Brandon you don't have the normal videos he said we don't have the normal video I can talk him through it all he has to do is just call to order invocation pledge statement and Quorum I'm just saying Jay you can't see the room as they normally do and I don't think we can hear them um final appointment was that just an announcement she just said his final report oh yeah foreign is 506. uh does someone like to volunteer my education [Applause] that's great father thank you for um giving us this opportunity please be with the students being that we may make decisions to glorify your name and represent the best interest of our community in your name we pray amen I do apologize Miss Brown Allegiance one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all right in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act chapter 44 1976 media all right our first item is to approve the consent agenda welcome to an opportunity looking over you have a motion for approval motion to approve the consent agenda any questions all in favor agenda approved all right we're down to Executive session consider the executive session for the following conduct interviews will make Commissioners a public work position number two discussion negotiations and incidents of the proposed contractual matter regarding Banking and Investment Services upon opening Upon returning to open insertion Council may take action all matters discussed in executive concession reading too fast although I do have a motion going into Deputy session second all in favor eyes have it thank you all right yep your motion just say aye Matthew yes okay motion carry unanimously okay we're gonna move down to now we need a motion to go into opening session motion to go into Open Session all in favor correct Mr Mayor all right Matthew hi okay motion carry unanimously okay our first item is called the agenda sir so there are two action items coming out of executive session the first is relative to Investment Banking okay all right coming out of the second discussion do we have a motion um I make a motion to authorize the city manager to enter into a contract with thin trusts for investment banking services second any other discussion hearing on all in favor Mr Mayor Mr Miller hi okay motion carrier management okay that was our first item our second item would be to discuss the vacancy for the ctw commissioner for the unexpired term for Mr Mike Monahan we have two candidates Mr Bob Haney and Mr Stephen Gilbert do we have any emotions we'll make a motion that we appoint Mr Stephen Gilbert Commissioner of Public Works position to replace misters thank you could speak a little louder please I can't I got it right here I said I make a motion to improve Mr Stephen Gilbert to the vacancy of Commissioner of Public Works Institute thank you nice to hurt you that time a second he he said the first yeah all right all in favor discussion thank you any discussion so can you make sure they heard the motion on the phone okay Mr Mayor and Mr Miller did you hit emotion okay any discussion here none all in favor anyone opposing nice to meet you okay Mayor Miller I mean mayor Smith opposed and Mr Miller what's your motion what's your vote you'll vote I'm sorry I didn't hear what he said I didn't we we can't hear you could just speak up opposed opposed so that's one so that carries four through four to three 43. so um the vote is 43. um okay so that motion carries four to three to a point Mr Gilbert to the vacancy the vacant CPW commissioner seat um vacated by Mr Mike Monahan that um uh um losing my train of thought um the term ends December of 2024. that's that's what I was trying to say um we I'll be in touch with you about a process for um swearing-in which will likely be on June the 19th here at this council meeting and I believe Jeff Meredith will be in touch with you about some onboarding things so congratulations sir congratulations [Applause] anything you would like to say okay thank you thank you thank you okay now we're down to public hearing the first item is to consider ordinance number 23-009 amended purchasing and procurement procedures for the City of Greenwood this is the second reading mayor and Council uh like I've mentioned in several meetings prior our current ordinance was written in 1983 and it really just needed a little bit of revamp the what we've proposed to you tonight is based on a new model ordinance from the municipal Association which really modernized some pieces of our ordinance that that I think really needed such this new ordinance gives local vendor preference within the city so if it's a city business and their bid is within five percent of the low bidder they have an opportunity to match that bid as long as it's within five percent I gave the example at the last meeting if the I don't want to get my math wrong so I'm going to try to do really good okay if the bid was say the low bid was fifty thousand dollars and then a a city vendor came in at um fifty one thousand dollars we could then go to that City vendor and say if you are willing to match a little bit of 50 000 we will award the bid to you since you are an in-city business it also adds several purchasing thresholds for staff and for the city manager I stressed previously that those are only relative to things that are in the approved budget anything that is outside of the approved budget that requires a budget amendment would have to come to you for approval regardless it establishes several purchasing tiers that will um streamline our purchasing process and it sets a minimum threshold for uh Bond security which we do not have in our current ordinance so staff would recommend approval of this ordinance okay do we have anyone in in the audience who like to speak against this ordinance do we have anyone in the audience who would like to speak for this morning for this ordinance here and none do we have any questions I'm on Council I'll be happy to make a motion okay I'll make a motion to be approved ordinance number 23-009 amending purchasing and uh procurement procedures for the City of Greenwood do we have a second okay second by Minnesota yeah we won't all right Mia Smith can you hear us motion a second third discussion okay any discussion I just want to make sure they can hear because they said they can't hear us okay any other discussion hearing none all in favor that's he and I Miss Mr Mayor councilman Miller okay motion carries okay under new business item number one is to consider ordinance number 23-010 uh amending the city of Greenwood's Land Development regulations regarding the process in which major subdivision plots are reviewed and approved in the City of Greenwood um so we talked about this a little bit in work session previously currently the way our subdivision regulations are written preliminary plats are required to go to the Planning Commission for approval and a lot of communities um they are done those approvals are done at the staff level so this ordinance changes our process just a little bit and allows for staff level approval of Platts Carol was here she can speak a little further on that Draper has also been working closely with Carol on this so I'll allow them to kind of answer any questions you guys might have about it take care good evening hello can you hear me okay this this helps people in the on them yes thank you for the opportunity um this is a lot like the procurement ordinance you're talking about this goes way back to the 70s I believe so it's even old folder um and what we discovered what I discovered when I came here is that realistically the Planning Commission wasn't truly reviewing them they would get basically an eight and a half by 11 copy of a plan and a Planning Commission packet and then staff would advise them as to what the review said and what you know what necessarily what necessary changes may be there so we were doing that anyway I had actually started at least printing out the plans on a ledger sheet eight and a half by eleven so they could fold it out and see it a little bit more without necessarily needing a magnifying glass and this was not to take away from all the efforts that the Planning Commission made because I totally appreciate what they've done and I totally appreciate how much time many of them have put in over the course of time I remember when you were on Planning Commission when I was a wee little planner before grad school I learned a lot from people who set me on this on this path but um um one of the things that I kind of fought for and I held it up at the county level was to keep the Planning Commission in the loop the Planning Commission was already listed in the current ordinance for um doing conceptual plan review and typically the first time we see anything as a subdivision it'll be like one that's on your agenda this evening for a rezoning you will get a conceptual plan and what I wanted to make sure uh was that anything that comes through to be considered in Greenwood City and County that the Planning Commission would have abided that Apple under conceptual plan review and anything they said any comments they make go back into the review of it when it comes back for preliminary plan so that's officially in here and it's actually a requirement under the language that if it comes in as a resulting as a conceptual plan we get it then but if they're if they're coming in for preliminary plan review at the same time concurrently they can submit to go to Planning Commission for conceptual plan at the same time so it won't hold developers up necessarily if they're in a hurry but I mean two weeks to four weeks is not going to kill the project um we still get planning commissions review Planning Commission still does what we refer to in the ordinance as variances which are special considerations for things that won't work under the Land Development Rags for example we require depending on where they are 24 to 26 feet of pavement for rights of way so the fire trucks can get through there are going to be times where they can't get that much Pavement in a corner or on a turn or something so Planning Commission can give them the equivalent of a variance to say okay in this special situation we will grant this because we've had input from the from the fire department or we've had input from the most recent one we did was to allow the use of high density underground pipe yeah the underground pipe I was going to say high density polyethylene um it's it is identity instead of instead of reinforced concrete pipe and Dot actually allows that so they have the same lifespan um what what Public Works requested was that anywhere that it crossed under under pavement under a right-of-way that that would be reinforced concrete pipe because of the strength of it but anywhere else in a project they could use the htpe piping so that's something Planning Commission was able to give their approval on but again we got input from the experts before they did that Planning Commission also approves street names subdivision names and they get and if we turn a subdivision plan down for whatever reason the developer has the option to appeal it to the Planning Commission if the Planning Commission appeal upholds it then they can go to Circuit Court but that in a nutshell is the difference if that makes sense I'll be glad to address it but we weren't trying to not go along with it but we did have one situation where we had some confusion over what what the position was or what the reasoning was and we we couldn't get a hard fast rule for a reason why they were turning something down and I did um worked in Horry County when this was put into place I called the places the counties and the cities in the state of South Carolina that were the closest to us one of them being Sumpter because they do have a joining program as well and she kind of laughed and she said oh we did this about 10 years ago and she said things have run pretty smoothly and when we need them we go to them but otherwise we do everything at the staff level so the standard across the strait is this function as an administrative function not a a body a function of the body but still they have a lot of influence right it's still there's a lot of opportunity for people to provide input so there's there's there's still plenty of opportunity for that it just helps further the process for everyone the developer your staff and and the community right absolutely it's a conceptual nine times out of ten is there a correlation between a conceptual and the actual approved plan or to to they're typically different but a lot of times these days and probably the last 15 years I've seen the conceptual plans have had a lot more preliminary work put into them before someone's actually taken the step to go into the if they're going to go if they're going to buy into property or um change disowning on it right they've done more homework than they used to okay and so some now conceptual plans seem to have a little bit more beef behind them I'll be the first to admit that the conceptual we can't hold them fully to the conceptual plan but again I'm going to do my best to what the intention was and if there aren't physical restraints or changes that have to be made for whatever reason that I'm going to try to keep it to that or try to push them in another direction that I feel is better okay so if you so if it goes to planning and planning disapproved it you if okay if you're if if like the new development that it's about to come about it's already gone through planning it's already gone but this has passed so how your process would be totally what you have to prove any new ones that come What If you deny it um if if we deny the if the with the resulting gets denied then it's immaterial if it goes if the result it goes through and they come to us with the development plan we're going to use that conceptual plan and the con we've already they've already made changes to their conceptual plan based on what Planning Commission said so basically Miss moles I think I understand maybe maybe what you're asking um so what would happen is the a developer would submit their preliminary plat and they would say here's kind of preliminarily this is where we want to put our infrastructure this is how many Lots we want this is how these are roadways and planning and planning staff is going to review that plot and say yep you're checking all the boxes you're doing everything you're supposed to do except for these three areas you gotta tweak this you gotta tweak this the roads have to be wider than this the water line needs to move a little bit whatever it might be they're going to give those comments back to the developer and the developer will have to incorporate those changes into their plot previously these things are going to Planning Commission and there was supposed to be that same level of communication where Planning Commission would say no your roads aren't wide enough but what she's saying is it was really already being done at the staff level and so conceptually Planning Commission will get the plans and if they have any additional comments other than what staff has they will say Okay staff we also want to see these three things in accordance with the subdivision regulations and then staff will convey all that back to the developer so there won't be any approval necessarily from the Planning Commission it will be a review and a recommendation and as another example we have another um project that's within the city it's the one that runs from New Market to 25 bypass Southeast all the way through near Wesley Commons near that entrance office and um off of 25 Southeast and when that came in it was pretty much what we expected to see based on the rezoning but they have a very nice amenity area that's up closer to the bypass and they have like a Junior Olympic pool and I mean it was really well received but one of the things we noticed was that the majority of the houses on the smaller Lots didn't have a direct access to that amenity area they had to go either all the way to this street and go up that way or all the way to the end of the street and go up that way and so we asked them if they could find a way to either create some sort of a pathway walkway or something along those lines to get those houses so that they had a clear pathway to get to the amenity area and he said you mean like a Greenway and I said that's perfect that's exactly what we like to see in Planning Commission completely on board so we've already got we've got a change to that plan coming based on that everybody has equal access to the amenity area instead of feeling like they have to go around the corner and up the street and back and out of their way to get there so now hopefully we'll have a multi-purpose path that has some sort of a finish surface on it so if parents are pushing strollers or kids are on bicycles or something on those lines they'll have an easy way to get there that's great so to come to us as a recommendation any any other questions for Carol thank you thank you okay any other discussion if not do you have a motion for approval motion to consider ordinance number 23010 ordinance vending the city of Greenwood's Land Development regulations ordinance number zero four-020 regarding the process in which major subdivision plots are reviewed and approved in the City of Greenwood that was a motion to approve I'll second okay all right all in favor mayor Smith councilman Miller yes thank you I'll meet you down to item number two consider ordinance number 23-011 yes ma'am under new business item number two this ordinance is to uh consider uh mending the zoning ordinance by rezoning uh 55.06 acres of land located at 175 and 176 bypass 25 Southeast from General commercial to R4 medium density residential we talked about this at work session um I know that Council had several questions about this rezoning so I have Carol here this evening to answer whatever questions you might have and I believe someone's here representing the developer as well if you have questions of that individual just as a reminder this is a 125 125 houses they're split though you see some on the left some on the right I have it somewhere there it is 46 on the left 78 on the right um that probably doesn't equal 125 but y'all could do the math it's 124. they've actually lost another one so this is the new one oh I didn't change the numbers but that is the new layout okay so um as a reminder so R4 is is considered medium density residential which is 10 000 square foot minimum Lots however this developer is requesting to use the clustering provision which would allow for 7 500 square foot Lots as long as a minimum of 25 percent of the property is maintained as open space so that is the request before you this evening Planning Commission did recommend approval 10 10 to 0. I'm back thank you do we have any questions for Carol I do have questions sure um in in any other community this I think you and I have maybe discussed this before the clustering thing really bothers me I think you know that and it's because it's it appears that unusable space is used for the clustering and and to to meet those guidelines and I understand that that's there and developers are extraordinarily smart but it um that's that's are there any cities or counties that are that use a clustering uh zoning or clustering option that are changing their zoning and I'm sorry to bring this up now but it kind of fits into this but um and it just doesn't have anything to do with won't influence my decision on this but Carol is there is are there are there anybody that are adding terminal are adding language to their to their zoning law that is saying it has to be usable space or or something some of it yes in this case this one is a little bit different because there there's a lot of area um that they can't use because you have multiple easements running through the property you have overline easements you have sewer easements um you have flood the flood zone is only at the bottom of the property so it doesn't even really come into play as much the one thing I would point on this one is that they did ask for R4 and it abuts R4 and R3 yeah um and let me just go back just a little bit there have been other ones that are utilized I've seen other ones that that are really exploring this yes and so that's why I'm bringing this up now because again and every time we have an R4 cluster I'm going to say it again probably but it's just if if you in Planning Commission or whomever needs to do that could explore that I would very much appreciate it I will do I will do a study yeah take the boxes because this one's this one's not as obvious there have been others that are much more obvious and I've said well there was one off of Marshall Road is the best one I can think of since I've been here and that's exactly that's exactly the one that comes to mind because that's exactly what they were trying to do is push everything where the land was developable this case is a little bit different because their typical lot is 60 feet wide which is wider than the R4 requires yeah yeah so this one's a little bit different but I totally get what you're saying and I did ask the developers here the agent is here plus the engineer I did ask them to be prepared to talk about what type of open space they were planning to have one of the things we asked for at the Planning Commission level again looking at this as a conceptual plan was to add a buffer between the existing homes that back up to it and if you look up at the top there's a buffer around the entirety of the property some of the area would be probably in the form of landscaping maybe with a privacy fence I believe on the left side of the property on the Jerry's Produce side is the best way to describe it there's a big stand of trees behind that entire property with the exception of the cemetery that will suit wonderfully what they need what they need there so I think that's probably what you'll see this one is like I said this one's a little bit different and I believe we did have some heartburn with the fact that I usually go along with what the future land use maps say but if you look at the future land use map on there if I have it in there um you can see on the right side of the road it is partially medium density residential it does say Highway commercial but I had more heartburn about putting General commercial up against neighborhoods than I did about putting the same type of residential up against the neighborhood and there was something in our future land use or in the land use element that encouraged cluster development in terms of being more efficient and more energy efficient and better for the environment so that was something that we had as a goal in there and that's part of the reason that we went along with it and we still see on the bottom of the future Lane Smith there's still a good bit of commercial development along that Corridor so we felt like there was still enough there and to be honest when you look at the traffic counts which I did include and what I've been trying to do since I got here is trying to give them numbers on schools and you know traffic numbers and everything else the traffic counts you would get if that's developed under General commercial level is going to be much higher and much more of an impact on that on that intersection than residential will be residential rule of thumb has 10 trips per day per home so if you multiply 123 124 by 10 trips per day that's much lower than you're going to get with some commercial that can be 500 trips per day and again I've got the developer here if you've got specific questions we did have um some members of the community that were there and we had some people that got up and spoke no one spoke out against it there were there was opposition to having multi-family there there was opposition to having commercial there but the idea of having something similar in terms of single family was much more palatable and I can't speak for them but I could just tell you what the discussions were so I spoke to some of them as well the residential they were in favor of but there were some promises that for my from what I was told that was made to them as far as a barrier wall being put up I think especially for the cemetery wise because it floods down in the cemetery to kind of make sure that that's in place um the barrier wall the neighborhood that it's backing up to to make sure that there's no drive through yes all this is all kept into play um my still one of my concerns is that the highway um where Jerry's Produce is I understand that is a busy highway you've got a lot of 18 wheelers going up and down that road you got school traffic going up and down that road um safety is is a major concern for that especially exiting in and out of that neighborhood those are just some of the things that were mentioned to me and D.O.T will have to weigh in on that when when they do the review of it and what what I've been encouraging and they've been receptive to it on one of the other ones we did I think the one I was talking about with new market and um uh just further out the bypass was having D cell Lanes to get into neighborhoods I think I requested this on 246 also because 246 is about to be widened right at um the neighborhood that they're looking at building townhomes on the front portion of it Magnolia place and I'd like to see turn lanes and decel Lanes so that people turning into the neighborhood can slow down and not have to turn in at 45 50 55 miles an hour to make a turn and then have some sort of a respite to get out of the traffic Lanes to turn if they're turning left so they won't feel pressure to get off the road to go in there as you know either I think that's a problem and one more thing the only other thing they told me too is they did not want to see apartments right and we just for everybody's um what can R4 be used for single family residential that's right so that's it there if we rezone this then that's not even an option right the the SE I see one but I don't see the one on the left side they're actually they're actually they'll line up they're going to line up with each other D.O.T will require them to line them up so this is where Jerry's Produce is right there right there that section I'm gonna need a light there wow okay I didn't know that it was going to get lined up equally yeah typically that's the way we we don't really have them that are split on a big right-of-way like this normally but usually when you when you have something similar to this they're going to make you line up their exit roads with another road that's already over there and that's the only exit 72. but you've got 43 give or take on the left side on the Jerry's Produce side and somewhere in the 70s to 74 range that's not a huge number that's not like some of the numbers we've seen oh yeah so it's not as it's not as bad as it we've seen in some other areas it's just been at certain times of the day that's a really unique section of that road where it really should be four lane can we just be honest I think this might encourage it okay but so that's also we've extended the buffer but that's also going where we're going to lose how many more feet if we extend and make that four lane what another 13 feet out of that on each side well it depends on if they need more there's a good bit of right-of-way there yeah that's not being used okay okay I'm not as familiar with it as you guys are but I I'll check I'll check because that's right where it starts going out right right so that's something and I D.O.T has an incredible responsibility for making sure to manage all of this and growth but I just it's just um it's called what I trust you you know that but I it's just that is a very interesting area to have an entrance but there's no really no other option so I think I cannot think of one that we've seen since I've been here that hasn't had challenges for Access and this one is not as much a worry because of the numbers being split from one side to the other yeah but some of them I'll be honest I lost sleepover even if you put it to four lane where they still have a turning lane on both both entrances yeah because they could put they could put a detail Lane in into the property and not not lose much because I mean that to me in my head it's like okay you turn this to a four lane and if I'm not mistaken right where that is it goes from 55 to a 45 then it drops to a 35. so you got all these speed limits back to back somebody's not going to really get from 45 to 35 before trying to turn into and then I think about you in this neighborhood and kids could be riding around on a bike or something and you turn in fast anything can happen so according to Maps Robert there's utility services that are on the right-of-way going north that's there there's power lines that are there so nothing will obviously be built there and and you can actually if you look it up on your phone you can see dots right away that's cut differently and the fence line that's there so then then what appears to be their buffer line for those additional areas would would far exceed that it looks like based on this year is that there's plenty of room that would be there thank you we'll try to we'll try to check all the boxes that we can to make sure that when you have to consider these you have all the information that you can to make decisions okay thank you if this were to pass tonight our public hearing for people to provide input would be our next meeting which will be next month yeah do we have the developer here we have any questions any questions our family we've been in business 67 years in Anderson County and we've been probably developed in 50 years but I won't say one thing Miss Coleman has been very helpful in this process all along and we deal with a lot of Planet directors and they haven't been as good as far as thank you thank you well yes sir how can I answer a question for you the question I have is yeah I'm Eddie Kinsey I represent Anderson Realty LLC I'm Paul Harrison I'm with Bluewater civil design we're the civil engineers that are help projects you might use the mic use the mic just so the council members on the phone can hear you okay yeah thank you yes sir how can I help you so my question is I understand that there was a public hearing and you some of the residents met with you all there and some requests were made at that time and they asked for those requests to be documented are you going to document those requests and try to um make them happen for them that was the buffer around the property line correct yes sir in fact we've already re redesigned that to have the buffer there okay and um well I'd like to say one other thing about that one of the requests that came up that night and it'll be in the meeting minutes from the Planning Commission meeting they were asking for connectivity through to the um Cemetery through to to the cemetery and I don't I you know um I talked to the gentleman who won the cemetery he and his wife and uh you know that stuff those kind of requests we can't control and we don't I don't think he really wants that because that means that all our traffic goes through the cemetery so um I did tell him that I would meet him out of the cemetery the flooding and stuff that he referred to was on the front of the cemetery property and I told him I'd meet him out there I don't really see how our development just on the western side of the road would have any effect on that area um the connectivity through the road to the north um I don't know the name of that road but you can basically see it basically terminates at our property line told them we don't we don't desire any connectivity through that point and then mainly just keeping that uh keeping a nice buffer on whether it's through preservation of the existing uh vegetation that they air or maybe there's some additional plannings that are going to have to be done but I think we can we're completely on board with that and and we could if we need to revisit that at permitting I think we can so um that to me addressed all of the all of the comments that I remember from from our standpoint um under DX rules and regulations they can't have more um coming off the property post construction than they have currently so they're going to have to contain the the flow that they create has to stay on site and be released but it doesn't go the way it necessarily is right now so if any of this site is causing problems over there it will be improved okay so the that's what the retention pods for right containing current vegetation um I'm big on retaining current vegetation because it takes forever to new vegetation to get to the size of the current and I know that developers go in and just basically it's cheaper and easier for them to go in and just clear-cut if there's a way to keep current vegetation I know we can't Carol's working on some things but um and I do have an answer on one of those so if we can keep some current vegetation without just because the sight of it is very intimidating and very disturbing to people when they think there's going to be a natural buffer the perception oh my God all those trees are gone the only other thing with that with keeping that current visitation the the neighborhood that's gonna it's gonna back into uh with the end of Posey Street going towards are you on if vegetation stays there is the or you are going to keep that area clean through there because that was one of the concerns as well yeah I think that was one of the neighbors that had talked to me at another meeting about she said that at one time on the packing plant sent people out there to make sure the fence was clean and that line was clean and since it changed hands no one had been over there to clean it up so I think I think when they go in and start doing site work we'll see some of that improved okay let's have a wall that you're going to put up to separate the community from we hadn't quite decided on that we were going to get with Miss Coleman I think she said about a wooden fence or something but we'll make sure we do them it may become Landscaping and one other thing on the cluster effect uh does require 25 open space and we do have 40 percent and most of the time we build walking trails and all in those Open Spaces uh whatever it lends to in this one we'll have an amenity in this not probably a pool but we will have an amenity there okay I don't think it's the same developer but Paul I think was helping one another neighborhood that we were that we're working with and the somebody that lives at that neighborhood around that area from the development he was working on um has been very happy with what would the developer and the engineers said was going to happen and he's been very pleased with that specifically in the newest North part of our city and so that's um what what was said is actually what's happening with that particular neighborhood with this particular resident so I just wanted to mention that so thank you Paul I appreciate it thank you thank you okay we need a motion for this limits I think it's 23011 like a muscle to approve ordinance 23.001 yeah second second time this hotel all in favor by raising here mayor Smith any questions uh uh okay councilman Miller all right motion counter unanimously okay item number three considered resolutions 23005 last but not least um city code section 32-2 requires that the senior Municipal Court Judge be appointed by resolution um judge Miller is currently our senior judge he was last appointed on June 15th of 2015. I mean and originally on June 15th of 2015 and he was reappointed by this body on June 17th of 2019. each appointment is for a period of four years so this evening I'm requesting that Council uh reappoint judge Miller as our senior judge also um the current uh resolution that we have on the books includes um Shamika Brown as one of our judges unfortunately in her new role we've only recently be become aware that she cannot serve as a judge it's considered Dual office holding so we need to amend that resolution that's why it's coming before you as a resolution so Judge Brown will come out and Haley is included in the resolution for appointment as well as judge Miller Haley Haley pulley's appointment date is not changing we're just making sure that she's included in the the language and the new resolution so the request tonight is to approve this resolution and then assuming that you give your grace to judge Miller then we'll have Judge Brown swear him in for another four-year appointment quotient to consider 23005 the Judgment whatever make a motion to approve resolution number 23-005 to a point authorized appointment of Judge Miller judges of the Greenwood Municipal Court senior judge D senior judge I think the second by Mr Abel's all in favor mayor Smith councilman Miller motion covered unanimously all right Judd Miller and I will say as he's coming up that our municipal court operates very efficient efficiently they have good rapport with the community they work very hard over there they're office staff uh is works very very well together um we're very pleased with how they're functioning there so that's great don't judge Miller talks really loud and I can hear him through the wall sometimes other than that as the years go by I am accused the Bible for him today thank you sure [Laughter] you know this is um very special to me so I'm truly honored to do this for you this evening if you would just raise your right hand for me and repeat after me I do solemnly swear that I am duly qualified oh no one more time I do songs according to the Constitution of this state according to the Constitution of this state to exercise the duties of the office of senior municipal judge of the City of Greenwood [Music] duties to which I have been appointed which I've been upon and that I will and that I will to the best of my ability to the best of my ability discharge those duties discharge those duties and we'll preserve and we'll preserve protect and defend the constitution of this state and defend the constitution of this state and the United States of America to the United States of America I pledge to uphold the Integrity I pledge to uphold the integrity and the independence of the Judiciary and the independence civil Judiciary I pledge I pledge and the discharge of my duties in the discharge of my duty to treat all persons to treat all persons who entered the courtroom who entered the courtroom with civility with civility fairness fairness and respect and respect I pledge to listen courteously I pledge to listen girl sit impartially sit and partially act promptly act promptly and Rule and Rule after careful and considerate deliberation after consider it deliberation I pledge to seek Justice a pleasure to seek Justice and Justice alone and Justice alone so help me God help me God congratulations congratulations senior judge how many years in Shamika I'm 27 years and about eight months Brown was my first person that kind of got together and hired he's kind of been with me throughout the time awesome I didn't say who was counting I think I said stop counting no I'm kidding congratulations thank you thank you um I've listed a couple of dates up here for you guys which I think Tiffany email emailed out to you on Monday um the one thing that is not on here that Chief shadowen asked that I mentioned is this Friday from 8 to 9 A.M at the Chick-fil-A by the mall they're having coffee with a cop if anybody is interested in going to that event um also I just want to make mention that um the Festival of flowers kicks off their main weekend is June the 8th it kicks off with the ladies luncheon on June the 7th um then we have I just highlighted a couple small things here but there's a full schedule of events if you go on their website um these are those are all things that are happening Uptown so the concert on June the 8th there's a brass band playing on during the night there's an arts and crafts show the ninth and the 10th the kid fest is June 10th all that will be happening Uptown there's other events as well topiaries I know are gearing up to go out now um so it's a busy time in the city uh the other thing I wanted to mention is that May 25th at 5 30 we're going to have a kickoff to Summer uh there's gonna be a concert and we're going to kind of ceremoniously turn the splash pad on that's on a Thursday we'll have a local band um Pope and Burt is going to play some music and we'll have the splash pad turned on so hopefully that'll be a nice event for families to come to that'll be at the Uptown Market on May the 25th that's a new thing that's been added since Tiffany sent out these dates to you all so I wonder how they go um let me see the kitchen site did close effectively what today would you say today would be the effective date of the closing the 15th I didn't get any yeah so we I executed all the closing documents for the kitson site trip overnighted them on Friday I believe it was um so they'll sign everything and overnight it back to us and it's just a reminder we sold that property for 350 000 the net to the city is 339.5 so um really excited about the development of that property um we will be working to have a meeting with the neighbors in in that Mill Village so that we can have the developer come and sort of talk to them about what they're planning for the site I believe the um additional property that's adjacent is owned by um dink Tatum will be closing probably about the next 90 days I think is what they told us so um so that'll be a really great development Ah that's awesome so um I text Stephanie Dorn you know she 70 Dorn works so hard on that and I text her and she she was so excited to know that you know all that hard work of the city investing all that money to get that property cleaned up so that it can be it can be redeveloped is really exciting so looking forward to that um we got some job openings we have several in public works for um Park maintenance crewmen regular crewman we have equipment operator position open in sanitation we always have positions open in police and fire so if you know anybody send them on up that's all I have I'll turn it over to you guys for any comments that you have okay property on Edgefield I have not heard anything recently have either of you heard anything they were going out a month because we're still there the palette the palette I talked to them today they're working on a site in Lawrence County and he said he thought they would be completely moved by June do so we've been working trying to work with them to help them and originally I think it was the first of last month they had to do so they had to do some grading work so they had so they could create flat surfaces at the I thought it was kind of undulating but he said they should be out by June okay I've got people asking me what to hold up they were supposed to pull the power at the beginning of April which I believe they did we've since been told that one of the tenants was interested in purchasing the property so what's going on on that you hadn't heard anything I understand and they're in they're in their due diligence period and they've contracted with Davidson Floyd on some of the environmental remediation that needs to happen no comments okay the um I just like to know did anyone else receive an invitation from the freedom World Outreach Ministry for a fun for a fun day on Saturday on Facebook I just want to apologize they sent a letter out in March oh okay I don't I don't remember getting anything can I see it it was just inviting city council to come to their fun day and to just represent the city and talk about what's going on within the city and just kind of give them some information as to what some of our responsibilities are and I my intention was to go yeah I didn't receive this but I couldn't go but um unfortunately my husband did not have a good morning that morning so I did call to acknowledge that um I would be unable to attend well it was going to be at the Emma Gaskin Magnolia Park from 10 to 4. okay but that's only coming I have just a matter that you have a comment no I didn't I didn't in any way but didn't want to say look out for a charge time with Tara this weekend she should be updating the exact location for the next 24 hours okay thank you councilman Miller any comment um not not really anything uh [Music] that's been great getting paid but how many years getting paid I did something I did talk to um um Billy labrant I saw him one day in in the last week and he said as soon as they're done Paving Montague they're moving to Grace so should be quick I mean because they're I mean they've moved pretty quick Paving Montague so as soon as they're done they're moving over there [Laughter] okay if there's no other comments motion to adjust it's not a public hearing you can't oh yeah sure you can talk to us out in a meeting okay all right do we have a motion to adjourn yeah we did the only other hello hello I'm sorry Mr Mayor yeah the only other thing I'll mention is as as you know unfortunately we have a memorial service tomorrow I think Julie may have mentioned everybody that the road will be blocked off um for the memorial for uh my good friend Davis McClendon we ask that you keep the McLendon family in your prayers yeah okay did we have a motion to adjourn we did on the motion yeah that's true I think it was Mr Bass let's just redo it okay okay I'll make a motion to adjourn all right second by Mr Dean all in favor mayor Smith Kevin all right all right and that was Matthew yes motion approved meetings adjourned thank you