August 13th, 2024 Meeting

Agenda for today's meeting, I'd going to entertain a motion to adopt.

I'll move. Second.

Okay, motion made and seconded.

Seeing the usual suspects here.

No need to jockey anything around.

Any corrections, changes, additions from the council?

Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

Okay, next is the agenda from...

excuse me, the minutes from the July 23rd meeting.

I did entertain a motion to approve.

I'll move that. Second.

Okay, motion made and seconded.

Any additions, deletions,

Corrections?

Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?

Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay.

Public comment.

We had some written correspondence.

Probably going to not take any action on it.

I think we've all seen

this individual scooting around town on his little motorized buggy

and a valid concern I don't think removing gravel

off the streets.

Moving all the rocks on the gravel streets would be the best course of action.

Might spur a sidewalk

in the future conversation for streets that

are only gravel with no sidewalk or anything.

Public works, do you have an opinion on this?

Should we or should we not remove the gravel from the gravel streets?

If you want mud streets or gravel streets, I guess.

You need to have the gravel on there or you're not going to have a street.

Okay, well, no action need to be taken.

There's just public comment, it's not an agenda item.

But like I said, maybe it'll help spur some

thought for some future growth, repairs, upgrades.

And who knows, maybe there's some money

out there for making some of these

non-handicap accessible streets more handicap accessible.

There's money out there for a lot of things.

Usually there's A.D.A money for a lot of things.

That won't be the worst thing in the world to maybe

investigate a little bit.

Moving on,

Tammy, any comments. I got plenty but I'll keep them to myself.

Appreciate that.

Pool manager reports, Steve, quick update on

status of the pool. As far as I'm aware, they're open until the 25th.

And I believe it's regular hours up until the 18th.

And then it's going to be night swim only.

Okay.

I think it was a fairly

un-eventful year for the pool.

Didn't have any major breakdowns or issues.

All the mechanical stuff seemed to run as it should.

When the power went out, some things didn't get

reset when they should have, which affected chlorine levels

and what not. But would that happen two or three times

that I was aware of? At least twice.

Of course it's on a weekend when

everybody's gone and you don't realize there's

an issue until Monday morning at lap swim.

The water looks green.

How come I don't hear anything?

The 100 decibel

wurring of the pump that constantly runs.

Okay, public works.

So, a couple things.

I'm sure we can talk about another one

later, but we need to look at purchasing

our easement to our pivot.

Because I don't feel like we should have to give

24-hour notice for us to access our land

through the easement.

Isn't that what an easement is?

We don't have to have permission to use an easement.

The terms of the easement that were negotiated

said 24 hours notice, which we can talk about that, Steve, but I think

you've already done what you need to do

for quite a while. Yeah, we're good till the end of the season at least.

It's something that we should investigate

in doing further down the road or something.

Another thing, I was approached by an individual

that lives on the outskirts of town, wondering if

the city would possibly do garbage pickup for him.

It's within a mile

of town. They don't have any other city services, but

they would like our pickup rather than the county pickup.

What direction is the town?

East. East of the football field.

It's actually south of the football field, or north of the football field.

I believe

it's because they got their bills from the county yesterday for garbage pickup.

So we already

got the wolf trower and wolf. But they're on city water.

That's the thing. We don't provide any other services

to them, but they were interested in

paying for our garbage service.

But it cannot there. We pick them once a week.

Which I discussed

with a commissioner at the time, and I said,

the best way to do this is, they got that big dumpster up there.

They buy three more big dumpsters and put it in Flaxville.

Four mutes. And just not even haul garbage with that little truck.

And then come to the city and be like, hey, we're not hauling

the little cans anymore. Can you guys provide service to these people

in the outskirts of town?

And then the county would save money because they wouldn't be picking them little cans anymore.

So you mean they would just get the big

big ones? They would roll the big roll up ones? Yep, the big roll up ones.

So they'd pull into four mutes and load up the one all day and bring it back.

Because if they go over there with their little truck, pick the garbage, take it

to their dump station, dump it, push it in the can, and then load it up.

So they can haul it twice or much. Because every time you touch garbage, it's expensive.

So they could possibly eliminate a truck that they may not

need? Eliminate a truck and all those cans. I'm sure they could sell them cans to another

place that uses them. And then, you know, we could haul

these people that are just within a mile of town or whatever.

You know, the vet clinic, the airport, little subdivision out there.

I mean, but it would take some work from the county.

But on top of that,

this person is wondering if we could do it now.

So would it burden

you in any way? No. We'd do it to add to our route.

So it'd be a once a week pickup? That's what he's, once a week would be

fine with him, he said. So he'd have his own block dump?

Yep, his own 300 would go pick it.

Are our charges

that much different from the county? We charge

what, around 30 bucks a week?

For a weekly pickup, it's 30 bucks a month. The bills came out for the county

if you want your garbage picked. Once a week, it's $100

a month. Twice a week is $50

a month. Or twice a month is $50 a month.

So north of Theven's

Auto Body? No, it's Steven's Auto Body.

Oh, so it's a commercial account?

Yeah. I was thinking Neil Holm, I guess.

No, that's what I actually do.

So the commissioner doesn't like the way it accounts.

That's when I have

the conversation with the commissioner about

the way the dumpsters work, the way that they're doing that landfill

deal. I mean,

he's smart for asking, it only makes sense.

And that's when, like I said, when I got into

the conversation with him about getting roll offs in those other three locations,

I mean... Did the county just change their garbage groups?

I knew they were going up some

because they were trying to finance this

situation they got going.

And he says sometimes they don't get picked, sometimes they get picked.

Yeah.

Okay, personally I just got this in the mail yesterday.

Okay.

And I don't know if the landfill

board has ever discussed not picking those little cans,

and just get the big dumpsters for the different locations, but...

That's how Glasgow works. There's, you know, Valley County.

They have TNR Truckee coming to pick roll offs up in O'Pime and Richland.

Well, I have a square one, but it's a little one.

Well, I talked to Mike Lund about this, and

I don't know if he quite understood what I was saying, but basically,

because we've talked about this before, and said, why don't you guys buy more

of those big cans and seven forbutes, Blacksville,

or else they have them set, and get rid of that truck. And he didn't

seem to think it was, you know, a

good idea, but again, I'm not sure if we were on the same

page, different, same...

So just on a personal interest, of course, could you explain to me the difference between the cans that are

there already and what you're proposing? Are they the same thing? You just want more of them,

or are they bigger? Do you mean like in other locations? Like in

more, you said something like more in Blacksville?

So what it is, is what they're going to do is they're building that dock up there,

and there's a big roll-off can that goes in there. It's bigger than what I said.

It's bigger that's there, and you pick it with a truck and it rolls up on the back of a truck,

and it becomes a truck body. So instead of having those little cans

in Blacksville, you build more can holders like you

got at the transfer station, and more of those big roll-off cans,

and you just put it in there, and people just come and throw it in the big can,

and then you come with your truck, pick the big can, and go right to Plentywood with it.

Do you need the transfer station setup?

I know the other ones have just big hills, big mounds of dirt

there that you just drive up and throw in there. Yeah, because I think those

transfer stations, I think they're $350,000 or something

like that to build, so that's probably why.

You wouldn't need a transfer station with a big can. Not a big transfer station.

You can buy just those retaining blocks and set them up and fill them up with dirt.

What about all these restrictions

on garbage, and I think the theory

with the transfer station is that they'll have to control

other garbage that isn't supposed to be in there.

I think that's maybe... I don't think

they'll dump their can and then sort through it and push it in the dumpsters.

I don't see that happening. Well, I think that's the theory behind it. I agree that

it probably won't happen, but I think that that's...

I think the risk is they're going to see a chemical jug that just happened to float its way up on top,

and then they're going to turn it around and shut us down from all garbage.

That is what would happen.

I think we need to look into that one option.

I don't know.

That's how mostly smaller communities do their...

Big Sandy does it. Valley County does all their...

Tri-County landfill does all theirs that way.

In my mind, it's not that much different than having the dumpster

exchanging it for a roll-off dumpster rather than a dumpster dumpster.

They're about the same height, so if you're throwing garbage in them, it's not that much higher to throw garbage in them.

It's not like you have to have a ramp to get above the dumpster.

Because there's no ramp in Flaxville.

Why couldn't you just throw your garbage over the edge of the dumpster?

They used to have ramps all the way up to theirs, and then

a guy was dumpster diving and fell in and sued the county.

They just put it up, so it's only four feet up, so the dumpster sits right here

instead of right at ground level.

We had a few stations in Gallican County, and she backed her car up to it

and drove all the way into the dumpster. It didn't stop in time.

But there's a lot of...

Yeah, you don't have to build a massive one like we got out here.

I think this is the last meeting, but what I remember from the previous meeting

is there were discussions to possibly

go that way in the future and get those roll-offs

for Butte's peerless Flaxville area.

And the discussion was just that. That's what Glasgow does and other

neighboring.

You're eliminating one truck and all those cans. I mean, maintenance

on garbage trucks isn't cheap. And you can pick it once life.

Yeah, you're cutting out the middle part of dumping it

here and then pushing it in another can. Yeah, because they could just haul it

at that point, right? Just pick it and haul it.

Okay, cool. Thanks. I appreciate that.

Yeah, I'm not opposed to adding

Steven Autobody to our route. If it does not affect

our current, you know, if it doesn't add any extra stress

to our... We drive by there anyways, you know. Basically

we drive by the football field to get Matt

and Chris right there. Jim?

Mark, yeah. Mark, yeah.

Sure. When we only pick her once a week, so we just, before you pick her, you just go to

Stevens and come back. And then, I mean, we could put the option out there

for those other people that are there. Maybe they want it.

So it'd be a commercial account, would he get two cans, a cardboard and more?

He only wants one. Okay. It's for household.

It's for cardboard is what he's looking for. Okay.

It'd be about the same as we picked from Bernie's

Autobody. Okay. It'd be the same type of garbage that Bernie Autobody has.

So do we need to make some kind of a decision on

the distance around the city limits that we'll pick?

Well, that's one thing I wonder. We should come up with some sort of like, you know,

no more than a mile or no more than whatever, you know. Yeah.

We'll drive up to Willys probably. I mean, that's three miles out. Yeah, I'm just thinking

because if somebody else sees it, they're like, well, can you have a deal for me?

Well, that's why I brought it. It's not on the agenda, so we can't make a decision on it.

Yeah. But, you know. Well, because in that, maybe we had Neil

Holm, Sonia, you know, go the other direction,

you know, I don't know. Yeah. Go to the there or whatever, you know.

Yeah. The border patrol enabled us. I mean, it's...

Like you say, it's not that much. I mean, I wouldn't

consider it any more wear and tear on the truck. No, you know.

It's right on the edge of town. I just think maybe we need to make

some sort of a resolution stating how far out of the city limits

would go. So that everybody on the edge of town has the same

option. And it's best to do that before you include

one person. Yeah. That's right. I don't want that argument.

Well, that's why you're doing this for him and you want to bring it up for us.

Ben, do you have an opinion on this? No. You don't need me here anymore.

Because that was going to be my... Just have the policy. Everybody

the same. Broken record over here. Like, if you're not...

You want a one mile radius crate. You want a half mile radius crate. Whatever

it is, but draw the line and stick to it.

Well, Sonia, how far is your house from the

edge of town? She's within a mile.

What's your address, Sonia? I don't know. 69.

She's 0.69 miles away from the post office.

So I would say just a mile from

the post office. You could just use that. Nelson's property

is exactly one mile out of town. Yeah, because then you got

Nelson. I would do a mile from City Limits.

You just set a limit somewhere. Yeah, a mile from the edge of the city.

Yeah, a mile from City Limits.

How far is Neiman from

the post office? Oh, but Neiman's in City Limits.

They're not a mile. They're not in City Limits yet.

Yeah, I think a mile.

So upcoming agenda item.

We don't have to put a carrying on that. We can just do a resolution, right?

We'll do it.

I don't know if we should talk to the county.

It might be easier to watch a little bit.

Maybe me and Steve can meet with Mike Thieve and get his

report. He wants to do, I mean that's kind of two birds with one stone there.

He wants the service and he's a commissioner. He should hopefully be able to give us

the climate of the commission.

But at least then he can bring it back to them.

So maybe that's where we start. Yeah, my thought on the rates is as long as you're not in,

if we increase the rates or set a special rate for those out of town accounts

then we probably would have to jump through the same hoops that we do

charges. But if we're just expanding the territory in which

we're offering the same rates that we've already set then we probably

don't have to go through hearing. But I can double check on that.

So does county pick Hansells and

Rouse and Fisher? No.

Rouse just takes this to his business and Hansells just takes theirs to carriers.

It's always says water and sewer or it says garbage.

I wasn't even sure if I should

include those tax liens. Yeah, I

know for a fact other towns do that.

And not just looking elsewhere.

It would be all end all but at least we're not the only ones.

You never want to be the only one.

Somebody's going to sue you.

It's always nice to have friends. They did it first and they've been

doing it and it's been okay. Well some of us all did it.

Some indication of the third.

You can probably get away with it.

Okay, we'll definitely look into that.

I think Michael will be here tomorrow. We can talk to him tomorrow.

If that works for me.

Any other public works?

Anyone have any questions for the public works

supervisor?

Alright, let's move on to zoning.

Big public hearing tomorrow.

See if people want to put RD parts in residential.

I've been hearing senses so far that I haven't heard

I've asked a few people, they're against it.

Have you guys been hearing any?

That's difficult because nobody says anything unless they're against it.

I don't have any sense of where the proposed site is.

You know where the other RV park is right over there?

It's on the south edge of town.

The southeast corner.

So here's the thing, it's not just to put an RV park there.

It's to add additional use in the whole residential district.

Which is most of town.

And we're back to the dollar store talk.

They didn't want it in the entire town

but they wanted us to change the description of an entire area.

Rather than just allow a single person to do a certain

thing with a particular lot. Usually when I explain the conditional use part of it

then people back down a little bit.

We can set rules we don't want an RV park on a single lot.

So and you can

revolt conditional use right?

I believe so right man?

Yeah but it is problematic because

what are the conditions put on the one?

You can't again draw things willy nilly.

If it was allowed on A, B and C conditions here

then it probably would have to be. If I was advising them

then you got to let them do it here too.

And so it's not strictly location.

The location really comes into it as long as they've got enough space.

Even in a situation like Paul Reaver it's a lot right on Main Street

that he doesn't take care of. That's what I was thinking.

Something like that where he's not standing up to his end of the bargain.

On that situation there.

I don't know if you have a good question.

Say if you're a condition like one down here you could RV park on the corner

of your first park. Do you want an RV park there?

No.

He's got officials walk there and then Kitty Corner or Librarians tour down

Ames House.

Start stacking them in there like Cordwood.

So that's the road.

And that's my view of it. Like you said Steve you could have it anywhere.

I mean yeah you can put conditions on it.

If you have a single lot you can only have two.

But you still want that right there.

Is this a work around

for the limited seasonal rental

business that we put limits on?

I think they're just looking for a use for their empty lot.

You can park right across the street from their empty lot.

That's what I think it is. And you can't just change the zoning

of that one lot because that's spot zoning and you can't do that.

And actually we have RV park

in our definitions but it's not included in any zone whatsoever.

And that may have been by design.

I'm sure it was.

We had a lot of room to begin with.

Throw in a whole area.

We were doing that zoning. We were worried about the oil field.

Taking RV parks out of the areas.

We'll hear the arguments.

That particular spot.

If you had to stick it somewhere that wouldn't be the worst place.

That's what I'd say too.

But there was a house on there before.

It's not like it's always been a vacant lot.

And it's not going to improve our tax base.

It's not going to improve our tax base versus what residential is intended.

Putting houses in and we get better tax base out of that.

Then you're going to get on the RV lot.

Well, we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Anything else for zoning?

We don't have any.

Just on the radar that we're going to be replacing a member.

Because he officially sold this house no longer.

Owns a residence.

Okay.

Who bought it?

They're from out of town. She is a grant writer.

Oh, so not your best friends?

I don't know if Tammy beat me to her yet.

But no, she has her own business.

She does it. She charges on the back end.

She'll take a commission after the grant's been awarded.

You can charge more.

But then the person coming to you for your service,

they don't lose anything if you don't get the grant.

And you're out your time.

And I would pay more for the guarantee all day long.

Then your interests are aligned.

So I visited with her a couple of times already.

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on the rest of that.

Because I want to keep visiting with her.

She has some ideas.

Moving on though. Fire chief report.

Why it shot me a text at 844.

And it said it could make it. The only thing I have is our SCBA tanks.

And cascade systems being serviced on the 28th.

So I don't know what the cost is for that.

Is that an annual thing?

Yeah, it has to be me expecting each time.

Okay.

And now it's working. Let's keep it working.

Yeah, forever it didn't work.

So that's all from the fire chief.

And the sheriff's report.

Oh, last month there was, I think there was like

173 incidents. This last month that included

anywhere from fires to missing people.

DUIs.

As far as the office is concerned,

Rex will be leaving for Academy Day.

He'll be gone for three months.

End of the month, we'll travel to Helena

for the kind of senior operator on our top laser.

So that we can keep it up to date.

Instead of having different counties come in and push

two buttons to scan a card.

And then as far as

our radio's go, Motorola LVA

here the 29th.

28th or 29th this month to do a walkthrough

and sit down and

discuss basically the new consoles that are going to get put in.

I think they're coming in November.

I don't want to censure off the check on the time frame that they're coming in, but

they just want to see Motorola wants to see the setup

that we have so they can put the equipment in properly.

And then there's our glorious accident

I had over the last week.

The vehicle is up there, the even auto body.

The status on that one, I'm not 100% sure on

when the repairs will start or if the vehicle is even going to go through it.

I think they're still waiting on insurance companies.

But not the anatomy.

It's got a vehicle and $1,500 is breaking down and so is the crown bit.

Hopefully

we can get another vehicle.

Right now we only have the crown bit to transport people.

Unless I want to transport with two officers

on a criminal.

It takes us all out at one time.

Alright, with that one.

What do you know from feelings?

He's supposed to be talking to Christie yesterday to find out.

Once I got turned into it without my hands

How long is it to get another replacement for them?

For the vehicle?

I'll probably be a year and a half.

It took a year to get that one.

So

I even talked to Stoneman and they're like we have no clue of what we need to do.

No one's ever been in accident with the Stoneman vehicle.

It was purchased with Stoneman.

But it's insured through Daniels County.

It's just like the $1,500.

They got total on Main Street twice.

I have no clue how that even happened.

They got repaired.

They started repairing that next week.

Stoneman hasn't even heard anything about what the status is

for insurance from either party. But he didn't tell me that all the parts

are available in Colorado.

It doesn't matter if you're getting to go ahead and ship them here.

That's it, the A pillar, the B pillar, and the frame isn't bent.

Or the A pillar and the C pillar.

If those got bent, then it's totaled.

If we consider total. But right now, that's like

just push the glass and rip the door off and

destroy the fender.

That and then I,

I need to sit down with you at some point in time. Burrell's asking for a press

release on it. Okay. Lucky me, I've never

ever had to write anything like that.

Give me a report and we'll whittle it down from there.

Sounds good. I know that

there's basically, there's two different

agencies and there's the Sheriff's Office reports

and two different reports, two different high patrol.

I don't know what their report even looks like.

Well, we can whittle it down from yours. There is a bunch

of that information, public records. So, you know, you can get

what the initial call was, you know, a few other things

like that. And then as far as the details, we

get into how much of that we want to release. Okay.

Have you had that discussion?

Okay.

Any other questions, comments for

Clint?

Thank you, sir.

Glad we survived the majority of the summer in the fair.

The incident.

All right. Council, comments.

Let's hear how good we've been doing from the public.

I haven't had any lately.

Questions, but sure.

Clarifications.

You know, anything I could clarify why we're doing this or

why we're doing that?

I walked by on that Sunday

when they were tearing down the Cozy Cafe

and an individual who was

helping to tear down the Cozy Cafe, saw it was me

and yelled from across the lot. Is this what you wanted?

Another bowl in the middle of town. Good job.

So, yeah,

we didn't even send that guy a letter. Jesper's been wanting to tear that thing down

for three years, but Arc's been begging him not to.

So, anyway,

I've got two conversations with that individual.

Okay. Here are no other council comments.

We will go on. So, next item is

in your packet from Interstate Engineering

John Bach. It looks like he's

got basically

the engineer's info on

this is pretty much 3rd Avenue.

I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, but

they have a plan on what they would need to do there.

I did reach out to John and say, you know, hey, our priority right now

is Hospital Street. When will we

when will we be ready to go?

So, we can put it out.

So, I sent him

a message on last Thursday and he said

they should be able to get set for bid by the end

of next week, which would be this week. So, hoping we get

more info from them because, you know, we're already too

late to try to get that street fixed for this coming, you know, season.

So, it's going to be even and whole

and again, like I did the last few years, I'm afraid.

But, we're moving

in the right direction, at least they can't say we're not doing anything here.

We're trying to fix it the right way one last time.

Just one time.

But, yeah, anyway

we're moving forward with, you know, getting Hospital Street fixed

and then the 3rd Avenue fixed, which I think will help

the majority of the drainage issues on 2nd Avenue West.

So, we'll just keep plugging away.

Burl, you see where Burl ran an article

on the paper on that.

So, I think he must have been, I got the impression

he must have been catching some plaque on that, so he wanted to run a story

and I think people were hearing and seeing there was only work being done

on Council and Mayor Street.

So, I said

make sure that your article states that the hospital

Street is our number one priority for streets to be repaired,

but we're trying to fix several different drainage issues.

So, and yeah, it would involve paving a street

where Council members,

former and current, have lived.

So, yeah, and it's a busy street

as the people who live on the gravel side of it

know.

We need to move that 15 mile an hour side of the 3rd Avenue West rather than

C Street. We need to put about 4 or 15 mile an hour

on there. I did read reading through John's

synopsis, I guess, of how they're going to engineer it and how everything laid out

when he gave us the three options

for driveways, I guess,

on the south side of the street over there. I personally

I believe that the city should foot the bill for fixing the driveway. I mean, we're the ones

doing, you know, yeah, I don't think we can just tear it up

and say, well, cheers to fix now, I mean. Yeah, same

with that sidewalk. Yeah, that's part of the project.

It shouldn't be just tour up

and say, now make your driveway work. Yeah, it could make it work.

Because did we decide the driveways on the north side, like

yours, Neoprandals, you know, Anderberg going down the line,

they can work around

I think that's what it is, elevations, it's because it states in the first paragraph

that good news, the driveways are higher than the curdle lines.

In my mind, that means that their elevation is good on the north side of the street.

Yeah, there's a little bit they got to do over there, but

like, you know, like Crandall's there, it's gravel up to their driveway, so they can just

slope that back. And I think yours was pretty close to great anyways.

Yeah. The biggest two are the Handrens and

Scots. Yeah. Those are the biggest two, like Handrens.

Because there's a lot of fill involved on there. Yeah, they're built up a lot. Yeah.

They got to come down. So those are the two biggest ones. And like

Flattiger's, you know, he doesn't have concrete all the way out either.

So his would be gravel fill. And there was going to be a big

at where that fire hydrant is by the church

there. That's right in middle where the curb would go around.

So instead of doing curb returns, we would do a valley gutter

that comes straight. So then you don't have to do, because you'd be into Eric's

off-guard and right through that hydrant with curb returns. So you'd just valley gutter

across the street. Probably just be a valley gutter from Eric's all the way

down in front of the church, too. Right to El Ravladiker's.

And then, you know, there's all driveway

or gravel driveway, so it can all be worked into Mida.

That's the kind of way I looked at it when you

are, you know, the way he's describing it. When I went and looked at the cut fill stakes, that's what it looked like to me.

Yeah, and the stakes are still there. You can see the line on where

the grid is actually at. And there's some parts of that

sidewalk they could leave, but the contractor

would more than likely rather just start fresh than cut.

Yeah, they're not going to work on that when they're doing curb work. It's easier just to tear it up

and do it. And I don't know that they could. I mean,

when you're forming up curbs, you can't really have a sidewalk in the way.

Yeah.

Okay, so,

we're moving forward on that. We'll figure out how to pay for it when the time comes.

Okay, pivot fence

and ground. So Steve, do you want to

Well, DEQ requires us to have our pivot fence

stop. So we just need a,

Revert said it would probably be around 20,000 to do it.

So we just need approval to do it.

And did he give us a formal

bid? That's just off the cob.

Yeah. Okay, so I guess we really don't

want to make him to look at, but do we just, so we can approve that we move forward

with hiring Reverts to do the fence?

So we can, because he's waiting for us, right? Yeah, he said

he's got a crew in my glass or something. So once they get started, they'd have it done

within a week. And I think we need to move

sooner than later with the way this whole situation's going.

It has not smoothed out since

we've become owners. I mean, not that we were expecting

and not that I was expecting it to

smooth out entirely, but

okay, so at this point, I guess I would entertain a motion that we

hire Reverts fencing to build the fence around

the 80 acres for

our wastewater pivot lab.

I make a resolution as per

DEQ requirement to fence the pivot.

Okay, our motion made. I'll second.

Okay, motion made seconded. Any discussion?

Ben, can you comment? Any?

It kind of goes without saying, but I'll put it on the record anyway. Please make sure they fence on

our property. Not ours.

We don't need that problem. Yeah, I'm the survey stake is still there as of

last week, so hopefully it's... hopefully he doesn't

mow it over with his combine. Yeah, alright, that's good, but yep.

Okay, you have obvious common sense, but yeah, it doesn't hurt to be said.

Yeah. Okay, any other

comments? So, is this something new

that he's trying to enforce now with the easement? Did he call you?

So, I had a discussion. I don't know, I'm sure

I have as well, but I had a discussion with his attorney on

Friday, I think.

We did get things squared away, but just so everybody's

clear, part of the negotiation was

putting in a notice requirement when we're going to be out there.

Basically, you know, Jonathan wanted to know if we're moving equipment on

or off or whatever. That can be.

This is as simple as sending him a text message, which Steve and I had a conversation

and Steve did. We're going to be out there Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays

through the end of irrigation season, turning this pivot on and off.

Talk to his attorney, that's sufficient, like we don't have to let

him know every single time, because it seems silly to text him on Monday,

we're going to be there Tuesday, and text him on Wednesday, we're going to be there Thursday. So, we kind of just

did a blanket thing. Over communication

will go a long way. I think we're going to be...

I don't disagree with you, Steve, that, you know, in a perfect world

we would have bought that, where that easement goes or something.

But, quite honestly, the deal that we did was the deal

we could get done. There wasn't really much, you know,

fight in it. Text messages pretty minor

annoyance for now having ownership of that land.

And, I doubt, I mean, there's like

a 1% chance that Jonathan would sell that to us at this point.

And the reason I'm looking, if we end up leasing that, you know, and then we have to let

that, the person that has our lease, you know, then they got to deal

with it too. So, yeah. Well, and there might be kicking and screaming.

The reality of it is, unless there's damages that occur,

there's really no cause of action

there. You know, he could sue the city for violating the notice requirement, but

unless he's got some damages to point to, it's not going to go anywhere.

That being said, you know, how much headache do

you want? I mean, I ended up, his attorney and I

spent however much time talking it over, and I don't want to have to do that once a

week too, because it's going to get expensive for everybody. We're not going to really accomplish

anything. So, I think at least for the next,

well, I mean, we should always comply, but especially for the next

few months, until we can kind of get through the end of that. If there's any question

about whether we should be letting them know or not, just err on the side of

texting him, and then we've done what we need to do. That's, that's my official

city attorney advice.

It is annoying. That's just the way it's going to go for a little while.

Okay.

So send the text messages. He wasn't going to like it if a

blanket one wasn't going to cover it, because I was going to have Collins are going

out at one in the morning and doing that.

Well, like I said, I think for, we're going to be

neighbors for a long, long time. So, I think whatever

we can do to make things go smoothly, that would be a really helpful

long term.

So, I believe we still have the motion made and seconded to hire

Reburts. Any further discussion?

Okay. Hearing none, all those in favor?

Okay. I just let Bo know. Steve, if you would please.

Insanya, just print

$20,000 with your printer in the back room.

We'll figure it out as we go. I guess

which kind of leads us up to Resolution 1106.

Trying to fund this

project.

With raising

I guess not water and sewer, but sewer rates.

So, Resolution 1106,

Resolution and intention to change and increase certain rates, fees, and charges

for the water utility service and hold

required public hearings in regards to the same.

So, not going to read the whole thing. But if you

go to the next page, you'll see

I guess with the, while I go to

the third page, you'll see the current rate and the proposed rate. That's kind of the one

that I wanted to bring your attention to.

So, not earth shattering numbers

you know, 28, 14

to 29, 55, you know, $1.40

cents, call it. So,

for the majority of the

taxpayers.

So, this public hearing

will be one of the ones on the 27th, right?

So, and this is a 5% increase.

Yep, this is the third year of the 5% increase. I also kind of agree to

three years ago. Instead of doing one large increase

we decided to do

three years of the 5% from what I remember.

So, hopefully

we can not have to keep raising rates.

Hopefully this way. And we paid off the loan

so we no longer have to comply with that.

The RD, the requirements

non-requirements. So, that helps a little bit.

So, I have the question for the smart people

in the room here. When can we put this out

for bid for some, you know, a neighbor

to hay it?

Could we need to at least get that ball rolling?

Can't do anything this season now except maybe prepare the land.

You know, it needs to be sprayed and or tilled,

fist, burned. I mean we can do all of that

as far as putting the bids

out for, I guess, Sheridan County

does that on a few of their properties. And I can't remember if it's in the fall

or early in the spring when they do that.

You would think you'd want to do it in the fall so they can prep for spring.

Because they're going to have to seed it to grass, right? Or are we going to pay for that?

Well, that's, I don't know

whether you do it the first couple of years because right now it's weeds that are

three to four feet tall. And there's nothing there.

We don't want to go down and have Gringo or Spray it at least until

he's cut his wheat around it. Because that would be a

blame.

I mean, it needs so much

work, like for the first three years

it would almost have to be like a free lease

because of the cost and effort that's going to have to go into

spraying, disking, seeding, babysitting

just so it can cut a crop by hopefully the second year.

Well, that's what I'm wondering if we don't have to foot that bill

to put it into production, you know what I mean?

And then pay somebody to pay it to that point.

Well, I don't think that's

I think the farmer will, or the rancher, whatever will choose

what crop they want. But they can only.

But still, yeah.

Yeah. So I mean, there's so many

regulations on what it has to be. I don't know if anybody's going to want to put

that in. Well, I guess what you could do is

just put it out and forbid and see if somebody

just see if there's a taker. Can't you put out for like requests for

proposals or something and then see what they propose? And maybe the city wants to

do a three year sort of thing, like we'll lease it to you for three

years. Yeah, I would think a long term lease would be. Yeah, that's what I'm wondering.

You can get it back in the fighting shed basically. You'd almost need it

for multiple years just due to the fact you're going to invest money in it

for the first couple. But you'll want to make sure

that, I mean, that there's a way to

say that if you're not doing this, then you lose that long term option

because that could be the case as well.

So yeah, maybe that is what we do. We do that now.

Do a request for proposal. We have 80 acres available

of irrigated hay ground.

With requirements fighting.

80 acres of irrigated fat.

The other 20 is none.

And could they operate the

irrigation partially? I mean that would be...

Ideally they would. This year is the first time that we've ever

turned the pivot on and off. It used to be always turned on by the landowner.

I don't think

you'd get some proposal.

I think there's a couple neighbors that are showing some interest.

I mean irrigated hay.

You could stand to get probably three cuttings off that field

pretty easy if you did it right.

The one I talked to, he's just getting a second cutting off of his.

That would be

determined how soon we could turn it on to...

Yeah, I mean we used to get three every year.

We didn't cut the last one low.

I mean obviously you don't kill it.

Yeah, let's do that.

If we can get that RFP

so we can approve it at the next meeting to put it out.

Yeah.

Give Curtis Flattig or something to that guy. Oh I don't think so.

Scooter. There's plenty of people around here.

I already sent the text message, don't worry.

We don't have any equipment for

60 acres.

Resolution 1106 will be on the

agenda for next meeting.

Is everyone going to be here next meeting? No.

I'm not going to be here actually. Really?

I'm just going to work.

So, what about...

I've already submitted everything to the paper to advertise for two weeks

before these public hearings.

When will you be back? Thursday? Wednesday?

When is the... I've gone that whole week.

Could we still hold the hearing even if there's a quorum?

Well, I guess that's your question for me.

There's no action taken at the hearing.

Well, normally we hold the public hearings then later on then they pass the

resolutions for our budgets. And the only reason why I moved it to August 27th

is the Department of Revenue was all over me because I was going to do it September 10th.

No, no, I'm going to be here the next one. I'm sorry. I won't be here September 9th.

Okay.

You just took five years off the Sunday.

I was confused on which meeting we were at, right?

Normally I always hold the public hearing at the beginning of September, but like I said, they were...

No, I'll be here the 27th. I won't be here September 9th.

Worst case scenario, I think we could have held the hearing

and then just have a special meeting a day or two later

and approve. Yeah, I guess we could have did that.

Okay, so Brian, you're still gone?

I'm here.

Are there any family emergencies for many of us?

Yeah. Sorry. I was thinking September already.

I don't know where the summer went.

We need a resolution to...

Did we do a motion to pass this resolution in 1106?

No. Okay, let's go back.

I forgot. Okay, so I'll entertain a motion that we

approve resolution 1106 for the

increase of the sewer rates.

I'll make a motion. Okay.

Okay, motion made second. Any discussion other than what

we've already discussed?

Hearing none.

All those in favor? All right. Okay. Yeah, I wasn't sure if this was just

an FYI or if we needed to... No, this is the intention. We're letting public know

of our intentions. Okay.

Okay. Well, that box is checked.

Steve, give us this...

Those notes on the pace.

Oh, yeah. They were here including the sewers.

We had them camera spot

in what is that? Robinson? Robinson. Robinson where people,

homeowners, have been having trouble with the sewer, so we made sure we cameraed it.

And the line looked really good. They said it looks great shape.

There is one hole in it, like 200 feet down.

And they said they could do a point repair on it so they don't have to

dig it up or anything. And that's not bad enough. It has to be done now. We can do it

next year when they're here doing their cleaning.

And it'd be about $5,500. And they just push a piece up there

and a boxy it to the sides. Yeah. So...

It's got to be dry for that to all be gone, right? No.

They do it with this in the water. On use. Yeah, they blow in a piece.

They don't even have to pump it up. It's all pre-pumped on the outside.

You blow it in, you expand it. Well, they would probably stand above it back in it anyway

so there wasn't any flow out, I imagine. Oh, I'm sure.

They'd be at the top side with the vacuum. So there won't be any effect on

the big 690 minutes he says when they're done.

So basically when they come they've got to bring another trailer, another man,

and that's about $5,500 covers and repair.

So they said we can just add it on it next year's cleaning

and they can do it then, okay? But that's the only

trouble we had with... So the folks that were having trouble with Steve,

those are lines from their house to the main. Must be the lines from their house to the main, yeah.

And one of them asked me if Pace could camera theirs, but

that's a 4-inch and Pace can only go down to 6, so

they couldn't camera that line. And he said he would be willing to pay for it if they could.

So... What part of oil was this, Steve?

Robinson. Like Mike Ferris, Finn and Paul

Ronnie Plot. That block right there.

Yeah, it doesn't look very well though.

Yeah, him and Gordy has one, I think. Trevor had a Mack

has one too. Gordy has one, I know. Terry Farver's got one.

Last time JR's

wasn't working when we tried to have him do the pools.

Okay, but

everything else was good. They did definitely the issues. They did definitely a third of

town. They did 10,700 feet or something like

that is what they did. So about a third. We'll do another third next year

and another third of the year after that. Continuing the rotation.

And I should have said it earlier, but DEQ

last year, last week, they did a sewer system inspection

sanitary survey time deal and they asked to make sure we had that

maintenance on them.

Past the client colors? Yeah. Well, there's some trees

at the lagoon we got to tear out. Not to mow, but that's about all.

They'll send a full report for it.

Okay.

That's pace. Okay.

Moving on here. I met with

what's the name? A.J. Smith. I think it was his name. He's kind of

our A.J. Allen. Excuse me. He's our

local tobacco guy. I think he's at Wolf Point, but he does

Phillips County, Daniels County, Roosevelt County, Sheridan County.

Basically not trying to

force us to do anything, but giving us

if we wanted to do certain things.

He's a resource if we needed help

making, like ensuring the park was smoke free,

designating smoking areas, like signage, he can help with that kind

of stuff. Other than that,

I think he was just kind of going through his motions, justifying

his position. Because he's got

his own government car and whatnot. So I had a good meeting

with him. We met right here for about an hour.

So yeah.

I guess that our park is already smoke free, I believe.

100 feet from the pool. It's supposed to be smoke free.

Because he said we were the only pool that actually had signs up, but that

wasn't because we didn't want smoking near kids. It was because of the chemicals.

No. It's all? No. We did it because

the parents or grandparents were standing on the deck smoking during swim lessons.

Oh really? Yeah.

That's not to do with chemicals. Really? Yeah.

When was that? It was right after that pool with Bill Mackie was here

when we did it. I thought they would have to do it with chemicals.

No. They would sit right next to the fence and you could see the smoke just go into the

pool when the kids were out. That's when we did it.

Yeah. And I'm not a tobacco user, but the conservative

in me says if the people who choose to

use tobacco, whether it be Copenhagen

or cigarettes or cigars or whatever, if we did

it as a smoking area in the park, you know, I would

hear the arguments for it, you know, before

I vetoed it down.

But anyway, eventually they'll all be smoke free.

I mean, they did it with the bars and the college campuses and the hospitals.

And he's doing all public areas.

I don't think we need to make that.

We have enough to do with it.

No. We're going to find

reasons to get people mad at us.

Okay. So anyway, that's all that is just an FYI for the council

that he was here.

Yeah. So, moving on.

Preliminary budget.

That hearing. So, we got

starting on page 19 here, notice of budget hearing.

Okay. So we're going to approve this and you can get it to the leader and they're going to run it.

Well, they'll, yeah, they can run it.

They can get it in for the paper to come out tomorrow.

Okay. Okay. So,

well, there's about four pages here.

Notice of budget hearing.

Publish it on the 14th and 28th.

Notice of public hearing for

I can't read that. Oh, the light district.

SID 18, SID 19,

from Mr. Medical Levy, the sewer rate increased and then the budget.

Go back to your first one, Sonia. Notice of budget hearing should be published August 14th

and 21st.

What number that is, August 15th and 22nd

or whatever for the 27th meeting. Okay. Two weeks before

I got it. Okay. Well, let's make sure we'll double check those dates because then the next one says

14th and 21st. The first one says 14th and 28th.

Pearl. Yeah, I'll double check with Pearl.

Because I had to go back and redo everything once I had

couldn't do it on September 10th. Sure.

Okay. And then public hearing for street

maintenance.

And then the medical

the medical levy.

Okay. I had to entertain a motion that we approve

these four, notice of public hearings to be set

to be able to run in the next two

editions of the Dennis County leader and then to be action

taken on on the 27th.

On the

second. Motion seconded. Any

discussion?

Okay. Hearing none, all those in favor?

Okay.

All right. So moving on, we have the

based on the mill

information there. Now this is

do we vote to approve this? This is what we're being told, right?

Well, this is what we're being told, yeah. How many mills we can levy

and what are mills worth?

And we generally levy the max

mills. We have some, yeah.

You don't levy them, you'll lose them. You used to be able to carry them over, but

it worked out very well.

Okay. So do we need to vote to approve this?

I don't know if we've done that in the past, but I mean just make sure council

knows that this is how we came up with our current year

calculated mill levy and what a mill is worth.

So we can levy 266 mills and each

mill is worth $1,160.

For a total of 310,000,

$974 in taxes that everybody paid.

And the next is the

certified taxable value information that they received from their partner revenue.

Those are the numbers we took to get

to fill in on this form to know what our mill levy

is worth and how many we could levy.

We also have the determination of proposed property tax increases.

They came out with this a few years ago. We need to let the public know

how much their taxes are going to increase

for the price of their homes or the value of their homes.

This is a little higher than I thought it was last year. It was like $9, $12

and $15. Now it's $15, $45 and $90.

So there's more increases there.

Those numbers will be included on our budget resolution.

It's about the same numbers as it was last year.

I mean as far I think it was a 305,000 or something.

It stays about the same.

But in our budget we included just about pretty much everybody's

wish list I believe.

We've got the same number.

We've got the same number.

We've got the splash pad in there. We've got the fire hall

growth. We've got the new building updates. We've got the P-E-R's

and the P-A-R's. We've got the share contract. We've got part

equipment. Hospital grant for 25,000.

Purchase of the land because that was in this budget.

This one. A little money for a garbage truck.

Included the study commission.

That's $10,000.

We also did a slight increase on SID-19 which

is our street maintenance. What was my understanding we wanted

to slowly increase that also for all the street projects that are coming up.

So we went from collecting about $165,000 to

approximately $175,000 if we vote to make this

a recent SID-19.

I have my own paper-paper-drock one done

and while you look at it it's impossible to

make it. I'm entering into the

Black Mountain today, yesterday and today.

I have a Black Mountain report printed out for next time.

Does that catch inconsistencies or anything like that?

Well I match it up to my paper copy.

It's easier for me to do it on paper first and then enter

into the computer and then it all has to balance in the end.

It doesn't balance and sums off.

Okay, so does anyone have any

questions? I know this is kind of the

heaviest of heavy hitters that we have.

Insanya does 99.76%

of the work for us.

And she will continue to while she's here.

Yeah, if anybody ever wants to go through it with me they should.

Send people a complaint down to you and you can explain it to them.

That's the biggest thing we're going to get asked is why.

Other than a couple projects trying to finish

there's really no big changes.

And a lot of these

projects are being funded by SLOCA funds, CBBG

grants.

The study commission has a whole separate tax on its own.

How the party voted on that.

Yeah, I've been told that was a huge waste of

tax dollars. How it passed to us beyond them.

This was from a different person than the usual suspects.

Yeah, this one caught me out of the left field.

So speaking of the study commission

did we decide we can appoint or we can't

appoint? I believe we can.

Because if we can't appoint then it's not going to happen.

It's a

Dan Clark question at this point now.

That was my understanding.

If no one files then the body appoints

it.

You're all in total.

Worst case scenario, nobody does it and the money sits there.

That money just rolls into a general fund.

Yesterday.

Is it just one?

Yeah, sorry I jumped it.

Yeah.

Jason Nasty.

Yep.

Okay, well.

That helps pay for our health insurance.

And that's its own separate deal.

And there's a formula that we do

every year to determine how much we can levy for that also.

And I have to make sure that I get department revenue or department

bad men to review these when I'm done with them to make sure that I didn't

correctly.

Okay.

Thank you for all that time.

So moving on another question.

Before you sign this next notice of tax

liens, you've already turned them in.

Okay.

Okay, so at this time I would entertain a motion

that we approve turning in the tax

liens on the three

listed on the exhibit eight

city court treasurer report there

to the county to be assessed on

their, I guess, county taxes.

I'll move.

One second. Okay, so a motion made seconded.

Is there

any questions, comments,

concerns?

Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?

I am. Okay, sounds good.

Go ahead and sign that. Sonya, is there anything that I need to sign with that as well

or just you? Yes, it's just me.

You wield a mighty power behind you there.

Yeah, so I had to get approved.

I just copied what's out of the county to the city

last for this. Sure.

Okay, moving on, our

computers are five years old.

I replaced my

work computer every two years. The tower, not so much

board monitor, mount all that stuff with the tower. I replaced every two years

because all the

necessary changes, I guess, with

this digital world, but we do ours every five

years, so you'll see a quote in there.

Let's see where

there it is. Okay, so

for $7,663

that's three new computers and they come up and

get all of the necessary software, hardware

programs on there and ensure they're working

and then once everything's set up, they

leave us to go on and fight their daily

fights. Am I close with that, Sonya? More similarly,

if Steve can fix it.

They also do all our backups.

They monitor our computers and make sure that

I get a monthly report to make sure that they're working correctly.

So the systems technology, are they

part of Marisa morally? Yeah.

Yep.

Okay, so I would entertain a motion that we accept the quote for

$7,663 to upgrade and

get new computers programmed and up to date and ready to go.

Is there keyboard and stuff in there? Because I don't know if we need that.

Well, yeah. There's a keyboard and mouse here

for Janet's computer, but you probably could use the ones you're getting.

Yeah, if we all ask for it.

I guess we'll include up to $7,663, but if there's stuff

that we can take off...

I don't either.

It probably wouldn't hurt to update it and then move that one and put on

Janet's computer. For your backup? Yeah.

They're only good for about, I would say, three to five years.

The batteries just go bad enough. You can replace the battery

in it, but you might as well just buy a new one.

The battery is above the cost of the whole new one.

Yeah.

Yeah, so...

Let's get our other wishlist things done before we get a backup.

He's always slipping since then.

Four years ago

he didn't have a skidster or a side by side and look at him now.

In a whole new building.

So, I do have a question. That Dell

Thunderbolt dock, you have primarily a laptop computer

and that's the dock, so you have your monitors

and keyboard and stuff attached to it. Yep.

And are you the only one who uses the laptop, the other ones are desktops?

Mine's a laptop. Here's his laptop too.

But you just have the laptop. Mine's just a basic laptop.

It's nothing. Sure. Nancy, you're a new thing.

You just need it for emails and Word documents. Yeah, and then we'll have this new

cloud-based GIS that I'll be able to edit with it.

Yeah, that'll be on his computer. He doesn't have any of the black mountains.

He doesn't have any of the hardware stuff on him.

None of the billing stuff, because I don't want that anyways.

It's costly for each computer. Sure.

Yeah, you gotta pay a license probably for each computer.

We don't even like hook mine up to the monitoring backup

and anything. Mine is just all separate. Stand-alone.

Well, the cost of the computer has gone down because

it's cloud-based. That's

how we pretty much operate too.

Okay, do we have a motion made in seconded?

Not yet. I'll entertain a motion to approve the

up to 7663.

For just new computers.

Seconded. Okay, motion made in seconded.

There's some stuff on there that's not needed, I guess.

You guys can take it off to hopefully make it cheaper.

Again, you know...

For a while, we were on the same rotation as Plentywood, so they would come up and do Plentywood and us.

And then we'd share the cost.

Somehow we got off schedules.

When Kelly was there, we'd do it at the same time.

Is five years too long, do you think?

I know what it's like

when your stuff goes down and you can't work.

I'm lost about...

You really haven't had any trouble with the only thing

like Sonya's keyboard, but working on it. But that was it.

And I would think these ones got a five-year warranty, it says right. You would think it would cover.

I think we

changed ours how to work every five years.

I think in our CFP it says five to seven years.

I don't know.

I have a laptop now, but it's to the point now where

it's got the old windows on it that's going to end support.

So that's why I need one. Otherwise I could just go tell the end

support really.

I think I'd be a little more concerned if we didn't have all the IT

help and all the backups and all that stuff.

I've been always assured that if we lost all our computers

they could get us one the next day.

Any other questions?

Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?

All right.

So the next item is study commission. I know we kind of

flirted with that a couple times throughout the meeting here, but

for some reason I was thinking there was two, but maybe I was

there is just the one. So I know there was a couple

people who had mentioned they were considering it.

You said no one else filed, so you only have Jason now.

Okay. Well, then if we use Niki's

school of thought, we'll have two people mad at us if we had two point

two. Or maybe

they'll be happy and Jason will be mad because he had to actually file.

But there was no cost for it and it was free.

So I guess

the whole council, if you guys

want to go recruiting,

if it comes up in conversation, we have two openings

and

we'll

see what happens. So it'd be nice to get three

and then I believe there's a member from the council

or the mayor sits on there as a fourth.

And Burl is the one telling me that and I have not gone to

research that, but that's how he read something.

I think it was ex-official.

That's the way I read it. Like they couldn't

currently be elected position.

But I could be wrong as well.

Yeah, I don't remember seeing anything.

I know.

But again, as we get closer

hopefully there's more and more info coming out.

Like I said, I don't know. Daph Clark's just an email or a phone call away.

Me personally

I had planned on going to all the meetings

assuming we get the full staff of them.

But try to remain fairly quiet

and let them do their thing, not try to steer them in any direction.

But that was just my

take on it. Because the meetings are open to the public

once they do start meeting. And I'm hoping the City Escobar

Study Commission and the County Study Commission run their meetings

at the same time. Because I really think that could be beneficial

bouncing ideas off of each other. I didn't see where they

couldn't do that. And maybe they'll choose not to.

But we'll just kind of see what they decided to do.

But I think that's a good idea.

Okay, moving on

to Mayor Leave of State Request.

He'd hide. Damn it. That was easy.

Okay, Airport Projects Grinnell.

I am going to

Rome and Minot, North Dakota. Then we're flying out to

go to Nashville just missionally tonight. I have an insurance meeting there.

She's taking along. So for an additional fee

you're able to bring a guest.

I chose her.

A couple other people towards the top. But they said no.

So we're going to Nashville. We leave.

We fly out Sunday. And we're back to Scobey Thursday. So Sunday the 18th

back to Scobey Thursday the 22nd.

So we'll miss the first day of school there. And then that first kind of

partial week or whatever.

So I guess there's no meeting scheduled or anything.

So we're good there.

In my absence, the council president would have to come

put out any fires. There shouldn't be any.

Well, that's why I did that.

Yeah, that's fine. I'll be around.

Did everybody sign? Did you go to the credit union to sign?

I don't think I have.

I was going to shoot you a text.

I was at the credit union and then I got absolutely sidetracked and forgot to.

So yeah, if you could get that end today or this week if you're able to.

Just the credit union or the credit union?

I think it's just the credit union. Because I haven't even done anything at the bank.

I know the credit union. You haven't?

Well, no, maybe I did. Maybe Shandy caught me.

But I know the credit union does.

Yeah, I completely forgot about that.

Yep, so we'll handle that out.

Okay, moving on, airport grant request letter.

Dorothy Holm basically just comes and has a sign

for the airport.

I don't even remember

what they were asking for. A little bit more money to get

grant money to offset the

Yeah, they were doing some crack ceiling and I don't know if they had some

bigger things there. I know it was interstate engineering

that like re-ass faulted it or whatever they did here a few years back.

I know John Bach was

the or one of the engineers on that.

But I would entertain a motion that we approve

this airport grant award request

letter for the mayor to sign so that we can get this

grant funding to go towards the City County

airport.

Okay.

I'll make a motion to approve funding

for the Scobey airport.

Okay.

Any discussion, questions?

Thanks, Clint.

Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?

Okay. Motion carries.

This time, is there any public comments?

Anything on or off the agenda?

This is public.

Again, she's keeping them to herself.

It's rare.

She's angry writing all this.

Okay, so I'll come to agenda items.

Obviously, heavier reading.

This next meeting, the 27th, then Brian, you will for sure be gone.

As far as I know, yes. Changes, I'll let you know.

Okay. Well, it is what it is, but as long as we have a quorum

I don't suspect there to be much public

here. There hasn't historically been.

So, but we'll go through the motions

and go through each one and we'll see

what happens.

Okay, last

agenda item would be to approve the consent items.

There are several pages of your packet, so at this time I would entertain a motion

that the council approves the consent items.

I'll move.

Okay. Motion made seconded to approve

the consent items. Is there any

questions, comments, concerns?

Hearing none,

all those in favor? All right.

Motion.