Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting

TOWN OF ROBBINS Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Thursday, May 11, 2023 – 6:00 PM apMeetingVenue Robbins Fire Department I. CALL TO ORDER II. INVOCATION – Mayor III. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – Mayor IV. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD NC G.S. 160A-81, 160A-81.1 Eric Williams - Regarding the Old School House property - Where are we with the process? TC- Once the Town states property is in compliance. Eric- Moving forward is hard until we know it is all finalized. Clint-Asks for progress and feel free to come by and lets set up a meeting. Spoke with mayor on phone call offer and we are no where near. Cam- Have you had any interest on purchase. Eric- NO one to purchase but have spoken with the developers Lynn Williams- I have spent alot of money, maybe reimburse us for lawyers fees at Thanksgiving. To do what we have done and you understand...I dont want it to happen again...I dont know if anyone think they are gonna run me out of money but I've got access to whatever it takes to do whatever it takes and we made yall an offer on teh property. I don't want to get into too deep..its been 8 years thats went by since we had that property everthing down to the burn out kit, the safest burn out kit, and they wanted to run their mouths about that. It's completely cleared and if we break a rule come and see us. We don't want to be aggravating and we don't want to be aggrevated. A good property..a single-wide homes. you could several of those in there you could get alot of water bills off of them. Clint- you cannot put those in Town. Lynn: You can't do that? Who do we approach to find out what we can and cannot do  Clint: Town, UDO code is online, zoning ordinance. I can't attest to what happen before. I will stand by we do have a problem with abandoned buildings, buildings that make building code. We have to protect property values TC: In some ways this is a problem you inherited, we have been working on this since 2015, in some ways ya'll inherited. Lynn: The first day David Lambert showed us what we had to do to revamp and we spent $900 with windows and told us to stop until the enforcement came and he didn't see it had a problem We didn't inherit problems we inherited lies. Is that satisfactory, we will use that crush and run to make it level. Cam: Our public comment is 5 minutes you will have to make an appt. Debra: I am here b/c your mayor acted like a preacher stepped on my toes, embarrassed me how people don't come to these meetings. The people need to take the seriousness to heart. I want you to know that we support you. Our Town Manager, Our police, Our fire, I respect each of you to the utmost. I think, and yall know more than I do, but I think me prsonally is RObbins is in a good place now and I just hope and pray that you will just keep working together and people will support you more and on a personal note, I want to speak up for the Police Department, its been over a year since I spoke last. Last time I spoke my neighborhood and many other neighborhoods were in a miserable place with drugs. In my own neighbrohood has beceom like a differnt place. Befor that I had no peace. In teh last year I have had the most peace in my neighborhood and I just want yall to realize the great job that our Police are doing and I am just proud of you. Clint you have come here and you have made a big difference. Appreciate every one of yall and all we all want is the best for Robbins. V. CONFLICT OF INTEREST – Does any Commissioner have a conflict of interest concerning agenda items the Board will address in this meeting? VI. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA All items below are considered routine and will be enacted by one motion. No separate discussion will be held except on request of a member of the Board of Commissioners. Motion made by Mayor Pro Tem Bradshaw. Voting Yea: Mayor Pro Tem Bradshaw, Commissioner Phillips, Commissioner Britt A. April Board of Commissioners Minutes B. Interdepartmental Transfers VII. RECOGNITIONS A. Oath of Zach Prevatte By Mayor Cameron Dockery VIII. PUBLIC HEARINGS A. Call to Public Hearing on June 8, 2023 to Approve Budget Ordinance for FY 2023-24 IX. OLD BUSINESS X. NEW BUSINESS A. Update on NMFRC lease Hope Academy conversations for expansion. Town has put in a grant to eliminate the asbestos in the building. Mrs. Ruggles is interested in the Fire Dept side and she is having one of her engineers to do a cost assessment on the Old Police Building to see if that is an option for expansion. Wanted to notify the board that we had that conversation. B. Resolution to Appoint Representative to Vacant Seat on RTCC C. Resolution to Create Fund for Water System Project Moving forward with the Water Project, just going thru some administrative.This just sets the fund aside. It was to be a direct payment and we reimburse contractors.This resolution is to adjust for this. XI. MANAGER'S REPORT A. April 2023 Manager Report Town Manager presented highlights of manager report. Surplus is healthy for Town of Robbins. We hope to have some good decisions to make this year. In the area of the grants, they were submitted to RTFG NC Commerce, awaiting decision. Good meeting with LKC, down to 3-4 viable options with County. Growth is moving fast in Moore County. Reservoir is in play and our intake. Highlighted Fire Dept went out and GPS for River Rescue; Police was able to help with a search and was able to capture 29 Sab Strips, Fentanyl and Methamphetamine enough to kill 100 people in a metal box in the car. Officers here in Robbins are trained to find the drugs. Highlight the Library Box in front of Town Hall. Commissioners reviewed the signs to put up and they voted on the printed pole banners. In reviewing the sessions from Legislative, may be some issues from the League concerning revocation of ETJ and please follow it and reach out to our legislators. That concludes my report. XII. TC- Atty client privilege Update on Williams Schoolhouse what we have is a settlement agreement and to be in compliant with a nuisance code/non residential code within 12 months. Thats what you are giving him an extension on because we dropped the civil penalties. They gave us a confession of judgement which is sitting in a file in my office and if they ever violated the agreement we  take it to the Clerk of Court and we have a judgement against that property. Right now there is nothing against it. Its $50,000 judgement. The reason Clint and I are being coy is because I don't want them to think they can sell the property; we want them to continue to think they need to finish what they are supposed to do. If they came in with a project, it's in Clint's power to ok that. Bradshaw: they bought that property when it was already in trouble. TC: thats all I have I just wanted to update you. Manager: He did call before last meeting we would like to offer it to the Town for $400,000 ....I was like excuse me. (everyone laughed) Cameron: I need you to step out and Courtney as well Cameron: we have given the staff a 5% COLA increase, we need to discuss if we want to increase Clints as well. No real discussion all in agreement XIII. COMMISSIONER'S COMMENTS Make a motion to increase Manager's COLA to 5% for FY 23-24 XIV. COMMISSIONER'S UPCOMING MEETING/EVENTS EnterTextHere