GREENEVILLE CITY COUNCIL — October 6, 2026 AI-GENERATED, SPEAKER-LABELED TRANSCRIPT — UNOFFICIAL. Auto-transcribed (Whisper) and speaker-diarized (pyannote) from the town's public Facebook video, then speaker names mapped from roll call and context. Speaker labels are best-effort and may be imperfect; a few voices could not be identified ([Unclear]/[Unknown]). This is a best-effort aid, NOT an official record. The Town of Greeneville's official minutes are the authoritative source. Source video: https://www.facebook.com/TownofGreeneville/videos/1411799361143710/ Generated by GreeneTN (greenetn.com) — not affiliated with the Town of Greeneville. ====================================================================== [Mayor Cal Doty] Fannie Rickard to lead us in our invocation. And then I'm going to ask Flint Carter to lead us in our invocation. Please. [Invocation (guest)] Let us pray. Father, we thank you so much today. God, it's a chance just to serve our communities. Lord, Father, we ask you to be with the council. Lord, Father, as they make decisions concerning our city. And just we want to give you praise and thank you for having your hand upon Greeneville, Tennessee. And God, we ask all of this in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. [Unclear (merged voices)] Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] and to the republic for which it stands, [Unclear] one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Mayor Cal Doty] As far as the mayor's comments go, we're going to have the recognition of the 2026 Citizens Academy participants at the end of the meeting. I was going to ask everybody to come up now, but not everybody is here. so we'll bring everybody up when later on in the meeting and i want to say thanks for participating christina do you want to say anything or [Christina Potts (town staff, Citizens Academy)] maybe just tell everybody what it is yes so citizens academy is a program that was started several years ago. I think maybe 2018, 2017. You were in an early one. I was in 2019. 2019. It's been going for several years and what this is an opportunity for citizens of the town of Greeneville or in Greene County to come and learn about what our town does. So they learn about, of course, city council. They learn about the administration department, finance, Finance, Parks and Rec, Police, Fire Department. Who am I leaving off? Roby Center. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] Library. [Christina Potts (town staff, Citizens Academy)] Library. Building. And the Building Department, Development Services. Did I miss? Public Works. Did I say Public Works? Airport. We didn't do Airport this year, but it's just because we're a little bit more... Messed out. I know, it's a fun one to go to the airport. But they're a little bit more independent now, so we didn't have that one on there this year. But it's been a good group. We started out with 19. Now, not everybody makes it to the end because it's six weeks. And it's Tuesday evenings from 530 to 730. So sometimes life gets in the way and not everybody makes it to the end. So we have 11 that are graduating, and I think we're going to have about nine of those here today. So we're very excited. It's been a very good group, and they've been very complimentary. They said that they have loved it. They've really enjoyed going to each of the departments. [Mayor Cal Doty] learning about them. So we're excited. Thank you. Okay. I also think we've got a couple of members of the leadership group that the partnership puts on every year. So if you're a part of that group, if you'd stand up and introduce yourself, I'd appreciate that. okay thank you appreciate you coming they get to come to both the city council meeting and a county commission meeting so it's a great great time of the month huh does anybody else have anything all right let's move on are there any public comments any names over there [Unknown] thank you [Mayor Cal Doty] okie dokie well item 6 is unfinished business so item 6.1 is consideration to approve the minutes from the regularly scheduled meeting held on September 15th 2026 we got those last Friday hope everybody had a chance to review them do I hear a motion to approve So moved. Do I hear a second? Second. Is there any further discussion or changes? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Now we have three consent agenda items. Do I hear anybody that wants to pull one of those out? [Unknown] Motion to approve. [Mayor Cal Doty] We have a motion to approve. Do I hear a second? [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] Second. [Mayor Cal Doty] Second. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those against, like, sign. Motion carries. Item 8.1 is consideration of a special event application to close a portion of Serial Drive for a trunk or treat and job fair event at AKM of Tennessee and other business agencies on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. Kathy, do you want to start on that? Sure. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] So you'll have to tell me, oh, sorry. Actually, Christina probably would do good with this one because she was in charge of scheduling the special event committee. But for the special event committee, we always review all the applications that come in, and that normally consists of sometimes me, but right now it's been more so Christina, Public Works Director Scott Keith, and Alan Shipley, Fire Chief, and then Josh Pierce, the Police Chief. So they normally meet with the organizer, and I'm not sure, is the organizer here today? She's right there. In the back. I haven't met you before because I wasn't in that meeting. So the group gets together and discusses the event. The organizer discusses the event with the committee. And then if there's any concerns, safety concerns, or just the needs that they might need as far as barricades, toters, all things, and what time they want the street to close and how long the event's going to be and how many people they anticipate and all the measures. Now, I know that some of the concerns were, I guess, brought up at the meeting, and I don't know if you'd like to come up and share a little bit, but I think there is some general concerns on this one simply because most of the events that happen are typically happening in the downtown area, not to say that they can't happen in other locations within the town, but this one's the first one that we've had on this side of the east side of town, which is a little more high traffic, and so tell us a little bit about your event, and then we can go from there as far as any safety measures. So my name is Sarah Murray. [Sarah Murray (event organizer)] Thank you for allowing me to be here tonight. This is the first year that we have thrown this. As you all know, jobs are kind of hard to come by and finding good workers. So we kind of mix the two of having a place for children to come and have a safe spot to get candy for trick-or-treating, but also to open it up for a job fair for all the businesses on this street, as well as a promotional. We've got two new businesses on this street. I did speak face-to-face with every business that is on the road, and they all want to participate. They're really excited about it, especially Brookdale. We did meet, and some of the safety concerns were what if Brookdale needed emergency vehicles, the trucks on Buehle coming in and out for the warehouse. house. I did speak with Mr. Buehle himself and he said that he talked with the person that was over it and their schedule for that night is actually clear. So there shouldn't be any trucks that need in. Another concern was talking to the storage place because we cannot, you know, withhold people from getting to their items. We did speak with them and they said that they were, they wanted to be a part of the event and that they would just let their people know. The new business across the street from us is the Green Paw. They would have pickups for the animals, but when we talked to them, they said they would have an early pickup because they wanted to be a part of it too. So two businesses had concerns, and that was Butcher's Block and the Needle and Thread, because our original date was on that Thursday, so we moved it to Tuesday, so they are not open at that time. We talked with the law office and Eastside and hoped to use those areas and Fresenius as parking, and we would put the barricades at the end of our driveway, which is before you get to Bealy, and then at right past Gondolier. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] So the parking locations would be in the old Gondolier Law Firm parking lot, and then, and of course the church. Yes. And I guess I'd like to just on this one, since this one was pulled out of the consent, is just to kind of go over a little bit what special events are for the town of Greeneville. And by definition, it means any public event that necessitates the closing of a public right-of-way within the limits of the town of Greeneville. And then the only thing as far as concerns, because we talked about safety concerns, or I believe they did in the meeting, is that in our special event ordinance under public safety, if there are concerns, the chief of police and or the fire chief shall report to city council summary of those concerns. And I know that because of the 11E is a little more of a traffic concern as you all, most of you all know that travel that on a day-to-day basis, the traffic seems to be a little heavier on that that side of town compared to other locations. And I do know a lot of people use Serial Drive and or Roof Taylor Road as a way to find a different way out of the 11E. So I know that in this application, when the review committee goes through this process and they meet with the organizer and discuss this, that if they have concerns, they bring them up. And if they feel comfortable, then they'll sign off on that. And if you move down on their application, we did have some concerns. And I think it was more so too, is blocking that whole street off, because from what I gather, and tell me if I'm wrong, since I wasn't at that meeting, that it's the kids and their parents are going to be the ones that are walking in the street from location to location and is there room for emergency traffic [Sarah Murray (event organizer)] to get through if there's so there will be this really and we did speak with the police and they said that they would provide people at the barricades but we also have volunteers that will be walking throughout the streets just to ensure everyone's safety our business is really the only one that doesn't have a great parking lot for just to utilize each space. So we will probably be the only ones that are actually facing the road. Everyone else is planning to host it in their actual parking lot, but people will have to walk on the sides of the streets. But yes, if should there be an emergency, should there be a vehicle, an emergency vehicle needed, we can, we have enough volunteers and enough hands on deck to, you know, block people and get them out of harm's way. [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] And how many volunteers do you have in total? I don't see that on the app, or am I missing it on the application? [Sarah Murray (event organizer)] We will have well over 20 people that can volunteer. We don't want to put too many out there as just extra bodies, but we, I mean, as many as we need to. [Mayor Cal Doty] And you talked about using the businesses' parking. Mm-hmm. I have a concern about it. So if you can use the parking areas, I think we could have police there to make sure people aren't going through there like crazy people. Is that safe? No, I take that back. There probably will be some crazy people that go mad, no matter how many people we have sitting there. [Unclear] It's probably more of a safety issue. Come on up. I can't hear you. [Police Chief Josh Pierce (likely)] You know, if they're in their parking lots and the roadway is open and they're going back and forth across the road to different – probably poses more of a safety concern as far as that goes, is having an open road and kids and everybody closing the street or going across the street than it would if the street was closed and they were doing the same thing. I think the biggest issue there, total, not necessarily no fault of hers, but just in general, that's a heavily traveled street that placed a red light at the end of it due to the volume of traffic that used to be everything coming in on that end. So there are issues with how are they going to get around? How does that back up arterial roads around? So there's some issues that come with that. [Mayor Cal Doty] Chief Shipley, can you come up, please? Come on. Cherish your thoughts. [Fire Chief Alan Shipley] I think this is something that, and that's the reason I didn't sign it, it's something that we need to really explore because the special events have always been downtown. So it's been centralized. All of our resources are quicker, easier to get to those. We have artillery roads that we can get, you know, apparatus and everything around. When we start pushing these events outside that, then it's going to make some challenges that we're going to have to look at. Getting additional resources out there for safety. And like Josh said, the amount of traffic that utilizes that street, where are they going to go when they come up and realize that street's blocked? How are they going to get around? There's not a simple, easy way to make it around. If they hit Old Stage, it's a more narrow road. So just some of those concerns is what led me to not sign it. [Unknown] Okay. [Mayor Cal Doty] Have you talked to the church and see if they might do it for everybody? [Sarah Murray (event organizer)] They're very apt to let us use the parking lot, but they don't really want huge events because apparently people in the past have, you know, left trash and things of that nature. So, and to be understood. [Council member (unidentified)] Okay. I'm looking at attendees, about 100, you're saying, and this is trunk retreat. These students, adults, job fair, I mean, I'm getting mixed signals. Is it a trunk retreat or? [Sarah Murray (event organizer)] I wanted to kind of mix the two, that if a child is out there, you know, getting candy, it's a local, you know, one big localized place for them to get candy. But we could also talk to parents who might need jobs. We could, these other businesses could promote their businesses. So it was just kind of a one-stop shop, but it was just all in one. [Council member (unidentified)] And I guess manpower. Josh, how much manpower would it take? [Police Chief Josh Pierce (likely)] So, the way that they've got it. Let's not. [Unclear] Up in their business. [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] Just a thought. I wondered, looking at the map here, and again, this would be a question for Chief Chief Shipley and Chief Pierce, would it be possible to mark off a designated crosswalk? That way you all, the emergency personnel, volunteers can control who's on that road at all times. That way if there were to be something, you know, we needed to get someone in there, you wouldn't have to worry about random pedestrians just all over the street, but there would be a designated crosswalk somewhere on that road where they could, folks could get back and forth across. [Parks and Recreation staff] this one there's multiple places that are apart multiple crosswalk [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] I know this is your first go at this, Sarah, and just a curiosity, Jan, I know Halloween happenings takes place downtown, and I know it was big from the get-go, but how many people three to four thousand how many people come to downtown for halloween happenings [Downtown events representative (Jan)] people three to four thousand and i was noodling in my mind if there was a way that we might be able to talk about this with sarah to see if how many businesses are involved um five no there's about at least 10 possibly 12 to 15 i was just trying to figure out if there was a way we might help to coordinate that maybe with an opportunity to come downtown where you could bring a tent that advertised your business in hopes i will tell you our experience you would be maybe with a smaller number um we don't even encourage food vendors because if somebody's coming in handy that's their intent but if you want to if we want to talk and see if there's a way for us to maybe um help you guys out and do something. Perhaps we could, you know, Main Street has some open, quite some open space, maybe with some events that advertise the businesses. Give it a shot and see if that works. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] And if not, we've got a year to figure this out. The same thing goes for Hardin Park. Hardin Park Mark does a Halloween event inside the parameters of that location. And how many people typically come to that, Brandon? [Downtown events representative (Jan)] Is that a place now? I mean, years ago, you know, we used to add, particularly during COVID, we had the opportunity for some folks outside of there to come. Is that something that, what night do you do yours? I don't know. Okay, and then ours is the 3rd, Friday the 30th. So there might be some opportunity between parks and rec where you could have canopies. Children are walking. Parents can maybe spend a little bit of time. Try that avenue, and then let's talk, and we'll see if we've got any overflow we can do on the 30th. I appreciate that. Okay? I'll get your business card. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] I'm sure there's churches or something that you set up. I, for one, I'm speaking for myself, don't feel very comfortable with one of our safety personnel not signing this. And I don't think I can go against that since we do have that committee. But that's a good idea. And I think you're going to reach a lot more people like that than you would shutting the road down out on the east side of town. is come downtown and, you know, a tent with your sign on it and everybody else that wants to participate in this. But I, for one, I'll make a motion that we deny. Okay. [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] And just piggybacking on what Tim said, I'm kind of in that same boat. First off, I want to say I commend you for the event. I think it's very innovative to try to combine trunk retreat with job fair. I think that's actually a brilliant idea. And I think that if you can make something work with Jan or the Parks and Rec Department, I think that would be well received. But I'm kind of in the same boat as Tim here. I don't feel comfortable. I've sat on this council for two years and then attended many, and there's only been a handful of times that we've not approved event requests. And I know Alan back there, I know he's got really good reasons for not signing it, and I have to respect that. So I'll second Tim's motion. [Mayor Cal Doty] We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against, like, sign. Motion carries. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Thank you, sir. [Mayor Cal Doty] Thank you, and I'm sorry, but we'll figure something out, okay? Thank you for all you all do and for the consideration. Thank you. Hello, Chase. How are you? [Unknown] Fine. How are you? [Mayor Cal Doty] Good. [Unknown] [Mayor Cal Doty] Item 8.2 is update on formal planning efforts of the Robey Auditorium. [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] Yeah, so I talked to Kathy about this, and really last week didn't have a lot of updates, but I've got a few things that I will share. So since we've started our formal planning efforts, We have launched our pledge campaign, Every Seat, Every Story, Preserving the Legacy since 1925. And we are actively collecting pledges to meet our goal of $1.3 to $1.5 million, which was the projected estimated cost from the evaluation that was done to restore that auditorium. We have also, in addition to launching the pledge campaign, pain. I have submitted, as of this past Friday, an application to have the entire Robie School building, including the auditorium, to be considered for the National Register for Historic Places, which is an incredible honor if we can get that. It opens us up for more grant funding with that designation. And I received confirmation right before this meeting that they have received our application and they are able to download everything and they're going to review that at their next upcoming cycle. And then also we, in part of the formal planning, we have partnered with the Greene County Heritage Trust and have drafted an MOU that would be brought to this council for consideration at the time. But the MOU is when it comes time to actually collecting pledges and if the project is approved, the Heritage Trust will serve as our partner in processing those funds. They'll invoice people and making sure that everything is accounted for there. And that was done with the intention of one formalizing a partnership with the Heritage Trust because this is a historic building, but also to kind of alleviate some of the administrative lift that Laura's team would have to do otherwise of invoicing people for the pledges should we approve the project. So Heritage Trust drew up the MOU and so Heritage Trust drew up the MOU and we'd also before they had drawn it up we pulled from a draft of the MOU that is currently in place regarding the old Harmony Cemetery project so it was modeled after that Um, I'd gone to Laura and got some feedback from her. I'd gone to Kathy and I asked her to shoot some questions up to the comptroller's office. Uh, we got that response and we made sure that we, uh, were cognizant of that when the MOU was drafted. Um, Heritage Trust approved it on their end. And the intention is going to be, uh, in January, we hope to bring, uh, that MOU, our our total pledge amounts, and some additional maybe edits to our programming plan to this body for consideration in January. But that's kind of where we're at. We're still climbing the mountain, and we're excited and hopeful as we continue collecting pledges. But that's about it. [Mayor Cal Doty] Thank you, Matt. Item 8.3 is consideration of approval to add those in the positions of either interim city manager and or city managers authorized signatories to joint landfill account with Andrew Johnson Investments. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] So, yes, we have a joint landfill account with the county and obviously the city with Andrew Johnson on this particular account. And instead of just for continuity, I think it's just better to put it based on position rather than an individual name. So currently right now serving in the interim city manager position, it would just be appropriate for me to have the authority per your approval to sign off on anything that comes in that way of issues with the landfill account. count, but then once a city manager is in place to, instead of having to come back before you when positions change, it's just based, it needs to be based on interim city manager and or city manager versus the name every time in case it just saves you all time in the future where we don't [Mayor Cal Doty] have to bring this back before you. Okay, we have a recommendation from Ms. Osborne. Do I hear a motion? [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] So if when we get a city manager, then it would just have to come back before you all to change into that person's name. And so instead of having to do that every time, it's just it'd be better just to have it in whoever's in this position, whether they're in the interim role or the actual city manager role. So there's not back and forth every time. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] But the positions are not added to the signature card right now. Is that what you're asking? [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] They just need to be updated so that it says, yes. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] But you're already on there. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] I will be after you all do this, yes. Right now it's got city manager or mayor. Yeah, it's got it listed right now as that. So I just want to keep that going where it's got me on there as interim. And when the new city manager gets into the position that they have the ability to sign on that behalf, and then I'll step back and then the mayor's on that account too. And then the other accounts that we have, Laura's on those, correct? Yes. Yes. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Are you not on that one, Laura? [Lora Young (Finance Director)] Not on this one. Not on the one for the landfill. That one's jointly owned between the town and the county. The rest of them are town-owned. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] But obviously, any changes, if there were any changes to any of the accounts, whether it's the landfill or any of our town accounts, would always come before you all. If there was money to be moved or changed, that would come to you in a form of resolution. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] If it's an Andrew Johnson investment, it has to come before you. Yes, in a form of resolution. I'll make a motion when approved. [Mayor Cal Doty] We have a motion from Mr. Teague. Is there a second? I'll second. Second from Mr. Botta. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Item 8.4 is consideration of a resolution authorizing the Town of Greeneville to participate in the James L. Richardson PEP Driver Training Matching Grant Program. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] PEP has long words for all their grant programs. They do, don't they? Yes. So this is one of, there's four total grants within PEP I've brought to you before you thus far. I brought to you a couple months ago the Safety Partners Grant, and we were awarded that one. That one was approved a couple weeks ago, and then we just received approval for the property conservation grant. So now it's time to apply for this grant. And if approved today by you all, then my plan is to submit this application tomorrow on behalf of both Public Works and Human Resources. This would be for Public Works, a new GPS tracking system for their vehicles. and then we use the other part of it, a small portion of it, for HR to conduct their annual motor vehicle records checks on all of our employees. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Is this a matching grant? [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] Yes, it is a $5,000 grant with a $5,000 match. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] And it's budgeted? [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] Yes. [Mayor Cal Doty] Okay. [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Make a motion we approve. [Mayor Cal Doty] We have a motion from Mr. Teague. Is there a second? [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Second. [Mayor Cal Doty] And a second from Mr. Carter. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. [Unclear] Aye. [Mayor Cal Doty] Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Item 8.5 is consideration to approve a short-term rental agreement with Big Truck Rental, LLC, and Public Works for a front-load solid waste truck. [Scott Keith (Public Works Director)] Good afternoon. Thanks for your time this afternoon. Good afternoon. This agreement is an emergency measure. We have a total of four front load garbage trucks. One of them is very, very old. The other one is a good backup and we have two front line. so our primary backup as it usually would do at the worst time went down on us and we felt there was a significant enough risk to our level of service if something happened to one of the mainline front loads so we reached out we had contact with this company basically this is a one month or a month-to-month rental we're only only planning to have it for a month and we've We've already done repairs on one of the trucks. So I don't foresee needing this any more than a month, but basically the cost is $9,500 for the month. Gives us 200 hours of operation on the truck, which calculates out to about $47.50 an hour, which really is quite reasonable for a front load. So we're making sure we get our use out of it, and we're going to be covering this out of our contracts line item and our MSW operations budget. So the truck just allows us to make sure we don't drop level of service in case one of our front lines goes down while we're fixing the other ones. [Mayor Cal Doty] Okay, thank you, Scott. Do I have a motion to approve? [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] I have a quick question. Has Ron Woods looked at this agreement? [Unknown] No, he's not. [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] I just had some concern over the terms. I guess you kind of explained that a little bit, that it's month to month. I didn't see that necessarily spelled out in the contract. The other concern I had was I know it had mentioned 50 hours a week use allotment. And if you go over that to 51, it's basically half of that. Are we worried that we would go over that? I mean, what's our weekly average use? [Scott Keith (Public Works Director)] They usually run, they're running probably closer to 40. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] And I asked that question similar because I said daily logs. [Scott Keith (Public Works Director)] And we put this one into FLEDIO so we can make sure we're keeping, because we also, according to item number six in that contract, have to be very specific about maintenance, anything that we do to it. So we're making very, very certain that all that information is tracked on the usage because we certainly don't want to go beyond. and the good news is is the other the other truck that we would typically use as a backup has been repaired so we're just we've got a little bit of breathing room now to work on the other one and [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] make sure it's good to go but so are we actively looking to repair the the ones that we have or we're looking to purchase something new or i mean we're well best case we'd purchase but we don't [Scott Keith (Public Works Director)] have the funding for that on one of these so we want to make sure we get as much use out of the ones we have so we are looking to continue to repair as we can and and plan you know as we [Council member (likely Matt Hensley, Ward 2)] move forward to replace. Laura or Kathy do you all have any concern about Ron not reviewing the contract beforehand or reviewing the contract in general? Well I read through all of it too and [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] that was my main concern is to make sure that we were tracking it on our daily logs because that was one of the things that was spilled out quite clearly is that you want to make sure you're you're keeping track of the hours because we definitely don't want to pay anything above and beyond. But I read over this quite well, and I felt like in our emergency situation, we needed to go with this, and it's pretty spelled out. Other than making sure you don't go over it, it seems pretty doable. [Scott Keith (Public Works Director)] If we had another breakdown on a frontline truck, we'd lose half the route. I mean, we'd be doubling up. It would just be a real mess. So we just wanted to make sure that didn't happen. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] we did notice one error that that's got to be fixed on there is um under the signature of my name it's got the town clerk is listed as kim reams whoever that may be so that needs to be corrected right there um but that's it where that came from it came from the last contract That's the new Laura, I guess. Laura, you didn't know your name was changed for temporarily. I thought I'd been replaced. No, definitely not. [Mayor Cal Doty] Mr. Teague made a motion to approve. Do I hear a second? Second. A second from Mr. Carter. Any further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. [Council member (unidentified)] Aye. [Mayor Cal Doty] Those against, like sign. Motion carries. Thank you. Thanks, Scott. item eight point c is six is consideration to approve bid for fencing materials for the harden park lprf grant project hello brandon how are you um actually two minutes come through and [Parks and Recreation staff] drastic price difference in both yeah public group we're out of morristown like later all rpf lprf grant funded but the grant's already been approved um our guys will be doing all the work this is the materials basketball courts and the pickleball courts part why is there such a wide gap [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] between the two beats are you sure you had apples and apples same bit back as far as i understand that but have you talked to both Okay. It's the same one. I mean, we have to take the lower bid. Okay. [Mayor Cal Doty] We have a recommendation to hear a motion. A motion from Mr. Teague. Is there a second? [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] That's an LPR agreement. Second. [Mayor Cal Doty] Second from Mr. Carter. Any further discussion? Real quickly. is that 17,800 within the budget we had in part of the whole process? Okay. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing nothing, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against, like sign. Motion carries. And before we adjourn, I'd like to ask, no, you can go. I'd like to ask the Citizens Academy members to come up. I'd like for everybody to get a chance to look at you. Come on up here. Well, look at us. [Unknown] Okay. [Mayor Cal Doty] All right, y'all ready? [Council member (mostly Tim Teague, Ward 2)] Make them hard. Okay. [Mayor Cal Doty] Now, please come up here and introduce yourself and what you do and why you chose to do this. [Citizens Academy graduate] Hi, I'm Enrique Vicente. I'm a butcher at Food City off Asheville Highway. And this gave me the opportunity to get to know my community a little better and how everything works on the inside. Okay, great. Thank you. [Cathy Osborne (Interim City Manager; may include other staff)] Which department did you like visiting the most? [Citizens Academy graduate] I liked the police department. I thought it was pretty cool. Yeah. [Mayor Cal Doty] you made josh very happy [Unclear (merged voices)] they're keeping score my name is joe acurso i've um i'm semi-retired i'm trying to start up a farm here south of town but i used to be in health care for 30 years and um wasn't sure i was allowed to attend because i don't live inside the city limits but it was perfectly clear i could and it was fantastic it was a great experience seeing how the inside of of government works this local government and how many people are working hard every day. It was fantastic. And I don't have a favorite. I mean, everything was great. And I missed the firefighters last week, so I'm hoping I can get over there and see them. But everyone's been very, very thoughtful and helpful and forward thinking. It was great. [Mayor Cal Doty] Thank you. [Citizens Academy graduate] My name is Brian Malisha. I'm an electrician here in town. I also live in the county, not in the city, but I'm fairly new to town. And I think this is an amazing opportunity to kind of see the inner workings and meet everybody. And I think it's important for everyone to kind of get their eyes and ears and see what's going on. I appreciate it. [Mayor Cal Doty] And I think you just joined the partnership, didn't you? [Citizens Academy graduate] Yes, sir. Okay. [Mayor Cal Doty] Welcome to our community. Hello. [Citizens Academy graduate] I am Brooke Thompson. And we just moved here a year and a half ago from Middle Tennessee, growing up in Tennessee. So it's been wonderful to move to this side of the state. I love it. And I have really appreciated the opportunity to get to know how the city functions. I find it very fascinating. And we're a homeschool family. So two of my girls and my son is not here tonight. But I just wanted to bring them into the understanding of how local government works and to see it actively happening and not just read about it. So it's been very fascinating to just see each individual department and how it all works together, and they can have direct application of that. So that's been really great. [Mayor Cal Doty] Where did you come from? [Citizens Academy graduate] The Nashville area is where I grew up. [Mayor Cal Doty] Okay. Do you want to say something? Oh, come on. Tell us what you found. Okay. Did you enjoy it? Okay, good. [Unknown] [Mayor Cal Doty] Christy said she never heard you talk, so I said I was going to make you come up here. [Citizens Academy graduate] Do I have to talk? [Mayor Cal Doty] Yeah. [Citizens Academy graduate] James Witt, I just saw about the academy online. I just figured it would be a good thing to get some information about the town, how everything works. That's it. [Mayor Cal Doty] How long have you been here? [Citizens Academy graduate] Ten years. [Mayor Cal Doty] Ten years. Okay. [Citizens Academy graduate] My name is Kim Francis, and I teach social studies over at Greeneville High School. Before that, I taught social studies at Chucky Doak High School. So I think I saw this mentioned on social media and thought this would be a good opportunity to learn more about local government to take back to the classroom. room, you know, some of the things that I teach about, like referendums and recalls and direct primaries and election stuff, to be able to give them an example that's specific to their hometown, I think makes it a lot more relevant and hopefully less boring. So I'm not originally from Greene County. I've been here a little over 20 years now, but I grew up in Middle Tennessee. So just to see, you know, more specifics about how this government operates. [Mayor Cal Doty] rates. If you'd like the mayor to come speak, I'd be happy to do that. I'll let you know. Our [Citizens Academy graduate] government teachers are always looking for guest speakers. Okay. Well, tell them to call me. They [Mayor Cal Doty] might not want me speaking, but I'll be happy to try. Thank you. Thank you. Very happy to have y'all. And I'm sure Christina and everyone did a great job. And I'm very proud of our folks and all that [Council member (unidentified)] we have going on here so thank you for your comments for your time yeah thank you let's give [Mayor Cal Doty] him a hand with that there are some snacks back there and everybody's welcome you don't have to be just one of the academy members so motion to adjourn we have a motion to adjourn second Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries and the meeting is adjourned. [Unknown] Thank you.