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Part 1 (Video ID: 27_4aQ6eBE4):
- 00:00:10: Meeting Called to Order, Pledge, and Moment of Silence
- 00:03:11: City Council Vacancy Declared, Mayor Pro-Tem Appointed
- 00:05:05: Council Members Assigned to Utility, Personnel Committees
- 00:06:39: Agenda Approved, Consent Agenda and Payables Reviewed
- 00:08:53: Communication and Council Reports Discussed
- 00:14:17: Administrator's Report, Police Chief Applications Reviewed
- 00:18:20: Staff Reports: Fire Department Air Packs Needed
- 00:23:37: Janesville Night Out Plans and Funding Discussed
- 00:26:51: Filling the EDA Vacancy, Midwest Gas Agreement Termination
- 00:29:44: Expanding Fire District Coverage for Lay Township
- 00:49:42: County History Tour App Presentation by John Anson


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I'd like to call the meeting to order at 7:00. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance 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

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justice for all. At this time, I would like to uh take a quick moment of silence to remember uh our mayor, Andy. Thank you. I

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threw something together here quick. I wasn't quite sure what to write, but here it is. I'd like to take a moment to remember our former mayor, Andy Arnold. In January of 2021, Andy and I took the

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oath of office right here. Did we know what to expect? Absolutely not. We had no clue. Uh we laughed. He made the comment our first night. Will will two Andes make a

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right? I don't know. We'll find out. He said Andy was a great leader. He made sound decisions based on what he thought was right for the citizens of Jainsville. Those shoes cannot be filled. I spoke

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with Andy 5 days before he passed. And we talked about me finishing his term as mayor. I had no idea that it would come this soon, but I am honored to try for him. He will be missed and remembered for his

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quick wit in decision-m and uh pity laughs at Clinton's dad jokes. >> Yep. You even got that in writing. >> I did. That's that's why I wanted to hear one. May he rest in peace, Andy, and thank

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you for your service. That's it. Uh, we do have a plaque that I would like to give to Sarah for Andy's time as mayor. Thank you.

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>> Mhm. >> Item number two, city council vacancy and name new mayor. >> Yes. According to law, when there is a vacancy, the council needs to declare the vacancy and then we need to fill that vacancy. So, resolution number 11

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tonight um calls for the recognizing the vacancy and then the last portion there puts our mayor prom Andy Alman as the current mayor. Once once we declare a vacancy, are we

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allowed to appoint somebody or do we need to hold an election? >> Um, you if if the person has less than half their term left, you can appoint. If they have more than half, you can choose to either appoint or have an election. >> So, in this case, we could appoint.

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>> You could appoint until the end of December. Yep. Okay. So, with that being said, uh I feel that we should try and appoint somebody. >> Yep. >> What do we think of that? >> Yeah, that's kind of what I was

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thinking. 7 months. >> Yep. So, I don't know. Put some feelers out there and there are a couple people I've talked to that may have showed interest and we'll we'll discuss that.

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You need to make a motion for this resolution. I'll make a motion for this resolution. >> Second. >> Motion in a second. All in favor? >> I. >> All opposed. Pass. Four. >> Another thing we should do tonight is determine which council member is going

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to serve on the boards that Andy was on. He was on the utility commission and he was also on the personnel committee. So if we if we can do that tonight, anybody volunteer for that pose? >> Well, you would ask me to be on the personnel committee, so I will take that

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one. >> I think it's okay with everybody else. >> I agree. >> What time did the um utility board at? 5:30. >> 5:30. >> Okay. I could uh I could do that

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if everybody is fine with that. Can I have a motion to make those appointments? >> I'll second his motion. >> All in favor? I I borrow. >> All right. And then for the new mayor is that uh I

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didn't see the >> you're you're on number 11. >> That was that first resolution. >> Oh, that was it. Yep. Okay. >> Yeah. Two of them on there. >> All right. Moving on. Um,

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approval of the agenda. Are there any additions or corrections? >> I have none. >> Motion to approve the agenda as written. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> I uh

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Yep. Okay. consent agenda. Yes. Attached uh to tonight's consent agenda, you have the minutes from our last council meeting, March 9th. You have the receivables um and the payables, there's three sets of payables. And I just wanted to point out

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that in these I can't pronounce words, so I'm going to try. But remember Joe was here last meeting and he talked about a colarium. >> Did I do it right? >> Yep. >> Okay. That's in there. You'll see that tonight. That was like 78,000. Um then the first half taxes that we

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have on certain city properties that they reduce. So you'll see that in there. And then like I've mentioned in the last couple meetings, you know, this is kind of the time of the year where a lot of employees go to training and stuff. So you'll you'll see some of that in tonight's payables as well.

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You have anything else, Sarah? Joel, >> it was April 13th. What's it >> the minutes for April 15th? >> Oh, I got to fix that on the agenda.

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Sarah Jill was gone last week, so I didn't get any help with this. >> Yeah, >> I didn't get to approve it. Anything you think got done? >> Anything else for the consent agenda? >> Uh, that's all I have.

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Motion to approve consent agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Four. >> Public forum. Do we have anybody here that would like to speak through public forum? Public forum.

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>> Moving on. Communication. Um, I just handed you a magazine that came from the League of Cities that came in today's mail. Also, in your packet, there is a um Sarah Arnold does have this letter, but the city of Peton is kind enough to write a letter to the

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city and to the Arnold family um with her condolences. I thought that was really super cool. So, I wanted to put that in tonight's packet. And that's all I have. >> Council reports.

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>> Uh EDA has not met since last time we met. Uh we'll be meeting tomorrow. Uh Park Road uh for the most part in our last meeting agreed to move ahead with the window replacement.

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Uh there's some fumbling around of the numbers and where the cash is actually going to come from, but we have enough money to get the job done. So, we'll see where they're at when we meet again this

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month. I uh I don't have much the uh we'll be filling the uh the police job soon. Uh golf course, everything's full steam ahead out there. I know it's been super

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busy. I haven't uh I haven't got any numbers or anything from Kevin, but I know they're very busy out there. So, that is a good thing. >> What's your score? >> Oh, I'm terrible.

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>> 50 probably. >> I pay for every square inch of that membership over there. >> Kyle, >> uh, parkour event been on the 27th. Um, we talked about a lot. Um, we went over

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some new park equipment that we're potentially going to buy this year. um doing zip lines or bent a swinging bench. Um I think we did kind of narrow down and come to a decision, but haven't made it official yet. Um looking for pricing and

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stuff like that to hopefully get it on to order this year. Um we went over songs of the park. Um we all have a listing here of all the different bands, everything. Um, there was still an

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opening for a food truck, um, which Paul was going to look into. >> Yeah, Paul's here tonight. >> He's here. I'm sure he can fill it in a lot better than I can. Um, there was, um, Jacob Lurkey. He had been contacted by a

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I can't remember the name of him, but um, this >> ship >> by ship um, >> letter P, everybody. >> Yes. S Hi P. um they want to give us money to work on our parks um in very

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dedicated lanes. Um we can't get park equipment from what I understand, but we might be able to do benches, lighting, stuff like that. Um he was going to respond to her and she was going to come to one of our meetings and give a whole presentation on what she could do for us and uh go from there.

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Um, and then there was a brief conversation about changing uh renaming a park. Um, >> yeah, we'll probably get >> we'll probably end up talking about that a little bit. >> Um, moving on. Planning commission met on

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the 29th. Um, we had we spent the entire time talking about how do we pull in more businesses. Um, a lot of it follows around is updating our infrastructure. Um, potentially

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the grants aren't there. Um, so potentially Jainsville maybe just needs to be proactive, buy the lots ourselves, get the infrastructure out to ourselves and just be ready for these people to come in. Um, there was a large name that wanted to potentially come to town. Um,

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Robert Burns was, as always, talking very heavily about them. I can't say I disagree with him. Um, I did tell him that probably for the council's sake, if he could get a letter of intent, it might help move things in the right direction instead of them waiting for us

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and us waiting for them. Um, but essentially just painful being proactive, getting businesses. Um, taking a page out of Mountain Lakes book, I believe it was, and just the city supporting it. And then you know

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very good >> nursing right along um census is up so they're doing good. >> Very good. Administrator report trying to find it. I can never find this stupid.

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All right. In your packet tonight, the April reconciliation is in there from the bank. You have your cash balance report. Uh, please chief opening. The applications were due by 4:30 today, Monday, May 11th at 4:30. Um, so I'm

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just letting you know that we did get three applications. And now that we h actually have a personnel committee, the personnel committee should get together and talk about what we want to do next. I'm just going to flat out recommend we interview all three, you know, for starters. So,

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but the three of us will figure out a time to get together for that. >> Okay. Um, and then over the next I would like to maybe begin this month, but I would like us to consider meeting twice a month again as we start rolling with budgets. We have some uh Joel's working

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on getting some bids and stuff for our CIP street project or improvements and I just don't know if we want to wait a whole month. you know, if he gets good bids, it'd be great to award them and approve them sooner than later so there's more of a summer that

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they can do the work. Um, do is it okay if we meet twice a month? Typically, it's a second and fourth Monday. >> I guess I would like to see that, too. Andy was so good at budgeting. I think we're going to miss that. Do we got

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>> it will help the rest of us get up to speed where we really need to be. Mhm. Okay. Well, if you are okay with that, now here comes the first curveball, right? Or live at the table here. Um the 4th Monday of May is Memorial Day. So,

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we can't meet and park board discussed that. The park board is meeting Wednesday the 27th instead of the 25th. Would the city council can we meet that night the 27th? >> I mean, I'm going to be here anyway, so yeah.

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True. >> Can I get out the green book? >> Um, we can. Or if we >> or just >> or if we wanted to start the two two a months in June, >> I guess either way, I guess that it's fine with me.

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>> Okay. >> Unless you have a reason to meet in May. Yeah. >> Well, I mean, if Joel gets a couple good quotes, it might be worth maybe I'll just see if he if we can just have a quick >> Okay. >> special meeting maybe before that. Okay.

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Um, and then the other thing, speaking of calendars, uh, I'm going to be gone at at literally half of June. Um, be at William's wedding and then the league has their conference at the end of June. So, I just put the dates in the

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memo there when I won't be here. And Ivan's already going to order pizzas and everything for everybody else when I'm not here. He was talking about it this morning. >> Talking about what? >> I can hear everything that said. Did you just name May or did you start it in June? >> I think you want to start in June,

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right? >> I said I was bringing hats and tape. >> We'll meet in May. >> Okay, I got you. >> Okay, so June. >> Um, and that's it. The the last final thing is the weekly, you know, mailing

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from the coalition. Um, legislator is still in session. So, I think anyway that's all I have. Thank you. Person next to him has to motion to

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accept his uh report. That was always my job sitting next to him. >> Oh, I I will make a motion to accept the report. I'll second. All in favor? >> I I >> staff reports. Yeah. So, our department

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heads tonight will be police and fire. Uh you do have the first quarter police department report in the packet there. If you have any questions for Mark or if you have any questions for Mike on fire related items. Do you guys have anything? >> I do. >> Okay.

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>> Um we currently have 13 air packs. Uh currently three of them are in the shop. We've had we've been down about eight the last almost year rotating and out of the shop getting fixed

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for the most recent packs we had that we I can get records of are 2004 15 year shelf life. We're looking at uh getting some new air packs. We do have money in our capital expenditures. Uh we do realize that

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it'll push our next vehicle back tanker back probably a year, year and a half. Um by air packs um because NFPA changed their their rules. Now we have to have 45

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minute bottles, 4, 500 PSI bottles instead of 21 or 20 216s. which we have now. We're not set up for that to refill on them. So, it's going to be a new compressor, too. So, we're

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looking about 220,000. Just want to let you know we are out looking for that right now. We currently don't feel that our packs are having that many in the shop all the time. Trying to get us through is uh a good

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idea. Just wanted you guys aware of that. the next sometime summer I'll be coming to you uh hopefully and asking to spend some money on capital. >> You said these were the ones you using

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are 14s >> uh 204 2004 >> 2004 okay well then what are you waiting for? I mean, you're just flushing. >> That's a lot of money. >> I understand that, but

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it's a safety issue. Struggle when we're taking our time on that kind of stuff. >> Well, I'm guessing you're in the process of pricing and all that. >> Committee together. They've met with a couple vendors already

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had, but when we decide where we're going to go, I just want you guys aware that I'm going to be coming to you for that future in near future. >> Or if they get numbers quickly, do you want to make a motion for them to spend

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up to x number of dollars on these? >> What do we have available? >> Well, there's like 300,000 in that fund, isn't it, Mike? Something like that. >> Yeah. 303 or something. >> On that kind of dollar, I would like to see the console improvement. >> Yeah, absolutely.

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>> It's a big big number. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> I just want to make you aware that it's it's coming soon. >> Um for something like that, but fairly important. I would say if you get a good

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deal, I'd be willing to meet outside a normal thing to approve that. just to get it done. And >> sure >> can look into that. >> The lead time on those are have come down a lot during CO. It was couple

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years before you could see them once you order them. They're six weeks now. I guess we're almost under. >> Thanks, Mike. And then Mark, did you have anything? >> No. >> You don't want to ask for money,

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>> too? Do I want to read it out loud? No. >> Is there anything you you'd like to point out to us? >> Is there anything that you'd like to point out to me? >> No, I think you're doing a great job. >> Thank you. Usually the chief stands at

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the podium when he's giving his report. >> That is accurate. >> I mean, we're happy to see you, but I think the less we have to talk to you, the better job you're doing. So, >> that's why he never That's why Kyle never calls me. >> Yeah.

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>> You got nothing to say. I'm quiet. >> All right. Well, thank you, gentlemen. Jainsville night out plans August 6th. Yes. Let me try to pull that up here, Paul. There it is.

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Okay, I'm going to make this really short cuz quite honestly, I want to get home to watch wild. So, um, so everything was in place. So, we did not get the main grant that we get other years, but as it turned out, I had a fair amount to carry over. And as it turns out, we're going to have a fair

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amount to carry over this year after all the sponsorships and the other grants and stuff came in. So, it actually worked out okay. I had to make minimal adjustments on what I was going to do, so it worked out okay. Um, you'll see here the list of the artists, um, and the food trucks on the right hand side,

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just kind of listing. So, more informative than anything. um talked at the park board about having hot dogs. I checked prices just real quick and general ideas. That total amount is at the bottom. So, it's really pretty minimal. I didn't think it was

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too bad at all. Uh the only thing is I will be hitting everyone up here to if they can volunteer to serve hot dogs that day. So the the plan is to have 200 to 20 225 dogs just to people, you

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know, um >> nobody needs to know who I am. >> Each Yeah, each person have one, you know, limit to one per person, limited amount. When they're gone, they're gone kind of thing. We're also having a food truck that night. Um I talked to Mark from Infinity and he said, yeah, he thought it would be worthwhile. So

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they're going to be there that night, too. Um so really that's the only other thing I've got. Uh well the farmers market if you see the farmers market that's starting heyday's weekend but that seemed to be a good weekend to start it. So the only other thing I

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point out July tentatively and I think it's going to stick here is July 23rd the plan is to have a pie social. Um we can get pies from the dam store. There will be a charge for the slice of pie but it we're not I'm not doing it to make money on it. I'm doing it just to

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bring people in. So the, you know, the price will be minimal, but um, you know, that kind of thing. I just thought it might bring some people in and and, uh, give people a chance to eat pie. So, I think that's really all I've got. Um,

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unless there's any questions. >> I just have one question. What time do your musical acts begin? >> They start at Now I got to think. They start at 5:30 to 8. They run 5:30 up until September. >> Okay. And September they start 5:00 to

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7:30 cuz it's get dark gets dark so much faster. >> Is that just the park? >> Yeah. Yep. So Veterans Memorial a great place for for uh to have it. I mean they whoever designed it set it up perfectly. So it's really a good place to have it.

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So So yeah. So um Oh, I did we did talk Clinton about paying for it and all that and we don't have to go over that now but I I know you had some kind of plan or something. a slush one. What's that? >> It's going to go live. >> No, just kidding. So, um, yeah.

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Otherwise, unless anybody has questions. I think I'm good. >> All right. >> Good. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Paul. >> Thanks for your hard work on this, too. >> Go wild. >> Exactly. >> Fill in the vacancy on the EDA.

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>> Yes. Mike Danberry was uh on the EDA and he recently resigned just due to scheduling conflicts. His term went through December 31 of 2029. So resolution number 12 identifies that

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vacancy and then resolution 13 is going to name Alice Fenig who has volunteered to fill his empty seat. One motion to two. >> Probably better do two just to be safe.

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>> Uh motion to approve resolution 202612. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I 40. Motion to approve resolution 2026 13. >> Second.

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>> All in favor? Okay. Or manard uh public safety, increase fire district coverage for Whoops, we got one more. >> Terminating. >> Look at that. I already skipped one. >> Okay. First name.

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>> Item C. Terminating Midwest Municipal Gas Agreement. >> Yes. So, uh, years ago, the the city utility and the city of Jamesville signed into this MMTG agreement with the rest of the consortium that that we have our

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electric power with. Um, this municipal gas agency no longer really exists anymore and it's just not needed. So, the board of directors and the attorneys at the Compass, the CMNPA

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are recommending that each utility in each city council in these communities uh just get rid of the agreement because we don't need it anymore. They don't exist. But remember, I told you Sarah Joel was gone last week.

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>> I saw this this blame. >> How do you sell terminating? terminated. >> You thought the computer would have caught that. >> You'd have to know how to spell check, right? >> I just look for the squiggly red line,

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you know. >> So, anyway, uh Andy, your the resolution in your folder to sign it's spelled correctly. >> Okay. I motion we approve resolution 20264.

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>> All in favor? Hi I 40. >> Now we can uh talk about the district coverage for Lay Township. >> Yeah. >> Very good. Thank you. Um he Anderson Lay Township. Uh Phyllis and Mike are both

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here. Uh we're supervisors for Jamesville Township. Um I'm sorry for Lay Township. Uh I I'd like to begin by expressing condolences. >> Thank you. >> So um in in Leroy Township,

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uh we have 32 sections and we have fire coverage from four different fire departments. We have Madison Lake, we have St. Clair, we have Jainsville, and we have Eagle Lake. And they each take about eight sections. Um,

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we've been very pleased with the job that the Jamesville Fire Department has been doing and we've enjoyed working with the city council and fire board uh to negotiate and come up with uh what we

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believe are reasonable terms for fire coverage for for everyone. And uh unfortunately we cannot say that uh about our relationship with uh Mass City, Madison Lake and their fire

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department. Um they they basically just want to issue ultimatums and they're becoming more and more unaffordable. We're we're paying 10 times the cost per section for fire coverage from Jainsville or from Madison Lake as we

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are from Jainsville. And we've tried to address that. Uh we've requested meetings. Uh we've attended a handful of meetings with them and they're not interested in in discussing or negotiating anything with us. They're

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basically is issuing ultimatums. And uh at our last meeting we were we were told that if we didn't like the terms that we should build our own fire hall and start our own fire department. And uh so we

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kind of anticipated um from past experience because we've kind of been struggling with those guys for a couple years. Um, so we brought the issue to our voters at our annual meeting in March and requested permission to uh

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no longer seek coverage from Madison Lake, but to request it from Jainsville and uh some of our other providers uh to fill that void. And it was approved unanimously. And so what we're here tonight for is uh

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to request that uh you consider expanding the uh coverage area to help us out. Uh we want to pick we would like you to pick up the east side of uh Madison Lake or of Madison Lake coverage

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in Laya Township. Um, so we're looking at um we'd like you to pick up the west half of section one. Section two is basically just the peninsula out in the lake. Most

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of section two is water. Um, but there's a lot of houses out on that point. And uh, and then we'd like you to pick up the west half of section 12. You're already doing the east half on that one.

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and then um pick up section 11. That would kind of square out the coverage area that you have right now. And if if the chief thinks that this is doable, uh we would really like you to pick up

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section 15. You're already doing 14. you'd pick up 15 and 10. Um, between uh the county road 17 and the fourlane on Highway 14, you got excellent uh routes

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to get to those properties. Um, and so I we don't think that it's going to create an unacceptable response time. Um, but we're not the experts on that. We we kind of rely on the chief for his expertise on that.

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Kurt, my cons, oh, well, I have a couple of concerns. One concern is uh the 9M corner uh that would be separated between multiple departments. So an accident there

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uh which it is prone to uh could be confusing to responders or who to who to call to give response. >> Uh let me just take a look at them. Um >> should I do this map instead?

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>> Uh section section 15 and section 10. Um yeah, that's kind of that's kind of a junction point there. >> Yeah, >> Eagle Lake um is Eagle Lake is taking uh 16

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as part of our coverage with them. So they um >> Mike, do you have anything to add on this? >> I do. Um I drove it from a fire hall to the GNR.

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Get up to the map here and kind of show you down at the west side of the lake. I get there 16 minutes driving in my I had to get down in down in here

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from our fire hall. Um you got to remember that we going through a lure county dispatch. They had transferred to a county doesn't happen instantly and we get paid the bill and we get that much response time

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by the other Clinton. The other one >> Friday night we were out in the grass fire right here to get if we haven't got a medical at that point almost 50 minutes to get there.

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>> What does it take you to get to that grass fire on the south end? >> That that was about about 12 minutes. Um, I just don't I don't know if the citizens are well informed that it's heart attack or

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a fire in your area that long a response time to me would not be acceptable. I mean, we can take it and I have some concerns of how our contracts are done. Um, some of you guys weren't involved in contracts.

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Um, we take our operating budget and the final the last three years for your contract. We take how many city cows we have, how many roll calls we have and I say it's 7030 >> in a city. I'm just throwing in numbers.

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I don't know exactly what they are, but round numbers, that's what we charge the rural sections and then we divide that per section. Whatever that is, that's what they pay per section. We're adding sections here. We're going to add a lot

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more calls. I don't see any difference in um it's a disadvantage of the city to run more without in the rural without adding dollars to our you know 3 4 years down

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the road when we get a new contract it'll start reflecting that but all of the other townships need to be involved in this too I think >> I'm pretty concerned with the response time on this as well because >> I'm concerned response time It's there's

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some liability with us if we get there >> 20 minutes for a medical call. If somebody's having a heart attack and and you put a deputy to do CPR for 20 minutes, doing CPR for a 2-minute round is exhausting. But if you only have one

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deputy on scene and you're going to try to rely on bystanders to help that deputy, I mean, that person is not going to survive. If you have a house fire and you've got us responding a 20 minute response time, we still have to leave

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our house. We still have to drive up to the fire department. We still have to pick what trucks we're going to take. We have to get all the people up there. We have to get our gear and then we have to drive to Madison Lake. That could be a 25 almost a 30 minute response time. By

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the time we get there, that house is going to be gone. There's no there's not going to be anything to salvage. when we with all due respect um to address the the the cost issue on it. Um you make a valid point. Um

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the the historical perspective on it has been to uh create a percentage based on the distribution of calls and then assign x amount to the city, x amount to the townships and then divide it out by the sections covered. Um, Leroy

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Township's perspective is we know this is going to create additional need um from the department etc. Um, we would be willing to just do an addendum to the contract uh to pay a flat fee for

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picking up those extra sections so that the the remainder of the contract remains untouched. Um and then once we've established uh you know further down the road a call pattern on it if then if we need to make

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adjustment you know that would be a valid thing to do when we talk about response times. You know we're we're acutely aware of that as well. And and when we look at adding

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one mile to the travel distance, um we believe that we're still within acceptable response times. Um some of the issues that we're having with Madison Lake, um their equipment is

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is very old. the new equipment that they're looking at will not fit in their existing fire hall. Um, they're short of staff. They're having a hard time getting people and we're not

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we're not getting the coverage that we need as it stands right now. Um, you guys are setting a much higher bar for performance with the fire department. And even though we're adding a mile or a mile and a half to the response

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distance, we think that we're going to get better service uh from the Jamesville Fire Department than we are from Madison Lake. Kurt, I think at the moment our city council may have a problem here too in

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that we're sitting with two board members here that are on the fire department and they would not be able to vote on the issue. So, we're not going to be able to establish a quorum at the present time.

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>> Um, could could I respectfully request that uh the council call for a fireboard meeting uh for the month of June? >> Do we have one planned already? >> I I never get those dates, right?

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>> We've got one planned, but I don't know the date. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, that sounds that sounds like, you know, if we could get the townships in and and have their input on it as well, um I think that's a a reasonable

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solution and then you'll have the opportunity to perhaps appoint somebody to them. >> We we have time to do it. We were not looking to gain that coverage until the first of the year.

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or is that something that we could discuss at the next fireboard meeting? For some odd reason, I'm thinking it's June, but it might have been July. I don't know. But sounded right. >> Did it? Okay. >> I think it was February or August. >> Is that right? Okay.

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Okay. Do we think it's feasible? Yeah. Remember, we pick up a lot of lake coverage, too. a a busy lake and a campground and all that. I I don't know what

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the call level is out there, but if we're out there a lot, that takes us away from our primary safe coverage. You know, we have our medical team out there. Um >> is Madison Lake more equipped for ice rescues than we

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>> They have some more water rescue stuff than we do. >> Yes. And realistically, we'd both be out there. Who's running the call? Um, the way this looks, the we're almost out to the landing,

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right? I I hope I colored this correctly. I guess I'm not sure. >> You're just about to that >> you'd be covering Lake View Road and that takes you down to the DNR landing. So yeah, great park. >> Even on the west side of the the lake

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there, we come almost up to the campground there. We're only 50 ft offshore, I think, if I read it right for the lake. >> Well, then you know, >> but you're you know, if you can't, if it's not

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reasonable to pick up 10 and 15, you know, we understand. >> Are you counting the west part of the lake or is that shaded because it's a city of Madison Lake? Well, we've got two different colors on there. Um, Clinton my request uh did the

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graphic here and uh so the the yellow highlighted area is the primary area that we're looking for coverage in and I believe I'm color blind but I believe the other is green and that's just kind of optional. >> Yeah, if you look right be the northwest corner of what you're

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asking us to pick up. You're about less than a couple hundred ft from the point of the campground there. >> Yeah. >> From what? >> Yeah. >> The campground. >> What? >> It's the other side of the narrows.

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>> Yeah, >> that's that's not in that section. >> Okay. This map maybe shows a little better. I I'm having a hard time seeing that. also um >> part of the scanning and photocopying

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already. >> Those colors are much darker. >> Yeah. >> Before photo copying, you know, >> we're looking at having pick up this side now. Okay. How how many homes do we currently

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service for the sections we have? >> I don't know. >> I'm not sure. Gotcha. >> You're going to pick up a lot more. >> Um, is it a possibility to make the uh the

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lake itself Madison Lakes responsibility? I mean, if if you're looking at a drowning incident or somebody through the ice, the response time is critical there. >> I don't I don't know how we would

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address that. >> It's not really perception. >> Well, just because that's always what we've done doesn't mean we can't change it. I don't think you'll get a performance

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fuzzy from Madison to take coverage >> and expect him to do >> certain calls on that. >> Absolutely. Mhm. But then at that point, >> why wouldn't they just be your fire

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department you're relying on? >> Okay. So, this is something that we can address at the at the meeting or >> Yeah. And I can maybe do a little better with my magic marker. Maybe try to get a

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better diagram they can see. >> Can we maybe see how many houses? >> Yeah, like that's what it meant. Like how many house properties are there? Things like that. >> Property valuation. >> Well, that that doesn't matter for us cuz it's not

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in our formula. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. >> Just that the houses over there are valued a lot more than they are here. >> Oh, yeah. Mhm. >> Okay. So, we see how many calls in that area there

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two sections. Give us some idea what we're working with there. I no idea what we call here. >> Yeah. Right. >> I don't that makes a difference. Mhm.

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>> So, we're going to get a little more information on that. That good by me. Anybody else have anything to add? I'm not >> Are are you receptive to the idea of scheduling something before the August

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meeting board? >> Yeah, we could. We could >> I don't know if we could just do it at a >> at a regular >> at a meeting night. >> Yeah, >> we're going to have two in June and two in two in July.

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>> Yep. >> June 8th and June 22nd would be the June meetings. >> Meeting in July? Well, I usually try to be the first meeting in July, but I Yeah. Hard to say.

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Okay. Uh June 22nd, would we be able to get uh the information? >> I would I honestly would rather be June 8th because I'm not here at the 10th to the 20th and I don't know if I'd be able to help with anything with getting the

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info together. You know what I'm saying? >> Okay. >> Unless you guys want to do it. June 8th it is, I guess. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> June 8th. >> Yep.

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>> Uh, last thing we have is a visit from John Anson. Uh good evening. Uh thanks for your flexibility. Um I took a tour of the county over the last couple hours and uh grateful that

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the sheriff department uh was not in the area because I started at uh near Richland at 6:30 and then hustled to Waldorf. And I appreciate you guys uh being able to still be available. My intent tonight is to just provide information for you. um and to make you

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aware uh of a project that uh and I'm going to use quotation marks is finished after three years of work. And the reason why I use quotation marks is because I'd like to think that it's probably not ever formally finished because it'll go constantly through

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changes and updates. And I'm going to hand you this um and you can keep those. That's however you want to use them. But just to give you a really quick background, I teach at Wasika. I grew up in Wasika. I've been back since 1991.

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Um, I a passion for local history and worked uh extremely hard uh to incorporate my students in into a project that started out as just a tour of Wasika history and some wonderful people at this at the city

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worked to get a grant and then we worked with the school. So this has become a collaboration between multiple cities and schools and volunteers and the county has basically said we see value in this. And so the county has really

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just kind of shouldered this and said we want to use this as a way to promote life in our in our county. And so ultimately we started with thinking we just want to make this one tour of Wasika history. And then what we found out was this is a a platform of which

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that allows other tours. And it worked its way finally to a point of saying let's use this to promote not just the the wonderful histories of our four communities. So four of the tours are Wasika history, Jamesville history,

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Waldorf history, and the Richland history. But beyond that, we also took a step and said, well, we've got the tours. It's no more. There's no limit on content. There's no limit on downloads. Let's add more tours to promote elements

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of our county to make life in our county highlighted through the set of tours and this app. And it's it's not only a website that is very userfriendly and works very very well as a website. It's also an app and it's in the app store

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and you download it onto your phone. because of the significant amount of content in it. It is a bit of a slow download at first, but then once it gets on your phone, it works fantastic. Um, and so it now is at a point where we're really wanting to get it out there and

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make it available to people. And so I volunteered to say I'll touch base with the different cities in the in the county. And so that's why I'm here tonight is to share just really briefly about it. Um, and I've worked already uh Oh, Caitlyn. >> Caitlyn. Yep.

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>> Thank you. I worked with Kayn already a little bit on this, but just to give you an update of the status of where it's at, and I don't know if you had a chance to even look at it at all, but besides the four history tours, it also includes um uh tours of all the schools in the

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county. And it's not just kind of generic and vanilla. It's a number of images and websites and social media and even interviews with each of the principles of the 16 different county schools. And you could and it's all GPS driven so it's based on a map and you go

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and you visit it um and you can you know ignore certain things or you know visit other kinds of things. So so that's our schools and then we also have an attractions and events. So it's everything from golf courses to um

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libraries to bowling to uh community celebrations like heydays and songs in the park. Those are all tour stops on the attractions tour of which there are 34 of those that we highlight in the county and just meeting with Waldorf a

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little while ago. We need to have a 35th. Um because we did not include Waldorf days. So now that's going to be on there. Um, and that's the whole point of this is that as more people visit it hopefully and use it, they may recognize, you know what, that's not

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exactly accurate or this states wrong or whatever. We I cannot be offended hardly at all, let alone I mean, please tell us. Our goal is to be accurate and thorough and we want this valuable. And you guys, everybody knows that if a website is inaccurate, it loses its

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credibility and it loses its visits. And so we want this to be frequently updated and you know if there's an issue or a concern. So besides the four histories and the schools and the attractions uh which includes like I said the golf courses, libraries, everything for

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attractions, there's 37 bars and restaurants in the county. I don't know if you knew that. I did not know that. I joke with my students when I teach my Wasika history class in Wasika. We like our churches, our parks, and our bars. uh which I'm not sure what that says

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about us, but um there are 37 on that tour all scattered throughout the county. And each one of them has everything we could get from them, images, websites, uh social media, and then if you're using it on your phone, you tap a button and it navigates you to

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that destination. If you're on the history tour, uh, two of our four history tours, if you have the app open with you within, if you get within a certain number of feet and you have a headphone in, the the narration automatically begins. If you're walking

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or driving and you have your app open, it notifies you as soon as you're near one of the spots. Uh, whether it's a history tour history tour spot or a park. Um, so all it's a really cool I think uh and it and accommodates the people that aren't local that maybe grew

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up here and want to still stay attached and they want to know more about it or they have great memories of the Jamesville history, whatever it might be. So um there's 10 stops on the accommodations tour in the county, 29 stops on the shops, 33 churches in the

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county, um and 25 different parks. And all of the parks have drone flyovers as well as as much information as we could gather to put in there for someone who wants to know more about the parks. And then there's also one on trails. So all of

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this is to be truthful information you could probably find somewhere out there, but it's now all in one place. And that's the beauty of it um from our perspective. And so our intent um is to

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and the county's intent uh which Commissioner Malter is here tonight as well. The county is basically saying we value this. We're going to we're going to own it and we're going to uh take care of the subscription pro uh cost of it and those promotional to start with that item and then we'll show you one

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other quick thing. Um, the idea is is that Caitlyn will work to deliver those to every brickandmortar location on all of the tours. So, if there's a shop in Jainsville, a school in Jainsville, a restaurant in Jainsville, any place in

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Jainsville that's a brickandmortar, she's going to deliver those with a holder so that they're there and available. And if there's an outdoor location like on the history tours or on the park or whatever it might be that wouldn't have a spot for those, there's this

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which is basically serves the same purpose. It alerts people to that this location is on the tour and you QR code it and it takes you to uh the site slash app. So, I I'll work with her to find out how many of these that James wants

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and um we'll order those and then uh she and staff will work to put those up in the way that works and how >> you guys want to do that. So, um the other thing would be I'm not uh attached very often to Jamesville social

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media, but social media is a huge way to communicate um and get information out for most of our free of charge. So, um, the county will work through its social media mechanisms, but each of the communities, it'll be up to them, but we'll give you access to everything you

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need and want if you want to highlight elements of it to promote within your own social media community. Um, a whole lot of people, county, city, school, volunteers, area foundation, all people gave

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resources to build it. It's of no value if nobody uses it, right? So if