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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 8, 2024 Page 3 Mr. Pate explained there are twenty wires, separated about three inches apart up to about three and a half feet and then it goes to eight inches apart all the way to the top. Member Groff explained he grew up on a farm, knows what electric fences are, and there is a shock involved. He thought the fence issue was important because that is how the City's Zoning Code reads and this is a fence, in his opinion. Chair Roe indicated one thing Mr. Pate explained is that the device initializes a call as an alarm. He wondered if there were other technologies available that do not involve this approach but would initiate similar alarms such as motion sensors or those types of technologies. Mr. Pate indicated his business does not have motion sensors and the company does not provide other types of security devices. His account list is basically every major trucking company in America such as UPS, Fed Ex, Fed Ex truck, all of the major automobile repair centers, and Caliber. He noted that all of the major equipment companies in the US use this device because it works and saves the police a lot of money by not having to answer calls and write reports or do drive- bys. He noted these businesses should have the ability to prevent crime on their property. Chair Roe asked if there was any, from the point of view of installation,relative to the existing perimeter fence and will this be a certain distance from that fence, or can it be farther away than what is being proposed. Mr. Pate stated that is a good question. He explained the standard is to be 100 to 200 millimeters away, which is somewhere between four to eight inches. This should not be too far away from the perimeter fence because it then creates what is called a zone of entrapment where someone could basically sit in there, manipulate the device, and break in anyway. If the two are close together, it works as a team so to speak and makes it very difficult to get inside the space. The gates are even tighter than that because most gates run on electricity and are chain driven gates so they need to be even tighter, around three inches in between. Public Comment Chair Roe offered an opportunity for public comment with no one coming forward. Etten moved, Groff seconded, adoption of Resolution No. 12064 entitled, "Resolution of Decision of the Board of Adjustments and Appeals Concerning the Appeal by Amarok Ultimate Perimeter Security and Caliber Collision of 1914 County Road C of the Variance Board's Denial of a Fence Variance." Board Member Discussion