First of all, I'd like to apologize for the changes that we actually made in our meeting locations in order to meet in council chambers, but because we had to change our meeting last week, to today, because the neighborhood summit in Council Chambers was originally thought. So we chose to meet you. We realized that this room is a little bit more congested than the council chambers. Even though the bathroom was made for City Hall has been bending over, please feel free to put your your dad's we have some comfortable, I know the seats are labeled for spacing. But I think we probably have more than two spacing will allow for. So if it makes you feel more comfortable, please do that right. Good morning. Happy New Year to everyone. And welcome to the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board. This morning, did everyone get an opportunity to pick up a copy of the agenda from the counter. We have a lot of things. And so we're going to move the meeting along pretty fast compared to what we normally do.
Again, welcome to the Planning Advisory Board. This board is an advisory board to the city council. Our main purpose is to review, investigate and discuss issues that come down from the council in the form of ordinances resolutions and make recommendations to the city council. Additionally, we send information down to all top five for the inconvenience, after we review issues, ordinances, resolutions, whatever and some kind of conclusion as to whether what we think we share that information with the NP use because in most cases they have to vote on it. So we are directly communicating with the Atlanta city council and the NPT news. Without further ado, we're going to go ahead and get the meeting started. One quick thing here. If you would like to ask us adopt the agenda before we do the roll call. The reason for that is as we do the roll call, we're going to ask the voting members to come up in the front of the room and the clerk's the municipal clerk's office is going to do the swearing in of the voting
members also come about
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we have to please bear in mind that we have a quorum so we can vote.
Okay. So then our first vice president is going to go ahead and call the roll out I know we have for the sake of common procedure we're going
to do it Okay. Thank you very much. Good
morning everyone.
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All right. So let's go back to adopting the agenda we already had a motion and a second on the floor is there anyone in the room that objects to the adoption of the agenda when
that being said then the agenda will be adopted by consensus we hold the actual objections. Now, the municipal clerk's offices going to go over the names that we just called again and as I call your name, please come up and line up in front of the slope within here so that you can be saw yeah here we are with this outbreak.
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a pair of board members. Good morning, I'm Audrey Vanessa Walden, Deputy municipal clerk city of Atlanta. I'm here to administer your oath of office as a board member of the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board. When everyone please raise your right hand and repeat after me, I and state your name sharable swear or affirm that I will faithfully and impartially and impartially perform the duties imposed upon me, duties imposed upon me by reason of my appointment or my election as an officer or a member, as an officer or a member of the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, planning advisory
board, I have not in order to influence my appointment to this position directly or indirectly, directly expressly or by implication, expressly or by implication, promised my vote or support to any person or change and all things pertaining to my position
and all things pertaining to that position.
I will be governed by what is my conviction for the public good I further swear swear that I will uphold and support the Constitution and laws of the United States of the United States of the state of Georgia
and the city of Atlanta and I heard this weird that I will uphold in support for the ethics code of the City of Atlanta Thank you very much they complete your oath of office gratulations and thank you for being of service to the city of Atlanta right
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you know I just want to understand which is the person who was the challenge here that they were not delivered
that the clerk has to square just square in numbers and that's what they told me oh my god this is not to say shoulders back and then that was that you know what came down from you because of discussions about your school year
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good morning again we're about to give the poster to the board members, the officers
Thank you very much, raise your right hands please. And repeat after me. I and state your name. Swear or firms that I will faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon me. by reason of my appointment, or my election or as an officer, as an officer, or a member of the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board of the Atlanta planning, I have not in order to influence my appointment to this position, my appointment, directly or indirectly, directly or indirectly, expressly or by implication promised my vote or support to a person or supporter to any and all things pertaining to my position. And I will be governed by what is my conviction, I'll be governed by works
for the public good. I've earned the swear that I will uphold and support the Constitution of the United States the state of Georgia and the city of Atlanta, the city of Atlanta. I've heard this swear at first that I will uphold and support the ethics code Thank you very much. Congratulations to all officers
Madam Chair, matter of the record, I would like the mind to know as well as the public to know why there are two officers who are not smarter than I, myself are shaping Carter, who was elected as a momentary chose not to be sworn in, because there were two members of this board that was duly elected by this board that was not sworn in. So I don't like the municipal clerk who was here to state but for the record, why these two members, Lora Hawk injury shop were not sworn in.
This young lady is here.
I'll clarify just for one second. I am Vanessa Walden, Deputy municipal clerk for the city of the city council. As the clerk, it is our charge to administer the oath of office to our boards, board members that are assigned to each for the permission of the city. Office of Guinness Book, if not involved, at any point in time, with any board and their procedures or processes, we have no knowledge of what goes on in your election process. Or in your business. We are only here. And I am only here to affirm your oath of office. Why you? Why do you choose to not? Or to proceed with your oath of office? I have no knowledge of I don't know, any of your? Or is we are here to either also not only administer your oath, but should you have an agenda for the day, we'd appreciate if you would submit that to our office for our records. And when you have your minutes, we appreciate that you submit those to our office. If you have our contact name and all board members, we accept those at office hours. But we have no participation, no involvement in your board processes or procedures.
So just the clarity, because what was said to us off Mike was put into position that it wasn't the painter, but you are prepared but you are given to correct
and is absolutely correct. So
that means that by that Lora Hawk called the regular corresponding secretary and Julian Sharpe, who was elected by this time as your office according to your knowledge
that might be correct. Like I said, I'm not we don't participate on on what you do, or what piece of paper we only administer the hours to the people who are given to us. And that's, that completes our, our charge.
Sometimes the question won't work different way. To your knowledge, every one that was submitted to you, they both have three copies with the record.
So thank you. Now, thank you.
Let me see if we can explain this, to the best of my knowledge. Our ordinance says that a PAP shall consist of 25 voting members, one for each in PQ. We briefly mentioned this at the last meeting that and we talked about it at the executive committee meeting that perhaps he needed to go back to holding the selections in January. or because most of the NP use by held their elections either October, November, and in some instances in December. So when we hold our elections and we can elect officers, there is a distinct possibility that somebody that has been elected, has been seated as an officer will not be chosen by their NPU to be their voting member. And our bylaws specifically state that officers must be the voting members. Consequently, we have two people who unfortunately, fell into this transition situation. A pet voted in November, and the MP use submitted their voting member listing to planning in December. As I said was we talked about this and recycling committee, and we spoke about it briefly at our last meeting that to eliminate this possibility. It may be that he needs to go back to having its meet this elections in January, as we did in the past. Mr. Toomey, do you have a question or comment?
Yes, I'm doing. Expanding. I was just explained, basically. Sounds like and I'm not sure. My chair was stating that the people that were not scoring today, other than the one that chose not to be scored, or not qualified to be based one, correct?
Exactly, because they are not
expanding that to other functions within a pipe, according to the bylaws are Have you notified? Various board appointments by a Pac Man are also not governance on the voting member, that they are no longer appointed to those people boards, and f5 is not correct, right as an option, right?
No, that's not correct. If you all remember, last year, for those of you who put this at the time, if you remember, when we found out that we have erroneously changed our gun laws to reflect that we had 75 members in April ordinals only sentence that AIPAC shall consist of 25 voting members, I made the commitment there, that we were going to try and figure out some way we would have the voting members as designated by the NP use. But we're going to try and figure out some way the rest of the 50 because we need all of you to be working with us on this poll. So no, that does not I think that
was that was almost backfired. Because it seems to me that if you have a bylaw, that stays one thing, you cannot change that, and I'm not sure I'm only doing this to try to clarify and possibly get a cohesive working body instead of us fighting internally. I would like to try to settle this once and for all, because we're going to go back to when I first joined when a fan was dysfunctional. And that's where it seems like we're trying to cheer him up to make a fan dysfunctional. My son read, whatever design or by happenstance, so please, let's go back to our bracket, where it's on the book and what the ordinance states and not because we cannot cover that point. short briefing and remember the parties are saying what's important,
clarifying it
and coming back to the body and loving the body. What is the law? And second, what our bylaws say? And if our bylaws are in violation? Need to adjust? Yes, Madam
Chair,
if I may also add at the executive board meeting for this month. This can be producing events to be the actual body of our executive board meeting. We did not discuss what you just stated, moving violations that had come up at all Up. While we did discuss what the overall what the executive board decided was that to essentially reinstate alternating delegates, because essentially, with the exercise that was conducted last year, identified just 25 voting members only. We have our dinner vows have done away with alternate and done and your executive board voted to reinstate and also was committed to doing was amending our bylaws and bringing it online. And we also had sought to seek out clarity from the department. And there was a letter drafted. I'm not sure if it was said, to be clarity, but on behalf of your Executive Board, which our president and executive board agreed should be done by the board here back or go to the meeting to discuss the only decision that was made by both was to state alternates and delegates. That was there was no discussion of moving on action. And the meeting was recorded, and we produced a recording to this body. So you're giving yourselves because there's so this characterization is
a vehicle for point avoid. Yes, sir. Madam Chair, has it not required? If you were not sworn, that you are no longer an executive board member? Therefore, when I would request is that machine that you reconsider based on that fact and take your oath so that you can speak as a board member? And if not, then I would probably request that you stepped down from the FOIA as as an executive board member that is really I think protocol if you're not a board member not sworn that you are not a board member, so you need to rethink that I understand why you're doing it but it's not a great process because when eliminate your voice
listen to this
this I was surprised that you didn't take care of your own
Mr. Hunter your response to that
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I will show you how to swear and affirm that I will faithfully and impartially perform Mr. Cleves
would have thought so correct. So you need to go up to the front was John Deere like everybody else and please let her administer the oath and let her do her job thank you so very much
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again are you waving away because we we have a lot of things on the agenda deck plus we have a mixed reception to follow after this meeting today
Mr. hydrography would get in get given a position where you can face the audience please
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know, this is Oh, you were not sworn in earlier okay, you weren't you what's your name? Okay. So if you're actually going to do so, gentleman will be sworn in this Jones as a member and he would be as an officer
please raise your right hand and repeat after me. I state your name, swear or affirm that I will faithfully and impartially
and impartially
perform the duties imposed upon me. by reason of my appointment or my election as an officer or a member, as an officer of the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, I have not in order to influence my appointment to this position, to this position, directly or indirectly, expressly or by implication, expressly or by implication, promised my vote to any person, any person, and all things pertaining to my position, and all things pertaining to my position, I will be governed by what is my conviction,
I'll be governed by what is my potential for the public good.
On for the square, that I will unfold and support, but I will uphold and support the Constitution and laws and constitution of the United States United States of the state of Georgia, Georgia, and the city of Atlanta. I further swear or further swear that I will uphold and support uphold the ethics code of the City of Atlanta. That complete show Oh, and thank you again for being Americans. Thank you for your service to the city.
Need to work on the music journalism, some of this stuff we will need to discuss in committee and we will get back to you at the next meeting. Additional information, but you do need to move on. It's already 10 to 40 Knock on the agenda, you see that we are going to vote on the December 17 minutes. We do not have those available. At this point. We will email those to you and ask you to review them and send back any corrections that you see. Under we have Do we have any announcements from any city departments? Seeing presentation presentations, you don't officially have any presentations or strategy it reminded me that we did discuss there are no laws required that we discuss the goals and objectives for a PAP for this year at this meeting. Last week, last Saturday, many of you attended the mayor's neighborhood summit at which the mayor identified his goals and objectives for this for this year. As such, we're going to look at those. I have not received the comments that were presented by each of the workgroups. I mentioned they will get those to us within the next week or so. So that those can be passed out to everybody and you can see what was worked on and it may spark ideas about what you think and take action to. Ultimately, we have committees that we need to have met last year, there were specific request from Eight of the committee's in terms of what we wanted to accomplish last year. And unfortunately, we didn't quite get there. We did above those committee that met. It wasn't I guess, until late in the year. So I think they met for the second, third and fourth quarter. But we want to get a fresh start on that this year. Mr. Cow Kessler, who was the chair of the Bylaws Committee, is being reappointed as that chair. I'll also state that our own interior is an automatic member of the Bylaws Committee. And that gives us three other members that we have. Mr. Terry Ross was a member of that committee, and has chosen to remain on that committee. This scope Chesky has agreed to be a member of John wall's today. And Miss Stephanie flowers has considered to be a member of the bowels. So that makes up our five members of that committee. And ladies, I'd like to thank both of you for consenting to work with us
this year. Mr. King,
as the Chair will sit down as to when the first quarterly meeting is going to be the Bylaws Committee. Our bylaws actually supposed to meet quarterly, so he will notify you all of the meetings. Mr. Kessler, is there anything you'd like to say specifically? I think it's the bank is shaken see that.
One of our most important committees is saying that they are almost out of work. But one of the ones where we have to join the actual with the most work is the Safety Commission committee. Those of you that were here with us last year know that the safety legal administration Commission was established by the council, I think in 2020 21, if I'm not mistaken. And at that time when it originally was established, I think we had three members from April. And it was my plus one designee. Later in the year last year, they changed that. And so now we have five members to be appointed to the public safety legal administration commission, and we have appointed for three, now we've appointed the original four. So we have one more. Also, the chair of the FAA is a member of that commission. I will be making announcements at our next meeting. But I wanted to talk to the executive committee, we first will be making announcements about my to the the chair of our safety committee, and our next meeting. Also, the Transportation Committee. I will be making an announcement about appropriateness for that committee. And our next set of utilities we've just recently appointed Miss Leslie Ramirez. So we're going to give her an opportunity to see where she can do nothing. She's only been in that slot now for about a month or two. So we're going to give her an opportunity to see what she's going what she's capable of and use. We discussed the executive committee and we wanted to keep that delegates and alternates as long as we the designated 25 voting members for the in the US will be satisfied satisfied the ordinance that are requirements for the clerk's office and for the city. And we would not be
in the country
at all last year, says it was our we made the change to add the 75 I don't want to get two delegates and alternates are talking about that last year when we got that ruling down throws the law department about it doesn't work. So we have 25 voting members, we still can have our 50 notability members. And they told us that we could do that. We just made that adjustment in our back office. So that allows us to do this. And the alternates from us, ladies and gentlemen, we didn't all fit do all of these committees that I didn't go to all of them yet. We need you all, to be appointed to those committees. Eight minutes. The Atlanta city council, with the exception of one convenient, that's the education everything else that is at the City Council. If you are a city council person, the president of the State Council automatically member, you get a permit, not just one, you may be able to chair one, but you got to be appointed to do this. Because simply because of the number. That is the way it should be with us. It will keep the 15 we want to have. So can we have somebody that we can put upon on our committee? Mr. Martin has been the chair of the and it is and is the chair of the CHS. Somebody? Mr. Martin used to have meetings by himself, because nobody would show up. Okay. Recently, last year, I think he did a lot better with attendance at the end about seven or eight people at the last meeting. But we have all of these numbers on this board. We should be sitting on these committees. So I want to ask, personally for me, if you would consider a committee that you would like to sit on and notify us and you know, so that we can assign me to that committee. Now, don't forget everybody. In the city HS committee, is somebody coming up with a resolution or a recommendation that they want to bring back to this board for us to send to the mayor planning the city council, it should be voted on into this committee, but a quorum of eight. Okay. So that's where you are. You have a question or comment, Mr.
Yonkers suggest that you try one of the microphones on your left to right, except the one you're using, because it's pretty hard to ship.
And maybe it's me, maybe I'm too close to it or something. Okay, fine for me. First of all,
come on, Mr. Brown. We had a question in that format. And I apologize for that.
Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to ask one question about communication that was supposed to be seated department, it was able to see that communication to a lot of farming. The second piece also talked about. And speaking with planning, conversations about us event based organization to your point, we've had committees and paths and meeting in person often removed, membership, or opportunity. So when COVID We kind of get into this whole virtual aspect of leaving. We've learned that as we'll learn last March, April, that baseball organizations had to be the person if it wasn't for us, and babies wasn't the base organization. But I know that being unknown again Now, also, on the planning that we've have Facebook innovations that have been inversely as well, since that time, and so I wanted to make sure that we also, were visiting Battlelog and repainted the apartment, on the opportunity close to meet to make sure that make sure to hold membership. And there's also opportunity for us to revisit the code itself. So not just the bylaws, because the code is simply a word like eligible members. So the code definition would often put us in crisis, which means that we operate under a delegate policy type system. We've always had 25 voting members, we've never had exceeded 25 voting members and using that system, so there's also opportunity to get code reviews to reflect eligible members of that category. And so just want you to consider that as well as some talks about a partner and as we proceed with firewall conversations. That's the opportunities on the table right now.
You didn't make a point down there. The Committee on APEN did send over to me. As first I sent over to them a letter recommendation letter regarding the questions that we needed to ask the law department. Mr. Kessler and Mr. Ross sent back a different version, a different one that we requested a different a different version of the letter. I spoke to Mr. Ross about it. And I told him that I read it several times. It was informative, but it did not ask a question. The kid with a lollipop, it did not ask her for ruling of the resort. He went back over this again, let's see what we don't have actually asked him here. He says, so let us get back together. And then we're gonna need to get back together. And we will redrafted and so to avoid, unfortunately, he went out of town, I think he told me what I've challenged for. And it's going to be back on the 23rd. Remember that we know that you're not going to be back until tomorrow. So just to get that sent back to me. They give he also sent over a letter that was sent to the council and to the mayor and the president of the council regarding the NDTV distributes. So that letter did go out waiting for his committee to take another look at the department. And of course as soon as I can.
So, so given that, given the type of situation we'll be doing is trying to get an answer back before that before this meeting. At the law department gave us the answer, we see the code beside this with this bylaws. And so because the code was signed, and that meets our bylaws, and that's why we help them to have delegates and alternates. And without that be without that interpretation or that communication being in conversation right now. You know, we did like to plan an extra timeframe we're planning, we're weighing in on how that will work.
Will leave the room Department of City Planning? Before I answer that, I'd like to clarify that planning did not confirm that there are faith organizations that are meeting virtually, I'm not sure if that's what you meant to say. The planning has not confirmed that however, as a result of the conversation that you and I had, I did reach out to the law department about that. And I advised them that it was reported to me that there is at least one base organization that is meeting virtually the record, the lawyer that spoke to asked me to send that information to him directly because he confirmed again, that no base organizations are allowed to meet virtually, he wanted to be very clear with me that that is not there are no exceptions that are being made to his knowledge. So if there is an exception, or if there is a base organization that is meeting virtually, they need to know about it so that they can handle it. They wanted to make that clear regarding himself,
but communication about interpretations of voting members. And so you know, can we didn't get to vote in two, because there was no clarity from the bottom to see similarly cope aside. And, of course, our bylaws, which kind of put us in conflict with with clarity became a communication from this body to the body and feel right now because kind of how we got here to misinterpretations of what's going on. What will be the probably the procedures moving forward, where we would plan to get the department that wants to support us, or what we were planning to do a lot of this a snapshot of what we can do to bring remedy or
fix. Yeah. So to be clear, and I'll read this, you know, to the body for the for the record, or for their edification. In March of 2022, we sent correspondence to the executive board of AIPAC or maybe the executive committee I know at least sends it to the elected officers of AIPAC stating, quote, as we discussed, the code does indicate that a path quote shall be composed of 25 voting members and quote, this implies that there could be a another set of members classified as non voting members, since the code is silent concerning non voting Members, your bylaws could determine how many non voting members you have and how they are appointed. DCPS recommendation is Department of City planners recommendation is that you clarify this in your next bylaws Amendment by distinguishing between voting members and non voting numbers. That is the official position of the Department of City Planning and the law department. It's that's the position we are in agreement with, I think we are in agreement with what I heard Miss Phillips say, which is that you all need all of these other the other 50 votes to do the actual work to be involved, et cetera. We support that as well. What we need from a pad is to classify in your bylaws, how those who those members are, how they're chosen, what they're called, et cetera. But the 25 voting numbers, we don't define the voting numbers as NP use, I think that's where the difference has been. We're not defining the numbers as NP use, we're defining the 25 voting members as the chairs of the MPs. And if the chair opts not to serve, whoever their designee is, that's the 25 voting members coordinates and planning according to law.
And so, because we feel, obviously, it's the two parties to address that in our bylaws. And the next opportunity that we need to divesting was, will be the next upcoming bylaws, which will be asked to stay on course. And I think that's why they probably took a vote. to pretty much take opposition's that we hear that these it wasn't quoted in terms of the conversation, and also communicated to the various NVQs, who will be affected. So even even communication with planning. So the MPU, including my own view, and others that I've spoken to, they was not even clear. And the spirit of what we're trying to do was to have to promote participation, that is being not only do we have the opportunity to amend the bylaws, we have opportunity, so we have the code. And so therefore, that code will have eligible voting members, I think that it's not just about going to work because you actually do the work. I think it's sort of clarity that I saw through the year as being the chairperson of the committee, essentially, understanding who the voting membership would be with the committee. Again, we was trying to do a lot of work, and we just, again, failed to revisit it. And I think that's an opportunity in the spirit of what we're doing now that this opportunity to make us whole, to seek civic engagement and restoring public trust by making sure that we have the opposite is reflected as voting members and in a way that we suddenly afterwards eligible voting members of the 25 eligible voting members, and that will speak with a class of members from the MPU that would be eligible, which reflects the AICPA Alchemist and delegates in lieu of cheers who decide to make a change.
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was one more piece of that and because it was based organizations, we also was visited by the mayor they asked me what His conversation was also brought up and to the spirit of which he produced the second water was intended for how we're addressing news attendances six point was to get people to come back to work and to move back to work. And he was open to addressing and entertaining conversations about based organizations and meeting virtually nothing this can do even as a rule of order. It's debated for virtual meetings and don't just have the spirit of how we would have been so that's the opportunity to set him apart. We were talking to our apartment, I just wanted to put it on for Mr Kessler.
Call it in the U M, and once in future bylaws chair, just to provide a little bit more information regarding this letter that's before us. I do have a printed copy to share carrying it draft a copy to present rather than asking a specific question. In fact, what we put forth was a Matt's current position of having delegates and alternates with support from Robert's Rules of Order, which is our parliamentary authority under the ones suggested to us for the Bible's template from municipal clerk's office stating that it recommends delegates and alternates. And the Ask was purely for the ordinances section or actually for the charter, rebounds for revised bylaws governing structures or mission statements shall be megabytes of each other. Since we were not aware of the last time the attorney's office had reviewed it was vital already. It has been ones that these firewalls people But in the context of the membership, there was not it was not phrased in the form of a question, because there is a requirement in the charter that the attorney does that or violence.
Thank you so much.
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Say over a year. Okay, I apologize for that. We need to move on, we are getting a little bit behind schedule to have someone on Tuesday to fetch
Madam Chair, I don't know we have quite a pipe agenda. And as was discussed in our executive board meeting, according to our bylaws, there are three things that has to happen in this meeting. And that is number one, install officers from A to establish committees and clean chairpersons. And number three support goals and objectives of the year. I think those three things are there about the most important things that will be covered at this meeting. And I certainly haven't heard any goals, yet probably asking
so much, Mr. Hunter, why don't you go ahead and get started on the goals or objectives? I'm not the chairman. No, but I'm saying we basically have discussed things. The executive committee, so I'm gonna let you get started.
In addition to that we do I mean, have you appointed all the chairs? I know,
these days, as I said, I have two chairs that are asking the Board to allow me to have an opportunity to talk to the executive committee, and then I'll bring that back to the board. At the next meeting, all of the others I've already identified.
bylaw committee chair, you identified
this. Let's go over it again. The bylaw committee chair will be Mr. Carl Kessler, the Chair of the Committee on a Mr. Cherry rots. The chair of the utilities committee, Miss Leslie Ramirez. And cvhs is only is Mr. Jim mark the others to transportation and they think oh, and I'm sorry, the Pope did apologize. Minister of Education chair, this pod Jones will remain the education chair. So that leads me then to public safety and transportation was that those are the two that I'm asking your permission as the bulwark to discuss at the executive committee meeting and then bring to you all that next week. If there's question about that, we I'll be more than happy to have.
Well defined yes can be well, we don't actually have a finance committee is stated in our bylaws. If we were to have we'd actually had a finance secretary. And of course, that is one of those two positions that we were discussing earlier, that the NPU did not select that person to be their voting member. And the bylaws state that you have to be a voting member in order to be an officer. So that was one of those positions.
I'm gonna jump in here for a second. I'm just gonna go on the record to say that the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board has violated its bylaws numerous times, starting with our election process and the nomination process as of last year, by not having a nominating committee set up when it was supposed to be set up per our bylaws. We were an entire month late, and that did not happen. And that was the amount of shear that was the responsibility of shear shot
has to show up. And that's just a was Mr. Hunter have the most as the parliamentarian. Your directive was that this is a special recall meeting and nothing can be addressed at this meeting that was not on the agenda and
with that being said, you're right we did vote on a specially called meeting and agenda. Last executive can committee meeting. This agenda that's in front of us is not the agenda that we voted on, actually. So going into, again, violating bylaws, we are once again, Madam Chair, doing just that, because again, I'll repeat myself. At our last executive committee meeting, we voted on five agenda items. In particular, the executive committee did not only that those five items were also talked about were discussed through email, this agenda that is in front of us today is not a reflection of that vote. That is a problem in itself. So again, I showed if I could please finish, Madam Chair, I have not said anything, allow me to finish complete. We have bought eight, the Atlanta Langley advisory board under a dual direction they have violated men's bylaws numerous times, it's a disgrace, numerous times, just one of the most recent times were again, under your leadership and your direction as president, you have allowed this to happen. And I'll repeat myself, this agenda in front of us is not the agenda that the executive committee approved. At the last executive committee meeting,
Mr. Hunter, if we not, those five things say that the swearing in or officer the appointment. You only allow us as we didn't have any resolutions to vote on the one resolution for really only, we did say that we were to do the goals and objectives. And I did leave that off. But your instructions to me was that I could put since we left that out by mistake, we could put that under presentations. And that's the only thing that's on social
media. So Madam Chair, as the parliamentarian, it is my job to protect all members. So that is correct. I did go to you, privately, after emailing you before the meeting, directly in terms of what we have to do committee for how to join, especially call me I was very detailed it was the columns, or how detailed I was in my email to make sure that we were in compliance with state law, the state Sunshine Law. After the end of this morning, I want to make sure when I'm reviewing that this is not probably discussed and voting on inability. And then I also told you how to go and rectify that. Because again, you will operate the agenda remotely. And also the corresponding Secretary that I started out this this month, you sent it out. And so if you're asking is Mr. Sharp, correct in saying that this time that that is true. And again, today, members of AIPAC, I'm committed to sending you on that actual recording provides me with a transcript, I want you to believe what I say, you can get them in for yourself, we will have to do that,
then we'll be fine. As I said earlier, everything that we build in order to be presented to date was on this agenda. The one thing that I did miss was itemize
everything there was a vision and tell people to please the community as long as this job will be worth everything. And one thing to map
out very specific also that is incorrect on this agenda that's in front of me. What has been added to this agenda is the board and taskforce reports. In addition to that, please let me finish what has been added to this agenda that was not approved, was also at the Department of City Planning report, what was also added to this agenda that was not approved, or the NPU announcements. And also what was also added to this agenda without approval, or the public comments, going announcements. These are all things that were added to this agenda. Because if you're a member of our chair, this is a special call it meaning that nothing can be added to the agenda a thing can certainly be removed from the agenda. So again, I will repeat myself. This agenda is not what we have
noted notice a sharp we're gonna move on and we're not going to sit here and argue all day. We have appointments I'm sorry, Mr.
White, essentially call for the orders of the day. We've adopted the agenda and we have deviate from it drastically. We have guests here today who are candidates
in didn't come here to listen to us arguing user
arguments at the end of the meeting rather than indicated. Yes, ma'am.
I was coming up for the same thing called Point of order. We have seven people that are supposed to be recorded and they are on the agenda and we say that because there you're volunteering your time and we are going to
be able to get on with your
day. Thank you so much. All right, let's move right into it. Um, the first set of appointments is for onterra miscarry or deadly. We had since we had to move our meeting from last week to this week. She had her job and already scheduled her to be out of the city for this week, so she could not be here. Mr. Brown wrong runoff within PPE is here with us as well. Would you please come up to
the morning. Tell us just take a couple of minutes and just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about yourself and
why you want to
be on the Beltline tech.
Sure. Robert laurentides NPU being the president for the better part of 15 years for the neighborhood associations are about to get served on the BeltLine, Senator Jay asked Advisory Committee, my backgrounds in urban planning, switches some safety and dark side of real estate development. But I do a lot of in Town projects around the BeltLine, the South beltline western end of it. And recently I've been involved with the segment determination for the Northwest alignment. So I'd be very interested in different goings on of the Beltline since its inception years ago. So for an interest in my hope, everybody.
Thank you. Do we have any questions for Mr. Moss? Mr. Martin?
Historically, the government is always very dysfunctional.
there let me put it this
way, why Germany and Hungary to be very patient. So I do have some more patients with a disease. But yes, I am very interested in participating and going on with hopefully, internet, but
I'd like to make a motion that we approve.
Mr. Brown was on his way up. So
thank you for volunteering. How would you identify yourself in the body of interested parties in the public realm? Not necessarily the professional realm of developers or builders. But citizenry in general, how would you identify yourself as a an individual with an interest in the felt line? And what? What would you say is your highest priority for success of the BeltLine, given your particular interests?
Good question. Thank you. So personally, you know, what I do outside of my professional life is really more my core of urban planning, and community involvement. Like I've said, I've been involved in my neighborhood and my MBU for many years. And what I'd like to do is bring along partnerships and, and multiple board involvements. And that's what I hope to bring in to this oversight committee here with the Beltline. I do know there's been realignments of the routing. There's different things that have been said unnecessarily before to zoning, the TAT, et cetera. But there's certain things that are going to have to be modified and and I believe, and having an inclusive process, to be able to hear the voices of the community and make it easy for them to understand. Kind of unlike what we're going through with the zoning we read right now, I think a lot of people are over their heads and other universities on that. So hopefully, we can simplify it and get some good participation
to my MP noocube, I'm not sure how many towards this question
as a developer. Do you have
projects that are to
outline your influence positively, or potentially negative.
Sure, thanks. So my projects are near the Beltline right now I have one project that we're doing is a grocery, anchored in summer Hill, which is near the Beltline on the future BRT route for Summerhill. We're we are not influencing the Beltline. Of course, my developments are probably small when I say my companies. And then we hopefully have some other projects around this other group chose one area that are beneficial for an airline but not influencing the bottom line. Like a lot of other questions
just to comment on students. And so with that being said, Do you anticipate if you get appointed having to recuse yourself any boats because of potential direct or indirect conflicts of interest?
I certainly would, if that came up. I have done that before the NPU. But right now, presently, the company I work for does not have any properties that would necessarily benefit from any of the work that I would do in a citizen participation right now.
Yes, ma'am, we say I'm live interview and I was curious. So it's not just transportation infrastructure that y'all look at as part of the committee but also look at historic preservation as well as affordable housing. First, what your thoughts are on that and how you look to focus on this as a member of
obviously, my strengths lie more in the nexus of transportation and land use environmental issues, things like that historic preservation on very much cognizant of the fact that I think Atlanta has not having good history and doing historic preservation. And I'd really like to see more of the adaptive reuse and and more of a focus on that. However, I believe, with the BeltLine, there is a task to develop density around the BeltLine, and part of that is addressing the home affordability, and I'm not really sure how passed, we are added with the affordability of leave there's another committee that looks at that for beltline. But it's something that again, I think we're there is not a mechanism in place in Atlanta and really in the country where there's a good process for home affordability, nobody talks about it. I'd be happy to grab a beer with you and talk for two hours about it about the woods and what I see where it goes. But it's it's a big problem that hasn't been in touch.
All right, we have a motion on the floor for Mr. Martin, that we accept Mr. M office for appointment to the Beltline tattoo, which was seconded by Mr. Brown I'm sorry. Second question. Okay, Miss Chesky. You got that. Right. So you've heard the motion. All those in favor of our recommending Mr. ball to the bill, my dad, please raise your hand.
Anybody opposing anybody you've stated or you're posting or abstaining? Alright, so we have a vote of 90 TAs. Zero nays at what? stage are
you abstaining. Okay. So still they say 19 yeas, zero.
So I will be a voting member until I get sworn in as utilities, or am I not allowed to vote at all?
All right. So the motion carries. Mr. Greenwald. Do they hear so very much and congratulations and rad forward to working with you on the Beltline? And I will say that they've been sold out to this the director of development. I plan to be here with us this morning to three to all that As you would confer him. But of course, since we had to change our meeting last week, you our development has sped up, I want to say a treat or something like that. This would set this date. So they couldn't be here. But he did say that, of course, there is a special invitation for you all.
I think Nathan is like the citizens outreach, something something now the director that he planned to be here
to get to, I got to do it. got the name wrong in the title. I got the title wrong. Yeah. Okay.
Well, thank you very much. I'm
looking forward to
right. Thank you. Good question. Nope. I'm
here on behalf of tech. I just left that meeting. I have to tell another person. So
all right, thank you so much. Mr. Bob Morris for PPG. Why?
All right, the public safety and legal administration commission. Now that is an actual commission appointment. That is one of the five slots that I've mentioned to you all earlier.
Is Mr. Cole here.
Unfortunately, as I say, we had our meetings on the third Saturday of represent. But because of the neighbors summit last week, we had to change it. And a lot of people had already planned other things that they had to do. All right. Public Safety. Pretty simple workbooks, we have Mr. Barry Russell for NP up is Mr. Russell. Miss nificent person from HTC?
If you would take a couple of minutes and tell us a little bit about yourself and why you'd like to be
our greetings. My name is northeaster. Parson, and it's an honor to speak with you today. In reference to create an appointment to the public safety workgroup. I accompany that I have the knowledge to share is such a recurring question. I know that a native I've been in some green since 2006, where I was the neighborhood president for three years. During that time, I organized labor neighborhood cleanups with the district 12. I also instilled the committee meetings because we wasn't currently having too many meetings on the watch. So when I came, I put our leaders together and so we thought how to do things. Of course, I was alone for him, but the community members I have experienced in the community, and it's my hopes to work with the board in the future. I worked on a lot of previous projects with sadface harbor Shaw, city of Atlanta has been friends with city of Atlanta. So I get a lot of hands on volunteering with the treat ordinances. What's the courthouse came down to the City Hall to speak, you know, my hand for different witnesses. So I'm here today just to, you know, put my experience to use for the community.
Somehow she ended up working for the Georgia Department of Transportation on
our Georgia Department.
Okay, do we have any questions?
Yes, there are some based organizations that exist and what are the public safety workers currently such organization? And are you prepared to participate in an organization that doesn't exist?
And I don't think she can really answer that Mr. Martin I understand that some of the precincts have already started. They do not understand the actual city council people. Even though most of the precincts probably not, yeah, got underway that we still have 18 people that he has to report to these workers, they have five workers that were established under that ordinance. And there's six police precincts, but they combined precincts five, and six. So there's why we're only working with five APAC as three people that they need to employ to each one of those workers. The primary criteria is that the person versus being appointed, must live with it, those precincts and the precinct commanders that US will assign whomever, to work with those
meetings.
But yeah, even though we have not done our points to where we should have they still officially on the books, and we have to continue with it. Until we are, you know, they they send us something saying this will change.
And so as your course thing is that we're ready to get started and help them to start.
Thank you so much. All right. Can you get a motion? I was with motion that we approve that
who's second? Alright, so thank you. All right. So it has been properly motioned and seconded that we approve this defensive person for public safety recent work for some three all those in favor please raise your.
It was
at so much. Anybody opposed? Anybody in the state? Alright, so we originally had at 400. State, this person, thank you so much. You're welcome. And we look forward to working with you. Thank you. Thank you chose that tender the only other thing on the agenda for today. And if you notice, everything that we're discussing today is on
the agenda is standard information.
We have one resolution that you are picking should have picked up on the counter. And even though we started discussing it, Mr. Martin last year, since the passion for your treatment, and this year, either action in our first resolution does not change. And it is for first three. Please read it. If you have any questions, comments or recommendations, please get in touch with Mr. Marketing forum, remember is the senior cvhs land use and zoning committee. Officially, that concludes our agenda for today. I want to ask that each of you please stop by
Madam Chair, on comment. All the code that's required by
Mr. Raja has reminded me that we are required by ordinance to do public comment. So we're going to take about have any public comments. We want to keep them limited because we are scheduled to go to after this and that's going to be right on the side of the city council chambers. It was a specially planned meeting requested reconstruction. That was Dr. Jones. I'm gonna say her committee are giving her committee of one but her could be playing For us for December, however, because we have been into so many different changes phase in December, it was rescheduled for the first meeting. So it's going to be it was an opportunity to have each other, talk to each other. We have a number of new people with us this year. So I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and welcoming each one of you. So please, stick around for a while. The menu should be great. Okay. All right. Do we have anyone that needs possibly public comments?
So are you making a public company selected might
speak to me
on their brain, the Vice Chair of the uj and adequate vice president. He mentioned our department was their official running in writing and deciding on the five members or voting members and so on.
For what was put in writing?
That was the question that Mr. Chris brown pants
they found a context to that, because some people have different interpretations in the body, the request was asked and this little rule to be honest, the question was has officially been the Department of City Planning and then that the answer was communicated back to this logo and or the department. What we received was an email stating what said we are not transparent we are allowed to see the communication between the two because that is considered client, attorney client. So what we received was a message from Mr. Rude in our capacity, stating what was sent
I just for what it's worth, it was a direct copy paste. Those weren't my words. It was a direct copy, copy paste.
Because I'm concerned it didn't I never heard it. It wasn't clear that it seemed the same those interpretation of a
lesson. I don't know where that as far as
the vote. Yeah, it was. But anyway, okay, so the code says I'm going to be giving those out wasn't.
Hold says the arrows on
Section six, version six dash 4001 is to say, goodbye, Pete. The charities neighborhood planning committee or the basic board isn't being unable to plan to share one vote. Further now, it says in Section six, that's 400. The functions. Number one, for American zoning bylaws. Not that this system was state law was the ordinance a BenBella. Under Article four of them. I want to skip out for time. Again, it says each pet blueprint instead of one vote. It also says further down the last sentence. It says the delegate should have the first recommended action before they before they before they don't say oh, that was
just Mr. Green. That's okay. I meant that we you know, our public comment, friend, however, this is not the place to go back and recap what we've already discussed as opposed to comment, please don't sit there and read all of that. Please just state but you have to state. Okay, one word to state when you want
to walk by the chair. I know you're familiar with public comment. Yeah, I'll watch all the city meetings people ask him to come down here and Oh, God is allowed to say whatever he wants during this public comment, as long as he is not being offensive, or making threats yet largest.
I know we have to round this weekend until the speaker just asked him to say what you guys have to say.
We don't have
it says article for members
the MQ chambres, the official board member sent out the price to serve on the board or appoint a delegate or the last sentence, the delegates sent out the first right to vote, then an absent or the mirrors, then Occident delegates. And last week, the APU chair so in other words, by my reading, understanding, there are potential 75 voting members, but only 25. That was give me one time. Now, I don't I didn't see anything for the Department of law that was contrary today. And so I'm disturbed because today we only sworn in for eight they have done that part. On this morning, the carport, I assumed there was delegates, our the body delegate or wherever the case may be. They often just want someone with a suit be because again, that takes time. Okay. All right. Are you still in time is the norm and MPJ alternate yield my time to Derek.
So, real quick point is, there's been at least a minimum of 50 people at any one time for say 25 voting members, which does not contradict both when we go save us the city code or thinking right now by not swearing in those other 25 delegates. We're a pep rally is all powered off. And part of the procedure says be valid to all battles valid from my last in, basically you're not in the class, no poach, no motion to really be the leader. So we really have a ton of look at midnight corrected. That is a big issue is a form of voter suppression. And I will say that strongly, because the person one of the main person responsible, responsible for both AIPAC may be used by the Texan, whose grandfather was a major for the West African state of Georgia ratio 1000 votes across the state of Texas on the civil rights movement, and the Black Power movement. I know the spirit of the law will never allow for any form of voter suppression. I think it's very important that we really carefully consider how we've interpreted the law or just follow the laws is written by your own boss, okay.
Next person or can't see behind, okay.
Since we have so many people,
we're going to ask you to keep your comments down to one minute.
So we have timestamp time.
Receive carve off my time and get rid of W also not a current knowledge. And I want to stick to Fusion property. Volume The South River and potential Creek and the proposed public safety training facility and the park which is part of land swap studios in DeKalb County. There's two pieces of property within Trump's Mud Creek right through the middle of the bottom side you got the east side, the East Side. me back up the west side is the old prison farm which has been extremely sorted just remember that. It is the proposed site for a public safety training facility. The say the forest before on the other side. That's the park where Blackhawk guy has already knocked down the gazebo picking up the concrete path that connects to another park violation or stop work. There is current legislation the current Gotta get it in DeKalb County Superior Court on the east side, on the park side. And it has nothing to do with the prison farm. And the training facility. mayor, governor Kemp, and what I'm hearing in the news media are lumping everything together. People in South River force are the ones that say no cop say, I've been involved with a bear with me, I'm in pain. tough for me to concentrate, balance and talk at the same time. I have not met one person who is involved with the South River that says no. Please pray for silver
in the lead Second sister shelf.
Thank you. To September's ago, I was involved with a 17 hour public comment I asked five questions. not gotten an answer for that yet. And the sixth question has come up since then.
Thank you so very much.
I really need to mention these questions that and then I'll do the want a site plan. I want to stop that. I want a copy of EPA phase one and phase two. I want a list of alternative sites. Okay, thank you got nothing so far. And everybody needs to go back to square one. Talk about you get this worked out. I'm in favor of training, lots of training. And as you can see by Memphis and even a lab over there, the 26 year old fellow got killed not over on the side for their training facility. But on the other side, why was Atlanta police there? 10 counties got almost 2000 police they could have had their own police there, Mr. Car. All right. Where's my horse my stick.
As I mentioned, I'll get our bylaws and says that there are three things that must happen at this administrative install officers appointed in tears to receive the gongs aina. Building, sort of kind of did that. And I do also want to point out that on the agenda that was prepared, there are committee chairs that she listed digest, she decided not to appoint those being named on here, Chris Brown, public safety committee chair and offered to join sharp, but the meeting will trigger the meeting scheduled after transportation and chair. That's just so unfortunate.
Thank you, Miss jaja.
Hey happened in this viewer. Jon's just want to say thank you all for being here and your patient. For those of you that are not a pack members, I would highly recommend you ask if you can be appointed as a designee or not then attend a meeting. They're all public. So if you're interested in bylaws, bylaws, committee meeting or public, if you can't attend the meeting, email Kyle Kessler or Terry Ross, and let them know what your concerns are, so that they can officially address it there because that is where all the detailed work happens. And thank you so much.
interested? I'm sorry.
I'm thinking this thing you know, I wanted to be pro black today. So I'm just trying to get an understanding of timeline on how we communicated between planning department and what what are the NPU chairs because there was a number of chairs that have raised concerns that did not know what was going on and what was going on what it was so now that we have obvious conflict what what is that? How do we proceed?
Thank you for that question. Mr. Brown. I was truly hoping that somebody had just asked us Phillips that backward speech helped me know if I could give a report is what I say but it's an if it's okay, I know this is a special meeting and you all have an agenda so it's fine, but I really appreciate that question. From where I sit, the resolution is fairly. And I don't want to minimize the problem. That's not my intent. But from where I sit the resolution is pretty simple. The law department. And I also should have said this earlier, but to be clear, I think everyone knows, but I do want to be clear, I'm not representing the law department. I'm only representing the Department of City Planning. And I can speak to any correspondence that I've had with the law department as a representative of the Department of City Planning. That said, as I understand it, the code reads that a PAP is composed of 35 I'm sorry. Sorry, 25 voting members. at someone, I think Mr. Green, just read in the bylaws that says that each MP will have a vote. And I've said I've had a number of conversations with some of you some of the board members etc. have said that in from where I sit, it appears that the real conflict is that a PAP identifies its members, it seems to me. A pair of identifies its members as NP use. The Department of City Planning identifies its members as NPU chairs in the event that the chair does not wish to serve on a path and the chair can designate another person in their place. We see those 25 people as the members, the voting members, I'm sorry to be clear the voting members that AIPAC when I brought that to the law department, as what I foresaw as a quandary causing quite a bit of a stir, or anticipating quite a bit of a stir. They responded that because the COVID is silent on other classes of membership, that AIPAC could very well designate other classes of membership as non voting numbers, you still have your 25 voting members, which are not NP use. So it's not in the US, for example, that is a member of AIPAC. It's kind of a mind that is a member of AIPAC on behalf of the US. You could also have you meaning a pack could also have other classes of members, whether that's 10 more people, 25 more people get you more people, whatever you all believe is appropriate could happen. You're asking what the solution is or how to move forward. I think that that's the solution. I think that AIPAC should amend its bylaws with urgency, which is what I requested in March of last year. Well, I didn't say it like that. But I did communicate verbally that y'all needed to work on that last year. I think that I should have mended bylaws to make clear what that other class of membership is, who they are, who they can be, what they can do, etc. While we're on the subject. Since I have the mic, I also think that it would be helpful for AIPAC to have its emotions after its numbers have been identified, because part of the confusion is that you are a part of this functioning or in many ways, and if you pause and think about it, you'll probably see what I mean, in many ways a PABX attempts to function as an MPU, as long as super MPU. End is not and it isn't intended to be super NBA. AIPAC does not need to have elections in October or November, like the NBA, you can, if that's what you choose to do, you certainly can. There's nothing in the code that says you can't. But your officers specifically your president, is required by code to be elected from the voting members. And because most of the MP us don't identify voting members until the end of the year or the beginning of the year. It is a bit it could cause conflict to try to elect officers or a president. before you've even identified who your voting members are. I have other thoughts about all of that. I won't take up your time with that. Do look forward to having continued conversation. And our department I've discussed this at great length with our deputy commissioner and our commissioner and they are in full support just as I am of doing everything that we can to support a path to get this all of this resolved and to keep y'all really stable and moving forward.
So as that I mean, there's an effect this piece right here because in future so that there will be no people who have not heard anything else back. So which I've showed you today. The other company of the day is you To the same conversation for my second board meeting, and because you know me, I was an alternate. And it seems that I'm not being reappointed by the chair, just a liberty. That body that discuss this, who has the knowledge of this, and to have been a part of this will now be elevated. In that event. Some people had said that to happen early on in the conversation, that this was a ploy to do this to break up a group of people. Some said even people specifically. But But obviously, if I follow up offline, but I want to announce that I guess the last public safety meeting and the Monsignor would be this upcoming Tuesday at six o'clock as our virtual and you can find that information online as well. It's safe amount of that or for to, you know, been sharing this last meeting. There's a lot going on in the city. I think also the police commission meeting was canceled last week. So I don't know the compat. You know, I mean, there's a lot of things that are still be waiting. And this is happening behind the scenes that has impacted representation about the community itself. And I'm very concerned about things that happen engineering that we wanted to go with counsel, and to introduce system nails, AIPAC and introduce them. And I think that we've had these discussions this opportunity to, to do the spirit of what Maynard Jackson creates things, not only to have representation, but also to the engagement. We started this work back in the 17 years that I've been around. We've been we've come a long way. But I see us, I want to thank you.
One more thing, before your second. Sorry, I'm excited to announce this. So I just wanted to make sure that I told you all there were two commitments that we made last year. And believe it or not, for years, and I'm still learning that things don't always move as quickly as I would like them to. So I committed to getting a couple of things done that were not done in the timeframe that I expected. But we are making progress. One of those things was resolution routing. I've communicated with Mr. Martin and with Mr. Phillips, that with Mr. Martin, specifically, because most of the resolutions were coming from him and he was the keeper of the the historical documents, if you will, of those resolutions. So we have successfully routed every resolution that we received for 2022. That innovation process that I worked with Miss Phillips and Mr. Martin to implement last year, we have received back responses for I believe, by the four of those four or five of the 10 resolutions that you all passed in 2022. There, we have not yet delivered those responses. And it's my expectation that we will have them in your hands by Friday. That is my hope Friday this coming week. That's my hope. So that is that. Secondly, we talked activated last year to setting aside funding from our FY 23 budget to assist with some of what I see as an opportunity to stabilize an opportunity to strengthen the board and to to make the to help the board become more cohesive, more
productive,
and so to ensure that the board is valued. So with that in mind, we offered to do some strategic planning so that you all could do one year planning two, year three, year five, whatever. And I'm happy to say that we received from the consultant, two dates for that session. I am hoping that all of you will help me identify the date that works best for you. I'll send out a Doodle poll or something like that. But please consult your calendars for February 24, which is a Friday or February 25 which is a Saturday it will be a Friday or a Saturday completely up to you to determine which works best and in that session. We'll be doing some team building some praying and singing some vision some outlining of your purpose, some conflict resolution as you know for those that are in the room For the first time, I suspect that this could have felt a little bit like a roller coaster. And if you haven't been if you have been around for a while, it could have felt reminiscent of as Mr. Toon pointed out of the days of old. And it's, it's my hope. And it's our department's commitment to do everything that we have to do to keep that from happening to keep y'all from devolving to where it was before, we have enjoyed, at least since I've been here. And I think before that, too, we've enjoyed a really, really good relationship with a pet, a really good relationship with a PAB, without any hostility without any, you know, adversarial tones and all of that stuff. And I really, really, really would like for that to continue. Our commissioner would like for that to continue, we are committed to doing whatever we need to do to move a path forward to get you all stable, to get everybody working and producing recommendations to the council and to the city departments, recommendations that are heard and valued and considered and incorporated when, when appropriate, etc. I won't, you know, stay on the soapbox. But that's our hope. Also, we've got two advisory groups that we're continuing, they're not new. But last year, they did review before we we convened a group of from a path of which is our outreach and awareness effort, and our community impact grant. We have a meeting, I think this coming Friday, if I remember correctly, for the CAG advisory group. And we are scheduling a meeting for the participate advisory group. If you're interested in serving in either of those if you have ideas for how we can improve our outreach, how we can empower and be used to do outreach, how we can fund outreach and awareness, please let me know because I'd love to send you an invite to that gathering. Or if you have ideas on how we can improve the community impact grant program with which we have had many, many problems. I have not kept that secret from y'all talk about it a lot. If we had time, I would have talked about it today. But if you have ideas for how we can strengthen that program, please let me know. And I'll make sure you get an invite to that discussion as well. Thank you.
I would like to second the motion to adjourn.
Again, thanks all of you.
We can get to a good working. There's a lot of work that we have to do about issues that are slapping us in the face, as he should be disseminating information about to the views. So we're coming out, of course to things like the Public Service Commission. And most of you know that all of the public service agencies, natural gas, natural gas line, George about all asking for additional pieces. This year, we have an opportunity to vote and know beforehand who's going to be running, we can start working on that and let our people know who they should be voting for. All right, I'm getting ready to go on. All right. If you would please definitely go to the reception. It is right on the side of council chambers, those everybody who was sworn in or be some of your sheets, so please get those before the recording. You also have to vote on social contact less. We voted on the motion to dismiss. Yes, everybody in favor of leaving now.