05 - APPROVE MINUTES FROM CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON JANUARY 23, 2015 AND FEBRUARY 16, 2015

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Regular Council Meeting February 9, 2015 Page 10 Glick said they were required by State Law to receive a drivers' license, make /model of car, and car license plate numbers when they were buying copper. Christy Wendell, 4142 Primrose — she said the front yard of her house was their backyard. She said when she learned of this she was very upset and tried to be professional and follow the chain of command. Ms. Wendell said she approached office after office in the City and the door continued to be slammed in her face. She said she knew this was the wrong decision, that this was a bad decision, and was repeatedly told there was absolutely nothing she could do, because the City had issued a building permit and it was done. Ms. Wendell said she started making some noise about this, asking some more questions and then got a call from Mr. Glick. She said he told her he called to address her concerns and she told him she was not opposed to recycling at all, but was opposed to having his junkyard in her front yard. She said that she had given the City Council five definitions of junk yard from different sources and the definition fits. She also said that Mr. Glick told her they did look at other locations in town and actually wanted more land but were told that those properties had plush neighborhoods nearby and there would be strong resident objections. Ms. Wendell said that Mr. Glick told her that the City did not want them driving their trucks through downtown. She said that Mr. Glick had since denied that statement, but that she was at a luncheon and several other people heard his statement over her cell phone. Subsequently, Ms. Wendell said she requested a meeting and Dr. Hashmi was the only individual in the whole City who agreed with her in that this was not correct. Ms. Wendell said she got a copy of what Mr. Godwin sent out, the artist rendition of the facility and saw that is was not completely enclosed, although the Paris News reported on three different occasions that it would be completely enclosed. She said when she asked Mr. Glick about jobs, he said they would hire four or five people and pay between $12.00 and $20.00 an hour. She said he talked about the two million dollars that he was going to give in pay -out to the community from all of the recyclables and she was absolutely was horrified by that figure, because of the sheer volume that it was take to reach that amount of money. Ms. Wendell said her internet research reflected that in Dallas aluminum cans were being purchased at about 66 cents a pound, and it takes 34 cans to make a pound. In order to get to that 2 million dollar figure it would require over a hundred million cans being intermittently shot into this container behind her house. She said that would be over 8 million cans every month going through this facility. Ms. Wendell said If you calculate automobiles that translates into something like Twenty Thousand cars a year to equal that Two Million dollar figure and so it was somewhere in between that. Ms. Wendell said she brought several construction site violations to Shawn Napier's attention and asked him to red tag that job site until things like the building permit could be displayed, the silt fence could get in place. She expressed concern over water runoff issues. She said she asked the Glicks to please be open to considering another location. Bret Holbert, 4125 Holbrook — he said he was 100% in favor of the Glicks bringing a business to Paris and especially a recycling facility. As with everyone else, Mr. Holbert said he did not want it in his front porch. He said he could hear the fans and the dryers from the car wash from his and he thought intermittently shooting cans into a bin would probably outpace that in decibels. He said it sounded like the Glicks were saying if you don't let them do this, they are going to sue the City, and that sounds like a threat to me. He also said people around here to do not like to be threatened. Mr. Holbert said if he was in their shoes and the City issued a permit