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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of February 8, 2021 — Regular Meeting Page 13 of 15 time. She suggested the City should consider live streaming its meetings to accommodate its working citizens and those who could not attend in person due to health concerns. She also expressed her opinion that public comment emails sent to the City Commission should be read into the record at the meetings, and that citizens speaking at the meetings should be allowed to provide their addresses privately for safety reasons. City Attorney Reischmann addressed Ms. Orey's comments by stating that the City Commission had adopted rules regarding interested persons who provided email comments or other evidence they wished to present during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those rules provide that all of those comments are given to the City Commission and staff if received timely, and if the comments relate to a quasi-judicial matter they would be read into the record; however, if not, they would just be given to the City Commission and staff to read but would not be presented at the City Commission meeting. 13. CITIZENS' COMMENTS Citizen comments normally made under this Agenda item relating to any matter not on the agenda were included in the Audience Participation portion of the immediately preceding Agenda Item 12.C. — Discussion Regarding Possible Creation of a Community Forum. 14. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT Thanked the City Commission for their deliberation on tonight's agenda items, and noted the City had several ambitious projects underway, including the $16 million renovation of the Public Works compound and the $24 million parks improvements projects. Stated he was looking forward to the groundbreaking for the Public Works Compound project on February l Ott' Addressed Ms. Lawrence's comments regarding issues with her request for an adjustment to her utility bill due to excess charges caused by pool work. He stated he felt there had been some communication issues in getting the problem resolved and the process had not been as seamless as it might have been, but it appeared that the issue had now been resolved. He noted that the City now has in place two methods for adjustments to utility bills to provide some relief to customers depending on what the circumstances warrant which he felt were both generous and flexible, but do require communication between both customer and staff. He stated he would continue to encourage staff to be flexible and gracious in working with customers to find solutions to these types of issues. 15. CITY ATTORNEY'S REPORT No report.