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[00:00] Okay, all right. We are going to call to order today's regular meeting of the Miami City Council for Tuesday, April 3.
[00:21] Second item on the agenda in the NELAMM 2016 wrestling team proclamation.
[00:27] And that's the city council and I think what we do with the proclamation.
[00:33] Okay, all right.
[00:35] And coach, do you want to come up and introduce your guys and tell us a little bit about the success you had this year?
[00:42] We've all heard about it though. We still want to give you a chance to brag about it.
[00:46] I didn't have anything prepared, I feel so bad right now.
[00:50] I will definitely make deals. That's I can.
[00:52] Definitely want to thank everybody for the opportunity and the recognition of these young men and what they've done.
[00:57] Like I told our team today before we got here is I wish we could bring all of you.
[01:02] And what sometimes our guys don't understand is and everybody understand is it's not necessarily the eight all Americans that we have present here.
[01:09] But it's the entire team and the entire opportunity that we were granted from everyone.
[01:15] But thank you guys so much for the chance.
[01:19] I hope they realize it as much as I do that it's not something that comes every day.
[01:25] But we'll kind of start over here and correct me.
[01:29] We'll start with our lightest guy.
[01:32] He's our 125 pounder.
[01:34] He finished seventh this year at the National Tournament force.
[01:38] After that we've started up at 33.
[01:42] And now they're not the same size that they were whenever they were.
[01:46] So you're looking at him and saying 133 pounder now he's more like about 155.
[01:53] He's the right guy.
[01:54] Oh, he's gay.
[01:55] He's lying to me.
[01:56] No, they do.
[01:57] He finished for that.
[01:58] He finished fourth for this year.
[02:00] 141 pounder mid-stellar.
[02:01] He finished fifth for this year.
[02:04] Actually he ended up getting the most falls award of the whole National Tournament.
[02:08] Most falls, least amount of time.
[02:10] Which if you know anything about Russell and scores you a lot of big time points.
[02:14] Very fortunate to have him on our team.
[02:16] 149 pounder is Christian Holden.
[02:19] He actually, and I don't know if he realizes this or not yet either.
[02:24] But he vests over the National Tournament with a broken arm.
[02:27] He dislocated his elbow about January 10th.
[02:32] And whenever you dislocated it's so bad that he broke the tip of his radius off.
[02:37] And that wasn't officially healed before he went to the Regional Tournament.
[02:41] I don't think he cares.
[02:42] I don't think he cares.
[02:43] I don't think he cares.
[02:45] But Russell and National Tournament had he not had that broken arm.
[02:48] I think he had been a national champion like some of these other young men that we have.
[02:51] But he still scored some big time points for us.
[02:54] Very fortunate to have him on part of our organization.
[02:56] 157 pounder is actually...
[03:00] coming back from a trip from North Carolina, kind of a good thing.
[03:04] They didn't win the national title last night against Villanova.
[03:07] He might've been caught up in the hoop floor and everything else.
[03:10] Probably a song, a party that he was a part of, but he actually, as soon as he got back
[03:15] from the airport, made his second trip to OU, entertaining the idea of either OU or North
[03:21] Carolina at the moment, but he's not with us.
[03:24] He's a returning, or he's a national champ for us.
[03:26] 174 pounder Jacobi Smith, this young man, is actually a two-time national champ, wow, incredible.
[03:36] He was the OUW, the whole Russell and Tournament, lights out, Russell very, very well
[03:41] for us for a very fortunate to have him and very fortunate to have him be a part of our team.
[03:46] 184 pounder Jacobi Hill, he finished four process year, Jacob has been actually with us for the
[03:53] last three years, been here since we reinstated the program at NEL, he registered his
[03:59] first year, second year, Russell for us, and then this year he's a fourth place as an
[04:04] all-American at the National Tournament, 197 pound, he's Josh Lachum, he's from Chickashe
[04:09] Oklahoma, finished eight fourths this year, kind of had an injury there that kept him from
[04:16] doing as well as I thought he could have done, which I know he could have done, and he doesn't
[04:20] like it's 197 pound either, he's like a lot bigger than me, and last but not least certainly
[04:29] Blake Andrews, he's our heavyweight, he does like a heavyweight, I was sitting there behind him and
[04:34] seeing that being his back, he's a big young man, he's a national champ for us also, looking at both
[04:40] of these young men are looking at going to Oklahoma State next year, we've got a lot of the
[04:45] guys that some of our sophomores that are moving on, he's going to be back next year,
[04:49] better be back next year, he'll be back next year, Jacob is looking at a couple other different
[04:54] places, several different places that has opportunities with Christian the same thing,
[04:58] mid to same way, and then Josh the same way, but back to my whole point of what I was talking
[05:04] about with our team, and we instilled this team by, we instilled this family tradition value amongst
[05:10] our guys, and it's just sad that this isn't big enough for all of them to be in here, or we
[05:16] would have everyone of them because if you notice any of the pitchers on Facebook or the Twitter,
[05:21] everyone of these guys are just as much responsible for this national championship that we
[05:25] won as the 8-O Americans that we have here, the 9-O Americans total, the 10 national qualifiers,
[05:32] and I couldn't be more proud, I'm looking around, and I'm seeing guys that were out there
[05:38] and the hearts for hammers, they do a lot of community service, they do a lot of things in the
[05:43] community, and I know they would do it without the guidance of us, but a lot of that
[05:49] comes from the guidance of the coaching staff, which I didn't introduce coach Dennis Sigmund,
[05:54] this year I wanted to ward up the most outstanding, what is the most outstanding coach.
[06:00] That's actually not my word that is Coach Sigmund's a word.
[06:06] We also have three other assessment assistants that are very, very diligent in what they do with
[06:13] our coach and staff two younger, two younger guys, one of them that's younger, but actually
[06:18] my age, I say, is younger, but all four of our assistant coaches actually bring home the
[06:24] gold medals that I claim, you know, honors for, but we're very fortunate to have the situation
[06:30] very fortunate that we brought back wrestling to NEO and as long as I'm here, we're going
[06:36] to make sure that we keep a winning tradition involved with the program.
[06:39] Thank you guys.
[06:40] Thank you, Coach.
[06:41] Thank you.
[06:42] Congratulations to all of the young men.
[06:49] Okay, I didn't really recognize for all council member Joe Sharber for his, he was a sort
[06:57] of a show.
[06:58] Can you come up please?
[06:59] Yeah.
[07:00] I'm going to do this.
[07:05] Joe is one of those guys and it was kind of a good fruit.
[07:13] Come up here, Joe.
[07:14] We had an opening on the council and it was one of those last minute things and actually a member of
[07:20] staff said, we're going to be able to talk about doing this, so he gave me a call and I ended up
[07:25] up with doing this sort of, and it's sort of another term, that some health issues had to
[07:32] take a break for a while.
[07:34] But he made me back someday, and we're not sure if that's between him and his wife and son.
[07:38] But I wanted to prepare this for him and I wrote on here, Joe, thank you very much for your service.
[07:46] You always put the taxpayers first and that's what many good great council member.
[07:49] And that is so true.
[07:50] For all of these taxpayers watching, I'm going to need to put it out there.
[07:54] Joe can squeeze the bottom of the door.
[07:57] And always, every budget cycle, he asked questions and he wanted to understand, and I was
[08:04] a talk that this would be wanted to do about, it's so hard to come in as a brand new councilman
[08:09] and come in the first meeting and by and in six weeks later, he asked a woman that, let's talk to
[08:14] you.
[08:15] It's tough to understand.
[08:16] I can't take you at least in here to understand what's going on.
[08:19] It's going on.
[08:20] The Joe was a tremendous councilman.
[08:23] And this is well-deserved.
[08:26] So I'm going to take the staff to make sure everything is working out.
[08:43] Thank you very much.
[09:00] Okay, another recognition, Kim Shepherd for 10 years of service and I believe Mike Edwards is going to be the owner of
[09:14] Good, I skip Robert I do I don't know back to Robert is kidding there
[09:24] And so James yes
[09:27] Do the honors this is kids Shepherd. I think everybody knows him as cowboy every in the whole city
[09:32] I don't know. It's a tough choice between Joe and cowboy here who knows how many most people in the city
[09:38] So the Cowboys been with us for 10 years. He actually started at the Civic Center
[09:44] And then he went to parks that he's went to the cemetery now
[09:47] He has actually came back to parks
[09:49] He has five kids
[09:51] Been married two years now and he's got four grandkids
[09:56] So let's pleasure to have him on our team and you were a lot of learning a little of your
[10:01] Miami club. Yes, he was he was the president first president in the city here
[10:14] Well congratulations, can't thank you
[10:16] Now you said you were never short for words
[10:24] Okay, and I don't need to skip over a while about it a Robert and
[10:29] Mike you guys will come up
[10:38] You're leaving mayor council. We're here tonight. Robert barbers ten years with us
[10:45] Robert is a lead man on our crew and he's our heavy equipment operator. He does a great job
[10:51] If we have a
[10:52] anywhere in the city if we have a issue we need to dig around a lot of
[10:56] Utilities and stuff like that we call on our Albert. He's the guy we go to he's one of them like it happened not tear stuff
[11:03] Robert has two children and three grand sons
[11:06] Two of his grand sons were born this month and one of them was born on his birthday
[11:11] So he's prespecial about that Robert's actually getting married April 30th to his best friend and she's back here as well
[11:21] He's a very big senior fan and Oklahoma City center fan and in his spare time
[11:26] He likes to spend the time with his family and grandchildren and kids
[11:30] One of the things I want to say about Robert is
[11:33] We try to send the street department guys to OSU to the called L-Tab classes. It's free of charge
[11:39] All we have to do is pay for him to get out there
[11:42] It's a 12-step process. We try to send one or two to a couple classes every year
[11:47] Robert is the only one in auto accounting that has
[11:51] Completed that program
[11:53] A lot of the other guys in street department are about halfway through but he's actually completed that only one in auto accounting
[12:00] Thank you for your service.
[12:10] Okay, item six is public input on schedule personal appearances only when the audience it wishes to address the council on any of the agenda items
[12:20] You're being none item. Oh
[12:25] Hi, huh
[12:27] Hi, but see you there. Come on up
[12:29] She's so I would you all can't play in a three-way
[12:35] So you won't come in a three-minute. I know
[12:42] So honorable mayor councilman distinguished ladies and gentlemen
[12:47] well me out and bow well
[12:52] I am so tickle and happy to see that the new animal shelter is really going to happen
[12:58] It's not every day that I get to see a dream come true
[13:02] But I think I'm really going to do it this time
[13:05] It's happening because you city officials and others really care about the welfare of our neglected abused and homeless animals
[13:16] While I realize there's never enough money to fix all the problems in the city
[13:20] You solve the desperate need and you stepped up to the calls
[13:26] You know the new shelter was something that my late husband can't was passionate about
[13:31] I know he bugged the heck out of you and everybody else too
[13:36] From the time he became councilman until his death is mayor he
[13:40] Had meetings with people and he talked to individuals and then he came home and reported to me
[13:45] But I didn't mind cuz I was on the same plate, but you know, I sometimes think the like animals better people
[13:51] What do you think Neil?
[13:55] Anyway, I'm here tonight just to tell you how grateful I am that you didn't let the shelter fall by the way side
[14:04] You kept moving forward on it you could have shelter didn't use the money somebody else, but you didn't you stay true to your pledge
[14:12] And that tells me something about you as men and women
[14:16] I personally want to extend my gratitude and appreciation to each of you
[14:22] especially Neil Johnson
[14:24] Joe Walden, Mike Ferris Tyler, Con just a name of you
[14:28] So I'm closing
[14:30] Kent, thanks you but I'll be saying to you the kitty said you and I be a gray mayor. Thanks you
[14:38] Thank you. Okay, I didn't said it was considered gender. It's not for recommending items 8 through 14 for the consent agenda
[14:50] There are no questions on the adults. I would entertain emotions to approve most of your print mayor in a second second roll call Johnson
[15:00] 4.5.
[15:02] Lesson.
[15:03] So.
[15:04] Okay.
[15:05] I'm 15.
[15:06] I'm excited about this one.
[15:08] Resolution to recognize the cultural district proposed for the Arts and Humanities Council.
[15:13] An application to the Oklahoma Arts Council to create and develop a cultural district.
[15:17] District in downtown Miami.
[15:19] Thank you for being here.
[15:23] I'm having Chuck hand out some photographs that we have to include in the grant,
[15:31] which also includes a match of the proposed cultural district.
[15:36] So first I would like to say thank you for allowing me to appear before the council and
[15:41] present this opportunity for a grant to develop a plan for a downtown cultural district.
[15:47] You have something written in your book.
[15:49] I believe.
[15:50] And I thought I would just in my own words go through why this is important and what we're doing.
[15:55] So through the Miami Arts and Humanities Council,
[15:58] but in conjunction with the support from the city of Miami,
[16:02] we are going to apply grant to help us to develop a plan for a cultural district.
[16:09] So on the plan you can see the district will encompass first street north to second street south as well as from a street to a street.
[16:22] The reason that a district is designed as such is because it includes the Coleman,
[16:28] which of course is central to any idea of a cultural district to Miami.
[16:33] We have worked to public art on the street downtown.
[16:36] We have Charles Banks Wilson studio, The Dops in Museum,
[16:41] and the Miami Public Library.
[16:43] It name a few.
[16:44] And those are listed on the map, and I think you have a picture of those in the binder as well.
[16:49] So the grant is a five-year grant, and it is from the Oklahoma Arts Council,
[16:54] and it begins July of 2016, which is this year.
[16:58] And at the end of the five years, we will apply for the area to be designated as a cultural district.
[17:05] So I just want to make that clear.
[17:07] The grant funds are $7,500 a year, which is going to be matched by funds from the Miami Arts and Humanities Council,
[17:17] and other sources as well as in kind funds from the city of Miami.
[17:22] This money that we receive from the Arts Council and that we raise,
[17:26] will then be used for consulting fees related to planning and branding the district.
[17:32] The plan will outline activities, events, business development,
[17:37] all as a result of the cultural opportunities that we already have in Miami.
[17:42] So you wonder probably why this is important to Miami.
[17:45] A lot of people might think why does it matter to have a designation of a cultural district in downtown,
[17:50] because we already have all these wonderful assets.
[17:53] Well, first of all, it will bring revenue from Miami in the form of increased sales taxes,
[17:58] and by helping local businesses.
[18:00] business grow as well as developing new business. The activities and business
[18:05] will enhance the quality of life for everyone in our town that are an outgrowth of
[18:11] the planning for the five years. Having a cultural district helps with the recruitment
[18:16] of new business and people to my Emma. A cultural district is a powerful tool because
[18:22] more and more people want these activities and resources available in a place where they live
[18:27] and work. So I'm closing. I would again like to thank you for your consideration of this
[18:33] grant and the resolution, as well as compliment, Marcia Johnson, our public library
[18:38] director for her leadership and work on the application. She would have been here tonight,
[18:43] but I believe she is watching the TV. So my Marcia. And I wanted to open it to questions
[18:50] that you might have. If any. So and this is a five-year process. And during that five
[19:00] years we'll be working with a consultant that has experienced developing other cultural
[19:05] districts. And they'll look at the resources that we have and advise us on how best to put
[19:10] the district together as that kind of. Correct. And you know, in talking with Marcia and doing some
[19:16] research and with the State Arts Council they suggested that we would maybe hire a facilitator
[19:23] and it sounds as if it would be very similar to the city strategic plan that we just finished the process.
[19:29] And we have a rather large committee, business leaders, arts leaders, other interested party,
[19:35] city employees and leaders, you know, that will be part of the committee that forms a district.
[19:42] First start to work on forming the district.
[19:44] Okay. Any comments?
[19:47] Just one. I'd like to point out when we were working on the comprehensive plan, we started talking
[19:53] about a concept called Sense of Place. A lot of people when they talk about a city, they always
[19:59] talk about quality of life. And frankly quality of life is pretty easy to do. The water is drinkable.
[20:05] You have a good fire department, a good police department. You know, it's, you know, basic
[20:09] services are provided. But when you start talking about a sense of place and quality of place,
[20:14] what you're talking about is something that is unique to that community that makes people remember
[20:19] that community and want to be part of it. In this area, you see this all over. You see the Northwest
[20:24] Arkansas and a number of the cities like Bentonville, Rogers,
[20:28] Joplin with a number of the murals that they're doing in the downtown area and the third Thursday
[20:33] are walking the takes place, Pittsburgh Kansas with little Balkans days. And it's the type
[20:40] of thing that people in the community appreciate, enjoy being at, but people outside the community
[20:45] want to go and be a part of too. It gives a community that identity. And just as Ann said, if you
[20:51] start having that identity, that also ties into if you have a place to people want to visit,
[20:57] maybe it's a place people want to live, if it's a place.
[21:00] people want to live. It's a place people want to invest in and bring their businesses to it.
[21:05] This was something that our comprehensive plan recognized almost immediately and I just thrilled
[21:10] that through Anne's efforts and Marcia's efforts that we're bringing this to life. It's worth
[21:15] doing. Any questions or comments? No sir. Okay. And thank you. Thank you. We have an agenda item for a
[21:25] resolution. And so do we have a motion to approve the resolution for the cultural arts district?
[21:34] No, it's to approve. We're going to proceed to call the second motion. Okay. And roll call?
[21:39] Johnson.
[21:40] All right. Question.
[21:41] Four stars. All right.
[21:43] Show. All right. Thank you.
[21:45] Item 16 requests for approval to sell fuel at cost for young Eagles event on April 3rd.
[21:51] 2016 is recommended by airport authority board members.
[21:55] Is that a pattern? Or a child? I haven't. I haven't. I haven't. I haven't. I was not able to be here tonight.
[22:00] So the event was actually postponed from last weekend because of the weather. And in the past,
[22:09] this event that's going on by the experimental aircraft association, they get flights to about 50
[22:18] young children. They volunteer their time. And as part of that, they've asked the city to
[22:26] sell that at cost for the fuel, which the airport board is recommended and we've done that in the past.
[22:33] And again, the event has been postponed to this weekend. So it's still up to me for kids to come out and get
[22:38] free airplane rides and see our airport.
[22:43] All right. Can you please make sure that that postpone that gets noted? And thank you very much.
[22:50] From 1 to 5 to. Yes, it is. It's from 1 to 5 at the airport.
[22:56] Okay. Do we have a motion? Make a motion.
[22:59] In a second. Second. Role call.
[23:01] Foraster.
[23:02] Aye.
[23:02] Wester.
[23:03] Aye.
[23:03] Johnson.
[23:04] Aye.
[23:04] Shul.
[23:05] Aye.
[23:06] Item 17 award.
[23:07] It's 1661 for all the improvements to the lowest best event in the proof of the contract,
[23:14] and all for the city of Andrew City Attorney, to sign notice to proceed.
[23:17] Once all the documents are reviewed, Chuck.
[23:20] This project received three bids. This is on the alley that's between Main Street and A Street
[23:28] between Central and First. And again, we got some very good bids on this, the low bidder,
[23:36] being niece construction, which worked on many of our other projects. So we're very confident in him.
[23:40] So it's our recommendation to award it to niece construction.
[23:45] Any questions? No.
[23:47] We're just a second.
[23:49] Countly located.
[23:50] Zina?
[23:51] Yeah. Zina.
[23:54] Please.
[23:55] Please.
[23:55] Is it clear more?
[23:56] Please.
[23:57] Okay.
[23:58] I had heard of them.
[24:00] That's all right. Okay. We had a motion motion in the second. Second.
[24:06] Roll call. Johnson. Forester.
[24:09] Right. Western.
[24:10] All right.
[24:11] Short. That is for me, sorry.
[24:13] Yes. Yes.
[24:14] It's for me. Thank you for clarify.
[24:16] Most of this matter.
[24:17] I am 18. You bid 1653 for the animal control shelter.
[24:23] To lowest investor bidder.
[24:25] It's Saturday, Chuck and Joe.
[24:27] Thank you, Mayor. Council.
[24:29] It's been a long time coming, but we feel pretty confident.
[24:32] We went out for bids and we came back with full qualified bidders.
[24:37] A lowest bid being 333,000.
[24:41] Chuck and I made a few phone calls.
[24:43] He had listed 70 projects in the last five years.
[24:48] Some over a million dollars.
[24:51] Chuck and I called six of those customers, I guess.
[24:57] And with all positive results.
[25:00] We called and talked to Jason.
[25:04] He's the vice president of the American company.
[25:07] Yes, sir.
[25:08] Yes, sir.
[25:09] The little biter.
[25:10] And he expressed his understanding to the project.
[25:14] I felt confident about the project.
[25:17] The prince documents timelines.
[25:20] And through our speaking with him,
[25:24] the full confidence that he can complete the job.
[25:29] And what is the timeline for an completion?
[25:32] Do we have one?
[25:33] I believe it's 120 days from the start of order.
[25:37] Yes.
[25:38] Okay.
[25:40] Any other questions?
[25:42] Just one more time on the projected area, Joe,
[25:47] It's going to be south.
[25:48] Just directly south of the public works building 815D on the crook.
[25:53] And we do have capability.
[25:55] If in the future we can build on all.
[25:57] Yes.
[25:58] We can build on to the south.
[25:59] Yeah.
[26:00] Yes.
[26:01] And you'll remember leading up to this.
[26:02] We've done the rezoning for that property as well.
[26:04] Make sure that it could have gone.
[26:05] We did it.
[26:06] What is P.D on that property?
[26:09] Okay.
[26:10] Do you want to make the motion?
[26:12] Well, but first I want to thank Joe and Tyler and Mike Furness and Chuck.
[26:16] I want to thank Mike Furness and Chuck for getting somebody up.
[26:18] Forgive me.
[26:19] But you all been dealing with this for a long time and appreciate.
[26:23] You have to redo everything on several times and appreciate that.
[26:27] We all appreciate that.
[26:29] Thank you.
[26:30] And with that, I'm making motion.
[26:31] Okay.
[26:32] I'll take a roll call.
[26:33] Johnson.
[26:34] All right.
[26:35] Weston.
[26:36] All right.
[26:37] Foraster.
[26:38] All right.
[26:39] Thank you.
[26:40] Thank you.
[26:41] All right.
[26:42] I don't know.
[26:47] I don't know.
[26:48] Can you do business?
[26:49] Do you?
[26:50] No.
[26:51] You're on it.
[26:52] Staff of fortune in your pocket.
[26:53] Any mayor or council?
[26:55] Can you hear me?
[26:56] Announcements.
[26:57] I...
[26:58] To me.
[27:00] announcement, there's a voting go on today.
[27:02] If you have not yet voted, you've got 49 more minutes.
[27:06] So please find your voting to Washington and vote.
[27:11] I have a couple.
[27:12] I want to, I'm very happy for my archatia.
[27:15] I know this was important to him.
[27:16] And we appreciate him being on the count.
[27:18] And being the mayor, we appreciate him.
[27:21] Second, there's a little girl who got hit last night on the bicycle
[27:25] and just keep her in your prayers and thoughts,
[27:28] I wish her the best, no family.
[27:31] Thank you, Neil.
[27:33] City manager?
[27:34] Thank you.
[27:35] I never think you're on our bell try to move as quickly as possible.
[27:38] I do want to point out that toward the end of this month on the 26th, 27th, 28th,
[27:44] has part of our budget agenda.
[27:47] We are going to be having our budget hearings already that time of the year.
[27:52] I also want to point out that during that time, they're probably a number of things
[27:56] that we're going to be including as part of that.
[27:58] That they're related to the budget and finance here.
[28:01] One is where you'd like to have a study session during that time with Greg Nito to talk about
[28:06] bonds.
[28:07] There's a good opportunity right now.
[28:08] The market is very low, low percentage for bonds.
[28:12] You remember we have bond anticipation now itself for Red Roberts and Stadium.
[28:16] And this would probably be a very good time to go into the market and refinance those into
[28:21] permanent bonds.
[28:22] So we have great working on that for you right now.
[28:25] You might remember we set aside a very large amount of our budget for bolt to have some discussions
[28:31] about bringing bolt in.
[28:32] We're at a point right now where we want to talk to you about going out and doing that survey
[28:37] that we have talked about to see if this is going to be something that's viable for my Emma.
[28:42] So that's going to be coming up as part of that.
[28:46] Another thing is we're going to be discussing some items related to City Hall.
[28:50] So that we've been working quite a bit lately about trying to get a renovation now that
[28:55] we've decided that this building is structurally sound.
[28:59] There's some things that are taking place with Glendis retirement that will probably allow some
[29:04] additional space for the police department and we're really rethinking what we might be able
[29:09] to do with this building.
[29:10] Possibly we might be able to do some very meaningful things with this building for a significantly
[29:15] less amount of money.
[29:17] So again, those are items that we're going to be discussing.
[29:20] So please put those on your calendar.
[29:23] We're not only going to be talking about just the nuts and bolts and probably bring Joe in as
[29:27] a guest be able to make sure that we're pinching those dimes, but also just some things on the
[29:33] long term that we've all been looking at and wanting to do for my Emma's part of that.
[29:38] I also want to point out that we're going to be having a press conference on Friday, but
[29:44] we've got word that on 2017 we have an NJCA tournament or an auto tournament, but a bowl
[29:51] game that's going to be coming and speaking of red Roberts and field, a lot of people say
[29:56] why did you build that just for the high school and just for the college what's great for
[29:59] both of those.
[30:00] but it's also for the community.
[30:01] And one thing that we do want to point out,
[30:03] and this is not a criticism of the news record at all,
[30:06] but I think in reading the initial article,
[30:09] it looks as though this is something that NEO is doing.
[30:12] It is not, it is something that our CVB,
[30:14] it's something that the city of Miami doing, is doing.
[30:17] Now of course, we're going to be cooperating very much with
[30:19] NEO cooperating very much with my and the schools on this,
[30:23] but it's going to be something terrific for this community
[30:25] to have a bowl game in 2017.
[30:27] It's really something we're very happy with.
[30:30] And Amanda right now is that a conference on sports marketing.
[30:34] This is going to tie into a lot of things we talk in the budget
[30:37] about sports marketing that you already know about.
[30:40] And she's in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
[30:42] I asked her what the weather was, and she said last night,
[30:44] it was $2,000,000.
[30:46] And since all my relatives are Grand Rapids,
[30:48] you notice I'm in Oklahoma during this time of the year.
[30:50] I also just wanted to do a quick thanks to Joe and his staff
[30:55] for the British dedication yesterday.
[30:58] That was just such a nice, kind of a topping for that facility.
[31:03] You go over it every single day, and you don't think much about it.
[31:05] But again, what a beautiful thing that was from Miami
[31:08] and also just a good cooperative effort
[31:11] with one of our Native American tribes, our partners.
[31:14] And we're seeing more and more of that partnership take place.
[31:17] Again, Joe was the one that really worked on that.
[31:19] I'm glad you've gone still here, too, because it was so nice to have you.
[31:23] And so nice to have you take that plaque off,
[31:25] because I know that was so important to Canada as well.
[31:27] But important to all of us, so thank you.
[31:30] I was done.
[31:32] I just wanted to point out, and thank Melinda, especially,
[31:35] because she has been doing such a tremendous job on articles
[31:39] related to what's going on with FEMA.
[31:41] And the last two articles that she has written
[31:44] has given the community a very good understanding
[31:47] that when I was first interviewed, I talked about,
[31:52] I think almost one of my first meetings I was at, Mayor,
[31:55] you were the one that was leading the charge
[31:56] to have the Tetra Tech Study done.
[31:58] And now we have FEMA accepting the Tetra Tech Study
[32:02] and looking at it.
[32:04] And the important thing with that is, is that if they accept that,
[32:07] we hope that they will be bringing their maps much further down,
[32:12] which means that a lot of properties that might have been
[32:15] did valued, because they were in the flood plane
[32:17] when they weren't before, can stay out of the flood plane.
[32:20] And if that works out, this studies
[32:22] are already paid for itself.
[32:23] And there are many other things that we want to use the study for,
[32:26] and a lot of people are accepting the fact
[32:27] that we had a first-class study done on flood routing,
[32:31] on the initial river, to look at this problem
[32:33] from a scientific standpoint.
[32:35] It's working out very well.
[32:38] Two or three last things we just wanted to talk about.
[32:41] No two, excuse me.
[32:43] I wanted to point out that, starting next week,
[32:46] you're going to see our crews in the parking lot
[32:49] by security bank, Osperon, and First Baptist Church.
[32:53] And the timing on that got pulled up to us a little bit,
[32:56] but you might remember that this is a cooperative effort with...
[33:00] security, Osmondruck, and first excuse me, first batch is church, in which they're sharing
[33:06] costs with us, 50-50 to bring that parking lot back to life.
[33:09] If you've been on that parking lot, it is indeporable shaded.
[33:12] I don't think it's been touched, since I was here as a teenager, and it's something that
[33:17] we understand that we can't go in 100% city funds, but some of the businesses that recognize
[33:22] that they have, some of the stakers saying they would put up some of the effort to make
[33:26] this happen.
[33:28] So the reason it's taking place so quickly is the asphalt company that has been hired
[33:32] by the three entities that are sharing costs.
[33:35] They pretty much told us, you need to get it done early in the season, because later in
[33:38] the season, we're going to be on some big jobs in other places, so we're trying to move
[33:42] that up.
[33:43] So if anybody asks you, while we're doing that so quickly, when we do have some street work to be done,
[33:48] that's basically the reason why, but we'll be getting back to the street work very, very quickly
[33:52] too.
[33:53] So just wanted to make you aware, and that's a great thing that we're cooperating with some of our local
[33:57] partners to make something like that happen.
[34:00] And then speaking of partners, the Intertribal Council, on the 13th of this month, is going to
[34:06] be holding a meeting with term-bic authorities in Odawn about improving the intersection at
[34:11] Steve Owen's 69A in the term-bic, which is desperately needed.
[34:19] But I wanted to just point out the chief spark when it talked to me and said, basically, they'd
[34:24] like the city to help bring this about, or at least discuss it.
[34:29] I know that Chuck has been working on quite a few background information on this, how it can
[34:34] be done.
[34:35] We have a couple of developments that are going to be taking place at that corner in the not too
[34:39] distant future that will be affected by this.
[34:42] And when you talk about this being the gateway to Miami, and you have to wait two or three cycles
[34:47] for the light to be able to make a left turn, something needs to be done.
[34:51] And I want to congratulate Chief Spartman for kind of getting the start of all the tribes
[34:55] are very much involved in it, but also the trustees placed in us to help bring it about
[34:59] as well.
[35:00] So that's something taking place.
[35:02] And last and absolutely not least, you might recognize the person that said you do my left.
[35:07] But I do not know that this person is now called the Legal Services Coordinator for the City
[35:14] of Miami.
[35:15] She has been a selection for that position.
[35:18] I think you just accepted the offer today, as a matter of fact.
[35:22] So as we move ahead with our organizational structures, Kristin, this role is going to become
[35:28] more and more important, because not only working with the current city attorney on the new
[35:33] city attorney coming up, but we have other cities or other attorneys that are working for us
[35:39] in other areas, and she'll provide the kind of coordination that's necessary.
[35:44] And then looking at Randy, who's wanting to jump ship in August, she's going to be taking
[35:50] over Randy's role in our contracting and purchasing as well.
[35:56] So she's going to be eventually moving down to Jill's area and be...
[36:00] Supervised directly by Jill, but as much of self-stargers you were, I'm not too worried about your
[36:04] supervision.
[36:05] We're going to have trouble keeping up with you.
[36:08] That's enough.
[36:09] Thank you.
[36:10] Thank you.
[36:11] Thank you.
[36:12] Okay, I don't 23 is executive session for soon on to 25 OS 307 B1 and 307 E and 305.
[36:22] Do we have a motion to go into executive session for the reasons listed on the agenda?
[36:28] Okay.
[36:29] Make motion.
[36:30] And a second.
[36:31] Second.
[36:32] World call please.
[36:33] Forced in.
[36:34] Aye.
[36:35] Johnson.
[36:36] Aye.
[36:37] Aye.
[36:38] Be right back.
[36:42] I don't know.
[36:48] Okay.
[36:49] We are out of executive session at 704 PM.
[36:52] Item 24 is adjourned.
[36:53] We have motion to adjourned.
[36:55] Motion to adjourned.
[36:56] Second.
[36:57] Second.
[36:58] Aye.
[36:59] Johnson.
[37:00] Aye.
[37:01] Shows.
[37:02] Aye.
[37:04] We are adjourned.
[37:06] That's all right.
[37:07] That's all right.
[37:08] It's on now.
[37:09] The view is rough off.
[37:12] Okay.