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Scobey City Council

January 28th, 2025 Meeting

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00:01I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which

00:10it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

00:31Chair? Chair. Okay. And you hit the go button, right, Sonya?

00:36I don't know if you want to move it forward, it's to the front, not the speaker.

00:41Now, maybe we can leave it. Okay.

00:44In your packet is the agenda for today's meeting.

00:49I'd entertain a motion to adopt.

00:51Make a motion to adopt. Second. Okay, motion made, seconded. Any discussion?

01:01Okay, hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye.

01:04Okay, also in your packet are the minutes from the January 14th meeting.

01:09I would entertain a motion to approve. I'll move. I'll second. Okay, motion made, seconded. Any discussion?

01:23Additions, deletions, corrections? All looked good to me.

01:28Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. No comment. No public.

01:38Utility clerk, did Janet want to do that or no? Okay, that's fine.

01:43We'll maybe have something next meeting.

01:46Public works, Steve finally made a 2025 meeting. Thanks for being here.

01:52No, I have no problem.

01:55Library and construction started working on the building, the shop.

01:59They got it all roughed out, now they're waiting for an electrician to get in there to rough his work in.

02:06And then I don't know if we want to discuss giving the McGuire iron contract to the attorney

02:11or not, since we never got our yearly maintenance.

02:16When do they bill us?

02:17Is that first of the year, is it coming?

02:19I think they bill us fiscal week, don't they? Yes.

02:22So, like, coming up in June or July then?

02:26But I don't know if their yearly maintenance goes off at January to January.

02:30Yeah, because that's 20-ish grand, right?

02:36Sounds like it's... 16? 14? Wasn't all chaos.

02:40But aren't we in a contract with them until we pay that off?

02:44Yeah, basically, yeah, we're in a contract for 10 years or whatever, but it's always, it does,

02:49it's just automatically reused, too, I think.

02:51I'll have to pull it. Okay.

02:55Yeah, I don't think we can have Samantha take a look at anything.

02:59I think at any time we don't need that on the agenda.

03:02So, Zach, would you mind taking a look at this contract?

03:05And then offline we can maybe get into the weeds as to what's going on.

03:12But this has to do with the water tower in the middle of town. Okay.

03:21Okay, Steve, anything else? I don't think so.

03:25Is Gordy giving you, I know we're waiting on an electrician now, but any sort of a completion date?

03:33No, yeah, that all depends on... basically the completion date depends on Mr. Wire.

03:42That's scary. Supposedly, does Border States come on Wednesday, Seth? Yeah, I believe so.

03:48He said that there should be some wire coming on Wednesday that they're going to drop here.

03:53Yeah, it's either Wednesday or Thursday. Mr.

03:57Wire thought it was Wednesday. Okay.

04:04Okay, anyone have any questions for Steve?

04:10Oh, and while we're here, can we discuss removing some of those stop signs? Yes.

04:17I'd like to eliminate some of the four-ways around the school. Can't. Why?

04:22It's a safe zone for children.

04:25But not when people don't stop.

04:31Yeah, I know. I mean, not all schools don't have four-way stops.

04:36Yeah, those are the newest stop signs in town.

04:40Steve did a, not this Steve, but Top Steve did a traffic survey, and I think Dwayne, Dwayne

04:47was sheriff, Steve was the under sheriff, right? Correct.

04:49And he came and did a traffic survey and suggested it, and we thought, sure, you know, whatever.

04:58I know one of the things that I hear complaints about the most is if you're heading south on

05:07A Street, you have to stop on that hill, Tennis Court Hill, whatever you want to call it there

05:12on the far east end of the school.

05:15So then that, you know, as soon as your first vehicle's tires break loose, then it's just, you

05:22know, in effect, then everybody else is spinning out.

05:28You know, there hasn't been any accidents there, but.

05:46Because we did remove one by the mortuary to make it a three-way stop, so the buses can just

05:54go basically for the buses.

05:57Yeah, that way the buses can go through there and everybody has to stop for the buses.

06:03I know that the one that you're talking about there, the southeast, I guess it would be.

06:10In the southeast corner of the school, that one's a pain because you're on that hill, and I

06:15know the one that's right there next to the fire department is also bad because it never really

06:21melts, and when it does melt, it turns into a puddle.

06:23It never sees the sun right there in front of the fire hole.

06:27If it's up to you, it's basically your stop signs.

06:30We were just told it's a safe school zone, so.

06:35But those are going to be your ones that are split to the west.

06:43And the one that's right there, what is it, I guess it would be the southwest corner as well. Is that Timmons? It's Timmons. Yeah, Timmons and...

06:55Right next to Mortuary, people slide through that one as well, too.

07:01When I look at it, if they're actively braking and trying to stop, I've slid into that intersection in those three areas.

07:09And I know you're supposed to be going 15 on those streets.

07:13It doesn't matter if you're going 15, you're going to slide down that hill anyway.

07:15Yeah, even at 5, I've slid through that one on the upper side.

07:22That's up to you guys on how you want to put them around your school.

07:26I can't force the city to...

07:28Yeah, I mean, I feel we could reach out, get the school's opinion as well, and go from there.

07:37I do know that they, well, if you keep the ones that run north and south near the fire hole,

07:43that'll help keep the kids safe, too.

07:45And that's why I know they start right across that road.

07:48That's why I suggest keep those north and south ones by the fire hole.

07:53Back and forth to the library and kids club.

07:56They move quicker than some of the vehicles.

08:03Thank you for my suggestions.

08:10Okay, anything else for Public Works? Okay, zoning.

08:17Steve, you got any zoning? No.

08:20We didn't even have a quarter mid-August.

08:25This is the time where it's nice to go through the zoning regulations and identify things to

08:32change, but that's the least favorite part of the job.

08:38So, the next meeting will be mid-February sometime? Or is it quarterly? Quarterly, but we have... A couple permits?

08:47We have short-time rentals that have to be approved.

08:55Okay. Plus we need a little more direction with those. Who's doing what? Yeah.

09:02And I did bring that book in. For codes?

09:10Okay. I called Perry's office and it sounds like based on where we are currently, we don't need

09:16to adopt the newest International Fire Code, but it's probably good just to have it anyway.

09:21Well, we should have access to it. Okay.

09:27On the state fire inspection, if there's a code that's required, it's actually listed on that inspection sheet. On that check sheet. List. List and sheet.

09:42And I picked the wrong front and backs of the words.

09:48I had a minor stroke there. That dislikes you. I know.

09:58So, do you... You gave us a copy of that after you completed it, right? Yeah.

10:05Did you send Cam a copy of it too? She did. Okay. Okay.

10:12So, how many of those have we done? Just two?

10:15You did one and Neil did one?

10:18Only three, because I didn't know Neil did one. Oh, yeah.

10:21Was it 502 Wall Street?

10:25Right next to the dog room? Oh, yeah. Or a little...

10:33Okay.

10:39Yeah. Short-term rentals has been fun.

10:44So, how many do we have right now?

10:49One, four, five. On locations?

10:53Because there's Stantoff's, there's one next door.

10:55Stantoff's haven't turned anything in. Oh, you just mean... Just name it. Active right now. Yeah, active ones.

11:00So, we got one next door, Stantoff's, Laura Lobos, Frederick's, and... Yeah, Rochelle and Josh. Oh, yeah. And I don't know...

11:09We don't know what the guy... Jeremy, right?

11:12But Jeremy's the one over here.

11:14Because he was signed up for short-term rental, but I haven't heard anything from him since we...

11:19I think his in-laws are living in that house right now. Jeremy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jeff Jones. Yes. Oh, sorry.

11:26Yeah, because he had originally... Yeah. Applied for it, right?

11:30We haven't heard anything from him since...

11:32He got approved last year, but we haven't heard anything back after the letter was sent.

11:37I don't think anybody else has lived in there other than his in-laws or whoever's in there.

11:41Yeah, I think you're right.

11:47Okay.

11:51Because Farver's isn't one anymore. Yeah. And then... And Aubrey Summers. Yeah, yeah. Stopped hers, too.

12:01Yeah, because Farver's turned into a commercial. Backed commercial.

12:09Did you say Frederick's, though? Julie's. Julie's. Julie's.

12:14That's the one over there, right? She sold that. Yeah.

12:20Okay. Moving on. Anything else for zoning?

12:26I guess we'll have to...

12:29We should maybe try to have a February meeting, then, if we need to go through those.

12:34What date will the February one be?

12:38It's probably the Wednesday after our... 12th? It's the second Wednesday. Yeah.

12:45I should be able to make that one.

12:56That's at 2 o'clock? I think they've been at 2, right? I think they did.

13:02They changed it to 3.

13:02Is there an agenda right there? That's the law enforcement.

13:05Yeah, I think it's 3. Okay.

13:07I think it got changed to 3. Okay.

13:08Originally, it was 2, and then it got changed to 3.

13:17Okay. Moving on. Study commission report. Well, not much. Not much there.

13:26They're going to meet again here in February.

13:30There were some rumors going around that we were going to have...

13:36Wyatt, are you going to resign? What?

13:42What was your question?

13:46From the study commission? Okay, good.

13:50There's rumor going around that we might have some people resigning, but nobody told me about it.

13:56You don't want me to hold it, I don't know.

13:58At least you don't know about it.

14:02Maybe you were voted off. Yeah.

14:04It just breaks my heart.

14:08Okay, so enough of the report.

14:10They're meeting coming up here in the first part of February.

14:17Wyatt, we'll keep it with you with the fire chief's report. Not much with this.

14:21I know they put some new lights up in the hall.

14:26I don't know if you received a bill on that yet, Sonia.

14:28I didn't know they were putting lights up, but apparently they did. Nice. Yeah.

14:35Is there a switch for that flag pole light?

14:39Because it's just on all the time.

14:41I talked with Collin about that, about just bending that light over so it shines on the sign. Okay.

14:48So we're going to just take a ladder so it points to that metal sign that's above the door,

14:53rather than straight in the air. Yeah.

14:55Because it's pointing at nothing. Yeah. It's the bat light. Well, it's true.

15:04You could probably put a photo eye on that thing, huh?

15:07I think it doesn't have a photo eye. I don't think so. I don't think so.

15:11I looked at it one day.

15:13It is an LED bulb, though. Is it?

15:15I don't even think it's on the timer, is it?

15:17No, I think it's just on.

15:19I think it's just on.

15:21Probably switch right inside the door for it. Probably.

15:23You've never found it before.

15:26You know, we'll get it turned so it faces the sign, so at least the sign will be lit up at night.

15:33Another net net for us.

15:34The county did acquire a semi. Yeah, saw that.

15:40I guess the goal is to get a tanker and have their own water tender instead of using pro-co-ops. Oh. So.

15:49Where did he keep it? That's a good question. I don't know.

15:55I think the idea is to leave it somewhere around the fertilizer plant.

16:00Then Nick Dighans can grab it as he comes through.

16:07So it doesn't cost anything.

16:10It costs us to ship it here. Yeah, that was it.

16:12But it doesn't cost anything.

16:14After three years, we take ownership of it. Cool.

16:19And it was a government surplus situation.

16:25So it's not geared for the highways now.

16:29It came from that marine base there over in California. Pendleton? Camp Pendleton, yeah.

16:40They have some dump trucks there, but they're all spoken for.

16:46I mean, it seems to be a pretty nice truck.

16:48We get a trailer, it makes sense. Yeah.

16:54Yeah. More flexibility with water.

16:56We could have two points of refill rather than one.

17:04But other than that, we have nothing. Okay.

17:06This ain't the fire department, but Lions had their thing this weekend. 60 kids showed up for this one. Good.

17:14Probably the largest turnout we've had.

17:15It's a really good one.

17:19It's definitely getting used.

17:23Cool. Good deal. Free hot dogs and hot chocolate? Yeah. Ran out of both. That's a good day.

17:31Some of these kids can eat.

17:38Okay. Thanks, Wyatt. Oh. Actually, one more. Oh, jeez.

17:43Because I didn't know anything about this.

17:44So this fee you're doing for this inspection thing, one, personally, I don't want it. I don't want that. It takes 20 minutes. That's no big deal.

17:55If you take that money and put it somewhere else that could be used, that's not something I

17:59need, nor do I want it. Oh, okay. So, yeah.

18:04Thank you, but I would put that towards something else. Okay.

18:09Yeah, it was just, you know, if we're going to have these, you know, you guys in these part-time

18:17positions have more and more duties, and if it takes away from the paying job and family time

18:24and stuff, we just try to be fair.

18:27You know, everybody who's volunteering for something is already on another board or two, so...

18:35I do it on the clock.

18:45All right. Well, can I say thanks now, Wyatt? You done? Okay.

18:53You got one more thing, Wyatt? Yeah. All right. Sheriff's report. Sheriff Lowe. All right. All right.

19:02So, Pauly, you're still in jail.

19:07Deputy Tuggle is on day two of training, so we're moving there.

19:14I did sit down with our new city attorney, and we were talking about some of this stuff for,

19:24I guess, like the fees for citations for in the city, and how we can probably, or talk with

19:32city council, see if we can get you guys to adopt some of the fee schedules from the state itself,

19:38from the MCA, just so they're not like...

19:41Moving forward, there is a bond for citations within the city.

19:48I spoke briefly with you about it, too.

19:53With that being said, the interlocal agreement, did you guys get a copy of that?

19:59I signed a copy of that from... Yeah. I haven't seen it.

20:03Because I signed that before the last meeting that we had for the Law Enforcement Advisory Board. I signed that.

20:11But I noticed there was a city attorney.

20:14I don't know if Ben signed it, or did you sign it? I haven't seen it.

20:17I wonder if Ben signed it.

20:18Okay, so I know the commissioners.

20:22Kristy still had a copy of it.

20:23I signed a copy there.

20:25So I'm surprised you guys haven't gotten that local agreement back.

20:28I thought we signed it last time.

20:30Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's all signed.

20:33We might not have our copy yet. I just noticed it's...

20:39When we had the Law Enforcement Advisory Board meeting, it was in there, but there wasn't any

20:44signatures, so I figured it was just a blank one.

20:47But I did sign that one.

20:51Other than that, I mean, the safety zone around the school, that's up to you guys.

20:55If we remove the stop signs, that's cool, I guess.

21:00We can put them somewhere else.

21:01But I have noticed that... I don't believe...

21:07Steve, were there any speed limit signs I didn't see? I don't know.

21:13I'm might want to look at that, because even though we do 20, 25 miles an hour, people coming

21:19off the highway here at 45, they stop, and they think it's a 35 mile an hour zone.

21:24That would be state, though. Oh, is that...

21:28You mean coming into town from over here, then you turn south?

21:32The Canadians will do the 35.

21:33I'm pretty sure there's a 25 before you hit... There is.

21:37There's one, there's a 35 by Nemont, and then there's a 25. Yeah, going north. I'm talking heading south.

21:45I'm pretty sure there's one over here. From up north? Yeah.

21:48There's two, it's a step down. Yeah, there is.

21:54It may have been... because we pulled them over the day that the snow was blowing pretty bad,

21:58so those signs may have been covered. I have no idea.

22:02I didn't see them when I drove through there.

22:04But those are all state highway signs.

22:08Yeah, but that was still considered part of the highway, even though it runs through town.

22:15I'll get with the state and talk to him about it then, too.

22:19Would he be in charge of the U-turn signs, too? Yep.

22:22All the signs on Main Street are...

22:25The only one that's ours is the radar sign.

22:28Because I keep getting asked that same question when we stop people for doing U-turns.

22:33They're like, well, it's not posted. Yeah, it is.

22:36There's something up there, because when you...

22:39But it says no U-turn in this intersection.

22:41There used to be one by the Pioneer.

22:43I was going to say...

22:44Yeah, that's where it's at, facing. If you're driving south.

22:46If you put a sign that says no U-turn right there, they figure that's the only place they're

22:51not allowed to do a U-turn.

22:52Because if you read city code, it says you can do it within certain areas.

22:57But they're not understanding that Main Street is still considered a highway.

23:02Well, and there's double yellow there.

23:03You can't cross double yellow.

23:05You turn left to cross double yellow.

23:07You're not supposed to do an U-turn.

23:12And so that's just some of the things that we're coming up against right now.

23:16But I still cite them for doing a U-turn, because it's not supposed to do a U-turn on a highway.

23:28And then... I think that's pretty much what I got.

23:32Unless you guys have anything from my office.

23:37No, so Clint and I did meet about a week ago or so.

23:44In my free time, I'm trying to do a little research on citations that are issued versus what

23:57happens to them as they go through the court.

24:01I was pretty disappointed in what I found so far.

24:08Clint did bring me a stack.

24:11You know, yay, thick, going back a year, a year plus.

24:16I know there were some issues.

24:21Tammy and I, a couple attorneys, the judge, the sheriff.

24:31We all had a Zoom conference call.

24:35And tried to get everyone on the same page with how citations are supposed to be filled out

24:43if it's in the city.

24:46I think there was some confusion slash different opinions.

24:50Might be the better explanation.

24:56So I think that was, and this was, what was it, two months ago now probably?

25:03Anyway, so yeah, going through these, I just, I'm having a hard time paying for a city judge

25:11if we don't have one.

25:16So I just want to try to hold him accountable.

25:20If he's doing something, I guess wrong or whatever, let's get to the bottom of it.

25:27If it's not his fault and all these tickets are getting thrown out because they are filled out

25:32incorrectly, let's get to the bottom of it.

25:37So Tammy did spearhead that meeting.

25:39Thank you for that because it was much needed.

25:45So I got my eye on a couple right now that just went to court.

25:51So I kind of want to see what happens there and then go from there.

25:56I did learn that if there is a mistake on the citation, the judge can correct me if I'm wrong,

26:05both of you guys, give it back to the officer or to the sheriff and say, hey, you need to do this instead of this.

26:11They can correct it and then they can still be cited, right?

26:18Well, the city attorney can file an amended complaint.

26:22Essentially, basically, you know, after consulting with law enforcement, tweak it a little bit.

26:27That the judge's refusal doesn't necessarily mean a dismissal with prejudice.

26:32It would be without, meaning the same comment could be recharged properly. If that makes sense. Okay, yep.

26:42So anyway, just, you know, I'm trying to look into as much stuff as I can.

26:48This is all Greek to me.

26:49I don't know the inner workings of citation to judge.

26:53If they fight it, if it's thrown out, how it, you know, whatever.

26:57I've been going through, I guess it's the full court program.

27:02You can do a citation search.

27:04You can do a name search.

27:05You know, there's some privileged information that's not there.

27:10But there is enough information there that you can kind of see what's going on.

27:17So anyway, that's what I've been doing.

27:20I appreciate my meeting with Clint when he brought up all that stuff.

27:24He brought more than I thought he was going to.

27:26So I'm kind of bummed that I've got to go through that much stuff. But it's fine.

27:32And Clint, I guess the only thing I would say is, you know, like just another, even if it's

27:41handwritten or even if you orally give it, you know, number of citations, some heavy hitters.

27:47You know, keep the privileged information out, obviously. But things like that.

27:52You know, the five-minute cliff notes of, you know, the last month.

27:59That way we kind of got a pulse as to what's going on.

28:03I wonder if you can print dockets, and Tammy might be able to answer that.

28:06Can you print like a docket of outstanding tickets from full court? Do you know? I don't know.

28:14I'd have to look at what the public can see.

28:16Yeah, it is really limited.

28:18But at least just cause numbers and parties anyway.

28:21And I wonder, since the turnover, how much of it's been entered so far. Yeah, that's true.

28:30But, you know, I just kind of wonder if, you know, I talked with Shauna earlier, and I know

28:36they've got a lot on their plate, but somehow it would be nice to have a tracking system at

28:43the sheriff's office as well, and maybe they're able to print something. We can print.

28:51Our CAD system allows us to print out what's gone through. Okay.

28:56It gives you a citation number, it gives you a date, it gives you a time, basically.

29:01We can do one for a public version, which will eliminate a lot of information on that.

29:09But citations, I mean, citations are pretty much.

29:14Once they, correct me if I'm wrong, once they hit court, they're public knowledge, right? Correct.

29:19So whether the dissemination from the court was to dismiss or to, you know, fine, it doesn't

29:26have to be a public docket.

29:27It's a public docket at that point.

29:29But the ones that are proceeding in court before they get there, it could be, yeah, you've got

29:34this citation that's been issued, or this case that's been issued.

29:39You might not be able to know the names or the, you know, of who's behind it or who's involved with it.

29:48But we can print stuff like that, even if we have to put it into a different thing.

29:54And to follow up with that, I even need to know, because our system is tracked federally too.

30:03If we don't turn in, like, felonies, you know, we turn everything in.

30:09Our computers get read, whether it's a case or a citation or whatever.

30:13If it's a felony DUI, yeah, we could, the city, the county, the division, you know, the office,

30:22they could potentially be receiving money from the feds.

30:24It's called a NIBRS program.

30:25I'm sure you're familiar with it.

30:27You know what NIBRS is, right?

30:30We got to turn this stuff in and the state reviews it and says, okay, yeah, your NIBRS compliant.

30:36It opens it up for potential grants for the city and the county.

30:40But without getting the information back from the court on what the outcome was, I can't track it.

30:48And there's another step in between there as well.

30:51Once you issue the ticket, the person can go up immediately and pay that ticket.

30:58And so even though you would see that you had written maybe that their appearance date was,

31:05you know, two weeks from today, if they go up this afternoon and pay it, there's no way to know

31:13without going in that they're not going to be seen.

31:16I mean, I guess that's another level of it. Yeah, I know.

31:19I mean, it's just, there's little holes, little bridges that have got to be crossed.

31:25I guess my question is, is once you issue the citation, if nothing happens, how does Samantha

31:32know that she could look at the, that's the gap to me that's the most important.

31:40How do we track that gap?

31:43That would be part of the program that I'm trying to get installed into these tough books that we received.

31:51It's called NOAA Programs, which means it would allow me to do e-citations.

31:55I can print one and give it to the, you know, the individual that got the citation.

32:01And at that point, I can email it straight to the county attorneys, city attorneys, and the

32:06judge's inbox to where it's already there, just like Highway Patrol does. That would be great.

32:12But then again, that puts, you know, a $95 charge on each computer per month to run Internet.

32:22You can't run it from a hotspot. How many computers? Five computers. Four, at the least.

32:29You can't take a computer out of a vehicle.

32:31It stays with the vehicle.

32:33How do I do it out in the field, 30 miles from the shop?

32:37You're clever, you can figure it out.

32:40You need to follow around with your hotspot in your car.

32:46All right. What I've got to get with NEMON, if I can actually put a different SIM card into,

32:51would it be like a cellular one instead of just a regular data one?

32:56Chances are if it takes a SIM card, you probably can.

33:00Because I know that cell phones are, your first cell phone is, what, $75 a month for the phone,

33:05and everything else is $35 for that?

33:07I've already got five phones or four phones.

33:10Why shouldn't I put an unlimited Internet on these computers for $35 a month instead of $75 a month?

33:17Yeah, I don't know what that plan would be, Clint, just Internet data only, but I know we do offer it.

33:23Yeah, I mean, it's, yeah, I heard.

33:26One is like $75 and it's like 10 gigs of Internet. Yeah.

33:31I'm going to use that, you know, my first transaction.

33:36We have to check that out. Okay. Thanks, Clint. I'm kidding. But wait.

33:47We'll call you guys the Sham Wow Guys.

33:51The Sham Wow Guys, yeah.

33:54Probably not a good idea. Yeah. Okay,

34:01so in your packet is a copy of the draft law enforcement advisory board minutes.

34:08Those will be approved at the next law enforcement advisory board meeting, but for your viewing pleasure, there they are.

34:21Moving on here, I guess the next thing would be the approach application.

34:32Steve, do you want to just explain kind of from start to finish what's going on here?

34:38Who it's for, why we're doing it, why the city is maybe getting tagged with it?

34:43Well, for Dry Prairie, we bought some land just north of the grits addition that borders the

34:52city street, and they went to put an approach permit in, and they were denied their approach

35:00permit because they want them to have the approach come off the city street that borders them.

35:06And that approach was never put in when the streets were put into the grits addition. So, I don't know. I don't know.

35:15It's back to the grits addition thing.

35:18So, it's Art's and Ron's fault. There you go. Okay, good.

35:23I'm just signing it off.

35:27And I'm just, I would have thought the place that's doing this for Dry Prairie would have called

35:33here or talked to us or something after they got this letter back, saying they wanted to coordinate with the city's approach.

35:40That's not there, so, you know.

35:44And then now I know when you put new approaches in, they got to be paved and everything for the state, so.

35:51But maybe if Dry Prairie was going to put one in to their building, maybe they'll put the city's

35:56in for Park Street, or Pine Street. Yeah, Pine Street.

36:03Is that the furthest north street that runs east and west?

36:07Yeah, it ties on to Daniels.

36:13So there's no approach there for Pine Street?

36:16Currently there is not an approach there.

36:21And I believe when they were told they could put those streets in, they were supposed to complete

36:27the streets with approaches at streets and everything. So.

36:39So how would they, where are they going to access, you're leaving town, heading north, where

36:45do they make their first left turn at? Right there.

36:49So you know where Pine Street comes straight out from behind the constructions.

36:56The north side of those quonsets. The last quonsets.

37:02Yeah, it's staked out there, the property line is staked, and that would just come straight

37:07over to the highway from behind those quonsets.

37:11And that's basically where you would turn on to Pine Street, and I'm sure then you would take

37:15a right into Dry Prairie's building.

37:18So is there any equipment that's going to have to be moved?

37:21Is there stuff parked on that road?

37:22No, there's nothing parked on that road. Everything's off the road.

37:28It's just that the road was never finished all the way in to where the approach goes.

37:32Basically it was put in line with the quonsets basically, and that's where it was stopped.

37:38So is this something we could do ourselves, or would we have to hire it done?

37:42Well the paving would definitely have to be hired.

37:45I mean, and I'm sure the approach has to be engineered to state specs. I would assume. I just wonder.

37:52I mean, you know, we should visit with Dry Prairie, see if, you know, we can...

37:57That's what I would say.

37:58Maybe they're thinking it's designed and we can cop share it. Yep.

38:01And then we got, was it hard drives coming up?

38:05You know, maybe they're going to have all that equipment up here anyway.

38:09Maybe they could spend three more days...

38:11Or if Dry Prairie is going to asphalt their parking lot, you know, they would have an asphalter here too.

38:21So who's your contact with Dry Prairie on like stuff like this?

38:24Well, I could call Joni and talk to her, so.

38:29And I don't know if she'll just have me contact that firm that put their approach permits in or not.

38:34Because the main guy, the operations manager guy, he had, he moved to the other side of the

38:40state, and I think Mike Nelson is in charge of it now out of Osco.

38:44But I could just call Joni and ask her. Okay.

38:48Yeah, if there's a way, I mean, if we have to do it, I guess it is what it is.

38:53But if we can figure out a way to cost share it, you know, work together.

39:03I mean, it'd be cheaper for both MDs if you could cost share it.

39:08Yeah, because they were going to have to put an approach in.

39:09Yeah, they were going to have to put an approach into their building anyways.

39:17But we can't annex them into the city limits. No.

39:21No, we can't offer them any services over there. Except for garbage.

39:25I'm pretty sure you can't annex them in just for garbage.

39:28No, because they're going to tie into their own.

39:30Yeah, and they have to put a septic in because you'd have to have a lift station for sewer over there. Yeah, okay.

39:40Okay, well, I guess there'll be more to come on this.

39:46Hopefully, we can get pretty efficient with it.

39:51Not blow a bunch of money.

39:58Steve, traffic control signs. You got a quote?

40:02Yes, these are for signs so we can close Main Street for the reunion thing. Our permit was approved.

40:11We had to submit a traffic plan.

40:13And these are basically the signs the state's requiring us to put up.

40:19And those are just for the signs.

40:21We'll make some temporary sign holding stands just out of some square metal tubing.

40:28Okay, so about $2,800 plus $500 shipping.

40:35And I just submitted them our plan that we submitted to the state.

40:38And that's what they came up with what we needed. Okay.

40:49Okay, so I guess I'd entertain a motion that we approve this quote to buy the necessary street

40:59signs for closing, I guess it'd be Highway 13 slash Main Street.

41:06And add one block of Highway 5.

41:10Oh, yeah, from the hardware store to Car Quest. Car Quest, yeah.

41:15Which you can use these for any street closing.

41:17Well, that's, yeah, something I discussed is, you know, any time they want to close the streets, we'll have the signs.

41:23Or next time they want to close the streets, we'll have them for signs.

41:27Well, we're pretty much doing that. Somebody drove through there.

41:31It'll also work if we have waterline breaks or anything else.

41:35I mean, it's something we probably need.

41:44Okay, yeah, so I'd entertain a motion to approve.

41:48I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it.

41:52Okay, motion made seconded to purchase these road detour closure signs.

42:02Is there any further discussion?

42:08Okay, and there's Burl slash Buddy.

42:15Can't do this any cheaper.

42:19Have you looked for Salo? Salo makes signs, too. I got his card.

42:27Oh, these are, yeah, these are pre-made ones, basically, you're buying.

42:32They're not, you know, no.

42:35Okay, and they're the high viz for state highway requirement or whatever it is. Effectiveness. Okay, any other discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. Okay. Okay, motion carries.

42:58We will purchase the signs.

43:06Boy, I guess that brings us down to consent items.

43:22Thanks, Wyatt. Thanks, Wyatt. Thanks, Wyatt.

43:25I would entertain a motion that we approve the consent item.

43:35Second. Okay, motion made, seconded. Any discussion?

43:42Okay, hearing none. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay.

43:48Please get rid of the public comment.

43:53Do you have any public comment?

43:54You should have been here earlier. I was early. I did.

43:58That's the beginning of the meeting.

44:00Yeah, I did skip over that. We did that.

44:02I'll come back to it. What do you have?

44:05So, I just wanted to kind of put a bug in your ear.

44:08Yesterday, I was on a webinar with the National Association of Counties.

44:13One of the speakers there was from the Federal Economic Development Group.

44:21Before I left office, Biden refunded them, which hadn't happened since 2004.

44:28And as such, there's quite a few grants.

44:33And for communities smaller than 10,000 people, which I have to check, but I'm pretty confident

44:38we fit into that, they're federal matching or federal almost 100% coverage on those.

44:46So, just to watch out for those grants.

44:48They did mention things like solid waste and kind of recycling efforts.

44:55So, just a heads up.

44:58I know there's still comment periods and yada, yada, yada.

45:03But I would expect something coming out on that pretty soon. Okay.

45:09Well, we will take the free money if we qualify for it. Good to know.

45:17Oh, and one more thing.

45:22Poor Wyatt. Yeah, that's going to be...

45:26Well, we needed a joke theme for 2025 and we got it.

45:31Gotta have a theme with these meetings.

45:36Okay. All right. At this time, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn.

45:45That's a record, I think. And that's staying close. Staying close.

45:48Meeting adjourned until February... something. 11th? 11th, yeah.