be really like no you have one of these little boxes yeah 37 no you want it 317 czy that
area if you go to 307 and at least just go up from there prayer or something Dr Valentine Finance Tracy hospital was I right [Music]
good job knock yourself like27 that was that was an amazing feat for Dr Valentine to finance that hospital during with inflation I like it vast is on a bigger
delay than Char's back was here earlier tonight we had that other how was your [Music] trip get it from the post [Music]
office we got two and minutes you're just walking in start record serious on that's late H it's like about a minute minute and a half he's in the hiding in the room somebody's got to keep be something
new you have to call in her last once woman somebody should have paid their electric bill he's cutting her ass so he's in it is woman here I even one here on the other she's got three layers just comfortable aren't you all
comfortable I'm a little warm in here you're a little warm in here can't you believe still 628 in second so I'll tell you it's 29 wait 6:29 we have a minute you got some
seconds on there too you want me to go there you want oh that people people we don't have to wor about cuz we're a minute and a half delayed they'll never know yeah they're not going to see it till
they're 2 minutes late right think we're late will be it will be done before they even know that we started we will call to order the regular city council meeting for Monday June 24th we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance I pled Al to the flag of the
United States of America stand indivisible for all do we have any agenda changes the only thing that I have mayor is is that
there's a we have an the audit auditor is going to be here tonight but I'm not sure she was going to be at a another city council meeting tonight that started at 5:00 and she was going to be the first on their doet so I don't know when she will be here so under staff
reports a that might go all the way to the end for all I know I I don't know for sure okay so but there is no adds or subtractions motion to approve is written it I'm wondering if I could just
under Council May Communications just mention um the community center work group would that be appropriate Jeff to give a small update I think that you can actually give that I mean you can talk about that under mayor in Communications
we don't we don't need to add it to the yeah just when we get to um you know pass B then you can you can you can talk about that a little bit okay well just a brief update sure okay still we have a second then a second first and second all those in
favor oppose motion carries so we can go right into the public hearing can we not yes you have a vote for opening the public hearing motion motion so do I have a motion to you yes and a second
second we do a roll call for that or can we just do all do all of them at once y okay Al those both of them I can do both of them yes for both of these it's one public you can get both of them no you're going shouldn't we have of what you're going to
open open and close okay so we will do John and Amy mson first then good timing good timing we want Amy first so what we have with resolution 202462 um is approve the variance
request from John and Amy mson where um they are uh wanting to build a another garage basically a shed on their property they own a uh John is John if you want to come up real quick just cuz I want to throw stuff that yeah right
here right here oh boy um cuz your your uh your house out there's on an acre of land isn't it yeah it's pretty close to that I believe close just I have an acre of land and uh they have a house that has a two-car garage and they're just looking for basically a four car garage
and what they're looking for um so we talked a little bit about the uh it went through the Planning Commission was that 2 weeks ago I think is what it was okay so so yeah two weeks ago is when it went through Planning Commission and so that's why it got sent to the the uh to
the city council John did you want to talk a little bit about it about what you're looking at doing and maybe Shane if you want to add to it a little bit about what the variance comes down to go ahead uh basically uh I've got more vehicles around than I got roof for
um I think we get this thing up it's not going to be a lot of vehicles the vehicles will be under roof and out of sight and um big family um I guess it's a need that we do have
it um good spot for it to to sit there um with a big lot I don't think we're crowding anything um you tell them what the address is 900 Country Circle which is right across the street from the the high school and those those large Lots
out there shean what was the uh the uh assumtion of the of the variance all right as he alluded to it's at Country Circle Drive um right near Pine Street Lots about 1.02
Acres uh I do have a map if you want to view that um the variance basically it's a 1 foot in Wall height and 3ot in overall Peak height so the city code only allows for 10t sidewall and a 15t total Peak height so he's looking for 11
ft um approximate sidewall and then he wants to be um 17 ft you put that on on on the thing so close to see or not I can't if we have a cord um 512 pitch uh he's going to be 12 foot
over length the max length for uh city code is um sorry up the ma max length for City Cod is 36 ft in any direction so uh he was looking
at going 48 ft long and then uh what was the width of that 32 32 32 ft wide um so he's looking for a variance of 12 ft for the overlength and
uh the setbacks um there's no really setback issue with it it's just mainly the length of the building and the height of the building fine [Music] though if you can see that decent here but this is his
house um current attached garage this is kind of the building area he's looking at for this um um kind a inid line with the front of the house as far as the the setbacks go so at the public at the hearing that the
Planning Commission conducted were there any objections from any neighbors or any comments I haven't heard that would be the public hearing here they had the ability to come to the public hearing but no there wasn't any and there was no objections from the Planning Commission at all
I'd make a motion that we approve this very well should we should so is there anybody in the audience that would like to comment about I'll the next one if you want it okay we'll put that up too again okay now sirth wait you got to
closeing okay so we will close the months in public open public hearing and open the regular open the regular meeting I'd make motion that we approve this variance request second okay first and second anybody
have any other further discussion about this roll call please TS hi arisu yes schmith yes henr yes shones hi land hi mayor Corman hi okay thanks that's that good to go
get to building good to go nice Improvement very nice Improvement thank you now I got to get to work yeah thanks everybody y thanks for coming in guys so now we will close the open our
public meeting and we will open a closed meeting yep for we need to vote for that yep just open the public hearing I was going to say I got that got we just need open up the public hearing there you go so we'll open up the public hearing for
the James Mark and Susan Chic yep that would be resolution 202 2463 to approve the variance requests from uh James marks and Susan she so um Shane if you want to come up and we can start with this so this would be right on Center Street um there is an
existing building there or shed there now garage that's unusable the uh what they are looking at doing is trying to they can't even get their car into that garage so they're trying to have a place to park their cars during um during the winter months
for sure um right now they're uh the building is is not usable and it is in it's one of them that is in it's in bad shape it's te that one down then it's on our list it's on our list so the lot's 50 by 100 um has alley on the north side
of the property um and then Center Street on the West Side um detach garage um like uh Jeff it says it's deteriorating uh the proposal is to remove that garage completely rebuild a two-car garage uh with the alley setback
requirement at 20 ft and the sidey set back at 8 ft the depth can only be 22 ft um this would accommodate most cars but a full sizee pickup would definitely not be ideal um with that uh garage depth so um moving this the garage currently
that's there is 3 ft from the line and the new garage would be set at 5 ft from the line line so less of a variance needed if we were to build the old garage that was been sitting there for 75 years yeah so um I can get a map
height and stuff all okay height height and uh length width is all fine um then here's kind of a map of of what they have going there so the old garage is right in this
spot here and it actually sticks out so they're looking at putting right here so they're moving away from the neighbors um on the east side moving it closer to their house um obviously it takes a lot more to attach a garage like that you know with with firewalls and everything
else so they decided just to do the uh two-car did they decide on that for sure yeah they they the last told I really want as long as they have the variants here as if they wanted to they could do either or but but he asked about uh you know then yeah there's a firewall on the house and everything else that goes
along with it so that affect any snow removal in the winter then Through the Alley no all these garages are kind of set back you know we're going to be out here moving snow so okay went in the alley that's the street really won't make any difference cuz he's already has
a driveway here and as you can see the house to the to the South there actually has a garage I mean that was the way the doors are here so they have to come in and okay okay anybody out in the public audience want to talk about the variant
for that one hearing none we will close the public hearing open our do I have to open our other regular meeting no I never closed the regular meetings right I'm sorry said I don't have to open our regular meeting because we never closed it
okay apparent then may or no uh the neighbors are fine with uh yep they would have been here and then also there was no issue at all with the uh with the Planning Commission again just because of the what was showing up there is less of a variance if you had to you know
build the old one where it was at right now plus it's one of the dilapitated garages and ground and and so they're going to be adding a nice building to their they paid all their fees and everything so that's all taken care of and they will get their building permits and
another good Improvement I make a motion that we approve the variance second we have a first and a second do we have any other discussion roll call please land hi shones hi Henri hi Schmid yes aisu yes
JS hi mayor Corman [Music] hi so is there anybody in the audience that would like to talk about something that is not on the agenda good evening it's nice to be here my name is Gordon Crosley I'm new to the community just bought a house down on on
howlet about a month well a little while ago we moved in less than a month ago so it's just nice to uh be in the community my uh daughter Abigail berett and her family have been here for over 9 years and so throughout the last 9 years my
wife and I have come at various times especially several times during Box Car days we just really love this small town atmosphere and all that goes on here and uh getting to meet a lot of the people in the community our neighbors been very friendly it's just been really nice um
one of the reasons that I'm here tonight though is uh when I was kind of looking over coming to the community um looked on the city ordinances because in the community that we were at we were allowed to have chickens and I saw that it says that uh livestock is permitted in the in the town and so um I have
brought them I've paid for the permit and I'm simply requesting that uh we be um allowed to have the U livestock it meets the needs and I I believe we meet all the code that is presently uh here under the city ordinance um for a safe
place and that they won't be a nuisance to the neighbors uh it's something that I've had in various communities and we've never had a problem before uh in the communities where we've lived um and so that's why I'm here today uh I did
talk uh with Jeff but I've not received any official letter that it says would would State um approval or denial and so I I've come here today to uh uh ask the for consideration on the permit um because one not only do I like the
chicken eggs but I also think it's a a good thing for my grandsons here to learn some responsibility to help take care of the of them and enjoy uh the produce of their own hands as well as gardening that we do any questions from you on here so I can address that real quick so um we didn't
put this on the agenda anywhere because it is really it's it's a council can change things but we have a we have an ordinance here that I'd like to read to you and I'll tell you how I've handled this in the last seven months okay so I'm going to read
this to you um it's city code 8.30 subsection 4 animal permits an animal permit shall be required in the following circumstances for Animals kept in the city um any livestock or wild animal the keeping of four or more animals applications uh accompanied by a
fee of an amount in accordance with the yearly rate set by the annual U resolution of the animal permit shall be in writing and directed to the city to the city administrator who is authorized to issue a permit so I am authorized to issue a
permit for animals or animal or animals as they will be kept will not end Danger life or property or keeping thereof um will not become an animal nuisance in making a permit decision the city administrator shall take into account the pertinent factors including not
limited to uh necessarily limited to whether any type of inoculation or is appropriate the past propensities of the animal or animal species involved the ability of the owner to combine each animal the size location and type of any
facilities or equipment the trustworthiness of the owner and the possibility of harm to the to the public the city administrator shall send a written notice of denial of the permit to the applicant I've had them come up here because I wanted you to hear it
because they were insistent on coming up here for that's why it's not on the the uh that's why it's not on the agenda anywhere it's just under the uh for the public comments so if I deny if I send out a letter of denial then they will have to appeal that process and that
appeal does not come to you that it comes to the police commission and then the police commission can decide on that I have already made the uh and it's it's it's a just an adjustment not really a change right now in the fee schedule where I'm having people I told them in
the office that if somebody comes in and asks for something like this before we charge them $50 have them come in and talk to me because I'm going to be able to tell them what what I feel in in my in my uh opinion here um we don't I I we don't want to have
chickens in the uh in the city in the city limits are there some out there right now could be I don't know about them but for me to and this has been this will be the fourth one that I have turned down in the last seven months um
I have talked to the the police which this would uh a u um any kind of uh appe appeasement or any kind of uh um hearing to the police department would come with uh just me getting the police
department together with the I think there's three people that are on that uh on that police commission so that's where it would go from here unless you want to change something in the ordinance so there's no decisions for you to make tonight I just wanted you to
hear that um I'm going to be looking out I am going to be sending out the denial letter um by Monday and then they're going to have the ability to to um ask for a uh just to contest the denial but I wanted them to be able to come up here
and speak speak to you with not being on the agenda someplace so um we can put it on the agenda if you want to change the ordinance but we can't put it on the agenda when the city council has nothing to do with the the denial or the U the
approval of this because it is it is solely up to me according to this unless you read this any other way um talk to two of the police two of the three police officers and they've had multiple incidents of having to chase chickens around town not that it would happen in
this case but they've had multiple times that they've had to chase chickens and I don't I that's my opinion and that's you know that's that's who's going to give the uh the written notice of denial so that's all you need to know
right now is you have the uh um you have the information that you need if I hear otherwise that you would like to change the ordinance we have a lot of ordinances that need to be changed because some of them are old but this would just be another one so any other
any other thing that you've got I mean I mean I I I it wasn't a deciding factor to move here because I love the community and wanted to be here but it was one of the things that we um we moved all the way from New York with them under the understanding that this is the current ordinance and there is
there's nothing that we will be doing that would violate anything here I've read through all this to see how they're to be kept um and what conditions and uh they don't fall into the category of animal cruelty of any sort and so I um I
don't understand the denial other than the fact that some people don't like chickens is how I interpret it but the ordinance states that they can be here yeah and so that's why you can apply to have that we can apply and so um and
that and that and the thing is with that is the implication is you can you can apply and there's a good chance you could have it as well as a chance to be denied but what you're telling me is no it's a Flatout denial then why allow people to to apply and pay the $50 is my
question that's what I plan on giving that back and they have the notice now that to have people come in and talk to me I understand it but currently the ordinance allows for it no it allows for you to make an application out okay with the understanding with the understanding
I have the ability to say yes or no yeah okay so so you yes you will be you will re app very much Y and then you can appeal that process I will I appreciate that appeal that and then I have a certain amount of time to get the police
uh commission together to uh and then they will and there'll be a group of there'll be a group of three in there all right yeah I I appre appreciate y that opportunity problem so I would like to just extend a welcome to this thank you very much it's been it what we've
been here like I said it's been great uh we really enjoyed it the community like my neighbors all that have come over and gone out of their way because in a lot of communities that we've lived in having pastored churches and worked in a lot of other areas uh so I've moved many times I hope this is my last time we
really like it here and uh we found this to be probably absolutely the friendliest community that we been in and so thank you very much mayor it's nice to meet you I'm sure the appreciate that's a great testimonial anyway thank you thank you for coming okay moving on to the consent
calendar um oh I should say is there any there is nobody else any other and then before you get to the consent calendar I just want to uh just say this in in front of the TV screen and to you and I'm sure I don't know if you've gotten any phone calls or not but the assessment rebates that were sent out in
the mail the 800 of them 760 something like that I'm getting a tremendous amount of phone calls on what they are they're anywhere from 30 to 50 there's a couple of them that are $90 spending how many properties you have um they're $30 and
what that is it is legitimate that's the reason that you got the check back but it was an assessment that we put onto the properties I believe it was in 2019 and it was supposed to last for a couple of years and we had that assessment on there per month for a couple years after that I don't know
what the exact been on there since 1990 should have ended in 2020 cuz I think everybody's under the assumption that it was indefinite it would go on forever well we started digging and found the resolution and the
resolution indicated it was supposed to end 2019 should have been the last year but it was on for 20 and 21 so that's where the reimbursement came in so paid back the extra two years
all in one check yeah this was something that was uh brought up and I believe with the previous City administrator and it just it just didn't get done with the the switching back and forth so that's what it is it's legitimate money but if you know of anybody that's questioning
why they got that we got some of them returned to us I know we're looking for you know who owned the property and when they own the property but the checks that they received are legitimate so before you just I just wanted to say that before you uh got to
the uh the everything you're going to be doing here in a little bit so I've actually heard some very nice comments that the city went to the expense to return the money to all the
the homeowners that they said they didn't know if all cities would be that upfront and honest so I just want to say great kudos to to the staff that you stepped up and you did the right thing I think it was all taken care of ahead of
time but yeah it's a long time ago it just never got put into where we were sent out the checks to pay it so yeah we just got it finalized like February March we got the list finally put together and ready to
go out cuz we had to research L my website and find out who the owner was at time and if there was a property change then we had to find that you down the list it was quite obvious you guys did your research and found people that
don't live here anymore right and so I just want to say Kudos because I know that was extra work what was the total payout for the city of Tracy oh my gosh it the total payout what was what was the total amount Shane you remember
what the total amount was on that about 30,000 I'll say what 28 for some reason 28,000 so okay all right sorry about that but go ahead consent calendar I'll make a motion to approve the June 10th Council minutes and the
June 5th budget minutes approved Municipal accounts payable and payroll without breakthrough beverage approve Municipal accounts receivable approve the May 8th 2024 parkboard minutes approve the March 27 2024 Library
minutes I'd second that any further questions about that um I've got just one comment and question about the payables um and first I'm glad to see all those names of uh young
people getting checked for being lifeguards and and maybe working for the city street department a little bit mowing lawns but what is what is the starting pay then that rough L that we uh pay at the pool you will be able to ask that to Jessica when she comes up
here in just a second all right yeah okay I give you a range of the three different positions we have out there but you can ask her and and the other question I had was are are they paid roughly the same as like the guys
working with mowing wands and so forth Les yeah okay okay yep but they did get a nice raise this past in the past couple of years so any other
discussions roll call please uh shon hi hris hi TS hi arisu yes land hi yes mayor Carman hi would somebody like to do it with for breakthrough beverage let
go and you don't get liquor so it's right I'll make the motion to approve accounts payable to break through beverage oh bless you George just for thank you I like roll call
please land hi HRI hi yes Sean hi rvu yes mayor Carman I all right mayor number seven conflict of interests this is the same thing that
we've gone through probably two for sure if not three different meetings it would be another person who um applied for one of the small cities development grants um that was a city employee there's no Vote or anything here what I just wanted to bring it up that we have to bring it in it has to be in the minutes and has
to be signed by you the mayor so we can get it in so they're able to app app for that without the conflict of interest same thing as it was before there is no conflict of interest if anybody on this board or any board or any employee as long as they're eligible for that uh small cities development program they're
able to do it they've got again they've got there's there's no uh um way that they can they can influence the decision at all it's all based on on what happens at ukap so we just have to have that in the in the minutes and then signed off
by the mayor here okay so now it is Jan do you want to give us an update please yes um George landid and I are part of the uh Community Center uh work group uh we've met
twice and we plan to meet on a weekly basis to get this thing rolling uh we are going to be examining some available buildings in town that we could possibly uh consider for Rehab
which would I think be more financially feasible than going with a new build waiting probably several years before we could accumulate enough money and then we'd find out maybe we didn't have enough money because cost of escalated so at this time we uh today we looked at
Family Dollar kind of sort of because Jeff set off the burglar alarm and we couldn't get it turned off do you think it's still going I think it's in my ears
yet well Chief would know if it's still going all good thank you well because Jeff tried multiple phone numbers that nobody was answering picking up and so we had to rush in look around rush back
out it was it was a little irritating that was a very loud noise so we uh looked at that building we looked at the the old superv value building that's now owned by I believe Jeremy from the
Squatch business and so uh we have a couple of other places that we're going to look at and just see if we can find something that would work is you know within the price range
and is able to be rehabed so just so you realize we are on an accelerated basis and we'll be working diligently till we can figure this out thanks you guys thank you J and
George a on there just to appoint Melanie geyser to the library board so that'll take a a motion you have the application in your uh I'll make a motion to appoint Melanie to the library Board second that
all those in favor U just mayor will this appointment bring us up the full strength on the library board then and the library board thank you we still need a lot of help in other boards though and what are they uh the charter commission um the Planning and Zoning
the Eda is full but the police commission I believe is one short no everything's full is it full but the planning and the charter and there's not a lot of commitment to those two I mean you have to know what you're talking about we explain that and
it's it's it's a couple of good boards to be on because the charter only meets how many times like one only as a needed or they have to beet once a year in a couple times a year the charter
short meetings and to be but we are Charter City so without a charter board if it goes too long then we have to reestablish the charter and all of that so and right now we have one charter member and then we have six of
you to make up the seven J can I ask a question um about how often is the Planning Commission meeting now um I can answer that it's it's we've uh I bet we've had three this year maybe four it just depends on whether there's
any kind of variances to to talk about or approve or or send on to the city council and then at our last one we actually had uh Southwest um corporate pration from Slayton to come up here and talk us about the Planning and Zoning which we'll hear about more down the road so
if there's something that we need to talk about otherwise we we push it off to the next month it's usually the first Monday of the month am I correct in saying that the scope of the Planning Commission has been reduced
in recent years because it used to in days of your seem it met at every month so I'm I'm just asking it could be I guess I don't know I couldn't answer that if it's been reduced at all I think there's the same responsibilities of it
but are there less variances asked for and I think in the last couple of years they were working very hard on that uh plan plan yes the comprehensive plan that took a lot of time an effort um and was kind of a constant on the
agenda you were on Jerry at that time wouldn't you say that took quite a bit of work yes and and we'll be seeing that I think coming up for the zoning yeah the zoning also that's we're just in the
stages of engaging somebody to conduct who's an expert in the area but we're still going to have to sign off on those ideas and we'll have input certain yeah normally that would be done at the same time as as when you put the comp plan together but it wasn't and could
have been a cost you know Factor too so okay anybody else have any questions or comments roll call please sh hi Schmid yes TS hi arisu yes
Henri hi night hi mayor car hi okay B need to call for the public hearing suent the sewer ordinance number 389 um I just want to explain a little bit of what we talking about we have brought this up in at least one if not
two meetings but I worked with the uh City attorney and talked about uh um the need for it's a lot of to make it as simple as I can it's from the boulevard to the house we have some capitated
pipes um that are bringing in groundwater after it rains and basically being uh you know a part of the problem that we have with our with our flow that comes when we get a three and four and five and seven in rain that we got here um Shane do you want to just just come
up for a second in case they've got any questions for you um you know that we'll call for the public hearing on July the 22nd mayor but uh just to let you know that that in the surrounding areas is this is a there's a state mandate there's um that's coming and there's
also um the neighboring towns are all doing the same thing it's not like we're being a Cavalier and and going after people's money but it's just something that needs to be done I I have a question that was asked to me by a resident uh is there any
grant money that would be available for the people that have to do this not that I know of Cu it wouldn't be cuz that's personal it's on your personal PR private property it's it's uh we are responsible Shan everything all the way up to the boulevard unless
the well so sewer maintenance is all way to the main so if anything happens to the main but during a infrastructure Improvement project we replace everything to the boulevard um
for both sewer and water so no one's digging up the street after we're and we have to dig through their service lines to to to install the sewer and water anyway so it's just something that we do um but anything outside of that um any
of the grants we've got in the past they have not covered the cost of um anything outside of the RightWay line is there anything we could do as a city then maybe to help the residents that are saddled with this extra expense by
disperse it over 2 three years or something to help ease the pain so hold on George there for a second remember what we you talked about this this is only when there's a change of hands in property so when there's a change of hands so we're starting is about as slow as you can get unlike a couple of other cities that are uh are pushing this
forward a lot faster and they're they're scoping out a lot of the the pipes to see if there's any problems and then it's it's going to be this will only be and then when that happens that can be when the property is going to get sold and it's it can be negotiated with the
new owner so then you know it's it's either the the buyer or the seller well my question is would it make sense for the city to try to come with the plan to help with this so we can do it faster more people would say yeah I think I'll get this done now
while I'm pretty healthy or whatever as to wait till they sell the property or it's tax forfeited or whatever guess any but let's try to get this solved quicker than when a house is sold that would push it along faster if you put an
ordinance out there that they have to that we have to start looking at it if they have the if they have the want to do something like that yeah I don't know that uh we can can you know pay to to scope all the lines and everything I
mean Shane's pretty sure where the lines are we're going to let Tyler say something right now because he he actually went through this various thing when he bought his last house so I I was just curious you're talking about grants if would CD G cover that for people that
are in the income range would that apply cuz I mean in future years then then you'd have dig on the legalities of that one holy cow the question that I have about that like like having people do it now is like so many people have
got assessments on their properties because of all the sewer lines and the street lines that they're probably not going to appreciate another that's that's not what I'm addressing I'm addressing can we come up with a pilot program as a city to help pay for this and then have them pay us
back over a few years or as like assessing it on their property no that's if they want to do it not have I'm not telling they have to do it but okay somebody say GE I want to I want to do this now if I can get a little help getting
it done and then that would help problem down the road quicker typically for the typically they'll get charged interest for that though too oh have to figure out some kind of plan but I mean they could I don't know if they're better off financing that with their another do
they have the ability to put something like that onto their the council has done that in the past on on things that you know have are C completely failed or you know where there's a there's a hardship um but you'd have to approve
that on a Case by casee basis is it would it be possible to I we'd probably have to get multiple people to do it but to get that company that does the pipe lining lining is an option let's say if we had so the company that was here did
not do they're too small of lines okay but there are companies that will do smaller lines but the company that was here you know they're 8 in and bigger they weren't I mean that could be a phone call we could make and say hey if we found 20 people or 50 people in town
that wanted to do this could you what what would the cost be for somebody to do a 50t line let's say how much would it be for them to come in and line it if they knew that they were walking into town and had 20
houses to do would it be worthwhile for them to do the job and charge a reasonable rate for it I like that idea Dave it takes some coordination among prop yeah it'd be one of those where it's like this year the rest of this year we could line it up for next June
for anybody that wanted to do it and then let's say we had 20 or 50 people that did it and then they could come into town for a week and it costs you for 50 ft it's $2,000 and you're taken care of mighta be more than that but
well but yeah whatever and in some cases in a lot of cases you know unless you have a lot of concrete and landscaping to go through it's going to be cheaper to open trench it than it will be to to line it what what is an open
trench by linear foot cost it it just depends on the conditions CU if your sewer you know 10 12 ft in the ground is going to be a lot more money than you know if your sewer 6t deep or 5T deep okay the problem is and I had heard in
the years ago that on average to dig out something a trench in your yard would average at least 10 grand I'm assuming that's escalated a wee bit and depending how far away your house is from the yeah that's exactly what it comes down to is
how far the house is away seriously don't think it's 10 grand yeah that's a lot it can to do it um but my question is 10,000 was that for long for from I know that that it's anywhere from 5 to
10,000 so but then if you had like you said if you had 30 people that want to do it then who pays for the cameraing to have somebody come in and Camera the people you mean I thought you were doing some surveys
yourself we we do it during Street projects so they've got all the video footage of everybody's that all the stre in the street so you've done mine um there should be in the file yeah okay
I'd like to find out where I'm sitting it's just an option I think it's I think it's worth a phone call to a company that would do it some are really good some look like a forest I mean yeah it's hit Miss we want to stop the problem we got to be a little more aggressive by not forcing it on them but giving them
some options to get it going yeah right now we need to do something yeah do you have an estimate of how much um inii is being caused by a typical service line that's grown up with it's so widespread
it's I mean is it so the flows usually hit pretty quick um and there's some vacant buildings I mean just the ones we walk through with the county that were forfeited that have roofs rotted out and everything else all that water ends up in the sewer CU it
falls right through the house or you know there's that all over um so that contributes tree roots contribute um any roof drains that we don't know about or gutter leaders or anything like that we don't know about that on these older houses maybe or footing drains we just
don't know that it's so widespread that it's you have to scope each house and eventually you find most of them but well I'd be most in favor of going after the lowest thing Thro first well that's what this ordinance is
here it's the it's it's when the change of properties whether it's contract for deed or with a realtor whoever it's it's the that's going to create work right there which we can handle it's just following up on it that that's can be first P I think we could
call for this public hearing to move this ordinance along and then we can still try to come up with a plan to assist homeowners or whatever I'm going to be's advocate here I'm not going to be
that we pay for people because people have had to do this themselves already so I don't think it's fair because of people that have been non-compliant now we give them money to do what other house owners have had to pay on their own but I'm for
if we want to do something like Dave said where we can try to get them the best deal for doing it we can do that right well that's what the public hearing is for is to move ahead with the uh we can always add to it or put another um you know another ordinance in
that that would expand it on a little bit but this will get things started yes and I I do I like the idea but I don't know how work intensive it would be you said you know where we've done the street projects and those have
been um camera how how time intensive would it be or do those home owners already know they're non-compliant I don't they haven't been notified um you know unless there's a
footing tile but you so I mean how intense would that be to at least start notifying people that that have already had the camera done so they shouldn't have to pay for that to get it redone correct I mean if it was shot in 2021
and 2022 I guarantee it's shot now you have all those videos yeah I mean you had a couple of them that you just didn't and it was and he he got gave me a call and he says and it's like somewhere like a jungle I don't know how some of them work to be honest with you you know where we can start doing
that if we already already have the film let those people give them notice so that when we say okay if you're interested in doing it we're going to try to get so many house owners homeowners to do this I don't have a problem with us spending some time
trying to coordinate it because I do think it's important because we cannot continue to have these water issues yeah like like we continue to have y but I do not believe in the city giving any type of money or anything like that to people
I I did not suggest well maybe it sounded that way I'm not saying we should give them money but I'm just saying can we help ease the pain on the payment say it's $10,000 if we do it over three years or something so that they don't have to come up with 10,000
but we're putting that bill or who's going to put them that money George if stick a little interest on there just like you have to stick on for charging for the camera I mean you just got to put all your facts in there and then say this is our program we have over a million dollars in our sewer fund that
we could use as the fron money and if they did not pay back then Wouldn't It Go on their property taxes MH yep I would really have to discuss these options I'm just throwing out that fact I'm I'm and if a house is sold you lose
your leverage of of getting paid for the work all right well we can do discuss this in the yeah I think we need there how you going to cut that off the street they can do um for you're talking for lining yeah
they have they have little robots that go through and they cut all that so that is a part of the cost though because there sometimes there's some Street damage that goes along with this and they would have to put so everything that was done in the lining project you know they lined everything up to the
property line there um they had a put cleanouts in for those those stubs so there would have to be a cleanout put in so there would be a little bit of digging even with a lining project so and I think that's a great question Seth
that you asked about how much of the the current problems over the over the past week were caused by some of these PES I don't know that we could have come up with that answer you know how bad you know until it's all fixed and usually when the rain hits um it's usually with
within 20 minutes it starts flooding manholes so we don't have much we don't have much time and then even today our flows are still up from you know we're at we're at about th000 gallons a minute just below it
right now you know we were up over 3,000 the other day for the rain but when the rain started last Monday before everything started a week ago we at 15 Gallons a minute so that's how much it it flies off the chart and as soon as it hits 2,000 we're flooding basement so
that's on seven 7 in of rain as opposed to 17 in of rain set for theirselves that's how we got to figure out a way to get added a little faster well this will be a start again we're just asking you to call for the public hearing for uh July the 22nd so okay I'll make a motion to call for the public hearing on SE
ordinance 389 on July 22nd at 6:30 p.m. I'll second that any other discussion um question so under this uh current draft of was approved at the end of uh July it would
go into effect 30 days after the publication and so forth roughly yeah after the publication I just you you know I'm I'm as I agree with Jerry that we've got to do some things and this is a reasonable
step but I kind of worry about think about the timing of some who listed their house for $80,000 and they're thinking they sell it they're going to get $20,000 worth of equity out of it or whatever and then
all of a sudden the gold post has been changed by the city and oh I've got to I'm going to lose $10,000 of equity so it's just something to think about timing but you've talked to all the Realtors I've talked to a
couple of the Realtors this would be would be something where I would sit down and talk to the local ones which I've already set up a meeting with a couple of them already you know given them saying you know what do you think you know this is a this is a tough this is a tough decision so where we talked about it and and we have there's a
problem and we're trying to solve the problem but yes that would be it would it's going to create some aches some aches and pains on on following up with this because we have to have a follow-up system there has to be a certificate of compliance um
you know is someone going to slip through the grats well I would hope not but you know well I'm just saying thinking that doesn't help people that are going to sell privately but at least people that are going through Realtors the Realtors now if we give them the
information that it's going through public hearing this could be coming down the pipe here by August or August 15th might you know might be the if they meet with someone that's looking to sell their house they can say well we need to adjust for that yes you to live in Tracy we need to have
a a and who knows does it pass you know on certain ones we we sell I'm going to say 25 houses here in town a year you know I don't know how many of those are going to be uncompliant I don't know okay any other discussion roll call
please JS hi are Vu yes land hi henr hi shs hi schmith yes mayor Corman hi okay let's go to staff reports would you mind if we do a couple of the staff reports before we get you up here for
the audit presentation because I know a couple of them have to get it going anybody who would like to stay and listen to that good information but Jessica I know you got to go so could you come up first please already late she's already late yes that's okay I have people going I asked Jess to come
here tonight as the pool manager just to uh update everybody on on What's going at the pool for the first we're looking at 3 four weeks already so welcome to your first staff meeting or it's not meeting reports yeah so we've gotten a
ton of compliments on the work that the city did on painting the features and the lining gotten so many compliments on all of it and how nice it looks out there now our expenses are up quite a
bit this year because of chemicals and painting the pools and all that um and our revenue is a little bit down by like 2,000 from last year to this year but it's up from 2020 still and this is
through the 16th and our season pass is down about 125 we did switch to um the online for the beginning of it
instead in of coming here and having the night um and a lot of people were overly confused with the system that we had um but we have season passes still coming in I think I got two of them more today
so they're still consistently coming in and our swimming lessons are still coming in but we are still about 30 short from where we were last year to having going to online compared to coming in and doing it all 30 kids short
yep we had 30 or we had 65 um all of 2023 and 2024 we are um we've done 34 so far but we are going to be um after tomorrow
we'll have probably 4550 go through already and then we'll have we still have more for session two and three so is there an option other than online for people now there is yep at the um just come and sign up now at
the pool you could always come in and sign up online we just tried to avoid the Fiasco that we'd have every year when people lined up out to the door and having to bring in eight people for five or four hours to to get everything done and then of course having the the city employees having to sit in there and
count the money everything coming in so we had some bugs we knew that there was going to be some bugs and and there was we still have to do some things with the site that we have them on we have to do some work to make sure it it it continues to work there was some bugs up
front so that's for both swimming lessons and season passes everything that was up until we opened on May 31st and then May 31st we shut down the website so they couldn't purchase anything there and then everything had to be purchased out at the pool Christa
V did a fabulous job of keeping track for us because she's with the utilities and everything money coming in she did a f fabulous job of of keeping track for us and sending us reports out daily so do you think now that the bugs are taken
out of there that like next year it won't be so confusing and we'd hopefully end up with some more people back because that's kind of personally and I haven't talked to Jeff about this or anything yet but personally I the form that we used was
not the most user friendly and our system that we used um did not speak to our payment Network system and so there was a lot of miscommunication and Mis payments and people couldn't figure out because they had to completely close out
of that window go open and payment network but if they just opened it if they already had an account it would go to utilities instead of the miscellaneous payment so if we can get the systems to talk I think it would be fine or do the option of
open it paper and online at the same time and and that might be a possibility of having less people here and opening up you can either do it online or on because it wasn't I'll just give you an example my daughter brings her three girls over there but she pays her water
bill in a different way and it it when she tried to go in and pay it it rerouted her a different way y so there was some issues that that that had come up that we didn't see ahead of time we would been able to see ahead of time till we tried
it unfortunately that's a lot of 125 season passes that's kind of yeah it is we raised the fee a little bit this year that stung a little we've sold quite a few more
coupon books but I mean what else you you have to raise the fees so okay um you've uh how many days have you lost to rain um quite a few I don't have so last week
I know we were open in the morning most of the days but then we would have to close early with the weather or um I think there was only two days that there was completely closed um otherwise it's been early closures cuz
we had tornado watches or Warnings and then um rain delays and thunder and yeah hasn't been a good week no and our just and our first hot weather really is just kind of getting started and we yesterday
we were really busy today we've been busy so it's going and the wages were tell me yep so the 14-year-olds front desk top of slides um like water assistant or like the top of slides attendance and then the front desk they
are at 1059 lifeguards are at 1160 WSI is at190 and assistant managers are 1220 I think
1219 looks like you've got good numbers on your staff yeah we have 29 is there a um the person at the top of the slide could could you outfit them with an umbrella or something or Y they have the option to bring it up there they just a lot of
them don't like it I don't know we have enough umbrellas for all the guard stations do you have sunscreen available the kids if they come okay I purchased sunscreen and have it up there for all
of them I encourage it we have the colum or the coligan waters out there we make sure that they're staying hydrated cuz when I was guarding I did get heat exhaustion and it has affected me the rest of my life so good so were you
asking for sunscreen for the lifeguards or for kids well for kids that are oh not for the kids for the lifeguards that work but I mean we're if a kid asks for a sunscreen and we have one this and the city doesn't buy the sunscreen I bring
the sunscreen in for myself so I'm not going to tell a little 10-year-old no you can't have sunscreen well I may you can have some for purchase can you do that like have some for in case somebody forgot to bring sunscreen or something it's an idea yes I thought Jesse I
thought the United Fund gave some money gives some money every year to the Aquatic Center and I thought some of that was to go toward sunscreen for kids that are sent to the pool without any and and obviously needed that I'm not aware of last year it went all to the uh
a new backboard the whole United Fund did yeah but they do every year Carol gives me a a call every year to fill out the application well whatever I I just think that kids need have access to sunscreen
and maybe there's someone out there in TV land that would be willing to donate some if there's an any well let's hope that it doesn't rain for another four months by I would be oh don't get silly all right thank you you have a
great questions no all right thank you guys is there any other department heads that want to get up and go right now before the except for I just wanted to make a comment quick
comment so Jess was talking about the online system that we had and it didn't work it was bad um but Christa van andriy she went to a meeting that was about something called the community portal and it's with the software system
that we already use it's called Cassel Civic systems um it's just an add-on to the software that we already use and it would be a new online portal that links directly with the software that we already have it's from the same company
and it would everything could go through there you could do building permits through there you could do um your utility payments you could do the Aquatic Center and we could make up new things that we want to have be paid through there Tyler sent Chris to do this training just for
training she never been to any kind of training at all so we sent it to her and we come out of there with some some good ideas how expensive the training wasn't bad at all I think for the the system I want to say the first year it would
be like something like between 3 and 4,000 but then future years it I think it's under a, a year I don't remember exact prices right now but in that ballpark so we're planning on on budgeting for it so um cuz I mean we
already use another system called the payment service network and it would replace that one so we wouldn't have to be paying out anything to payment service network syry them together yes and and go with the current system that we have
with Cassel yeah Mak sense y so then when someone says I want want to buy a season pass then they'd have to pay for it instead of I want a season pass close that window go somewhere else I'm going to pay 50 bucks for a swimming lesson instead like it was not working it'll
work a lot better thanks Tyler you get it going so um liquor store sales were up about 10,000 from budget our inventory purchases were probably right at pretty close to right at budget
our cash flow this month was almost 20,000 um next month you okay next month um our purchases are going to end up being way more because gearing up for the 4th of July type of
thing um Stacy and I went to Blaine to the open house for the um global distribution is what the name of it is it's where we get like the Vapes and that kind of thing um just by going up to that um we spent a little money but
just because we went up to that event you could only get it that day at that event and we saved like $792 for something we're going to be selling anyways we probably sell 2 to 250 a day almost in just in
the type stuff so that was worth us going we learned a few things when we were up there it's like tell us how some of this stuff works but anyways um beverage Dynamic top 10 retail award for
20124 um the conference was good we did um some good networking had they had some good seminars Aloha night's coming up everybody get your tickets that again and the 20 or the 12th of 12
July say that again 12th of July and then it's there's a discount if you buy your tickets ahead of time versus at the door we have raffle tickets for raffle prizes and that kind of stuff too so
come support us and the proceeds go to the park how am I saying that right park par okay so any excess money will go right to right to them could be $500 it could be $750 it's not a lot of money we don't
this isn't a huge Money Maker for us we need it could be y definitely $20 uh $15 in advance $20 at the door um the city is going to be giving a pool pass for 2025 for as one of the prizes again so
that and that price includes the your meal your any of the activities at the pool so we have a DJ pleasure of dealing with Dave te I know right sampling sadly it won't see me this year so sadly what I'm not going to be there I'm not going
to watch you do a belly flop I don't belly flop what was that okay so anybody questions at all or Tim are you going to be open on the 4th yes what hours
um probably 10 to six or seven something like that oh wait a minute is it on a Thursday or Friday th th Thursday I can't remember if we did regular hours that day because it's gone into the
weekend I think is what I did but yeah there's two on staff so yeah pretty sure we're doing regular store hours that day okay cuz it's you know cuz it's like in between so the weekend should be a good one yeah before and
after depending how people pick how they want to do the fourth get any more Blackberry Crown in yeah my bird dog Blackberry it's better oh for heaven's sakes move on that yeah you're just paying for the
name anybody else have any questions at all thank you you're welcome thank you congratulations on your award yeah way to go girl way to go staff and your staff did
you already do I will make this quick for you um everything I had for you is in my report so um if you have any questions I'm here to answer them um well I notic you you got some uh books coming in in the mang language and
Spanish is that by request uh you see a demand or need there well I it's just a trend that we've seen um particularly with some um Latino community members who we've seen new to the community um so we wanted to provide
some books for them but the main reason that we were able to do it was because we received a grant through Prairie lands um for $1,000 and um were able to buy a lot of new materials with that and the idea of it was making your library more accessible to people in your
community and one of those areas that they were targeting were um bilingual books or you know books in other languages so okay it's nice that they did that yeah they have a new one out now for marketing I need to decide
what I want to do before I apply for thought I meant before you grew up well that too and um speaking of Grants I saw in one of your minutes that you got a new Dev device an
accessibility uh what tell me out that was part of that Grant too we have one that um it can act as a translator it also can read aloud to people and the other one um is a magnifier that's portable you know they we we actually
still have one of those where you put something underneath the magnifier and it puts it up on the screen well this is one that people can actually take home with them and it's you know it just blows it up right on the screen so that you can read your materials right
from there sounds very cool from some yeah absolutely and also glad to see you're having an open house now to feature your M mural yep that we're planning August 23rd I don't have times for you yet but I will make sure that
that gets out to all of you free coffee and lemonade yeah yeah Jeff's cooking I'm cooking it turned out really L it did it's beautiful thanks all right thank you thank you Val nice job Jason last but not least oh no we got
Tyler I don't have anything to add other than what's on my report so if you have any questions how's the new Squad working it's working well how's the mileage how's the mileage don't matter it wouldn't expect it to be very well driving around town
at 30 mes an hour all day so so uh Chief it looks like from your report you're getting off relatively light on the uh Barking Dog complaints I'll take that yeah it goes and Cycles any idea what we saved with uh
part-time hours on regular this past uh how much how much has he worked there parttime person zero oh he hasn't any okay I didn't I didn't guess I didn't notice yeah in fact I think he's I think only he signed up so far for one shift
that fits his schedule okay so which it's it's one shift on the end of four nights of work where instead of me doing four nights in a row and then switching back to day shift from on Tuesday morning he's going to take that Monday night so it's going to let me do day
shift on Monday so I can make fire drill and not uniform and so at least works out on a nice day so what does that mean you hired a part-timer that's going to fill in or that at his at convenience yeah at his
convenience yeah so officer or Deputy Dustin damoth who used to work here before so when he has when he has time off in his schedule that fits an opening for him to take a night shift in our schedule then he'll take it so like I said it's only worked out for
he's got one shift coming up in July so still one shift thank you y have a good nighton thanks Jason Tyler I know you got to stay but uh do you want to go first
sir um I guess the only thing I wanted to highlight it was pretty interesting with the camping this year like we had such a beautiful warm May that we went from zero Revenue in May of 23 to over 3,000 in May of this year so that was
kind of exciting are are some of those U some of the construction people out of the school or are they just Travelers I couldn't tell you I know a lot of the revenue though it was people who were paying for like a month at a time I think we had one person who paid for the
whole summer school contractors yeah oh okay okay yeah we had a lot of people calling can we reserve places and no he first come first serve and so when they came they bought a lot any
questions all right thank you yes please plus you don't want to all right so you have the 2023 audit uh in front of you um I didn't get one
we uh you I think you thought there was only five people were them did I short you yeah yeah you shorted us okay it's just I do use them yeah I can so um I just wanted to let you know if you can't provide one tonight that's okay but I would like one eventually I
was going to ask you on on Thursday when I stopped and it spaced my my mind cuz we had like 18 written down I was like they do not need that many with digital copies now but um about 10 we so so okay okay sorry about that no and I didn't
count know here that was yeah and I didn't remember to say that but you had brought yours home I brought it back okay so I'll wait till Tyler gets back with it so you know what we're that's okay I I can follow
we'll we'll start with the the audit opinion letter it's it's going to be in about seven physical pages in the larger books the larger one is your actual audit that's the 2020 um 2023 audit report um basically what this gives you
is the um on page two at the top the one that's on the letter head this starts with the opinion letter so this is what the the audit is all after um on on page two on the first section there gives you the opinion on the financial statements and it gives you an unmodified or clean
audit opinion for 2023 uh we feel the financial statements present fairly and all Mater respects the financial position of the city of Tracy um it tells you that you guys prepare your financial statement in accordance with government auditing standards um and then at the bottom there of page two it
gives the responsibility of management or the city of Tracy you're responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements so the city does take ownership of the financial statements even though we assisted you in preparing the financial statements um and then on page three at
the top there it gives the auditor responsibility um if you've been looking at audit reports for lots of years this section has about tripled in size um basically in a nutshell what that tells you is our our responsibility is to express the opinion on the financial statements so again the clear lines even
though I brought these and I put them together they're the city of Tracy's financial statements um the work of the auditor is the stuff that's on the letter head the opinion letters um and then if you skip back a little ways starting on page six gives
you what we call the Management's discussion and Analysis so that's going to give you a narrative overview of the financial statements so we'll skip through all of the reading and go right to the numbers on page 16 so Pages 16 and 17 give what we call
the government-wide financial statement so the government-wide financial statements show the city combined as a whole it's going to show you similar to how you see a private Business Report with all the long-term assets and liabilities um on the middle of the page on 16 it shows the total assets of for
the city on the right hand side 46,5 46,000 on the next section there deferred outflows of resources that is a unique label to a government so that has to do with the net pension liability um and that's related to um deferred
outflows of resources so money out in future years um the liabilities for the city combined as a whole was 28 m353 th000 the Deferred inflows of resources also Rel to that net pension liability of 1.1 million um and then that total
net position that gives you the net worth of the city um 18 m138 th000 of that the Top Line there that net investment in capital assets $12 million that is the money that you have tied up in um the buildings the infrastructure
roads equipment less what you owe on those items so that's not spendable resources the unrestricted net position 3569 million that would be the available resources that the city has at its disposal at the end of the year um of it
about $942,000 in the governmental activities and 2, 627,000 what's in the Enterprise funds or the business type activities on page 17 shows a statement of activities so again this is kind of a unique income statement um to a
government um we start on the leftand side with the expenses and work our way over to revenues the third line from the bottom gives the overall change in that position or the increase or decrease in the funds for the year and the private world we call it a profit or loss um the change in a
position for the governmental were 1 1.9 million and the business type activities were 4.1 million for overall increase of $6 million for 2023 on page 18 I kind of one back back
up to page 17 one of the reasons you have such a high increase in the business type activities is due to the grant funds for the water and sewer projects um so that's in the capital Grant section kind of the middle of the page $4.3 million so it's not that the
water and swer funds profited the $4 million last year a big chunk of that is due to the grant funds buying the assets which will straighten themselves out this coming year right when the project closed yes um on page 18 shows
the balance sheet for the governmental funds so the city has the general fund which is your operating fund uh the assets for the general fund were 1,1 140,000 a liabilities about 113,000 here we see deferred inflows of
resources related to unavailable Revenue that is the property tax assessment dollars that have been levied on homeowners and not paid at the end of the year so it was about 2,000 for the total fund balance of $974,000 of which $942,000 is your
unassigned fund balance so your unassigned fund balance is the city's working capital at the end of the year that's the amount of money you have to meet obligations in the future um the phase three Street project fund has 574 th000 of
restricted and the non- major governmental has uh 2, 261,000 combined um page 19 gives a Reconciliation between the first balance sheet we saw with all the long-term assets and liabilities of the city and then the one
we just saw where those are not included uh so it shows those effects of those um those long-term items on page 21 or sorry 20 um the general fund total revenues were 2, 319,000
expenditures of 2, 321,000 and then you had transfers in of about $200,000 so a total increase in the general fund of $198,000 most of those transfers came from your Enterprise funds over into the general
fund um the phase three Street project fund had a decrease of 223,000 that's just due to spending down some of those um bond funds that you had previously received and then the non- majors had a decrease of 75,000
on page 21 again gives a Reconciliation between the statement of activities that first income statement we saw and the one we just saw so it shows you that uh current effect of those long-term assets and liabilities and on that financial statement so in the one method um the
total decrease was 731 th000 and on the other method the increase was the 1.9 million most of it has to do with just buying more Capital assets the capital outlay purchased in 2020 um
2023 on pages 22 and 23 give the balance sheet um the asset side of the balance sheet for your Enterprise funds um combined the the assets were 4, 224,000 for current and then uh 31,33
1,000 in total assets um and then on pages 24 and 25 shows the liability side so combined the liabilities were 19 m71 th000 and the total net position was
11,574 th000 again a good chunk of that net position the net worth of the city is what's tied up in those um long-term assets less what you owe on those items 8.8 million um the 2.6 million is the resources the city has at the end of the
year on page 26 and 27 shows the um statement of revenues and expenses and changes in net position or the income statement for those funds the change in net position towards the bottom that gives the overall increase or decrease in the fund um the water had a 1.5
million increase again 1.6 of that was from grant money um the sewer had a 2.6 million increase 2.7 of that was from Grant funds liquor had a $38,000 overall decrease that was after the transfer so
when the state looks at was the um liquor fund self- sustaining they're going to look at that income or loss before transfers which was a positive 53,000 um the deputy register fund had a um $
7,490 increase and the public housing had a $122,000 decrease and then the storm sewer $500 increase and the um Solid Waste had a 7,000 increase um and then page 28 and 29 shows the
cash flow statement so we always push you know Pro positive um income is is what makes sense in your Enterprise funds um as well as positive cash flow um one of the things you're going to see in like your utility funds is the
decrease in cash just because you're spending down some of those um um cash funds with the purchase of assets the water had a increase of 73,000 sewer had a decrease of 1, 710,000
um the deputy register had a decrease of 28,000 and the public housing decrease of 4,000 and the storm sewer decrease of 34,000 so on one note um one of the kind of major changes you guys are going to see um your cash between water and swer
substantially changes originally all of the grant funds in 2023 were put into sewer um and when we re-evaluated stuff and looked at the USDA funding some of that was actually water grant and some sewer so that 1.6 million in water was
shifted out of sewer into water so if you look at your cash balance um just because the comment was made earlier um on page 22 water cach is actually 1.5 million sewer cash is 143,000
[Applause] um and then if you skip ahead a little ways kind of in my opinion one of the most important notes for you guys to to take a um look at is on page 44 um I know when we met on Thursday I
met with uh Tyler and Jeff on the financials a little bit and went through a few things um we kind of talked about this so essentially your fund balance your unassigned fund balance is the working capital of the city um cities it's really important to maintain
positive unassigned fund balance um and make sure it hits within that range um the state writes a range of 35 to 50% for cities essentially you're heavily riant on uh intergovernmental revenues or LGA and then tax money which only get
paid to you twice a year um 6 months 7 months into the year and then again at the end of the year so I always look at even before I had a different meeting before you guys and they said well where are we at with our cash and I'm like what I'm showing you at the year end is your high point and then you work your
way down and like right now because you probably haven't got LGA tax money is your low point so kind of compare the two and see where you know where we at at our high point and then where are we at right before those uh resources come in because that's really your low point
of Revenue or of cash um the unassigned fund balance for the general fund um when we looked at it in relation to 2024 budget it was 39.3% I believe last year was the low 30s so you guys did substantially come
up from that um into that state target range any questions on that amount for us for us and essentially most of that was just the shifting of money out of your Enterprise into your general fund which is what they're supposed to do is self-
support or self uh the general fund there's my word um and if you skip ahead a little ways towards the back here the financial statements of the non- major governmental are shown individually but if you skip through
that and go to page 91 um again you guys had over 750,000 of federal funds spent in 2023 so there was what we call a single audit or a uniform guidance audit so we had to take evaluation of the programs of the
federal funds um of that the the federal dollars spent are comprised on that page there were 3,849 th000 that's combination of loan and Grant dollars so mostly I think it was a grant received in
2023 um and then on page 92 and 93 is the letter in internal control and essentially what that tells you is we do not audit your internal control structure but we have take an evaluation of it and anything that we knowe must be communicated to you um there there's two
findings on internal control basically it's same as what you've seen in the past um the lack of preparation of the financial statements Ideal World you'd have a much larger staff who actually puts together all the financial statements and the Auditors come in and throw the letters in um and then the
lack of separation or segregation within the accounting function Ideal World you would have about six to eight staff doing um the various tasks of the account and you guys have good segregation um it's not that it does do exist it's just really with the findings
it's an all or nothing it's either you have the perfect structure or you don't have it um and so that that's what's uh noted on there and then the last page in there on page 100 is the Minnesota legal
legal compliance letter and in relation to Minnesota legal compliance you had no findings if I remember right you guys had a finding last year related to pledge collateral so that was corrected and you guys were in compliance this year so that was the very high point
overview um the other book you guys have and I will get you some more copies Jeff I will throw them um in the mail tomorrow um just has some comparative charts and graphs um nothing really alarming that jumps out I think if you
kind of hit um one of them that's again the most important in my eyes is on page five um and that really reh hits where you were even two years ago with that unassigned fund balance and where you are today in relation to your overall
revenues and expenses um where you were 2 years ago was probably borderline low and where you are today is right where you want to be so what is it going to be in 24 I don't know what are you going to
do can what's it much as we can you know the the big thing is about it is just continue to watch those expenditures and maintain you know maintain within the budget um the what
you don't have a lot of is um excess reserves outside of the general fund um there's some let me most of it's kind of earmarked towards either paying down debt or towards the projects the one
thing we talked about and I think that once this phase three gets totally cleaned up most of that money I believe is money that's owed back to the general fund or to the city uh a lot of these projects when they start you pay out a lot of pre-engineering long before you get funded and then they go back and add
that into the project and so my guess is the city city never paid themselves back those funds and that's why you're sitting with $500 plus, there um so that should free up some of that cash once that project's closed um and the other thing to point
out too is one thing that some cities struggle with is having positive um Debt Service funds and you you have strong Debt Service funds they're all within the guidelines of where you want to be as far as being able to make those Bond payments and positive balances
any other questions on everything SAR U the uh net margins that were showing in the liquor store and the deputy regist operations how do those compare with the other municipals that
you work with so your liquor store look so the liquor store I would say is pro well because you're showing a profit in your liquor store it is strong compared to some um I had another
meeting before you that had off sale only and their margin was at 22.9% and they had about a $40,000 loss so to the tune of you you want the liquor store to make a profit it is where you want it to be um the deputy
register and we had a conversation about that I have four cities who have that service all four of you treat it different ly um you guys treat it as an Enterprise Fund in this manner I have one that treats it as a special Revenue
one that puts it within General and one that treats it as a fiduciary fund and I told Tyler and Jeff we need to do some research on this because I feel like there's not any consistency ideally I don't believe it's an Enterprise fund
um the definition and the idea of an Enterprise fund is something that you would run as a private business well well nobody's going to offer that kind of service as a private business so it's not really comparable in that manner and ultimately all you're doing with it is try keep collecting a fee and then
turning it over to the general fund so we talked about you know just doing it as a line item right in the general fund and and avoiding that extra step because all the funds go over there anyway um but that so that said it's
hard to see with that and the other side too is um like when you look at your overall revenues in the Enterprise funds it's showing over half of it coming from the deputy register but ideally it's really not sales of the city you're not selling that $1.3
million it's the state's sales yours is just the fees you keep so we had a conversation about making some changes with that going forward the net dollars are all going to stay the same it's just a matter of that overall reporting and how it's being treated what are your
thoughts about allocating labor expenses to the de that's one of my reasons why I said it doesn't make sense the way it is cuz yeah right now you have a high labor there um one of my cities that has it within general fund that I can think of off the top of my head they have like a little Department within their General
and they actually allocate 100% of one person salary to that and then they can see you know they're collecting 60,000 of net revenue and this person cost them 50,000 or whatever so you'd like me to send a bill to the state is in other
words and the one thing about it too is your hands are tied on that like the state tells you what fee you're going to collect so there's nothing that the city can or can't do differently to ensure you're collecting more Revenue essentially so it's a conversation we started and I think they're going to
kind of continue and since you asked I figured I would just kind of mention it but um ultimately it's kind of when I started looking at like whoa All of You Are doing this very different and and that's one of my hardest I mean I had it about 65 cities in the state and I see a lot of differences and then the state
tries to put you all in one report and compare you and one of my pet peeves with that is like there are some inconsistencies and it's not that either is wrong always it's just treating things differently and then you know a resident can go pull this report and compare their City to other cities not
understanding how the various reports are how about U swimming pool operations at one time several years ago that was considered an Enterprise fund and it's no longer so I mean ultimately when you
look at an Enterprise fund ideally an Enterprise funds should be something that can self- sustain that's not relying on tax revenue so if the idea is that you know these things are a service and the tax dollars are supplementing then that then they really shouldn't be
an Enterprise fund they can't I mean tax dollars can supplement it some people say well is it a way that we could see it separate but most of your accounting systems you can still departmentalize and see how each particular area is doing so we had a good
2023 strong general fund balance where you want to be um yeah is the soft and so forth set up so that well for you as an auditor I mean as the yeah I your software is probably
one of the more common ones with cities your size that I see I pretty familiar with it cuz I have about six or eight so even Tyler was telling you about that um new software piece of it I told him I said I know of Two Cities for sure one that piloted this year and actually I'm
from Redwood Falls and Redwood uses that and I've used it myself with my own kids so um I told him I could give him a couple names if you guys do look at it and want to see what's out there but yeah I I like this software I feel like
it does a better job speaking accounting language than some of them out there that are meant for government so thanks so much for all right thank you this to us hanging in and how many more do you want um give us uh two more
copies of each perfect I'll get them out enough it okay perfect thank you do you want to go want to take off you can if you want go I'm done oh yeah he's done he's done good
Lu all right I'll follow the agenda you have my report do you have questions Aloha night is coming up as Tam said July the 12th I do have tickets and uh I do have raffle tickets one thing not on my report I do
want to address and get it out as Pam says to TV Land out there um we had bolig um contact us big engineering about um some potential grants that we can can apply for for the city of
Trac but for one criteria that we were just barely missing and that is uh moderate to low income of 51% or greater um for the city of Tracy we
could apply for some additional funding we were at 51.5 or some really close margin by some other accounting that was done prior and they Round Up naturally and so we
were just barely at that threshold and so uh they offered to do a survey that's one way of um reestablishing where we really are and so one of the things that they did was they sent out a letter to
all of residents or all of the addresses that they had in the city of Tracy and some of those they would be uh individuals who are renting I have a number of them that say on their current resident and it looked like this and I
don't know how many of you got one and how many of you completed it but I do have a long list of addresses that did not complete it we need it really badly um thank you for those of you that
reported but as a result of a number of individuals that reported our number is still not anywhere close to where we need to be and right now we are at 133% not 51 and so a large number of
individuals I feel that are potentially a little bit adverse to doing something like this and Reporting this perhaps seniors that are a little suspicious that is this some kind of uh a scam you know these days there's just tons of
scams and everybody's a little bit cautious where will this go um so basically there's just a few questions is this your current residence yes or no you don't sign it you put your property address at the top there's no place to sign it um how many people live
at your household does your family rent or own this property and then you can indicate on here what your level of income is and the first one is an income level of 0 to $5 51,3 and so what we read really need to
do is it looks like we're going to wind up having to do some canvasing if we're not able to get individuals to respond to this our response ratio has been really low and those who have responded um are above the moderate to
low income and so it's kind of uh we we have some we have to overcome a little bit of that if we're going to show where we really are and I think we are I I think there's just no doubt in my mind that uh we're above that 51% threshold
we just are the the number that they use is well above and I think that gets averaged out of the cities and some are larger communities and so some of these numbers that they have in there for a family of four are well above I think
what um a number of individuals in our community are making and so it's a this would definitely be a help to everyone if we can get this accomplished so so Tom if you would have to go a canvas you already have a list of addresses that have completed it so
you wouldn't have to do necessarily the entire and if anything comes in that we have canvas that shows up that the mail has just not delivered it they have a way of tracking and making sure there's only one that's once they get to that 51%
threshold they cut it off so it's not going to change we just need to make it to that and then you know we can report and that gets reported to deed so nobody is double-checking this um you know big isn't uh doing any other background it
doesn't go to the IRS doesn't go to the state doesn't go to anyone else and the only time that there would be any audit of this is if deed came out to bowling and wanted to audit their survey and they would want to see all the copies of this to see how they added up and to
make sure it matches but uh as I said there's not anything on here where individuals should be apprehensive and completing it and this is not to apply for a loan or anything so don't don't jack up your income to make it look good or whatever like that just report what
it is that just you know and how many individuals in the household do you own a rent it's all we need Tom will there be a second mailing we're discussing how we're going to approach this I'm still trying to figure out how many do we need to get to get to that number should no
others show up and it's it's kind of a moving Target but I I'm thinking if we can get 200 more in I think we'll probably move well above where we need to be cuz I I I do see a number of areas in our community addresses that
I think are probably in that range because if there was a second mailing I think it might be more effective if there was a little note and picture from our friendly Tom Dobson or Jeff Carpenter or something
face that know it's tough to tell I I think if we may go to that but I think Hands-On is probably going to be the best way and I think I'm going to just start approaching some of the organizations that are already meeting I may tomorrow go down if the ladies at
the Lutheran Church are making quilts I may go down there and just say how many of you got this and if you haven't here as a form could you complete it here's an envelope just fold it up and put it in here you know nobody's going to be looking and we'll put them all in an
envelope and we'll send it to Big at one time so just so we can get this accomplished so there's a number of those if you know if you want to participate a little bit and look at that address list and maybe there's some people that you know that have not returned one that you would be able to
go to and say come on John it'd be all right for you to fill this out here's the form and it would really help us we got some time we don't have to get this until November originally they gave us a June 29th which is this Friday and
and we got a little nervous end of last weekend and today and then well no we would just put that date out there so okay any other questions I had one Tom I noticed in your notes you said about getting the
Sebastian Park Elm Street Lots ready for sale and so forth I'm just wondering would it it really enhance the sailability of the lots to remove the bushes and stuff now you do think so yes definitely oh yeah without a
doubt I've sold a lot of lots and it will help okay where's this at DM street right across the street from you well you can't move them all beated in snow we'll leave your pine trees okay we'll leave one of the lines uh the one
closest to the uh probably the fence you know Shane was if we hadn't been inundated in 52 days of constant rain and mowing we probably would have trimmed some of those but we'll get to it oh you're talking about bushes and the some of those I don't know about the trees I you know yeah I don't know that
that's as necessary but when you cannot stand on the lot and see because the bushes are taller than any of us here it's really tough to get the perspective of okay what will this look like if I build my house here and it's a those are PR Lots we did have them surveyed um we
don't have Stakes out there yet he did kind of a canvasing of it and we'll show exactly how far they will be from The Outfield fence okay and then we did have the four corners of the Second Street uh lot so those are you saw some new Stakes
out there next to you and then uh we did go ahead and have the four corners of Orchard Lane uh set up too cuz the Eda went out there one day to kind of look around and we're going to have a clue how deep that was it's a lot bigger than what I anticipated so the Four Corners are
located out there too we've got a lot of we got some room for expansion one day out there the the expansion out there in Orchard Lane is a sewer big enough to handle the expansion or we have to come in with I asked Shane and Shane thought that it
was what what our biggest issue out in that area is going to be the drainage if we can work that out I think it'll help both there and across Ross the street and everywhere on down that that was our biggest corner of town that had the worst kind of results of that last
rain thank you time my turn right your turn your well if anyone has any questions I'll be happy to entertain my report um on top of that I did send an email after my report uh from this weekend's
uh pumping activities um as you all know our system got overwhelmed um also sent that um email to pair so he wants to write something up on it he can um I did call
a few of the culprits where we had backups in the past um and we don't have any reports of backups and they didn't have any anything reported back up so I think think we made made it through that one just fine so hopefully it uh stops
raining now for a while but looks like we're in the clear for a little while anyway so let it catch up a little bit so thanks for your work over there thank you no problem nice job just keep tackling the I and I
issues and hopefully we'll get there eventually when I retire so any other questions I can answer uh right now we're inundated with grass growing um we have uh right now we have
more people than machines but we're we're getting that figured out just uh it's raining more than it's sunny so and then along with spraying we notice there's probably weeds growing in multiple areas around town that usually don't um we've had one day where we
could actually spray that wasn't raining or windy um so uh we we've started on it but we have quite a lot to do yet so everybody just needs to be patient there's just so much we can do when it's
an inch of rain or 4 40 mph winds and and we're there's nothing that has been forgotten on any on any list it's just it takes time to get to everything and we're short-handed so that doesn't help like I said at the last Cil meeting if the grass has to be longer I mean that's
just the way it is it's fine you know yeah it gets harder to get get mowed when it gets too long we run into issues there more work there's a lot of grass underwater yet so uh between the airport the cemetery has a lot of grass
underwater right now so um there's a few in the Parks Parks dried up quite a bit over the last 24 hours thank goodness but hopefully it keeps going that way and it's done raining for a while at least in those quantities Shan with the airport the
state actually requires a certain uh that they don't want the grass over a certain is that right yep um for runways at 6 in is kind of their Max creates too much drag when they land otherwise but that doesn't with that new
more that that's not been really a big issue out there with we've been able to keep up pretty quick so right now we just waiting for it to dry out so we can mow it so there's ducks floating out there so anything
else uh Big's done too with our lead service inventory for what the grant will cover um there's a few houses we have to try to get um say with the fundings about out for what um M of the Department of Health will pay them um so
we'll be running around um a few different people in my staff including myself will be trying to get the ones that they missed that uh they couldn't get a hold of people on so um we have to submit everything we have by July 8th so
we can get that to Department of Health so have there been many lead service lines identified in the survey so I think we're at three right now okay um there's a couple suspicious but I couldn't really cuz they're right at the floor they're hard to tell what they are
um those are in tax fored houses they're not occupied right now but um but it should be relatively rare it's a very low number that we have for for lead services for the age of some of infrastructure out there and most of them are on the east side of town not better than other
cities right thank you thanks Jane so I just got a couple things that uh I want to talk about last uh Thursday we had the opportunity to go into uh 12 of the uh tax forfeited properties
here in in Tracy and I just want to bring this up and uh this is this is what we need to work on as a community um Marshall had one minota had one Lind had one Cottonwood had one battin had
two and Tracy had 12 so as you can see we're way behind in uh and these are the tax forfeited people just decided they're not going to pay their taxes so we have a and I know I brought this up last time four weeks
ago we we have a that's it's a problem um we went into uh out of all of the houses that we went into there was uh four of them if not five of them that we probably shouldn't have went in I had to
throw my shoes away it was it was disgusting so um so we do have an issue there now we are getting closer to the uh we are getting closer to possibility of the tax forfeiture houses being sold
so we have some interested parties that we are working on that um with a few people um here in town that maybe want to take one that's close to being it's got to be dry we had a few of them that that were they weren't dry they were in fact obviously weren't dry with all the
rain we've had but we do have a an issue and and we are attacking that with Chief licky and Shane and and us getting tougher on our uh what we're expecting out of our our citizens with just with not only cleaning up but there's nothing there's
nothing we can do there's nothing we can do about the tax forer properties except for now it's going to become our problem so we are working with the county with the county auditor and the report with the uh the
two or three people that were with Shane and I and tomx who was with us and uh and that is going back to the auditor in Marshall and they're going to see if there's any kind of programs that they might have that we can get some help with some of these we don't have any choice but uh to I don't know what kind
of program that they have I don't know what kind of program the state's going to have the state owns them but the county takes care of them which but they sit in the the city limits and we can't have these houses sitting here anymore there's some of them that we cannot there's a couple of them that were in bad shape but the roof is holding
up so there's no water in them um we had a few of them in there again we should not have we probably should not have been in there we're walking downstairs we shouldn't have been and uh it was are they secure yes yeah secure not gain
Insurance like children exploring we found no we found a couple instances where there's been people in there but they've had locks on there but there's always a broken window so yes and there's a couple of the houses were actually in good shape
that need to be you know need to be getting into some good hands where they can turn them into um houses for uh for families um I'm going to be working with Tyler here we're going to have to figure out about getting no matter we get help or not we're going to have to get rid of
a few of these we've we uh we've come down to ranking them out of the 12 and we have uh we do have four of them that are they have to go really bad H really really bad do that about the same time they do
the old liquor store that would help well we got to figure out whether we can get some help on these first and that's what we're looking for from the county so we are talking to the county about that right now how many you said that really need four I'd say four five
five and Jeff how many vacant houses are there in Tracy did you say um at one point I counted those and that would have been about a year ago and I believe there was 39 but there's some of them that have new roofs on them that are still vacant and so there are some ones that you know we're not we just have some people that
own them here in town that just aren't doing anything with them but all all of those vacant houses they candidates for for being worth for nothing that that bould those down and and and that's that's what we got to
work on so so it's an issue it really is it's it's an issue that we have because we can't uh it's not just that house but those people have neighbors yeah there's people living right next to these houses and that's that's that's just not right um so we are working on that and
uh I I would like to have some kind of plan put together with our budget for this coming year um setting aside a certain amount of money for those those four or five houses but we're working with the county on that too does that I mean that has to make
sense where the state gets them back because they didn't pay their taxes so then because they have five years of not paying your taxes and that's what happens is H I'm not going to do anything with my house I'm going to walk away from it it's great you don't pay your child support we use that is the
last week you don't pay your child support you get tax back taxes back 3 or 4 years from now they're going to come back after that you don't pay your taxes on a house nobody's coming after you not a not a great system and then
it's our problem and then it's our problem yeah it's our problem or it's the people's problem that we have and we're going to have more of them that are going to come but just to just to put the comparison in there when you got Cottonwood about our size batton's half our you know not even half our size has
two so it's it was it was disappointing um liquor store will be down by July 15th which we've reported on before um that's all I've got for now okay if there's no questions let's move
on to new business mayor if we could absolutely uh I'll go into this uh resolution 2024 64 Rehabilitation loan on Squatch building owned by City on a c or a contract for deed to uh Sanders and
wendland so what we're signing off on here is the fact that they applied for a uh um one of the the grants here in town one of the $50,000 grants which if you remember right it's $35,000 in Grant $10,000 in a uh um a loan from the Grant
and then $5,000 loan from the city so we have to sign off on this so they can get this money the uh the only uh you know that started that loan for that building started out uh I bet 3 years ago now and that was at 54,000 right now that loan
to to them the new contract for deed is down to I believe right around 30,000 so we could not sign off on this and and they wouldn't get the the all that money to put in that building the only thing that we have that would come against us is if they walked away from that
building and then we would have it would be ours so but the fact is is all that money would be in the building which we all need know that that over there that building needed that that kind of uh um attention so my recommendation would be
to we need to sign off on this but I wanted to give you you know what would happen in the so we're signing off on about $30,000 is what you're saying 35,000 I believe is what it is George yeah 35,000 but that that's over a 7year span so it comes off is that 15% every
year comes off of that that amount I make a motion that we approve of resolution 2024 64 uh regarding a rehabilitation loan on the um Squatch um building um owned by
the city on a contract for deed to Sanders and wentland I'll second okay so we have a first to second and I have a question so we're signing off on their loan of 30,000 no or what are we just just because it was a contract for
deep there's a different way like if you owned your with the uh the small cities grants that we've had in the past for houses if there is a uh um the person who owns the house or owns the contract for deed would have to meet the standards of the income there were no
income levels for the uh for the commercial ones so we just had to sign off on that we would pay back that the the the grant if they ever if they ever left and walked away just a long it's just allowing them to get the grant
so now you opened up a question for me if and God forbid I'm sure they won't do that but we're signing off on $ 35,000 plus a $50,000 Grant no no 35,000 is the grant
oh okay and then they will have a loan of 10,000 if they take that from the grant itself also which makes 45,000 and then we have a certain amount of money in our cdbg that we will be giving No actually that's a part of the grant also is they'll that money will be paid back to the city for a total of 50,000 and if
they ever walked away we have the building we have the building and the improvements so kind of making them the owners of record on a contract for de so they can apply for this other small I just wondered what is that open this city up for more or
less nothing really we'd have to do it to the building anyway or we'd end up losing that building the think some of the improvements okay we have a first and second any other questions roll call please H hi T hi
land hi Aisa yes sh hi Schmid yes may Corman hi all right resolution 2024 65 Rehabilitation of the fiberglass water slides of Tracy Aquatic Center so Shane
I'm going to have you come up here because there uh there's one of the things I'm going to have you explain to them so we got three bids for the slides that we put into our CIP for this year so this was which was budgeted for um remember what the total amount was budgeted when we were going to do the
whole thing 1086 is it is it in there 118 yeah it's in the memo okay I'm sorry and so we're not going use all of that right now we are going to just get the slides done themselves just the slides and you got three bids was it yes
I'm pulling them up here um yeah we got one from bam solutions for 75220 we got Amusement restoration companies for 65 341 and safe slide restoration for 63
299 and 63 299 would be the low the low bid yep and I've checked all the references on all three of these companies they all seem pretty reputable pretty comp everything's pretty comparable um as far as what they what
they've done in projects of this size so and I made and I had Shane get a hold of them and made sure that they could do it you know in a timely manner after the pool closes on August 22nd and before it obviously gets too cold so they all had didn't have a problem with that either yeah and we're the coldest climate so
they're actually probably going to start up here and work South so so do they come here and do it somewhere or do they yep they'll do it right on site oh cool so what will the colors of the slides be um same color
Okay the reason I asked is when those pools those slides were originally ordered Audrey was very disappointed and probably some of the council members too because um that the slide that's kind of the light green it was supposed to be
royal blue and they the wrong slide arrived and Audrey and the council at that time said just use what's here otherwise the installation would have been delayed another year or month so so
could is are there options there as far as you can I'd have to check and see it it will be more to change the color um cuz that that' be a thicker coat that they'd have to put on to keep it from coming through um and then if you're
going royal blue too you're probably going to have it's going to be pretty dark inside that that tube slide too so it's just something to consider when you go to a darker color like that I just asked so I mean it's yeah it's possible and that's one of the questions they ask
um I guess I just assumed keeping the same colors that are there but I need it as it is makes sense to me leave it as it is I'm sure they'll look different cuz these are super faded so um maybe it'll look I honestly don't know what color
they actually were I just you don't notice it over the years until but so the other 55,000 that we won't be spending this year because we aren't going to redo the steps and stuff like that what is the plan for those well there's one other uh that uh
there's a small slide in the diving area that is rusting pretty pretty bad and the stairs are Rusty the platform's rusty and last time I had that quoted it was right around 15 to 20,000 range um
so it may be an opportunity to use that to take care of that and then we talked about um I talked to premium Plant Services to see if they could uh hydro blast some of the legs on the steel structure if they can blast the paint off then we can recode it cuz it's the
same coat boting is what we did on the other features um but it's getting the paint off is the biggest um hurdle to get to get through that um a lot of those parts are removable so we could take sections and during the winter and work on on the
offseason too so there's nothing rusting nothing corroded it's just the paint looks bad it's faded um unlike the fiberglass part that's actually starting to delaminate where with fiberglass it's could cut somebody if you don't get
after it so um yeah nothing structural as far as that goes so I mean you could wait 10 years and it's really not going to make much difference so other than the cost of Labor always goes up and materials so but yeah that's something we can
maybe look at just doing an in-house and it' be probably less than 10,000 for materials and they're going to do a just a test area to see you know if High Press water would take it off that'd be the cleanest um to sand blast by the
pool I don't really like the idea cuz sand getting into places we don't want it so cuz what we budgeted for and what they gave us as a price for their estimate was way higher all three of them were higher amount that we had budgeted and their method uh one of them
was power wash and repaint well the coating like a rubber it'll never paint won't stick to it but they they just um do their quoting based on pictures and stuff I sent to them and measurements so you know that they don't they don't
really see what's actually there and they have to try to remove so um it's going to be substantially higher when they find out what kind of paint's on it so so we'll keep you a breast of what's what's going on there it'll be a new pool you will have a new pool couple new
uh one piece at a time seems to be holding up pretty good on those features they look nice yet so um we got a little problems with the Frog mat um where they where they slide out and land on it there's a rubber mat there I think it's probably been been
there since the beginning of time that's the second frog that's been on that we don't know what kind of mat that is or where what it came from um we've been trying to find a replacement for it but uh they few and far between um especially those colors we can find like
a black mat like use on the doorstep but it wouldn't look right in the pool would be way down and that stay underwater we're working on that so yeah I would say most of the major things short of water features like the raft and the snake that are in there those are getting pretty rough um we threw
them on the budget I think for 25 um yeah we kind of possibly going to move one of those just do one this in 25 and one in 26 and those there you know you're probably going to hear about it if you do it but um if if there's safety problem they just be removed there's no
requirement to have them there at all but kids do like them so what are the safety issues with them or they they got some the the coating on them is starting to come off so the foam is starting to get exposed well then you get a little
hole started and then the kids start picking away at it oh okay you got a big hole so we've been filling them with silicone and trying to keep them sealed up so they don't get that way but we're on year three of doing that So eventually it's just going to be you have to throw the towel at some point to
fix them and sell them I think I was just going to say I think some people would pay some good money for those I know they were about $7,500 when we purchased them back in 2001 I don't know South if you remember
but it's a I'm sure it's considerable considerably higher now but maybe not okay mayor do you want a motion or resolution I would love that okay I would like to make a motion that we adopt resolution
202 465 regarding the rehabilitation of the fiberglass water slides at the Aquatic Center second is there any further discussion for that before we go into roll call all
right R call please and hi SE I hi Schmid yes AR yes TS hi mayor Corman hi uh number three resolution 2024 66 establishing procedures relating to
compliance with reimbursement Bond regulations under the Internal Revenue code so I'll make this as simple as I can because that's the best I can do with it so we had then ineligible monies that was um north of $400,000 so we keep getting mixed you
know from the state from ERS from bag on what we can do with that money when we have to do something not what we can do but when we have to do something with it so I just got a little bit nervous and so I went to them I said okay what can we do with it right now so these what you're going to be signing off on with
this resolution is the ability to pay ourselves back from the bond payment that we made in uh February of I believe $330,000 and the bond payment that we going to be of interest this coming August for $7 ,000 so we're going to pay
ourselves back which we can do legally um for those two payments and then basically will have that 400,000 in our general fund that we can use it with the skate up project or whatever we need to use it with on our own time so now we have no pressure we're not waiting for
bag we're not waiting for ERS to tell us what we can and can't do and what time we can do it we we set this up so we'll have it sitting there waiting for us when we're ready so that's that's about as simple as I can get I'll make a motion to approve
resolution 2024 66 give me my money anybody have any questions about that roll call please yes TS hi land hi
shon hi Henri hi AR yes may Corman hi do we have a motion to ajour good picking right up on all those in favor I I oppos motion carries am I don't know if anyone
checked into it I didn't see the text until now but um they're saying e for