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failed 2-3. Councilman Swinney made a motion to table this item until the next meeting, second by Councilman Williams. Motion Carried 3-2. Resolution 23-2022 Amendments to the Declaratory Resolution and Development Plan - This is to create an Economic Development Area where Casey's gas station is located on SR 144 for the possibility of the future use of that property. Which could eventually lead to a Fire Department training facility as well as the funding of the fencing around the police station. This had to go before the RDC as well as the Planning Commission to create this ERA. Councilman Stanley clarified that this is an early plan. Councilman Williams motioned to approve Resolution 23-2022, second by Councilman Cook. Motion Carried 4-0-1 with Councilman Stanley . 5fta,n;. 5. f &,,) Department Head Reports - Chief Dalton gave the run stats for September putting the department 186 runs over this time last year. Eight hundred dollars was brought in from the surplus items that were auctioned off. Councilman Williams thanked him for his work and travel to honor Chief Medsker as well as the increased social media presence which Chief Dalton gave credit to Lieutenant Snodgrass for the social media presence. Chief Buckner is doing an evaluation on purchasing vehicles through Enterprise. He has been in contact with Premier canine and will be eligible to receive a dog for the K-9 program in the spring. The dog is not only narcotic dogs but they will track and not bite. Two police officer candidates are going through Perf right now and could be presented soon, but other candidates will need to be put through the academy. He mentioned raises and taking care of the young officers to ensure they stay with the department and that while Mooresville is still a small town there are more and more big problems that the Police department is expected to handle and they deserve to be compensated. Chief Buckner met with the Faith -based leaders in the community and is working on putting together a volunteer Chaplain position. He also announced the Promotions of Daniel Enkorn to Lieutenant, Brock Chipman to Sergeant, and Josh Pope to Sergeant. Dave Moore stated the Carlisle Street bridge should be open today by 2:30 and High Street is scheduled to open on November 15th. He mentioned that the Cemetery Project is close to going live and he would like to revisit the HVAC conversation as repairs are needed. The street department employees have been working on the South Torch, installing and testing lights. Legal —Town Attorney Lee asked for permission to move forward on a couple of collection efforts on some properties to keep the process moving forward. Councilman Cook made a motion to approve his moving forward on those efforts, second by Councilman Williams. Motions carried 5-0. Public Comments—There were none. Councilman Swinney motioned to approve claims in the amount of $772,088.05 second by Councilman Cook. Motion Carried 5-0. Town Council Comments— Councilman Williams stated that the Parks director posted they had 4,000 people attend the Halloween hike and 1,500 of those were children, and he mentioned the positive reaction to the event. Councilman Swinney commended Officer Leap for giving treats out during Halloween. Councilman Stanley mentioned it being election time and to vote on Tuesday. Council President Warthen gave some updates on the Carlisle Street bridge repair and commended the efforts of Town Attorney Lee in getting the County to perform those repairs. He requested documentation from Josh Mesmer of the products used for the repair and made mention of the failure of the bridge during the time of the bridge tax being in place. He spoke to Bill Roberson about the HVA and will be having Legal review the bid process for the Trane units. There being no further business to come before the Council at this time, a motion was made by Councilman Stanley, second by Councilman Williams. Motion Carried 5-0.