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[27:00] The on-request from this side of the room would be that should allow you to manage personnel
[27:05] even tighter.
[27:06] Yes.
[27:07] Yeah.
[27:13] Looks good.
[27:15] Congratulations on your work.
[27:16] Thank you.
[27:17] Can I bring this up to date, right?
[27:19] Yes.
[27:23] So is there any issues with software or anything like that to run this system?
[27:27] All of that is included in the final cost.
[27:30] And they also include training with that as well.
[27:33] And then we'll give us a card system that will allow us to tag everything quickly and
[27:40] efficiently.
[27:41] If they won't be.
[27:42] And overnight think like I said, we have over 30,000 items in the library.
[27:45] But it will allow us to scan it.
[27:47] It will automatically pop out the label tag directly to that item and move on.
[27:52] So we'll be able to pull the scan.
[27:53] The tag is to get back up.
[27:55] And go down the child.
[27:56] So no more.
[27:57] No more doing decimal system.
[28:00] Everything will still be organized and everything the way that it is.
[28:04] It will just allow us to not have to scan everything.
[28:08] Sorry.
[28:09] That's a poor 10th of June.
[28:10] It was a successful day.
[28:13] Last week.
[28:14] So.
[28:20] It's good to stop.
[28:21] Thank you.
[28:23] Thank you.
[28:25] Was there an accident in there?
[28:26] Yeah.
[28:27] Did we have to vote on it?
[28:29] Yeah.
[28:30] I'll make a motion when I approve it.
[28:32] I'll second.
[28:36] These steps.
[28:37] Hi.
[28:38] So.
[28:39] Hi.
[28:40] Thank you.
[28:41] Hi.
[28:42] 10.
[28:44] 8th amendment to health care service and agreement between free and health.
[28:50] System and the Mila.
[28:52] Authorised City Manager.
[28:53] Sign.
[28:54] Mr. Cindy.
[28:56] Thank you.
[28:57] So basically this is just a housekeeping item.
[29:00] Every year we have.
[29:02] The prime and hospital that jump is part of our medical network for our employees.
[29:07] We just have to update their.
[29:10] The position fee schedule, which is something that is negotiated by our third party.
[29:14] Ministry of.
[29:15] We.
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[29:19] At this time, what they done in past me.
[29:21] My.
[29:22] He's had a different.
[29:23] He's scheduled for all their different clients.
[29:25] But they've provided this year.
[29:27] So they'll all have the same.
[29:28] He's scheduled.
[29:29] Which is.
[29:30] Same.
[29:31] But we have to have.
[29:34] Uh.
[29:35] The signature.
[29:37] He's.
[29:38] He's.
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[29:42] He's.
[29:43] Second.
[29:45] Parker.
[29:46] Hi.
[29:47] Stoneburg.
[29:48] David.
[29:49] He's.
[29:50] Thanks.
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[30:00] So, I hope you all had read the action decision request, but I want to touch on some of
[30:13] those things, because the history of what we went through is important for this.
[30:19] As you'll recall, the voters in 2018 legalized medical marijuana in the state of Oklahoma.
[30:29] And licenses started getting issued 30 days after that was done.
[30:34] It wasn't till over a year later in 2019, but the legislature passed legislation that
[30:42] allowed municipalities to regulate medical marijuana businesses and their communities.
[30:49] So by time we had the right to do that, we already had a bunch of businesses that were
[30:54] in place.
[30:55] And basically, under the law, they were grandfathered in, we were stuck with it.
[31:02] We did pass that first ordinance in 2019, but in 2020, the council at that time made
[31:12] it clear that they wanted to set aside the downtown district and try to not have medical
[31:23] marijuana businesses there.
[31:25] We already had a handful.
[31:26] There were a few that were already operating, and so we were kind of stuck with those.
[31:30] But at that time, they enacted an amendment to this ordinance that basically said there would
[31:39] be no new medical marijuana businesses in the downtown area.
[31:45] And downtown roughly is Steve Owens Boulevard to the railroad tracks from A Street to A Street.
[31:54] So it's a six block area that we're talking about.
[32:03] We authorized those businesses that were already in operation to continue in business.
[32:08] If we hadn't done that, we would have been sued and we would have lost on that.
[32:14] But we did put in provisions that if a business that's already there gets shut down, then they
[32:23] can't reopen.
[32:25] And so after the last meeting, the mayor of talk with me about that, and you wanted to make
[32:31] sure that we had that as tight as we could for the downtown area.
[32:38] That's all we're talking about is the downtown area.
[32:40] As you all know, we've got marijuana businesses all over town for further operations.
[32:49] And we did that ordinance in 2020.
[32:55] There was kind of best guess as to what issues may come up.
[33:00] Since then, we have had issues come up with one business in particular, and so we have a little bit more of a solid framework with which to assess our ordinance.
[33:11] And so with that in mind, I went back in, made some amendments to the ordinance.
[33:18] The red line copy that you all got, I think, first of all, reaffirms in doing this ordinance.
[33:29] You all are reaffirming the decision that you don't want medical marijuana businesses in the downtown area to the extent that we don't have to.
[33:40] And that if a business that is already there shuts down, then for whatever reason, they can't reopen.
[33:50] And under the state statute that we have, it's my opinion that we're valid in doing what we're doing.
[34:01] Basically, the ordinance says that we can regulate them through zoning.
[34:05] The only thing we can't do is just prohibit any medical marijuana business from the city.
[34:10] Well, obviously, we're not doing that, because we have mall over the city.
[34:14] It's just that we don't want them in that particular area of the city.
[34:20] And so, hence you have this ordinance in front of you.
[34:25] And so doing, I just want to re-emphasize that you would be addressing the same thing that the council that was in place in 2020 did by saying,
[34:40] You really don't want those businesses in the downtown area.
[34:45] I point out that we had a lot of problems, particularly with the one business.
[34:52] Lots of complaints from other businesses in the area.
[34:59] Those have gone away to the best of my knowledge since the one has been shut down.
[35:05] And this is intended to just strengthen our position.
[35:09] If somebody were to challenge us on not allowing medical marijuana businesses in the downtown district.
[35:17] And with that, I'd be glad to answer any questions.
[36:36] I'll make a motion to approve, please.
[36:42] Parker?
[36:45] Aye.
[36:46] E-SIP.
[36:47] Davis?
[36:48] Cerevine?
[36:49] Aye.
[36:51] Double Hi.
[36:52] 12.
[36:53] The emergency call is oral order.
[36:54] It's 2021-06, the MindExsection.
[36:56] 26-1441.
[36:57] The amount of marijuana businesses and personal use droids.
[37:02] Or what is the order that we just demanded?
[37:05] Or putting an induction at correct例.
[37:07] No, this.
[37:08] I'll make a motion to approve.
[37:09] Good.
[37:13] Good.
[37:14] David.
[37:15] All right.
[37:16] Good.
[37:17] Hi.
[37:18] 13 staff reports, 14 mayor and council community announcements.
[37:32] Everybody go to the parade.
[37:39] Yeah.
[37:40] It's good, right?
[37:41] Wonderful.
[37:42] It's great.
[37:43] That couldn't have been on my own people.
[37:45] So that way.
[37:46] So I drove one of the floats in the parade.
[37:49] And it's unbelievable.
[37:51] I couldn't believe how many people were lying down to him.
[37:53] My float brought.
[37:55] And I've candy that we should have been able to do it twice.
[37:57] We ran out in two blocks.
[37:59] We ran out too.
[38:02] I said, I'm not as both of you.
[38:04] You have to need them throwing me in.
[38:06] You're too late.
[38:08] That's too far down.
[38:09] The only negative I would say came away from it.
[38:12] That the beginning was a little bit disorganized.
[38:14] I mean, there's a lot of people else.
[38:16] It's understandable because the whole street was blocked off.
[38:19] Yeah.
[38:20] Yeah.
[38:22] That's some of the comments that I'd heard that is definitely something that we need to look at.
[38:27] I know in the past they said they've done some things to try to rope people off or give them back, which, you know, even
[38:33] streaming rope or whatever, probably not going to prevent people.
[38:36] But we didn't have a lot of, we get children, but we also had some young adults who were going in and out of traffic, gathering candy and things.
[38:50] Probably some adults.
[38:51] Which probably is something that we should take a closer look at in the public safety aspect of having all the large vehicles coming through there.
[39:00] We also had a vendor that I was not pleased with the way they were blocking traffic at times.
[39:07] Floats were literally having to swore towards other sides of the street to go around this
[39:12] vendor's cart, who was just stopping it in the basically the middle of the road while they were
[39:17] selling their wares.
[39:18] And although I don't know that we discourage them from doing that, I do think they should probably
[39:24] follow some tighter guidelines.
[39:25] Do we offer licenses for that?
[39:27] Or is it just anyone who wants to come down?
[39:29] I think there is a requirement.
[39:31] I'm not mistaken.
[39:32] There's an ordinance that requires somebody to have a license to sell on Main Street,
[39:37] but I do not believe that these individuals were necessarily licensed, but that is
[39:42] something that I've asked them out.
[39:44] I feel like it should be licensed.
[39:45] It feels like we should be able to confine them to the sidewalks and walking up and down
[39:50] the sidewalks instead of intractive.
[39:53] Well, personally, I didn't get very many complaints about that whole evening.
[39:59] The only complaints I got were about the vendors.
[40:03] They didn't like the fact that they were trying to be there with their family to enjoy the parade
[40:07] and they kept trying to get pedal stuff and they didn't like it.
[40:10] That was the complaints I got.
[40:12] I don't remember those being there before, but I may be wrong.
[40:16] I think they were there last year.
[40:17] I do remember last year.
[40:18] I've been there like four or five years, but it's been a long time.
[40:22] I don't think we need them.
[40:24] I think if they were available, I mean that may not be something we have a problem.
[40:29] But having them going up and down the street in the street while the parade is trying to
[40:34] travel may not be the best.
[40:36] Or would designate a spot in downtown where they are at and people want to do that, we'll go to
[40:42] them.
[40:43] I think that would come across a lot better rather than I do too.
[40:48] But anyway, my comment and the reason that I brought it out was just I was really amazed
[40:52] at the outcome.
[40:53] I was a little concerned with how tight it got in a couple of places with the kids being pushed
[40:58] and driving a big truck and not being able to see.
[41:03] But overall, it was fantastic turning out.
[41:06] From the numbers I heard and including even the numbers tonight, I think they were close to
[41:11] the 25 to 30 more floats than our largest, our previous largest parade.
[41:18] I know the Tulsa parade was this last weekend.
[41:24] They had 60 some entries.
[41:27] And we had 80 some, which is pretty impressive.
[41:34] It was impressive.
[41:35] And it felt more spread out to you, but the Tulsa parade was that you know for this area picture
[41:46] was one of the biggest praise that I attended that weekend and I did four of them with my
[41:50] little boat and that boat was little, I don't think it was that little, I just looked
[41:54] that little.
[41:55] And my little hat.
[42:00] He was waving his tassel around, he was crying out.
[42:04] He was crying out.
[42:06] The parade was good.
[42:08] I'd like to see, you know, we did the tree lighting.
[42:12] I don't know if that's been done before I assume it has, because we had the magic button.
[42:16] But it was good.
[42:18] But it was good.
[42:20] And I think next year, we probably, you know, invite some of the churches at a time.
[42:24] We do not have much time this time.
[42:26] And we're kids.
[42:30] Every church had a float.
[42:32] And back when we were kids, they were actually floats and not just pick up to pull in trailers.
[42:36] Right.
[42:38] So I would actually see that go again.
[42:40] Yeah, back when I drove your school bus.
[42:42] She can work on napkins.
[42:44] Yeah.
[42:47] Anyway, that's all you guys.
[42:48] I just wanted to have some conversation around there.
[42:50] Because I talked to the green.
[42:52] I'll just put the most part.
[42:56] I'm the green.
[42:58] Really?
[42:59] Yeah.
[43:02] Yeah.
[43:03] Down the tree.
[43:04] Yeah.
[43:05] Yeah.
[43:06] We agree.
[43:07] Yeah.
[43:08] You could actually steal here.
[43:11] Pretty good.
[43:12] Perhaps you had to get up on.
[43:13] Yeah.
[43:14] Well, I think we coordinate something next year.
[43:17] And we have some bleachers.
[43:18] Is there a committee that's in charge of that?
[43:20] Of what?
[43:21] That's great.
[43:22] I don't know that for that.
[43:23] It's a shame.
[43:24] Chamber is.
[43:25] Chamber is.
[43:26] Greg and they had meetings that plan for all this before.
[43:30] Maybe we should recommend that they should have a planning meeting.
[43:34] A head time?
[43:35] Maybe.
[43:36] I don't know.
[43:37] December 1st.
[43:39] Yeah.
[43:40] I don't know.
[43:41] I mean, anything's better than nothing.
[43:43] It's all on that day, maybe they could discuss the business,
[43:46] but while they're at it.
[43:47] Yes.
[43:48] Maybe even like November 1st.
[43:51] I don't know.
[43:52] I'm just thinking.
[43:53] There was a few things that seemed like maybe they were a little bit.
[43:57] Disorganized.
[43:58] It could have been better if they were planned.
[44:01] Just don't know.
[44:03] But I think, too, if we get some stuff out there and encourage some of the churches to get a floating in that that you used to.
[44:13] Even if it's sort of youth group or something that puts one together.
[44:17] Encourage our businesses to decorate downtown.
[44:20] And maybe have a contest for businesses downtown to decorate.
[44:24] I think it'd be.
[44:25] We could really live it up down in a little bit.
[44:27] So.
[44:28] We could give away chamberbox for the winners.
[44:32] We could give away chamberbox.
[44:34] In January.
[44:35] Wow.
[44:36] Anyone else?
[44:37] No.
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[44:57] You're only talking about an update.
[44:58] There's this.
[44:59] This.
[45:00] as the oral arguments. So the Council last Thursday, I said all of you an email link. If you had
[45:08] an opportunity to listen to that, that was the actual oral arguments for the appeal that my
[45:14] Emma has. A lot of the work that has been done by the attorneys given the invoice that you all
[45:21] occurred earlier. But the oral arguments were actually heard last Thursday morning in DC by the
[45:31] Court of Appeals, U.S. Court of Appeals. And you know, the best you can say for many
[45:38] things like those oral arguments, which there was no judgment or anything ruled or in that
[45:43] time of course, because that was just an opportunity for the judges to ask questions and
[45:49] get answers, and then they will be evaluating mostly the written content or what they were provided,
[45:54] and then they will be ruling, you know, the best guess from what attorneys tell us could be as
[46:02] early as early February. He could be as late as June before there is a ruling on this. Of course,
[46:08] the appeal is related to the fact that FERC kicked the can down the road, if you will, on a ruling,
[46:22] where the city felt that GRDA had not appelled the current license as in place. You know, we talk a lot
[46:31] about relicensing. Well, there's a current license that's in place today and has certain obligations
[46:36] that are placed on. GRDA in one of those obligations is the purchase of any land in the
[46:44] easements of the flowage of land that floods. And so that has been our appeal is that FERC should go ahead
[46:55] and make a decision on whether or not GRDA should hold their current license or uphold their current
[47:01] license and purchase that land. FERC had at the time kicked the can down the road and said they
[47:07] would address it during relicensing. So the city filed a appeal and that's the appeal that was heard
[47:13] in the New York argument last Thursday. I would say that there were positive aspects to the oral arguments.
[47:22] There were several things that were brought to light that were, I would say in the city's favor that
[47:27] there were three judges and several of the or at least two of the judges seem to have a lot of knowledge
[47:36] based on the reports that we had filed with them. Obviously they had read those reports because they
[47:42] were very knowledgeable of things we had actually put in reports. So that being said that's always a positive
[47:48] thing to know that they've studied it and I think they were genuinely concerned about the citizens of
[47:55] my and my based on some of the comments they made during the oral arguments.
[48:00] I would certainly encourage anybody to go listen to it, it's all in line as you know, the U.S.
[48:05] Court of Appeals is online and has a YouTube channel, so you can find it listen to it.
[48:10] The audio was not good, it was extremely difficult to understand.
[48:18] Certain people in the room, you could hear occasionally, but everybody else, it was kind of a struggle.
[48:23] And that was, I guess because they were not well-prepared to do this with just audio broadcast.
[48:30] So they were kind of winging it, and you could tell.
[48:34] But other than that, we will certainly report on anything that comes out of that oral arguments
[48:40] as we learn anything new.
[48:42] And again, I think there will be continued discussion with the council on the city doing some
[48:49] type of formal report to citizens and maybe January or February that we bring all of the information
[49:02] that we have and have a conversation in a public forum, distancing the entire history of the legal disputes
[49:13] that myma has had because of flooding.
[49:17] We can talk about what we're doing with the silver jackets in preparation for potential
[49:23] future flooding.
[49:25] We can talk about the appeal, we can talk about the real licensing, we can talk about the legal challenges,
[49:30] we can talk about the cost of the legal challenges and what the city has faced to date and
[49:39] any cost that we might see in the future.
[49:42] All of those things, each of you as council members has discussed the fact that you think
[49:46] this is something that the citizens of myma should be fully versed on and understand so that
[49:54] they can help support the indoor and make a decision or help the council make decisions on how
[50:03] we move forward as a community.
[50:04] So that being said, anything else you want me to add?
[50:09] Mr. Mayor, I'm happy to.
[50:10] Do you have a little bit of an answer to any questions?
[50:13] Well, I'm not.
[50:14] I listen as well and there was some positive stuff buying out of this, I was pleasantly
[50:22] surprised.
[50:23] Yes, it was I.
[50:28] It's always encouraging when the individuals that we rely on to make decisions of this magnitude
[50:36] obviously take the time to educate themselves, which we would say in the citizens of myma that
[50:44] is good for us when the decisions make such as the judges and the court of appeals educate
[50:53] themselves to all of the facts, I think that's in our favor, so that was good to see.
[51:06] Did I make it?
[51:09] They were done, Bob?
[51:11] Yeah.
[51:12] 16 this meeting would not be continued from the Calce Travers
[51:14] and we could be in the staff rooms for the purpose of the executive session.
[51:17] I don't care.
[51:21] And I respect your decision.
[51:24] Good job, Michael.
[51:27] What's your name?
[51:29] That's a 15-yard.
[51:32] Yeah, yeah.
[51:33] Yeah, one job.
[51:35] I'm going to the election to the adjourn.
[51:39] Just to let us.
[51:41] Okay.
[51:42] What'd you get up here?
[51:43] Okay.
[51:44] The fire is out of the executive session.
[51:45] I'm back into the regular session.
[51:47] This is the Monastery Council.
[51:49] And we'll lose the night team, action item.
[51:53] Both on the international association fire fires.
[51:56] Local night team 69.
[51:58] First of all, here are 21-22 contract.
[52:01] So moved.
[52:04] Second.
[52:05] E-step.
[52:07] All right.
[52:08] Davis.
[52:09] Under.
[52:11] Upstate.
[52:12] Parker.
[52:13] Congratulations.
[52:14] Thank you.
[52:15] To all of you guys.
[52:16] We appreciate their service.
[52:17] Thank you, guys.
[52:18] And 20.
[52:21] Second.
[52:24] Davis.
[52:25] So full.
[52:26] Hi.
[52:27] Denver.
[52:28] Parker.
[52:29] Hi.