City Council Business Meeting on 2024-02-12 5:00 PM

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What is discussed during the roll call and consent items at the beginning of the meeting?

Vi Lyles 0:14

On a Mayfield Council Member at Lard. Ed

Bakari Sellers 0:17

Drake is District 10.

Marcus Jones 0:18

Malcolm Graham, District 2. Marcus Jones, City Manager.

Vi Lyles 0:21

By Lyles, Mayor. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District 1. Temple Echmara at large. Good evening, Marjorie Molina, District Five. Good evening, Renee Johnson, and I'm honored to represent district four. Ariel Smith, lead city clerk. All right, thank you everyone. Um this meeting is our pre-meeting before we go downstairs for our um meeting that will discuss our policy items. But right now we have our consent items and I believe that we have a motion or I'd like to have a motion for consent items twenty-seven through fifty-four with the exception of thirty-five. So moved. Second.

Marcus Jones 1:04

Madam

Vi Lyles 1:04

Mayor, I believe four Forty nine and fifty

Marcus Jones 1:06

were deferred by staff as well.

Vi Lyles 1:08

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't get that one today. So a size from thirty-five, forty-nine, and fifty. The staff was forty-nine and fifty, and Miss Mayfield asked for a comment on thirty-five. So we have a motion on the floor and a second. All in favor of adoption of the consent items, please raise your hand. I think that's unanimous. All right, and so we'll go back to item thirty five first and I will recognize Miss Mayfield. Thank you, Madame Mayor and Marie. I believe you already got this information, but just for the record. Item thirty five is our ground maintenance services. I do not have a challenge with us moving forward with these minority businesses. I was just wondering out of this three hundred and twenty acres of vacant properties, if any of that land is developable for housing, whether it's multifamily or single.

Marcus Jones 2:03

Thank you, madam. And Again, this property it and I apologize it's not clearly stated in the explanation it says three hundred and twenty acres of vacant parcels, but in reality it's bits and pieces of we have the city has nine hundred and sixty-five parcels over five thousand acres, and so this is remnants and this is for

Laura Garecki 2:26

mowing and um trash removal and trimming trees on our pieces of our property but to your point um and I've spoken with Phil Reger

Marcus Jones 2:35

and he said it's a great segue into his presentation because he's gonna represent here's an

Laura Garecki 2:40

inventory of all our properties and to your point what could be used for different purposes. So he's gonna go in detail with you.

Vi Lyles 2:46

So thank you for letting me know I set up a great layup for the deal. And with that, Madam Mayor move to approve. All right. Do we have a motion? Do we have a second? And um is there any further discussion? Hearing no further discussion. All in favor, please raise your hand. All right. The next item is item forty four, land acquisition for tree canopy preservation program. Um This was re removed from our agenda? No, forty nine and forty nine. Someone pulled forty four. I thought it was forty f are it was forty five. Forty four was Sorry, ma'am. There was two. Forty four and forty five. Is there any Remaining item that requires a vote of the council. No, ma'am. You you

Marcus Jones 3:32

pulled forty nine and fifty and those are the two that are being deferred by staff to a upcoming meeting.

Vi Lyles 3:37

Okay. All right, so then let's go on and begin our um meeting. Um that we have our consent and action review items that we've already um covered. So we will now go to The city manager.

Marcus Jones 3:53

Thank you, Mayor, members of council. Uh tonight we have two items under action review. One would be the proposed twenty twenty four state and federal legislative agenda. Uh Dana Finton will be presenting and there's been a um series of discussions in the um budget governance and intergovernment relations uh committee. And then as Marie mentioned earlier, I think Councilmember Mitchell said something about it before uh I guess at the annual strategy meeting and then I like the way you said that Ms. Mayfield the layout for Phil tonight. Um Uh year or so ago we had a number of discussions about city owned land and how are we best utilizing city owned land. I think we had conversations about uh one dollar leases and a lot of uh discussion about let's make sure that we are really having a collaborative approach.