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CC 3827 12 29 14 Council Proceedings of the City Of CC 3827 12 29 14 Council Proceedings of the City of Shreveport, Louisiana December 22, 2014 The regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Shreveport, State of Louisiana was called to order by Chairman Joe Shyne at 3:05 p.m., Monday, December 22, 2014, in the Government Chambers in Government Plaza (505 Travis Street). Invocation was given by Councilman Corbin. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by Councilman S. Jenkins. Councilman Shyne: Okay, let me make this statement. Let’s remember, this is a City Council meeting, not a Mayor’s meeting. Let me make that again, this is a City Council Meeting, not a Mayor’s meeting. And I want the officers to understand, if anybody comes up and they’re being disrespectful or out of order, if you all can’t sit ‘em down because the Mayor says no, then we’re going to call the Sheriff and let them sit them down or remove ‘em from the Chamber. We want to make sure that we don’t have the kind of meeting that we had three weeks ago. I found out this was on Youtube, I had people calling me from San Francisco, from Dallas, from Houston, saying, ‘Joe, what’s going on in Shreveport? Why do you all have all this at a City Council Meeting? Can’t you control ‘em?’ So the only thing I could say was just yes. It makes us looks bad, because this goes out all over the country. Anybody who wants to say anything, we’ll let you come up, but please do it in a professional manner. Don’t do it like you’re out on the streets. So, I just wanted to make it clear. Because the last time we had that, (inaudible) remove the guy from the Chamber, and they said ah no, let him stay. So, the Sheriff doesn’t work for you Mr. Mayor, and I understand. That’s why I’ve told them, hey, y’all work for the Mayor, you do what the Mayor says, but this is a City Council Meeting. This is not a meeting that’s called by the Mayor. When he calls his meeting, hey, you do whatever the Mayor lets you do. Alright, call the roll please. On Roll Call, the following members were Present: Councilmen Rose Wilson- McCulloch (Arrived at 3:22 p.m.), Jeff Everson, Michael Corbin, Oliver Jenkins, Ron Webb, Joe Shyne, and Sam Jenkins. 7. Absent: None. Motion by Councilman Corbin, seconded by Councilman Everson to approve the minutes of the Administrative Conference, Monday, December 8, 2014, Council Meeting, Tuesday, December 9, 2014 and Amendment No. 1 to Council Proceedings, December 9, 2014. Amendment No. 1 to Council Proceedings of December 9, 2014 (as published on December 16, 2014, in the Official Journal) is amended as follows: ______________________________________________________________________ Amend the December 9, 2014 minutes in the section styled “The adopted ordinances and amendments follow”, as follows: Insert the following Amendments: AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO ORDINANCE NO. 123 OF 2014 In Section 1 (Estimated Receipts) Reduce Estimated Available Fund Balance 1/1/2015 by $64,000 In Section 2 (Appropriations) Decrease Personal Services by $73,700 Increase Operating Reserves by $9,700 Adjust totals and subtotals accordingly. _______________________ Explanation of Amendment: (1) To reduce beginning fund balance to account for 2014 pay award to employees, (2) To correct personal services line items for protective service personnel clothing and deferred compensation. AMENDMENT 1 TO ORDINANCE 124 OF 2014 In Section 1: Estimate Receipts Decrease Estimated Available Fund Balance 1/1/2015 by $281,000 In Section 2: Appropriation Decrease Water & Sewer Main Improvements by $3,500,000 Increase Operating Reserves by $3,219,000 _______________________ Explanation of Amendment: Approval of this ordinance will enable the Department of Water and Sewerage to adequately fund Operating Reserves. The Amendment will increase Operating Reserves as advised by the Municipal Advisor and Bond Counsel and decrease the funds for the Emergency Water and Sewer Repair Project. Funds for this project will be incorporated into the Capital Budget. This ordinance also reduces fund balance to account for 2014 pay award to employees. ________________________________________________________________________ Explanation of amendment: These amendments were inadvertently left out and were not published in the section of the minutes styled “The adopted ordinances and amendments follow”. This amendment corrects that oversight. Motion approved by the following vote: Ayes: Councilmen McCulloch, Everson, O. Jenkins, Corbin, Webb, Shyne, and S. Jenkins. 7. Nays: 0. Out of the Chamber: 0. Absent: 0. Abstentions: 0. AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS OF DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MAYOR RELATIVE TO CITY BUSINESS, AND REQUIRED REPORTS AWARDS AND RECOGNITION OF DISTINGUISHED GUESTS BY THE MAYOR, NOT TO EXCEED FIFTEEN MINUTES Councilman Shyne: Mr. Mayor, we’re in your hands. Mayor Glover: Thank you Mr. Chairman, members of the Council. Wanted to take this opportunity to welcome all of those who are here in attendance that take time from what I know are otherwise very busy and hectic schedules. Especially during the holiday season to come and to join these proceedings and to have a chance to be able to see democracy at work. Thank you all for coming. It’s a pleasure to have you here. I notice we have a couple of folks in the audience, I’d like to take a point to recognize my big sister, Rosalind Glover Bryant is here. Wave your hand Rosalind, they may not recognize you, you look so young back there, they may think you’re my little sister. Wonderful to have you here, and you have two young ladies with you, three young ladies and Ms. Joyce Dunn who is there as well. Great to have you all here. Thank you. And of course, wonderful to have our Council Members elect who are here as well as our Mayor-elect. Delighted to have you all present with us. Mr. Shyne mentioned this will be the last meeting for this administration, and this council, and so I want to thank you all for having given me the opportunity to be able to come and be a part of the Council Proceedings. I can remember from my good friend Mayor Jacques Roy down in Alexandria, he was reminded that not only are these Council Meetings, but that the Administration is only here by invitation, because these are Council Proceedings. In fact, he used to have Council Meetings where he would get communications from Council couriered up to his office by messenger, because they were not actually in the Chamber during the times the meetings were held. So, I have enjoyed each and every opportunity. Mr. Shyne and members of this council to be able to be here with this body. For those of us who will be going on to other endeavors, I wish you well as you go into the future. And for those of you who are returning, I commend you all for the service that you’ve rendered, and I offer you my prayers and best wishes as you join your four new compatriots as well as the new Mayor as you go forward to lead the City of Shreveport. God bless you and God bless the City of Shreveport. Councilman Shyne: Thank you Mr. Mayor. Sam. Councilman S. Jenkins: Thank you Mr. Chairman. At this time, I’d like to recognize and call up Caddo Parish Commissioner Ken Epperson. He’s Chairman of the Veterans Day Celebration. I believe he has some recognitions he’d like to make at this time. Commissioner Ken Epperson: Thank you Mr. Jenkins. To Council Chairman Shyne, to our Council Members, Mayor Glover and his outgoing administration. To our Mayor-Elect Mrs. Ollie Tyler, it’s indeed a pleasure to be here today. I’m here with a three-fold purpose. I want to thank Mayor Glover and our outgoing City Council Members for their support during the past three years recognizing our veterans and military parade ceremony. We’re in our third year and it has been a tremendous success. Colonel Steve (inaudible) who most of you know as Mr. Military, Mr. Veterans within the Shreveport/Bossier Northwest Louisiana area stated that the veterans parade and ceremony that we had here in Caddo Parish was the largest event recognizing our veterans since WWII. So we take that to be a great service to our area as well as our veterans. Second, I’m going to welcome incoming Mayor Ollie Tyler and the incoming Council Members here, and I want to ask for their continued support on behalf of our veterans parade and honor ceremony just as you’ll receive from this body as well the outgoing mayor. And thirdly, I want to invite the newly elected council members whom I share a common constituency with, that’s City Council District A, E, F and G to an annual District informational meeting that I host each year. And I will bring that up at the last of my comments. First, I would like to introduce the committee members that work so tirelessly in bringing this veterans parade and honor ceremony to fruition. First, I’d like to recognize Ms. Linda Clements, who is our Parade Committee Chair, Linda, I’d like for you to come up and stand with me. To the outside, this may have seemed like it was an easy venture, but it was a lot of man hours and a lot of work that was involved. We start basically in February of each year and always culminate on the Sunday prior to the Veterans Day in November.
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