Yeah. I I see. Slow to stay. Early early early early early. Somebody better on that. And then high price. Yeah. Alright. 06:00, I'll ask everyone to stand and say the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let the minutes reflect that all council members are present. First item on the agenda, obviously, is the citizen's form. If there's any citizens that would like to address the council, now would be the time to do so.
I would like to address the council as a citizen. Perfect, Pat. Okay. I know you're gonna decide on a a building tonight. I'd just like to address that a little bit. I think that looks by the design. It's a good design. And if it's what you want without any extra, without any frills, I think you should go for it and get the bids and see where the money comes in. And then if you think you need to cut, that would be the time you can always reject bids or or address at that time, but at least you'll know what it cost for what you want. And then so I to me,
that's the way I I would suggest, and I think that you go. Thanks. Perfect. Thank you. Thanks, Matt. Hearing none others, I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. Number stayed the same tonight, so I just need a motion. Wow. So moved. K. Motion from Eric. Second. Second from Scott n. All in favor? Aye. Motion approved. Onto the agenda, couple changes. We're gonna move under more engineering. We're gonna have an a one, let's call it. And if you guys look in your email from today, we're gonna have a resolution,
2025Dash11Dash2, and that is gonna be, our LRIP. And then under the Blight property, we're gonna move that underneath that, which is gonna be, the resolution twenty twenty five dash 11 dash o one, which is gonna be an emergency abatement that Ashley and I will talk more about later. Any more additions or subtractions to the agenda? Just moving the up to RET Engineering or RET Architecture? Yeah. Yeah. RET's gonna move move up to under the presentations, for the the new,
schematics that you guys all have in front of you. That'll be under the presentations and discussions. Nothing. I need a motion. So moved. K. And a motion from Mike. Second. Second from Scott E. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion approved. Moore Engineering, here first. Brandon, I see you somewhere. I do. Good evening, everyone. Mostly just update stuff tonight. The the first one is that resolution. So the LRIP program is a street funding program to the state. They'll pay for 80% of the street project. However, there are certain requirements as to the significance of the road,
that can that can fall under there. The last couple go rounds, we've applied for West Main kinda up by the city shop coming into town. So our plan is to apply for that for that same stretch again. And one of or two of the requirements are two resolutions of support, one by the city, basically saying, yes. We understand that this is a, this is a project that we support and move forward for, and then another one is through the county because they're the sponsoring agency if it were to move forward. So I guess I'd ask for any questions on the program. It's a program we've applied for the last couple of years and just haven't gotten.
But it's a good program if we can get it's kinda one of those things you keep turning your name in the hat, and one day, hopefully, they pull out data, and we can get that street reconstructed at a good at a good grant percentage. Any questions? Again, it doesn't hold us anything, but Brandon's gotta have our, obviously, word to move forward. Hearing none, seeing none, I need a motion. Wait. I'll make the motion to move forward on this. Okay. We got a motion from Wayne. I have a second from Mike. Resolution is obviously by roll call vote. Mike. Aye. Scott. Aye. Eric. Aye. Scott. Aye.
Sean. Aye. Wayne. Aye. Resolution, twenty twenty five dash 11 dash o two passes. And then just one more update thing. Next phase of sewer water reconstruction, improvements throughout town, town. We put Citi on the, in the state's intended use plan here this year. We've been talking timelines with Ash and Brian. That intended use plan should come out in December. And at that point, we'll find out kind of where everything scores and ranks. We'll have more scheduling coming from the turn of the year, but there's still no waiting pattern on that one. So
and other than that, I don't have I don't have a whole lot. If anyone's got any questions for me. I look easy. It's easy. Perfect. Pretty mellow. Thanks, everyone. Brandon, I have a lead pipe survey done upstairs that I forgot to bring on. Oh. You are talking. So, Brandon, if you just wanna email to me k. I mean, I'm gonna hang off the whole thing, but if you just wanna email to me, and then, have you gotten a letter from the state telling you you need to start notifying people yet? No. Maybe? I saw something It did. Previously. Okay. But it's something to do with that. Okay. Now that the inventory the updated inventories have have been submitted,
the state is coming out and saying, okay. From this point, you got you have thirty days to notify everyone who is unknown, led, or galvanized. K. I don't know if either Brian or you will get it. And then if you need any help, just reach out. I can get you updated list and stuff. But it's a city responsibility to nail those, not a More. Not a more responsibility. We'll chat about that tomorrow then and figure out what we need to do. Yeah. So Brandon and or Brian, how many didn't get returned? I mean, do you have an idea rough number? I'd have to look what the total number is.
There are, like, 11 what? 900, 1,100 services in town? There's a lot of services Yeah. To say in town. I we're still over a 100. Really? Cool. But there's the two components to things. There's the public side and the private side. I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. And while I'm sitting here, if I can get onto the Internet, I'll get it exact. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. I was just Oh, no. That's kinda wondering how many It's Which is it's on par with other communities. Okay. It's just there's just so many. Right? And if you've got a 100 left of a thousand, that's still 90%. I mean, that's A. And and percent's A. Cool. Yeah. Aim right.
Because that's pretty good, right? And it's not for lack of trying, because you guys have been here around town. And everything's got two sides to it. It's got the public side and the private side. And both of them have to be complete for it to be known. The public side are through are through record drawings, are through city information, but there are some areas where it's just like, if we don't have the plans for something, we we can't verify it unless someone And then if they don't open the door, it's you you can't you can't complete the project. Yep. So it comes down some of it comes down to participation. Some of it comes down to, are we ever gonna get to a 100%?
I I doubt it. I mean, it's just they're trying to do this America wide, which, holy moly, that's a lot of services. But I mean, at least if you got the the peg ends on each of the block, so to speak, you know it's in the middle. Right? I mean From a from a public standpoint. Yes. But from our standpoint, we you know, if if it's not within the if it's not post the we stopped using lead years, then it's you got two volts. You got a one by one. It's just that's just a that's just a requirement,
and that's why we've been doing the door to doors. Sure. And that's why this thing's been yeah. But the nice thing is is the state's been paid for it. So Yeah. K. If we got a list, you know, then I can help out with it too because there's a lot I remember. And there's people that have come up to me and they still don't understand the slip you put on the door. They're like, what the heck is up with this? Yeah. Yeah. And it'll be right here, but Yeah. Just verify what it is and then Take a picture, send it to me. Yeah. Or I'll come and look at it, whatever you want. Figure it out.
So, I mean, I knocked those three, four just a couple weeks ago just by talking to people. They brought me to slip and get, like, confused what it was. Yeah. And some people, just to be honest, they're gonna see a bright orange vest, and they're gonna see more engineers leaving stuff on their door, and they're gonna go, I'm good. I don't I don't know I don't know what it is. Leave me alone. So that's just the just the nature of people. Yeah. So k. Perfect. Thanks, Graham. Well, thanks, everyone else. Not for Graham. Thanks, Graham. Thank you. Alright. Rhett. Good afternoon. You're up. Okay. You know,
just because there's a microphone over there, so it helps pick up the audio a little bit better. Okay. Thank you for this opportunity. And over the last, three to four weeks, we've developed, several renditions of a floor plan and design for the public works and have concluded our put our best foot forward with the plan that you see in front of you today. There were some compromises along the way. The, I met I met with the police department, the Ashley, city administrator, Brian with public works. We had their wish list.
We put together a a a functional plan that hit every target, and then we gave an alternate plan that hit all of the function, but just reducing the square footage. And so that required a little bit of compromise on what the police department desired as their ideal floor plan. And I met with Steve, and he looked at it. He's like, okay. We got a little smaller. Sure. Fine. And then just we made a few adjustments to the offices, and the police, then approved and said, okay. This is great. So the plan that you see in front of you represents,
four projects in one. And so the one project that's moving forward 100%, because you will never receive your insurance money is replacing the existing public works. Now with that, we could also and that would be funded 100% through your insurance. And that's the, 60 by 60 foot existing public works building and their offices along with some support, you know, chemical storage. So that is one project. And then with that in mind, here's an opportunity for you to look to the future.
And we've designed four additions to that that can be done all a carte or all at once. And so this could be phased over the next course of several years or it could be done all in one fell swoop. You would get the best value doing it at once because of the economy of scale. But it it could be phased depending on what use the, a city decides most practical, most feasible, your budget, and and those considerations. Why we wanted a master plan even if you don't do this right away is just so you don't design yourself paint yourself into a corner,
where all of a sudden we do this public Works building, and then two years from now, you're like, oh, man. I would have done it a little differently, looking to the future. So I'll go through each one of these just one by one at a very high level. There's a public works annex addition that would go to the west of the existing building. That's just, just, again, heated storage so that when they have, equipment that breaks down in the winter, they're able to repair it, in a heated room. And Brian, you can maybe explain the function of that a little bit more. There would be what's labeled passage,
which is just to the left of that. And that would be a link to the existing public works facility that is being used this winter. That's the sole building this winter, and they received some insurance money to insulate that. And so we just wanna create a link to facilitate, moving back and forth from the new building to the existing one. So that's the public works portion. And then as you move to the north, which would be on the left hand or move to the right, which is north on plan, would be an opportunity for, council a new council chamber, a new city hall,
and a police station. So the council chamber would, include three offices for city administration, some storage, public restrooms. You enter that through a vestibule. And when you enter this vestibule, you can go forward to the council chamber, or you can take a hard right to enter the police station. So entering the police station, entering city hall would all come through one locked vestibule. And that allows all these services to kind of be used independently of one another so So that if you had city hall, you could lock down the police department. If you just need to get into the police department,
you don't necessarily have to enter city hall. Mhmm. And then as you move north, then this would be replacing the police department with a 60 by 66 foot, addition that again has space for four police officers, four, parking for four police a larger evidence room, which is currently undersized, and and then just kind of requisite support services. So this is at a very high level view. The the floor plan plan has been massaged to kinda meet the individual needs of each department. And if there's specific questions,
maybe, maybe now is the time for that unless you're looking at me and really going into the details. But I think from a high level view, the city the ask here is, or my recommendation as an architect would be to copy Pat's recommendation, which is why not design it, bid it out? If you can afford it, then go for it. And at least now you know. Well, I think that's that's been the conversation at the table too, and in city hall is we have to we gotta get a number first. Let's let's start big, and that's why this is a great idea in my mind along with Pat.
Mhmm. We gotta start somewhere. So and I I mean, certainly, I can give you some pretty close to accurate numbers. I did click the other numbers, and I sent it all out to you guys. Do you guys have an this is just based on what you guys have mentioned, rates per square foot. I just went through and and pulled all the numbers and sent it out to you guys. Obviously, this is just from an estimate. We don't know when the bids went. Is that based on the 200? Mhmm. So I think based on today's bidding climate, that could be much less. This is gonna be in the spring. And depending on interest rates, the bidding climate could be very different than it is today.
So that so I So you think 200 is too low? Too high. I think it's too I think it's too I think it's too I think it's too I think it's too I think it's too I think it's too I I did it high. I wanna I don't could see what each department would cost. And then I I put in there what insurance would cover and what the new build so essentially, if you add it all together, it's about 1,500,000.0. I did have a conversation that today with our financial adviser, with Jason Murray. He's gonna put some numbers. He's thinking that right now, interest rates are around that 4.25, between four point two five and four point five. But he's gonna run a few numbers for us,
and we're gonna talk about a special session coming up. So I will bring him there. And then December, we would have a public hearing on it. Again, we're not committed to anything, but we would be ready then if the bids come back in and they're in our favor and we wanna move forward. We'd be ready in that January, February time then to sign the paperwork and move forward. So we do have the one bond retiring that we talked a lot about. It's a $153,000 payment annually. It's a $1,400,000 bond. So that would be essentially how we would want to pay for it, without having to raise anything for taxpayers.
It's just seeing when those interest rates due to the amount that our annual payments are gonna make. Otherwise, he will come with different ideas of how we we talked about a few different ways of paying for it today. And, Jason will present that, and then we'll have a public hearing on it. So just so you guys know on the financial side of it. The design, I think that Red Architect really took what Brian and I and Steve spoke with them and and needed. This is what the sixth, seventh, eighth design that we went through. So you guys we put you guys through a lot of changes.
But, you know, I would say internally, this is what we're very happy with as far as department heads go. I like it. Mhmm. Is that when in the shop area, when you go if you have another existing door, is that gonna be a wide open thing? Or is it actually gonna be a door there between the Wide open. Wide open. Okay. Now there will be we do have to add some structural rigidity. So there will be some thin walls that come out eight feet. Oh, sure. Okay. But not The structure. But like Brian, we talked and, Brad, you were there too. It's enough to drive our equipment through and future equipment too.
I mean, it's not gonna hinder the the the size or the length of any of our stuff. It's gonna be, like you said, it's gonna be wide open. For the most part, you're gonna have a little bit. But Still gonna be a along the wall. Yeah. Sure. Park right up to the wall. Yeah. Okay. Still gonna be a 30 foot opening or something like that. 35 foot opening. Let me get it. Whatever the number is. You know? I'm trying to do that. Right. Yep. Yeah. I won't. Anyways. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you guys like if the heads like, you know, what you've seen here and stuff, I definitely mouth for that too,
I guess, for sure. So but Sounds like a motion, Mike? Yeah. Sure. Motion to Yeah. Move forward To move forward. Full plans here. Okay. I'll second that. Second motion, Mike, and second from Eric. And again I think that's a great this, we gotta get started somewhere. You guys have talked about this. We've talked about it. It gives them a chance to move forward, and you guys can fine tune it. If it comes back at a number that you guys don't like as a table, you can kinda cut corners from there, but you gotta start somewhere. So Ashley, did you say that we'd we'd get an update on the on the bonding interest
rates and all that next next month? So when I talked to Jason today, he is hopefully by the end of the week gonna give me some ideas, and then we're gonna talk about a special session. We're gonna have a special session. And so if we have that special session next week, I I hope to bring it to that. That will be just obviously rough until we actually you know, things change every month. So but it'll be at least a rough idea of what it is. And then with any type of bonding, we have to have a public hearing and present some of those numbers. So we would hope to do that in December. So if in the fact that we do get it bid out in January or
February, hopefully January, and they come in and we know how we're gonna pay for it, we can sign those contracts and get started immediately. If things change a lot by then as far as interest rates go, which changes our the thing we need to look at is our annual payments, not the overall amount. That's what we are if so if that annual payment changes a lot between them, we might have to have another public hearing too if we have to figure out alternative ways to fund it. Or if you guys, like I said, decide at that time or, like John said, like, hey.
We wanna cut certain areas and we wanna change things too. But we're not committed to anything until we sign those bid documents from the or the contractors. You know? Mhmm. And with that being said, we don't necessarily have to bond for it if those bids come back at a decent amount. What's a decent amount? Well, what's You wanna install our savings? That's something something you guys are gonna come up with. But, I mean, again, that's something that you guys have to consider. I mean, you don't have to bond for all of it. You have to bond for part of it. Mhmm. You know, that's something you guys are gonna have to make a decision,
you know, in the next three to four months. But, the first part, obviously, is getting that number and then deciding from there. So Right. There. K. So I have a motion from Mike, second from Eric. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. K. So, Rhett, what do you need from us? Now it's gonna be getting into the details. K. So this is I'm we're we've already got a timeline, put together that we can email. Brian's been my main point of contact. I've been carbon copying, Ashley. And so we've got a timeline put together, and I'm gonna get my engineering team activated.
And then, right now, this is a very big picture design. Basically, the overall scope and the subject, overall scope and size. And, as we get into the details, you're gonna have a lot. I mean, there's gonna be a, I'm gonna need a lot more input in terms of do you approve the carpet color. But, we're we're weeks away from that. Okay. So, Brian's excited for that. Yeah. Yeah. How it's gonna go is we're gonna basically make decisions on your behalf and then present it to you for approval Okay. In the same way that you've looked we we did a floor plan. Mhmm. And the first draft was just like,
hey. Anything can change. This is just a tool for discussion. We're gonna have construction drawings where we're like, okay. Here you know, here's where we've placed the backup generator. Do you like the location? And you can just kind of approve. But it is quickest and easiest for us to put all the documents together and then present it for you for comment. So it's it's the same process that we've we've done. It's just gonna be a little bit more detailed as we get to the finish line. So looking at a bid opening in February so that, basically, when the ground thaws,
you would so we would be advertising in January when all the contractors are kind of looking in the new year trying to figure fill their dockets through the 2026. Perfect. And then, break ground once the once the thaw spring thaw starts. So that would be that would be the timeline. Perfect. I'm guessing they could start on the first part, you know, earlier than the rest just because it's already there. Right? The the footprint's there. Yeah. Actually, you would be able to. There's no, no excavation on that. So, this has been great. Brian's been great to work with.
Just quick, smooth, really drama free. The the design is just very straightforward, just a very practical layout and trying to just economize spaces as best we can while fitting the program. So then not to muddy this. Are we are we missing anything, you know, from your engineer standpoint? Brian and I have talked about this. Ashley and I have talked about this. You know, this is this is gonna be the end of our, public works facility, city facilities, you know, police facility. Is there anything that we're missing as far as adding if we're looking for bids
right now that you would suggest as an engineer that we need to consider that we Well, there there's a whole lot of detail that isn't on here. Yeah. I mean, we're we're looking at some, equipment inside the shop space, a lift, welding station, you know, the cabinetry, the, you know, right now, the council chambers are square. You know, we're gonna have, you know, maybe do a so soffit and ceiling and some, you know, some detail into that. But when when I need something, I'm gonna reach out to him first. And then if there's not an answer,
but in terms of, like, city council, no. Other than and and if if there is, then I'll certainly reach out to Ashley. K. Okay. Yep. But there's just just a lot of detail. Again, this is the whole purpose of where we are at in this process is, hey. Are you ready to to do the full Monty with all five, you know, three different departments and and potential addition to the public works or, which, you know, obviously, I think that's the direction that that you're moving towards. And we just needed a practical floor plan to get there.
Yeah. So right now, this this is where I wanna be. My engineers, I don't wanna engage them too early. And and now it's it's go time. And, yeah, you know, we'll just do what it takes to make it make it happen. So perfect. Yeah. K. And a motion to second, and I had an all in favor. Any other questions after the fact? Nope. Okay. Well, thank you. Yeah. So I'll and I'll be back when we have the final design. I'll have a walk through, and we'll, you know, everyone have a chance to preview that before, you know. And what I don't want is a surprise. You're like, oh, here's a brilliant hope hope you like it.
Yeah. So we'll you'll you'll you'll have everything in front of you before that. So yeah. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. Alright. Ashley, what do we have? We got this we'll move on to mayor's report. Right? Yep. K. Yeah. Moving on to mayor's report. Obviously, our council seat nominations, we have an open council seat. TC Krueger resigned here two months ago. We opened it last month. I am looking for nominations for the open council seat. I'll make a nomination for, Jeff. Spoke with him and worked with him quite a bit at my other employment and
feels like he does a good job there from what I noticed and observed. He seems interested in, serving the community. I'd like to make a nomination for Tom. K. So we had a motion for Jeff Peacock and then Tom Ophine. Any other additions? What we've done in the past, obviously, is, I've asked for either one of you, if you wanna speak on your behalf and have a couple of words. That'd be great. Yep. So everybody can hear you. Yeah. I wrote a letter about this thing. I sent it out to everybody.
Yeah. Thank you. I'm exactly I just I I moved here in 2021. I've been looking to get more involved in the community and because I heard the advertising on the radio and thought that it would be a great time. I've I plan on being here for the rest of my life, and I wanna help make ADA as good as possible. I don't have a lot of, board experience, but I was gonna assume that courthouse because I'm I'm a department head over there, so I'm involved in in the meetings at at the courthouse.
So it's not like I'll be coming in completely blind, but, you know, there'll be a little bit of growing pains, I'm sure. I don't know the city as well as a lot of people because a lot of people have been here their whole lives. I still have a California area code on my phone. But, you know, I don't know if, you know, I just figured it's time to get involved. I recently applied to be a a reserve fire fighter and see how that goes. K. Do you guys have any questions for me? What's your insight on on this?
Well, I've actually seen the destruction. I because I'm the maintenance guy at the and I think that that would be amazing. I think putting everybody in the same spot would be great. I think I think it's a good idea. I think that, like what she said, go big and then scale it back with two that you're for, and I think this week you guys are doing great. Are you are you interested in any, like, certain committees or any there specifically? Sort of. Yes. Yeah. So there there's a couple things I am involved in,
like, you know, DECO Mhmm. The love the stuff that with public works because I've worked with the highway department, which kinda gives me working with Brian and, you know, helping out other than, the law enforcement because I I do a lot of interacting with the sheriff's department. So it's it makes its work because, like, the the police come in there sometimes. So, I have a little bit of a relationship with them, so that'd be nice to help out there too. But, basically, I'm I don't have anything really going on,
so I'd like to be involved as much as I can. You know, I'm never sick, and I live down the street. So Perfect. Yeah. K. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright, Tom. I'm trying to keep it short. Let's look for a lawyer. I think I know everybody here. I have lived in Ada for forty seven years, and I've been active in city government for forty five years, including as a councilman before. I've been on every organization, I think, in town except Knights of Columbus because I'm Lutheran. And I have I have the experience. I have the time because I'm not employed any longer.
So, That's one of my questions, Tom, if you have the time. Yeah. And I have no family here, so it's I don't have anything drawing me away. I can dedicate the time to whatever is needed. I I represent the senior citizens because not you guys. Eric, you're close. This is the second time. Wow. I thought he was retired. I thought. I wish I was. Yeah. No bullseye. I do know where the who are just getting started and are concerned about expenses too. So, I if you have any questions, fine. As far as the new project,
I think it comes down to cost. And this is probably minor, but then the police department, there's no armoring and no record keeping room. And that's something that I think should be addressed with Steve. So There is an evidence for the one? Yeah. Evidence is not the same. Okay. Could be could double, but I just I just raised it because I noticed that. The other thing is I'm not shy. And if I have an opinion, I will let you know it. But I will listen to all the other opinions too. So do you have any questions? Answer mine.
You got time, and you told us about this? Oh, yeah. I got time. Except next week. I'm seeing what we're walking. Oh, it's Deer hunting. Oh, yeah. We're all busy next week. We don't have to look at you on a screen this year from Florida? It's a little bit scary. Okay. In California. Alright. So we got two nominations, obviously, for the open council seat for, Jeff and Tom. What I've done the last four or five that I've done that we've done, I'll do the same this time. I'll ask, for, votes for one individual, and then I'll ask for votes for the second individual. We'll tally them.
That individual will be nominated by the council. I'll swear them in. We'll move out of the rest of the council meeting. So, I'll do it in the order that they were nominated just out of logistics, I guess. I'll take, votes, by raising hands, not by eyes, just because last time, we got a little loud, for a vote for Jeff. K. Eric, is that a vote? Yes. K. I got three votes for Jeff. Votes for Tom. Oh. K. I have time for everything. I got three it's the second time I've broken a tie. First time he doesn't like it.
Hey. That was me. No. Hey, man. This is the third time. Sorry. That was the SROs. The SRO time. Yeah. Jeff, I appreciate you standing in front of the council, bringing your name up, putting your name in the bringing your name up, putting your name in the hat. I really do. I I appreciate it. This is nothing against you. I've worked with Tom individually, personally and professionally, And, I'll break the tie breaker with Tom joining the city council as the open council seat. So, Tom, if you wanna come up here Sorry. I didn't have it printed. I will. Tom, you gotta walk the other way to the plague, if you wouldn't mind,
please. The bad thing is he's gonna sit by me. There's your spot. Yeah. Weren't you? I'm very used to being over here, aren't you? Yeah. He was always over there. You wanna freeze your hand there, sir? You've only done this. One, two, four. A couple times. I Tom O'Brien. I, Tom O'Brien. Do solemnly swear? Do solemnly swear? That I will support the constitution of The United States. That I will support the constitution of The United States. The constitution of the state of Minnesota. Constitution of the state of Minnesota. And I will faithfully And I will faithfully And impartially And impartially. And impartially. Discharge the duties Discharge the duties of the office of council member Of the office
of council member of the city of Ada of the City Of Ada to the best of my knowledge to the best of my knowledge and ability and ability and ability and ability and ability and ability and ability and all we got to help you got. Okay. So, moving on to administrative clerk treasury support. Let's talk about the deco. Just real quick. They are still working on the hot tub, and we look for around the hot tub. The company has made a lot of screw ups over the last few weeks. So Brianna's been working with them to get back in there and, fix some of the plumbing issues that they've had, some of the electrical issues that they have. As of what I'm my understanding is,
hopefully, by the end of the week, everything will be worked out. The, the inspection is supposed to be done this week as well. So as of yesterday, I was told that today that they were going to hopefully finish up the floor and, and get that hot tub filled. Then other minor things over there, we're still working on getting lifeguards. We're still working on getting swim teachers so we can keep the facility open more. The cabinetry is being worked on, and so hopefully that'll get installed by the end of the month, maybe. But other than that, volleyball starts, and,
she's continuing to move forward with all other activities there. The liquor store, we saw a $17.16 dollars profit increase from last year, with a $12.72 dollars sales increase from last year. So we're still up above that thousand to $2,000 mark like we have been to other months this year. And the other thing, I know I put this in the, I put this under the committee updates, but I wanted to touch on it too. The active shooter training that the police department did, here in October,
I got to spend the day there observing it. And I wanted to put out there that Alex, our SRO officer, did a phenomenal job. He's put in a lot of effort and a lot of work over there in the last year and a half that he has been SRO officer, and it's so much more than just being in that school every day. It was very surreal to sit there and see all of the scenarios and all the things that could happen if an active shooter entered our school building. It was enlightening to see how our officers responded to it, how our fire department, the EMTs, everything that happened that day.
And if anybody would like to talk through it, I'd be more than happy to to talk through it. But I wanna give a lot of credit to Alex, and I wanna give a lot of credit to Steve on it because it was a lot of moving parts. It was everything from the the shooter to we had, actual victims that were there. Those victims were actually carried out by our fire department, were transferred into EMTs, and actually transferred from them. The ambulances went to the hospital. And then once they got to Essentia, Essentia was running their own drills as well of how they would handle, like, a mass, casualty or a mass, event The event.
Where they would have all sorts of things. So it was really eye opening to see. Good and bad things. Obviously, there was a lot of things. We we have a debriefing meeting coming up in a week where all of the departments are gonna get together, and so I'll have more to fill you in on. You know, there was things that happened right away that made us think, okay, our officers need some training in in tactical gear. I mean, they had the plans right, but when they went after the shooter, they were using, you know, their real guns. They just switched out their bullets, and so it's very it was really an an experience.
And so if anybody wants to talk about it or go through it, Amaya was there, Sean was there. And so I just wanna give a lot of credit to our police department because, obviously, we hope something like that never happens. But I do think that being prepared and at least having those scenarios really helps enlighten what could potentially happen in a situation. So on top of that, our officers have been involved a lot lately and, assisting some other agencies. You've seen some accidents happen, some pursuits that have been going on. And so they've been really busy. The schools had many truancies.
So, again, Alex has been busy. Their department has been through a lot in the last month or so with things going on. So I encourage you guys to stop and chat with them, and they can fill you in a little bit more than what we should do here in this meeting. But, so I just wanted to check touch on that. And I don't know if the public safety met, so that's why I put it under there, but I didn't know if any of the that was pretty much what And that's what you guys talked about. So, yeah, it was very eye opening. Somebody like me that doesn't really understand how quickly everything happens and has kids in
the school, I guess I'm very thankful that you guys made the decision to move forward with that SRO officer. That's all I have really on the departments unless you guys have questions on anything specific. I know we talked a lot about public building already, so we can kind of skip past that. Any other questions? So the next thing I have is the Blight property, and this really escalated from when I sent out the council packet last week to today. Do you wanna talk on it? You want me to talk on it? I think I said it. Yeah. I mean, I you can. I mean Okay. So everybody knows the property that we've been dealing with over the last five years.
Probably five zero eight second nominee. So there's been a lot of, as a internally trying to figure out what to do with this property. There was something that was brought to our attention on Friday afternoon that has now created, a case for us to move forward with an emergency abatement. There has been reports of a rodent infestation on the property. So we had a meeting with our attorneys this morning, and our intention with the meeting with our attorneys was to move forward with a civil suit and start to get this property. But because of the change in this
hazardous and potential health risk it has on our community, we are able to upgrade that to an emergency abatement. And so or, sorry, an emergency yeah. Emergency abatement. So, essentially, what those steps are, tonight, I brought a resolution. I sent it out to you guys. I would need the counsel to, approve that resolution to allow myself to move forward with our attorneys. If you approve that resolution, our attorneys, they have received all the information documentation today from myself and our attorneys or, I mean, and our police department. They would put together the notice by tomorrow afternoon.
Steve would hand that notice to the homeowners of that property. They would have seven days from that notice to clean it up on their own. And if they don't, then I have a cleaning company ready to move forward and step in and do what we did last time. With that, we do have to allow them to contest their case, which means they are allowed to come to a council meeting and contest against it. So being that said, we are looking at putting a special session next Tuesday. Tuesday. As a you know, if they show up, they show up. It doesn't affect it.
It doesn't mean it negates it. It just they're allowed to contest it. We open the doors. We open a meeting. We sit here for a couple of minutes. And We can do that on holiday? So technically, It's a holiday. Veteran's Day. Oh, shoot. Oh. We can do Wednesday. Yeah. You have to move it Monday. Yeah. Yeah. I completely forgot. November. Keeps Yeah. Let's do this. We could do it Monday. We could do Monday. It it's we need seven days. That's it's yeah. We could do Monday. Because if we send out the notice tomorrow, give him the notice. It just has to be within that seven days we that he has allowed to
contest. Perfect. Yep. We could've we we can make the decision to give him longer. So we could do ten days if we wanted. Yeah. Or Whatever you guys would recommend. We just think in order I mean, snow is gonna fall, and we gotta move faster. We could give them two days if we wanted to, but we thought seven days was Yeah. And our yeah. Our attorneys basically let's be completely honest and frank. They're not gonna show up anyway. Okay. And even if they do grounds, they'd have to present I mean, they'd have to clean it up this weekend, and Scott would have to help because I mean,
it's it's just not gonna happen. Right? Yeah. So No. We we can move it to Monday. Okay. Yeah. I forgot to move it because damn so Is that do you know if that statue is a minimum of seven days? Is that the minimum? No. No. We we can do it we can do it one day. We can do it one day. We can do it tomorrow. But if you want know how we would have a council meeting No. We can't because you have to have three days. We have to have three days counsel. So Exactly. Yeah. And so He said we can do whatever day we wanted. Yeah. So if it you guys wanna move forward with this I mean, there's a couple stipulations. So, you know, last time it cost us about $8,500
to clean it up. We do assess it to the property. Mhmm. But, you know, you have to remember that we're probably not gonna get that money back. So the city is paying for this. I I do think we've talked about this again for five, six years ever since I've been here, and it is absolutely probably my number one thing in this sit time position that I hear on a daily basis of an issue with the neighbors, with the community. This isn't an end all. We we do want to still pursue that civil suit.
And and we're going to. This is just a a public nuisance, public endangerment, public whatever you wanna throw in. Solutions for. Yeah. Yeah. So this isn't but this is this is considered an emergency. Emergency. They do an emergency. Outside property. Yeah. The emergency, we can we can only do it if there's something immediately affecting the health. And so last time when we did it, they had ran sewer out in the yard. And we were immediately able to get out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, this time, the health of the rodents, and it's immediately affecting public health.
Uh-huh. We're able to. So so we can only we can only do the outside. Is that what we're saying? Do the outside. I have spoken with public health. I have spoken with social services and environmental services. They have all been notified of this. Yeah. And they're sick. And so the rats are just or the rooms are just gonna go stuck. They're not a portion. We do know that. We understand that. Okay. But the city itself, we cannot enter the property. Just like when we had to do some of these abandoned homes, we could only put things outside. Mhmm. I have notified every other organization that deals with inside. We're not getting a lot of help.
We're not getting a lot of help. Zero. K. We're getting we're getting zero help. I'll be that guy. No. I'll be that guy too. We're getting zero help from the county, and social services and public health. Environmental services, we got help with from today. I'll I'll put that out there. Okay. Other than that, Ashley and I, we had this meeting today, and and chief Hager was there too. And and we had a we had a great conversation. And, again, this this could go on for two more years, go on for five more years. We're not gonna see this money back. We're we're all on the same page. This is to,
quit the Facebook comments, quit the every other comments to make the city look good again and to appease the neighbors that have had to put up with this crap for multiple years. They don't have more properties like this. Mhmm. And Yeah. It's a it's a start. And like I said, this this civic or civil, procedure that we're gonna hopefully the second one, you know, hopefully, that gives them a little bit our police department to a little more teeth Okay. To maybe stop it from continuing until,
they can't pay their taxes anymore. And after three years, as we know, it goes back to the county, and then it's a county problem. And then we'll deal with the county at that point. And we have that same laugh and discussion, Tom, in our meeting this morning. We did. But we can we'll deal with the county then at that point instead of the homeowners, and hopefully, we can come up with a solution. But Ada's got a blight ordinance. Why isn't that a criminal We have given so many blight citations, Tom. We have given so the judge drops them, and now the judge deemed them incompetent, and will not take our blight citations.
Yeah. It's been so Our officers, for three years, we have fought the court system. Why don't we go before that judge? Why don't we get a different judge? We've had three judges. This is actually the third one. Yeah. This has been an ongoing topic. Well That's why we're doing what we can. Yeah. But the the problem is is if you keep issuing a citation, the citation isn't paid, then it really it's it's fallen on deaf ears. So let's do let's do a a service. Yeah. Yes. But let's do a service to the neighbors at least. Let's clean it up,
before it gets snowed on and Before it gets snowed on. And that's you know, Ashley and I, we've again, there it is. I mean, this horse can't this horse can't be beat anymore. I mean, it's we get more calls about this specific topic more than anything else that this city deals with. Anything. Which, you know, we talked to someone the other day. Hindsight, that's a good problem to have, I guess. Mhmm. But it gets old talking about the same property. So Mhmm. It's not I mean, this is beyond just polite.
This is an absolutely hazardous Yeah. To our community. Well, and I And it has been a very frustrating battle. There there has been. It's just, you know, and and Sean just said it, and I I said it, I think, two meetings ago. I wanna reiterate that social services and public health and We're not gonna they need to they need to step up. We're we're getting zero help from them. Like, next to zero help. Whatever that is, this needs to be all hands on deck, and and then just it needs to be taken care of. Period.
Yeah. So I need, you guys have the resolution in front of you. Ashley, you went over the time line with you. Again, I'm gonna call a, a special session for next Monday at 06:00, that correlates with Resolution2025Dash11DashO1. And I need a question. Oh, yeah. It has to be done on Wednesday. What? Yeah. Because I'll be back on Wednesday, but on Monday, I'll be hunting. We can do it Wednesday. You're gonna get your gear on Saturday anyway. You're gonna be down. The guys on council for ten minutes, and you ask these kids and ask me favors.
Yep. I'll do one night. Yeah. So Or whoever Wednesday. Wednesday? At 06:00, please. K. Motion. I think that was the motion. Change. Just so I wanna put that out there. So we got deer hunting in the pack. Does anybody else have a problem? Oh, second. Well, I have volleyball. Oh, my gosh. I'm kidding. I'll wait here. Okay. So we got a motion from Tom. Second from Sean for resolution twenty twenty five dash eleven dash o one with in conjunction with a special meeting for Wednesday night next week at 06:00,
waving the reading, by roll call vote, Mike. Mike. Aye. Scott. Aye. Eric. Aye. Scott. Aye. Sean. Aye. Tom. Aye. Wayne. Aye. Resolution 2025Dash11DashO1 passes. Okay. All business. Oh, yeah. So legal nonconverving use permit. So last month, we talked about a property being sold here in town, just to get home. And I thought that we would need a conditional use permit for it. I spoke with our attorneys about that process, and, he sent me a memorandum. Unfortunately, I just got it today. I was hoping for it a week ago, to let you guys know.
So, technically, we do not need to issue this. He will issue a legal nonconforming use under it, not a conditional use permit because it has been used as a commercial property low, Right now. Right now. So I don't have to do the conditional use permit. I just have to do the legal nonconforming. So our attorney wrote a letter to me to pass on to you that we're allowed to do this. I do still want the council to approve that there if, you know, you're not okay with what he intends to do on that property or not.
I still think that we need to have that discussion. Where is this property exactly? Little at Gady's. His old shop. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So he intends to use it as a a a shop again for his storage. To the building. And storage for the property. It's technically Residential property. So he wanted confirmation from the city that he would we would allow him to continue to use it as it's been used in the past, which is technically a commercial property. Do there any have no objections? What? Neighbors have no objections? No. There's been no object objections. I mean, there's been no other comments on it.
Nobody's ever nobody's came to me with anything. No. I don't know if you guys have heard anything from our last meeting. To Send something out to them. What? Do we have to send something? We don't. And we don't have to do a public hearing. Not confirmed. Okay. So, anyways, if if anybody like I said, he just sent it to me. I wish I would've had it earlier. We we discussed him and I discussed this right after the last council meeting. But at this point, yes, we didn't have to do the So we're basically just grandfathering it in where Yeah. Basically. Just gonna stay. Yeah. And we don't need it for that or no? No. I don't need a motion. I just wanted to let you guys know.
Unless you wanna change it. Nope. The follow-up from the last council. From the attorney's letter? No. This is just a letter to the council stating that we can do it. Sure. So k. That's all I got got on that. Hearing none. Let's move on. New business, kaleidoscope guests, September, Scott, Anne, and Mike. Mike, you're back in. I got a thumbs up, Scott. Yeah. Thursday. There we go. November. Wow. Yeah. Thursday. Alright. You guys are up? Thursday? Okay. Perfect. Norman County Child Safety and Drug Prevention Program donation request.
It's the second one in your guys' packet. Those are the ones I need to call out. Yeah. I can show you. This is the drug take back stuff. Right? For the It's the drug prevention program that the sheriff's department's running in our county. Ashley, what do we got in the county? We have $2,950. I'm trying to get it to you. K. You got Yeah. Give that to Tom. That's what I can't go to anywhere. Yeah. I I read through there's a request. It just gives you the amounts that they provide per child. So I I just need a motion.
What do you guys wanna do? Again, Ashley said there's $29.50 in, our, quote, unquote, gambling fund. And that's a I'm on that a donation available to, then we could do. I'll make a motion for $500 now, I guess. K. K. Let's make a motion for The motion for Mike and a second from Wayne in amount of $500. Any further comments? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion passes. I'll take it for you. Second one is, the Edwarp West Schools, the Cougar Pride Friday donation request. This is the one that I suggested instead of giving them a monetary donation that
we could split it up between the deco center and the liquor store and give gift certificates that they could give out. And remember, this is to staff. To staff. I was gonna say you gotta put that word in there. Yes. Yeah. It's Yeah. Yeah. We could just just do deco center too if that's just a lot less, you know Staff. It's to the staff. It's yeah. We know what you're paying attention to. Or we giving them a monetary and let them purchase what they want? Just give them $500 and be done with it. K. That sounded like a motion. That sounded like a second. I got a motion from Wayne,
second from Scott Inn. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. K. Department updates. You know, we've talked about public works unless Brian's got something else to add amongst that. K. Public safety, Ashley touched on that unless, Scott or Sean needs to touch on that? No. I have not on public safety. No. But you were there for the aftershooter training. Oh, that's yeah. Correct. K. EDA? EDA, we had a demo loan that we, basically, we approved it a year ago, but we reapproved it just because it's been over a year. And it was already tearing down by the time we approved it.
Down on 200 if you drive by. It was supposed to get torn down after the meeting, and they were early. So this has got it turned down. But, so we approved that. And then we we tabled one, revolving loan fund. We just didn't have the collateral. So we talked about that. And then the other thing we talked about a lot is the did you know program. The the EDA sponsors a program with KRJV, and it's called did you know. So a couple times a month, we do an interview about the different things in ADA that did you know. And we try to do it outside the box, so it's not just did you know your utility bill is due at this time.
It's did you know that our hospital has these services? Did you know that, we have this, you know, day cares in town? Did you know that we have these amenities to offer you? And we try to get new people on there talking about it. It. And Jim and I are running out of ideas, so we are looking to the EDA to help with ideas. We've been doing it for about a year and a half. Two years now? Yeah. Two years? In a little while. Yeah. So, yeah, if you guys have any ideas on things that we should talk about, again, we try to get into, like, you know, did you know that there's Chamber Bucks?
And you can give them for Christmas gifts, and they can shop anywhere in Ada with them or stuff like that. So it's not just technically, like, city department related, but it's things that our community has to offer. Cool. Yeah. Were we gonna do anything with those t shirts or anything for that 100 and fiftieth? We were talking about the logo. Remember that? Yeah. I was working on the logo. And when I get the logo, then we would put it out to somebody to design a t shirt. Right? Or do you think that we should not have the logo? I thought it'd be a good idea to have, like, a contest that the community could get into design your t shirt and then pick
the winner. We can do that. Okay. That's kinda like name your snowstorm. Kinda like name your snowstorm. Oh. Right now. Yeah. Honestly, Wayne, that we definitely and it was, it's been a busy three days, so I completely forgot about that meeting was last week. Too. Yeah. Yeah. Give the winner some Chamberbucks or something like that. Design and t shirt. A $100 and Chamberbucks. Okay. Because I do have somebody working on the actual logo of the hundred and fiftieth for the banners, but we could do the t shirts as a design. Yeah. Okay. Just one of the $100. Or $100? What are your name names? Chamber bucks.
Chamber bucks. Yeah. Chamber bucks? Okay. Can I use donation funds for you? I'll I'll Yeah. Yeah. Can I use donation funds for you? I'll I'll I'll I'll again. When you Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Well, I mean Or do you want me to use some budget? No. I don't know. I I think using the gambling funds is great, but do you guys wanna do more than that to entice more? I mean, that's always the caveat. A $100. A $100. A $100. Do you wanna, do you wanna spike the level of interest by upping it a little bit knowing that, you guys got $19.50 left? And that's up to you guys. I think if you gave a good prize,
you'd get a lot of turnout for it. Well, that's what I'm saying. Do you wanna increase it from a 100? No. I would think so. 5,000,000? No. Yeah. 500. You got that in your checking account, Tom? Yeah. Because you know where it's capital 500. 500? 500 in chamber bucks. 500. You want it all chamber bucks, or do you want meaning I know, you had you had said something about Yeah. It will. K. But you've got somebody doing the design already. Right? Well, I've got somebody designing the logo. So because we're we're gonna order banners for, the beautification has some funds left over if they didn't get to some projects this
year. So we're gonna order some banners to put up on That is right. Yeah. And so I I need the logo for that, and I was gonna use that for the t shirts, but this would be much more interesting. What are we giving we've already got the logo is gonna be the design of t shirt separate. But you got the logo. I was just stenciling it onto the t shirt. You wanna just do a logo on t shirt? Well, you I mean, you've got it for the banners. You got it designed. So what are we giving the $500 for? Well, I just thought it'd be good to get the community involved in being part of
it. Yeah. You know? I thought about at the meeting, the t shirts. But it's There's there's going to be because there's a reunion the golf school reunion too. That's right. So if they were gonna have a t shirt and the city was gonna have a t shirt, you have two t shirts, are we gonna put it together? So there's one t shirt. And then if there's one t shirt, which makes sense, kind of Yes. Then does it have something with the reunion and Front and front and back or something. Yeah. Which, in other words, wouldn't be your logo that would be on the banners for the hundred and fifty.
It would have to be a separate a different design. Yes. But I wanted to use I so I don't know what I I know the the it's getting really dicey between what the city is doing and what the all square union doing because they have a lot of their own plans, which is fine. And I know that, you know, they don't have the the money. Nobody's communicating with us of what they're wanting to do. But the the idea for the t shirts, at least my idea for the t shirts was we sell them, and those the money that we raise, we can help put back into whatever events are going on in the community. So we would sell them for a little bit of a profit and but we
don't have to do that either. We can just sell t shirts at the cost. So people are as promotion. Yeah. I I think that should go back. This design thing should go back to that committee that you guys formed, I think. Not here for us to decide. And I'll I guess I also If we wanna give some money later, whatever. But I guess I'd like to throw out to it. I think $500 is a lot of money. It's a lot of money. It's okay. I'm just I'm just I'm just throwing it out there. You know? That money seems to go away really fast in that It does. So It's just yeah.
Hey. I'm that guy. I just You got the this is coming from the guy You want me to remind you of some of the contracts? If you're going if you're gonna decide on if it was a, t shirt con whatever. That's whatever. You can do it. But I think it should be with that committee that that is We don't have a committee. Not us. We don't have a committee. We had people that I can sign up for people that want to know. With ideas, but nobody want there's nobody showed up with ideas, but nobody want there's nobody that wants to be on a committee. So it's I tried I'm trying to set another meeting to get more people there again. K. But, you know What is I can't What is what is the council?
But that time runs out really quickly. No. You got holiday season the next two months. We all know that time escapes all of us. What would the council like Ashley to pursue in the next thirty days as far as these logos or t shirts or promotion to give her some kind of insight so that we can start something. Do you wanna hear what I'm on wanna do? Mhmm. I think that's the most important. Sure. Okay. So I sitting in that meeting,
there was 19 people. I have five pages of ideas and list of stuff. There has been things already that I've coordinated with other businesses to take on. So the races, Jake Baker is gonna plan something for that Saturday. There was small events. West Main Pizza is gonna take on one of the events that we planned. Ted Onison is gonna take on a plan. I think the city of the $10,000 consensus is bed races, and Sean's gonna make all my bed frames for me. Because that's what's the number I mean, that was the number one consensus. You agreed to the letter? That they wanted.
And then the next thing I think I want like, I would like to be in charge of is events in Westside Park throughout the day for like, like, the kids events. And we the city sponsors that. We put it on. I have an org I have the, four h club going to serve food in the park that day. I have the bio girls, and I have the, the other four h kids going to be helping with all the fun activities already planned that day. The rest of it, I letters will be going out to every business and every organization in January or February with them with me saying,
if you would like to host an event, if you would like to be part of our promotion, send me your ideas, and I will make sure that all of that gets promoted on one flyer so that weekend, everything in town. But for me to sit there and try to plan all five pages of those ideas that people came up with is not gonna happen, and we're not gonna be able fund it. So I think we got some good ideas of specific things that the city will sponsor. There's gonna be dances Friday night. There's gonna be a dance Saturday night. Friday night, the both have talked to Main Street and Pub.
They're gonna host the dance street dance Friday night. Saturday night, the, All Star Union is gonna host a dance at the, Coliseum. So those things are planned. So there are things planned, but then, you know, Rachel's gonna do a dance show on one of the nights. So all of these things that these organizations are gonna plan, I will work on making sure that I get everything combined, and we're promoting all of it together. And I will work and plan those two or three couple events that I just mentioned to plan. Now throughout it, whoever has ideas and wants to come,
if they need funding, we have our donation funds, and we're not gonna use $10 on those two events. So then the council can make a decision and say, yeah. We'll put $500 to your activity, or we'll put $500 to this is just where I'm coming from. Because you're not gonna get I mean, like I said, I have five pages with a list of everything people wanted to do from fashion shows to karaoke to and there's And we don't wanna I can't plan on that. Singing karaoke for the hundred and fiftieth. Well, you never know. He's already in charge of so I I was putting $500 out.
I'm joking. So I will but I will work on helping people coordinate with the right people to get, you know, their ideas or activities done. That Saturday, the consensus is they wanna have something like we do for, you know, Coliseum, we wanna do it at Westside Park because we wanna keep it in town. I will plan and get everything needed for that event, and Westside Park will be busy, and I've already got organizations that are gonna help with that. The like I said, the bed races was something I never expected. I couldn't believe how many people said we have to bring back the bed races. And Sean already said he's gonna mail to everything for me.
And you're gonna be on the bed, and we're gonna push it. And it's We're gonna win. We're gonna win. So I will make sure that I am coordinating with all of the everybody that has something that they wanna contribute. I will make sure that I coordinate it and get it on on the list. I will make sure I communicate with all the businesses and organizations and say, hey. This is the weekend. Here's the things that we're having. If you'd like to donate money, I'll get you on the donation, the sponsorship, so your business will get on there. If you'd like to host an event, I'll make sure that's on the list as well. That's what I would like to do. K. Now if you would like me to do something separate or different,
I'm totally open for ideas. No. And I think all that's great. I think we all agree with that. That's great. Yep. What do you guys wanna do with this logo? Yes. That one Where did it work? That logo, the banners, banners and a super logo on the t shirt. So that'd be too confusing. I so I I What do you want it all in one? The idea behind again, the the the t shirts for me was to just generate more money to be able to put back into the event. Right. Mhmm. And so when organizations come and say, we really wanna do this, but we don't have the funds, it would all go into a pool to be like, okay. The council can decide, like, yep.
Let's sponsor that event, and here's some more funds to get. That was my idea. Mhmm. So but as far as what you want on the t shirts, it's whatever you guys want. And I know all of you guys remember this. The flood of ninety seven shirt, the t shirt. Right? Iconic t shirt. They we sold them or someone sold them. I don't even remember who the heck sold them. But everyone's got one or everyone had one. Make them? Everyone had some at some point, and it was different aspects of the city on that t shirt. It would be cool to have Yeah.
Something along those lines. I guess that would be the only argument to not just not just do a plain logo do Mhmm. And the same with those coffee mugs that, Oh, yeah. Is there a there's a kid over in Newland making them for every city in Minnesota? I think it's fertile. Fertile. Yeah. I think. And she's she's picking out, like, certain aspects of the city. And, again, that that's not maybe that's not the right thing to do. It's just that I'm brainstorming as we're sitting here talking what what you guys want. But I agree. T shirts, if they're if they have some design on it more than just the logo would
look nice. I definitely agree with that. Put the businesses off the back screen. Pitching? Yeah. Just put them in. You know, kinda do, like, a state, basketball type esque deal where you put a logo or something on the front and then the teams on the back, which in this case would be businesses that supported it. Or I I don't know. Whatever you guys wanna do. It's look. I think that every month that we put this off, we're losing time. Like I said, it's November and December. You guys we got Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up. By the time we know it,
we're gonna be in January. We got the other the next meeting set up again. Can is this something we could talk about? Yes. However, not one person has responded that they're Yes. What's that? Not one person has responded that they're coming. I think That's coming. I think everybody wrote you know, the first meeting, everyone was excited because they want to give their ideas, but then nobody actually wants to be the one that planned it. I will I'll email again, and we'll get some numbers. But, yes, it's it's more we can talk about there. If you want a response, but I'm gonna respond with the thing.
Okay. I don't know. Should we pull off one more month? But I think it should go add We need to have one more meeting. And then I think we can the first meeting was just ideas. Sure. People throwing out ideas like you're doing. Yeah. This meeting gets more specific. Now let's get down to the Yeah. Kind of setting things up. So What's the meeting next? Maybe a lot more Thursday. Okay. Thirteenth. What's one more month? Take back my words. You guys wanna just do that? Should we just Yes. K. Sure. Yeah. I'll wait and see and then, talk about it in our December meeting. Sure. I'm seeing head nods.
Everyone's okay with that. No. Okay. Beautification. I need a motion to adjourn. Hold on. Got a motion from Eric. I got that. Second from Scott e. All in favor. Aye. Aye. This motion no. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Coming up, bro. You you crossing you?