001[Music] call this meeting to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance and the invocation following. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Dear God, please bless our elected officials. Grant them the wisdom to know and the courage to do what is right for all citizens. Amen. Amen. Amen. Roll call, please. Alan here. Leaffor here. Mr. Ravich here. Ricks here. Schultz here. Warren here. Yellen here. Good to see everybody here tonight. Uh we have approval events for the regular meeting of May 5th. Is there a motion? Motion. Support. It's been made and supported. Is there any discussion? Being not. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Motion
002does pass. We also have the uh special budget meeting uh of the same date. Is there a motion to accept those minutes? Make a motion. Support. Motion been made and supported. Any discussion on these? Seeing not all in favor say I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We move on to audience comments on any non-aggenda items. If anybody like to address council, now would be the time to do it. We ask you come to the podium for the people at home and uh state your name and address to the clerk and we'd like you to keep it about three minutes if you will. Hi. Uh how how is the council today? My name is William Trombley. Uh the reason I'm here is uh regarding the ruckus in Richmond too. I wanted to present the city with
003another signed poster. Uh these two gentlemen are in the WWE. So, and then um I also have the ring apron that has the good old days and the ruckus too that y'all for for y'all as well. Great. And that was and we raised close to five grand. Thank you. Good job. Good job. Uh this year I was able to go to this last year of course I had a wedding to perform out of town and um these two gentlemen you're talking about in the picture that was very very impressive. Very impressive. I'm not a wrestling guy, but that was very impressive. It was a very good show though. It was a good show all around. Yes. The way we had it set up was very cool for the way the wrestlers came out of the
004stage and uh we had 225 who attended. So, that place was packed. Yeah, it was a good time actually. Very, very good time. Yeah, very entertaining. I don't I don't know that I'd ever see that in Richmond. You brought it and you did a great job. Thank you very much. And hopefully next year will be even better. Very good. Thank you. Very good. Anybody else like to address council at this time? Sure. Uh my name is Scott Bell and I live at uh 67808 Lee Lane Court and I just wanted to come in a little early. I should have a hearing or a moment with you guys on the second. Um, I have two dwarf goats that I got over the weekend and um, it wasn't my intention to disrespect any laws or ordinances uh,
005by bringing them in prior to speaking with you. Um, I was just in a position to where the goats were being housed on a farm north of town and it was time for them to go. So, I did start this process about a month ago and I've been following along. Um, I spoke with my neighbors prior to bringing them and I felt like I had overwhelming support. So, uh, that's just currently where I'm at right now. So, I look forward to seeing you guys on the second. And I wanted to come in today to just introduce myself. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. We're good. Okay. We'll move on, Mr. City Manager. Any changes in the agenda? Uh, no changes. City Council, any changes? If not, the motion to accept the agenda as presented be in order.
006I'll make the motion. support. Motion made and supported. Any discussion on this? Being out. All in favor say I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Do we have a motion for the consent agenda? Make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Support. Motion been made and supported. There is no discussion on the consent agenda according to our rules. All in favor say I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We move on to items for consideration. We have five this evening. The first one being consideration of special event request commercial house car show. Mr. City Manager, city council is scheduled to consider a request for a special event from commercial house. Uh Brienne and Craig Leaport to host a classic car show on Sunday, July 27th, 2025 from uh the use of the parking lot would
007be from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. uh to allow for setup and takeown. I believe the event is from uh noon to 3. Uh this I believe is the third or fourth year uh of the event. Um last year they did have more cars than they had before. So they uh did use kind of Monroe Street from Forest up to the bank drive-thru. Uh previous years they did not. So uh they're anticipating that they will again build on last years and and need that area. Uh, also this year, uh, they'll be using, uh, kind of the grass area, uh, that, uh, used to be a house where we recently had that demoed through TIFFA, uh, to kind of create additional event space in that in that parking lot. So, uh, other than that, pretty much
008uh, same as years before. Very good. Is there a motion before discussion? I'll make a motion to approve the special event request from the Commercial House for the Gears and Beers Auto Show on Sunday, July 27th from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. utilizing the city and commercial house portions of the Forest Street parking lot, Monroe Street from Forest up to the bank drive-thru. Support Motion been made and supported. Is there any discussion on this item? That's a great event. Yeah, glad to see that again. Absolutely. It's a good event. Hope for good weather. Any audience participation on this item back to the table? All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We wish him well there. Item number two is consideration of special event request St. Augustine's Church.
009The pro the procession. Mr. City Manager. Council is scheduled to consider a request the city received from St. is to conduct their process pro procession on Main Street. The event is scheduled for Sunday, June 22nd. This is the 20th anniversary of their event. Uh and the parishioners uh will meet at the church and begin approximately at 7:00 a.m. uh to progress on foot north uh up to uh Memphis. Um they are asking for permission to walk in the roadway and also for assistance from the Richmond Police Department uh from the church to the northern city limits. Uh they also, I believe, have like a hay wagon and a couple golf carts for uh parishioners that may need assistance, but uh we've done this uh for several years. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion
010to approve the request received from St. Augustine Church to conduct their procession down Main Street beginning at approximately 7 a.m. on Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 at St. Augustine's Church and traveling north along Main Street to the city limits. Support Must been made and supported. Is there any discussion on this item? I would mention that there is someone in the audience tonight from St. A. That's you. If if you do have any questions, she can help us. Go ahead. Go ahead. Hi, I'm Emily from St. A. Um I really don't enjoy public speaking. Your name, please. Emily Sazawa from Sise. Um we do appreciate you guys improving it in the past and we look forward to continuing this tradition. Could you tell us what it's about a little more so people at home knows what this
011is about? Sure. We uh process out of St. A's carrying the Blessed Sacrament, walking through town, and we end at Holy Family in Memphis. Very good. And you are going to have perfect weather probably. There's been some times we haven't, but come rain or shine. Okay. Very good. Uh council have any questions? No. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Good luck. You too. Item number three is consideration of special event recreation department truck event. Mr. City Manager, council is scheduled to consider a special event request for a mobile food vendor from their recreation department for their big truck event. Uh they regularly schedule the big truck event on Wednesday, uh August 13th. Um and it's usually all the trucks are parked in the area between
012uh the pool and little league. Uh in the past we have not had any food available. Uh and this year trying to kind of make the uh event a little better for those families that come out and attend. Uh we're looking to have kind of like a mobile food vendor with a hot dog cart. Uh selling hot dogs, chips, and some drinks. Uh we plan on having them up by the pavilion. Uh so that uh some of the days in August have been pretty hot that truck event. And so, uh, we're requesting, uh, that it would be up by the pavilion. This did go to the wreck board. Uh, they approved it and forwarded it here. Uh, Margot would have been here, but the Northeast Parks and Recreation Association is having a big training event
013for all of the, uh, summer camps. And so, we have eight of our staff there. And, and Margot is part of that organization, is there tonight helping with that training. Thank you. Is there a motion before discussion? I'll make a motion to approve the special event request for a mobile food vendor from the recre recreation department to have RJ's doghouse on Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for the big truck event. Support motion been made and supported. Any discussion on this item? a good event. Any audience participation on this item? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Item number four is consideration of splash pad rule signage. Mr. City Manager. With the anticipated opening of the splash pad being
014soon, uh we were we took a rule sign uh for the splash pad to the recreation board for their approval. Uh we plan on placing it on the side of outside of the pool fence near the entrance to the splash pad. Um and we did uh as I mentioned review this with the recreation board. They had some suggestions at the bottom of the sign. We had the emergency number. Uh, but there we also added in some numbers for non-emergency for people that just want to have comments or maybe raise some concerns of not an emergency number they would know who to contact. Is there a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the splash pad rule sign to be placed at the splash pad on the exterior of the pool fence. Support been made and
015support. Is there any discussion on this item? I think that they did a good job on this. And the uh board brought up the fact that, you know, not emergencies like John uh mentioned and put in the uh the other numbers because uh parks and wreck closes at 4:30 normally. So, this is open till 8:00 and it's I think it's seven days a week. And of course, yes, we don't necessarily uh have somebody on call seven days a week, but they did note that the pool staff is there a lot of the time. Y and the guards are there. They can see what's going on. Units are joined to the pool, but separate. Yeah. And we also put the non-emergency number for the police because sometimes some people are have a little bit of reluctance
016to hit 911. So, we put both numbers as the same person answers. Any other discussion on this item? Any audience participation on this item? Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. Item item number five, consideration of cost sharing agreement 32 Mile Road. Mr. City Manager. City Council is scheduled to consider a cost sharing agreement with Mcome County Department of Roads to pave and install passing relief lanes on the county portion of 32 mile road. Uh the project will utilize the MDOT small urban funding. Uh similar to the 33 mile road project. Uh so this is essentially the area of roadway from the railroad crossing out to county line. uh the looking to repave that uh the summer of 2026. We have uh available
017to us roughly 380,000 uh in MDOT funds uh due to us being a small urban area. Uh the caution so uh at the direction of the council when we discussed this I think our January roundt uh we met with the county kind of uh talked about the willingness to do this. Uh we then had a small urban committee meeting uh where the county and the city were represented and approved kind of applying for this as the act 51 agency. The county actually has to make the application for this particular project uh which they did. Um and then as part of that there is a local match. Uh we had discussed uh splitting that uh 50/50 with with the county and the city. So, I believe our portion uh right now is estimated to be uh
018$29,785. Very good. Is there a motion before discussion? I'll make a motion to approve the cost sharing agreement with Mcome County Department of Roads to construct 32 Mile Road from the CN crossing to the county line utilizing Richmond's small urban funds with the city paying 50% required local match with the major street fund estimate to be $29,785. Support motion made and supported discussion. I think in in layman's terms, uh, John, help me if I if I say this wrong, but that is not that road is not the responsibility of the city of Richmond. That is correct. Is the railroad tracks the same thing. We're not responsible. That's the county and the railroad company. Yes. By taking advantage of this grant that you're talking about. We are we can work with the county to do that.
019And while we were talking about getting that done and and they were gracious enough to join hands with us and get it done sooner than later because it's in horrible condition, um they we talked about del lanes and and that's basically what this the 29,000 out of the general fund basically is going to come from is for del lanes. even though it's outside the city limits, it's going to benefit everybody that comes into our town and goes out of our town. Um because as we well know and we, you know, we've got businesses in the township that, you know, have big trucks like Fosters and uh you have Giovanis there and we're going to give those del lanes there so they can get off the main drag and people can get through safely given the
020deep ditches and everything else that is that that's out there. Um, I know a lot of people have talked about what are you when are you going to enclose those ditches? That's another whole animal that and a very expensive one. It's out in the township and it's not something that, um, they can afford to do either. It they give their act 51 money to the county. So, um, if I'm correct in stating, we are going outside the Sale limits with this new grant that they've come out with. As you said, we did 33 mile road, which is not our road either, but that worked out. We got that all repaved, ditched, and everything else. So, it's a great grant. Yeah, it's a great grant. Absolutely. And I know the council's kind of looked at this,
021but anyone driving down uh Division Road, many of those existing businesses that have been there for a long time prior to kind of the modern engineering standards being used. So, they went in before the county would have required these del lanes. So if you look at like the most recent commercial driveway which is the new driveway for the expansion of weeks you'll see that del lane. So what this grant by putting the grant money that the county and the city receive towards these del lanes you'll go back to those old commercial driveways and install a del lane and widen that approach so that they all look like the new one for weeks. Yeah. And get them off the road quicker. Yeah. the through traffic isn't so tied up sometimes adds to a lot of safety
022I think for a strange stretch of property right there with those deep ditches and the woods right close on the on the one side there. So um I think it's going to be a major improvement long overdue over there. Great. So it's a good thing to happen there. So uh any other discussion on this item? Any uh audience participation on this item? Sounds like a good idea. Very good. Back to the table. All in favor of the motion signify by saying I. I. Against. Motion does pass. We move on. Miscellaneous manners from the city manager. Sir, uh the main municipal parking lot we'd hoped would be paved out by the end of the week. I know there was some additional undercutting that needed to be done. We're still hoping to be paved at the end
023of the week, but it could be just that it's uh stone, but like uh the the limestone and then rolled and you know, it'll be hard to walk on and available for parking Memorial Day. And there's still a chance that it could be paved, but looking at how much they got today with the undercutting and there was some just some soft areas in there that when people parked over the weekend that red up pretty good, so we had to do some additional undercutting. So, uh that uh looking at the weather forecast and we'll be putting something out uh for the splash pad. Uh looking at the weather on Memorial Day weekend, I don't believe it'll be open for Memorial Day weekend just because it's going to be too cold. Um and then the grass is
024still still growing there. So, but really more as a factor of uh 65 degrees and the water coming out of that ground at this time of year is going to be quite chilly. So, it's probably going to be a first week in June. KO. All right, moving on. Uh, council comments. Michael, uh, nothing today. Thank you. Nothing. Nick, all set. John, nothing. Nothing. Thank you. I'm good. We'll go to the calendar. Uh, today being the 19th, we have an EDC meeting on the 21st right here at city hall at 7:00. Uh, Memorial Weekend. Uh the uh yes, the uh library, city hall, and the community center will all be closed on Memorial Day, the Monday the 26th. We will have a parade uh that will uh start off at Washington Street on the north end
025of town. Come down Ma, this is at 10:00 a.m. on Memorial Day, uh Monday the 26th. Uh we'll come down Main Street. will uh come down to the veterans memorial that's by uh uh the municipal parking lot. Uh there the parade will disperse and we will have services there. Uh the whole thing is maybe an hour and 15 at the very most. Um but it's a nice service. Last year we had at least 500 people showed up and and I didn't hear one complaint uh from anybody. People liked it. It was a it was a it was a nice time to to uh memorialize those that uh gave all. So we will be doing that on Memorial Day and the TIFF will be meeting on the 28th right here at city hall at 7:00. Now
026the calendar says that uh Richmond Little League grandparents day is going to be on May 31st. That's Saturday and none of my grandchildren have told me about that. And the next regular uh schedule city uh council meeting will be on June 2nd. That's Monday right here at 7:00. Is there anything else we need to talk to on the calendar? Okay. Being not um we will move on to uh other business. Is there any other business of the city council? Being not. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Support. Motion been made and supported. There's no discussion on the adjournment motion. All in favor say I. I. Against. Motion does pass. [Music]