10-26-15 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING October 26, 2015 technology. Schools are upgrading their computers for like 10 years. This may be an opportunity to help support the schools through our tax abatement. I will be in contact with you real soon about that one. Mark Neal, Bradley Company 112 Suite 300- The petitioner comes before the Council looking th for your favorable approval of this tax code for the fourth (4) portion of the building. The first three abatements covered the hotel, residential, garage, and the rental on the ground and basement levels. The residential apartment units will be on floor seven (7) and floors seventeen (17) through twenty-five (25). The application indicates eighty-six (86) units, the most recent design work includes eighty-five (85) units with a common area for the apartments on theseventh th (7) floor. The expected investment is about 12.5 million to be complete in 2017 or if needed 2018. Requesting the three (3) years rather than the two (2) years for the abatement. I still expect the hotel to be delivered to the A Loft brand in the first quarter of 2017. With the apartments to follow after that. Council President Scott- Asked for questions from the Council for questions seeing none. Council President Scott- Is there anyone wishing to speak in favor or in opposition seeing no one the public hearing is now closed. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic made a motion to adopt Resolution 15-95. Councilmember Derek Dieter seconded the motion which carried and the resolution was adopted by a roll call vote of seven (7) ayes. UNFINISHED BUSINESS 1.REPORTS FROM AREA PLAN COMMISSION a.BILL NO. 47-15 b.BILL NO. 48-15 c.BILL NO. 49-15 d.BILL NO. 50-15 e.BILL NO. 64-15 Councilmember Derek Dieter made a motion to send 47-15, 48-15, 49-15, 50-15, 64-15 to the th Zoning and Annexation Committee on November 9. Councilmember Gavin Ferlic seconded the motion which carried by a voice vote of seven (7) ayes. Councilmember Henry Davis Jr.- All of you received a letter from the Mayor about the letter I sent in reference to violence in the City. I’ve had a very eye opening experience about action concerning the City and whose concerns are heard more so than ever before that the crime that is happening is a Black problem. The only reason why Henry is talking about it is because it effects the Black community. I think all crime affects all people. No matter whose community, no matter who’s the victim of the crime. Regardless of what one’s opinion may be about the crime, crime is bad. We’ve had several shootings at one gas station. If you want to get shot you go to that gas station on Bertrand and Olive. I also have an issue with, this past week when I went to Tim Scott’s district where that car was shot up and it looked like a scene off of the Untouchables or the Godfather. I think we need to have a serious conversation about how do we tackle crime. I keep saying this, it isn’t that we need more police to stop it because that may not necessarily be the answer to it. What I am interested in is having the conversation on how we intentionally bring economic results to areas that are subpar or even worse. In particular, on Marquette and O’Brien there was one street light over there and that street light was covered by trees. You can imagine how dark it is during the night time. Simple things to cure the ills, many of the people in that area were homeowners, had been there for years and decades and they just never thought their investment would return them in this manner. I think that there is a lot to be said about how we can go about changing the way this thing is working because it is not getting better. We tried gang violence intervention, crime is going up, and all we do is hear about more shootings than before. It’s not 9