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City Council Work Session June 17, 2019 Page 2 said a lot of the work might be able to be done in-house. With renovations around the Plaza, Mr. Godwin said there would be a net gain of 22 parking spaces. He said he would like to build a city parking lot at some point. Mr. Godwin said he planned to present an item to them on their September 23 meeting, in which he would be asking them to adopt a TIRZ. 5. Receive a briefing on and discuss retail economic development. Mr. Godwin said having a retail economic development policy would be a good tool to have in place when people were interested in coming to Paris and opening a store. He suggested retail rebates which is a percentage of money that comes back to the store from the State sales tax. Mr. Godwin said this would be done by Chapter 380 agreements. He also said he had spoken to a couple of people interested in opening up a store or business in Paris and had begun some retail negotiations. He inquired if Council was ok with him doing that, and they indicated that was fine with them. 6. Discuss building code implementation. Mr. Godwin gave examples of what happened in the past and how important it was to follow codes. He said Carla had hired a new building official, John Ankrum. He said Mr. Ankrum new the codes and used good judgment. 7. Discuss neighborhood revitalization and code compliance. Mr. Godwin presented slides of the types of calls that were received and reported, but that were not actually in violation of code. He explained the procedures followed beginning with the receipt of a complaint. He said that code enforcement was almost always reactive. Mr. Godwin said there was a code enforcement brain storming session with members of the staff, and he provided suggestions that came out of that meeting. Mayor Clifford said he wanted to add to that list that staff periodically drive every street in Paris and prioritize the non-compliant code issues that were a major eye sore. Mayor Clifford left the meeting at 6:28 p.m. Mr. Godwin said they had also discussed identification of a trial neighborhood, which a group of blocks would be worked that included code, streets, straighten poles and things of that nature. Mr. Godwin said they might want to hire a coordinator to organize and network with organizations. 8. Discuss a possible stormwater utility and healthy creeks policy. Mr. Godwin explained the benefits of having a stormwater utility and establishing a healthy creeks policy. City Council expressed an interest in these two items, and Mr. Godwin said he would bring something to them on a future agenda. 9. Receive an update on and discuss a replacement Fire Station #3. Mr. Godwin said in the City purchased 20 acres for $20.00 off of 19th Street for the purpose of building a new fire station. He said it would cost approximately $3.5 million and the plan was to build it in two to four years. Mr. Godwin said the hope was to include a police sub-