and justice for all. the clerk, please call the roll.
Councilperson Axtman.
Here.
Larson. Here
French. Here.
OK.
I'm just going to shoot Greg a quick text.
All right.
Greg didn't let me know if he was not going to be here.
I thought he was, but anyway.
We got a quorum.
So in your packet, is the agenda for today's meeting.
I would entertain a motion to adopt.
I'll motion to adopt.
I'll second it.
OK.
Motion made, seconded.
Any questions?
Anything we should move around?
OK.
Hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
OK.
Also in your packet are the minutes from the July 9th meeting.
I would entertain a motion to approve.
I'll make a motion to approve July 9th's meetings.
OK.
Motion. I'll second it.
Seconded.
Any corrections, additions, deletions?
All right.
Hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
OK.
No public.
No pool manager.
No fire department.
No police department.
Yeah.
Yeah.
See who comes.
OK.
Oh, we got the lawyer. I just texted Clint.
He forgets, because.
Steve, do you have anything for the pool?
I don't think so.
OK.
No issues with this.
It seems it's going smooth, so.
OK, public works.
Well, our dump truck has an issue with the cab controller
on it.
It's got to be taken to, like, Billings or Williston to get fixed.
But we won't do that until later,
because we're going to do our street repairs first.
Then we'll schedule it and take it over there or something.
So clean street repair and plowing snow?
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping to do, yeah.
So it's still drivable.
Everything in just half the gauges don't work in it.
So we'll get our street repairs done before we get it taken in.
What was the other thing we had fixed on it a year or two ago,
like motor mount broke?
That was with the fan.
Yeah, the fan fell off the front of it.
Yeah, that's right.
Was that?
Do you mean are these related?
Is this an electrical issue?
I don't think so.
The cab controller is the box that runs the stuff in the cab.
Gotcha.
Willys, or Border Plains, looked at it.
They can't fix it, because you have
to go take it to the actual dealer to get it programmed
for the truck you have.
So.
OK.
I did talk with, it'll come up later, too,
but I talked with Bo, and he gave me an estimate.
And it's going to be about 20,000 defense the pivot.
OK.
So when he says if we let him know soon enough,
he's got a crew in Glasgow, they
could get it done like a week, he thought.
OK, any of you have got any questions for Steve
for public works?
OK, moving on.
Zoning, we do have a zoning permit request in here,
but do we approve setting the date for the public hearing?
To add the RV park for the conditional use?
That's already set.
And it's for the next, our next meeting, right?
Our next meeting, while it's for their next meeting.
The zoning board's going to have a meeting that's
14th of August for it.
And it's a public hearing to hear comments
for and against putting RV parks as a conditional use
in Residential 2.
Where's that one at, Steve?
That's the dark blue.
Oh, OK.
Pretty well everywhere.
Yeah.
So we have to send, and one of the stipulations
when we have a public hearing like that,
we have to send letters to everybody in that zone.
And within 150 feet.
So to get around that, circumvent it,
we went to talk to Burl, and he's
written on top of postcards.
And we're just sending them to everybody who gets a water bill.
I don't think that's circumventing, Steve.
I think that's utilizing the resources wisely.
Using your resources wisely.
A few extra postcards.
Burl thought it'd be about a dollar a card, so yeah.
How many hours could you spend going around the outside?
Every single property in there, and figuring out who the owners were,
better to just fire them out.
So yeah, that's how it goes.
It says you can get a postcard.
So is there somebody asking to put one in, or?
Yes, there is.
Yeah.
So we have the definition in our book for it.
It's just not listed in use in any zone.
The lot, kiddie corner from Gordy's that Stentoft's own.
Used to, What was that; Charlie Cassidy?
The Charlie Cassidy house that Matt tore down a year or two ago.
So there's a public hearing to hear comments on that, and then they'll have to decide
whether they want to make a recommendation or not to do it.
K, so in your packet is a zoning permit.
Yeah.
Let's see.
For Gary Nieskens, 105 Janus for a fence.
Looks like everything is there.
Steve already gave it a thumbs up, so I would entertain a motion to approve this zoning permit.
I'll move.
I'll second.
Okay.
Steve, any comments on this
that we need to know about? Pretty basic stuff.
No.
Yeah, I went over there with him and drew it out with him.
I mean, it's basically, it's not even really, it's more like a privacy wall kind of thing
between him and his neighbor.
Okay.
I think it's only like 12 feet long or something like that.
We can do.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Yeah, and it sounds like the city council can do, too, so.
Thanks Steve.
He stopped by my house.
and wanted to finish mine for me.
Did he?
Yeah.
He's trying to trim up business again.
Yeah.
Any other comments?
Okay, hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
All right.
Motion carries.
Okay.
And then next thing in your packet, the law enforcement advisory board minutes, the draft
minutes, I guess we'll approve those at the next meeting that we set for October something.
I think 17th or whatever it was.
Right.
Yeah.
October 16th.
So, no sheriff.
There's only a public there and then Greg, Michael, P and I and Sonia.
Are they trying to hire another deputy?
Well, they have Rex and Tuggle kid, I thought.
They both still working then?
Yeah.
I thought I did see the, maybe they need to pull another sheriff.
Well, the should have four.
You're right.
They should have four.
So, can they have, if he isn't comfortable appointing this Sheridan County attorney
knowledge here, and then just for our knowledge, if he isn't comfortable assigning his current
deputies as the under sheriff, can he hire three deputies?
Well, yeah.
And I agree with what he's out right now.
I wouldn't just throw something in position just because.
Yeah.
So, but at the same time.
Yeah, I don't know.
Honestly, I haven't ever researched whether a sheriff has to appoint an under sheriff
or under what circumstances they could not.
I just, yeah.
Yeah.
I would look into it, I guess.
Well, if they don't pass academy, then they don't have a job.
Basically.
Yeah.
So, Ben, so Sonia and I were talking.
Sonia brought this my attention about the attorney general office for the state of Montana
looking into cities supposed to be having like their own police.
We talked about this briefly and I don't quite, I didn't.
There was a little thing on The Great Falls News about the city of Shoto.
Quite a few cities and towns are arguing over their sheriff contracts.
So, apparently in our MCAs it says that third class city has to have a police chief to say that.
Yes.
So, they're reviewing what that actually means and maybe they're going to rework that.
Okay.
That'd be interesting.
And come up and put some solutions for all the smaller communities that are currently
here.
Just because they're struggling with law enforcement.
Yeah, that's why technically, you know, we have to have a contract.
And theoretically, Flaxville, even though they're so small, should have had a contract,
even though they, I don't know if they, they had or if they did.
It was kind of a handshake.
Sounds like a lot of communities have the same.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that was kind of a bargaining chip to, I mean, we, we have to have something
either, you know, a police chief theoretically, you know, a force of one or, you know, contract
with the local sheriff's office to provide the services.
I just thought it on The Great Falls News here in the morning.
Mm-hmm.
Or the attorney general's office is reviewing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see how that goes.
You try running something through the legislature.
You ever know what's going to come on the other side, unfortunately.
And it spits us out.
You know what?
Yeah.
Might be better, might be worse.
Yeah.
Um, since we're on the subject of law enforcement, are you and Logan gaining any ground on just
getting our, re-approving our current, um, contract because it's your spider doesn't
use the 30?
Yeah.
I guess that, um, we honestly have not, um, have not jumped in on that.
Um, probably, uh, I'd say later this week or early next, we'll be getting together on,
uh, that, I guess, timeline for the Public Safety Commission or, yeah, if we want.
Um, I don't know if there was any discussion that that LAB meeting, um, I wasn't able to
attend, but is everybody okay?
Just putting kind of the same agreement in place until something better comes along.
That, so that's what I was suggesting, but, um, you know, if Mike Lund isn't necessarily
sold on the Public Safety Commission thing yet.
Okay.
Um, Logan, I did talk to Logan the same day.
I texted you and Logan on that same day about the meeting.
And Logan actually just stopped by for a minute and he wanted to go visit with the newest
commissioner to feel him out, the story he's had on it before, you know, he, maybe you
guys get together and put together the big push.
Sure.
Yeah.
As of now, I believe the city is in favor of at least pursuing it, you know, until we're
not.
Yeah.
And that's my, that's what I'm worried with the county is, well, we don't like the way
this sounds now.
So no, don't, we just, no, don't.
Like, well, let's, you know, let these college educated people at least pursue it, present
the stuff.
Yeah.
And then if we still don't like it, and we voted down, at least we can say we went down
the road.
Yeah.
We need to know the ins and outs of how it worked.
Yeah.
Like, you know, the positives and negatives of if it was set up that way before you make
a damn decision on it.
Yeah.
You know, it's common sense.
I hate that it's a no.
I mean, let's, let's try to find a yes.
And if we can, well, then it's a no.
Yeah.
So then why did we start backwards and vote in a male levy for something that might not
be.
Well, yeah, we tried to, the sheriff's office needed the money, whether there was a public
safety commission or, you know, like that was priority number one, because quite honestly
had that not happened.
I don't know that we would have had an effective law enforcement agency to supervise, you know,
this whole new entity.
But anyway, so it was kind of trying to eat the elephant one bite at a time.
And what would the putting John Baker little P politics allow, you know, for any one, one
project.
So that's kind of how we ended up just doing it one at a time and prioritize that.
And I was kind of woken me, putting our heads together, but short answer or bringing it
back around.
We'll be getting together on that.
It'll probably be early next week.
But yeah, plan on doing that if people want, you know, or the bodies want a contract in
place.
I think it'd be a good idea just because if they're with the sheriff's out, you know,
enforcing the laws in the city, it'd be nice to have that contract where they're officially
authorized to do that and write city code ordinances and violations.
But that, yeah, that being said, I don't want to lose momentum on the other thing.
That's a possibility too.
So we'll be working on both of them.
Quite honestly, I've been devoting the time that I have had since I, my return to trying
to get this pivot thing figured.
Yeah, for sure.
We can talk about that in a minute.
Yeah.
Okay.
So again, having no sheriff here and kind of what's noting the advisory board meeting,
I guess we're good there.
Council comments.
I had just had some people ask about when we were going to fill potholes and it sounds
like you guys are going to start working on that anyway.
Yeah.
Actually, when you put the chart and then weigh it in the hay, so.
Yeah.
That's what I saw sitting up there.
So that question is answered.
So you can tell the people, I went to the meeting.
I went and I told Steve he's going to fill potholes.
Yeah.
He's going to do it today.
And he said he'll get it started today.
Well, it'll be tomorrow.
Great.
Now the liars.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And where are you, what's the priority areas?
Where are we starting?
Well, we got to do that thing at Anderson Apartments or whatever.
Yeah.
And then I know there's potholes by like the credit union and one by up on Smith.
Yeah.
There's some on Smith.
I've been walking by.
Yeah.
One in front of zombies.
Robert Miller has one.
Leave that one in front of zombies.
Right.
I think he disappeared in there.
And then there's one down in front of that house.
Art Holm's mom's old house.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Any other council comments?
Okay.
Moving on.
Okay.
Now, about half of our packet is pivot and paperwork and approvals.
Sure.
All that stuff.
Basically pages 10 through 32 ish.
If you're looking at it digitally, but yeah, then why don't you take the wheel here?
So just to kind of update the council.
We are on the city side all cleared to close.
The survey was recorded last week after the commission approved it on the 16.
We updated all of the various documents, the deed, right?
The first refusal, the access of utility easements all updated that with the correct legal description,
the exact legal description.
We also sent out an amendment to the buy sell agreement, which this looks like the prior one.
There's a second one that I just finished drafting yesterday that set the exact amount
because the price was a per acre.
So we stated the exact acreage, the exact legal description, and then amended the purchase price.
And that was basically just to give the title company clear direction like this is actually the number you're starting with.
They don't like having to do their own math.
Well, I mean, they're capable of doing their own math.
They just want to close it.
They don't want to be making any decisions as to what's there not to sell.
So what did the total last acreage come out to?
I think it was 124,000 in change.
Because it's 86.06 acres or 86.16 acres.
I can get that for you.
I just ordered it.
Two along.
So, okay.
I actually just have an update note because I got an email at 86.06.
Where I was going is the city is all ready to go on their side.
As of until 15 minutes ago, I had not heard anything from JCL's attorney on their status.
His email just indicated they may not be ready with the lean releases for tomorrow to close.
So we may be pushing it a week, but hopefully we'll get it closed then.
I kind of suspected that might be the case because one of the lenders is the FSA on JCL's side.
We're working through another client lean release with the FSA.
It goes fast despite everyone's best efforts.
So anyways, that's where we sit.
We're all teed up.
Everything's basically ready to close.
We did have a closing date for tomorrow, but it sounds like maybe next week.
So the closing you'll need to check?
Yes.
And Morgan to sign.
Yep, documents.
And we may even be able to get someone assigned ahead of time.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, we'll let the closer know.
They asked about Thursday or Friday, but the title company's only here one day a week.
So if it's not tomorrow, it'll be next week.
So the 31st?
Probably the 31st, yeah.
Which is still within our window.
You know, we had June 30th plus 45 days.
So we're almost there.
Plug it all this close.
Yeah, plug it away.
Plug it away.
So we'll get there.
And then yeah, once we get that deed recorded, I guess pick up things with DEQ, whoever else.
Let's take two mayors and eight council persons to get together.
Yeah, so we're going to have to have some kind of a party.
For sure.
Yeah.
Gotta be.
It's good.
I was, I don't know, there always seems to be something with this deal, but it looks like everybody's still on board and we're, the big hurdle for me was whether that survey was going to get signed and not.
Sure enough, we got everybody in there and it all got recorded.
So I think everyone's pretty well locked in at this point.
And I think we'll finish it out okay.
A lot of moving parts, of course, and a lot more on this deal than even your average.
So that's where we sit.
Okay.
Optimistic that within eight days.
So if we close on a Wednesday, I could go down there Thursday and turn the pivot on.
Yeah.
Good.
Have you not been able to do that yet?
I don't know if it's been, if he's been running it or not.
Oh, okay.
We're not overflowing yet?
No, we're not overflowing yet.
Okay.
And if we had to, we could pump it into the cell.
Yeah, that's what I would do.
Well, again, well, technically, I mean, everybody's still subject to the lease.
So I mean, he shouldn't be operating it.
Because before I turn it on, I got to measure up 200 feet and I got a cap 200 feet of sprinklers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we have all the caps to do that?
Well, I can't remember if they're inch or three quarter, but just get them at the harbor shore.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
They're just probably like five or six heads as well.
Well, you can't thought.
And then we'll just cap them off for now.
And then this winter, he says more of a cold time to do that anyways, to date that whatever off we have to take off.
That's a smart idea.
Yeah.
Okay.
So let's do.
Okay.
Good enough.
Okay.
No.
Big step forward, I guess.
All right.
Moving on.
Task order 11 here.
I didn't really look at this one much.
I just need to, do we need to, to approve this on you?
Yeah.
And I reviewed it.
It appears to be pretty standard.
Yeah.
Cooking cutter template.
Okay.
Okay.
So great.
Great.
It's finally getting to work on this.
The wastewater.
Because this.
I know it seems like it's going to take a while.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I gave up.
Okay.
I think the next one.
I know, it seems like we keep going back and forth with wastewater and stormwater, which
wasn't he supposed to be working on the stormwater one?
Or is it this one that he said exists?
Or work in like, last year to the year before?
This is an older one.
I thought the last time we talked to him, he was going to work on wastewater, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Because that's where we were having all of our issues with stormwater, so we didn't
talk to him about that.
But I know, like with the wastewater, having all this updated, whatever, hopefully put
us in a position to start applying for more grants when we have to update all that infrastructure
going from Turb Lake to the Pivot and whatnot, but official terms here.
So, all right.
At this time, I would entertain a motion that we approve a task order.
This is a regular engineering agreement.
Task order 11.
Task order engineering agreement for the wastewater.
I'll make a motion for the engineering agreement.
Okay.
Motion made.
Do we have a second?
I'll second it, Morgan.
Okay.
So, motion made, seconded.
Any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
And just proof that 60,000 is the new 50,000 for the amount.
Just a nice round number.
Okay, so next item.
Skip ahead.
This is really nothing to, I asked Sonny to put this on there.
Instead of putting it in the consent items, I kind of wanted it as a separate line item.
It's just one page Excel spreadsheet.
For me, it's on page 52.
You can go across and you can see the, you know, the difference in water.
Usage versus a little charge for.
I don't know if there's, I don't know if I'm missing like water that's in the storage tanks.
We're still no workbook.
I don't know if I'm just getting my foals off UB and my foals off, or off water.
Yeah.
And then I go off, look at drive curry and see what they're charging us.
I don't know what else to do.
You know, to be, when I first looked at this, I'm like, oh, you know, the column on the right is just, it just keeps adding up and adding up.
I'm like, oh wait, no, it's not.
That's the actual per month difference.
So July different.
So I don't know.
The meter was broken July, so we got three waters.
Yes.
For like two weeks.
Their meter was broken?
There was, yeah.
I'm sure they'll charge us something.
When I talked to Gumball, we sounded like.
Yeah, a little bit.
Gumball.
That's Jake Zumball, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I just, this is crazy how.
You know, are people pulling out of these hydrants in the middle of the night?
How are we two million gallons off?
Yeah, I was going to say, that's a lot, a lot.
I was going to say, what about the pull?
Getting no new charges, so is it getting put on the.
Oh, I mean, that would make sense for May and June for it.
Yeah, we don't pay for it, but that's why we put meters everywhere, just so we can count.
And I just thought that was in our totals, but I don't know if the meter totals count.
If they're not being built.
That'd be a place to look and see.
Sure.
Because two million gallons that you're parking your baseball field in.
But, you know, just even looking at January, February and March.
You know, like I get, February and March, okay, a couple hundred thousand gallons.
But then, you know, January, six hundred thousand, like.
That's a lot.
Was there, did something freeze?
Well, you guys have skin reeked in there somewhere.
Yeah, but boy, how many.
We counted those gallons one year, and it wasn't.
Maybe about two hundred thousand gallons.
Was it?
I think they flooded it three times this year.
I don't know how.
Did they just, did we give them a meter?
We meter it and then pro-coa pays for it.
You know, at the bulk water.
But see that meter is separate too.
And so it's only read every six months, or whatever.
I don't, I think it's only read yearly.
So we have a red pro-coa speeder.
I don't know how much Duke has pulled out of that.
I turned up on the hill.
Sure.
So, yeah.
But it would be interesting to know if the ones that don't get charged,
if they get counted towards the gallons.
Yeah.
But even, you know, like I said, we can just focus on February and March.
I bet they do, because, I mean, they're still selling us the water.
They're just not charging us for it.
Well, they're charging us for it.
But see, we're, I mean, like our meters, we have meters in the park, in the baseball field,
but they're not, they're on no new charges.
So we don't get billed.
And we don't bill ourselves.
So I don't know if the usage from those meters gets added to what we get, you know, to this particular water.
We are counting.
That one?
Yeah.
I'm sure it's probably a black mountain question that I would assume.
But like when Perry was in the other day, you know, I didn't know that the eye clinic didn't have a meter.
It's on a flat rate, which people who are on a flat rate almost pay more than they would a favorite meter.
Then did.
Yeah.
That's why we stuck one in my office, because they were overpaying by quite a bit.
I think the same thing at the hardware store, too.
I told the hardware store that they'd probably get a lower bill, but putting a meter in, you know,
it's for the radio station was the same way.
Yeah, because you're not using, those places aren't used.
No, they're washing hands and flushing toilets.
Yeah.
You have water and grass or new dishes or laundry or showers.
That should be in our favor.
Oh, and it was.
It is.
That's just where that, so that would make that number the difference smaller, because we're getting reimbursed for it.
We're just not tracking the actual gallon usage.
Yeah.
But still, like, I, well, that's just it.
I feel like, you know, 300,000 just seems like a lot to be off.
But I think, but you know, like this, I guess, two million usage.
Yeah.
I mean, it's 10%.
12%.
You need to confirm that whether or not those non-charged amounts are in there.
And then, yeah, pro-co-op or whatever else.
I mean, you kind of got to get everything in there to really know how big of a problem that is.
Yeah, we're missing a lot of data, if we don't have that partial picture.
Well, then, and they said, and 10% is normal, they say.
We're above that, but like, you know, the shenanigans that Mark Jensen pulled with his new shop, you know,
what did he pull when he built the Bo Reaver shop?
You know, is there unmetered services in there, you know, that people are talking about?
So those tickets have all been pulled out now, too?
Yep, yes, for sure.
Oh, really?
Yep, and he pulled all those tickets out, put a meter pit in.
So it's all metered after the service.
It's all ready to go.
So did we go get that second meter inside the shop then?
Yep.
Because we should double bill it for a couple months.
Absolutely.
And all the free water they got.
We went in the day after he put the other one in and pulled it out, so.
The other thing, we just got to put a radio on his new one that he put in,
but he hadn't filled it in the last time we were there, so.
Jesper's been a lot better to work with than Mark with this.
Yeah, Jesper's been good to work with.
Mark, it was just, it was just a fight.
And Jesper, he's like, I just don't want the reputation.
I wish everybody thought like that.
And really, trying to hide free water at the end of the day for one person,
it's a few hundred dollars, you know.
Anyway, digress.
Anyway, I guess, you know, we can focus on February and March, let's say.
And if that's kind of where our standard is, you know, without parks, ball fields, skating rink.
You know, maybe we're, maybe we're close, but.
But that is just an FYI for the council to look at.
So when people say, you know, why is our water so expensive?
Well, we're paying for water that's unaccounted for.
So.
Yeah, for city functions.
I mean, stuff that we used, everybody uses.
I mean, they need to understand that city has to be put in there.
So we have to pay for water no matter what.
Yeah.
Every gallon that comes in.
Yeah, unfortunately, we pay for every drop we have.
Yeah.
Okay, moving on.
I guess now we will go to approved management plan, the Slipa Fire Hall roof improvements.
So there's two management plans that look exactly the same.
Pretty much.
The only difference is on the first page where it's underlined,
it'll say in the first paragraph, under administrative structure,
fire hall repair.
Pretty cut dry.
Basically, Sonya had to fill in the blanks.
So there's four pages of that.
So I would entertain a motion or five pages that we approve the management plan
for the fire hall roof improvements.
How motion we approve for the fire hall.
Okay.
So motion made.
Oh, second.
Second.
So motion made and seconded to approve management plan for the fire hall roof improvements.
Is there any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Then, the next item is the next page,
a bid proposal from Teal Brothers Roofing
to approve the hire them to repair the fire hall roof for the amalgam.
Just a bit.
Yeah.
Looks like we got a couple different bids.
So the second bid there, is that them overframing the roof and adding insulation?
Am I reading that wrong?
I mean, add additional for R30 insulation.
Where does that come into the, do you know Steve?
No.
No.
I mean, that's almost $7,000.
But I mean, are they, if they're not reframing the roof,
where the hell are they putting R30 insulation?
Yeah.
I don't get that, I guess.
Because it doesn't say anything, adding structure or anything like that for insulation.
I don't know.
That's a replacement insulation that's under there.
I don't know.
Oh, so maybe they'll peel the top off and replace all the insulation and then re-sheet it.
That's not, that's not bad.
Yeah.
Which probably needs to be done.
Well, yeah.
As long as it's leaking.
Yeah.
There's probably no mold in there.
Yeah.
Oh god, yeah.
No, no, no.
That's not bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So Sonya, what is our, our building's maintenance budget right now?
I think I put like $150,000 in an arm for the roof shop and the landscaping and the fire hall.
Okay.
So we're getting, we're getting $127,000.
Yeah.
We got a match up by 25%.
Yeah.
That's what you meant.
Is that what our total slick of money is, is $120,000?
I was saying it was a flat $100,000.
It was a little over $100,000.
Was it?
Yeah.
Okay, well that's fine.
But it's all included in the budget right now.
Okay.
So even if we go with the Cadillac repair or they just fix everything, we could go the
full $47,500.
$47,600.
That's what you're saying.
Because I mean, if we're going to do it, then if they're going to have everything tore apart,
you know, you builders in the room can talk me out of this, but I wonder if we just have
them do everything because they move.
Well, I mean, you're adding a 10 year warranty to it.
Right.
With the second one.
You're adding twice, I mean, damn near twice the thickness of the membrane.
Yep.
And gutters and new insulation.
I mean, I would be in favor for the second one.
Most definitely.
To do it right.
Okay.
Steve, do you have an agreement too?
I would.
I'd get the best, I mean.
Because I'm going to spend pulling teeth to get somebody else here.
Especially if you end up do building a new fire hall.
I mean, you can say, hey, this little one.
Yeah, this building's worth way more money when we do it right.
The first time rather than.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, I would entertain a motion that we approve at a higher teal brothers Ruffine
for the amount of 47,559 to do everything that they have listed on the bid proposal.
I'll make a motion to approve the bid proposal for two brothers for 47,559.
Okay.
Motion made.
In all second.
Seconded.
Any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
All in favor, motion carries.
Okay.
Great.
Greg's in Iowa.
All right.
Moving on.
Let's just keep spending money.
It's a new fiscal year.
New year.
Sonya said spend it.
You're out of the way now, so you don't have to worry about it later.
Okay.
We're running out.
We have our second management plan to use.
So we can make sure we use up all of our slip up money.
The state local infrastructure money.
This one would be for the new shop.
So I would entertain a motion that we approve the management plan to upgrade the cold storage
building and repairing and replacing sidewalks and improving landscaping around city hall.
Okay.
Motion made.
You have a second.
All right.
So motion made seconded to approve the management plan for landscaping sidewalks and a new shop.
Any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Motion carries.
So once we have a scope of work on all that, we'll have to get that one out.
Okay.
And we're going to pay Gordy to build a scope for us to take it out.
He came, I met with him over there, so.
Okay.
And then once it's, and he did suggest instead of doing a spray foam on that, bat insulated,
just slid it because he says if you spray foam that, and if it gets hit on the outside,
you can't peel the tin off and put new tin out.
Well, and it's probably cheaper.
Because it's all stuck together with the spray foam.
So.
Yeah.
It's a lot cheaper.
Yeah.
Could you have spray foam?
Spending.
Spending for spending.
So.
So when the proposal that he's put together, the specs, he's got bat and so on.
Okay.
So he'll fur out at all balls with two by six then?
No, there's enough room there for.
Oh, there is.
The poles.
Oh, okay.
Because the poles are on the, you know, they're split eight inch beams in there.
Yeah.
If it's in, so.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Moving on to.
Yeah.
You have a packet of papers in front of you here for the nuisance ordinance properties.
Ben, I guess you probably have already let your sister and brother on.
Yeah.
And then so when people complain about this, we can say city attorney.
Okay.
City attorney's family got one city.
Is getting one city.
He's one of his high school best friends is getting one.
No.
Yeah.
We treat everybody equally.
Our employees folks are getting one.
But yeah, they're finally done.
I apologize for all the delay and getting there.
It did take a little while.
It wasn't for nothing, but yeah, just.
What's the work in progress?
We still have two of those old ones that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's kind of keep, keep needling on it, but progress is being made.
Well, we're proving that we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Right Sonia.
Inside joke.
We're angry public.
So, um, I guess I would entertain.
So, uh, Sonia, you probably have these on colored city letterhead with the pictures
and supporting documents.
And actually I, after I told you, I walked down here without my briefcase.
So I don't have the sheets that I filled out the day that we went to Spectrum.
So I will, I'll just scan and email those to you.
And then you can match them up.
Um, technically sending these letters has already been approved by the council.
Whatever a couple months ago, I think.
Yeah.
So I don't know if this council needs to take any action on it.
Okay.
It's just kind of an FYI that they are done.
If more people sign in today, it'll be out.
Yeah.
We get phone calls.
Yes.
Yeah.
We're answering phone calls.
Yeah, there you go.
Considering half of them are on Timmons where I live.
Yeah.
Timmons and Parker.
Yeah.
Pretty rough shapes.
Yeah.
And you have signed yet on it.
Yep.
I'll sign them all and get those too.
Yeah.
And the photos I have, if anybody acquires like we documented it, I don't think we sent those
out with the letters.
Didn't?
I was thinking we did, but maybe we didn't.
I can't remember.
Maybe they could request.
I know that letter refers to the sheet, like the sheet will be enclosed in a copy of the
ordinance.
Yeah.
I think that's all we did last week.
Yeah.
We sent letters with, like, literally asked people to cut their lawns and stuff.
I was sent a letter about it.
Especially to the people out of town.
I've just got all the photos uploaded into a Google drive.
You know, that's timestamped and whatever else.
People want to see what we saw or are curious, like which one does specifically show them.
Okay.
And I guess related to this, I spoke with Bo Reaver.
It's about that rental house he has that's on 1st Avenue there.
That guy seems to be accumulating.
Bo was real cordial about it.
He made actually a really funny joke and he said, you know, it took me a little bit to
clean up Wayne's world.
I was thinking the same thing the other day.
I'm like, it just spilled over.
Yeah.
So anyway, he said he was going to speak with him and he said if there's no change, he was
going to, you know, consider terminating the rent agreement.
And he'd just go over to the skids here and dump trailer and clean it up.
So I think he's finding every stick and branch and piece of lumber and Daniel's County and
stacking it in that yard for some reason.
There's a lot of stuff there.
And I told Bo, we go for a walk, you know, a couple of mornings a week.
And, you know, he leaves the front door wide open so dogs are running in and out, which,
you know, teach their own.
But like, that's not his house.
Like I would treat your guys's house like that, you know, and then to have to live with
all the flies that are probably living in there now and other bugs.
Like I just don't, it just don't, I told Bo it didn't make sense to me and I felt he
should be aware of what I see.
So we'll see.
I don't expect that to be cleaned up overnight, but I'm hoping to see some activity here,
maybe within by the end of the month or something.
So we'll see.
Okay, so no public again.
Coming agenda items.
Are we going to set the public hearing for the first, our first meeting in August?
In September.
In September then.
Okay.
September 10.
We'll be the public hearing dates for the budgets.
We don't even have the numbers yet from the Department of Revenue or anything.
I got to wait.
We got to advertise it.
Yeah.
And unless the council says otherwise, we're just going to do it right with the council
meeting instead of an additional meeting in need.
So I don't think we'd get any other people if we did it at a different time.
Anyway, we'll advertise it if we go from there.
Yeah, sewer eight, we're going to.
You got to pay for the pivot.
Yeah.
So have to do a little increase there to kind of keep up with things which are 5% isn't
that much when they're sewers at 30 something dollars or whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So last item on the agenda would be your consent items.
You've got a chance to review them.
I would entertain a motion to approve.
Hello.
Motion made.
Wait a second.
I'll second it.
Okay.
Motion made seconded to approve the consent items.
Any questions?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Hi.
Hi.
All right.
Motion carries.
And with that, I would entertain a motion to adjourn.
Yes, sir.
So I wonder if there's going to be some pretty significant changes with organizations like
the DEQ and EPA and everything with that Chevron treaty.
That Chevron.
Definitely.
That's what I wanted to kind of.