One more minute. Mondays here. Here Madison, mayor Scott here. Perfect. Thank you. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance
to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Ally moving on to the consented agenda.
from our last council meeting. Um made that change that council jar wanted for the council minutes. Um correspondence kind of the same typical things we usually see in there. Um with the addition of the water will estimate any
kind of services estimate. Um just looking through those kind of similar to last year regarding kind of the types of services provided. Um just more people being anticipated to being attending there. Um some of the costs of the services have increased just looking at the increased time that the police
officers that would be the only thing that I saw that is kind of different than usually. Um any other discussion or questions regarding the um consent agenda? Um hearing none, I'll ask for an
approval of the consent agenda. I'll make that motion. Second councelor Gruck. All those in favor. Any opposing none. Motion carried. Moving on to the guest and citizens
forum. Does anybody have anything to to say or any question or anything? Um hearing none. We'll move on to reports from staff. City administrator Wyber. Um yeah. So Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
we'll be I'll be out down at the leave council or convention down at home, but I will have my me. So if anybody needs to get over you have the reminder for everybody that the event is Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.
delegation here and some people come flying in from [Music] you know that's a big deal that's all I have when I get some of the financial discussions here coming up.
All right, thank you for that public works director sensing. Yeah. So, I'm sure everybody's aware with the weather we've had in the last week, it's not real conducive to the uh road construction project that we have going. At the same time, uh we do have a couple
different rain gauges in the city. We go by out golf course and sew. Um I've heard totals of 7 to 8 in the last week since last Monday. Um that being said, we had uh several wash outs in town in areas
um you know that gravel where it needs to fly off etc. Um I did have to call people out on Saturday for that. Um we had several trees down and we are still getting trees down with the ground as saturated as it is now. Every time the
wind blows we have trees uprooting which is pretty this way. Um, as I said, the road project, it's it's not helping them at all. So, I think they were hopefully optimistic that uh they would be far enough along
this week to give the detour uh area bypass. And I don't want to speak for them, but I don't see that happening next week. So, I look for that to happen next week. Uh today we got a couple of the pickle ball nets out that we have them all
assembled. They the ones we bought came in the form of uh assemble yourself. So we got them in. We got them all assembled. They're all sitting down in the shop. I think a couple we got put out today. The rest of them will get put out tomorrow. uh got a bunch the last of the trees
planted except for one that we'll be using during the uh the uh program or ceremony down there at the Midway Pavilion on Monday morning. Um as Dean mentioned, American Bloom was uh the outfit that gave us a grant uh for a lot
of the landscaping and finishing up of some of the projects around there. So that's uh Wednesday morning. Other than that, I think it's just agenda items. Sounds very busy. Thank you for all the work you guys do. City attorney.
Thanks, Mayor. I don't have any reports. Moving on to I will also be at the League of Minnesota City's conference um Wednesdays through Friday. Um it's not till the afternoon, so we'll be at the Bloom event and then head down there and
get educated in a couple days. Um update on the chamber. We we're going to have a discussion um with Sharon Stzman about the statues. I know she contacted the city too and thought they were city property, but those are the chambers and
we we cannot pay her any type of rent or, you know, we can't reimburse her for having those on there. So, we're going to have to have a discussion uh with her about what she wants us to to do with them and we'll see where that leads. And then also just a little update on Water
Carnival. Um wristbands will be in businesses to purchase already this coming week because we have $10 pre-sale, but at the gate they will be 20. So, Friday when the gates open, they'll be 20. So, we're really going to try to advertise for everyone local to get them early and in the stores so you
get the same $10 price for those. Um, and there's a couple new additions up at the Three Fields. Um, the Catholic Church is also going to have a bounce house up there for kids to use. And then we have a vendor doing mini donuts and slushies up there. So, a little more activity up there so people don't feel
kind of so stranded when they're up there with, you know, I mean, they love the burgers, but they'll have some sweets to choose from. And then the kids will have something to do with the bounce houses as well. And that's about it for now. All right.
Thank you. Moving on. I attended the uh water meeting last week. Um Jake was there also. He brought up um that he would like to have another tour made of the new facilities. We
appreciate it. Other council members, I think it was Sharon. I went to one in February. Yep. And uh he'd like to see other people there so everybody knows what's being going on, the money that's being spent. They also talked about the continuing new construction in the
queson and on the building that's being built there right there in Aurora. In addition to that, what Sherry had commented about Sharon Stman, I had responded to her email and we've gone back and forth a few times. Um there's
really nothing the city can do for her, but I did refer her to a commercial appraiser in the county so that she can have it reviewed of the value of the store. Um especially in light of the information that's out there of the very
poor condition of the building and hopefully she can get some relief through that. It's all I have. All right. Thank you for the update, Council. Um, I went to the library board meeting last week. They are full into the summer
reading program. I think she said about 75 kids. Lots of fun activities over the summer for them. And that's about all I have. Sounds good. Thank you. M on my end. Um, so
yes, the virtual beautifification event is on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. by the community building kind of outdoor shelter area. Um there'll be speeches given planting ceremony and that's some social time. Um and then refreshments and pastries um are going to be provided. So if they're first year
hungry, stop on down. Um and then regarding the mountain bike path, um I spoke to Jim um after the HOA meeting um kind of talked with him kind of through our ideas that we had talked about through last council meeting. Um so just
kind of um him focusing on reaching out to folks like Lee um since that's their kind of land over there. Um and kind of him doing that work as needed. Um and then if he has questions or needs some help like some sort of letter of support for um kind of fixing up trails over
there. Um he can reach out to us and coordinate with us kind of as needed. So it's kind of the discussion we had. It went well. Um so no no real updates on that. Um so just kind of wait to hear from him on that other than that have
the vote. Um and then yeah during the public forum um prior to this meeting um some discussion regarding the full school had been had um so the count um has sent out
bids um to look at demolishing that. They got a bid um accepted a bid. So now we're just kind of going through the process of coordinating with those folks act. Um they accepted the the business through um so hopefully that'll be
happening soon. They didn't give any sort of specific um time frame or date on when they're going to be looking at doing that but um they did the bidding found somebody just kind of going on the next steps there. So we're excited about that. Um yeah other than that nothing
for old business. Moving on to new business. Um 11.1 max gray change order number two. Um maybe speak to this. I don't do you still need these are the change or you already approved. They're just signing
gland to us. The one for the concrete repair that underneath the boards and the other ones steel inside the building. So if we so this change order for the cement came in less than what they estimated when we first divided it
pretty significantly less we have to do approve tech it's a new estimated cost the final cost yeah we made you guys aware of the estimated cost and the fact
that they needed to have approval to go ahead and do it, but the actual change order on well, we didn't know because they were only going to charge us for time and materials to do so. And as Dean said, it came in significantly less than what they had projected. So at one
council meeting, you guys given the contractor the green light to complete the repair had to be done before the floor was reported. Um but we'll submit the change order leading to the numbers which you'll find.
Now this commercial refrigeration system for their change order request was there refrigeration underneath that dasher board area? No. No affected. No. So when they when they cut out and removed the old floor, this was the concrete under
the boards directly that that was very deteriorated. So they cut out an extra couple feet of that times about 30 feet long or whatever the dimensions were and then they had to hammer drill and anchor it in and pour a
new section of floor there. Originally I think they were estimating it cost 13 or 14,000 grand actual. So good to hear that the cost went down a little bit. Um any other questions or points to discuss?
Um so with that, I'll take a motion to uh accept this change order number two with the actual figures um as they are. I'll make a motion. Motion from councelor Ecman. Anybody that'd like to second or support that?
I'll support that. We have a support um councelor. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? hearing non motion period 11.2 to over prepare um for Hampshire Hampton trailer park um
um so this one can speak there too so we we already received the funding for this from um so it's just a matter of know there's two little covers by what in the park and then there's one on the trailer
port road by the park and there's one up on the corner of uh Canterbury and Hamshshire by the low school. They both uh these areas both failed during the June 18th storm last year washed out and the road collapsed in a couple small spots. Um we did some temporary repairs
on them, submitted to FEMA for reimbursement. We out of the blue received a check from FEMA which was so then I solicited bids from two different contractors for those repairs and they came in less than the check we've
already received. How far in the road does that happen? Uh, well, they both make a big T. So, there's catch basins on either side of the road. They come to the center and go to a manhole. In both spots, they fail, you know, towards one
side of the road. But what what I'm wondering is how far off was Oh, it it is up uh beyond our easement. Okay. Yes. But uh I was I was told to
seek um because it's part of our storm drain system that is failed. I'm told we would repair it and seek estimates to get it repaired. So this would uh repair the section that is
in the street. Again, just like Westover, we I'm sure we're going to be chasing it's all corrugated bike that's 70 years old. So, we're going to be chasing rotted pipe, but this will give the sections in the road that is failing
fixed. So, if future repairs outside of the road need to be done, I'll get the holes in the road fixed. CC Winger came a little bit underneath
CC Winger. You mentioned the funding cost. We already received the funding for this. They paid on the estimated value estimated cost which is really close to what were too. Did FEMA do that because of the storm then? The storm. Correct.
Okay. Yeah, we submitted like four additional things to FEMA after the new 18 storm last year. West over uh these two culverts that collapsed. Um there was also uh some money we had done
September of 23 we had a big windstorm. remember when we lost about a thousand trees surrounding town. Um we had done all the the city public works had done all the debris removal for that we submitted for that as well and believe it or not got
reimbured for it. So we got about $30,000 check for something we did two years ago and there's still two open projects. said we're going to receive another 9,000 for emergency readiness or something for some flooding and then and
then the big one over there. So going back and forth with FEMA on that I reached out to them last week to get an update and give them an update or final verdict. Yeah, we have been kind of told
no twice, if you will, on Westover, but both times we've kind of appealed it or question. They asked for more information. We provided them with more information. In the last correspondence we had from them, they were sending it to their engineering team for review,
which I that was the most optimistic thing we heard. Yeah. And he has reviewed it, but he hasn't updated back to my contact. So that's that 1.1 million project more.
If we did oil, then they're kind of they're looking at what part of the damage versus being old. So thinking in that 900 and now it's 600 typically reimburses up to 60% of the
project cost like Dean was saying over a million. We were optimistic optimistically hoping for like 600,000. Um, now they're saying that they're only seeing significant deterioration in one portion of the pipe on the north end of the
road. So, we've lessened our ask, I guess, hoping for something rather than nothing. So, still haven't favorable to do a month a All right. Any further discussion or
questions regarding the um the cohorts that we talked about at the beginning of this section? Um hearing nothing, I'll ask for a motion to um accept um the replacement to repair um
the covers and then go ahead with CNC. So um motion from councelor Jar. Anybody that like to second or support that? I'll second. We have a second from councelor Ecman. All those in favor? I any opposed hearing none motion carried
moving on to 11.3 and four 2025 cannabonoid and tobacco license application uh Jenna at the golf course open lounge um submitted license application to sell tobacco and then canonoid at the city hall golf course
host um we're just looking for the first pieces of this um to approve the camera um license application and then that obviously would be subject to um all the documentation being submitted and background check and clear and so on.
But um what we typically do for um that business. So is there anybody that would like to make a motion to approve um the canon license and application just pending the completion of the documentation background checking different types of things.
Okay. Motion from councelor heman. Anybody that'd like to second and support that? I'll second that. I have a second from councelor Grams. All those in favor? I any post? Uh, councelor Jar name. Um,
okay. And then councelor Grams, myself and I. So motion carried. Moving on to 11.4. Um so this is kind of similar to that but this is for the tobacco um license
application and like the cano piece of it um subject to um all the documentation being completed submitted and then the background check being cleared for that. Is there anybody like to make a motion
for that? Motion motion ecman. Anybody that like to second and support that second have a second cr. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing? None. Motion carried. Um and
then a last piece um just regarding prorating um those licenses um since we' approved them. Um would we like to um rate those that we do for the liquor license fee um due to the clubhouse not
being um open for the whole year. The fee is $150 for each slicing license for 25 June through October. Um it would be $62.50 um each for a total of 125.
So I think I would be in favor of rating that due to um yeah the golf was not being kept year round. Anybody else have any sort of thoughts feelings on that? That's how we've always done the liquor
license. I guess that's what it sounded like. I mean, if that's what we do for the liquor license, it would make sense to do it for the other ones. I just wanted to see if that's Yeah. How we typically did it. So, so there's someone that would like to
make a motion for prorating those in the way that we could um do for the liquor license fees. I'll make a motion. Motion from councelor ECman. Anybody that like to second or support that I'll second. We have a second from
councelor Grams. All those in favor I. Any opposed? uh council jar abstain motion carried moving on to 11.5 um 11065
project financing this can speak to us evening mayor members of the council sharing with David associates for municipal advisors in the area of public finance. Uh here this evening to present a resolution
awarding essentially awarding the sale of bonds to fund the county state aid highway 110 and the county road 665 utility reconstruction projects. We've awarded a construction contract. Projects are underway. We have a total estimated
project costs of about $1,100,000 which includes finance costs in $43,389 project contingency. Uh ultimately we had recommended the utilization of Minnesota Rural Waters
funding program in order to provide the project financing. It has pre-negotiated issu issuance costs which are lower than most traditional methods for selling bonds and ultimately it's the same lender that would be purchasing the bonds that also
funded the arena project. So, uh we've recently worked with them. They're familiar with the communities and they are willing to provide the financing over essentially a 20-year term with 19 principal payments at an interest rate of 5 and a/4%.
uh the call date on a bond issue which would be the first opportunity to prepay would be February 1st of 2032. It's pretty standard to have uh call protection is called or the inability to prepay for the initial period of of the
life of the bond issue. Uh if we look to shorten that, it would typically impact the interest rate on the bond issue, meaning it would go up a little bit if you wanted to prepay it more quickly. Given the needs in infrastructure that we have, I didn't anticipate that that was a top priority because we're going
to be looking at funding a variety of projects. Um, I did do a projection, forward-looking projection of both the water and sanitary sewer utilities and ultimately I should say combined sanitary and storm sewer utilities
because we have our funds that will flow through that same enterprise. And with the rate increases that were made for 2025, my expectation is that we have sufficient rates and charges now in place to make the debt
service payments. The only significant fluctuation we have is when we have issues at the water treatment plant most likely and significant repairs there. Uh, and short of that, we've made a an increase that at least presently I believe would be
sufficient in order to make this debt service payment. It would be split between water and sanitary sewer because that's the work that we're doing with our average debt service payment at about $93,000 per year. about 77,000 of that
would be from the water enterprise and about 20,000 not quite 20,000 from the sanitary sewer enterprise. Um ultimately uh if you choose to proceed, the Frier Law Firm, which has served the city as bond council in the
past, has prepared an award resolution uh providing for the award of sale under the terms that I just described. And so with that, I'm happy to answer your questions regarding the information that I provided. You used the term call protection. Yes. Who or what is actually
being protected from the city paying off a bond early? I mean, the investors, the investors that are willing to purchase the bonds have an expectation to receive interest for a specific period of time. Okay. But I mean, it's it's like going we can
shorten the call date and pay a higher interest rate if we choose to do so. But I'm just thinking that if the city was to pay, it's like going out and getting loans for the city's going to keep and the quicker I pay that off, the better it's buying. But I I get what you're
saying in your center. I I agree 100%. But when we make this decision, it's based on do we think we'll actually be in a position to pay it off early. And when we're looking at a Westover project, a water treatment plant facility that we're going to join where
we have significant water needs, you know, that we'll probably be financing as well. I thought the likelihood of wanting to pay this off early with cash, particularly when our water fund is presently at a deficit, was not likely. Yeah. So I I
get it. I just Yeah. You know I I should point out what So I have two different agenda items and are split apart. So we're actually talking about um 112 as well. So the actual driver
documents in the back that's the action item associated with the funding. So ultimately when we get to that does it say here the first principal payment isn't due until February 2028. So we just be paying interest payment.
That's correct until then. Yep. Uh ultimately we wanted your rate increase to have some time to have effect and accumulate some cash in your water fund. As I mentioned, even by the 24 audit, we ran deficit. But with the increase, I'm
projecting that we're going to generate some surplus cash, which I'd like to see us accumulate as we get into some of these other projects because we'll have costs in advance of funding that we'll want to have cash to pay. And ultimately, if we don't have it, the
water fund, we're taking it from the general fund or the sewer fund. And ultimately we're trying not to approve to make these um these this project. So this is just why this way actually. So if we don't agree to this
then not good. Yeah. Does anybody have any other sorts of questions or any sort of discussion that they want to have with Mr. Sweeney? And to be clear, you're under no obligation to award this. Uh, as I told your city administrator, this program,
you know, once application is made, we're able to fix an interest rate, have documents drafted, and present them to you in consideration. So, if you chose not to award this this evening, you'd be under no obligation to pay any expense associated with the transaction. So,
just so you're clear on that, you have a incurred expense until you choose to borrow the money. Yeah, being that we've already approved, we want to go ahead with the project and make a motion to find
a motion from council grants. Second from South Carl. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. One uh correction I'd like to make from my memo to the schedule. Um I had
indicated in my letter that we were going to close on July 1st. My coworker moved that off two weeks in order to uh make sure that we had a credit enhancement program approval in hand.
That's we're using a state program through the public facilities authority which uh is a limited obligation on the part of the state to step in and make the debt service payment which helps us to achieve a little bit lower interest rate. So we've used that program. It
takes a little bit of time to process that and so the closing date on the schedule is the 16th of July. You still Yes. So hopefully that's within a timely enough manner so that your first pay app
can get covered or at least ring help that part. Yeah. You would have funds on hand. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Chen. So we
still have to do the resolution. Um that's kind of the action I assume they were taking was to but if we wanted that's a separate action ultimately the sale was awarded by resolution that was prepared uh when council member Grahams
made the motion. I just assumed she was authorizing approval of that. So approve all the financing. Let's just jump to 112 because it makes the most sense. Um, so I'll ask for a motion just to um approve the resolution to to pay
um [Music] move. Anybody that like to second to support that? Second. We have a second from councelor Browns. All those in favor I post a motion. There we go.
And then uh just as an update, we are working or I am working with your staff including your consulting engineer on the WT over and water treatment projects and reviewing funding for those and I made some recommendations that we're pursuing and we'll continue to do so.
Um, we have some components on the WT over project, including street reconstruction that would be a lot easier to implement if we could get some free money, including the FEMA money for that component. Uh, and so your staff is working on some of those
items and I'm following up with Bolton Bank on the ultimately the funding applications for water treatment. So, perfect. Thank you. All right. Yeah. Thanks for all that you do. really appreciate.
Thanks. All right. Thanks, Y. Thank you. Moving 11.6 equipment operator hire recommendation. I'll throw that one to Kenny. Yeah. So, uh when uh Steve Peterson made
the transition out to the golf course, they left the vacancy at the uh public works department for a heavy equipment operator. We posted externally for that position. I think we had 16 or so
applicants for the position. Uh six of them met the criteria and we narrowed it down to four based on scoring on the applicants. uh we interview all four of them and uh we all came to I think it
was a unanimous decision on uh Kevin Omen. So it was our recommendation the hiring committee's recommendation to the council to hire Kevin Omen pending uh all the testing required for position.
Yeah, I guess being part of the interviews it was definitely a hard decision. There's some really good applicants that were part of that process. Um, but just Kevin specifically, he brings a lot of experience from a lot of different areas. So, I think he's a very well-rounded person with a lot of
experience in city specific things and then non city specific things that are kind of essential for for doing the heavy equipment. Just my two cents. Um, anything you wanted to add to that? No, I missed the kind interview, but I
think that's a very good selection. That be my recommendation to you. All right, I will take a motion to um accept the personnel committees or hiring committees recommendation to hire
Kevin Olman um to the heavy equipment operator position pending um sex or successful completion of background check and then drug testing and kind of the typical things we do. Is there anybody that like to make the
motion for that? I'll make a motion. Motion from councilman. Anybody that like to second or support that? I'll second that. A second from council grants. All those in favor. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried.
Moving on to 117 resignation of flight officer. Um so our current flight officer Jordan Pronoski um has resigned from his position. Um we sent in a letter to the council for
that. Um so the first motion we'll make um is to accept that resignation. So is there anybody that like to um make a motion on that? I'll make a motion. Motion motion from councelor. Anybody that like to second and support that
move. We have second from councelor Chara. All those in favor? I I opposed hearing none. Motion carried. And obviously with the vacancy um we'll have to um post that position and then go
through the typical um advertise advertising and hiring um for a new um light office served. So, is there anybody that like to make a motion to um approve the advertising and hiring um process for for doing that? We'll make
that motion. Motion from counc. Anybody have a second to support that? Second. Have a second. All those in favor? I opposed hearing now. Um with the dates have some issues with
the dates. So, just Yeah. post express interest already. Yes, lots of folks have been um interested in making sure that's being taken care of. So I expect a lot of people to be able to
um moving on site a public works um heavy equipment operator retirement Um, you want to speak to that? Sure. So, uh, a couple
weeks ago, uh, one of my, uh, heavy equipment operators, my senior heavy equipment operator at this point, uh, we've known Mrs. Fing for a while. He's, uh, 64, going to be 65 in, uh,
September. That was his target date to retire. Um he let me know a couple weeks ago that his last day of employment or last day of work will be July 10th. Um he wants to exhaust his uh vacation
which he has enough approved to get approved to his starting date. So we'll be losing him in July. I I have a feeling about the same week the new one will be starting I'll be losing another one. So the existing list you've got uh we can
however the posting has to be uh posted internally again within the union. These are those are union positions and I think this time my mechanic/operator would like to make the transition to
just straight operator. Um he didn't the last time around. Um, but he he said that, you know, he was actually just waiting until Mark made his announcement to retire and that's when he would like to make that transition. We didn't know
it was coming this close together, but uh I think Tammy's got it worded for the posting that uh you know, it's going to go posted internal within me first. If by chance uh Zach has a change of heart
or change of mind that he wants to then the posting will go external and then I don't know. I guess we'd have to have a discussion on whether or not we want to go back into the pool of candidates that applied for the last opening or if that's allowed. I guess I don't know the
technity of that. Do you happen to know? I'm not sure. Is that the same position same grade? Yeah, they are traditionally everybody everybody including myself who ever started at the city as the mechanic
slash operator has made the transition to just straight operator. What does benefit the city by doing so is that we always have a backup mechanic and right now Mark Isacson the guy who's retiring um was the mechanic at one point he is
my backup mechanic now. So if by chance Zach were to choose not to, if he wanted to stay in the mechanic role, I no longer have a backup mechanic. So whenever he's on vacation, sick, anything like that, we don't, you know,
ambulance breaks down, something like that, we don't um everybody's always understood that when they make that transition from mechanic to operator, that they kind of fulfill that role and it's always working, right? So, I guess I'm not uh
you know, although I I don't necessarily want to lose Zach as my mechanic, I also am retaining them as the backup. So, we'll always have if we say hired a new one and they didn't work out or they didn't stay
long, we have one fall back on. So, we'll have her own camp, right? So, yeah. Uh I think in the next part here um so once you get done with 118 I can speak more on 119 but that's what that's okay 118. Um anybody like to make a
motion for accepting um Mr. Isacson's um letter of return. So we have a motion from councelor Java. Anybody like to second and support that second from councelor Ecman. All those in favor I. Any opposing on the motion
carried? So 11.9 um is the approval of both internally um and then externally if there's no interest. Um so did you have anything to
add to that? Uh no just like I say I think this getting done on one council meeting speeds up the process a little bit. um it'll get posted internally. If nobody applies, it'll go externally and uh we won't have to wait two weeks for
another couple that um and then we had a job description attached for the heavy heavy equipment operator. Is there any sort of changes that you would recommend to that? I know we talked about the um the driver's
license piece of that, but yeah. No, this looks good. Yeah, it looks good. It sounds the current uh the current uh job description that we use for that position. Um Zach, our
mechan current mechanic operator does meet all these criteria boarding. So there shouldn't be any hurdles there or any reason to not Well, anybody have any other questions for Kenny? Um, is this a higher bank position than
straight? No, they both questions. Um, Hearing none, I'll take a motion to um approve the initial um posting of it internally um per the ask me contract.
Um and then if there's no letters of interest received within the specific time time frame they um then we would just move to um posting it next term. So anybody like to make a motion for that? I'll make a motion. Motion from
councelor Ecman. Anybody like to second and support that? Councelor Jarvin will second. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Um moving on to 11.
Max pray number nine in the amount of $669,820. [Music] Um essentially provided all the figures for that. Um looks like it's
55% completed. Anything to add from 55% completed. That's the remaining funding for that. A lot of that's going to be coming out of the Mighty Ducks grant the state grant
some people. So if we approve it, we're able to pay it. Yeah. Um so yes, yeah, in their email they provided the concrete floor surface is in a rink um cured and completed. Flee packet was approved by the state and the
manual will be on site this week which was the third. Um did they provide an update on the lead pan or leers? Yes. Uh two different lead times. We have a stationary set of bleachers on one side
uh retracting or retractable set on the other side. Um stationary set now looks like October and the retractable set could be as late as early December. like they were going to lay under to try to
get Are these wood and metal or strictly on metal? They're they're metal framework with plastic seating uh as well as like the riser area in between each stem has
a wood backing in it. So, they're kind of a combination. Is it individual seats or is a a bench? Uh it's just a bench I believe. You pick the colors. Um they'll be uh
they'll be uh silver color or grayish color framework along with red plastic both sides. Why such a long lead time? I mean are they just being ordered now? We had to wait for the state approval at
that mentioned in here. Um, that took a lot longer than expected and a couple changes had to be made when they got to the state's desk. A couple of the measurements didn't line up for ADA requirements or something in their mind. They kicked it back. It went back and
forth. Finally got approved. We finally picked them out and as far as I know, they got ordered last year. Why the retractable on one side? Um, so we were going to go with all stationary ones, but they don't seat as many people with
the amount of uh square footage that we have. So if we had gone stationary on both sides of the ring, we would have only had seating capacity for like 264 people. But the retractable ones go up a
little higher and had an extra row. They provided more seating. We were trying to maintain Wade and I had been working on this with them in initial designs. Um, God for almost the last year now, but we were trying to maintain seating for like
400 people, which is significantly less than we ever had. At one time that building had seating for almost 900. It's got down to 600 and some. Now all of a sudden we're cutting it down to 400. Um, if we had gone all stationary, it would have been 200 and some. I mean,
it's not very many seats anymore. I mean, a good sport tournament will get you 300 people. So, are the bleachers as long as the old one? Yes. Up and down both sides. Yep. Yep. They take up about the same footprint, but since they we
are obligated to meet all the ADA requirements. They just you don't get nearly as many seats anymore instead of bleachers. Walkways and wheelchair ways. Yeah. And then the east side
will be the stationary side. Those will have elevator platform lifts for and people for wheelchairs. Um the other side that's retractable. They have a cuddle portion for ADA that meets the
ADA requirements. So it was kind of the best combination we could have with the footprint we had to get the most seated. And that's we're every time we turn around there. Oh, we might have to cut
two or three off and this and that. We're we're trying to maintain that seating for they have the place um getting installed in the mechanical building. um
roofing right now. That's kind of what we're paying. Um any other questions or points discussed? Uh hearing none, I will ask for a motion to um accept this.
Uh motion from counc. Anybody that like to second or support that second? There a second from councman. All those in favor I. Any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Moving on to 11.11 council chamber sound system discussion.
Is this this is just a general discussion and brought up that we should start the council meeting because apparently we're getting a more multiple complaints that the audio is not very good and they're kind of watching at home. um
put it on the agenda. Sounds good. So, um if you want to investigate, you know, you said like Range TV or whatever, you just come in and video it. We still have a contract with them, but obviously we're not paying them to come in and video council meetings anymore. Um
Aurora does some things a little bit different. They for sound enough for audio or vice versa. We use it for video. And um then there's some other options we can look at if unless the star is working better. Is there a
way we can just have not those same microphones we had but just some kind of little microphones that go in between each of us? I'm sure the design of this building the sound kind of goes up to the ceilings.
Rory can hear pretty good. flat seeds all around. But is there something you want me to start looking at you? I can't see what options there are. I think a lot of people can't hear complaints. I've heard them too. People
say that they can't hear anybody, which leads me to a question. All this stuff that's hanging over here and plugged in, what exactly is that? I mean, are we drawing power and keeping something warm?
I guess I don't know why it's plugged in. Something is I mean, we got two cords coming down, one from the speaker up above. I don't know if that speaker is connected to anything, but I'm just curious if if that system is functional, if not, why it's there. Or if it's
plugged in, are we paying for electric power to keep something warmed or ready? Yeah, I'm sure that was what they used when they had TV. Yeah. Record everything. They would I never logged on. I didn't Yeah. So, I don't know if
that's I am just I'm asking because I can remember watching the meetings where the counselors had to Yeah. push the button and the red light would come on. They spoke and that was it. But looking at that archaic stuff, should you test it out sometime?
There's so much, you know, Bluetooth and capabilities. Is there some way we can have, you know, little microphones? Yeah, I know. I can just say in the time that I've been here, I've seen about four or five different systems up there. The ones where they had key to mic, the
ones that were automatic voice activated, but when people started talking and speaking over each other, it was bad. They got complaints because the key ones people would forget to turn them on. I mean, I don't know what the right answer is. I just I've seen the ones they had where they flipped them
their for some reason those didn't work. We look at other cities and see like what systems they use and well sort of is it something you want me to look into? Yeah.
some options issue for a while and we've tried different things and there still continues to be audio issues probably wouldn't hurt too I mean not spending a significant amount but if you have some extra time to look
into I think the system we have as far as where it's broadcast you know on goes to YouTube I think that's a system as far as to broadcast meetings. But yeah, the audio is is hard. So without reinventing the whole wheel,
there's something we can add on. Well, I've seen like there's boosters or something that can increase the volume and things like that. Maybe research it a little bit and see what we can do. Good. So, I'll take a motion to direct city
staff to when they have available time to do a little bit of research into kind of some alternative um sound system. kind of solve the audio issue. Anybody like to make a motion for that? I would
make a motion motion from councelor travel. Second from councelor ECman. All in favor? I any opposed? Hearing none. Motion carried. Um we took care of 112. Um Mr. Sween was here. So I'll move on
from that. Um so there's nothing else on the agenda. Um other than is there anybody that like to make a motion for that? Make that motion. Motions are transaction. Whatever.