS TO BE CREATED FOR THIS PARTICULAR VEHICLE.
THAT'S HOW THEY STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.
THEY SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS.
AND WHEN THEY CAME BEFORE THE BOARD, WE LOOKED AT THE CATEGORIES OF VEHICLES THAT EXISTED.
AND WE WERE LIKE, WAIT, THIS DOES NOT EVEN EXIST.
SO NOW THAT YOU ALL ARE GOING TO VOTE, THAT BE CREATED.
THAT'S WHAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES THOUGH.
THEY NEED SOME TIME AFTER WE VOTE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YES.
SO AS AMENDED, AS AMENDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROCKER, UH, BEFORE WE, OH, VOTE, WE HAVE SOME OTHER SPEAKERS THAT TO COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS, MICHAEL.
UM, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? UH, COURTNEY.
NO, THE YOUNG LADY WITH THE BIKES.
YEAH, THE 45 YEAR OLD WOMAN THAT LOOKED LIKE SHE 35 OR 25.
SO, AND, UM, THIS MIGHT BE BECAUSE MY, IT MIGHT BE WITHIN 30 DAYS.
UM, SO FOR ME, UM, I, I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT THE PARISH ATTORNEY WOULD SAY.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
I THINK WE SHOULD APPROVE YOU TODAY.
FIRST OF ALL, BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.
IF THEY DIDN'T DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, I'M VERY SORRY ABOUT THAT.
BUT I THINK THAT YOU CAN VOLUNTARILY AGREE TO WORK CAUSE YOU TO WANT, NOT ONLY TO HAVE A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP, UM, WITH THE TAXI BOARD, BECAUSE YOU GOT TO KEEP GOING BACK TO THEM, BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DELAY YOUR APPROVAL.
SO YOU CAN HAVE THAT 30 DAYS TO BEGIN YOUR ADVERTISING, OR YOU BEGIN DOING WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, UM, COUNCILWOMAN COLEMAN'S DISTRICT.
IF ANYBODY ON THIS COUNCIL DON'T HAVE IT, I, WE GOT IT, BUT I W I WOULD LIKE TO JUST MAKE, AND I KNOW THIS IS SECOND TIME TWO WEEKS AGO.
I DON'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT THOUGH, BUT THIS JUST SOMETHING I THOUGHT ABOUT AS THE SENIOR COUNCIL WOMAN, THAT OKAY.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD, I REALLY DON'T WANT TO MAKE A MOTION.
I WANT HER IT, BECAUSE IT IS HER DISTRICT.
I WOULD LIKE, UM, YOU TO APPROVE IT AS IS UPON THE, A GIRL AGREEING TO VOLUNTARILY WAIT TIL THE TAXI PEOPLE GET THEIR BUSINESS TOGETHER BECAUSE IT'S IN HER BEST INTEREST TO VOLUNTARILY WAIT, IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST, BUT YOU SAID YOU 45.
AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU START THIS THING, RIGHT.
BUILD THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT YOU NEED IN ORDER THAT YOU CAN GET THE REST OF WHAT YOU MEAN.
SO I GO WITH WHAT I MADE THAT MOTION.
SECOND COUNT PHONE NUMBER MODE.
UM, SO WITH THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, SO THE ABC BOARD.
SO WHAT ABOUT, NO, I'M JUST JOKING.
HAVE, HAVE YOU WORKED WITH THE TAXI CONTROL BOARD AND EVERYTHING AND ALREADY PLANNED OUT ROUTES AND SO ON.
HAVE YOU HAD, HAVE THEY TALKED TO YOU ABOUT ALREADY DESIGNATING CERTAIN ROUTES AS FAR AS REGULAR ROUTES, NON EVENTS, SPECIAL EVENTS IN NORTH BATON ROUGE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT OR STUFF THAT YOU'RE GOT TO TALK TO ABC BOARD ABOUT, BUT HAVE YOU DETECTED BOARD THE OFFSET ROUTES ALREADY DOWNTOWN OR IN CERTAIN PLACES, OR DO YOU STILL NEED TO DO THAT? WE DO HAVE DRAFTS OFF DEVELOPED.
WE WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY FOR TAXI CAB TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONVERSATION WITH US AHEAD OF THE APPLICATION.
SO THEY HAVE VIEW OF WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE BEFORE WAITING THE 30 DAYS.
UH, SO WE HAVE EXCHANGED EMAILS AND PHONE CONVERSATIONS.
WE'RE READY TO REVIEW THOSE DRAFT ROUTES IF THEY'RE READY AND AVAILABLE.
SO YOU'VE PHYSICALLY SUBMITTED THE ROUTES TO THE TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD OR TEXTING BOARD OR WHATEVER, NOT PHYSICALLY CAUSE WE WERE INSTRUCTED TO ONLY SUBMIT THEM WITH THE APPLICATION, BUT I OPENED THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO HAVE THEM VIEW THEM AHEAD OF THE APPLICATION SO THAT THEY CAN BE INTRODUCED TO THEM, SEE WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE SO THAT WE COULD HAVE ALL THE DUCKS IN A ROW WHEN WE SUBMIT THE APPLICATION.
AND THAT'S WHAT I AGREE WITH ON, ON THE 30 DAYS, UM, COUNCILWOMAN COLEMAN, UM, I AGREE WITH YOU ON THE 30 DAYS BECAUSE I MEAN, THEY, THEY'VE GOT TO SET AND APPROVE THESE ROUTES AND SO ON.
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UH, I ALSO AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN BANKS ON THE SPECIALTY.OH, ESPECIALLY VINCE AND EVERYTHING.
CAUSE IT, YOU KNOW, JUST HEARING HER TALK ABOUT LIKE WHITE LIGHT NIGHTS AND STUFF DOWN GOVERNMENT STREET AND SPECIAL PERMITS AND EVERYTHING.
SO AGAIN, I GO BACK TO, I AGREE WITH YOUR MOTION ON THE 30 DAYS AND JUST A LUCK TO YOU.
I JUST WANT TO OFFER ONE THING.
UM, IF THING PAPILLOMA CALLED HIM AND HE WAS READY TO MOVE FORWARD AS IF, UM, I WOULD ASK, DO WE NEED 30 DAYS TO APPROVE THIS SITUATION? DOES TAXI CONTROLLABLE NEED 30 DAYS? CAN WE ALL PUT UP SEVEN DAYS OR 15 DAYS WITH FOOTBALL SEASON ON THE HORIZON, WHICH IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST IMPACT OF A BUSINESS LIKE THIS.
I THINK THAT WOULD DELAY, UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO START OFF WITH MOMENTUM.
BUT I JUST WANT TO OFFER THAT UP.
I, UM, I'LL SUBMIT TO WHATEVER COUNCIL WANT TO CALL THEM OFF TO DO PULLING OUT.
THEN THAT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU, COURTNEY.
I THINK THAT'S THE QUESTION FOR YOU.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD ONLY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO ACTUALLY CREATE THE APPLICATION.
AND SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, ONCE YOU GUYS APPROVE THE ORDINANCE, THEN GO, UH, GO PUBLIC.
PEDAL, PUB PEDAL PUB SUBMITS THEIR APPLICATION TAXI CAB CON CONTROL BOARD HAS THEIR MEETING TO APPROVE THE APPLICATION SO THAT THERE'S STILL A PROCESS THERE.
BUT AS FAR AS LIKE 30 DAYS, 15 DAYS, THAT'S GOING TO BE UP TO HOW FAST TAXICAB CONTROL BOARD CAN GET THE APPLICATION TOGETHER AND PUT IT TOGETHER.
SO IF YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD, THE CHAIRPERSON IS HERE.
OH MAN, SHE WASN'T SAYING ANYTHING.
CAUSE SHE ENJOYED ME AND ANSWERING ALL THE QUESTIONS FOR HER.
MY NAME IS PIERRE PANELL AND THE TAXI CAB CONTROL BOARD CHAIR.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT, I MEAN, WHAT QUESTION WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO ANSWER? THE QUESTION IS, DOES IT REQUIRE 30 DAYS FOR THIS TO HAPPEN? YES, WE DO NEED 30 DAYS BECAUSE FIRST, UM, THEY CAN, IF WE DON'T PUT THE 30 DAYS IN PLACE, WE NEED TO ALLOW FOR PALO WITH THE ABC OFFICE TO AMEND THE CRIMINAL CODE THAT WILL ALLOW FOR ALCOHOL TO BE ON THE PEDAL PUB.
IF WE DIDN'T ALLOW FOR THAT TIME, THEY WOULD OPERATE IN, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO OPERATE SERVING OR NOT SERVING ALCOHOL, BUT ALLOW ALCOHOL ON THE PEDAL PUB.
THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO GET IN PLACE ARE THE APPLICATIONS WE NEED TO TALK TO DDB.
WE WANT TO HEAR THEIR CONCERNS AS WELL AS ANY OTHER CONCERNS THAT AROUND THE PEDAL PUB.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HEAR FROM EVERYBODY.
AND, UM, THE NEXT THING THAT WE NEED TO DO IS LOOK AT THE FEE SCHEDULE.
WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE NEEDS AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO OPPOSE THE FEES? AND WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE VEHICLES FOR HIRE.
SO WE WANT TO MEASURE THE PEDAL PUB AGAINST THAT.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING BEFORE THIS ORDINANCE HAS PASSED IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS OR IT'S EFFECTIVE.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, SIMPLY PUT THE NEW 30 DAYS, GOT IT DOWN.
SO NUMBER GREEN IN THE WORK OF A MAYOR PRO TEM, UH, THANK YOU FOR COMING TO THE COUNCIL.
UH, THIS IS A NEW AREA, THE TAXI CONTROL BOARD.
SO WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING THE CHAIR.
UH, CAUSE I DID NOT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A SUCH THING, BUT UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
UM, IT'S JUST, MY MINE IS JUST TO COMMENT.
UM, I THINK HAVING FOUR BUSINESS OWNERS THAT CAME TO, UH, OUR CITY AND CONSIDERED A FRANCHISE BUSINESS, UM, AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ENTIRE CITY AND BEING A YOUNG AND BLACK AND I, I AM PROUD OF THIS TYPE OF A BUSINESS CALMING AND HAPPY THAT SO MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES ARE IN SUPPORT OF IT.
SO I KNOW THAT YOU'LL WORK WITH THEM WELL, BUT I JUST WANTED TO TELL THE OWNERS THAT, UM, CONGRATULATIONS.
AND, UM, I HOPE THAT YOU ALSO WORK WITH THE NORTH BEND ROUGE DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TO GET THIS INFORMATION OUT TO THEM.
AND WE ALSO APPRECIATE, UH, THE OWNERS OF THE BUSINESS.
THANK YOU FOR COMING TO BATON ROUGE.
WITH THAT BEING SAID, THERE WAS A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH A 30 DAY AMENDMENTS SECONDED BY MOST OF OUR COUNCIL IN THE MACOLA SEVEN AND BY COUNCIL NUMBER ROCCA.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM? MOST IMPERATIVE.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU.
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ON THE BIKE.
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1 0 9 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION TO SUBMIT AN EXECUTED GRANT APPLICATION TO THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION FOR RUNWAY 1331[02:15:01]
RSA SLASH RPZ PHASE FIVE, EXCUSE ME, A PHASE FOUR PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF 4 MILLION, 286,500.AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 0 9.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 0 9 BACK TO COUNCIL MOTION BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN THE ROCKET.
WE GOING OUT, UH, NO OPPOSITION.
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AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESENT ON BEHALF OF THE BANNERS POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT THE SUB GRANT AWARD FOR LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, BRIAN JUSTICE, DIVINE ASSISTANCE.GRANTED TITLED IN THE AMOUNT OF $22,211.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 10 WHO'S ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS, SECONDED BY ROCCO.
NO OPPOSITION IS GOING OUT TO ITEM
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ONE 11, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT THAT SHOULD HAVE SUPPLEMENTED AGREEMENT.NUMBER ONE, TO CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES WITH VICTOR CONSULTING SERVICES, LLC, FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOON BEYOND HALFMAN PROJECT AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $3,155 BY THE TRANSPORTATION AND RANCH DIRECT TO ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 11, WE GO NOW BACK TO COUNCIL COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION BY ROCCA.
SECOND BY ADAMS, NO OPPOSITION.
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12, AMEND THE 2021 PAY PLAN FOR THE CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED NON-CLASSIFIED CONTRACT FIRE AND POLICE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN PARIS OF EAST BANNER.THE ADOPTED ABOUT ONE, THIS NUMBER 1 7, 9 ON FOUR, AS SO AS TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES EFFECTIVE AUGUST 26TH, 2021 AND NEW CLASSIFICATION ASSISTANT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR ADMINISTRATIVE WIA ON CLASSIFIED ASSISTANT CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER TO THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 12.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE REQUEST IS TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO THE TITLE THAT STATED IN NOT ONLY A DUMB NUMBER ONE 12, BUT ALSO ITEM NUMBER ONE 14 APPLICABLE TO BOTH TYPO ERROR, REMOVAL OF THE WORD.
ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM? ONE 12, IS THERE A MOTION MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER? DARREN.
I WANT 12 HAS BEEN APPROVED ITEM ONE 13
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AUTHORIZING THEIR ACTUALLY THE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT.NUMBER ONE, THE CONTRACT AND LAST SURVEY SERVICES WITH VO-TECH AND FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOBILE VR AND HASSMAN PROJECT SYNCHRONIZATION AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $21,098 AND 92 SANDBAR TRANSPORTATION OR ANY DIRECT.
ANYONE HERE? I WANT 13 BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION BY ADAM.
SECOND ABOUT DONE NO OPPOSITION ITEM APPROVE ITEM ONE 14.
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AMEND THE 2021 ALLOTMENT OF POSITION FOR THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN PARIS OF EASTBOUND ADOPTED BY 1 1 7 9 9 5.SO AS TO CHANGE THE ALLOTMENT OF THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT WORKFORCE INNOVATION OPPORTUNITY ACT W IOWA AS FOLLOWS EFFECTIVE AUGUST 26TH, 2021 AND THEIR PRESIDENT WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT W R AND ONE ASSISTANT PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR UNCLASSIFIED BY ASSISTANT CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, THE MAYOR PRESIDENT BY THE HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR, AS MENTIONED BY DR.
WE'D LIKE TO REMOVE THE WORD PROGRAM THERE.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON LINE 1, 1, 4, BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL MEMBER.
ADAM'S SECOND ABOUT DONE WITH THE REMOVAL OF THE WORD PROGRAM.
NO OPPOSITION ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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AUTHORIZED IN THEIR PRESIDENT.THAT'S THE KEY IN AGREEMENT TO OBTAIN TREMBLE.
YOU DEAL WITH THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM, SOFTWARE LICENSES FOR MANAGEMENT OF THE MOVIE PROGRAM AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $200,000 BY TRANSPORTATION AND GRANTED DIRECTOR.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 15 MAC THE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION TO APPROVE OUR ROCKER SECONDED BY THE CHAIR.
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ONE 16 AUTHORIZED IN THE MAYOR PRESENT ON BEHALF OF VETERANS CITY COURT TO EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH TYLER TECHNOLOGIES AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,500,000 ALONG WITH THE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE BATTLE OF THE CITY COURT, NOT TO EXCEED $200,000 PRIME PER ANNUM AND FRONT AUTHORIZING THAT ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE AND CLERK OF COURT TO DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE BANNER CITY COURT THAT ACUTE ALL RELATED AND NECESSARILY DOCUMENTED CONNECTING THEIR WIDTH AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, OUR CLERK OR COURT AND ADMINISTRATOR COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT HAS BEEN A REQUEST.BUT IF I HAVE TO BE DELETED, IS ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON HIS ITEM BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBER WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO DELETE MOTION TO LEAD BY COUNCIL.
NO, I'M ADAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN.
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ONE 17, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESENCE, EXECUTE A FRANCHISE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BATON REPAIRS OF EASTBOUND ROUTE AND THE VIVID[02:20:01]
OUTDOOR ADVERTISING, INC.DOING BUSINESS AS THE RAB ADVERTISING TO CONDUCT AND MAINTAIN INNOCENCE WITHIN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE BY THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 17, WE DO HAVE SOME SPEAKERS ON FOR ITEM ONE 17, BROOKE BARNETT BARNETT, MARY PRO TEMP COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU FOR, UH, LOOKING AT OUR, UH, AGENDA ITEM TONIGHT.
WE'RE LOOKING TO EXTEND OUR CONTRACT THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR SO THAT WE CAN MATCH UP WITH THE OTHER TWO COMPANIES THAT PROVIDE THE SERVICE.
ALSO, UH, THE FRANCHISE AGREEMENT WE PROVIDE IS A WIN-WIN WIN.
IT'S A WIN FOR THE LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ADVERTISE ON THE BENCHES.
I CAN SEE PEDAL PEDAL ON IT ALREADY.
CAN YOU SEE A PEDAL PUB BENCH, BUT IT GETS THE AWARENESS OUT.
SO SMALL BUSINESSES GET THE ABILITY TO ADVERTISE LARGE BUSINESSES.
WE DO A LOT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE CAMPAIGNS, UH, THERE'S CAMPAIGNS FOR, UM, ALL DIFFERENT, UH, SUPPORT SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY AND THE PARISH.
AND SO THE OTHER ONE IS TO THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE.
THE GENERAL FUND RECEIVES 10% OF ALL THE MONEY THAT IS COLLECTED ON THE ADVERTISING.
AND IT'S NO COST TO THE ACTUAL, UH, CITY PARISH.
AND SO WE LOOK FOR YOUR APPROVAL SO THAT WE CAN MATCH UP.
AND WE COME BACK BEFORE THE COUNCIL VERY, VERY SOON SO THAT WE CAN RENEW OUR CONTRACT FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME WITH OUR OTHER BUSINESSES THAT WE DO BUSINESS WITH THE OTHER TWO VENDORS THAT ARE DOING BUS BENCHES.
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HOPEFULLY AT THAT POINT GETTING A, ANOTHER RENEWAL OR EIGHT YEARS.
ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 17, IF NOT, WE GO BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL MEMBER DONE SECONDED BY ADAMS. HE'S GO NOW TO ITEM ONE, 18
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OR RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, TITLE SIX PLAN RELATED TO FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATION OF THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BY MAYOR.IS ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 1 8, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1, 1 8.
WE'LL GO BACK NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEMS, MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNSEL NUMBER DONE SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER COUNCIL NUMBER GO THERE.
BRAD DOES THIS FALL UNDER YOUR PURVIEW? THIS IS A TITLE SIX PLAN DEALS WITH FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION, UH, FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING.
WE HAD TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION ON BECAUSE UNDER THE BILL GRANT THAT WE HAVE FUNDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE AND, UH, WE HAD TO HAVE IT UPDATED.
AND THAT'S THE REASON THAT WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS.
AND THIS IS ALLOW US TO SECURE THE FINAL ON, UH, $15 MILLION FOR THE BUS RAPID TRANSIT PROGRAM.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME TO THE MICROPHONE.
YOU GET, YOU GET RAZZED BY THE NAME NOW, AS LONG AS I DON'T GET 30 MINUTES.
UH, JOHN WILLIAMS, ASSISTANT CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER WITH MAYOR BROMES ADMINISTRATION.
I THINK I'VE MET THE MAJORITY.
I'VE GOT, I THINK THE LIFETIME THAT WE SUBMITTED A PLAN WAS IN 2015 AS MR. FRED INDICATED, UM, IN ORDER FOR US TO APPLY FOR, OR RECEIVE FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY FUNDS, WE HAVE TO GET THIS PLAN SUBMITTED.
AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON IT'S ON THE AGENDA AND THE TITLE SIX ASSURANCE.
WHAT ARE WE COMMITTING TO, TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? WE'RE COMMITTING THAT TO COMMITTING TO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE A LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE PLAN THAT WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE, BUT WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO REMAIN IN COMPLIANCE WITH ANY TITLE SIX REQUIREMENTS, TITLE SIX OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.
AND SO ONCE WE SUBMIT THE PLAN, THEY WILL REVIEW IT.
THAT DOESN'T STOP US FROM APPLYING FOR, OR RECEIVING FUNDS, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN SUBMITTED TO THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
JOHN, DO YOU THINK 45 IS MIDDLE AGE? NO, I'M KIDDING.
IS THERE A MOTION TO MOTION TO APPROVE HAS BEEN SECOND HAS BEEN MOTION THAT'S ABOUT DONE AND ADAMS, ANY OPPOSITION SHOWING NONE? UM, MOTION CARRIES.
WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS HERE FOR ITEM ONE 19.
SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO VERY QUICKLY IS THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE ITEM 1 0 1 AND ONE 20 VERY QUICKLY.
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COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS HAS MADE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER INTRODUCTION, SHE WANTS TO DELETE OUR ITEM IN HER DISTRICT LONG INTRODUCTION.SO MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS IS THE SECOND TO RECONSIDER COUNCIL NUMBER DONE REBECCA, UH, INTRODUCTIONS.
THE COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS WOULD LIKE TO DELETE ITEM 32.
IS THAT CORRECT? THERE WAS A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER LENGTHS TO DELETE ITEM TWO SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DON.
SO THAT MEANS YOUR MOTION IS TO INTRODUCE ALL ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF, UH, ITEM 32 SECOND ABOUT DONE ANY OPPOSITION.
YOU GO NOW BACK TO ONE-ON-ONE AND
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ONE 20, WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS HERE, UH, FOR ONE 20 CHRIS TYSON.COUNCIL MEMBERS, CHRIS TYSON WITH BILL BATON ROUGE.
WE'RE HERE TO BRING BEFORE YOU A MATTER OF ESTABLISHING A COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY AND THE RECENTLY CREATED QUARTANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
UH, AS YOU MAY KNOW, AS A SEPARATE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THE
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STATE OF LOUISIANA, BILL BATON ROUGE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH SPECIAL TAXING, UH, UH, SPECIAL DISTRICTS.UH, AND IT DID SO AT ITS JULY 15TH MEETING.
AND SO THIS COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT IS TO, UH, ALLOW FOR THE COLLECTION, UH, AND, UH, APPLICATION OF SALES TAX REVENUES WITHIN THAT DISTRICT, UH, FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
UH, AND SO, UM, I KNOW WE HAVE A NUMBER OF OTHER SPEAKERS.
I'M HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
UH, BUT, UH, I BELIEVE YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THIS.
AND AS YOU KNOW, UH, WE ARE FOCUSED ON REVITALIZATION AND REDEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY PARISH.
THE FLORIDA BOULEVARD CORRIDOR IS A VERY IMPORTANT ONE TO THE CITY, AND WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT THAT IS HAPPENING ALONG THERE.
WE BELIEVE THAT IT CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO LEVERAGE THAT INVESTMENT, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL INVESTMENT THAT IMPROVES, UH, THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND CREATES ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREATER ECONOMIC INVESTMENTS.
UH, AND, UH, WE HOPE TO, UH, ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THIS EVENING AND CERTAINLY GAIN YOUR SUPPORT.
UM, DONNY'S GOING TO HAND SOME BROCHURES OUT ON THE CREATION OF THE DISTRICT.
THE MAYOR SAID EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN A, UM, A NOTE FROM THE MAYOR.
SHE'S EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
SHE'S HAS GREAT BELIEF IN THE REVITALIZATION OF THE FLORIDA BOULEVARD, CARTER AND THE AMAZON REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AT QUARTANA REALLY GIVES US A GREAT IMPETUS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO EACH PERSON TONIGHT'S GOING TO GIVE MORE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF HOW THE DISTRICT ROLLS OUT AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
MEMBERS ADAM NAP AT THE BATTERY AREA CHAMBER, WE HAVE BEEN A GREAT PARTNER WITH THE CITY PARISH, THE MAYOR STAFF, UH, WITH DR.
JAMES GILMORE AT THE NORTHBOUND REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
AND OF COURSE, WITH CHRIS TYSON AND BUILD BATON ROUGE, CONCEPTUALLY, AS, AS YOU JUST HEARD FROM DARYL, OUR GOAL HAS BEEN TO LEVERAGE THE ASSET OF CORE TANA'S REDEVELOPMENT TO SPARK THE ENTIRE EAST WEST CORRIDOR OF FLORIDA BOULEVARD.
WE'VE SEEN ITS HEYDAY DIMINISHED OVER THE LAST FEW DECADES AND WITH THE ENORMOUS EXCITEMENT OF WHAT IT IS TO HAVE AMAZON COMING IN AND MAKING AT LEAST A $200 MILLION INVESTMENT AT THAT FACILITY, WHAT THIS OPPORTUNITY REPRESENTS AND AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THOSE REVENUES GENERATE OTHER INVESTMENTS FOR THE ENTIRE QUARTER WE LOOKED AT WAS WHAT HAPPENED IN DOWNTOWN BATON ROUGE WHEN SOMEBODY LIKE ANDREAS DWANE AND THEIR FIRM CAME IN IN 1998 AND CREATING A WORLD-CLASS REDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY THAT WOULD DRIVE IN INVESTMENT INTO DOWNTOWN AND OVER THE DECADES, SINCE THEN, WE'VE SEEN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTMENT ALONG THE, THE LANE OF WHAT WAS ENVISIONED BY THAT PLAN.
AND WE ASKED OURSELVES WHAT, IF YOU COULD HAVE THAT SAME THING OCCUR TO DRIVE THE REDEVELOPMENT OF WHAT IS PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT CORRIDOR THAT LINKS OUR WHOLE PARISH? UH, IT WAS ALWAYS THAT QUARTER, UH, AS A, AS A MAJOR PART OF OUR PARISH, PARISHES HISTORY HAD GENERAL SORT OF GENERALLY DEVELOPED OUT AND AROUND THAT FLORIDA BOULEVARD CORRIDOR.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT OF WHAT THIS CAN BE AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THAT CAUSED TO WORK DOWN THIS PATH.
AS WE HEARD WHEN AMAZON FIRST STARTED TALKING TO US ABOUT THE CHANCE THAT THEY WOULD ACTUALLY PULL THIS PROJECT TOGETHER EARLIER THIS YEAR, THAT'S WHEN WE ALL STARTED WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO HAVE THE IDEA, HOW CAN WE LEVERAGE THIS MOMENT FOR THE GOOD OF THIS PARISH TO DO SOMETHING INCREDIBLE.
THAT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WHOLE PARISH TO TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT, TO ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO CREATE ECONOMIC INVESTMENT FOR WHAT IS A MAJOR CORRIDOR OF IMPORTANCE TO MID CITY, BUT ALSO TO THE ENTIRETY OF THE EAST-WEST SORT OF CENTER OF THE PARISH.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THE DISTRICT MECHANICS.
WE CAN GO THROUGH AND ANSWER QUESTIONS AS YOU HAVE THEM.
A NUMBER OF YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET A LOT OF YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
I THINK THROUGH THE DETAILS OF IT, A PRIMARY THING, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IS, UH, AS THE MAYOR ASKED, AND AS MANY OF YOU HAVE ASKED, MAKE SURE THAT IT HOLDS HARMLESS THE CITY PARISH FOR ITS EXISTING BASE OF REVENUES.
SO THIS MAKES SURE THAT WHAT WAS COLLECTED IN 2020 FROM THE SAME BOUNDARY IS KEPT INTO THE CITY PARISH COFFERS.
THIS IS AN INCREMENT ABOVE THAT BASELINE, THAT IF THEY ACHIEVED SOMETHING ABOVE THAT INCREMENT, WHICH IS STILL A BIG F YOU GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT IT ACHIEVES AT FIRST, THE REMAINDER THEN CAN GO TO FUND SOME OF THESE, THESE GOALS THAT ARE OUTLINED IN THE DOCUMENT TO CREATE THIS REJUVENATION OF THIS QUARTER.
THAT IS SORT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF THE INCREMENT FINANCING MECHANISM IS TO TRY TO CAPTURE THAT INCREMENTAL ABOVE THE BASELINE.
SO THE BOUNDARY THAT YOU SEE AS THE BOUNDARY AND THE MAP, THAT IS THE AREA WITH WHICH WE WATCHED THAT PRIMARILY HAS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT ARE BETTER, BUT THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, YOU GOT PUT OUT OF HERE.
SO I'LL GIVE YOUR PEOPLE A SEC.
I'LL BE BRIEF IN A MINUTE, RIGHT? THANK YOU ALL FOR DOING THIS.
AND I THINK THIS PROJECT IS A, IS OF ENORMOUS ECONOMIC
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DEVELOPMENT IMPORTANCE FOR OUR PARENTS WITH THAT.UH, RALPH BENDER AND BROWN VENDOR HERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE WHILE ADAM IS OUR CEO AND LEADER FOR BRAC ON BEHALF OF THE VOLUNTEERS AND BOARD, I'D LIKE TO ALSO EXPRESS OUR SUPPORT FOR THIS.
WE DON'T BELIEVE WE BELIEVE THAT THAT THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT WILL BE A SPRINGBOARD FOR PRIVATE FUNDING, NOT PUBLIC SECTOR, NOT CHARITABLE FUNDING, BUT TO CREATE PRIVATE FUNDS, TO INVEST IN AN AREA OF NEED.
WE ALL KNOW THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CREATES JOBS WHICH HELPS EDUCATION, HEALTH, CRIME.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE BOARD OF BRAC IS 100% COMMITTED TO THIS PROJECT, TO THE ADDITIONAL ITEMS THAT WILL COME AFTER CREATING PRIVATE INVESTMENT FUNDS.
UH, I'D LEAVE YOU WITH THE WORDS OF MAHATMA GANDHI.
WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 0 1 AND ONE 20.
SO COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE NEED TO ENTERTAIN FIRST AND A MOTION TO DELETE ITEM ONE-ON-ONE MOTION BY MOKE SEVEN AND PART DONE.
ANY OPPOSITION ONE-ON-ONE HAS BEEN DELETED AND NOW GO TO ITEM ONE 20.
WE'LL ENTERTAIN ANY MOTION, MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN TO APPROVE.
WE HAVE A COMMENT BAR BEFORE WE, IS THERE A SECOND TO COUNCIL MEMBERS DONE MOTION.
WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON.
UM, IF SOMEONE FROM BRAC, WHOEVER'S HERE TO SPEAK ON IT, UH, WOULD COME UP.
UH, ADAM, WHAT DO WE EXPECT THE REVENUE TO BE GENERATED FOR THIS DISTRICT TO BE OUR ESTIMATE IS A MILLION AND A HALF OVER THE COURSE OF ABOUT A FIVE-YEAR PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION.
THAT'S BEEN OUR WORKING ESTIMATE FROM THE BEGINNING, AND AS WE'VE LOOKED AT THE DISTRICT AND WHAT DO WE EXPECT THE COST OF THE MASTER PLAN TO BE? THE RANGE HAS BEEN A VARIABLE.
PART OF THE CONCERN WE HAVE IS WE'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE WHEN WE HAVE NOT PUT OUT ANYTHING FOR BID AND HAVE NOT ENGAGED A FIRM TO LOOK AT THE ENTIRETY OF THE DISTRICT.
THE RAINS THAT WE'VE HEARD IS ANYWHERE FROM 500,000 TO A MILLION.
SO WE'VE BEEN OPERATING UNDER THE ASSUMPTION OF THAT NUMBER.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIERS OF THE PROJECTS IS FIRST, WE WILL COMPLETELY FUND THE MASTER PLAN, UH, AND THE SECOND TIER WE'LL FUND PLANNING FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER UP TO 500,000 AND THEN THIRD TIER IS, UM, CONSTRUCTION COST, ACTUAL, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE DISTRICT, RIGHT? IT'D BE BEAUTIFICATION LANDSCAPING, A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS THAT ARE LISTED AS EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS THAT THE BOARD WOULD BE ABLE TO ENTERTAIN.
UM, I'LL JUST TELL YOU, YEAH, IT'S TOUGH AGAINST, UH, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IN NORTH BATON ROUGE.
UH, AND, AND AS I WANT TO BE CAREFUL ON HOW I EXPLAIN THIS, UM, I'M OKAY WITH ANY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT HERE.
UH, I JUST THINK OUR PRIORITIES ARE A LITTLE MIXED UP IN HOW WE'VE STRUCTURED THE TIERS, RIGHT.
UM, SO I THINK THE BIGGEST ASSET FOR, FOR THE BOULEVARD IS THE BEAUTIFICATION PIECE.
IT IS US GOING IN AND ADDRESSING SOME OF THE DRAINAGE THERE.
I THINK THE BIGGEST HINDRANCE THAT WE HAVE TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS OUR POOR INFRASTRUCTURE HERE IN THIS PARISH.
UM, I KNOW AS LOOK, I'VE, I'VE SPOKEN TO COUNCILMAN DON ABOUT THIS.
UM, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PASSION THERE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF WHERE IN THE BUDGET DO THESE DOLLARS COME FROM, RIGHT.
UH, SO THE REALITY IS THAT THESE DOLLARS ARE GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.
UH, THIS IS NOT JUST DOLLARS OUT OF THE BILLION DOLLAR CITY PARISH BUDGET THAT WE HAVE.
UH, THESE ARE DOLLARS OUT OF THE VERY LIMITED, VERY STRESSED GENERAL FUND THAT WE HAVE, UH, FUTURE DOLLARS OUT OF THE, OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND.
UH, SO THESE ARE DOLLARS THAT WE CAN USE TO ADDRESS, UH, FUNDING FOR BRP D FUNDING, FOR MAINTENANCE FUNDING, FOR TRANSPORTATION, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
UM, HAVE WE IDENTIFIED, UH, IN THE ANATOMY YOU CAN SPEAK TO THIS, PROBABLY HAVE WE IDENTIFIED A FUTURE FUNDING SOURCE FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER, IF IT WERE TO BE A WAR TO BE CONSTRUCTED? LET ME SEE IF MR. GESELL WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH SOME OF THE COMMUNITY CENTERS HAVE SELF-GENERATED REVENUE.
I THINK IT DEPENDS UPON WHAT MODEL WOULD BE PUT TOGETHER.
UM, AND I, AND I KNOW SOME OF THE CENTERS DO HAVE THAT.
UM, I THINK PART OF THE CONCEPT IS POSSIBLY PARTNERING WITH BRECK.
SO I THINK THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THAT COMMUNITY CENTER CAN BE PUT TOGETHER.
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CONCEPT HERE IS THAT IS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.IT SHOULD GENERATE EXTRA REVENUE FOR CITY PARISH, SO IT SHOULD HELP GROW WHAT WE HAVE IN TERMS OF THE GENERAL FUND.
AND THE THOUGHT IS I THINK THAT THAT COMMUNITY CENTER WOULD BE PART OF THAT PROJECT ALSO.
SO ARE WE SAYING THAT THERE WON'T BE ANY GENERAL FUND DOLLARS DOLLARS USED TO FUND THE COMMUNITY, THE OPERATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER? I THINK IT'S GOING TO DEPEND UPON WHAT IT TAKES AND WHAT THE MODEL IS PUT TOGETHER AND HOW IT WOULD BE PUT TOGETHER.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THAT PLAN YET.
I MEAN, NOT RIGHT THIS SECOND.
I AM ALL FOR, THANK YOU THOUGH.
I'M ALL FOR A, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT IN THIS PART OF THE PARISH.
I THINK FLORIDA BOULEVARD IS SORT OF THE GATEWAY TO DOWNTOWN.
UH, IT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE COULD REALLY DO A MUCH BETTER JOB OF, OF BEAUTIFYING AND PRESENTING OUR CITY PARISH, UH, AS FOLKS COME IN FROM OTHER PARISHES.
UM, I, I JUST, I DON'T LIKE THE WAY THIS IS STRUCTURED.
UM, I WOULD PUT THE PRIORITIES AND THE DRAINAGE AND, UH, IMPROVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE AREA.
UM, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY ONLY THOUGHTS ON IT, BANKS, UM, MICROPHONE, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, THEY WOULD GET AN EMAIL ON THIS.
I KNOW, I MEAN, ON THIS PLAN, UH, DINING, DID WE GET THIS? I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER.
NO, MA'AM, THAT'S A CREATION FROM TODAY, BUT IT WAS BASED ON THE CA THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THIS ITEM ONE 20.
SO IT'S JUST CLIFF NOTES ITEMS THAT STICK OUT BASED ON ITEM ONE, TWENTIES CA SO I I'M IN THE, I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THIS AREA, BUT I THINK LIKE COUNCILMAN, UM, DWIGHT FOR DIFFERENT REASONS THAT YOU CAN, IT COULD BE STRUCTURED BETTER AND FOR YOUR BENEFIT BETTER.
UM, AND I'M SPEAKING FROM THE, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HAVING A COMMUNITY CENTER, YOU KNOW, NOT BEING ABLE TO MENTION ALL THESE OTHER STUFF, BUT WHEN OUR COMMUNITY CENTER, AND I THINK I HAD THE FIRST COMMUNITY CENTER, IT WAS FUNDED BY, UM, THE U S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
AND THE REASON WHY IT WAS FUNDED IS BECAUSE, UM, IT WAS GEARED TO OURS.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES TO HAVE A PLACE TO, UM, TO, UH, SPEND TIME AND HAVE RECREATION, HAVE CAMPS OUT WHAT ALL THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS.
UM, AND, AND CERTAINLY, UH, YOU KNOW, IT, THEY DO GENERATE FUNDS, BUT YOU CANNOT RUN A COMMUNITY CENTER ON GENERAL ON SELF GENERATED FUNDS.
YOU HA IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT, PROBABLY LESS THAN A THIRD OF THE BUDGET, BUT I THINK THAT IN DETERMINING, AND YOU SEE, I JUST WENT STRAIGHT TO TWO CAUSE IT'S RELEVANT IN DETERMINING TO, THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO PUT A, B, C, D FOR UNDER TWO RELATED TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, SIMILAR TO WHAT COUNCILMAN HUDSON IS SAYING.
I THINK THE STRUCTURING IS GOOD, BUT EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN TWO, I COULD SEE IT, NOT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, NOT GETTING WHAT THEY NEED IN A TIMELY MANNER.
FOR INSTANCE, I'M TRYING TO, UM, HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN WORKING ON GETTING SIDEWALKS THROUGH A BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT? I MEAN, IT'S BEEN APPROVED, BUT IT'D BEEN FOUR YEARS BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S GOING TO GET IN THE WAY.
SO FOR ME, I WOULD WANT MY COMMUNITY UNDER TIER A UNDER TWO OR EVEN TIER ONE UNDER TIER ONE.
I WOULD WANT A THROUGH D UNDER TIER TWO.
I STILL WOULD WANT A THROUGH D BECAUSE SOMEBODY'S GOING TO GET JACKED IN THIS, IF YOU DON'T.
SO I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT TO THE DISCRETION OF THE VERY WIDE STRATEGIC BUSINESSMEN CLEAN, DONE, UM, AND I'LL FOLLOW HIS LEAD BECAUSE IT'S HIS DISTRICT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE IN THROWING EVERYTHING OUT THERE AND THEN, AND, YOU KNOW, ANYWAY, COUNCIL MEMBER, NO, I CAN PUT IT THAT ELOQUENTLY.
SO WHEN I LOOK AT TIER ONE AND I'M GONNA TOUCH ON SOME OF THESE SAME THINGS, UH, WHAT WOULD YOU ENVISION THAT MASTER PLAN THAT $1.5 MILLION MASTER PLAN WOULD ENTAIL JUST BROAD OVERVIEW.
SO, AS WE SAW AN EXAMPLES OF THIS IN OTHER PARTS OF OUR PARISH, BUT ESPECIALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN PLAN, IT IS PARTLY TO DESIGN SOMETHING THAT IS IN THE CHARACTER OF
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THIS QUARTER TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS POSSIBLY GOING TO DRIVE REDEVELOPMENT AND REINVESTMENT INTO THIS QUARTER TO BRING THE COMMUNITY INTO THAT PROCESS.AND SMALL BLOCKS IS A VERY LONG AREA, A VERY LARGE AREA TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE ENGAGED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THEIR VISION AND INPUT INFORMING THE WORLD-CLASS DESIGNER OF STREETSCAPES AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE TO HELP PLAN EACH COMPONENT OF WHAT WOULD BE PUT TOGETHER.
THAT PROCESS IS WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN IN DOWNTOWN AND THE LONG CHARETTE PROCESS OF PUBLIC PLANNING TO DESIGN SOMETHING THAT IS BUILDABLE AND HAS A VISION FOR SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO BE ATTRACTIVE FOR BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL, BIG DEVELOPMENT TO COME IN.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THAT.
THOSE ARE TIME INTENSIVE AND DETAILED SORT OF PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING THE ZONING AND THE DISTRICTS AND EACH SO THE CHARACTER OF THE CHERRY.
SO THE IDEA WOULD BE, WE'D HAVE A PLAN POTENTIALLY THAT PLAN WOULD MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR US TO HAVE, WHETHER IT'S AN OVERLAY DISTRICT OR JUST SPECIFIED, HEY, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING IN THIS AREA, IT'S GOING TO NEED TO HAVE THIS KIND OF A SIDEWALK BUILT OUT BY THE DEVELOPER WHEN THEY DO IT, OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE, RIGHT.
WHETHER IT'S AESTHETICS OR ACTUAL FUNCTIONALITY, RIGHT.
AND SO IT WOULD BE FEASIBLE THAT A LOT OF THE ITEMS IN TIER THREE AND FOUR ARE ITEMS THAT WOULD END UP IN THAT MASTER PLAN, RIGHT.
WE BUILT HOPEFULLY TO THE DESIGN THAT FOLLOWS WHAT THEY'RE RECOMMENDING IS GOING TO BRING THIS THING TO THE FULL FRUITION THAT IT SHOULD BE COMING BACK TO THAT'S.
AND I WOULD ADD, AND I DON'T WANT TO PULL FRED UP HERE, BUT SO MANY OF THE THINGS THAT ARE PLANNED TO HAPPEN IN THIS QUARTER, IT CAN ALSO HELP TO CREATE A VISION OF WAYS THAT EXISTING DOLLARS MAY ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO FLOW AGAINST THAT SITE, THAT TYPE OF PLAN AS WELL.
SO YOU SEE A SCENARIO WHERE POTENTIALLY THERE IS, UM, ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE AND KNOW-HOW INTERNALLY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION, RSAT PARISH AS A WHOLE TO POTENTIALLY CREATE SOMETHING, UH, A COHESIVE, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT DOESN'T COST $1.5 MILLION OUTSIDE.
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT THESE DOLLARS ON TIER TWO, TIER THREE AND FOUR INITIALLY, AND MAYBE REVERSE THAT.
NO, WE DON'T, WE DON'T SEE THE EXPERTISE IN THE PARISH, EITHER IN OUR ORGANIZATION OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO DO THIS LEVEL OF QUALITY.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THIS DISTRICT DESERVES IS TO HAVE THE WORLD'S BEST TEAM COME IN AND TAKE A LOOK AT THIS QUARTER, AS WE'VE ENVISIONED IT, WE WANT TO BE A MODEL THAT OTHERS WILL LOOK TO AND SAY, THAT'S THE RIGHT WAY TO TAKE AN URBAN CORRIDOR AND BRING IT BACK TO LIFE IN THE BEST MANNER, AND TO LEVERAGE AMAZON, IF, IF I COULD ADD COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, WE HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH THIS.
UH, JUST IN 2019, THE CITY PARIS WAS AWARDED $30 MILLION THROUGH A COMPETITIVE NATIONAL PROCESS WITH FOUR CITIES GETTING AN AWARD, UH, FOR THE ARRENDALE DEVELOPMENT.
THAT'S THE RESULT OF A 10 YEAR MASTER PLANNING PROCESS, UH, THAT WE SAW THOSE RESULTS FROM.
WE WOULD NOT HAVE THAT WITHOUT HAVING NOT HAVING FIRST INVESTED IN THAT KIND OF A PLAN.
THE PLANK ROAD MASTER PLAN HAS DELIVERED, UH, ALONG WITH OTHER PLANS, $15 MILLION IN FEDERAL MATCHING GRANTS FOR BRT AND ADDITIONAL $5 MILLION, A $20 MILLION INVESTMENT TO DATE, UH, AND MORE TO COME.
SO WE HAVE GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH GOOD PLANNING.
AND WE KNOW THAT IN ADDITION TO THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THIS PLAN, THIS GIVES US THE BASIS TO COMPETE FOR BIG PHILANTHROPY NATIONALLY.
IT GIVES US THE BASIS TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE WITH PUBLIC FINANCE PROGRAMS LIKE NEW MARKET TAX CREDITS AND OTHERS, UH, THOSE TYPES OF MAJOR PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE THE WAYS THAT OUR COMPETITORS CITIES DO THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT AT SCALE ALL BEGIN WITH A WELL CRAFTED AND WELL THOUGHT OUT MASTER PLAN.
SO WE THINK THAT IS AN IMPORTANT FOR A HOST OF REASONS.
UM, LAST THING, UM, LOOKING AT THE DOCUMENT, THE PROJECTION OF $1.5 MILLION FOR THE PLAN AND TIER TWO WILL RELIEVE RECEIVE AT LEAST CONTINGENT UPON THE DISTRICT REACHING THIS PREDICT PROJECTION 1.5, TIER TWO SHALL RECEIVE 500,000, UM, BASED ON THE EXPECTED DOLLARS YOU WOULDN'T ANTICIPATE TIER TWO, THREE OR FOUR EVEN COMING TO FRUITION.
EXPECTATION IS THAT A PLAN WOULD BE SOME, I THINK THE ANSWER WAS SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 500,000 AND A MILLION WAS OUR ESTIMATE WE PROPOSE TO DO IS GO OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO GET ESTIMATED BIDS OR ESTIMATES FROM FIRMS FOR THE TIER ONE S PROJECT.
HOPEFULLY IT'S WITHIN THAT RANGE.
OUR EXPECTATION IS IT WILL BE, WHICH WAS WHY WE ASSUMED THERE COULD BE POTENTIALLY $500,000
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TO BE ABLE TO PUT TOWARD A TIER TWO PROJECT.AND IF IT EXCEEDS THAT REVENUE TARGET AND COULD BE ABLE TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL PROJECTS FIVE MINUTES, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW.
I TEND TO AGREE, UM, WITH A LOT OF WHAT I'VE HEARD AND, AND I, AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY, UM, I LIKE THE IDEA OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS.
UH, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH A COUPLE OF THEM IN THE ZACHARY AREA.
UM, USUALLY IT'S TIED TO BRINGING A PROJECT ON UNDERSTAND THIS IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T TIED TO NECESSARILY BRING IN A PROJECT THAT'S NOT NEEDED TO ENTICE A PROJECT TO COME OR TO HELP FUND THE PROJECT.
THIS HAS TAKEN A PROJECT THAT'S ALREADY HERE AND WE'RE TAKING DOLLARS THAT ARE ALREADY GOING TO COME.
THAT'S THE PART I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH JUST FROM A FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY POINT.
HOWEVER, I DO RECOGNIZE IT AS AN ABSOLUTE INVESTMENT THAT COULD SEE POSITIVE GROWTH FROM IT.
I RECOGNIZE THAT EVERYTHING YOU SAID, I TOTALLY AGREE.
UM, I THINK PROPER PLANNING AND THEN IMPLEMENTING THAT PLAN AT THIS LEVEL, ONCE WE HAVE, IT CAN LEAD TO A VERY GOOD ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE EXPONENTIAL INDIRECT DOLLAR THAT WE TALK ABOUT OFTEN WHEN WE LOOK AT INCENTIVES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, I JUST, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I, I'M NOT, NOT IN FAVOR OF IT.
I JUST DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF HEARTBURN OVER WHEN I SEE THE PRIORITIZATION OF THE DOLLARS.
I'D ALMOST LIKE TO SEE PERCENTAGES ALLOCATED TO CERTAIN THINGS SO WE CAN MAKE SURE AT LEAST SOME DOLLARS ARE SPENT AND THE DISTRICT ALONG WITH CREATING THE PLAN.
UM, BUT, UH, I, I TEND TO AGREE, UH, CAUSE REMEMBER DON, THIS IS YOUR DISTRICT.
SO I'D LET YOU TAKE A LEAD ON THAT AND LISTEN TO WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
THANK YOU NOW FOR NUMBER NINE, THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE INFORMATION, ADVICE AND QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS.
NOT ONLY HERE IN THE CHAMBER, BUT THE MANY CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD LEADING UP TO THIS POINT.
LET ME FIRST, UH, ENLIGHTENED, UH, EDUCATE SOME OF US, UM, OUR COMMUNITY CENTERS IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, UM, AS COUNCIL ON BANKS MENTIONED, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INITIALLY CAME INTO CITIES LIKE BATON ROUGE AND OTHERS, AND SAW THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHICS, PRIMARILY AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES OR URBAN OR RURAL COMMUNITIES WHO DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO CERTAIN SERVICES LIKE SOCIAL SERVICES, LIKE HEALTHCARE, LIKE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY AND PLACES TO DO RECREATION AND, AND PASS TIME EVENTS.
SO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDED OUR INITIAL COMMUNITY CENTERS SOME 40 50 YEARS AGO.
WELL, WHEN THAT HAPPENED, DISTRICT SIX WAS NOT DEMOGRAPHICALLY REPRESENTED THE WAY DISTRICT TWO OR DISTRICT SEVEN DISTRICT 10, UH, DISTRICT FIVE IS, AND AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, IN THE PAST 15, 20 YEARS, THE DEMOGRAPHICS IN DISTRICT SIX HAVE SHIFTED TO WHERE THERE ARE SOME UNIQUE NEEDS IN DISTRICT SIX, SIMILAR TO THOSE OTHER DISTRICTS, UH, VERY LITTLE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION, WHICH CREATES A LITTLE ACCESS TO JOBS, HEALTHCARE, YOU KNOW, INTERVIEWS, SOCIAL SERVICES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
WHEN ADAM, UH, DANNY AND THE CHAMBER BROUGHT THIS ITEM TO ME, IT WAS INITIALLY SOLELY ABOUT THE FLORIDA BOULEVARD, CORRIDOR, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, FACADE, UH, UPDATES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BUT FOR ME, EVEN BEING A BUSINESS PERSON, COUNCILWOMAN BANKS, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS PROJECT ALSO HAD A DUAL PURPOSE OF COMMUNITY BENEFIT AND MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO AMAZON, NOT TO JUST IMPACT POSITIVELY BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, BUT ALSO IMPACT POSITIVITY THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE THAT I SERVE AND IN THIS COMMUNITY.
SO THAT'S HOW THE COMMUNITY CENTER CAME TO FRUITION.
AND THAT'S WHAT STRUCTURE WE'RE NOT SOLELY DEPENDENT ON THESE FUNDS TO FUND THE ENTIRE PROJECT.
THIS IS A, UH, LOCAL STATE AND FEDERAL SPEAKING OF THE COMMUNITY SENTIMENT, A CONVERSATION GOING ON BRETT IS AT THE TABLE AND SOME OF OUR STATE AND LOCAL PARTNERS TO HELP MAKE THIS COME TO FRUITION AND FULFILL THIS REQUEST OF MANY PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT AND A GOAL OF MINE TO BRING THIS COMMUNITY CENTER SO WE CAN REMOVE THE ACCESS TO BARRIERS TO SOME OF THE SERVICES THAT I MENTIONED TO YOU GUYS.
UH, I WOULD ASK THAT YOU GUYS CONSIDER THIS ITEM AND VOTED SUCCESS, A VOTE TO PASS IT SUCCESSFULLY.
THERE'VE BEEN A MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL NUMBER DOWN SEVEN ABOUT A CHAIR.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO THE MOTION AND OPPOSITION SHE'LL WANT TO POLLS AND SHE'LL WANT TO POLL NO OTHER OPPOSE MOTION.
IS THE, UM, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILWOMEN DONE AN ASK IS THE INTENT, UH, OF TIER TWO TO FURTHER
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THE GOAL OF DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT.YEAH, I THINK IT WILL BE UP TO THE BOARD TO ENSURE THAT HAPPENS.
I THINK AS THE LANGUAGE IS WRITTEN, NOW IT ALLOWS FOR IT TO BE WITHIN COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX, WHICH COULD EXCEED THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
BUT I THINK IT WILL BE FOR THE BOARD TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WISHES ARE CARRIED OUT AND THAT IT REMAINS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DEVELOPED DISTRICT.
AND I HAVE NO OBJECTIONS TO ANY AMENDMENT TO THAT, THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE.
I THINK IT JUST WAS THE OVERSIGHT.
IT IS INTENDED TO BE IN INSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE, OF THE DISTRICT OF DISTRICT SECTION OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
UM, I MEAN, IT'S A, IT'S A MINOR CLARIFYING AMENDMENT.
IT'S UH, MY, MY COLLEAGUES USE IT AS A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT UNDER TIER TWO.
UH, THE BULLET POINT WOULD REPLAN DESIGN ACQUIRE PROPERTY AND OUR OTHER EXPENSES THAT FURTHER THE GOAL TO DEVELOP A COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT AS A REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN THE CORRIDOR.
IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION TO THAT, THE ATTORNEY WHO WROTE CA IS I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, UM, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE COMMUNITY CENTER IS GOING TO BE.
MY NAME IS AMANDA SPAIN, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT I'VE NOT MET YET, I'M COUNSEL FOR BILL BATON ROUGE, I'VE MET A LOT OF Y'ALL.
UM, THE DISTRICT IS DEFINED, RIGHT? WE HAVE A MAP FOR IT.
ALTHOUGH WE HAVE HOPEFULLY IDENTIFIED SEVERAL POSSIBLE LOCATIONS FOR OUR COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE DISTRICT.
SO WHEN YOU IDENTIFY A TIF, THE ENTIRE, THE POINT OF IT IS TO FIND, UM, A DISTRICT THAT DOESN'T HAVE VOTERS IN IT, RIGHT? SO YOU WANT TO HAVE IT'S BUSINESSES.
SO TO CREATE A TIF DISTRICT, YOU DRAW A MAP THAT DOESN'T HAVE AN ELECTORATE BECAUSE ANYTIME YOU LEVY ATTACKS, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A VOTE, RIGHT? SO WHEN YOU CREATE A TIF DISTRICT, YOU DRAW A MAP GENERALLY OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES, BECAUSE THEN NOBODY HAS TO VOTE.
AND THEN THE, THIS COUNCIL GETS TO SAY, YES, YOU CAN TAKE THE TAX INCREMENT OF THE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES.
SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS HOW TIVOS CRED.
SO WE DREW THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS TIF DISTRICT AS THE COMMERCIAL BOUNDARIES, LITERALLY LIKE ONE BLOCK OFF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH OF FLORIDA BOULEVARD.
IT GOES FROM FOSTER DOWN TO QUARTANA INCLUDES THE OLD QUARTANA MALL GOES TO MONTEREY, RIGHT? AND THEN IT GOES UP TO WHAT'S THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY, UM, TALK TALL AND IT GOES DOWN TO GOVERN, UH, GOODWOOD, RIGHT? SO HOPEFULLY, AND, AND, AND COUNCILMAN DON AND I WE'VE ALL TALKED ABOUT, HOPEFULLY WE THINK THERE'S AN EMPTY PIECE OF PROPERTY IN THAT DISTRICT THAT IS CITY OWNED, AND MAYBE THEY COULD CONVERT IT TO A COMMUTER.
I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T WANT TO COMMIT TO THAT, BUT THE QUESTION I HAD, THANK YOU, MISS BEN, I'M SORRY.
THE QUESTION I ASKED WAS MONEY GENERATED INSIDE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
CAN IT BE EXPANDED OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THAT EDD? THEREFORE, I THINK THE AMENDMENT IS RELEVANT TO SAY, CAN I AMEND YOUR AMENDMENT? CAN I CLARIFY YOUR AMENDMENT TO SAY THAT WE CAN EXTEND THE DISTRICT SO I CAN BRING BACK TO YOU A NEW MAP THAT BRINGS AN ADJACENT PARCEL.
COULD THAT BE DONE BY THE BOARD AT A FUTURE DATE? NOT FOR US TO GET THE TAX REVENUE FROM THE CITY PARISH, YOU WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE A NEW MAP.
SO IF I, IF I FIND A LITTLE PARCEL AND IT HAPPENS TO BE ADJACENT TO THE DISTRICT THAT WE'VE ALREADY DRAWN, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE FINE.
I JUST WOULD ASK THAT YOU NOT, UM, WE CAN'T AGREE TO YOUR AMENDMENT AS, I DON'T THINK WE CAN, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A, WE DON'T HAVE A PIECE OF PROPERTY FOR COMMUNITY CENTER RIGHT NOW.
COUNCILMAN DON, DO YOU, WE DON'T RE ROUTE OUT.
I DO UNDERSTAND AMANDA'S CONCERN.
SO I WOULD, I WOULD ASK YOU TO WITHDRAW BASED ON THE CONCERN THAT YOU HADN'T IDENTIFIED THE SITE YET.
BARNARD, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? I THOUGHT THERE WAS MORE DISCUSSION TO BE HAD THREE MINUTES.
SO, SO THE DISTRICT IS CREATED, RIGHT? IT'S IT'S, IT'S JURISDICTION IS LIMITED TO THOSE BOUNDARIES THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT.
WE CAN'T GIVE MONEY TO A PROPERTY OUTSIDE OF THAT DISTRICT.
BUT THE LANGUAGE CURRENTLY READS THAT THE COMMUNITY CENTER COULD BE LOCATED IN COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX.
SOME OF THAT IS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBER.
I CAN'T ANSWER YOUR, I GOT TO LOOK AT THAT.
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OKAY.I THINK THE STATEMENTS ARE ON THE RECORD OF WHAT THE INTENT IS.
WE'RE BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBER BANK.
UM, SO I UNDERSTOOD WHAT AMANDA INDICATED.
THE TIP IS A COMMERCIAL, ALL COMMERCIAL FOR THE MOST PART.
WHERE'S HIS LIKE CONTRARY TO WHAT A COMMUNITY CENTER PURPOSE WOULD BE.
SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND YOU CAN FIND OUT NOW IN ADVANCE THE PROPERTIES THAT THE CITY HAS.
SO HAD, Y'ALL LOOKED AT, HAVE YOU FOUND IT? I THINK IT'LL MAKE EVERYBODY COOL.
IF YOU SAY I FOUND W W I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING THAT WE HADN'T DONE, BUT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED SEVERAL CITY PAIRS PROPERTIES.
THAT'S IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT THAT WOULD CONSIDER, BUT WE HAVE NOT MADE A DECISION, THAT'S IT? BUT I THINK THAT THE CONCERN WAS, AND, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT SHE SAID, THAT SHE DIDN'T KNOW, BUT YOU DO KNOW.
WELL, WE ALL KNOW THAT THE PROPERTY THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHAT SHE'S BIG INTO IS WE HADN'T SAID, HEY, THIS IS THE SITE YOU REALLY ASKED FOR THAT, BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT'S HOW I THINK.
AND AS IT RELATES TO COMMERCIAL OR RESIDENTIAL, SHE WAS ONLY SPEAKING IN REFERENCE TO VOTERS, BEING IN THE AREA, VOTERS WILL NOT BE IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER, SO THEY WILL HAVE AN IMPACT LIVE IN THERE.
THE CENTER HAS TO BE WELL, TRADITIONALLY IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
I WANT TO BE VERY, UH, JUST, JUST CAUSE I KNOW Y'ALL ARE HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT COMMUNITY CENTER.
SO THE DISTRICT CANNOT BECAUSE IT'S NOT PART OF THE CITY PARISH.
I CAN'T, AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DISTRICT OR CHRIS OR WHOEVER, OR, OR COUNCILMAN DUNN, CAN'T COMMIT DISTRICT DOLLARS.
IF Y'ALL AGREE TO THE TIF, YOU'RE GIVING THESE DOLLARS TO THE DISTRICT, WE CAN'T OPERATE A COMMUNITY CENTER THAT'S FOR THIS GROUP TO DO.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS SAY, ONCE WE DO A COMMUNITY PLAN OR THE MASTER PLAN, WE'VE GOT, LET'S SAY $500,000 LEFTOVER, CAN WE HELP DISTRICT SIX, BUILD A COMMUNITY CENTER? CAN WE DONATE PROPERTY OR, OR HELP ACQUIRE PROPERTY? CAN WE PROVIDE FIXTURES FURNISHINGS? AND WE'VE BEEN VERY CLEAR THAT WE CAN BUY SOMETHING Y'ALL IN YOUR BUDGET, HAVE TO OPERATE, BUILD, DO ALL THIS.
AND SO WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, WE THINK THERE'S PROPERTY IN THE DISTRICT THAT THE CITY PARISH ARI OWNS AND CAN, YOU KNOW, CONTRIBUTE TO DESIGNING IT AND, AND BILL, YOU KNOW, SO THAT, SO, SO, SO OUR DOLLARS REALLY AREN'T GOING TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
WELL, BUT THE MASTER PLAN, THE REST WE THINK, YOU KNOW, KNOWING, UM, CONSTANTLY DONE, I'M SURE HE GOT IT ALL WORKED OUT AND I'M GOOD.
UM, I'M CONFIDENT, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT THE PLAN OF WORK.
AND I DO UNDERSTAND NOW AND JUST HEARING THAT YES, I HAVE LOOKED AT, AND THERE ARE OTHER ARE OTHER WAYS, AND I'M LOOKING AT FEDERAL LOCAL AND STATE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT I'M DOING THAT IN SOME AREAS.
UM, SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE, BUT I DEFINITELY WANT A SECOND.
AND WHEN Y'ALL DO, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT WE DID HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING FOR BILL BATON RAGE THAT CREATED THE DISTRICT.
WE DID HAVE, UM, PEOPLE WHO OWNED PROPERTY WITHIN THE DISTRICT, COME TO OUR MEETING, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT IT AND HOW IT WOULD AFFECT THEM.
SO WE HAVE DONE ALL OF THAT, YOU KNOW, BEFORE WE EVER BROUGHT IT TO THIS BOARD.
SO IT HAS BEEN FULLY VETTED BY THE PUBLIC AS WELL ON BILL, THAT NURTURE SIDE.
UM, COUNCILMAN DUNN, THANK YOU FOR YOU, YOUR CONVERSATION EARLIER AND EVERYTHING.
UH, AND IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP SEVERAL TIMES.
I'VE SPOKEN WITH OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT THIS.
I DO HAVE A CONCERN OVER THE TIER TWO PROJECT WHEN WE'RE CREATING A ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, UM, BASICALLY A TAXING AUTHORITY AND WE HAVE SPECIFIC PROJECTS.
WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS, AND MAYBE SOMEONE CAN ALLEVIATE MY CONCERNS AND EVERYTHING.
BY THE TIME WE GET THROUGH THIS MASTER PLANNING AND WE GET THROUGH THE FATE TIER TWO, ALSO IN THE TIER ONE IS GOING TO COME UP WITH THE DESIGN AND EVERYTHING.
IT'S ONE THING I BROUGHT UP TO COUNCILMAN DON EARLIER IS I DON'T WANT TO SEE US COME UP WITH THIS PLAN AND THEN WE HAVE TO SHELVE
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IT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE MONEY TO DO WHAT'S IMPLEMENTED INTO IT.WE MIGHT GO OVER THE 1.5, $1.9 MILLION.
WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
I KNOW THAT'S Y'ALL'S BEST GUESS ESTIMATE, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP BY SEVERAL COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE IS AGAIN, IT'S THE ORDER OF THE PROJECTS AND EVERYTHING.
AND I, I WOULD BE, IN FACT, I TALKED ABOUT TO COUNCILMAN DON ABOUT THIS BEFORE THIS EVEN CAME UP ABOUT FINDING AND HELPING EACH OTHER OUT WITH COMMUNITY CENTERS IN OUR AREA, SOME OF THE PLACES WHERE WE HAVE BROUGHT UP IT, WASN'T ALL THE WAY UP IN HERE.
I'M ALL ABOUT, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNITY CENTER, AN AREA WHERE IT'S NEEDED, BUT POSSIBLY COULD IT BE A SEPARATE ITEM? YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IN A RETURN ON INVESTMENT BY BUILDING THE AREA AND EVERYTHING ELSE WITH THE TIER TWO, ONE OF MY CONCERNS WAS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ONGOING BUDGETING ITEM THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO INCREASE THE, YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET TO RIO TO RUN AND MAINTAIN IT.
AND FROM WHAT I'M TOLD, THERE SHOULD BE OTHER SOURCES THAT CAN COME IN AND HELP WITH SOME OF THE PROJECTS AND EVERYTHING.
BUT WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS, IS THE ORDER TO THINGS AND THE ACTUAL FUNCTIONING OF GETTING THESE THINGS DONE OTHER THAN HAVING TO DESIGN ON THE SHELF AND THAT WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH OR POSSIBLY, OR Y'ALL GO HAD TO COME BACK AND EXTEND THIS FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS TO COME UP WITH THE FUNDING TO DO THE PROJECTS.
SHORT ANSWER IS NO, THIS SHOULD NOT NEED TO BE EXTENDED.
AND FRANK, I THINK IT WOULD BE IDEAL THAT IF, IF THE REVENUE DECLINES AFTER CONSTRUCTION FOR AMAZON HAS COMPLETED THE NEED FOR THE DISTRICT WILL BE ESSENTIALLY EXHAUSTED.
UM, SECOND IT HAS TO LIVE WITHIN ITS FINANCIAL MEANS BECAUSE IT IS A, AN INDEPENDENT ENTITY THAT HAS ONLY THESE RESOURCES WITH WHICH TO OPERATE.
IT CAN ONLY OPERATE WITHIN THE EXISTING SALES TAX STRUCTURE, UH, SO THAT WHAT IS ALLOCATED IS ALL THAT IT CAN OPERATE WITHIN.
IF OUR ESTIMATE IS ACCURATE, THAT A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLAR ESTIMATE IS WHAT WE WOULD ASSUME THAT IT'S WORKING WITH THEM, WE WOULD HAVE TO LIVE WITHIN THE MEANS AS A DISTRICT, I'M SAYING, BUILD THAT IN RUSES OR THE ENTITIES DISTRICT BOARD TO MAKE SURE IT HAS THE RESOURCES TO DO THE MASTER PLAN AS BEST AS POSSIBLE WITHIN THE RESOURCES PROVIDED AS WELL AS PROVIDE FOR SOME ONE-TIME EXPENSES TOWARD THE PLANNING DESIGN LAND ACQUISITION HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN TIER TWO.
THOSE THINGS CANNOT BIND IN THE LANGUAGES IN TIER TWO CANNOT BIND THE COUNCIL OR THE PARISH TO THE OWNERSHIP OF A COMMUNITY CENTER CAN ONLY DO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE ONE-TIME EXPENDITURES.
THOSE ARE THE OBLIGATION OF THE PARISH.
THIS DISTRICT CANNOT SPEAK FOR THE PARISH, SO IT CAN ONLY OFFER TO ADD WHAT ADDITIONAL DOLLARS IT CAN TO FURTHER THE PROJECT OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER, WHICH ONE WOULD EXPECT IS GOING TO BE MORE THAN THE $500,000 THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED AS A POTENTIAL TARGET, WHICH IS WHY AS I THINK THE COUNCILMAN HAS SAID, AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAVE SAID THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE MANY OTHER RESOURCES LOOKED AT IN ORDER TO TRY TO FIND RESOURCES TO DO IT, WHETHER IT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OR OTHER FEDERAL SOURCES OR STATE SOURCES, OR THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION, IT HAS TO BE COST CONSTRAINED.
KADIMAH ANSWERED THE QUESTION.
SO WE, WE ADVOCATE AND MAYBE COUNCILMAN DONE.
UH, I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT.
WE ALLOCATE THE $500,000, AND THEN WE, WE DON'T COME UP WITH THE RESOURCES.
LIKE WE HAD TALKED EARLIER, AS FAR AS THE POOL COST OF DOING THIS AND EVERYTHING, THOSE RESOURCES JUST AREN'T AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OR WHATEVER ELSE DO WE JUST HOLD ONTO THE BOTTLE A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OR DO WE PUT IT BACK IN UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE CAN FULL, FULLY FUND THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND EVERYTHING, LET AMANDA SPEAK TO IT OUT TO ME, BUT IT WOULD BE MY APPRECIATION THAT THE 500,000 WOULD GO INTO SOME GENERAL FUND OR SEPARATE ACCOUNT WITHIN CITY OF PARIS.
AND WE WILL RAISE MONEY, STATE LOCAL AND FEDERAL ALTO IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO FUND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT.
SO OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T DO IT IF WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES IN PLACE.
I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT YOU'RE NOT HOLDING THE $500, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS AT ALL.
SO WOULD THE DISTRICT JUST HOLD THAT MONEY? I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IS IF WE'RE GOING TO, LET'S SAY WE TAKE THE $500, I'LL FIND A PIECE OF PROPERTY AND IT'S $499,999.
AND THERE'S YOUR 500,000 SPENT IF THAT'S POSSIBLE AND YOU DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING FOR THE REST OF IT.
SO THE COMMUNITY CENTER'S GONNA BE OWNED BY THE CITY PARISH, MAYBE BRECK, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SOME ARM, RIGHT.
THE DISTRICT THAT IS BEING CREATED IS NOT ASSOCIATED AT ALL WITH THE CITY PARISH.
IT'S GOING TO HOLD ITS $500,000.
WE HAVE AGREED IN THIS CEA THAT THAT $500,000 OR MORE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, AFTER WE PAY FOR THE MASTER PLAN IS GOING TO GO TOWARDS COST TO A COMMUNITY CENTER, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE $500,000 IN THE BANK.
IT IS NOT GENERAL FUND DOLLARS AT ALL.
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ELSE'S MONEY THAT WE'VE AGREED TO PAY $4 FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER IN DISTRICT SIX IN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE EDD.SO I DON'T, I DON'T THINK HE CAN GO TO CONSTRUCTION BECAUSE THAT'S A PUBLIC BID, RIGHT? SO THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S A LOT OF LIMITATIONS ON HOW THE CITY CAN BUILD AND OPERATE A COMMUNITY CENTER.
SO THAT'S LIKE WHAT I WAS SAYING, WE COULD DONATE FIXTURES AND FURNISHINGS.
WE COULD DONATE LIKE A HARD COST.
THE CITY COULD SAY, HEY, LOOK, WE'VE GOT A $300,000 PO FOR X, WILL YOU PAY FOR THIS? AND THE BOARD OF THE EDD WOULD SAY YES, BECAUSE WE'VE BANKED THAT, THAT MONEY.
IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT THE CITY PARISHES MONEY TO SPEND.
IT HAS BEEN ALLOCATED TO THE ED.
AND THAT'S, I GUESS IF I'M GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH WITH THIS, I MEAN, YOU'RE, YOU'RE DOING VERY WELL AS FAR AS KEEPING ME ON A PATH.
UM, IF THE REST OF IT, THE CITY PARISHES SIDE OF IT, THAT WE HAVE TO FIND THE PLACE WE HAVE TO DO THIS, WE HAVE TO DO THAT.
WE HAVE TO GET EVERYTHING UP AND RUNNING AND I'M SURE IT WILL COME THROUGH.
BUT IF THAT DOESN'T PAN OUT OR IT DOESN'T GET APPROVED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN FUTURE BUDGETS OR SO ON, WHERE DOES A $500,000 GO? DO YOU JUST HOLD ONTO IT UNTIL SUCH TIME AS WE DO? OR DO YOU REINVEST THAT INTO PHASE 3, 4, 5, 6, 10.
SO THE, WE HAVE AGREED IN THE CA BECAUSE COUNCILMEN DONE HAS ASKED US TO, TO THAT PRIORITY FUNDING.
WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR OWN MEETINGS.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AN COUNCILMAN.
DON HAS TO APPOINTMENTS TO THAT BOARD.
AND THEN BDR HAS THE OTHER THREE.
WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR OWN MEETINGS.
IF SOME POINT LET'S SAY FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, WE'RE STILL HOLDING THE ONE TO 500 GRAND.
IT HASN'T BEEN EXPENDED AND NO, BUT NOBODY'S MOVED FORWARD WITH A COMMUNITY PLAN.
WHAT I WOULD ASSUME, AND I CAN'T SPEAK FOR THE FUTURE BOARD OF THE EDD IS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, DO WE HOLD ONTO THE 500 GRAND IN HOPES FOR A COMMUNITY CENTER? OR DO WE TRY TO AMEND THE CEA THAT YOU'RE HOPEFULLY GONNA APPROVE TONIGHT AND SAY, WE'D LIKE TO REALLOCATE THIS 500 GRAND TO THE FIRST PRIORITY OF THE PLAN THAT WE'VE ALREADY PROVED, MAYBE IT'S BEAUTIFICATION OR INFRASTRUCTURE DRAINAGE, WHATEVER.
SO WE CAN COME BACK TO YOU AND TRY TO AMEND THE PROJECT LIST.
BUT RIGHT NOW WE HOPE THAT THE PROJECT LIST INCLUDES A COMMUNITY CENTER, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK AND CHANGE THAT.
AND THE, AND THE BOARD THAT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST RIGHT NOW.
HASN'T EVEN, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET THAT PROJECT LIST APPROVED YET, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS CHANGE IT.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ON THAT.
IT'S JUST A CONCERN THAT I HAD THAT, UH, AGAIN, IN SPEAKING WITH COUNCILMAN DONE, THERE'S A LOT MORE PROCESSING GOING THROUGH WITH THIS COMMUNITY CENTER, I THINK, THAN JUST APPROVING THIS RIGHT HERE.
IT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT IF WE DON'T, PRE-FILL REN, THEN, THEN YOU'RE SITTING OUT THERE WITH $500,000 DEDICATED THAT WOULD COME BACK BEFORE US TO AMEND THE CEA TO SAY, OKAY, NOW SPENDING ON PLANTING FLOWERS DOWN THE MIDDLE OF FLORIDA BOULEVARD.
SO IT WILL BE HELD UNTIL SUCH TIME.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON, UH, MS. MS. SPAIN, IF YOU WOULD COME BACK UP REAL QUICK, YOU INSINUATED THAT IT'S POSSIBLE THAT MAYBE BRAC OR ANOTHER AGENCY MAY BE, UM, EITHER COORDINATING WITH US OR THE, OR TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE BUILDING.
IS THAT, IS THAT ACCURATE OR I THINK CURRENTLY COMMUNITY CENTERS, SIOUX CITY PARISH WIDE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS BRECK OR OPERATE SOME THAT ARE OPERATED AS COMMUNITY CENTERS TO SAY PARISH OPERATES SOME, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD NOT BE OPERATED OR OWNED BY THIS DISTRICT AT ALL.
SO, SO WHOEVER DECIDES TO PURCHASE, BUILD AND OPERATE THE COMMUNITY CENTER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT IS A BREAKFAST REALTY.
MAYBE IT'S THE CITY OWNED FACILITY THAT'S IRRELEVANT TO OUR PURPOSES.
IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT CAN OFFER AN OPINION ABOUT THAT? I'M JUST, I'M UNAWARE OF I'M UNAWARE OF CITY PARISH FACILITIES OWNED BY BRAC, RIGHT? THEY'RE NOT, NO, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
SO, SO THAT BRINGS ME TO THE POINT OF THIS WOULD BE UNIQUE IN THAT WAY.
WE DON'T USE CITY PARISH, 2% SALES TAX DOLLARS TO FUND ENTITIES OWNED BY AN OUTSIDE TAXING AGENCY OR ANYTHING ELSE CAN'T TO THAT.
SO I WOULD ASK SEMI FROM THIS, BECAUSE WHEN IT COMES TO OPERATING A COMMUNITY CENTER, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
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WELL, JUST TO, JUST TO BRING UPON THE CLARITY EACH COMMUNITY CENTER THAT WE HAVE, THE CITY OF PARIS IS THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THAT COMMUNITY CENTER.ALL OF THOSE COMMUNITY CENTERS HAVE MULTIPLE PARTNERS.
SOMETIMES THEY MAY BE THE COUNCIL AGENTS.
SOMETIMES THERE MAY BE THE Y MTA.
THEY MAY BE Y WCA, BUT ALL OF THOSE ENTITIES, EITHER RENT SPACE FROM THE CITY, WHICH THEY PAY RENT TO OCCUPY AND OFFER THAT SERVICE, OR THAT SPACE IS DONATED IN EXCHANGE FOR THE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE.
I THINK LAST COUNCIL MEETING, YOU SAW COMPLIMENT MOPE, AND THEY CONSTANTLY KNOW, AND HIS COMMUNITY CENTER WELCOME A NEW HEALTHCARE TENANT, A CAROUSEL FOR HEALTH SOUTH.
THAT, AND THAT THAT'S HOW MOST COMMUNITIES, BUT THEY ARE OWNED BY CITY OF PARIS.
SO COUNCILMAN DONE, WE DO IMAGINE THAT THIS COMMUNITY CENTER WILL BE OWNED BY CITY PARISH, BUT WE MAY LOOK TO OUR OTHER PARTNERS.
NOW FOR MEMBERS, WE HAVE MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE 70 BY THE CHAIR WITH ONE OPPOSITION.
UH, IS THERE ANY, ARE THERE ANY OTHER OBJECTIONS? ARE THERE ANY OTHER OBJECTIONS? NO.
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ONE 19, A DISCUSSION OF THE CASE, ALICIA ROBERTSON AT ALL VERSUS OFFERS OF ABC X, Y, AND V.THIS ITEM MAY BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
THE ATTORNEY OF RECORD IS ELBERT LEE HILARY BY COUNCIL MEMBER
BEFORE WE GO THERE, WE'RE GOING TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO EXTEND THE MEETING BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
IS THERE A SECOND TASK BY COUNCIL MEMBER? UH, EXCUSE ME.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HARTMAN, THE SECOND OF OUR COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
CAN YOU PLEASE TELL US YOUR REASON FOR WANTING TO EXTEND THE MEETING? YEAH, WE'RE COMING UP AGAINST THE TIME.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC.
I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION ONCE WE ARE DONE WITH THE PUBLIC HEARING TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UH, I DON'T WANT US TO BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND NOT BEEN ABLE TO EXTEND THE MEETING.
SO I'M BEING PREEMPTIVE AND SAYING, UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND MAKE THE MOTION TO EXTEND IT.
NOW THAT WAY WE DON'T RUN INTO TROUBLE BEING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION LATER.
SECOND OF OUR EIGHT 30 MOTION TO EXTEND 8 37 OF OUR COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 20, NO OBJECTIONS, NO OBJECTIONS TO THE MOTION TO EXTEND.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ITEM 1 21 21 19, EXCUSE ME.
AND IF THOUGH, IF THERE ARE OTHER NUMBERS WISHING TO SPEAK LESS, PLEASE FORM A LINE AS WE'RE UP AGAINST THE TIME.
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE GETS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
SO IF YOU WOULD DISTANCE YOURSELF APPROPRIATELY IN BEHIND THE SPEAKER AND WE'LL TAKE THEM AS THEY COME TAKE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
RONALD HAYLEY, 82 11 GOODWOOD BOULEVARD, SUITE II, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 7 0 8 0 6.
I AM NOW THE ATTORNEY OF RECORD FOR, UH, THE ROBINSON FAMILY.
I'M GOING TO TRY TO BE SUCCINCT ABOUT WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY AND LEAVE THE OTHER EMOTIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR THOSE THAT WILL FOLLOW ME MAY 2ND, 2013, DON TORONTO ROBINSON WAS KILLED DURING A NO-KNOCK NARCOTIC SEARCH WARRANT AT HIS ADDRESS ON FLAG STREET.
ALL THAT WAS REPORTED BY MEMBERS OF THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ALL THAT WAS REPORTED TO THE NEWS AT THE TIME BY THE EAST BARRON'S PARISH.
SHERIFF WAS THAT DOOR, A NO-KNOCK WARRANT FOR NARCOTICS DON TORONTO ROBINSON WAS KILLED BECAUSE HE SWALLOWED A BAG OF CRACK COCAINE, CHOKED DIED.
THEY STATED THAT THERE WAS NO WRONGDOING BY ANY OF THE OFFICERS.
FAST FORWARD, EIGHT YEARS LATER, JEREMIAH ODD ONE WHISTLE BLEW ON HIS FELLOW OFFICERS THAT'S LED TO ALMOST A THOUSAND CASES BEING DROPPED DURING THAT INVESTIGATION.
HE MENTIONED THAT THE RPD OFFICER DREW WHITE OPENLY BRAGGED ABOUT KILLING MR. ROBINSON.
IT WAS AN OPEN, SECRET AND JOKE WITHIN THE NARCOTICS DIVISION THAT THE KILLING OF MR. ROBINSON WAS CALLED THE FLAG STREET MAN MASSACRE.
SO WE BEGAN TO DIG THE FAMILY REACHED OUT TO ME AND RETAINED ME TO LOOK INTO THE MATTER AND THAT WE DID.
DID WE FIND ANY HISTORY BETWEEN DREW WHITE AND DR.
WE FOUND THAT OFFICER DREW WHITE AND ROBINSON GOT INTO A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION THAT LED INTO ROBINSON BEING ARRESTED APPROXIMATELY AUGUST OF 2012, BY WHICH NO CHARGES
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WERE FORMALLY FILED BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE WITHIN SALT, TO GET PICTURES OF THE AUTOPSY.I PERSONALLY CONTACTED THE CORONER'S OFFICE.
THE CORONER'S OFFICE SENT ME THE CORONER'S REPORT.
HOWEVER, THAT CORONER'S REPORT DID NOT HAVE ANY PICTURES IN IT, AS THEY INDICATED THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAD THOSE PICTURES, IT WASN'T UNTIL PUSHING AND PRODDING THAT THE CORONER GAVE US THE PICTURES.
AND IT SHOWED ONE OF THE MOST GROTESQUE BEATINGS THAT I'VE SEEN IN A EXCESSIVE FORCE CASE.
ADDITIONALLY, WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN THE INCIDENT REPORT FROM THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THAT INCIDENT REPORT GAVE A FAR DIFFERENT STORY, A FAR DIFFERENT STORY THAN THE ONE THAT WAS TOLD TO THE NEWS OUTLETS.
IT INDICATED, AND I'M USING QUOTES HERE.
A VIOLENT STRUGGLE TOOK PLACE INSIDE THAT RESIDENCE.
FINALLY IT PLEASE LET ME FINISH THIS PART.
WILL YOU LEARN THAT THERE WAS ACTUAL VIDEO SURVEILLANCE FROM MR. ROBINSON'S HOUSE? THAT HE GOT A LOT OF SPEAKERS BEHIND YOU.
HOW Y'ALL DOING TODAY? ALL RIGHT.
SO MR. HAILEY LEFT OUT SOME POINTS, RIGHT? HE EXPLAINED SOME OF THE REASONS OR HOW WE GOT HERE, WHERE HE DIDN'T EXPLAIN WAS THAT THESE CHILDREN THAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME OR YOUNG CHILDREN THERE, AND THEY WERE AROUND THE GATE, OUTSIDE OF HIS HOUSE, OLD FLAG TREE, AND AROUND THE GATE, THEY SAW THEIR FATHER BLOODED SOMEHOW MAKE IT DOWN THE STEPS.
AND THE OFFICER CAME OUTSIDE AND STRUCK HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD WITH A BUTTERFLY GUN AND DRAGGED HIM BACK INSIDE WHERE THEY COMMENCED TO BEATING HIM AGAIN.
THE PART OF THE STORY THAT HE DID NOT COVER WAS THAT HIS WIFE WAS IN THE RED ROOM WITH HIM.
HIS WIFE WAS ALSO SITTING IN THE CORNER WHEN OFFICER DREW WHITE, STOOD ON HIS BACK AND PUT HIS BOOT PRINT BESIDE HIS FACE.
HE ALSO LEFT OUT THAT THIS MAN WAS DEAD WHEN HE PROBABLY LEFT THAT HOUSE.
AND BEFORE YOU TAKE IT TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, COUNCILMAN HUDSON JUST KNOW THAT THIS IS AN UNUSUAL CASE WITH UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
AND ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, SOME PEOPLE WENT INTO A ROOM THAT LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE ROOM THAT Y'ALL BOUGHT TO WALK INTO AND DISCUSS THIS CASE IN SECRECY.
AND AIN'T NOTHING EVER HAPPENED WITH IT.
OVER 700 CHARGES HAVE BEEN DROPPED IN THIS TIME BECAUSE OF BRP CORRUPTION.
AND THEN Y'ALL, AIN'T SAID ENOUGH ABOUT THAT.
THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO LEND YOUR VOICE TO SOMETHING THAT MATTERS TO THIS FAMILY.
THIS FAMILY HAS ALREADY BEEN JACKED OVER ENOUGH BY THIS CITY, WALKING INTO A PRIVATE ROOM, CONTINUES TO DO THAT.
I ASKED YOU TO DISCUSS THIS CASE IN THE OPEN AND YES, PENDING LITIGATION IS THERE COUNCILMAN HUDSON AND MONEY WILL BE INVOLVED, BUT I'M SURE, BUT I JUST SAT THROUGH A 45 MINUTE CONVERSATION ABOUT MONEY AND Y'ALL DISCUSSED IT OPENLY IN GREAT DETAIL.
SO WHY CAN'T WE DISCUSS THIS UNLESS YOU'RE TRYING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE COVERUP.
STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE.
MY NAME IS ALIYAH ROBINSON, UH, SIX BY ONE, FIVE HANKS DRIVE.
AND TODAY I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY SIBLINGS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, MY FATHER, MY FATHER DONE TRYING TO ROBINSON WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN BY THE BRP D ON MAY 2ND, 2013 FOR EIGHT YEARS, THIS WAS KEPT IN THE DARK AND OUR FAMILY WAS FORCED TO PICK UP THE PIECES AND MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT KNOWING THE MALICIOUS INTENT THAT WAS BEHIND THIS.
MY FATHER WAS A VERY LOVING, CREATIVE FAMILY ORIENTED, BUT OVERALL A SOFT-SPOKEN MAN, I BELIEVE HIS DEMISE WAS PERSONAL.
WE MISS OUR DADS SO MUCH AND WE ARE FOREVER WOUNDED BY THIS, MY SIMS AND OUR ALL UNDER THE AGE OF 13.
AND HE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO WITNESS OUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS.
WE ARE STILL IN SO MUCH DISBELIEF THAT WE DISCOVERED HE WAS KILLED BY THE OFFICERS WHO ARE HERE TO PROTECT AND SERVE US.
NOT ONLY DID RPD TAKE HIS LIFE, THEY DESTROYED OUR FAMILY AND FOR A LITTLE CHILDREN'S CHILDHOOD, I AM HERE TODAY FOR ONE THING AND AS TO SEEK JUSTICE AND HAVE EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THESE HORRIFIC EVENTS HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, SIR.
MY RIDE WITH HIM, I'M HIS BROTHER.
AND MY QUESTION IS LIKE WHY EVERYBODY THREW THEIR HANDS UP ON HIM.
WHY? AS IT Y'ALL THOUGHT A PICTURE.
I KNOW EVERY LAST ON THE I FIVE PICTURE, THE HIGHER, THE BEATEN UP DISCARD.
I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY THAT'S IT.
EVERYBODY JUST TOLD HER ABOUT THIS, ABOUT WHAT POLICE, THE POSTER PROTECT THE FAIR.
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THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW.WOULD YOU STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD? LEIA MONTGOMERY ZAC, LOUISIANA NUMBER, CORRECT? YEAH.
UM, I'M HERE MAN FOR THE FAMILY.
UH, I JUST WANT TO LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT, UH, WHAT HAPPENED, UH, ON FLAG STREET WAS IT WAS MURDER.
IT WAS AN EXECUTION AND IT WAS AT THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO PROTECT AND THEY SUPPOSED TO SERVE THE CITIZENS OF BATON ROUGE.
I WANT Y'ALL TO, THERE WAS A MOVIE, UH, SAN DIEGO JACKSON, UH, WHAT WAS IT? UH, WHAT, WHAT MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY SAID, CLOSE YOUR EYES.
AND I WANT YOU TO PICTURE IF THAT WAS A YOUNG WHITE BOY OR WHITE BOY WOULD BE STANDING HERE.
SEE, I GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME BEING HERE.
CAUSE I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.
THIS FAMILY THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.
Y'ALL KNOW WHY THEY NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.
CAUSE JUSTICE WHAT'S THE, TO THE THIRD TO THEM, IT WAS Y'ALL WASTING MY TIME.
I GOT TO COME DRIVE US FROM ZACHARY UP HERE.
CAUSE THE COPS ARE KILLING PEOPLE AND Y'ALL ARE NOT DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
Y'ALL NOT SAYING NOTHING ABOUT IT.
WE GOT EVERYTHING GOING ON WITH THE ODD ONE CASE.
WE ALL KNOW THE POLICE IN BATON ROUGE.
THEY ALL CORRUPT, NO DISRESPECT TO CHEAT MY DEPAUL.
THEY GOT SOME GOOD COPS OUT HERE AND I RESPECT THEM, BUT THEY GOT SOME HORRIBLE COPS OUT HERE.
AND THE GOOD COWS, IF YOU DON'T TELL ON THE HORRIBLE GUY THAT MAKES YOU A HORRIBLE COP ALSO.
SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS IMAGINE IF IT WAS YOUR FAMILY.
IMAGINE IF YOU WAS IN YOUR BED AT 12 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, THE CATS KICKING THE DOOR, UH, NO, NOT WARRANT.
THEY DRAG THEM OUT THE HOUSE AND THEY TELL YOU THAT HE CHOKED ON DRUGS.
BUT 13 YEARS, ONE THING, YOU KNOW, HEY, IS THE FAMILY GOT HER? THEY GOT CRY LONG.
THEY GOTTA GO THROUGH THIS ALONE BECAUSE SOMEBODY TOLD HIM THEIR SON, THEIR FATHER, THEIR BROTHER CHOKED ON DRUGS.
WHEN HE ACTUALLY DIED FROM BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA, I'M ASKING Y'ALL AS A COUNSELOR, DO YOUR JOB DO WAS RIGHTEOUS.
ALL Y'ALL GO TO CHURCH AND CHURCH.
YOU GET WHAT I'M SAYING? IT'S GOING TO BE ONE EVAN, WHITE COLOR ONE, GOD.
WHAT HE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? HI ASHLEY WHITE 800 SOUTH 16TH STREET, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 7 0 2.
ONE IS AS A BAIL DISRUPTOR ONE AS A STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE EASTBOUND ROUGE PARISH, PRISON REFORM COALITION AS A MEMBER OF THE NAACP AND AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN.
AND I SEE HOW ALL OF THESE ISSUES ARE CONNECTED.
I SEE HOW WE AS INDIVIDUALS CONTRIBUTE TO A SYSTEM THROUGH OUR SILENCE, THROUGH OUR INACTION, THROUGH OUR POSITIONS AND DOING THIS AND HAVING THIS FAMILY HAVE TO COME OUT HERE AND BEG FOR ATTENTION.
THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN DOWNTOWN, TRYING TO DRAW ATTENTION TO THIS ISSUE IS A SHAME.
THE FACT THAT IT'S TAKEN EIGHT YEARS FOR US TO GET HERE IS A SHAME.
SO I ASK ALL OF YOU AS MY COLLEAGUES AND PEERS HAVE TO DO.
YOU SEE HER SHE'S CRYING AND WE'VE BEEN THERE TO COMFORT HER THIS ENTIRE TIME.
WE'VE SHOWED UP IN FRONT OF PEOPLE'S HOUSES.
WE'VE BLOCKED THE STREETS BECAUSE WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING BECAUSE WE HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
SO YOU NEED TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING AS WELL.
SO THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT DON TRAUNER.
HE IS ONE OF MANY, AS WE'VE SEEN WITH THE BRP NARCOTIC SCANDAL, AS WE'VE SEEN WITH DONALD GREEN, I'M SORRY, DONALD STEEL.
AS WE'VE SEEN WITH THE LOUISIANA STATE POLICE, WE HAVE INSTITUTIONAL PROBLEMS HERE.
THIS IS A CITY AND A STATE THAT WE LOVE.
SO WE NEED TO ACT AS THOUGH WE CAN DO BETTER.
WE HAVE TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE.
WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT WHEN THERE IS CORRUPTION, WHEN THERE ARE THINGS INSTITUTIONAL PROCESSES, THE FACT THAT THESE AUTOPSY WERE NOT RELEASED TO THIS FAMILY WHEN THEY WERE REQUESTED, THE FACT THAT THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY HAS SAT ON THIS FOR MONTHS, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO ALL USE OUR POWERS OF INFLUENCE TO ENSURE THAT THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO ANOTHER FAMILY.
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SAID PRIOR ABOUT GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.AFTER ALL THIS TIME THAT WAS SPENT DISCUSSING DOLLARS, WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY BE SPENT FOR THE BLOOD THAT WAS SHED FOR DON TANER.
MY NAME IS JERRY RECORD, 703 FOR LATE.
HE LIVED WITH ME DURING THE SUMMERTIME WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK YOU ALL AGAIN.
AND I KNOW YOU'VE SEEN THE PICTURES OF MY NEPHEW, HOW HE WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN AND VICIOUSLY, BEATEN BY ANIMALS.
MOST OF THE TIME WHEN ANIMALS ARE OUT OF CONTROL, WHAT DID YOU DO? YOU CALL ANIMAL CONTROL TO COME GET THEM MRI.
MY NEPHEW ONLY WEIGHED 150 POUNDS SOAKING WET.
HE WAS NOT ABLE TO DEFEND HIMSELF.
ONE, ONE, MAN, THIS YOUNG MAN BY HIM SITTING IN A ROOM NOW, BIGGEST MICE IPHONE, IF YOU PLEASE, BUT THEY CHOSE TO COME IN HERE.
WHATEVER REASON THEY HAD AGAINST THIS CHILD TO TAKE HIS LIFE.
HE TOOK, THEY TOOK THIS YOUNG MAN FROM ME, FROM MY SISTER, FROM MY KNEE, FROM MY NIECES.
YOU TELL ME HOW CAN A CHILD, 150 POUNDS DEFEND HIMSELF.
DON'T TURN A DEAF EAR TO MY NEPHEW.
I'M ASKING YOU TO CALL ANIMAL CONTROL AND HAVE THESE VICIOUS ANIMALS THAT TOOK MY NEPHEW'S LIFE.
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR MY NEPHEW TRAUMA AND WE WILL NOT STOP.
I CARE ABOUT ALL MY NEPHEWS, NIECES.
MY HUSBAND WAS THE ONLY PERSON.
HE'S A MINISTER NESTOR RECORD.
HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON THERE SAW MY NEPHEW.
HE WAS THE ONLY PERSON TO GO TO THE FUNERAL HOME TO IDENTIFY MY NEPHEW.
HE WILL NOT TELL ME HOW HE LOOKED BECAUSE HE KNOW HOW DEVASTATING IT WOULD BE TO ME.
I JUST SAW THESE PICTURES TWO MONTHS AGO.
I'M ASKING YOU AGAIN, DO WHAT'S RIGHT? THINK ABOUT YOUR CHILD OR YOUR NEPHEW OR YOUR NIECE.
IT COULD BE ONE OF THEM ONE DAY.
NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
MY ADDRESS IS 1 5 3 3 5 7 PINES AVENUE.
UM, I LIVE AROUND THE CORNER FROM YOU DWIGHT, AND YOU REQUESTED AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND YOU'VE EXPLAINED TO US OUTSIDE OF YOUR HOME, WHEN WE CAME TO YOUR HOME THAT SATURDAY MORNING, THAT THAT'S BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE THAT THAT'S THE PROPER PROCESS, RIGHT? BUT I HAVE A PICTURE OF YOU, YOUR WIFE AND YOUR CHILDREN OUTSIDE OF THE STATE CAPITOL RALLYING ON BEHALF OF A BEETLE OVERRIDE BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE TO DISRUPT A PROCESS.
YOU WOULDN'T WANT SOMEONE TO PULL UP ON PORT, HUDSON AND SNATCH ONE OF YOUR DAUGHTERS OUT OF YOUR HOME AND DO TO THEM.
WHAT WAS DONE TO TRY THE PERSON THAT IS STILL PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INJURIES DEPICTED IN THIS PHOTO.
THE PERSON PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE.
MA'AM I DO UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR PASSING ABOUT THE ISSUE, PLEASE, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU YOUR TIME BACK, BUT PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SPEAKING ABOUT ANYBODY'S CHILDREN.
WELL, SPEAKING ABOUT THIS, THIS WOMAN'S CHILD, RIGHT BEAN'S CHILD SHE'S GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO DO SO.
AND THE PERSON PRIMARILY RE THAT WAS A PUBLIC PICTURE.
BY THE WAY, THE PERSON PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PICTURES THAT DEPICT THE INJURIES THAT ARE DEPICTED IN THIS PHOTO IS STILL ON THE FORCE.
HE IS STILL EMPLOYED BY BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THAT HAS BEEN EIGHT YEARS FOR HIM TO INFLUENCE THE CULTURE OF POLICING.
THAT HAS BEEN EIGHT YEARS FOR HIM TO LIKE FURTHER TRAUMA, FURTHER PAIN, FURTHER INJURY ON OUR COMMUNITIES.
HE NEEDS TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
I'M SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO YOU BECAUSE I DEAL WITH YOU ON A REGULAR BASIS.
I'M IN A FACEBOOK GROUP FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS OVER 2000 OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS.
NOW, THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY.
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FOR COLLECTIVE HEALING, FOR A COMMUNITY THAT HAS A VERY WARRANTED DISTRUST FOR THIS AGENCY.IT IS PLAYED WITH SCANDAL OF ABUSE AND CORRUPTION.
IT IS NATURALLY RECOGNIZED FOR THOSE PRACTICES.
EVERY DAY, WE WAKE UP TO ANOTHER HEADLINE FOR BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SOME SHIT THEY DONE TO PEOPLE THAT DON'T DESERVE IT.
I AM CALLING ON YOUR MORALITY.
I AM BEGGING AND PLEADING OF YOU TO DO WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING TO SERVE THIS FAMILY JUSTICE, JUSTICE.
THE, THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FAR TOO LONG FOR.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 19, ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 19, WE GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL COUNCIL NUMBER, GO THERE.
UH, FIRST, THANK YOU TO THE SPEAKERS, PARTICULARLY THE CHILDREN FOR REPRESENTING YOUR FAMILY.
UM, I WANTED THE AUTHOR OF THE ITEM COUNCIL MEMBER DONE JUST TO PROVIDE, UH, EXPLANATION.
THE LAST TIME WE HAD AN ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, THAT WAS A DISCUSSION OF, UH, AND THAT WAS A MORATORIUM.
THERE WERE FOLKS WHO LEFT WITH A SOUR TASTE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE AN ACTION TO COME OUT OF THAT ITEM.
SO I LIKED THE AUTHOR FOR THE FOLKS HERE SO THAT THEY DON'T LEAVE WITH SOME FORM OF DISAPPOINTMENT, JUST TO TALK THROUGH WHAT THIS ITEM IS AND WHAT ACTION, IF ANY, CAN COME OUT OF THIS BODY.
AS YOU HEARD FROM THE FAMILY AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE FAMILY, THEY FEEL THEY HADN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH, VISIT WITH, AND SHARE WITH THEIR GOVERNMENT, THEIR POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEIR POLICE FORCE.
THEY ELECT THE LEADERS, THEIR PAIN, THEIR FRUSTRATION, AND THEIR CONCERNS.
WHEN I WAS MADE AWARE OF THE ISSUE I ATTENDED THE FIRST, UH, DEMONSTRATION THAT THEY HAD IN FRONT OF CITY HALL, LISTENED TO THE FAMILY, TALK TO SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT WAS WORKING WITH THEM.
AND AS I'VE HEARD, WHAT THEY WANT IS A VOICE.
THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO STATE THEIR CASE, STATE THEIR CLAIM, AND THEY WANT TO LITIGATE THAT.
UM, I'VE TALKED TO THE MOM PERSONALLY AND SHE SHARED THAT SHE HADN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.
SO FOR ME, I WANTED TO GIVE THEM A PLATFORM AND THIS THE PEOPLE'S HOUSE CITY GOVERNMENT TO SHARE THEIR FRUSTRATIONS, SHARE THEIR CONCERNS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS ITEM IS ABOUT.
AGAIN, AS YOU REFERENCED, THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM.
WE DON'T HAVE ABILITY OR AUTHORITY TO TAKE ACTION ON ITEM, BUT WE CAN LISTEN.
WE CAN REQUEST REPORTS AND DOCUMENTATION AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
IF YOU LOOKED AT WHAT WE DID IN PREVIOUS CASES, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THAT AND REVIEW THAT INFORMATION.
I DO AGREE LIKE THE FAMILY THAT WE SHOULD DO IT AND OPEN.
UH, WHEN I INITIALLY BROUGHT THIS ITEM, IT DIDN'T HAVE EXECUTIVE SESSION ON IT.
MANY OF YOU ASKED ME TO PUT IT ON THERE.
UH, NOBODY SHOWED UP FOR THE REPORTS.
SO WE HAD TO REPHRASE IT TO GET IT BACK ON THE AGENDA AND THIS ARM, UH, I'M NOT OBJECTION.
I'M NOT, UH, IN OBJECTION TO STATING WHAT THE CONCERNS ARE OUT HERE IN PUBLIC.
UH, BUT I'LL SEE WHAT THE PLEASURE OF THE BODY IS.
UH, IN MY INITIAL ITEM, UM, COUNSELING AND GO, THEY, I DID REQUEST A REPORT FROM THE SHARE, UH, ON THE FINDINGS THAT THEY HAD WHEN THEY INVESTIGATED THIS INCIDENT AND A REQUEST, THE REPORT FROM MURPHY, PAUL, OUR CHIEF ON THE, UM, BASICALLY THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE OFFICER, UH, ACCUSED, UH, IF HE'S STILL ON THE FOURTH OR WHAT DEPARTMENT IS HE WORKING IN? I THINK THAT INFORMATION IS, IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW, C UH, SHERIFF'S DID GO TO HER, HAS A REPRESENTATIVE HERE.
I WANT TO MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO ALL OF YOU GUYS.
I'M GONNA MAKE SURE YOU GET A DIGITAL COPY OF THE FAMILY THAT DON'T HAVE IT.
BUT IF, UH, THE CHIEF IS HERE TO GIVE A REPORT ON WHAT THE CURRENT STATUS IS OF THE OFFICER ACCUSED OF THIS, PLEASE STEP FORWARD.
CURRENTLY WE ARE INTO YOUR TIME COUNSEL NUMBER GO DAY, BUT YOU DID MAKE A REQUEST FOR THE CHIEF TO COME FORWARD.
DO YOU WANT HIM TO COME FORWARD NOW, COUNCIL NUMBER DONE WRITTEN WITH THE VOTE A TIME THOUGH, YOU'RE FINISH.
ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBER, HUDSON RESERVE.
MOST OF MY COMMENTS, BUT, UH, WHAT I WILL SAY, AND I WANT TO BE CAREFUL ON HOW I EXPLAIN THIS BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S A REASON THAT I ASKED COUNCILMAN DONE ORIGINALLY BEFORE IT EVER EVEN HIT A PUBLIC AGENDA.
I WROTE COUNCILMAN DINER, EMAIL, UH, AND LET HIM KNOW MY ISSUE WITH US GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
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IF THE PUBLIC WANTS THIS COUNCIL ON A CURRENT OR CONTROVERSIAL ITEM TO HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION ABOUT SOMETHING, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DO IT.THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE WOULD'VE HAD, UH, AS PRODUCTIVE OF A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE ALTERNATE SERLING CASE.
IF WE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT AT EXECUTIVE SESSION.
AND THAT, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY WHY.
WHEN IT INVOLVES LITIGATION WITH CITY PARISH, A CONTROVERSIAL ITEM, WE SHOULD GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
SO I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION FOR US TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION MOTION, TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION BY COUNCIL MEMBER.
THE SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOLT, WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE MACHINES BEFORE WE VOTE ON, UH, MACHINES, UH, COUNT THE NUMBER MODE.
THE REASON I'M AGREEING TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION IS IN DEALING WITH THIS.
YOU, YOU, IF YOU WANT TO CALL UP CHIEF PAUL, UH, TO DISCUSS A PERSONNEL SITUATION.
AND I, AND I DON'T THINK THAT WHEN IT COMES TO PERSONNEL SITUATION IS DISCUSSED IN PUBLIC.
NOW, IF HE WANTS TO GIVE INFORMATION ON THE CASE, WITHOUT DISCUSSING THE OFFICER OR STUFF LIKE THAT, I HAVE NO PROBLEM NOT DOING THAT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO REQUEST TO SOMEONE TO COME UP TO SPEAK ABOUT OFFICER, WHETHER IT BE DISCIPLINE OR HIS ACTIONS, OR BEING SPECIFIC TO THE OFFICER, THAT'S THE REASON I'M REQUESTING OR APPROVING ART SECOND AT THE EXECUTIVE SESSION PART TO THE PEOPLE OF THE PUBLIC.
IF WE WANT TO DISCUSS THE, THE, THE ACTIONS AND, AND WHAT COULD BE DONE, AND WHAT'S BEING DONE INTERNALLY WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THIS NON-SPECIFIC TO, UH, EMPLOYEE MATTERS OR CITY PARISH EMPLOYEE MATTERS, THEN I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DISCUSS THAT IN OPEN PUBLIC.
BUT SINCE WE REQUESTED TO SPEAK ABOUT THE OFFICER, THAT'S WHY I WANT TO DO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
AND TO EVEN AS FAR AS GOING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THE REPORT, OR IF YOU WANT TO HEAR IT PUBLICLY, BECAUSE THERE'S NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S NOT LIKE THE ALTON STERLING CASE TO WHERE WE WERE COMING UP WITH A DECISION ON WHAT WE'RE GOING FORWARD WITH.
EVEN IF WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, WHAT IS THE OUTCOME WHEN WE COME OUT NOW, AGAIN, IF YOU WANT SOMEONE TO DISCUSS PERSONNEL PROBLEMS, EXECUTIVE SESSION, IF WE JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT IS CHANGING IN THE CULTURE AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I'M OKAY WITH HEARING THAT IN PUBLIC.
SO THAT'S WHERE I'D LIKE US TO CONSIDER, OR I GUESS GET SOME MORE CLARIFICATION ON WHAT YOU'RE EXACTLY WANTING PERSONNEL WISE OR WHAT CHIEF PAUL IS GOING TO SPEAK ON TELEPHONE NUMBER HUDSON FIRST.
UH, I NEED TO MAKE A NOTE THAT THE REASON FOR GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION IS THAT THIS INVOLVES PENDING LITIGATION WITH THE CITY PARISH.
AND, UM, IS THAT AN OFFER? OKAY, GREAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING I'LL MENTION, JUST SO THE COUNCIL KNOWS THAT US GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION JUST ALLOWS US TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT IT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
WHEN WE COME OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION, EVERYONE STILL HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
FRANKLY, THEY COULD ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS THEY ASKED AND EXECUTIVE SESSION TO ANYBODY THAT WOULD COME UP TO THE MIC.
SO EXECUTIVE SESSION, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY CAUSE US TO NOT AIR THIS IN AN OPEN FORUM.
IT JUST GIVES YOU THE OPPORTUNITY AS COUNCIL MEMBERS TO GET YOUR, GET YOUR QUESTIONS ASKED ABOUT VERY SERIOUS CONTROVERSIAL LITIGATION IN A PRIVATE WAY.
UM, SO, UH, TO CHARACTERIZE IT AS WE'RE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING IN THE DARK, UH, IS JUST TOTALLY FALSE AS A COMPLETELY FALSE NARRATIVE.
THE WHOLE, EXCUSE ME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
SO I'M, I'M SPEAKING FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OR SOMEONE WHO, UH, UP UNTIL THE LAST ALWAYS LAY HEAD, UM, MANY OF THEIR AGENDA ITEMS AS IT WERE RELATED TO, UM, ALTON STERLING.
AND WHEN WE FIRST BEGAN, IT, IT, UH, I THINK WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT LIKE 2017 AND, UM, ALTRUISM MURDERED IN 2016.
AND SO AT THAT TIME, I WAS LIKE MANY OF YOU TODAY.
I ABSOLUTELY NEVER, EVER WANTED TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION BECAUSE LIKE YOU, I FELT, UM, IT WAS A COVER UP AND I FELT WHAT'S DONE IN THE DARK SHOULD BE SEEN IN THE LIGHT AND ALL OF THAT.
AND WHAT, UM, AND ACTUALLY WHEN WE FIRST CAME INTO THE FIRST
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TIME NOTHING HAPPENED, IT WAS NOT PRODUCTIVE.UM, AS COUNCILMEN DO, I PROBABLY HAVE FORGOTTEN IT WASN'T PRODUCTIVE.
IT DID NOT DO ANYTHING THAT MOVED THE CASE FORWARD, BUT THIS NEW COUNCIL WHERE WE MET IN EXACTLY, IT WAS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE FOR ME.
UM, AND I TH I DON'T KNOW IF IT MADE THE DIFFERENCE BECAUSE, UH, WE WERE TOO CLOSE TO THE SITUATION AS COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVING TO LIVE THROUGH 2016.
AND SOME OF US HAVING MORE, UM, HAVING, UM, MORE DEFINED RELATIONSHIP WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
BUT ONCE THE NEW COUNCIL CAME AND WE BEGAN TO MEET IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, UM, THE PURPOSES FOR HAVING EXECUTIVE SESSION WERE REALIZED, AND SOME OF THOSE HAD TO DO IS, UM, YES, UH, ASSURING THE CONFIDENTIALITY, BUT I DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT CONFIDENTIALITY, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS BEST IS THAT IT GAVE US, IT OPENED UP A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP AMONG US TO ASK QUESTIONS, TO GET INFORMATION.
UM, IT, IT ALLOWED THE PARISH ATTORNEY TO SPEAK FREELY TO US.
THIS COUNCIL IS 50%, SEVEN MONTHS OLD.
THERE ARE A LOT OF THIS IS NEW TO THEM AS IT WAS NEW TO US IN 2016 TO 2017.
AND WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO ASK EVERY QUESTION.
THERE ARE MANY OF US WHO EITHER BEING ON THIS COUNCIL OR BEING, UM, WALKING WITH WITH, UM, EUGENE, AS IT RELATES TO, UH, ACTIVISM, WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THIS PROCESS, BUT I PROMISE YOU NO TIME WILL BE LOST IN THIS.
UH, YOU ARE WHAT YOU, THE OPPORTUNITY THAT COUNCILMAN DUNN GAVE YOU ALL TODAY, AND IT IS EIGHT YEARS LATER.
I CAN SAY THAT A LOT OF FAMILIES HAVE BEEN AFFORDED THAT OPPORTUNITY.
SO THAT ALONE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE YOU ARE IN IT.
SOME PLANT SOME WATER, BUT GOD, GET IT INCREASED.
OR HAVE YOUR WORDS HAVE NOT FALLEN ON GROUND.
AND YOU ARE REALLY AHEAD BECAUSE IF IT COMES TO LIKE WE DID WITH ALTUS STERLING, WHERE THERE'S IS A SUIT, THERE IS A, A SETTLEMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE.
WE HAVE A LOT OF THESE COUNCIL MEMBERS, INCLUDING MYSELF, HAVE MORE INFORMATION THAN WE HAD GONE INTO THAT CONVERSATION.
WE HAVE A PICTURE I NEVER SAW, UM, AND PART OF IT, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO SEE OUT IN STERLING, BUT THAT THOSE PICTURES YOU ALL SHOWED, THOSE ARE RED FIC, YOU KNOW, BUT I DON'T, UM, YES, MA'AM, I DON'T WANT TO, UM, I HOPE YOU, IF YOU, I KNOW YOU DON'T TRUST THE PROCESS AND YOU DON'T KNOW ALL OF US, BUT I KNOW, YOU KNOW, COUNCILMAN DUNN AND HE LED THE EFFORT TO THE SETTLEMENT WITHOUT AND STERLING.
HE, AND, UM, AND THE, AND THE PROTEL, I CAN PROMISE YOU BASED ON MY EXPERIENCES WITH THEM, THAT THIS EXECUTIVE SESSION ARE BEING FAIR, IT WILL BE TRANSPARENT.
AND AS A COUNCIL, WE HAVE TO HAVE, AND LOOK AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TO BUILD AN OPEN RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE COULD SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER THAT AS A BLACK COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE COULD TELL, BE ABLE TO STRAIGHTEN OUT THE MYTHS THAT SOMEHOW WHITE COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY NOT UNDERSTAND, OR B R B N UH, HAVING A EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY WILL TALK TO, THEY WON'T ASK THEM THIS, BUT THEY ARE ASKED THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO IF YOU WOULD JUST HAVE, UM, AND I, AND I DON'T TAKE FOR GRANTED THE EIGHT YEARS, UM, TO ALLOW US TO, TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS AS IT IS, AS IT IS STATED NOW THROUGH EXECUTIVE SESSION, IN THE END, IT ALL COMES OUT.
I WILL TELL YOU NOW IT'S GONNA ALL COME OUT, BUT WE DO NEED THIS TIME FOR ALL OF US TO HEAR, HEAR FROM THE CHIEF HERE FROM NO, THE PARISH ATTORNEY.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE, UM, HAS MADE THE MOTION, BUT IF YOU HAS ANYONE SECOND WHERE'S WHERE'S, UM, MR. UH, EUGENE, YOU AND YOUR SECOND FIVE MINUTES NOW.
THIS IS SOMEBODY I'VE HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH, UM, FOR SIX TO EIGHT YEARS.
I BELIEVE WE SHOULD GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION,
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BUT I WOULD, I WON'T.SECOND IS IF YOU ALL ARE AGAIN, WHEN WE FIGHT THERE, HASN'T BEEN A PROPER MOTION AND A PROPER SECOND.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO VOTE ON THE MOTION TO GO INTO TIG.
AND I AM, SO I JUST WANT TO GET JANE TO KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN A PROPER MOTION AND A SECOND, WE ALL GONNA VOTE.
AND MAXINE, PLEASE NOT TAKE THIS SESSION.
I SAW A PICTURE OF A SONG SO CLOSE IS HURT.
SO MY CHILD I'M ASKING EACH, AND ONE OF YOU MOTHERS, OPEN YOUR HEART TO ME, PLEASE HELP ME.
LET'S SEE WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE BEFORE.
MA'AM UM, PARISH ATTORNEY ANDERSON DOTSON.
CAN YOU PLEASE COME UP? SO, UM, BEFORE THIS WAS ON THE AGENDA, UM, UH, CAN'T REMEMBER THE DATE THAT IT WAS ON THE AGENDA FIRST.
I'D NEVER HEARD OF THIS MATTER.
UM, IS THIS A PENDING MATTER WITHIN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE? YES MA'AM.
UM, AND WHAT WAS THE CASE LOOK LIKE? CAN YOU GIVE US AN, I NEED TO KNOW AS A COUNCIL PERSON, UM, OTHER THAN I NEED TO KNOW THE FACTS OF THE CASE, POLICE OFFICERS INVOLVED, WHAT THE LITIGATION LOOKS LIKE, WHERE, WHAT OUR STATUS ATTORNEY TOO, AND, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE A, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T DO THAT ON THE RECORD.
HOW CAN I GET THAT INFORMATION? HOW CAN I BE EDUCATED ON THIS ITEM? YOU ALREADY KNOW YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE YOU COME TO MY OFFICE.
YOU SIT DOWN WITH ME, YOU ASKED FOR THE INFORMATION, INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED TO YOU.
CAN WE DO THAT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION? NOW WE, AS, YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE DONE SEVERAL TIMES IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, WHATEVER QUESTIONS YOU ARE ASKING EXISTING EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE ANSWERED.
YOU KNOW, THAT I KNOW THAT, OKAY.
I SUPPORT MOVING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS CASE.
UH, UH, I THINK FIRST AND FOREMOST, MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY, IT'S EXTREMELY CHALLENGING, UH, TO SIT IN THE SEAT BASED ON, UH, OUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS COUNTRY AND LISTEN TO THAT, TO THE HORRIFIC TALE THAT WAS TELLING US BE CLEAR.
THE ONLY REASON WHY WE'RE EVEN
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HERE TONIGHT IS BECAUSE OUR CHIEF HAD THE COURAGE TO ALLOW SOME OF THE CORRUPTION TO BE UNFOLDED.AND THEN THIS INFORMATION CAME OUT AS PART OF THE PROCESS.
NOW, MUCH OF MANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE BEING ASKED RELATIVE TO THE EMPLOYEE IS ALREADY PUBLIC INFORMATION.
SO I DON'T THINK IT'S INAPPROPRIATE TO DISCUSS PUBLICLY THAT, WHICH IS ALREADY PUBLIC.
UH, WE ALREADY CAN FIND OUT ABOUT THE EMPLOYEE.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE.
UH, HOWEVER, UH, IT IS GOING TO TAKE, UH, UH, THREE-FOURTHS OF THE COUNCIL TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND AS THREE FOURTHS OF THE NUMBERS HERE.
SO THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, UH, TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE MACHINES, YOU ALL, YOU ALL KNOW, UH, WHAT OUR PARENTS ATTORNEY HAS INSTRUCTED US TO DO, AND YOU ALL HAVE HEARD THE REQUEST OF THE FAMILY.
SO I WOULD ASK YOU TO VOTE, TO DO WHATEVER YOU THINK IS BEST.
I PERSONALLY, UH, COMPLIMENT GUNS ITEM AND YOU OBJECT COUNT THE NUMBER DONE.
LET ME JUST BRING SOME CLARITY.
I AGREE WITH MUCH THAT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT EXECUTIVE SESSION HERE TODAY.
MATTER OF FACT, WHEN I, UH, APPROACHED SENIOR COUNCILWOMAN BANKS ABOUT BRINGING FORWARD THE STERLING SETTLEMENT, I THOUGHT ONE OF THE BARRIERS TO HER BEING ABLE TO SETTLE IT WAS BECAUSE IT DIDN'T GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND HAVE THE CONVERSATION.
MY TO EXECUTIVE SESSION HERE IS SOLELY BASED ON THE FAMILY'S WEIGHT OF EIGHT YEARS AND A REQUEST TO, TO HEAR IT ALL OUT IN THE PUBLIC.
SO I WILL BE OBJECTING AND VOTING AGAINST IT.
BUT AS YOU MENTIONED, IT TAKES A MAJORITY OF HIS BODY TO GO IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I STOP US FROM GOING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, AND WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON A MACHINE TO GOING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ON ITEM ONE 19 MACHINE HERE OPEN
NOW AT THIS POINT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, DARREN, I AM I'M ACTUALLY CAN TO GIVE US SOME ADVICE ON HOW WE PROCEED AT THIS POINT.
I KNOW THERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS OF THE POWER OF ATTORNEY.
I KNOW THAT IN THE COURSE OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE, IF I KNOW THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS OF THE SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, UH, OR HIS OR HER REPRESENTATIVE, SO HOW DO WE PROCEED AT THIS POINT? UM, COUNCIL MEMBER ARE, UH, ABLE TO TAKE THEIR FIVE MINUTES TO ASK QUESTIONS.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE MAY OR MAY NOT BE GOING TO ANSWER SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS IN A PUBLIC FORUM.
UM, AND THE SAME MAY BE TRUE FOR THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND, UM, THE SHERIFF, BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY CALL THEM UP AND ASK THEM THE QUESTIONS.
AND, UH, BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE THAT DURING A COUNCIL MEMBER WITH HIM TO ACCOUNT FOR MAMA GREEN.
UM, THE ONLY THING THAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS THAT, UM, ME AND COUNCILMAN DOWNWARD, WE'RE TALKING OVER HERE, SOMETHING THAT HE MENTIONED EARLIER IS THAT HE WAS HAND DELIVERED A PACKAGE TODAY FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
AND SO I THINK THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBERS NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEE THAT.
AND HE SAID, HE'S GOING TO DISTRIBUTE THAT TO US.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY I'M GOING TO DO WHAT I DID WITH, WITH MOST, UM, CASES THAT COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL, I'M GOING TO TALK TO THE PARISH ATTORNEY AS WELL TO GET UPDATED.
BUT I, I, I WAS, I THINK EUGENE FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION.
UM, I THINK IT WAS ALMOST A MONTH AGO WHEN, WHEN EVERYTHING STARTED BACK COMING UP, UM, AND HE EXPRESSED TO ME WHAT THE SENSES, THE SENSITIVITY, UM, AND THE FAMILY'S CONCERN.
SO I DO WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT WAS PROVIDED FROM THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
UM, AND, UM, AND I WANTED TO JUST KIND OF LET, LET THAT KNOW THAT THERE'S, UH, LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO REVIEW AND SEE.
AND THEN AGAIN, IT'S STILL A PROCESS LIKE, UH, COUNCILMAN BANK STATED, UM, WHEN WE DID THE STERLING CASE, WE WENT BACK AND FORTH WITH REVIEWING, UM, A NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, AND WITH THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE SEPARATELY, UM, WE DID OUR OWN INVESTIGATIONS TO TRY TO GET MORE INFORMATION.
AND SO, UM, DEFINITELY WANTING TO REITERATE THAT THERE IS A PACKAGE THAT I THINK OF US NEED TO, AS COUNCIL MEMBERS LOOK AT, AND COUNCILMAN DAN IS ALREADY COMMITTED TO PROVIDE AN AIR FORCE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER AND THE DOTS, AND PLEASE TO THE MICROPHONE.
WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN YOU SHARE WITH US ABOUT THIS SITUATION? THE ONLY THING THAT WE CAN SHARE COUNCILMEN IS WHAT IS A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD.
ANYTHING THAT ANYBODY COULD OBTAIN FROM A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST IS THE EXTENT OF WHAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT OUTSIDE OF THAT.
WE CAN'T PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
CAN YOU EXPOUND ON ANYTHING THAT'S ALREADY PUBLIC?
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THE ONLY THING THAT WILL BE PUBLIC RIGHT NOW THAT I KNOW IT WILL BE THE REPORT THAT MR. DELL WOULD HAVE, AND I'M, I'M NOT THE ONE TO SPEAK TO HER IN PORT, SIR.CITY, THE CITY PARISH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
IT WAS DONE BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
SO THE SHERIFF WOULD BE THE ONE TO SPEAK TO THE REPORT AND WHAT WAS DONE.
I, I DO UNDERSTAND AND RECOGNIZE THIS AS LONG BEFORE YOUR TENURE, AS THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
WHAT, IF ANYTHING, CAN YOU SHARE WITH US ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION? THE, THE INCIDENT HAPPENED, UH, 2013, OBVIOUSLY I WASN'T THE CHIEF OF POLICE AT THAT TIME.
IT WAS NOT IN THE CITY LIMITS.
UH, THE INVESTIGATION WAS WORKING BY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION, THERE WAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION THAT WAS CONDUCTED BY THE PREVIOUS CHIEF OF POLICE.
AND, UH, THAT INVESTIGATION CONCLUDED.
SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING YOU CORRECTLY AND CORRECT ME, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH CHIEF, UH, WE NEED A REPRESENTATIVE HERE FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT TO EXPOUND ON THIS INVESTIGATION THAT IS ALREADY PUBLIC, UH, TO TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FINDINGS.
THE INVESTIGATION DID NOT HAPPEN IN THE CITY LIMITS THAT HAPPENED OUTSIDE OF MY JURISDICTION AS THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.
UH, WE'VE HAD THE DISCUSSION, UH, WE'VE ASKED THE QUESTIONS OF THOSE, UH, WE KNOW WHO ARE ON THE AGENDA TO BE ASKED COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE? IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE MOVED IN THAT FIGHTER? SHAUNA CHIEF SAID THAT THE RPD DID THE INTERNAL INVESTIGATION CHIEF.
THERE, THERE IS A LAW IT'S CALLED THE LAW ENFORCEMENT BILL OF RIGHTS, THE LAW ENFORCEMENT BILL OF RIGHTS DETERMINES HOW POLICE OFFICERS ARE INVESTIGATED ADMINISTRATIVELY IN, WAS CONDUCTED ON THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.
UM, UM, AND THE OFFICERS WERE EXONERATED BASED ON THOSE ADMINISTRATIVE FINDINGS.
AND SO, UH, CONSEQUENTLY, THAT ENDED UNDER THAT PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE YOU COULD DO ANOTHER ONE AND ANOTHER INTERNAL INVESTIGATION.
ARE YOU LEGAL? WE'LL HAVE TO SPEAK TO THAT ON A LAWS.
THE LAWS ARE VERY SPECIFIC IN TERMS OF HOLIDAY ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION IS CONDUCTED THAT ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED.
UM, I BELIEVE UNDER, UH, UH, FORMER CHIEF CARDINALITY.
AT THE TIME, I GUESS I NEED TO ASK ANDY, CAN THIS ADMINISTRATION, UH, PERFORM AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION? YES, MA'AM.
UM, CAN THIS ADMINISTRATION ALSO PERFORM AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION OF THE SAME OFFICER REGARDING THIS MATTER? IN ANY OTHER MATTER? I HAVE TO CHECK WITH GINA MORRIS, WHO WAS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE.
I CAN FIND OUT I'LL LET YOU KNOW THAT COUNSEL ONE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT CAN DO, HOW DO WE CONTINUE? IT'S EIGHT.
I HAD TO CLEAR, BUT I'M NOT READY TO GO 30 MORE MINUTES.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW WE MOVE FORWARD.
WE'VE ALREADY MADE A MOTION TO EXTEND.
SO WE GO ON 30 MORE MINUTES BY THE WAY.
I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT TO THIS.
I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT TO THIS COUNCIL THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF THE NAACP JUST STOOD BEFORE US AND CLAIMED THAT A BATON ROUGE POLICE OFFICER STRUCK A HANDCUFFED PERSON IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD, DRUGGED THEM BACK INSIDE OF A HOUSE AND BEAT THEM.
THE DISCUSSION THAT JUST HAPPENED AMONGST THIS COUNCIL IN REGARDS TO THOSE ALLEGATIONS IS A TRAVESTY BASED ON THE ALLEGATIONS THAT WERE JUST MADE.
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THE ONLY WAY THAT THIS COUNCIL IS GOING TO HAVE A SERIOUS DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS ITEM IS TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.I'VE ALREADY MADE THAT MOTION.
I WOULD HOPE YOU GUYS WOULD RECONSIDER.
UM, THIS IS NOT, UH, THE WEIGHT OF THE ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE MADE HERE, UH, DO NOT FIT THE DISCUSSION THAT WE JUST HAD COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
I JUST WANT TO BRING A LITTLE POINT OF CLARITY ON THE, UH, INVESTIGATIONS.
UH, THE CHIEF REFERENCED THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION THAT WAS DONE BY HIS PREDECESSOR THAT WAS TO INVESTIGATION.
THE, HIS PREDECESSOR DID THE ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATION, BUT THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT DID THE CHROMA INVESTIGATION, WHICH IS THE REPORT THAT I HAVE DONE TO PROVIDE TO YOU GUYS AND THE FAMILY, IF THEY DON'T ALREADY HAVE IT SOUTH OF NUMBER MO YEAH, I GUESS THE BEST I CAN START OFF THIS WHOLE THING IS, IS I AGREE WITH EVERYBODY.
I THINK AS FAR AS WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT JEN ASKED SOME QUESTIONS.
I MEAN, THIS IS WE'RE TALKING EIGHT YEARS AGO, I GUESS, SENIOR COUNSEL, WOMAN BANKS.
IT WAS THE ONLY ONE AROUND OR ALIVE AT THAT TIME.
UM, I GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING AT IS I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO ASK AND I CAN'T GET ANY ANSWERS HERE.
UM, I'M HEARING THE ALLEGATIONS AND IT'S, UH, HE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
IT'S A TOTAL TRAVESTY AND I WANT JUSTICE, WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE.
I AGREE WITH Y'ALL A JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE DONE.
IT NEEDS TO BE DONE, BUT I'M ASKING Y'ALL TO ALLOW US TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION SO WE CAN ASK OUR ATTORNEYS THESE QUESTIONS THAT THEY CAN'T BE ANSWERED IN PUBLIC.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU ALL FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO.
AND, UH, IF HE'S RIGHT, IF IT CAN BE RECONSIDERED TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS, IT'S 8 0 5.
NOW TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO RECONSIDER THIS, TO DO EXECUTIVE SESSION, I MIGHT COME OUT AND ASK 150 QUESTIONS.
THAT'LL SATISFY Y'ALL, BUT I CAN'T ASK ANYTHING BASED ON LITERALLY JUST KNOWING ABOUT THIS TONIGHT.
WHEN WE STARTED, WHEN THE PUBLIC STARTED TALKING ON WHAT THIS WAS, NO PHONE NUMBER I'LL EXCUSE ME.
PARENTS HAVE TURNED THAT KENT.
CAN THEIR ATTORNEY COME TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION? NO, HE DIDN'T COME HERE.
SO LET ME PUT LIKE ASTRID ON THERE.
THE ATTORNEY OF RECORD FOR THEM, CAN'T COME INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
IF THAT IS THE WILL OF THE COUNCIL.
WELL, LET ME TALK AT THE SAME TIME.
LET ME, LET ME MAKE THIS ADJUSTMENT VERY QUICKLY.
I'M MAKING A SUGGESTION FOR A VERY, VERY SPECIFIC REASON, AND I WANT THE FAMILY TO UNDERSTAND WHY I'M GETTING READY TO MAKE THIS SUGGESTION.
IF WE MOVE PAST THIS ITEM TONIGHT, YOU DON'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR IT TONIGHT.
IF I DEFERRED, IF ITEM TO LATER IN THE MEETING, WE START THE NEXT MEETING WITH THIS ITEM.
I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO SEE THIS ITEM GO AWAY WITH THE FAMILY, NOT FEELING AS IF THOUGH WE'VE HAD TO DISCUSS WITH THAT NEEDS TO BE HAD.
WE DO HAVE, UH, PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA THAT, THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN BAITED ON, AND WE NEED TO TAKE THOSE ITEMS RIGHT NOW.
SO WE CAN MOVE THROUGH THAT PART OF THE AGENDA BECAUSE THERE IS CITY BUSINESS.
AND WE COME BACK TO THIS ITEM.
NOW, IF IT'S THE WILL OF THE COUNCIL THAT WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION RIGHT NOW, I SUPPORT THAT.
UH, SO IF THE WHEEL OF THE CAR, THERE WAS NOT, THERE WAS A MOTION MADE, UH, TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AND THEY FAILED.
WE CANNOT VOTE ON THAT MOTION AGAIN, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS VOTE ON A MOTION TO DEFER THIS ITEM TO LATER IN THE MEETING, YOU CAN NOT, YEAH, YOU CAN PROPER MOTION TO MOVE FOR SOMETHING TO BE MOVED TO LATER IN THE SAME MEANING YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO DEFER IT FOR TWO WEEKS.
POINT OF ORDER, LIKE JEAN IS SAYING THAT THE NON PREVAILING PARTY HAVE THE ABILITY TO RECONSIDER, UM, RECONSIDER THE ACTUAL, UM, MOTION.
UM, YOU CAN HAVE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE, UM, MOTION TO ENTER EXECUTIVE SESSION.
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE MADE BY SOMEBODY FROM THE PREVAILING PARTY SAID BY ONE OF THE MEMBERS VEILING OUR NON PREVAILER, UM, BY THE NON PREVAILING SIDE.
THAT'S MR. COLE, I GUESS SINCE I'M STILL AT IT A MINUTE SEVEN SPEAK.
UM, I MEAN, WOULD YOU, OKAY, GO AHEAD.
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AND I'VE KNOWN RONNIE FOR 20 YEARS, AND THIS AIN'T NOTHING AGAINST RONNIE, BUT I HAVE TO LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT MR. HALEY IS NOT THE FORMER ATTORNEY OF RECORD IN THE CASE YET HE HAS BEEN RETAINED BY THE FAMILY.AND I RECOGNIZED THAT HE KNOWS, I RECOGNIZE THAT, BUT THE ORDER HAS NOT BEEN SIGNED BY THE JUDGE APPOINTED AS ATTORNEY OF RECORD.
SO IN THEORY, HE IS NOT THE FORMER ATTORNEY OF RECORD FOR THE CASE WHERE THE SHIT IT'S UP TO Y'ALL, WHETHER Y'ALL WOULD ALLOW HIM TO DID COME IN, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR.
SO POURING OF CLARITY, WE'RE AT A MOMENT WHERE MO THIS DECISION MAKING TIME, WE, THE FIVE OF US WHO VOTED AGAINST GOING TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, AND ONE OF YOU CAN MAKE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THERE'S.
MOST OF THEM MADE BY COUNCIL NUMBER SEVEN, AND BY THE CHAIR TO RECONSIDER, YOU HAVE TO VOTE.
SO THE MOTION TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION FAILED, THAT WOULD MEAN THAT THOSE WHO VOTED IN FAVOR OF GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION LOST, THAT WOULD BE THE, THAT WOULD BE THE NON PREVAILING SIDE.
THE PREVAILING SIDE WOULD BE THOSE WHO VOTED NOT TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE HOFFMAN.
WE NEED ONE OF THE SEVEN MEMBERS WHO, UM, VOTED IN FAVOR OF GOING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO MAKE THE MOTION, TO RECONSIDER THE MOTION, TO ENTER, TO MAKE THE MOTION, TO RECONSIDER GOING INTO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION NOTION BY MR. MOKE, YOU CAN DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
NO, NO MOTION TO RECONSIDER BY MR. MERCK.
ROCCA MOTION HAS TO BE RECONSIDERED, AND THEN ANY OPPOSITION TO RECONSIDER THE ITEM THERE'S OPPOSITION FROM.
CAN WE DO, YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF INTO MODE.
I LIKE TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION THAT WE DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
THIS HAS, UH, OPEN INFORMATION.
IT IS NO WAY WE'RE GOING TO GET ALL THESE QUESTIONS IN 20 MINUTES.
SO IF WE DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS, THAT GIVES TWO WAYS FOR YOU ALL TO ACTUALLY MEET WITH THE PARISH ATTORNEY.
AS HE SAID, THEN WE CAN HAVE, IF WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK AND THEY SAY, WE CAN HAVE A MORE INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE ON A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO DEFER THE ITEM FOR TWO WEEKS.
AND MIGHT I SUGGEST FOR ANY OF YOU WHO WANT TO HEAR IN MORE DETAIL FROM THE FAMILY, STEPHANIE, AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH THE FAMILY.
I TALKED TO JANE TO HOURS, ENDLESS HOURS THIS MORNING ABOUT THE SAME ITEMS. SO AGAIN, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO DEFERRING THIS ITEM FOR TWO WEEKS? ANY OPPOSITION WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON A MACHINE IS ON A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
THIS IS THE MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
MOTION CARRIES BOTH AND PAIRS THAT TAKE THE ITEM UP AGAIN IN TWO WEEKS AND MOVE NOW TO ITEM 1 21.
[ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES]
GOING TO TAKE ITEMS 1 21 TO 1 41 TOGETHER.I'M GOING TO MOVE VERY QUICKLY THROUGH THOSE ITEMS. UH, THESE ARE ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES, LOT 12 SQUARE, 42, MONSANTO HIGHLAND FARMS, DISTRICT FIVE BRAIN MICE, JOSIE, $4,100, 1 22 LOT 90 POINT SWAT ADDITION, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER ROBBINS, RENTER, LLC, $70,100.
I HAD 1 23 LOTS 75 SQUARE, 100 SUBDIVISION, SOUTH BATON ROUGE.
MR. COUNTERS, A 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER ROBINSON RENTALS, LLC.
$37,100 ITEM 1 24, LOT 27, 8 SQUARE 24 SUBDIVISION BANK.
MR. TAN COLEMAN HOT BITTER SOUTHERN UNIFIED INC $65,600, 1 25 LOT FIVE SUBDIVISION MATTER.
METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
HOW BITTER ROBINSON WENT TO LLC? $12,500.
I HAD A 1 26 LOT, 180 5 SUBDIVISION BAKER HILLS DISTRICT TWO VENTS, HIGH BIDDER, KERRY HUBLER, $76,500.
ITEM 1 27, 24 SQUARE FOUR, UH, COUNSEL PARIS TOURNEY.
DOTSON CAN Y'ALL TAKE THAT, UH, COUNSEL THAT CONVERSATION OUTSIDE, PLEASE, SIR.
UH, UH, ITEM 1 27, 24 SQUARE FOOT.
IT'S OTHER BUSINESS SCOTLANDVILLE.
METRO COUNCIL INSTITUTE BANKS, HIGH BIDDER, ONE, A LEADER JOHNSON, $27,000 ITEM 1 28, LOT 81, A DASH 18 V.
METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE, NO HIGH BIDDER, FDR INVESTMENTS, $21,000 ITEM 1 29, LOT 46.
SOMETHING IS IN BROWNSVILLE, HIGH BIDDER, $8,500.
SECTION ONE SQUARE WD TO SUBDIVISION TRACK B DISTRICT TWO BANKS HAVE BEEN A HARRIS LLC.
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A 1 31 LOT 13 AND 15 SQUARE 14TH SUBDIVISION, SOUTH BATON ROUGE, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HAD A BIT OF MENARD CODE, $800.I HAD A 1 32 BY 15 AND 15, A SQUARE TWO.
SO THE BUSINESS THING IRMA ME MET THE CONSEQUENCE.
TWO BANKS, HIGH BIDDER ROBINSON RENTER, LLC, $200, 1 33 LOT 19 SIDE OF THE STRINGER DISTRICT TWO.
I DID A REAL ESTATE REFERRAL SERVICE AND $100.
I HAD A 1 34 BY 27 PLUS SQUARE THREE DISTRICT, TWO BANKS, HIGH, BETTER ROBINS WENT THROUGH THE LLC.
$200, 1 35 LOT, 1 42 SUBDIVISION SEASONED VILLAGE DISTRICT THREE TO GO DAY HIGH BIDDER, FDR INVESTMENT, $2,500.
I HAD 1 36 LOSS, ONE SQUARE, 15 SUBDIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, DISTRICT TWO BANKS, HIGH BIDDER ROBINSON RENTALS, LLC, $8,000, 1 37, LOT 47 PLUS SQUARE, 17 SUBDIVISION, 14 DISTRICT FIVE GREEN, HIGH BIDDER AND MALE QUIET $1,700 BY THE 1 38 LAST SIX.
SO THE VISION FRATERNITY PLACE DISTRICT TWO BANKS, HIGH BIDDER ROBINS WENT TO LLC.
8,500 ITEM, 1 39, LOTS FIVE SQUARED, 29 SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE, EXTENSION DISTRICT SEVEN COLE HIGH BETTER JEFFREY HILL, $2,100.
I HAD A ONE 40 LINE 22 SQUARE, THREE SUBJECT IN
I HAD 1 41 LAST SQUARE, 18 SUBDIVISION LEAVING THE COLLEGE ANNEX METRO DISTRICT TO BANKS, HIGH BITTER KEVIN BOTNET, $800 ALL.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEMS? 1 21 THROUGH 1 41 ITEMS, 1 21 TO 1 41 COUNCIL NUMBER BANKS.
SO ITEM, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS GONNA WORK.
PARISH ATTORNEY, BUT ITEM 1 32.
OH, HEY, I DON'T 1 32 ITEM, 1 34 AND ITEM ONE 40, ALL, ALL PART OF A POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENT, INJUSTICE GRANT FOR A BUYOUT.
WE'LL BE MEETING ON IT NEXT WEEK.
SO THEY ENTIRE, UM, SUBDIVISION OF SAINT IRMA.
SO I NEED THESE NOT TO BE APPROVED.
YOU CAN DEFER THOSE THREE DEFER.
I NEED YOU TO DEFER FOR 90 DAYS.
MOST OF IT FOR 90 DAYS, SECOND BY THE CHAIR AND THE OPPOSITION TO DEFER THOSE ITEMS. ONE 30 TO 1 36 AND ONE 40 FOR 90 DAYS.
THOSE ITEMS HAVE BEEN DEFERRED.
NOW WE NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEMS. 1 21 THROUGH 1 41 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 1 30, 2 36 AND ONE 40.
SO MOVED BY MOST SECONDED BY ADAMS AND THE OPPOSITION.
THOSE ITEMS HAVE BEEN DEFERRED.
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THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST TO DEFER TO A SEPTEMBER 22ND CONCURRENT AND MAYOR PRESIDENT AS TO REPLACE WHAT'S TO GOLDEN WHO HAS DECLINED APPOINTMENT.THIS IS A FOUR YEAR TERM EFFECTIVE JULY 1ST, 2021.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 42.
ANYONE WHO COULD SPEAK ON ITEM 1 42 BACK TO COUNCIL? OR IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER MOTION TO DEFER BY? YOU WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING, HUH? CAUSE I SKIPPED MY ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.
WE'LL GO BACK TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS AFTER 1 42, WE NOW 1 42 HAS BEEN DEFERRED TILL SEPTEMBER 22ND.
[ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS]
GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS, A 21 DASH 0 1 2 3 4 OPTIMIZATION THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF AIRPORT COMMITS TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARD AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND CITY OF BANDWIDTH AND THE PARENTS.IF HE'S BURIED WITHIN A SMALL COMMUNITY AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PROGRAM, THE AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR AND THE REASON THIS ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED AS ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER, DECIDING TO DEEM AN EMERGENCY.
SINCE WE RECENTLY INFORMED THE GRANT, WE WOULD NEED TO EXECUTE IT ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2021.
THE AIRPORT WAS RECENTLY AWARDED A SMALL COMMUNITY AIR SERVICE DEVELOPMENT GRANT ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION TO TARGET DIRECT AIR SERVICE TO THE WASHINGTON DC METRO AREA AND CHICAGO.
THESE FUNDS CAN SERVE AS A REVENUE GUARANTEE ON OTHER MEANS TO INCENTIVIZE THE TARGETED ROUTES OF THE SERVICE.
THIS IS A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES, TO ALLOW THE ITEM TO BE HEARD.
IS THERE A MOTION TO WHERE THE RULE WAS SO MOVED BY ADAMS? NONE PUBLIC HEARING IS ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO VOTE ON A MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULE.
DID ANY OPPOSITION ON THE MOTION? THE WAY THE RULES, WE NEED TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ITEM.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? WE GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVED BY ADAM SECONDED BY DONE.
WE GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER B 21 0 1 2 3 5 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESENT EXECUTING AGREEMENT WITH THE PIPE AND STEEL INDUSTRIAL IN THE AMOUNT OF $110,000 TO REPAIR THE RIVER DOCK LANDING BY BUILDING AND GROUNDS.
I RECORD THE REASON THIS ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED AS ADMINISTRATOR MATT.
AUTOBI THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT BY THE STEEL.
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DOLPHINS HAVE TO DAMAGED FROM THE HIGH WATER AND DEBRIS FLOATING ON A RIVER AND THE BOATS ON ABLE TO DOCK AT THIS LEVEL, IF THE REPAIRS AND MAY FURTHER DAMAGE TO DOC MAY OCCUR.AND WE HAD NUMEROUS OF VESSELS THAT DOCKY SUITE, THERE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGE DELIVERABLE, VESSELS, KIND OF TERROR, AND THE INTENDED USERS OF THE DOCK CAN'T BE USED SAFELY THERE.
MOST OF THE WAY, THE RULE, SOME MORE BY DONE SECOND BY ADAMS TO ALLOW THEIR ITEMS. IF YOU HEARD ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM ON THE MOST DELAYED RULES, GO BACK TO COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON THE MOST, THE WAY TO RULE WITH SOME MOVE.
I'D DONE SECOND AND BY ADAM, ANYONE, ANY OPPOSITION TO THAT MOTION? NOW WE CALL IT THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM ANYWAY, TO SPEAK ON THAT ITEM, BACK TO THE COUNCIL MOTION BY DON SECONDED BY ADAMS, ANY OPPOSITION, BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.
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NOW GO TO ITEM 1 43 BOARD OF APPEAL.THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST FOR THE FURTHER SIDE AND CONCURRENT MAYOR.
PRESIDENT'S REAPPOINTMENT OF REPLACEMENT OF PEACE CHILLERS.
THIS IS A FOUR YEAR TERM MEMBER AT LARGE.
ANYONE HAD TO SPEAK ON IN 41 43.
THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST TO DEFER THIS ITEM.
SO MOVE BY ADAM SECONDED BY GREEN AND THE OPPOSITION MOTION HAS BEEN DEFERRED, COMPLETE STREET ITEM 1 44
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COMPLETE STREETS, CITIZEN THAT BARBARA COMMITTED ONE APPOINTMENT TO CONCUR WITH THE NOMINATION BY THE BOARD OF THE MAYOR'S HEALTH, THE CITY INITIATIVE DISAPPOINTMENTS FOR FOUR YEARS.THE CURRENT BALANCE IS RACHEL DE RESTO.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 44, BACK TO THE COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER GOLDER.
OH NO, WE DO ABSTAIN FROM THIS VOTE.
STAYING FROM THE VOTE MOSTLY TO APPROVAL BY COUNCIL IN THE HUSTLE TO A POINT WHERE TO THE RESTO SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ROCCO, WE HAVE ONE EXTENSION.
ANY OBJECTIONS, MOTION CARRIES CHANGE
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ORDERS.I DON'T WANT 45 RIVER CENTER THEATER FOR PERFORMING ARTS IMPROVEMENT.
WE START CONTRACT A BANK
A CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, $298,426.
ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 45.
BACK TO COUNCIL THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE 1 45.
SO MOVED BY MOST SECONDED BY ADAMS, NO OPPOSITION TO GO TO
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1 46 AND CORRECTIONS DIVISION INTERIOR RENOVATIONS, RESTART CONTRACT DESIGN, BUILD ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, 31,500 $900 AND 8 CENTS.ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 46, WE GO BACK TO COUNCIL COUNCILOR THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION BY ADAMS. SECOND AND BARAKA, NO OPPOSITION TO GO TO ITEM 1 47.
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FINAL ACCEPTANCE IS CARVER BRANCH LIBRARY DAMAGE REPAIR OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR LUSTED GROUP, LLC CHANGE ORDER.FINAL COST IS $95,321 AND 41 CENTS.
I HAD A 1 47 BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY SOME OLD BY ROCKER? SECOND BY ADAMS, WE NOW GO TO ITEM 1 48
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ACCEPTANCE OF LOW BEDS GROUP, PROJECT SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS IN TURIN AVENUE, SIDEWALK, PROJECT, AND MULLINS DRIVE SIDEWALK, PROJECT, THE LUST OF GROUP LLC.ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 48 BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE MOTION BY HUDSON SECONDED BY ADAMS AND I POSITION ITEM 1 49
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ALPHONSE FOUR VOTE OVER SANDY CREEK ROOF REPLACEMENT, OMEGA FOUNDATION SERVICES, 1,000,435 POUNDS, $252 AND 57 CENTS.ANYWAY, I HAD A 1 49 SHOWING NONE BACK TO COUNCIL.
SO MOVED BY HUDSON SECOND TO THE SO MOVED BY LACA, SECONDED BY ADAMS. NO OBJECTION.
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TO ITEM 1 51.THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST TO DEFER UNTIL THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, RECEIVING A MID-YEAR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REPORT FROM BRECK BY COUNCIL, BY THE CHAIR ANYWAY, TO SPEAK ON WALK 51 BACK TO THE COUNCIL MOTION TO DEFER TO NEXT COUNCIL LEAN BY ADAM SEVEN DIVIDED CHAIR.
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RECEIVING A SECOND QUARTER OF 2021 REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR PERFORMANCES FOR GARBAGE TRASH, MULTI ITEM, WOODED WASTE, AND RECYCLE PICKUP BY COUNCIL MEMBER.IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 52? WE HAVE EIGHT MINUTES COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON.
WE'RE GOING TO DEFER REQUEST TO THE FURTHEST ITEM FOR TWO WEEKS BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON.
IT LOOKS AS IF THOUGH FOLKS ARE VETERAN SPEAK ON THE COUNCIL MEMBER.
HUDSON'S WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE.
I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET THROUGH ALL THE QUESTIONS AT THAT TIME.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GUYS WAITING THAT LONG.
UM, I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO THE FIRE AND I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE THAT Y'ALL HAD TO WAIT AND DON'T GET A CHANCE TO PRESENT, BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES.
SOMETIMES I WOULD ASK THAT WE BRING THIS UP SECOND, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE, AFTER THE PREVIOUS ITEMS, MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS BY HUDSON SECOND BY THE CHAIR, ANY GO AHEAD, COUNCIL MEMBER, JUST ON ASHLEY.
THIS IS REALLY FOR YOU ON ALL REPORTS.
I WOULD ASK THAT WE GET THEM IN ADVANCE.
UM, THE ONLY REPORT THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA WAS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REPORT.
I NEVER SAW THE POWERPOINT FOR CORRECT HEALTH AND I HAVEN'T RECEIVED A REPORT ON THE S AND HERE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S
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SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE AN ORDINANCE OR IF WE CAN JUST REQUEST THAT YOU ASK FOR IT IN ADVANCE, IT'S BEING DEFERRED.UM, BUT I I'D LIKE THEM IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING SO I CAN REVIEW THEM AND STUDY THEM.
UM, SO COUNCIL MEMBER, THE, UM, CODE OF ORDINANCES DOES NOT REQUIRE THAT THE REPORTS BE PROVIDED IN ADVANCE OF THE MEETING.
IF Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO PUT THAT REQUIREMENT IN, UM, THE CODE OF ORDINANCES.
I CAN WORK WITH PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN AN ITEM IS SUBMITTED, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S, UH, OR A REPORT IS PROVIDED WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING MAY ACT COUNCIL MEMBER, OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS, UM, DWIGHT HUDSON ACTUALLY SPONSORED AN ITEM WHERE BEFORE A REPORTS DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TO BE INTRODUCED.
AND THE ONE THAT PART OF THE REASON THEY WAS ONCE IS INTRODUCED THAT ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST A REPORT AND ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION.
AND ACTUALLY YOU CAN EVEN REGARDLESS, WHO'S THE SPONSOR.
YOU CAN ALSO ADD INFORMATION, UM, THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HEARING.
SO I THINK THAT DOES SUFFICE, BUT IT'S JUST THAT WE NEED TO, UM, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, BUT YOU COULD, EVEN IF I SPONSOR SOMETHING, BUT THERE'S INFORMATION YOU WANT, YOU CAN ASK THAT BE PART OF THE REPORT.
THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DEFER ITEM 1 52 MOTION BY HUDSON SECOND.
AND BY THE CHAIR THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO DEFINE ITEM 1 52, A TWO FOR TWO WEEKS, CORRECT? YES, SIR.
ANY OPPOSITION, UH, MOTION CARRIES, UH, WE WILL NOW ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
IS THERE A MOTION MOTION BY HIM, OR ALSO SECONDED BY ADAMS MEETING AS A GIANT ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND THE ANNOUNCEMENTS AS ALWAYS READ TO YOUR CHILDREN.
AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE READING TO THEM, MAKE SURE THEY READ BACK TO YOU, HAVE A WONDERFUL ONE TO FEED.
AND IF ALL OF YOU STAYED THE DISTANCE, THANK YOU SO MUCH.