Hurry. Alright. Robbie, we ready? We would be Hey. We're ready. Another bid. Good. Alright. I'd like to call this city council meeting to order, December 9, 6PM. Al, you see we've just a couple noise a couple council members. Two excused absences on the council. We do have a quorum. Cool. Alrighty. Before we start, we'll recite the pledge of allegiance, please. Thank you. 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.
Thank you. Alright. Got the agenda out there. Any changes to the agenda, Al? No changes. Motion to approve the agenda, please. Move to approve the agenda. Second. Got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Agenda approved. Consent agenda. There's a few on there. I will read them all and stop me if you would like to discuss any of those. Otherwise, we will approve them all at the end. First one will start. City council minutes from November 12. Approval after payment for $1.56 $4.22. Warrant list for 436861. Twenty twenty six tobacco license renewals,
twenty twenty six garbage hauler renewals. 4F is massage license renewals renewal. 4G and eight. 4G is twenty twenty six, township contracts, fire and first responder services. Next one is first responder appointment. Do we know who it is? I'm just curious. Her name is Charlotte. K. Awesome. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good. Good. And then, four I is 2025 Street Utility Improvement pay request seven to snow snow contracting for eighty seven nine thirty two. And then the BCRC Trail Loop pay request for snow contracting for 04/03 04/30/1938.
And the last one on the consent agenda is the 2026 meeting calendar. Any discussion on those? If not, I'm moving a motion to approve it. Motion to approve, consent agenda. Second. Got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Consent agenda approved. Moving down to communication reports and petitions. The first one is a small, presentation for the truth in taxation presentation. I think Al's gonna take this. There's a few slides up top if you wanna follow along. We'll go relatively quickly through this. Cammie gets credit. She did build the presentation and,
as always, has done a fantastic job. Next slide. The population growth in Byron is estimated at flat over the last couple of years since the census, still just shy of 7,000. We do have a 28% growth since 2015. That's evidenced as the next slide will show, when we look at our new residential home permits in 2025, they are down. There's 18 new home permits. Our total building permits issued for the year were $8,300,000
and that's just residential permits. In addition to the new homes, there's also the additions, alterations, decks, garages, etcetera that make up that number. New residential home values, dollars 5,900,000.0 and 25,000,000 which is down. Again, you can see the number of permits was down and obviously the value is also for the new home values. This year is the first year in several years that we've had anybody in our neighborhood close to us for number of building permits.
Cassin And Byron were, almost identical in number of new home, new homes built in the last year, but you can see that Byron has exceeded the number of building permits in the neighborhood significantly. The twenty twenty six city certified final levy, the certified debt and operating levy is 6,638,000. Total levy increase of 684,000, which is an 11.5% increase. We did meet with finance committee, and it was determined that we are not recommending a change
because this is a very flat tax rate. You'll see that, the levy is made up of 2,900,000.0 in general fund operation. That is a a $220,000 increase over 25, the increase is made up of the additional cost for the school resource officer, inflation with higher cost of supplies, staff wage and benefit increases which included an 8.2% increase in health insurance. Our debt service levy is 1.176. This is 204,000 less than 2025,
because we were able to retire a bond and, our payments are going down on the remaining bonds. This puts $2,500,000 in the CIP levy, which has allowed us to do capital projects with cash instead of, issuing debt. So we save the interest rate and the debt issuance costs for the projects. Projects are, for '26 include a roundabout at 4th Street and 10th Avenue, the fire hall expansion, upgrades to the pool, athletic fields, and open space, purchase of a dump truck and other capital equipment,
and miscellaneous projects, and building updates in the public facilities. Our debt levy for this year, you'll see, is continuing to go down. We have six outstanding bonds, two of them are enterprise funds, water and sewer. There is one bond, a portion of the 2020 a bond will be paid off later this month and 2016 a will be paid off in early twenty twenty six. So our debt is dropping pretty significantly and I think you'll see over the next
couple of years, we'll drop even more drastically subject to any future projects. Our general operating fund budget for this year is, 3.398, dollars 3,398,000, which is a slight increase. And again, we talked about what made that up. The general operating budget does not include debt service or tax abatements. A lot of the communities in the State of Minnesota rely heavily on, local government aid, also known as LGA. The city of Byron has 500,000
coming in 2026. And you can see how we stack up with Pine Island, Chatfield, Stuartville, and Cassin. Ours is very, very low compared to everybody else. And that has to do with the formula that they use for LGA. We have suggested to the state legislature that they revisit that formula. At this point there's not an appetite to do it, but, communities like Byron are short changed on that. Our tax rate we talked about, this shows, how we are continuing to decrease. We went from 60.6 to 60.08.
And over the last seven years, it's been a significant decrease in the tax rate, for the citizens of Byron. To put that into comparison, you'll see that we are comparable to Caledonia, Cassin, Lake City, and Saint Charles at the bottom of the, pecking order as far as our tax rate goes. The tax rate impact, this just gives you a brief idea of a home at 450,000 would have an estimated tax rate of twenty seven zero four in the city of Byron.
And that's it. Unless you have questions or specifics, in short, we are looking at a flat tax rate of 60.08 in order to allow us to continue to pay cash for our capital projects instead of bonding. Nothing? No, nothing from me. Mhmm. Nothing for me. Thank you, guys, again. Good year. We're we're flat. Keeping it, holding around there. City is doing a great job managing what the what we have coming in from the taxpayers. Well, thank you guys for that. And it shows on our our rate being steady and dropping for the last seven
years. So we're doing it right. Thank you, guys. So we'll do the resolution down the road. But any other discussions? That's all I have, unless somebody else has questions or questions. K. Just in time. Incidents calls for Byron. You're probably not busy tonight. I know I'm actually working later tonight, so I haven't had a whole lot going on yet. Okay. So we'll see. Not a whole lot going on last month. We had 248 calls for service. And of those, 62% were, self initiated activities. Nothing extremely major. No new major concerns that I'm aware of anyway.
Any questions or comments for me? I heard there was was there a roundabout accident this afternoon at all or not? If there is, I don't know yet. But like I said, I'm working later this evening. I I'm just coming on, so I haven't seen anything that happened earlier today yet. I I apologize. That's fine. Interesting. What's that? Thank you. I knew it's something. I heard it from a grandchild. I wasn't sure. It's in third grade, you know, what happened there. So thanks for verifying that. Alright. Thank you. Stay safe out there. Alright. Public hearings. We have one. Six a, nuisance abatement public hearing.
So Okay. Motion to approve the public hearing. Right? Open up. We need a motion to open the public hearing. I'll motion to open up the public hearing. Second. We got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Public hearing opened up at 06:11. Going from there. We do have a nuisance abatement at 713 3rd Avenue Northeast. At this point, we have, what is identified as junk vehicles in the city code, as well as, we'll call it debris and other items. There is also a zoning violation with a storage shed in the front yard as
opposed to, being in the backyard where it is permitted. I did include a copy of the letter that was sent. Yep. So and the pictures? Pictures. At this point, I recommend that we just gotta open up for public comment. Okay? Any public comments? No other public comments? One more time for public comments on our on our public hearing. Anything? K. No discussion? Unless the council has questions or concerns Oh, yeah. The the only question I have is do we know of any hardship at all, or they've been just nonresponsive? I have not been, informed of hardships or inability to address the the nuisance.
Okay. But it's This is the second notice. I will tell you there was a notice that went out earlier this fall, and then we did send this, notice out in, the November. Setting the date for the public hearings. And we and just haven't heard anything? I I've been by the property several times. Day two and nothing changed. Okay. There's been a couple of small changes, but nothing addressing the nuisance. Got it. K. So at this point, I'll oh, yeah. Go ahead. So I just spoke to the gentleman, he may Would you go ahead and come up? I spoke with a gentleman a few days ago,
and he said he was planning on being here tonight. The only thing that he mentioned to me is, on top of the issues with the dog that we've had with our residents in the past. He mentioned that, he's had a traumatic brain injury, but had didn't say how that affects him. He mentioned that he's sick of the letters, and he is seeking legal action against Al specifically and the city for harassment because of this. So I wouldn't anticipate him responding in any kind to work towards,
rectifying these issues. It looks like he's either just saying he's doing this or he's seeking legal counsel and he's not getting interested in doing anything with the the ordinances. I can confirm the traumatic brain, incident from from a few years back. So I that so it is that isn't just fluff. That is that is that is true. So bringing up he's lowering up. Is it our we have to get our attorney in at this point or or just wait and see what happens? Well, my hope was that he would be here and say, I'm gonna do this,
this, and I'll I'll get there. But that's not gonna happen, obviously, because he's not there. And, like, I'm okay with that. But we were going to get a step plan just to at least help us out. But now it looks like we're stuck. He's not gonna do anything. He's lawyered up, so we need to figure out what the city can do. But if he is, then we're happy to have the city attorney visit with his attorney and and go through those channels. I am not aware of anything, as far as legal action. So, you know, at this point, this is a required, step in the process to remediate the nuisance.
K. And, when we get to the action, we can discuss that further. But I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Good information. Okay. Should we close it? Not yet. Motion. Motion to close. Yep. Motion to close. Public hearing. K. We got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed. Six fifteen. Public hearing closed. Thank you. Resolutions. Twenty twenty five fifty. Pretty simple. Polling places for November. Just basic It just sets the polling place for the twenty twenty six elections, And that is City Hall. K. Motion for approval? Motion to approve resolution twenty twenty five dash 50,
polling place. Second. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this motion on this resolution? Any public comments? Any other counsel comments? Nope. If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Twenty twenty five fifty approved. Moving down to seven b, resolution twenty twenty five fifty one, amending the and approving the five year annual contribution to SEMAC, Rollinghill. This is an amended resolution based on a reduced annual contribution from what we originally, thought it was going to be, and this just reflects that reduction.
I'll move to approve resolution twenty twenty five, 51, the Rolling Hills Transit's annual contribution. Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution? Any public comments? One more time for public comments. Alright. Any other council comments? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Twenty twenty five fifty one approved. Moving down to twenty five fifty two approval of the final levy, which we just talked about earlier. So, we discussed it. Anything else? I'll make a motion to approve the resolution twenty five fifty two, approval of the 26 final levy collectible.
Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution? Any public comments? One more time. No public comments. Any other council comments? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That would be what's that? 52? Yeah. Yep. Twenty five fifty two approved. Moving down to twenty twenty five fifty three, approving certification of an outstanding utility bill. This resolution allows the city to certify this outstanding utility bill to the county for addition to property tax statement. Right.
I'll motion to approve resolution twenty five fifty three, approving certification of the outstanding utility bill. Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this resolution? Any public comments? No public comments on twenty twenty five fifty three? K. Any other council comments? If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Twenty twenty five fifty three approved. Last one on this portion is twenty twenty five fifty four accepting bids and awarding contract for the fire hall expansion. So and renovation project. This accepts the low bid of 1,162,000
for the expansion and awards the contract to Brennan Construction, for the expansion and renovation of the fire hall. K. Under. K. I'll motion to approve resolution twenty five fifty four, accepting bids and awarding the contract for the fire hall expansion. Second. Okay. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this? Any public comments? Public comments? If not, any other council comments? No. If not, all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? President of twenty twenty five fifty four passes. Going down to unfinished,
the nuisance abatement we talked about in the, in the public hearing. I would ask for a motion from the council to, authorize staff to, seek a court order giving us access to remediate the nuisance at 713 3rd Avenue Northeast. Can you just give the history one more time on on all of this? Yes. There was a a notice provided to, the property owner in because I'm trying to play. I think it was August. Okay. Of this year. See if I have that. Yeah. I'm sorry. October 2, there was a notice provided. October 2?
October 2. The result of that was a storage shed was moved from the street to the Drive. Driveway. Another notice was filed, with the property owner on November 5, notifying him of the public hearing and the need to, correct the nuisance, address the nuisance abatement, specifically the garbage in the front yard, the storage shed that's in the front yard, and the, by definition, junk vehicles located in the front yard. Any and no response? No response. I've heard nothing from either of those notices.
The first one in First the second one. October 2, no response. I've had November 5, no response. Zero response. The only thing that I can tell you is that I know that the storage shed was moved, but that's the only thing. There was no response to city hall. This did start from a citizen complaint. It was a citizen complaint. Okay. And that's typically how our news the nuisance ordinances work. We're not out there searching for people with barking dogs incessantly for five minutes or above or anything else that's in our codes. It's it's all it's all citizen It is.
And it's gotta be within a certain radius of the property too. It can't It it has to be side of town complaining because they drove by. So it's gotta be impact area. Correct. And based on what we heard earlier, I was, you know, I was gonna maybe say, give them one more chance. But if if what we're hearing through the communication with this individual is true, another notice would just be looked at as another form of harassment. So that wouldn't there would be no point in making another notice. I'm not sure how far to go or how many times that we do that. Right.
The yeah. I don't know where to go with that beyond this process, which is permitted under Cohen. K. This is just our next step. It's our next step. We're not going to go on private property to remediate a nuisance without a court order. We we have to have the court authorizing us to do that. There are things that we'd prefer that they, the the property owner, clean up. It's really not our place to be there. But there are things that we can't do either and, you know, in particular dealing with junk vehicles and,
with zoning, violations that that does require a court order for us to access the property. So just set the step up, we gotta do the next step. That's it. Whatever that is. Whatever that is. Okay. Alright. I would need a motion to approve No. I mean, is it just is there do do you need a motion, Fallon? I need a motion authorizing staff to seek it in order to remedy the or remediate the nuisance. Alright. I'll motion to approve obtaining the court order order to remediate the nuisance. Second. K. Got a first and second. Any public comments on this?
Any public comments on this? Any public comments on this? We understand. That's good. No problem. Alright. Any council comments anymore? No further comments on the issue. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Nuisance abatement? What was it? Approved. Approved. Yep. Thank you. Okay. We got two solar far two solar opportunities. They're both been presented in the past to the city a couple different times. One is at the wastewater treatment plant and one is at by city hall. So all the back information has been out there. Right? Is that what we're looking for, all the data and everything as far as I know?
We have a preliminary approval subject to, whether or not we wanna move forward with it for funding on these projects. Both were granted preliminary funding. We do have to take certain steps before the December to, to qualify for those grants. And that's really where we're at right now is, are we moving ahead or not? And, the first one is the solar at the wastewater plant. That's a 90, sorry, I think it's a $96,000
project, based on their estimates, and that was what was awarded. K. I'll let's handle the the first one. I'll make a motion to approve the solar at the wastewater treatment plant. Second? K. We got a first and second. Any discussion on the public discussion on this? Wastewater solar? Another discussion and no discussion? Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? K. Solar at the wastewater treatment plant is approved to go ahead. Right. So for this one, I have a question. The next one around? For the city hall solar system. Yes. Yes.
Yes. We're able to put, like, landscaping around it. Correct? You can do some landscaping around the facility. They have to have access or maintain access to it and obviously can't be trees that are gonna grow up taller than Yeah. Right. Blocking it. Right. But at city hall or something. There is a requirement at city hall to provide some security around it, so they have to prevent access onto the or into the solar panels. Wastewater plant, we already have a fence around that facility, so that doesn't require it here.
They would have to do something to protect the the area around the, panels. Okay. Alright. So would there be landscape opportunities? Yes. There are. Within reason. Sure. And the proposed locations is the property line. The $136,000 identified in this, document is if we go on the East Side Of City Hall by the parking lot, and that's two rows of panels, right at the top of the hill, kind of stepping down. We would recommend going on the West Side Of City Hall from
the between the bank. Between us and the bank. Right? Yeah. The the electric box there, the panel, out to 10th Avenue, which is a single roll of panels. It's a lot less expensive, not not a big deal if it's covered by the by the funding sources, but, it makes more sense and I think it is probably more aesthetically acceptable and easier to, landscape if you if you're I think that was our issue for some of us, with the initial design of being right behind. It wasn't the first initial picture. Was The initial one was right behind.
Right behind City Hall. Right. The first one, they just took the big flat spot right out there. And that's where that was not received very well. Since then, you got the one that'll the property line. Do we have to make a change on that? You said the first Well, they we asked them to price it out. It's the most expensive location, which would be East of City Hall because they have to actually connect it to the transformer that's over here. It would be significantly less. It'd be closer to a 100,000, 110,000 if it goes right next to the transformer.
Prove it with the assumption it's going there. That's my recommendation. Correct. Okay. Okay. I I mean, I put a lot of thought into this because I think it's an eyesore. But I pulled, you know, friends, family, constituents, and they seem not to care as much. So I'm fine with it. Well, from the first one, no. But this one, I think they've made a good a good choice there. It would stay at the top of the hill, back to that, you know, question. The only thing that I would ask you to consider, and I understand there's different opinions on aesthetics,
I think the economics for the, for the taxpayers Yep. Is significant, and, that's why we've brought it forward. Yep. Understood. K. Alright. Anything else? If not, a motion? A motion to approve the solar panels at city Hall. Second. Got a first and second. Any public comments on that? Any public comments? Any public comments? If not, any other council comments? No. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Bolar at City Hall approved based on the location we discussed. Alright. New business, nine a twenty twenty six enterprise fund budget approval,
sewer water, storm water. Al, take it away. This is just approving the budgets for water sewer and storm sewer, as presented. These are enterprise funds, so they are not part of the taxing authority or the tax levy and, are outside of the general fund. They have their own budget. They are required by law to be self sufficient. And these, these budgets are, showing that. Okay. But you do have to approve the budget, so we have spending authority for '26. I'll make a motion to approve the 2026 enterprise fund budget for water,
sewer, and stormwater. Second. K. We got a first and second. Any public comments on this? Any public comments? Any public comments from enterprise enterprise? Fund? No? K. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? 2026 enterprise fund budget approval. Sewer, water, storm approved. Thank you. 9 b, fire and, first responder merger. I think a lot of people would know some of us know about it, but not everybody. So, we have been discussing with, both fire and first responders for for a while now. The concept of a first responder pension is where it started.
And, through research and discussion, we know that the only opportunity for first responders to enter into any kind of a pension is under the umbrella of fire relief. And, so I commend the fire department and first responders for coming together and having the discussion. They've had some meaningful conversations and are ready to merge their programs. It does require the council's action to bring them together, subject to council approval. They would then have to rewrite the fire bylaws,
the fire department, and fire relief, bylaws to accommodate the first responders. Part of that, I think in January, you would see a request from the fire department to expand their roster to accommodate the additional first responders that are not both first responder and fire department members because there are, I think, six, you said? Six members that are not on hold. So they would they would become Everybody in the one umbrella. Yeah.
I think yeah. That's true. But they would do both jobs, basically. Some would and some some wouldn't. Some So Okay. Matt Grant, fire chief. As Al stated, it was focused around the pension. Yep. As you guys know, as two separate groups, we're a monopoly. We're the only ones that I've you know, that keeps separate anymore. So with discussions with, first responders in the fire department, Daryl was there and I was there, of merging. So the first responders could receive the pension through the Relief Association. With that, we come to the agreement that
we're gonna be one group, but kinda like two divisions, I would say. So, there is gonna be first responders that do not do fire, and there's gonna be fire that do not do first responders. We currently have it set up where I will stay the fire chief. I'll keep my assistant chiefs and everything else, but I'll have a director of the EMS under me, which would be Nick. And he would have his two assistant directors underneath him also. So there is, like, five members. So I will be coming back with a bylaw change because right now, our bylaws say we can go up to 32 on the fireside.
So we'll have to raise that number because the ones that don't wanna be on fire. So we'll have to come up with a number to, you know, just change the bylaws on that. I know 98% of the first responders, and I don't see where there's gonna be any issue with it. They're all great people. And it's great that the first responders will finally get in the pension fund to be awarded for their years of service and everything else. So Got it. And this goes and this conversation goes back many years, all the way back to, I because I've been on on that,
you know, that group for for a while. And it Yes. So that times a year, it comes up, you know, with Brian McGregor, the previous, first responder director, kept bringing it up bringing it up. So it it's been a work in progress and been talked about for quite a while. The state actually finally approved it in 2019. It'd have been nice if they could've got it switched back then so they could've had, you know, five, six years into it. I don't see really no issue. We all work together anyway on on, calls. So I think it'd be great to be under one group. And we've also talked in the future of maybe phasing in where all members are
doing both. Right. But we just don't wanna just make the switch now because a lot of we'll probably lose a lot of the senior members we have. You know what I mean? Yeah. So we we we think we have a good plan. Everybody agrees upon it. There'll be some changes we gotta make along the road, but I think it'll all be for the good. I don't I I don't see nobody has seen any issues or negativity about it at all. So Okay. That's good to hear. Yeah. That's good. Okay. Thanks, man. And one of the questions that came up was if somebody's both a firefighter and
a first responder, they don't double dip. They Right. No. They do not double dip. So One. Because tech so we do have them do both, but you can only get paid for one. So, I mean, it's that's the way it is. So Right. Okay. So Got it. Thank you. And that's great because now the first responders, we can get some from the city, and it's hopefully, helps them out a little bit. So appreciate that. Alright. I'll make a motion to approve the fire and first responder merger. Second. Okay. We got a first and second. Any other public comments on that? Any public comments? Public comments?
No public comments? Any other council comments? No. Just great work from from everyone involved, from fire and first responders in the city to get together and come together with this plan. It's great great news. I like it. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? K. Fire and first responder merger approved. Go forward. Thank you. The last one on the new business is delinquent utilities. I think there's five on there. Motion to approve the delinquent utilities. Second. Here, we have a first and second. Any public comments on there? Any public comments? One more time for public comments. If not, any other council comments?
If not, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Delinquent utilities approved. Okay. One more time. Any other public comments? We got public comments once, public comments twice on any other items. Public comments. Nope. K. We'll go around and have quick discussion. Lisa, you got some for the schools, if you don't mind? Thank you. Okay. So we have, tentative agreements with the teachers and the paras. Both settlements are within the budget parameters. We're starting to accept proposals for district wide facility assessments and these will take place
during the summer and will be the, start of a long term facilities maintenance plan. And we're gonna start to work on the revised budget in January, which is the first step in setting next year's budget. Any questions? No. No. No? Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Lisa. Greta, you wanna say you wanna Perfest. I got no choice. Neither do I. Ho ho ho. Ho. Okay. Santa will be there. Santa will be there. Alright. You'll be singing too. Oh, yeah. You'll be singing too, Carol. Well, what? You're the second voice on your mic? No. I who says I'm singing?
It's it's caroling. You're gonna be caroling. Well, the the the choir will be the high school choir will be there. I I I'm singing with it. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. What you got? No. Just finance committee, which that was presented here, obviously. I think EDA was been canceled. No. Not much. Not much going on there. Okay. I had a couple of bird fest meetings, and, obviously, it's coming to a head here this weekend. It's on track. It's gonna be cold, but it's Minnesota. So Bundled. I had to wait for the the fireworks people to confirm first, and they're not concerned about the cold. They just don't wanna rain.
And so but then once that's set, as if we had a meeting early and we fell in line, so we're rolling along with that. The main thing is, obviously, is the 06:00 is the tree lighting. 07:00 would be the parade starting from here to go over to BCRC, which they're they're still gonna have some fire pit set up possibly. Yeah. So there and they'll get over there seven ish. And along there, four to seven, they have a nice vendor show here. And there's eight how many people? 18. 18 signed up. So they'll come over here, congregate, and then, we'll we'll drag Santa along to both places and then then off to BCRC.
Where am I going? Here and No. You don't have to go to BCRC. Okay. Okay. No. We're dragging it over here. Just just dragging me over here. Okay. Gotcha. Yep. No. Not you. We'll get Santa. Santa. Sorry. Kids. Oh, no. Oh, well. And then end up BCRC with, the fireworks at 08:00. O'clock. So there we go. There's no kid watching this town. Yes, ma'am. And we had a school, facilities meeting. Obviously, it's new in the budget, so there really wasn't anything laid out. But they assume down the road when they get things laid out and things to be done, our that committee will start getting more active. And then the fire relief,
we talked about the merger. So that's what I hear. Alright. No park board. Nothing there. First responder, you saw the big news there. So that was that was the big takeaway from our last meeting. We have a Facebook page. Right? Facebook page up and going. So, if you're on Facebook, you can check that out. Diversity and Inclusion Council, we have our next meeting tomorrow night, but, we've had a couple here. Our last meeting, we solidified a date for our next brew b q. Never too early to think about that. Nice. And I gotta get vendors in September 12.
September 12 is gonna be that date. There's always something going on. Mhmm. We wanted to avoid, what happened this last August with our, ribs contest being on the same day as a big ribs contest going on in Rochester. I remember it was, like, a week two weeks before that, and I ran into, actually, Nick at the, the grocery store. He's like, you know, there's another contest going on in Rochester. I'm like, no, I don't, which would explain why we only had a few people. It was still fun. Still good. Yeah. But, we're we're gonna change the date on that to September 12. So we get never too early to start planning on that,
talking a little, you know, slow debate what kinda charitable cause to have for that next, next event. We have our first open mic night, coming up, tentatively here, hopefully, on Saturday at 08:00. And I'll get there whenever Santa's done doing his city stuff. But, Lisa will be helping me out, to get that started. We only have one person signed up so far, Lisa. I was checking that out. So people are busy this time of year. I know a couple other people were interested, but we're busy here in December. But I'll be blasting that out on the social media pages and stuff,
spot an environment, whatever else to see. I've dropped off some flyers to high school for that to see if there's any I know they do a open mic there. And so I'm trying to get some some younger individuals, hopefully, interested in that. I did send out an email to every past people that have participated, but just one so far. Let's see if there's anything else on that. What's that? A guy named Chad. That's not like his, like, his band name. That'd be a good like, a guy named Chad. Yes. Yes. That's a guy named Chad. Right? But no. So, you know, I'll put out a couple more, things out,
and maybe by Thursday night, maybe make a final decision whether to hold it or not. And so I gotta get ahold of Solid Compadres too to let him know. So but we'll keep keep trying to get that out there and get that going and see what we can do for this this month. If not this month, next month. That's pretty much all I got. Good job. Thanks. Yeah. Just some BurFest meetings and then, internal meetings with, interviews scheduled this week, upcoming week for our deputy clerk position here in the office. So Thanks. Yeah. I'm with Tom. Ditto? Ditto. Ditto.
Copy. Anything? K. Alright. Motion. Motion to adjourn. Second. First and second? All in favor? Aye. Both? Adjourned. 06:43. Thank you everybody for coming. Thank you. Drive safe. Bill? I got a question.