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Part 1 (Video ID: LpTR9IiNIqg):
- 00:01:59: Meeting Start, Pledge of Allegiance, and Bond Awarding
- 00:06:55: Review and Approval of Consent Agenda Items
- 08:15: Public Input Protocol: Rules and Expectations Defined
- 00:09:52: Public Comment: Reverend Dirksen on Community Conversations
- 00:12:54: Public Comment: Audrey Jackson Discusses Battery Concerns
- 00:15:21: Public Comment: Jason Windle Supports Elected Officials
- 00:16:12: Public Comment: Anna Marie on Pine Island Mistakes
- 00:19:00: Public Comment: Joe Blaise on Integrity and Lies
- 00:21:22: Public Comment: Infrasound Health Risks Concerns
- 00:23:26: Public Comment: Terry Klemisch on Data Center Concerns
- 00:25:35: Public Comment: David Monticue on Data Moratorium
- 00:27:49: Public Comment: Toby Holiday Advocates for Moratorium
- 00:30:00: Public Comment: Steve Young Opposes Data Centers
- 00:31:33: American Legion Proposal to Paint Fire Hydrants
- 00:34:52: Resolution: Sale of Bonds for Street Improvement Project
- 00:41:29: Public Works Update: Pool, Water Slide Construction
- 00:43:44: Resolution: Accepting Bid for Water Tower Rehabilitation
- 00:46:26: Sidewalk Placement Discussion: First Avenue Project
- 00:53:40: Litigation Update and San Ysidro District News
- 00:56:27: Library Funding Challenges and Programming Updates
- 00:59:47: Department Updates: Finance, Arrow, Public Works, More


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Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Mhm. >> Good night to 121 floor stand for what we believe in. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands,

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one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And I would like Okay. And and I would like to do the 2020-2025 awarding of the sale of the bonds for the 2023 and 2024 project under the administration. I yield.

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Sorry. I don't have an attorney. How is that? The motion Right. All right. I yield. I motion. I I yield. I I yield. I'm so I All right. The regular next is the consent agenda.

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Um what [clears throat] we have here for this meeting is the April 21st, 2026 regular City Council meeting minutes. B, the request to approve the Moody County water ordinance renewal. C, the request to waive rental fees at the Green Ridge.

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D, request to approve library board member Ollie Zimmerman as chairman. E, request to approve resolution 26-22 delegate LDU Moody County. F, request to approve seasonal park time City Hall employees freedom of system.

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G, the request to approve the closure for graduation parade. H, request to approve assembly permit for car shows. I, request to approve the facade program amendment.

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J, to approve C-zone employees. H, resolution 26-23, approving monthly donation. L, request to approve joint agreement with Linda. I'll move that we approve the agenda.

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Second. I have a motion and a second. Voting. I. Open. I. Brandy. I. Myself, 5-0. All right, now we'll pick the sign-up next. But before we begin with the public input, I'd like to

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review our protocol for our city council meetings. The city council wants to hear from you and wants to hear your point of view. Public input is not required to be heard at city council meetings, but we want to continue to hold public input at our meetings.

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The city council is actually making hard policy choices that hopefully not all residents will agree with the decisions city council makes. Although you may disagree with some of the decisions we have made, we value your input and we want to hear from you.

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Any public input needs to conduct yourself in a civil and professional manner. Personal attacks on staff or individual council members will not be tolerated and you'll be asked to stop speaking and sit down. You will each be given 2 minutes to

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speak. Once the timer has beeped, you may finish your sentence, but you will not be able to finish your speech. We encourage you to submit the length of your speech so we can review it after the meeting. I'm also going to ask you to avoid positive or negative reactions such as

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clapping or booing. City council is here to conduct city business and therefore ask for your cooperation to make your our meetings and hearings run smoothly and efficiently. Repeated warnings for failure to comply with these requests will result in you

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being asked to leave did encourage public input being offered in the future. Thank you for cooperating this evening. We will now begin public input. When your name is called, please state your name and address when you approach the microphone.

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First up is Reverend David Dirksen. Your name is called, your address, please. My name is Reverend David Dirksen, and I live at 340 Prairie View Drive, Buffalo, Minnesota. I'm here tonight to talk about

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um the question of do we really want to lower the temperature of this conversation around Buffalo Lake? Cuz if we do, we need to be able to have adult-level conversations. And I would remind you that giving us

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time to listen and speak is not the same thing as listening. Many of us in this room are married. Many of us are parents. Talking at someone does not necessarily guarantee that they hear you. And if any of you have been in a

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relationship where you talked to another person and they didn't listen, not only is it not a very good feeling when you learn that they weren't listening at all. If we want to lower the temperature, we need to be able to have a conversation. A two-way conversation.

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And we haven't been having two-way conversations this evening. From the beginning of the fall of 2025, >> [snorts] >> it's been very clear that there have been two different questions, two different conversations going on about this project. One conversation that the community

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wants to have is whether this is a good project for our community. But the other conversation that I'm reading from the actions, the words coming from the council is how do we make sure this happens? How do we make sure that Google builds this type of

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battery right here? That's different That's a different conversation. We want to be heard as a community. And there's consequences for not being heard. When I'm not heard, I get upset. When

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people are not heard, they get upset. That is a natural consequence of a decision that you are making when you don't hear us. You don't listen. People get upset. That's natural. I get upset when I'm not being heard, especially when it's

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something that matters to me. So my and important what's to [clears throat] have that open conversation so we can talk. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, Audrey Jackson. Audrey Jackson.

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Audrey Jackson, 34 years of living in Mountain View. The only announcement that I wish to be going with the company that is worldwide is that right? I think they made everything okay, but I just need to actually just further as a couple things that are wrong with the

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project that they can go with. Because the battery is 30 times larger in size and capacity than any battery system on the planet. It is untested, the true failure rate is unknown, and it's a completely different system than lithium ion batteries. It contains a

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highly electrolyte that are corrosive and pose a significant safety risk to the first responders. And it's a different technology than hydrogen that's produced as the electrolyte degrades. There's a fire and explosion risk at the world's largest

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battery scale. And we've been given no formal safety plan or containment plan for either this or the 482-acre lithium battery that's going to be on the opposite side of 52. It took 10 fire departments to put out

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the recent structure fire in West Concord a couple weeks ago. And that pales in comparison to the size of what you have dumped on us without informed consent. Yet the best that you can do is send a couple firemen to a training on lithium

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battery fires in your council packet. What exactly are you planning to do when 800-plus acres of substations, transmission lines, two different types of battery systems, solar panels, and diesel backup generators have both sides of 52, the only major thoroughfare that

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can rocket through the two cities, are on fire for days? If you are city leaders, why didn't companies Google and Excel see us as people with agency and not as lab rats?

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Most questions would have been answered before any project approval were given. No one could have known what it was. Thank you. Next up, Jason Windle. Uh Jason Windle, 106 Saturday 151 West uh

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I'm a longtime home owner. I find the person I'm probably here if you have further to speak to. Just want to say that I support the elected officials, the council, who make the difficult decisions. This one I happen to support.

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The last one, the next one, probably don't support. Whether I support or don't support it, the project, the issue, I support the people. And thank you. I only take 2 minutes of your time to say I've been taught by my parents and my

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grandparents that if you want to be heard, talk forward. And also, if you don't make your way faster than time, to show people by your behavior that you need to be heard and that you should be heard because they can't bother you.

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Thank you. Thank you. And what is bothering you? Good evening. My name is Anna Marie 1315 Country Club Road Southwest. I want to start with a powerful quote from the book by psychologist Carol

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Tavris called Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me. Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action, but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely

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enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. What this book teaches is that over time, and often without noticing, people change. People make terrible decisions. Typically, there's a slippery slope of

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manipulation, flattery, corruption, and other pressures. Even the best intentioned individuals get caught up in cycles of error. We all know that a terrible mistake was made here in Pine Island to convert

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nearly 500 acres into a massive hyperscale data center without first talking to the residents. But thankfully decisions like this are not carved in stone. They can be revisited, revised, and reversed. For instance, the city could choose to

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rezone the lands away from light industrial. Right? Companies would then have to go through a more thorough environmental impact review rather than a rushed and insufficient environmental impact review. Or the city could have amended its bylaws to explicitly prohibit hyperscale

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data centers. Contrary to what we are being told, there are options. There are many options. Mistakes were made. And if you're willing to admit that maybe you were wrong, and you help us revert on these

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mistakes, then we could forgive you. We could work with you. We might even celebrate you. Because the ultimate goal is not us versus you. It's all of us together against anything that threatens Pine Island. That threatens our intentionally

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small small town, our community. It really is all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Joe Blaise, 10 Joe Blaise, 1315 County Road 3 Southwest. I've had the absolute pleasure,

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privilege, and honor of having led hundreds of people in my last job. And I picked up a couple of things. One of those has to do with integrity, spotting where it is and where it isn't. And I'm going to play a clip that is

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from K88LTV. That they're meeting. They took a recess to de-escalate tensions during the public input period, and now the council is explaining their side of the story. Council member Bernice Ball told ABC 6 News from Walnut Grove what happened

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when they gathered out to recess in order to de-escalate the situation after speakers ignored the 2-minute limit to the public comment period. We have some situations in this town where some of the streets are in dire need of repair,

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and that is the main thing we had to get through, and we couldn't even hear ourselves talk up front when we were, you know, doing public input, and they just wouldn't let us move on with our agenda, so we had to de-escalate the situation at recess.

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All of us that were here in the rather at last meeting know that that's not true. All of us that were here remember that we were not talking at all about roads that were in dire need of repair. The truth of the matter is we were

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facing the lack of courage to address the opposition to the data center during public input session of the meeting, not any other portion of the meeting that was referred to in this video. And I ask, why why tell a lie? Why lie about

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something so trivial when we all have the evidence? We all have the receipts. This meeting's recorded. People here are recording the meetings. We have irrefutable proof. Why lie about it? And if I know that you're willing to

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tell a lie about something so trivial, that tells me exactly how much I can trust everything else. Thank you. Any replies from that? By council members? Good evening. Is anything that will address the health

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risk of highway and first sound generated by outstanding citizens? According to Google, infrasound is low frequency vibrations that cannot be audible. Yet it can be solely detected by the

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inner ear and body miles from the average school bus maintenance researchers have associated prolonged exposure with headaches, anxiety, nausea, dizziness, sleep disruption, stress, hypertension,

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and other health concerns. Because infrasound sound can penetrate buildings, mitigation is difficult. Cooling systems and large mechanical equipment are recognized sources, which is why experts recommend environmental

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review, predictive modeling, and adequate setbacks from residential areas before approving hyper-scaling data centers. Residents here have repeatedly raised concerns about the infrasound. Yet those concerns have not been

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meaningfully researched or addressed. If this facility is built at the proposed site, it risks compromising the health, well-being, and quality of life of Island residents. What kind of leadership exposes the

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community to a project of this scale which prioritizes potential revenue over residential safety or resident safety? Some families may ultimately be forced from their homes because the the health risks associated with its development

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are too high. Residents should not be treated as collateral damage and are experimental subjects. >> [clears throat] >> Google running companies to finance city government advances project without adequate environmental review or meaningful community engagement. The

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process was marked by limited transparency, poor communication, misinformation, and failed leadership. This was not a democratic process. It was a betrayal of the community who we're here to serve.

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Thank you. Thank you. We also waiting for the next person or if you have somebody. Next, Terry from Hastings. Good evening. Terry Klemisch at the way 201st Avenue Northwest. I'm here to express my displeasure with

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the proposed data center north of town. As a homeowner, I'm concerned about the effect that this data center will have on property values in Pine Island. Uh utility companies have to develop new infrastructure to support these data centers.

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And the increased demand for electricity will raise energy costs for all customers regardless of the field data center pays for initial infrastructure improvements. According to Xcel Energy, electricity bills in Pine Island have increased by

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13.2% in the last 2 years. That's not including base rate hikes. This increase is happening without a single data center in the state of Minnesota. So, you can imagine what it would be like if this was approved.

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According to the Pine Island city website, this project can employ 1,000 construction workers. However, these jobs are temporary. There will only be 100 permanent jobs as a result of this project. According to a study by Goldman Sachs, the increase of AI usage is

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already costing American economy 16,000 of per month over the last year. And job losses are expected to increase significantly in the coming years. The residents of Pine Island deserve to have a say in whether this project will move forward or not. Thank you.

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Thank you. The whole planning board would be asked to leave until last warning. Next is David Monticue Monticue. Is that the right spelling? Hi, I'm David Monticue from 559 of 1.

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Uh yes, I'm David. I'm a public sector worker and a member of AFSCME Local 319. Um I'm also a member of Workers Strike Back. Across the country, cities uh counties, and states are rapidly enacting uh moratoriums on the construction of

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hyperscale data centers. Just last week, the city of Inver Grove Heights in Dakota County enacted a temporary moratorium on data centers. And this comes on top of Eagan, Rosemount, Carver, Apple Valley, and many other

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municipalities across the country. Today, I sent to each council member a draft moratorium, which I also have with me here today. This moratorium will put a pause on all data center projects for 1 year. And I'm urging the Pine Island

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City Council members, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, to make a motion and roll call a vote on this mor- moratorium today. Continuing to greenlight this data center will be detrimental to working class people in Pine Island, the Southeast Minnesota region, and

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everywhere. And it will accelerate the cost of living crisis faced by working people, and it will take the environment with it. Both Republicans and Democrats on the Pine Island City Council are playing an active role in making sure this project is completed and carrying water for

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protect billionaires. And here in Pine Island, over half the council is up for re-election in November. And I would urge working people everywhere that if they do not make a motion on this moratorium today, then we will throw them out of office in the next election.

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That's why I'm also a member of Workers Strike Back, which was founded by the socialist city councilwoman in Seattle, Kshama Sawant, who is now running for Congress and on the platform that we need to stop all data centers and the AI layoffs. Um

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And so to any working class or young person who is watching this, if you agree with this, then I would urge you to get organized and fight the proliferation of these data centers. Solidarity. Thank you. Nicole Mills

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Paul Madam President Next Toby Holiday Toby Sure, sorry. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. I just called you. You can take my time if you want. I'm used to I'm used to it.

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I'll put this as well, but Uh so yes Hi, uh I'm Toby Holiday. I'm a resident of Rochester and also a member of Workers Strike Back, which is an independent organization fighting to stop Hyper Skill data centers and AI layoffs, fighting for free health care

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for all by taxing the rich, rent control, and many other policies working people need and deserve. And the same Canandaigua Council members have continued to ignore all of us. The behavior displayed by them at last month's meeting was embarrassing and cowardly. That's right. It was also the

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first time the council felt a fraction of the kind of power we have as working people when we fight back. Organizing masses of people, loudly and openly confronting our elected officials, Democrats and Republicans alike, exposing them as betrayers of

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working people, and posing a political threat to their careers is what we must do. At public comments like this, it is most crucial that we do not beg elected officials or make moral appeals to them to do the right thing. Instead, we need

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to make it clear that if elected officials do not adhere to our demands, then we will fight to go to my office in the next election. This is the same strategy that was used by Kshama Sawant's socialist city council office in Seattle, and it produced some of the biggest wins for

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working people in decades, like the Amazon tax, the now highest minimum wage in the country, and unprecedented renters' rights. This is why Workers Strike Back has basically done your job for you, and created a Pine Island data center moratorium modeled after the most

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recent proposal passed in Andrew Growth Heights. Across the US, 69 other local jurisdictions have implemented active data center moratoriums or restrictions, with four of those designated as permanent bans. To course correct all of the betrayals

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this council has committed against the residents of Pine Island, everyone in Southeast Minnesota, and our beautiful environment that we must defend, we demand this council make a motion to review and approve this moratorium today. Or else, solidify your repute

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reputation as being representatives of Google, big business, and the billionaires rather than the people who put you in those very seats. The moratorium you brought forward would only be the next step in our continued fight against Project Skyway and all of the undemocratic decisions this council

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has made thus far. Probably. Yeah, for re-election this year, please choose wisely. I do. Next speaker, Kevin Young. Hello, friends. My name is Steve Young. I came all the way from Minneapolis. I'm a Green Party candidate for governor.

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I used to be a corporate attorney for mid-life mid-size uh tech firms, and I just want to tell you all that anybody trying to sell you AI nonsense is full of Anybody trying to get you a golden data center does not have your best interests in mind because they have centers all over your brain. They heat

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your air and they heat your water. They don't bring jobs. Uh factories don't get done being built. They don't do anything good. And as governor, I will back all of you up. Do whatever you got to do to prevent the data center from getting built in your city, and you will not spend a day in jail. Thank you.

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If you want to All right. I'm going to ask this. You have a little more on the administration. I'm assuming that you have any questions or any uh any fire hydrants. We'll take this line. Uh the city was approached by the American Legion and

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since it's the 350th anniversary of the founding of the United States this 4th of July, the American Legion wanted to do something and um we got the community to help commemorate uh the occasion. They wanted to put together um

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volunteers to paint fire hydrants along the main streets red, white, and blue. And so, they did a proposal to the city wanting permission to paint the fire hydrants and then to make the city would donate uh paint for this project, but they provided uh the labor through volunteers.

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Uh I spoke with public works and painting the fire hydrants does not affect the flow of the fire hydrants at all. I also spoke with um pricing uh budget uh page they said approximately $100 if we did red, white, and blue it would be

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$1,200 so I'm asking permission to purchase the paint for this project up to $1,500. So is there simply just red, white, and blue striping is it a design or If my understanding is it would be red,

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white, and blue each side of the building. I'm looking to go with the lowest because I don't have any money in the budget for $800. 700? Yeah. If you buy paint you should just buy it I shouldn't ask you really because you already gave the time to public

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works and we got the fire department folks too as well. The fire department goes first. I asked because I spoke to someone they would paint red and help locate them. So that's is that something you would not buy fire focus in this community?

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Yeah. And I I believe you were speaking of red on top so that it would be more visible as well for the red that red on top and then do we have any other issues with this? No. So the legion is still putting

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together volunteers so I guess they just want to make sure that it's a deep wood packet. You guys let me know if you have more information on the paint for the fire department in this place. Once they are able to secure volunteers they'll help paint the entire building so I can still scout and buy something something.

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So meeting proceeding once we get the volunteers and last thing is something else. Is that something else? And they're able to start Is there a regulation on the color of hydrants with the town? I don't know what the town received standard colors.

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All the fire hydrants in the place here. Cuz you've seen different hydrants in other cities that yellow What are you saying? But if you get back to the saying that if we a bond issue of it like what they plan to do. Just how many students

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All right, then I'm looking at the section of something. Go ahead. I Both of I Brandon I Yeah. Brandon You might. And you got three to put them? Next to this resolution 2625 awarding the sale of the bonds for the

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2026 street improvement project. This is a and I would like to add the following to you because the bond sale took place today and we did not have that rating in the packet. We'll be going over that with the bond rating here so we'll explain this to

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So, I do have handouts and I have votes here. Yes. Let me give you an answer to the question that was given in the facility fee or the mobility minus rating. Did you? Hopefully you may recall I was here a month ago and presented

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recommendations for I&S senior city utility improvements projects this year. Um the primary points of that included moving over to be a competitive public sale of bonds and secure credit rating in the meantime.

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And I see that you already you aware that in upgrade in process we have a real problem with cities. Double A minus stable credit rating, which is a fantastic rating. Um I didn't suspect there would be any downward movement. However, the rating

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agencies did change their criteria, so there have been some cities in the area that have gotten downgraded. Um but fortunately um I know I'm not one of them. So uh we opened bids this morning and that's the result uh this page here.

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We received four bids. Um you know, I usually tell clients we expect three to five bids, so we were right in the middle. Um and you'll see that the net effective interest rate there the low bidder is 3.8 change.

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Um and you'll see a number underneath there that says after resizing. So what I'd like to do is have you flip over to this page here. And I'll explain what that is. Um if you were to look in the

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lower left-hand corner of the page, you're going to see two columns there with interest rates. One is coupon and one is yield. Um I may or may not have touched on this last time, but basically what's going on there is investors are willing to accept a yield of a certain percentage,

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but they want you to slap a higher interest rate on the bonds. And they pay you a premium for that. There may be a number of reasons. One might be they simply want to hold a bond with a higher rate on it so that in the future if interest rates rise, their bond will maintain value as opposed to lowering in

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value. Um that generated quite a bit of premium. So if you go into the source of the news here, you'll see that $74,000 was a premium generated because of that. And so we used that premium to reduce

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the bond issue. So when I was here last time, I had sized the bonds at 2.77 million and now you can see we're down to 2.695 million. And that's the result of that premium coming in. We're going to use that cash to buy them down. Um overall the

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And that's the reason for the resizing was a different interest rate that's listed on the bid sheet. Um on the right-hand side in bold, you're going to see the net effective interest rate clear of a 3.83 cents. That's about five basis points higher

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than what I showed you a month ago. Um yields did rise. I did try to build in a cushion for the market movement where I was here last time. Um it went up slightly higher than what I had built in for a cushion. What does those five basis points mean? Very little.

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Um over the life of this entire term, um it moves the difference of about 6,200 bucks over the It's about $400 a year difference. So, in the city finances, that's right. It is a technical term. So, um

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Anyways, we feel like it was a good results. Um one other change is you'll see in the source of the new city's the city cash contribution um is 71,000. Last time I was here it was 64,000. Basically offsetting the capitalized interest, which

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you go down to the bottom right in the account balance. It covers the first interest payment for us. And we didn't have to do that in the bonding. Uh but when I talked about that $6,200 total cost difference, I factored that in that there's a little higher cash on

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the front end than we had. But but all in all, I'm very very close to what we talked about a month ago. Why don't I stop there and take questions? Any question? Thank you. Thank you. Um there's only one action needed for us

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to move forward and that is to adopt a resolution that was provided by Kennedy and Raven. Um should you do that, uh we are scheduled to close on June 1st. And uh and just so you know, um today we did require a 2% good faith deposit. Um

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so we confirmed with the city they actually received that. So if for some reason we approve this and the buyer goes to private back out, then we're able to keep that money and go with plan B. But that hasn't happened in my 26 years here in this position.

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Nevertheless, All right. Motion to table the ordinance No, I'm going to throw it all out. Regular meeting of the City Council ordering the sale of 2026 to be put on the ballot.

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I'll second. You have a motion and a second. Um the vote is as follows. I. Vote different. I. I. I. And I'm voting with the I's. It's unanimous. Thank you very much. Is there anything else you'd like me to stick around for?

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Okay. So the motion is made. That's the action. I'm fine. I'll be here. What are we voting for? Ordinance 2026. All right. You guys want me to do the roll call again? I vote yes. No. He needs to refrain from voting.

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Public hearing for the ordinance Next is the final consideration of the ordinance. Public works in Indian. I can't take over the body side. Um so I did a different amount of pool and a lot of fighting and stuff. Um they put the structure together and

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then they had to put the side together next weekend and do the weekends. They have started to pour um concrete slab um back in the pump house. Um Tuesday in June and then we'll have five days to move in and then I believe from the first

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century and So And we will start tomorrow building. At the same time. So we're on schedule with the water slide being built on both sides of the building. Um

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So we might have some first works that we're figuring out. We're working with public works um to maybe obtain some bolts through the the turf in that grassy area um instead of grass.

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Uh so we're those bolts might be playing um in the future. Just the grass is hard to maintain and it blocks the filter um and my quality challenge to get it out and it's also the body worked out. We're looking at a different plan. I had the same thing at the early learning center.

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>> Yes. Yeah, exactly. Recognize something I recognize that um I'm looking at that too. But we do not have those bolts uh for you this evening. So possibly by the end of the next meeting so we may have to remove all the portion of that grassy area

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um I think. I know a lot of kids were super excited when they played on the slide. It's good that we opened up behind the police department. What's the name of the finish line? Mhm?

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Did it open up in there? Yes, I did. It's the cheese fries. No. Thank you. So this is resolution 2624 accepting the old brick water tower to be able to be achieved probably.

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Yes. Good evening. I just wanted to say I feel really bright bright and today and they should put that Um Thursday the 14th we opened the bids for the Elpress water tower rehabilitation project. We received the city received nine bids. The low bidder

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was VRC Coatings Inc. with a bid of $395,000. So tonight the the resolution 26-24 is accepting that bid. Are there any questions I can answer about that? When does the service

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When does the service start? Um I think we need to go through and get the contract signed. It could be a couple of weeks. When did it was July of 18? And what I'm reading in the packet is July. July or August somewhere around there I think.

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And then we were told July of 18. And we were told like until July of 18. Patty, when Yes. Can I ask a question of about the way all these matters are being handled or I mean Uh It I get a little bit sour. Does this

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Does this tower have any public or private wireless facilities on it? Yes. Is it both or is it It has public. Okay. Um one of the items on my consent agenda was uh uh Dutchess County wanted to put a

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platform on the water tower um to put like their uh video system on. We have been working with the county and they are going to be erecting a temporary pole Yes. To remove the antennas to that pole while we are rehabbing the water tower.

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That's encouraging that that's good to hear that the county is reasonable to work with. I suspect that there's some of the private providers are difficult. Oh, but that's sounds like you got it in so Very good. Yeah, thanks. And I think the contract expired already and we have to if we

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lose Yeah. Yeah, we are in the time. Do you have a number of tenants? All right. Anything else? Any other questions? No. Uh congratulations coming in 625 something to do with the health aspect of the project outside there.

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Sorry. I'll make a motion to adjourn. Do we have a second? I. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. And those who will be opposed The next subject is I move to recess for the East Side of First Avenue Southwest

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in the 2026 3D project. Yes, you got that one spot on. So, I I know that my colleague Alan has stood here in the past and he's talked about this up to attention, but we wanted to lead a conversation and hopefully get some clarity in the direction from the council. Um the the conversation has been

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regarding the sidewalks. Um the historically the city has had a complete streets policy where sidewalk is to be installed on all new street projects where I can speak of all. And a feasible example may be grade or maybe there's a project that will be too close to the

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parent plane. Um as part of the planning when when we accept completed the the planning specifications for this project, we did plan for sidewalk on the the entire area of the project on First and Third Southwest. First Avenue and Third Street

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Southwest. The area that we're looking at is First Avenue Southwest. Um considering whether sidewalk should go on the Third portion of S Street. Um there's been some some conversations with residents regarding how close the sidewalk is to the front

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of their homes. And so, what we're hoping is to get some clarity from the council tonight. Um whatever we want to do with the plan as it is, we want to that portion of sidewalk. Um there's just a little bit of urgency with that as the contractor is getting ready to mobilize and they're going to start

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removing trees and all. And we don't want to remove trees if it's not necessary. So, I'm happy to answer um any questions or continue conversation, but there's those two um considerations in that the the policy has been to maintain having sidewalk on both sides of the street.

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But then also, there are examples of areas in town where that hasn't been fully implemented, so In those areas, just clarify, are we using what it is at with the PC or what makes it close to our residence?

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Most of what I hear was like 12 ft, so it was set back at the residence. Yeah. I guess the other portion of that too is that there's when you go farther south on First Avenue on the south side of Fourth Street, there's not sidewalk on the side of that street either. So,

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continuing, you know, where do pedestrians go once they get to Fourth Street, you know, um So, that's kind of the consistency that that needs service. Um But you're I think you're correct that it is 12 ft for that that resident. And that's from the right-of-way line to the

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front of the home. And typically, a sidewalk is about a foot. So, And what was the uh physical constraint when we're deciding maybe the slider than the rest of the feet of the 4-ft walkway? Yeah, so uh typically, the tree removal companies we call and they will mobilize once and

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they do all the tree removals. Um it is a unit price contract, so there is um a unit price for additional trees, so we know what that price would be, but there might be a little bit of conversation about them mobilizing up there. So, it would be a a smaller fraction of it.

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What is tip- What is a typical distance between like the front door and the sidewalk? Or does it vary so much? In in in older neighborhoods, it does vary. Um I think it a typical setback would be 20 to 25 ft. Um if you notice on the west

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side of First Avenue that those houses are set farther back than they are in the morning, that 20-25 ft range. So, the the 12 ft is, you know, the concern is if somebody walked in the sidewalk and see right in the face. Yes, I really am wishing you just don't do that.

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Yeah. Yeah. What are your thoughts about that? Do you have a question or a concern to all of this? The neighbor I think is going to be on the left side. Side of what? On my side or first side of me? Yes, correct. So as explained today, it's on both sides. And then I

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think that the question is is we would leave it on the left side and be removed that piece of sidewalk. But it would still be sidewalk on first side of me. Now, part of our goal for the city is to make it, you know, change friendly and safe for our residents. And you're

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telling me sidewalks where there's hot signal. Like 12-ft it was closest. Yeah, that's like shaking a hand as they walk by. No, it's not as close as something like that would No, I I realize that, but

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I mean I think the 12-ft is up to the garage portion of the second half of the plan. That's what I thought. Is it one I don't really understand And then you walk that Now I'm worried about that for the clients. Um

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You guys I really think that we should keep them on one side. I wish that that someone just having third residence on both streets, some of them. Um and I feel that with the continuation of the sidewalk going

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down Third all the way to Main Street and then the one side being there's no continuation of the sidewalk on the east side. That's Yeah. no continuation over there. Um I think that it just needs to be put on the one side. It'll be fine.

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Um but that's again me speaking. Um But ultimately I mean we can do this way. I mean if you would like to go that way had there and it looks like much floating around. So, I don't think there's any problem.

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Yeah. I've got a new range top. I I just had it raised. I mean, both bolts all this is key bolts. So, the one so one is just key round bolts. Keep taking consistent means the whole first five area.

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And then I mean, also you guys can kind of view it if you look at it. We had There was a structural reason we did do it on the second half of this. But that's not a reason for this cabinet. But like just the same thing with the whole thing. It'd be better.

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I think so. It's a small we look. Four Four months I've been here. I'll say I can see you. Three, four, five. I think it's five. I think it's five. This is a small section. Hold them up. Okay, and then the next thing is that I can see you.

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The side block past that house like to the corner of the house and so I have to deal with it. But it will continue with that whole side. Because that's the side that I can do it. You want me to watch them on the other side? I can do that. No problem. We can do the whole whole thing on the

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side like that. Careful. Look. You see? So, I'm going to give them an opportunity to do the advice to go with just the website. Um and

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keep going. All right. We've watched you in the second. Why not? I I would too. I think I think so. I think I don't know what you guys want. I don't know. It's unbelievable. Yeah, the mayor council uh

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the only uh pending matter we've got is the litigation related to the A W A R on campus center um and there is no development on that uh from the public side. I don't know if you have any public input. How many days do we have until the 90 days are up? I'm sorry? >> How many days do we have until the 90

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days are up? You know? >> The 90 days from when it was delivered. So, we have 90 days until they can issue a Yeah, I'm I'm actually not litigation counsel, so I don't have that date in my mind exactly, but you're right in the timeline for a petition decision, but I

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don't know if it's final. Final? I'm really excited to share the news for the San Ysidro district. So, uh the state legislature did pass a bonding bill only giving $10 million for the San Ysidro district. So, they were wanting $12 million.

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It's not quite what we were wanting for the full project, but it will get the project going. So, now uh the board will decide how they want to phase that project and there was some last minute wording um on how we what we included in the

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bonding bill so that they uh keeps it moving towards the after future bonding bill for the future. So, that's really exciting. We've been working on the project since 2018, so I love it. Yeah. You keep Remind me what the

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full cost of that project was. So, the the whole enrollment project is like $125 million. Um we've already received $10 million for the design and work which is almost complete. Uh so, with this uh the previous bonding

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bill was a uh, you know, all cash bonding bill, so they wanted to go the natural route there. Next, this is a GO bonding bill, which means that there's a 50% um, or 100% match, so the county will have to match the sanitary district will have to match that $12 million money dollars. So, essentially they're um,

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being funded through that. And then, in addition to that, uh, the state legislature also funded uh, the P-SIP program, which is the Point Source Implementation Grant Program, and that one is also going to be funded through the state for the sanitary district. So, that program is funded

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with $30 million. Um, and we are on the project priority list for the P-SIP program. So, as soon as our project is ready, we'll go ahead and be all over the doors for the P-SIP. Thank you. Anything else? No. All right.

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All right. I got it. Good news, though. Uh, Elizabeth uh, culturally, um, money funding is coming this fiscal year is going to be a challenge. Uh, we have heard from Olmsted County that our uniform love that they are trying to uh,

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implement will give us $11,000 less than what we got in this year for our finances. And also, Fillmore County looks like we'll be getting anywhere between $2,700 and $2,700 less depending upon their

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where they end up with the funding. So, um, I'm just trying to get everyone on the same page and preparing for that's there. I'm not sure what we're doing as a library to address this yet. We are meeting with the board. Uh, they've got

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a special meeting scheduled for the 28th of next month, uh, Tuesday, uh, to talk about that. So, I just wanted to bring that forward so you all are aware. Makes sense. Makes sense. Let me double check.

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When I get the email. It is on a I'll double. I'll let you all know. I've got a 28 sitting down here. Hopefully that's the right day. It might be that I kept just the wrong day in my head. Otherwise, I'm going to really it's

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coming quickly. Uh, we've got some good stuff coming up. So, I'm really excited for those who are interested. It's the first week of June. I think we'll be at all of the elementary school library sessions starting on Friday. So, I'm just here for the whole week. But, the

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kids will love Sneezeweed. They always have very much enthusiasm and fun. She is around and then they always love coming in that first week. And they can get their picture with Sneezeweed. Like, so that's always exciting. And all the other news is that I've got a conference that I was invited to from

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the IMLS. That's the Institute for Museum and Library Services. That's a federal agency. Um, it's a programming virtual and they thought it was a conference that they'll be conveying. Um, just talking about America 250 um,

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for the anniversary this year. So, I'm really looking forward to going to that. And uh, hopefully it's going to be kind of fun and exciting for me. Any questions that you all have? Hopefully I'll have more information after my meeting this coming week with the board of all the funding. Um, but

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yeah, I'm not sure um, where that's going to go. Any questions? Pretty much pretty much everything I've got. It's if yeah, Olmsted Olmsted County if they're keeping us at a 1% of the entire county.

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Um, but yeah, they were looking at they were looking at a 10% decrease in funding for all of the libraries. That would be against the contract that we currently would have with them. So, there's going to be some negotiations and some strong words, I'm sure. think they're

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pretty good. We can learn from Dodge as well. Um they only offer the minimum maintenance of effort that they're required to keep by law. So that's um I don't have One good thing is I don't have to worry about them going down.

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Thank you very much. I'll let you know when I'm done. It works. Good evening everyone. I just wanted to leave a couple of things and to say thank you. Thank you. Uh second, I want to thank the finance

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department. Also say thank you for 2 months ago. I believe they pulled me out. Uh letting me do the readings for reviewing my office. So Um you guys can say that our office is

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done. And I would like to invite each and every one of you. The staff also found in your neighborhood and they were very and civil. Mr. Todd and his crew did a good real nice job. So thank you again. Staff also

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found in your neighborhood. Yes, they did a nice job. I'm fine. Price is good. DBA Yes, I just wanted to go to go over the real quick update on Arrow. Um so as I said, I was going to start working on that tomorrow.

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Um and the guys finished up over uh this week and next week. And then uh the fuel first and third piece of equipment should be here. Uh put a little bit of a problem there. So it should be done by Tuesday assuming that it is good good weather and I don't know how much. Uh but I was just Yeah.

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But I was just going to go over the public bank for works and guys spend a lot of time being one foot out and one foot in their job description but they'll find another way to get it done. So, it's all good. Shout out to them. You know what I'm trying to say though? That's what Gordon told Yes, it was sponsored 3.2.

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That's the one Gordon was talking about all the organizations. That's the one that I voted for mainly with the signers. That's overwhelming to me. And the last five minutes here. Um yeah, yeah. Mhm. I think that's any improvement.

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And I thought the meeting is Thursday the 28th. Thursday the 28th? I think they're sorry. Same thing for hitting me bang out there probably just throwing the fire with the circle foods. Oh, and that's our bridge. The minister park is done. So, that's the park where I left it. It's all good.

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Yes. There's still some landscaping stuff that needs to be done, but very Good enough. And the prayer looks like it will be active Jesus. You got a little bit hidden hidden down in after Jesus.

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Okay. I can't say that. What do you think for whatever? Yeah, that'll be part of the department. And that's I'm all good. All right. Deputy Young Sheriff? I don't know. Maybe go ahead. Um no.

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Good news is that calls are down from month before to this month. But, all of that stuff was good. Um working with the Cheese Fest Committee. Sounds like you got everything dialed in for the festivity. And that is about it that I have right

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now. Thank you. So, I'm Jerry Gordon. Mhm. I see you. Look, you see anything? No, please. That's the only one that I thought so.

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Just the County Tree Bridge is not being monitored in the foot. Obviously, we need to do a foot replacement, but other than that, uh nothing extra important. I will be going back to you and after we get the documents. Yeah. Thank you. You have a great day.

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All right. I don't think there's anything else. Anything else you want to ask me? Okay. Anything else, anything else? We have 20 40 minutes available. Let us talk. Anything you'd like to add?

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No, nothing else. Thank you. All right. I guess I'll bring the subject to a close. Okay, okay. Thank you. I'm watching the subject. The witness? Hi. Hold on a second. Hi. Ready? Eight. Perfect. Five.