* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. 4, 3, 2, 1 [00:00:02] AT TWO. GOOD [CALL TO ORDER] AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AND WELCOME TO OUR PRESENTATION PORTION OF OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED COUNCIL MEETING ON THIS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022. UH, FIRST UP, WE'RE GONNA HAVE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEMBERS RECOGNIZE VETERANS IN HONOR OF VETERANS DAY. VETERANS DAY IS THIS FRIDAY. UH, MAYOR BROOM. OUR PERSON WE RECOGNIZE HADN'T MADE IT YET, SO I'M GONNA GIVE HIM A FEW MOMENTS TO GET HERE. I DON'T SEE HIM IN THE AUDIENCE JUST YET. UH, BUT WE'RE GONNA START WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER FROM THE DISTRICT. WE ARE IN DISTRICT 10. COUNCIL MEMBER CAROLYN COLE. MM-HMM. . OKAY. YES. YOU WANNA GO DOWN FRONT? COUNCIL MEMBER PHONE STAR. AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER AMAROSA. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. AND THAT'S TO YOU ALL TOO. GOOD AFTERNOON, EVEN THOUGH YES. YES. YES. AND SO, YES, YOU SIT IN DISTRICT 10 AND YES, DISTRICT 10 HAS SOME, UH, VETERANS HERE TODAY. AND I JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE TWO OF THE BEST VETERANS THAT, AND ALSO THEY ARE THE SENIOR CITIZENS AT THE LEOS BUTLER CENTER. AND THEY ALSO WERE UBERED HERE TODAY. SO I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT'S HOW WE DO IT TO BEGIN WITH. COME ON UP, MS. FRANCIS LIGEN. COME ON, MS. FRANCIS. AND WHILE SHE'S COMING, I'D LIKE TO SAY A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION. AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY. YOUR BRAVERY, YOUR SACRIFICE AND STRENGTH DO NOT GO UNNOTICED. AND YOU KNOW THAT, DON'T YOU? AND WE WILL ALWAYS BE INDEBTED TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE. AND SO WE GIVE YOU THIS ON THIS DATE, NOVEMBER 9TH, AND WE JUST SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. OKAY? YOU'RE GOOD. AND YOU CAN SOMETHING, DON'T SAY NOTHING, RIGHT? WELL, RIGHT ON. COME ON. THIS PICTURE RIGHT HERE? YEP. WE'RE GONNA TAKE THIS PICTURE AND YOU GONNA TURN AROUND AND THEN MR. BAZI GOING BE READY. MM-HMM. THIS UP. IT UP. DO WHAT YOU WANT YOU TO. YEAH. THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU, MA'AM. AND ALSO A, AND ALSO RECOGNIZE IN ANOTHER VETERAN THERE, MR. RONALD BAIA. COME ON UP, MR. BAIA. AND WE THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY. YOUR BRAVERY, YOUR SACRIFICE, YOUR STRENGTH, DON'T GO UNNOTICED. AND Y'ALL SEE HIM DRESSED IN MM-HMM. . YES, THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S HOW WE DO IT IN 10. AND SO, AND WE SAY THANK YOU. WE SAY THANK YOU. AND AGAIN, JUST AS A SIDE NOTE, MR. RONALD ILLA DOESN'T MISS A DAY VOLUNTEERING WITH THE SENIOR CITIZENS AT THE LEOS BUTLER CENTER. AND SO WE SAY THANK YOU. I LIKE TO THANK Y'ALL FOR THE RECOGNITION Y'ALL JUST GAVE TO ME. AND, UH, HOPE I DID IT ADE FOR YOUR YES, YOU DID. YES YOU DID. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU, SIR. AND JUST TO NOTE, HE WAS IN THE ARMY AND MISS LIGEN WAS IN. THERE YOU GO. THERE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. BEFORE WE GO TO MS, UH, AMAROSA, WE'RE GONNA UM, PAUSE FOR ONE QUICK SECOND AND WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE YOU WANNA GO AHEAD. OKAY. MS. AMAROSA, UM, WE DO APPRECIATE OUR VETERANS, UM, VERY, VERY MUCH. UM, IN TODAY'S MILITARY SERVICE, THEY VOLUNTEER. THEY ARE NOT DRAFTED. SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT. SO THE FIRST PERSON THAT I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE IS MAUREEN BOYER, PLEASE. SHE IS, WAS IT WITH THE US ARMY FOR FOUR YEARS. AMAZING. AND HAS JUST RECENTLY MOVED TO BATON ROUGE, AND SHE IS, UH, NOW ONE OF US. AND WE WANT YOU TO KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE YOUR, TOO. UM, THE OTHER ONE COULD NOT BE HERE. UM, WHO IS MY FAVORITE VETERAN IS MY SON, ANTHONY. JOSEPH. UM, HE HAS TO WORK TONIGHT, SO HE'S HIS MOM. I GOTTA SLEEP, BUT HE WILL BE THERE IN THE MORNING FOR THE VETERAN'S BREAKFAST. BUT MY JOEY WAS SERVICE, UM, IN THE US NAVY AS A CORPSMAN FOR FIVE YEARS, COUPLE YEARS [00:05:01] AT THE, UH, HOSPITAL IN PENSACOLA. AND HE SERVED ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS ON THE, UM, GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THEN THE RONALD REAGAN IN JAPAN. SO, THANK YOU. AND AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE Y'ALL. NEXT WE'LL HEAR FROM COUNCIL MEMBER. GO EIGHT, DISTRICT THREE. COME ON UP. GOOD, SIR. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTE. DR. JEREMY BLUNT. SERGEANT JEREMY BLUNT IS A 16 YEAR US ARMY NATIONAL GUARD VETERAN SERVING FROM 1998 TO 2014. SERGEANT BLUNT DID HIS INITIAL TRAINING IN FORT STILL OKLAHOMA, FOLLOWED BY SKILLS TRAINING IN FORT LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI, AND GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI. IN 2002, SERGEANT BLUNT DEPLOYED WITH THE CHARLIE COMPANY OF THE SEVEN 69TH ENGINEERING BATTALION TO BAGG, UH, AFGHANISTAN. AND IN 2014, HE MEDICALLY RETIRED. TODAY, DR. BLUNT CONTINUES HIS SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY THROUGH AN ARRAY OF EFFORTS. YOU ALL RECOGNIZE HIM BECAUSE HE IS A FOUNDING MEMBER AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GARDERE INITIATIVE. UH, AN ORGANIZATION THAT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART AND NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART. AND DISTRICT THREE. IN 2014, HE EARNED HIS DOCTORATE DEGREE IN BIBLICAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND HE IS THE FOUNDER AND CEO OF STITCHES FOR LIFE, A COACHING, CONSULTING AND COUNSELING COMPANY, AND ALSO CO-FOUNDER OF THE NONPROFIT STITCHES INFLUENCING PURPOSE INITIATIVE. AND FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS, HE'S ALSO WORKED FOR THE LOUISIANA NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM, CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE TRAINING AND SAFETY COORDINATOR. MOST IMPORTANTLY, DR. BLUNT IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER DEANNA PEOPLES, AND HE HAS TWO DAUGHTERS, KAYLEE AND AMARIE. SO THREE WOMEN IN THE HOUSE, YOU KNOW, HE MAKES NO DECISIONS WHATSOEVER, BUT AN IMPRESSIVE RESUME. SO, THANK YOU DR. BLUNT, FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY. WAIT, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU FOR HONORING US. THANK YOU FOR EACH VETERAN THAT'S IN THE BUILDING. JUST AS A REMINDER, IF YOU KNOW A VETERAN PIECE OF PAPER, CHECK ON A VETERAN SUICIDE'S HIGHEST RATE IS AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE MILITARY. SO CALL ATTENTION TO THEM. WE'RE LOSING THEM EVERY DAY. THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE TO STEP AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES, CHECK ON THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. NEXT WE'LL HAVE DR. DENNIS CHIP SMO. THANK YOU SIRS. A 39 YEAR RESIDENT OF DISTRICT THREE, THE DISTRICT THREE SERVING, UH, OH OH OH , HAVING SERVED IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FROM 1976 TO 1985, IN ADDITION TO SERVING FOUR YEARS IN ROTC WHILE PURSUING HIS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE AT LSU, A NATIVE, A VAY, LOUISIANA. DR. SMAL GRADUATED IN 1972 FROM LSU, FOLLOWED BY COMPLETION OF HIS DDS DEGREE FROM LSU SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY IN 1976, DR. SMA ENTERED THE US AIR FORCE SERVING AS A GENERAL DENTIST FOR TWO YEARS, THEN ENTERED ENDODONTIC RESIDENCY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER AT HOUSTON, AND RECEIVED HIS ENDODONTIC CERTIFICATE FROM WILFORD HALL, US AIR FORCE MEDICAL CENTER IN SAN ANTONIO. AFTER SERVING THREE YEARS AT SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS, HE MOVED TO BATON ROUGE TO BE NEAR LSU AND THOSE FIGHTING TIGERS. AND HE OPENED HIS OWN DENTAL PRACTICE. DR. SMA ATTRIBUTES HIS PASSION FOR THE MILITARY TO HIS FATHER, WHO WAS ALSO IN THE ROTC WHILE ATTENDING LSU BEFORE JOINING THE ARMY AND SERVING IN KOREA. DR. SMA IS A DIPLOMAT OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF ENDODONTICS. HE'S BEEN RECOGNIZED WITH NUMEROUS DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS IN HIS PROFESSION. HE'S ACTIVE IN NUMEROUS MINISTRIES, UH, AT ST. A WISHES CATHOLIC CHURCH. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FOR HIM, HE AND HIS BRIDE AMY, HAVE BEEN MARRIED 51 YEARS. WOW. PROUD, ABSOLUTELY [00:10:04] PROUD PARENTS. PROUD PARENTS OF THREE CHILDREN, AND EVEN PROUDER GRANDPARENTS OF EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN. SO, DR. SMO, THANK YOU SO MUCH, SIR. YOU THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. AND THE MAYOR JUST SAID HE DID A ROOT CANAL ON HER SEVERAL YEARS AGO, SO THERE YOU GO. THAT'S WHY YOU TOOK A PICTURE WITH HIM AND NOT WITH THE DISTRICT. CAN , I'M HERE FOR YOU. NEXT, WE'RE HERE FOR COUNCIL MEMBER LAURIE ADAMS. OKAY. I DIDN'T WANNA GO AFTER ROWDY BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE PLAQUES AND I DON'T HAVE EVERYTHING WRITTEN UP. I KNOW ROWDY'S MAKING, MAKING US ALL LOOK BACK. HE'S SETTING THE STANDARD. UM, LET ME INVITE UP JAY LITTLE. JAY LITTLE. UM, I MET MR. LITTLE, UM, WITH THE GPO A, HE'S AN ACTIVE, UM, MEMBER OF A VERY ACTIVE, UM, HOA IN MY DISTRICT. UM, MR. LITTLE SERVED IN THE COAST GUARD FROM 1962 TO 1967. HE WAS STATIONED IN NEW JERSEY, CONNECTICUT, AND CORPUS CHRISTI SERVING AS A SECOND CLASS FIRE FIREFIGHTER. UH, WE BOTH AGREED THAT THE, UM, THE COAST GUARD DOES NOT GET THE RESPECT THAT THE COAST GUARD, UM, DESERVES, BUT IT IS, UM, A VERY CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT PART OF OUR, OUR MILITARY SERVICE. SO IT'S AN AN HONOR TO RECOGNIZE JAY TODAY FOR HIS SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY THROUGH THE COAST GUARD. I WANT TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR Y'ALL TO DO. UM, I RAN FOR CITY, UH, COUNCIL AGAINST MICROBE A LONG TIME AGO, AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT IT EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN MY WIFE SAID, YOU CAN GO AHEAD, BUT I'M LEAVING. SO Y'ALL DO A GOOD JOB. AND GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE MAYORS C FOR THE, FOR THE, UH, ST. PATRICK'S DAY. AND I'VE BEEN MARRIED 57 YEARS. WHOA, THAT ONE. NOW, I'D LIKE TO ASK MIKE ALEXANDER TO COME UP. UM, MIKE IS A PERSONAL FRIEND AND A DISTRICT, A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 11. UM, LISTENED TO MIKE'S, UH, SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY. MIKE STARTED OUT IN THE ARMY IN 1987, SERVED TO 1989, UM, AND THEN HE DECIDED THAT HE WANTED TO BE A MARINE. AND SO HE SERVED IN THE MARINES FROM 1989 TO 1996 AS A CORPORAL. AND THEN HE HADN'T HAD ENOUGH. SO HE WENT BACK TO THE ARMY AND SERVED IN THE ARMY FROM 1996 TO 2011, WHERE HE WAS A, UM, A STAFF SERGEANT. HE SERVED IN DESERT STORM, HE DID TWO, UM, AND DID TWO TOURS IN IRAQ, SERVING THE WHOLE TIME IN THE INFANTRY. UM, SO, UH, MIKE IS, UH, A, AN EXAMPLE, A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF, UM, A LIFE DEDICATED TO, UM, THE SERVICE OF PROTECTING OUR COUNTRY AND, UM, SACRIFICE, UM, ON BEHALF OF, OF OTHERS. SO IT IS AN HONOR, MIKE, TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY, AND TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND SACRIFICE. YOU'RE, YOU WELCOME, . THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS. IT WAS A FUN RIDE. AND I'D DO IT AGAIN IF I COULD. WOW, THANK YOU. NEXT, WE'RE HERE FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBER FROM DISTRICT SIX CLAIM DUNN, JR. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. UH, THOMAS, CEDRIC AND LEON. COULD YOU GUYS COME FORWARD PLEASE AS THEY COME FORWARD? UH, I'LL READ ONE CERTIFICATE, WHICH IS PRINTED ON EACH OF THEM. AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR OF RECOGNIZING THESE GENTLEMEN FOR THEIR SACRIFICES THAT THEY MAKE FOR EACH OF US, UH, COLLECTIVELY AND INDIVIDUAL, AS WELL AS FOR OUR COUNTRY. THEY READ AS, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY, YOUR BRAVERY, YOUR SACRIFICE AND STRENGTH. DO NOT GO UNNOTICED. [00:15:01] WE WILL ALWAYS BE INDEBTED TO YOU, YOUR FAMILY, FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO THIS COUNTRY. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, BRAVERY SACRIFICE FOR THIS COUNTRY. AND FIRST, I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE CEDRIC A DIXON. CEDRIC WAS A FIRST SERGEANT IN THE US ARMY, RETIRED M O S 13 BRAVO AIRBORNE JUMP MASTER AIR ASSAULT, REPEAL MASTER AND RANGER JUNGLE EXPERT. WOW. , WE COULD TAKE A BREAK. NEXT WE HAVE LEON LEE, IF YOU COULD COME HERE. LEON, US ARMY, THREE YEARS RANK E FIVE SERGEANT, M O S FOUR FIVE N 20. I HOPE I SAID THAT RIGHT. AND TANK MECHANIC. CONGRATULATIONS LEON LEE. I'M, I'M GLAD TO, UH, BE HERE TODAY AND I'M GLAD I WAS INVITED. UH, AS HONOR, I'M GLAD WAS JUST YOU. I'M GONNA FRAME IT . SO, UH, REALLY I'M GLAD TO BE HERE. UH, I, BUT HE SAID, TUR MECHANIC'S, A TANK TURD, MECHANIC. IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT A, THAT BIG TANK DETER IT, THAT PART, THAT SPIN AROUND THAT SHOOT, THE BULLET. WELL, I WAS A REPAIRMAN ON THAT. SO IF IT BREAKDOWN, WON'T SHOOT. I WAS, UH, REPAIR MONEY AND I SPENT TIME IN GERMANY, FORT KNOX AND FORT BLISS, EL PASO, TEXAS. SO, UH, WHAT HAPPENED? I TRIED TO GO BACK, BUT IT TOLD ME I WAS TOO OLD. , THANK Y'ALL AGAIN. FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANNA THANK GOD FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY AS WELL, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE IN A COUNTRY THAT TOOK CARE OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US. IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE ME LOOKING FORWARD, BUT KNOWING I GOT THOSE MEN AND WOMEN BEHIND MY BACK AS I SERVED THIS COUNTRY, I COME FROM A LONG LINE OF, OF VETERANS, MY GRANDFATHER'S WORLD WAR II. MY, UH, FATHER-IN-LAW CURRENTLY IS A CRAN WAR VETERAN AS WELL. AND ALL MY UNCLES SERVE IN EVERY ASPECT OF VIETNAM THROUGHOUT THIS ERA TODAY. UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU GUYS, AND THANK ALL OF YOU BEHIND ME FOR SERVING AS WELL. AND FINALLY, I HAVE THOMAS FLEMING, WHO WAS A SERGEANT FROM 1972 TO 1980 IN THE US ARMY. CONGRATULATIONS, THOMAS FLEMING. GOOD AFTERNOON, AND THANK YOU. A LOT OF PEOPLE TELL ME THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU I'M THANKFUL FOR HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE. WOW. AND IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I'LL DO IT AGAIN. THANK YOU. WANNA HEAR FROM, UH, COUNCIL NUMBER, UH, FROM DISTRICT FIVE DAR HERPA? WHILE WE'RE WAITING, COUNCIL NUMBER FROM DISTRICT 10, HE'S GONNA ASK HER PEOPLE TO COME UP AND TAKE, TAKE THIS PICTURE WITH THESE, UH, MY PEOPLE. PLEASE. COME ON. MR. LICHENS THE ONLY FEMALE THAT'S RIGHT. THE ONLY FEMALE IN THE MIDST OF 35 MEN. THE ONLY FEMALE, ONLY BLACK FEMALE THERE. COME ON. COME ON. YES, ANNA MARIE. COME ON, MR. WELL DRESSED, UH, UH, ILLA. YEAH. YES. IT'S NOT CORRECT WITH YOU. HAVE ANOTHER NOW. SO GET ON BOTH SIDES HERE. YEAH, THERE YOU GO. YOU, YOU WANNA MOVE THAT OUT THE WAY RIGHT? SHALL MOVE THIS OUT THE WAY? CAN DO THAT? YOU'D LIKE YES, INDEED. YEAH. THE HELL IS WRONG WITH, BUT PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DENIED. OKAY. OKAY. MM-HMM. , RIGHT? Y'ALL MAKE SURE MY PEOPLE GET IT TOO. YEAH. MM-HMM. NOT THE ONLY FEMALE THOUGH. COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN WASN'T THE ONLY FEMALE. NO. YES, SIR. SHE'S NOT DOING OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE DON'T WANNA LEAVE OUT THE OTHER FEMALES WHO SERVE NOW. RIGHT. POINT, POINT WHERE I'LL TAPE. I [00:20:01] GOT A LOT OF ASKS TO FOLLOW. UH, MAY I WANNA MAKE SURE IN ADVANCE WE GET PICTURES WITH MY PEOPLE. OKAY. . ALL RIGHT. SO, UM, I HAVE WITH ME TODAY SOME VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE. THERE WERE A LOT OF 'EM THAT SIGNED UP, SEVERAL THAT WANTED TO BE HERE, BUT TWO THAT WE SELECTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, Y'ALL KNOW I DIDN'T GO WITH MY 10, UH, MY 10 PERSONAL AWARD CEREMONY, RIGHT? SO I APPRECIATE YOU, BUT BY THE WAY, I ALWAYS GET HECKLED FOR HAVING THESE LONG PRESENTATIONS. Y'ALL BEAT ME TODAY. I WANT Y'ALL TO KNOW THAT. ABSOLUTELY. I DIDN'T EVEN PREPARE SPEECH BECAUSE I KNEW THESE PEOPLE AND HOW GREAT THEY WERE. YOU'RE DOING IT NOW. I YOU'RE RIGHT ALONE. SO I WANNA BRING UP, UM, MR. JERRY A BEAR. HE'S BEEN IN THE AIR FORCE FOR FOUR YEARS, BUT WHAT I WILL TELL Y'ALL IS THAT I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE BLESSED BY THIS MAN'S PRESENCE WEEKLY AT THE CHARLES R. KELLY COMMUNITY CENTER. AND THE JOY OF BEING IN THE CENTER WITH SENIORS IS THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PAVED THE WAY TO GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY IN SO MANY FACETS. AND HE DID SO BY SERVING FOUR YEARS IN THE AIR FORCE. BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHAT'S EVEN MORE SPECIAL, NOT JUST WITH THIS GUY, BUT THE NEXT PERSON THAT'S COMING UP IS THESE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO GIVE. YEAH. SO WHAT THE MILITARY DID WAS INSTILL IN THEM THE PURPOSE OF GIVING OTHER PEOPLE PURPOSE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEREVER THEY ARE IS A GREAT QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AROUND THEM. UM, THAT, THAT EVEN US THAT SIT HERE AS A COUNCIL. BUT DEFINITELY DAY TO DAY WITH THE SENIOR CROWD THAT'S THERE, THE CHARLES R. KELLY CENTER OF THE COUNCIL AND AGENTS. SO, UH, I WANNA GIVE THE CERTIFICATE TO MR. JERRY ABRA WITH A PICTURE WITH THE MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. OH, JUST TAKING A PICTURE. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY, AND IT WAS A PLEASURE SERVING IN THE FORCE. I DEFINITELY WAS A GREAT, GREAT, GREAT SUPPLY CLERK. . I ENJOYED THE SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR, AND THE NEXT PERSON I'M BRINGING UP SHOULD NEED AN INTRODUCTION. UH, WE'VE SEEN HIM IN THE CHAMBERS BEFORE, BECAUSE I TELL Y'ALL, THE GLEN OAK SECURITY DADS ARE A STAPLE IN THE BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THREE OF THOSE GENTLEMEN THAT SERVED IN THE MILITARY, BUT ONE THAT WAS ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY. AND SO I WANNA BRING ON MR. GRANDVILLE TOWNSVILLE, NOT ONLY AGAIN FOR THE SERVICE THAT HE GAVE US IN THE MILITARY FOR 21 YEARS IN THE NAVY, BUT ALL ALSO FOR THE SERVICE THAT HE CONTINUES TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY HAVE A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY. THANK YOU. I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE COUNCIL AND THE SUPPORT THAT THE COMMUNITY NOT HERE, NOT ONLY HAVE GIVEN US WHEN, SINCE WE'VE BEEN IN THE MILITARY. UM, I RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY AS THE CHIEF HEAD OFFICER, BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF IT IS THE SERVICE THAT WE GOT FROM THE COUNCIL. AND I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THE MAJOR PRESIDENT FOR MANY YEARS. I'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THE, UH, SECURITY DADS AT GLEN OAKS HIGH SCHOOL FOR 28 YEARS. THAT'S RIGHT. AND THROUGH THOSE WHOLE TIME, UH, OUR MAYOR, PRESIDENT, WE HAVE SUPPORT FROM HER AND A LOT OF DARRELL, HER, A LOT OF, UH, UM, HELP AND SUPPORT FROM THESE COUNCILMEN AND THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT, AND TO HELP THE CHILDREN IN AREAS THAT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO GO INTO. SO I JUST LIKE TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR HONORING US VETERANS, BUT ALSO FOR HONORING THE COMMUNITY BY HELPING US THROUGH OUR DRIVE IN THE COMMUNITY OF HELPING THE CHILDREN IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, COUNCIL. NEXT YOU, WE'RE HERE FROM THE COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM DISTRICT 12 IN DISTRICT FOUR, JEN ROCK, AND A, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE. BEFORE I GET STARTED, AND WHILE MAJOR GENERAL RON ARD COMES [00:25:01] FORWARD, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY HAPPY EARLY MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY MAJOR RON ARD. HE IS AB MAJOR, GENERAL RON MAJOR, GENERAL RON ARD. SORRY, I MISSPOKE, SIR. YES, SIR. IT IS ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE. YOU'RE NOT GONNA READ ALL OF THAT, ARE YOU? NO, SIR. JUST THE IMPORTANT PART. HIS YEARS OF SERVICE WERE FROM 1968 TO 2001, HE SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR AND THE PERSIAN GULF WAR. HE HAS AWARDS AS A DISTINGUISHED SERVICE, METAL DEFENSE, SUPERIOR SERVICE, METAL, LEGION OF MERIT, TIMES TWO, TIMES TWO. AND HERE HE IS AS HE LIVES AND BREATHES. YOU'RE VERY WELCOME. DID I SAY SOMETHING? ABSOLUTELY. YES, SIR. UH, MADAM MAYOR, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, IT'S MY PLEASURE TO BE HERE. IT'S ALSO AN EXTREME PLEASURE TO BE IN THE SAME ROOM WITH THESE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PLEDGED THEIR SOUL AND A CONTRACT FOR THEIR LIVES, FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS CONSTITUTION AND OUR FREEDOMS OF, OF GOVERNMENT. VERY BRIEFLY, THE GOVERNOR, UH, MENTIONED, UH, TWO YEARS AGO THAT HE WANTED LOUISIANA TO BE VETERANS FRIENDLY. UH, I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU MEMBERS OF THE CONS, WHY NOT MAKE BATON ROUGE VETERANS FRIENDLY IF CORPORATE AMERICA CAN INDUCE VETERANS TO GO TO THEIR STORES AND GIVE THEM A DISCOUNT? WHY THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE ENTICE VETERANS TO MAKE THE CITY BETTER? THE POPULATION WOULD BE BETTER. THEY WOULD SERVE AND VOLUNTEER. WHY CAN'T WE MAKE HEADLINES AND SAY, BATON ROUGE IS A VETERAN'S FRIENDLY CITY? GIVE THEM SOME DISCOUNTS THAT AFFECTS THEIR POCKETBOOK. THANK YOU FOR A, A, WELL, A JOB WELL DONE AT THE AIRPORT IS, WELL, IT'S GOOD AND IT'S APPRECIATED. BUT THEN THAT'S IT. LET'S ENTICE VETERANS TO COME TO BATON ROUGE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. GOD BLESS AMERICA. I'M SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. I KNOW. I THINK WE CAN HELP. AND I'LL, I'LL VOLUNTEER TO BE ON YOUR WHATEVER COUNCIL. OKAY. MY NEXT MARINE, UH, SERVED IN IRAQ. HIS NAME IS SERGEANT JOSH LACROIX. THERE YOU GO. SIR, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING? NO, THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK THE COUNCIL AND EVERYBODY FOR THE RECOGNITION. UH, APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU DO HERE IN THE CITY. THANK YOU, SIR. APPRECIATE IT. NEXT IS STAFF, STAFF SERGEANT EVAN MCGUIRE. EVAN MCGUIRE SERVED IN THE ARMY AND HAD A TOUR IN IRAQ. THANK YOU SO MUCH. CORPORAL JARED HAGI, CORPORAL HAGI, IT SERVED IN MARINE CORPS IS A MARINE AND SERVED IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ. THANK YOU, SIR. SO FINALLY, MY LAST AND MOST FAVORITE MARINE SERVED IN IRAQ. I WAS HIS PEN PAL THE WHOLE TIME. UM, AND THAT'S BECAUSE HE IS MY HUSBAND, STAFF SERGEANT CLAYTON MCDONOUGH. THANK YOU ALL, AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU GOING AND LISTENING TO ALL OF MY PRESENTATIONS. BUT AS WE STAND HERE AND SIT HERE TODAY, I WOULD LIKE FOR EVERYBODY TO TAKE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT DIDN'T RETURN HOME. UM, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. THANK YOU, JIM. NEXT WE WILL HAVE, UH, MAYOR BROOM AND MYSELF TO RECOGNIZE ATTORNEY ANTHONY WINTERS FOR [00:30:01] THE RECOGNITION OF REDICK VETERANS WEEK. AND THEN WE'LL RECOGNIZE A FEW MORE VETERANS. AND THEN SHOWING COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS WILL RECOGNIZE ERIC D. JOHNSON ENDING THE HIV EPIDEMIC COORDINATOR WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT MEMBER. WELL, IT WAS CERTAINLY, UM, WONDERFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A CROSS SECTION OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT REPRESENTS OUR, UH, VETERANS. UM, AND I WOULD SAY MAJOR GENERAL. I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU COULD, UM, REST ASSURE IS THAT WE SEEM TO CERTAINLY COME TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT OF AGREEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR VETERANS AND OUR COMMUNITY. SO I DON'T THINK YOUR ASK IS A HEAVY LIFT FOR US TO PURSUE. SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. AND BEFORE I HONOR, UM, UH, OUR RED STICK VETERANS, WE, I DID HAVE A MOMENT BECAUSE I WAS THINKING ALSO, UH, ABOUT SECURITY DADS. AND, UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU ALL WHO MAY NOT KNOW, UH, BUT A FORMER COUNCILWOMAN, UH, RONNIE EDWARDS IS THE ONE WHO STARTED SECURITY DAD. SHE WENT TO INDIANA, FOUND THE, UH, PROGRAM THERE, AND SHE BROUGHT IT BACK TO BATON ROUGE. BUT I WOULD ALSO ADD TODAY HER SON, UH, CODY EDWARDS JUST SENT ME A VIDEO BECAUSE HIS SON IS COMPLETING, UH, BOOTCAMP IN THE MARINES TOMORROW. SO HE HAS HIS GRADUATION TOMORROW. SO QUITE FITTING FOR OUR, UH, VETERANS, UH, WEEK. AND WE HAVE, UH, BEEN VERY EXCITED ABOUT CELEBRATING OUR VETERANS ALL THIS WEEK. UH, WE ARE HONORING OUR VETERANS, THEIR LIVES, THEIR SACRIFICES, AND WE WANT TO SHOW APPRECIATION FOR THEIR SERVICE, NOT ONLY TO OUR NATION, BUT TO OUR COMMUNITY. UH, THEIR SERVICE CONTRIBUTIONS AND SACRIFICES HAVE BEEN VITAL AND MAINTAINING OUR RIGHTS, OUR FREEDOMS, AND OUR LIBERTIES PROMISE TO US AS CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. RIGHT HERE, YOU HAVE SEEN A GLIMPSE OF THE 20,000 VETERANS THAT ARE PART OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, THOUSANDS OF ACTIVE, UH, DUTY MILITARY NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVES IN THEIR FAMILIES. AND OF COURSE, THAT REC, UH, UH, ESTIMATES THAT WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF VETERANS, OF COURSE, IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND SO WE WANT TO THANK VETERANS ONCE AGAIN. UM, BUT I ALSO WANT TO TAKE TIME THIS WEEK AS WE HAVE PROCLAIMED, UH, CERTAINLY NOVEMBER 22ND, 2022, UH, NOT ONLY AS, UM, UH, RECOGNIZING OUR VETERANS ALL MONTH, BUT THE SECOND WEEK OF THIS MONTH AS RED STICK VETERANS WEEK IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AND EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. AND SO WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION HERE THAT, UH, WE WANT TO, UH, PRESENT TO OUR RED STICK VETERANS WEEK COORDINATOR, UH, MR. ANTHONY WINTERS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TEAM WHO WILL, UH, BE COMING UP HERE. AND WE ALSO, UH, WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE IF YOU HAVE NOT, UH, REGISTERED FOR OUR VETERAN'S BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING, UH, TO PLEASE DO THAT. SO WE CAN HONOR YOU THERE. AND THANK YOU ALL WHO SERVE ON, UH, THE MAYOR'S, UH, VETERAN'S COMMISSION, UH, COUNCILMAN MAYOR PRO TIM. AND AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF MAYOR BROOM AND SAY CONGRATULATIONS, UH, TO ANTHONY WINTERS. I THINK THIS IS PERHAPS THE BIGGEST YEAR HE'S HAD. WE HAD AN EXTREMELY, UH, WONDERFUL EVENT, UH, ON, ON THE LONG DOWNSTAIRS OUTSIDE WITH THE STUDENTS FROM HELIX ACADEMY. UH, IT WAS OUTSTANDING. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU'RE A VETERAN AND ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. AND WE HOPE THAT IT CONTINUES TO GROW AND GROW AND GROW. AND IT BECOMES SO BIG THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE IT, UH, AT LSU OR SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD. SO AT THIS TIME, WE WANT TO, WE WANNA RECOGNIZE ANTHONY WINTERS. S UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, MADAM MAYOR, PRESIDENT FOR, UH, SUPPORTING THIS AND BELIEVING IN THIS VISION THAT WE STARTED FIVE YEARS AGO. THANK YOU MAYOR PROTE, UH, COLE FOR OUR BELIEVE IN THIS AND BEING OUR MC FOR OUR KICKOFF THIS WEEK. THANK YOU TO, [00:35:01] UH, DISTRICT EIGHT, UH, COUNCIL PERSON. I ASO AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE DENT FOR THE DISTRICT, THE DISTRICT 10 , CAROLYN COLEMAN, SERVING AT CAROLYN R. COLEMAN, SERVING AS OUR MC TODAY, UH, AT OUR VETERANS CAREER FAIR AND BENEFITS FAIR. THERE'S MORE DAYS LEFT IN RUSTIC VETERANS WEEK. UH, WE HAVE, UH, SMOKE IF YOU GOT 'EM AT DON ONCE TOMORROW. AND ON FRIDAY WE HAVE A GAME OF CELEBRATING THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOUTHERN ANNIVERSARY ARMORY RTC PROGRAM. AND THEN SATURDAY WE BRING A REBIRTH BRASS BAND FOR OUR 5K. IT'S A FIVE BUCK 5K. YOU REGISTER TODAY, JUST PUT IN H A P P Y S WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. YOU CAN GET THAT REGISTERED FOR, FOR FREE. AND I'M HERE AS A PROUD, UH, CITIZEN OF BATON ROUGE TO TELL THE GENERAL THAT BATON ROUGE IS A FRIENDLY CITIZEN FOR VETERANS. BECAUSE THIS CITY AND THIS COUNCIL, AND THAT MAYOR RIGHT THERE LOVES US. THANK YOU. I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE FIRST FROM THE MARINE CORPS, AARON SUTTON. HE DID FOUR YEARS ACTIVE DUTY, FOUR YEARS RESERVE. HE WAS A PLANE CAPTAIN, A TRAFFIC CONTROL. HE WAS STATIONED IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, AND OUR OKINA JAPAN. HE IS A 13 YEAR EDUCATOR AND HE IS CURRENTLY THE ASSISTANT COACH OF THE MADISON PREPARATORY ACADEMY, A FOOTBALL TEAM WHO WAS GEARING UP FOR THE PLAYOFFS THIS YEAR. EVERYONE, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND, UH, CONTINUE THE OUTSTANDING WORK YOU'RE DOING IN OUR COMMUNITY WITH THE YOUTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD AFTERNOON ONCE AGAIN. WANT TO THANK THE MAYOR PRO AND THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCILMAN FOR YOUR GREAT HONOR ON TODAY HONORING US. WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE IT. UM, BEING A MARINE IS A DEFINITELY AN HONOR IN MY LIFE THAT I CARRY THE TORCH VERY HIGH AND I CONTINUE TO CARRY THE TORCH IN THE COMMUNITY AS WE CONTINUE TO TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR HOMES, IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. THANK YOU GUYS FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE THUS FAR AND WHAT YOU'RE GONNA DO IN THE FUTURE TO HELP US CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE FIGHT. ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE JEFFREY JONES, FOUR YEARS ACTIVE ARMY INFANTRY AND HAND TO HAND COMBAT. SO IF YOU SEE JEFF AND GET INTO A ROOM, BE CAREFUL. UH, FOUR YEAR RESERVE MILITARY INTELLIGENCE STATION IN FORT KN, KENTUCKY. FORT BEN HARRISON, INDIANA, FORT HOOD, TEXAS, FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA. HE IS CURRENTLY THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL OF MADISON PREPARATORY ACADEMY IN THE NINE TIME STATE CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING HEAD COACH OF THE MADISON PREPARATORY ACADEMY BASKETBALL TEAM, WHO IS HAVING A TOURNAMENT THIS YEAR. AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR AARON MO, UH, JENN ROCKER, LAURIE ADAMS, AND, UH, CLEVE DONE TO SPONSOR THE HOSPITALITY ROOM AT THE TOURNAMENT THIS YEAR. UH, BUT AGAIN, WE WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WE APPRECIATE YOU. COME ON NOW, , JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO MAYOR, THE MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL HAPPENS TODAY, UH, BEING RECOGNIZED. UM, NEVER REALLY PLANNED TO BE IN THE MILITARY. GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL AT LOANS HIGH SCHOOL IN 1991. DID A YEAR AT SOUTHERN. UH, THOUGHT I DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL ANYMORE. MY DAD TOLD HIM TO TAKE A RIDE. TOOK ME TO THE, UH, ARMY RECRUITER OFFICE AND I WENT AND DID FOUR YEARS ACTIVE. UH, GLAD HE DID CUZ I, I GOT A CHANCE TO DO THAT, BUT I, I IMMEDIATELY GOT BACK IN SCHOOL AND I GOT TWO DEGREES. SO, UM, THANK YOU SHAWN BANKS. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A WONDERFUL OCCASION. UH, SO TODAY I WANT TO FIRST REPRE, UM, BRING BEFORE YOU LAEL MONTGOMERY. LAEL MONTGOMERY. IT WAS A FOUR YEAR NAVY OFFICER. HE IS CURRENTLY A CITY COUNCILMAN FOR THE CITY OF ZACHARY. HE ALSO IS ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE ZACHARY MEN'S CLUB AND SERVES ON THE ZACHARY CITY CONDEMN CONDEMNATION BOARD. UM, HE LOVES TO GIVE BACK TO HIS COMMUNITY WITH SUCH HOLIDAYS AS EASTER, HALLOWEEN, CHRISTMAS, AND BACK TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS. AT THE TIME THAT, UM, LILE WAS DISCHARGED, OR I GUESS [00:40:01] THAT'S THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY, HE WAS AT T M T THREE BOARD CITY COUNCIL. IS THAT RIGHT? NO. WHAT IS THAT? I PUT YOUR RIGHT. WHAT IS YOUR RIGHT, UH, TO TECH AS MA IMMA ABOUT THAT THIRD CLASS? OH, WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE WROTE THAT OUT FOR ME. OKAY, SO YOU ALL HEARD WHAT HE SAID AND THERE'S NO WAY THAT I'M GOING TO TRY TO REPEAT THAT. BUT, UM, AGAIN, LAYLE MONTGOMERY, OKAY, JUST A MOMENT. OKAY. SO ALL OF THEM SAY THE SAME. SO I'LL READ THE FIRST AND THEN WE'LL JUST CALL IT THE OTHER NAMES FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE TO ADVANCE THE UNIVERSAL HOPE OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY FOR ALL THIS HONOR ALSO CELEBRATES AND SUPPORTS YOU IN YOUR CAREER AND CONTINUED DEDICATION TO COMMUNITY AFTER ACTIVE SERVICE. MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AS WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE UNIQUE MILITARY EXPERIENCES THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT AND DISTINCTIVE. LAEL MONTGOMERY. I THINK THEY ACTUALLY TOLD ME THEY WANTED THE MAYOR WITHOUT ME. . YEAH. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. I WANT TO THANK THE, UH, COUNCIL. I WANT TO THANK THE MAYOR AND I WANT TO THANK ALL MY ELECTED OFFICIALS AND MY MILITARY OFFICIALS. I LOVE Y'ALL. I APPRECIATE THE SACRIFICE. AND WE GOT THE BOY SCOUTS IN THE HOUSE. YEAH. UM, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME, LET ME CORRECT THIS CUZ I GOTTA CORRECT THIS. I WAS, I WAS A, A E FOUR ENLISTED. I WAS NOT AN OFFICER. SO, YOU KNOW, I, I GOTTA SAY THAT. AND, UH, 21 GUNS SALUTE TO ALL THE SOLDIERS THAT LEFT AND NEVER MADE IT BACK. I LOVE Y'ALL. UH, THE FAMILY MAKES ULTIMATE SACRIFICES AS WELL. SO I RESPECT THE FAMILY. I'LL SALUTE Y'ALL AS WELL. THANK YOU ONE OF Y'ALL. ALRIGHTY. SO NEXT WE HAVE, UH, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BAKER, DARNELL WAITS. DARNELL ALSO PUT INITIALS LIKE I KNOW WHAT THIS IS, BUT IT SAYS EA MAD SORORITY. AND I KNOW HE WAS IN THE ARMY 27 YEARS OF ACTIVE DUTY. HE IS CURRENTLY, BESIDES BEING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BAKER, HE'S ON THE LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL BOARD AND HE'S ALSO CHAIRPERSON OF THE LOUISIANA BLACK CAUCUS. AND YOU SERVE ON THE COMMUNICATIONS BOARD FOR THE CITY PARISH. SO WE HAVE DARNELL, WAIT, UM, SAME INTRODUCTION, BUT HE ALSO WANTS TO TELL AND INVITE EVERYBODY TO SOME VETERAN AFFAIRS THAT THE CITY OF BAKER WILL BE HOSTING THIS WEEK AS WELL. ALL RIGHT, WELL, GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. AND, UH, I GET A FEW MORE MINUTES, RIGHT? JUST, WELL, LISTEN, I WANNA THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, HONORING THE VETERANS HERE TODAY. UM, IT IS SPECIAL. UM, AND I THINK THAT OUR CITY DOES, UH, WE, WE DO HAVE A VETERAN FRIENDLY CITY. THERE IS MORE THINGS AS THE GENERAL TALKED ABOUT THAT WE CAN DO. UM, I, I SERVED 27 YEARS ACTIVE DUTY. UH, I STARTED BECAUSE THERE WAS PICTURES ON MY GRANDFATHER'S WALL IN HIS HOUSE WHERE ALL THE WERE UNIFORMS. AND THAT WAS MY START. AND THAT'S THAT, THAT STEERED ME IN THAT DIRECTION. I DIDN'T, DIDN'T THINK 27 YEARS, UH, I WAS GONNA BE THERE THEN. UM, BUT ONCE I ENTERED, IT BECAME A FAMILY. UM, AND I WAS LISTENING TO THE GENERAL WHEN HE CAME UP. AND THERE'S JUST SOME THINGS THAT YOU CAN'T TAKE AWAY FROM US. WE'RE GONNA BE WHO WE ARE. WE'RE GONNA BE STRONG. WE'RE GONNA BE LOYAL WITH SOME OF THE MOST LOYAL PEOPLE THAT YOU WILL EVER MEET, BECAUSE [00:45:01] THAT'S HOW WE SURVIVE AND THAT'S HOW WE LIVE OUR LIVES. AND WE ALWAYS LIVE OUR LIVES FOR THE SERVICE THAT WE GIVE TO OTHER PEOPLE. IT'S NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU THINK IT IS, BUT IT'S FOR THE PERSON THAT'S NEXT TO YOU. AND WHEN WE COME HOME, THAT'S THE WAY WE LIVED OUR LIVES. SO WHEN YOU SEE THOSE VETERANS, REMEMBER THERE'S A STORY AND A WHOLE LOT OF STRUGGLES WITHIN THEM AS THEY COME BACK AND THEY TRY TO GET INTO THIS SOCIETY AND TRY TO MAKE IT BETTER. SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING, UM, FOR THE VETERANS. IT'S SO SPECIAL. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO AND WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU. THAT'S OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO NEXT I HAVE REVEREND JAMES RILEY. HE WAS A E FOUR CORPORAL IN THE MARINE CORPS, SERVED FOR YEARS. CURRENTLY PASTORS TWO CHURCHES HAS A BUSINESS THAT EMPLOYS UNEMPLOYED CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY AND SERVES THE COMMUNITY WHEN NECESSARY. HE HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN SEVERAL, UM, CITY PARISH, UH, ENTITIES AND LIKE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, NOT THAT WE LET, BUT THAT ARE CITIZEN LED. HE ALSO IS A BOARD MEMBER WITH THE SCOTLANDVILLE CDC AND THE SCOTLANDVILLE AREA FOUNDATION ON THE TWO CHURCHES I LEFT ON MY OTHER. THE ONE IS HOUSE OF PRAYER BAPTIST CHURCH, AND THE OTHER IS LITTLE ROCK ZION, FIRST LITTLE ROCK MISSION. FIRST LITTLE ROCK MISSIONARY, UM, BAPTIST CHURCH. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, REVEREND JAMES RILEY. UM, THANK YOU MAYOR COUNCIL, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BANKS FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. UM, IT'S WITH GREAT HONOR THAT I STAND HERE, UM, ON THE SHOULDERS OF SO MANY THAT HAVE COME BEFORE ME. MY FATHER SERVED TWO TOURS, UM, IN VIETNAM, MY GRANDFATHER IN WORLD WAR II. UM, BUT, UH, OUR LIVES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEDICATED TO SERVING OTHERS. THE ONLY ONE THING THAT I WANT TO LAY ON YOUR HEARTS IS TO REMEMBER THOSE VETERANS THAT COME BACK WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER. AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE THEM JUST AS I HAD TO BE ENCOURAGED THAT IT'S OKAY TO SAY WHEN YOU NEED HELP. UM, YOU NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN AT LEAST VERBALIZE IT TO SOMEBODY, TRUST SOMEBODY, UH, THAT'S GONNA BE ABLE TO HELP GET YOU OVER THE FINISH LINE BECAUSE WE ARE ALL, UH, WE HAVE. SO, UH, PLEASE, UH, I ENCOURAGE YOU. I EMPLOY YOU. GET THE HELP THAT YOU NEED, UH, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. THANK YOU. I ALSO NEGLECTED TO SAY THAT LAST WEEK, PASTOR RILEY AND HIS WIFE FOUND OUT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE PARENTS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE DARRELL LAWRENCE. DARRELL LAWRENCE IS THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF ZACHARY. READY THERE. GO. OKAY. HE'S A STAFF SERGEANT WITH THE MARINE CORPS. HE SERVED SIX YEARS. HE SAYS THAT HIS JOB AS A ACTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS HIM SO BUSY THAT HE SPENDS ALL OF HIS TIME BESIDES THAT AS A LOUISIANA LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION. AND I THINK THAT'S A BIG DEAL. HE HAS NUMEROUS ACCOLADES IN THE PROFESSION AND OUT THAT I WILL NOT NAME, BUT I WANTED TO PRESENT TO YOU AND ACKNOWLEDGE YOU TODAY. DARRELL LAWRENCE, WHO I'VE KNOWN SINCE HIGH SCHOOL WHEN MY MOM TAUGHT HIM AT ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL. ONE MORE, I JUST WANNA SAY, UH, JUST TAKE A SECOND AND SAY THANK YOU FOR INVITING US HERE, UH, FOR THE APPRECIATION, UH, THAT YOU SHOW FOR THE VETERANS. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE JUST TO SAY, HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY TO ALL OF THE MARINES IN THE ROOM IN A ROOM, UH, NOVEMBER 10TH, I THINK IT'LL BE OUR 247 BIRTHDAY. SO I WANTED TO SAY THAT. UH, AND IT JUST SAID, I APPRECIATE YOU. AND THEN I, MY NEW FRIEND BACK HERE, THAT WAS A TANK TOUR MECHANIC, RIGHT? WELL, MY JOB WAS [00:50:01] AS AN OH 3 51 WAS TO BLOW THOSE TANKS UP, . SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT. YEAH, THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. SO I SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST, THE HONORABLE NORMAN. HE, HE NORMAN PETE HENEY WAS A SAR STAFF SERGEANT IN THE AIR FORCE. HE SERVED FOUR YEARS FIGHTING IN THE KOREAN WAR. HE HAS 60 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE. IN ADDITION TO BEING THE FORMER MAYOR OF THE CITY OF BAKER. HE ALSO WAS A FORMER COUNCILMAN IN THE CITY OF BAKER. JUST RECENTLY, HE WAS HONORED BY THE LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION, WHERE THEY NAMED THEIR CONFERENCE ROOM AFTER NORMAN PETE. HE, SO IT'S THE NORMAN PETE, HE CONFERENCE ROOM ON DECEMBER 4TH. THIS YOUNG MAN WILL TURN 94 YEARS OLD. NORMAN PETE. YOU KNOW, HE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY, RIGHT? . OKAY. SHE SAW ME REACHING FOR HIS MIC WHEN I WAS FIRST ELECTED IN 1956. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I WAS AS BIG AS MY MAYOR HERE. BUT WHEN THE CONSTITUENTS GOT THROUGH WITH ME, THIS IS WHAT YOU SEE. THIS IS WHAT YOU HEAR. I'M TRULY HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY WITH ALL OF YOU TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD. YOU KNOW, I'VE RECEIVED MANY, MANY AWARDS DURING MY 60 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND I CHERISH EVERY ONE OF THEM. BUT THIS ONE MEANS SO MUCH TO ME. IT REALLY DOES. CUZ THIS IS YOUR PEERS THAT RECOGNIZE IT. MY PEERS IN THE LOUISIANA MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION THAT DEDICATED THIS DOOR IN THIS BRAND NEW BUILDING, THEY GOT OUT THERE. THEY, THEY BOARDROOM, THEY, THEY, THE DOOR, THEY NAMED IT THE NORMY PETE HENEY BOARDROOM. THAT'S TRULY AN HONOR. CAUSE THOSE ARE PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU. AND ON THE COUNCIL UP HERE, KNOW WHAT WE GO THROUGH ON A DAILY BASIS. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, FOLKS THAT ARE NOT ELECTED A COUNCILMAN, IT'S NOT ALL KISSING BABIES AND, AND AND SHAKING HAND. IT'S A LOT THAT GOES WITH SITTING IN THESE SEATS. THAT'S UNCOMFORTABLE. A LOT OF IT IS. SO MY HEART GOES OUT TO Y'ALL AS YOU SERVE YOUR, YOUR COMMUNITY. AND I THINK ABOUT YOU AND PRAY FOR YOU. I PRAY FOR YOU EVERY DAY THAT GOD WILL BE WITH YOU IN EVERY DECISION THAT YOU MAKE. THAT AFFECTS EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY. AND SO, I'M SO HONORED TO BE HERE. I HAVE MY SON WITH ME, SCOOTER, A LOT OF YOU KNOW, AND HE'S A RETIRED SHERIFF'S DEPUTY. HE'S ALSO A PARAMEDIC. AND YOU SEE ME WALKING WITH A STICK. I GOT MY DOCTOR AND I GOT MY SECURITY WITH ME . SO I'M IN, I'M IN GOOD SHAPE. AND I GOT TWO MORE, TWO MORE OF MY SIBLINGS THAT ARE LEFT AT THE HOUSE. AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG, I THOUGHT THEY WERE A CURSE. BUT YOU KNOW, NOW THAT THEY OLD, THEY'RE A BLESSING. AND THEY'VE BEEN A BLESSING ALL MY LIFE. AND I THANK GOD FOR 'EM EVERY DAY BECAUSE THEY, IF THEY DON'T LIKE STAY WITH SCOOTER, THEY CALL ME. THEY CALL ME EVERY DAY. DADDY, YOU NEED ANYTHING. SO THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING ME. AND LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS LADY, AND I'M GONNA BE SHORT. BUT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THIS LADY. I REALLY LEARNED TO APPRECIATE SHIN BANKS. YOU KNOW, WE HAD A FIGHT ON OUR HANDS WHEN THEY TRIED TO MOVE THE ZOO AND PUT IT DOWN IN SOUTH BATON ROUGE. WELL, THEY TOOK ON CHINA AND PETE, WE CAME TOGETHER AND WE FOUGHT TOGETHER AND WE WON. GO TO THAT ZOO NOW AND SEE WHAT IT IS TODAY SINCE IT, SINCE WE KEPT IT UP THERE. SO THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING ME TODAY. AND I THANK AND I PRAY FOR YOU, LIKE I SAID, CAUSE I KNOW WHAT YOU GO THROUGH. IT'S NOT JUST SHAKING HANDS AND KISSING BABIES. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. LAW. SO, SH THANK YOU. AND IF I NEED A FIGHTER, I KNOW WHO TO CALL. THANK YOU. OKAY. [00:55:07] WOO. . DID Y'ALL, DID Y'ALL HEAR HIM SAY, OH, I THINK WE HAD IT SIX YEARS TO HIS LIFE. WELL, I'VE BEEN LOOKING RIGHT, RIGHT. I BETTER LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO HUG ON. HERE'S MY MAYOR. COME ON. SCOOT. YOU WANT SCOOTER? COME ON. COME ON, MAYOR. HERE WE GO. IT'S NOT UPSIDE DOWN. ISN. NO, YOU GOT, THANK YOU MAYOR . ALL RIGHT, MAYOR PRO TIM AND MEMBERS, UM, BEFORE WE CLOSE OUT ON THE VETERANS, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF CITY PARISH EMPLOYEES WHO ARE VETERANS TOO, AND SOME OF THEM ARE IN THE ROOM. SO IF WE COULD ASK ALL OF OUR CITY PARISH EMPLOYEES WHO ARE VETERANS, JUST TO STAND UP SO WE CAN, UH, CELEBRATE THEM TOO. IF YOU'RE A CITY PARISH EMPLOYEE, THANK YOU AGAIN. THANK YOU VET. THANK YOU TO ALL THE VETERANS FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ALL OF US HERE, SHAWN. NEXT WE'RE GONNA RECOGNIZE ERIC D. JOHNSON ENDING THE HIV EPIDEMIC COORDINATOR 365 20 22 WORLD AIDS. DAVID, SHAWN, ERIC, RIGHT THERE BEHIND YOU. THERE YOU GO. SO ERIC AND I HAVE NEVER MET. WE'VE JUST BEEN EMAILING. HOW ARE YOU? HI. ALL RIGHT. SO ERIC D. JOHNSON. I GOT MY EMAIL. HERE IS, UM, THE ENDING THE HIV EPIDEMIC COORDINATOR AT THE RYAN WHITE OFFICE ON PLANK ROAD. THIS IS, UM, THEY'RE HAVING AN EVENT. SO I REALLY WANTED TO, UM, JUST BRING IT FORTH. BUT THIS IS AN EVENT THAT, I MEAN, THE COMMISSION IS SUPPORTED AND IS COMMISSIONED BY, UM, HEALTHY BR, THE BATON ROUGE ENDING, THE HIV EPIDEMIC COMMISSION. IT'S LIKE PEOPLE DRIVEN. IT'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME TOGETHER TO END THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN BATON ROUGE. ERIC? NO, ERIC AND THE GROUP WILL BE HAVING A FUNDRAISER. IS IT A FUNDRAISER? IT COULD BE, YEAH. . IT'S AN EVENT ON DECEMBER 2ND, AT WHICH TIME, UM, HE, UH, THE MAYOR PROBABLY WILL BE MAKING A PROCLAMATION, MAKING IT, UH, HIV WORLD'S DAY. BUT I JUST WANTED EVERYBODY TO KNOW ABOUT THIS EVENT AND, UM, BRING IT TO THE ATTENTION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK. UH, BEFORE I REMEMBER, UH, WHEN I, UM, YOU KNOW, FIRST CAME, I WAS A HIV COORDINATOR AND AND TRAINER FOR THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. SO THIS GOES ALONG WITH ME. I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK. IT'S VERY HARD WORK, AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO PLEASE TELL THEM ABOUT THE EVENT AND WE'LL, UH, WE'VE ALL RECEIVED AN INVITATION. AND SO ERIC, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON. UM, IT IS AN HONOR TO WORK AND ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV AND EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, UM, AND ALSO TO WORK TO END THIS EPIDEMIC. WE COULD NOT DO THIS WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF THE MAYOR. I KNOW THAT THIS HAS BEEN AN INITIATIVE THAT SHE HAS SUPPORTED SINCE THE DAY SHE WAS ELECTED. AND UNDER HER LEADERSHIP AND JARED HIGH MO'S LEADERSHIP AT HEALTHY BR, UH, BATON ROUGE HAS MADE GREAT STRIVES IN WORKING TO END THE EPIDEMIC. SO THE EVENT IS AT, ON DECEMBER 2ND FROM SEVEN TO 10:00 PM AT THE CARY SAGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER. AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO ALL PEOPLE, UH, PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV, THEIR LOVED ONES, PEOPLE WHO PROVIDE SERVICES, PEOPLE WHO SERVE THE CITY ON THIS COUNCIL TO ATTEND AND, UH, TO CONTINUE THIS WORK. SO, THANK YOU, THE MAYOR. THIS, UH, ONE OF YOUR, I DON'T KNOW, JERRY, HE'S NOT. THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE. UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'RE GONNA TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND THEN WE'RE GONNA BEGIN WITH OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING. FIVE MINUTE BREAK. HELLO EVERYBODY. WELCOME TO THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. WE ARE LIVE ON METRO [01:00:01] 21. THE COUNCIL IS DELIGHTED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US THIS AFTERNOON. WE'RE ALSO ON B R L A.GOV, AND WE ARE ALSO ON FACEBOOK LIVE. THAT'S IN HIGH DEFINITION AND WITH 37 DIFFERENT ANGLES AT THIS TIME. HERE IS THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT PRO OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, COUNCILMAN LEVON CO COUNCILMAN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, DENNIS. SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOU. WELCOME TO DE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022 AT 4:00 PM AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO PASS TO COUNCIL MEMBER LORI ADAMS, WHO IS GOING TO INTRODUCE, UH, OUR GUESTS WHO WILL DO THE INVOCATION AS WELL AS THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. THANK YOU MAYOR PROTE. I'D LIKE TO CALL UP A FORMER COUNCILMAN, UH, DARRELL ORSO TO THE FRONT TO INTRODUCE, UM, AND HIS TROOP, UH, TROOP, UH, 8 88 FROM I THINK THE SHINOA AREA, DISTRICT NINE. UM, AND THEY ARE GOING TO, UH, LEAD US IN THE PRAYER. THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN COUNCIL MEMBERS, THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION AND THE HOSPITALITY. IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS, THE PLACE HAS CHANGED A BIT. SO OUR SENIOR SHOW LEADER RYAN ER, WILL LEAD US IN THE INVOCATION, RYAN AND THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMEN. LORD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY. HELP US TO DO OUR BEST EVERY DAY. AND FORGIVE US WHEN WE SLIP. TEACH US TO BE KIND TO OTHER PEOPLE AND HELP THEM IN ALL TIMES. BLESS OUR PARENTS, OUR TEACHERS, AND OUR LEADERS, AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF SCOUTING. BLESS US, LORD, AND YOUR LOVE FOR US. HELP US TO BE BETTER SCOUTS AND LET US DO OUR BEST FOR YOU. AMEN. AMEN. AND THE FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT. THANK YOU. AND NOW, IF EVERYONE WILL STAY STANDING, I HAVE A SPECIAL TREAT. UM, I'VE GOT THE MEMBERS OF THE BATON ROUGE FLAME, FOUR H CLUB, WHO HAVE, UM, AGREED TO COME AND HELP US WITH THE PLEDGE TODAY. SO WE'RE GONNA LINE UP AROUND THIS AND THEY'RE GONNA DO, THEY'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING A LITTLE UNCONVENTIONAL. WE'RE GONNA START, THEY'RE GONNA SAY THE FOUR H PLEDGE, AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. Y'ALL READY? GUYS? PLEDGE. MY HAD TOO CLEAR THINKING, MY HEART TO GREATER LOYALTY, MY HANDS TO LARGER SERVICE, MY HEALTH TO A BETTER LIVING FOR MY CLUB, MY COMMUNITY, MY COUNTRY, AND MY WORLD. I LED THE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. ALL OUTSTANDING JOB. OUTSTANDING. GREAT JOB GUYS. LOOK, SO I WANTED Y'ALL TO, UM, I WANNA JUST FIRST OF ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THESE, THESE YOUNG MEN, THEY HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE THREE 20, WELL, ACTUALLY PROBABLY SINCE THREE O'CLOCK. AND THEY HAVE, UM, BEEN SO INCREDIBLY WELL BEHAVED, UM, DURING A, A VERY LONG PRESENTATION CYCLE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, AND NOW I'D LIKE TO INVITE JAQUITA BRILEY FROM THE FOUR H. SHE IS THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR THE FOUR H, UM, ORGANIZATION. UP TO GIVE A PRESENTATION, A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THE FOUR H PROGRAM. UM, I WANTED TO DO THIS, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING SO THAT THE STUDENTS COULD BE HERE TO HEAR A PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON TO EVERYONE. MY NAME IS QUIDA BRALEY, THE SOUTHEAST REGIONAL DIRECTOR. UM, AND I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT, BRIEFLY ABOUT THE AWESOME, UM, WORK THAT WE DO FROM THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, UM, AG CENTER, AS WELL AS THE LSU AG CENTER AND PROVIDING INFORMATION FORMAL, UM, EDUCATION TO THE CITIZENS OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. OKAY, I'M READY. SO QUICKLY, JUST NEXT SLIDE, JUST QUICKLY, I WANTED TO, JUST FOR SOME OF YOU WHO MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH EXTENSION, COOPERATIVE EXTENSION PROGRAM, WHICH IS WHAT FOUR H IS A PART OF, JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE 1862 AND 1890 MORALE ACT, WHICH ACTUALLY PROVIDED LAND GRANT INSTITUTIONS, UH, WITHIN EACH STATE. AND SO 1862 IS L LSU LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. AND THEN, UM, THE 1890 IS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, UH, A AND M COLLEGE, THE SMITH LEAVER ACT, THE NEXT LINE, THE SMITH LEVER ACT ALSO PROVIDED US WITH, UM, BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT CONNECTION TO THE COMMUNITY BY ESTABLISHING CO COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. [01:05:01] OVERALL, IT IS A PARTNERSHIP AND THAT PARTNERSHIP HAS FEDERAL, STATE, AND COUNTY OR PARISHES, UH, CONNECTED TOGETHER SO THAT WE'RE ABLE TO EXTEND EXTENSION TO EXTEND OUT SO THAT WE CAN, THAT EDUCATION TO THE VARIOUS COMMUNITIES. UM, BRIEFLY, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST KINDA SHOW YOU NEXT SLIDE, UM, HOW THAT WORKS TOGETHER. SO ACADEMICS AND RESEARCH COMES TOGETHER IN BLEND, AND THAT INFORMATION IS THEN SENT OUT TO THE PUBLIC. UM, NEXT SLIDE. WE'RE EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH IS IN THE SOUTHEAST REGION. AND SO THAT CONSISTS OF 16 PARISHES. THERE ARE FIVE REGIONS OVERALL, WE ARE THE LARGEST REGION, UM, IN THE STATE. WE HAVE THREE RESEARCH STATIONS. WE HAVE A URBAN DEMONSTRATION GARDEN. WE HAVE THE MAURICE, A EDMOND LIVESTOCK ARENA, AND WE ARE KNOWN AS THE URBAN, SUBURBAN, AND RURAL REGIONAL EXTENSION UNIT. NEXT SLIDE. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE THREE AREAS THAT WE DO, UH, HAVE WITHIN EXTENSION, AND THAT IS A AND R, WHICH IS AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. AND THEN WE HAVE FOUR H, UH, THAT WE SAW OUR YOUNG MEN, UH, PRESENT TODAY. UM, YOU HAD A TASTE OF OF WHAT WE DO THERE. AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAVE FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES. SO AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES. IT'S BASICALLY, THESE ARE THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CONNECT TO THE PUBLIC. WE TRY TO LOOK AT DEVELOPING THE BEST USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, CONSERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT. WE KNOW ABOUT BUILDING FOOD SYSTEMS. WE ALL SAW THE EFFECTS OF COVID AND HOW SIGNIFICANT THOSE FOOD SYSTEMS, UM, ARE NEEDED AND TO BUILD THEM AND MAKE THEM MORE COMPREHENSIVE. UM, ENHANCED DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING AND NEW AGRICULTURE AND RELATED ENTERPRISES. AND SO USING THOSE DRONES AND OTHER DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT. UM, THESE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE, UH, TALK ABOUT, UH, TO THE PUBLIC AND THAT'S AGRONOMY, UH, ANIMAL SCIENCES, HORTICULTURE, YOUR GARDENS AND, AND ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF. UM, UH, AQUACULTURE, FORESTRY, AND DEFINITELY WE LOOK AT OUR VOLUNTEERS. IF YOU'VE EVER GONE TO, TO THE, UM, FARMER'S MARKET, THE MASTER GARDENERS, UH, WE ALSO HAVE URBAN GARDENERS AND WE HAVE TEACHERS AND PARENTS AND YOUTH AND THE COMMUNITIES THAT ACTUALLY HELP TO BUILD THE A AND R PROGRAM WITHIN EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE, UH, THAT WE HAVE REACHED. THE MASTER GARDENER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM HAS 253 PEOPLE THAT PROVIDE, UM, 40 HOURS OF SERVICE, UH, TO THE PUBLIC. UM, THE NUMBER OF SCHOOL GARDENS THAT WE'RE IN CURRENTLY IS 34. NUMBER OF COMMUNITY GARDENS ARE FIVE. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE REACHED YOUTH 2,377 THROUGH HORTICULTURE GARDENS. UM, AND THEN ALSO THROUGH WORKSHOPS WE REACHED OVER 8,000 PEOPLE. AND SO AGAIN, IT'S JUST SHOWING HOW WE'RE MAKING THE CONNECTIONS IN EBR PARISH WITH, UM, AGRICULTURE. WE GOTTA REMEMBER THAT EBR HAS A URBAN, A SUBURBAN AND A RULE, AND THAT'S VERY UNUSUAL FOR MANY OF THE PARISHES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE THAT TO HAVE THOSE THREE SPACES. SO WE DEFINITELY MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A VARIETY OF INFORMATION IN A AND R TO PROVIDE TO THOSE THAT NEED INFORMATION. UM, IN GENERAL. NEXT SLIDE, FOUR H. SO FOUR H. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, CONNECT TO THE POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP LEARNING AND YOUTH POTENTIAL IS VERY SIGNIFICANT AS WE, UH, LOOK AT OUR YOUTH, THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE START BUILDING THOSE LEADERS, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED. WE PREPARE THEM FOR THINGS TO COME JUST LIKE WE WERE PREPARED. UM, WE WERE PREPARED OVERALL. WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE PREPARE THEM. AND SO THE NEXT SLIDE IS, THIS IS A TOTAL NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT WE HAVE REACHED. WE'VE REACHED OVER 12,000 YOUTH WITHIN THE STATE. THIS IS BOTH INSTITUTIONS. AND THEN WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUR YOUTH THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA. AGAIN, COVID HELPED TO PROVIDE THAT FOR US SO THAT WE WERE ABLE TO, TO GIVE THAT PROGRAM TO OTHER YOUTH THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COME TO OUR PROGRAMS. OUR PROGRAMS ARE IN SCHOOL. THEY'RE ALSO IN, OUT, OUT OF SCHOOL OR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. AND THEN WE HAVE CLUBS, AND THEN WE HAVE, UM, SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS. AND SO WE REACH KIDS IN ANY KINDA WAY THAT WE CAN IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THEM WITH THE INFORMATION THAT IS NEEDED. WE DO TEACH LEADERSHIP AND CITIZENSHIP, WHICH IS VERY SIGNIFICANT, UM, FOR THEM SO THAT, THAT [01:10:01] THEY CAN SIT IN YOUR SEAT ONE DAY. OKAY. UH, VOLUNTEERS IS OUR BEST WAY. UM, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE VOLUNTEERS FOR FOUR H, UM, WE WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO DO THE WORK THAT WE DO. NEXT SLIDE. FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES CONSIST OF ABOUT NINE PROGRAMS. WE KNOW WHAT OUR RANKING IS AS FAR AS, UM, HEALTH. UM, AND SO DEFINITELY WE ARE MAKING SURE THAT BOTH INSTITUTIONS TRY TO HAVE VARIOUS PROGRAMS TO REACH THE VARIOUS AUDIENCES WITHIN COMMUNITIES. AND THERE'S A LISTING RIGHT THERE. NEXT SLIDE. SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ADULTS THAT WE'VE REACHED THROUGH FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES, THE OLD HOME EC, HUMAN SCIENCES, WHATEVER YOU DECIDE TO CALL IT, UH, WE'VE REACHED OVER 3000 PEOPLE, 3,333, AND WE REACHED OVER 1300 YOUTH WITHIN THESE PROGRAMS. THESE PROGRAMS, NOT ONLY DO THEY GIVE DIRECT EDUCATION, BUT WE ALSO PROVIDE INFORMATION THROUGH HEALTH FAIRS. SO DEFINITELY THAT'S ONE. AND ALSO WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CALL HEALTHY COMMUNITIES. AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES IS ACTUALLY BRINGING IN THOSE COMMUNITIES AND ASK THEM WHAT DO THEY SEE A COMMUNITY, A HEALTHY COMMUNITY IS? AND SO WHILE WORKING WITH THEM IN COLLABORATION, WE HELP TO HELP WITH THEM OR FACILITATE THE DESIGN OF THAT COMMUNITY OVERALL SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THOSE DIFFERENT THINGS IN SO THEY CAN BE ABLE TO REACH THEIR HEALTH GOALS. AND SO ONE OF THOSE PICTURES UP THERE IS A STENCIL IN PROJECT THAT WE DO, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE, UM, HAVE AT THE SCHOOLS. BUT ALSO WE DO HAVE THAT LIKE AT THE GAR DI PARK, UH, WE HAVE THAT PROJECT THERE AS WELL. AND SO DEFINITELY WE ALSO HAVE THOSE COMMUNITY GARDENS AND THOSE SCHOOL GARDENS THAT CONNECT TO THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE CAN HELP WITH THAT FOOD SYSTEMS PROCESS. NEXT SLIDE. SO WE JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THE WONDERFUL SUPPORT THAT THE PARISH PROVIDES TO US. UM, DEFINITELY IF YOU NEED ANYTHING FROM US, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE. OUR INFORMATION IS UP THERE. OUR PHONE NUMBER IS (225) 389-3055. BUT BEFORE I CLOSE, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR STAFF. SO YOU COULD PUT A FACE WITH THE NAME AND WITH EXTENSION. AND SO THIS IS OUR SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND LSU STAFF. CAN THEY PLEASE STAND AND INTRODUCE THEMSELVES? IT EVEN EVERYONE. MY NAME IS DAJUANA BANDI JEWELRY. I AM THE NUTRITION AGENT. I SUPERVISE THE NUTRITION PROGRAM WHERE WE GO INTO THE SCHOOLS AND INTO THE COMMUNITY AND TEACHING, UM, NUTRITION EDUCATION. WE WANT TO PROMOTE HEALTHY BEHAVIORS, AND WE ALSO DO FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS WHERE WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO MAKE YOUR FOODS HEALTHIER. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ALBERT HAMIT, AND I'M THE AREA A AND R, AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES AGENT. UM, PRIMARILY IN BATON ROUGE. THAT PUTS ME AS A HORTICULTURE AGENT, BUT I DO STILL WORK WITH OUR, UH, OUR FEW LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS IN THE NORTH PART OF THE PARISH AS WELL AS IMPLEMENT THE MA UH, EXCUSE ME, THE MASTER GARDEN PROGRAM, WHICH IS HOW WE GET IN INVOLVED WITH ALL OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS EBONY GANNA. I'M A SNAP ED NUTRITION EDUCATOR WITH SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AG CENTER, AND I SERVICE, UM, EAST BATON ROUGE AND EAST FE LOUISIANA PARISHES. SO I GO TO THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND TEACH NUTRITION EDUCATION. WE DO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND I DO FOOD DEMONSTRATIONS. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. MY NAME IS KEANNA KELLY. I AM FROM THE SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURE RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER. I AM AN ASSOCIATE AGENT IN FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES, AND I ALSO DO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT WORK. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS ANJA JORDAN. I AM WITH SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AG CENTER. MY FOCUS AREA IS C O C, WHICH IS COMMUNITIES OF COLOR NETWORK. I FOCUS ON TOBACCO CESSATION, WHICH IS TRYING TO TALK TO THE KIDS. WE NOT JUST KIDS, ADULTS AS WELL, GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND SPEAKING ON THE DANGERS OF SMOKING AND VAPING. THANK YOU. WE HAVE TWO, UM, AGENTS THAT ARE NOT HERE. ACTUALLY. WE HAVE, UM, THREE AGENTS THAT ARE NOT HERE. EVA DAVIS, UH, WHO ALSO WORKS WITH THE F N PROGRAM. WE ALSO HAVE NICK UZI. UM, AND HE IS A FOUR H UH, UH, FOUR H AGENT. AND BRANDY BRISTER, THEY'RE NOT HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING. WE, THEY JUST COMPLETED CHALLENGE CAMP, AND SO THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE KIDS TO BE PICKED UP BY THEIR PARENTS. AND SO UNFORTUNATELY [01:15:01] THEY'RE NOT HERE. BUT THEY DEFINITELY WANTED ME TO LET YOU KNOW, UH, THAT THEY APPRECIATE THE, UM, THE SUPPORT THAT YOU ALL PROVIDE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, REALLY QUICKLY, I I JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE, UM, DR. JOSEPH WHO IS THE, THE LEADER OF, UM, THE BATON ROUGE, FLAME FOUR H CLUB AND HIS WORK WITH THESE EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. COLE GOT ONE THING I WANT, LIKE, LIKE TO SAY ABOUT THIS MAN. ABSOLUTELY. SO I WANNA MAKE A QUICK COMMENT. I WANNA THANK Y'ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO WITH THE KIDS. I ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE I DON'T SEE ONE VIDEO GAME, ONE CELL PHONE, ONE IPAD IN YOUR HAND WHILE YOU SITTING HERE AND WHAT YOU DOING. FOUR H IS BECOME HANDS ON AND TEACHERS LIFE SKILLS THAT I BELIEVE ARE CURRENTLY A LOST ART WITH OUR YOUTH, WHICH MEANS YOU ARE BUILDING THE FOUNDATION. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THE CROWD AND, AND THE CITY AWARE THAT THESE KIDS ARE BEING ATTENDED WITH NO IPADS, CELL PHONES, AND THEY'RE ENGAGED IN LIFE SKILLS. SO THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO. ALL RIGHT. I'D LIKE TO CALL THE MEETING ORDER, ACTUALLY, DO WE HAVE A QUORUM? WE HAVE A QUORUM. [ADOPTION AND APPROVAL OF MINUTES] ITEM ONE, APPROVAL AND ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF OCTOBER 26TH, 2022, THE SPECIAL METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING OF NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022, AND THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AIRPORT COMMISSION MEETING OF NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 BY COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR, TREASURER. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM ONE? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM ONE? SO MOVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUN, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, HER ITEM ONE HAS BEEN APPROVED. ASHLEY, WOULD YOU [INTRODUCTIONS] PLEASE READ THE INTRODUCTIONS? SECTION 2.12 INTRODUCTIONS NUMBER TWO, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT ON BEHALF OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION TO ACCEPT THE BROWN FIELD COMMUNITYWIDE ASSESSMENT GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $500,000 FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR. NUMBER THREE, EXPRESSING THE INTENTION OF THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL TO REMOVE ANDY DODSON AS PARISH ATTORNEY DUE TO LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN HIS ABILITY TO CONTINUE HIS PARISH ATTORNEY IN DIRECTING THE COUNCIL ADMINISTRATOR TREASURER TO GIVE OFFICIAL NOTICE OF A HEARING, HEARING TO BE HELD AT THE REGULAR METROPOLITAN COUNCIL MEETING ON DECEMBER 14TH, 2022 AT 4:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL CHAMBERS 2 22 ST. LOUIS STREET, ROOM 3 48. ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 2.13 OF THE PLANNING GOVERNMENT. THIS MATTER MAY BE DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION BY COUNCILMAN CLEVE DUNN CONDEMNATION INTRODUCTIONS NUMBER FOUR, WILLIAMS COMPANY, ENTERPRISE INCORPORATED. 3,613 SYCAMORE STREET COUNCIL, DISTRICT FIVE HURST. NUMBER FIVE, WILLIAMS AND COMPANY ENTERPRISES INCORPORATED. 36 13 SYCAMORE STREET COUNCIL, DISTRICT FIVE HURST, NUMBER SIX, HENRY MCDOWELL, THE SECOND 78 69 GREENVILLE SPRINGS ROAD COUNCIL, DISTRICT FIVE HEARST NUMBER SEVEN, THE ESTATE OF MARY LEE OI. 65 28 GREENVILLE SPRINGS ROAD COUNCIL, DISTRICT SIX DUNN, JR. NUMBER EIGHT, MARGARET WESTERLAND. 31 21 DOHERTY DRIVE, COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE, NUMBER NINE, JANELLE DENISE SCOTT, SIXTY EIGHT SIXTY SIX WINDBORN AVENUE COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN COLE. NUMBER 10, LEVIED LLC, 38 37 PLAZA TOWER DRIVE COUNCIL, DISTRICT EIGHT, AMAROSA. NUMBER 11, TC LANDS PROPERTY LLC 48 29 WOODLAND DRIVE COUNCIL DISTRICT SEVEN AMAROSA NUMBER 12, GLORIA FRANKLIN NETS 38 54 UNICA STREET COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 13, ELLIS HARDY, 2270 CAROLINA STREET COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 14, LARRY ALEXANDER AND VERNON WAYNE ROBERTSON. 28 48 JASMINE AVENUE COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN NUMBER 15, THE ESTATE OF WINFRED JOE BEAR AND THE ESTATE OF MARY JO BEAR. 38 44 UNICA STREET COUNCIL, DISTRICT 10 COLEMAN. ALL ITEMS THAT READING HAVE BEEN READ. ALL ITEMS REQUIRING READING HAVE BEEN READ FOR THE RECORD IS A MOTION TO APPROVE INTRODUCTIONS. MOTION TO APPROVE ALL ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION. ITEM NUMBER THREE AND 26. ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN READ. EXCUSE ME, THERE'S A MOTION TO APPROVE ALL ITEMS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ITEMS THREE AND 26. IS THERE A SECOND? SECONDED MY COUNCIL MEMBER ANN OMAROSA. ANY OBJECTIONS? ALL ITEMS HAVE BEEN APPROVED WITH THE EXCEPTIONS OF THREE AND 26 COUNCIL [CONDEMNATIONS] MEMBERS, WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR SEPARATE SHEET FOR CONDEMNATIONS, I'M GONNA READ THE RECOMMENDATIONS AS STATED. THEY ARE TO PROCEED WITH ITEMS 46, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, AND 63. THEY ARE TO DEFER FOR 90 DAYS. ITEM 47, DELETE ITEMS 51 AND 62. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON CONDEMNATIONS? ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON CONDEMNATIONS? WHEN I GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, I DO HAVE WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO [01:20:01] ME. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN? UH, YES SIR. NUMBER 53 30 DAYS. THEY HAVE A PERMIT PENDING. GIVE THEM 30 DAYS AND ALSO NUMBER, UH, 63 90 DAYS PLEASE. COUNCIL NUMBER. HEAR, LEAVE IT. GOT IT. ALL RIGHT. I'M GONNA READ THE STATED CHANGES. THEY ARE TO PROCEED WITH ITEMS 52 54 AND 61 DEFER FOR 30 DAYS. ITEMS 49 50, 53, 56, 57 AND 60 DEFER FOR 60 DAYS. ITEMS 46, 47 AND 58 DEFER FOR 90 DAYS. ITEM 48 AND 63 AND TO DELETE ITEMS 51 55, 59 AND 62. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE CONDEMNATIONS? MOTION TO APPROVE SOME MORE BY COUNCIL MEMBER? NO. SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER AMAROSA CONDEMNATIONS HAVE BEEN APPROVED. WE GO NOW TO [64. 22-01290] ITEM 64. A RESOLUTION GIVEN PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO THE ISSUANCE OF NOT EXCEEDING 200 MILLION OF REVENUE BONDS IN THE HARVESTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE REVENUES OCCURRING IN THE SAID DISTRICT AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS AND CONNECTION THERE WITH BY COUNCIL MEMBER. GO THERE. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 64? ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 64? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBERS YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL COMMENT OPPOSED TO ITEM 64. ITEM 64, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVE BY COUNCIL. GO SECONDARY BY COUNCIL COLEMAN SHOWING ALL OBJECTIONS. ITEM 64 HAS BEEN APPROVED, WE NOW GO [65. 22-01422] TO ITEM 65, ADMITTING THE PRELIMINARY CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET AND CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE FOR THE YEAR 2023. SUBMITTED BY THE MAYOR PRESIDENT ADOPTING THE FINAL CURRENT EXPENSE BUDGET IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARIS OF EAST BATON ROUGE FOR THE YEAR 2023 BY MAYOR PRESIDENT. THIS ITEM MUST BE RECESSED TO THE DECEMBER 13TH, 2022 MEETING. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 65? ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 65? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBERS YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL COMMENT OPPOSED TO ITEM 65. COUNCIL MEMBERS, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE WHEN THIS IS THERE? A MOTION TO RECESS THIS ITEM SOME MORE BY COUNCIL MEMBER NO SECOND. AND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON. ANY OBJECTION? ITEM 65 HAS BEEN RECESSED. WE'RE [100. 22-01190] GONNA GO TO ITEM 100 SINCE WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN ITEM 100, RECEIVING A REPORT FROM FOR ON THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN EAST BARR PARISH BY COUNCIL MEMBER LAURIE ADAMS. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 100? ITEM 100 HAS ALREADY BEEN HEARD. WE [102. 22-01354] NOW GO TO ITEM 103. IF YOU DON'T MIND RECEIVING A REPORT FROM THE BRIDGE CENTER OF HOPE. BY BY THE CHAIR. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON IT? IF YOU ARE, WE'D ASK YOU TO WAIT UNTIL THE REPORT HAS BEEN GIVEN AND THEN OFFER YOUR QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS STARTS OR IDEAS. UM, MS. CLAYBORN, HOW LONG IS YOUR REPORT MA'AM? FIVE MINUTES BECAUSE IF IT'S LONGER THAN FIVE MINUTES, WE'RE GONNA PUT YOU ALL THE WAY TO THE END. SO HOW LONG IS THE REPORT? OKAY, GO AHEAD. GOOD EVENING. TAKE YOUR TIME. IT'S, IT'S REALLY, IT'S LITERALLY FIVE MINUTES. UM, GOOD EVENING. UH, NORMALLY I'M UP HERE AND I GIVE YOU A REPORT EVERY QUARTER AND SO WE HAVEN'T MADE IT THROUGH THE FOURTH QUARTER YET. SO THAT WOULD BE IN JANUARY. BUT THE LAST TIME THAT WE WAS HERE, IT WAS IN SEPTEMBER AND I WAS ASKED TO COME BACK AND GIVE A UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS THAT THE BRIDGE CENTER FOR HOPE HAS MADE. SO SINCE THAT TIME WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT STRIDES WITH LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, UM, TO THE FACT THAT THE NEXT DAY WE WERE ABLE TO GET ACCESS TO THE MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY PORTAL. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS IT ALLOWED RI INTERNATIONAL, WHO IS OUR SERVICE PROVIDER, TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS WHO COME INTO THE FACILITY IN REAL TIME. MEANING THAT WHEN THEY CAME THERE THEY WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE IF THEY HAD MEDICAID, MEDICARE OR WHATEVER INSURANCE THEY HAD. AND THEN ALSO IT ALSO ALLOWED THEM TO BE ABLE TO SPEED UP THEIR SUBMISSION AND AUTHORIZATION PROCESS, MEANING THAT FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO CAME IN AND THAT NEEDED PRIOR AUTHORIZATION BEFORE YOU COULD GIVE THEM SERVICES, THEY WERE ABLE TO DO SO AT THAT TIME. AS A RESULT, UM, BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 9TH AND OCTOBER 18TH, 58% OF THE CLAIMS DENY DENIALS DECREASED. IT DECREASED BY 58% SINCE WE WERE ABLE TO GET ACCESS TO THAT PORTAL. ALSO, UM, LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT HEALTH OFFICE OF BEHAVIOR HEALTH HAS ENTERED INTO A SHORT TERM AGREEMENT WITH RA INTERNATIONAL TO PROVIDE SHORT TERM ASSISTANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 23 TO COVER THE COST OF OUT PARISH RESIDENTS THAT ARE INDIGENT. SO THAT IS FOR YOUR OTHER SIX PARISHES THAT ARE LOCATED WITHIN REGION TWO. THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE EAST BEND ROUGE PARISH, BUT IT DOES INCLUDE THE OTHER SIX PARISHES. SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO COME IN TO RECEIVE SERVICES THAT DO NOT HAVE MEDICAID AND DO NOT HAVE INSURANCE, THE STATE IS BEING ABLE TO COVER THAT COST ALSO, UM, SINCE THIS LAST TIME WE SPOKE, I HAS BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION IN MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT AND THAT STEMS FROM CLAIMS FROM MARCH OF THIS YEAR UNTIL PRESENT. [01:25:01] AND THE REASON WHY I SAY MARCH IS BECAUSE AGAIN, THERE WERE NO MEDICAID RATES FOR CRISIS SERVICES PRIOR TO MARCH, 2022. SO FROM MARCH, 2022 UNTIL SEPTEMBER, THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO RECEIVE ABOUT APPROXIMATELY $2 MILLION IN CLAIM REIMBURSEMENTS. AND THEN AS WE TALK ABOUT THE DIFFERENT, UM, UNITS WE HAVE, WE DID A, WE LOOKED AT A MERCER STUDY BETWEEN VIRGINIA AND ALSO WITH LOUISIANA'S MERCER STUDY. AND WE DEFI WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS A 3% DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RATES FOR OUR CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT AND THAT'S THAT 16 BIT, UM, TERM PSYCHIATRIC UNIT AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW. SO THOSE RATES WERE REMAINING, BUT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WE'RE SPEAKING AND CONTINUALLY TO WORK WITH LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A MORE SUSTAINABLE RATE FOR THE BEHAVIOR HEALTH CRISIS CENTER. AND THAT IS YOUR 23 HOUR OBSERVATION UNIT. AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE THAT'S YOUR UNIT THAT HAS THE HIGHEST SECURITY LEVEL CUZ THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE FIRST ENCOUNTERING THOSE INDIVIDUALS. SO WE ARE SUBMITTING SOME INFORMATION THAT WAS REQUESTED TO US CUZ WE HAD A MEETING ON NOVEMBER 1ST. AND SO ONCE THAT INFORMATION IS RECEIVED, WE WILL GO BACK AND MEET AGAIN. BUT THEY ARE AS WILLING AND ABLE AND ALONG WITH I AND THE BRIDGE CENTER, HOPE WE ARE JUST WORKING TO BE ABLE TO GET THIS RATES TO A SUSTAINABLE AMOUNT FOR OUR PROVIDER AND TO ALSO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SERVICES THROUGHOUT, WHICH WE HAVE NOT, UM, STOPPED DOING SINCE WE'VE OPENED THE FACILITY. ONE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO ADD IS, UM, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE OCTOBER DATA YET, UM, WE'VE, RIGHT NOW WE'VE SEEN APPROXIMATELY 4,860 INDIVIDUALS. THAT'S 140 SHY OF 5,000 AND WE SHOULD MEET THAT MARK BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. AND THAT'S IT. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE? WE'LL HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM AT THIS TIME. NOW WE'LL GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBER, GO THERE. THANKS FOR THE THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT CHARLOTTE. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. UM, DO YOU ANTICIPATE REIMBURSEMENT FROM PAST SERVICES? UM, THEY'RE WORKING ON A CLAIMS AND NON PROCESS RIGHT NOW WITH THE MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION. SO THAT IS IN THE WORKS. UM, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA GO BACK. IT'S GONNA GO PROBABLY FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2021 UNTIL GOING FORWARD. IT WON'T GO PAST, UM, AUGUST. AND THAT WOULD BE TORI? YES. OKAY. ALRIGHT. DOES THAT IMPACT THEIR ABILITY FOR BRINGING BACK EMPLOYEES? UM, I DO HAVE, I HERE IF THEY CAN SPEAK TO THAT IF YOU LIKE. THANK YOU. OKAY. HI, MY NAME IS JOY BRUNSON AND SGA AND I'M WITH RI INTERNATIONAL. UM, I, I WILL SAY WE NEED TO LOOK TO THE FUTURE FOR HOW WE ARE GOING TO PROVIDE SERVICES GOING FORWARD. UM, WE ARE WORKING THROUGH, UH, AN APPEALS PROCESS, UM, FOR ALL OF OUR DENIED CLAIMS PRIOR TO A CONTRACT DATE, WHICH IS WHAT YOU, YOU ASKED ABOUT. UM, BUT THAT IS TO COVER PAST LOSSES FOR SERVICES THAT WE'VE ALREADY PROVIDED. SO GOING FORWARD, WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN BE SUSTAINABLE FOR THE SERVICES TO PROVIDE IN THE FUTURE. AND ONCE WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT, THAT IS WHEN WE WILL START ADDING BACK, UM, IN EMPLOYEES. GREAT. THANK YOU FOR THAT JOY. I APPRECIATE THAT ANSWER. COUNCIL MEMBER HURST. THANK YOU CHARLOTTE. HEY, I JUST WANT TO TELL Y'ALL THAT I, I HAVE GIVEN CHARLOTTE THE, UH, 10TH DEGREE SINCE SHE LEFT HERE THAT DAY. BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW, I THINK YOU'RE DOING A FABULOUS JOB. AND IT WASN'T TO PARADE YOU ABOUT THE WAY YOU OPERATE THE BRIDGE CENTER. IT'S ABOUT MY UNDERSTANDING OF HOW IMPORTANT IT'S TO OUR COMMUNITY SO THAT YOU HAVE SUSTAINABILITY. THANK YOU. I EVEN LOOKED AT PEOPLE TO RENT THE BEDS TO MAKE SURE WE CAN OFFSET INCOME TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, BUT YOU WERE DOING A FABULOUS JOB. THE BRIDGE CENTER'S DOING A GREAT JOB AND I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR BEING AS RESPONSIVE AS YOU WERE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS ARE IN A POSITION OF STABILIZATION. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS OR ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAR, WE APPRECIATE THE REPORT. THANK YOU. THANK [66. 22-01382] YOU. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 66, COUNCIL MEMBERS ON PAGE 10, AUTHORIZING THE CITY COUNCIL DAN TO INTERGOVERNMENT COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH THE EAST EASTBOUND PARISH SHERIFF AND SUB GRANTING THE AMOUNT OF $3,922 TO LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND BRIAN JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM BY THE CONSTABLE. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 66? WHENEVER THE COUNCIL MEMBERS IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 66 SOME MORE BY COUNCILMAN MCCOMB SECOND AND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HERS? ANY OBJECTIONS? ITEM 66 HAS BEEN APPROVED AUTHORIZING ON NUMBER [67. 22-01418] 67 AUTHORIZING AM MERIT PRESIDENT ON BEHALF OF THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARD FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COPS FY 2022, EXCUSE ME, FISCAL YEAR 2022, LAW ENFORCEMENT MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS ACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $175,000 BY THE POLICE CHIEF. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 67? WE HAVE MISSION TO [01:30:01] SPEAK ON ITEMS 67TH CHAMPAIGN ROUNDTREE. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS CHAMPAIGN ROUNDTREE AND ONE OF MY MAIN CONCERNS HERE IS ONCE AGAIN, WE SEE MORE DOLLARS GOING TOWARD OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. HOWEVER, WE DON'T SEE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT GOING TOWARD THE COMMUNITY. IN DISTRICT EIGHT, TAMAR'S OFFICE HAS RECEIVED 152 CALLS ABOUT CRIME IN THE AREA. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE. WE'RE TOLD BY COPS CONSTANTLY, IF YOU WANT EXTRA PROTECTION, YOU PAY FOR IT AT $45 AN HOUR. WE OWN A SHOPPING CENTER THERE, WE'RE LOSING 600 TO $700 A DAY AT THE DOLLAR TREE ALONE. OUR OTHER STORES ARE LOSING IN THE THOUSANDS. CURRENTLY IN DISTRICT EIGHT, WE HAVE SHUT DOWN THE WALGREENS, WE HAVE SHUT DOWN CHUCK E. CHEESE. ALL OF THIS IS AGAIN, BECAUSE WE'VE CALLED THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, 106 CALLS TO THEM, 56 CALLS TO THE CHIEF'S OFFICE, NOTHING GETS DONE. WE HAVE PEOPLE WITH BEING PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED ON THE PROPERTY WITH TWO BY FOURS MKA 47 S COP RESPONSE TIMES IS TWO HOURS TO GET TO A SHOPPING CENTER THAT IS NINE MINUTES FROM A POLICE STATION. BUT YOU ASK THE CITIZENS TO GIVE MORE MONEY TO THE POLICE OR ASK FOR MORE GRANTS FOR THEM. THEIR RESPONSE TO US WHEN WE TRY TO CALL IS, WELL, WE DON'T HANDLE THIS. YOU NEED TO CALL THIS DEPARTMENT OR YOU NEED TO CALL THIS DEPARTMENT, OR WE NEED TO SPEAK WITH THIS DEPARTMENT. THOSE DEPARTMENTS NEVER CALL US BACK. UNIFORM PATROL HAS HAD MULTIPLE CALLS TO THEM. THIS KIND OF HONESTLY GOES WITH NUMBER 68 AS WELL BECAUSE AGAIN, WE'RE ASKING FOR MORE MONEY TO STOP THE VIOLENCE IN THE CITY. WE HAVE COPS THAT WON'T EVEN GO AFTER CRIMINALS, THAT WE ARE COMPLETELY FOLLOWING OURSELVES IN OUR PERSONAL VEHICLES. WE'RE HAVING A TEENAGER RUN OUT THE STORE WITH $600 WORTH OF STUFF. WE'RE TELLING THEM WE'RE ON BLUE BONNET BOULEVARD, BUT NO COP WILL COME TO BUBONIC BOULEVARD. THEY TELL YOU TO RETURN BACK TO THE STORE WHERE THE COP WHO WAS THEN HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH HIS FRIEND DOWN AT THE IDEAL MARKET 45 MINUTES LATER DECIDES TO RESPOND TO THE STORE AND SAY, WAS THERE A PROBLEM HERE? ME AS THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, HAVE, THEY HAVE ASKED ME NUMEROUS TIMES, CAN YOU PROVE THAT YOU'RE THE PROPERTY MANAGER? CAN YOU SHOW OWNERSHIP PAPERWORK WHEN THERE'S A CRIME GOING ON IN THIS CITY? IT IS NOT THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE PROOF OF WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY, BUT YET LET'S GET THE CRIME HANDLED. WE HAVE GOT PEOPLE SITTING ON SIDEWALKS SHOOTING HEROIN RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR KIDS THAT ARE GETTING OFF OF A SCHOOL BUS AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR YOUTH. AND THAT'S WHAT I TRY TO EXPLAINING TO THE OFFICER WHO RESPONDED, WHO DID NOTHING. WE HAD TWO FEMALE EMPLOYEES ATTACKED AT THE SUBWAY JUST A WEEK AGO. INSTEAD OF THEM WRITING IT UP AS AGGRAVATED BATTERY, DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, UH, ASSAULT, THEY WROTE IT UP AS DISTURBING THE PIECE. 20 SECONDS. SO WHEN Y'ALL ARE COMING UP WITH ALL THESE NUMBERS TO HOW Y'ALL WANNA HELP THE COMMUNITY, MAYBE IF THE POLICE WOULD DO THEIR JOB A LITTLE BIT BETTER, THE COMMUNITY WOULD SIGN OFF ON THIS. BUT I DON'T AGREE WITH Y'ALL HANDING OUT MORE MONEY TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT WHEN THEY CAN'T DO THEIR JOB FOR US. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 67? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBER. SO I CAN SPEAK SPECIFICALLY ON THIS ITEM. NORMALLY I MAY COMMENT SOME, Y'ALL HEAR ME GO BACK AND FORTH WITH THE, WITH THE CHIEF CUZ I DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING HE DOES. I MEAN, WERE TWO INDIVIDUALS TRYING TO, UH, SOMETIMES GO DIFFERENT ROUTES TO SOLVE PROBLEMS IN THE COMMUNITY. BUT ONE GOAL OF MAKING BATON ROUGE BETTER, BUT I WILL TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY ON HIS MENTAL HEALTH ITEM, I SAT IN HIS OFFICE WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE HAD MORE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, PEOPLE WHO HAD DRUG ADDICTION. WE TALK ABOUT THE HOTELS, WE TALK ABOUT THE ENCAMPMENT THAT'S PASSIONATE TO ME. AND SO HE TALKED ABOUT HOW HE WAS GONNA LAY THESE DOLLARS OUT AND USE THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAD MORE THAN JUST THE CRISIS TRAINING REQUIRED TO, UH, TO ENSURE THAT THEY MET THE, THE, THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS FOR, UH, AN ABILITY TO AID IN MENTAL HEALTH SITUATIONS. SO I WILL, I WILL SAY THAT. AND ALSO TOO, IN THAT SAME CONVERSATION HE BROUGHT UP, UH, ABOUT, UH, INCENTIVES FOR POLICE OFFICERS THAT PEOPLE HAVE HAD SOME OBJECTIONS ON. AND IT, IT'LL, IT'LL AID TO THE SECOND PART OF YOUR QUESTION, WHICH GOES TO WHY ARE WE HAVING SUCH LIMITED RESPONSE TIME? BECAUSE WE HAVE LIMITED OFFICER, WE'RE DOWN ABOUT A HUNDRED OFFICERS. AND SO I TELL PEOPLE IT'S LIKE INSURANCE. YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT OFFICERS UNTIL YOU NEED THEM. AND THEN WHEN YOU CALL 'EM, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU WONDER WHY THE SUPPORT WASN'T THERE. WELL, IF IT'S NOT THERE, YOU DON'T GET THE OFFICERS. WE HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATIONS, UH, WITH HR ABOUT, UH, LIVABLE WAGES AND BATON ROUGE AND CITY PARISH ACROSS THE BOARD. AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE LONG TERM IS BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO TRACK THE TALENT THAT LEAVES OUR STATE FROM THE TWO UNIVERSITIES WHERE PEOPLE GO IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, POLITICAL SCIENCE, LAW ENFORCEMENT, UM, ASSOCIATE DEGREES FROM OUR COMMUNITY COLLEGES [01:35:01] AND OTHER THINGS. IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM, WE HAVE TO HAVE RESOURCES TO RETAIN THEM. AND SO THE MENTAL HEALTH PIECE WILL ALLOW THEM TO DELVE INTO SOCIAL WORK AND MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELS. NUMBER ONE, TO ATTRACT A DIFFERENT ANGLE FROM COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND FROM FOUR YEAR INSTITUTIONS. AND NUMBER TWO, THE ADDITIONAL FUNDS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE 10 AND $15,000 WILL GO TOWARDS FINDING PEOPLE WHO ARE EXPERIENCED IN THAT FIELD. SO, UH, PARENTS JUST LIKE ASCENSION AND LIVINGSTON DON'T CONTINUE TO TAKE OFFICERS. SO WE COMPLAIN THAT THERE'S NOBODY TO RESPOND. AND NUMBER TWO, SO WE CAN CLOSE THAT A HUNDRED PERSON GAPS SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THE RESOURCES THAT YOU NEED WHEN YOU MAKE THAT PHONE CALL. SO I NORMALLY DON'T GET IN THE MIX OF POLICE, BUT I HAPPEN TO BE IN THAT CONVERSATION. AND WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. AND IN THIS CASE, I'M WELL INFORMED. SO IN THIS PLACE, I I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT IT. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OFFICERS DEALING WITH PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND DRUG ADDICTION. YOU HAVE TO BE PROPERLY TRAINED TO DO THAT. ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 67? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER. SO MORE BY COUNCIL MEMBER? NO, EXCUSE ME, BY COUNCIL MEMBER GORE SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN. ITEM 67 HAS BEEN [68. 22-01428] APPROVED. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 68, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO APPLY FOR AN ACCEPTED GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $2 MILLION ON THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS FOR THE 2022 BGA FIS, YEAR 22 OH JP COMMUNITY BASED VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION INITIATIVE AND APPROVING THE BUDGET FOR ED GRANT BY MAYOR'S OFFICE. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 68? PLEASE SIR, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. UM, MY NAME IS TY DAVIS PETERSBURG DRIVE 61 47. I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK ABOUT THE VIOLENCE INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION AND ACTIVE GRANT. WHAT IS THAT? UM, CAN YOU GO IN DEPTH OF WHAT THE GRANT WOULD PROVIDE? IS THERE ANYONE HERE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE WHO CAN DISCUSS IN DEPTH WHAT THE GRANT DOES FOR OUR YOUNG CIVICALLY ENGAGED FOUR A STUDENT, BOY SCOUT, BOY SCOUT BOY SCOUT FOUR BOY SCOUT THAT WERE HERE TODAY. BOTH OF 'EM. BOY SCOUT, FORGIVE ME. AND COUNCIL MEMBER ALSO PUT HIM UP TO IT. SO BE, BE MAD AT HIM. COURTNEY, I AM HAPPY TO ANSWER, UH, THAT QUESTION. WE HAVE THIS GRANT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE. THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARTICIPATED IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION'S COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION COLLABORATIVE, WHICH MEANS THAT OUR CITY, ALONG WITH 15 OTHERS, GOT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, ADVISEMENT AND SUPPORT FROM NATIONAL EXPERTS TO SAY, WHAT DOES BATON ROUGE NEED? WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNERS ARE CURRENTLY WORKING TO GIVE EXTRA SUPPORT TO YOUTH LIKE YOURSELF TO STAY OUT OF CRIME? IN THAT BATON ROUGE WROTE A GRANT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BATON ROUGE COMMUNITY STREET TEAM, 100 BLACK MEN OF BATON ROUGE TRUCE, AND OF COURSE, OUR CITY OFFICE WITH THE MAYOR TO WRITE A GRANT THAT PUTS VIOLENCE INTERVENTION WORKERS ALONG WITH PEOPLE TO SUPPORT TRUANCY ON THE STREETS, TO SUPPORT FOLKS TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL TO GET JOBS AND ANY OTHER SUPPORTS THAT THEY NEED TO MAKE GOOD DECISIONS. AND WE WON THAT GRANT FOR 2 MILLION. SO THIS ITEM, IF APPROVED BY OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, WILL ALLOW US TO ACCEPT THAT AWARD. DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? OKAY. AWESOME. GOOD JOB. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 68? ANYONE ELSE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 68? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE SOME MOVE BY COLEMAN SECOND AND BY OUR GO DAY ITEM 68 HAS BEEN [69. 22-01419] APPROVED. WE GO TO ITEM 69, RUNNING A RENEWAL OF THE FIRE PROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT, ESTIMATED FOR 7,600 PER YEAR FOR 204 SOUTH 14TH STREET, LLC, LOCATED AT TWO 12 SOUTH 14TH STREET BY THE PLANNING DIRECTOR. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON 69? ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON 69 COUNCIL MEMBERS? YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL COMMENT OPPOSED TO ITEM 69. WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE? COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN SOMO BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN. SECOND BY YOU WANT QUESTION COUNT OR YOU SECOND? COUNCIL BY COUNCIL MEMBER GO. DAY ITEM 69 HAS BEEN APPROVED. COUNCIL MEMBERS, VERY QUICKLY YOU GO BACK TO PAGE ONE, EXCUSE ME, ONE 16. WE'RE GONNA GO TO ITEM 1 0 1, RECEIVING A REPORT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION ON THE RED LIGHT CAMERA ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM IN REDUCING ACCIDENTS AT INTERSECTIONS AND THE EXPENSES AND REVENUES OF THE PROGRAM BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLEVE DUNN JR. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE HERE FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU TO HOLD YOUR COMMENTS UNTIL WE HAVE THE REPORT AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL. UH, MR. GISEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, I'M GONNA, EXCUSE ME, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ACTUAL CONTRACT AND THE PROGRAM. FRED RAYFORD [01:40:01] IS GONNA COME UP AND DO A PRESENTATION ON THE LOCATIONS AND THE, UM, THE PREVENTION RATE. UM, JUST A LITTLE OVERSIGHT ABOUT THE PROGRAM. THE PROGRAM'S BEEN HERE SINCE 2008. UH, FORMER POLICE CHIEF LEDUFF WAS INVOLVED IN BRINGING THE PROGRAM TO BATON ROUGE. HE EXPLAINED AT THAT TIME THAT HE HAD ISSUES WITH PUTTING MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS AT INTERSECTIONS BECAME DANGEROUS. I THINK THEY HAD A FEW OFFICERS WHO WERE SEVERELY HURT. THE CURRENT CONTRACT IS WITH VERA MOBILITY. THEY'RE OUR VENDOR. UM, THE CONTRACT EXPIRES AT DECEMBER OF 2023. WE HAVE 24 CAMERAS, UM, THAT, UM, PROJECT IN 16 DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS. UM, MOST OF OUR RED LIGHT VIOLATIONS OCCUR ON FRIDAYS, AND THE AFTERNOON IS THE MOST FREQUENT TIME OF, UH, OFFENSE. 41% OF THE TICKETS ISSUED ARE TO NON BATON ROUGE RESIDENTS. UM, THEY'RE PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING THROUGH TOWN. UM, MOST RED LIGHT RUNNERS IN BATON ROUGE, EXCUSE ME, WHO PAY A TICKET, DO NOT GET A SECOND TICKET. UM, THE RECIDIVISM RATE IS ABOUT 29.8%. SO IT DOES SHOW THAT IF YOU PAY THE TICKET, THERE IS A A, A FACTOR IN THERE THAT REDUCES YOUR CHANCE OF DOING IT AGAIN. UM, WE SHOULD HAVE A PRESENTATION OVERHEAD, UM, TO EXPLAIN THE, THE FLOW OF OF THE TICKETS. THE EVENT IS CAPTURED ON VIDEO. UM, BUREAU MOBILITY, WHICH IS OUR PROVIDER ACTUALLY DOES A BACK OFFICE REVIEW OF THE, THE CAMERA FOOTAGE. B R P D ACTUALLY REVIEWS EVERY FOOTAGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE TICKET IS VALID. UM, THERE'S A SMALL NUMBER OF TICKETS THAT ARE ACTUALLY THROWN OUT BEFORE THEY'RE ISSUED. THE CITATIONS ARE MAILED. THE CITATIONS, WHICH THERE'S ON THE SCREEN, PROBABLY HARD TO SEE. UM, IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN ONE OF THESE, THERE'S A CITATION THAT ACTUALLY HAS A LINK WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE VIDEO OF WHAT HAPPENED. SO YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT HAPPENED AT THAT INTERSECTION. UM, AND THE BACK OF THE TICKET GIVES INFORMATION ON WHAT YOU CAN DO TO APPEAL THE TICKET. WE DO HAVE RED LIGHT CAMERA COURT, SO YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO COME IN PERSON TO APPEAL THE TICKET. UM, THERE'VE ALWAYS BEEN QUESTIONS, WELL, WHAT IF I WASN'T THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE? IF I LENT MY CAR TO MY SON, DAUGHTER, OR FRIEND, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SIGN AN AFFIDAVIT AND SWEAR TO WHO THE PERSON WAS WHO WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE. AND THE TICKET IS REISSUED TO THAT INDIVIDUAL. SO THERE IS A WAY TO DO THAT. UM, THE, UM, THE FEES FOR THE PROCESS. UM, WE RENEGOTIATED THE RATE WHEN THE CONTRACT WAS RENEWED IN 2019. WE PAY A FLAT FEE OF $30 PER CITATION. UM, IF WE HAVE A HIGHER COLLECTION RATE, THAT COST GOES DOWN THE, AND WE DO HAVE SOME OTHER ANCILLARY COSTS. SO OUR NET IS ABOUT 75% OF THE TOTAL TAKE. UM, AND THAT DOES INCLUDE FUNDING FOR, UM, THE COURT. WE DO HAVE AN ADMINISTRATIVE COURT JUDGE AND WE ALSO HAVE B R P D OFFICERS WHO REVIEW THE FOOTAGE BEFORE THE TICKET IS ISSUED. NORMALLY THOSE ARE OFFICERS WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO LIGHT DUTY WHO DO THE REVIEW. UM, I'LL HAVE FRED COME UP AND TALK ABOUT THE LOCATIONS AND I'LL BE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, DARRELL. I APPRECIATE IT. I WILL JUST SAY THAT WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROGRAM, WE HAD, UH, A LOT OF ISSUES IN REGARD TO CRASHES AT VARIOUS INTERSECTIONS. THERE'S NO QUESTION. AND THE NUMBERS REFLECT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO PULL UP A LOT OF THE DATA FROM THE, UH, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT FROM THAT SAFETY DIVISION. THAT IS ONE OF THE, UH, PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT DOING. AND REALLY, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE LOCATIONS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ORIGINALLY THAT WERE APPROVED, WHICH WERE 16 ORIGINAL LOCATIONS THAT WERE APPROVED, MANY OF 'EM HAD, UH, ISSUES WITH RIGHT ANGLE CRASHES. MANY OF 'EM HAD JUST RUNNING THROUGH THE LIGHT ITSELF. UH, WHICH I THINK WE KNOW ALL, A LOT OF US SEE THAT. BUT THERE AGAIN, THE, THE KEY TO IT IS HAVING THE NUMBER OF CRASHES THAT MAY, UH, IMPACT THE OVERALL SAFETY OF THAT INTERSECTION. YOU KNOW, BASED ON CORRECTABLE CASH REQUIREMENTS. UH, WE LOOK AT THE, THE, THE, THE ANGLE CRASHING, WHAT TAKES PLACE AT THE INTERSECTION, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY WHAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE. AND THEY WERE PRETTY HIGH. WHEN YOU LOOK AT, ORIGINALLY WHEN WE HAD THIS PROGRAM IN PLACE, UH, IS STILL IN PLACE, BUT IT, IT'S DEPENDS ON THE FUNCTION OF WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT AT THIS POINT. I WOULD JUST SAY THAT BECAUSE OF THE FIRST LOCATIONS THAT WE HAD, WE'VE DONE A, A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF OF BASED ON MAKING CORRECTIVE ACTIONS AT THE INTERSECTIONS. EITHER THROUGH RED, I MEAN THROUGH CAMERAS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY FOR TRAFFIC UPGRADES, SIGNAL UPGRADES. ALSO LOOKING AT INTERSECTIONS [01:45:01] ITSELF FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS TO HELP REDUCE THE CRASH FLOW. UM, AT THAT POINT IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL CAUSE IT'S DROPPED THE NUMBERS FROM 16 TO SEVEN THAT WERE ORIGINALLY PROPOSED, WHAT, WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY OUT THERE. AND IT METS, IT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS. IT DOES ADDRESS THAT, THE THREE YEAR REQUIREMENT THAT, UH, FROM WHAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT FROM THE DATA. AND WE CHECK THE DATA EVERY YEAR TO MAKE SURE IT'S, IT'S GOOD, UH, SUFFICIENT DATA. I WAS ALSO ASKED TO LOOK AT IN CASE IN SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS WANTED TO KNOW THAT WE ALSO HAVE SOME EXISTING PROBLEMS THAT HAVE AT OTHER INTERSECTIONS. IT'S NOT ONLY JUST THIS INTERSECTION. UH, WE HAVE 19 THAT WE ACTUALLY PROPOSE TO, TO LOOK AT IF, IF CONSIDERED AT THIS POINT. AND THOSE WERE, UH, ALSO VERIFIED BY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT. ALSO THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT THE, UM, BATON ROUGE PEDESTRIAN BIKE SAFETY ACTION PLAN, WHICH IS, IS EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH'S LOCAL SAFETY PLAN. THESE, THESE LOCATIONS, UH, UH, HAVE SERIOUS RIGHT ANGLE CRASHES. AND UH, ALSO THEY HAVE A HEAVY, UH, FOOT PEOPLE RUNNING THROUGH THE LIGHTING ITSELF IN GENERAL. SO THE NUMBERS REFLECT THAT, BUT ALSO CREATED SOME OF THE ANGLE CRASHES AT THESE INTERSECTION. YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY IT'S GONNA BE A DECISION WHAT THE COUNCIL WANTS TO DO, BUT I WILL JUST SAY FROM OUR STANDPOINT, THE CITY STANDPOINT, WE ARE TRYING TO LOOK AT WAYS TO ADDRESS SAFETY FOR OUR PARISH. AND QUITE FRANKLY, INTERSECTIONS ARE A PROBLEM. UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE GETTING VERY FRUSTRATED. SOMETIMES IT LIGHTS AND JUST DON'T WANT TO WAIT AND, AND DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO. BUT THE BIG, THE BIG ISSUE HERE IS MAKING SURE THAT WE PREVENT AS MANY, UH, CRASHES AS POSSIBLE AT THESE INTERSECTIONS. I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS POINT. IF YOU DON'T, I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN IN REFERENCE TO THAT CUZ IT'S, THIS STUDY IS, IT IS IMPORTANT AND I UNDERSTAND THE, THE PLUSES AND MINUSES. BUT I WILL JUST TELL YOU THAT WHAT THE AREAS THAT WE HAVE CONCENTRATED ON THE PAST HAVE DEFINITELY IMPROVED. AND, AND EVEN WITH THE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC IN A LOT OF LOT OF THESE LOCATIONS, UH, THE NUMBERS HAVE ALSO IMPROVED AT THIS TIME. WE'LL HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARINGS THAN ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 0 1. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 1 0 1? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN. NOW I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS FOR YOU. IN ONE OF THE, UM, SLIDES YOU SENT US EARLIER, IT SHOWED A REVENUE, UH, TREND BY YEAR. MM-HMM. , ISN'T IT THE POSITION OF THE CITY AND OR THE VENDOR THAT THESE CAMERAS WILL REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF RED LIGHTS THAT ARE RAN OR, AND EVEN ACCIDENTS. I THINK PART OF THE NUMBERS IN HERE WHEN YOU SEE THE NUMBERS FLUCTUATE. WE HAD, WAIT, LET ME, LET ME CLEAR UP, SORRY, BEFORE YOU ANSWER BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING RIGHT INTO IT. SO WHAT HE SUBMITTED TO US, THE REVENUE PROJECTIONS INCREASED EVERY YEAR. SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IF THIS IS DESIGNED TO DECREASE, UH, VIOLATIONS OR ACCIDENTS, HOW IS THE REVENUE INCREASING PART OF IT? UM, COUNCILMAN DUNN HAS TO DO WITH THE TRAFFIC FLOW. IF YOU LOOK, AND WE COULD PRODUCE A LITTLE CHART FOR YOU, I THINK IT'S IN 2019, WE HAD A HUGE DROP IN TRAFFIC. AND THEN IN 2020 AND 20 21, 20 21, THE DRIVING PATTERNS IN EAST PAT PARISH HAD REALLY BEEN TOTALLY ALTERED. THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS ISSUED IN 2021 WENT FROM LET'S SAY 80,000 TO A HUNDRED THOUSAND. AND, AND PART OF THAT IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING ACROSS THE BOARD WITH TRAFFIC. WE'RE SEEING IT WITH DRAG RACING, WE'RE SEEING IT SPEEDING ON THE ROADWAY. SO THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE SEE IS HAPPENING OUT THERE. UM, THAT THAT'S THE BEST WE CAN TELL FROM THOSE PATTERNS. BUT, BUT YOU JUST SAID, AND I AGREE THAT THE TRAFFIC DECREASED DUE TO COVID OF 2020 AND THE, AND THE DE THE DECREASE WILL HAPPEN IN, IN 2019 WHERE YOU SEE THE NUMBER BEING MUCH LOWER. I THINK IF I REMEMBER THE CHART RIGHT, 2019 IS AT LOW POINT AND THEN IT'S STEADILY MOVED UP. OKAY. I MEAN, 2021 IS REALLY THE HIGH POINT. WHAT ABOUT THE ACCIDENT TREND? WHERE, WHERE ARE WE WITH THAT? IT'S REALLY HARD TO TELL CAUSE WE, AND FRED CAN PROBABLY HELP ME CORRECT THAT. WE CAN'T REALLY TELL FRED AT THE INTERSECTIONS WHERE WE DON'T HAVE THAT DATA. UM, I MEAN FRED HAS THE DATA IN TERMS OF WHAT ACCIDENTS HAVE BEEN CORRECTABLE, CORRECT, FRED? YES, THERE ARE VARIOUS INTERSECTIONS, COUNCILMEN THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT [01:50:01] AND, AND THE NUMBERS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CHECK ON A YEAR BY YEAR BASIS ARE, ARE REFLECTIVE OF THAT. FOR EXAMPLE, AIRLINE AND FLOOR LINE, I WOULD USE, UH, LA 19 AND BLUNT CHAIR FOREST AND NORTH HILLS FERRY. I MEAN THAT YOU COULD, THE NUMBERS WHERE THEY WERE, THEY'RE FALLING WAY OUTSIDE THE RANGE WITH WHAT WE WOULD WANNA LOOK AT THOSE INTERSECTIONS FOR CORRECTABLE CRASHES AND STUFF LIKE THAT. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU PROVIDED TO US OR THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE? IT'S, IT'S, IT'S JUST A FACT SHEET THAT I HAVE THAT I PUT TOGETHER BECAUSE CAN, CAN YOU, I FELT LIKE YOU WOULD BE, OR SOMEBODY WOULD BE ASKING THAT QUESTION. YEAH, I WANT TO LOOK AT THAT, UM, BY INTERSECTION AND WITH THE OVERALL PROGRAM IN INTER CITY PARISH TO KIND OF EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IT. I DON'T NEED IT RIGHT NOW, BUT IF WE CAN GET TOGETHER AT A LATER DATE TO KIND OF GO OVER THAT, UH, FOR MY EVALUATION. UH, THE OTHER THING, AND YOU MAY HAVE COVERED THIS, EXCUSE ME IF YOU DID, UH, WHEN DOES THIS CONTRACT RENEW? UM, IT RENEWS AT THE END OF, UH, 2023. OKAY. AND WE'RE CURRENTLY IN A FIVE YEAR. FOUR YEAR. FOUR YEAR. OKAY. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YEAH, JUST ONE, SORRY. GOOD COUNCIL MEMBER GO THERE. JUST TO CLARIFY, YOU SAID IT RENEWS AT THE END OF THE YEAR? WELL, IT, THAT'S WHEN IT WOULD COME UP. IT EXPIRES THE TIME. OKAY. WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO RENEW IT IF THAT'S THE COUNCIL'S CHOICE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT WE'LL HAVE A REPORT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF MAINTENANCE. OH, I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. COUNCILMAN MOT MY APOLOGIES. , UM, SOMEBODY EXPLAINED THE DIFFERENCE TO ME, THE PROCESS OF THIS WITH AN OFFICER SITTING AT THE INTERSECTION AND WRITING SOMEONE A TICKET RIGHT. AND SOMEONE GETTING A TICKET THROUGH THE PHOTO ENFORCEMENT. WELL, ONE OF THE ISSUES I THINK THAT, THAT EVERYONE'S TALKED ABOUT BEFORE IS WHEN YOU PUT AN OFFICER AT AN INTERSECTION, LET'S SAY IF IT'S COLLEGE AND I 10, YOU CAN IMAGINE WHEN YOU PUT A POLICE CAR THERE, WHAT IT DOES TO TRAFFIC. PEOPLE SLOW DOWN, THEY BACK UP, THEY RUB HER NECK, ET CETERA. SO THAT IS A DIFFERENCE. IT'S DONE AUTOMATICALLY. WE DON'T HAVE A MAN ON THE STREET. I, I APOLOGIZE. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS FROM, FROM THE, FROM THE GETTING THE TICKET MM-HMM. TO PAYING. RIGHT. GETTING THE TICKET TO DISPUTING, TO PAYING TO COURT, TO WHATEVER. WHAT, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AN OFFICER WRITING A TICKET AND THE PHOTO BEING SENT TO THE PERSON RUNNING A RED LIGHT FRONT? THE RED LIGHT PERIOD. RIGHT. WELL, YOU, YOU RUN IT, YOU RUN IT. WHETHER THE OFFICER SITTING THERE AND SAW YOU GO THROUGH OR THE PHOTO, TAKE THE PICTURE. MM-HMM. , WHAT IS IT, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING BETWEEN THE TWO? WELL, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN THAT IN ONE, YOU GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE COURT, YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING. THE OTHER GOES CITY COURT OR TO 19 JDC. SO THE TWO, IT'S THE SAME PROCESS. YOU DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO APPEAL THE TICKET. I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IS WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THE CAMERAS? UH, I'VE HEARD A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT ARGUMENTS. SOME PEOPLE ARGUE THAT, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT THE OFFICER THERE, YOU CAN'T IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO'S DRIVING THE VEHICLE. THAT'S ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS. AND I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW ME, I GIVE UP ALL MY SECRETS AND EVERYTHING. SO I, I'VE GOT ONE RIGHT HERE THAT MY SON CALLED ME AND SAID, YOU WAS UP IN BAKER AND YOU, HERE'S A PHOTO OF MY, HIS, I WAS DRIVING HIS TRUCK AT THE TIME. HE SENDS ME THE THING, I'M LIKE, OKAY, I'LL GO ON THERE. I GO TO THEIR SITE AND, AND, AND PAY THE THING. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY IT'S MY TRUCK IN THERE. I GUESS WHAT I'M GETTING AT, AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE ARGUE FOR AND AGAINST THE CAMERAS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH MM-HMM. , BUT, YOU KNOW, MY WHOLE THING IS IN THIS DAY AND AGE IT IS 2022. WE'RE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT UNDERSTAFFED POLICE OFFICERS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, A SAFETY ISSUE. UM, I, I DON'T, I GUESS SINCE WE HAVE THE MOTION OF DISCUSSION AND I, I, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THE WHOLE DISCUSSION OTHER THAN JUST WANTING INFORMATION ABOUT HOW IT'S WORKING OR NOT. WE ARE, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S AN OPTION TO, UH, WHEN THIS THING COMES UP TO RENEW IT OR WE GONNA HAVE THE OPTION TO EXPAND IT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WHEN IT DOES COME UP, WE, WE DO HAVE THE OPTION RIGHT NOW TO EXPAND CAMERA ENFORCEMENT IF WE WANT TO. THAT'S PART OF THE CONTRACT. WE CAN ADD CAMERAS, UM, WE CAN MOVE LOCATIONS, WHICH FRED PLANS THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO DO. AND I, I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MUCH TIME I HAVE LEFT, BUT HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE FIGURE OUT THOSE INTERSECTIONS? I UNDERSTAND WITH REX, WE, WE KNOW WE HAVE THE DATA FROM EMS OR THE NINE ONE ONE CALL OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL ENFORCEMENT OR RUNNING, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE PICK THOSE INTERSECTIONS THAT WE WANT TO EXPAND TO FRED COUNCILMAN? THE ISSUE IS REALLY ABOUT THE CRASH DATA [01:55:01] BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S DRIVING US TO LOOK AT WHETHER YOU RUN THE LIGHT OR NOT. THAT'S REALLY NOT UP TOWARD CITY PARISH AND DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. THAT'S FOR SURE. WHEN WE LOOK AT IT, WE LOOK AT HOW MANY LOCATIONS AND WHERE ARE THESE HIGH LOCATION ROCKWOOD RIGHT ANGLE CRASHES. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT SINCE WE HAD THE ORIGINAL LIST. WE'VE HAD SIGNALS IMPROVEMENTS, WE'VE HAD SOME TURNING LANES AND SOME OF THOSE WE'RE GONNA RECOMMEND TO BE REMOVED AT NO LONGER MEETS THE REQUIREMENT. WE HAVE SOME THAT WE COULD ADD, BUT THAT CERTAINLY WILL BE A COUNCIL DECISION ON HOW THEY WANT TO DO THAT. I HAVE 'EM, IT HAS THE DATA, THE CRASH DATA AND WHAT WE NEED FROM, FOR 19, 20 AND 21 THAT SHOWS THESE NEW LOCATIONS THAT MEET THE CRITERIA. OKAY. SO WE, WE BASED THE LOCATIONS ON THE INTERSECTION BY THE CRASH DATA, UM, NOT NECESSARILY BY WHAT WE ANTICIPATE AS FAR AS RUNNING RED LIGHTS, PEOPLE RUNNING RED LIGHTS OR HEAVILY TRAVELED INTERSECTIONS OR ANYTHING FROM MY, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, PEOPLE RUN LIGHTS EVERYWHERE JUST LIKE IT RUNS, STOP SIGNS. WE, WE LOOK AT STRICTLY CRASH DATA THAT'S PROVIDED TO US TO EVALUATE IF THESE LOCATIONS MEET THE CRITERIA FOR THAT TO BE CONSIDERED. DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS TO BE, BUT WE HAVE TO MEET THAT DA THOSE DATA REQUIREMENTS TO BE ABLE TO AT LEAST BRING IT UP TO SAY, HERE'S WHAT WE'D LIKE FOR Y'ALL TO CONSIDER. OKAY. JUST LAST QUESTION. DO ALL WE HAVE IS INTERSECTION, UH, CAMERAS OR DO WE HAVE THE, UH, UNIT MOBILE UNITS THAT ARE PUT OUT LIKE IN STRAIGHTAWAYS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT? LIKE BAKER WAY YOU'VE GOT CAUGHT YEAH, WHERE I GOT CAUGHT. YEAH. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR CAUSE THAT, I MEAN, I WILL, THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONE THAT GETS YOU, YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE THEY PLACED THAT THING, YOU KNOW, SO YEAH, WHEN I DRIVE THROUGH BAKER, I ACTUALLY DRIVE SLOWER. NOW , WE, WE, WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY, AND IT'S ONE THING THAT WE'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE IN EAST SPANS PARISH. WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO HAVE SPEED CAMERAS, UM, WHICH ARE MOBILE DEVICES THAT CAN BE PARKED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD A LOT. I KNOW A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE ISSUES WHERE THEY WANT SPEED BUMPS, ET CETERA. IT'S ANOTHER WAY TO TRY AND SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN. IT'S NOT JUST A FLASHING THING THAT SAYS HOW HOW FAST YOU'RE GOING AND ACTUALLY WOULD ISSUE A TICKET. MUCH LIKE THE RED LIGHT CAMERA PROGRAM. RIGHT. SO TO MAKE WHAT I'M GETTING OUTTA THIS WHOLE THING IN GENERAL, THIS IS AN, AN ADDITIONAL TOOL IN THE, THE BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S ARMORY, YOU WANT YOU AT YOUR TIME, COUNCIL MEMBER? I'M DONE. OKAY. GO AHEAD. ANSWER THAT QUESTION. THANK YOU. QUESTION. COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER. DONE. RIGHT. UH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, COUNCIL MEMBER MOORE, WE CAN EXPAND CONTRACT OR DISCONTINUE THIS CONTRACT WHEN IT, WHEN IT COMES UP. UH, I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE REVENUE. DARRELL, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT ANNUALLY HOW MUCH THIS PRODUCES FOR CITY PARISH? AND THEN SECONDLY, WHAT ARE THOSE FUNDS DEDICATED TO? WHAT DO THEY USE FOR THE, THE HIGH POINTS BEEN IN THE LAST, UH, FOUR YEARS SO FAR HAS BEEN 2.5 MILLION, PROBABLY IN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 2.4. UM, AND IT ACTUALLY IS DEDICATED TO, UH, PAT ROUGE POLICE TO WHAT IT, IT ACTUALLY GOES TO, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. IT SPECIFICALLY HAS A, A PLACE WHERE IT GOES. OKAY. UM, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO ANSWER THIS. I SEE SCOTT IS THAT HE MAY WANT TO ANSWER THIS AND JUST CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BECAUSE PROGRAMS ARE DONE DIFFERENTLY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS I UNDERSTAND IT. OUR PROGRAM, WHEN YOU GET A CITATION AND YOU DON'T PAY IT, YOU ARE CONTACTED BY A COLLECTION AGENCY, BUT THAT IS NOT REPORTED TO YOUR CREDIT REPORT. IS THAT CORRECT, SCOTT? WE, WE DON'T EVEN ACTUALLY SEND IT TO A COLLECTION AGENCY. WE JUST SEND OUT TWO, I THINK TWO TWO ADDITIONAL NOTICES TO PEOPLE. SO, SO THE NOTICES GO OUT, BUT THERE'S NO EFFECT TO THE CREDIT REPORT? THERE'S NOT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. FINALLY, UM, IN MY DISCUSSIONS WITH YOU GUYS, WITH THE VENDOR AND WITH THE GENERAL PUBLIC, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE CONCERNS IS THE RIGHT TURN VIOLATIONS GET A LOT OF CALLS FROM CITIZENS WHO, UH, VERBALLY DISPUTE AND DISPUTE THE RIGHT TURN, UH, VIOLATION ON THE RED LIGHT. AND THAT'S DONE IN DIFFERENT WAYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. BUT OURS, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IS YOU HAVE TO BE GOING THROUGH THAT RED, THAT RIGHT TURN UP TO 10 MILES AN HOUR WITHOUT STOPPING. IS THAT CORRECT? SCOTT, COME ON UP. SCOTT, YOU SITTING BACK THERE? COME ON UP. YOU CAN ONLY ONE ANSWER THAT IT, I I WOULD ASSUME THEY HAVE TO COME TO A COMPLETE STOP, BUT, UH, SCOTT, COME ON SCOTT, WHY NOT? I'LL ANSWER. OH, THERE ARE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS FOR THE RIGHT TURNS, UH, QUITE FRANKLY. UH, AND IT'S AN ANGLE CRASH TOO. UH, WHILE SOME VEHICLES ARE PASSING THROUGH THE INTERSECTION, SOMEBODY'S [02:00:01] SUPPOSED TO BE STOPPING AND DOESN'T CREATES THAT, THAT INCIDENT. SO, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S NOT MY QUESTION. MY QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC CRITERIA TO GET A VIOLATION? OKAY, THAT'S, YOU SPEAK TO THAT SCOTT KIRKPATRICK, OH, SORRY. COUNCILMAN DUNN. IT IS TRUE THAT THERE IS TECHNOLOGY TO THE KIND OF SENSE, THE, THE LOWEST SPEED THAT SOMEBODY HAS WHEN THEY ARE, UM, MAKING THAT RIGHT TURN. OBVIOUSLY THE LAW IS THAT YOU GOTTA COME TO A COMPLETE STOP AND THERE IS SOME TECHNOLOGY THAT HELPS POLICE UNDERSTAND JUST HOW CLOSE TO THAT COMPLETE STOP YOU CAME. AND SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WERE, UH, TALKING ABOUT. SO YES, AND, AND I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT, UH, AS BEST AS POSSIBLE. CAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF DISCREPANCIES THERE. THE OTHER THING THAT WE DISCUSS AND I WANT WANNA MAKE THIS PUBLIC, COUNCILMAN MO JUST SPOKE TO IT NOT KNOWING WHERE THESE MOBILE UNITS ARE IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, THAT CITIES THAT HAVE THESE, UH, RED LIGHT CAMERAS, THE WARNINGS, THE NOTICES, THE ADVANCED NOTICE IN ONE AND IS, UH, IN SOME PLACES VERY VISIBLE IN OTHER PLACES, NOT SO VISIBLE. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED TO LOOK AT. UM, CURRENTLY I'M TOLD THAT THERE'S A, A REC YELLOW RECTANGULAR BEFORE EACH RED LIGHT CAMERA. WHEN I SAT WITH THEM, I TOLD 'EM, I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER SEEN THE NOTICE OF A YELLOW RECTANGULAR THAT WE WAS APPROACHING A RED LIGHT CAMERA. SO I THINK WE DEFINITELY NEED TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, ENHANCING OUR NOTICE THAT YOU'RE APPROACHING A A, A CAMERA AND, UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE. COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS? YES. JUST BRIEFLY. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHO IT, IT HAS TO DO WITH REINFORCEMENT AS WELL. UM, SO I, UM, COUNCILMAN DUNN KIND OF TOUCHED ON THE SUBJECT AS IT RELATES TO, UM, THE COLLECTION LETTERS AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE, UM, PLACED ON YOUR CREDIT REPORT. ON YOUR CREDIT REPORT. BUT, UM, I ALSO, IT IS MY OWN, THIS IS WHAT MY SON TOLD ME. HE SAID THAT THEY CAN'T PUT IT ON YOUR INSURANCE OR YOUR LICENSE OR ANYTHING. SO THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. RIGHT. SO, UH, WHAT IS THE MOTIVE? AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT. UM, BUT THE, I I, SO I I I'VE NARROWED IT DOWN THAT IT'S, UM, YES, A SAFETY ISSUE, BUT ALSO A REV, A REVENUE GENERATOR. AND I'M NOT SURE IF I, UM, AGREE WITH THE, WITH THE REVENUE GENERATOR PART. UH, ESPECIALLY IF THERE IS NOT SUFFICIENT NOTICE IN ADVANCE. UM, ALSO, I GUESS THIS IS WITHIN THE CITY, BUT I MEAN, I GET CAUGHT BETWEEN BAKER AND ZACHARY WHEN IT GOES FROM 45 TO 65 SO MUCH. UM, BUT EVERYBODY IN BAKER, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU GET TO BAKER, EVERYBODY KNOWS 40 45. HOWEVER, I WONDER WHAT THAT AND NOT COUNCILMAN KNOW IS, BUT, BUT WHAT, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF US LOSING REVENUE, UH, IN SOME AREAS BECAUSE OF THESE CAMERAS? BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO NOTICE WHEN PEOPLE TRAVEL THROUGHOUT CITY AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO INCA. AFTER A WHILE YOU GET A REPUTATION, LIKE IF YOU GO TO COX, COX SPRINGS OR WHATEVER. BUT HERE IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE WHERE WE ARE MOVING AROUND, HOW DO WE, UM, HAVE A BALANCE WHERE IT IS NOT LOOKED UPON AS PUNITIVE, BUT MORE AS A SAFETY ISSUE WITH THE ADVANCED NOTICE, THE BLINKING. AND IT COULD, AND A LOT OF TIMES IT COULD BE JUST VERY FREELY I'VE SEEN IN OTHER STATES, YOU KNOW, WITH A SMILEY FACE, YOU KNOW, BUT STILL TELLING PEOPLE, SLOW DOWN, ARRIVE ALIVE, JUST SOMETHING ENCOURAGING, NOT PUNITIVE, BUT HERE IT'S ALL PUNITIVE. YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT IS AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. SO HOW CAN WE REGULATE THAT IN A MORE, UH, COHESIVE WAY WHERE EVERY CAMERA HAS THE SAME, UM, SYSTEM AND TIME TO GIVE NOTICE? WE, WE DO NEED TO MAKE SURE THE SIGNS ARE THERE. I MEAN, THAT WAS A VALID POINT THAT WE NEED TO CHECK TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE STILL THERE. I THINK SOMETIME THEY GET HIT, THEY GET BLOWN DOWN, WHATEVER. SO WE WILL FOLLOW UP ON THAT. THAT'S A VERY VALID POINT. OKAY. YEAH. BUT YOU CAN HANDLE THEM FROM THE, THE LIGHTING IS, I'M NOT SURE WHERE THEY ARE AT EACH INTERSECTION. FRED MIGHT KNOW. THEY PROBABLY HANG FROM THE POLE ABOVE OR MAYBE ON A SIGN ON THE CORNER. YEAH, THEY HAD, THEY HAD VARIOUS LOCATIONS. AND I DO KNOW THAT SINCE THIS ISLAND CAME UP, I'VE ASKED OUR TRAFFIC PEOPLE TO GO AND BE SURE THEY ARE THOSE SIGNS UP. CUZ WE DO WANT TO PUT 'EM UP KNOW, TO LET 'EM KNOW, HEY, THE RED LIGHT CAMERAS AHEAD. THINGS LIKE THAT. MM-HMM. . YES MA'AM. AND WHAT, IS THERE A STANDARD, UH, IN, OF NOTICE IN ADVANCE OF HOW MANY [02:05:01] YARDS FEEDS, MILES NORMALLY? UH, IT DEPENDS ON THE SPEED OF THE ROAD AT THOSE LOCATIONS. MM-HMM. AND THAT VARIES HOW FAR WE'D HAVE TO GO BACK. AND, AND I I I WOULD JUST SAY IT WOULD PROBABLY BE SOMEWHERES FROM 40, 45 FEET UP TO PROBABLY 150 FEET IN MOST CASES. AND THIS IS MY LAST QUESTION. I JUST SAW, UH, CHIEF PAUL WOULD, ARE THESE CAMERAS EVER USED FOR OTHER VIOLATIONS? I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. I KNOW THAT CUZ I DON'T KNOW. WE DO, WE DO USE THEM AS CRIME CAMERAS. IF THERE IS A CRIME EPISODE, THE B R P D LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS ACCESS TO THOSE CAMERAS. IF THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN COLOR VEHICLE, ET CETERA. THEY DO HAVE ACCESS TO THEM BECAUSE ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS CALLED, THEY THREW A DOG, UH, , THEY PUT THE, THAT DOG IN A, A GARBAGE BAG AND THREW IT OVER IN A FENCE AND THEY DID GET A TICKET BECAUSE THE OFFICER WAS LOOKING AT THE CAMERA. AND SO THEY GOT, UM, A, I GUESS A CITATION FOR LIKE A LOT LITTERING CUZ THEY THREW THE DOG OVER THE FENCE IN THE PLASTIC BAG. AND I TOLD 'EM THE PLASTIC BAG WAS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE DOG. BUT, BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING, IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY ARE USED FOR MULTIPLE PARTS. IT MAYBE IF SOMEONE CALLED IN ABOUT, UH, AN OFFENSE WITH AN ANIMAL THAT THEY MAY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LOOK AT THE FOOTAGE TO FIND OUT WHO DID IT. YEAH. THANK YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. NO, THANK YOU. UH, SO WHAT SHAUNA WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT I TOLD HER THIS IS SOMETHING I I I'VE HEARD QUITE A FEW TIMES. SO, UM, IN 2010 I FIRST RAN FOR COUNCILMAN ZACHARY AND THIS WAS THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE WAS THE SPEED CAMERAS. I MEAN THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE. WOW. A HUNDRED PERCENT. UH, EVERY OTHER DOOR I KNOCKED ON AND UM, WE GOT RID OF 'EM AND MARY WAITS, IT WAS MARITA AT THE TIME, I BELIEVE. HE SAID, WE'LL TAKE 'EM ALL, YOU KNOW, SO, SO HE TOOK ALL OUR RED LIGHT CAMERAS. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT AARON, UH, . BUT, BUT THEY, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, I HAVE PEOPLE STILL TO THIS DAY THAT TELL ME THEY ABSOLUTELY WILL AVOID WHEN THEY COME TO BATON ROUGE GOING THROUGH BAKER BECAUSE OF THE CAMERAS AND THEY DON'T LIKE IT. AND SO, UH, HOW MUCH GAS AND FOOD AND OTHER REVENUE MIGHT BAKER BE MISSING OUT ON BECAUSE OF THAT. SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. UM, AND, AND IT MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE CASE. I THINK, UH, A LOT OF THE TIME, ESPECIALLY IN BATON ROUGE, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC, YOU'RE GONNA TAKE THE WAY VERSUS TRYING TO TAKE AN ALTERNATE ROUTE TO AVOID CAMERAS MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S AS BIG OF A CONCERN NECESSARILY, UM, IN BATON ROUGE. BUT, UM, AND BACK TO COUNCILMAN DUNN TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT ON THE CHANGING OF THE BEHAVIOR. UM, I THINK MOVING IT AROUND CERTAINLY IS A GOOD IDEA. AND SOMETIMES WHEN YOU SEE THESE NUMBERS, IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S BEHAVIOR CHANGE QUITE AS MUCH. AND I THINK IT, I DON'T THINK GETTING A TICKET IN THE MAIL, YOU KNOW, WEEKS LATER, I THINK IT MAKES PEOPLE ANGRY. YEAH. AND IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR RIGHT AWAY, BUT AN OFFICER PULLING YOU OVER AND HUMILIATING YOU AND MAKING YOU EVEN LATER ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA CHANGE BEHAVIOR AT LEAST FOR A SHORT TIME RIGHT AFTER. AT LEAST THAT'S HOW I LOOK AT IT. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE EXPAND OR CONTRACT OR WHATEVER, JUST, UH, DO NOT EXPAND THIS TO MY DISTRICT. SO THAT'S ALL I GOTTA SAY. THANK YOU QUESTION. COUNCIL MEMBER. HER. HEY. SO I GOTTA FIGURE OUT LIKE, WHAT ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE? LIKE REALLY WE TALKING ABOUT FOLLOWING THE LAW, BREAKING THE LAW. SO BREAKING IT. UH, WE ARE A BODY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE PUT HERE TO PUT ORDINANCE IN PLACE THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO FOLLOW. AND SO EVERYBODY DOESN'T LIKE THE ORDINANCE WE PUT IN PLACE. I DON'T LIKE HALF OF 'EM, YOU KNOW, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, I STILL HAVE TO FOLLOW 'EM. I DON'T, I'M, I WOULD LOVE TO GO A HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR PER HOUR WHEN I DRIVE, BUT I UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF IT. SO THE QUESTION THAT I ASKED WAS, DOES A POLICE OFFICER SITTING IN THE BUSHES PUT A SIGN UP, SAY, HEY, I'M DOWN THE ROAD WAITING ON YOU, BUT DOES YOU JUST SIT THERE IN THE BUSHES? SO I DON'T CARE IF YOU PUT A SIGN UP, UH, FRED OR DAR. CAUSE GUESS WHAT THE LAW SAYS 45 AND YOU OVER 45. I THINK IT'S STILL A LITTLE WIGGLE ROOM THERE, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT THE POINT IS, IF YOU'RE GOING 60 INTO 45, YOU PROBABLY DESERVE A TICKET CUZ THE SPEED LIMITS ARE DERIVED BASED ON WHAT AREA THEY'RE IN, HOW MANY PEDESTRIANS AND OTHER THINGS CROSS THOSE PATHS. SO IF SOMEBODY'S SPEEDING ON THIRD STREET AND WE PUT A CAMERA ON THIRD STREET GOING, THEY'RE GOING 50 MILES PER HOUR OR WHATEVER THAT IS. I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT A 20, 30 MILE PER HOUR. CAUSE THE HEAVY WALKING'S ON, THEY DESERVE A TICKET. YOU DON'T NEED TO PUT A SIGN UP THAT SAYS, HEY, I GOT A CAMERA WAITING ON YOU AND I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A TICKET. JUST IF YOU FOLLOW THE LAW NOWADAYS, ALL KIDS ARE REQUIRED TO GO THROUGH DRIVER'S EDUCATION. IT TALKS ABOUT STOPPING HOW FAR YOU HAVE TO STOP BETWEEN YOU AND THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU TALKS ABOUT AT A RED LIGHT WHAT ROLLING THROUGH IT IS VERSUS WHAT A PROPER STOPPAGE IS. SO THERE'S NO NEED [02:10:01] FOR A SIGN. I DON'T THINK THAT THE PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE IF IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY TEETH IN IT. JUST IF THERE'S NO TRUE PENALTY FOR IT. I MEAN, THEY, PEOPLE HAVE A STACK OF 'EM SITTING ON THEIR, ON THE, ON THEIR, YOU KNOW, KITCHEN TABLE. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN A HILL OF BEANS. BUT I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO FIGHT ABOUT SIGNS AND SPEED LIMITS. YOU CAN FOLLOW THE LAW. YOU DON'T. THAT'S MY 2 CENTS COUNCIL MEMBER BANKS. SO THAT DOES HAVE MERIT. IT DOESN'T THAT AND, AND, UH, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT IF, BECAUSE IT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TEETH. UM, PEOPLE ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. MM-HMM. . AND SO EVEN WITH GETTING THESE, I KNOW A LOT OF TIME IT'S AN INCONVENIENCE, BUT REALLY AND TRULY, UM, I'VE ACTUALLY GONE TO BAKER A COURT AND JUAN REGARDING A TRAFFIC TICKET, A A TRAFFIC TICKET. BECAUSE I MEAN, IF YOU GOOGLE HOW TO BEAT A TRAFFIC LIGHT TICKET, IT TELLS YOU HOW. BUT SO THE WHOLE, LITERALLY, YEAH. BUT ANYWAY, I'M JUST TELLING YOU SAY NOT TO AARON. OKAY. I'LL SEND YOU THAT, AARON. BUT SO MY THING IS, AND IT, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WHAT COUNCILMAN UM, UH, HERA, IT REALLY DOESN'T HAVE ANYT. I MEAN ANY, UH, THING AND, AND WHAT COUNCILMAN KNOW, IT DOES NOT CHANGE BEHAVIOR BECAUSE YOU REALLY DON'T EVEN REMEMBER BY THE TIME YOU GET THE TICKET IN, IN THE, IN THERE, YOU'RE NOT EVEN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT'S NO LEARNING END OF THAT. YOU CAN'T, THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH, UM, WHETHER YOU PAY IT OR NOT. UH, IT'S NOT ON YOUR INSURANCE OR YOUR LIFE INSURANCE. SO IT IS A SAFETY MEASURE. BUT WHAT THAT, AND THE REASON WHY THE SIGNS ARE IMPORTANT IS BASICALLY BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO BE MORE CONSCIENTIOUS OF THE SA OF, OF DRIVING, UH, THE STATE. AND THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING IT IS NOT REALLY, IT SHOULDN'T BE ALL SO MUCH PEN PUNITIVE, BUT IT'S ALMOST LIKE A LEARNING TOOL. UM, LIKE A LOT OF TIMES ON THE HIGHWAY, I MEAN, REALLY THE STATE, THEY HAVE THE HIGHWAYS ALL THE TIME AND THEY TELL YOU ALL KIND OF INFORMATION INCLUDING, UM, TRAFFIC CAMERAS. IT MIGHT TELL YOU, UH, WHAT, WHAT IS AHEAD OR TRAFFIC AHEAD, WHATEVER. SO I THINK IT'S MORE ABOUT SAFETY, UH, THAN US BLINKING OUR LIGHTS SAYING, I I JUST SAW POLICE IN THE BUSH. YOU KNOW? UM, SO THAT'S ALL I WAS GONNA SAY. THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING IN TERMS OF THE SIGNS, NOT REALLY TO HELP PEOPLE AVOID CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, BUT TO BRING THE CONSCIOUSNESS AND TO MAKE THEM MORE AWARE OF, OF LOOKING DOWN. CAUSE AS SOON AS YOU SEE THAT YOU GOING, YOU'RE GONNA LOOK DOWN AND YOU, MOST PEOPLE ARE GONNA SLOW DOWN. AND THAT TO ME IS THE MAIN ISSUE. COUNCIL NUMBER ONE. WELL, JUST REAL QUICK, I, WE TALKING ABOUT THE SIGNS AND WARNINGS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, WHY DON'T WE JUST PASS ON WHERE YOU GO. PUT UP A BUNCH OF SIGNS AT EVERY INTERSECTION THAT SAYS THERE MIGHT BE A RED LIGHT CAMERA AT THIS INTERSECTION AND EVERYBODY WILL JUST SLOW DOWN AT THE INTERSECTION. SO COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON, UH, I JUST WANTED TO REAL BRIEFLY LET THIS BE A LIFE LESSON FOR THE SCOUTS. UH, SO THE SCOUT, THE COUNCIL DOESN'T REALIZE, BUT THE, THE SCOUTING GROUP HAD SET THIS ITEM AS THE LAST ITEM THAT THEY WERE GONNA HEAR, UH, BEFORE THEY TAKE OFF. SO SCOUTS, LET THIS BE AN EXAMPLE TO YOU DON'T WAIT ON GOVERNMENT TO DO ANYTHING. WE WILL SIT UP HERE AND TALK ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT. UH, GO OUT THERE AND DO IT FOR YOURSELF. THANK YOU GUYS. COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN, AND, AND, AND YOU ARE CORRECT THERE. SO WE MUST BE MINDFUL OF THE MESSAGE THAT WE ARE SENDING TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. SO YEAH, SCOUTS, I TELL YOUNG PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, ALL GROWN FOLK AIN'T RIGHT. . THE OTHER PIECE OF THIS IS YOU ALL ON ONE HAND, WE WANT THE POLICE TO GO OUT THERE AND SOLVE ALL THE CRIME. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE WANNA BREAK THE LAW AND BE ALL RIGHT WITH IT. SO WHAT DO YOU WANT? AND SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, AND THIS WILL DRIVE WHETHER I PAY , ARE THEY LEGAL? THAT'S ALL I WANNA KNOW. ARE THEY LEGAL? THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW. AND, AND OUR PROGRAM IS DIFFERENT THAN OTHER CITIES AND THAT IT'S ACTUALLY DONE BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY DO REVIEW ALL THE FOOTAGE. UM, SO THAT IS ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES IN OUR PROGRAM FROM OTHER CITIES. SO THAT'S A YES. I MEAN, I'M NOT THE ATTORNEY, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE IS THAT LAWSUIT THAT'S OUT THERE. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR PROGRAM AND OTHER CITIES IS THAT WE DO DO IT THROUGH POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY DO ADMINISTER IT AND THEY DO OVERSEE IT. COUNCIL MEMBER HURST. UH, I ACTUALLY HAD THAT, UM, QUESTION FOR ANDY DOTSON EARLIER TODAY. UH, WHICH, SO HE, HE [02:15:01] GAVE ME A GOOD EXPLANATION, SO I WANTED HIM TO SHARE THAT. UH, WHAT I WILL SAY IS, IS THIS GOOD EVENING TO EVERYONE? FIRST, WHAT I WILL SAY IS THIS, UH, THE PROGRAM WAS SET UP IN THE MANNER THAT, UH, THE CITY PARISH FELT MET ALL REQUISITE CRITERIA AND ALL CONSTITUTIONAL STANDARDS. UM, HOWEVER, WITH ANYTHING IN LIFE IT CAN BE CHALLENGED. UH, AND THAT RIGHT NOW THAT THIS MATTER IS BEING CHALLENGED AND IT'LL BE UP TO A COURT OF LAW TO DETERMINE WHAT THE CITY PARISH DID, BUT DIDN'T DO IT SUFFICIENT. BUT AS WE SIT HERE, THE CITY PARISHS IN GOOD FAITH AND ESTABLISH A PROGRAM THEY THOUGHT COMPLIED WITH ALL STATUTORY AND LEGAL REQUIREMENT. SO, SO BASED ON WHAT YOU TOLD ME, TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE PREVIOUS CASES AND THE OUTCOMES OF THOSE WITHOUT GIVING DETAILS THAT YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GIVE. UH, OH WAIT. WELL, YEAH, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE CHALLENGED THE PROGRAM AND WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BE, UH, VICTORIOUS IN THOSE PROGRAMS. WE'VE TAKE, UH, WE'VE HAD A CASE, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT NOW, WHERE GENTLEMAN CHALLENGES US AND, AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH THE APPELL COURT AND WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD RULINGS IN THAT ASPECT. BUT AGAIN, THAT'S ONE INDIVIDUAL WITH HIS ARGUMENTS. UH, SO THAT MAY NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT THE ARGUMENTS OF WHAT THE, THE CASE IS, BUT WE HAVE MET THOSE CHALLENGES AND WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT FORTH ARGUMENTS THAT WE THOUGHT WAS, UM, SHOWING THAT THE PROGRAM WAS GIVING INDIVIDUALS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD, UH, THROUGH THE VARIOUS FORMS THAT WE HAD. THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE A RIGHT, UH, AS DARRELL STATED TO, UH, A HEARING AS WELL AS A RIGHT TO TRANSFER LIABILITY IF THEY WEREN'T THE ONES THAT WERE OPERATING THE VEHICLE. YEAH, AND THAT WAS MY, THAT WAS MY QUESTION IS DOES IT HOLD UP IN COURT IF IT HOLDS UP IN THAT BILL IN COURT? I DON'T, BUT AGAIN, I WANT TO COST YOU BECAUSE I JUST, THAT ONE PARTICULAR CASE DID, YEAH, THAT WAS THAT GENTLEMAN'S ARGUMENT. SO THAT DOESN'T NECESS, THAT'S THE SAME ARGUMENTS THAT THE PEOPLE ARE BRINGING IN THIS CASE. SO, BUT YES SIR, WE DID GO TO GO TO COURT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU DARRELL. THANK YOU FRED. COUNCIL [70. 22-01417] MEMBERS MOVING OUT. ITEM 70, AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT IN THE MATTER ENTITLED MARSH COLE, THE THIRD VERSUS BEFORD JOHNSON AT ALL. IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 PLUS COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF 122050 CENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $75,122 50 CENTS, APPROPRIATING $75,122 50 CENTS BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM? BOY SCOUT, YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD EVENING. THANKS FOR COMING. WE APPRECIATE YOU. YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING MISS COUNCIL MEMBER? DO I STILL GET A PERSONAL PRIVILEGE? YEAH, TONIGHT. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. WE HAVE TO GO FEED THEM DINNER. SO WE'RE DOING SOME ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AT THE PASTIME LOUNGE WHILE THE RESTAURANT, NOT THE LOUNGE PART, WE CAN'T, CANNOT DRINK IN A SCOUT UNIFORM. SO WE'RE GOING TO THE RESTAURANT FOR SOME PIZZA. WE APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HOSPITALITY AND THE ABILITY FOR THEM TO WORK ON THEIR CITIZENSHIP IN THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR COMMUNICATIONS. MERIT BADGES. THANKS AGAIN. THANK YOU. GREAT, OUTSTANDING. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. ANYONE HERE WORKING? SPEAK ON ITEM 70. WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER ROCK, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLE. ITEM 70 HAS BEEN APPROVED. WE [71. 22-01420 (Part 1 of 2)] NOW GO TO ITEM 71 AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT. THE MATTER OF THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN THE PARISH OF EAST BAND VERSUS BRADLEY COSTMAN IN THE AMOUNT OF $43,830 NINE PLUS COURT COSTS AND AMOUNT OF $375 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF FORTY FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED EIGHT THOUSAND NINE CENTS. WHICH AMOUNT SHOULD BE PAID FROM THE ACCOUNT DESIGNATED GREEN LIGHT PLAN ACCOUNT BY THE PARISH ATTORNEY? IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISH SHE CAN SPEAK ON ITEM 71? TIM MERCER. TIM MERCER, GOOD EVENING. UM, THE ENS WALL, MY NAME IS TIM MERCER, I'M WITH THE ENNI WALL, JEFFERSON TERRA PACIFIC ASSOCIATION AND WE'RE OPPOSED TO THE SETTLEMENT MAN, THE OPPOSED TO THE SETTLEMENT, UM, DUE TO THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE METRO COUNCIL PAID FOR THE OUTSIDE COUNCIL. AND WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THAT? WE DON'T KNOW. UM, HE SHOULD NOT BE RE AWARDED THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY BECAUSE OF THE PROPERTY WAS DESIGNATED TO BE OPEN GREEN SPACE. WHEN THE CITY IN PARIS MET WITH US AS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AND WE HAD CERTAIN BLOCKS OF THAT WHOLE BOULEVARD THAT WERE GONNA BE SET ASIDE FOR GREEN SPACE. UM, AND IT WASN'T UNTIL, UH, IT WAS THROUGH THE TWO PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO RECEIVED CAMPAIGN DOLLARS FROM THE OWNER AND HIS COMPANY THAT THESE PROPERTIES GOT CHANGED. THEREFORE, HE SHOULD NOT BE GETTING THE $34,000 WINDFALL. BESIDES THIS MONEY SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN OUTTA THE GREEN LIGHT PLAN ACCOUNT. THAT ACCOUNT IS FOR THE PROJECTS NOT FOR PAYING OFF. UM, AND THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY IS WITH THE CLEAN HANDS DOCTRINE, THE COURT SHOULD NOT ENRICH A CLAIM. THANK YOU. HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 71. COUNCIL ADAMS, [Executive Session ] [02:20:01] I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION SO WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION THAT MIGHT YOU STATE THE REASON WHY BE HARMFUL TO OUR CASE IF WE DON'T GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. MOTION TO GO ON EXECUTIVE SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER. NO ASLING. UH, JUST ARE ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO THE MOTION TO ENTER EXECUTIVE SESSION? ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO ENTER INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION? NONE. SCENE NONE. WE ARE RECESS TO EXECUTIVE SESSION. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE BACK IN. WE'RE BACK IN SESSION. WE'RE BACK IN SESSION. WE [71. 22-01420 (Part 2 of 2)] ARE CURRENTLY ON ITEM 70 71, EXCUSE ME, AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT. THE MATTER ENTITLED CITY BATON ROUGE AND PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE VERSUS COSTMAN IN THE AMOUNT OF $43,833 9 CENTS. COURT COSTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $375 FOR TOTAL AMOUNT OF $44,208 9 CENTS. WHICH AMOUNT SHOULD BE PAID FROM THE ACCOUNT DESIGNATED GREEN LIGHT PLAN ACCOUNT COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHEREAS COUNCIL MEMBER HAS MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCILMAN MAD. SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN MCC COLEMAN. WE NOW GO [72. 22-01430] TO ITEM 72 IN THE OPPOSITIONS. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 72, AMENDING TITLE EIGHT A MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR EXISTING BUILDING. SO HAS ADD CHAPTER FIVE, MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY BY COUNCIL MEMBER DAR HEARST. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 72 WHEN I GO TO ITEM SEVEN? COUNCIL MEMBERS? SO MOVED BY COUNSELING MEMBER HEARST SECOND AND BY COUNCIL MEMBER MO ITEM 72 HAS BEEN APPROVED WITHOUT OBJECTION, WHEN I GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER HURST. YEAH, I I DO WANNA MAKE A QUICK COMMENT ON THIS MAN. UM, FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT PAID ATTENTION TO WHAT THIS ORDINANCE DOES, IT LITERALLY KILLS THE ABILITY TO SUPPORT SLUM LORDS TO SUPPORT BEING BAD NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITIES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE TEETH AND MAKE, AND, AND ENSURING THAT BLIGHT CAN GO BACK INTO, UM, CAN GO BACK IN, INTO COMMERCE. UM, IT IS AN ORDINANCE THAT'S GONNA CHANGE THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE. I MEAN JUST OVERALL. SO I, I ASK EVERYONE IF YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR, IT'S GONNA TAKE ABOUT 180 DAYS GO IN PLACE. BUT IF YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR THAT IS NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOT BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR IN TERMS OF BRINGING PETS AND ROERS INTO YOUR COMMUNITY HOARDERS THAT ARE CREATING UNLIVABLE CONDITIONS FOR YOU AS A NEIGHBOR, UM, IT ADDRESSES ALL OF THESE ISSUES. MAN, I'VE SEEN SEVERAL ORDINANCES COME UP BEFORE THE COUNCIL OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS THAT ADDRESS A LOT OF THESE ISSUES THAT CREATED CONFLICTS ON BOTH SIDES. AND I WANNA SAY ON THIS PARTICULAR ORDINANCE FOR THE RECORD, I WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH THE REALTORS ASSOCIATION FOR DAY ONE WORK WITH THE APARTMENT ASSOCIATION HOME BUILDERS, UH, FEDERATION OF CIVIC ASSOCIATION. AND I HOPE THAT THIS BECOMES AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO UM, WALK AND WORK ACROSS THE AISLE TO GET THINGS DONE TO MAKE BATTERIES A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE WORKPLACE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. 72 HAS [73. 22-01423] BEEN APPROVED. WE'RE NOW AT ITEM 73. AUTHORIZATION OF THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE AIRPORT COMMISSION EXECUTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH STEVE BALDWIN ASSOCIATES TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING SERVICES FOR AN ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT AND COMPENSATION REVIEW IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $106,000 BY THE AVIATION DIRECTOR. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 73? GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS MOST TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN SECOND BY THE CHAIR [74. 22-01425] I GOT ITEM 74 CERTIFIED LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT CITY OF BATON ROUGE PARISH BEACH BAT ROUGE AGREE TO STIPULATION REQUIRED THE D LOUISIANA D O T D AS PRE-REQUISITE IF A PARTICIPATION IN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE IN THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE IN THE OFF SYSTEM BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 74 WHEN I GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 74. SO MOVED BY THE CHAIR. IS THERE A SECOND ON ITEM 74? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUNN. ITEM 74 HAS BEEN APPROVED WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION. [Items 75. - 83] WE NOW GO TO ITEM 75 THROUGH 83. AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT, A SUSTAINABLE DESIGN SOLUTIONS LLC FOR SERVICE ASSOCIATED REMOVE BR ENHANCEMENT PROJECT EAST BOULEVARD AREA 88 TRANSITION PROJECT WEST MCKINLEY STREET, THE AS STREET AREA 88 TRANSITION PROJECT AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 120,000 $171 84 CENTS BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR. ITEM 76 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR ACQUISITION AND RELOCATION SERVICES BY VILLE HEALTH LLC SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOBILE CAPACITY PROJECT LEAD DRIVE HIGHLAND ROAD TO PERKINS ROAD IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $83,820 BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR. ITEM 77 AUTHORIZED AM MAYOR, PRESIDENT EXECUTED CONTRACT FOR ACQUISITION OF RELOCATION SERVICES OF MICHAEL FREEMAN FOR SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH MOVIE CAPACITY PROJECT LEERY HOLLAND ROAD, THE PERKINS ROAD IN THE C $83,820. ITEM 80 78 AUTHORIZED MAYOR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES ON THE STANTEC CONSULTING GROUP FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOVIE CAPACITY PROJECT PERKINS ROAD, SEA LANE AND PI LANE AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 77,000 HUNDRED $74 A CENTS BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR AUTHORIZED MAYOR PRESIDENT TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT FOR APPRAISAL REVIEW SERVICES WITH JAMES INC. FOR SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOVIE [02:25:01] CAPACITY PROJECT LEAD DRIVE, HOLLAND ROAD OF PERKINS ROAD AND THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $204,710 BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR ITEM 80 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESIDENT AT SEAT OF CONTRACT WITH THE PRESENT SERVICES WITH AGUILAR CONSULTANTS LLC FOR SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH MOVE BUREAU CAPACITY PROJECT B DRIVE TO HOLLAND ROAD, THE PERKINS ROAD IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $137,208 BY TRANSPORTATION DRAINAGE DIRECTOR ITEM 81 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO CONTRACT FOR APPRAISAL SERVICES WITH THE LAKE BOWL GROUP LLC AND SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH MOBILE CAPACITY PROJECT LEAD DRIVE HOLLAND ROAD TO PERKINS ROAD IN AMOUNT EXCEED 137,280,000 BY THE TRANSPORTATION AND DRAINAGE DIRECTOR. ITEM 82 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO CONTRACT FOR APPRAISAL SERVICES WITH MURPHY APPRAISAL SERVICES LLC. FACILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH MOVE CAPACITY PROJECT. WE DRIVE THE HIGHLAND ROAD PERKINS ROAD IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $137,280 BY TRANSPORTATION AND DRAIN DIRECTING. ITEM 83 AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES WITH ECM CONSULTANTS INCORPORATED FOR SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH MOVE CAPACITY PROJECT PORT HUDSON AND PRIDE ROAD IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,053,869 43 CENTS BY TRANSPORTATION ADVANTAGE DIRECTOR. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 75 THROUGH 83? ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK? WILL I GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE IT? 75 THROUGH 83. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, GO THERE. SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MO ITEM 75 THROUGH 83 HAVE BEEN APPROVED. WILL [84. 22-01503] NOW GO TO ITEM 84. AUTHORIZED THE MAYOR, PRESIDENT AND OR A BROCO TO EXECUTE SUPPLEMENT AGREEMENT NUMBER ONE, A CONTRACT WITH SHRED KIRKENDALL ASSOCIATES INCORPORATING CONNECTION WITH THE SOUTHEAST REGIONAL WASTEWATER CONSOLIDATION PROJECT FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THREE $67 THREE $90 AND 51 CENTS BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DIRECTORS. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 84? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 84? SO MORE BY COUNCIL MEMBER HER SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN. ITEM 84 HAS BEEN APPROVED. WHAT WE DOING? [ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS] WE NOW GO TO ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER. A TWO TWO DASH 1 5 3 1 AUTHORIZING MAYOR, PRESIDENT TEXAS SEVENTH TO GRANT FUND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF BATON ROUGE AND EAST BARR ROUGE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT HUNT ARD AND ASSOCIATES LLC, CITY PARISH. CONTRACT 8 2 1 7 8. CHANGE OF DETERMINATION DATE FROM SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022 TO DECEMBER 31ST, 2022 AND INCREASING THE COMPENSATION BY THE AMOUNT OF $1,344,661 AND 88 CENTS FOR A TOTAL MINE NOT TO EXCEED 6328092 CENTS BY THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR PRESIDENT. THE REASON FOR THE ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER. A TIMELESS OF THE PROGRAM CONTINUATION AND EMOTIONAL WAY. THE RULES TO ALLOW THE ITEMS TO BE INTRODUCED. THE EMOTIONAL WAY. THE RULES TO ALLOW THE ITEMS TO BE INTRODUCED. IS THERE A MOTION TO WEIGH THE RULES? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN. SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON. IS THERE ANYONE HERE TO SPEAK ON THE MOTION TO WAY THE RULES? IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO THE MOTION TO WA THE RULES? NOT ONLY THE MOTION TO INTRODUCE THE IT. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NO ITEM ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER A HAS BEEN APPROVED WITHOUT ADMINISTRATIVE MATTER B 22 5 29 AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR PRESIDENT TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $35,758 TO ENHANCE COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR MASS DISPENSING RESPONSE AND COORDINATION WITH THE STATE OF LOUISIANA OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BUREAU OF COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS AND STRATEGIC AFFAIRS STOCKPILE CITY'S READINESS INITIATIVES. THE REASON FOR THE ITEM IS BEING REQUESTED AS ADMINISTRATIVE MAN LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WORKS WITHIN A SHORT TURNAROUND TO RETURN EXECUTE A STRATEGIC NATIONAL STOCKPILE CONTRACT CENTER DISEASE CONTROL EAST BOUND PARISH RECEIVED A CONTRACT ON OCTOBER 17TH, 2022 AND SHOULD BE RETURNED TO LD BCP AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. NEED A MOTION TO WEIGH THE RULES AND MOTION TO WEIGH THE RULES. IS THERE A MOTION TO WEIGH THE RULES? SOME RULED BY C COUNCIL MEMBER DONE. SECOND. AND BY COUNCIL MEMBER GO. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON A MOTIONAL WAY? THE RULES. IS THERE ANY OBJECTION TO THE MOTION TO THE RULES? IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM NOW WE GO TO TO THE COUNCIL THEIR MOTION. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MCG SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUN ADMINISTRATOR ADAM B HAS BEEN APPROVED [85. 22-01504] PLANNING APPOINTMENTS, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING AND REPLACING E ELI ADDISON WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. CURRENT BALLOT FOR REAPPOINTMENT IS U LISTS. ADDISON AND ROSSI, WASHINGTON BOTH HAVE REQUESTED REAPPOINTMENT. IS THERE ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 85? IS THIS IS ADDISON HERE. THIS IS ADDISON HERE. I'M JUST MESSING WITH HIM. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MO? YEAH. UH, MAYBE. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN LOOKING THROUGH THESE. EVERY TWO OF THEM IS THE SAME MEMBERS. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN TAKE EACH TWO TOGETHER BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME PERSON ON EACH TWO. SO IF WE DID 75 OR 85 AND 86 TOGETHER THEN 87, 88 AND SO ON. THANK YOU. IS IT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT BOTH BE APPOINTED? I'D DO THAT, YES. WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT BOTH BE APPOINTED? YES. I'LL SECOND BOTH MEMBERS YOU LISTS ADDISON [02:30:01] AND ROSSY WASHINGTON BOTH BEEN APPOINTED. [86. 22-01505] I'M GONNA READ 85 CAUSE I HAVE TO FOR THE RECORD, I MEAN 86. 86. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTMENT PLACING ROSSY WASHINGTON WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST. THE FOUR YEAR TURN. CURRENT VALUE LISTED AT AND ROSSY WASHINGTON. IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MO AND COUNCIL SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER? NO, HE ELIS ADDISON AND ROSSY WASHINGTON BOTH BEEN [Items 87 & 88] APPROVED. I'M GONNA TAKE ITEMS 87 AND 88 TOGETHER. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING AND REPLACING GEORGE KELLY WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022 DURING FIRST 2023. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TERM. CURRENT BALLOT IS GEORGE, KELLY AND THOMAS WILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. FIRE DISTRICT THREE IN BROWNSFIELD. ITEM 88. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING REPLACING THOMAS WILLISTON WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2023. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TURN CURRENT BALLOT. GEORGE KELLY AND THOMAS WILLISTON. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? YES. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 88 AND 87. SEAN, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO A APPROVE JOHN AND CHARLES BOTH TO, OH NO, THAT'S THE NEXT. GEORGE KELLY AND THOMAS WILLIS DID VOTE TO THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. IS THERE A SECOND? SOME MOVE. AND SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER. NO. IS THERE? OBJECTION. CONGRATULATIONS. GEORGE KELLY AND THOMAS WILTON. YOU'VE BEEN APPOINTED. [Items 89 & 90] WE NOW GO TO ITEMS 89 AND 90. VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT AND BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. NUMBER FIVE, EAST SIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTMENT RE REPLACING JOHN CAVAL. PROVA. SAY IT AGAIN. ICK. WHAT IS THAT? GERMAN. POLISH. OKAY. POLISH REPLACING JOHN KOBO WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST. 2022. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2023. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TERM. CURRENT BATTLE. JOHN KOBO REQUESTED REAPPOINTMENT AND CHARLES STREET REQUESTED REAPPOINTMENT. ITEM 90. VOLUNTEER BY DEPARTMENT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. NUMBER FIVE, EAST SIDE FIRE DEPARTMENT. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING AND REPLACING CHARLES STREET WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2023. THIS IS A TWO YEAR ATTORNEY. CURRENT BALLOT, VOL AND CHARLES STREET. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEMS 89 AND 90? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. IS THERE ARE A MOTION TO APPOINT? APPROVE. SO MOVE BY AMAROSA TO APPOINT JOHN ICK AND JOEL STREET. SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HERST. JOHN TRAVOLTA. KOBO. OH KOBO. KOBO. IT'S POLISH 89 AND 90. HUH KOBO. IT'S THE THIRD TIME I'VE BEEN CORRECTED ON THAT NAME. KOBO RIGHT IT. 99 AND 90. THOSE TWO GENTLEMEN HAVE BEEN APPOINTED. [Items 91 & 92] WE NOW GO TO ITEMS 91 AND 92. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTMENT REPLACING PAUL VILLE WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON NOVEMBER 26TH, 2022. AND HIS TWO YEAR TERM CURRENT BALLOT, PAULVILLE AND VAN RATCLIFFE. ITEM 92. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTED AND REPLACING VAN RACKLEY WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON NOVEMBER 26TH. 2022. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TERM. PAUL, JIM AND VAN RATCLIFFE. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THE ITEMS WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS THEIR MOTIONS. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NO SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER OMAROSA TO APPOINT PAUL, JIM AND VAN RATCLIFFE. ANY OPPOSITION TO APPOINTING THOSE GENTLEMEN? SHOWING NONE. ITEMS 91 AND 92 HAVE BEEN APPROVED. WE WE'RE [Items 93 & 94] NOT GONNA 93. VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. FIRE DISTRICT SIX. HOOPER ROAD CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING AND REPLACING AL HIGGINS WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 2022. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TERM. CURRENT BALLOT. AL HIGGINS REQUESTED REAPPOINTMENT, CHARLES MAY REQUESTED REAPPOINTMENT. ITEM 94. CONSIDERATION OF REAPPOINTING AND REPLACING CHARLES MAY WHOSE TERM EXPIRES ON JANUARY 1ST, 2023. EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2ND, 2023. THIS IS A TWO YEAR TERM. AL HIGGINS. CHARLES MAY BOTH REQUEST AND REAPPOINTMENT TO THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. FIRE DISTRICT SIX SUPER ROAD. ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 93 AND 94? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL MEMBERS. MOTION TO APPOINT BOTH GENTLEMEN BY COUNCIL MEMBER BANK, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MO ALD HIGGINS AND CHARLES MAY HAVE BOTH BEEN APPOINTED IF THERE'S NO OPPOSITION. CONGRATULATIONS GENTLEMEN. [95. 22-01488] WE NOW GO TO ITEM 95. CHANGE ORDER. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT, CIVIL SOLUTIONS ENGINEERING CONSULTING CONTRACTOR, CIVIL SOLUTIONS CONSULTING GROUP. CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT, $24,574 AND 84 CENTS. ITEM 90, TAKE IT OVER. OKAY, ITEM 94 OR 95. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 95? COUNCIL MEMBERS? YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED ONE EMAIL COMMENT OPPOSED TO ITEM 95. WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL SOME MORE BY COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, DUN JR. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HEARST. ITEM 95 HAS BEEN [96. 22-01487] APPROVED. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 96. DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES RENOVATION CONTRACTOR, BLUNT GENERAL CONTRACTORS LLC. CHANGE ORDER AMOUNT. $339,391. IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 96? WE NOW GO TO COUNCILS. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 96. SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER, GO SECOND ABOUT [02:35:01] THE CHAIR. ANY OPPOSITION WHEN [97. 22-01478] I GO TO ITEM 97, FINAL ACCEPTANCE. HIS MAIN BRANCH BOILER REPLACEMENT CONTRACT. BOB BERNHARD AND ASSOCIATES MECHANICAL LLC. FINAL COST? $262,862. IS ANYONE HERE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 97? WE NOW GO TO COUNCIL. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HER SECONDLY BY COUNCIL MEMBER, NO. ITEM 97 [98. 22-01523] HAS BEEN APPROVED. WE GO TO ACCEPTANCE OF LOW BS. ITEM 98. NEW CLASS FOUR AIRCRAFT RESCUE AND FIREFIGHTING VEHICLE FOR THE BATON ROUGE METROPOLITAN AIRPORT, ROSEN, MINNESOTA, LLC. 739,001 $76. IS THERE ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 98? WE NOW GO TO COUNSEL. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE SOME MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER DUN. SECONDLY, BY COUNCIL MEMBER HEARST. WE NOW GO TO ITEM 90. NO OBJECTION. WE [99. 22-01067] GO TO ITEM 99. SHERIFFS TAX STREET AND ROAD REHABILITATION PROGRAM. PROJECT 18 TWO. TIGER BEND STREETS IN OAK HILL PLACE AND PARK AND HIGHLAND SHADOW SUBDIVISION MTRA, LLC. 3,000,220 2007 $75 AND 25 CENTS. IS ANYONE WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 99? YES SIR. THERE IS A WHAT? COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE HAVE A REQUEST TO DEFER THIS ITEM FOR, UH, 30 DAYS. THAT'S WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SPEAK ABOUT, BUT IF I DON'T NEED TO SAY ANYTHING IF Y'ALL ARE GONNA DEFER IT. OKAY. WHO, WHO CAN I GET YOUR NAME AND A NAME AND ADDRESS? IT'S COLIN DLE. 84 55 PICARDI AVENUE. UH, I WAS HERE TO REPRESENT A DE AND SONS GOT YOU. OR THE PARTY FORMERLY PROTESTING A BIT. THERE IS A REQUEST TO, UH, DEFER THIS ITEM FOR 30 DAYS. UH, IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER ADAM SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER NOS. THERE, THERE OBJECTION TO DEFER. ITEM HAS BEEN DEFERRED FOR 30 DAYS. [101. 22-01353] WE NOW GO TO ITEM 1 0 2, RECEIVING A REPORT FROM DEPARTMENT OF MAINTENANCE REGARDING DEPARTMENTAL INITIATIVE GOALS AND BUDGET FOR 2022 BUDGET AND THE PLAN FOR DEPARTMENT INITIATIVE GOALS AND PROPOSED BUDGET 2023 BY THE CHAIR. THANK YOU SIR. HOW LONG IS THE PRESENTATION? PRETTY QUICK. PRETTY QUICK. OKAY. THANK YOU . AND I'M, I'M THE LAST ITEM, SO I'LL MAKE IT EVEN QUICKER. YOU'RE THE MR, MR. DAVE? I GOT A UH, WHAT'S YOUR FIRST NAME? OH, I'M SORRY. COLIN. COLIN. COLIN. C O L I N. DO YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE? WE READY? OKAY. SO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAINTENANCE. UH, THIS WILL BE ABOUT OUR 2022 PRODUCTION INDICATORS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. UH, THIS IS A LIST OF ALL OF OUR ACTIVITIES. UH, WE HAVE THREE DIVISIONS, LANDSCAPE STREETS AND DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE. UH, WE ALSO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE FOR, UH, SEVERE STORMS, WHETHER IT'S HURRICANES OR FREEZING CONDITIONS. AND WE DO MINOR SPILLS. UH, DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE HAS A NUMBER OF, UH, REQUEST TYPE THEY RESPONS. ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT, MS. ADDISON, YOU'RE NO LONGER ON THE COUNCIL, SIR. IT'S NO PROBLEM. ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT WAS THAT, UH, DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR, UH, THE LEVY. AND TODAY WE RECEIVED THE A PLUS RATING FROM THE UNITED STATES CORE OF ENGINEERING FOR OUR, ALL RIGHT, NEXT SLIDE. WE'RE GONNA MAKE THIS QUICK. UH, OUR BUDGET IS, UH, TOTAL OF $23 MILLION. UH, 54% OF THE BUDGET IS SALARIES AND BENEFITS. UH, WE HIRE 75 SEASONAL EMPLOYEES A YEAR, A YEAR TO DATE, 26 OF OUR SEASONAL EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO FULL-TIME. ALL RIGHT, SO THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD THING THAT WE ALWAYS TRY TO USE THOSE SEASONAL EMPLOYEES AS A PATHWAY TO THE FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. THIS IS OUR DISTRIBUTION OF SERVICE REQUESTS THAT WE'VE, UH, RESOLVED THIS YEAR. SO FAR, WE'VE RESOLVED A TOTAL OF 12,121 REQUESTS, UH, 3,116 STREET MAINTENANCE, 5,935 LANDSCAPE AND 3070 FOR DRAINAGE. AND THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE A R P FUNDS. I'LL GIVE YOU THOSE NUMBERS ON THE NEXT SLIDE. ? WELL, I CAN SAY DISTRICT TEAM HAS A LOT OF DEBRIS PILE COLLECTION THAT WE DO. I CAN'T HEAR THE, I WAS JUST DON'T . SO, UH, YES MA'AM. YES MA'AM. SO, UH, THIS YEAR WE'VE GOT, WE'VE RESOLVED THIR 3070 DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE REQUESTS. UH, THOUSAND 13 HAVE BEEN RESOLVED THROUGH A R P FUNDING, UH, DRAINAGE RESPONSE TO 15 DIFFERENT SERVICES REQUEST TYPES. I WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT OUR LARGEST REQUEST IS FOR ROADSIDE DRAINAGE ISSUES, WHICH IS MOSTLY, [02:40:01] UH, CONSISTS OF DITCH RESTORATION. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, OUR UH, LINEAR FEET OF ROADSIDE DIGGING HAS INCREASED OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS TO, UH, COMPENSATE FOR THAT REQUEST. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. YOU DOUBLED FROM 2020 TO 22? YES. GOT YOU. OVER. YES. OVER. BUT THAT'S JUST LIKE USING THE DEMAND DATA TO ALLOCATE OUR RESOURCES. GOT YOU. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE IS LANDSCAPE. UH, THE LANDSCAPE DIVISION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UPKEEP OF OVER 2,600 ACRES OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH INCREASES ANNUALLY THROUGH ROAD TRANSFERS AND NEW INSTALLATIONS. KEEPING THESE RIGHT OF AWAYS MOWED AND CLEAN IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY FUNCTIONS OF THE DIVISION. IN THE FIRST NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, WE HAVE COLLECTED 1,885 TONS OF DEBRIS PILES, 3,727 TIRES. AND IN THE PROCESS WE HAVE RESOLVED 2,315 REMOVAL OF DEBRIS PILES FROM RIGHT OF WAY SERVICE REQUESTS. OUR MOWING CYCLES HAVE COLLECTED OVER 58 TONS OF LITTER ON THE ROADWAYS. WE'VE SPRAYED 1,139 MILES OF DITCHES AND RESOLVED 549 MOWING RELATED SERVICE REQUESTS. IN ADDITION TO OUR IN-HOUSE CREWS ARE, UH, VENDORS HAVE ALSO HAVE A MO HAVE A LITTLE RESPONSIBILITY PRIOR TO THEIR MOWING. SO IF YOU EVER SEE CHOPPED UP LITTER, PLEASE REPORT IT TO US. CAUSE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO COLLECT THAT PRIOR TO THEIR MOWING. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ALRIGHT. FIRST AND FOREMOST ON THIS SLIDE, I WANNA POINT OUT THAT ROADWAY RELATED CLEAN PAYMENTS HAVE DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY. UH, AND THAT'S MAINLY DUE TO THE 6,567 POTHOLE REPAIRS THAT WE'VE DONE SINCE 2020. UH, WITH TWO MONTHS LEFT IN THE YEAR TO REPORT, WE HAVE PAVED OVER 1600 TONS OF HOT MIX ASPHALT AND WE'VE LAID OVER 471 CUBIC YARDS OF PORTLAND CEMENT. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT. I I WANTED TO GIVE YOU THIS VISUAL ON THIS SLIDE BECAUSE ALL JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT ALL OF OUR WORK IS SCHEDULED FROM OUR MOWING ROTATIONS TO OUR, UH, SERVICE REQUEST RESPONSE. UH, WE TRY TO INCORPORATE COUNCIL REQUESTS AS SOON AS WE CAN, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO MOBILIZE AND INCREASE THAT COST WHEN, WHEN POSSIBLE. SO WE, WE HAVE THREE WAYS WE TRY TO COORDINATE OUR SCHEDULES. UH, SAFETY AND WELFARE. THE PUBLIC TAKES PRIORITY WHEN SCHEDULING SERVICES AND CAN CAUSE US TO INTERVENE WITH OUR PROGRAMS SLATE. SO IF SAFETY ISSUE POPS UP, WE WILL DEVIATE FROM WHAT WE'VE PROGRAMMED TO RECTIFY THAT MATTER. UH, SECOND IS CHRONOLOGICALLY WE TAKE THE WORK ORDERS IN THE ORDER THEY COME. AND THIRDLY, WE TRY TO GROUP SIMILAR REQUESTS. GEO GEOGRAPHICALLY, LIKE I SAID, TO REDUCE THE MOBILIZATION COSTS. UH, WE TRY TO, LET'S SEE, THERE ARE SEVERAL REASONS FOR SCHEDULED DELAYS. NUMBER ONE IS WEATHER, SECOND IS EMERGENCY RESPONSE, AND THIRD IS EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS. BUT, UH, WITH THE LACK OF RAIN WE'VE HAD RECENTLY, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY BUILD SOME MOMENTUM ON, ON FINISHING OUT THE YEAR STRONG. UH, NEXT SLIDE. AND THAT IS IT. AND WE ARE HIRING DEPARTMENT'S NAME IS HIRING. FEEL FREE TO SCAN THAT QR CODE AND COME JOIN OUR TEAM. HEY, I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION. YES. I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY IT'S NOT UP THERE. I WANNA MAKE SURE. WELL, YEAH, I'M COMING TO YOU. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. OKAY. OUTSTANDING JOB. I THINK OFTENTIMES WE KNOW A LOT OF THIS WORK IS HAPPENING, BUT TO SEE IT VISUALLY IS A GOOD THING. AND TO SEE THE INCREASES IN THE NUMBER OF CALLS YOU'RE ADDRESSING FROM YEAR TO YEAR IS, IS IS TRULY, UH, PLEASING TO SEE A COUNCIL MEMBER FIRST. I WAS DOING A LITTLE BRAGGING OVER HERE ON YOUR ORIGINAL WHILE YOU WERE SPEAKING MAN. AND UM, HE'S LITERALLY MET WITH NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENTS WALK COMMUNITY AND EVERY ORANGE LITTLE BARRICADE THAT WAS IN FRONT OF A BROKEN DRAIN OF PIPE OR CAVE IN, IT WAS LITERALLY ON HIS LIST. AND HE COULD TELL THE RESIDENT OR THE ASSOCIATION WHEN THAT WAS PLANNED TO BE FIXED WITHIN THE NEXT SIX TO 12 MONTHS. SO THAT MEANS YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A COMBINATION QUESTION FOR YOU AND RICH SPEAR ABOUT STREET SWEEPERS. OKAY. I KNOW WE HAVE SOME ONLINE, BUT WE HAVE VERY DIRTY STREETS. MM-HMM. . SO I'M GOING TO COMMISSION AND ASK, IF WE CAN'T FIND THE PERSONNEL TO PICK UP THE TRASH AND FA IN, IN A, IN A HIGH FORM OF FASHION, THEN WE NEED TO RELY ON TECHNOLOGY TO BE ABLE TO CLOSE THAT GAP FOR US. SO I'M GONNA ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO WORK WITH ME CUZ I'VE ALREADY SENT SOME RECOMMENDATIONS. MM-HMM. THAT WE PUT THIS ON THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR. CAUSE WE KNOW THE 800,000 ALLOCATED WILL NOT DO IT BASED ON, WE TALKED ABOUT IS PROBABLY TWO TO THREE TIMES THAT AMOUNT. YES. TO REALLY HAVE A CLEAN CITY. AND I MEAN, TO ME IT'S WORTH EVERY DOLLAR. IT'S WORTH EVERY DOLLAR TO MAKE SURE I DON'T HAVE PAPER ON EVERY STREET CORNER. [02:45:01] SO I ASKED THAT YOU PUT THAT IN YOUR 2023 BUDGET. OH, WE, WE DID GET APPROVED FOR SIX ADDITIONAL MEMBERS FOR A LITTLE CREW NEXT YEAR. SO THAT'LL, WE ANTICIPATE COLLECTING MAYBE A HUNDRED, 150 BAGS A DAY OF LITTER BASED ON OUR, UH, WEEKEND LITTER CREW NUMBERS. WELL, ORIGINAL, I'M TALKING ABOUT STREET SWEEP SWEEPING NEIGHBORHOODS. WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE AND WE'LL NEVER HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE TO GO AND SHANDOR ALONE. RIGHT. SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT SOME STREET SWEEPERS THAT CAN DO THE WORK 10 TIMES FASTER THAN EVERYBODY ELSE. WE, WE HAVE THREE. THANK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. YES SIR. THANK YOU. I'LL LEAVE YOU COUNCIL MEMBER. YEAH, REGINALD, THANK YOU. BECAUSE YOU RESPOND VERY QUICKLY WHEN I EMAIL YOU AND I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW THAT I'VE SENT TO YOU SEVERAL TIMES IS SINKHOLES. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GO ANYWHERE THROUGHOUT ANY NEIGHBORHOOD WITHOUT SEEING AN ORANGE CONE OR AN ORANGE FENCE. HOW ARE YOU GOING TO, AND I KNOW THOSE ARE GONNA COME IN WITH THOSE, UM, THOSE DOLLARS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE GETTING, HOW ARE THOSE GONNA BE SCHEDULED? ARE THEY GONNA BE SCHEDULED BY THE TIME THAT THEY CAME IN? ARE THEY GONNA BE SCHEDULED BY AREA? CUZ THERE'S THERE GOT, THERE'S GOTTA BE THOUSANDS OF THEM. YES. AROUND BATON ROUGE. THANK YOU. WITH THE A R P FUNDS, WE HAVE A PROGRAM SET UP DIRECTLY TO USE THAT MONEY TO ADDRESS THOSE CAVE INS. UH, THE PROGRAM MANAGERS HAVE, UM, INVESTIGATED ALL OF THEM AND THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER THE SCHEDULES TO RESOLVE THOSE CAVE IN REQUESTS. AND A LOT OF THOSE REPAIRS ARE VERY DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE REPAIRS. SOME OF THEM INCLUDE, UH, HAVING A DEWATER, UH, SECTIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE CONNECTED TO LAKES AND OTHER, UH, VARIABLES WHEN TRYING TO RESOLVE THOSE CAVE IN REQUESTS. SO THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS STRAIGHTFORWARD REPAIRS, BUT THEY ARE BEING SCHEDULED. THE OLDER ONES, THE BACKLOG IS BEING SCHEDULED THROUGH A R P AND WE'RE TAKING ON THE NEW ONES AS THEY COME IN. SO, SO ARE THEY GONNA BE SCHEDULED BY, UM, MORE DIFFICULT? I MEAN, OR YOU WANT SPEAK? OKAY, THANK YOU COUNCIL AMAROSA. I MEAN THERE WE LOOK AT OLDEST FIRST. THAT'S NUMBER ONE THAT WE WANTED TO DO BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF 'EM OUT THERE THAT ARE OVER THREE, FOUR YEARS OLD AND THEY'VE WAITED LONG ENOUGH AND I'M ON. BUT THEN FROM THAT WE LOOK AT THE ONES THAT THE BIGGEST SAFETY RISK, JUST LIKE HE ORIGINALLY LOOKS AT FROM OUR SCHEDULING, WE TRIED TO GET THOSE TO BE THE SECOND PRIORITY. BUT WHAT I DID ASK OUR PROGRAM MANAGER TO LOOK AT IS TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A LIST TO FINALIZE SO WE CAN AT LEAST GIVE THIS TO THE COUNCIL SO THEY CAN AT LEAST SEE THE AREAS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON. AND WE ARE CATCHING UP THE BACKLOG AND WE'RE DOING A VERY GOOD JOB OF THAT. IT JUST, THERE'S A LOT OF 'EM OUT THERE, BUT I MEAN THAT IS WHERE WE ARE SETTING IT UP, THAT IT'S THE OLDEST FIRST AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING FROM A HIGH PRIORITY FROM A SAFETY STANDPOINT. YES MA'AM. COUNCIL MEMBER COLEMAN AND FRED JUST ANSWERED THAT. AND UM, MR. BROOMFIELD, I WANT YOU TO KEEP YOUR A PLUS, UH, BUT I NEED YOU TO COME ON OVER THERE TO DISTRICT 10 THERE IN SOUTH BATON ROUGE THERE ON MCOP AND LOUISA WHERE IT'S JUST WIDE OPEN AND OPEN A BAD UNSAFE PLACE OVER THERE ON MCOP AND LOUISA. BUT I WANT YOU TO KEEP YOUR A PLUS AND ALL OF THAT. BUT I WANT YOU TO ALSO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THAT YEAH. THAT'S WHY NUMBERS ARE WHAT THEY ARE OVER THERE IS BECAUSE WE ARE OUT RIDING, WE SEE AND JUST AS, UH, MR. RAYFORD SAID THERE, THOSE UNSAFE SPOTS. AND SO I I I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT NOT JUST THAT ORANGE, UH, TAPE IS AROUND THE KOP AND LOUISA AND THOSE OTHER SPOTS, BUT THAT THOSE SPOTS GET TAKEN CARE OF AND, AND THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS OVER THERE. AND SO I JUST YEAH. AND I KNOW YOU TALK ABOUT PRIORITIZE, SO I'M GONNA SAY PRIORITIZE ME. YEAH. YES MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER HUDSON, I'LL JUST ECHO SOME OF THOSE SAME SENTIMENTS THAT OTHERS HAVE SAID TONIGHT. UH, THE COMMUNICATION WITH COUNCIL PEOPLE SINCE YOU'VE TAKEN OVER THAT SHOP HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS. 10000%. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, I DO WANNA FOLLOW UP ON THE CONVERSATION ABOUT, UH, STREET SWEEPING. CAUSE YOU, YOU WERE KIND ENOUGH TO COPY ME ON, UH, AN EMAIL EARLIER THIS WEEK AS SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT MIGHT BE COMING TO THAT PROGRAM. UM, I WANNA PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, MY FEEDBACK ON THE PROGRAM ALREADY, BUT I I'LL SAY IT HERE FOR THE PUBLIC. UM, WE DON'T, WE DON'T NEED STREET SWEEPING IN SHENANDOAH. SOME RESIDENTS IN SHENANDOAH MIGHT CRITICIZE ME FOR SAYING THAT, BUT I WILL TELL YOU GENERALLY IN MOST OF OUR RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISIONS, WE DON'T NEED TO SWEEP THOSE CURBS AND GOVER GUTTERS. WE, WE WANT TO SEE THE FOCUS ON THE COMMERCIAL AREAS, UH, THE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF LITTER, A LOT OF TRAFFIC AND THAT KIND OF THING. SO I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT. YES. SO IF YOU WOULD JUST TOUCH BASE ON THAT, I'D, I'D LOVE TO HEAR THE FEEDBACK. WELL, RIGHT NOW WE'VE BEEN WORKING IN A BIT OF A [02:50:01] DIGITAL DE UH, WELL DATA DESERT, UH, WITH OUR STREET SWEEPERS. SO WE'VE WORKED WITH IS MR. WARREN CRONEY DEVELOPED A SURVEY SYSTEM FOR US TO START COLLECTING THAT DATA AS WE PROCEED WITH OUR SWEEPING. SO THAT'LL LET US BE ABLE TO SEE, UH, WHERE WE NEED TO ALLOCATE MORE RESOURCES FOR SWEEPING AND WHERE WE'VE, BY LOOKING AT THE AMOUNT OF THAT'S BEEN COLLECTED ON THOSE ROUTES. SO WE BETA TESTED THAT THIS WEEK AND WE'LL GO LIVE WITH THAT PROGRAM MONDAY. SO THAT'LL START FILLING IN THAT DATA THAT'S CRITICAL TO REALLY DESIGNING AND SCHEDULING OUR SERVICES. COUNCIL MEMBER ADAMS. HEY REGINALD. I JUST WANTED TO SAY, UM, THANK YOU. UM, RECENTLY, UH, SOMERSET NEIGHBORHOOD REACHED OUT TO ME AND THEY HAD A NUMBER OF POTHOLES MM-HMM. . AND SO WE GOT 'EM ALL ENTERED IN THREE 11. AND I MEAN, Y'ALL FILLED THEM WITHIN LIKE A COUPLE DAYS. THE NEIGHBORHOOD CALLED, THEY WERE JUST, THEY WERE BLOWN AWAY AND VERY IMPRESSED. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. I WILL LET THE STREET DIVISION KNOW. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER HEARST. SO I WANNA CLEAR UP DGH HUDSON'S COMMENT BECAUSE WHATEVER DISTRICT, UM, AND OTHER DISTRICTS SURROUNDING HIM THAT DOESN'T NEED HIM, I NEED HIM IN MY DISTRICT HEAVILY. OKAY. SO, AND I KNOW GREENWELL SPRINGS IS A STATE ROAD PLANT, ROAD AIRLINES, SOME OF THOSE ARE STATE ROADS AND LA ALERTED ME TO D O TD IS GONNA DEDICATE A DAILY STREET SWEEP IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THEY PURCHASED ONE. UM, BUT MY DISTRICT NEEDS THEM. IF I GO DOWN HOLLYWOOD RIGHT NOW, THERE'S PAPER THAT'S BEEN OUT THERE FOR ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE DAYS. LOOK LIKE SOMEBODY JUST CUT UP A NOTEBOOK AND JUST THREW IT IN THE AIR AND MADE IT RAIN. AND IT'S ALL OVER HOLLYWOOD. SO SOME COMMUNITIES, I WILL SAY THIS, I'M GONNA SAY IT THE RIGHT WAY, TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT. SOME COMMUNITIES DO IT BETTER OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES THAN OTHERS. YES SIR. BUT FOR THE ONES THAT DON'T, WE HAVE INITIATIVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY UNDERSTAND HOW THE VALUE WHERE THEY LIVE AND ALSO TAKE CARE OF WHERE THEY LIVE, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE WORKING ON CRIME DISTRICTS ALL AROUND, UH, DISTRICT FIVE TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW TO INVEST IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF A NEIGHBORHOOD HOOD ASSOCIATION TO DO THAT. BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE SAID. I NEED AS MANY STREET SWEEPERS AS YOU, SIR. YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TO CLEAN MY DISTRICT OF RIGHT NOW? YES, SIR. THANK YOU. AND, UH, IT IS FALL. SO WE ARE RESPONDING TO A LOT OF, UH, TREELINE BOULEVARDS TO CATCH THE FOLIAGE ON THE INSTAGRAM TO GROW. AND WHEN YOU FINISH THE LEAVE, COME GET THE TRASH. YES, SIR. WILL DO. AND THERE'S A THREE 11 SERVICE REQUEST TYPE FOR STREET SWEEPERS IF YOU EVER WANT TO REQUEST THAT SERVICE. THANK YOU. UH, RENER. GOOD JOB. AND FRED? YES, I NEED 36 STREET AND 37 REPAID BECAUSE I, I NEED THE FRONT END ALIGNMENT RIGHT NOW. I NEED THE FRONT END ALIGNMENT LINE. OKAY. ? YES SIR. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER AROSE ADJOURN. THERE'S A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SECONDED BY EVERYONE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALWAYS PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO STAY SAFE AND ALWAYS READ TO YOUR CHILDREN WHEN YOU'RE DONE. HAVE THEM READ TO YOU. BEST WAY TO INCREASE READING APPLICATION. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOD BLESS. 200. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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