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Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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>> Call to order. Roll call starting on my right. >> Councilperson Josh Arnett. >> Councilperson Brad Bayer. >> Mayor Jimmy John King. >> Councilperson Craig Anderson. >> Councilperson Jeremiah Olgin. >> I'm looking for approval of tonight's agenda. Anything from staff? >> No, there's no other

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hanging over here. >> I think we're all good to go. >> Anything here? >> Move to approve. >> Yeah, I'll second that. I really enjoy these small ones. >> We got a motion and a second to approve. All in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Approved.

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Council meeting minutes of June 9th, 2026 of the workshop. Let's first we'll do that. >> I'd like a motion to approve those. >> We have a motion to approve. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Second. Questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. >> Aye.

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>> Opposed? Now, we'll be looking for a motion on the regular meeting minutes of June 9th, 2026. >> Make a motion to approve those minutes. >> We have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Questions or discussion on that? Hearing none, all in favor say aye. >> Aye.

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>> Opposed? Motion carried. Let's finance and budget. Got the accounts payable with the additional listing and the electronically paid invoices. Any questions, please direct them to >> Kelly, finance officer Kelly. >> How many of those banners did we get?

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>> Welcome in 2026. >> 19. >> Eight. Eight. >> I'd like a motion to approve. >> We have a motion to approve. We have a second? >> Second. >> Any other questions or discussion on finance and budget?

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Hearing [clears throat and cough] none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. It takes us into motions of general business. First item under the motions of general business, consideration of bids. Rolling Ridge Park path paving. The park

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board requested pricing on paving for the new path at Rolling Ridge Park. The park board and council previously approved the cost for the path project for not to exceed 30,000. Public Works will be preparing the base with the contractor doing the asphalt only.

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Two bids were received. Ross Sand & Gravel $13,030. Elcor Construction was $10,900. Staff is recommending the lowest bidder with Elcor Construction on this project. Action is to either approve or deny lowest bidder, Elcor Construction, to

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complete the paving at Rolling Ridge Park path. >> Any other questions? >> So, Sean, when we brought it up last time, I think I asked, but so you guys this path is going to go on the west side of that tree line down to 20th Street?

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>> It's going to connect to the end of our apron or where we blacked out coming in our drive. >> Oh, all right. >> It's going to tie in there cuz if we take it out to that, that's county road. We will end up having to put all the other pedestrian path and all that stuff. >> So, it'll come down the west side and

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just kind of >> jump over the road and then when that gets reconstructed down there, we would tie it into a path at that time and stop there. >> So, it's part of the project almost. >> 20th Street. >> Any other questions or discussion?

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>> Sounds good to me. >> Do we have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve for Jeremiah. >> For Elcor, right? >> For Elcor, yeah. >> I'll second. >> Do we have a second? All in favor say aye. >> Aye. >> Opposed? Motion carried. Next item on MSH project agreement

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amendments. >> Give Jenna a big raise. >> City engineer Open Altis submitted contract amendments to the previously approved supplemental agreements. One of them is on the 2027 CIP for the environmental phase [snorts] one and two.

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Based on hours needed, 61,500 Legacy Drive construction staking, 25,000 based on hours needed. Through Highway 63 and Shuman Drive single bidding certified construction observation, 42,000 based on hours needed. Now, [snorts]

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action is to authorize the administrator Shuman to execute contracts as presented. Uh the only question I have, Jenna, is on Legacy Drive one. That thing's >> Most of that >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah, utilities are all in. Um our original contract actually only went to bidding, and I've just been using what we had for staking. The majority of staking actually occurs with the building of the road. We're staking points for the curve coming and

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doing the blue tops for the roadway grading and then the sidewalks. That's a lot more effort. Again, it's only the hours that we would actually use, but put it put the budget there. We're not going to charge the whole

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amount unless for some reason the contractor keeps calling us back because they have things that are >> Okay. Um that's my question. Anybody else got any questions? Graham?

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>> What's it Why Why is this an amendment? Why Why are these three amend What What's the I mean, did we go I mean, I heard the one, but what Why is this an amendment to the original? >> We approved the original ones, and so these are additional costs that will >> Why aren't we amending the original?

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That's what I'm getting at. Why why are we getting amended now? >> Because they weren't actually included in the original contract. A lot of the times we don't include construction type services um because the complete project hasn't been

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designed and it's really hard to base um what it's going to be upfront not knowing what our actual design is. Um so they can be a bit more precise on bearing out what your budgeted cost is instead of giving a higher number.

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Um and then before the environmental services, the phase one and phase two, the original contract did specifically say we were going to do a environmental desktop review, but we did not know for sure [clears throat] if we would need the phase one or phase two

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until that was completed. So this is one of those things that I don't want to put into a contract and it um we end up just over using or want to make sure it's a necessary item before we actually

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have a contract for it. Um after the original desktop review, 90% of the parcels and area that will be impacting with the 2027 CIP project has either a

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high or medium risk of hitting or getting into uh some sort of contamination due to what's occurred out there, but that's just us reviewing records of spills that have happened or things out

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there. We can't necessarily say yes we're going to hit this contamination until we do some borings and probing and testing and see what it is we need to mitigate during construction, if anything. If we do our do the testing

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and everything um and it we don't come up with anything that exceeds the limits for the PCA, um then we can just keep going um with construction. However, if we don't do our due diligence here and during

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construction we do hit something and it was something that was on record or has a pot of money that's available for cleanup sitting there, we would not be able to use that money and it would be at our own risk. >> It's insurance? [clears throat]

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>> It's an insurance, yes. So, this would allow us to get into the cleanup funds that PCA has if we do hit something. >> Okay, thank you. Any other questions? This question? >> [clears throat]

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>> All right. So, what the motion we're asking for is to authorize city administrator Shimmel to execute contracts as presented. >> I'll make the motion to approve. >> I have a motion, do I have a second? >> Second. >> A second. All in favor say aye. >> Aye.

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>> Opposed? Motion carried. All right, that takes us on to our next one. 15th Avenue Northeast supplemental agreement. >> So, this is Sorry, supplemental just means it's supplemental to our master agreement. This is the contract for

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15th. >> This is supplemental to the main contract the >> [clears throat] >> This is the actual contract for 15th, but we have a master agreement for services, so it's supplemental to that master agreement. >> All right. And I see you're okay, you got the

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environmental and everything in this one already. >> I did not to include >> Uh-huh. >> It does not include. >> Oh, not include. All right, I see. What do you consider I just need to ask this. Construction, I know what the observation is expected,

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but what's the administration that you >> Construction administration. Yeah, it's um for technically that one it would be like to um paperwork and submittals to the state um any other administration with the

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contractor those types of things. >> And that's not included. That would be above and beyond. >> Above and beyond of this we have budget left, but I without knowing what the what the state's actually going to require of me yet, I didn't again want to put

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something together [clears throat] for for what's going to happen next year. >> [sighs] [snorts] >> Are we going to be able to use the soil borings from the township? >> I'm basing this that no new soil borings are used and we're going to use what they have um

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any assumptions with that, so >> [clears throat] >> Any other questions or discussion on this? So, that means do you have something in mind? >> No, I don't. >> [snorts] >> What's going on with the year 2020?

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>> Can you get back to where we agreed? The year 2020. I guess we need a motion to approve to >> I [clears throat] advise city administration to execute >> Execute this contract. Also second the motion.

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All right, we have a motion to allow administration >> I'll make that motion. >> We have a second. >> Second. >> All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. That carries. Guess what, that takes us out of motions and new business.

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Takes us to mayor staff consulting boards. Mayor is the court for tonight. But it's week. I got the day today off. Sympathy to the families of Mary Ann Pollard from the city of Sturgis.

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The Bear Cave concerts. We're going to try and get our first one tomorrow. So all cross our fingers. It's looking good from here. Expect a good turnout. Can't wait. >> Also, yep. >> Summer Fest 26

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is like a week away. >> God, that's crazy. >> The list of activities is long and lots and it's in the uh today's Sturgis Star when it comes all listed. >> [cough] >> And all the fun the chamber has planned for us. It's going to be a long weekend. A fun weekend.

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It's Looks like it could be a very nice hot muggy weekend. So, that's all I've got for tonight. >> [clears throat] >> Uh administrator Shimmel? >> I just >> Sure. We're working on the packet and that we've been working with the chamber, so we'll work with them once

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again and hopefully get them all done. Summer Fest items pulled off. >> Questions for the administrator? Any complaints for the administrator? Any compliments for the administrator? None? >> I'd like the red, white, and blue get up.

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>> All right, there you go. You got your compliments. Finance officer Kelly, do you have a report? >> [snorts] >> Yep, I'm going to be work starting to work on the budget soon, so I'll be contacting all of the heads of the departments and starting to pull that stuff together. It's the

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season. >> Good. Public Works, Shawn, you got a report? >> There is a report there. I do want to point out to you guys that we have discovered that there are two leaks in the swimming pool. They're in play features. so they don't affect the

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actual pool itself. So, right now we have the two play features shut down and it's just the little vibrator squirters running them and then that table that was donated by the Bowles and family. Uh I'm looking into maybe getting a line. I don't want to do anything with it with

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the season open and hammer through our new floor. So, I'm looking to see if we can possibly get a line and keep But, we're just going to shut those features down now until we >> No, what do they leak to though? It looked like in your report you said something that leaks into the under the concrete? >> It's getting in the concrete and coming

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up through and gets in the sand around the pool and it's coming back up through the concrete on the outside of the exit. Outside of it. So, it's not coming back through the shell of the pool. That's sealed up tight, so it's forcing up on the outside around it. Cuz that whole shell is

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filled with sand all the way around it. So, it's just filling that whole bed of sand around it till it's forced up out of the ground. But, uh hopefully we can find somebody to get in and line it and we can get them back up and get going. Uh I'll see what we can find, but until

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then those play features are shut down uh just to keep the pool open. I don't want to hammer through the floor of that pool this time of year and uh deal with that. Those play features I guess in my opinion are something we can live without for a little bit if we have to.

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If you have a different opinion, let me know. >> You couldn't work on those with people in the pool, right? So, >> Um the part I'm worried about is you're going to have to hammer through the you're going to drain the water down to be able to even get out there. It's not in the zero depth, so it's up in the higher area. So, you wouldn't have to totally drain the pool, but you don't

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have circulation, so the pool would be shut down when we did that. And I just don't want to take a chance on that being shut down for a week or something like that this time of year for what those play features are. But, again, if someone else you guys feel differently, let me know. >> We're on a couple of garden holes now,

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so we're not scoring each other. >> All right. Well, you got to do what you got to do. Any questions for public works director? Anything you want to add, John, or anything good for the court? Thanks, Tony guys. Thanks. >> Thanks.

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>> City engineer's report. Janet, anything you want to tell us? >> Um just for your awareness, there are two bid openings next Tuesday. One is for the lead service line replacements. And the other opening we'll be having is for the signal system.

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We will not be coming back for an award until everything's been reviewed by the state, so it might be the second meeting of July before we're >> What was the first bid on this one? >> The lead service line replacements. >> Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, good. Got to get that in. The time to get that

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done in the next year. It's got to be done this year, though, right? >> That's That's what they're going to be bidding. If we don't receive bids or they seem too high, I guess we'll reject but um that's what we have funding for is to get it done this year and that was the requirement of the contract. >> All right.

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Well, good deal. Good to know. Any questions for the engineer? All right. Thank you, Janet. Nate, library director's report for tonight. >> So much stuff happened since I wrote this report. Uh uh

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we have uh >> [clears throat] >> the groundbreaking uh will will start on Monday for the library expansion. Um and um Bill's going to help me out with some of this uh my reporting but yeah, they uh

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we're we're going to start rolling on Monday and um we are uh working with Ben and we've scheduled a groundbreaking ceremony. Um it We felt like it would be easier if we did that after the 4th of July holiday.

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Um so, that ceremony is going to be on July 8th at 1:00 p.m. That's a Wednesday. Um hopefully you can swing by. It's going to be great. Um we're going to start getting the promotion machine rolling on that.

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And um >> [clears throat] >> Um yeah, so that That's our That's our really big news um that just kind of came in after I submitted this report. So, um Um a lot of people put in a lot of hard

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work to get us here and it's finally starting. >> [laughter] >> All right. Any other questions for the very excited library director? >> Yeah, hopefully all of you and the whole library board can try to work that out

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if your schedule aligns. So. >> All right. Thank you, Nate. It's good to hear. Glad we're getting in here and finally rolling on that one, too. All right. Any other questions for Nate? All right. My third chief tonight. We do have a pool director tonight. Jake, do you have

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a report for us? >> Been good. 2 weeks in. Hopefully it gets warmer. First week was busy. Last week was okay. But this week's been busy again. It's been good. Um to kind of go off of Shawn,

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we tried the features that we think will work successfully. And it was a success today. So, we're hoping that's the main one in the middle >> [clears throat] >> and the slide. So, we're hoping that as long as those two, you know what I

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mean? If the jets go then we have shut off one of them, so we'll be able to Our theory so far is proving correct that >> We can isolate each pump, so we shut down and see which one kills it when it does it, but we do have it. The two of them seem like they're working. >> They know what they're doing. They

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understand it. They got it. You want to pull them in? >> Yeah. So. >> But >> They worked well today, so hopefully it keeps up. >> All the swimming lessons are all filled up. >> Yeah.

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>> It started last week, and they are busy. >> Good. A lot of people. >> So, a lot of family passes are getting this year. >> A lot this year. Wow. >> Where did you happen to place Laffy Taffy at this year? >> [laughter] >> I'm complaining it's ordered at Fairway.

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That's where we get them from now. Same price. He can't believe how many we keep ordering from them Fairway. He didn't think we'd sell a lot of them, but we sell a lot. >> All right. Any other questions for the pool director? All right. Thank you, Jake. Thanks for

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being here. You got to get going. Committee and Commissioner Board reports. Chamber of Commerce. >> I didn't get anything in my packet. No Chamber of Commerce. You got something to throw out? >> You got to be ready for the fourth. >> Okay. EDA HRA. >> [clears throat]

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>> We did not have a meeting last Tuesday, and we couldn't get a quorum together. We like to form together, excuse me. We only had two of people who were going to be there. >> No no report. No meeting till next month. >> [snorts] >> Finance. >> No meetings. Nothing coming up.

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>> No meetings preliminarily invited in August. >> All right. Library. >> Uh nothing. >> No Park Board. >> Uh meeting the next week in there. Nothing there. >> Personnel. >> Nothing. >> Planning and Zoning.

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>> Nope. >> Public Safety. >> As everybody is starting summer fest there's going to be extra deputies down here especially on the fourth he's got us all locked up at the the dance so there's a whole bunch of us there people can then find their find

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their own rides home and don't come at us cuz you won't like it when you wake up in the morning. I wasn't here to make my phone call last last couple meeting but the illegal dumping that's happening out of the brush dump is

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is crazy if you guys aren't aware of it I mean it's it's ridiculous I don't know why these people think that they can do what they're doing but John's been great at staying on top of it we got the cameras up there for a reason use them um

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in the two-week period that we decided yep we're done with this I wrote eight reports on these people people doing this and that's only the ones that we can confidently collect there I mean how many of them we we couldn't tell or you can't really see

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there's another whole handful so that's an issue that we're trying to work through but if you guys have any other ways that we can get around it or or figure things out please we're all ears so I know that it'd be hard there's almost no way you

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could shut it down with the dog park up there so we'll just keep hammering away citations and looking there I know that the word is out because I had a couple people say things to me which is good [snorts] it's what we want

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and we're seeing every single one of the people that we've ticketed are from Stewartville there hasn't been a single one from Rochester so that's that was kind of surprising to me but there's still a whole bunch of people from Rochester dumping there so that's I don't specifically know I've never to

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court >> I've heard rumors. >> It sounds pretty high from what I've >> That's That's what I heard. But, it's a state of Minnesota statute. It's not a city ordinance. So, it's it goes through the whole shebang. It's just I mean, it's no different no different than dumping trash in

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a ditch. That's what they're getting hit with. It's unlawful deposit of garbage or litter. So. >> Has anyone Has anyone gone to court yet? I mean, are they going to actually >> No. I don't find them a lot. Yeah, they get they get a fine. That's what they end up with.

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Uh but, nobody's contested it. And they pay. You can contest it, but what are you going to contest? That I didn't throw the stuff out? >> So, that's That's why the ones that we do are only the ones that we can totally identify and feel confident with our

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kid. There's a lot of them that I can't tell for sure if it was that guy or that. We just don't take a chance on them. Even though we'd like to. >> Can you get license plates with the cameras? >> That's what we do pretty well. >> Yeah, and then that's he runs the plates. But, there's like the one we were on,

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it was humid that day or whatever, and then like it's blurry and you can't read the plate. So, there's some days that it just doesn't The sun hits it just right, there's a glare, you know. So, it's not perfect by any means, but >> You just find them? >> You talk to If you tell someone that

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your truck was used to dump something, they very quickly push it onto whoever was driving it. That one that he's talking about, this guy unloaded a whole tarp with with stuff on it. Whole tarp just dumped the tarp out and just left it out there. So, it's not it's not like we're only

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dealing with little things. And little things are little things until they continue to add up and add up and add up. And then, now we're at this point. So. >> And it's time I mean, just to circle through and go back through to make sure and then have Justin run the plates and do all that stuff. And the amount of

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time that I get I told you guys last time when he wasn't here I appreciate he's willing to do that. I don't know if we all would have a deputy that's willing to put the time in that it takes to do it. What do you guys think? You think it's going to help with the time? >> No. >> No. I've already looked at it.

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>> [clears throat] >> Can we get another camera out there? >> I'm sorry. >> Can we get another camera like as you're going in? >> That's what we have with our mobile entry camera. On the cars when they come in to get their plates. And then we have three other cameras spread around that at the different sites catching the dumpsters. But the problem is once it like on a

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weekend it gets so full you can't see around piles to know for sure who did. That's why I like the guys to go first thing every morning and push it up because if you let it build up it's just hard to identify cuz they hidden behind certain areas and stuff like that. So, I

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again just manning it and having it open a couple days a week I think is the best solution. But that's your guys' call to make. >> [clears throat] >> You don't have to be quiet, Cody. You can state your opinion. >> Everybody knows my feelings on it. [snorts] I'm not wasting any more tax dollars on

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it. I'd rather pay people to sit out there. >> Public works? Ready? >> I know we're recording meeting coming up. >> Roll call. >> And meeting coming up tomorrow for >> Transit Advisory Committee. No communications in the packet this

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week. >> I hope everybody has a happy safe Fourth of July. We'll see you at the next meeting. >> Next is the open mic. Anyone who would like to use the open mic, the City Council welcomes and encourages participation from any members. Please keep in mind that comments must be

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pertinent to city business. Most of you are aware of the prior rules. No city employee's name may be used. Please do not expect action of the council this evening regarding your concerns. We also request that your comments will only be heard once in the forum because we recognize only once. At this time, we would ask anyone who would like to address the city council, please

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step up to the podium and state your name and address, please. >> I will. That's okay. >> [snorts]