2026-10-06 - Metropolitan Council

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00:00:19Am I working now? Uh, number 237. How to shut up a politician, right. Turn the mic up. Okay, so it s, uh, OCTOBER the 6th. I will start out with a couple of things. Um, one.

00:00:32Yesterday was the last day of early voting, so I ask everybody to make a plan to vote. Make sure that you re ready. Early voting starts from the 14th to the 29th. Also real quick. Uh, any council members want to sneak out there and get your flu shot? I got mine already. Takes, like, literally

00:00:48five minutes so you can zip out there and fill out a little form, sit down and ask you two questions, and then you can get it done and be out of the way. Uh, it s flu season, so stay on top of that. Um, this is a domestic violence awareness month, so I asked people to stay safe. But if you get in

00:01:06the situation, stand up and, and speak out. It s also, uh, lgbt History Month. Um, and breast cancer awareness month. So make sure you get that. And, uh, national Disability employment awareness Month. So what I want to do is open it up. And for MR. Benton first if

00:01:24you re ready, sir, and we ll do your presentation and then we ll do announcements from the council members, and then we ll come to, uh, MR. Cortez, the last.

00:01:45Tim is my Michael. Thank you. Pro tem. Tonight we are here to honor the life and legacy of Catherine Domini. And tonight, we have with us a lot of Dwayne Dominguez family. And Dwayne is former council member, district

00:02:0228. That s my district. And we re excited to have everyone here tonight. Um. Everybody ready? This resolution honoring the life and legacy of Catherine Domini. Whereas Catherine Domini passed away on

00:02:23JULY 24th, 2026 at the age of 59. Catherine Domini was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Whereas from an early age, Catherine demonstrated an aptitude for many areas. While at Tullahoma High School. MISS Domini was a member of the marching band Flag Court,

00:02:42Mathematics Honor Society and the Mu Alpha Theta, and received the Presidential Academic Fitness Award.

00:02:53And Whereas, upon graduation from Tullahoma High School, Catherine moved to Nashville to study elementary education at Belmont University. And whereas Catherine Domini had a long career with Metro Nashville Public Schools, teaching over 35 years. While with the nps, MISS Dominique taught at

00:03:10Paragon Mills Elementary School. Tom Joy Elementary School, Hattie Cotton Elementary School, Inglewood Elementary School, and Cole Elementary School. And whereas, she was recognized with the Blue Ribbon Teacher Award in 2023 for outstanding contributions in. Whereas

00:03:31outside. Of her work with MRS. Dominique was passionate about sign language and directed the deaf ministry at Christ Church Nashville for over 30 years, she was ordained as a deacon on JULY 18th, 2012. And whereas Catherine Dominique is survived

00:03:48by her husband, former council member Duane Dominy. Her three children, Alexandria, Anna and Aaron, her grandchildren, and many other loving family and friends, and.

00:03:59Whereas, she. Continued her desire to educate after her passing by donating her body to science through Restore Life usa, a Tennessee based non-profit organization specializing in medical research and.

00:04:14Whereas it is fitting and proper that the Metropolitan Council honored the life of Catherine Dominy for her lifelong passion for education and her demonstrated penchant for service.

00:04:32Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council, the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, section one, the Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record honoring the life of Catherine Dominique and celebrating her dedication to service and education.

00:04:52Great. The resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption. The welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, requiring it.

00:05:54Okay. We re going to go ahead and move to announcements. Uh, and I don t see anybody, any queue. So we ll.

00:06:08Uh. Go ahead, MISS Benedict. Thank you. Pro tem, um, I am here tonight. Thank you for giving me the honor of honoring my sister. It s her birthday today. She s my little big sister. I like to say she s the smallest of us all, but she s the oldest of us all. And I

00:06:24m glad that she s the oldest, not me. So happy birthday, Dawn. And, um, we re going to be celebrating with cupcakes in the room. She s out in Portland, Oregon, so we re also going to have some hats on. And so, Dawn, happy birthday. I

00:06:40also do have a community meeting tomorrow night. Uh, relative to a development on Due West. It s at the Madison Library. But, Dawn, we re celebrating with you. And this is council member Kapp and council member Allen. And everybody here is grateful to celebrate you. Thank you so much. Pro tem.

00:07:02Happy birthday. Uh, let s go with MISS Evans. Thank you, MADAM Pro Tem. If you live in the Hermitage community and have been plagued and impacted by water main breaks, I would encourage you to come tomorrow evening, OCTOBER 7th, uh, at 6:15 P.M.

00:07:21At the Hermitage Police Precinct, where Metro Water will have a representative who is going to share information about water main breaks. We ll talk about flooding. We will talk about development, all things metro water. So anyone who lives in Council districts

00:07:3911 to 15 are welcome. Anybody else that would like to come? Please join us at 615 tomorrow night. Thank you. Thank you. Let s move to, uh, MR. T, the flu shot. Uh, poster.

00:07:54Guy. Thank you, MADAM Pro. How d you know that? What I was going to talk about? Yes. Um, so I wanted to thank the health departments so very much for another year of providing, uh, annual flu shots free of charge here at the historic courthouse. Um, I also wanted to bring attention to another

00:08:11program being run through the health department, the mobile outreach Clinic, which offers immunizations, family planning and counseling services, sti screening and treatment, as well as providing gun locks and Narcan and naloxone to folks, um, through the Mobile Outreach

00:08:29Clinic. People can also set up appointments to have breast cancer and cervical cancer screenings. Um, and so if this is a service that folks would like to, to utilize, um, feel free to call to set up an appointment. That number is (615) 340-5615. You can also

00:08:46reach out via email to set up an appointment. And that email address is m o cs dot [email protected]. Thank you. Thank you MISTER. Let s go to MISS Vo.

00:09:01Thank you so much. Pro tem. Um, I just want to remind everyone we are still in Hispanic Heritage Month and I was really honored to attend the Hispanic Heritage Award ceremony in my district this past weekend, and I wanted to uplift the youth Essay contest finalists and

00:09:19winners. Um, this year the theme was El Cambio and Pizza Conmigo, which means the change begins with me and I just want to congratulate Allison Mabel Gomez Alvarado from Glen Cliff High School. Joanne Baltazar Dominguez from John Overton

00:09:38High School, Mariela Elizabeth Villatoro Cisneros from Glen Cliff High School, and the grand prize winner, Jesus Gonzalez from the Academy at Opry Mills. So just want to congratulate all of our young people and let them know how proud we are of them. And this week, a lot of things are

00:09:58happening in district 17. On OCTOBER 8th. If anybody would like to go to the no hate on my plate deep Dish Convo edition, that will be happening at Nashville pbs, and I m very excited. I would like to invite everyone, um, to the Central

00:10:16Tennessee College historical marker unveiling and reception. This is going to be on Thursday, OCTOBER 15th at 1 P.M. And, um, this is Band Books Week. I hope that everyone will participate in that. And I want to give a shout out to the Southern Festival of Books that will be

00:10:34happening next weekend. Um, OCTOBER 17th and 18th. All are welcome and it s free. And, um, want to invite everyone to. Uh, we are wrapping up the audit the Greenways audit series, and I will be leading the Brown Creek um, Greenway. Uh, if

00:10:51anyone would like to join me on Saturday, OCTOBER 17th at 10 A.M.. And then, um, there will be a Welcome to Chestnut Hill block party on Sunday, OCTOBER 18th from 2 to 6 P.M. And all are welcome. Thank you.

00:11:09Thank you, MISS Fo. Move along to, uh, MISTER Bradford. Thank you, MADAM Pro Tem. Uh, one brief announcement. Uh, for residents district 13. This months office hours, I have pushed to OCTOBER the 24th.

00:11:25This will be my last office hours of the year. With the holidays approaching. So if you would like to set a time to come chat or. Or, you know, address the issue or just sit and chat with me, make make sure that you mark OCTOBER 24th from 9 to 11 at the Dunkin Donuts on Broadway Parkway.

00:11:42Also, I would like to just make a brief recognition to Terry. Excuse me, to Trish, Michelle, Maggie and all those who helped organize and all those who volunteered this past weekend to create one of the best community festivals I have participated in in Nashville.

00:12:01And as the Donaldson Goblin Fest. Um, great turnout this year for its inaugural run. Really excited about next year. So congratulations on those who help organize, those who volunteered, and everyone who helped make this weekend a success. Thank you.

00:12:16Thank you, MR. Bradford. Going MISTER Spain. Thank you, MADAM Pro Tem. I just want to congratulate Director Reid and the whole finance team on receiving the state Controller s inaugural Financial Excellence Award for fy 25. There were six local governments recognized by the Comptroller s Office. Nashville and Davidson County was the

00:12:34only county in that group. And this award is the Comptroller s highest recognition for financial excellence among Tennessee s local government. So I just want to congratulate our finance team on on the good work.

00:12:43That s awesome. Thank you. MR. Cortez. Are you ready? MR.

00:12:55Cortez, are you ready? Yes. Council members.

00:13:08We ll give it to somebody. Okay, fine.

00:13:22Thank you everybody. This is a proclamation. Recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Kurdish arrival to the United States. Whereas on MAY 1st, 1976. The first group. Of Kurdish families arrived in the United States, beginning a new chapter for many who settled in Nashville and communities across the nation and.

00:13:44Whereas this families came with a history, culture, hopes and aspirations and began establishing new lives while laying foundation for future generations. And Whereas.

00:14:00Over the past 50 years, Kurdish families have worked to build their lives in the United States while continuing to preserve their language, culture and traditions and.

00:14:15Whereas Nashville is home to more than 20,000 Kurds, the largest Kurdish community in the United States, and this vibrant community has become an integral part of the city s social and cultural landscape, where Kurdish traditions and American life have developed alongside one another and.

00:14:36Whereas the relationship between the people of Kurdistan and the United States has been marked by cooperation, mutual respect and shared sacrifice, including collaboration during significant periods of change and. Whereas Kurdish.

00:14:56Peshmerga forces serve alongside American and coalition partners in the fight against isis, demonstrating commitment in a shared effort against terrorism, reflecting a history of cooperation that has contributing contributed to a lasting bond between Kurdish communities in the United

00:15:15States and their counterparts in Kurdistan and. Whereas this anniversary represents a 50 year journey of settlement, perseverance and progress, honoring the dedication of

00:15:32earlier generations and recognizing the continued contributions made by Kurdish families to the strength and diversity of the City of Nashville and.

00:15:41Now, therefore, I m Mike Cortez, district four Council member of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, along with the undersigned council members, do hereby recognize the 50 year presence and contributions of the Kurdish people in Nashville and acknowledge the community s ongoing role in the city s continued growth, diversity and shared civic life. Signed on

00:15:59this day, the 6th of OCTOBER, 2026. Thank you.

00:16:11Yes. This is this is incredible. And we re grateful for the first set of a Kurdish family that came here and the contribution of the Kurdish community to Nashville. I wanted to say that the mayor and the vice mayor regrets that they re not able to be here this evening, but they echo the sentiments of the council in

00:16:29telling all the Kurdish community that you re welcome in Nashville. Thank you for your contribution, and we re glad that you re here. Uh, there is also thank you. I also have here a proclamation from the office of the mayor. Uh, since he s not here, somebody from his office is supposed to

00:16:45be here to present to you. But i wanted to make sure that in addition to council proclamation, you also got the mayoral proclamation. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:16:59Thank you so much. I would like to start off by a Kurdish greeting. Slavery s greeting and respect to you all. My name is Ipek Ismail and I serve as the vice PRESIDENT Of Kurdistan Diaspora Center of Nashville.

00:17:11It is truly an honor to speak tonight on behalf of kdc and our Kurdish community. I would like to sincerely thank Mayor Freddie o Connell and Mayor s Office for recognizing this historic milestone. Also, Councilmember at Large for her continuous support for our

00:17:29Kurdish community, as well as a huge thank you to Council Member Mike Cortez for making this proclamation happen today. We also have some special guests who are here outside of Nashville for the special recognition. I would like to welcome them. I love Ibrahim represent representing of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

00:17:47MR. Hikmat Bomani, Kurdistan Democratic Party Branch seven, who travel from Washington dc and is part of the first generation of Kurds who came to the United States and. And also MR. Kurd, head of the

00:18:05International Communication Office at Kurdistan Diaspora Confederation. This recognition is more than an anniversary for us. It is recognizing a journey. 50 years ago, Kurdish family came to America carrying their history, culture, hope for a better future. That

00:18:23journey is personal to me. Myself. When I came to Nashville in 2014. I was nervous about starting a new life in the new country. But before long, Nashville felt like home. I found a Kurdish community, familiar cultures,

00:18:39and most importantly, a sense of belonging. Today, around 22,000 Kurds call Nashville home, making Nashville home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States. Our community has built businesses, pursued education rates, families, and also contributed

00:18:57to the city while proudly preserving our culture and identity. We are also deeply grateful for the long lasting relationship between the United States and people of Kurdistan.

00:19:09The relationship goes back in 1970s all the way to 2003, and to today. Our guest has coalition forces against side by side during a major turning point in Iraq and Kurdistan Region. At chapter, many Kurdish people continue to

00:19:27remember with gratitude. That partnership continues during the fight against isis and until today, during the fight against isis, we lost 1800 Peshmerga and also over ten 10,000 were wounded. We honored their sacrifices as well as all

00:19:45the American lives, sacrifice and that shared fight. And we hope this friendship continue for generations to come. Tonight, we also honored the first generation who correct, who created opportunities for those who followed. And to our younger generation. Remember

00:20:03where you came from. Be proud of who you are. Serve your community and most importantly, always give back to the place you call home today. To America

00:20:20and to Nashville. We say thank you. Nashville gave us more than a place to live. It gave us a place to belong today. And once again. A special thank you to Council member Mike Cortez.

00:20:33Council member At-Large and the mayor s office and mayor himself were honoring at this important milestone for our community. We are proud of our Kurdish heritage. Grateful for our American home and truly honored to receive this recognition. Thank you.

00:20:55The picture here. And then you can do. We have. Oh, yes. Say something in Kurdish. Who is good?

00:21:12Nashville. Soldier. Cadet. Nashville. The the sports council. The process.

00:21:28Who? Gallagher. Sheraton. House of. Space.

00:21:38On behalf of the Kurds who have been here for 50 years. We thank you. Nashville. Thank you. Nashville, people. Thank you for the opportunity we never could have. When we came here, we could not believe what we achieved. We can achieve here. And many people in the United States. They take everything for granted. But for us, we came from that place.

00:21:56Will they be treated who you are, what you are, what you do. And you have to do this. You have to do that. You cannot be here. You cannot be there. And here we have an opportunity. All freedom. We could dream about it. And for me, i ve been here 50 years. I m honored to be one of the people who came to Nashville first. I thank you, Nashville people. I thank

00:22:15the American. And I see as part of American. I m not I yes I m a occurred but here I m American. I m honored to have a the belief the opportunity they. Helping each other we are equal. We are human beings.

00:22:28Nobody is better than another except what he does and what you do. And no difference between men and women. Black, white, everything. Nothing perfect in the world. But we compare the United States the best place in the whole world.

00:22:38I ve been in many places in Europe and Middle East, many other countries. Opportunity for anybody else. That s why everybody came in here from all over, from Europe, from the Soviet Union, from Middle East, from east west to north.

00:22:52Everybody came here, but here a place of opportunity. Thank you America. Thank you Nashville. Young people. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, Council, for all of your help and I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. So are we going to get in the big. So

00:23:33this is. Thank you all. We

00:23:50ve got like 2 or 3 minutes left and anybody else needs to get in the queue for announcements. Last call.

00:24:00Any got anybody else have any announcements. All right I just want to close out with the OCTOBER 11th is National Coming Out Day. And I also want to say with elections coming up, take an opportunity to be kind to your neighbors. Things are about to get a little heated.

00:24:14Please make sure that if you see something on social media that you verify that it s right before you share it. Be careful sharing rumors and be kind to your neighbors. Be kind to each it. Be careful sharing rumors and be kind to yo

00:34:10Six. This is the 18th regular meeting of 2026 and the 70th meeting of the current term of the Metropolitan Council of Nashville in Davidson County. There are 20 meetings remaining in this council term. While all members of the council, as well as the public, please rise for the invocation and remain standing for the Pledge of

00:34:28Allegiance. The invocation is being offered this evening by Minister Wesley King of Vine Street Christian Church. He is the guest of district 24, Council member Brenda Gadd.

00:34:38Reverend King, you are recognized. Thank you everyone. Good evening. Tonight. Recognizing the beautiful diversity of this room as I pray in my way, I invite you to do the same in whatever way is meaningful for you. GOD of justice and mercy,

00:34:57we come tonight to do the work of the people of Nashville. We pray that we leave our own wants and desires at the door, and that this time be focused on the well-being and betterment of our neighbors. We especially remember those vulnerable Nashville Lions this evening. The marginalized, the

00:35:15oppressed, the poor, the unhoused father, the immigrant mother, the trans kid, and anyone who feels unseen, unheard or forgotten. Grant us wisdom to lead with humility.

00:35:30Courage to seek justice and compassion, to see the dignity of every human being. Help us to listen well. To disagree respectfully and seek not victory for ourselves, but what is good and right for the people entrusted to our care.

00:35:46MAY our deliberations tonight be guided by truth, marked by mercy, and directed to the flourishing of all who live in Nashville. And MAY we leave this place, having served not our own interests, but the common good. We are thankful

00:36:02for the work of these elected and appointed officials. We know that it is often an unappreciated and thankless job, but their work is important. Work.

00:36:17Or ethnicity. No matter who we love or our identity or how we express ourselves, no matter where we came from, no matter how much we have or don't have. Help us to remember that the beautiful diversity of this city is something to be celebrated. It is a strength, not a weakness. No matter what

00:36:36the world MAY say and remind us that the strength of a city is measured not by the prosperity of the powerful, but by the well-being of the vulnerable, not by the volume of our debates, but by the integrity of our decisions, not by our own victories, but how faithfully we care for

00:36:55other. MAY it be so, and MAY we make it so. Amen and amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under GOD,

00:37:12indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much, reverend king. Welcome.

00:37:28Council and community members. Hispanic heritage month continues, and domestic violence awareness month has begun. OCTOBER is also breast cancer awareness month and is a breast cancer survivor. Myself, I would be remiss if I did not strongly encourage women 45 and older to schedule and to never

00:37:47skip their annual mammogram. Most cancers are not detectable to the touch, and 90% of breast cancers are not inherited. I was diagnosed at 47 with zero family history and no problems of which I was aware. More women are being diagnosed in their 40s, and 1 in 8 women

00:38:05will be diagnosed in their lifetime. Consult your doctor for the best age for you to begin. Mammography and early detection saves lives. Another annual matter for your personal health and public health is a flu shot. Vaccines are safe and

00:38:23vaccines work. As elected officials with vaccine misinformation and disinformation. Sadly and increasingly on the rise, it is very important that those of us in local government set a positive example and listen to the guidance of public health experts regarding routine

00:38:39vaccinations. OCTOBER is the best time to get your annual flu vaccine, and we are grateful to the metro public health department team for partnering with us for the fourth year this term. For free pop up flu vaccination clinic.

00:38:55As of 623, when I walked past, they had administered 81 vaccines this evening. So kudos to everyone who chose to be vaccinated this evening. And a special thank you again to metro health. So speaking of things to schedule and do early,

00:39:14early voting begins wednesday, OCTOBER 14th and extends through thursday, OCTOBER 29th. As always, we strongly encourage nashvillians to vote early at any of the 15 locations across the county.

00:39:26Make a plan and do not wait until NOVEMBER 3rd. Nashville has sadly lost another public servant and former council member, the honorable phil ponder, passed last week, and I wanted to make sure to add my condolences to those of many council members who I know counted him as a friend and

00:39:44mentor. In addition to his counsel and community service, MR. Ponder was an acclaimed artist and illustrator, and for many years several of his pieces had hung in various places around the council office. But shortly before his passing, we were able to share with MR. Ponder and his family

00:40:01that the west side corner conference room has been named the phil ponder conference room in his honor, and all the walls in the room feature his work, including all 12 of his famous nashville skylines, which track the amazing growth of this city from 1982 through to 2025. MR.

00:40:21Ponder will be missed, but his legacy will certainly be lasting. At the first meetings in OCTOBER this term, I have taken the opportunity to share some legislative data with the council and the community. As always, we appreciate our partners in the metro clerk's office for all they do over the

00:40:38course of a year for the council and support of our meetings, and for pulling this data together. In the last year, since OCTOBER 1st of 2025, through the second meeting of SEPTEMBER of 2026, council has adopted 768 resolutions. 94 of those were honoring,

00:40:57recognizing, memorializing, or commemorating someone or something, or requesting or urging or denouncing a particular policy or legislative action. There were 470 ordinances, 220 of those were title 17 zoning ordinances

00:41:17and 143 of that, 220 were parcel based zoning bills. That excludes those material restrictions bills. Those were 57 of those. Those are those companion bills that state law now requires. And 20 of those 220 ordinances in title 17 were

00:41:37text amendment bills. The largest agenda was JANUARY 20th of 2026. It had 174 items, and JANUARY 20th was thus one of our latest meetings of the year ending at 1118. We have crossed midnight three times in the

00:41:55last year, but most of our meetings end between 8 and 10 P.M. All right. Most council agendas have around 100 items, so thank goodness for the long standing first reading consent and the new this term

00:42:12consolidated consent agenda, which save up to an hour of meeting time. So speaking of which,let's move on ahead. Without objection, we will suspend the calling of the roll and ask the clerk to please record the names of the members present throughout the meeting.

00:42:26Is there a motion for approval of the minutes of the meeting of SEPTEMBER 15th? There is a motion. It properly seconded without objection, and seeing no one seeking to be recognized for a change to the minutes.

00:42:41All right. The minutes of the meeting of SEPTEMBER 15th are approved, MR. Clerk. Are there any messages from the mayor? There are no messages from the mayor. All right. Thank you, MR. Clerk. All right. We are

00:42:59now in section e of our agenda related to elections council members. You will have your election tablets, I believe, live on your desks. And though we do have just one nominee for

00:43:18both of our elections this evening, one of them requiring a certain vote threshold just so we can keep them the same. We're going to do both of them on the tablet. The first one is agenda item e one. Regarding the contract and compliance board. This is consideration of

00:43:36a nominee to fill one vacancy on the board. For a non-voting member from the metropolitan council. The term to expire AUGUST 31st, 2027. Council member deontay harrell was nominated by council member sandra sepulveda. All right,

00:43:52council members, I believe your tablets are live. If you could please make that selection.

00:44:27looks like we have one tablet. They might need a little help.

00:44:55MR. Clerk, are all votes in? MR. Cap, you're all set. MR. Harrell, we're hoping you voted for yourself. We know you're.

00:45:08All votes are in. MR. Clerk, please show the vote. I think we all know how this is going to go. Council has elected council member deontay harrell with 34 votes in favor to serve

00:45:25on the contract and compliance board. All right, now. Okay.

00:45:36For item e two regarding the human relations commission, we'll have a committee report for this council member sepulveda. MADAM Chair, for the report of the rules, confirmations and public

00:45:53elections commission regarding the nominee for the human relations commission. Please, ma'am. Thank you. Vice mayor. Committee voted one in favor. Two against three not voting.

00:46:08Okay. Thank you. All right. Item two is consideration of a nominee to fill one vacancy on the commission with a term to expire APRIL 18th of 2027.

00:46:23Kristie borthwick was nominated by council member eastlick. This election requires 21 votes by code. MR. Clerk, would you please open the vote, sir? Yes,

00:46:55MISS Porterfield? Yes, ma'am. If you are not voted in the affirmative, should you abstain or just not vote for this particular vote? MR. Clark, can you please advise, relative to the voting system? Okay. MR.

00:47:26Clark recommends an abstention. MR. Cap, MISS Benedict and MR.

00:48:06Harrell, do you seek to vote? Okay. No. Okay. MR. Clark, please show the vote. All right.

00:48:20With 21 votes required, council has elected kristie borthwick to the human relations commission with 21 votes in favor and ten abstentions. We congratulate MISS Borthwick, and we appreciate her willingness to serve. All right.

00:48:48Okay. Next for section f of our agenda. Appointees and nominees. This portion of the agenda shares all persons who are scheduled to appear before the rules, confirmations and public elections committee for an interview this evening. Re referrals back to the committee will be by rule as part of the council's two meeting process

00:49:05for elections and confirmations. No votes will be taken by the body in this section of the agenda. Chair sepulveda, your brief report, please, ma'am. No vote totals necessary. Simply the name of those interviewed and for which seats. And if a person in the appointment

00:49:21confirmation process was unable to attend your committee this evening, the meeting at which they will next appear. Please, ma'am. Go ahead. Thank you, vice mayor. They were all able to attend for the community review board reappointment of judge joe brown for the

00:49:39employee benefit board. Appointment of randy howell for sustainability advisory committee, appointment of catherine price and for transportation licensing commission. Reappointment of freddie l carr.

00:49:51All right. They were all present for their interviews. Thank you. Okay. section g chair, sapulpa, you're recognized for your committee report on the appointees in the second step of your committee's two meeting process, with vote totals and a consolidated motion for the confirmation of those persons,

00:50:09or first for deferral motion if there are any, please, ma'am. Go ahead. Thank you, vice mayor, for the board of licensing for adult entertainment and safety. Appointment of f corey mason for a term expiring OCTOBER 10th, 2027. Committee voted six in favor, zero against zero not

00:50:26voting for community corrections advisory board. Reappointment of joseph l umberger for a term expiring OCTOBER 22nd, 2028. Committee voted six in favor, zero against zero not voting for short term rental appeals board for appointment of jackson farrell for a term expiring

00:50:45AUGUST 10th, 2030. Committee voted six in favor, zero against zero. Not voting for a short term rental appeals board for appointment of ben vaught for term expiring AUGUST 10th, 2030. We voted six in favor, zero against zero not voting for tourism and convention commission appointment of todd

00:51:06r for a term expiring JUNE 30th, 2028. Voted six in favor, zero against zero. Not voting move for approval. All right. There is a motion to approve all. Are these persons to confirm their appointments in a consolidated

00:51:25motion. And it is properly seconded. Does anyone wish to remove an item from this consolidated motion for purposes of an individual abstention or no vote? Okay.

00:51:37Seeing none. All in favor, please say I. All right. Council has confirmed to the board of licensing and entertainment and safety f corey mason. If you chose to

00:51:54return this evening, which is not required. But if you did, when I call your names, do please stand so we can recognize you collectively at% the end. Council has also confirmed the community corrections advisory board.

00:52:10Joseph l umberger council has confirmed to the short term rentals appeals board jackson farrell and ben vaught. And then lastly to the tourism and convention commission.

00:52:25Appointment of todd rhoden. Council has confirmed this appointment as well. All right. Congratulations to everyone, whether here or in person or watching from home. We appreciate your willingness to serve. All right. Now we are on

00:52:53to section h of our agenda, the public comment period. Members of the public who are tennessee residents wishing to speak during public comment, MAY sign up at the table outside the council chamber from 5 to 6 P.M. On the evening of a council meeting. Public comment is limited to 20 minutestotal

00:53:10at council meetings, and each speaker is allowed up to two minutes to speak. Person speaking on agenda items must be prioritized to comply with state law. All right. First for public comment is steve rider speaking on agenda item 99.

00:53:30This is ordinance 1568. In opposition, MR. Rider will be followed by audrey shea and michael lacey. MR. Rider, you're recognized.

00:53:39Yes. Good evening. I'm. I'm objecting to this proposed consulting contract between focus strategies, a california company, and metro government for a strategic, excuse me, permanent supportive housing strategic plan contract. The

00:53:57reason that I'm in opposition for it to this is really simple, and that is that we don't need their services. We have done permanent supportive housing projects in this town many, many times. Strobel house is an example. We did this, not this council, but a previous council

00:54:13allocated $25 million in general obligation bonds to get that project started. There is victory hall over there by the. It's done by the veteans operation stand down, and charlie strobel did a project over there again. And so all

00:54:31those were done without focus strategies. If you review the contract and I have and analyzed it and there's some serious deficiencies there, there is. The rate for the consultant is not listed. The name of the consultants who are going to be the team leaders are not mentioned. There's no firm cap on this $250,000

00:54:53contract. It is, frankly, something that we just don't need. And we're kind of in an austerity time right now where we don't have a lot of money, but we're going to spend $250,000 on this contract. And if you do review it because it doesn't have a firm cap, the

00:55:13deliverable is in 16 months. that's past the mayoral election in AUGUST of next year. If this administration is serious about doing permanent supportive housing, we know how to do it. Just go out and allocate the money and we'll get it done. Thank you so much.

00:55:37Thank you. Next is audrey shea. General comment regarding city expansion, followed by michael lacey and then ezra howard. Go ahead. You're recognized. Good, good. Good evening. My name is sean and I am a resident of% north nashville district 21,

00:55:56and I work as a paralegal just a few blocks from this building. I love my neighborhood, but I'm tired of watching tall skinnies, airbnb resorts, and luxury apartments take housing and land from people who have lived there for decades. Daily, I see

00:56:13the unhoused population grow and still, nashville reports record growth and tourism numbers. People who work hard to keep this city running can't afford to live in it. So I am asking you for three things as you begin work on next year's budget. Make housing and a priority, not an

00:56:31afterthought. Fund services for the unhoused and put metro land towards housing. People can actually afford. Second, when rezoning and new developments come before you ask whether the infrastructure is ready before you vote to approve. Approve, what should take eight minutes for me to get to work can now

00:56:50take up to 30 minutes. Growth should come with roads, sidewalks and transit. Lastly, protect the people who live here. Put our priorities ahead of tourists. Tourism is a gift to this city, but a city is measured by the happiness of its residents, not the people

00:57:08who are here for a weekend. Nashville's growth should be lifting up the people who built these neighborhoods, not pushing them out. I'm tired of paying taxes for tourists.

00:57:19Please show you can put nashvillians first. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next is michael lacy. He's speaking on agenda item 30. This is resolution 2264. In opposition, michael will be followed by

00:57:37ezra howard and bethany fancher. Go ahead. You recognized this. Resolution. And the associated contract is for computer aided dispatch, which I want to be clear, is an extremely important and vital tool that we have. And I'll be explicit about I too. It is, believe it or not, a form of surveillance.

00:57:55And I think that and I'll put go on the record here, say that that's fine. And because it's already existing, it doesn't need to be approved in a public hearing. If it was new, it would need to be, which is probably fine, because I think it would go through because it's an extremely important,

00:58:13vital thing. Two weeks ago, I flagged to the mayor's office and to various people on council that there were a bunch of things found in this contract that have nothing to do with computer aided dispatch.

00:58:26There was an amendment provided, and I think that in the future, if the administration would communicate and literally respond to emails about this, there could be less tension about if that amendment

00:58:46satisfies concerns because as written, it doesn't. It is not clear why other departments would be able to bill against this contract. It is not clear what they are defining.

00:58:58Computer aided dispatch, as I'd like to read from the community review boards. Description of the drone pilot program. While the docks are placed in specific locations, the drones can be piloted remotely and are equipped with computer aided dispatch systems. In this

00:59:19exhibit, there are drones that MAY be purchased. With this, it seems like computer aided dispatch can involve drones. Another form of upgrading computer aided dispatch is a tool called fuzes. If this is

00:59:41not the intent, don't let other agencies departments use these funds. Thank you. Next is ezra howard. Ezra will be followed by bethany fancher and michael marra. Go ahead. You are recognized.

00:59:52Yes. My name is ezra howard. I live in district 22. I'm here to talk about no turn on red. So I mentioned before, and I've emailed a lot of the at large members that I'm in data analytics and come from research and higher education, the work here

01:00:09locally outside of that. So I started digging into the publicly available data, particularly the accident data, and wrote up a piece actually for lacey's people's republic of journalists on the subject and to just to see if we're going in the right direction.

01:00:25And it looks like we are based on sepulveda's substitute. But one of the things I said throughout is that we cannot base, you know, an assessment on a singular piece of data with a singular assessment methodology, because there's a

01:00:42thing that's good practice called triangulation, which is where you use multiple pieces of data and multiple methodologies to come to a conclusion to limit bias, which is what mndot has done using, you know, mut, c, d s approach using pedestrian volume and not

01:01:00just accident data. And the reason I bring that up is because looking at coupons amendment, he does the opposite where he just uses accident data and where mndot used a scalpel. This seems to be a shotgun approach. And not only does it remove a certain. A lot

01:01:18of the no turn on red downtown, it spreads them out. It leaves pockets. It turns downtown essentially into a sieve where there are people can just turn right where they wouldn't, where they woud get stopped along the way. Union is now out.

01:01:33When I put it on a map, what else is out? Union church is cut in half. All of the numbered streets going across broadway. They're cut and had moved. Second is out. So when you look at sepulveda's substitute, it's a very tight knit map that's strategic. And

01:01:52so I suggest I would ask you to support the substitute, not the amendment. Thank you. Thank you, MR. Howard. And I should have said off the top that you were speaking regarding ordinance 1497 in in support. So thank you. Next is bethany fancher

01:02:10speaking on agenda item 30. this is a resolution 2264 in opposition. Go ahead please. Hi, my name is bethany fancher and I live in north inglewood.

01:02:22Emily benedict is my council person, motorola solutions needs to be boycotted in nashville due to its contracts with the U.S. Immigration and customs enforcement, ice and customs and border protection, cbp. Motorola solutions has received millions from ice and

01:02:39motorola solutions has been described in public reporting as an ice contractor. Motorola has also. Millions in contracts with cbp. Stop using motorola solutions due to its support of ice. Stop treating fascism as business as usual. Do not

01:02:58comply. It is ironic that you would be purchasing public safety software from a known surveillance company, working towards authoritarianism and making us less safe. It is tiring all these deals that slap on a euphemistic terminology to pass a seriousness in keeping our

01:03:17communities safe. I do not feel safe. My neighbor, who was abducted last week by ice, is not safe, nor are his children who are now fatherless. He was an integral part of our community, not a criminal. This is not about public safety or betterment of the usa do not

01:03:37use our money to do business with business taking millions from this regime. They are already doing the bidding of a fascist regime. It is. It will be your hand in fascism. If you do, you will not be protected people. You will. You will not be protecting people. The land,

01:03:54the old growth grandmother tree that is irreplaceable. Irreplaceable. The water we drink life on the planet in general. We hold this economic decision as a dwindling power against these forces. Do not comply. Thanks.

01:04:10Thank you. Next is michael marra speaking on agenda item 93. This is ordinance 1497. In opposition, MR. Marr will be followed by kim unertl and trina. He will go ahead, sir.

01:04:27Thank you. My name is michael. I'm a longtime resident of this amazing city. I'm an hoa PRESIDENT. I work every day and night in the downtown area, which is now the area most directly targeted by this. No right on red agenda.

01:04:39People ask what makes broadway so successful? And in many ways that means what makes nashville so successful. I usually joke no cover charge, but in reality, there's an important theme that underlies that answer. It's one word accessibility. On broadway, every venue is accessible to every person with ease. No

01:04:56cover charge. Show your id, have the time of your life. We are a growing city. Thankfully, our streets and traffic still flow, helping residents and travelers access their favorite spots, their homes, their hotels, their places of work, their next adventure with ease.

01:05:09If we want nashville to continue its exciting growth, we must ensure our roads remain open and the important places in our lives remain accessible. In a previous meeting, I mentioned the federal nih traffic study proving that the best way to reduce traffic accidents is not banning right turns, which is admitted will

01:05:27worsen traffic times and congestion, but doing the exact opposite, easing traffic flow and reducing congestion. This agenda started with roughly 740 intersections. It has since been reduced to 59, almost all downtown and our most important business, entertainment and tourist areas. This reduction,

01:05:45from 740 to 59, admits that 93% of the initially proposed locations were deemed unnecessary and ineffectual in aiding public safety. I'm just as skeptical of the remaining 7%. There is a way to continue your efforts in a way that benefits public safety. Busy school corners perhaps

01:06:02limited? No right on roads during certain times, school openings and closing. I commend your interest and concede there MAY be limited areas in need of improvement. I hope supporters and opponents can continue an open discussion with publicly available data to ensure your initiatives, which MAY have the

01:06:18best intentions, are not permanently detrimental to downtown nashville's accessibility and therefore nashville's success. Thank you. Thank you. Next will be kim speaking on agenda number

01:06:40931497 in support. I know we have a a d a mic there. Is it on? It's on. Yes. Go ahead. Okay. My name is kim young and I live in district 19. I serve on nashville's vision zero advisory committee. I'm also a victim of nashville's

01:06:58pedestrian safety crisis. I was hit by a driver at the airport on SEPTEMBER 18th while walking in a marked crosswalk. I'm here today to speak in favor of council member. Sepulveda has no right on red bill. While the conditions of my crash were specific to that incident, they actually have a lot in common with the behavior of drivers at

01:07:15crashes involving turning right on red. Here's what it's like as a pedestrian a driver hits you with their car. If you're lucky enough to be alive and not have a brain injury, you watch as bystanders spring into action. Because in nashville, we take care of each other. Police and emts arrive.

01:07:32You watch in disbelief as officials direct traffic around your prone body, because GOD forbid that the flow of traffic stops for even a few minutes. You feel unbelievable pain. You worry about how your injuries will affect your family, about losing your livelihood, about dying. If you're fortunate, you

01:07:48get the best possible medical care at a world class hospital, and then you start trying to rebuild your life while bills roll in and you have to file a public records request to confirm that the police report represents what happened, what happens in intersections where right on red is allowed is simple drivers creep up into

01:08:05the crosswalk, blocking the path for pedestrians. They don't pay attention to people towards their right since they're focusing exclusively on cars coming from their left. This creates major, major risk for pedestrians who are just attempting to safely navigate our urban environment. There's nothing new in this bill. It

01:08:22simply takes actions on decisions. This body has already repeatedly approved, including through the vision zero action plan and the - connct downtown plan. Please vote in favor of the no. Right on red bill and join together in urgently taking actions to address the major safety crisis happening every single day in our city. How many more broken

01:08:41bodies does this council need to see before you start acting? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next is trina speaking on agenda item 30. This is resolution 2264 in opposition,

01:09:01MISS. You'll be followed by john bull and adam nicholson. Go ahead. You're recognized. Good evening council. My name is trina and I live in district six. I'm here about resolution 2264, the motorola agreement.

01:09:15I'm asking you to vote no or to make changes to close any loopholes. The resolution says the agreement is available to all metro departments. It never says what metro would buy the price schedule attached to it does drone software and hardware, a bundle of investigative reporting apps

01:09:33called kaleo, which seattle uses and reviews under its own surveillance ordinance and open ended lines for hardware and new product modules. The amendment says this is for dispatch, but it does not remove any of those items. The amendment allows computer aided

01:09:49dispatch upgrades, new modules and features directly related to dispatch, which is broader than the c, a d the system has used since 1997. If the intent is dispatch, only one more sentence would settle it. That nothing required under this agreement MAY be technology covered by metro code 1308080,

01:10:08including drone software and hardware and kaleo. Without complying with that section, the council's counsel could drafted in minutes and it wouldn't touch 911 service. Would you be willing to offer support that tonight? I wrote a song back when the mayor tried something similar with an mou.

01:10:25I've adapted it to address the resolution. Do you remember when the mayor famously said that the fight against surveillance was essentially dead? Used to be against now to surveillance. He's wed throw your phone in the river, he said, if you don't like surveillance, here's a trick that might deliver. Keep your phone and throw this resolution

01:10:42in the river. We're tired of giving cops the world while the people get a sliver. Why not keep your phone and throw this resolution in the river? Please vote no or defer until the surveillance agreement comes to this body after a public hearing. Thank you.

01:10:57Thank you. Next is john bull speaking on agenda item 69. This is ordinance 01585. Go ahead.

01:11:08You're recognized. Thank you. I live ten minutes walk from the seven mile creek. Area, which is scheduled according to this, for the construction of certain

01:11:25greenway improvements. There is a homeless camp of. I counted 20 people by eyeball this afternoon who live along that creek from pike to the harding place, roughly 200 yards. They

01:11:45have an interest in this improvement. Whether or not it will affect them directly. There has been a ten foot chain link fence with barbed wire at the top, placed on the east side. I'm sorry, the west side of nolensville pike to block

01:12:06access to the main camp, and there have been three people either arrested or cited for camping on public property in that area in the past three weeks. There is anxiety. There are a couple of elderly women in particular who well, you

01:12:27know where I'm going with that. I'd like some clarification on the process of what the certain greenway improvements will be with the seven mile creek improvements. That's a $4.6 million budget, including the cumberland river assets was

01:12:47something I have nothing know nothing about. Thank you for your time. Thank you, MR. Bull. Now, last for public comment is adam nicholson speaking on agenda item 93, ordinance 1497

01:13:04in support. Go ahead. Hi. Thanks. I'm here to support the the bill without amendments 2 or 3 in particular. I don't know if I can mention council members by name, but I thank council members sepulveda for the leadership on this amendments two and three. You know, no more delays, no

01:13:21watering it down, diffusing this. The focus of this bill, as written from sepulveda, works with in dot's approval already for this 59 intersections that are in the greatest need. It's baffling how we landed on this other amendment idea that would

01:13:38defuze this bill's attention across the whole county, and who knows how those intersections were chosen? Maybe by one criteria, but it's not using the criteria that we would normally use. So I just wonder about what was the other input that was able to get all these intersections downtown to

01:13:55not get this remedy that they so desperately need? It just smacks of something. It's just baffling, is all I can say. And cities that have done this intervention that we're so overdue from doing, they've seen safety improvements by 92

01:14:14to 97%. I mean, we know what to do on this. Let's do the right thing, please. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes our public comment time. All right. Before we get into section I regarding

01:14:33rules of procedure, we do have somewhat of a timing matter. And we have some of our rules related to the capital improvement budget that mentioned some very specific times and dates. And looks like we MAY need to engage that. And

01:14:50so for that purpose, I'm going to recognize a planning and zoning chair. Horton, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to move to suspend two rules, and I'll do them sequentially for rule 15.1.

01:15:02I move to suspend the rules to change the deadline for council members to make sip requests from OCTOBER 30th 1st to NOVEMBER 9th. Okay. All right.

01:15:16So there is a a request to suspend the rules rule 15.1 relative to the sip and the council member submission date moving that date. Could you restate that, MR. Horton.

01:15:29From OCTOBER 30th 1st to NOVEMBER 9th. Until NOVEMBER 9th, is there any objection to a suspension of the rules to take up this matter? Okay. Seeing none, special counsel, do we

01:15:48need to vote on this or are we just stating the proposal of the chair and calling it good? If you could advise, please, sir. Go ahead. Council. Yes.

01:16:01Council member horton's motion to suspend the rules means that the rules are suspended. I. If you vice mayor, you MAY want to say just without objection, the deadline would be okay. Changed.

01:16:11All right. So just to restate that again, the rules specify OCTOBER 31st, but in support of, as I understand it, kind of staff the process and to give members ample time. Chair horton is proposing that the

01:16:30rules be suspended such that that date will now be NOVEMBER 9th. Is there any objection from the body to that change to the rules? Okay. We will then say that the rules have been suspended for that purpose, and the planning department and our staff will be in touch with

01:16:47members. Is there anything else, MR. Horton, you want to share at this time? Yes, for rule 15.2, I would like to move to suspend the rules to change the deadline for the planning department to release the report on council requests from DECEMBER 16th to DECEMBER 31st.

01:17:04Okay. Planning department, DECEMBER 16th to. DECEMBER 31st. DECEMBER 31st. Okay. That being typically effectuated just by email, right to be shared with the body. That's correct. Okay.

01:17:17That's rule 15.2 that specified that specific date of DECEMBER 16th. But again, as we are shifting the other date a week or so, we're going to shift this across the holidays. Is there any objection to the suspension of the rules such that the planning department's

01:17:35deadline to send that to council, or per rule 15.2 would be DECEMBER 31st? Okay. Seeing no objection, the rule 15.2 is suspended for purposes. Those specific purposes that we have

01:17:51articulated into the record. Okay. All right. Thank you, council member horton. Next is section I. Regarding also regarding rules of procedure.

01:18:07Section I. One is regarding rule 21. This is amendment to the rule of procedure. Rule 21 regarding legislation concerning appropriation of funds via the capital spending plan. MR. Spain, you are

01:18:24recognized, sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee report, please. For the report of the rules, confirmations and public elections committee chair sepulveda. You're recognized. Thank you. Vice mayor. Rules voted. Six in favor, zero against zero. Not voting as substituted.

01:18:38Okay. And then did you all take up? I think there was an additional substitute thatwas had a typographical issue.

01:18:47That was. Yes. There was a late substitute to correct a typo. Okay, okay. And that's the one that you're reporting. Okay. Thank you for the clarification. All right. Back to you, MR.

01:18:56Spain. I will move approval to bring up the substitute. Okay. All right. There's a motion to approve. Is there a second? Okay. Back to you. I will move to suspend the rules to consider the late substitute, which corrects typographical error.

01:19:11Okay, so members have received the substitute. There is as well a late substitute that has a minor typographical. No, it's just the lights up.

01:19:22Okay. Is there any objection to a suspension the rules for that purpose? So that the sponsor can offer the substitute? Seeing no objection, the rules are suspended. Go ahead. Sir, move.

01:19:33Approval of substitute, which, as we've already discussed, just corrects a slight typographical error. A second. Is there any discussion on this substitute?

01:19:46This is just the motion to substitute at this juncture. Seeing none. All in favor of the motion to substitute, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. All right. Do you wish to renew your motion to approve a substitute? So moved. Okay. Is there a second for that motion? All right. Is

01:20:04there any discussion at this juncture, MR. Spain, you have the floor, sir. If there's anything you want to share. I'm happy to give a brief explanation of this rule. Change comes to us from finance and basically separates the way the council will consider initial resolutions and capital spending plans. Right now,

01:20:21those two things are combined into a single resolution, but they're actually separate items. The initial resolution is required by law, authorizes the issuance of bonds. It's published in a newspaper of general circulation, gives citizens the right to whereas as you all know, csp

01:20:38allocates funding to specific capital projects. We have specific rules about how we address csp. There's automatic deferral can only be addressed at certain times, that sort of thing. And resolutions don't need to fall under those same rules. So what this does is separate those two things out.

01:20:53Doesn't change anything about the way we consider csp, just takes initial resolutions out of that same process. Appreciate the explanation. Is there any discussion on this proposed change to rule 21?

01:21:12Okay. Seeing none, we will move to the vote. We'll try it first by voice. This requires 27 votes. Changing our rules. Okay, all in favor of the motion to amend our rules with this

01:21:29substitute, please say I any voting? No. Any abstaining. All right. This rule change has passed. All right. Next we are

01:21:50moving into our public hearings. Two resolutions and many more bills, sections j and k of our agenda. And I'll just share this information first for both sections as it applies to all the public hearing spanish interpretation services are provided for all metro council

01:22:08public hearings. Council office team member karina valdez is here as the interpreter. MISS Valdez, can you please share how you can help. Interpretation in espanol?

01:22:19Gracias, gracias. We appreciate you. For those wishing to speak this evening as part of public hearings, please do state your name, but it is not required for you to provide your exact address. If you do not wish to do so, you MAY want to instead tell us in what neighborhood or area you live, who your council

01:22:37member is, and your connection to the agenda item. Public hearing is not time limited. All persons who wish to speak on an agenda item on public hearing will be heard. If you need an accommodation or have a question, please speak with council office staff in the gallery and they will be glad

01:23:01to assist you. All right. Section j resolutions on public hearing. First item is agenda item one. Resolution 2026-2293 sponsor coupon. This is a resolution exempting 178 second

01:23:20avenue north, unit 205, from the minimum distance requirements for obtaining a short term rental property, not owner occupied permit pursuant to the metro code of laws.

01:23:33Section 6.28.030 and a ew more letters in parentheses. All right, MR. Cooper, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee reports, please. All right. For the report of the government operations and regulations.

01:23:45Committee chair eastlake. Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Wrong button. Go ahead. Thank you. Vice mayor voted eight in favor, zero against one not voting. Okay. All righty. With that committee report. And you seek to open the public hearing.

01:23:57I seek to open the public hearing. Okay. I declare the public hearing open for council member coupons resolution 2293. Would all members of the public here in support of this resolution, please raise your thank

01:24:14you. Would all members of the public here in opposition to this resolution, please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition, does the person here in support seek to be recognized or speak? You would like to speak? Okay. You can go to the podium, please, sir. Go

01:24:34ahead. You're recognized. Thank you. Council members. It's good to be with you. Thank you for the time. My name is jeffrey rasmussen, and this resolution is deeply personal to me. I'm the owner of this unit and it was our primary residence. Me

01:24:51and my family, we were at home the morning of DECEMBER 25th, 2020, when officer hosey of metro nashville pd knocked on our door and helped evacuate our family to safety. Moments before the blast. We remain

01:25:10residents of a unit in a building long after many other units had converted to short term rentals. I understand that this body is balancing unique aspects of the city's growth for our family. It would be

01:25:28significant if you would support this resolution. It's unique because across the street from this building is a strip of grass and trees near the river. There's no playgrounds, and it. The. This

01:25:47building has converted completely to airbnbs. I was a long term resident in a. Surrounded by short term rentals and can attest to the unique nature of that. However,

01:26:06the proposal. The resolution here would significantly help and unify this building. I urge you all to support this resolution. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Is there anyone else seeking to be recognized? I declare the public hearing closed and back to you for a motion on your bill.

01:26:21Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Move approval with brief comment, please. All right. Is there a second? All right. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. And I can't add much more than MR. Rasmussen just did. But these are buildings that were affected by the bomb, as you heard, and second avenue, as you know, dtc is by right for

01:26:41str. And the reason it's coming before us is just because of riverfront park. I'm picking up that 100ft from park rule. So I'm very careful to work with neighborhoods in other areas. As far as where we put short term rentals, acknowledging our need for housing. But this is a building that has had that right before, obviously has

01:26:58experienced a great, great trauma and tragedy. And so urge my colleagues to support this resolution. All right. Is there any further discussion on this resolution? Oh, okay. MISS Suara, you're recognized. Go ahead.

01:27:11Thank you, vice mayor, and I'll make it very short. And I'm glad that the gentleman, as well as all our residents, are fine. I will be abstaining. As a rule, since my election. I do not vote for short term rental. I've always abstained regardless of the reason. And so that's the reason why I will be abstaining. I'm staying

01:27:28consistent with that, but I do appreciate the explanation. Thank you. Thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no and any abstaining in addition to MISS Suara? No. All right. That has

01:27:47resolution has been adopted. All right. Next is agenda item two. Resolution 2026-2294. Sponsors webb, spain, evans, siegel and hoffman. This is a resolution establishing the rivergate infrastructure development district council member. Webb, you're recognized.

01:28:04Committee reports for the report of the budget and finance committee chair, spain. thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Budget and finance recommend approval ten in favor, zero against zero not voting.

01:28:14Okay. And for the report of the transportation and infrastructure committee chair evan siegel. Or. Vice chair allen, do you see the report regarding 2294 rivergate

01:28:31infrastructure development district? Okay, let the record show chair peter head in and gave you the nod. Go ahead ma'am. Thank you. Thank you.

01:28:41Transportation and infrastructure voted seven in favor, zero against and one voting. Okay. Got it. All right. With those reports in its back to you, MISS Webb. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member

01:29:01webb's resolution 2294, establishing the rivergate infrastructure development district, with all members here in support of this bill, please raise your hand. Thank you.

01:29:12Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition, does the person here in support seek to be recognized? She is shaking her head no. And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion on

01:29:29this resolution. Motion for approval. Okay. It's properly moved in. Second, anything you'd like to say about the resolution? No, ma'am. I'm. It's a new tool in the toolbox, and I think it will be used other than in rivergate.

01:29:40All right. Any discussion among council members regarding this resolution? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. Council has adopted this

01:29:59resolution. Next section. K bills on public hearing. First, among those we can take agenda items three and four together as they are companions to each other. MISS Gadd but just for

01:30:17purposes of the record, agenda item three is ordinance bl 2025-703. Sponsors gadd, horton and this is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance.

01:30:29The metro government by applying a historic landmark overlay district for property located at 4301 harding pike, 296ft southwest of woodlawn drive. Zoned c s and located within the harding white bridge.

01:30:44Urban design overlay this is 3.99 acres and as well, its companion bill 708, which requires certain materials to be restricted construction of buildings at all the addresses mentioned in 703. MISS Gadd, you're

01:31:03recognized, ma'am. Thank you so much. With that, I'd like to move both of these bills to defer to the first meeting in MARCH in 2027. All right. There is a motion to defer both 703 and its companion, 704, to the

01:31:23first meeting in MARCH. Okay. It's properly seconded. Is there any discussion on that? A deferral motion. Yes, ma'am.

01:31:38miss lee, you're recognized. I'm not sure I probably should do this under something else. We were told. 708. Is that supposed to be a 2025?

01:31:51704 I apologize if I misspoke. We're speaking about. 703 and its companion. 704. I apologize if in referencing back, I MAY have looked at that three and thought it to be an eight.

01:32:08Maybe I need to get my glasses updated. Thank you for the clarification, MISS Lee. Is there any further discussion on the motion to defer? Both these bills to the first meeting in MARCH? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. These have been deferred.

01:32:28Next is agenda item five. Ordinance bl 2026-1395 sponsor welsh. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from rs. 7.52 r eight. A zoning for property located at 470

01:32:46radnor street, approximately 217ft northeast of meade avenue. This is 0.2 acres. MISS Welsh, you're recognized, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing.

01:32:58I declare the public hearing open for council member. Welsh is bill 1395. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your

01:33:15and? Council member. Welsh. Seeing no persons either side, I will declare the public hearing closed and back to you for a motion on this bill. Thank you. Move to approve.

01:33:25Properly seconded. Is there any discussion on this bill on second reading? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. This is passed its second of three readings. Next, our agenda items six and seven.

01:33:40They are companions to each other. Item six is ordinance bl 2026-1400. Sponsor lee. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from a r to a to sp.

01:34:00Zoning for property located at 5683 cambridge road, approximately 479ft southwest of spring park lane. This is 6.64 acres to permit 68 multifamily residential units.

01:34:12And again, it's companion agenda item seven, bill 1408, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings at the location. Also, in 1400.

01:34:26MISS Lee, you're recognized, ma'am. Yes. I'd like to take both of these together, since they're companion bills. And I would like to open the public hearing, please. Yes, ma'am. I declare the public hearing open for MISS Lee's bills. 1400 and 1401. Would all members of the

01:34:44public here in support of these bills please raise your hand? Thank you. Would all members of the public here in opposition to these bills please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak. All right.

01:35:08Go ahead and come on forward. you are recognized. Good evening. My name is casey kaiser. I'm with meritage homes, where the applicant. Very brief comment. We've been working on this for about a year, diligently with COUNCILWOMAN Lee, multiple neighborhood meetings with our constituents, multiple meetings with planning staff to put together a quality

01:35:26submittal here, got unanimous approval at planning commission. It's right in line with the community character for policy for the area. So would respectfully ask for your support of this bill this evening. Thank you so much for your time and everything you do here.

01:35:40Thank you. With that. Seeing no one else seeking to be recognized for the public hearing. Okay, I declare the public hearing closed. And back to you, MISS Lee, for a consolidated motion. If you wish. On these bills.

01:35:52I would like to move approval with a all right. Go ahead. Ma'am. As you just heard, we have been working on this a long time. It had been deferred a couple of times. And so they came back to the community to have another meeting. I do hope

01:36:10they will do the honorable thing and be listening, because the community did have some other issues with traffic that they shared with you all. So I hope that they will continue to work with that. As we're going on to the third reading on this.

01:36:32All right. Is there any further discussion on this motion to approve both these bills on their second of three readings? All right, MISS Evans, you're recognized.

01:36:43Thank you, vice mayor. I until the the speaker came to the podium. I probably wouldn't have this would have just passed me by and I would have voted like everyone else.

01:36:55But I guess just to flag for the council member is that I have an existing meritage subdivision in my community. And so one thing to kind of put on her radar is that this particular project that I have had in my district has had a

01:37:14lot of problems related to hvac installation and not being done properly. And now, as the community has been around for several years, there's been issues that have in some cases fallen outside of the warranty time period. So just to maybe elevate that for the sponsor to

01:37:32look into related to this project. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Is there any additional discussion, MISS Lee, you're recognized again. I appreciate that. I appreciate that very much. And I hope that they are listening to this because, as I said, we have another reading on this. So there is time if we need to do

01:37:52something else with it. There have been some other meritage places that maybe have not been the most show ing when working with homeowners, so I hope this one is going to be different. I knowthey did put in a lot of work with talking with the community, and I hope that

01:38:10they're not going to stop, because one of the major issues, again, was the traffic and doing a little more to help do some of the traffic and hearing that that is terrible. So I hope that they will listen and be working on that and make sure that that doesn't happen

01:38:27in this one, and do what you need to do your due diligence to look into that and maybe even give a word to them for to help that one. Because that. Yeah. That's it.

01:38:37Thank you. All right. Is there any additional discussion on the motion to approve these companion bills on their second of three readings? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Okay. Any

01:38:56abstaining? Okay. Again, these are on their second of three readings. So no votes and abstentions at this time are okay. And on we go.

01:39:06Thank you, MADAM Chair. These have passed their second of three readings. Next is agenda item eight. Ordinance bl 2026-1433.

01:39:20Sponsors stiles and allen. This is an ordinance amending chapters 2.240, 6.28 and 7.08 and title 17 of the metro code of laws to replace, quote daycare uses with quote, child care uses or add rather and

01:39:40quote adult day services uses and amend related conditions and standards. Council member stiles, you are recognized, ma'am.

01:39:51Thank you very much. Open the public hearing. Let's see. Okay. There's a request to open the public hearing. And so i declare the public hearing open for council member stiles.

01:40:12Bill 1433. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill, please raise your hand? Seeing no one here on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed. And then

01:40:38with that, I believe. We have a disapproved bill here. And so we're going to need a report of the planning department prior to you making a motion. Okay.

01:40:49MISS Stiles to the public hearing is closed. It's a little unusual because amendment, and I will now put it over to the planning table. MR. Lehman, you are recognized, sir.

01:41:02Yes. Bob lehman, metro planning department, just a quick overview of this bill. This is a text amendment that replaces the existing daycare use with two new uses throughout the metropolitan code. The two new uses are adult day services and child care within title 17.

01:41:21Outside of title 17, outside of the zoning code, it makes related updates across title two, six, and seven. Just to note, the planning commission on the title 17 portion of this bill, so there was very limited in what the planning commission reviewed, just the zoning code

01:41:39portion of it. The the changes within title 17 include that it creates adult daycare services category with similar requirements to child daycare.

01:41:50It is the same as the existing daycare regulations, except adult daycare services does not include an accessory residential category. Adult day services does not include the option for the zoning administrator to waive certain standards for adult daycare in large multifamily developments.

01:42:08The planning commission questioned whether the functional differences between adult and child daycare justify separating the uses, whether the current shared allowances and whether the current shared allowances should change based on similar zoning impacts and the increasing need for both

01:42:26adult daycare and child daycare. The commission disapproved the bill so that adult and child daycare could continue to be regulated identically under the existing daycare use, so the commissioners did not find that the current shared land use category was creating a problem.

01:42:46All right, that concludes the report of the planning department on behalf of the planning commission. This having been disapproved. And so with that concluded, it is back to you for a motion on your bill. MISS Stiles.

01:42:56I'd like to move for approval with a brief comment, please. All right. Is there a second? It's seconded. Go ahead, ma'am. So some of the concerns that the planning table just mentioned, we have addressed in an amendment for title two so that adult day

01:43:15services could also be expedited the same way that child care can. So that was an amendment that is present for us this week. So that was not done when we originally presented this bill to planning.

01:43:28So that is an update. So things are more in line. And so I'd like to move for approval. The reason why I'm doing this daycare is a pejorative term.

01:43:40Did you already move approval before you were speaking about the bill. I apologize. So we've already moved approval and gotten a second. I apologize, ma'am, go ahead. No worries. The reason why I did this in the first place was because daycare is a pejorative term within child care, the child

01:43:57care world. And so I just want to make sure that all of our language was in keeping with what is being used in that industry. It's something that has come up. I went to a conference, spoke on a panel earlier this year with the united way, with the alice

01:44:14conference, and it was something that came up several times, making sure that daycare was no longer being used, because child care is a lot more comprehensive in terms of the educational needs that are taking place for children. So instead of just using daycare and just thinking we've solved something, let's do things

01:44:31appropriately. Just clean up language doesn't change anything else. All right. And you have the floor. Do you wish to offer one or the other of the amendments of which you spoke?

01:44:44Yes, please. Okay. So the the amendment for title two is the one that I mentioned that makes it so the administrator can allow for the adult day services to be expedited, just like daycare would be as well.

01:44:59So would you please make a motion and clarify which. That amendment? I'd like to move that amendment for title two. Okay. So it's amendment one. Amendment one.

01:45:10So there is a motion to amend with amendment one. Is there a second for that motion. Okay. Is there any further discussion on the motion to amend with amendment one? MISS Allen, do you seek to be recognized on

01:45:30amendment one? Okay. So not on amendment one at this time. Does anyone seek to be recognized specifically on the motion to amend with amendment one? Okay. MISS Lee, on amendment one.

01:45:41I had a question. Yes, ma'am. Did planning see that? And does that clear up what their position was? Her amendment. I can ask planning to opine on amendment one. Go ahead, MR. Lee.

01:45:57The amendment. Amendment one deals with changes to title two, which the planning commission does not review. The planning commission is only required to make a recommendation on changes to title 17. So no, the planning commission did not opine on

01:46:13that. And what I think I'm hearing him say then, that didn't address the other issues that he brought up. I would infer that because he only took up title 17 aspects. Okay. MISS Allen, do you seek to be recognized on amendment one? Go

01:46:30ahead, ma'am, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Chair, and I'll come back in a minute to. I watched a portion of that and read some of the the staff report, and my understanding is that it was discussed. But they were reminded that they could not vote on that piece of it.

01:46:44And it was a concern that was expressed. So I appreciate the fact that the sponsor has been willing to to bring this part back, because I don't think the intention was ever to deprioritize adult daycare that that just happened. And I will speak to some of the other things on, on that. So I would encourage my, my colleagues to support this, this amendment so

01:47:01we can get it more in line. And then we'll continue discussion as we keep going. All right. Is there any additional discussion specifically on the motion to amend with one?

01:47:11Seeing none. All in favor of amendment one, please say I any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. Amendment one has passed.

01:47:23MISS Stiles, I presume you want to renew your motion to approve, as amended, with amendment one. At this time, MISS Allen is in the queue. Discussion continues.

01:47:36Do you want to yourself offer amendment two or. Lord help me. Sorry.

01:47:45Okay. Yes. All right. We're on discussion. So what's before us is a motion to approve, as amended presently with amendment one. And MISS Allen, you are next in the queue. Go ahead, ma'am.

01:47:58Thank you, MADAM Chair. I'd like to move amendment two with a brief explanation. Okay. Is there a second? All right, go ahead. So amendment two picks up another.

01:48:08I think it was just an inadvertent reference back to daycare in the short term rental section that that specifically calls that out as childcare. And, and makes a distinction between adult services, daycare and child care. Because not sure anybody's that concerned about

01:48:28having an adult services facility in the proximity of a short term rental. But we do care a lot about having a distance requirement for, for child care services. And then just to also follow up on why it does make sense to make these distinctions. I serve on the nationalearly education

01:48:46coalition, which is working on dealing with many obstacles to why it is so hard to have excellent childcare across the across the city. And one of the issues that we're dealing with is just compatibility between% state and local regulations.

01:49:01And there are some issues that require at the state level, you have to have a shower. If it's an adult daycare facility, you don't need those at child care. So separating the two, these two gives us the ability to further clarify and simplify the the differences that are currently making it difficult to get daycares. Set up. And so

01:49:22for that reason, I would like to move this amendment, which simply does that makes that one change. But also just to further explain why, why I see the benefit and I support my colleague in in separating these two. And we're still not changing any of the good work that was done in the previous bill. We've got the prioritization and things like

01:49:38that. And I think this just gives us better opportunities to to ensure that we have excellent daycare opportunities and excellent early childcare opportunities for the city. Thank you. All right. You have heard an explanation of amendment two. There is a motion to amend with amendment two. MISS Ewing, do you seek to

01:49:59be recognized on amendment two? Go ahead. I just have to to correct you on one thing. So adult day services are for a wide range of adults, similar to my son, who has intellectual disabilities and developmental delays. I do think it's of

01:50:19concern for that type of day services as well. To be near a short term rental. Those people can often be just as vulnerable. So I needed to make that distinction.

01:50:31Thank you. All right. Anyone else seeking to be recognized? Do you seek to be recognized on amendment two, specifically, MISS Stiles? Thank you. I, I support the amendment.

01:50:42Okay. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to amend with amendment two? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting? No. Any abstaining?

01:50:55Okay. Abstention from MISS Ewing. MISS Styles, at this time, do you wish to renew your motion to approve, as amended with amendment one and amendment two? All right.

01:51:05You're shaking your head. Is there a second for that renewed motion? Okay. All right. So at this juncture, we are on discussion of motion to approve on second of three readings, as amended with amendment one and amendment two. Is there any

01:51:25further discussion at this time? Okay. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Okay. That's two nos. Any other no's.

01:51:40Only hear two and see two. Any abstaining. Okay. All right. This requires only a simple majority on second reading. And so the eyes do have it. And this has passed its second of three readings as amended. All right. Next is agenda item nine,

01:52:01ordinance bl 2026-1481. Sponsor kimbrough. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government, by changing from rs. Ten to our ten zoning for property located at 1814 county hospital road, located approximately 215ft northeast of dope avenue. A

01:52:210.54 acres. MISS Kimbrough, you are recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. After speaking with the planning table, I need to defer this move to defer this to the first public hearing meeting in NOVEMBER.

01:52:32Okay. First meeting and public hearing in NOVEMBER. Properly seconded. Is there any discussion on the deferral motion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. Okay.

01:52:47That has been deferred to the first meeting in NOVEMBER. Next is agenda item ten, ordinance bl 2026-1520. Sponsor benedict. This is an ordinance to amend chapter 17.04 of the metro code of laws to revise the definition for boarding house within the zoning code. Council

01:53:05member benedict, you are recognized, ma'am. Oh, whoops. I'm sorry I pressed your butt. Oh, I got a. I'm over oversubscribed. Go ahead ma'am.

01:53:17Thank you. MADAM Vice mayor, I'd like to open the public hearing, please. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member benedict's bill 1520 regarding the boarding house definition, would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? All

01:53:36right. Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Well, seeing no one here on either side, MISS Benedict, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion on this bill.

01:53:50Thank you. Move approval. All right. Is there a second? Okay. It's properly moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion on this bill on its second of three readings?

01:54:00Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. This has passed. Second reading. Next is agenda item 11.

01:54:13Ordinance bl 2026-1546 sponsor welsh. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government by changing from rs. 7.52 r six. A zoning for property located at 227 raymond street at the northeast corner between keystone avenue and raymond street. This is

01:54:310.17 acres. MISS Welsh, you're recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member welsh bill 01546. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hands?

01:54:46All right. With all members of the public here in opposition to this bill, please raise your hand. Seeing no one here on either side, MISS Welsh, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion on this bill.

01:54:58Move to approve. Is there a second? Thank you. There's a motion to approve. It's properly seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No.

01:55:11Any abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 12. Ordinance bl 2026-1547. Sponsor taylor. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from rs5 to r six.

01:55:27A zoning for property located at 611 28th avenue north at the southwest corner of torbert street and 28th avenue north. This is 0.18 acres. Council member taylor, you're recognized sir.

01:55:39Thank you, vice mayor. Please open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member taylor's bill 1547. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand?

01:55:54Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? All right, MR. Taylor, seeing no one here on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed back to you for a motion on your bill.

01:56:06Move for approval. All right. Is there a second? Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining?

01:56:18All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Yeah. Okay.

01:56:29Next is agenda item 13. This is ordinance bl 2026-1584. Or rather 1548. Sponsor styles.

01:56:38This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws. The zoning ordinance of the metro government by canceling a planned unit development overlay district for properties located at 3014 3001 3026 3048, 3034, 3025,

01:57:053041 and 3021 owen drive and 12,966 old hickory boulevard. A very long road, approximately 122ft northwest of firestone parkway. This is 36.46 acres zoned a, r2a, and located within a planned unit development overlay district.

01:57:21MISS Stiles, you are recognized. Thank you. Nick of time. yeah. Yes. Watching the television out there, I'd like to open the public hearing. I declare the public hearing open for council member styles. Bill 1548. Would all members of the in support of this bill please

01:57:39raise your hands? Thank you. Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? No. Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak. They are shaking. I believe the person

01:57:56to your right is also shaking her head. No, I can't see she's behind you, MISS Stiles. Both. No. Okay. With that, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you, MISS Stiles, for a motion on your bill.

01:58:06Yes. I'd like to move for approval, please. Okay. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye.

01:58:18Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Relatedly. No. MISS Stiles, you have another one. They're related, but they're not companions. They technically require two separate hearings.

01:58:33Next agenda item 14, ordinance bill 2026-1549. Sponsor stiles. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government of nashville and davidson county. By changing from a r to a to iwd zoning for properties located at. And I'm

01:58:49not going to repeat them. They all start with 3000 and are on owen drive and then also 1200 and 966 old hickory boulevard, approximately 120ft northwest of firestone parkway. This is 36.46 acres and located within

01:59:07a planned unit development overlay district. MISS Stiles, you're recognized. Oh. Public hearing open. Sure. I declare the public hearing open for council member stiles is a.

01:59:21Bill 1549. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill rather please raise your hand? Okay. Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing none to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak.

01:59:38They are shaking their head. No. Okay. And with that, I will declare the public hearing closed back to you for a motion on this bill. Move for approval, please. All right. Is there a second? Okay. It's properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none.

01:59:51All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 15. Ordinance bl 2026-1550. Sponsor welsh. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from our

02:00:08s five to r six. A zoning for property located at 321 valeria street, approximately 90ft east of wixon avenue. This is 0.18 acres. Councilmember. Well she recognized.

02:00:20thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member welsh's bill 1550. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand?

02:00:32Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed back to you for a motion on your bill. Move approval.

02:00:46Okay. Is is there a second? Okay. Properly and creatively moved and properly seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none. Favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three

02:01:05readings. Next is agenda item 16. Ordinance bl 2026-1558. Sponsor taylor. This ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance.

02:01:14The metro government by changing from our. S52r6a zoning for property located at 2417 meharry boulevard, approximately 230ft east of 25th avenue north. This is 0.17 acres. Council member taylor, you're recognized, sir.

02:01:29Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing, please. Okay. I declare the public hearing open for council member taylor's bill 1551. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Thank you.

02:01:45Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak, they are shaking their heads.

02:01:58No. And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed. And it's back to you, MR. Taylor, for a motion on your bill. Move for approval. All right. Properly moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All

02:02:15right. This is passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 17. This is ordinance bill 2026-1552. Sponsor stiles. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from a r to a to

02:02:35rm20. Zoning for property located at cambridge road and numbered approximately 776ft southeast of preston road. This is 3.9 acres. MISS Stiles again in the nick of time. Man that

02:02:52it pays to be on the back row. Okay. I have a. First. We got to do the public hearing, though, please. Yes, I'd like to. Public hearing.

02:03:02Okay. I declare the public hearing open for council member stiles is bill 1552. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here on

02:03:19either side, I will declare the public hearing closed and it's back to you for a motion. First, please to get the bill before us, ma'am. Yes. I'd like to move for approval, please. Okay. Is there a second? Properly moved and seconded. Okay. Now, at this juncture, you MAY offer your substitute.

02:03:34Yes. I had originally put in for rm20, but I need to change it to rm9. That fits better. So that's what the substitute would do and I'd like to move the substitute please.

02:03:43Okay. Is there a motion to substitute. Is there a second? Okay. And you've heard a description of the substitute. Is there any discussion on the motion to substitute specifically seeing none. All in favor the substitute please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. MISS Stiles, do you seek

02:04:00to renew your motion to approve as substitute? Yes, I do, thank you very much. Is there any discussion on that motion to approve on second as substituted. Councilmember lee, you are recognized.

02:04:13Can you ask the sponsor? I know she said it, but to explain a little more what that means, what her amendment actually does. Okay.

02:04:23So there's a motion to approve as substituted at this juncture. So if you would please MISS Stiles, answer MISS Lee's question particular to the change that your substitute made.

02:04:34Yes. So with rm20 they were going to be. More units would be permitted on the site, and the developer only needs up to 29. So r nine fit better.

02:04:47All right. And this this is a substitute recommended by the planning department as well. Is that correct. Yes. All righty. MISS Lee. Does that answer your questions. All right. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting? No. Any abstaining. All right. This is

02:05:04passed its second of three readings as substituted. Next are agenda items 18 and 19. They are companions to each other. Ordinance bl 2026-1553 sponsor vote and 155 for its

02:05:23companion. 1553 is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from c, f to sp zoning on property located at 300 mccann street at the northwest corner of mccann street and third avenue south, this is 0.69 acres to permit 311

02:05:43multifamily residential units. And again, its companion 1554, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings at the addresses that were mentioned in the aforementioned 1553 MISS Vote. You are recognized, ma'am.

02:05:58Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member bose. Companion bills 1553 and 1554.

02:06:08Would all members of the public here in support of these bills please raise your hand? Thank you. Would all members of the public here in opposition to these bills please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition, does the person here in support seek to be recognized or speak? He's

02:06:27saying no. And with that I will declare the public hearing closed. It's back to you, MISS Bow, and you can make a consolidated motion on these if you wish to do so. Yes. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to move to approve both.

02:06:38Okay. Is there a second? All right. Any any discussion? Anything you want share at this time? Nope. Members. Any discussion? Okay. Seeing none.

02:06:51All in favor of both these bills? Companions to each other on second reading, please say aye. Aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. 1553 and 1554 have passed their second of three readings. Next is agenda item 20. Ordinance bl

02:07:102026-1555 sponsor welsh. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from our. As 52r6a zoning for property located at 223 peachtree street, approximately 300ft west of foster avenue. This is 0.2 acres. Council member welsh.

02:07:27You are recognized, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member. Welsh is bill 1555. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Would all members of the public here in

02:07:44opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed back to you for a motion on your bill. I'd like to move to approve.

02:07:55All right. And there's a motion to approve and it's properly seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting?

02:08:07No. Any abstaining. Okay. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 21. Ordinance bl 2026-1556. Sponsor taylor. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government by changing from rs5 to r six.

02:08:23A zoning for properties located at 1728 and 1730 arthur avenue, approximately 320ft southeast of buchanan street. Zoned rs5.

02:08:35This is 0.28 acres and within a detached accessory dwelling unit overlay. District council member taylor, you are recognized, sir. Thank you. Open the public hearing, please. Yes. I declare the public hearing open for council member taylor's bill 1556. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please

02:08:54raise your hands? Seeing none, would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand also seeing none. So, seeing no one on either side, I will declare the public hearing closed back to you for motion on your bill.

02:09:08Move for approval. All right. There's a motion to approve and it's properly seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 22. Ordinance bl 2026-1557.

02:09:29Sponsor kimbrough. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from r s ten to r ten. Zoning for property located at 1812 elizabeth road, located approximately 385ft south of john mallette drive, this is 0.46 acres. Council

02:09:48member kimbrough, you are recognized, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. I declare the public hearing open for council member cameras. Bill 1557. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? All right. Would all members of the public here in

02:10:05opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here on either side, MISS Kimbro, I will declare the public hearing closed. It's back to you for a motion on your bill.

02:10:14Thank you. I'd like to move for approval. All right. Is there a second? All right. There's a motion to approve. It's properly seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? Okay. This is passed its second of three

02:10:32readings. Next are agenda items 23 and 24. They are companions to each other. Sponsor rutherford. Agenda item 23 is ordinance bill 2026-1558. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from a r

02:10:49to a to sp. Zoning for property located at 1065 barnes road, approximately 54ft east of barnes bend drive. This is 55.6 acres to permit 109 multifamily residential units and 78 single family lots. And again, it's

02:11:07companion 1559, which requires certain materials to be restricted in the construction of buildings in the aforementioned 1558 council member. Rutherford, you are recognized, sir.

02:11:17Thank you. Ma'am. Open the public hearing, please. Okay. I declare the public hearing open for council member rutherford's bills 1558 and 1559. Would all members of the public here in support of these bills please raise your hand? Thank you. With all

02:11:34members of the public here in opposition to these bills, please raise your hand. Seeing no one here in opposition, does the gentleman here in support seek to be recognized or speak?

02:11:45He is shaking his head. No, MR. Rutherford. And so with that I will declare the public hearing closed, and it's back to you for a motion which can be a motion, if you wish, on your bills, I.

02:11:55Yes, I would like to move approval. I believe there is a substitute we need to take care of as well. Substitute. The substitute is already on the bill.

02:12:04sorry. On. Okay, okay. Scratch that, yes I will. I would like to move approval on both. And that is with a deferral of third reading to the first meeting in NOVEMBER.

02:12:18Okay. We're going to move approval on second for both bills with a deferral of third reading to.

02:12:28The first meeting in first. Meeting in NOVEMBER. Thank you. Sir, with a brief explanation of. Okay. Is there a second on that motion? Okay. Go ahead, sir.

02:12:42Thank you. Yeah. There is a there was a neighboring community, delvin downs, which came to me there. Members of their hoa and requested a meeting, which I obliged. And they were interested in some traffic calming for their

02:13:00neighborhood, for the main street that goes through their neighborhood. As a result of this development next door, they're going to see some additional traffic that sort of will flow out on the back side.

02:13:13And so I think some of you will find this interesting because you MAY have experienced something similar. So I arranged for a meeting with them to meet with the development team. And the development team was. They were very good to work with, and

02:13:32they were basically agreed to cover expenses related to traffic calming for that next door neighborhood, recognizing the effect that traffic was going to have on them. So an amendment will be forthcoming before for third reading. And

02:13:49as related to the the deferral to make sure that we get all of that in order ahead of time. And also just to allow for any additional questions or concerns from the from the next door neighborhood. And so with that, I renew my motion.

02:14:01All right. There is a motion to approve on second with third reading deferred to the first meeting in NOVEMBER. You've heard an explanation from the sponsor. It was properly seconded. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any

02:14:20voting? No or abstaining? All right. These bills have passed their second of three readings. Next is agenda item 25.

02:14:33Ordinance bl 2026-1560. Sponsor huffman. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from r, s 15 to s, r and sp2 sp zoning for properties located at 4107 and

02:14:504186. Dodson, chapel road and dodson chapel road, unnumbered at the southwest corner of old hickory boulevard and dodson chapel is 15.30 acres to permit accessory uses to mineral extraction. Council member huffman. You're recognized, sir.

02:15:04Thank you, vice mayor. I'd like to open the public hearing. All right. There is a I declare the public hearing open for council member huffman's bill 1560. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill, please raise your hand? Thank you.

02:15:24Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hands? So seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak, they are all shaking their head. No.

02:15:38Council member huffman. And so with that, I will declare the public hearing closed. It's back to you for a motion first to get the bill before us, please. Thank you. I'd like to move to approve. And I also have an amendment that I need to move.

02:15:51So there's a second on the motion to approve. And then you want to make a motion to amend. Yes. A motion to amend just with a brief explanation. Second, on the motion to amend. Go ahead, sir.

02:16:04The amendmet essentially prohibits any waste management uses going forward in the future. Alrighty. Is there any further discussion specifically on the motion to amend? Okay.

02:16:18All in favor of the amendment, please say I any voting no or abstaining. All right. The amendment is on. If you would want to renew your motion to approve, as amended.

02:16:28Yes, I would like to approve or make a motion to approve as amended, with a brief comment. That's fine. Is there a second? Go ahead. Yeah. Thank you. Colleagues, just a brief explanation about this site.

02:16:41this was the site of the former dodson chapel church that was destroyed during the 2020 tornado. It was was attempted to have some potential housing on it by my predecessor.

02:16:52Unfortunately, that did not work out. We had a bad flood study that came back, and essentially it has been a parking lot, a desolate parking lot for for a couple of years now. This gives it a lot of hope. It's going to be a beautiful grass berm, top, top

02:17:10topped, excuse me, with wild flowers and trees. But the best part about it is vulcan. The property owner has secured the original bill from the church, and we're building a memorial on site that people will be able to visit from here at this point forward. So with that, I

02:17:28ask for your approval. All right. There is a motion to approve on second reading, as amended. It's properly seconded. Is there any further discussion?

02:17:39Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining. All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 26, ordinance bill 2026-1561.

02:17:54Sponsor tombs. This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government by changing from our eight to iwd zoning for property located at 438 haney avenue, approximately 1800ft west of brick church pike. This is 0.18

02:18:12acres. Councilmember tombs, you are recognized, ma'am. Thank you. MADAM Vice mayor, request open a public hearing. all right. I declare the public hearing open for council member tombs. Bill 1561. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill please raise your hand? Thank you.

02:18:30Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hands? All right. Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak. They are shaking their head. No, MISS Tombs. And so with that, I will declare the public hearing

02:18:46closed. It's back to you for motion on your bill. Move for approval. Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on this bill? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. All right. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda

02:19:0727. Ordinance bl 2026-1562. Sponsor nash. This is an ordinance in title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government. By changing from rs ten to our ten. Zoning for properties located at two, seven, seven and 281 tusculum road, approximately 470ft northwest

02:19:25of brewer drive. This is 1.96 acres. Council member nash recognized. Sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I've been informed by planning that the notice did not go out in a timely manner. So we need to defer this to the public hearing. First meeting of NOVEMBER.

02:19:40okay. There is a motion to defer the second reading to the first meeting in NOVEMBER, along, of course, with the public hearing. Is there a second for that motion?

02:19:51All right. Is properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any no. Any abstaining. All right. This is deferred and will have its public hearing at the first meeting in NOVEMBER. Next is agenda item 28, ordinance bill

02:20:112026-1563. Sponsor of this ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government by changing from r six to or20a in s zoning for property located at 762 linwood avenue, located approximately 200ft east of eighth avenue south.

02:20:30This is 0.17 acres. Council member vo, you are recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I was also informed by the planning table that due to lack of notice, we need to defer this to the first meeting in NOVEMBER.

02:20:42Okay. There is a motion to defer to the first meeting in NOVEMBER for the for the public hearing to be at that time. Is there a second for that motion? All right.

02:20:53Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining. All right. This will be taken up again at the first meeting in NOVEMBER. Next is agenda item 29, ordinance bill 2026-1564. Sponsor coupon.

02:21:11This is an ordinance to amend title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government by changing from I r to muans zoning for property located at 1326 third avenue north, approximately 70ft south of taylor street.

02:21:25This is 0.16 acres and within the phillips jackson redevelopment district and the germantown historic preservation overlay district council member cooper, you are recognized, sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Open the public hearing, please.

02:21:37Okay. I declare the public hearing open for council member coupons bill 1564. Would all members of the public here in support of this bill, please raise your hand?

02:21:50Thank you. Would all members of the public here in opposition to this bill please raise your hand? Seeing no one here in opposition to the persons here in support seek to be recognized or speak. I see a thumbs down and a head tilt. No.

02:22:07And so with that I will declare the public hearing closed. And it's back to you, MR. Cooper, for a motion on your bill. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Move. Approval, please. All right. There is a motion to approve. Is there a second?

02:22:18Properly seconded. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? All right. This has passed its second of three readings. And that concludes the bills on public hearing. Okay. Rolling

02:22:37right along into section l of our agenda, the consolidated consent agenda, all resolutions and second and third reading ordinances on this agenda are included on the consent agenda, if recommended for approval unanimously by all committees to which the item was referred, items on the consent agenda will be voted on at a single time. The item number, along

02:22:54with the resolution and ordinance number of the items on the consent agenda will be read by me, and members of the council MAY remove any item from the consent agenda by request before the consent agenda vote is taken. All right, first, on to resolutions. The first item recommended for the

02:23:15consent agenda is agenda item 31. Resolution 2026-2295.

02:23:34Agenda item 33. Resolution 2026-2297. Agenda item 34. Resolution 2026-2298. Agenda item 35. Resolution 2026-2299.

02:23:59Agenda item 36. Resolution 2026-2300. Agenda item 37. Resolution 2026-2301. Agenda item 39. Resolution 2026-2303.

02:24:20Agenda item 40. Resolution 2026-2304. Agenda item 42. Resolution 2026-2306. Agenda item 44. Resolution 2026-2308.

02:24:39Agenda item 45. Resolution 2026-2309. Agenda item 46. Resolution 2026-2310. Agenda item 47. Resolution 2026-2311.

02:24:58Agenda item 48. Resolution 2026-2312. Agenda item 49. Resolution 2026. Dash 2313.

02:25:11Agenda item 50. Resolution 2026. Dash 2314. Agenda item 51. Resolution 2026. Dash 2315. Agenda item 52. Resolution 2026-2316. Agenda item 53.

02:25:34Resolution 2026-2317. Agenda item 54. Resolution 2026-2318. Agenda item 55. Resolution 2026-2319. Agenda item 56.

02:25:54Resolution 2026-2320. Agenda item 57. Resolution 2026-2321. Agenda item 58. Resolution 2026-2322. Agenda item 59.

02:26:11Resolution 2026. Dash 2323. Agenda item 61. Resolution 2026. Dash 2325. Agenda item 62. Resolution 2026-2326. Agenda item 63. Resolution 2026. Dash

02:26:332327. Next, for items on second reading proposed for the consolidated consent agenda. First among those is agenda item 96 read or rather ordinance bl 2026-1565. Agenda item 99. Ordinance bl 2026-1568.

02:26:59Agenda item 100. Ordinance bl 2026-1569. Agenda item 101. Ordinance bl 2026-1570. Agenda item 102. Ordinance bl 2026-1571. Agenda item 103.

02:27:22Ordinance bl 2026-1572. Agenda item 104. Ordinance bl 2026-1573. Agenda item 105.

02:27:35Ordinance bl2026-1574. Agenda item 106. Ordinance bl2026-1575. Agenda item 107 ordinance bl 2026-1576. Agenda item 108.

02:27:57Ordinance bl 2026-1577. Next, for items on third reading proposed for the consolidated consent agenda. First among those is agenda item 110, ordinance bl2026-1518. Agenda

02:28:19item 111 ordinance bl 2026-1536. Agenda item 112. Ordinance bl 2026-1537. Agenda item 113.

02:28:34Ordinance bl 2026-1538. Agenda item 114. Ordinance bl 2026-1539. Agenda item 115.

02:28:50Ordinance bl 2026-1540. Agenda item 116. Ordinance bl 2026-1541. Agenda item 117.

02:29:09Ordinance bl 2026-1542. Agenda item 118 ordinance bl 2026-1543. Agenda item 119. Ordinance bl 2026-154. For agenda item 120,

02:29:26this is the last item. Ordinance bl2026-1545. All right. Do any items need to be removed from the consent agenda?

02:29:37if so, if members would please join queue to request that council member welsh, you are recognized. Ma'am, if you would please just provide the agenda number, please.

02:29:51Item number 99. Okay. And then I'll read the item itself once I get there.

02:30:03Agenda item 99. This is ordinance 1568 will be removed from consent. MISS Tombs, you're recognized.

02:30:17Agenda item 110. All right. Agenda item 110 is ordinance 1518. It will be removed from consent. Next,

02:30:34council member porterfield, please. Thank you. Vice mayor, could you please pull agenda item 61rs20262325.

02:30:44Yep. Agenda item 61. Resolution 2325 will be removed from consent.

02:30:56Council member cortez, please, sir, with just the agenda item, please, sir. Thank you. Vice mayor. Was agenda item 92 on the consent? Let me check. No, sir. It was not okay.

02:31:08I'm good. Thank you. All right, council member bow. You're recognized. Thank you. Vice mayor. Agenda item 63, please. All right. Agenda item 63, which is resolution 23 2320 723, 27,

02:31:27will be removed from consent. Okay. Council member cap, you're recognized, sir. Thank you. Vice mayor, request to pull number 98. Okay. Agenda item 98. As was already on off

02:31:47of consent. My bad. Thank you. No worries. Council member harrell, you are recognized, sir. Agenda item 90.

02:31:56Okay. Agenda item 90. Is an item on first reading, sir. So when we get back to first reading you can pull that at that time. No worries.Council member eastlick you're recognized sir.

02:32:11Thank you. Agenda item 111. Okay, 111. Which is ordinance 1536 has been removed from consent. And lastly, council member evans, you are

02:32:28recognized, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. I am struggling to find the actual agenda item number, but it is fine. Go ahead. Hours 2026-23. 26.

02:32:39Okay, let me go back. Resolution. Okay. It is a agenda item 62. Thank you. Again, that's resolution 2326. And that has been removed from. Okay. MR.

02:32:59Clerk, are all committee reports in for items on the consent agenda? Yes. All committee reports are in. All right. Thank you, MR. Clerk. Members, is there a motion for approval of the consent agenda?

02:33:11Okay. In a second. All in favor, please say aye. All right. Council has passed all items on the consent agenda. Now we will move back through in agenda order for items that were not on consent. So back to resolutions. We go section m

02:33:31first among those is agenda item 30. Resolution 2026-2264. Sponsor spain prep tea and huffman. This is a resolution accepting the terms of a cooperative purchasing master agreement with motorola.

02:33:46Motorola solutions, inc. For public safety software for the metropolitan nashville department of emergency communications. Council member. Spain. You are recognized, sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT.

02:33:57Committee reports. Budget and finance recommended approval of the amendment eight in favor, zero against two not voting and approval of the resolution as amended. Eight in favor, zero against two not voting.

02:34:07Okay. And for the report of the safety committee chair patty, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor. The committee had a robust discussion on this particular piece of legislation.

02:34:21Within it, we discussed the particular language within the cooperative agreements. The way that it operates and why that the particular language was included. We also discussed under this cooperative agreement what exactly the d, e, c will be purchasing and what they will not be purchasing.

02:34:35Within that committee discussion. We focus primarily on the fact that within this legislation that d, e, c intends and will only be purchasing software and equipment associated with the operation of their computer aided dispatch system. And so

02:34:53based off of that discussion, we voted seven in favor, zero against zero not voting in favor of the amendment, and voted seven in favor, zero against zero, not voting to approve the resolution, as amended. All right. Thank you for that report. It's back to you, council member spain, to get the bill before us, sir.

02:35:08I move approval. All right. There's a motion to approve. Properly seconded. Is I apologize. Is there a second? Okay. Back to you, MR. Spain.

02:35:17I will move the amendment. Okay. Is there a second on the motion to amend? Okay. Go ahead. Sir, anything you want to share about the amendment specifically, sir?

02:35:26Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. The amendment simply clarifies that this agreement can only be used for products and services, for computer aided dispatch, and to enhance computer aided dispatch services.

02:35:42Okay. There is a motion to amend. You've heard a description of the amendment from the sponsor. And so we're on to discussion on the amendment. Specifically, MISS Welsh, do you seek to be recognized on the amendment?

02:35:55Does anyone seek to be recognized on the amendment or the motion to amend specifically? Okay. Seeing none. All in favor of the motion to amend, please say I. Any voting?

02:36:09No. Any abstaining? Okay. MISTER Spain, do you want to renew your motion to approve as amended? So moved. All right. Now we are on to discussion on the motion to approve, as amended. MISS Welsh, you are recognized.

02:36:23Thank you, vice mayor. I have quite a lot of concerns about this piece of this resolution. I don't think there is the necessary level of clarity that we need, and I would like to actually move a two meeting deferral so that we can pull the old contract and

02:36:42compare language in our old contract and the new contract, and get the questions that we have about this particular piece of legislation answered. My fear. Is let's. Okay. Go ahead. So there is a motion to defer to meetings. It's properly seconded. Now, if you

02:36:58want to speak o that deferral, please continue. Thank you. I heard that second in my head was like, I feel like there are too many unanswered questions.

02:37:08And my fear is that this is actually a backdoor surveillance. I really would like it spelled out if the use for some of this computer aided information is actually. So I think that deferral will help us get those questions asked.

02:37:24And again, I would like to the old contracts that under this. Make sure, compare the language and see what's changed so that we can put the community's mind at ease, that this does not have actually a nefarious purpose. I feel like the administration has not been totally forthcoming and clear

02:37:41in what this actually is. So i renew my motion for two meeting deferral. All right. There is a motion to defer two meetings, which would mean that it would be taken up again at the first meeting in NOVEMBER, per this deferral motion, it is properly seconded. And so we are on to

02:37:59discussion specifically on the deferral motion. Council member spain on the deferral. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Go ahead please. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'm opposed to the two meeting deferral. I appreciate the sponsors concerns, but respectfully, those questions have been asked and answered in various committees already.

02:38:15This agreement, which is an existing agreement, ended at the end of JULY. So we are operating under a a good faith extension, I guess you'd say, of that contract at this point, if this is not renewed, department of emergency emergency communications has saidthey'll have to go back to a pad and paper, basically to

02:38:33handle dispatch to make sure that nfd and mpd are getting to where they need to go to take care of our citizens. So I think it's in our best interest to to move this forward tonight.

02:38:43So I'm opposed to the deferral. Thank you. All right. On the deferral motion, MR. Nash, you're recognized sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I too, rise to speak against the deferral. Motorola is one of the few people businesses in the business of providing computer aided dispatch. We've

02:39:00had. We've done business with them for as long as I can remember. On the police department. This is just a continuation of of the current level of service. I spoke at committee. The only surveillance that gets done with computer aided dispatch is

02:39:19on the police officers and the fire trucks, because they all have vehicle located so that cad can decide who's closest to any kind of emergency call.

02:39:30This has nothing to do with surveillance outside forward facing. It's all internal. And so I, as the sponsor spain has said these questions have been asked and answered already.

02:39:43All right. So discussion continues on the deferral, specifically the two meeting deferral. MISS Porterfield, you're recognized.

02:39:54Thank you, vice mayor. I stand in support of the two meeting deferral. I thank councilmember welsh for bringing it. I was debating bringing it for myself. So thank you for doing the hard work on that. Councilmember welsh, I did ask the question.

02:40:08We were notified in committee that the contract was up. And I did ask the question about like, what does that mean and how do they continue to operate? I did not hear an answer about pencil and paper. So we MAY have there MAY have been some crossed

02:40:25wires or some we MAY have heard different information, but that's not the information that I heard. And while I do acknowledge that we have previously had a. And it could have been in a different committee, so it could. That information could have been expressed in a different committee in the committee that I was in. That is not what was

02:40:43said with regards to. We've been in relationship with them for a while. Just because we've always done something doesn't mean that we continue to do something when we get better information. And I think we've heard some community concerns with additional relationships that motorola, additional

02:41:00relationships that motorola has that are concerning. I take a little bit of a different position with regards to. I don't think that there's this nefarious thing that's happening, but I do think that there are community concerns.

02:41:17And if we can slow it down a little bit to get more information to address those community concerns, if there's nothing nefarious happening, then it's a win win situation. So I think that this will give us the time and the opportunity to address the concerns that we've heard from the community.

02:41:32So I'm going to stand in support of that deferral. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the two meeting deferral motion, MR.

02:41:47Benton? Go ahead, sir. Could I ask. Somebody, maybe at the front desk, is there any guarantee that we will continue to have the current system? We have no guarantee that we'll have service with cad because we're so big of a city. If we don't have it, it's going to be disastrous. So I just need to

02:42:04guarantee. So the question relative to the two meeting deferral proposal is to the administration to confirm if they will be able to continue to operate under this sort of good faith extension. Yes. Okay.

02:42:24MR. Rosenberg, do you oh, from the legal department, if you would please introduce yourself. Go ahead. You are recognized.

02:42:34Thank you. Kelly woodward, metro legal to answer the question. No, there is no guarantee that we will be able to continue to operate in the way that we have been without a valid contract. Right now, we're just relying on essentially their good faith.

02:42:48So there is no guarantee. All right. MR. Benton, does that answer your question? Okay. All right. MISS Welch, do you seek to be recognized again on the deferral? I see you in the queue here. Okay. Go ahead.

02:43:03Ma'am. I would like to ask the legal department, I suppose, if I could, if they could actually produce the contract that supposedly expired on JUNE 30th.

02:43:14I understand a community member asked the interim director dc, and they said they didn't have the contract and they couldn't produce it. I would really like to see that contract to see what the language was. And I also have a bit of a concern because this yet again, is another if we don't do this, everything's going to go to hell in a

02:43:32handbasket. This seems to be the way we do a lot of things with the administration, especially in terms of things that are giving away a lot of.

02:43:42I don't even know what the word is, but not listening to the city, to the council, not listening to the citizenry who have serious questions about what these things are going to be used for. It's always like, if we don't do this, this guy's going to fall. And I just don't think that that is legitimate.

02:43:56And we cannot be governing under those types of things. So I once again, would like to ask my colleagues to support a two meeting deferral so that we can get a copy of this contract. We can compare what we have in the new contract to the old contract and make sure and answer these questions so that

02:44:14that our constituents can feel that we are doing the right thing and we know what it is we're actually entering into. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the two meeting deferral motion?

02:44:34Okay. Seeing none. All in favor of a two meeting deferral, please say aye. All against please say no. Yeah I agree, MR. Clerk, would you please put it on the boards? I cannot

02:45:06determine that by voice. Thank you, MR. Clerk. Please show the vote. All right. The motion to

02:45:28defer to meetings fails with ten votes in favor and 24 against. We are back on the motion to approve, as amended.

02:45:43Is there any further discussion on the motion to approve? Okay. MISS Porterfield, you're recognized. Thank you. Move for one meeting. Deferral. If the why is not a valid point of order, why is it not a valid motion?

02:46:01Special counsel. Councilmember councilmember welsh made a motion to defer to a date certain, and a new motion to defer to a different date would not be in unless there's been some substantial change to the motion or material progress in the debate. Essentially, that the question that you would be

02:46:18presenting would no longer be the same. Thank you. With a would a date change not be a change to the motion since it's one meeting instead of two? No, ma'am. It's not okay. Thank you.

02:46:32Rules on debate, MISS Sepulveda, as a point of order. I have a motion. Okay. Go ahead, ma'am. Move to defer one meeting with rereferral to committee.

02:46:43Okay. All right. That is a proper motion. So now there is a motion to defer one meeting with a rereferral. It. Could you clarify, MISS Sepulveda, to both committees or just one,

02:47:00perhaps. Both committees. Okay. With a referral toboth committees. Is there a second for that motion? Okay. All right. So we are on to debate for the motion to defer with a

02:47:19rereferral to committees. MISS Welsh, you are recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I have two questions. One is why the existing contract is not on a government website. And my understanding is that the existing contract that expired in JUNE did not have cad in it.

02:47:39So we were told that was a separate thing. So again, I would like to really see these contracts and know what's going on and make sure that we know exactly what it is we're getting into. Motorola is not the best partner in the world.

02:47:52They were major supporters of project 2025. And as one of our public commenters spoke earlier about, they also support ice and border patrol. So they're not necessarily the best company to keep company with.

02:48:08MISS Welsh. Did you want me to address the question specifically regarding the the the contract being online? Okay.

02:48:20Yes. All right. Metro legal, can you respond regarding MISS Welsh's question, the current contract, which you mentioned having expired on JUNE 30th, can that be found online? If

02:48:44not, why please. MAY MISS. From metro legal. I am certain that the contract. Is online. I will find it and send it to you tonight.

02:48:58Okay. MISS Amos, if you would please send it to% special counsel wilson so he can send it to the entirety of the body. That would be great. Okay, next in the queue for discussion on again, the motion to defer one meeting the referral. MISS Porterfield,

02:49:17you're recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I stand in support. no surprise that I'm standing in support of this. I just ask my colleagues to support, you know, this is splitting the baby. If you feel like two meeting deferral was too long.

02:49:29This is just a one meeting deferral. I understand the concern about, you know, what if motorola pulls out is highly unlikely that they're going to pull out. They want the they want to keep doing business with metro. So they're not going to pull out and stop offering these services. So I do think that this gives us more time to

02:49:46investigate this a little more and to get some more answers again, for some of the concerns that we've heard from the community and also gives, gives us more time to to do a little bit more research. So with that, I support the deferral and the re refer back to committee.

02:50:00Okay. Council member sepulveda. MADAM Chair, you're recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I obviously stand in support of the one meeting deferral. I'm hearing that their last contract that's on the website is from 2009. So I think it's important to have the contract. Also. Apparently

02:50:19we've been operating without a contract since JUNE or JULY. So I think one meeting deferral just to get all our ducks in a row is not unreasonable. I think just for my own sake and some of our colleagues that

02:50:37have some concerns, I think an amendment would specific language to name a specific ordinance, I think will, would, you know, be in order if. It would certainly make me feel better. And it it should be a

02:50:54non-issue regardless. And if it's a non issue, I don't think it makes much of a difference anyway. We want to make sure that our 911 call center has everything that they need. And so if we could get this done sooner rather tan later, I think then we need to go ahead

02:51:12and do that and be good stewards as well. So I would encourage you all to approve a one meeting deferral and it will go back to committee anyway. So if we do approve this. So thank you.

02:51:26All righty. On the deferral motion, MR. Huffman. Go ahead, sir. Thank you, vice mayor. I just want to reiterate what chair spain had highlighted before and what metro legal has highlighted. We are essentially at the beck and call of a company that provides a service not only for this

02:51:46department but for this city. Public safety is our number one interest here in in nashville. It should be, and it's up to us to protect the public. If we don't have a system such as this, it would be pure anarchy.

02:52:05Unfortunately, the ability to not be able to tll someone where to go in an emergency is something that keeps me up at night. Even thinking about that, I would urge my colleagues to not support this. Thank you.

02:52:21All right. Discussion continues on the deferral motion, MR. Spain. Okay, we'll go to MR. Nash. You're recognized, sir.

02:52:31I, I hear in the room that motorola really isn't going anywhere. We just want to wait a week and see if we can prolong this discussion a little longer. The fact is, they're going to be here. This

02:52:49is a big system in this government, and you just don't snap your finger and replace it. This is a contract that's going to be renewed one way or the other. If we're at all reasonable and businesslike.

02:53:04And I and I understand, ice lord, the abuses. No one supports that abuse. But this is a major radio network. We were using motorola long before ice ever became a part of our

02:53:23discussion. And it's going to be here long after ice is put back in its place again, so I there's no need for the deferral as stated earlier.

02:53:33Thank you. Okay. Council member spainon the deferral, sir. Go ahead. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Just to follow up on what my colleague said, we heard in committee that it would take 18 to 24 months to replace the motorola system with with a new vendor. So

02:53:51that's just not a realistic solution. We need to move forward to make sure we maintain the service we have with our current vendor. So I hope that you'll vote down the deferral and move forward tonight. Thank you.

02:54:01All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to defer one meeting with a referral to both committees? MISS Benedict, you're recognized.

02:54:12thank you, vice mayor. Colleagues, I rise in support of the deferral. I think as a body, our job is to make things better, right? To make law better, to make agreements better. And I. I don't feel comfortable right now having not reviewed the

02:54:32existing contract because it's not available. And the fact that we could get it later tonight is great, but that's not before a vote right now. And so I'm I'd like to review that. I'd like to see if there's things that we can improve upon that we've already seen an amendment to this resolution since the last

02:54:48meeting. If there's things that we can do to improve things, I believe that's our job and what we're here to do. I think a one meeting deferral isn't going to put anything in jeopardy. I think that even if we are going to renew this because motorola does provide this or and this

02:55:06is the right, you know, solution for our city, I think, you know, that's great. But if there's ways that we can improve the contract, that's what we're here to do. We've done it many times. And I think this one meeting deferral gives us the opportunity to do that.

02:55:21Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the deferral motion? Okay MISS Ellis, sorry. This sort of alarms me that it's being deferred one meeting. But then we hear that they MAY or MAY

02:55:40not extend it in good faith. So I wonder what happens if they decide to not extend it in good faith. Like what's the backup plan? To whom would you like me to address that question?

02:55:52The administration or either legal? Okay, I'm just going to address it to the administration table, whether that's the mayor's office or legal. What would the hypothetical backup plan be?

02:56:06Would motorola not extend in good faith for two more weeks? Yes. Okay. MR. Rosenberg, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Dave rosenberg with the mayor's office.

02:56:17Council member. There isn't a backup plan. Pen and paper. MISS Ellis, does that fully answer your question?

02:56:28Unfortunately, yes. Okay. All right. Seeing no further discussion on the deferral motion in an abundance of caution, MR. Clerk, would you please load the vote for the one meeting deferral? With

02:57:06rereferral? I guess for. Clerk, please show the vote. The motion to defer one meeting

02:57:26fails with 14 in favor of the deferral. 20 votes against and zero abstentions. And so that reverts us to the approval motion and discussion continues.

02:57:42Is there any further discussion on the motion to council member porterfield. Thanks, vice mayor. How many does this just need to pass with a simple majority, or does it need 21 votes? Or how many votes are needed?

02:57:54Special counsel is there a specific vote requirement for this type of resolution?

02:58:07Vice mayor, this would require a simple majority vote. It's just a simple majority. Okay. Okay. Is there any further discussion?

02:58:21Councilmember allen, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Chair. We had a speaker at the beginning of the meeting that asked if their statement was, could we add a sentence that says anything that that would be acquired that is subject to section 1308, which is the surveillance section, would

02:58:38have to comply with that section. And so I would like to ask legal to to respond. If something is subject to 1308, it would have to comply with that section. Is there are is there any circumstance where it's a small enough addition to the contract that it would

02:58:56slide under or, or by by passing this resolution, if there is an addition made later that is subject to that, can that happen?

02:59:08All right. So as I understand the question, if this were to pass and there were to be a future amendment to the contract, is that what you're saying?

02:59:20So, I mean. The 1308 apply. There's language in the amendment that refers to improvements or refinements or enhancements or whatever. And I, I appreciate concerns about surveillance. And if we can assure people that the language is tight enough, that that is that we've covered that without

02:59:39needing to add the language that was suggested, I would I would appreciate knowing that that we can make that statement. Would you like me to address that to the legal department? Yes. I think legal or.

02:59:49Okay administration. MISS Woodward, do you want to take that question or metro legal? Or MR.

03:00:08Rosenberg, would you rather respond? Go ahead, sir. Thank you. MADAM PRESIDENT. Please correct me if I'm answering the wrong question. You you are you

03:00:25cannot use this contract for things covered under the surveillance code, because to approve something under the surveillance code, it requires a public hearing for approval.

03:00:35If you're asking whether you could put language that is says that you can't basically that you can't break the law. Yes.

03:00:47And MISS Allen, could you just sort of clarify your time frame? It seems like you're speaking into the future about a future concern. Are you talking about like right now? Thank you for that question. Yeah. Again, just just trying to be responsive to things that we hear during public hearing. The statement was made there that

03:01:04the language and I need to look at the proposed amendment said. Hold on.

03:01:16This agreement MAY not be used for the provisions of product services necessary to enable, maintain, support, secure and enhance computer aided dispatch functionality, including upgrades. I think that was the question. Could upgrades include that? And I hear you saying no, because it would require a public hearing.

03:01:32And so that assures us that that we know what we're restricting this to computer aided dispatch only. Go ahead, MR. Rosenberg. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Yes. Because any in order to approve any surveillance use or a contract that includes surveillance uses, it has to be passed by

03:01:49resolution with a public hearing before council. There, by definition, by not having a public hearing, there is no opportunity to do that.

03:01:59All right. Does that answer your question? Okay. MISS Evans seagull, you're next in the queue. Go ahead, ma'am.

03:02:09Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I just wanted to rise to explain that I'm going to vote to support this tonight. I think there is robust conversation in public health ad safety. Also tonight on the floor that I think makes clear some of the concerns. But I also just want to say we

03:02:27wouldn't be here if three years into this term, we were still not getting things way, way later than we should be on a contract where this apparently they could just stop servicing us tomorrow and we'd be on pen and paper. And this contract just came to us. How recently ago and how long was it expired

03:02:44before it came before this body? I think it is embarrassing as a city that we have been operating this way. And I also think we wouldn't be here if the community believed that we were good at self policing, the use of surveillance. We've seen this term with use salprs leo site five cast that the

03:03:03administration did not send them through the proper surveillance channels. Surveillance tech has to go through the proper surveillance tech channels. That is the law.

03:03:14I am going to vote for this because I believe the administration wants to follow the law. But when we get things months after they're expired, we get these arguments that the whole system could crash if we don't vote for it. And we know we've been misled in the past, it's pretty easy to see why

03:03:31people have so many concerns and questions, and want things delayed, and need time to talk about them. Thank you, councilmember johnston. You're recognized.

03:03:40Previous question. Right. MISS Johnson has called the question. This requires a second. Okay. Non-debatable and requires two thirds of those voting. If you want to call the question you want to end debate

03:03:57and move to the vote, we'll try it first by voice, please. In number, not in volume. All those in favor of calling the question, please say I. All those who do not wish to call the question, please say no. I believe the ayes have it. Roll

03:04:16call. Okay, that roll request needs two seconds. Three seconds. Second. Okay. Three. Got em. MR. Clark, if you would, please load the vote for the previous question.

03:04:57remember, if you are in favor of the previous question, you want to end debate and move to the vote. MISS Ellis, do you seek to vote on the previous question? All votes in. MISTER

03:05:21Clerk, please show the vote. The motion to call the question has failed again. It requires two thirds with a vote of 20 to 14. So debate continues on the motion to approve, as amended.

03:05:41Next in the queue is council members. MADAM Chair. Thank you, vice mayor. I know I'm last I only have a quick question. I have a question for the administration. Whether fuzes and cad have been integrated.

03:06:03Oh, okay. Let's see. We're on a motion to approve, as amended. So I will consider that a proper question because we're not talking about deferrals anymore to the administration, MR. Rosenberg.

03:06:14Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I don't know how some cards and I don't know how those work. I know that pretty much any software can be integrated with any software.

03:06:25We continue to use windows, even though it can run something we don't like. So I don't know. Is our. Current cad that is being considered. Has it been integrated with fuzes?

03:06:42No. Here in nashville, or you're saying in general. The one that we're considering in our current contract, want to know if it has already been integrated with fuzes, or does it have the possibility of being integrated with fuzes for

03:06:59its enhancement? Does it have the functionality correct? Okay, MR. Rosenberg. Thank you, MADAM. MADAM PRESIDENT, this is the same. This is the same cad that we are currently using, and it has not been integrated with fuzes. We do not use fuzes in nashville.

03:07:16Thank you. Please. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to approve, as amended? Okay.

03:07:30Seeing none, MR. Clerk, if you would please load the vote.

03:08:13All votes in. MR. Clerk, please show the vote. This resolution has passed with 26 votes in favor, seven votes against and one abstention. Next among

03:08:31resolutions is agenda item 32. This is resolution 2026-2296. Sponsor spain prep t welsh, alan and gad. This is resolution appropriating a total of $43,192.28 from the metropolitan government, acting by and through the office of

03:08:47the mayor to fisk university and approving a grant contract by and between the metropolitan government, acting by and through the office of the mayor and fisk university for the provision of youth participatory action research council member spain. You're recognized sir.

03:09:01Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee reports. Budget and finance recommended approval. Nine in favor, zero against one not voting. All right. And for the report of the public health and safety committee chair prep t.

03:09:11Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor, public health and safety. Consider the resolution voted to approve eight in favor, zero against zero not voting right. And back to you, MR. Spain, for a motion move. Approval.

03:09:20All right. There's a motion to approve. Is there a second? All right. Is there any discussion on this resolution? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting? No. Any abstaining?

03:09:35Okay. Councilmember gamble, you'll be recorded as abstention. Any other abstentions? All right. You have adopted this resolution. Okay. Next is agenda item 38.

03:09:50Resolution 2026-2302. Sponsor spain prep t welsh, alan lee, vo hill, stiles and gad. This is a resolution appropriating a total of $110,000 from the office of family safety of nashville and davidson county to the mary parish center as a recipient of a community partnership fund grant. Council

03:10:07member. Spain. You're recognized, MR. Chair. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee reports. Budget and finance recommend approval. Ten in favor, zero against zero not voting. All right. And for the report of the public health and safety committee chair prep.

03:10:18Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor, public health and safety voted to approve seven zero against one not voting. Okay. And it's back to you, MR. Spain, for a motion. Move approval. All right. Is there a second?

03:10:29Properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on this resolution? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining?

03:10:39Okay. MR. Prep t will be recorded as an abstention. All right. You have adopted this resolution. Next is agenda item 41, resolution 2026-2305.

03:10:54Sponsors spain and gad. An initial resolution determining to issue general obligation bonds to the metropolitan government of nashville and davidson county in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $544 million, 720,000. Also

03:11:14known as the capital spending plan for the report of the budget and finance committee chair, spain. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Just a point of order. Do we do a committee report on this one, or is it an automatic deferral by rule?

03:11:26You do take a committee report because it was discussed in committee, but the 8.1 will apply. So we just request the report. Go ahead sir. Got it. Thank you. Committee reports budget and finance recommended one meeting deferral nine in favor, zero against one not voting.

03:11:41All right. And by rule as this is the capital spending plan. And with that motion this is deferred one meeting and will be taken up again at the second meeting in OCTOBER. Okay.

03:11:56Agenda item 43 or rather resolution 2026-2307. Sponsors spain, horton, welsh, gad and huffman. A resolution authorizing grants not to exceed $1,392,032 from the barnes fund for affordable housing to certain nonprofits

03:12:14for the express purpose of rehabilitating affordable or workforce housing. Council member spain. You're recognized, MISTER Chair. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT.Committee reports. Budget and finance recommended approval. Nine in zero against one not voting.

03:12:24Okay. And for the report of the planning and zoning committee, chair horton or vice chair harrell, perhaps for the report of the planning and zoning committee for the resolution regarding the barnes funds. It was 2307 resolution. Vice chair

03:12:43harrell. Planning and zoning voted six in favor, zero against and one not voting. Okay. And we voted to approve. To approve. All right. All right. Back to you, MR. Spain.

03:12:54Move approval. Okay. There's a motion to approve. It's properly seconded. Is there any discussion? I see council member alan. You're recognized, ma'am.

03:13:04Thank you, MADAM Chair. I just need to be recorded as abstaining. Okay. Understood. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All in. Oh, I'm sorry, MISS Gamble. You're recognized.

03:13:17I'm sorry. I also need to be recorded as an abstention. Okay. that's fine. Y'all MAY abstain at the time, and then we'll just record it then. All good. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no and any abstaining? Aside from MISS Gamble and MISS Allen, any additional abstentions? Okay.

03:13:33You all will be recordedas abstentions. Thank you. Okay. Next under resolutions is agenda item 60rs2026-2324.

03:13:49Sponsor cortez, this is a resolution requesting the metropolitan nashville airport authority to collaborate with the federal aviation administration in consideration of residents affected by changes to air traffic patterns at nashville international airport. Council member cortez, you're recognized, sir. Vice mayor. Committee

03:14:06reports, please. For the report of the rules, confirmations and public elections. Committee chair sepulveda. You're recognized.

03:14:16Thank you, vice mayor. We voted five five in favor, zero against zero. Not voting for two. Meeting deferral. Okay. And did you take up the amendment, MISS Sepulveda, and have a recommendation on that? You did not. Okay. So the recommendation of the committee was. Two meeting deferral, is

03:14:35that correct? Got it. Okay. Back to you, council member cortez. Yes. Vice mayor, I move for two. Meeting deferral. Okay. There's a motion to defer to meetings. It's properly seconded. Is there discussion on the deferral motion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. Okay.

03:14:53This has been deferred to meetings and will be taken up again at the first meeting in NOVEMBER. All right. Next is agenda item 61. Resolution 2026-2325. Sponsors.

03:15:05Porterfield, harrell, stiles, suara, benedict. Evans, evan. Siegel. Cooper, benton, wiener, taylor, tombs, rutherford and lee. This is a resolution honoring the life and legacy of jason gooch, a longtime employee of the metropolitan department f parks and recreation council member porterfield. You're recognized,

03:15:20ma'am. Thank you. Vice mayor. Committee reports. For the report of the rules, confirmations and public elections. Chair sepulveda. Rules voted five in favor, zero against zero. Not voting. Okay, back to you, MISS Porterfield.

03:15:32Thank you, vice mayor. Move for approval with a brief comment. All right. Properly seconded. Go ahead. Thank you so much. I want to take a moment to honor the life and legacy of MR.

03:15:43Jason roderick gooch. MR. Gooch was a nashville native and a graduate of whites creek high school. He established a career that was marked by public service and community involvement. He spent 22 years working for fedex ground, working his way up from a package handler all the way up to operations manager. And for

03:16:0215 years, MR. Gooch served as a recreational leader with metro parks at hartman park, coaching, mentoring and instructing youth within after school and summer programs and maintaining contact with participants through their pursuit of higher education. MR. Gooch loved his community and loved the youth

03:16:19that he helped support. He brought members of the community together through athletics by organizing local basketball leagues and pickup% games for high school students, young adults and peers across nashville. MR. Gooch left a sustained record of service to his family and city, and although we lost his physical

03:16:37presence this year, he will be remembered for his dedication to his family and his generosity with his time, knowledge and heart. His life and legacy will live on. The impact that he had on youth and his community will live on the love for his family and his memory will live on. We send

03:16:53condolences to his wife, jennifer, and their beautiful daughters, michelle, jamya, jordan, jade and jenny, as well as his siblings and brother jamal. We will honor him with his family at the next meeting on OCTOBER the 20th, and I want to thank the co-sponsors who signed on to

03:17:10this legislation and invite anyone else who wants to sign on to. Please email the clerk. All right. Thank you very much. Is there any additional discussion on this resolution?

03:17:22Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. You have adopted this resolution. Next is agenda item 62.

03:17:34Resolution 2026-2326. Sponsor evans. This is a resolution recognizing jerry vandiver for his service to wildlife conservation and his contributions to the nashville community council member evans.

03:17:45You're recognized, ma'am. Thank you. Vice mayor. Committee reports, please. For the report of rules, confirmations and public elections. Council members. Sepulveda rules voted five in favor, zero against zero not voting.

03:17:56Okay. And back to you, MISS Evans. Thank you, vice mayor. I just wanted to find out if we could move to invoke rule 12.3 for anyone voting in the affirmative.

03:18:07Yes. So you would like to make a motion to approve with 12.3 applied? Yes, ma'am. That everybody voting in the affirmative will be listed as a co-sponsor. It's properly seconded. Go ahead.

03:18:17Thank you. I, I appreciate everybody's support of this one. This one. If you don't know jerry vandiver, chances are in your if you're a district member, you will eventually get to know him. He is really well known with his songwriting career, but also with his work with

03:18:37walden's puddle to be able to help foxes that have mange and other ailments kind of be restored to the original versions of them, their their fluffy selves. And he's done a tremendous amount of work in davidson county, and with his recent spotlights and various

03:18:54publications, wanted to make sure that we also had a chance to recognize him. And I appreciate everybody's support. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion, MISS Styles? You're recognized.

03:19:06Thank you very much. I wanted to thank the sponsor for doing this resolution for jerry. He he is very active and he is very well known in the music community. He's an amazing songwriter and it's great that his heart covers a multiple,

03:19:23multiple, a variety of interests and is passionate about every single one. So thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Seeing no further discussion. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. All right. You have adopted this resolution,

03:19:41right? Last among our resolutions is agenda item 63, resolution 2026-2327. Sponsors vo, huffman, koopman hill, truffle. Benedict. Tombs, lee, suarez, stiles, evan siegel, cap taylor. And at this resolution, recognizing OCTOBER

03:19:592026 as filipino american history month in nashville and davidson county council member vo, you are recognized, ma'am. Thank you. Vice mayor.% committee reports, please. For the report of the rules, confirmations and public elections. Chair sepulveda.

03:20:13Rules voted five in favor, zero against zero not voting. Okay, ack to you. Thank you. I move to approve with a brief comment. Go ahead. Thank you so much. I'm really excited to be able to celebrate filipino american history month in our city, because it's really important to take every opportunity we

03:20:31can to recognize a community whose history, culture, and contributions are important to the part of the story of america and of nashville. And an estimated 4000 filipino americans live here in davidson county, and they contribute to our community in so many ways.

03:20:47And I really want to hghlight one tonight. This year, the nashville rondalla project, which is the first of its kind in tennessee, was created and it promotes music as an act of community building, cultural preservation, and the indigenous filipino concept of

03:21:07kapwa, which means shared and the philippine rondalla is a string ensemble that has. That was initially introduced by spanish colonials and has transformed into a symbol of resistance and a creative outlet which is uniquely filipino and incorporating instruments invented on the islands.

03:21:24And that was started by a local artist here, larissa maestro. And I just wanted to really recognize, you know, the creative community and filipino americans that are doing the work here, especially in the music industry. And so for me, recognizing this month is not

03:21:43just to put on the record, but to really help our young people to know. And passing on generational information is so important.And celebrating filipino heritage is a really great way for us to see cultural representation. And so I just want to take this moment

03:22:01to recognize filipino american families, organizations, and community leaders who continue to preserve their traditions while helping making nashville a welcoming and more vibrant city. So of course, I hope everyone will stand in support of this resolution tonight.

03:22:16Thank you. Thank you. Is there any further discussion on this resolution? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. All% right. You have adopted this resolution. All right. That concludes our resolutions. And

03:22:33now we're in section n of our agenda. Bills on introduction and first reading. By rule, all items on first reading shall be voted on at the same time, unless requested otherwise, by the primary sponsor or by two other members. Do any items need to be removed from the collective first reading vote?

03:22:53Council member harrell, did you have something, sir? Yes. Agenda item 90. Okay. Agenda item 90. Will be removed from reading vote. Thank you sir. Council member cuban.

03:23:08You're recognized. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I need to remove item 64 and item 89, please. Okay. 64 will be removed. And then say again the second one, please.

03:23:2389. 89. Oh, okay. Got it. All right. So you've heard the items that have been removed from the collective vote. Is there a

03:23:39motion for approval of all items remaining on first consideration? Okay. Properly seconded. And so without objection. Okay. You have approved all items on first reading with those three exceptions. And we'll go back to those items in agenda order.

03:24:04Okay. First was agenda item 64. Ordinance bl 2026-1580. Sponsor coupon. This is an ordinance amending titles two, six and 16 of the metro code of laws to establish a mobile food vendor permit to be required for the operation of mobile food vendors within nashville and davidson county. Council member

03:24:20cooper, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'd like to move to approve on first and then defer second reading to the first meeting in DECEMBER with a brief comment.

03:24:32Okay. Is there a second for that motion? Okay. Go ahead sir. Thank you. Appreciate a lot of folks in the administration and different departments working on this piece of legislation.

03:24:43There are a number of areas downtown that have popped up, these little food truck vendor things that have become safety issues there, food safety issues. There's french fries being stored on the ground. Et cetera. Et cetera. Not not great situations. And they're kind of working through a

03:25:00loophole in the code right now. And so we wanted to kind of clean that up and create some clearer regulations around it. But the legislation does need some more time for some adjustments and analysis and things like that. So I wanted to defer that to have some time for that.

03:25:15All right. You've heard an explanation from the sponsor of his motion to pass on first reading and defer second reading to the first meeting in DECEMBER. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none. Favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. This will be taken up again in

03:25:40DECEMBER. Next on first. Is agenda item 89, ordinance bl 2026-1605. Sponsor coupon. This ordinance mental 17 the metro code of laws zoning ordinance of metro government by changing from ir 2muans zoning for property located at 1326 third

03:25:58avenue north, approximately taylor street, 0.16 acres. This sounds familiar and within the phillips jackson redevelopment district and germantown historic preservation overlay district. I think you are about to withdraw this because it is redundant. Is that right?

03:26:10I'm about to withdraw this, please. Okay. Withdraw. Withdraw. Okay. This has been withdrawn. Agenda item 891605 has been withdrawn.

03:26:21Okay. Agenda item 90, ordinance bl 2026-1606. Sponsor. This is an ordinance to authorize building materials restrictions and requirements for ordinance bill 2026-1506. A proposed specific plan zoning district located at 4465

03:26:43laverne couchville pike, approximately 97ft south of rockland trail. This is 5.01 acres to permit ten single family or two dwelling units, all of which is described here in. Okay. Councilmember harrell, you're recognized, sir.

03:26:57Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor. So I want to move the substitute for this. Okay. Let's first get it before us, sir, with an approval motion. I move for approval.

03:27:07Okay. Go ahead sir. Now you can move the substitute. I'd like to move the substitute. Okay. Anything you want to share about what substitute does? Yes. So this is attached to the main bill. It restricts all the number of units. And then also there isa language

03:27:26in in regards to the materials. Okay. All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to substitute. Seeing none. All in favor please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. Okay. So the substitute is on if you just

03:27:43renew your motion please sir, to pass on first as substitute. So I don't want to pass. I want I want to defer as substituted until. No, you do want to.

03:27:52Pass this one. Okay. I'm sorry. Okay. All right. So we'll move forward with passing this one. On first. Do you want to defer the next reading? No, no.

03:28:02Got it. Okay. So we're going to so the motion is a motion to approve on first reading as substituted. Correct. Okay. I heard a second. Any discussion on that. Seeing none. All in favor please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. All

03:28:20right. This is passed its first reading as substituted next. Okay. That concludes the first reading matters. And now we are on to a second reading. Matters that were not on consent earlier. Section oh of our

03:28:37agenda. First in that section is agenda item 92. This is ordinance bill 2026-1450. Sponsors cortez ellis and suara.

03:28:46This is an ordinance directing the metro nashville police department and the mayor's office through the office of youth safety and requesting the coordination of metropolitan nashville publi schools to jointly develop an education and information sharing initiative aimed at identifying and countering the growing threat of online extremist

03:29:04content that targets and exploits young people in nashville and davidson county council member cortez, you're recognized, sir. Thank you. Vice mayor committee reports. For the report of the. Let's see where where are we on reports? Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry.

03:29:20I was looking at those deferrals. Okay. For the report of budget and finance chair spain. You're recognized. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Budget and finance recommend approval of the substitute. Ten in favor, zero against zero not voting and approval of the bill as substituted. Ten in favor, zero against zero.

03:29:33All right. And for the report of the public health and safety committee chair, prep t, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor. The committee considered the substitute and voted nine in favor, zero against or not voting to approve. The committee did not undertake a review of the late substitute. And then we voted

03:29:53to approve the bill as substituted with the substitute. Eight in favor, zero against one not voting. Okay. All right. With those committee reports in, it's back to you for a motion, sir.

03:30:05Thank you. Vice mayor. Can we move the bill for one meeting deferral without the substitute? Just as is. You yes. I would like to move the original. Bill for one meeting.

03:30:16Deferral to the next meeting. Okay. There is a motion to defer one meeting. Is there a second for that motion? Second. Okay, so we're on to discussion on the one meeting deferral motion. Chair, do you seek to

03:30:31be recognized? Yes, MADAM. Go ahead sir. Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor, I rise in favor of the motion to defer one meeting. And I also want to to state on the record, like I did within committee thinking the sponsor for his leadership and for his collaborative work on this and on this topic in particular,

03:30:49this has been an emerging threat that we've been able to identify over the past couple of months. As I stated in committee, I attended a seminar with the institute for constitutional advocacy and protection through georgetown law, talking directly how bad actors online will utilize

03:31:08ai to target our youth to to extort them either to get them to send explicit material or to or to blackmail them into committing acts of mass violence. So this is something that we absolutely need to address. And I appreciate the lead sponsor for the work that he's he's been doing on this and the collaborative nature of

03:31:25it. But yes, rise in favor of both the bill as well as the deferral motion. Thank you. All right. Is there any further discussion on the one meeting deferral motion? Seeing none.

03:31:35All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining? All right. This has been deferred. One meeting will be taken up again at the 2nd OCTOBER meeting. Next is agenda item 93, ordinance bill

03:31:522026-1497. Sponsor. Sepulveda. Welsh. Evan. Siegel. Benedict. Suara. GOD. Ewing. Horton. Porterfield. Bo. Parker. Bradford. And harrell. This is an ordinance to amend chapter 12.12 of the metro code of laws relative to right turn on red reporting requirements regarding roadway safety and other related clarifications.

03:32:11Council member sepulveda, you are recognized, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. Move for approval. All right, go ahead. You still have the floor. Thank you. I know there's a couple of amendments. I'll let them move them, and I'll speak on those, and then I'll come back to the

03:32:27bill. All right. Okay. So we are on on to discussion in. Oh. I'm sorry. Yes, ma'am. We need to get your committee reports.

03:32:38Committee report for the report of the transportation and infrastructure. Committee. Why am I not seeing this here? Okay, we got a referral in here. I'm

03:32:55sorry. Chair, go ahead. Ma'am. You're fine. On amendment one was not moved. An amendment in committee. Amendment two. The committee voted five in favor, three against. You're not voting. Amendment three. The committee voted zero in favor, seven against one not voting.

03:33:11Amendment four. The committee voted eight in favor, zero against zero not voting, and as amended with amendments two and for the committee voted eight in favor, zero against zero not voting.

03:33:24Okay. Thank you for that report. And at this time, MISS Paula, do you seek the floor or we just on to discussion. Yes. Go ahead ma'am.

03:33:40I'll say briefly. I want to say thank you to everyone from the community who has spoken on on this topic in favor and against.

03:33:52It has really helped, you know, drive the substitute. So we have heard from community members where this has directly affected them. And the reason the substitute is created the way it is, is because it uses

03:34:11the manual on uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways, which is a national standard. And so I would encourage you all to keep it as substituted. This is the way many of our peer cities use our data and statistics. We have

03:34:30seen the cities that have already implemented this are seen their reduction in pedestrian and bicyclist hits and deaths reduced by 92 and up to 97%. We should have

03:34:50implemented this a very long time ago. We have had studies from as early as 2002, and we have had up to five, six studies. So it is something that is very affordable. The only cost is basically signage.

03:35:07We have seen that number. So it is very much low hanging fruit. I mself have almost been hit right outside our council office by someone turning right on red. So you all almost had to put a little sign that said, here lies council member

03:35:25sepulveda. So that would have been fun for all of y'all. It would have haunted these halls. All right, so just encouraging you all to vote for this. We we need to do something to protect to protect our community. I had a constituent who died during

03:35:45my term who was trying to cross the street, and a car was turning right on red very early in the morning, and the only thing that was put up was a little sign. And so something has to be done. This is very much low hanging fruit. I would encourage you all to vote for

03:36:05it, as is, with the exception of council member nash's amendment. I think it is a good one and there is precedent for it. So I renew my motion.

03:36:13All right. We're on to discussion. First in the queue is councilmember eastlick. You're recognized, sir. Thank you. How did we get here? A member in this body decided to do something with and looking for a bill that would let them say they did it. This is how we got

03:36:32here. Not a request from indot, not a finding that right on red is killing people, but a determination to push. Push past the data, past the experts, past the people who have to live with it. The department that owns the signals oppose the original draft. Overly

03:36:49broad. That's what they said. More than 700 intersections. The mayor asked for a pilot. We did not get a pilot. We got a substitute written so the same idea could survive 59 corners now. And a nine month study already aimed at the next batch.

03:37:06This is not the experts leading, this is the experts being forced to submit so the ordinance could still pass. We've seen this before, after departments initially oppose a bill, later saying we have no problem with this. That means they tried. But in spite of the

03:37:23evidence, the council member wouldn't let it go. The. The numbers don't carry this. 18 accidents in five years at those 59 corners involving a right turning vehicle and a pedestrian. Not a right turn, not a right turn on red, but a right turn. That's about one

03:37:41accident for every 16 years at any given corner. We have written 225 tickets this year for signs that have that already exist. Pedestrian deaths are up anyway. Doing something is not the same as doing the thing that would have prevented the crash, and the people have said no. The emails

03:37:58from residents are overwhelmingly against this. They are the ones who will have to sit in traffic. The extra light cycle about 40s, a sponsor already said that's per light. We all know that their lights that have a longer cycle.

03:38:12And then there's the next light and the next light. Then there's a bus. It moves slowly and reduce the number of cars that made the turn. Now you're late for work again. All because of council member won't listen to the experts or residents and decided to do something. Doing something is better than doing nothing, no

03:38:30matter the cost. You can vote yes and say you did something. You cannot say. The data asked for this, the department wrote it or the public wanted it. Stop this bad idea before it takes hold and spreads through our city. Please vote no.

03:38:43All right. Council member koopman, you are recognized. Thank you. MADAM PRESIDENT. I want to say thanks to the sponsor of this bill. She's come to community meetings, and I know she and I share a a deep care for pedestrian safety in our city.

03:38:59And I think we're both, as many others frustrated with the lack of action on this front as as the downtown council person, I think it's important to note, because we hear a lot about businesses that I also represent 24,000 residents downtown, 24,000 people downtown who have thoughts and opinions on this, many of whom were not here. Over the two

03:39:17decades worth of of studies and information cited. And I think a lot about constituents like dot dobbins, who we lost, and kim, who you heard from earlier today, both of which would not have been saved by a right turn on red bill. And in fact, most of my constituents, when I when I look at pedestrian safety issues, this is not does not

03:39:36break the top five on that list. It's pedestrian safety is important to me. It's important we don't just throw the quickest, cheapest tool at it that we can, but actually look at what is going to make us safer, what it's going to save lives. I worked on an amendment to expand this, to have a little bit less of these, just

03:39:52concentrated in downtown, but look countywide at where they were right turn crashes that that amendment got a little bit overly broad and would have triggered a rereferral. So I've shifted now to my my amendment one, which would take the 59 streets downtown, narrow it to

03:40:10the 18 that have had a right turn crash. Again, I want to be clear. That doesn't mean that the other other streets in this legislation couldn't be no right on red. At any point.

03:40:20These can go to traffic and parking, and that already has this ability to do so. But I want to make sure that it was a number of streets that are we could enforce and we could educate, and we could actually get implemented, actually do the work to see if this makes us safer. What this impact is.

03:40:36I've told a number of folks, I've heard from a number of folks that one of the biggest concerns about safety is right turns on green. I have a lot of constituents that have almost been hit because a car is turning right on green, and we have to look at those impacts.

03:40:49You know, you've heard the mutcd cited the mutcd does say that you're supposed to, once identifying these intersections, look to see if there's a longer than 10% delay. And if there is, look at more mitigating measures before you implement implement these these measures.

03:41:07So, you know, again, I think that it's important that we're not just throwing solutions out there. I understand why we are I understand the frustration at the lack of action. But it's important to to get this right to me. And looking over the last five years, there are of the 18 downtown that arein our council members list that did

03:41:26have right turn crashes, there were ten that did not make her list that had right turn crashes. So over the last five years, if we passed this five years ago, there were ten people that would have been hit that this bill wouldn't have wouldn't have helped. And so I want to make sure that this is focused. I want to make sure

03:41:42that this is this is good. This is also a long term study bill as well. So with that, I would like to move my amendment one, please. Yes. Point parliamentary inquiry. Yes. i think this is an inquiry. Does the council member mean amendment one which did not have a committee recommendation, or does he mean amendment two,

03:41:59which did. Can you clarify, MR. Koopman? I can you. Thank you, chair. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. So originally in committee, I had moved amendment two, which I was supportive of. I learned earlier this afternoon that that amendment two would, due to its scope from metro legal's - perspective, trigger a referral

03:42:16back to traffic and parking and a potential disapproval. Et cetera. Et cetera. So given that scope and there was some data discrepancies in it as well, didn't want to move forward with that. But still, amendment one was something that I did want to move forward with. So we didn't discuss that in committee because I was going down one direction. And

03:42:33then based on what I learned from metro legal, went kind of a different direction here. Do you want to follow up and inquire if the amendment itself needs a committee report, a special counsel? Can you address that parliamentary inquiry, please?

03:42:49No, vice mayor, the amendment does not require committee report. Okay. So you have made a motion to amend with amendment one. Is there a second? Okay. Is there anything

03:43:11additionally you want to say on that? Okay. So. There is a motion to amend with amendment one, which you've heard does not have a committee report, but you've heard the explanation of that from the sponsor of the amendment. And so we are on a debate for the

03:43:31motion to amend with amendment one. So we already have a pretty deep queue here. Do folks want to raise their hand if they want to speak specifically on amendment one, or do we want to try to kind of clear the queue? I think this

03:43:49is going to be sort of challenging, but I think let's try it by hand. Raised for debate specifically n amendment one will go MISS Evan siegel, MR. Nash, anyone else

03:44:06seeking to be recognized specifically on amendment one? I believe I saw MISS Allen before I had seen your hand, MISS Porterfield. And then the primary sponsor, MISS Sepulveda.

03:44:21Okay, so that's going to be evan siegel, nash, allen porterfield, sepulveda, so can retain the primary. Q council member evan siegel, you are recognized.

03:44:32Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I rise. I'm opposed to this amendment. The council member could have gotten a recommendation and committee even if he didn't want to move it today. And he had plenty of time to find out that this was going to be an issue before it came to committee. We had a robust

03:44:49discussion around amendment two, and that was available to answer questions. About the mutcd. We talked about all a, b, c, dabcdd766 factors right on red plus discretionary ones and how they worked with the amendment. We were not able in committee to

03:45:05have that discussion around this amendment, and this amendment deserves to have had that over something that big. And to now have this last minute switch feels disingenuous and unfair to this body.

03:45:20All right. Debate continues on the motion to amend with amendment one. Next is council member nash recognized. Sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT.I just want to make clear what we're voting on now. There's been there's been numbers where the intersections

03:45:37go up and there's intersection where the number of intersections goes down. What does this. Are you seeking clarification of what amendment one is. In fact, okay. Amendment one, amends section three of the bill where it previously said there were 59.

03:45:58Special counsel. Would you like to respond for amendment one? Section six. Sorry. Striking 59 intersections that were in mississippi as a substitute. It says the signalized intersections where multiple

03:46:16crashes between a pedestrian or cyclist and a motor vehicle have occurred, or a single crash between a pedestrian and a motor vehicle during the right turn. Since 2021, and effectively, yeah, it reduces it to 18 intersections from 59.

03:46:36That's effectively what amendment one does. I. i am conflicted in that to drop 58.

03:46:51No turn on red locations, all largely in one district is problematic. I know in these substitute that was approved in committee the other day.

03:47:04There's a few of them that the new ones got dropped in my district. I'm I'm very question about whether they were needed so I. I'm not sure how I'm going to vote right now. Thank you.

03:47:16Okay. All right. So we are on the motion to amend with amendment one. You heard me read it. But effectively, 59 is stricken and it becomes 18 intersections. You can find this in your amendments packet on legistar. I'm going to add

03:47:36you MISS Add to the discussion. Next in the queue is council member allen. MR. Cooper, I'll add you towards the end again. Go ahead, MISS Allen. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

03:47:45Okay. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I rise in support of this amendment. I appreciate what the sponsor has done to get this issue back on the forefront and to get us moving on, doing important things to reduce traffic fatalities and specifically to pedestrians and cyclists. My

03:48:01understanding of amendment one is that it does follow the mutcd criteria for six a, b, c, d, e, f, and that was where the original list of 59 intersections was derived from.

03:48:15What mutcd says is a no turn on red sign should be considered when an engineering study finds that one or more of the following conditions exist, and then it lists those six conditions, which include include inadequate sight, distance, geometry, unacceptable number of conflicting pedestrian movements, and more than three right turn on red crashes

03:48:33reported in 12 month period. So council member koopman has done his homework on looking at the mut, c d conditions, which is at 59 group and looked at and considered that and looked at other data regarding actual crashes. I believe to further

03:48:50refine that down, I think an important point is raised just with regard to enforcement and dropping 59 at once, as opposed to 18 to start with. There's nothing that precludes adding the others of those 59 once we have some additional data on.

03:49:04Did this make the difference on these. 18 and were the the police in the area able to enforce those. 18 as we begin to add more and more. So I think this is not keeping us from from going forward with the ultimate plan of considering all 59 intersections, which is. They are appropriate because the tcd

03:49:23conditions. But I feel like this is a good way to start and then to move just slightly more, more, more incrementally through there to ensure that what we're doing is actually making the difference in saving lives, because that's what this is all about. I also think it's important that we not divert too much engineering energy

03:49:41away from implementing vision zero, which is our long term plan, as well as downtown connect. And those prioritize other things that are still as important, impactful that we need to be implementing as well.

03:49:52So I support this amendment. I think I would encourage my colleagues to do the same. All right. We continue debate on the motion to amend with amendment one. Next is council member porterfield. You're recognized.

03:50:02Thank you, vice mayor. I have a question to legal. Why did this not require a mandatory referral? Back to top when the other amendment did. It's my understanding that the amendment did.

03:50:12Do you want to address that to legal or special counsel? Can you address that. If special counsel can answer it? Okay, okay. Special counsel.

03:50:24Council member at this point, amendment one were all intersections that traffic and parking had previously considered and approved the. The list of intersections in amendment two included intersections that, according to the department of

03:50:44law, were not considered by the by traffic and parking at their at their previous meeting. Okay, but amendment one was not considered at traffic and parking. Correct amendment amendment that we are addressing right now was not

03:51:02considered before the traffic and parking committee. Is that correct? That is correct. Commission, just to clarify. Thankyou. Okay. Thank you. I'm rising in opposition of this.

03:51:12It's pretty frustrating. This undermines our process. We have a process in which things go before committee, and that's when we do. Robust debate is actually in committee so that when we come back to this floor, we can talk about what happened in committee. We can still have some form of a debate, but we're able to move forward.

03:51:27It's quite interesting that people that as a body, many of us focus on process and making sure that we are following those processes. And when it's convenient, we use that to undermine the legislation for moving forward. And in this case, this really undermines that process. And I don't think that that I don't think that we

03:51:45should be operating in that way. This should have gone before the committee. This should have been discussed before the committee. This went from a data centered approach to looking solely at the crashes. And we don't want to be, well, at least I don't want to be reactive and solely look at where we've seen crashes. I would prefer that we are actually proactive to help save

03:52:03lives. Earlier today, it was mentioned that public safety was our number one concern. I mean, some people's number one concern, some people that MAY not be their number one concern, but if public safety is a concern to us as a body, we have to look at everything we can to keep people safe, as

03:52:20safe as we could possibly keep them. And this this amendment undermines the work that has been happening. So I'm going to have to rise in opposition on this. All right. Council member sepulveda on amendment one. Go ahead, ma'am.

03:52:34Thank you, vice mayor. I'm going to rise in opposition of this. I understand what the district council member is trying to do.

03:52:46I also want to mention that there have been a number of community members who worked on the. On the research that has gone through these these data points right on connect downtown and these vision zero

03:53:06projects. Et cetera. There are community members who took the time to be a part of this process, and I don't want to undermine that. I also want to mention that it is more than just those six data points that went into this in dot

03:53:24considered, not just m, u, t, c, d. They also considered conflicting pedestrian movements, pedestrian volume threshold. 50 or more pedestrians per hour used the crosswalk that conflict with the applicable right turn on red movement

03:53:43generator, threshold school, senior facility, hospital and similar vulnerable user destinations within approximately 500ft. Greenways, trails and shared use paths crossing two or more significant pedestrian generators within approximately

03:54:03500ft. Meeting either the pedestrian per hour threshold or the documented pedestrian generator threshold. Et cetera. Et cetera. I and I included all of this for council connect.

03:54:19Also, the 59 intersections. there was also a link that had the exact reason why mndot thought that those 59 intersections needed to be included. So it has the specific reason. If it was a a

03:54:36pedestrian being hit, if it was a pedestrian fatality, if it was it had high industrial crossings. It's all included in that link. There is a specific reason and data point. Why not believe this was necessary? And

03:54:54again, the other intersections will be studied for nine months. So there there is a process and this is data that is that has a standard that has no bias. It is scientific. And I think

03:55:13that's what we need to stay consistent with. Right. Are we going to be consistent or are we going to change things. So it fits a specific outcome that we desire? No. This is also the process that we look at when we look at traffic calming

03:55:30measures. Are we going to change the process for that as well? I think it's it has the possibility of setting a bad precedent. All right. Thank you.

03:55:41On the motion to amend with amendment one. Next in that queue is council member gadd. You're recognized, ma'am. Thank you so much. And thank you to everyone who's have done so much work in the community meetings that you have hosted.

03:55:54I do rise in opposition tothis amendment. A couple of reasons have been stated by other colleagues, but in listening to and to prepare for this evening's conversation and for this vote, listening to the conversations that were in the committee is where I really

03:56:12based a lot more of knowledge. So I wasn't having to ask a whole lot of redundant questions, but knowing that that this is something that we couldn't have had fully discussed, my understanding is this amendment will impact on charlotte avenue, and that will directly my district by

03:56:29removing one of the access areas. While I know many of us and all of us have received blast emails from, you know, county wide, I've received so many more from individuals that have reached out, mothers and grandmothers specifically asking for more. No right on

03:56:46roads, which we have in district 24. That's not something that is new. Those are, you know, through data and through, you know, the things that we rely on. But this right here will actually remove one of the ones that would be impactful in my district for

03:57:04the majority of folks have reached out and supported the special uncertain intersection. So for that reason, I will be voting against this. Right. MR.

03:57:14Cooper, you are next in the queue. But then we have MR. Horton and MR. Spain. Do you seek to speak at this time? Okay. Go ahead. Yeah.

03:57:25Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. And first I wanted to address something about. I can see how it would look disingenuous and sneaky and shady. And maybe like I was trying to slip something through or bait and switch.

03:57:35That's not my intention. I was very confident and excited about the approach that I was taking yesterday. As we know, our wonderful council office team is doing the lord's work with less people than they probably need, and with a lot of stuff from all of us. And so

03:57:51I did not receive these amendments till late sunday. And so with the monday deadline. So there was not time to then get metro legal to opine on it. I again, only found out this afternoon about the extenuating circumstances, but yes, I could have and should have moved that in committee. And didn't

03:58:08anybody else also could have moved it or explored it? Or if somebody saw that it took an intersection out or added one in or something, they still could have discussed it with this body takes up late, filed amendments all the time with no committee recommendations. I understand that. I want to be very clear this was not to try to be sneaky or slip something

03:58:27through. You know, when we talk about the mutcd, and I appreciate my colleague referring to the first part of it, but the second part talks about once those intersections are identified, the follow up steps that are needed and connect downtown. All this data is a couple of years old at this point. And again, you know, I kind of joked to people that

03:58:44that even in my council district, since I took office, I've gained thousands and thousands of people in downtown. So the traffic patterns, the queuing, the storage, all the things that it looks at have changed. And again, I'm not saying we wait. I'm not saying we wait a long time. Any any of these intersections have mndot feels that they are warranted.

03:59:01If any council member feels they are warranted can be brought to traffic and parking for evaluation. So this doesn't this this amendment doesn't change any of that. It just narrows the scope to make sure that this is something that we can we can do. I'm supportive of what my colleague is trying

03:59:18to do. I want to do it in a way that I know in my district that we can implement. Well, as. As council member, nash said, a majority of. We started with a county wide piece of legislation that we. That originally was stated that we need to do this. We need to do this right away. It's for safety measures. It's really

03:59:34important. And then it became smaller and smaller, and all of a sudden it's just in my district and everywhere else is going to wait nine months for a study. And my district, I can't even narrow it down to a certain number of streets.

03:59:46Right. And so again, safety is important. We want to be proactive, not reactive. This is reactive. This is taking a tool that we don't see is going to work that is not addressing the impacts that we see. 75% of pedestrian outside of crosswalks. I'm downtown all the time. I see, I see what happens. I see the traffic concerns. I see the

04:00:04safety concerns. I'd be happy to that. I've got a number of pieces of legislation. I've got one on first reading this evening for rapid response funding. amendment one. But on amendment one, reducing that, you know, again, I think reducing that scope is something that's going to be important for the the actual

04:00:21usage of this. If we want this bill to be successful, I encourage folks to support it. All right. Next in the queue on amendment one is councilmember horton, MR. Chair, and after that is council member spain.

04:00:31Go ahead, sir. Thank you, vice mayor. I join councilmember gadd with many of the concerns on this amendment. I voted in favor of amendment two in committee, but unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to consider debate. This one in infrastructure.

04:00:46My concerns are similar to those expressed by councilmember gadd. This removes a really important intersection right on the border between the districts that each of our each of our each of us represent. It's used by a large number of constituents in my district, a large number of families to cross charlotte when they're going to the richmond farmers

04:01:03market. This is a high pedestrian intersection, and it's really dangerous. We're just waiting for an accident to happen. And I think this intersection is representative of a lot of the other intersections that are being removed as part of this amendment. As council member huffman pointed out earlier

04:01:20this meeting, we have a public safety crisis in our city, and that crisis is happening on our streets. The number of traffic deaths in our city outnumbered the number of homicides in our city, and that number of traffic deaths masks a much larger number of horrific and life changing injuries that

04:01:36people are experiencing on our streets, like the member of the public that delivered public comment today. If we want to make progress on this crisis, it comes with actions by council members. Sepulveda has proposed today, the number of intersections that we're considering is 59. It's down from over 759 is a very

04:01:54reasonable number. It's vetted by mndot. It's explicitly called for and connect downtown and vision zero to council member allen's point earlier today. Whether this raises enforcement issues, other jurisdictions that have implemented no right on red in minneapolis and minnesota, we've observed over 92%

04:02:11compliance people comply with no right on red, much higher than they do other traffic laws. I don't think we're going to have any type of resource strain by our police, by our police department or otherwise.

04:02:23And so I think taking this very reasonable and already compromised approach that councilmember has is the right one to go. And so, unfortunately, we'll be voting against this amendment tonight.

04:02:34All right. The only person remaining in the queue on amendment one in particular is councilmember spain. You're recognized. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Colleagues, this is one of those bills where I, I feel like I've debated both sides of it in my head, and I don't think I've been right yet.

04:02:50I appreciate what the sponsor is trying to do that she's trying to solve a real problem. I also appreciate that that this substitute has a significant impact on the sponsor of this amendments district. And I think I think we owe it to him to take that

04:03:08into account. We've we've already heard a lot about everybody's favorite bedtime reading these days, the d and the and the six criteria. It seems to me that the one that mndot seems to be hanging their hat on, on most of these intersections is the unacceptable number of conflicting pedestrian movements. That's a pretty

04:03:26subjective standard. That's not saying there's anything wrong with it, but it's hard to quantify one of the other standards. And again, this is an oralist, not an analyst. So it doesn't have to meet all of them, but one of them is more than three. Right turn on red crashes reported in a 12 month

04:03:42period. From the data that we have from mndot, it appears to me that only nine of these 59 intersections meet that standard over a five year period, much less a one year period, aside from one at I think it's at 12th and broad.

04:03:54And if anybody wants to put that sign up right now, I'll go help you. Something's going on there that we need to address. I also just have a general concern that we are legislating individual districts where we're going to put these signs up. We've got a department full of engineers who already have the authority to do this. I

04:04:12think there's a whole nother factor that we haven't really discussed yet, which is the forthcoming rules for the tdc from the state level. That MAY well undo a lot of what we're talking about here. So while the cost MAY be low to implement it, we MAY it MAY be twice the cost. We have to go back and take it down in three

04:04:29months. But remember amendment one please. I'm getting there. My my point to all that is I agree with everyone who said that this conversation does belong in committee. And I think its pretty clear that more conversation is needed. So I'm going to move for one meeting deferral with a referral to transportation and infrastructure and also to budget and finance, because

04:04:48this does require spending funds. Second. Okay. Special counsel, did you want to. Okay.

04:05:02All right. So. All right. So can you just share special counsel? We're on debate about the motion to amend with amendment one, but you're moving deferral. Is that an appropriate motion at this juncture?

04:05:16A motion to defer would be an appropriate motion on the entire. Okay. That just jumps over the amended motion. Thank you for the clarification. Okay. So what we have before us is a motion to defer one meeting with a referral to budget and finance and

04:05:33transportation and infrastructure. It's properly seconded. We still have a very deep queue, but we are now on a motion to defer. I am wishing I had just cleared this queue from the jump. Yes, yes. Yes,

04:05:51ma'am. Go ahead. Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor, was this referred to budget and finance currently, or is that a new request based on this motion?

04:06:04Go ahead. Special counsel. Council member referral to budget and finance would be new. In this case, it would be the first referral to this committee. Thank you. So I don't know where I am in the queue, but I would ask that the motion be amended to also go to public health and safety

04:06:22committee. MR. Spain, are you willing to amend your motion to that effect? Yes, ma'am. So moved. Okay. All right. It is a one meeting deferral and a referral to three different committees. All right. Okay. So at this juncture on the motion

04:06:44to defer. We have a queue that is. You don't you do to speak on the. Okay. All right. So we're going to. Go back and.

04:07:01We're going to retain this queue for the initial motion of of approval. Okay. And the subsequent motions we're just doing by hand. And so if folks want to speak on the deferral

04:07:19motion specifically, if you would please raise your hand. okay. MISS Ellis, anyone else on the deferral motion, MISS Hill? Okay, MISS Ellis, you're recognized on the motion to defer one meeting, ma'am. I'm

04:07:38sorry, ma'am, I apologize. Go ahead. You're good. I can't say I don't blame you. No. No, ma'am, it was completely unintentional. So I would so I, I I'm a little bit confused, maybe a lot confused. But the basic thing. So I'm still learning the rules. Still my

04:07:55first term, but we've already passed the operating budget and the csp. So if these. We have not passed the csp. The csp was deferred one meeting.

04:08:06Okay, well, it's about to come up, but these have fiscal notes on them. So where is the money going to come from? Like, are we going to discuss that while we're.

04:08:20That can be taken up in budget. Do you have an increase specific to the fiscal note? But then if we're talking about a deferral motion here. So yes.

04:08:30So I guess I'd ask the administration. Rosenberg has his head down, but I'll ask instead, what is the administration considering. MISS Ellis? So we're on a deferral motion. If if I if you want to ask to the fiscal

04:08:47impact or I would encourage you to speak to special counsel, because there's a fiscal note on this bill, and fiscal matters could be taken up relative to the re referral, so i don't.

04:08:57Yeah. So I'll just second what what you said and ask him and I'll say like the underlying reason is like back in OCTOBER of 2025, I had a car that hydroplaned off smith springs road into lady's roof and I can't even get a guardrail put up in front of her house. So how are we moving

04:09:17money around in the middle of the year? And we've already approved the operating budget. Is this doable? I mean, this is a minor signage matter. So 150 grand is pretty big to me.

04:09:29So okay. Would so you want to kind of speak operationally where that funding comes from? Is that what you would like to know? Okay. Special counsel, can you speak to where 150 k of signage money would be pulled from? And I presume you want to

04:09:47know the answer to that question so you can determine how you're going to vote on this deferral motion. Is exactly right. Okay. That's a bit of a stretch. So I'm going to just remind everybody if you could answer promptly. Special counsel. Thank you.

04:10:01Indot would be tasked with finding funding for this initiative out of their existing budget. I would presume mndot has a signage bucket in their budget.

04:10:16Generally there's a sign shop. They do signs responsive to traffic and parking commission changes. So we can clarify that in the future if it is referred to committee. Okay. Again, we are on the deferral, MISS Hill, specifically on the deferral motion. Yes, ma'am.

04:10:31Yeah. I just stand in favor of the deferral. There's been so much discussion. There's a lot of confusion about all the different amendments and everything and the money and where it's all going to come from. And so I just stand in favor of the one meeting deferral so that we can make sure we get this right.

04:10:48Everybody gets their point and the opportunity and committee to ask all the questions that they want to ask and make sure that we get all this hammered out. I don't think one meeting is going to kill us all to wait.

04:11:00One meeting. I think this is a good thing, but I want to just make sure that we have an opportunity to make it right. MR. Cooper, on the deferral specifically. Go ahead, sir. Thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. I'm conflicted on this because I feel like we're starting to lose the plot here a little bit.

04:11:14I think that most of COUNCILMAN Support this bill, I think, is kind of, you know, the nine month study and is kind of on on the rails. And then we're what got us off track was a amendment in my district. So I'm torn because, you know, again, I'd prefer to have, you know, the the district, the amendment, my district. But

04:11:31also if this is going to go into, you know, six different directions, then we might have to defer it. So I think that that's, you know, again, i prefer that we can just get this amendment passed. But if we're on deferral, then then I MAY have.

04:11:43To no longer on the motion to amend. We're on a deferral motion, MISS Benedict, on the deferral. Go ahead, ma'am. Thank you. Previous question. Right there. There is nobody else on the list to like, talk about this deferral. So anybody else want to talk about deferral? No. Good. Okay. We're going to vote on the deferral.

04:12:02All in favor of the motion to defer one meeting with the rereferred to referral to those three committees, please say aye. Any voting? No. Any abstaining? The ayes have it.

04:12:15This is deferred one meeting and rereferred into three committees. All right. Next is agenda item 94, ordinancebl 2026-1514. Sponsor stiles, webb and evans, an ordinance amending title three of the

04:12:32metro code of laws to require departments, boards and commissions of the metro government to conduct annual employee surveys. Council member stiles, you are recognized.

04:12:43Thank you very much. I would like to move for approval of a substitute, but. Okay, you've got to move approval first to get the bill before us before you can offer that. Okay. Is there a a second on the motion to approve? Okay.

04:13:01It's before us and it's back to you, MISS Stiles. You still have the floor. Thank you very much. So I put forth a substitute for this meeting that takes the desire for a study that was in the previous substitute by sam ellis, and

04:13:20combines it with the original request that I had for us to require annual surveys for our employees to give us feedback. I think we're all very well versed at this point. This stems from what happened last year with our department of emergency communications. I

04:13:37think that the surveys that we did last year, they gave us good insight. I think this is a good way to split the baby.

04:13:47There's a study and we're also asking for support. There was a question in committee regarding state law, and council said that there were no issues in regards to state law missiles.

04:14:01I have been reminded that you needed to request your committee. Committee reports. And so for the report of the government operations and regulations committee, MR.

04:14:14Eslick, on 1514. Please, sir. I was waving my little piece of paper. Peripheral vision is. Is I don't want to interrupt. I apologize. On the styles.

04:14:25Substitute two in favor, seven against zero. Non voting. Should I read the rest? Yes, sir. The substitute six in favor, two against one. Not voting overall with the substitute from ls7 in favor, two against zero. Not voting.

04:14:43all right. I appreciate that committee report. After which subsequently you would have made a motion to approve which you already have and has been properly seconded. You have the floor and within that time you MAY be getting to making a motion to substitute or not, but you've got I'm not sure

04:14:59where your time is at this point, but. MR. Clark. Yeah. Okay. All right. Go ahead, ma'am. Okay, great. I would like to move the substitute, if I MAY, with a brief comment, I guess.

04:15:13All right. Are you proposing to move? Substitute one. Your substitute? Yes, please. Okay. There's a motion to substitute. Substitute one. Is there a second for that motion? Okay. There is a proper second. Now go ahead on the

04:15:32substitute. Thank you very much. So again, my substitute takes the desire to have a study done on how to do a survey. What is the appropriate amount of time in which we can distribute surveys. And, and also still

04:15:51request that we implement an annual survey process. I think we have heard enough from employees. They do not trust our hr department. So to put this solely in our hr departments hands, to come up with a solution is not wisdom and it does not support our

04:16:10employees. I'm fearful that the study is going to take a lot of time, and then the hope will be that people will forget about it. Then we get to the budget and we're trying to make a request for funding, and it's not front of mind. And this just kind of dies a slow death, which is many times what happens in metro when we ask

04:16:27for studies, when there is in full support behind something. One of the things, a couple of things that came up is the, the concern that different departments have different questions and needs. A third party that can administer this survey would be able to come up

04:16:44with questions for all of those independent departments. It's not incumbent on civil service and hr to come up with those questions. I think that if we don't do surveys annually, we will not be able to track the issues. If, say, they come back and say we only need them, need to do them every two years,

04:17:01we'll continue to get emails like we have been getting previously from dec. I'm hoping that the departments that don't have surveys that are complaining currently, this helps those employees because our department right now that doesn't have any complaints.

04:17:16The office of family safety, they do an annual survey and they are doing well because their managers and supervisors anddirectors are making sure that things are moving smoothly, and this would allow for that to happen. Thank you.

04:17:29Okay, so we're on the motion to substitute with substitute one offered by MISS Stiles, a first in the queue for debate on that is council member ellis. You're recognized.

04:17:41Thank you, madam president. So I, I would ask that, colleagues, that you don't support the substitute, although it does take the framework of my initial substitute and the text, but it doesn't complete the picture.

04:18:01And and we've been going around this too many times to stomach. And I would say that we are so close to being able to do a good service for our employees and allowing hr to do a study of what the best practices are

04:18:18before commissioning an actual survey. And what that cadence is, is something that we need to have in place before actually, you know, saying that we need to have a study and then also in the same substitute council member style says we need to then have it

04:18:35annually. So what's the point of doing the study? So I would ask that you vote no so that I can then move my substitute. And we can have a complete framework of how the survey should be executed.

04:18:50All right. Council member suara, on the motion to amend with substitute one. You're recognized. Thank you, vice mayor. I wanted to thank council member styles because the issue of employees, how they felt and the issues,

04:19:08she championed it for a long time. And I want to acknowledge that. And I think wherever we land here, part of the efforts came from everything that she's done and how she led it. After having said that, I think the biggest issue with employee survey, the biggest issue that we have is anonymity. With

04:19:26survey in metro, we do not have a mechanism where people can actually fill out the survey and not put their name. And because people to put their name, a lot of people are not coming forward. I spoke with some of the members of the union, and that is the crux of the issue. How do we do this survey in a way that people can

04:19:44still be anonymous and is not subject to, you know, what is that thing for your request? And so that's the question that we're trying to answer. And I think that's where the outside counsel or person coming to study this come into play, to be able to look at the different departments and metro's and to be able to look

04:20:01at how can we do this for all the departments in a way that will protect the employee, which is what we're trying to do, but also do it in line with how metro works. So with that being said, I think that the second substitute allows us to get there. But I do want to. I think part of the problem that we have is when we have

04:20:19somebody start up the legislation and somebody else does a substitute, and then it's almost as if the work of the first person goes away. And I did not want that to happen without acknowledging all the work that council member styles has put into this. But thinking in terms of the question, the problem and what we're trying

04:20:36to solve and trying to get us there in a way that makes sense for everybody, I think an outside person looking at it globally for the entire county county works a lot better, and then we can go from there. With that. I, I support the second substitute and I'm voting

04:20:52against the first one. All right, councilmember evans, you're recognized. Oh, I'm so sorry, I apologize. Go ahead ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor.

04:21:03So I'm not going to belabor the point, but I think ultimately you can see that having disparate processes in metro government across departments is not a workable, viable solution. And we see this frequently in departments, and

04:21:20especially those of you who have been committee chairs. Chances are you have heard from departments that have fallen under your committees who are trying to elevate issues that MAY not fall under the typical civil service processes if their civil service commissions,

04:21:38that there are issues that need to be raised. Sometimes there there is just a grievance situation where maybe they don't like their leadership. That's also a possibility as well. And so ultimately, I think that the while the sponsor, I think has done a

04:21:56good job of kind of bringing this issue forward, I do not believe that the second substitute from our colleague is really going to accomplish kind of the goal or the vision about this being a necessary aspect of metro government.

04:22:14Many of you in this room know my sister. You have met her many times. She is very memorable. She works for a company and they have climate surveys every year, and she is measured on her performance as a leader based on the results of those climate surveys. And

04:22:31some of the most fundamental aspects of those surveys are whether she is a leader, cares about her employees. And so I think that, you know, I don't know that I feel confident that we're going to get there this council term. But in the end, I just don't feel like, you know, we probably have the support.

04:22:50There's a lot of conflicting opinions on the process, and I don't think we're going to remedy the direction we probably should be going as a city tonight. And so I'm in support of the current substitute. I'll probably vote in opposition to the whole thing in the end, but I do feel

04:23:08like it's something that we should be taking probably more seriously as a government. So thank you. Thank you, MISS Evans, council member welsh recognized and I'm getting slow on the buttons. You're you're good to go, ma'am. We're all

04:23:25getting slow after ten. Thank you. I have to I want to reiterate the many of the comments that my colleague kim evans made. I am in support of this first substitute. I think that one of the biggest problems that we have in metro

04:23:43is that I hear from metro workers is that they have a fundamental sense of distrust with hr, and they don't feel comfortable going to hr directly. And one of the problems I see with the second substitute is that it puts more power into hr itself in, in having control over this process. And the first

04:24:02substitute relies on a third party whose expertise is in doing this type of surveys. That's what we would be doing. We'd be going to professionals who help develop these surveys within the context that would involve hr and all those kind of things. But the third party would be the one actually doing

04:24:19these, you know, getting these surveys ready, compiling this data, doing all these things. And I think that the employees of metro, who have a sense of distrust with hr, would feel more comfortable having having that third party work on it. I don't think we need a study to get best practices of third

04:24:35parties, because I think those companies already know exactly how to do this. That is their area of expertise. And I think that we need to be respecting and their expertise, and that is what we would be hiring them to do. So I, I do rise in support of the first substitute.

04:24:54I also have the fear that if we get logged and bogged down into study after study after study, which seems to be the metro way, this will get shelved and this will never get off the ground and our employees will not feel like they have a chance to meaningfully look for relief within our system here in metro.

04:25:11Without this kind of mechanism, we've seen this mechanism work with dc. And so I think that this can work throughout metro.

04:25:21We're a large organization, but these larger companies, that is what they do. And we need to respect their expertise. So I rise in support and ask my colleagues to support the style substitute. Thank you. Council.

04:25:34Let's see, MISS Styles, I have presumed that you were kind of you've already spoken on the substitute. So I'm going to come back to you at the end because it's your sub. And then, MISS Ellis, you're recognized.

04:25:51Thank you. So I wanted to make the point that hr is on board with having a third party conduct the study. Furthermore, in lack, when we did our fiscal year 27 operating budget, one of the wish list items on hr list was funding for an

04:26:10employee study, so I. Fundamentally. We all agree that an employee survey needs to be done, but the route that the substitute takes without fully adopting my initial substitute is that it sets up.

04:26:28It sets up the process to only be complaint driven, and it doesn't structur the questions in a way to where they're actionable. And in tennessee, we're an at will state, so you don't have to like your boss.

04:26:41Your boss doesn't have to like you. But I think it would be a disservice if we were to ask people, what are the issues that they're having in their departments? What are, you know, they're unhappy about, not happy about and then not being able to take action on those items that they've brought to

04:27:01us. So yeah, that's it. All right. Anything else you want to say on your substitute in particular? Okay, wrap it up.

04:27:15I appreciate my colleague for for believing that there's a methodology of doing this, that i think if we were perhaps under other leadership would make sense. But I think to see

04:27:36him, welsh's commentary regarding employee trust, we continue to ignore it. It feels like the fact that our employees constantly come to us.

04:27:48I don't know about you, but but I'm kind of the employee whisperer now, so when anything goes wrong, I get an email or I get a phone call from different employees in different departments, and when I get a chance to talk to them, it is.

04:28:04I don't trust hr. I don't believe they're going to do a good job with investigation. So how do we take the solution to the people that are the problem? And I feel like this substitute leaves the power exactly in our hands. My substitute says there

04:28:22has to be a third party that the civil service commission and hr, they're working together to give it to someone else, to trust them, to bring it say, this is how we're going to implement it. Thanks for your advice, but not controlling it. And if we really, genuinely care about our workers, I'm not really understanding why we're having

04:28:40conversations about hr and their control and their decision making skills, because they've already shown they don't do a good job of that. The point of this bill is to make sure metro employees have a vehicle annually to be able to share their concerns,

04:28:57because we do not need a survey that happens every two years, every three years. And by then we have another dumpster fire and it's like, oh, why are we waiting this long to do surveys?

04:29:07We already know that they're unhappy, but I guess we just don't care enough. I implore you all, please to support this substitute. If we are here in our positions to support employees, this substitute does that. The other substitute does

04:29:25not. And I think the study and dragging it out is going to send a message to our employees that we genuinely do not care way too often. Thank you.

04:29:35All right. There's no one else seeking to be recognized for discussion on the motion to substitute with substitute number one by MISS Stiles. I am

04:29:55too tired to call this by voice. So, MR. Clark, if you would please load the vote on the motion to substitute substitute one, please.

04:30:50MR. Clark, are all votes in? All votes are in. MR. Clark, please show the vote. All right. The motion to substitute with substitute one fails with 12 votes in favor, 19 against and two abstentions.

04:31:11That puts us back on the motion to approve on second reading. Okay. And so at this juncture.

04:31:25Discussion continues. And, MR. Benton, do you seek to be recognized at this time?

04:31:35Yes. Thank you, vice mayor. There was a lot of discussion in this, and it was very spirited and exciting, scary, a little bit of everything.

04:31:48Is this in committee, MR. Benton? Yes. Okay. And inside the halls and everywhere else. But, yeah, i was nervous. But the bottom line is there was a lot of questions that just. Are we following our guidelines and

04:32:04rules and what's the best practice to make this thing work the best way that we can? And it seemed to boil down to that all these departments are a little bit different. And that our first substitute was a kind of a one size fits all.

04:32:25And then the other allows some flexibility in there to where it might conform better with different departments. And that's why I lean this direction is because in the.

04:32:41The second substitute and, you know, I, I think are you going to move that substitute ma'am? Okay. So I assume she will move that substitute. MR. Benton. Yes. You MAY move that substitute if MISS Ellis sees fit. She's still in the queue, but we could get on moving.

04:32:58She's shaking her head. I would like to move the second substitute. Okay. There's a motion to substitute a substitute to. Is there a second? MISS Ellis? Is a second. Okay, so we're on debate on the second substitute now. Not the bill more generally. So.

04:33:13And just one last little thing is, after all that vigorous discussion, it was an overwhelming decision by our committee to go with MISS Ellis's version of the substitute. So if that helps

04:33:32anybody with their decision making process tonight, since your coffee has run out officially. thank you, MR. Benton. MISS Allen, do you seek to be recognized on the motion to amend with substitute two?

04:33:45Okay. You're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Chair. I appreciate the efforts here. I think it is important to get these surveys right. And we're all working towards the same goal, so I'm confident we'll get there.

04:33:58Could probably our our council clarify in the analysis there was a statement that the the bill as originally written before these substitutions, was inconsistent with both the civil service regulations and the and the charter with regard to the responsibilities of the hr department to do either of these both of

04:34:15these substitutes, solve that problem. Special counsel. Council member, both of these. Both the substitute that was considered by this body and the one that is currently on the floor, delegated authority to civil service and hr to to lead

04:34:35these studies and eventually enact possible surveys. So I would any charter concerns were not present with either substitute proposed.

04:34:44All right. Is that it, MISS Allen? Okay. Next in the queue. Council member ellis, you. Recognize this quick lifting up what council member sawyer said. Do you think council member styles for her work on this. And the only reason that I initially had filed a substitute is because the original bill, as

04:35:02it was written, didn't follow the article 12 of the charter. I would have been more than pleased for council member styles to have signed on to my substitute, so it wouldn't be the appearance of me hijacking her bill, but the whole point is to do a good service and

04:35:21write good policy for employees, because we owe it to them to get it right on the first time, and we need to first have that funding mechanism in place and then allow hr to do the study to say what question, because you can't ask the same questions to a police officer

04:35:42that you asked to a 911 dispatcher or a metro water services person. So all I'm asking is that we do this right. We do it the first time, and I ask that you support my substitute.

04:35:52Thank you, MISS Ellis. MR. Huffman on substitute two. Go ahead sir. Previous question. Okay. Is there a second? Okay. MR.

04:36:02Huffman has called the question. This is non-debatable cries two thirds of those voting. If you are in favor of calling the question, you want to end debate. If you vote no, you want to continue debate. All in favor of the previous question, please say aye. Those against the previous question, please say no or no. Okay. Anyone?

04:36:25Okay, a few the ayes have it. The question is called. So we will be voting on the second substitute. Let's try it first by voice. If we can't determine it, then we'll go on the boards.

04:36:41All in favor of the motion to substitute with substitute two by MISS Please say I i those against the substitute, please say no. Okay. Any abstentions? All right. The ayes have it. So this bill has

04:37:02been substituted with substitute two such that MISS Ellis is now the lead sponsor.

04:37:14At this juncture with. Of the bill as substituted. So, MISS Ellis, you are recognized to determine what you want to do with this bill at this juncture.

04:37:25Move the bill as substituted. Okay. Move to approve a substituted. Properly seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion to approve as substituted. MISS Styles, you're recognized. Go ahead.

04:37:43That was actually from earlier, but I guess I'll take a second. No, you don't have to take this opportunity. I'll take it. Okay. All right. I'm up now. I keep hearing over and over again

04:38:02that somehow we are unable to figure out how a third party that actually spends their time creating these surveys doesn't know how to create surveys for fire or police or any other department that that is that's not an issue. That's what their

04:38:19wheelhouse is. I think it's silly that we're using that as any of our arguments. I continue to be concerned. I hope that this doesn't die a slow death. I hope that council member ellis is going to stay on hr and make sure the survey study gets done and comes back.

04:38:36It's going to come to committee% and we're going to hear about it. And then we can all support putting money in the budget. But I know that the hr requests for surveys that I didn't see one from hr, but I know I had one on my list, but it wasn't something that got pushed. So I

04:38:55don't believe that that's true. It's on our conscience. Employees are going to hear about this vote and this does not support them. And it's tragic. Thank you.

04:39:04All right. Is there any further discussion on the motion to approve on second reading as substituted with substitute to seeing none.

04:39:14All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. No. Okay. Any abstaining. Right. The ayes have it. This is on second of three readings. So this has passed its second reading. Next is agenda item 95. Ordinance bl

04:39:342026-1526. Sponsors drawful, ellis, evans, allen, wiener, johnston, stiles, gamble, webb and benton. This ordinance directing the nashville department of transportation and multimodal infrastructure to develop a tool to continuously monitor and analyze the cumulative transportation effects of developments and or rezoning, such that regional

04:39:50transportation mitigations and capital infrastructure improvements can be appropriately programed. Okay, council member gamble, I believe you're a co-sponsor here. Taking this up for MR.

04:40:03Drawful. Go ahead, ma'am. Thank you, vice mayor. Move to defer. To the NOVEMBER 17th meeting. I appreciate that. Can we get our committee reports on the record that first. Committee reports?

04:40:13Transportation infrastructure chair evans evan siegel. Based on the sponsors request, the transportation infrastructure recommended a deferral to the second meeting in NOVEMBER. Eight in favor, zero against. You're not voting.

04:40:27Okay. Thank you much for the report of the planning and zoning committee, chair horton. Thank you. Vice mayor, planning and zoning voted to recommend deferral to the NOVEMBER 17th meeting. Seven in favor, zero against zero not voting.

04:40:39Okay. And with those committee reports. And now it's back to you, go ahead. Thank you. Move to defer to the NOVEMBER 17th meeting. Okay. Is there a second for that motion?

04:40:49Is there any discussion on that motion seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting no or abstaining. Okay. This will be taken up again at the second meeting in NOVEMBER.

04:41:01Next is agenda item 97, ordinance bl 20. Point of inquiry or order. Yes. Yes. Point of parliamentary inquiry.

04:41:12Yes. Just as we're closing the end of our council meeting, we're getting close towards the end. I know I believe metro legal had stated that they would send the contract, the motorola contract, and I just wanted to make sure it MAY be in our inbox. I just closed my email, but I was wondering if

04:41:30we were going to get that prior to the close of this council and if we get clarification, if it was on a public source. While some colleagues have been looking for it. Okay. I will just let y'all take that up because at this juncture, we

04:41:48are going to keep proceeding trough the agenda. I believe we're on agenda item 97, ordinance bl 2026-1566.

04:42:01Sponsors huffman, horton and evans. This is an ordinance amending chapter 6.64 of the metro code of laws relative to enforcement of door to door solicitation requirements.

04:42:12Regular review of the residential no solicitation registry and the provision of suspension or revocation of solicitation permits for repeat violations. Council member huffman, you're recognized, thank you. Vice mayor, committee reports.

04:42:25For the report of the government operations and regulations committee chair eslick. Thank you for not forgetting me. The gov ops regulations voted nine in favor, zero against zero not voting for a two meeting deferral.

04:42:41Okay, back to you, MR. Huffman. Move for two. Meeting deferral. Okay. Is there a second? All right. Properly moved and seconded.

04:42:50Any discussion on the two? Meeting deferral? Seeing none. All in favor, please say I any voting? No or abstaining? Nope. Okay. This has passed its second of three readings. Next is agenda item 98, ordinance bill 2026-1567. Sponsors cap

04:43:09spain and horton. This is an ordinance approving amendment number three to the east bank redevelopment plan. Council member cap, you're recognized, sir. Thank you, vice mayor. Due to a defective notice sent out by mdh, I'm moving to defer this to 115 meeting for a

04:43:27public hearing. Okay. First meeting in NOVEMBER. Special counsel. Do I still need to get the committee reports? Yes. Okay. For the report of the budget and finance committee chair.

04:43:41Spain and finance recommend approval. Ten in favor, zero against zero. Not voting okay for the report of the planning and zoning committee chair horton. Thank you. Vice mayor pnc recommended approval. Seven in favor, zero against. They're not voting.

04:43:54Okay. All right. With those committee reports. And if you would please restate your motion, MR. Cap, to defer. Yes, to defer second reading.

04:44:06Sorry. Hang on. Go ahead, sir. To defer second reading to the NOVEMBER 5th meeting to hold the public hearing that date. Okay. And request a public hearing. Yes. Okay. All right.

04:44:25There is a motion to defer the second reading to the meeting of NOVEMBER 5th. Due to the election, the meeting will be on a thursday and also requesting a public hearing.

04:44:38Yes. Is there a second for that motion? Okay. Any discussion on that motion? Okay. Seeing none.

04:44:51All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no. Any abstaining. all right. Procedurally, are we in order with the public hearing request and all that.

04:45:01Okay. All right. All good. Thank you. That will be taken up at the NOVEMBER 5th meeting. Next agenda item 99, ordinance sponsor, spain.

04:45:14Horton and allen. This is an ordinance approving a contract between the metro government, acting by and through the planning department and focus strategies to create a permanent supportive housing strategic plan in coordination with the housing division of the planning department.

04:45:27Council member, spain. MR. Chair, you're recognized. Thank% you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Committee reports. Budget and finance recommended approval. Ten in favor, zero against zero not voting. All right. And for the report of the planning and zoning committee, chair horton.

04:45:39Planning and zoning recommended approval. Seven in favor, zero against zero not voting. Thank you. Chair. Okay, it's back to you, MR. Spain, for a motion on the bill. Move approval. Right. Is there a second? Okay. It's properly moved and seconded. Is there any discussion on this legislation on its second of

04:45:57three readings? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting? No. Okay. MISS Welsh will be recorded as a no. Any other nos. Any abstaining any abstentions. Okay. All right. This has passed its

04:46:15second of three readings. All right. That concludes our second reading items. Now section p of the agenda bills on third reading that were not on consent. First among those is agenda item 109, ordinance bill 2026-1511. Sponsor. Well, this is an ordinance to amend

04:46:32title 17, the metro code of laws zoning ordinance. The metro government, by changing from our s ten to our ten zoning for property located at 4465 laverne couchville pike, approximately 97ft south of rockland trail. This is 5.01 acres. Council member you

04:46:50recognize? Sir. I move for approval. Okay, I have a note here. Yeah, we're going to move the bill, then move the substitute and then defer one substituted. Right.

04:47:05Okay. All right. So first let's request a committee report from planning and zoning. Committee reports, please. Chair horton. This is on 1511. Sponsor.

04:47:18Bear with me just one moment, please. I'm sorry. No worries.

04:47:27We recommended. Where did it go? We consider this at our last meeting. I think the committee report MAY have been on planning and zoning.

04:47:41Recommended approval. Seven in favor, zero against or not voting. Okay. Yeah. We vote. We've got it. Okay. So, MR.

04:47:55Alex, back to you. I heard you saying motion to approve just to get it before us. At which point you're going to okay. Move the substitute. All right. So there's a motion to approve.

04:48:04Is it? Seconded. Okay. Now there is a motion to substitute. Is there a second for that. Anything you want to share about substitute. All planning to share.

04:48:16MR. Wilkinson regarding the sub. Matthew wilkinson council office. The substitute converts it to a specific plan. Zoning for the purpose of restricting the number of dwelling units within the boundaries of the sp, as well as to add material restrictions.

04:48:29All right. Thank you, MR. Carroll. Anything else you want to say on the motion to substitute? Okay. All right.% any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor of the substitute, please say I. Any voting? No or abstaining. Okay. And so now

04:48:47that the bill has been substituted, do you seek to make your deferral motion at this juncture? Absolutely. So I'd like to move to defer to NOVEMBER 17th. Okay. There's a motion to defer the bill as substituted to the meeting of

04:49:05NOVEMBER 17th. And that way your companion bill is going to track along with that is I heard the second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Any voting no or abstaining. Okay.

04:49:20So this is deferred to the second meeting of NOVEMBER. Next is agenda item 110, ordinance bill 2026-1518.

04:49:31Sponsors tombs, evan siegel and allen. This is an ordinance amending the metro code of laws. Title ten, section 10.20.360 solid waste generator fees to clarify fees due upon disposing out of county waste in davidson

04:49:48county council member tombs, you're recognized. Thank you, MADAM Vice mayor. Withdrawal. Okay. This bill has been withdrawn. 1518 has been withdrawn. Yes, MISS Gadd. Okay,

04:50:04I'm maxed out again. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Sorry. Go ahead. Ma'am, I'm sorry. For a moment. The parliamentary inquiry from earlier. Can we hear formally the response from metro legal?

04:50:15I promise that I will take that up before the meeting concludes, but I don't think it's really appropriate at this juncture. I just know folks will be rushing out right at the end. I would love to know.

04:50:27That I will get the clarification before we adjourn. Okay. You have my commitment in that regard. Okay. So 1518 is withdrawn. Agenda item 111, ordinance bill 2026-1536.

04:50:42Sponsor spain, coop and tombs, gadd, ellis and vo. This is an ordinance to amend chapter 2.212 of the metro code of laws relative to small business incentive grant programs.

04:50:55Council member spain. You're recognized sir. thank you, MADAM PRESIDENT. Move approval. All right. There is a motion to approve. It's properly seconded.

04:51:06Is there any discussion? Okay, councilmember. You're recognized sir. Thank you. It's fitting that we vote on this on the same day, I got an email about the new tax statements being in route to our mailboxes.

04:51:19I'm not here to argue the validity of this bill. I'm here to speak on behalf of the from my perspective, the intent of this bill is clear. This is a weak attempt to quell some of the anger over increased property taxes that were pulled from the residents.

04:51:35These are not free or federal grants. They are property tax dollars intended to be distributed back to business owners. With a nice name. We collect the tax. We put it in the general fund. The bill sends some of it back out and calls it a grant. This is not affordability. This is

04:51:53recycling people's money. We cannot tax ourselves into affordability. If taxes are too high and are hurting businesses, we should cut the tax rate or cut spending. We should not collect tax dollars, keep the government the same size and mail back a piece of it with a

04:52:10label. Look at what the bill actually does. It keeps grants for fixing up older commercial buildings. It adds a grant to help a shop pay for employee training. It adds another grant for companies that have been in nashville for at least 15 years.

04:52:25The last one is the major problem. The bill does not say who gets how much after we vote. the mayor's economic development office writes the rules. They decide who is eligible enough, how big the check is, and whether the owner has to complete city backed programs. First, we vote on the

04:52:43idea. They decide the winners. Every check is still money that came from the taxpayers pockets, the small business incentive line we already fund is at $250,000. This bill does not add a dollar. So either we split the same thin account, thin account more ways, or we

04:53:01come back later and take more money from the taxpayers to give it back to businesses. Either way, this is our property tax dollars and nothing more. A grant is not a tax cut. A reimbursement is not relief. Even if this passes, it person that the

04:53:18tax increase hurt the most. The senior citizen, the person on a fixed income, the single parent or young people, the people who saw their rent or taxes increased for what? So businesses can get a kick back, give me a break. Actually give the taxpayer a break, take less,

04:53:37tax less or spend less. I urge everyone to speak. No. And I would also like a roll call vote yes. I'm kidding.

04:53:50For roll call. What do I need to do here? Special counsel. I got to get like three. I can I can take it. Yeah. Go ahead sir. There councilmember. There are two options for roll call vote on third on abill on third reading. If any member votes no, it's automatically a roll call vote. If not, then if then it

04:54:08would need three seconds in addition to your motion. All right. Do you intend to vote no? MR. I do, so we're going to go on the boards anyway. Okay. All right. So, MISS Stiles on discussion. Go ahead, ma'am.

04:54:24Thank you very much. Some of the comments that council member made, I agree with I think this is a dog and pony show. It sounds really nice.

04:54:34It's meant to make people feel good. But $300,000 is a joke and isn't going to really help constituents and small businesses throughout this county. If there was a real effort, we would have put real money in this fund, in the budget to take care of businesses. And I think business owners are very clear that this administration

04:54:52doesn't really care about them. I'm going to vote yes, because even a small amount money, I rather say yes to that than say no. But this is another joke. Thank you.

04:55:02All right. Isthere any further discussion? Seeing none, MR. Clerk, knowing that there will be a no vote. And this is on its third and final reading, would you please load the vote for 1536?

04:55:58MR. Horton, do you seek to vote? He indicates that he has voted. Are you showing the vote? Okay. All votes are in. MR. Clerk, please show the vote. All right.

04:56:10This ordinance has passed its third and final reading with 28 votes in favor, four against and zero abstentions. As there was a point of clarification requested by MISS Gadd, I'm going to let either special counsel and or legal share that.

04:56:30Okay? All righty. Special counsel responsive to MISS Gadd's request relative to the contract related to motorola. Please, sir. Council members I we have identified legislation that we believe is the is the latest contract that has been approved by this body. However, at this hour, we are awaiting

04:56:49confirmation from ecd to make sure that that is the correct contract. I have a commitment from the department of law that once we have that commitment, I will receive the legislation. We will forward it to you in the morning.

04:56:59All right. And did someone have a point of personal privilege? MISS Johnson has one as well, MISS Johnson. Go ahead, ma'am. I'm just wondering why these contracts aren't on the documents portal. The last contract with motorola for ecd expired in 2009 and was. Okay.

04:57:22That's rare. Was was destroyed by some order because it's literally 17 years old. So we we've had no public documentation of whatever contract with motorola for 17 years. This shouldn't be that hard. I just want to know why it's not on the portal. I mean.

04:57:45Special counsel, if you want to respond to that. I mean, I think as we've switched to ledger star, obviously transferring, that MAY be a factor there, but we can certainly elevate the concern. Special counsel, anything else you want to say in that regard?

04:57:58MISS Suara, you asked for a point of personal privilege. Very quick, colleagues, I just wanted to take a minute to recognize MISS Missy amos, who is one of our legal counsel here. It's our last meeting with us. She's moving on. And I just wanted to take a moment to

04:58:16thank her. For 11 years with metro. I know it's not easy working with us, but thank you for everything. Thank you, MISS Amos. We appreciate you. Best wishes. Take care. All right, we are adjourned. We will meet again on tuesday, OCTOBER the 20th. Go vote early next week.

04:58:46Take care.