City Council Business Meeting on 2024-05-13 5:00 PM

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What is discussed at the start of this section?

Vi Lyles 1:37

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Vi Lyles 3:15

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Unknown 3:47

Mm-hmm.

Vi Lyles 3:52

I'm gonna call our meeting to order. Um this is our Studio, we're ready to go live. Sorry, thank you. Are we ready now? We're ready now. So I want to call the um council um meeting to order. This is our May thirteenth meeting and we're gonna begin with introductions. We'll start with our city attorney.

Marcus Jones 4:15

Patrick Baker, City Attorney.

Vi Lyles 4:17

Good evening. Wow, it's a sparse crowd tonight. Victoria Watlington at large. Good evening, Lawana Mayfield, Councilmember at large.

Malcolm Graham 4:25

Cut you off. Ed Driggs, District Seven. Malcolm Graham, District Two. Marcus Jones, City Manager.

Vi Lyles 4:29

Biles, Mayor. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District One. Temple Ashmira at large. Ariel Smith, lead city clerk. Would you like to introduce yourself? Thank you. Um so we have um a consent agenda items number twenty nine through fifty nine and I wondered if there was anyone that ha would like to have a comment before we go. Is is there a comment that anyone would like to have on any of the items? Miss Mayfield, what would be your comment items? That is a very good question because I did not pull it up, Miss. Yes, ma'am. And if it's the ones you were referring to before the meeting, it's number thirty four and forty six. Thirty four and forty six. Okay we'll Come back to that. And then is there any consent item that anyone would like to have a separate vote?

Vi Lyles 5:26

All right. I don't see anyone. Forty four would be the is the consent item, Madam Mayor. Okay, not forty six. I thought I thought that's the thing. I have thirty four. And forty six. Forty six. Do you want forty four too? No. Oh no ma'am, just Okay. I just w um when and my apologies, I was clarifying 'cause you asked for separate vote, so I wanted those for comment and separate vote. Okay, comment and separate vote. Thank you very much. All right, so do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items 29 through 59 with the exception of thirty-four and forty-six? So moved. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor, please raise your hands. Anyone in opposition? All right, that passes.

Vi Lyles 6:15

So the next item would be item thirty four, which is unspecified demolition and environmental services. But I believe that we have some comment from the budget office, Ms. Marie has done some work on it, so I'll turn it over to Marie. Mm-hmm.

Marie (Unknown) 6:32

Thank you. And m as Ms. Mayfield requested, and I believe it's a general comment for both of 'em, um, just how do we s um specify when we have multiple vendors listed for an action, how do we is there any written process for how we determine which vendors to use or to ensure that all the vendors get used? And for the specifics on thirty four, which is demolition, housing provided the information that there was nine awards last year and what happens with those is they get a notification to bid. On the jobs when

Vi Lyles 7:08

one comes available. All right, any further comment or question regarding items thirty four and forty six? Miss Mayfield? Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you, Marie, for the clarification. The reason I asked this question is over the weekend at a economic development or mid last week. Economic development community a bit. I ran into two different vendors that have been previously approved. through one of our general services and or identify for uh opportunity for contracts and they've been registered with the city since twenty eighteen but have yet to receive a actual contract. So I wanted to find out what process and this actually the same question for forty six. What is the process that we actually have in place and if not

Vi Lyles 8:04

Manager, can we create a process that actually when we as a council approve these? I did not know until Miss Harris submitted this that even though we identify these four organizations in A. And we have the CBI goals identified. I didn't know that there was an additional step that these same companies have to turn around and reapply again and then we go with lowest responsive bidder. So when we're approving, say example, these four. My assumption would have been that out of those four, the expectation is At some point all of them would have re had the opportunity to actually do the work.