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Regular Council Meeting April 12, 2021 Page 5 A Motion to approve this item was made by Mayor Clifford and seconded by Council Member Savage. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 12. Discuss and provide direction to staff regarding a loan from the City to the Paris Economic Development Corporation. Ms. Harris said at previous meetings, both the City Council and the PEDC Board authorized staff to move forward on a loan from the City to PEDC to retire all or some of PEDC's existing debt. She also said she had been working with Casey Gain, attorney for PEDC, to put together documents to effectuate the Council's and the Board's intent. Ms. Harris informed City Council the question had arisen as to whether or not this was to be an unsecured demand note or a secured note, and she was seeking direction. Mayor Clifford asked for Ms. Harris' recommendation, and she said she preferred a secured note. Finance Director Gene Anderson said security was always a better position for the City. Ms. Harris said she would work with Mr. Gains to put something together and bring back to City Council. 13. Discuss and act on a request for a thirty (30) day extension of the J.C. Miles Subdivision Plat for review by the Planning and Zoning Commission. City Planner Andrew Mack said ordinarily this item would be placed on the consent agenda, but this was something new to the City so he wanted to explain it. Mr. Mack said several years ago new legislation was passed setting out that in addition to the Planning & Zoning Commission, the governing body shall approve, approve with conditions, or disapprove the plat within 30 days after the date the plat is approved by the Planning Commission. Mr. Mack also said the plat was approved by the governing body unless it was disapproved within that period; however, the law did allow a 30 day extension if the applicant requested the extension in writing to the municipal authority for approving plats or the governing body, and if the governing body approved the extension request. Mr. Mack recommended granting the extension in order to give the Planning & Zoning Commission an additional thirty days to review the plat. A Motion to approve the thirty day extension was made by Council Member Pilgrim and seconded by Council Member Knox. Motion carried, 7 ayes — 0 nays. 14. Receive presentation regarding the progress and statistics of the Covid-19 vaccine clinic. Interim EMS Director Russell Thrasher gave a Covid-19 vaccine hub update reviewing the time period January 1 through April 9, 2021. He reviewed the three vaccines that had received FDA emergency use authorizations. Mr. Thrasher reviewed in detail the creation of the county -wide vaccine waiting list, which included a call center, conversion of hand-written waiting lists to a centralized method of joining a waiting list by both online sign-up and voice call center to control and organize the massive requests for vaccines. To date, he said 14,920 people had registered using the on-line form and 1,897 had registered through the call center. Next. Mr. Thrasher reviewed how and where the public vaccine clinics were set up, citing that on distribution week 9, which was February 8-12, Lamar County was designated as a vaccine hub by the Department of State Health Services which guaranteed 1,000 doses per week. Mr.