America and to the Republic for which it stands, my nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Okay, would the clerk please call the roll?
Here.
Here.
French.
Here.
And Crowder.
Here.
Okay.
The next slide is joining us via technology and we'll leave it at that.
And your packet is the agenda for today's meeting.
I'd entertain a motion to adopt.
Make a motion to adopt the agenda.
Second.
Okay.
Motion made seconded gauging the room and looking at the agenda.
I don't see any reason to switch anything around.
Anyone have any comments, questions, discussions?
Okay, hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
All so in your packet or the minutes from the October 22nd meeting.
I'd entertain a motion to approve.
I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from the past meeting.
I'll second.
Okay.
Motion made seconded to approve the October 22nd minutes.
Any discussion, questions, corrections, additions?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
Motion carries.
Public comment?
Anyone want to speak as a public?
Are we here for other places on the agenda?
Okay.
Hi, Tammy.
You would be technically public, I guess.
I will try to refrain from commenting today.
No, don't.
All right.
Public works.
Well, we got the Lagoon pump pool and work on winterizing that today.
Been talking with Reddale Communications about fire sirens.
So he's getting a quote on replacing both fire sirens to make them both radio controlled
rather than hardwired to the tower and new technology.
Now we got all our green cans pulled for the winter now.
So we'll get them stacked up for the winter storage and put them out next year.
Okay.
And I guess is Terry down at the pivot?
Yeah, Terry started hanging it on Friday.
Okay, Friday.
I'd say it was a pretty nice weekend for it.
I went and scheduled a pro-co-opt to go and do a soil sample on the tune, so.
Cool.
Okay.
Well, one step forward at a time on that situation.
Okay.
Anyone have any questions for Steve regarding public works?
Is the fire siren planting or are we planning to put that on our tower?
Yep.
Okay.
And they come along with anything about the tower going into that building?
Who?
We talked about that.
Yeah, I just talked to Reddale and he said he'd put the tower up there and I said,
get a fire siren for that tower that you're going to put up.
Yeah, I spoke with one of the commissioners a while back.
I don't remember.
I think it was Mike Lund at it.
Anyway.
And he was fine with us doing this.
So, at the fire department meeting, they did ask if we maybe wanted a third siren.
I know that Wolf Point has four sirens in town, so we would have one on the north end
of town.
I'm assuming it would face mostly south and then we have the one at the water tower.
So, I said we would maybe reach out to the red tail guy.
They're the subject matter experts on the capabilities of these sirens and distances and whatnot.
And if they're radio, you can always add one later too.
See if the two work and they don't work.
Then look up.
That's what I would say.
So, okay.
Moving on.
Zoning.
Let's see if we have a zoning permit in here.
4403 Main Street.
Steve, you went and blessed off on this.
Yeah, the second time, yeah.
Okay, because it was a shed, blessed off the first time.
Decided to move it from A to B.
Yeah, he had it too close to the property line and so I said he had to move it five feet away
and then he said his wife might have wanted it in a different location.
So, the wife won the battle of course.
Yeah, they compromised.
That's a good husband right there.
So, okay.
At this time I'd entertain the motion to approve the zoning permit for 403 Main Street.
I would move if we do that.
Okay, great moves.
I'll second.
Thank you.
Any discussion?
Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Okay, Fire Chief report.
Nothing to do with this.
Okay, I didn't go through all the chat messages with everybody.
Do we have a rough tally on money made from this last weekend for the feed?
20,000.
So, it was actually as far as turnout was our best year.
Yeah, which...
When he was 2,000 short, that's just the last year that 50-50 they just split it, gave up on the bag.
So, we don't expect that anyway, so it's pretty good.
I was surprised.
That's awesome that the turnout was so good.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
It might be a bad thing.
Yeah.
We had more, we sort of, there were 244 tickets at the door.
Wow.
That's great.
Yeah, it was a good turnout.
Nice day to be for the guys cooking outside, so...
It was beautiful.
Yeah, there's been some rough ones.
Oh.
Yeah.
As long as the wind don't blow, we can tolerate just about any temperature.
So, that, what's set up, makes it 100 times better, being in that.
It's a little worn by the end, but makes it 100 times cooking.
So, why...
You're down to 3 minutes per forks.
Just because you can keep it.
Yep.
Is there a consensus as to where the money's going to go to?
Like, is there a project or a widget or gadget that they're looking at?
Not that I know of.
I don't think we have anything like that.
Okay.
I mean, you usually make, wait and see how much we make, right?
I know, yeah.
But we have nothing major that we've been planning for.
You know, last year, you know, I brought up those new year racks, they had on the wall.
That, we're definitely wanting, and maybe we can do something where we can split that.
Because that'd be for the turnout here.
So, it'd be city specific.
Yeah.
Old year, new year.
People don't have names on their things.
You've got somebody coming in and grabbing somebody else's gear.
It's just...
Yeah, it's kind of chaotic.
It is.
Okay.
The hood and that, there's no major.
The suburban, from what I understand, the county's actually going to cover that.
The repair on that.
It was used for a county call.
So, it'll take care of that.
It's just an injector.
They need to get a new injector for it.
Oh, okay.
I see it's sitting at Ferris.
Yeah, at CarQuest.
Okay.
They don't have any questions for the fire chief.
Cool.
Thanks, Wyatt.
Clint.
Um, rest his back if he's done an academy.
He returns, though, in March.
Yeah, like this third week of March to finish up his driving portion of it.
Because he took on time off when his band was done.
Oh, I see.
So, but other than that, he graduated.
He's home.
We did, obviously, we all know John Holley has moved.
So, great to move too.
In Minnesota.
In Minnesota, he's moved.
Yeah, he's with a family member.
He moved back to Minnesota where family has after there.
That's probably better for him.
But he moved there.
As far as anything else goes, we had an arrest last month.
The individual was taken to Glasgow.
And then all our traffic stops, numerous traffic stops at home.
I can't count them.
40.
40 traffic stops.
Is that something?
I know you started doing it and then you lost your crew, mostly, and got a new guy.
But, like, just the one page.
Yeah, so now being done.
Okay.
To be putting that together for everyone.
Yeah.
And it doesn't have to be super, super specific.
Just kind of in-town calls and whatnot.
So, you can break it down as detailed as you want to.
I don't know what other towns they pretty much break it down like.
So, we had 147 incidents.
We had, like, 40 traffic stops for 15 911 calls.
Like, it should be broken down like that.
Like, this is what we need to be telling the community.
Like, this is what we are encountering every month.
And, you know, just so everybody knows, like, we've been pretty busy.
Yeah.
And I guess the one thing that I would ask is probably our biggest complaint prior to
the homeless situation was barking dogs.
So, if we know how many people are actually calling the Sheriff's Department to file a
complaint or, you know, walking in, that'd be good for us to know.
So, when we have the same person coming up to us, like, are you actually going down?
Because I'm not going to be the middleman between Citizen A and the Sheriff every time
a dog barks.
How did you explain that?
So, you know, I just tell people, if they do come to me personally, that you have to
go talk to the Sheriff's Department, you know, file a complaint.
And we can hopefully put together a history if there are some habitual offenders or whatever.
But other than that, that'd be the only thing I would like to see on there.
I've been referred to as a canyon, so...
I haven't sent you a report.
Okay.
Perfect.
Okay.
Does anyone have any questions for the Sheriff's?
So, just to add to what's going on, motor oil stuff is starting to roll in.
We've got packages already for radio.
So, I think we're going to start delivering probably from what it sounds like we'll be
getting packages every couple of weeks for the radio until the bigger stuff gets here
probably January.
And then they'll start installing.
So, it's all in the process now.
Okay.
And that red tail does all the installation?
Red tail does all the installation.
And then Connie with Motorola is the one who is in charge of getting us all of our equipment
shipped to us.
So, and as far as that tower goes, like I said before, I think commissioners are pretty much
on top of taking care of that as far as I know because they haven't really been in communication
with me about it.
That's about all they know.
Okay.
It sounds like we're moving along.
Sounds trespassing calls been so far for hunting season.
Thanks.
Yeah.
They're not going to go up.
Yeah.
We haven't had a whole lot of trespassing calls, but we've had a lot of calls for cows
being out.
And you go up.
People with gates open?
Yeah.
Obviously there's gates that are open.
So, it's more so we really don't find out about a chest passenger during this time period
until the cows are gone away.
Yeah.
The cows are running free.
Yeah.
We had some that came over from Valley County.
They decided they wanted to come to.
Come to ours?
Yeah.
The grass is greener.
Yeah.
Then they found out there is no grass.
Yeah.
They were mad at us.
Yeah.
Good.
Okay.
Anything else?
All right.
Thank you guys for briefing us on what right now.
Moving on.
Council comment.
So, I don't think we talked about something briefly.
I'll let you.
Not much is going on really with Hall of Waste.
The transfer station is done.
And we have not set a hard date on when that will.
When we'll start to transfer over to Plentywood, I think Roger or someone on the committee
is going to be talking to Lonnie Johnson over there just to, because he's got some possible
trucks and stuff that might work for us if ours break down.
And they were going to talk to the dump manager over there just to make sure that they're
ready to start accepting.
Most of the talk is equipment.
And I know little to nothing about equipment, so the men handle that.
Other than that, things are moving there, I guess, just not very quickly.
Oh, we also discussed different times the dump would need to be open, hiring a third
person.
We need that third person to sit in the eventual booth that will be built.
That needs to be built per rules and regulations.
So it's just a hard, they've been, they've had out in the paper for years now to hire
a third person when they can't get anybody.
So they had Mike Peeland, Mark Peeland for a while.
And yeah, and he's moved out of town.
So apparently people don't want to sit in the vehicle and check people into the dump
ground.
So I don't know why.
That was a perfect job for the homeless person.
You're breaking back.
Well, they're going to have to wire in some sort of electric and computer capabilities
to that little shack.
So most of them, they have a gate and a button and a person.
That's where it works.
And then they take what plate numbers and, you know, I really don't know how they're
proposing to do this because the building's not going to be up where the transfer station
is.
And yet they want somebody to be at that transfer station when people are dumping so that they
don't back in to the hole to the hole.
So whoever it is is going to have, they're going to have to have a outfit, you know,
a four wheeler or something to run back and forth.
Every transfer station I've used, there's never anybody there.
There's usually like Missoula there was.
He hit a barricade of some sort.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Missoula had a barricade and a lift and, you know, a gate and you check through and Helena
has a...
Yeah, the bigger ones I know.
All the big ones.
But I did smaller towns.
I've never seen anybody there.
Yeah.
We talked about people not paying their bills either, you know, for the dump does not make
any money.
And I just told them the first big home renovation project I did, I never got charged for my
dumpster.
This last time they dumped it three times and I got charged for it because I went to Christian
and said, you need to charge me for this.
You have to basically tell them or you're bringing in because they do deliver the empties
and you can fill that and that's what we did and then just paid for that.
So I don't know.
I mean, I'm sure things could get buttoned up better, but...
Are they going to be getting rid of the dumpsters at the entrance right there?
No.
I don't think so.
I could be wrong on that.
I'll check and do it for you.
Okay.
Thanks for the update on that.
Any other council comments?
Thomas has been pretty quiet lately actually.
Yeah.
And at home.
Well, in that last run down the alleys, cleaning them up did a much better job with a little
moisture.
Made the alleys a lot better.
Okay.
All right.
Moving on.
David Lease.
Mr. Foslin.
Not much new updates on that one.
It has been, I guess, kind of finished up, but I haven't gotten it signed by Terry yet,
so I reached out to him to get a good email.
I don't know.
It had been middle of last week, I guess.
I don't know if I heard back.
So I'll follow up on that, but it sounds like he's already in there, so he must be just
crossing the T's and dotting the I's.
Yeah.
We gave him permission.
Okay.
So I'll get that done.
I guess just kind of generally speaking to, I had intended on being able to finish up
a fair amount of this stuff before the end of the year.
As soon as the election was over, I started getting hit with all sorts of judge stuff.
So I'll be gone all next week in Helena for training and we're getting calendars squared
away for next year and whatever and all that to say.
I don't know how much I think we'll have to scale back expectations for me personally
on what can get done between now and the end of the year.
The pivot lease, certainly.
If there's a small wardenance change or whatever else, I'd be happy to work on that, but some
of the larger projects may have to wait for whoever comes in after me.
So this kind of a heads up on that.
So I do apologize.
I fully intended on getting it done here and ready for this meeting, but it did not happen.
So that's on me.
Okay.
Apologies.
Sounds good.
Okay.
Moving on.
Estimate, remote system removal and removal of one span of the pivot.
So I'll see if you want to kind of walk us through the estimate 32 diggers.
Right.
Basically, just take off that last leg that has to be capped up.
Anyways, I mean there's leaky spots in it, so DEQ's going to make you remove it anyways.
And then the thing is just so it can be turned on without having to drive there to turn it
on and turn it off, that is required by itself, I believe.
Okay.
And we found out it's not $200 a month.
$200 a year.
$200 a year, which made...
Absolutely better.
That didn't give me more sense.
So, but then we still need some sort of a NEMON, Internet connection or a cell.
Connection, I'm sure, down there, which will be, you know, hopefully it works with NEMON
because I think NEMON does those data ones for only like $15 a month.
Okay.
Well, we're changing over to this new 600 megahertz Ericsson, but I think we can still
get LTE modems for those, so you could probably put an LTE modem down there.
About to see the kind of connection they have.
Yep.
Yeah, because there's nothing really close for like a point-to-point, I'm trying to think.
Yeah, I don't think there's fiber down there, except for John and Lee's house.
No, but we do have point-to-point radios that we have for Internet that possibly we could
put an N10 on this building and shoot it down to there.
Okay.
But we'd have to kind of do a slight survey and see how exactly how far it is and stuff
like that.
I think it'll be, once we get it, we'll have to figure out how to do it.
Yep.
There's options.
Okay.
And then there is a couple things like we need to get some new pontoons on the pump at the
lagoon because while we were cranking the pump up, the lagoon then started to sink.
So, and then there's a pipe down at the pivot itself that has a, that's got a hole in it
that just needs to be replaced.
So, we've got to take it apart.
Two diggers will have to build a new one for it.
So, that'll be in addition to this.
This will be in addition to this, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, we're slowly working our way through getting everything updated to where we said
we'd bring in two.
So, I guess I would entertain a motion that we approve this estimate in two diggers.
For it to remove the, the last span on the pivot and then for the remote system in the
amount of 8,820 bucks.
So, move.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I'll give it to Seth.
So, motion made in second then.
Good Seth in the minutes there you go.
So, motion made in second then to approve the estimate to have two diggers go remove
the span and start getting us ready for the remote system.
Is there any questions?
Are there any concerns and comments?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
All right.
All right.
Another thing is that two diggers is in the process of getting a dealership with a meter.
So, then once they get the dealership, we'll be able to get a meter on four.
That's more for Terry to share.
Is there 110 power down there, Steve?
There's 480 down there.
I don't know if anything splits down to 110 or not.
I would have, that radio probably goes even lower than that.
I don't know.
That might be the only kicker.
You can get one of those solar panels that provides 110, but take it off the cemetery.
They don't use it for their Sprinter system.
Yeah.
Yeah, that might be the kicker right there is just figuring out how to power a unit.
Yeah.
We can get all that stuff.
I'm sure you could get an electrician to knock down that 480 or something like that.
I would think you could, but...
Be just a transformer.
You take the 220 leg, the little leg, and prop it out.
Well, I guess if Mr. Weier's going to be up here working, maybe he can quiz him.
Yeah.
Because we wouldn't need to fit that out.
We could just hire somebody, right?
I would assume, yeah, because it'd be under 80.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, like I said, if we can lock him down here, maybe you can...
Which I'm sure you're going to need 110 power for this.
For the whole set on the next set.
Yeah, I wonder if maybe that has a deal in it, you know, that...
Yeah, it could, maybe.
Makes it 120.
Yeah.
Do you want to reach out, Steve, and then I guess if we have to, we'll...
Yeah.
Okay, always something.
Okay, moving on.
We've got the quote for the tank inspection.
And this is Mitco.
This is a different company that we've used in the past.
It's for the tank on the hill for the divers to go in.
We used to use liquid engineering, but they are no longer in business.
And the tank hasn't been inspected since we've had all the work done to it.
Which was like 2021, I think it was when that was done.
So, were we just asking them the cleaning and inspection?
They got the price there, $42.36.
Yeah.
Yeah, we dive in there, then we video it and give you a report.
And is this a requirement?
I mean, not that it really matters.
We need the preventative requirements.
Not a requirement, but if you want to keep your tank in good shape.
Yeah.
Kind of more...
They do ask, when you get your sanitary service, they ask if it's been inspected.
Okay.
When we had our own water, we had to have it done every year,
because there was so much sediment in the bottom.
So, are these guys...
Is there a certification process or a list of qualified vendors you can use?
And they're with...
They have, like, National World Water and stuff.
So, I mean, it's not like you could just pull it out of the sky and pick it up.
Okay, well, I would entertain a motion that we approve this bid or this quote
for $4236 for mid-code diving and marine services for the big tank on the hill
to get it cleaned and inspected.
We'll make a motion to approve the bid quote to also have it cleaned.
Okay.
Motion made, seconded by Gray.
Thank you.
Any further discussion?
Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
All right.
8800 plus 4300.
It's blown through my...
I like it.
Ah, probably could spend some more money here.
The flow point software agreement?
This is...
It's not on here.
It's after there.
Oh, this one's only $1,000, so this one will be easy.
And what is this for?
Is this so you, when you drive around, read meters?
No, this is the boat water station flow point.
Oh, okay.
Because then it's a different one we have when we read meters and then...
That senses.
Okay.
All right.
Who wants to make the motion to spend $1,095 for the flow point environmental systems quote slash invoice?
I'll make the motion to approve the flow point services invoice.
Okay.
Motion made, seconded.
I'll second it.
Okay, Brian, thank you.
So again, motion made, seconded to approve this invoice for flow point for $1,095 for the boat water station software.
Are there any questions?
Is there any discussion?
Steve, is this paying for itself?
I mean, are we making enough on the boat water to pay these pretty easily?
Yeah.
Because it seems like it with what's being used.
Yeah, yeah.
We make money on the boat water.
Okay.
Depends on how many hoses we have to buy.
Yeah.
Or make.
Yeah.
All right.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Okay.
Aye.
Motion carries.
Passes here.
So ordinance 24-4 for the nuisance vegetation definition of first reading.
I don't think I have that in my packet.
I don't think they have that.
No.
Okay.
I didn't see it.
Okay.
Well, I guess upcoming agenda item.
I guess since it's on there, are we supposed to do the first reading?
Is it the same one as...
Is that treaty one?
Yeah, what I brought.
Yeah.
But there haven't been any changes to it.
What I submitted last week, or last meeting.
I don't think...
I don't think we changed anything on the first reading anyway.
So that was my fault, yeah.
We haven't read it yet.
Okay.
Okay.
Bap, pull.
I'll put the second reading on the next agenda.
Okay.
Does the council want to approve it anyway?
Or do the first reading even though...
Even though...
I mean, we have already...
We've all read it.
We've all read it.
Yeah, we've all read it.
I didn't change that.
Yep.
Okay.
No.
Good point, Ben.
Thank you.
So I would entertain a motion to approve the first reading of ordinance 24-04 nuisance vegetation definition.
I'll make a motion to approve for the first reading.
Okay.
The second.
Okay.
Motion made and seconded.
Is there any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Motion carries.
We'll have...
We'll have this for the second.
And actually, let me go back just to post mayor comments here real quick because we'll have to...
Is...
Are we going to be fine if we move the next meeting to next Tuesday, the 19th versus the 26th?
I think, Brian, there's a conflict.
I'm at town on medical.
The reason would be we have to appoint the study commission members within 20 days of
the election, which was November 4th.
So it puts us to the 24th or...
Yeah.
So if our meeting is on 26, we'd be out of compliance there.
Plus that would be the Tuesday of Thanksgiving holiday.
I don't know if that affects anybody or not.
Usually that's kind of a Thursday, Friday holiday.
But maybe there's family coming or family going, but...
I would be fine with that.
It works for you?
Yeah.
Okay.
Ben?
I'll be out in Helen.
You're in Helen?
Yeah.
Okay.
But I'm not required for a quarter of me there.
Nope.
Nope.
So I guess we would just maybe...
The pivot leaves would have to pick that up.
Sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
So we don't need...
I know it's not on the agenda, but we just have to give 48 hours notice.
We're going to move a meeting, right?
It's on the agenda.
Yeah.
It's under administration holiday and meeting schedule.
Yeah.
It's on that.
Oh, okay.
Well, I was looking at Thanksgiving and I guess Christmas for that.
Okay.
Well, that'll work.
I'm going to jump the gun.
I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm going to sell us a gun.
So I guess study commission appointments.
I just kind of gave my discussion on that.
Why are you still interested?
Sure.
Okay.
So I also have a third interested to go along with Jason, who is automatically in.
We are running an ad in the paper.
It'll run for one week.
Just to put out there that, you know, if you're interested, contact me.
We decided to do this basically hours before Sue Becker came and approach.
Actually, we kind of caught her, but she had approached me several weeks ago and then she
walked into city hall when I was here and she called me back late last week and said
she would be interested.
So, so that was technically the third, but we're going to run this ad.
And then at the next meeting, we will appoint the two people to join Jason as we do.
So that is that.
So we'll keep that right there.
Moving on.
We have the agreement for drug and alcohol program.
Okay.
Okay.
So agreement for drug and alcohol program administration fiscal year July 1 of 24 through
the 25 between basically the city of Scobie and the RTR DT services out of Haber.
Is this what we've been using?
Okay.
They drive through like Sydney and Williston.
I see that like quality checkers or something.
They have a couple of buildings.
They do government.
They're more specific to oil field.
But now at this time I didn't motion that we approve this agreement for drug and alcohol program
administration.
I'll make a motion to approve the alcohol program agreement.
I'll second it.
Okay.
Motion made seconded.
Is there any discussion?
It's basically just for Steve and Colin and Paul.
Actually does the pool and everybody else.
Yeah.
So as a city drug and alcohol program.
Correct.
So this these are just the city employee.
Yeah.
Now that's what I meant by the city drug and alcohol program.
Okay.
So if the city is paying deputies, do they fall under that same program?
No.
I can answer that because under the current law enforcement contract, your office and
your deputies are not employees for purposes of the city.
Okay.
So they fall under the county.
Yep.
So that's divvied up in the inter-lawful or whatever the law enforcement agreement.
Yep.
This is a program I'm trying to put into place as well.
Okay.
I thought the county did use the same way the NLJ put us all in the same pool.
Yeah.
That was going to say the same thing.
Yeah.
It's only for those with...
Oh, excuse me.
It's probably just a DOT program really.
So that's where...
That part is required.
Yeah.
That's why that's there.
The city chose to expand it to all because you can also have people with access to sensitive
financial information, whatever else, you know.
And so you can't expand that out to more.
And I think at the time the discussion was why not just do everybody, you know.
Perfect.
I liked the bed thing.
Yep.
So when there's random draw, Steve, does she come do the test here then?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yep.
Right.
How are you?
Yeah.
We just did it about two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago?
Yeah.
Whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because last time it was me, Paul, and Sonia we got through.
Yeah.
Paul and I have breathalyzer and drug and she just had drugs.
This is for my own, I guess, information.
But is she pretty good to work with?
I mean, I get along with her good, but I was friends with her kids in Aberdeen.
Yeah.
Just kind of slow on the paperwork.
We just got done.
Yeah.
Okay.
Doing some knee-bump recruiting.
Maybe, yeah.
She's come up there and pedaled her services before, but it's been a long time, so I haven't
talked to her.
We like her.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Did we vote or are we still discussing?
We're still discussing.
Okay.
Any further discussion?
Okay.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
And there's, do other towns put this out for bid?
Or use, try to find someone who actually comes to your area, kind of like audit services.
That's what we did.
Which is blindly pay the $25,000.
It's pretty rare that the person will come.
That's why I'm, we always have to send our people.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
We have to find a hospital that'll do it and that's getting rarer and rarer.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Maybe you should hire her so she keeps coming here.
Let's save everybody some money.
Get money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, make it worth her day.
I mean, coming from Haver, that's, I mean, that's not a terrible drive, but February
can't be, I suppose.
But, yeah, I never thought of that.
It would suck if we had to send you guys, because it's basically a day.
Yeah.
I mean, you're not here for a day, but you're working for a day.
So, and I'm not going to give you guys extra vacation.
No way.
No way.
Oh boy.
Uh, airport appointment.
I'm still team Charles Trauer here.
Yeah.
And I really don't have much in the way updates on that one either for you.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Other than he remains on until he's off.
So that's it.
And that is one more that I will get that squared away.
So that's, I've got kind of a cleanup list going.
But sure.
Both of those are on there.
Well, hopefully that's just a conversation with you and the other gal.
Yeah.
Kind of threw up the red flag.
Yeah.
Well, I found it interesting.
The email said, you know, I don't really see where, you know, this, you could get around
to this, but then the response from Christie was, you'll have to pick someone else.
I didn't quite make the jump from me, but that's why it was like, okay, well, we'll,
we'll have that conversation and see.
But I think it's the city's call at the end of the day, unless somebody's complaining
about it.
Well, at some point, the chairman of that board has some pull.
You know, bless these unpaid boards, positions, people for doing these jobs.
And, you know, they need to be, they need to be supported too.
So, okay.
Holiday slash meeting schedule.
We haven't talked about this yet today.
So, but I got an idea.
Let's have it next Tuesday.
That's, that's a fantastic idea, Seth.
Were there any holidays that we need to, so we're closed Friday because we, Friday of
Thanksgiving, excuse me, which we can also discuss next meeting, but Christmas Eve falls
on our second meeting.
That was the other thing.
Yeah.
That one up.
Yeah.
It's not on Christmas Eve.
Yeah.
Well, it doesn't, it doesn't fall on that, on that meeting if you, if you make it every
two weeks from the 19th of November, the third to 17th and then you're free.
Yeah.
It's kind of a pain to change those though.
Especially for claims.
Yeah.
It's nice.
I don't, I don't really want to have a meeting on December 3rd unless we absolutely had to.
And I don't mind having them back to back.
I mean, it's nice to have them spaced out, you know, when we can, but also we're going
to conduct the same business.
It's not like we're trying to move meetings around.
So we're going to get more public.
I mean, we get who we get.
We get Tammy and that's it.
Yeah, you're kind of stuck with me.
So what do we, Sonia, looking at the calendar, what, what are the two proposed changes?
So November 19 instead of 26.
Yep.
And then either cancel the second meeting in December or put it on the 17th, I guess.
Move it to the 17th.
So the first meeting in December is the 10th?
Yeah.
Well, let's just, I hate, I don't really want to cancel it.
I'd say we move it to the 17th.
And if it's a quick meeting, that's great.
But is that, but I'll leave it up to the council.
And then also on the holiday schedule, if we get a closed city hall at noon on the 24th.
No.
No?
You just want that day or you want New Year's Eve too?
I don't care about New Year's Eve.
I don't do nothing.
I do.
Sonia likes the party.
Sonia's suggestion and I'm all for it.
Okay.
Well, so November 19th and December 17th, is that what we're saying?
Well, yep.
So November 19th, December 10th, December 17th would be our next three meetings.
Okay.
Well, I guess I would entertain a motion that we adjust our meeting schedule.
The next three meetings would fall November 19th, December 10th, which is already scheduled and December 17th.
So moved.
Okay.
Motion made.
Seconded.
And seconded.
Any discussion?
Are we just going to deal with that or do we want to give them the, do the holiday right away in this motion?
So we're already off the Friday, the whatever Thanksgiving we're off.
Yeah.
And then noon closures on the 24th and 31st.
Okay.
Should I amend?
Should we amend the motion to have that then?
Okay.
So we have a motion made and seconded for the next three meetings.
Is there any further discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Carries.
Now I would entertain a motion.
I'm not looking at calendar here to, to adjust our holiday hours on which days?
24th.
31st.
Okay.
So on December 24th and 31st that our office closes at noon.
I would make that motion.
Okay.
Motion made.
I'll second it.
And seconded.
Any discussion?
Okay.
Hearing none.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Okay.
Motion carries.
There.
I'd like to make things harder than they have to be.
It's a gift.
Don't ask for anything the rest of the years.
Oh, we can mention it.
Yeah.
Just so long as it's a gift that doesn't keep one gift.
Yeah.
After three years, I had no one to do it.
Okay.
Any public comment?
Anything on or off the agenda?
Tammy, no comments today?
You're just...
Not on the record.
You're the opposing team who's snuck in to watch practice to steal our playbook.
I have one, and I forgot to mention it.
So the ISO lady just goes with the do that.
She wanted to know if there's any way we can do a flow test before the end of this year.
Why doesn't she show up in the summer every time?
Which hydrants?
Just one hydrant?
She emailed me a list.
I'm sure it's probably the same ones we did last time.
There was a couple back in school.
Yeah.
Probably school, hospital, and then a couple of rents.
Yeah.
That's just it.
Then people are going to...
That's what I mean.
Then I'm thinking of trouble for that too.
Yeah.
And then she's got a...
She wants us to fill out...
I'm pretty sure she wants us to fill out her paperwork for her.
She's getting ready to have a baby, so...
It's not a hard thing.
Get a hold of the Great West and see when they can come up.
Because they're the ones with all the stuff.
We don't have this.
So that was another thing, Shad.
If you had the stuff to do it, not, we could possibly get that from her.
Yeah.
If you wanted to do it or...
We don't usually, we just have Greg come up and we just do it that way.
He brings a little handheld mics up and...
They don't...
He doesn't charge us for that.
I'm sure he does.
They're working in there somewhere.
Yeah.
50 grand.
Yeah.
Nothing's free.
Yeah.
I'm sure if he's got...
If he's coming up for like one or something, then we could just do it that day that he's already up.
Well, we're running out of days to do it.
We're middle of nowhere.
I know.
We're going to go and see.
Ice.
Yeah.
That's stupid.
So can we put like a hose on the end of the gadget so we can point it down a storm drain or something?
Well, usually we point them so that they're going down the street and as long as it's not too terribly cold.
I mean, I don't know what the...
It's going to start getting pretty cold.
Well, that's like sick.
By the end of the week, it's going to start getting cold.
Yeah, it's going to change.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was looking at the weather for this weekend.
So can we...
If I don't get them here Thursday or Friday, it would be ideal.
Can we not...
I'll call Greg.
Or can you not just schedule this every year and a time that works better for you and tell her that this is what we're doing?
We're supposed to be doing it.
We're kind of at her mercy.
Yeah.
So the last one, from what I understand, the last one, they actually need the same numbers from the test before because we didn't get the pressure that was expected.
And that would have hurt our number.
Well, yeah, because see, the way they do it is the way that they worked last time is they brought back the numbers and they said, well, they're less than they were before we changed the pipes.
Well, because that's the pressure you're going to get no matter what, you're getting the same.
But you can suck out of it faster with a pumper truck than you can.
And she told me that we can't do that.
So, I mean, the pressure...
The hydrant flow not through...
Yeah.
And that's the thing.
They're not going to change to what they were the previous time because we haven't did anything.
I mean, we don't have any more water.
And that's why they should do it in the summer because in the summer you keep your towers taller.
You have more head pressure.
Yeah, you got more head pressure.
And I think, you know, before we changed all the pipes, you're going to have actually more pressure because you have less volume in those pipes.
So it creates more pressure.
Now with these new pipes, they have full volume.
Yeah.
But less pressure.
Yeah.
Should I try to see if she can?
Full score?
I don't know.
Are we going to get dinged if we don't get this done?
I mean, or if we're going to do it, I can talk right away to fill our tank up as full as they can.
Well, that's just it.
If we're going to do a test, it's got to be, you know, fair for her.
I mean, that's a...
I don't know.
I mean, because if we're...
The number will be worse than it was before.
Yeah, it will.
Yeah.
Especially if the tank's down.
Like you said, you don't have that head pressure.
Yeah.
I mean, because in the event of a fire, we're calling dry prairie and they're going to open that thing up and it's going to fill in our tanks.
Yeah.
You know, so that's...
We're going to have to kick it on if we've got a fire truck.
And with our fire trucks, we can't suck enough water fast enough, you know, to outperform or outrun.
Outrun what's available.
What's...
Yeah.
And I know they were trying to get better ISO numbers for the school and they come back at us.
And basically, for them to get better ISO number, they need to put a sprinkler system in.
I mean, really.
Yeah.
That was what they...
Yeah.
Yeah, they have to have their own standalone pumps.
Yeah.
Basically, the pump.
The same as a pumper truck was.
Yeah, basically, yeah.
Because...
Center to their building.
Yeah.
And I can get a holy grail and see if maybe, yeah, it's time later this week or something,
but...
Because it's supposed to be 50.
Today, it won't be too good.
Good.
Yeah, let's...
If we can't do it this week, I don't know if it's...
Yeah, next week is...
So...
Especially because I don't have a sander right now because the clutch is out of our sand pickup.
So, if we fill the tanks, you know, top them off basically, how long does it then take
to drum down?
It doesn't take that long, does it?
Well, no, it wouldn't take...
He would take it for that day.
He set it up high so it would always keep filling on the tank.
And then as soon as we're done, I would just tell him and he would just change it.
And it would work its way back down and then go back above it.
Standard winner level.
Okay.
Okay.
Upcoming agenda items.
So, I guess we're going to keep a couple of these.
Thanks, Wyatt.
Thanks, Wyatt.
We'll keep a couple of these items on here.
Plus...
I know Logan was really wanting to...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, I guess I wanted to fast track the public safety commission thing while we had you on
team.
But...
Well, I think there's still kind of a plan in place to do that.
I think we just kind of...
When you remember, I was just thinking about that actually.
Was it Logan and you and I that were going to go visit with the commissioners about that?
So, you probably need to get on their agenda.
I'm already on there December 2nd.
I'll be going.
I'll be going.
No, I should be on that one.
You can add that in.
I'll send out an email to everybody to see if we can get whatever needs doing done before that meeting.
Yeah, and I'd like to...
If you can get on that December agenda.
I know between Sonya and Tammy, I get the agendas, but I want to be at that discussion, so...
That's good.
If there's a highlighter anywhere, that would be one to highlight and underline and golden.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's that?
Some flashy lights next to it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sonya second here.
Yeah, I believe the budgets were discussed on those and I believe should have been already passed by now.
And the money was, you know, allocated.
So...
Okay, all right.
The last item on the agenda would be the consent items.
So, Sue and we've all had a chance to take a look at these.
I would entertain a motion to approve.
Make a motion to approve the consent items.
One second.
Okay, so motion made, seconded, any discussion?
Okay, hearing none, all those in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Okay, motion carries at this time.
I would entertain a motion to conclude the meeting.
So moved.
And that's it.
Thank you everybody for coming.
Thank you.