Hello Franklin. It's Monday.
I'm Eric Stuckey.
Your City Administrator,
so it must be time for the top three things you need to know this week.
We are here in our boardroom at city hall because it's a rainy,
kind of a dreary Monday morning.
So we're out here doing it here in city hall, in the boardroom.
And for my first item, is really something that is breaking news.
We've had an issue with our incoming phone line
into our city facilities here from AT&T.
They're working on the repair as we speak, but
so we've had some disruptions for incoming calls to the city.
What we are doing is taking main lines in each department
and transferring them to cell phones.
So for the most part, if you're calling one of those main
departmental lines, it should come through seamlessly.
But if you're calling somebody specific, it may not come through.
So you may want to try a main line there.
If all else fails, just call our administration main line number,
which is 7913217.
That number again, 7913217,
and we'll get the right person in contact with you or answer your questions.
There Hopefully it will be resolved shortly.
AT&T is on it and working on it.
But right now, in the meantime, we've we've have a workaround
where calls are still going
from main lines to some cell phones that we have here at the city.
So just keep an eye on that and we'll let you know
if there's anything else to know there.
And thank you for your patience.
As we work with AT&T to get that service issue resolved.
So that's item number one.
Item number two, make I guess kind of why we're standing here in city
hall is one of the items we've been working on
is been the city hall redevelopment project
where we would rebuild a city hall right here on the square.
We've completed the master planning process.
The board is giving some direction, looking at the schematic design.
And we're really looking at some options right now where we would build a facility
just under 80,000 square feet as a first phase that we might expand in the future.
That's one option.
The board is also ask us to look at our ability
to finance a larger build out or to have
and also integrate some retail activity along the Third Avenue
side of the new City Hall to generate some activity there and also maybe
generate some revenue that might offset the cost of a new city hall.
So those are all key elements that will be part
of this next phase, what we call the schematic design.
And so that will be something the board will be talking about tomorrow
evening at the work session here.
So that's one of our items. So that's item number two.
Item number three, we've got your bingo going on.
If you're a senior, we've got bingo every Tuesday
at 2:00 at the Eastern Flank Battlefield
Event Center there.
So just going out and you can play bingo with your friends.
It's something we do every year.
This time for the month of March, I guess our own little seniors
bingo version of March Madness, Tuesdays at two
at the Eastern Flank Battlefield And then one other reminder for you.
So we've got BOPAEservices which are B, O, P, A, E,
and that stands for Batteries, Oil Paint Antifreeze and electronics.
These are items you don't want to put in your normal trash
that you can do a special drop off at our Century Court location.
Right off of Columbia Avenue.
The one thing on paint that we change just in the last year is latex paint
actually can go in your regular trash if you dry it out properly.
So go to our website, FranklinTn.Gov and that look at the BOPAE page
and you can learn a little bit on how you can do that.
But you don't need to take that.
You can dry it out and put it in your regular trash.
So for latex paint only, so that is your top three things as a bonus item.
Again, we're working on this phone line issue with our friends at AT&T.
If you need some.
If you're not getting through, go ahead and call our admin line.
I give you that number before, but it's 615791
3217 and we'll get you taken care of.
That's it for this week.
Take care and we'll see you soon.