City Council Zoning Meeting on 2024-12-16 5:00 PM - Dec 16, 2024

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What introductions and opening remarks are made at the beginning of the meeting?

Dante Anderson 5:50

Welcome to the December sixteenth zoning meeting. We will I will call this meeting to order and we will start with introductions and let's start with our clerk.

Unknown 6:02

Billie Thomas, Deputy City Clerk.

Dante Anderson 6:04

Tijuana Brown, City Council District Three. Good evening, Renee Johnson, and I'm honored to represent district four.

Angelo Tillman 6:12

Good evening everyone. James Mitchell, City Council at Large.

Dante Anderson 6:15

Liz Babson, Assistant City Manager. Good evening, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem District One.

Ed Driggs 6:24

Uh Malcolm Graham, District Two. Ed Driggs, District Seven. Top Carter District.

Unknown 6:31

Good evening, Victoria Watlington, Councilmember at Lange. Terree Hagler Gray, Senior Assistant City Attorney.

Dante Anderson 6:37

Marjorie. Miss Molina, would you like to introduce yourself? Good evening, everyone. Marjorie Molina, I represent District Five. Excellent. So we will begin our meeting with an invocation. An expression and inspiration followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation by a council member is intended to solidify our proceedings and we celebrate the religious diversity of our entire community, including those Do not have a religious faith, and this evening. Council Member Brown will lead us. Thank you.

Unknown 7:15

Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming tonight or this evening. So it is an absolute pleasure.

How does the council conduct the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance?

Unknown 7:20

To be able to bring the invocation tonight. So I'm a dedicated member to Greater Mount Sinai Baptist Church. twelve forty three West Boulevard under the direction of doctor Major Stewart, my entire family go there. I've been there my entire life. Um I just want to say tonight um My pastor spoke about something. very, very deep um on Sunday, but I just want people to know that The world needs more love, no matter what you're going through. How are you going through

Dante Anderson 7:50

it? What amount of money do you have in your bank account? The

Unknown 7:56

world needs more love. You know, before I was preparing to come here I was dealing with a family emergency. But I also turned on T V I'm a current events person. I like to see what's going on in the world. And there was another

Dante Anderson 8:07

shooting. Um in Wisconsin and it was ju it was a juvenile. Didn't get out didn't get the age, but juvenile tells me under the age of seventeen. Seventeen and below. And so there was six injured. And uh two. Pronounced dead including the shooter. And so This is supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. But maybe it's not the most wonderful time of the year for others. We all have our agendas, we all have our goals, we all have Things that we want to get done and accomplished in life. When you're thinking about What you're gonna do, remember that we all have to

Unknown 8:42

exit this world? We all leaving here. And whether you believe it or not or whether your religion your

Dante Anderson 8:49

faith or your faith based or what your religion is or what you practice. We all have an exit date. We don't know that date. I'll leave you with this. When you look at that image in the mirror, we all have something that we can approve.

Unknown 9:04

We all have something that we can work on. And just remember that Mi, you, or anybody else that's listened

Dante Anderson 9:11

to me under the sound of my voice. We're no better than anybody, but we're just as good as everybody. The world needs more love. Council Member Brown, Tijuana. District three. Thank you. Thank you. If you would like to, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Со вилбін е just a minute with an explanation of our zoning процес. But before I do that, I just wanted to acknowledge someone who has been a part of this community for years. Some of you uh have gotten to a point in your life where you've been able to retire. And you've been able to move on and enjoy the balance of your life and

Dante Anderson 10:08

Mr. Keith McVane has been working with us for many, many years and he's decided to go and do just that in twenty twenty five. And so I'm going to read Keith a letter from the the Mayor, Mayor Lowes, um that is directed to you.