Hawk Cove City Council Special Session 6/11/26 Part 2
0:00:00 Mayor: We now reconvene your recess for the special session of the City Council on Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 7 .13 p .m. All members are still present and we are discussing E, the agenda. received discuss May 2036 emergency services district ESP correspondence
0:00:36 Mayor: members do any of you have any questions with regard to this right now it will be coming up again next month actually
0:01:00 Speaker: should have been a
0:01:01 Speaker: 60 -day deadline
0:01:02 Speaker: so they came in when?
0:01:04 Speaker: May
0:01:04 Speaker: 8th. May 8th. So June.
0:01:08 Speaker: It's on your
0:01:09 Speaker: January 16th agenda. Okay.
0:01:11 Speaker: It's on June. It's on the next.
0:01:13 Speaker: Let me
0:01:15 Speaker: let
0:01:17 Speaker: me ask this. I've got to ask this question first. Chief Perdue. This is something about the vote. The is a isn't this precinct wide yes
0:01:34 Speaker: so
0:01:34 Speaker: you're just voting to allow you allow it to go
0:01:37 Speaker: to ballot for your citizens to vote on it giving your citizens the opportunity
0:01:42 Mayor: to vote so when our citizens go in they have to make sure it's on the ballot yes that's what we have to vote
0:01:49 Speaker: on that's what
0:01:50 Speaker: you're voting on is allowing it to be on the ballot.
0:01:53 Speaker: Thank you, Ms. Hodges.
0:01:56 Speaker: It's my understanding that City Council is not required to vote that it be on the ballot. That was my,
0:02:07 Speaker: that was, that was where I was going.
0:02:10 Speaker: You're not required
0:02:11 Speaker: but if you
0:02:12 Speaker: don't vote to allow it to go
0:02:13 Speaker: on the ballot then it don't go. Then you're opting out of
0:02:17 Speaker: it and you would have to come into it at a later date if you chose to.
0:02:20 Speaker: Okay.
0:02:21 Speaker: If you don't vote for it it
0:02:23 Speaker: will not be on the November ballot from your citizens to vote on.
0:02:27 Speaker: Thank you. Chief Perquette I really appreciate that. Yes sir. You have clear, well as clear as mud now it's crystal clear.
0:02:39 Mayor: Miss August. Question
0:02:40 City Attorney: for the room at large and perhaps Chief Perquette or even perhaps Secretary Massey could answer the question has this measure been on the ballot before and if so what happens
0:02:53 Speaker: it did make
0:02:56 Speaker: it part
0:02:56 Speaker: of the way did not make it to about
0:02:58 Speaker: it last time the county commissioners shut
0:03:00 Speaker: it down before it went about
0:03:01 Speaker: it and what was there reasoning for shutting it down
0:03:04 Speaker: there was not enough research done the association didn't have everything you needed to be able to put it about it with all the questions and answers
0:03:13 Speaker: man I know when was that
0:03:15 Speaker: about
0:03:16 Speaker: four years ago,
0:03:17 Speaker: four years ago, and had it ever been on the, had it ever been a proposed a another time other than four years ago,
0:03:25 Speaker: I'm not aware of
0:03:26 Speaker: it, not since I have been
0:03:28 Speaker: in the fire industry.
0:03:31 Speaker: Secretary Massey, yes, it has. It's trying to go to ballot four times, I believe, four times
0:03:39 Speaker: in
0:03:40 Speaker: the last 16 years that I've known and know what it's never made it to God. I know I haven't seen it. No, it's
0:03:49 Speaker: never made it to God at all.
0:03:53 Mayor: Thank you. So
0:03:56 Mayor: on June 16, next Tuesday, this is an item on our agenda and we will address it in
0:04:05 Council member: depth at that time.
0:04:08 Mayor: Any other questions with regard to the ESD?
0:04:12 Speaker: We'd like to mention that once you guys
0:04:14 Speaker: do look at moving forward with it, we
0:04:17 Speaker: would like to see if we couldn't help set up some town hall meetings to make sure and educate the citizens to know what it is. Yes it's a tax increase
0:04:26 Speaker: but
0:04:27 Speaker: understanding
0:04:28 Speaker: what they're getting out
0:04:29 Speaker: of that. Yeah
0:04:30 Speaker: that's what we'll like to do that. Ten cent
0:04:34 Speaker: per $100 valuation. Yes. That's the cap. So let's say it's approved. So there will no longer be any volunteer
0:04:45 Speaker: fire departments.
0:04:46 Speaker: We will still be involved a volunteer it'll take many
0:04:48 Speaker: years to get it to
0:04:50 Speaker: where it is a position where everybody is paid it's all that
0:04:54 Speaker: you got so much to get prepared for
0:04:57 Speaker: our trucks aren't up -to -date our equipment's not up -to -date our training is not up -to -date it'll start with those things and start taking it where it needs to go.
0:05:06 Speaker: Understood
0:05:06 Speaker: so but my question is Chief Biggers mentioned it and
0:05:10 Speaker: I believe you mentioned
0:05:11 Speaker: it in your letter
0:05:12 Speaker: that if the city doesn't vote then it leaves us out of the SD so we may find a way that we're not covered.
0:05:21 Speaker: Correct. How does that happen?
0:05:23 Speaker: Yeah that's what I'm just
0:05:24 Speaker: curious about. That doesn't make logical sense to
0:05:27 Speaker: me. So again, right now your county is funding us barely. This takes it away from the
0:05:34 Speaker: county and puts it under an
0:05:35 Speaker: ESD.
0:05:36 Speaker: It is the area that
0:05:38 Speaker: votes for it
0:05:39 Speaker: that will move over into it and so if your
0:05:43 Speaker: surrounding fire departments
0:05:44 Speaker: move into it then you don't have a fire department out here
0:05:48 Speaker: so
0:05:50 Speaker: you wouldn't have
0:05:51 Speaker: protection
0:05:51 Speaker: unless an agreement was
0:05:53 Speaker: made from the city
0:05:54 Speaker: and the ESD itself.
0:05:59 Speaker: I have another question pertaining so if so any current volunteer fire force out the associated departments.
0:06:13 Speaker: If they
0:06:14 Speaker: get included in
0:06:15 Speaker: the SD then we would have to source and contract our own coverage if we're
0:06:20 Public comment speaker: not included.
0:06:21 Speaker: That is my understanding.
0:06:23 Speaker: Now I will say that there is going to be a county -wide
0:06:27 Speaker: meeting
0:06:27 Speaker: on seven seven at six o 'clock
0:06:30 Speaker: at the county commissioners court
0:06:31 Public comment speaker: where
0:06:32 Speaker: there will be lots of
0:06:33 Speaker: questions and answers
0:06:34 Speaker: that will be able
0:06:36 Speaker: to answer that for sure.
0:06:37 Speaker: What time is that six
0:06:39 Speaker: o 'clock on the seven seven at the county commissioner point. Thank you for that
0:06:45 Speaker: kind of commissioners court. Add that the calendar.
0:06:51 Speaker: Mayor I can
0:06:51 Speaker: go ahead and email that to you tomorrow.
0:06:53 Speaker: That would be wonderful if you would please. Yes sir.
0:06:55 Speaker: If you'd be good enough to include city administrator and myself as well as the city secretary on that. If you need the email address it's going to hold me tomorrow please
0:07:04 Speaker: okay
0:07:05 Speaker: thank you we
0:07:14 Mayor: will be discussing this in depth as far as this week though and I would really enjoy the opportunity for the town meetings however we will not have opportunity before 616 before 616 however if we go work would be on the ballot, it would be on the ballot, and they don't have to look forward. It's their option. All right.
0:07:49 Mayor: Any more questions? One more.
0:07:54 Mayor: All right. We're on the agenda.
0:08:00 Mayor: Item 8, executive session. We have no items in executive session.
0:08:06 Mayor: We are not in executive session, so we are continuing number 10, announcements. Do we have any announcements I do want to announce to be sure that all members of council are here next Tuesday. If you can't be here, please let us know. It is important and
0:08:33 Mayor: since that is the only announcement we have, I will now entertain a motion to adjourn.
0:08:46 Mayor: I have a motion from this Miss Bernardi and I have a second from this all. All in favor indicate by saying aye. All opposed. Ayes have it. We are adjourned from this special session of the City of Wapco City Council.