Let's go. Yeah. Is it good? Yup. Okay. Uh moving on to mayor's reporter committees. Um I actually had two of you reach out to me yesterday. Um I'm going to set my committees for January. Um so, with the exception of Tom, you guys all know what committees you were on for twenty twenty-five. If there are any changes, you guys would like to be on something different. Obviously, we can have two council members per
committee. Two voting council members per committee. Um you guys are obviously able go to any of the other committees at any time as a member of the community you just cannot vote where we sitting with public works okay so public yeah me and you right so public works I had Sean and then why I added you yeah midway again I can I can keep you there if nope if that's what I would like to see and then Wayne I got you on
public safety too well I was informed on public safety that I was not a voting member you're not here yes and Scott are. Okay. Yup. Yup. Um So I don't know if that's necessary to have any listed on there. Okay. If I can just be a spectator there. Sure. Um Tom the beautification is open. Mean beautification or give me some input but again I'll I'll
talk to you guys all individually wherever you want thank you okay I will talk with all of you guys individually and we'll come up with a plan but I will set those appointments in at our January meeting if there's any community members that would like to join the committee I know a couple have reached out to Ashley in the past month or two and or likewise myself we've had some good participation the numbers have increased in almost all of them which is good to see that people want to get involve So, reach out to myself or Ashley. That's it. It's good to have
new faces. Yup. Alright. I'm going to go fast to the department updates because we've already been here for a long time. Um one of the things we saw a little bit of disappointment at the liquor store this last month. Uh we did have increase in profit from last year only $80 but our sales were down by 32 4one dollars. Um. Wow. Yes. So, we need to go through and Jerry just got me this this morning because we need to go through and figure out why our sales were down so much. Um so, I will be looking at and see what
we can figure out what we can do to move forward. Um Public Works have been busy getting all the equipment ready. Um the building was insulated. The sides of the building was insulated. Now, the guys have been spending this week moving all the stuff back so we can come back and do the roof. Um so obviously, it's way past but it's getting closer. Um so, they've been working on that. Uh the deco center I had a few hiccups with the the hot tub did not test inspections by the
state so I'm sorry I didn't even ask you if we have a timeline of when the hot tub company is coming back there's no timeline the hot tub company attacked Detroit today at noon and he's in correspondence with Aaron who is the state engineer they did not do the plumbing to the hot tub according to what was put into the plan to the state so yeah here's the inspection the Department of Health. Like something. Um. Like major or like. Like they have to maybe. He wouldn't tell
me today he's in contact. I I don't I was told by the state engineer the day she was there that everything was above ground but he's saying now I could Google ground. So I honestly do not know. The hot tub does look good though. I haven't even looked at yet. I know maybe put it on the radio and I was going to go look and it just it does look good. It's operable. It's just not legal. And then we also just so you guys are aware I'm getting bids on the locker room doors
because there's a regulation that says that the locker room doors need to have a plunger and not just a dead bolt and the height of the bottom of the door handle has to be four feet above ground which if we took out the dead bolts we the center of the door handle is at four feet so we would not pass and those doors and frames are cemented in so they were not going to be easy that's why we didn't put it into the plan to start with but we might be spending contingency money
because it is on it is on state's radar. And we've got some right now. So it's there. Yeah. Is it all four door? There's a lot left. Is it all four doors? Like from. To the two doors. To the pool. So. To the pool. To the door to the pool has the crossbar. It has the plunger. So we're open. Basically what this is is it's a safety regulation so that let's say you guys with young kids. They can't open the door and get into the pool area without a like it's four feet up. They can't just like push. Push the door open. Sure. So
this is the hallway door. I think Not the poolside door. Two locker room doors. The men's and the women's locker room are out to the pool. They do not meet. Okay. Yup. They do not meet the new regulations. With Innis, we thought we were fine because we weren't changing them but it is not. Yeah. Sure did. Cuz it is a yes. That's why. Yeah. Cuz the state was there. Everything else was fabulous. So, yeah. Just stand and use it. Yeah. Like I said, it looks good. So,
we continue. Yeah. Um moving on next to 150th anniversary. Planning update. We had another meeting a couple weeks ago. Had a great turnout from Joe's Tenor, 11 of us there, Pat. Um yeah. We we narrowed down timelines and everything. Kind of who was taking care of what. We'll go into details all I can fill you guys in more as we go the one thing I wanted to bring up tonight was Bruce Dugan brought a time capsule to the the meeting and we all as a committee thought it would be a great idea one of the big things that the city should do
and so with that I would like to go ahead and purchase it it is $2, 000 and then it's another $2, 000 for we don't have to do this but we like to do this you can actually buy like little bolts that go in there's two hundred of them and that we would sell them we said for $35 or $40 and we'd actually make money on on the time capsule but then families businesses community member whatever could buy one and put whatever you want in that time capsule and then the cool thing
about this is it's not an underground one we would put it at the public works building and it would be kind of like a monument out there and would be you can engrave it and then inside of it can be up to like I say 200 capsules in it I would like to purchase this we'd open it at 50 years from now whatever we decide as a group but I didn't think it was a cool idea on Friday we would do like a ceremony out there like inviting the public and everybody could take you know
their turn of putting something in I think it'd be really easy to sell 200 time capsules at 35 bucks to people in the community so we all agreed on that the problem is I would like to get it purchased because I would like to start selling those capsules like January time frame so we did allocate the $10, 000 towards this I would take it out of that and then again the goal would be to you did we were I thought we were up to debate on that 10 grand well it's in the
budget but anyways the goal would be to sell it in it directly making it yeah and then we would use that money with whatever we want to put back in or if we needed to pay for a cement slab to put it on or whatever we need to do so anything you add to that Pat. I just know the whole committee thought that was. Yeah. You just thought it would be a neat thing to be there. Yeah. That's why we have committees. Yeah. And if it's a wash, it's not going to cost us any money. I mean, we have to sell it. You're going to sell it but I
need thing open in 50 years now. Yeah, I think you're going to have businesses in town buy one or a couple of em and so Bruce did a good job of he did all the research on this and brought all the information. It was it was awesome actually and there are not very many companies out there that do this. There's like three and we thought it was really cool actually not being you know dug into the ground but more of a monument out. So if it gets stuck in the ground it gets forgotten about lost about and like he said too then you're you need to have it whether we put it in the charter or somewhere so that in 50 years people know where to
locate it. Yeah. The other reason why we've got Public Parks and we still have time to decide is that it's our property we own it. Um if we put it in one of our parks we always run the risk of like what happens in 50 years. Not to say that we're going to lose our parks but you know there has been discussion by so that's what we thought but we have lots of time to decide where we want to have it so it was two grand per time capsules the second two grand so for the you can decide not to do the capsules and you can just let
people put stuff in oh or you can decide to do the individual capsules you would have to each capsule is sealed and they can fit 200 capsules in there that be the way to do it and everybody puts the same size thing yeah you're not having somebody put like and you only have to sell 115 of them or something to make that corner. I think with 200 and if you're having limited amount of space I think you're going to tell that. I think yeah. I think so. Go ahead. I go for it. Yeah. I
don't remember. I know it's in the budget but I thought we were going to talk about that 10 grand. It is. It's in the budget. I've said that a lot of money. My question to Sean was did we authorize a committee to decide how to spend a 10 grand and so? Why are we discussing it? No. No. And okay. No. That's why it's coming here. Okay. We started doing a phenomenal job of getting ideas and planning and coming up with ideas like this. It's a good idea. Yeah. And the the committee or the ten grand is not just supposed to be it's supposed to help events and then also there's a few things
that the city itself will be hosting and one of the big events that we'll be hosting is the Westbed Park when the event races. So. Whatever you decide. Yeah. There'll be praise. There's going to be DJ. No, it's under five grand and it's like yeah, it's a wash. It's we just need to give Ashley some guidance and tell her to do it. Just before. Alright. Next thing I have is the NBN engineering contract. So I apologize about this getting last minute. This is something that an architect sent to me. Um so about three weeks ago
these engineers came out met with Brian walked around site. Um there is a it's a it's a $5000 contract. Basically their services are used to do a field study and all civil engineering services that are needed for the new public work. Meaning that sewer lines, water lines, electrical lines, all of that has to be analyzed and moved. So, before I did this, I did call Brandon because more engineering is obviously our
civil engineering. Um Brandon went through this whole thing with me and he said actually there's no way more engineering could do it for this price. Oh. So, I I wanted to call him before we hire or contract with this separate. So, he gave me his blessing. He did say he would like to review it when they're done. Um now, this is a contract and will only be depending on what we end up doing if we do end up having the building out there and what size things will have to be
moved around based on what our future goals are for there but they do need to do a study and move forward with that so just like when we sign with our architect or our engineering service for the event center it's up to that amount like they won't go over it but that could be the total amount if we're designing that entire building I'll pass this around so you guys can see it am I a morning am I up on a line here
when saying that Rex should've had this into his contract and his proposal? Why not? And he's the advocate. No no no you're not out. Oh I'm lying. That's what I'm worried. What sense does this make? You're not out of line. Because this is twelve grand that he could've he could've put in there so we knew. I don't this is. Yeah. Not that we cannot do it. Something he's trying to cram down our throats or what? Like I don't I don't like the the way this is rolling. I I don't like the and you're saying contract for a project we don't even know it's going to go through. Why can't that way? I
mean we gotta build the our building no matter what. Right? The public works. Okay? Correct. But we don't need them to just build up or we do need them. That Brian. I wasn't included in the walk through. And the meeting that was there. So when I got this that's why I called Brandon and I have to go through it and I and I mean Brian was there for the walk through. It it does either way there needs to be a field study done. You can't you you can't. But I I do agree with you. I
don't know why it's a cost that's thrown at us right now. I mean Rhett should have included that. We need to talk to some thousand dollars. I'd like to be in here again. Yeah. Pick it brain. We need to ask him why it wasn't included. I've moved a table that comes. We can table that can't we? Yep. Meeting everyone. Yeah. I'll make that motion. Table that. I mean. Okay. Then I'm going to suck it. Second free shot. Uh yeah. Motion passes okay I that was the okay new business
kaidoscope guess I changed things up it's not the agenda but Tom Cleidoscope on Thursday morning what time I can do it perfect anyone wants to join Tom I can. Okay. Okay, I don't know where I'm at. So, we'll we'll stop now. Perfect. Okay. So then. We have something done. Speaking of architectures, we got pay applications and you guys are packing the amount of twenty-four 1thousand7 180. Uh payable to rent architecture for 70% completion on the
schematic design of our building. And we haven't paid them anything, correct? Yeah. Nothing. We signed 140, 000. Yeah, we gotta do. Yeah. I'll I'll make that motion. Second. Here, take a motion from Shaw and a second from Scott Hannon for comments. All in favor. Alright. Motion passes. 9 AM. Okay. 850. Eight Uh resolution. Okay. Hornsexual. Uh Does
everybody have the levy in front of em? Ashley sent it out. She just notified me. She did not even bring an 8% width. If you guys look at her Email, everything that we need to do budget wise can be obtained under the four and the 6% levy increase. Um if you look at the levy, I talked about it briefly with Tom. It is about a $10000 difference per year. Uh it's about a fifteen, little less than $15 per year average
household difference. Going from the four to the six let's have a discussion so if you if you move from the 6% to 4% like John mentioned you would be essentially taking off our surplus so if you look at the key points the budget key points that I gave you that's based on the 6% if you look at the surplus of the very first two line items you'd be taking off that 10000 from there so from that ninety2 from the 92
or the 147 you're looking that from ninety-two you guys your surplus will go down to eighty-two. Okay? Everyone's on the same page. Here. My one question is, how do we have a contract for so many years for garbage? It annually creates to make it up to whatever our contract price is and then every three years we do the new contract. That's what I'm saying. We contract
with them for like three years, right? Right. Do you know what year it is? Um. Second. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be year two. Mm hmm. Yeah. This is going to be year two. Yeah. Okay. That needs to be looked at. On year three. It's all the same. Can I inquire? Um look at sort of selling THC products. Did the council approved that? Yeah. They did. I was against it. Dobers. Jeez. Uh. Uh Tom. Whole
eighty bucks. You know what? We would be in the whole $1, 500. I that would be fine. And last year we didn't sell THC. We were down $1500 more than one. I'm sorry. Because it causes too many social problems. Tom, I was on the same boat that they wanted to sell gummies and I did want to sell them. You're not selling donuts. Selling drinks. I'm just looking at we need a profit. So, don't buy. I knew they're going to drive us through. Money is not. Money is not everything, Ashley. Money is not everything. It is when we've had a loss for the last
six years in a row there. Thing again and It is. I was going to ask that when you're talking to the liquor store but I refrain. I wrote it down and I was going to ask you later. Persons pertaining to the levy. Okay. Pertain to the levy. I don't know where we at. Not really. I think everybody got lost. The garbage. Yeah, thanks John. Thanks. Um. Okay. I need a motion. I need 4% or 6%. Sure. I want to make that motion at
four. Second. Okay, I got motion to prove Sean in a second from Tom raising a levy in the amount of four or excuse me, 4%, which equates to $29 and 57 cents per year per average household. Any questions. One comment I make it. It's not saving a lot of money but it's token savings to. It's 15 dollars that we know a year and 10, 000 a year for us. Yes. We can do it. And we got a surplus anyway so. We
can do it. It'll be fine. With the tax accessory with with what's been assessed. The assessed property value going up so much that really impacts us as well. So, that means even though we didn't do it and I need to see that on the City of Beta taxpayers, it it does it it does give us. It comes back. It comes back. So, I will agree to the 4%. I would normally. If anybody has, Ashley didn't even argue against the 4% is what
I'm saying. Call it. Okay. Uh resolution twenty 25 dash twelve dash one resolution setting the final tax levy for you know 20 twenty-four here still. Uh for twenty twenty-six calendar year at 4%. Uh by roll call vote Scott E. Hi. Scott M. Hi. Thank you. Sean. Hi. Tom. Hi. Wayne. Hi. Resolution twenty twenty5 dash twelve dash oh one passes. Uh that happened last year too. I remember hanging this at the same other
than having some pretty good deja vu. Um okay, resolution twenty twenty-five dash twelve dash oh two is the budget. Now, obviously, Ashley, you've done a really good job of pinpointing just about where everything stands, where everything's been. Um we've had this discussion for since August when we had our first preliminary meeting as far as the budget goes. Um Sean is your time to speak your peace
on the $10, 000 for the 150th anniversary. If there's one small change from the budget that I sent out to you guys earlier, in the community center one, the the credit card fees we had budget of 500. We did increase that to 800 just based on actuals So, we we blew that up by $300. It's not in the package that you guys have. So. But we increase that due the fact that our actuals are up that amount and we really
can't control credit card fees based on people using credit card machines. And where is that where is that from? From the Deco Center. Call the Deco. Yeah. Okay. So, That was the one small change from the copy that you guys got earlier today. If it gets if it gets out of control we can do what we did to the liquor store if it got to that. Yeah but now you can't you can't do that on debit cards. Oh. Anymore. So the liquor store actually we've had to a little bit around. We've had. Good. Um yeah you can't you can just do that on
debit cards. So so we have had to add a little bit of credit card fees back into that's Gotcha. I I I Yeah. Alright. That ten grand's a lot. That's a lot. For the hundred 150th? That's a lot. That money is not going to go that far. No. That's not a lot. I am the one guy. Higher than minority. It's fine. I'll be that guy this time. That's a
lot. Welcome to my world. Oh. Okay. God, you rub, you can't rub off of me. Any if we don't spend it there I mean I understand don't spend it actually but we will spend it we we're going to yeah it's the week of the books but by the looks of it's four against one so it's fine viewpoint any other any other line items in
the budget that you guys want to address again we've been talking about this in August sorry Tom with the with the of you. How about I went over it today. Yeah. For a bit hour. Yeah. Again, there's, you know, if you look through it, there's really, there's nothing glaring. Um again, we haven't had to. Most of our stuff is pretty status quo for the most part. Mm hmm. Um. There's a lot of shifting if you go through it. Um you know, a lot of it's based on actuals. Our our workman's comp went down so that was nice. We, like I've
mentioned earlier, our biggest increase was insurance. However, our employees are looking at the union is looking at completely changing our plans which could end up saving the city too. So, they're meeting with Albroth and we'll see that in December too. Does that have anything to do with the police department changing theirs? Um the police department changed theirs because they. That percentage that I'm saying? Uh they changed theirs because their premiums are a lot lower. Yup. And there was one whose
premiums is very high. Yup. And so with going with the it's a like a union plan. Yeah. Police. It's it brought it it actually brought the two other ones up higher but the city covers it all because it's still under one of our delta but it brought the one that was paying a significant amount of of his paycheck every month towards premiums that brought him down so it benefited him so this 16% though it's on our other employees of course it on all this is Blue Crest with
Shields this is all employees right now all union myself all had a department okay yes get Blue Crest Bush I was just curious because I knew they switching if that was part of this high number is where I'm getting at. No, the other ones are no. If that makes sense. Okay. Okay. Any other budget line item questions? Okay, I need a motion. I like the motion. I have a motion
from Scott M. Second from Scott E. Any further discussion. Uh resolution twenty 25 dash twelve dash oh two by roll call Scott E. Aye. Scott M. Aye. John. Aye. Tom. Aye. Wade. Aye. Uh resolution twenty twenty-five dash twelve dash oh two. The final budget adoption for twenty twenty-six. I don't know. Is approved. Biogirls donation request. So, if you
guys look in your package, I had it. Are we doing it because there's no way here? I I don't think. I think plenty and a half without anyone here. I don't know. I want that to change. Sorry. It's just me. I think that should change. We've literally done like. I know. Uh we've talked about it. And I well I think some of the ones we've done before is like the softball the the softball thing. That benefits our city.
Yeah the more than 500 bucks. Yeah. But. You don't think Bio Grove benefits our city. That's not what I'm saying. They don't I'm saying but the the the softball brings in hundreds of people into our town. Okay and I'm not saying we won't donate but I want somebody to talk to me about it. That's all I'm saying. Just like the girls were here earlier. That's why I thank them. I I I appreciate. And we've talked about it a thousand times and nothing ever happens. It needs to happen. My mind. Again, one voice. Well, unless I hear a motion, that's
going to be the voice. I'm in an agreement with that. I'd like to see people come here and talk. Tell us what. I'm talking any group. Does it take a little bit of time to to come and talk in front of us if we're giving out money. Are you okay with that? I'm not hearing any different? Nope. Okay. Uh moving on. Many updates public works. I wasn't there. I. I wasn't there. I was perfect at basketball. You and I were sorry. Oh yeah. Uh public
safety. We did not have one. Okay. Beautification. We meet next week. Perfect. And EDA. We had a loan request. Mm hmm. What did you guys do? Obviously tabled it. Uh nope. It passed? It's not in the pocket. That's why you looked at me ate it supposed to hit the end of the table we had a special meeting about it last week and
right before Thanksgiving and Wednesday we tabled it the first time that's what I remember okay yeah we tabled it the first time it came badly last week actually the council pocket was already sent out so I forgot to get it on there oh sure do you want to just reach out to them and just if we need to do a special if they need the funds sooner rather than. They have the funds. Okay. Uh it was 10 grand. Um Just to business it down. I'll get down there. That's how we can't say
that, can we? We don't say yeah. I can tell you that later. It's public expenditure. Why can't you tell me? I don't know. It's what I've always been told. No. It's been like that. Yeah. I don't know. Okay. Um Letter Gig cigarettes. Uh standard cigarette renewals. They expire here in 2020 or 12312025. So it's PetroServe, A Country Store, and Dollar General. For annual license renewals. So, I need a motion approved. So, some kick motion Tom. Second from Sean, all in
favor. Yeah. Alright. Motion passes. I need a motion to adjourn. Okay, welcome to Scott Adam. Second from Scott E, all in favor. Alright. Alright. Alright. Motion passes this meeting with adjourned. Thanks. That's not a long meeting. We used to go to one in the morning.