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[CALL TO ORDER]
WELCOME TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH ON THE APP OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL AND MAYOR, PRESIDENT SHARON, WESTERN BROOM.WE WELCOME YOU TO OUR BROADCAST WHEREVER YOU'RE WATCHING.
WE ARE ON METRO 21 WE'RE ON AT AND T UVERSE CHANNEL 99.
WE'RE STREAMING ON OUR WEBSITE.
IT VR LA.GOV, AND WE ARE LIVE ON FACEBOOK LIVE AND THAT'S IN HIGH DEFINITION, 37 DIFFERENT ANGLES THAT YOU CAN SEE THE COUNCIL MEETING.
SO WELCOME TO THE MEET AGAIN TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DISTRICT FULL OF THESE BATON ROUGE PARISH COUNCIL NEED YOU SEE THE MAP OF OUR PARISH WIDE, UH, DISTRICTS RIGHT THERE, ONE THROUGH 12 AND UP TO THE RIGHT HAND CORNER AND DOWN UNDER NUMBER ONE IS NUMBER FOUR AND THAT'S FROM DENIM ROAD SOUTH.
THAT'S REPRESENTED BY COUNCILMAN AARON MOKE, AND THAT RUNS DENIM SOUTH.
AND YOU HAVE HEARD OF THE AMY RIVER, OF COURSE THAT'S TO HIS EAST AND THAT'S THE EASTERN BOUNDARY.
HE GOES OUT TO BLACKWATER AND YOU'VE HEARD NAMES IN CENTRAL LIKE SULLIVAN HOOPER ROAD, WAX JOR, UH, THE EAST SIDE OF SHERWOOD FOREST ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THERE.
AND OF COURSE IN CENTRAL THRUWAY PRINCETOWN ROAD IN MANY OTHERS, AND IT'S REPRESENTED BY A COUNCILMAN ERIN MOKE, COUNCILMAN MOAK IS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF CENTRAL AND OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH.
HE IS THE FATHER OF TWO SONS, TRAVIS SMOKE AND CARSON MOKE.
HE HAS SERVED OUR COMMUNITY FOR OVER 35 YEARS.
AND AT THE AGE OF 13, COUNCILMAN MOAT BEGAN SERVING AS A VOLUNTEER JUNIOR FIREFIGHTER.
WE HEARD ABOUT THE LOTTERY OR TODAY, AND HE'S BECOMING A, FULL-TIME PAID FIREFIGHTER FOR THE CENTRAL FIRE DEPARTMENT.
AND HE GOT HIS INFLUENCE FROM HIS DAD BECAUSE HIS DAD IS KNOWN FOR FIREFIGHTING LEADERSHIP ALL OVER LOUISIANA AND NATIONWIDE JOHN BOAK AND COUNCILMAN, I KNOW YOU'RE PROUD OF YOUR DAD SHORTLY AFTER GRADUATING FROM CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, HE BECAME A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER AND A SUCCESSFUL OWNER AND OPERATING, UH, OF EVOLUTIONS FOR 27 YEARS.
AND FOR 27 YEARS AGO, COUNCILMAN MOKE EXPANDED HIS VENTURE IN PUBLIC SERVICE.
AS A MEMBER OF THE CENTRAL AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, THE CENTRAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND LATER AS PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF CENTRAL AND THROUGH EXPERIENCES, COUNCILMAN AARON, MOE LEARNED A PASSION.
AS WE ALL KNOW FOR SERVING PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WAS ELECTED AS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST CITY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL, THE CITY OF CENTRAL, THAT WAS IN NOVEMBER OF 2006, COUNCILMAN MOAT SERVED ON THE COUNCIL FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE TERMS FROM 2006 TO 13 AND 14 TO 18.
AND THEN, UH, NOVEMBER OF 2018, HE DECIDED AGAIN TO RUN FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OF CENTRAL AND AS USUAL HE WON.
AND THEN THIS IS OUR MOMENT IN 2020, BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN HE DECIDED TO RUN FOR THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH REPRESENTING DISTRICT FOUR.
AND WE ALL KNOW THAT HE WAS SUCCESSFUL THERE.
AND, UH, COUNCILMAN, WE ALL ARE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE.
AND COUNCILMAN MOKE IS ALSO ON THE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM.
AND HE SERVES ON THE CRPC AS OUR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE.
HE'S ON THE SCREEN NOW, COUNCILMAN COUNCILMAN MOAT, DISTRICT FOUR ON THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL.
AND AT THIS TIME TO MY RIGHT IS THE MAYOR PRESIDENT PROTEST OF EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH, COUNCILMAN LAMONT COLE.
LET'S GIVE DENNIS A ROUND OF APPLAUSE, GREAT JOB COUNCIL MEMBER MOKE.
AND NOW WE WILL GO TO, UH, ASHLEY, DO WE HAVE A QUORUM? I LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
WE HAVE A QUORUM AND NOW WE'LL GO TO REVEREND CALVIN KLEIN.
WE'LL START YOUR BAPTIST CHURCH WITHOUT INVOCATION AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, WHEREVER CHOIR.
OKAY, LET US BOW OUR HEADS, HEAVENLY FATHER.
IT'S NOTHING THAT WE'VE DONE TO DESERVE IT, BUT IT'S YOUR MERCY AND GRACE AND YOUR LOVE.
WE THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL CITY OF BATON ROUGE FATHER.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE RESIDENTS, THE INSTITUTIONS, AND, UH, THOSE THAT SERVE AND THOSE WHO ARE IN LEADERSHIP FATHER, WE ASK TODAY THAT YOU WOULD GRANT THEIR HEADS WITH KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM FROM YOU, GIVE THEM HEARTS LIKE YOU SO THAT THEY CAN SERVE, UH, IN WAYS THAT PLEASE SHOOT FATHER.
WE JUST THANK YOU FOR OUR CITY.
AND WE ASK THAT YOU BLESS AND KEEP US SAFE.
THERE'S ANOTHER, THE BEST THAT WE ASK IN JESUS' NAME, WE PRAY AMEN.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS
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ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.THANK YOU, ROBERT CLARK GRADUATIONS.
AGAIN, WE SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK, DEDICATION AND EFFORTS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING IN TODAY AND THANK ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE AT HOME TUNING IN ITEM
[ADOPTION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
ONE ADOPTION APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES APPROVED THE ADOPTED THE MINUTES OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF JUNE 22ND, 2022, THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL'S ONLY MEETING OF JULY 20TH, 2022 IN THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AIRPORT COMMISSION OF JULY 12TH, 2022 BY THE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR AND TREASURER.IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE? WE'RE NOT GO TO COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL MEMBER DONE SECONDED BY THE CHAIR.
[INTRODUCTIONS]
PASSENGERS.YOU PLEASE READ THE INTRODUCTIONS.
NUMBER TWO, GRANTING A SALES TAX REBATE ESTIMATED AT, BUT NO MORE THAN $51,300 TO ASSOCIATE ASSOCIATED GROCERS INC.
LOCATED AT EIGHTY SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX EIGHTY SIX AND SELMA LANE.
THIS PROJECT WILL CREATE 12 NEW FULL-TIME JOBS BY PLANNING DIRECTOR, NUMBER THREE, A RESOLUTION APPROVING CALLING AN ELECTION AND THE ST.
GEORGE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NUMBER TWO PAIR SHOULD BE SPENT IN RATIO TO LOUISIANA ON DECEMBER 10TH, 2022, FOR THE PURPOSE OF AUTHORIZING THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF A FOUR MILS AD VALOREM TAX FOR DEVELOPMENT, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE OF THE FIRE PROTECTION FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT PERSONNEL OF THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS BY ST.
GEORGE FIRE PROTECTION, DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR, A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN EXCEPTION TO LOUISVILLE, LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTE 33, COLON 24 76, AND PROVIDING THAT THE TWO MEMBERS ELECTED BY THE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD BY THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE BATON ROUGE FIRE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO BE RESIDENTS OR QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE BY COUNCILWOMAN ROCCA, NUMBER FIVE, AUTHORIZING THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO INSTITUTE EXPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS AND OR TO TAKE SUCH OTHER ACTIONS AS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF LAND NECESSARY NECESSARY FOR THE MOVE BR CAPACITY PROJECT HOOPER ROAD JOR ROAD TO BLACKWATER ROAD BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER SIX, AUTHORIZING THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO INSTITUTE EXPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS AND TO TAKE SUCH ACTION AS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF LAND NECESSARY FOR THE MOVIE ART CAPACITY PROJECT BLUEBONNET BOULEVARD, PERKINS ROAD TO BACARDI AVENUE BY PARISH, ATTORNEY NUMBER SEVEN, AUTHORIZING THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO INSTITUTE EXPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS AND OR TO TAKE SUCH OTHER ACTIONS AS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF LAND NECESSARY FOR THE MAPR CAPACITY PROJECT LEAD DRIVE HOLLAND ROAD TO PARKINS RIDE OF THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER EIGHT, AUTHORIZING THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO ENTER THE EXPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS AND WHERE TO TAKE SUCH OTHER ACTION AS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF LAND NECESSARY FOR THE MOVIE ARC CAPACITY PROJECT JONES CREEK ROAD TIGER.
THEN TO JEFFERSON NUMBER NINE, AUTHORIZING THE PARISH ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO INSTITUTE EXPROPRIATION PROCEEDINGS AND OR TAKE SUCH OTHER ACTIONS MAY BE REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF LAND NECESSARY FOR THE MOVE BR CAPACITY PROJECT HENNESSY BOULEVARD, PERKINS CONNECTOR BY PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER 10, I'M IN THE 2022 ALLOTMENT OF POSITIONS FOR THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARISH SHOULD BE SPENT IN ROUGE.
SO IT'S TO CHANGE THE ALLOTMENT OF THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT BATON ROUGE, ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY GRANT AS FOLLOWS EFFECTIVE 11 AUGUST 11TH, 2022 MAYOR PRESIDENT THAT MERGE ADVANCING HEALTH LITERACY GRANT DELETE THREE COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR AND ONE ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALISTS AND ADD ONE PROGRAM ANALYST BY THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, URBAN DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR.
NUMBER 11, AUTHORIZED IN THE SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED TIANA STERLING VERSUS THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARISH SHOULD BE BATON ROUGE IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 75,000, I'M SORRY, IN AN AMOUNT OF $75,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $280 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $75,280 AND APPROPRIATING THAT SUM FOR SUCH PURPOSE BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER 12, AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED ERIC WILLIAMS VERSUS ETHAN MORE AT AL IN THE AMOUNT OF $71,000 PLUS COURT COSTS THE AMOUNT OF $264 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $71,264 AND APPROPRIATING THAT SUM FOR SUCH PURPOSE BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER 13, AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED TIMOTHY JONES VERSUS THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS SET OUT IN THE AMOUNT OF $452 AND 50 CENTS FOR A I'M SORRY, IN, UH, AN AMOUNT OF $65,000 PLUS COURT COSTS THE AMOUNT OF $452 AND 50 CENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $65,452 AND 50 CENTS.
AND APPROPRIATING THAT SUM FOR SUCH PURPOSE BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER 14, AUTHORIZED AND SETTLEMENT OF THE MATTER ENTITLED HEAVIER DONE VERSUS THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF $56,500 PLUS COURT COSTS THE AMOUNT OF $398 AND 12 CENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $56,398 AND 12 CENTS.
AND APPROPRIATING THAT SUM FOR SUCH PURPOSE BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY NUMBER 15, AMENDING THE 2022 OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET.
SO IT WAS TO APPROPRIATE 7 MILLION, $72,000 FROM GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE ON ASCEND TO BE USED FOR DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT, GRANT MATCH FACILITY, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC SAFETY EQUIPMENT, GRANT ADMINISTRATION, COMMUNICATION ENHANCEMENTS, AND UPDATES OF THE FUTURE BR PLAN AND
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FUNDING ASSISTANCE TO COMPANION ANIMAL ALLIANCE BY THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT NUMBER 16, ADMITTING THE 2022 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET JEWISH PROPRIATE $48,397,775 OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE LOCAL FISCAL RECOVERY FUND THROUGH THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT AND TO PROVIDE FUNDING AS DESCRIBED IN THE REQUEST FOR BUDGET SUPPLEMENT BY THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT NUMBER 17, AMENDING THE 2022 PAY PLAN FOR THE CLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED NON-CLASSIFIED CONTRACT FOREIGN POLICE EMPLOYEES, THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE.SO AS TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2022, REGULAR CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE PAY PLAN INCREASED 5% ALL CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE CLASSIFICATIONS, 5% ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE FOR ALL CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES PAY PLAN ATTACHED, MUNICIPAL FIRE PAY PLAN INCREASE 5% ALL MUNICIPAL FIRE CLASSIFICATIONS, 5% ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE FOR THE ENTIRE TIRE MUNICIPAL FIRE PAY PLAN.
MUNICIPAL POLICE PAY PLAN INCREASED 7% ALL MUNICIPAL FIRE POLICE CLASSIFICATION, 7% ACROSS THE BOARD INCREASE FOR THE ENTIRE MUNICIPAL POLICE PAY PLAN, PAY GRADE TRUNCATION, MUNICIPAL FIRE MUNICIPAL POLICE PAY PLAN POLICE OFFICER FROM STEP TWO TO STEP FIVE, 7% INCREASED BY MAYOR PRESIDENT AND THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR.
A NUMBER 18 AMENDING TITLE 11 TRAFFIC CODE CHAPTER SIX, DRIVING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ROADWAY, OVERTAKING AND PASSING USE OF ROADWAY.
SECTION 11, COLON 73, DRAG RACING AND RACING ON PUBLIC ROADS.
SO AS TO PROHIBIT AND ADD DEFINITIONS FOR STUNT ACTIVITY TO PREVENT SPECTATORS, TO PROHIBIT SPECTATORS, TO PROHIBIT ORGANIZING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, TO INCREASE PENALTY PROVISIONS AND TO ADD A PROVISION RELATED TO PRIVATE ROADS AND PARKING AREAS BY COUNCILMAN ROWDY, GO DAY AND THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT CONDEMNATION INTRODUCTIONS NUMBER 19, MATTHEW J CANON 5 2 2 6, DANI STREET, COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE, NO NUMBER 20 RICKY GLENN REYNOLDS AT AL 7 7 77 CHROMATE DRIVE COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS NUMBER 21, WANDA, MAURICE MORMON 9 0 2 5 REDBUD STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX DUNN JR.
NUMBER 22 FCU FEDERAL CREDIT UNION 9 1 7 NORTH 29TH STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN, COLD NUMBER 23 AMERICAN SERVICE ENTERPRISE INC 7 1 2 0 POINT AVERY COUNCIL DISTRICT NINE, HUDSON NUMBER 24, EUGENE BORDEN AND GOLDA GORDON, 2 0 3 5 PLANK ROAD COUNSEL, DISTRICT 10, HOMAN NUMBER 25, COLLIS B TEMPLE JUNIOR AND SANDRA JOHNSON.
1 8, 2 6 AND ONE EIGHT TO SIX AND A HALF NORTH 15TH STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 26, GERALD INGRAM 1, 2, 4, 5 CONVENTION STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 27, DARYL INGRAM 1, 2, 4, 1 CONVINCE CITRATE COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 28, CEDAR CREST SOUTHMORE RECREATION ASSOCIATION 1 0 2, 2 5 PATRICIA STREET COUNCIL DISTRICT 11 ADAMS DEDICATED A PROPERTY INTRODUCTIONS.
NUMBER 29 THAT 11 SQUARE ONE SUBDIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, METRO COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 30 LOT 16 SUBDIVISION, MONSANTO HIGHLAND FARMS, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 31 LOT 13 SUBDIVISION EPPERSON COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 32 LOT 27TH SUBDIVISION SHADOW OAKS TO STATES.
COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 33 LOT 1 28 SUBDIVISION HOLIDAY ACRES COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 34 LOT SEVENTEENS WHERE A SUBDIVISION BROWN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 35, LOTS 16 SUBDIVISION BROWN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 36, J R TUCKER PROPERTY COUNCIL DISTRICT ONE KNOW NUMBER 37 LOT ONE A PLUS FOREST SQUARE COUNCIL DISTRICT SIX DUNN JR.
NUMBER 38 LOT 2 81 SUBDIVISION EAST DAYTON COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 39 LOT 19 SQUARE ONE GREENVILLE ADDITION, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLD NUMBER 40 LOT 43 SQUARE SIX SUBDIVISION BANKS, COUNCIL DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 41 LOT.
ONE A SUBDIVISION TD BROUSSARD TRACK COUNTS OF DISTRICT ONE KNOLL NUMBER 42 LOT ONE PART SQUARE 35 MONSANTO HIGHLAND FARMS, COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE HEARST NUMBER 43 LOT FOUR SUBDIVISION MADDEN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
FIVE SUBDIVISION MADDEN COUNCIL DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
NUMBER 45, 11 SQUARE 47 SUBDIVISION GREENVILLE INDENTION EDITION COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE NUMBER 46, LOT 45 AND 46 SQUARE 27 SUBDIVISION FORTUNE COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE HEARST NUMBER 47, LOT 25 AND 26 SQUARE 40 SUBDIVISION FORTUNE COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE HEARST NUMBER 48, LOT 35 SUBDIVISION SHADE OF PLACE.
COUNCIL DISTRICT FIVE HEARST NUMBER 49 BOUGHT ONE SQUARE, THREE SUBDIVISION.
SCOTT COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN, ALL ITEMS THAT REQUIRE READING HAVE BEEN READ AND EMOTION TO DELETE ITEM 25 AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL WOMAN AND INTRODUCED TO ALL OTHER ITEMS IS IN ORDER.
WAS THERE A MOTION TO INTRODUCE ALL
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ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEM TWENTY-FIVE AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL WOMAN? I HAVE A QUESTION.I WANT YOU TO KNOW IF I COULD PUT A DELETE 33 THROUGH 35 SUNDAY, A CONDEMNATION.
UNDER THE INTRODUCTION ON PAGE SIX AND SEVEN.
I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO DELETE 33 34 AND 35.
AND INTRODUCE ALL ITEMS. THERE WAS A MOTION TO DELETE ITEMS. 25 33 34 35 36.
MY NUMBERS ARE 33 34 AND 35 CONSECUTIVELY, 33 34 35 AND 25.
AND INTRODUCE ALL IT ITEMS BY COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS A SECOND.
IF BILLY WOULD COME UP ON THESE ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES, WHEN THEY ARE WE GOING TO REFUND THESE PEOPLE THAT THEIR BEDS, OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? YOU JUST ASKED ME SINCE WE'VE ALLOWED THEM TO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO PULL THEM BACK.
I MEAN, DO WE REFUND THOSE PEOPLE THEIR MONEY OR HOW DOES THAT PROCESS WORK? THAT'S WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN.
THERE IS A MOTION TO, UH, INTRODUCE AND DELETE THOSE ITEMS. MOTION BY COUNCILMAN BEY, SECONDED BY HERS.
I THOUGHT WITH THAT, I JUST WANT THAT INFORMATION AT SOME POINT.
THIS HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOTIONED AND SECOND.
ANY OBJECTIONS? ALL OF THE INTRODUCTIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THOSE FOUR.
I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYBODY BACK.
WE'VE BEEN GONE ON A SHORT VACATION ON I THANK ALL OF OUR CITY PARENTS, EMPLOYEES WHO ARE WITH US.
I WANT TO THANK THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE VISITING WITH US TODAY.
I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A SPECIAL MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE OUR FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER REPRESENTING DISTRICT SIX.
DONNA CARLOS LEWIS IS STANDING BACK IN THE CORNER.
THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US TODAY.
AND ALSO I WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR SENATOR FROM THE GREAT DISTRICT OF 15 SENATOR REGINA ASKED YOU ABOUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND APPRECIATE, UH, COUNCIL
[CONDEMNATIONS]
MEMBERS.IF YOU WOULD PLEASE REFER TO YOUR SEPARATE SHEET FOR CONDEMNATIONS.
I'M GOING TO READ THEM AS IT IS STATED.
THEY ARE TO PROCEED WITH ITEMS NINETY SIX, NINETY SEVEN, NINETY EIGHT NINETY NINE, ONE HUNDRED ONE OH ONE ONE OH TWO ONE ZERO FIVE ONE ZERO SEVEN ONE ZERO EIGHT ONE NINE ONE TEN ONE ELEVEN ONE TWELVE ONE THIRTEEN ONE FOURTEEN, ONE FIFTEEN ONE SIXTEEN ONE EIGHTEEN ONE TWENTY DELETE ITEMS 1 0 3, 1 17 1 19 AND DEFER FOR 90 DAYS ITEMS 1 0 4 AND 1 0 6.
DELL BERENGER IS HERE FOR ITEM 98.
I REPRESENT AD KNOX AT KNOX IS THE OWNER OF THIS PROPERTY.
THE PROPERTY IS TIED UP IN LITIGATION.
I WAS HERE IN APRIL WHEN THE MATTER CAME UP AND WE ASKED YOU TO BE DEFERRED.
THE MATTER IS STILL IN LITIGATION, WE HAVE A JUDGMENT, A PARTIAL JUDGMENT THAT SAYS THAT WHOLES, THAT RIDDICK INVESTMENTS DOES NOT OWN THIS PROPERTY IS NOT A FINAL JUDGMENT YET.
IT'S SUBJECT TO A MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL AND AN APPEAL.
THAT PROCESS IS GOING TO TAKE 18 MONTHS.
MY CLIENT, AFTER THE APRIL MEETING ATTEMPTED TO GO OUT AND CLEAN UP THIS PROPERTY.
AND MR. RIDDICK RE REFUSE TO ALLOW HIM TO DO IT, GOT THE POLICE INVOLVED AND THEY ORDERED HIM OFF THE PROPERTY.
WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF OBTAINING A PERMIT FOR THE WORK AND WORKING WITH THE COURT TO TRY TO GET APPROVAL FOR MY CLIENT TO GO AHEAD AND CLEAN UP THE PROPERTY.
WE'RE ASKING THAT IT'D BE DEFERRED.
THE LITIGATION'S NOT GOING TO BE OVER FOR AT LEAST 18 MONTHS.
AS LONG AS YOU CAN DEFER IT, WE'RE ASKING IT TO BE DEFERRED.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COLTON WAS SHE PLEASURE NINE YEARS.
SO I'M GONNA DEFER THAT FOR 90 DAYS.
SHINE, T D FOSTER IS HERE ON ITEMS, 96, 97, 98, 99.
SHE IS IN FAVOR, BUT DOES NOT WISH TO SPEAK.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON CONDEMNATIONS.
ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON CONDEMNATIONS? WE'RE GOING TO GO NOW TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS, TWO WEEKS ON ITEM ONE 16, PLEASE.
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DAYS ON ITEM ONE 20, PLEASE.OH, YOU WERE RAISING YOUR HANDS.
WE'RE ASKING FOR A 60 DAY EXTENSION ON THAT ITEM.
I JUST DIDN'T SEE ANYONE ELSE.
ANYONE ELSE? MA'AM COME ON DOWN.
ARE YOU COMING DOWN? ARE YOU JUST AT SOMEBODY ELSE? OH, OKAY.
ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? ALL RIGHT.
WHO WAS THAT? WHO SPOKE LAST COUNCIL MEMBER.
ANYBODY ELSE? RIGHT? LET ME READ THIS, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CHANGES.
WHAT ITEMS? 96 98 99 1 0 1 1 0 5 1 0 7 1 0 8 1 0 9 1 11 1 14 1 18.
THEY OUGHT TO DELETE ITEMS. 97, 1 0 3, 1 17 AND ONE 19 TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS.
ITEM ONE 16 TO THE FIRST FOR ONE 30 DAYS, ONE 20 TO VERVE FOR 60 DAYS.
ONE 10 TO DEFER FOR 90 DAYS, ONE ZERO FOUR, ONE ZERO SIX, ONE HUNDRED ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE TWELVE, ONE THIRTEEN AND ONE 15.
ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN RED HOT, BUT 98, UH, LESS THAN 998 IS 90 DAYS.
ANYONE ELSE, MAN? I'M REALLY, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO LET ANYBODY SPEAK, BUT YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THE PROCESS OF WHAT YOU GOT.
NUMBER 97 IS IN OUR 2016, UH, DISASTER FLOOD PROGRAM TO BE REHABBED WITH THE DEVELOPER.
ANYONE ELSE? ANYONE ELSE? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONDEMNATION AND CHANGES? IS THERE A MOTION MOTION BY US IN SECOND HAND, MOROSA CONDEMNATIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
WE WILL NOW GO TO THE PUBLIC AREA.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE FOR ITEM 1 22.
I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WE'RE GOING TO DELETE.
I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, WE'RE GOING TO DEFER THAT ITEM.
THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST BY THE AUTHORS TO DEFER THAT ITEM.
WE'RE GOING TO DEFER THAT ITEM.
I AM GOING TO 1 21 FIRST, BUT I JUST WANT THOSE OF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 22 TO KNOW AHEAD OF TIME THAT WE'RE GOING FOR
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THAT ITEM.ITEM 1 21, AMENDING TITLE 12 NUISANCES CHAPTER SIX.
SO AS TO ASK SECTION 12.409 IN MICHIGAN, UH, OLDER NUISANCES AND ODORS AIR CONTAMINANTS BY COUNCIL MEMBER, DARRYL HERTZ.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 21? SENATOR REGINA BARREL COME ON DOWN.
MADAM MR. PROTIUM AND TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE METRO COUNCIL.
UH, I AM HERE TO SUPPORT THIS ORDINANCE BY COUNCILMAN HERS.
I HAD A COMMUNITY MEETING ON JULY 5TH WHERE, UH, IT WAS RE-EMPHASIZE RE-EMPHASIZE TO ME ABOUT THIS BEING AN NUISANCE IN OUR COMMUNITY CAUSES PEOPLE TO BE SICK.
AND SO I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS CERTAINLY MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UH, CERTAINLY I THINK THERE'S BEEN MULTIPLE ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE, BUT WE'RE STILL HAVING A PROBLEM AND I BELIEVE THIS WILL BEGIN TO ADDRESS IT.
UH, SO I AM IN FAVOR OF IT AND WOULD ASK FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 21, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 21.
YOU HAD ONE EMAIL COMMENT AND OPPOSITION TO ITEM 1 21 COUNCIL MEMBER HERTZ.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MURMUR IS THEIR SECOND SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOCHA, DO THEIR OPPOSITION ITEM.
COUNCIL MEMBERS NEED TO FRAME IT, PUT IT ON THE WALL AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.
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ITEM 1 22, UH, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, PARIS OF EAST, BETTER TITLE 13 CRIMINAL LAWS.SO AS TO, AS SECTION 13, COLON 1 0 7, CAMPING IN THE PUBLIC AREA, PROHIBITED BY COUNCIL WOMAN, LORI ADAMS AND COUNCIL MEMBER.
THE WHITE HUSSON ITEM WAS DEFERRED FROM THE JUNE 22ND, 2022 MEETING.
AGAIN, THOSE OF YOU WILL HEAR WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.
WE ARE GOING TO DEFER THIS ITEM TODAY.
YOU WILL MORE THAN WELCOME TO SPEAK.
YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO SPEAK, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO VOTE ON THIS ITEM TODAY.
AND I TELL FOLKS WHO ASKED ME ABOUT COMING TO THE COUNCIL TO SPEAK AT IS FAR BETTER THAN HAVING A GREAT IMPACT.
WHEN YOU SPEAK ON AN ITEM THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO VOTE ON ON THAT DAY, DOESN'T HURT TO SPEAK ON IT TODAY.
WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE TILL EIGHT 30 ANYWAY, HOWEVER, HOWEVER, IT IS A GREATER IMPACT TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM ON THE DATE.
SO IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON IT TODAY AND THEN COME BACK IN A FEW WEEKS, WHEN WE, WHEN WE ARE ACTUALLY GONNA VOTE
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ON ITEM, WE WELCOME YOU TO DO SO.WE APPRECIATE THE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 22, COME ON DOWN AND LINE UP RIGHT HERE.
GOOD AFTERNOON, JENNIFER CAR WHILE 1855 OLD CARRIAGE LANE.
UM, I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT IT IS BEING DEFERRED AGAIN.
I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL, UH, UH, AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH Y'ALL, UM, ABOUT, UH, SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM.
UH, SO I'M ASSUMING THAT YOU ARE WAITING UNTIL YOU FIND A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM BEFORE ACTUALLY TRYING TO VOTE ON THIS ISSUE.
UH, WHAT I WOULD ASK IS THAT Y'ALL TELL US ABOUT WHAT KIND OF SOLUTIONS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT BEFORE THIS GOES TO A VOTE BECAUSE, UH, I THINK FOLKS WHO ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE HOMELESS AND, AND ALSO FOLKS THAT ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR PROPERTIES WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE ACTUAL SOLUTIONS ARE BEFORE WE MAKE SOMETHING ILLEGAL.
THANK YOU THIS CAR WHILE I THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A VERY, VERY ROBUST CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS ITEM.
WHEN IT'S TIME TO VOTE, COME ON DOWN, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
CHARLOTTE CLAYBORNE, THE EXEC DIRECTOR FOR THE BIRTH CENTER FOR HOPE IT'S DIFFERENT TO BE HERE FOR SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN THE BRIDGE CENTER.
SO I JUST KIND OF WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE SPEECH AND BASICALLY JUST TO TALK ABOUT OUR POSITION, ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL COALITION OF HOMELESS, IT IS ESTIMATED AT 20 TO 25% OF HOMELESS PEOPLE COMPARE WITH 6% OF THE NON-HOMELESS HALF FOR SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS IN ANOTHER STUDY BY COALITION DOLL AND JUDY'S HOMELESS.
PEOPLE HAVE A HIGHER PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS WHEN COMPARED TO THE GENERAL POPULATION AND ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER FROM ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCY.
THE BRIDGE CENTER FOR HOPE WAS CREATED TO FEEL THE VOID OF QUALITY CARE FOR INDIVIDUALS IN CRISIS AND TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A MODEL FOR CRISIS SERVICES IN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, THE BIRTH CENTER SERVES AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE CROWDED EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND ACTS AS A DIVERSION TO PARISH PRISON, BUT ALSO KEEPING IN MIND THAT WE ARE NOT A HOMELESS SHELTER BECAUSE THE BRIDGE CENTER DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE.
WE PROVIDE QUALITY CARE TO INDIVIDUALS WITH ALL TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND SUBSTANCE USE CHALLENGES, INCLUDING THE HOMELESS POPULATION.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE TIMES WHEREBY WE HAVE TO DISCHARGE A GUEST TO THE HOMELESS SHELTERS DUE TO THE LACK OF RESOURCES WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
MY PERSONAL BELIEF IS THAT NO ONE INTENTIONALLY CHOOSES TO BE HOMELESS, BUT IT'S OFTEN THE RESULT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING FINANCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY.
THE RESOURCES ARE FOR HOUSE AND HERE AND ABROAD ARE INSUFFICIENT AND ARE OFTENTIMES DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON.
THE JOURNEY TO REHABILITATION IS DIFFICULT AND BY ADDING A CRIMINAL COMPONENT SUCH AS JAIL TIME AND FEES ONLY EXACERBATES THE SITUATION FOR SOMEONE WHO'S ALREADY STRUGGLING.
THE BRUCE AND OUR HOMELESS POPULATION FOR THOSE THAT WE DISCHARGED IN 2021 WAS 7% AT 159 INDIVIDUALS.
SO FAR FOR 20 21, 20 22 IS AT 9% WITH 106.
AND WE HAVEN'T MADE IT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE YEAR.
NEXT, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD PLEASE.
I'M JOINED BY MY COLLEAGUES, FLAREUP HOTTER AND MARIAM GUTMAN OR ATTORNEYS WITH THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER LOCATED IN NEW ORLEANS.
OUR COMMENT IS SUBMITTED IN OPPOSITION TO THIS ORDINANCE 22 0 0 7 6 1, WHICH CRIMINALIZES CAMPING BY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS IN THE CITY PARISH.
UM, WE URGE THE CITY TO INVEST IN EMERGENCY AND LONG-TERM HOUSING SOLUTIONS TO END HOMELESSNESS IN BATON ROUGE.
THE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SHELTER BEDS AVAILABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THE RISING NUMBER OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS IN BATON ROUGE ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT.
AS OF THE LAST IT FOUND BATON ROUGE HAD ABOUT 200 UNSHELTERED UNHOUSED PEOPLE A NIGHT FOR WHOM THERE WAS NO EMERGENCY SHELTER BED AVAILABLE.
AS A RESULT, PEOPLE WILL BE ARRESTED OR FIND UNDER THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE FOR DOING WHAT WE ALL NEED TO DO TO SURVIVE, FINDING A PLACE TO SLEEP.
THIS IS BAD PUBLIC POLICY, BUT WORSE.
THE ORDINANCES SWEEPING MEASURES LIKELY VIOLATE THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
FIRST, THE ORDINANCE LIKELY VIOLATES THE EIGHTH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS BECAUSE IT BANS PEOPLE FROM SLEEPING IN PUBLIC.
WHEN THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS IN BATON ROUGE IS GREATER THAN THE NUMBER OF AVAILABLE SHELTER BEDS.
BATON RUSES SHELTERS ARE ROUTINELY FULL AND SOME HAVE ENTRY LIMITATIONS AND TIME CONDITIONS.
AS A RESULT, HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS ARE ROUTINELY DENIED SHELTER AND FORCED TO SLEEP OUTSIDE THE ORDINANCES MERE REQUIREMENT THAT A POLICE OFFICER MAKE A REASONABLE EFFORT TO ADVISE HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS OF AVAILABLE SHELTER.
UM, TO THE BEST OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE IS INSUFFICIENT.
IF NO INQUIRY INTO THE AVAILABILITY OF SHELTER, BEDS IS MADE PRIOR TO ARREST OR CITATION THE ORDINANCE UNLAWFULLY PUNISHES AN INDIVIDUAL
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BASED ON THEIR HOMELESS STATUS.SECOND, THE ORDINANCE LIKELY VIOLATES THE 14TH AMENDMENT'S GUARANTEE OF PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS BECAUSE IT'S VAGUE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER UNDER SECTION C OF THE ORDINANCE SHELTER BEDS MUST ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE BEFORE AN OFFICER CAN SITE OR ARREST SOMEONE, OR WHETHER AN OFFICER MUST PROVIDE NOTICE ABOUT AVAILABLE SHELTER BEDS FIRST, AND THEN GIVING PEOPLE A CHANCE TO FIND SHELTER AND COME INTO COMPLIANCE.
IT'S ALSO UNCLEAR WHAT CONSTITUTES AN IMMINENT HEALTH OR SAFETY THREAT THAT WOULD EXEMPT OFFICERS FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION C ALTOGETHER.
THIS VAGUE LANGUAGE COULD LEAD TO CONFUSION AND TO ARBITRARY ENFORCEMENT OF THE ORDINANCE.
ALRIGHT, THIRD COURTS HAVE FOUND THAT IT VIOLATES THE FOUR FOURTH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS OF PROPERTY IS SEIZED WITHOUT ADEQUATE NOTICE AND DESTROYED.
THE ANDREWS HAS NOT ANNOUNCED ANY PUBLIC PLAN FOR WHAT IT WILL DO WITH PERSONAL PROPERTY.
IF PEOPLE ARE ARRESTED AND WE URGE THE CITY TO TAKE THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S LIMITATIONS UNDER ADVISEMENT, WE ALL SHARE THE SAME GOAL TO END HOMELESSNESS IN BATON ROUGE.
AND WE HOPE THE CITY WILL PRIORITIZE HOUSING OVER HANDCUFFED.
I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE.
YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK TO ME, MAN.
STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
I AM A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 10.
SO, UM, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A STORY TODAY ABOUT SOMEONE THAT I ENCOUNTERED.
UM, SOMEONE ONCE SAID THAT WE ALL NEED A HOME TO THRIVE TODAY.
I ENCOUNTERED AN UNHOUSED AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN IN A WELL-TO-DO NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE I STOPPED TO GRAB A BITE TO EAT AND UNHOUSED AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN CAME AND SAID ON A SHADED BENCH NEAR ME.
I SPOKE TO HER AND ASK HER TO COME OVER.
I MADE EYE CONTACT AND WE EXCHANGE NAMES.
WHEN I OFFERED TO BUY HER FOOD, SHE ACCEPTED, BUT DID NOT WANT TO ENTER THE STORE WITH ME.
I DID NOT MINCE WORDS AND ASK IF SHE WAS HOMELESS.
SHE SADA, BUT LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT, WHERE COULD I TELL HER TO GO? WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE? I BEGAN TO TELL HER ABOUT THE ORDINANCE AND TRY TO SPEAK, TRY TO BREAK IT DOWN TO HER.
AND AFTER I FINISHED SPEAKING AND I QUOTE HER, SHE SAID, THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME.
AND SHE WALKED AWAY AND WENT TO ANOTHER SHADED BENCH.
I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT COULD BE ME.
SO BEING UNHOUSED CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THE METRO COUNCIL CONSIDER THE, HOW WE KNOW THE WHY WE NEED THE HOW OF THIS PARAPROS LEGISLATION.
I DO HAVE SOME OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER AS YOU DELIBERATE WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS AND OTHERS ADVOCATES.
HOW DOES THIS ORDINANCE HEALTHY ON THE HOUSE? LONG-TERM HOW DOES IT FIX HOMELESSNESS? BUT THIS LEGISLATION IS LIKELY TO BE UNSUCCESSFUL WITHOUT ENOUGH AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WHICH WE ALL NEED TO AGREE ON WHAT THAT DEFINITION IS.
IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO GO BACK TO THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSE.
ONE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER TO DO MORE, TO CONVINCE THE PUBLIC OF THE NEED FOR HOUSING AND SHELTER.
ALMOST DONE MY WORK WITH THE LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO PRODUCE CONCRETE SOLUTIONS FOR THE ON HOUSE OF THIS CITY.
STATE YOUR NAME, ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
GOOD EVENING, MICHELLE CHARLES 1 0 3, 4 9, FIRE LIGHT AVENUE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
I, AND IT'S BEEN MIDLAND, BUT ALREADY IN
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REGARDS TO THE DISINGENUOUSNESS OF THIS ORDINANCE.UM, BUT ALSO I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S A DISINGENUOUS OF THE COUNCIL IN REGARDS TO, I'VE BEEN HERE TWICE ON THIS PARTICULAR ORDINANCE AND IT IS BECOMING AN INCONVENIENCE TO KEEP COMING HERE, TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER AND IT KEEPS GETTING DEFERRED.
SO I WOULD JUST ASK THAT THE COUNCIL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONSIDERATE OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS IN REGARDS TO THE FURRING AGENDA ITEMS. THANK YOU.
IT WOULDN'T BE A GOOD COUNCIL MEETING WITHOUT REVEREND ANDERSON NOW.
SO ROBIN NANCY, YOU WANT TO SPEAK LAST AND LET THESE OTHER FOLKS SPEAK BEFORE YOU BRIAN'S ASLEEP.
I MEAN, YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD 13 MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, SO WE'LL LET YOU SPEAK LATER.
ALL RIGHT, ROBIN ANSWER DROP THE MIC.
AS THEY SAY, GOOD AFTERNOON, I CAME HERE IS I DO MOST WEDNESDAYS DIRECTLY FROM COURT.
AND ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE USING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND ONE OF THE DEADLIEST JAILS IN THE COUNTRY AS THE DE FACTO HOUSING SHELTER, I'VE SAID THAT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT I NEED TO SHARE THREE THINGS WITH THE COUNCIL TONIGHT.
ONE AGAIN, I WANNA THANK COUNCIL WOMAN ADAMS, BECAUSE I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND THE SMALL D DEMOCRACY.
AND SO FOR HER TO HAVE TAKEN TIME TO TALK TO THE ADVOCATES INTO HERE, I THINK IT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
I THINK IT IS A NOBLE ENTERPRISE SOMETIMES TO PRETEND THAT SOME OF THIS LEGISLATION COMES FROM THE BEST OF PLACES, BUT KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
AND I THINK THERE ARE THREE PIECES OF KNOWLEDGE WE NEED TO ADD TO THESE CONVERSATIONS BEFORE WE CONTINUE THEM.
WHAT IS THE NUMBER? WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF HOMELESS? HOMELESSNESS IS DEFINED MULTIPLE WAYS IN BOTH THE FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS.
WE NEED TO ALL BE ON ONE ACCORD ABOUT WHO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
THE SECOND THING IS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT, THE CRIMINALIZATION, THE MINUTE YOU PUT SOMEBODY IN A JAIL, YOU WILL LITERALLY LOCK THEM OFF OF MOST OF THE SYSTEMS THAT COULD ASSIST THEM.
AND SO THE IDEAL THAT WE CONTINUALLY KEEP PUTTING EITHER FINES, FEES, OR CRIMINALIZATION INTO ALL THE THINGS THAT USED TO BE ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS AND NEIGHBORLY NESS.
AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, WHEN A HOMELESS PERSON IS IN JAIL, THEY CAN'T GET OUT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET OUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE AN ADDRESS.
SO IT'S NOT A SHORT STAY AND IT'S NOT UNTIL SOMEBODY FINDS A WAY TO HELP THEM.
AND THEN THE THIRD PIECE IS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE THIS ROAD OF CRIMINALIZING PEOPLE FOR POVERTY, THEN WE SHOULD AT LEAST CONSIDER FUNDING THE LEGAL COUNSEL THAT NEEDS TO BE AVAILABLE TO UNDO THE HARM THAT WE ARE DOING BY NOT CONSIDERING THE COSTS BEFORE WE BUILT THIS BUILDING.
THANK YOU, ROBYN ASKING ANYONE ELSE FISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM.
IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED SIX COMMENTS IN OPPOSITION TO ITEM 1 22.
THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION TO DEFERRED ITEM FOR 30 DAYS BY COUNCIL MEMBER, HUDSON SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO DEFER AN ITEM FOR 30 DAYS, COUNCIL, NUMBER MORE? UH, I APOLOGIZE.
I KNOW WE'RE DEFERRING IT, BUT, UH, WE STILL HAVE TO HAVE DISCUSSION ON IT.
AND I JUST GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE KINDA, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF WE COULD.
IS THERE ANY, IS THERE ANY REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SHELTERS HERE? HELLO, COUNCILMAN I'M MICHAEL CALDO AND I'M WITH ST.
VINCENT DEPAUL AND DEBORAH BLEACHER.
VINCENT DEPAUL, AND WE RUN A VARIETY OF SHELTERS HERE IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, PROVIDE FAMILY SHELTER, A SINGLE ADULT SHELTER, UM, APPROXIMATELY 82 BEDS FOR FAMILIES, UH, UH, AND, UH, OVER 54 MEN.
DO YOU HAVE A SET BUDGET? UH, WE, WE RUN THOSE SHELTERS, UM, AND THEY BUDGET FOR
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IT'S APPROXIMATELY ABOUT $1.2 MILLION WITHIN KIND DOLLARS.SO THAT'S IN KIND, YOU DON'T GET ANY ASSISTANCE, FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, UH, FUNDING AND, UM, UH, THREE, THE CITY PARISH, AS WELL AS THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
SO WHAT WITH THAT ASSISTANCE AND THE IN KIND DONATIONS AND EVERYTHING IS ABOUT 1.1.
UM, BUT WITHOUT HAVING MY FINANCIALS RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, UH, THE PANDEMIC HAS BEEN A LONG SEASON FOR US IN THE SHELTER AND HOMELESS SERVICES, UH, INDUSTRY.
UH, SO, UM, YOU KNOW, SAYING THAT'S A, DEPAUL DOES A VARIETY OF WONDERFUL WORK IN THE COMMUNITY WE'RE LEADERS IN PROVIDING HOT MEALS, UH, PROVIDING, UH, UH, HOME VISITATION AND ASSISTANCE THROUGH, UH, VOLUNTEERS THAT GO OUT AND MAKE HOME VISITS.
UM, WE'RE ABOUT A $10 MILLION A YEAR BUDGET OVERALL DOING A LOT OF GOOD ABOUT 90% OF OUR FUNDING OVERALL IS PRIVATE FUNDING, PRIVATE INCOME KIND.
UM, EVERY DOLLAR IS CRITICAL, WHETHER IT COMES THROUGH THE WONDERFUL OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND TASHA BACK THERE, UH, OR IT COMES THROUGH THE STATE AND THE LOUISIANA HOUSING CORPORATION, EVERY DOLLAR THAT WE RECEIVE, UH, HELPS US TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES THAT WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY IN A WAY THAT, UH, REALLY, UH, OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE A HOMELESSNESS, BRIEF, RARE, AND A ONE-TIME OCCURRENCE.
PHILOSOPHY OF GIVING A HAND UP, NOT HAND OUT.
AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT TIME'S TICKING DOWN.
UH, SO YOU BET ROUGHLY GOT ABOUT A $10 MILLION BUDGET OR WHATEVER, HOW MUCH OF THAT $10 MILLION BUDGET WOULD YOU SAY? AND I, AND I LOOK, Y'ALL DO AMAZING JOB.
I'VE SENT PEOPLE SHOPPING AT YOUR PLACES, UH, THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT OF THAT $10 MILLION BUDGET, HOW MUCH IS, IS DEDICATED OR BUDGETED FOR SHELTERING? UM, AGAIN, OF THE OVERALL BUDGET.
UM, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT MY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
I WASN'T PREPARED FOR THAT QUESTION.
I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, BUT IT'S, IT'S, UH, IN THAT 1.2 TO 1.5 RANGE, UH, BUT AGAIN, I'D HAVE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
YOU SAID THAT'S ABOUT 80 BEDS, 75 TO 80 BEDS, YOU SAID, OH, UM, NO, IT'S, UH, ACTUALLY, UH, OVERALL TOTAL BED CAPACITY IS, UH, RIGHT ABOUT 200, BUT WE HAVE BEDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR FREES NIGHTS, HURRICANES.
SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT FOR 1.2 TO 1.5 MILLION DEDICATED TO SHELTERING.
UH, THAT'S ABOUT 200 BEDS, CORRECT? AN EVERY NIGHT BED CAPACITY, OUR EVERY NIGHT BED CAPACITY, ABOUT 112 HUNDRED AND 12 RIGHT NOW.
AND DOWN TIMES, I'M TRYING TO GET THE NUMBERS TOGETHER AND FIND OUT WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
AND I WOULD SUGGEST IF THERE'S ANY OTHER, I KNOW WE HAVE SOME OTHER SHELTERING PLACES.
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS I'M GOING TO GO FOR.
PLEASE BRING YOUR NUMBERS, RIGHT? BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THIS FUNDING IS GOING FROM.
WE KNOW WE HAVE A HOMELESS PROBLEM.
WE KNOW WE NEED SHELTERED BEDS AND I GET IT.
THERE'S OTHERS OUT THERE THAT DO THE SHELTERING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
IT $10 MILLION BUDGET, 1.2 TO 1.5 ST.
THE LADY MENTIONED EARLIER AS A 200 BED SHORTAGE PER NIGHT.
AS FAR AS HOMELESS PEOPLE, WE'VE GOT 112 UP TO 200, 1.2, 1.5.
I'D LIKE TO SEE WHERE WE ARE ON THE OTHER ONES.
I MEAN, IT SEEMS LIKE TO ME, IT'S ABOUT RESOURCES AND FUNDING TO HAVE THESE PLACE FOR THE SH TO ADD MORE SHELTERING AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
SO I JUST, I WANTED TO JUST KIND OF GET AN IDEA.
I WAS HOPING THERE WOULD BE SOME OTHERS HERE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE THERE'S NOT, WE CAN START WITH THESE NUMBERS.
AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, ANYBODY LISTENING AS FAR AS OTHER SHELTER PROVIDERS.
I, UM, I WANT TO KNOW SOME NUMBERS.
I'LL EMAIL YOU THOSE NUMBERS AND THANK YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS, MICHAEL MICHAEL, HOW YOU DOING? COME ON.
DEBORAH IS THE REMARKABLE HUMAN BEING.
THAT IS THE ONE THAT PROVIDES ALL THE SHELTER OVER 20,000 GUESTS NIGHTS LAST YEAR MARKETABLE.
ARE YOU ALL MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO YOUR, UH, WE ARE VERY MUCH, UM, EMBRACE THEIR PHILOSOPHIES, UH, THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE, UH, FOR HOMELESSNESS.
SO WE, UH, WE, WE ARE MORE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOUISIANA BALANCE OF STATE, UH, UH, UH, BOS COC CONTINUUM OF CARE.
AND OF COURSE WE WORK LOCALLY VERY CLOSELY WITH THE OFFICE COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS.
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OKAY.UH, IS SOMEONE HERE FROM THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT? TOSH, TASHA GOT A NEW LOOK, GONE, GIRL.
DO YOU ALL, UM, ARE YOU ALL PART OF THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS? DO YOU ALL WORK? OKAY.
BECAUSE WHAT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WITH THE ALLOWANCE, THE ALLIANCE, THE ONLY SOLUTION TO HOUSING IS A HOUSE.
AND IT ALSO, AND ONCE YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, HOUSING FIRST IS THEIR MODEL, BUT THEN THAT'S WHEN YOU ADD ALL THE ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
SO IS THERE A PARTICULAR PROGRAM UNDER OCD THAT ACTUALLY, UH, UM, EITHER FOLLOW ONE OF THE TWO MODELS WITH THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HOMELESS AND WHETHER IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE ALWAYS, THEY FIRST PUT, GET YOU IN THE HOUSE, THEN THAT'S WHEN THEY DEAL WITH WHETHER IT'S, UH, FINDING A JOB BUDGETING OR THE OTHER MODEL HAS TO DO WITH MENTAL HEALTH, DISABILITY, WHATEVER.
SO HOW DO, HOW DOES THAT WORK? BECAUSE THERE ISN'T AN END, BUT HOW, WHERE DO WE DO? I DON'T, I JUST DIDN'T WORK.
SO I THINK THE PREVIOUS APPROACH TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO CREATE THESE INDIVIDUAL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT AREAS.
AND SO NOW WE'RE MOVING TO THIS APPROACH WHERE WE'RE CREATING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES.
AND SO NOT ONLY ARE WE INTRODUCING AFFORDABLE HOUSING INTO THERE, WE'RE ALSO INTRODUCING NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS, LIKE WRAPAROUND SERVICES FOR MENTAL HEALTH, UM, FOOD STAMPS, GET PEOPLE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, DISABILITY, GETTING VETERANS BENEFITS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT, BUT ARE THEY FIRST FINDING, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THIS IS ANOTHER THING CURRENTLY.
ARDEN IS AT A TIME WHERE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, THERE'S A HOUSING SHORTAGE AND IT HAS BEEN, UM, TOTALLY INCREASED AS A RESULT OF THE PANDEMIC.
BUT ALSO WHAT WE ALSO LEARNED NATIONWIDE THAT THE, THE AMOUNT OF RENT IS ASTRONOMICAL.
SO YOU HAVE TWO BARRIERS THAT HAVE EXISTED IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, WHICH IS WHY THOUGH WE'VE ALWAYS HAD A HOMELESS, UM, UH, HOMELESSNESS PROBLEM.
FOR THE MOST PART, IT WAS SITUATED IN THE, I'LL SAY THE, I CALL IT THE ENTERTAINMENT PART, BUT AGAIN, IN DOWNTOWN BATON ROUGE AND THEY KIND OF MIGRATED AROUND THE INNER UNDER THE INTERSTATE, BUT HOMELESSNESS HAD NEVER REALLY BEEN A PROPERTY, A PROBLEM, UM, THAT WE SAW AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE PROBLEM IN THE COMMUNITY OF SKYLAND DEAL.
SO FOR ME, THAT IS A DIRECT CORRELATION TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS A LACK OF HOUSING AND THAT, UM, RENT IS SKY SKY HIGH.
SO FOR ME, I WOULD REALLY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT THIS BE DEFERRED, BECAUSE I KNOW ARE YOU LOOKING LIKE THAT? I KNOW I WANT TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE, IS THAT TO DO IT ONLY? AND I MIGHT NOT GET A SECOND, BUT TO ME, AND I AGREE WITH THE YOUNG LADY WHO SAID, JUST DO YOU MEAN DELETE? CAUSE THERE'S ALREADY A POSTED DO I'M SO SORRY, DEFEAT DELETE.
AND I DID TALK TO TWO COUNSELING MEN, UM, HUDSON ABOUT THIS, BUT I REALLY DO BELIEVE THIS IS NOT A POPPY FINGER KIND OF PROBLEM.
SOMEONE DOESN'T JUST WAKE UP ONE DAY AND PUT A 10 OUT IN THE MIDDLE EDIT THAT IS AS A RESULT OF DESPERATION, THAT IS A RESULT OF BEING MOVED.
BUT OUR CITY, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, WE HAVE IT.
BUT I THINK ALL OF THE PERSONS WHO ARE INVOLVED WITH HOMELESSNESS AND WHATEVER PROGRAM THAT COUNCILMAN HUDSON, HOWEVER THEY ARE WORKING.
BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PLAN THAT LEADS TO SUSTAINABILITY IN HOUSING, THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS, GETTING PEOPLE IN HOUSES, GETTING THE SERVICE IS YES, IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN, UM, WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE CAMPING OUT SOMEWHERE BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE LAWS WHERE IF IT'S PRIVATE PROPERTY, THEY GOT A MOVE THAT'S NORMAL.
SO WHY ARE WE, WHY IS OUR FOCUS ON THIS VERSUS HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE INTO SUSTAINABLE HOUSING? THAT SHOULD BE THE FOCUS.
AND ONCE THOSE THAT IS A FRAMEWORK THAT WE ALL CAN AGREE IS SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND PEOPLE ARE NEGLECTING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
THEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO MOVE TO THIS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR PEOPLE.
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LEFT A CONFERENCE IN NASHVILLE.EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT HOMELESSNESS.
EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT THE LACK OF A SUSTAINABLE HOMES FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE IN.
IF IT IS A NATIONAL CRISIS, CAMPING IN PUBLIC AREAS IS NOT A NATIONAL CRISIS.
PEOPLE LIVING ON THE STREETS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS AND WE SHOULD, THAT IS, SHOULD BE OUR FOCUS.
SO YES, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE DELETE THIS ITEM THAT WE, AND IF ANYTHING, COME BACK WITH WHAT IS A MODEL PLAN, UM, THAT OCD AND THE DIFFERENT PERSONS THAT COULD SUPPORT THIS KIND OF WORK CAN MOVE US FORWARD.
SO, UM, MOTION TO DELETE THE ITEM.
THERE IS A MOTION TO DELETE THE I THERE'S A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO DELETE THE ITEM AND DO A SECOND SECONDARY ABOUT COUNCIL MEMBER HERTZ.
WE'RE NOW GOING TO COUNCIL MEMBER HOUSE TO SPEAK.
HEY, I JUST WANT TO ASK, UM, MR. UH, MICHAEL, A QUICK QUESTION.
CAUSE HE GAVE LIKE, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN HOMICIDE.
I THINK Y'ALL HEARD MY SPEECH LAST TIME, UM, ABOUT MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN MY FIGHT TO ERADICATE HOMELESSNESS.
BUT MY QUESTION FOR YOU IS YOU HAVE ATTEMPTED $2 MILLION BUDGET.
VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DOES A LOT OF VARIOUS CHARITABLE ACTIVITY.
UH, SO THAT'S HOW MUCH IT DID ALL THE HOMELESSNESS.
UM, YOU KNOW, UM, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I THINK IT'S IN THAT 1.5 TO $2 MILLION NUMBER, UH, I, I REALLY DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, UM, BECAUSE I'M THE CEO, NOT THE CFO SAID, UH, AND I WASN'T REALLY PREPARED.
I WAS MORE PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT THE NUMBER OF BEDS, HOW WE RESPOND TO FREEZES HURRICANES AND THAT THING.
AND BY THE WAY, I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE THE LAST METRO COUNCIL MEETING, BUT I, YOU KNOW, W W YOUR COMMITMENT, COMPASSION TO PEOPLE WHO FIND THEMSELVES EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IS A SIGN THAT WE SHARE.
MY LAST QUESTION IS SO MANY PEOPLE, UH, NOT, NOT, UH, REPEAT, UH, CUSTOMERS, BUT REPEAT, UM, CLIENTS.
DO YOU HAVE, HOW MANY ORGANIC CLIENTS DO YOU HAVE EVERY YEAR? YOU HAD TO SAY? YEAH, WELL, THERE'S A, I'M IN MY 33RD YEAR AT ST.
SO YOU SAY THE LAST TWO, THREE YEARS, LAST TWO, THREE YEARS, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF DUPLICATES, UH, JUST BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT, UH, HOUSING IS VERY HARD TO FIND.
AND, UH, THE PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE A LITTLE BIT RELATIVE TO THAT ISSUE.
SO WITH THE FAMILIES, WE HAVE A MUCH BETTER TRACK RECORD THAN WE DO WITH A SINGLE ADULTS, UM, IN GETTING IN FINDING HOUSING.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW, THERE'S A COORDINATED ENTRY PRIORITIZATION LIST, AND IF YOU'RE IN A SHELTER VERSUS BEING ON THE STREET, YOU HAVE A LOWER PRIORITY.
SO FINDING SOMEONE HOUSING THAT'S AN, A SHELTER SOMETIMES CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CHALLENGING, BUT WE DO OUR BEST TO WORK WITH A, A L A B O S C O C AND OTHER LAC, UH, EFFORT TO REALLY COME TOGETHER AS A CONTINUUM OF CARE.
SO THE NUMBER OF GAIN WHEN THE PEOPLE YOU SERVICE FOR YOU, OH, OKAY.
20,000 GUESTS NIGHTS LAST YEAR OF THOSE 20,000 GUESTS NIGHTS, UH, WE SERVED, UH, APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 750 DIFFERENT SINGLE ADULTS, PARENTS WITH CHILDREN.
SO DOES THAT SEVEN 50 INCLUDE THE KIDS TOO? YES, SIR.
AND AGAIN, I'LL ENCOURAGE YOU TO DEFER THIS ITEM SO THAT WE CAN ADD SOME CLARITY.
UM, FIRST, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO ALL OF THE ADVOCATES THAT HAVE ENGAGED WITH US ON THIS.
UM, THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I THINK THAT WE'VE TAKEN FROM THE DIFFERENT ADVOCACY GROUPS THAT THEY BROUGHT TO US, AND WE'RE WORKING TO CLARIFY THOSE AND ADD THOSE TO THE LANGUAGE.
UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT, UH, THE IMPETUS FOR, FOR THIS ITEM FOR ME, UH, IS AN ISSUE ON, ON ODO LANE AND ON CDN, UH, WHERE ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, WE'VE HAD THE GOOD FOLKS AT ST.
VINCENT DEPAUL OUT THERE TO OFFER SERVICES WHERE BEDS WERE AVAILABLE AND WERE TURNED DOWN, RIGHT? SO THIS IS PEOPLE MAKING A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO LIVE IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH IS NOT THE SAFE PLACE FOR THEM TO BE.
NOW, WE'VE HAD FIRES SET IN THESE AREAS RIGHT NEXT TO ROADWAYS.
UH, WE'VE HAD ISSUES WITH TRAFFIC IN THE AREA OF CERTAINLY CRIME AND THAT KIND OF THING THAT COMES WITH IT AS WELL.
UH, THE IDEA BEHIND THIS ORDINANCE IS NOT, AND I, I JUST, I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANYBODY, UH, TO AVOID THIS TYPE OF LANGUAGE.
THE IDEA BEHIND THIS ORDINANCE IS NOT TO CRIMINALIZE HOMELESSNESS.
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CAMPING AND THE RIGHT OF WAY, AND THE RIGHT OF WAY IS NOT A SAFE PLACE, UH, TO BE HOUSING FOLKS.THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO ON, UH, ON THE HOMELESSNESS ISSUE.
UH, AND WE NEED TO CLARIFY THIS ORDINANCE AND BE ABLE TO USE IT AS A TOOL FOR GETTING PEOPLE TO THE SERVICES THAT THEY NEED.
AND THAT'S THE GOAL THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
SO THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER DONE.
SOMEONE ASKS FOR SHELTERS TO COME UP OR PEOPLE REPRESENT SHELTERS.
I KNOW MS. RILEY JACKSON WAS STANDING.
COULD YOU TELL US THE NAME OF THE SHELTER? WHAT'S YOUR CURRENT CAPACITY? OKAY.
VERNA BERLIN JACKSON IS MY NAME AT ONE TOUCH MINISTRIES TO SHELTER, AND IT'S A TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, BUT THE THING ABOUT IT, IT'S FOR A RING ENTRY, MEANING COMING OUT OF INCARCERATION.
SO IF YOU GOT TO CHARGE SOMEBODY TO GO, YOU'RE GONNA CHARGE THEM $200 A CAMPAIGN THEY'LL PUT ME IN.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO PAY $55 A NIGHT FOR THEM TO BE THERE.
SO THERE NEEDS TO BE A BETTER PLAN FOR THIS.
HOW MANY BEDS MS. MS. BRENDA JACKSON? 42.
ARE YOU CURRENTLY GETTING ANY FUNDING FROM THE CITY OF PARIS? NO, SIR.
LET'S MAKE SURE YOU GET WITH TASHA OVER HERE SO YOU CAN MAKE SURE YOU GUYS GET SOME FUNDING.
ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE HEARD TONIGHT FROM ADVOCATES WAS ABOUT THE BEDS AND THE CAPACITY FROM A STANDPOINT, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH OF THEM IN OTHER CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES? THEY MAKE SURE THAT WE DO HAVE, THEY DO HAVE ENOUGH BEFORE THEY BRING A PARDON.
AND EVEN SOMEBODY TALKED ABOUT FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSPECTIVE WHERE EITHER STATE OR LOCAL LAW PROHIBITS LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM, UH, ARRESTING, UH, GIVING US SOME LISTS, ALL FINE.
IF THE BED CAPACITY IS NOT THERE, UM, I WOULD HOPE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN ADAMS AND EVERYBODY THAT'S ADVOCATING FOR THIS ODD, IT'S MAKE SURE THAT WE ADDRESS THIS ISSUE OF BED CAPACITY BEFORE YOU PURSUE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS.
SO MAKE SURE YOU GET WITH TASHA SONJA'S OVER HERE WITH OCD AND THE CITY PASS AND MAKE SURE Y'ALL GET SOME FUNDING SO WE CAN INCREASE OUR VA CAPACITY.
THANK YOU, TOM, FROM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING FORWARD, UH, WITH THAT INFORMATION.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING YOU DO ON YOUR OWN.
I MEAN, DOING IT FOR 25 YEARS.
AND YOU HAVE NO ASSISTANCE FUNDING OR NOTHING.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE AND WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO, UM, THAT I'M DOING WITH IT AND NOT TRYING TO PROVIDING THE SHELTER.
I APOLOGIZE IF I SAID IT THE WRONG WAY.
UM, I DISAGREE WITH DELETING THIS ITEM, HAVING THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA, WHETHER WE DEFER IT OR NOT, OR WHATEVER IS WHAT'S CAUSING THIS DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW, UM, IT'S CAUSING US TO LOOK AT IT'S CAUSING US TO EVALUATE IS CAUSING US TO, UH, SEE WHAT WE HAVE OUT THERE.
OPEN OUR EYES, NOT ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC SAKE, BUT FOR OUR SAKE ITSELF.
UM, SO DELETING THE ITEM IS NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING BUT QUIET, THE WHOLE THING DOWN, MOVING ON THE BACK BURNER.
AND IT, IT JUST SITS THERE AND GOES NOWHERE.
SO PLEASE DO NOT VOTE TO DELETE THIS OFF THE ITEM, UM, TO SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE NOW, BUT WITH THE RESOURCES AND EVERYTHING THAT'S AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THERE'S A COUPLE OTHER PLACES.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR BUDGETS ARE.
THING LIKE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THERE'S, THERE'S MONEY OUT THERE TO GROW THESE SHELTERS.
AND I UNDERSTAND YOU NOT GOING TO IMMEDIATELY FIND HOMES FOR THEM.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND AN APARTMENT AND I'LL GO FIND A HOUSE FOR THEM TO MOVE INTO IMMEDIATELY.
BUT A SHELTER IS A PLACE TO GET THEM OFF THE STREET, NOT IN A TENT SITTING ON SIDE OF THE ROAD.
I, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT I DID, IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING TRIPS THAT I TOOK WAS TO SAN FRANCISCO, UM, LAST MONTH.
AND I I'M GOING TO HAVE PICTURES AND EVERYTHING BECAUSE I, IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT A CITY THAT DID NOTHING AND IT'S TRYING TO EVEN PLAY CATCH UP RIGHT NOW IS SAN FRANCISCO, DOWNTOWN OUTSKIRTS, GOLDEN GATE, UM, CITY HALL HOTELS, ALL AROUND IN SAN FRANCISCO.
THEY HAVE BUS LANES, THEY HAVE DRIVING LANES, THEY HAVE A BIKE LANE, AND THEN THEY HAVE SIDEWALKS.
YOU LITERALLY CANNOT WALK, USE THE SIDEWALKS BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY TENTS AND PEOPLE LIVING IN THE, ON THE SIDEWALK, UM, IN THEY'RE EITHER IN WHEELCHAIRS, I TALKED TO THIS ONE ELDERLY LADY WHILE I WAS THERE AND SHE KEPT CROSSING THE STREET, KEPT CROSSING THE STREET.
AND I ASKED HER, I SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, WHY DO YOU STOP? WHY ARE YOU NOT? YOU KNOW, WHY, WHY AREN'T YOU JUST, YOU KNOW, OVER
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HERE OR WHATEVER ELSE SHE SAID, HEY, SHE HAD TO BE ABOUT 60 OR 70 YEARS OLD.SHE SAID, I HAVE TO KEEP MOVING.
CAUSE IF NOT, ALL OF MY STUFF WILL BE TAKEN.
THEY DON'T NEED TO BE OUT THERE IN THOSE SITUATIONS.
SO I AGREE THAT WE NEED TO FIND SOMEWHERE FOR THEM TO GO.
BUT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT I SEE AND COUNCILMAN HUDSON BROUGHT THIS UP.
IT'S THE ONES THAT REFUSE THE HELP.
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT OUT THERE REFUSING HILL.
THERE WAS SOME ON THE NEWS THAT SAID THEY CAME TO BATON ROUGE BECAUSE THEY HEARD HOW LAX IT WAS AS FAR AS THE HOMELESS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
I MEAN, THEY, THEY STATED IT ON THE NEWS AND I UNDERSTAND THEY HAD SITUATIONS, BUT THEY CAME HERE FOR A REASON.
HOPEFULLY WE CAN TAKE CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
WE CAN HELP THESE SHELTERS AND EVERYTHING BY HELPING THEM EITHER FIND MONEY OR, OR FACILITATING, AND THEN GET THESE PEOPLE SOMEWHERE THAT THEY CAN GO, WHETHER IT'S FOR THE EVENING OR A FEW DAYS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN HELP THEM OUT.
SO I WOULD ASK, DO NOT DELETE THIS ITEM, CONTINUE TO DISCUSSION, LET IT GET DEFERRED.
AND LET'S KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS AND FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION BEFORE WE BECOME SAN FRANCISCO OR ONE OF THE OTHER CITIES.
AND I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT LARGER THAN US, BUT THERE'S OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT ARE OUR SIZE THAT ARE WAY OVER WHAT WE ARE.
AND WE NEED TO DEAL WITH THIS RIGHT NOW, COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, SO OFTEN, AND I I'M TELLING YOU ALL WHAT I KNOW BECAUSE IN A NOTHER, YOU KNOW, LIFE, I DID THIS SO OFTEN WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOMELESSNESS, ALL YOU THINK ABOUT IS THE BAG LADY AND THE GUY UNDER THE BRIDGE.
THERE'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT POPULATION.
YOU ALL, YOU HAVE UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH THAT ARE OUT THERE, YOU HAVE CHILDREN.
AND THEN IT HAS BEEN SAID ABOUT, AND THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SHORTAGE OF SHELTERS HERE.
AND BATON ROUGE ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
AND NOW IT IS WORSE THAN YOU'VE GOT UNDERSTAND, NOT ALL SHELTERS, EXCEPT EVERYBODY.
IF YOU GO WITH THE CHILD OVER THE AGE OF EIGHT, GUESS WHAT? THAT BOY'S NOT GOING IN WITH MAMA.
MAMA WAS GOING TO TURN DOWN THAT BED BECAUSE HER CHILD CANNOT GO IN THERE WITH HER.
THE OTHER THING IS THAT THEY HAVE TO BE IN BY A CERTAIN TIME OUT BY A CERTAIN TIME.
THEREFORE, IF THEY WORK, YOU NOT GOING IN A SHELTER, IF THAT IS THE CASE BACK, WE USED TO HAVE A BATON ROUGE HOMELESS PLAYING IN.
AND THAT PLAN INCLUDED WRAPAROUND SERVICES FOR THIS POPULATION THAT INCLUDED HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT, WHICH IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
THEN WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING OFF THE BUS, LET ME TELL YOU THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT POPULATION.
YOU ALL, THOSE THAT ARE COMING FROM THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES THAT ARE GIVEN TICKETS AND WHAT THEY COME TO THE BUS STATION DOWNTOWN, HAVE NO FAMILY, NO NOTHING.
AND THEY ARE, THEY ARE, YOU GO BY THE BUS STATION, YOU WILL SEE A LOT OF FOLK DOWN THERE AND THAT'S A PART OF THAT POPULATION.
SO, AND THEN A LOT OF TIMES FOLK THINK OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND, NOT SO NOT.
SO YOU, WE, THERE GOT TO BE A PLAN IN PLACE IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THIS POPULATION.
AND THEN IF THERE IS A PLAN IN PLACE, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE WORK IN THIS PLAN, THIS IS NOT A CALLING FOR EVERYBODY.
AND SO WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING ON THE OUTSIDE, YOU STANDING ON THE OUTSIDE, LOOKING IN AND YOU REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE INSIDE.
THEN YOU NOT THE PERSON THAT OUGHT TO BE WORKING WITH THIS POPULATION.
I KNOW THAT THE SHELTER OVER THERE ST.
VINCENT DEPAUL, THEY, MOST OF THE TIME THEY AWFUL.
AND SO YOU HAVE THE MEN SIDE, THEN YOU HAVE THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN'S SIDE.
THEN YOU HAVE ZONTA HOUSE, THE BATTERED WOMEN'S
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SHELTER THERE.THEN YOU HAVE THE SHELTER OVER THERE, ST.
AGNES WHERE THOSE CHILDREN, UH, AFTER A CERTAIN AGE.
AND IF THEY ARE, BOY CAN NOT GO IN THERE.
THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH SHELTERS AND NOT ENOUGH MONEY GIVEN TO THESE SHELTERS.
SO UP AGAIN, I AGREE THAT THERE HAS TO BE A PLAN DEVELOPED YOU ALL.
AND THEN REMEMBER IT TELLS YOU THAT THE POOR WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS.
SO THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO ERADICATE OVER NIGHT.
AND THE LAST THING IS, PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY OF US JUST MAY BE ONE, TWO, OR YOU DOING WELL, IF YOU THREE PAYCHECKS AWAY FROM BEING HOMELESS.
SO YOU NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF ALL OF THIS AND NOT JUST LET ONE LITTLE PIECE OF SOMETHING, MAKE YOU JUMP HERE TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR BIGGER ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE HAVE TWO MOTIONS ON THE FLOOR.
THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION IS TO DELETE THE ITEM.
THE ORIGINAL MOTION IS TO DEFER THE ITEM FOR 30 DAYS.
WE ARE GOING TO VOTE ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION FIRST, PLEASE OPEN THE MACHINE MACHINES ARE OPEN ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO DELETE.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO, UH, THE ORIGINAL MOTION TO DEFERRED ITEM FOR 30 DAYS, THE ITEM HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR 30 DAYS.
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COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD NOT GO TO ITEM 1 23 AUTHORIZED SETTLEMENT OF THE METAL INSIDE OF LAWRENCE MAYSVILLE AT ALL IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AT ALL.AND THE AMOUNT OF $125,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,177 AND 12 CENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $126,177 AND 12 CENTS.
AND APPROPRIATING $126,177 AND 12 CENTS FOR SUCH PURPOSE BY THE PARENTS' ATTORNEY.
IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 23.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE COUNCIL MEMBER HUSSON LIKE THAT? SO WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS THIS ONE.
THERE HAS BEEN A REQUEST TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS THIS ITEM.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO GO ON TO EXECUTIVE SESSION, TO DISCUSS ITEM RECESSED TO EXECUTIVE SESSION UNTIL JEREMY, IF YOU TAKE A SEAT TIME NOW, SIX O'CLOCK, WE'VE GOT 174 ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, AND WE'RE ONLY AT 123.
IF YOU TAKE TO SEE YOU LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING BACK TO ORDER, WE'D LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING BACK TO ORDER.
UH, WE WERE RESUMED WITH ITEM 1 23, AUTHORIZING A SETTLEMENT IN THE MATTER INSIDE OF THE ALARM, BEIJING AND THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AT ALL IN THE AMOUNT OF $125,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,177 AND 12 CENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT, THE ONE $26,177 AND 12 CENTS AN APPROPRIATE ONE AT $26,177 AND 12 CENTS FOR SUCH PURPOSE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 23? WE NOW GO TO THE COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION MOTION TO DENY BY COUNCILMAN MOKE SECOND? AND THERE'S A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN, NOR WAS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO THE MOTION TO DENY ITEM 1 23 HAS BEEN DENIED
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ITEM 1 24, AUTHORIZING SEDIMENT CLINIC, GEICO CASUALTY COMPANY, SOS LORELLA PEERS FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM AUTO ACCIDENT CAUSED BY THE BATON ROUGE POLICE OFFICE IN THE AMOUNT OF $16,252 AND 29 CENT PAID TO GEICO CASUALTY COMPANY AND SUBURBIA OF LORETTA PEERS BY A PARIS ATTORNEY.HAS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEND 1 24? I AM 1 24.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 1 24, SOME MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. SECOND OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS ITEM 1 24 WITH NO OPPOSITION HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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ITEM 1 25, OTHERWISE A SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM OF LIBERTY MUTUAL AND REGINA HARP FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM AN AUTO ACCIDENT CAUSED BY BALANCE POLICE OFFICER IN THE AMOUNT OF $11,070 AND 75 CENTS PAID TO LIBERTY MUTUAL AS SUBURBIA REGINA HAWK BY THE PARIS ATTORNEYS, ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ITEM 1 25.WHEN I GO TO COUNCIL THAT THEIR MOTION TO APPROVE.
SO MOVED BY COUNCILMAN BATAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, HER SIDE, AND 1 25 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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ITEM 1 26, AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, THE REFUND AND ERRONEOUS REMITTANCE OF SALES AND USE TAX AND GALENA EQUIPMENT RENTAL LLC.IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000, 60 $250,642 81 CENTS FOR REMITTING SALES AND USE TAX.
IF HE'S MET WITH PARIS ON EQUIPMENT DELIVERED OUTSIDE THE PARISH FOR A PERIOD OF APRIL 1ST, 2020 THROUGH APRIL 30TH, 2020, AND CALLS FOR SUCH REFUND TO BE CHARGED AGAINST THE TAX REVENUE IS BY FINANCE DIRECTOR.
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IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK AT 1 26? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER TO CHAIR.DOES ANYONE OPPOSITION HAVING NONE? WE GO TO ITEM
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1 27 AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND OR CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION TO EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT, WHICH RED CURTAIN DOLLAR ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED TO PROVIDE PRELIMINARY DESIGN SURVEYING DESIGN, AND BIDDING SERVICES FOR THE NORTHWEST AVIATION DEVELOPMENT TAXIWAY AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $292,427 AND 53 CENTS.IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK NINE AND 1 27? WE'RE NOT ABLE TO COUNCIL MEMBER SO MOVED BY DON SECONDED BY, IS THAT A SECOND OR YOU WILL JUST WANT TO SPEAK, UH, SPEAK, OKAY.
SECONDED BY A COUNCIL MEMBER, HERS.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO COUNSELING AND WE'LL GO THERE.
I, I ASKED, UH, EMAIL MIKE EARLY IN THE WEEK, THE NEXT FEW ITEMS. I JUST WANTED THEM TO GIVE US A LITTLE BRIEFING ON, CAUSE I THINK THEY'RE IMPORTANT ITEMS FOR OUR AIRPORT.
SO WE'LL TAKE THEM ONE BY ONE.
OBVIOUSLY, IF YOU COULD HANG UP THERE, BUT YOU'LL JUST TALK US THROUGH MAYBE AN ELEVATOR VERSION OF IT, BUT, UH, WHAT, WHAT THIS ITEM IS ABOUT.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, MIKE EDWARDS, DIRECTOR OF AVIATION BATON ROUGE AIRPORT.
UM, ITEM 1 27 IS FOR A DESIGN, UH, SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH SHRED KURKENDAHL AND THEY WERE SELECTED THROUGH THAT, UH, EAST BATON ROUGE, PARISH ENGINEERING SURVEY, UM, THEN SELECTION BOARD.
UM, THE PROJECT IS BEING DESIGNED TO, UH, INSTALL A TAXIWAY CONNECTING TAXIWAY FOXTROT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE AIRFIELD TO AN UNDEVELOPED PIECE OF LAND THAT WE HAVE OVER ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE FIELD.
UM, IT'LL PROVIDE PUBLIC ACCESS FOR AIRCRAFT TO THAT AREA.
UM, AND WE'LL ALSO BE CONSTRUCTING A PUBLIC APRON AS PART OF THE PROJECT TO, UM, DEVELOP THAT SIDE OF THE FIELD.
UM, AND ONCE THE TAXIWAY HAS BEEN, UH, DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED, THEN THAT'LL FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANGERS ON THAT BATTLEFIELD, WHICH WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR THE AIRPORT.
OUR COUNCIL MEMBER DOES SECONDED BY COUNSELOR.
MY HERTZ IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED WHEN I, WHAT ITEM
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1 28 AUTHORIZATION OF THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION TO EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT, PRIVILEGED ENGINEERING, LLC, TO PROVIDE PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF SERVERS, SIGN AND BIDDING AND CONSTRUCT SERVICES FOR THE EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT THAT AMOUNT, NOT TO EXCEED $76,544 BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR.IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 28.
WE NOW GO TO THE COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNSELOR.
MADONNA SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR, MOROCCO.
SO THIS PROJECT IS TO REHABILITATE OUR EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT.
WE PUT IT ON HOLD BECAUSE OF, UH, COVID.
WE ARE USING AIRPORT DOLLARS TO FUND THIS PROJECT, BUT THE PAYMENTS AT THE END OF ITS USEFUL LIFE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO DO A, UH, PIVOTAL DESIGN, UH, PROJECT TO DO A MILL AND OVERLAY OF THE ASPHALT PAVEMENT AND REPLACE THAT WITH, WITH NEW PAVEMENT.
THERE'S BEEN A MOTION TO APPROVE.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION ITEM? 1 28 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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1 29 AUTHORIZATION THAT THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF AIRPORT COMMISSION EXECUTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH ONE OF OUR STATE FOR ONE YEAR INSPECTION AGREEMENT WITH FEARLESS TRAY TESTS IN 28 BLOCK REPAIRS TO DIVISION AND THE HANDLING OF THE 13 DEPARTURE GMAS, BATON ROUGE, METROPOLITAN AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $77,250 BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR IS ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON 1 29.SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, DON SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, GO DAY.
SO, UH, EMASS STANDS FOR ENGINEERED MATERIAL ARRESTING SYSTEM.
IT'S A SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE INSTALLED AT THE END OF THE RUNWAY, UM, TO, UM, MITIGATE THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE, WE HAVE A NON-STANDARD SAFETY AREA ON THAT END OF THE RUNWAY.
UM, WE'RE ACTUALLY WORKING TO RELOCATE THAT SECTION OF PLANK ROAD, UM, ON THE ROADWAY IN SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY ELIMINATE THE EMASS SYSTEM AND ELIMINATE THIS REOCCURRING MAINTENANCE COSTS.
BUT UNTIL THAT PROJECT'S COMPLETE, UH, WE HAVE TO DO THIS ANNUAL AGREEMENT WITH RUNWAY SAFE.
THEY'RE THE ONLY, UM, PROVIDER IN THE UNITED STATES.
THAT'S CERTIFIED BY DLT OR DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTATION TO WORK ON THESE TYPES OF SYSTEMS. THEY'RE ALSO THE MANUFACTURER AND, UM, WHAT THEY DO EACH YEAR AS THEY COME OUT, THEY DO A FIELD STRING TEST, PROVIDE US WITH A REPORT THAT, THAT THE SYSTEM, UH, WILL, UM, WORK AS, AS DESIGNED.
UM, AND THEN THEY DO A SPOT REPAIRS WHILE THEY'RE OUT ON DO PROVIDE US WITH A FULL INSPECTION REPORT.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO GOING TO BE REPLACING 28 BLOCKS, UH, AT THE SAME TIME.
SO THEY'LL PROVIDE, UH, ONSITE SUPERVISION TO THE CONTRACTOR WHO, UM, WAS THE LOW BIDDER OR THE BLOCK REPLACEMENT.
AND YOU MIGHT, THERE'S AN EMOTION TO APPROVE.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION? THERE'S BEEN A MOTION TO APPROVE WHEN A SECOND IS IN YOUR OPPOSITION SHOWING NONE ITEM.
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NOW GO TO ITEM ONE 30.THERE'S A REQUEST TO DEFER THIS ITEM FOR 30 DAYS, AUTHORIZATION WITH THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION EXECUTED TRANSPORTATION NETWORK, COMPANY, LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH RIVER, NORTH TRANSIT, LLC, FOR A PERIOD UP TO FIVE, HE IS AT A RATE OF $3 PER PICKUP AT THE BANDWIDTH, MUCH PROMINENT AIRPORT AND OTHER
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ASSOCIATED FEES BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR IS ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE 30.IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER.
ADAM, IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION ITEM HAS BEEN DEFERRED? WE GO
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TO ITEM 1 31 AUTHORIZING THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL TO DECLARE A LOT 20 SQUARE 15 FAIRFIELD SUBDIVISION, MUNICIPAL ADDRESS.28 40 WASHINGTON AVENUE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 7 0 8 0 2 AS SURPLUS PROPERTY AND NOT NEEDED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSE AND AUTHORIZING THE SAME, THE SALE OF THE SAME PURSUANT TO LOUISIANA REVISED STATUTE 33, COLON 47, 12 ONTO DARYL WILLIAMS FOR THE SUM OF $17,500 BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY.
THERE IS A REQUEST TO DELETE THIS ITEM.
THERE'S ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK HAD A 1 31 WHEN ALGO COUNCIL MEMBERS IS THERE MOTION TO DELETE SOME OLD BY COUNCILMAN MARACA, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, HERS ITEM 1 31 HAS BEEN DELETED.
YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? OKAY.
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1 32, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO APPLY AND ACCEPT GRANT FUNDS FROM THE U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY-BASED TRANS DISCIPLINARY RESOURCE AND SERVICE CENTER FOR TRAUMA HEALING OF EAST BANDWIDTH PARIS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1 MILLION AND AUTHORIZE THE EXECUTION OF ALL DOCUMENTS THAT CONNECT THERE WITH BY MAYOR.IS THERE ANYONE HERE WE CAN JUST SPEAK ON ITEM 1 32.
WE NOW GO TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO ACCEPT A GRANT MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROCKER.
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NOW GO TO ITEM 1 33, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESENT ON BEHALF OF THE CORONER'S OFFICE, 222 AND A GRANT AGREEMENT AND ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 FROM THE IRENE W AND CB PENNINGTON FOUNDATION TO HIRE A DEATH INVESTIGATOR, TO REDUCE THE WORKLOAD OF EXISTING INVESTIGATORS, THEREBY PROVIDING QUICKER RESPONSE TIMES TO GRANT WILL BE USED TO PAYING FOR THE INVESTIGATOR SALARY AND BENEFITS.AND IT IS 100% FUNDED BY THE PENNINGTON FOUNDATION WITH NO MATCHING FUNDS REQUIRED BY THE CORONER'S OFFICE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 33.
UH, GALEN MACK IS HERE AND IN FAVOR OF ITEM 1 33 AND WISHES TO SPEAK.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? I WANT 33.
SECOND BY COUNCILMAN ROCCO ITEM 1 33 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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WE NOW GO TO ITEM 1 34, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESENT TO A MINUTE COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT WITH THE BIG BUDDY PROGRAM FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT FROM $420,850.
SO IN A MONTH NOT TO EXCEED $760,000 BY MAYOR PRESIDENT, IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 34, PLEASE COME DOWN AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
BLAKE FOLLOWS, COME ON DOWN FOR BLAKE FOWLER.
I AM THE PROUD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE BIG BUDDY PROGRAM.
I LIVE AT 1 5, 2 LLO DRIVE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA.
UM, I WANT TO FIRST SAY THANK YOU, UM, COUNCIL, THANK YOU MAYOR.
FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE, UM, DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYEE BR N O S S TO DELIVER THE MAYOR'S YOUTH WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE THIS, UM, THE PART THAT BIG BUDDY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR, FOR WE CALL LEVEL UP.
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 300 OF THE 500 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE PROGRAM THIS SUMMER, THE LEVEL UP, UM, MODEL, UM, LINKS OR CONNECTS YOUNG PEOPLE TO POSITIVE ROLE MODELS.
IT HELPS THEM EXPLORE THEIR FIELD OF INTEREST.
IT CONNECTS THEM TO PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT WILL INFORM THEIR GROWTH INTO PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS AND A TRAINED WORKFORCE POOL.
WE ARE PRODUCING WORK READY YOUTH.
THIS SERVICE PROVIDED, UM, USING THE LEVEL UP MODEL IS A REIMBURSABLE COOPERATIVE MODEL, UM, IN COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT, WHICH PROVIDES A REIMBURSEMENT ON A PER YOUTH SERVED BASIS.
THE INVESTMENT THAT IS MADE PER YOUTH IS AROUND $3,000 HALF OF WHICH THIS INVESTMENT GOES DIRECTLY TO THE YOUTH IN A PERFORMANCE STIPEND.
THE OTHER HALF IS USED FOR STAFF.
IT'S USED FOR CERTIFICATIONS THAT ARE EARNED DURING THE SUMMER THAT THEY CAN USE FOR THEIR ON TIME GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS.
IT'S USED FOR TRANSPORTING THE YOUTH TO AND FROM SPECIAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH CAREER DEVELOPMENT, TRANSPORTING
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THEM TO AND FROM, AND IN SOME CASES, THEIR INTERNSHIP SITES, UM, TRAINING SPACE USAGE AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT GO WITH RUNNING A PROGRAM OF THIS MAGNITUDE.WE ENJOY THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY, WHICH ALLOWS BIG BUDDY TO LIVE OUT AND EXPAND THE REACH IN OUR MISSION OF BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS THAT ADVANCE AND INSPIRE OUR YOUTH TO CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE.
I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE COMMUNITY WE BOUGHT WITH US TODAY, WHO BELIEVES ALSO IN THE MISSION AND SEES THE RESULTS OF THE WORK WE DO.
WE HAVE SCHOLARS WHO ARE IN THE PROGRAM, OUR STAFF SCHOOL PARTNERS, BOARD MEMBERS, VOLUNTEERS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, ALLOW THOSE WHO ARE HERE TO SPEAK AS WELL.
ALL RIGHT, COME ON DOWN AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
UM, AND THIS IS MY COLLEAGUE, MS. KATINA, GIVEN WE RUN THE MAYOR YOUTH WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE PROGRAM.
I'M ALSO COMING OUT ONLY REPRESENTING BIG BUDDY, BUT I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BLACK WOMEN, THE GREATER BATON ROUGE REGION, WHERE WE LIKE TO SUPPORT THE IMPACT.
AND WE ARE BEHIND ANYTHING THAT HELPS THE, YOU IMPROVE THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WELL, WHAT ABOUT THE SUCH A TIME AS THIS, THIS PROGRAM IMPACTS THE LIVES OF YOU, WHAT WOULD THEY BE DOING IF THEY WEREN'T IN THIS PROGRAM? AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR STATED, THEY ARE LEARNING ALL TYPES OF WORKFORCE SKILLS.
THEY'RE GETTING CERTIFICATIONS THAT THEY CAN USE WITH THEIR DUAL ENROLLMENT AND JORDAN STARTS CERTIFICATIONS.
THEY LEARNING SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL LEARNING, AND WE FIRST SEE EVERY DAY THE DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES.
SO WE'VE SEEN QUITE A BIT IN THE YOUTH HAVE BEEN IMPACTED.
YOU HAVE A POWERFUL, POWERFUL PROGRAM HERE.
THE BEST IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ONLY DREAM OF HAVING A MODEL SUCH AS IT IS.
I'VE BEEN WITH BEN BURIED DURING THE SUMMER TIMES SINCE 2017.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT GROW AND GROW AND CONTINUE TO IMPACT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE.
THIS PROGRAM IS SAVING LIVES, KEEPING JUVENILES, THE SCHOLARS, AS WE CALLED THEM, YOUNG PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS AND GIVING THEM SOMETHING TO DO THAT'S PRODUCTIVE.
AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE TO SEE, LET HER SPEAK.
HOW MANY DID HE SAY YOU HAVE A 43 MINUTES.
MA'AM STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AS WELL.
I KNOW SHE ALREADY INTRODUCED YOU, BUT I DON'T WANT TO CUT YOUR TIME SHORT.
MY NAME IS KATINA THOMPSON GIVENS.
I LIVE AT FOUR OR 5 0 3 FOSTER DRIVE IN BAKER, LOUISIANA.
I AM, I WORK THE BIG BUDDY TWO TIME PRINCIPLE.
I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS PROGRAM HAS NOT ONLY IMPACTED, UH, THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO HAS IMPACTED, UM, GENERATIONS OF FAMILY MEMBERS AND MY FAMILY, MY CHILDREN, ALL MY CHILDREN HAVE, UH, ENGAGED IN THIS PROGRAM.
AND BECAUSE OF THIS PROGRAM, THEY ARE EQUIPPED WITH THE SKILLS NEEDED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND INTO THE WORKFORCE.
SO THIS PROGRAM HAS NOT ONLY IMPACTED, UH, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO MYSELF.
SO I DO HAVE A PERSONAL TESTIMONY OF HOW WELL THIS PROGRAM WORKS.
I LIVE AT 3 7 1 1 COAL DRIVE IN BATON ROUGE.
UH, I'M CURRENTLY A SCHOLAR IN THE MIAMI PROGRAM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I'M FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE FUNDING FOR THE PROGRAM.
UM, TAKING THIS PROGRAM AWAY WOULD, UH, TAKE AWAY THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITHIN IT, UH, TO DEVELOP THE NECESSARY WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE IN ORDER TO ADAPT TO THE REAL WORLD WHEN IT COMES TIME TO DO SO.
UM, I'M A HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR THAT'S IN IT, AND I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY TIME DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR TO WORK OR DO REALLY ANYTHING SINCE I'M IN A FULL IB STUDENT, WHICH TAKES UP A MAJORITY OF MY TIME.
HAD I NOT FOUND OUT ABOUT THE PROGRAM, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO ANYTHING DURING THE SUMMER AND FINDING A JOB THAT IS LOOKING FOR A OR FINDING A JOB THAT'S LOOKING FOR, NOT ONLY A STUDENT, BUT A PART-TIME STUDENT WHO CAN'T WORK DURING 10 OF THE 12 MONTHS OF THE YEAR IS REALLY DIFFICULT BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE THAT HAS CONSTANT TRANSPORTATION.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE THAT CAN SCHEDULE CONSISTENTLY.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO'S RELIABLE AND I CAN'T DO ALL THAT STUFF DURING THE
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SCHOOL YEAR.I WOULD ONLY NEED TO WORK, UM, FROM JULY AND, UH, THROUGH JULY AND JUNE.
SO THE FIELD THAT I'M WORKING IN, I CAN'T FIND ANY OTHER CAMPS OR PROGRAMS THAT HAVE PROVIDED THE COMPUTER SCIENCE JOBS THAT I'M CURRENTLY ENROLLED IN RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO WITHOUT THIS PROGRAM, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ENHANCE MY ABILITIES TO LEARN HOW TO CODE AND TO BE ABLE TO FURTHER MY EDUCATION IN COMPUTER SCIENCE.
BLAKE FOWLER, 4 6, 4, BROOKHAVEN BATON ROUGE, GOOD EVENING.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, 35% OF KIDS, FIVE TO 17 IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL, 8,380 FAMILIES IN THE CITY WITH CHILDREN, FIVE TO 17 LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL AND 13,000 PLUS KIDS, SIX TO 17 IN THE EAST BAY, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL.
I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS THE BIG BUDDY BOARD CHAIR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
AND OUR MISSION IS TO BUILD A COMMUNITY OF MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS THAT ADVANCE AND INSPIRE OUR YOUTH TO CREATE MEANINGFUL CHANGE.
OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY ALLOWS EVERY CHILD AND UNDESERVED AREAS AND UNDERSERVED AREAS, A CHANCE, AND A CHOICE.
THESE FUNDS ALLOW THE CITY TO DO WHAT THEY DO BEST AND PARTNER WITH THE BEST BIG BUDDY IS THE BEST AT IMPLEMENTING THESE PROGRAMS THAT WORK.
AND WE'VE HAD HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF EXAMPLES OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS OF THIS ORGANIZATION THAT CAN TESTIFY TO THEIR INCREASED QUALITY IN THEIR LIFE TO BE ABLE TO CREATE GOOD CHOICES FOR THEIR FAMILIES AND A HEALTHY, HEALTHY LIFE FOR THEMSELVES.
BUT THIS WORK IS FAR FROM COMPLETED.
AND THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, FOR YOU TO HELP APPROVE CONTINUES THIS EFFORT FOR THOSE 10,921 KIDS WHO LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL AND NEED THAT MENTORSHIP SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THE CHANCE AND A CHOICE.
IS ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM? COME ON DOWN, SIR.
UM, WE'LL SEE, WHAT TIME IS IT? YEAH, GOOD EVENING.
MY NAME IS HOWARD WHITE, UH, LIVE AT FOUR OR FIVE SEVEN LENWOOD DRIVE, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, ADAM.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THIS PROGRAM, I THINK ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD.
I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE BORN INTO A FAMILY WHERE MY FATHER AND GRANDFATHER WERE ENTREPRENEURS.
SO I DIDN'T HAVE TO LOOK FOR A JOB, THOSE JOBS SKILLS THAT I RECEIVED OR BECAUSE OF THEM.
BUT YOU HEARD THE STATS, YOU KNOW, THE STATS, MANY OF THOSE STUDENTS DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, YOU KNOW, AS A BUSINESS OWNER IN BATON ROUGE FOR OVER GOSH, 25 YEARS.
CAUSE I LOOK AT DARYL, HE MET HIS WIFE AND MY STORE WORKING UNTIL I TELL THAT STORY.
BUT LITERALLY THE SKILLSETS THAT THESE STUDENTS GET SPINNING 16 OR 24 HOURS IN A ORGANIZATION, SUCH AS BATON ROUGE WAS GENERAL AT THE AIRPORT, WORKING ON PROJECTS, LEARNING HOW TO SHOW UP ON TIME, REALIZING THAT BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT.
I STILL GOT TO BE THERE AND THEN TAKING A ONE DAY A WEEK, GETTING CERTIFICATIONS IN AREAS THAT THEY WANT.
AND WITH THE TIME I HAVE, I THINK ABOUT A YOUNG MAN AT, IN 2016 THAT WORKED IN MY STORE IN SCOTLAND, BUILDING TOP CHILDREN'S GENTLEMEN, NAMED DODGER, HEY, HE WAS CHALLENGED BY HIS FAMILY NOT TO BE A SHELF BECAUSE THEY SAID YOU NEED TO GO TO COLLEGE, DO THIS PROGRAM.
HE LEARNED ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND NICHOLS, IRONICALLY, 2020, I'M AT A BARBECUE SPOT ON GOVERNMENT, A YOUNG MAN COME OUT FROM BEHIND A MESS.
MR. HOWARD, GUESS WHAT? I'M WORKING FOR? THIS RESTAURANT, THEY HAVE SEVEN LOCATIONS.
THAT IS WHY THIS PROGRAM IS IMPORTANT.
THAT IS WHAT YOU'RE REALLY FINDING.
YOU'RE FINDING THE FUTURE OF BATON ROUGE.
IS IT ENOUGH? NO, BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE 318 PLUS STUDENTS THAT ARE PART OF THIS PROGRAM, THAT'S PROBABLY LESS THAN 2% OF ELIGIBLE STUDENTS.
SO I CHALLENGE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT AND CONTINUE TO BUILD THE FUTURE OF BATON ROUGE.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK? I KNOW OUR MAYOR PRESIDENT IS GOING TO COME UP, BUT BEFORE WE HEAR FROM HER, WE DO HAVE A VIDEO AND WE HAVE SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH,
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WHO WERE SLATED TO SPEAK.SO LET'S GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, FIRST, COUNCIL MEMBER ROBIN.
SO, UM, THANK YOU ALL THAT HAVE COME UP IN AND TALK TO US TODAY.
UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THIS ABOUT ME, BUT I GREW UP, GREW UP EXTREMELY POOR.
UM, MY DAD GOT SICK WHENEVER I WAS FIVE.
AND IF IT WEREN'T FOR PEOPLE LIKE YOU, I WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY.
SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT.
I'M THE CROWN COUNCIL WOMAN TODAY.
SO, UM, SERIOUSLY THOUGH, HAD IT NOT BEEN PEOP FOR PEOPLE IN PROGRAMS, JUST LIKE THIS, THAT TOOK ME UNDER THEIR ARM AND SAID, YOU CAN BE SOMEBODY AND YOU CAN DO SOMETHING MORE.
I WOULD NOT HAVE THREE DEGREES.
I WOULD NOT BE HERE IN BATON ROUGE WITH Y'ALL.
SO WHAT YOU DO, WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND, OR NOT JUST ON A FACE LEVEL IS VERY IMPACTFUL AND VERY IMPORTANT, BUT WHAT HAS ALWAYS RESONATED WITH ME THROUGHOUT MY CHILDHOOD AND NOW AS AN ADULT AND PRACTICING CRIMINAL LAW IN MY, UM, MY EXPERIENCE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, UH, WAS THE FRED FREDERICK DOUGLAS QUOTE THAT I THINK CAN RESONATE WITH EVERYONE.
AND THAT IS, IT IS EASIER TO BUILD STRONG CHILDREN THAN TO REPAIR BROKEN MEN.
SO PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND WHENEVER YOU'RE VOTING TONIGHT.
AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL THAT YOU DO, CAROL.
SO NUMBER HEARST, YOU CAN'T TOP THAT, BUT I MEAN GO TO COUNSELING, MAN.
I ALMOST DON'T WANT TO STEP UP TO THE MIC.
UH, SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS WHEN I SEE THESE KIDS BEYOND THE LIFE SKILLS THAT THEY GOING TO GET.
CAUSE I MEAN, IF ANYBODY KNOWS MY PAST OR EVEN MY, MY CURRENT SITUATION, I'M EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF A NONPROFIT THAT FOCUSES ON SPORTS EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICE BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE HOWARD WHITE, THEY GAVE ME AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THE COACHES THAT SOLD INTO ME LIFE SKILLS, A LOT OF THESE KIDS ARE NOT ATHLETES.
SO THEY WON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AND BE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE WHERE I WAS.
I STARTED WITH AT T AND T, UM, COMING FROM A SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD, MAKING SIX FIGURES AT 22 YEARS OLD BECAUSE I WAS A COLLEGE ATHLETE AND AT, AND T TOLD ME THAT THEY ONLY HIRE COLLEGE ATHLETES BECAUSE OF THE LIFE SKILLS THAT THEY LEARNED, UM, THROUGH SPORTS.
SO WE HAD A CLASS OF PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY AT PENN STATE AT MIAMI OF OHIO, MIAMI, BECAUSE THEY WERE ATHLETES BECAUSE OF THE LIFE SKILLS THAT THEY GOT, THE FORTITUDE THAT THEY GOT AND THEIR ABILITY TO CLIMB OVER THE MOUNTAIN UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, GO THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN, WHATEVER THEY SAW A MOUNTAIN IN FRONT OF THEM.
THEY COULD DEFEAT THAT MOUNTAIN WITH SOME OF THESE KIDS DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ATHLETES.
SO THAT MAYBE, MAYBE THEY THOUGHT THEY WEREN'T JUST DIDN'T MAKE THE TEAM.
SO THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET THESE SAME TYPES OF SKILLS.
AND ONE OF THEM IS TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, TEACHING THEM THE SAME CORE ETHICS THAT SPORTS TEACHES ABOUT DISCIPLINE, ABOUT TEAMWORK, ABOUT PERSEVERANCE, ABOUT UPLIFTING YOUR NEIGHBOR WHEN THEY'RE DOWN, RIGHT ABOUT COMRADERY.
BUT NUMBER TWO IS HOW MANY CITY CONTRACTORS HAVE WE SEEN THAT HAVE REALLY SAID, WHERE'S MY CHECK.
AND I WISH CHRIS GOING SOMEONE'S HERE.
I ASKED HIM IF HE SEE HER, I WANT HIM TO COME TO THE MIC BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW CHRIS, ARE YOU HERE? I'LL CALL FOR CHRIS.
GO AND SEND ANYBODY EMERGENCY.
HE MAY HAVE HAD TO LEAVE, BUT IT'S OKAY.
I ACTUALLY WENT TO CHRIS AND I SAID, MAN, THESE PEOPLE OWED MONEY.
WHAT DO WE DO? HE SAID, JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY CONTRACTOR, THEY DID THE WORK, THEY DESERVE THE PAY.
SO WHEN Y'ALL SEE THEM AS KIDS, I SEE THEM AS CONTRACTORS.
AND IF WE DON'T, WE WANT TO TEACH THEM ABOUT WHAT THE WORKFORCE DOES.
IF YOU DO THE WORK, YOU SHOULD GET THE PAY THAT YOU DID FOR THAT JOB.
SO IT SHOULDN'T BE A QUESTION OF IF THEY'RE GOING TO GET PAID, IT'S GOING TO BE, ONCE IT WENT, WHEN WOULD THEY GET PAID? UM, I'M SAD AS HE'D BEEN COMING BEFORE THE COUNCIL, UM, AT FIRST SAID A THIRD OF ALL, MY SON IS IN THIS PROGRAM.
SO MY SON IS GOING TO GET HIS CHECK.
I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT MY SON WORKS VERY HARD TO THE POINT WHERE, UM, I WAS PULLED ASIDE IN THE MALL BY THE DEPARTMENT THAT HE'S WORKING IN, WAS THAT, UM, AND TALKED ABOUT HOW HARD HE WORKED, HOW HE WOULDN'T LEAVE, HOW HE WOULD GO OVER HIS TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT HE COMPLETED HIS TASK.
AND HE TOLD ME HE'S QUESTIONING STILL PLAYING SPORTS.
HE SAID, BUT DADDY, I DON'T NEED SPORTS ANYMORE BECAUSE I HAVE THE WORKFORCE AND WORK ETHIC.
THE SAME THING THAT I, THAT I GET FROM SPORTS IS THE SAME THING THAT THIS PROGRAM PROVIDED FOR ME.
SO HE'S, HE'S ENROLLED IN AP CLASSES TO THE 10TH POWER BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE A SURGEON AND THE, THE, THE WORK ETHIC THAT HE'S GETTING FROM THIS, HE WANTS TO ALSO APPLY THAT IN THE CLASSROOM.
SO THE THINGS THAT WE GET HERE, THEY'RE UP CLICKABLE,
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ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT YOU SEE.AND AGAIN, I'M JUST ABOUT MY FINAL TWO POINTS ARE WHAT WOULD THEY BE DOING IF THEY WEREN'T HERE? YOU KNOW, WE HAVE KIDS AT HOME WHO HAVE DRUG ADDICTED PARENTS.
WE HAVE KIDS AT HOME THAT PARENTS WORKING TWO OR THREE JOBS.
THEY MIGHT BE GREAT PARENTS, BUT THEY'RE TRYING TO PUT HANDS ON THE TABLE.
SO NOW YOU HAVE KIDS WHO ARE AT HOME WITH IDLE TIME, BUT THAT'S WHEN TEEN DRUG ABUSE GIRLS THERE'LL BE AN OPIOID CRISIS GOING ON.
NOT JUST, NOT JUST COVID-19 RIGHT.
SO, UH, WE HAVE, UH, UH, UH, THAT'S WHEN TEEN PREGNANCY GOES UP BECAUSE NOW, YOU KNOW, THE STUFF THAT WE HAD TO GO AND, AND, AND SEE ON THE LITTLE FUZZY TV BACK IN THE DAY, THEY CAN GO ON THEIR PHONE AND IT JUST GOOGLE IT AND IT POPS UP WITH NO RESTRICTIONS.
SO TOO MUCH ACCESS AT TOO YOUNG OF AN AGE PROVIDES, UM, THINGS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN LIMITED WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AT MASS RATES NOW, AND I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU ONE LAST THING, CHINESE PROVERB SAYS THE CHILD IS LIKE A PIECE OF PAPER ON WHICH EVERYONE LEAVES THEIR MARK.
I WANT TO ASK Y'ALL WHAT WILL YOUR MARK BE TODAY? AND I ASKED MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN AND VOTED FOR THIS AS A YAY.
UH, IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WISHING JUST OMC SOME PEOPLE IN THE FAMILY ROSSO, UM, JUST QUICK QUESTION FOR ANYBODY THAT CAN ANSWER IT.
WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING FROM AND I GUESS TAT, UM, ASK A BIG BUDDY PERSON, IS THIS, I MEAN, WE'RE INCREASING THIS AMOUNT $331,000.
UM, IS THAT FOR THE SUMMER? IS IT, UH, IS IT IT'S, UH, WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT'S NOT A YEAR ROUND PROGRAM.
IT'S NOT A YEAR ROUND PROGRAM, RIGHT? FOR JUST THE SUMMER.
SO, SO THE 428,000 WAS FOR THIS SUMMER.
IS THAT CORRECT? SO IS THIS OTHER FOR NEXT? IT IS FOR THIS SUMMER, AS WELL AS MS. GAY MENTIONED, THERE'S AN ALLOTMENT OF DOLLARS PER STUDENT, BIG BUDDY RECEIVES $200,000 ANNUALLY FROM THE CITY GENERAL FUND.
AND THEN THEY ALSO RECEIVE 200,000 THAT'S FROM THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR YOUTH THAT GOES TOWARDS YOUTH.
WHAT WE DO IS ONCE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ARE PLACED EACH YEAR, THERE MAY BE A DEFICIT IN COSTS.
WE'RE SERVING 518 STUDENTS, 314 OF THEM ARE WITH BIG BUDDY.
SO WHEN YOU PULL THOSE NUMBERS TOGETHER, THE COST OF THE PROGRAM IS 911,000.
SO WE'RE INCREASING UP TO SEVEN 60.
THESE ARE ALREADY ALLOCATED ARP FUNDS THAT YOU'VE PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED THAT WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE OF THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS TO MAKE SURE WE CAN PAY THE THIRD, THE THREE 18.
UM, BUT HE'D BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME WORKING CHILDREN, WORKING FOLK.
AND SO, YEAH, THAT IS TO BE, UH, ACKNOWLEDGED.
AND I KNOW THAT AS A MATTER OF FACT, OVER IN 10, THEY ARE AT THE CENTER.
THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 10 CHILDREN THAT ARE ACTUALLY WORKING.
AND SO I BELIEVE THAT IF YOU ARE TAUGHT TO HAVE GOOD WORK ETHICS AS A CHILD, THEN YOU GONNA HAVE SOME GOOD WORK ETHICS AS AN ADULT.
SO IF YOU DON'T WORK, YOU DON'T LEAD THE OTHER ALL.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, DOING AND LOOKING AT IS THE POPULATION OF CHILDREN THAT ARE EMPLOYED, THAT GET THEIR CHECK FROM EMPLOYER BR THEY GET MORE HOURS AND THEN THE BIG BUDDY CHILDREN.
AND SO THAT'S A CONCERN OF MINE BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE BOTH OF THESE CHILDREN IN THE SAME BUILDING AND ONE FELLOW LOOK AT THEIR CHECK AND THE OTHER ONE LOOK AT THEIR CHECK, AND THEN THEY'RE ALL IN CONSISTENCIES THERE.
SO I LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND THAT WE PUT THEM TO WORK FOR AS MANY HOURS AS WE CAN, AND AS OPPOSED TO 16 AND 30.
SO THAT WOULD BE MY CONCERN, BUT WORKING CHILDREN MAKE WORK IN ADULTS.
COURTNEY, PLEASE MIGHT ACQUIRE THEM HERE.
YOU KNOW, I SPOKE WITH YOU ABOUT, UM, ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS AT THE GEORGIA NEWMAN
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COMMUNITY CENTER.UM, COUNCILWOMAN COLEMAN JUST BROUGHT UP, IS THAT AN EMPLOYEE BR OR A BIG BUDDY STUDENT WAS D I DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION IN FRONT OF ME FOR THAT PARTICULAR STUDENT.
UM, BIG BUDDY OFFERS TOOL TIME AND SUPPORTS TO ALL THREE PARTNERS, EMPLOYEE VR OFFICE OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
SO I'LL HAVE TO LOOK THAT PARTICULAR STUDENT UP.
AND THE REASON I WAS ASKING, CAUSE I DID, WE MADE INQUIRY WITH, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS BUDGET OR SOMEBODY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE YOUTH INTERN STILL TRYING TO FIT HIM IN.
AND IT WAS NECESSARY THAT THEY HAVE A 2.5 GPA.
HOWEVER, AS I SAID, THIS STUDENT IS IN THE GED PROGRAM.
SO I WAS JUST WONDERING, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WERE SPECIFICATIONS ABOUT G D WITH THE BIG BUDDY OR EMPLOYEE BR FOR STUDENTS.
I DON'T KNOW, PARTICULARLY EACH PROGRAM HAS A DIFFERENT STIPULATIONS.
BIG BUDDY'S LEVEL UP PROGRAM DOES NOT HAVE A GPA REQUIREMENT AT ALL FOR EMPLOYEE BR AND THE PARTICULAR INCIDENT THAT, UM, YOU'RE MENTIONING FOR THAT STUDENT ONCE HE FINISHES THE SUMMER, BUT GOAL IS FOR HIM TO EITHER APPLY FOR THE CITY BECAUSE HE WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO OR TO COMPLETE AN APPLICATION WITH EMPLOYEE BR THE BENEFIT OF EMPLOYEE BR IS THEY DO HAVE YEAR ROUND SCHOOL, YOUTH PROGRAMS IN SCHOOL, YOUTH AND OUT-OF-SCHOOL YOUTH.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE INCOME REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER CRITERIA THAT HAVE TO BE FOLLOWED FOR THAT.
SO WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE THAT STUDENT APPLY.
AND IF THEY QUALIFY, THAT WOULD BE ONE MEANS TO PLACE THEM.
AND THEN IF NOT, THEY MAY ALSO BE ABLE TO DO SO WITHIN THE CITY AS WELL, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE PART-TIME OR, UM, DIFFERENT JOBS THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR AS WELL.
AND IT'S ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS.
WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT DO CONTINUE TO ROLL OVER.
I NEED TO CAUSE HE WAS ASKING.
AND I THINK THIS LAST DAY IS MAYBE TOMORROW.
SO I PROBABLY NEED TO STEER HIM TOWARDS EMPLOYED BR ISN'T IT THE LAST WEEK I HAVE TO ANSWER.
NO, I WOULD JUST ANSWER, UH, HOLD ON.
LET'S KEEP THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN Y'ALL TWO.
SHE GETTING, SHE GAVE ME THE LAST DAY.
THE LAST DAY IS FRIDAY FOR THE WORK.
UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO CONNECT WITH THAT STUDENT TOMORROW TO BE ABLE TO PLACE THEM.
BUT THE GREAT THING ABOUT BIG BUDDY IS THEY NEVER TAKE THEIR HANDS OFF OF THE STUDENTS.
SO WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT EVEN IF HE'S NOT WORKING FOR A WEEK, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE GET HIM PLACED SOMEWHERE.
SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT OF ALL THE SOCIAL PROGRAMS THAT WE WE DO IN THE CITY OF PARIS, I'M OFTEN VERY SKEPTICAL OF THEM.
UH, THE ONE THAT I'M NOT, HOWEVER IT IS BIG BUDDY.
RIGHT? UM, SO I THINK THEY DO AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB.
UH, I'M DEFINITELY FOR THIS ITEM TONIGHT.
I DO JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT, UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, I, I'M NOT SURE THAT AS WE GET PAST THESE ARP DOLLARS, THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THIS LARGE OF AN EXPENDITURE OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND FOR THIS PURPOSE.
I'M ALWAYS REAL BIG ON MAKING SURE WE'RE PUTTING FIRST THINGS FIRST WHEN IT COMES TO MUNICIPALITY, THAT'S INVESTED IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO, UM, I THINK IT'S AN AWESOME PROGRAM.
I THINK THAT A LOT IN THAT, WHERE IT IS IS FINE, THESE ARP DOLLARS, THE USE OF THAT IS FINE.
I JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT THERE NOW THAT IN THE FUTURE, AS THESE ARP DOLLARS RUN OUT, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE CAN JUSTIFY THIS TYPE OF FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE WITH THAT.
I THINK THE CRIME ISSUE THAT WE HAVE IN BATON ROUGE IS LARGELY DUE TO, WE DON'T DO ENOUGH OF THIS ON THE FRONT END.
WE WANT TO ARREST AND HIRE MORE POLICE AND RESPOND TO DYSFUNCTION IN THE COMMUNITY.
BUT IF WE MAKE INVESTMENTS ON THE FRONT END LIKE THIS, WHETHER WE HAVE ARP DOLLARS A NIGHT, WE WILL MINIMIZE THE BACK END INVESTMENT THAT WE HAD TO MAKE FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDPOINT.
SO WHETHER WE HAVE ARP DOLLARS OR NOT, WE SHOULD STILL BE APPROPRIATE IN DALLAS TO INVEST IN OUR YOUTH SO WE CAN KEEP THEM OFF THE STREET.
WE, WE HAVE A NUMBER 16 PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE IN FAVOR OF THIS ITEM, BUT DO NOT WISH TO SPEAK.
JASMINE MCLENDON, COURTNEY CAL, CALVIN ROUSSEAU, AVERY MALA, TESTA, LORI HARDISON, CAROLYN BOND, KIER MOMENT, HOWARD WITT, BELFORD JOHNSON, MALIA MATHIS, LUCY PARA, GREG PHILLIPS, GERALD HAYNES, TEAM OF PSYCHS ARE DANA WINBUSH AND TALEESHA JONES.
AND AFTER YOU ASKED HIM EMAIL COMMENTS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED 26 COMMENTS IN FAVOR OF ITEM 1 34.
AND AT THIS TIME WE WILL NOW HEAR FROM THEIR PRESIDENT, SHARON WESTERN BURMA.
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THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TIM.I'M GOING TO BE VERY BRIEF IN MY COMMENTS.
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS ITEM.
UH, WHEN I TOOK OFFICE, ONE OF THE CONSISTENT PHONE CALLS THAT I WOULD GET ABOVE ALL ELSE WERE FROM PARENTS ASKING ABOUT THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
AND WHEN I TOOK OFFICE AS COUNCILWOMAN WOMAN BANKS WILL REMEMBER.
CAUSE I THINK YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO WAS HERE.
UH, THERE WERE MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS I BELIEVE, INCLUDING YOURSELF, WHO SAID, WE NEED TO RAISE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE CAN SERVE EVERY YEAR.
I MADE IT A GOAL TO RAISE THE NUMBER COUNCIL.
THEN YOU MIGHT'VE RECALL THAT BECAUSE YOU WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE AT ONE POINT.
AND, UH, WE WENT FROM, I WANT TO SAY 150 TO 300 AND EVERY YEAR I WOULD SET A GREATER GOAL AND GUESS WHAT? COUNCILMAN HUDSON, WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ARP DOLLARS, BUT I HAD THE COMMITMENT AND THE FAITH THAT WE COULD FIND THE MONEY JUST LIKE WE HAVE IN A LOT OF OTHER AREAS.
AND WE ALSO RAISE MONEY THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO SAID THAT THEY WOULD HELP SUPPORT OUR MAYOR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
SO I AM CONVINCED THAT NOT ONLY WILL WE SERVE MORE THAN THE 500 PARTICIPANTS THAT WE ARE SERVING RIGHT NOW IN THE FUTURE, BUT I EXPECT THE MAYOR'S YOUTH WORKFORCE EXPERIENCE TO GROW.
AND AS YOU SAID, COUNSELING DONE IMPACT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE FRONT END SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THRIVING LIVES AND GROW AND DEVELOP LIKE THIS YOUNG WOMAN YOU HEARD HERE, THIS YOUNG STUDENT.
SO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF, UM, OUR MAYOR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM.
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING EVEN BETTER IN THE FUTURE AND IMPACTING EVEN MORE LIVES.
I CAN, UM, COUNSELING, COUNSELING NUMBER BANKS, RIGHT.
SO I REMEMBER, UM, I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY PRIOR TO THE YEAR 20,000 OR WHATEVER THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS WERE PLENTIFUL IN OUR COMMUNITIES, UM, IT WAS ONE OF THE SAVING GRACE THAT WE HAD IN, UM, THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE.
AND THEN I WOULD SAY ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY WENT AWAY, YOU KNOW, AND I REMEMBER JUST AS MARY INDICATED, EVERYBODY WAS SAYING, WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH JOBS.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR YOU.
UM, IN THAT I AM A, UM, PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL COUNSELOR.
AND, UM, CURRENTLY I BASICALLY FOCUSED ON, UH, UM, COLLEGE AND CAREER AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
AND WE WERE, I WAS JUST THINKING OF SOMETHING OUR SUPERINTENDENT SAID YESTERDAY.
AND HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WEALTH THAT IS IN OUR CITY, HOW, SINCE HE'S BEEN HERE, UM, HOW THERE IS A LOT OF WEALTH, OUR PROBLEM IS A LACK OF COORDINATION.
AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE SAID.
UM, SO OFTEN ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE REALLY NEED, UM, A GREATER, UH, UH, AN ABILITY AND WAS MAKING ME THINK ABOUT HOW, UH, COUNCILMAN HUSBAND TALKED ABOUT WHERE WE CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THESE GOALS.
BUT TODAY WE HAD A MEETING AND WE HAD, UM, OUR ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
AND PART OF THAT PROGRAM IS TWO THINGS.
PART OF THAT PROGRAM IS TO HAVE AS MANY STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE TO WORK, TO, TO WORK FOR A BUSINESS, THAT'S THEIR THING.
AND THEY'RE PAYING THEM $15 AN HOUR.
AND SO WHAT I W WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT, AND EVEN WITH THE YOUNG LADY, IF THESE KINDS OF PROGRAMS WOULD ALSO GET WITH COLLABORATE WITH OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE ARE ABLE TO EXPAND IN A MORE EQUITABLE MANNER.
UM, I JUST THINK IT WOULD, IT REALLY, I MEAN, IT'S REALLY GOOD, AND THIS WOULD SUSTAIN OUR ABILITY TO, TO CONTINUE WHETHER THE OPERA FUNDS ARE, THEY'RE NOT ANOTHER THING, YOU KNOW, BIG BUDDY HAS ALWAYS WORKED THROUGH, UM, IN THE PAST THEIR FOCUS WITH MOSTLY ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE CAUSE I WAS
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OVER YOUR TWIN FIRST INSTAGRAM, REMEMBER, OKAY.AND WHAT DBR WASN'T DOING THAT BIG BUDDY WAS DOING IS FOCUSING ON COLLEGE CAREER THAT YOUNG, WHEREAS THE FIELD TRIPS AND EVERYTHING.
AND IF YOU WERE IN BIG BUDDY OR A BOYS AND GIRLS, THEN YOU HAD THOSE ADVANTAGES.
WELL, FINALLY, EBR IS NOW WHERE YOU HAVE CAUGHT UP WHERE, UM, THEY ARE STARTING COLLEGE AND CAREER FOR BEGINNING IN FOURTH GRADE.
SO I JUST THINK THAT WE ARE MOVING IN SUCH A, UM, COHESIVE MANNER THAT WE ARE, WE WILL BE ON ONE PAGE AS IT RELATES TO OUR YOUTH, GETTING THIS INFORMATION YOUNGER, GETTING THE INFORMATION, THE TRAINING, THE EDUCATION, YOUNGER, THE INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKFORCE YOUNGER.
AND I JUST WOULD, UM, YOU KNOW, WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE, THIS IS A WAY TO KEEP OUR STUDENTS EMPLOYED.
LONG-TERM NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE EXTRA FUNDS WITH OPERA.
THAT WAS ALL, UM, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH YOU.
I ALSO WANT IT TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IN THAT WE ARE IN COLLABORATION, UH, WITH OUR PROGRAM AND WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
UH, IN FACT, ONE OF THE, UH, RECENT BOARDS THAT WE'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN IS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU JUST SHARED THE, UH, SCHOOL TO CAREER, WHICH I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE SUPERINTENDENT IS VERY BIG ON, OKAY.
WE ARE, UM, ELEVATING OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, WITH OUR WORKFORCE INITIATIVES AND ALL OF OUR INITIATIVES.
AND I JUST WANTED TO ADD TO A TESTIMONIAL.
AND THAT IS ONE OF OUR MAYORS, UH, SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS FROM, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THREE YEARS AGO, UM, MARCUS, UH, WAS, IS NOW A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE.
UH, YOU MIGHT SEE HIM WORKING AT THE FRONT DESK IN MY OFFICE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT WE, WE TRY TO ACTIVELY ENGAGE OUR YOUTH, UH, AFTER THEY GET OUT OF THE PROGRAM, AFTER THEY GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL, HE'S A COLLEGE STUDENT AND HE WORKS PART-TIME WITH US.
THANK YOU, MAYOR PRESIDENT IS MAC.
I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WITH BIG BUDDY A LONG TIME, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT WHEN YOU STARTED WITH BIG BUDDY, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO DO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOB.
AND NOW YOU'VE BEEN THERE 20 YEARS.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND ALL THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS COMMUNITY.
AT THIS TIME, I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVED.
IS THERE A SECOND LOOK LIKE THERE WAS A SECOND BY A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE, COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RECORD REFLECT THAT THE COUNSELOR HURTS US NAMES FROM DESIGN HE'S OUT OF THE ROOM.
A MOTION TO APPROVE BY THE CHAIR, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DONE.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM ITEM? 1 34 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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WE NOW GO TO ITEM 1 35.I DON'T THINK IT WAS EVER IN JEOPARDY.
I HAD A 1 35 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT XQ TO CONTACT LENDING INTO SERVICES WITH BONTON ASSOCIATES, LLC FACILITIES ASSOCIATION WILL BE OUR CAPACITY PROJECT ON WITH LADELL CONNECTED IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $677,186 AND 49 CENTS BY OUR TRANSPORTATION JOURNEYS DIRECTOR.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 35? ANYONE WE SHOULD JUST BE ITEM 1 35.
MOST OF THE APPROVED BY COUNCIL NUMBER GO.
THE SECOND OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBER.
NO, I DON'T WANT 35 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
COUNCIL MEMBERS IS FIVE MINUTES TO SEVEN.
WE GOT ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF.
SO I'M GONNA MOVE PRETTY QUICKLY.
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THOSE SIX AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESIDENT THAT SHOULD HAVE CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES.WE'RE HOLD AN ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOVING OUR CAPACITY PROJECT ON THE HIGHWAY, NORTH FLORIDA BOULEVARD IN THE STATE I ONE 10 IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 2 MILLION, $9,714 AND 97 CENTS BY THE TRANSPORTATION DRAINAGE DIRECTOR.
IS ANYONE HERE WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 36 MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER GO.
THEY SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ITEMS. ITEM 1 36 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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ITEM 1 37 AUTHORIZING THEIR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT.NUMBER ONE TO THE CONTRACT FOR PROGRAM MANAGEMENT SERVICES WITH BONTON ASSOCIATES, LLC, FOR A FEE NOT TO EXCEED $500,000 BY TRANSPORTATION DRAINAGE DIRECTOR IS ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 37.
WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL, AND WE'LL GO THERE SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ADAMS. ITEM 1 37 HAS BEEN APPROVED, RIGHT? AND 1 38
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AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR PRESIDENT ON BEHALF OF THE CHARLES R. KELLY COMMUNITY SENATE'S EXECUTED LEASE AGREEMENT WOULD BEAT THE STREETS, INCORPORATED A NONPROFIT CORPORATION TO PROVIDE MUSICAL AND CULTURAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES ON THE BENEFIT OF AREA RESIDENTS.THE STREETS INCORPORATED IS TO PAY $250 PER MONTH TO CHARLES CURLEY BY CHARLES R. KELLY COMMUNITY CENTER AND COUNCILMAN DARREL.
HERS IS ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ITEM 1 38.
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NOW I'LL GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL COUNCIL MEMBERS.YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL COMMENT AND OPPOSITION TO ITEM 1 38 BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 1 38? I'M SURE.
COUNCIL MEMBER HERTZ WAS HERE.
SO I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND AND BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE, I HAD 1 38 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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1 39 OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.MID-YEAR BUDGET ADJUSTMENT BY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORS, ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK AT 1 39.
NOW I'LL GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 1 39.
MADAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, ROCK ITEM.
1 39 IS GOING TO APPROVE COUNCIL.
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GOING TO TAKE ITEMS ONE 40 TO 1 58 TOGETHER.THEY'RE ADJUDICATED PROPERTIES ITEM ONE 40 LOT 13 PLUS SQUARE DISTRICT, FIVE HERTZ, HIGH BIDDER, EVERY SPEARS, $100.
I HAD 1 41 LOT, TWO 30 SUBDIVISION SOUTH FOREST HEIGHTS PARK, METRO COUNCIL, DISTRICT FIVE PURSE REDEEMED ITEM 1 42 LOT 17 SQUARE ONE SUBDIVISION PITCHFORK.
ALSO DISTRICT SEVEN HIGH BIDDER, THE CARE, THE KERRY FAMILY.
$100 ITEM 1 43 LOT EIGHT SQUARE FIVE SUBDIVISION SCORE TO REPLACE MR. FIVE HERTZ HIGH, BETTER OFF OFTEN A BEAR AND $100.
I AM 1 44, LOT 59 SUBDIVISION SOUTHERN HEIGHTS.
MR. TWO BANKS HAVE BITTER WRAP YOU T REED SENIOR $16,500.
ITEM 1 45 BLOCK 10 SQUARE, NINE SUBDIVISION ROOSEVELT PLACE.
DISTRICT TWO BRINGS HIGH BIDDER EUGENE LOW FAN $2,800.
I HAD A 1 46 LOT 48 SQUARE, SIX SUBDIVISION SOUTH BEND DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER ROBINS WENT TO LLC.
$25,000 ITEM, 1 47, LOT 26 SUBDIVISION AIRLINE TERRORIST DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BIDDER ROBINS WENT TO LLC.
$15,000 ITEM, 1 48, LOT THREE AND FOUR SUBDIVISION PATTERSON PLAZA, DISTRICT SIX, DONE JUNIOR HIGH BIT OF MARKS AS SQUEAK CREECH $26,500 ITEM 1 49, LOT EAST BY 51 AND SOUTH BY 13 SUBDIVISION.
LOOCH MICHIGAN ONE, NO HIGH BIDDER.
I DIDN'T ONE 50 LOT 27 SUBDIVISION RIVERLAND DISTRICT THREE GOATING HIGH BIDDER PROFICIENT PROPERTIES CONSULTING $100 ITEM 1 51 AND LOT THREE SQUARE 97 SUBDIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, DISTRICT TWO BANGS HIGH BIDDER ABOUT LOUISE DANIEL'S $6,300.
SO DIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, DISTRICT TWO BANKS, HIGH BIT OF ELOISE DANIEL, A HUNDRED DOLLARS ITEM, 1 53 LOT FOUR SQUARE 97 SUBDIVISION NORTH BATON ROUGE, DISTRICT TWO BANKS.
HI BENNETT THEATER OR FISHER $15,000 ITEM 1 54.
A LOT OF 11 DAYS SEEN SUBDIVISION FRENCHTOWN ACRES DISTRICT FOUR
I DON'T WANT 55 LOT D SQUARE 18 SUBDIVISION UNIVERSITY PLACED.
MR. TWO BRINGS HIGH BIDDERS SUDDENLY UNITED AND CORPORATE INCORPORATED.
I HAD A 1 56 LOT SEVEN POINTS, SUBDIVISION KING PLACE DISTRICT FIVE HERTZ, HIGH BIT OF NILO POWELL, A HUNDRED DOLLARS ITEM, 1 57 BLOCK TONY POINT SUBDIVISION ALMAGRO GARDEN, FARM DISTRICT TWO BRENT'S HIGH BIDDER, KEVIN WILLIAMS, $100 ITEM 1 58 LIVE FIVE POINT SQUARE, THREE SUBDIVISION OF ORIENTE TOWN OF DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN HIGH BID OF LILA WILLIS.
THEY'RE ALL ITEMS. ITEM ONE 40 TO 1 58 HAVE BEEN READ.
IS THERE ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEMS? ONE 40 TO 1 58.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEMS? 1 41 58.
SO MOVED BY COUNCILMAN MADAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, ROCCA ITEMS, 1 41 58 HAVE BEEN APPROVED.
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GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS, ADMINISTRATIVE MATT, I'M GOING TO READ ALL OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS ITEM 8 22 0 1 0 0 7.AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESENT SUBMITTED 2022 ANNUAL ACTION PLANS.
THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT AND AMOUNT OF 3 MILLION, $218,185 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM AND AN AMOUNT OF 1,551,000 DURING THE $78 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS AND AN AMOUNT OF 2 MILLION, $10,806 AND EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT AND AMOUNT OF $273,951 IN PROGRAMS TOTALLING APPROXIMATELY 8 MILLION, $4,320 PLUS $925,000 ESTIMATED PROGRAM INCOME BY THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.
THE REASON THIS ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER, THE ANNUAL ACTION PLAN IS THE CITY PEREZ GRANT APPLICATION TO HUD FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR OF ENTITLEMENT FUNDING.
THERE IS A STATUTORY REQUIREMENT THAT HAS TO BE SUBMITTED TO HUD BY AUGUST 16 OR THE CITY WILL FORFEIT THIS UPCOMING CDBG GRANT.
IN ORDER TO SUBMIT THAT ON TIME, WE NEED TO HAVE THE ITEM INTRODUCE AT THE JULY 27 MEETING IN ORDER TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON THE 10TH OF AUGUST TO MEET THE AUGUST 16TH DEADLINE AND BE AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO ACCEPT BEFORE OPERATE AND ALLOCATE FUNDING.
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GRANT AGREEMENTS FOR SUP RECIPIENTS AND CONTRACTORS UNDER THE LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION GRANT PROGRAM FUNDED THROUGH THE US DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE OFFICE OF LEAD HAS A CONTROL AND HEALTHY HOMES GRANT PROGRAM, TOTALLY GRANT PROGRAM.TOTAL IS 3 MILLION, $400,000 BY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.
THE REASON THIS ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED AS ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER LINE ITEM BUDGET WAS NEVER INTRODUCED OR APPROVED.
AND WE HAVE REMOVED BBR AS A RECENT RECIPIENT AND REPLACED WITH DOMINGUEZ CITY.
WHEN WE FORM A COUNCIL POOL IN ORDER TO TAKE THE ITEM TO GRANTS OF YOU TO BEGIN MOVING AGREEMENTS FORWARD BY REQUESTING NINE AND BE INTRODUCED AT THIS MEETING IN ORDER TO HAVE THE PROGRAM LAUNCHING OF LATE AUGUST AND ALIGNMENT WITH THE PROGRAMS, CURRENT BENCHMARKS AS APPROVED BY HUD OR RISK FOR, FOR CHILDREN, GRANT FUNDING C AND RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ISSUANCE TO SALE AND DELIVERY OF NOT TO EXCEED $9 MILLION REVENUE BOND SERIES 2022 OF THE ST.
GEORGE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.
NUMBER TWO FOR THE PARISH OF EASTBOURNE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THEIR, TO READING BESIDE HIM IS BEING REQUESTED AS ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER IN ORDER TO GET APPROVAL BEFORE THE NEXT BOND COMMISSION MEETING AND EMOTIONAL WEIGHT OF THE RULE IS A LOT OF ITEMS TO BE INTRODUCED.
THE MOTION HAS BEEN SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER GO THERE.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE? WE SHOULD SPEAK ON ITEM.
THE WAY THE RULES WILL NOW VOTE ON ITEM A WAY TO RULES.
IS THERE ANYONE IN OPPOSITION OF ITEM, THE WAY THE RULES WITHOUT I NEED A MOTION TO INTRODUCE THE ITEMS. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DOES SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER GO.
THEY ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN APPROVED OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER.
WE NOW GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER EMERGENCY ITEM D CHANGE ORDER.
CLAY COULD ROLL PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, CONTRACT DIVERSITY, CONSTRUCTION AND ENGINEERING, LLC CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, $12,276 AND 90 CENTS BY TRANSPORTATION AND JOURNEYS DIRECTOR.
THE REASON THIS ITEM IS REQUESTED IS TIME SENSITIVE.
ONLY ONE MEETING IN JULY TO BE HEARD, ACCIDENTAL OVERSIGHT.
HE FINALLY ACCEPTED THE CLAY COULD ROLL PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, CONTRACTOR DIVERSITY, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING, AND I'LL SEE FINAL COSTS MORE THAN $18,022 15 CENTS TIME SYSTEM.
ONLY ONE MEETING IN JULY TO BE HEARD ASKED ALL THE SITE ITEM F ACCEPTANCE OF LOW BID SALES TAX STREET AND ROAD REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
PRIOR TO THE 18 DASH ONE PARISH WIDE MICROSURFACING PROJECT.
VANCE BROTHERS INCORPORATED 4 MILLION, $394,319 AND 70 CENTS TIME-SENSITIVE TO STAY WITHIN VA LAW TIMING ON ONE MEETING IN JULY.
WE, MOST OF THE WAY OF THE RULES ALLOW ALL ITEMS TO BE HEARD.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. SECONDLY, BY THE CHAIR IS ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? THE WAY THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULES? IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION TO THE MOTION TO WAIVE THE RULE WAS IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? WE NOW WILL OPEN THE FLOOR FOR THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ITEM? SO MOVED BY COUNCILMAN MADAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER KNOW ALL EMERGENCY ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER ITEMS HAVE BEEN APPROVED
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FOR NOW.GO TO ITEM 1 59 UNDER APPOINTMENT ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD CONSIDERATION OF REPLACING MICHAEL RUSSELL, WHO IS DECEASED.
THIS UNEXPIRED TERM ENDS ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.
THE CURRENT BLADDER BALLOT IS BRAD KRAMER.
DAVID FACIE AT DANIEL J RUSS AARON SWEENEY.
UTHMAN ITEM WAS THE FURTHER FROM THE JUNE EIGHT MEETING.
ARE ANY OF THE APPLICANTS WISHING TO SERVE ON ABC BOARD HERE, PLEASE STAND.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE? ALL RIGHT.
IS THERE ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM? WHEN I WOULD HAVE COUNCIL COUNCIL MEMBERS, EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL NUMBER DONE.
MOTION TO APPROVE DAVID FACING MOTION TO APPOINT DAVID FACEY SECONDED BY THE CHAIRS TO ANY OPPOSITION, TO DAVID FACIE, BEING APPOINTED TO THE ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTROL BOARD SHOWING NONE DAVID'S FACING.
YOU HAVE BEEN APPOINTED CONGRATULATION.
I WILL CALL YOU UP TO SPEAK, BUT I KNOW YOU MIGHT TALK TOO LONG.
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ONE 60.I'M JUST MESSING WITH YOU, MAN.
I DON'T WANT 60 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION CONSIDERATION OF REPLACING THAT OR DAVID'S HAND WHO HAS RESIGNED TO TERM EXPIRES ON NOVEMBER 28TH, 2020 FOR CURRENT VALLEY, SHIRLEY DIBELLA, MALIN BROWN AND REX CANNABIS.
UH, MS. LEE, SHE SAID CABINETS.
MS. LAUREN M LEASED TIMOTHY D. MOORE AND BRITTANY D XENO.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM FIRST AND FOREMOST? ARE THERE ANYONE ARE ANY OF THE MEMBERS HERE WHO ARE WISHING TO SERVE ON THE BOARD, PLEASE STAND AND COME TO THE MIC AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF IF YOU WOULD.
WE WON'T NEED YOUR CAMPAIGN SPECIES.
SAY YOUR NAME THAT YOU WERE HERE.
MY NAME IS TIMOTHY MOORE, UH, 69 39 COLFAX DRIVE BAKER, LOUISIANA.
AND I'M DEFINITELY INTERESTED IN SERVING ON THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION.
YOU TIMOTHY OF NEXT LAUREN, M LEE, 6 42 LAKELAND DRIVE, BATON ROUGE, PEGGY, MADAM LORD, BRITTANY, THE XENO TWO TO SIX TYLER STREET.
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MAXIMILLIAN AND I WOULDN'T BE ON IT.JUST STARTED WANTING TO SUPPORT.
REX CABINETS, 1213 STEWART AVENUE.
I DIDN'T WANT TO WISHING TO SPEAK ON I AND MS. MARTHA TALE, MARY JANE, MARK, AND TAIL AMERICA STREET, WAR GARDEN TOWN ARISE TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF AN APPOINTMENT BY ANYONE OF THE FIVE OF SIX PEOPLE WHO HAVE APPLIED.
I SPEAK AGAINST ONLY ONE APPLICANT.
I PREVIOUSLY SENT MY DETAILED OPPOSITION TO EACH COUNCIL PERSON REGARDING THIS ONE PERSON HERE IS A PICTURE WHERE THIS PERSON OPENLY OPPOSE HIS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, WHICH IS THE ACTUAL MISSION OF THIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION, BECAUSE THIS PERSON IS AGAINST A HISTORICAL DESIGNATION WHERE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, WHILE THE DESIGNATION OPPOSITION EFFORTS BY THIS PERSON HAS PITTED NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR THAT HAS RESULTED IN THREATS TO PEOPLE'S JOBS, TO THEIR PERSON AND TO CITY EMPLOYEES THAT AT ONE POINT RESULTED IN THE POLICE HAVING TO INTERVENE.
THIS PERSONS PRESENT AT ANY MEETING IN THIS IN THE PAST HAS CAUSED CHAOS AND ANXIETY AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DISRUPT THE BENEFICIAL PRESERVATION INITIATIVES AND ALL OF YOUR DISTRICTS.
IN FACT, THIS OPEN OBJECTION, HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SHOULD DISQUALIFY THIS APPLICANT.
PLEASE BE SMART ABOUT THIS APPOINTMENT AND THE REMAINING FIVE, VERY QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS.
ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEMS? HI, FAIRLEY JACKSON, 39 4500 X AVENUE.
UM, I THINK YOU'VE ALL RECEIVED A FEW EMAILS FOR ME AND SOME OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, AT THIS POINT, I, I THINK I'M, I'M HONORED AND SHOCKED THAT WE HAVE FIVE REALLY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR THE HPC.
I THINK THAT SAYS SOMETHING REALLY GOOD.
UM, SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK THE CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE HPC.
I PROMISE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, AND WE HAVE OUR FORMER CHAIR HERE.
SORRY, WE NEED TO CALL YOU OUT.
BUT, UM, SO IT IS AN IMPORTANT JOB, THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND THE MEMBERS THAT SERVE IN THAT CAPACITY, UH, THEY ACTUALLY WORK TO MOVE FORWARD.
THINGS LIKE MO UM, FUTURE BR THAT YOU ALL, THAT IS ONE OF YOUR INITIATIVES, AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ROLE OF THESE COMMISSION MEMBERS.
THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND PRESERVATION.
THEY NEED TO, TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT BENEFITS COMMUNITIES, CULTURALLY, ARCHITECTURALLY, ECONOMICALLY, AND IT NEEDS TO BE EQUITABLE.
AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THINK BRITTANY XENO IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THIS APPOINTMENT TO REPLACE MS. HAYNES, UH, THAT SHE HAS A PROVEN DEMONSTRATION OF DEDICATION, UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE AND COMPASSION FOR PRESERVATION.
SHE HAS AN AMAZING ABILITY IN HER CONNECTING WITH PEOPLE AND OUTREACH.
SHE IS THE LEADER ON THE OLD SIDE OF BATON ROUGE, ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT GROUP, AND ALSO THEIR EFFORT TO ESTABLISH OLD SOUTH AS A NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT.
UH, SHE RUNS AN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT.
SHE'S BEEN A PANELIST, LUCKILY FOR US, UH, WITH PRESERVED LOUISIANA ON PRESERVATION TOOLS FOR BLACK COMMUNITIES, WOMEN, AND PRESERVATION.
SHE HAS THE KNOWLEDGE, THE PASSION AND THE CONNECTION TO HELP BRING BATON ROUGE FORWARD AND TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE PROJECTS IN EACH OF YOUR DISTRICTS THAT INVOLVE PRESERVING YOUR CULTURE, YOUR HISTORY, YOUR CONSTITUENTS HISTORY, SHE UNDERSTANDS HOW TO DO THAT AND TO MOVE THAT FORWARD, THIS COMMISSION, AND WHO'S APPOINTED TO IT.
THEY'LL WORK WITH YOU FOR YOUR DISTRICTS TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY IN YOUR DISTRICTS.
AND I THINK SHE IS THE BEST ONE FOR THIS APPOINTMENT.
WE APPRECIATE YOU AND MS. JACKSON AND ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM.
WHEN I GO TO COUNSELING, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED SEVERAL COMMENTS ON ITEM ONE 60.
YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED 19 COMMENTS IN FAVOR OF APPOINTING, MRS. ZINO.
YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED FOUR COMMENTS IN FAVOR OF APPOINTING.
MR. CABANISS, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE COMMENT IN FAVOR OF APPOINTING, MS. BROWN, MADELINE BROWN, AND FIVE COMMENTS AND OPPOSITION TO MS. BOWLER.
UH, WE'RE NOT GOING TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
WE CAN TAKE TO THE BALLOT AND ALL COUNCIL MEMBER CALLED ME, GO AHEAD.
I'D LIKE TO, UM, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AT THIS TIME.
I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE HEARD MUCH, BUT, UH, AND THEN ALLUDING TO THE SIGN THAT COULD BE IN THE YEAR THAT THAT SIGN COULD REALLY COULD BE IN MY YARD.
I WANT YOU ALL TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
AND THAT SIGN WAS PLACED IN MANY YARDS IN
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BARRA GUARD TOWN, WHERE I RESIDE SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE PROCESS WAS HANDLED.SO DO NOT BE MISLED BY EMAILS, ACCUSATIONS AND ALL OF THIS.
SO JUST RIDE THROUGH BEAUREGARD TOWN AND SEE THE MANY SIGNS THAT ARE THERE.
ALSO WHEN ONE JUST GO ALONG TO GET ALONG, THAT'S A CONCERN AS OPPOSED TO DOING WHAT'S BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY THEY ARE IN.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION AS TO WHO, UH, THAT YOU FOUGHT TO VOTE FOR FOR THIS, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THIS, UH, PARTICULAR BOARD HERE HAD A MEETING JUST THE LAST WEEK, THEY HAD TO CALL A SPECIAL MEETING BECAUSE THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR RULES, THEIR REGULATIONS, AND THE PLAN OF GOVERNMENT SOMETHING WAS PASSED.
AND THEN THEY HAD TO GO BACK, VOTE A AGAIN AND THEN ON PAST.
SO JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE MAKING A CONSCIOUSNESS SESSION HERE AND ON ALL OF THOSE NOTES THERE.
I LIKE TO MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION OF SHIRLEY BOWLER FOR THIS POSITION.
IS THAT A MOTION COUNSEL NUMBER? YES, SIR.
MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER TO A POINT SURELY BOULDER, IS THERE A SECOND SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER? UH, DONE.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION, IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION? SHOW ME A POSE.
WE DON'T VOTE ON THE MACHINES.
WE'RE GOING TO VOTE ON THE MACHINES AND ORDER OF, OF THE BALLOT.
WE'RE GOING TO VOTE IN THE MACHINE IN ORDER OF THE BALLOT.
UH, LET'S GO WITH, UH, SHIRLEY BOWLERS UP FIRST.
NOW THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, YOU WANT TO HAVE TO VOTE AT ALL.
IF YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST AN INDIVIDUAL.
SO I'M SORRY, PHARMACIST, CHARLOTTE BAUER.
YOU CAN ONLY VOTE FOR ONE PERSON AND IN THE FIRST ROUND.
SO IF WE GET TO A SECOND ROUND, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR VOTE, BUT IN THE FIRST ROUND YOU CAN ONLY VOTE ONE PERSON AND YOU ONLY NEED TO VOTE.
SO, UM, THIS, THIS IS NORMALLY, UM, ESPECIALLY FOR THE HPC, A VERY EASY PROCESS, UM, UH, D FOR WHATEVER REASON, I WISH I KNOW NEDRA DAVIS HANES VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY WELL.
UM, HOWEVER, UM, FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS, I'VE HAD DIFFERENT PERSONS ASK THAT I SUPPORT BRITTANY XENO.
I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THE CANDIDATES.
UM, TIMOTHY MOORE SOUNDS FAMILIAR CAUSE HE LIVES IN MY DISTRICT, UM, IN THE CITY OF BAKER.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, KNOWING HIS NAME, I DON'T REALLY KNOW ANYONE.
HOWEVER, I HAVE A COUNCIL, WOMAN WHOSE DISTRICT AND WHO LIVES IN THE DISTRICT, UM, WHO, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTS ONE OTHER PERSON.
THAT'S WHAT PUTS ME A DILEMMA, UH, BECAUSE OF THE, UM, THE LARGE VOLUME OF PERSONS AND ALSO THE, UM, THE SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS OF MS. BRIEF MS. XENO THAT I'VE HEARD TODAY.
I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYONE ELSE'S, UM, FOR WHATEVER REASON.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE CANDIDATES TO COME UP AND GET THAT SAME KIND OF, UH, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO PULL ON THE MEETING, BUT IT DOES PUT, BUT YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE ALREADY CLOSED THE PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO I, YOU KNOW, IT JUST, IT WAS DIFFICULT.
SO WHAT I HAD TO DO, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THE FACT OF, UM, HEARING ABOUT, I AM ALSO CONCERNED THAT MS. BOWLER, EXCELLENT PEOPLE SAY DON'T, DON'T CHOOSE HER.
AND THAT'S AN INTERESTING, I EVER SCOTLAND BILL JUST GOT A HISTORIC DISTRICT OR IN THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS.
AND, UM, WE HAVE SOMEONE THAT SERVES ON THE BOARD AND DOES A LOT OF HISTORIC WORK, UH, WITH BYRON WASHINGTON'S.
SO I BASICALLY HAD TO ASK HIM WHAT TO DO.
AND, UM, SO HE HE'S ADVISING ME TO, UH, SUPPORT BRITTANY XENO AND FOR THAT REASON AND THAT REASON ALONE, UM, I JUST WANTED, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT, YOU KNOW, OUT OF RESPECT FOR
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COUNCILWOMAN WHO LIVES IN THAT AREA, JUST TO SAY, THIS IS AN UNUSUAL PRECEDENT I HAD GIVEN MY WORD BEFORE, UH, THE NUMBERS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.UM, WHAT WE'RE HEARING TODAY, AS IT RELATES, AS IT RELATES TO SUPPORT OR NOT SUPPORT, BUT AT THE BOTTOM LINE, MY REPRESENTATIVE IN MY AREA IS ALSO, UM, ASKING THAT I SUPPORT MESSINA.
JUST SO, JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY.
WE'RE GOING TO GO IN ORDER OF THE BALLOT.
FIRST ON THE BALLOT IS SHIRLEY D BALLER.
POLAR MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR SHIRLEY BOWLER.
YOU'RE WALKING THREE VOTES, MIXON BATTLE AND BROWN MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR MADELINE BROWN.
CABINET MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR REX CABINETS.
LAUREN MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR LAUREN LEAST TIMOTHY.
MORE TRYING TO BE MORE MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR TIMOTHY.
MORE XENO MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR BRITTANY XENO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THE THREE TOP VOTE GETTERS FROM THE FIRST ROUND ARE SHIRLEY BOWLER, REX CABANISS, AND BRITTANY ZINO HAVE A SECOND ROUND OF VOTING.
YOU HAVE A SECOND ROUND OF BOLDER.
YOU CAN VOTE FOR WHOMEVER YOU WANT.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER THE SAME PERSON THAT YOU VOTED FOR IN ROUND ONE, BUT WE ARE ONLY VOTING FOR THOSE THREE CANDIDATES AND WE'LL TAKE THEM AND ALL OF IT IN A ROW FOR BOLO FIRST AND THEN CABINETS.
AND BENZINO FIRST UP IS BOWLER ONE VOTE IN THE ROUND.
YOU CAN NOT VOTE FOR MORE THAN ONE CANDIDATE AND ROUND TWO.
SO AGAIN, YOU ONLY NEED TO VOTE.
MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR SURELY BOWLER.
MACHINES ARE OPEN FOR REX CABINETS.
MR. CABANISS HAS BEEN APPOINTED.
CONGRATULATIONS, MR. CABINETS, YOU'VE BEEN APPOINTED TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION.
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1 61 COUNCIL MEMBERS.WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DEFER THIS ITEM CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING OR REPLACING SHARON LEWIS, WHOSE TERM EXPIRED ON JULY 23RD, 2022 EFFECTIVE JULY 24TH, 2020.
THIS IS A THREE-YEAR TERM LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENT, WHICH MEANS THAT DISAPPOINTMENT CAN ONLY BE DONE BY LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, SYDNEY, EPPS, AND LOUISE RANDOLPH ON, ON THE CURRENT BALLOT.
BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO DEFER THIS ITEM.
IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM ON ITEM 1 61.
WE'RE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
IS THERE A MOTION TO DEFER? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, ADAM, SECOND OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBER ROCKER.
NOW WE CAN LOOK FOR 1 62 COUNCIL MEMBERS JUST REAL QUICK ON 1 61, Y'ALL RECEIVED ONE COMMENT AND OPPOSITION ITEM ITEM 1 61 HAS BEEN LET'S GO TO
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ITEM 1 62.THIS IS CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING OR REPLACING PRESS ROBINSON, WHOSE TERMS EXPOUNDS, JULY 25TH, 2022 EFFECTIVE JULY 26TH, 2022.
THIS IS A THREE-YEAR TERM FROM THE SETTING UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENT.
CURRENT VALID IS PRESS ROBINSON COUNCIL MEMBERS.
HE IS, HE DOESN'T APPEAR ON YOUR AGENDA ORIGINALLY BECAUSE WE GOT THE LETTER FROM SOUTHERN ON FRIDAY AFTER WE HAD ALREADY PUBLISHED THE AGENDA.
MR. ROBINSON, IS THERE NOMINEE? WELL, WE'VE GOT TO HAVE PUBLIC HEARING, PUBLIC HEARING ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM WHEN I WROTE TO COUNCIL.
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BANK, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, HUDSON, ANY OPPOSITION.CONGRATULATIONS, MR. ROBINSON, YOU HAVE BEEN APPOINTED BACK TO THE MUNICIPAL FIRE AND POLICE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD.
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HAVE CHANGE ORDER DESK, WWTP MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS CONTRACTED TO BUY TWO TB COMPANY, LLC CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, $11,680 AND 21 CENTS IS A CREDIT.ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 63 BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH SECOND ABOUT COUNSELING THEM ADAMS ITEM 1 63 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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I HAD A 1 64 KT AND THREE-WAY LAWS, DIAMETER, SEWER REHABILITATION, CONTRACTED AND INSTITUTE FORM TECHNOLOGIES, LLC CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, $56,862 AND 5 CENTS, WHICH IS A CREDIT.DOES ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? WHEN I GO BACK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT MOTION TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL ON MANOLO SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, ADAM, BY ITEM 1 64 HAS BEEN APPROVED FINAL
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ACCEPTANCES.I S WWTP MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS CONTRACT TYBEE COMPANY, LLC.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE? WE SHOULD JUST BE GOING ITEM 1 65 WHEN I WERE TO COUNCIL MEMBERS.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER KNOLL SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. I AM 1 65 HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THEM.
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ACADIAN THREE-WAY LARGE DIAMETER, SEWER REHABILITATION, CONTRACT AND INCIDENT.I CAN'T PRONOUNCE THAT WORD FOR NOTHING.
SINCE YOUR POOL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, FINAL COST $1,175,392 AND 20 CENTS.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONCE FIT 66, WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS MOSTLY TO APPROVE OUR COUNCIL.
COUNCILMEMBER NORTH SECOND OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS, I OF 1 66 HAS BEEN APPROVED ACCEPTANCE
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OF LOW BS ITEM 1 67, JANITORIAL COMMERCIAL, ONE THAT CLEANED AND TERMINAL BUILDING INTO INTERNATIONAL BUILDING SERVICES.AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE WISHING TO SPEAK ITEM 1 67, WE'RE NOT GOING TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, OUR MOTION.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL NUMBER DONE SECONDED BY THE CHAIR I 1 67.
ANY OPPOSITION, NONE ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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COUNCIL MEMBERS.THERE IS A REQUEST TO DEFER ITEM 1 68, UH, BECCA DRIVE DREAMS IMPROVEMENTS, TRIUM CONSTRUCTION LLC, ONE OR $43,500.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM AGAIN? THERE IS A REQUEST OF THE FURTHEST ITEM FOR 30 DAYS OR TO THE NEXT MEETING TO THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING FOR TWO WEEKS.
UH, IS THERE A MOTION TO THE FIRST, SOME OLD BY ADAM SECOND AND BY THE CHAIR ITEM 1 68 HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR TWO WEEKS.
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OTHER ITEMS ITEMS 1 69 RECEIVING THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2022 REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR PERFORMANCE ACCOMPLISHED TREADS, BULKY ITEM, WOODY WASTE AND RECYCLE PICKUP BY COUNSELING WITH THE WHITE HUDSON COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, COUNSELED THEM.HUSTON HAS REQUESTED HIS ITEM.
BE DEFERRED, FOLLOW TWO WEEKS.
ANYONE HEAR WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM.
WE GO TO COUNSEL'S MOTION TO DEFER FOR TWO WEEKS BY COUNCIL MEMBER.
YOU SHOULD NOW SOMEONE BUSTED SECONDED BY THE CHAIR.
ITEM HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR TWO WEEKS.
CAN WE NOW GO TO ADOPT EMERGENCY ITEMS? WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THEM ONE BY ONE, AUTHORIZING THE CITY CONSTABLE TO ENTER INTO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THESE BARRELS PARISH SHERIFF FULLY SUB GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 300 AND CHEATING ME 3092, $3,922 THROUGH LOUISIANA COMMISSION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT FROM BRYAN ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM.
THE REASON FOR EMERGENCY RECEIVED GRANT INFORMATION LATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDERS, 1 6 4, 4, 2.
THIS ITEM MUST BE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY BY TWO THIRD BURNER, THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL, THEIR MOTION TO DECLARE THIS ITEM.
SO MOVED BY COUNCIL, MADAM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOHLER.
IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO THE ITEM WOULD NOT HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM, ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK.
WE NOW GO BACK TO THE COUNSELOR THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
NUMBER MOAT ITEM HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE 1 71,
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AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR GRANTS AND WE'D REMOVE THEM SERVICES TO THE SELECTED VENDOR ADVANTAGE CONTRACTOR AND AUTHORIZED AN EXECUTION OF THE CONTRACT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $900,000 FROM ARP GRANT FUNDING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF BLIGHT IN EASTBOUND, WHICH PARIS PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR REASON FOR EMERGENCY TO EXPLAIN THE PROCESS IN ORDER TO BEGIN BLIND ELIMINATION EFFORTS.IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 71? WELL, BEFORE WE DO THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDERS, ONCE 6, 4 42, DECIDED IT MUST BE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY BY TWO THIRDS VOTE OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL IS THERE, UH, THERE ARE MOSTLY DECLARED ASYLUM AND EMERGENCY SOMEONE WILL BY COUNCIL AND BLOCK THE SECOND ABOUT A CHAIR AND THE OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM BEING DECLARED EMERGENCY IS ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM? WE GO BACK TO COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MARACA SAID NOBODY CHET.
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AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR DEMOLITION ABATEMENT SERVICES AND SELECTED VENDOR C MORGAN EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES, LLC, AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION[02:25:01]
OF CONTRACT AND AN AMOUNT UP TO 1,800,000 FROM ARP GRANT FUNDING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF BLIGHT IN THESE PIRATES PARIS, WHILE ALSO SERVING THE RIGHT TO NEGOTIATE AND CONTRACT WITH OTHER VENDORS WHO MET ALL TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FROM RFP TO 0 0 0 8 8 2 DASH ZERO SEVEN BY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, REASON FOR EMERGENCY TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS IN ORDER TO BEGIN BLIGHT ELIMINATION EFFORTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDINANCE 1 6 4, 4, 2, THIS ITEM MUST BE DECLARED EMERGENCY ABOUT TWO THIRD VOTE.A METROPOLITAN COUNCIL HAVE MOSTLY DECLARED INSIDE OF AN EMERGENCY.
SO MOVED BY COUNSELING BY THEM, SENDING THEM BY COUNCIL AND BARAKA AND THE OPPOSITION TO BE DECLARED EMERGENCY.
NOW HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM WAS GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL.
IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MOROCCO SECONDED BY A COUNCIL MEMBER ITEMS ITEM 1 72 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
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ITEM 1 73, FORMING A COMMITTEE PURSUANT TO THE PLAN OF GOVERNANCE.SECTION TWO PERIOD ONE FOUR TO INVESTIGATE THE OFFICIAL CONDUCT OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CAFETERIA TRANSIT SYSTEM, BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE APPOINTED BY THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL, APPOINTING MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND ESTABLISHED AND DATA COMMITTEE TO CONDUCT HIS WORD BY COUNCIL MCCALLA COLEMAN.
THE COUNSELING WITH JIM ROKER NEEDED FOR EMERGENCY TO BEGIN THE COMMITTEES WORK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDINANCE 1 6, 4 42, DECIDED MUST BE DECLARED AN EMERGENCY BY 2 34 OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MOTION DECLARED BY COUNCIL.
ROCKET SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR.
MCCOMB HAS ANY OPPOSITION TO THE ITEM WILL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM.
ANYONE WANT TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM? WE NOW GO BACK TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MOST OF THE APPROVAL BY COUNCIL MARACA.
SECOND ABOUT WE NEED TO Y'ALL NEED TO, UM, SET FORTH THE NAMES OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN YOUR MOTION.
JEN ROCCA, COUNCILMEN OAK COUNCIL, WOMAN LORI HAD WAS WHITE AND THAT SHOULD BE SICK.
BUT THEN THE MOTION IS THAT WE CREATE A COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL MEMBER, COLEMAN ADAMS, DUNN JR.
MO ROCCA AND MYSELF TO SERVE ON THIS COMMITTEE.
UH, I THINK I READ ONE, TWO AND THREE.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE SOME RULE BY ROCCA SET IN IT BY NOW? SO I'M GONNA CALL THEM
MAX, A QUESTION, PLEASE HAVE SOME OTHER FOLK EXPERT FOLKS FOLKESTONE THE EXPERTS.
THE COMMITTEE CAN ONLY BE MADE UP OF COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THEY CAN BRING IN PEOPLE EITHER AS CONTRACTORS OR CONSULTANTS, BUT THE COMMITTEE ONLY CAN BE MADE UP OF COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNSEL I 1 74,
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AUTHORIZING MAYOR, PRESIDENT EXECUTING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT WITH SOUTH CENTRAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES AND STAFF AUGMENTATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $400,000 BY THE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR.THE REASON FOR EMERGENCY URGENT NEED OF SERVICES IN ORDER TO EXPEDITE THE ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMITS AWAITING REVIEW.
IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON? ITEM WANTS TO EXCUSE ME IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDERS.
THIS ITEM MUST BE DECLARED EMERGENCY ABOUT TWO THIRDS VOTE VOTED.
THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MOTION TO DECLARE IS BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOLT, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ADAMS. ANY OPPOSITION TO THE MOTION.
ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM.
WE NOW GO BACK TO COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOLT SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN ADAMS. ITEM 1 74 HAS BEEN APPROVED.
ALSO, THERE IS A MOTION TO ADJOURN BY COUNCILMAN MEMORY.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR PACK TO SACK BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY ON SATURDAY, JULY 30TH, 9:00 AM TO 1:00 PM AND THEN A HOST ADDITIONAL AT CAPITOL MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE MAT, THE MAT, AND ALL THOSE ANNOUNCEMENTS ANNOUNCEMENTS.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, WE'RE GOING TO HOST THE BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY THIS SATURDAY 9:00 AM AT CAPITOL MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCATED AT 5,100 GREENLAND SPRINGS ROAD.
PLEASE COME OUT OR WE'RE GOING TO GIVE AWAY 500 BACKPACKS FILLED WITH SCHOOL SUPPLIES.
SO ANY STUDENTS WHO ARE IN NEED OF SCHOOL SUPPLIES, PLEASE COME OUT AND SATURDAY 9:00 AM COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS.
UH, I WANT TO TAKE KNOWLEDGE THAT TERRY IS LEAVING US.
OH, HIS LAST DAY WITH THE ADVOCATE IS AUGUST, AUGUST 5TH.
AND WE'RE GONNA MISS HIS BALL HEAD ALSO.
IT WAS THE NEW BURDENING GROUNDS DIRECTLY HERE.
MR. JOSEPH BUTLER IS MR. JOSEPH BUTLER HERE.
WHERE IS
YEAH, YOU NEED TO BE QUIET BACK THERE.
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AGAIN, INTRODUCE YOURSELF, SIR.UH, MY NAME IS JOSEPH BUTLER, UH, BORN AND RAISED HERE IN BATON ROUGE.
THE LAST TWO YEARS WAS AWAY IN, UH, TEXAS.
WORKED FOR US STILL, UH, GLAD TO BE HOME AND, UH, THE SERVICE SET OF BEDROOMS. THANK YOU, MAN.
WE GET A LOT OF CALLS AND GET A WHOLE LOT OF CALLS.
THANK YOU FOR THEM, GETTING THEM ALL.
READY? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, GOD BLESS YOU.
AND REMEMBER AS ALWAYS PROTECT MENTAL HEALTH, REACHING YOUR CHILDREN, SMOOTH THE TO START REACHING YOUR CHILDREN.
THEN WHEN YOU'RE DONE READING TO THEM, MAKE SURE THEY READ BACK TO YOU.