--------- or a contractor to basically take a look at this wall and determine if it's a common wall or not because that will lead us kind of to where we need to go with this at this point in time I would suggest that you not pay the 435 and that we continue to look into
this and see exactly what our legal liability would be so do we need action to continue you guys looking at a contractor I think so but it would come back to us after your report would bring the information
back to us and then our action would be off of your recommendation at that time I would move that uh we authorize you and Clinton or whoever whatever resources you need to research this and come up with Alternatives right and I think we do want to go with a completely
neutral person on this absolutely um you know we don't want anybody that would potentially have any play in this we need to go with somebody completely neutral and detached motion on the floor we have I'll second that motion Sarah all in favor I I I does
anyone have any questions about it anyone have any questions about it okay was it for uh 31 very good thank you thank you uh item number one on new business sh subdivision approval yeah Patty shook
is present tonight the Planning Commission had uh two public hearings to review the subdivision request out at the Northwood subdivision uh we had our first public hearing and there were some questions um from the crowd there are
some questions from you know those that lived in the neighborhood so Patty did visit with staff shortly after that and I thank Patty for visiting with us uh we're able to to look into some of those comments and Patty was kind enough to to switch a few things around a little bit
to where our second public hearing then uh went very well and what you have here tonight is you have the preliminary and final plat you have the diagram that has the plan unit development with that and
find my right page here we are going to vacate a portion of the current easement that we have there a water line will be installed in place and there will be an easement for that once that is installed um does anybody on the council have any questions uh I
know Patty is here uh representative Bolton maner here if you have any questions for her I have a question question on the what on the diagram that appears to be a vacant L west of your
development I don't know who owns it if it's the cities or private are you talking west of Jim and NY no it's it's it would be wor to Bridge Water show me on the M if you can yeah I
don't that where all the little boxes are kind of t Which diagram you looking at oh see number I believe that's it'll be like the middle of the
screen on your left hand side there I do you Clinton show I don't this that that's a wetland yeah that's City that's city property that's a wetland okay on the back side I didn't know what it was yeah yeah that big
treat area like behind Finley and that big treat area that's a wetland will there be an easement so the city can get to that to the Wetland yeah somebody's going to get to it for occasional
maintenance AR yeah there was never well we could get in from behind them to that then the other the other Wetland that's just to the north is also got an access on the North side as well from the city as well
these two Wetlands on the bigger if you look at the big map the overhead map there's never been as long as that development's been there there's never been any access to
that even way back in 2006 when wco did it then Montgomery had it the L yard in Montgomery mhm when they first had it nothing's changed there was 11 uh 11 units in
there when wel had it we sized it down I agree there's there there hasn't been access to that Wetland since we sold that property what four years ago 3 years ago two and a half maybe something anyway as soon as that property was sold
we didn't have access across that to begin with it's simply an isolated Wetland uh the nice thing is Shuck's division opened it up so that we do have emergency access to the Northwoods Edition the original uh plan did not
have that and I I I applaud them for adjusting and adapting and allowing us emergency entrance from that through her development um other than that uh the engineers seem to think that the drainage is all right and that Wetland
will be the Overflow for their for their collection Pond which is on the north side of all the houses you can see that little triangle up there I think they did a nice job of re revamping and readjusting and and
adapting to the wants and needs of the community that lives up there in the city so I think there was consensus at the at the meeting with all the residents and the and the commission I would move that we accept
this and and allow it to move forward all in favor I I all right thank you thank you f thank you guys thanks some more houses for the [Music]
city uh next item up uh roll closure for s an Church yes St an will have their Fall Festival coming up here in a few weeks they are looking to close that portion of Skookum Street like we do every year uh the street between the Parish Center and the church
[Applause] itself motion to adopt adopt resolution 2024-25 all in favor uh general fund
budget okay tonight we have the police and fire draft budgets um I guess the police is first on the list uh the police department draft budget compared to this year is going to be just over a 2%
increase it's 2.06% increase which ain't too shabby as far as that goes um and then our fire department draft is it did go up by you can see 73,000
but about 7,000 of that is the pumper loan payment that we make as you recall about a year and a half ago or so when we when we purchased the pumper you approved the uh the loan at the Jamesville State Bank so those are really the two big comments I want to
make as far as police and fire thanks to both Steve and Mike I mean they put together a good budget here and you're here tonight if you have any questions the part-time seemed to have gone up quite a bit on this from 24 to
25 with four full-time people uh is that realistic we'll let the chief um trying to find Pages here thank you um the part-time wage
it went from 577 to 72 that number um 2024 did not reflect the pay increase um the part-time budget went from somewhere between 18 and 20
bucks an hour to 3447 2024 wages that would be realistic that's a that's a legitimate number right there that would explain it that would be enough right there and then that went up again in 25 with the um cost of living adust investment so every year that the entry
level full-time pay goes up so does the part-time yep yeah that explains that adequately thank [Music] you the uh health insurance went down 15,000 that's kind of not where health
insurance is going we have different employees now that are in the 2025 budget versus 2024 and the uh health insurance premiums are based on age and whether it's single coverage or family coverage so there's
going to be a little a little change in there because of that that make sense been answer has that wage increase brought any more uh attent I mean if we had any more interest in the in the part-time
there is one being backgrounded right now um there was a a lot of discussion about it um with some county level deputies and then um that was decided
that it's not opportunity for them that they can do so right now we're still kind of looking it did help though it it was fast and furious there for a little bit yeah it did help the part G wanting to work a little more will to sh sure if
prob wasn't quite so hard to fill them ships that that has been a big help good uh does anybody have any more questions on the budget Mike do you have anything you want to add with Fire
or the only real change we had Theon call we started a couple years ago we drop that back a little bit because we haven't been using it and then we uh um will'll be asking for a raise for the officers that's built into this
right now they haven't had a raise since uh I was still at least years that's built in that's the only real changes and then it reflects um turn out gear went up a little bit uh we
got to buy five new sets or whole complete sets are probably 4,000 a piece but then you get everything I only bought some on this year and next year we add a little bit of the budget to make up for that
yeah extra so is their size instead ofing that's the only real big changes we made stuff other than the I would domate my turnout gear but
I'm little nobody will fit into it actually Brooke had your turnout gear has he yeah Mike you're making the payment on the the new pumper truck does that still allow you to set
aside funds for the next truck you're looking at purchasing in three to four years that's set up through the general obligation y right yep that's in the resolution every year when we transfer money to the reserve funds
yep they not getting any cheaper all right any more questions you think there Mr Mayor protm uh motion to Second all favor I I I Part: 2
for for all the meeting to order stand for the [Music] pledge pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for [Music] all first thing up will be the public
hearing for city code amendments okay yeah tonight we have a public hearing we're going to look at a couple items in our city code uh the first one references chapter 151 the admin ministrative lot splits that part
of the city code addresses the process and the steps that we take when you are either combining a lot or separating one lot into two you know for two residential homes um we we have the process laid out in the city code was working a little bit with Jason Moran on
this we did find a simpler more userfriendly version and I'm going to recommend that we do that in our city code for chapter 151 and then the second part of the changes to our city code would be in the R1 and
R2 zones uh we are allowing that if you own a vacant property next to yours you can build an accessory shed or accessory structure or Garage on that empty lot normally our code says that if there's
an empty lot the first structure built has to be a residential I'm going to recommend that if if you know if Andy owns a lot next to him that's empty and he wants to put a garage up he's allowed to do that you know building permit and everything like that so people don't
join those lots normally they don't have to then okay all right yep are we still restricting the size of the shed or building that's going on that lot yes
900 ft that's still the 900 yep and once if this is approved tonight I'll submit the summary to Michael and we can get that in the paper and then it will go into effect once it's uh published in the paper any
questions I'd move we adopt that uh by the recommendation of the employees that we employ to to research this so second all in favor I I 40 and the public hearing closed
at uh we'll close the public hearing at 704 all right um our next step here we're going to with public forum uh Eric Dashner is is present tonight he has an Eagle Scout project he'd like to visit with the city
Council on um Eric if you would like to um take the mic it's all you thank you hello guys um so I'm a part of bsa's troop 89 here in
Jamesville and um I'm here today to discuss and hopefully um get some of my questions answered about um my Eagle project that I'm working towards so I have talked with the American Legion
that's in town and I've decided that I want my Eagle project to be a flag a retire retired flag collection box um and I would like to um have it put in um hopefully the city
park um I first thought of this idea because um Cole blomstrom made the retirement flag fire pit in the city park and I was hoping that could possibly go hand inand with
it um so I want to do this because there are many people who have flags that could be retired sitting around in their houses and instead of them either going into boxes or just thrown away entirely
this could be a place that they could be retired um you know gracefully and all that so I have a few pictures or a picture of the box that I
was possibly doing it's kind of like a mail collection box could I yeah passes so I am hoping to possibly purch or maybe get an USPS mail collection box
um either donated or purchased so then um I can vinyl wrap it with with everything um that says what it is and has um BSA on it and American
Legion on that as well um and then I know like since it's a public forum and that I can't have my question like get approval and all of that but I have a rough outline of what I was
hoping could possibly be done um to go with the fire pit that's already in the city park so the illustration shows the fire pit that's already there and then two possible ideas of where the Box
could be put and then put some um either mulch or Rock any type of beautification around it um so and the last thing I have or no I have two more things
sorry um I am currently stuck on trying to find a mailbox that I could either get donated or purchase so if anyone has as um anything that they could you know
offer up or have connections or know someone who knows connections um to possibly do that and then to help this project I would also like to ask for some
funding so then I can um you know lay the concrete and put in the beautification stuff um so my rough very rough estimate on
estimate on on it I will get more concise numbers later but I was thinking the foundation with the concrete and the plywood and stuff like that would be around $50 um
beautification I know that's um up to you guys so then I would have to figure out what what you guys would want surrounding it and all of that and then um The Collection Box yeah I'm still unsure
if that could be purchased or donated and stuff um that's all I have if there's any questions I don't know if you can really ask them or anything but I believe when Evan olon
did his project that uh we kind of left the design to him as far as the rocks and the flowers and stuff we didn't have input on that one okay I know in the past we've I
believe we've done two $250 for uh the previous projects so I wouldn't imagine this would be any different as far as the funding goes okay
thank you for that so this is dependent on you uh coming up with a mailbox an old mailbox that's your your your plan correct yes so so will you delay the implementation of this if you can't find a box at this in the next month or two
um what'll most likely happen if I can't figure out how to obtain a box there is a chance that I could um partner with the school and help um build one myself obviously with people helping me and all
of that cuz they have a very nice plasma cutter so we could cut the seal ourselves and then piece it together and all of that I like that plan as long as you aren't waiting and i' I'd like to see you complete it yeah this before
winter or before next spring cuz is while you're in school yet even yeah I'm hoping to get this done before when if it's earlier even better but that's my hard deadline on it how many flags
will this structure hold do you think um that I'm not sure because you know some people might have you know smaller Flags or they have bigger flags and all of that it will be big enough to um hold a
decent amount I would say honestly it'd probably be around the size of this Podium so and in future years when you move on when you after you graduated from high school you're out of the scouts and things do we have a plan of
who would monitor this and and yeah the American Legion in town would do that because um they're my project beneficiary and they would handle all of that sounds like like you thought this through pretty well thank you very
much all right anything else yeah just is that an action item for later on in in our meeting well I think we can do the two up to 250 like we've done for traditionally we've do we have to motion that or can we simply
it's a it's a a an ongoing predent that we've said all right yep man just keep in touch with me or Joel yeah for sure thank you guys so especially foration thanks Eric thank
[Music] you it can't remember who it if I can get for you I someone talk to minut thank you yep
thanks well we have Roman numeral number four now we can do the okay number four there yeah item number four is the long-term plan presentation yes so the city of Jamesville has a 5-year long-term plan
that's about 6 years old so we're working with um ABDO Financial Solutions and they have put together a 5-year long-term plan for us that they're going to present tonight anything else you want me to say or I think that's
good so good evening um Council um anet storm and I also have Vicky hold housee here with me with ABDO um wanted to start by saying thank you for the opportunity to work with staff to um update and um continue the the 5e
long-term plan um there is a lot of information in the 40 some page document um before you so we are just going to kind of do a very highlevel um kind of overview and then we'll have some time at the end and um for questions but feel free to stop
me along the way if something jumps out at you and we can um we can definitely talk through it then um I'm going to start on page 18 of the document it's where our um Capital Improvement um plan kind of
starts so Pages 18 through 41 are going to overview all of the capital Improvement funds Andor the proprietary so your water and your sewer and elect um overview there so on page 18 so when we kind of go through this the top
section is going to have um the information for any of the planned Capital um Improvement or um equipment over the next 5 years so you can see that the first one that we're kind of looking at is the police capital reserve fund 410 as you can see there's um two
different years for Squad replacement um so that's kind of the top section so then the next section down kind of goes through the revenues and expenditures um and then the capital overlay there so it it kind of shows you how the fund is going to perform over
the next 5 years and at the very bottom it gives you the cash balances throughout those or the projected cash balances for the five years for that particular fund so we'll move on from this one as there's not a lot of um um
not a lot happening for that particular fund so if we go to page 20 the first one fund that we'll kind of really um dig into here is the fire capital reserve fund and as you can see at the top section um is the planned um
Improvement um whether that's the equipment there with the tanker replacement or the pumper lease um and then the planned um pumper purchase um so you can kind of see that the overall impact on this particular fund if we look at the bottom section
the revenues in 2024 there was a a Le a property tax levy of 50 so you can see as the um the next 5 years that fund we are predicting just a just about a 3% increase in property taxes over the next
5 years for each year and then if you pay attention to the bottom for the cash balances um it fluctuates throughout the year depending on kind of those Capital purchases but overall the cash um is sitting fairly well for this particular fund so then if we move to the next page
22 we will review the um the street park capital reserve fund um a little bit more happening with this fund as you can see that there is a payloader um/ snow plow a street sweeper tractor and then two major Street improvements in the
Years 2027 and 2029 and then if we go to page 24 that's going to show you kind of that bottom section um for that particular fund um and in this fund we are looking at um
going from about a $50,000 property tax levy to 100,000 in order to um sustain those um the proposed Capital Improvements um and as you can see with this fund the very bottom of page 24
there is a Debt Service fund related activity section that we have yet to see so for this particular fund we are proposing um that there there's going going to be debt issued in the Years 2027 and 2029 for those um for those
particular Street improvements um so this is forecasting those um additional debt payback starting in 2028 so next we're going to move to page 32 which is the
um the um Street and Improvement fund for sorry wrong page y one more uh uh the the water fund 601 um so this one looks just a little bit different as it is a businesslike so we have the Capital Improvements at the
very top and then down below is actually um the statement of cash flows we predict um uh for the for the water funds you can see the capital Improvement at the top along with those two Street improvements um that once again we're
predicting all of the funds are going to be issuing new debt in order to pay those back back um so the cash flow section kind of towards the bottom we are predicting for the water fund a 4% Revenue increase so rates will increase
um about about 4% over the next 5 years um the same with the expenditures we're looking at about about a 4% increase for that so if we take a look at kind of the cash what the overall impact of everything so at the end of 2023 there
was Cash of about 582,000 and if if you follow that along the bottom into page 33 you can see that it raises to about 800,000 just to um just to um allow a good cash flow um for the particular
activities along with then um the additional um cash needing to be paid back for those debt issuances the five years kind of Beyond this plan as well so then if we move into um page 34 we're looking at the the sewage
collection fund 62 um same thing here those kind of the two main street improvements are kind of the main meat of um the Improvement um next 5 years um with the sewer collection fund we are um are we are
showing a 12% increase for the revenue for the first I guess I didn't write that note down for the first two years and then after that I believe it goes down and and we can Circle back on that when we get to a different section and then the 5% um straight across the
board for the expenses so then you can see the cash um in 2023 was at 488,000 and we're looking um once again very similar to the water fund um increasing that balance in order to um prepare for
those Capital Improvements along with the um the additional debt um to be issued in 27 and 29 all right the next page is the storm water fund 603 for this F fund um the
only two planned improvements over the next 5 years are those Street improvements um there is um for the next 5 years there is nothing being predicted for a rate increase so the revenue is at a 0% so it's staying flat um expenses
are um being inflated for about 5% um if you see the cash um and cash equivalents for this fund at the end of 2023 was 332,000 and then once again as the um as previously stated in the last two funds
we're building that up in order to um account for uh the additional debt payments for 27 and 29 issuance and Page 38 it is the light in power fund um and this was modeled after
the um the utility rate study done by the Missouri River um so you can see that the um the the main part of the capital um Improvement is actually in 2024 for the 2.5 million in power plant
updates um and then the cash flows the receipts and payments um everything there was um mirrored to what the utility rate study was done so if you follow um that plan with the util with the rates going forward then um that is what we are um mirroring on this
report see all right I'm going to kind of pause there m does this reflect the repairs that we're looking at financing right now yes yes
so the 2.5 million um that we have in the 2024 column it has the power plant updates there along with um there I think there's some miscellaneous items in there so there is debt being issued for proceeds from Bond kind of in that
bottom section for the 2024 column um so it's showing the bond proceeds there of the 2.5 million thank you all right I'm just going to pause there for a second CU that's kind of the overview for the capital piece if there
are any questions before we kind of move to the next section if not I'm going to move to page 14 I'm just going to get there it takes me a couple seconds so on page
14 um this is an overview of the current outstanding debt along with mirroring what we had just previously discussed about issuing the debt for in 2027 and 2029 so as you can see in 2023 at the
bottom of that that First Column say told total for all funds for debt outstanding is the 8.2 million and if you follow that line all the way across into page 15 you can see that the total debt goes from that 8.9 million up to
the 11.6 million um to account for all of the debt being issued for the electric fund for the 2024 and then along with the 2027 and the 2029 Improvement okay all right next we're going to jump to page
11 which is the schedule of the annual cash fund balances so this page will actually um kind of condense everything that we've talked about and then it also um brings into account the general fund along with
some special Revenue funds that weren't necessarily presented in those Capital um imp Improvement um sections because there isn't a whole lot of capital activity going on so as you can see um it gives you each kind of different
section along with the cash balances um and kind of how they're trending over the next 5 years based on the assumptions that are at the beginning of this um of this study um so as you can see we're i f first want to kind of review the
business type funds kind of the bottom section there we just went over those um those balances in the previous slides um so next I kind of want wanted to take a look at the general fund so at the very top of the page you can see the cash um
the cash balances for the general fund um remains relatively flat because we always want a Balan budget so we aren't predicting you know a loss or a gain um in this current um this current report um I do want to um talk about the fund
balance policy um that has been established there is a 40% fund balance policy um that the city does follow right now so if we go to page8 I just page eight um this is kind
of the the key highlights so at that first little section there um we had talked that in 2023 so when the audit was presented the general fund had a 41.7% unassigned fund balance um so the
Osa recommends anywhere between 35 and 5050 um but the city has that 40% um fund balance policy there so in 2023 that um that threshold was met but based on how um this is being or how the
long-term um plan is currently projecting it will dip below that 40% um and for 2024 if everything holds true true um it does stay above that 35% um currently not necessarily
mirrored in this study is increasing the levy or a transfer from any of those Capital funds that's established um in the fund balance policy um so I just kind of wanted to bring kind of um that out to up for a more so just kind of
wanted to shed some light there um we can kind of see that Trend towards the um the back of the study there are some Gra graphs um that show where the fund balance policy line is versus where the where the cash and then the um the next
year's or the current Year's expenditures are according to the budget um so I just kind of wanted to talk that one um through as that um does kind of go below the policy but there is that um the verbage in there as to transferring
that out so just something to kind of watch for um if being above that 40% is still desired um at the end of 24 if if all of these assumptions hold true all right so I'm going to move back to page
11 okay so the next section on here you can see is The Debt Service funds um they are um the levy amounts I guess we'll talk about that in the next slide um but you can see the cash balances for all of the debt services are are very
healthy and monitored annually to determine what next year's Levy needs to be done um and I believe um DDA does a great job um and has a nice summary um for staff to follow for next year's um Levy
amounts okay moving on to the next page so page 12 kind of the last section here um is where the property tax levied and the tax rate are kind of um the like
the um being portrayed right here so as you can see in 2023 the total taxes Levy is in the middle of that page 12 um in 2024 the levy amount was at 1.2 million
as you can see here in 2025 um with everything kind of being planned in order to cash flow and sustain everything um you're looking at that 1.4 million for the the total tax levied in
2025 and then after that it stays relatively flat um so this is kind of where you're you're going to get most of the information for what you need for the levy the in the impact that it has um on
the overall tax rate which is on page 13 um if I may looking at 2025 at close to 16% a change and then 26 has almost zero
change why aren't those two numbers why don't we average them out instead of putting a big push you on it one time yep it's absolutely an option um it just looks as though you'll be
dipping into reserves so as long as the council is okay with dipping into reserves and going below that 40% or even I mean you're probably getting closer to your 35% for reserves there's absolutely no reason that you couldn't do that you would just want to make sure
that any of um the cash impact of what is planned for 2025 isn't impacted by um the decrease there but it would just be you're dipping into reserves for for a year for the portion that um isn't
necessarily displayed on the report all these are built on assumptions as we go through there we have the an actual for 23 but I notice your h house value you're increasing
1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 for the house value in in the city I don't think that's realistic so the the tax do on on housing may be different than what this shows because a one uh what is that less
than one half a percent increase of of value is probably not realistic in these times so in light of that there are a a lot of assumptions in here that may not be correct after the first year or two
however this is simply a guide for us to look at where it's not cast in stone correct all right I and I just noticed that as one thing and I've been brought that up too and and some of the numbers you know when we're looking from 24 to
25 on the impact to a particular um like a homestead because the the exclusion rates are changing for 25 so you know if you have a larger you know increase for next year a lot of the um the property owners um there the like the the amount
that they're being taxed at for their taxable value should be last for 25 based on that increase in the homestead excl I know my my my house tax uh valuation went up 20% 22% something like that and finally the legislation is you
know they're increasing that Homestead exclusion to help just one one instance and there's a lot of assumptions that may be correct may may not be correct but yes yes yeah thank you yep and then uh the last kind of note I had for this
page was the um the fire fund so fund 214 currently that is a transfer from the general fund and we are recommending a direct Levy for fire so you don't have that that transfer happening from the general fund it's just a direct Levy um
going forward there and that's the6 166 so that is going to be yes the 166 one of the things that hasn't been mentioned in study or
schedule is uh we've been working here in Jamesville on a community Center and there's no numbers plugged in here for the next 5 years Stand Down
commun okay and I guess I wasn't part of the capital that was included with our information um but it's something that can definitely be built in there I think part of it is we haven't got numbers and you're a numbers person
very much until we get an idea of what the project might cost you have no input it's it's definitely one of those where it's hard to kind of project out for the next 5 years um without any type
of number right but it's something like I said that could be added I'm sure that's why it isn't included because we aren't real any solid numbers or even fictitious numbers being thr it just makes it hard for me to go back my committee and
see uh the council is now looking at setting any money aside for the next five sounds like a work session to me you know for us to come up with some ideas yeah so
by accepting or passing this how restrictive is this well we we can use this as a guide for when we do our next five budgets right it isn't restricted is simply telling us what if correct yep
all right exactly so we don't need any action or anything um motion to approve the long-term plan to accept their long-term plan plan as proposed and like you say it's a guideline rather than a y
an absolute like our budget is an absolute I would move that we accept there it looks like it's thorough it looks like it's complete looks like you've done a lot of perfect hard work thank you thank you staff for all your help as well so I move we pass that we
accept this I'll second all in favor I I I [Music] um next item up the approval of the agenda I have nothing to add the agenda
second all in favor I thanks thank you consent agenda yes tonight's consent agenda you have the minutes from the last regular council meeting of July 8th and then we also had that work session on July 22nd so those minutes are here
as well you have the receivables and then you have two sets of uh payables since our last city council meeting motion to approve the consent agenda second all in
favor uh public forum we have anybody here to speak through public forum open the Forum moving on noes and Communications I have
none I have two the park board met uh at the end of last month and all of their plans and projects are moving forward nicely I see they ran smant there today and I stopped talk to them they are going to do the basketball court
probably this week they said if they can fit it if they can get it done so a lot of the projects that we were proposing are getting completed in in a nice time frame in spite of the weather and then
we talk preliminarily about the budget and next year's plans and plans of four or five years down the road type thing the second thing I have is the uh Planning Commission met and that will be
on our agenda later on uh with the shock edition there you have anything I have nothing I uh ed8 Matt uh we have another businessman's meeting set up out of the golf course I believe it's the 4th of
September be similar to the last one and just an open house thing for the businessmen to come and socialize uh I don't have anything for the golf the golf board but the uh Personnel committee has been meeting and
some interviews on the uh Utility side of things trying to get that position fil and that's about it administrative report all right in my report here you
have July's reconciliation from the bank you also have the cash balance report the golf course comparison numbers that you you receive every every meeting uh we did receive the first half local government aid from the state
to the tune of about $480,000 we got that a couple weeks ago uh tomorrow Statewide primaries so from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. the primaries will take place at Trinity Lutheran discipling
Center uh regret to inform you that Randy Thompson has resigned his last day was Friday so he gave a two-e notice has taken on a different position in the area uh we now are looking at different options or alternatives to uh replace
that position uh city council candidate filing ends tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. so um traditionally what we do City Hall closes at 4:30 but I'm going to be here till 5: so people can still come in
if they're coming back from work or whatever we'll still be here until 5: um I would recommend that we go with the joint fireboard probably October 14th if that works I can talk to the chief about that uh we also suggest that we have the
annual performance review of myself uh Monday October 14th for the city council meeting and I was just going to add one other thing um we have been meeting once a month here since the summer started I would suggest that we meet twice in September that gives us one more council
meeting that we can look at budgets before we get the preliminary Levy to the county um is the council okay with meeting September 23rd it would be the 4th Monday of September you okay with that all right we will plan on that
that's all I have all I got you say September 23rd yeah okay yep motion to approve administrative report second all in favor
I Department ads police and fire we'd like to go first police and fire here tonight okay uh pretty good news today uh we are fully staffed um that all that does bring some challenges of uh new turnout gear and
training that's involved in new staff um but uh talk about that later in the budget um we did we are upgrading our our four-wheeler um that originally was purchased
with um donations and fundraisers um but it's technically city property once we buy it with that we it's city property in we are using that for trade in for an upgrade in that I just want to make sure
you guys are aware of that and uh we do have uh Andy maybe you can help me out this uh the upgrades we're getting with their four-wheeler uh it's just a new
Polaris 1500 extreme Duty Ranger and we should possibly get it this week um the tracks from our old one are not going to fit on the new one so we'd like to put them on men bid if that's okay with you guys
to um I'll need some help do an KNL there I'll need some help too I'll talk to Joe somebody um otherwise uh I think the rest of my stuff um we're currently pretty close to
runs for the year we were last year um I haven't seen anything letting up too much a little a little bit lighter but I hate to get my hopes up that's going to last um we do have contracts do with the
townships at first of the year um so that's when we meet with that that's maybe some discussions with them on contracts I think there was one Township that
is wants to argue or change the contract to uh currently they get build on budgeted money and they want to get build on actual I don't know how that all works out in the counting side of the world but um that's one of the things I think
we'll we'll see um otherwise uh I guess that's all you have any questions for me any any opinion on that budgeting I know that was a discussion at our last meeting with the townships that uh one
of them the only problem with actuals is you don't build up your Reserve at all and if uh things inflate your reserve becomes a lower percentage of your budgeted items so if when we meet with
them we have to be conscious of that that if if it's an actual then it should be an actual plus something to build up the res I would suggest Billman budgeted and like a zero up at the end of the year
whatever how that works you know if they want to if we end up going that route it's be my suggestion you know if I come in under budget or whatever they get a little bit back if I take a pump out of a truck and there's $40,000 extra that
has to come out of that budget they get get that bill too I know that's one things I'm just not comfortable with the actual not either it's difficult to maintain your percentage for uh for your reserve so that you can cash flow
properly so that's just a by the byy if we if we get to that that discussion and we will be sitting in that in October 14th so MH thanks Mike anything else talk to you the budget site thank
you Mike good evening um I've sent out the uh quarterly report you guys should have a copy of that um as you can see uh this last quarter the second quarter we had a total of 723
calls for service um that was up from 547 in the first quarter and up from 595 second quarter of last year um 62 arrests you can see The Brak down of of
uh the part one and part two offenses uh you should have copies of the um different offense lists and and incidents um so if you have any questions on that any opinion on why it was hired um
we ended up getting full staff with the fulltime during this time frame um um the laws change um I think that it's a totality of stuff you got inflation you got stressers um we had uh a an uptick in
the liquor violations this year um assaults seem to be a little bit on the rise so um it's just kind of a a general uptick sorry to hear that those are two I'd rather not see increase right right if it's an increase i' like
to see a speeding or a j you know treat properly or helping a kid out of a tree right right all right thank we did have some um uptick in the the traffic enforcement as well we've had some complaints and so I've been
kind of encouraging officers to stay proactive in those areas curious I know a few months ago or a couple months ago the North Street there was someone uh noise isolation and speeding has that been I believe it has we had the Speed
trailer up there um I did have the officers sitting and doing um traffic enforcement and uh being visible in those areas um and you know we continue to get um complaints here and there throughout the city and and when that
happens I try to that that one hasn't hasn't reoccurred then you're thinking have not heard back any any uh continuing complaints there so good I'm glad that that we could do it on the low download there y
um any other questions new Squad is here it is not here yet it's actually up at Guardian right now I just talked to the guy the uh sales um gentleman from that place today um they expect to get it in
the shop this Friday and I asked him uh what kind of a time turnaround we were looking at and he said about 3 or 4 days so uh hopefully we'll see at the end of the next week he said he was going to deliver it himself so eager to see that get back here um
touching on that once we do get that back um Vander Stant Vander was going to work on tearing some of the rest of the equipment out of the other squad car and then like the fire department we'll be looking at um either men bid or doing a
silent auction or something to try to recover some of that as some of them assets um we have our officer um Justice muray um out on her own she's doing great we're full staffed in a full-time
um area and right now we're working on a background of a part-timer um and when we get closer to being done with that I'll sit down with Clinton and discuss that so hopefully we get some more staff
and very good thanks Chief thank you thanks Steve you thanks Steve all business number one election judges for primary elections yes you have um resolution number
23 in front of you tonight that names the election judges for tomorrow's primary election Ian you can't sit next to Janice I can't vote on it either so
move second all all in favor I hi and uh about business number two yeah we talked about this at a previous city council meeting the uh the improvements at the power plant the best way to do
the financing for that is to take out a take out a bond um the Auditors were talking about that earlier tonight we're looking for a motion from the city council that would authorize approving that General obligation equipment certificate if somebody would be so kind
as to read the old face paragraph for the mo and then we can move forward with that uh direction for us to proceed tonight I'm requesting a motion from city council approving to move forward
with issuing a general obligation equipment certification on behalf of the Jamesville Public Utility Commission to finance the Transformer and switch gear upgrades that was a beautiful motion I'll second that motion all in
favor hi Hi Well Done Andre I know somewhat related matter what did that power out cost it well we had a we had a backup Transformer that they put in there
correct yep so we had we had the part so we had well now we don't have any spares no had the SP but yeah yeah uh next item discuss the next steps for 109 North Main
Street Jason you want to run with it not really but I suppose again um at the last meeting Council you would recall that you had directed Clinton and I to look into the issue with regard to 109 North Main Street and Clinton and I did
in fact we met on site and as is sometimes the case this issue is not as easy as it may appear on Face Value the issue is going to become whether or not the wall that is currently existing is in fact a
statutory common wall I put common wall in quotation marks because a common wall is typically just that it's a wall that two buildings share this particular structure it appears as if there are two sets of bricks that essentially abut
each other and I think that there is a legitimate question whether this is or is not a common wall on its face value to Clinton and I lay people so to speak it doesn't appear as if it is a common wall if it's
not a common wall then in fact we've received an invoice to repair our own wall and as my memo indicated ated to you if this is if this is in fact our wall we have a lot more flexibility as to what we do with this wall do we take
it down do we leave it up do we repaint it you know something needs to be done obviously it it is barely unsightly so without question something needs to be done but just getting to the Crux of it we've received an invoice