[Music] say again the time on the 29th uh 5:30 5:30 yeah 5:30 we could switch that to that's on Thursday before Labor Day so if you want us push that up to five I don't care but that's that's so far they
didn't care when it was all right that might be five would might be better for me simply because I worked that night I worked that day well I work earlier in the day you let me know cuz I can send out that uh
that change in there um again what I really want you to see I don't want you to think that we've uh we've got we're rolling in money and cuz we're not cuz our debt service is more this coming year than it has ever been we owe a lot of money and what was
2024 you know you started the the graph at 2025 what was 2024 2024 was a lot less because we are we were just making the first payments and then of course we used some of that in IBL to pay those so we'd have the money for the ska now so
couple hundred, for sure less so 2025 is the what is that called the peak the peak yeah but it but it's also important to remember that even with the decline I mean our debt service is about more than
three times greater than it had has been for historic standards up and before all the infrastructure CR exactly exactly it's either keep up or yeah got I just going to say we don't want to stay down here that means we're
not we're kicking too much down the road again but with all the decisions that we've been making over the past five years and then what the decisions that we're going to make for the next seven or eight years paying cash is going to be awful nice for doing some of those things too or taking some of that money and
paying down our debt but when you see what the debt is at 88 .7 million and it's and it is uh um you know going to be paid off in 2000 or yeah 2063 you know the only probably person on the council then will be Dave teags
on in 2063 so no go to the timeline real quick um before we finish up here I I apologize that it uh um so right now we have budget estimates presented to the city council that's what you're getting today
the 12th um we have it on the or on the uh um on the budget schedule to have a on the 21st which is only in 9 days city council CIP budget study session if necessary I don't know what you want us
I don't know what you want me to bring to that I've given you what the what the budget's going to be or Tyler and I have giving you what the budget's going to be but where do we even if there's some maneuver uh you know m Ming you know to a different the numbers are going to be
the same so it's really up to you I don't see a reason that we' meet on the 21st um I just got the information today so uh we have to at the uh September 23rd city council meeting we would adopt the preliminary budget if there are some changes in there things that I learn
that we go that go along over the next 3 4 weeks I will bring to you I will send you in an email and tell you that it's coming and I say okay this is where it's at and then we can have that discuss you know we could even meet we can add another one but on meeting on the 21st will do us no good in my opinion that's
okay not if you're not you're going to have a lot of the answers to I I won't and and you'll get the answers as soon as I get them as we go along and if we need to we could meet sometime before September 23rd you could you meet on the on September 23rd at 5:00 yeah and
having an extra one is not a problem just has to be certified by the end of September it has to be certified by the 30th is when I just got the information of uh of to send that in so that would be done on the September 23rd the 23rd is when we'd certify it and
then um do a vote on that and then there's uh yeah I don't know sign on that or not is it certified with the sign okay and then December 9th is the uh city council meeting and
the truth taxation public meeting so this was all based on 4% at the end of September we got to give that number would be my recommendation and on the 9th of December you can make it
lower but you can't make it higher but what you just presented us was a four is a four yep and that's what we asked for so y yeah now if something pops off there
that we can't do and you know that that'll be up that'll be up to you then on the on the 23rd so maybe we'll we'll we'll tentatively planned for the 23rd just depend on what uh what new comes so
would anybody like to see anything different than and what we have uh right now is we only got a minute for if if you do want to see something let me know I'd like to thank Tyler for sure for um I'm telling you a uh a lot
of the presentation as we went through it he's sick of me I'm sick of him the only thing I'd like to suggest is we're going to drop down four I'm not complaining but let's not jump up to seven again the next year try to be a
little bit disciplined I think we we've done a good job at at at figuring out what our bills are going to be in 26 27 I I honestly you know you can't say for sure because you don't know what's going to happen because who knows George you know does the uh the state run out of
money and they they drop us by 20% so instead of 900,000 or you know we only get you know I get that state I I just it's it has happened I just don't want to jump no
21st that's all right secretary you need thank you you were late thank you I like staying [Music] employed okay mayor unless uh would you like I mean do you need anybody need to get up
and stretch their legs or can we move right into the city council meeting I need to stretch my legs then get up and do it then I just want I've been praying for that for a long time so is anyone else thinking it's still getting hot it's hot it's very hot it is
hot where's our air conditioning we don't have any yeah did you did you not look what I just presented I'm going to buy a pedestal one and I'm going to just put it right here to I'm going put a heater Jerry we could get you a personal one
right in front of you yes there that you get have your hair blowing your hair your hair blowing just like a movie star there you go just like we're could we get uh let's open up this uh city council meeting please okay we will call
to order the regular Tracy city council meeting for August 12th we start with a pledge of allegiance I pledge of alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for it stands one
nation indivisible with liy and justice for all um we have two parts of this so the first part of this is I'd like to ask if we can do a moment of silence for pety
Dave Peterson okay my second thing was we usually have an invocation and since we have such a well-rounded person in the audience would you like to do an invocation for us you know I'm looking at you me too
there's stilled yeah we used him before he's wor you don't have to but if you wouldn't mind where am I supposed to right up here right up here that would be awesome okay let's pray gracious Lord Heavenly
Father we thank you for this opportunity to function and operate in our city government we thank you for the council all the members present and always working we ask that you be with us as we make decisions and talk about problems
help us to remember that all people have a right and are precious to us and help us to remember that as we talk about different problems we ask this in your
name amen amen amen thank you so much do we have any corrections to the agenda there are not there was a yeah change that got put in before the last one got sent out to you on Friday so I'll make a motion to approve as written
I'll second that first and second all those in favor I opposed motion carries is there anybody in the public that would like to talk about something that is not on the
agenda um just want to address the the council right away there's uh been a couple conversations this uh past Friday that we did get it into the agenda but I think it's right that uh we we have the audience participation with as it not being on there because I didn't think I
was going to be able to get it on there so I'd like to be able to get them up here right away if we could please and then we won't uh as we know we uh we can take that but we can't uh and each one of them can have three minutes but we uh there can't be any decisions made or there can be a couple questions asked
but no decisions made on that um but we are going to be talking about uh uh a process in staff reports under 94 so okay okay who would like to start
first come to the podium and state your name tell your name and address please so I'm Jordan Hy I am here with my wife Britney uh we live at 509 Greenwood Avenue we're here regarding the property of 501 Greenwood Avenue um it's just a
new to live next to a place that looks just hideous um I know the city's been working on it but it's getting worse there's more varmits around the area our kids shouldn't have to live next to an environment like that um I know it's
been years worth of concerns for other people too but I just feel like something needs to happen sooner than later any questions for Jordan at all I mean can ask him thank you good evening I'm Lynn Peterson I
reside at 441 Greenwood Avenue I've been there 27 and A2 years um I have had the unfortunate opportunity of living to the east of the House of 501 green avue for
the last Almost 9 years and it's just been a gradual at first accumulating um right now it's it's nightmarish and I do work and had the pleasure of working beside councilman
Brian hinr for the last eight and a half years and I think he can confirm that I do have a little bit of OCD which makes it even harder for me to have to um deal with all the issues that we have at that
property um it seems like more and more is coming in um she did there was an attempt to clean up the property and I applaud the city for everything that they have done to assist us with this so far I understand there's some
um Jason has gotten some steps in way but then like in the next year I'm just asking that um you guys keep employing and keep working to do all you can to alleviate this nightmare for us um I feel that this does hinder
our property value and um I do know that I have been in the house of um hies and looking out their upstairs window it does look like you're looking into a
landfill and it is unfortunate for them I'm just asking to keep continuing whatever you have to do and whatever means you can do because I don't I feel this house is going to be abandoned and it's left and everything there is never going to go away and we
would just like our property and our our our little area of our town just nice and neat and clean like and organized right Brian I like it right I like it nice clean and organized but I do I do applaud and thank you for all that you guys are doing attempt to help
us but I am here tonight to offer the my support for the high leaves because they have taken on new home or taken over the home there and have done a lot of upkeeps and remodeling and it's sad that the conditions that we have to live under so thank you for your time thank
you thank you anybody else I can just say a little bit my name is Gail AO 515 Greenwood Avenue and I've been there over 40 years um I know a lot of the history of that
whole block and it's it's a nice quiet place to live I know the Highway's brought in three young kids and and uh it needs to be a safe place for them but more than that I think we need to keep
in mind that it's not a personal thing and we can't make it a personal thing it's it's it's a community thing and I would like you to also think about not just that property that we're talking about but as as we talk about it it's
got to be a whole plan for a community I'm proud of being in Tracy uh I've been a scrapper and a panther and and uh now I'm just watching them but I I've got a lot of pride in the community and and I think as we drive through
communities we can see where we have pride in it and where we are slipping a little bit and I think we really need to I know you guys have all been working on it that's that's the problem but I think we as a community not just the Council but all of us need to pick up and uh
help the property we're talking about former neighbor that lived in the highway house was such a generous man uh he offered to mow it and pick up and trim
around trees and do all kinds of things and he was told to keep off the property I think you can attest to the fact that it even the owner asked you guys to Mark the property lines and she drew a line
and said stay off so um I think we need to approach it from a community thing and not just look at that property but the whole thing that's the only thing I wanted to add they already said everything about this property and I
think neighbors are willing to help um if that's the case but I think it's more than that I think the this person needs other kinds of help and that's our job too as a community thank you for your time thank
you thank you I'd like to thank the uh group that the three people that come up here that they were very professional and and use an address and not a not a name so I want to thank you for that
okay you thank you guys for coming here I don't think there's anybody else for public comment no there is not all right we are moving on to the consent calendar I'll make a motion to approve
the July 22nd Council minutes support Municipal accounts payable and payroll without breakthrough beverage not done yet hold that uh approve the transient Peddler's license
for that gentleman I'm assuming as long as fees are paid approve the March 27th Library minutes I'll second okay first and second any comments just one question what what's what are they
pedaling that's the exact same thing I was going to ask um it's educational books so he's done this before I remember I just didn't recognize the name yeah there's always somebody um that's they're ex foreign students that
come yep and he registers with Jason so Jason is aware of him of his presence and all of that okay any other discussion Dr call please JS hia yes yes
H yes shones hi land hi mayor Corman I I'll make a motion to approve Municipal accounts payable for breakthrough bandage I'll second that any discussion for that one roll
call please land hi shones hi hi schm yes AR yes hi okay before you get to the mayor council communication are dealing with that on a just uh so you know there's two people that have applied for the
airport uh board appointment that was uh um when we lost Rosemary Martin that was on that on that uh um committee or that group so um there is two people there just so you know um the both of them that I will get a
hold of the person that you do decide tonight to put on that board and the other person but the other person on that board I will encourage to get on other boards that we have also so just wanted to let you know that before before you uh before you decide
on who that is so I think you've seen the applications in the um just a pretty simple application is there any uh questions that you have for myself or for Shane with uh with that particular appointment
um do they both have airplanes at the airport correct me if I'm wrong no um Lyle has uh Lyall Newman has uh one two two of them out there and uh so yeah L Newman has two of them out
there Dave move his Dave had his in Tracy for a while and then it was in Marshall right or yeah he sold it now okay so no you know the only thing that I thought about the two of them it's like you know they're both Avid airplane
people but it'd be nice to have Lyall in there because he's younger has planes here and that's my opinion ly I said it' be my opinion is it' be nice to have like some younger blood in there and somebody that has
actually has planes here and I guess I thought Li would be a good choice where he has two planes actively using the airport he hopefully could give us some good ideas how to keep it keep it the way it should
be um the thing I lik about Dave is that uh he had a nice program going there for offering flying lessons out there I don't know does he do that anymore wasn't there a similat later out
there at one point no I was in Marshall that was always in Marshall okay wasn't in the school it was at the school for a while and of course I've got a Dave was always good about giving me um airplane rides when I needed to take aerial
pictures but that shouldn't isn't relevant here anymore but I do appreciate that from you we motion we need a motion out of somebody and make a motion for ly to take the airport commission so George
makes a motion for Lyall Newman second and second okay we have a first and second does anybody have anything else they want to add to that before we take a roll call okay roll call
please hris hi Schmid yes land hi Tes hiisu yes shones hi mayman hi I will get a hold both of those tomorrow and uh and and talk to them a little bit okay because I think there's actually a
airport board meeting this Thursday correct chane okay all right staff reports number nine um we're going to get a little bit of an update from Shane we got a an update that I
thought would be better here than at the uh um department head meeting here in a couple of weeks so I asked Shane to come up and just uh talk a little bit about what bik has done for a couple reasons Shane doing it
cuz he knows it a lot better than I do um again we got a eight or 10 year project going on out there and we're year four or five into it and and I'm getting caught up to a certain extent but I can only talk intelligently enough to get myself into trouble train looks
like he's got notes so it'll be good I got lots of notes for tonight uh I guess the airport the hanger we're waiting on getting contracts signed uh by the contractor uh mindat the for the slab and sight grading that's been
approved um that's ready to go we are still waiting and that's little hesitation on the Grant on the uh the contract getting back is um the FAA is getting very close to approving the grant but they're not quite there yet so
um that's kind of the main hang up hang up as far as the hanger goes which we should expect that uh would say hopefully within a week not any longer than that so um crack seal project uh late August be the last week
of August or or the first week of September is kind of what's slated there um just depending on the weather um that's just the taxi way so the new slab that was put in um in 2019 so there going to crack seal lad
and then all the way around in front of the um the old tea hangers so that'll work around your flying yeah and they're they'll make a mess with dust and asphalt most way they do is sweep it up
but um I did inform them that the fly in was that weak so it's not like they may just push it off just to be on the safe side there so that's what I'm sitting there thinking cuz they usually put toilet paper down with it so um I guess if that's the only time they
can get it I guess we'll have to deal with it but we'll get through it um they're still working on uh the long-term Runway safety issue with the runway Rec reconstruction and shifting that to the
southeast um may not see construction until 2030 on that project so it's a long ways though it's just a planning stages yet so I know it's on the long long-term CIP but um say won't see anything physically happening for a
while on that any questions on all of that do you Shane you view that Runway lengthening as a certainty down the road uh or is there a
chance that uh they it could just be someone at the state level could just change their minds about it and we wouldn't have to do it or is it something will H that'll have to take place they change your mind
there's typically when you have it on a plan for that long um this one's been on there for probably The Last 5 Years um see it was just before the flood I think when they put this on so maybe even longer than that um so they've been
trying to the state and feds have been mainly the feds on this one cuz it's a it's a a pretty substantial project uh I don't see them pushing this off um it's mainly hopefully we can get the fundings and that all the funding Falls in place
cuz I think part of it was the congressionally directed spending is where part of this is supposed to fall in and I don't know that's kind of up to the Congress what they want to do so um either way if it's not planned
and designed we're not going to see it at all so you have any idea what our responsibility of that would be like a 10% match or uh it's complicated I can get that answer for you over how many years total project well just the extension of the runway I mean that's
going to be a pretty helpful bill yeah going to be stuck with it all or cuz there's the planning there's land acquisition there's the project itself um engineering so if you wanted the whole scope of it I can put it together but it's partially state funded
partially Federal funded so say it's not an easy easy answer they don't burden us taxers right a lot of yep even if it's just 10 or 20% it's going to be a big yeah cuz it's a say
it's over a million dollars for the project so it's a it's a good size project mainly most of it is well partially land acquisition and part of it uh that's a big hole to fill at the end of the runway so that's a we're getting tagged right now because I don't know
if you guys were remember the B pres presentation I think it was what last year but uh conroad 11's an obstru obstruction because if a car is going by when a plane takes off because of the you know the takeoff
angle um they could be an obstruction uh to an to an aircraft so they want to shift that whole Runway to the southeast and make a bigger distance between the end of the runway currently and cter Road 11 well to do that um if you
shorten the runway up then you're going to limit people landing and taking off especially Sanford it's already short say you get humid days they won't even come here um because of the short Runway but um so
the gets a the only way to go is to the southeast and then you're filling in a ravine cuz that Ravine is is actually a um considered a safety hazard right now uh we're kind of grandfathered in it's been there forever but in order to shift that that's going to make solve one
problem but make another problem worse so um nothing to do there is put a Bo box covered in and fill it in at the end so say planes aren't going to get any smaller everyone's looked over the edge of that Ravine it's not a very shallow
Ravine at all so um it's going to be quite a bit of fill to fill that in okay any other questions with that um just since we've gone through two airport under mayor and Council Communications and staff reports with uh Shane um I just want to encourage
everybody before you leave here tonight to go out into the hallway there is a uh a uh bench out there that was donated by uh Kurt Anderson's daughter or family um that looked fantastic good um we have a plan for
that out there um we got a place that we're going to be putting it um Shane and I found a place went through the family and uh agreed on a place that it would be overlooking Swift Lake and right towards the the airport itself um at one point they were thinking about wanting it out to the airport we kind of
encouraged them that that uh you know that might get seen during during Flyin and you know and certain amount of people that come in there won't even know who Kurt was so uh it's going to stay here until the 209th of uh until Labor Day gets here
we're going to move it out to the airport for the fly in for people to see out there and sit on and then it will be permanently put in at Swift Lake Park but it's it's fantastic I mean just just take a look at it what we what we have in that you know and it's we want to
thank um Kurt's family for uh um for putting that together and and and paying for that completely only thing we're putting into it would be U moving it around a couple times and uh we're going to be putting it uh probably in smant
where we can where we can screw it down correct Shane that's where we're going to put cement in the ground yep just a slab and there's four bolts on it so y so but I encourage anybody who's listening out there come up and look at that um it's it's sitting right there in
the in the hallway you can't you can't miss it okay sorry about that all right um number two there Shane right away again Aquatic Center slide color pres presentation you want to send that to me I can put it up here it's not really a presentation but no well the just the
slid discussion yeah if you if you want I mean is it you got it up have your card reach or no M oh yeah it will then I can just show them a picture of what yep that's good
actually I'm going to wait till I log in first well Shane's pulling that up the uh number three we won't get to it right away but we'll have Shane come up after um well we'll have Tyler come up to Shane gets done with with this one this will be quick and then really with the 2025 budget estimate presentation with
uh Tyler twistle we uh we're just looking for any any continuing thoughts during the um you know during the city council meeting he'll uh he'll put out there what we're putting in for percentage for Levy as of right now and that's really the only thing needs to be
decided so they probably shut off after there you go so we had a pre-construction meeting for the slide project uh last Thursday um and one thing they discussed
with us and there's no cost to this but um the slides they recommend you know like the we have an open slide and a closed slide similar to this um but the ours is yellow all the way through and the other one is like a
greenish color um but they said the white it keeps the surface cooler it also it hides stains and scaling so with our hard water here it everything turns
white and we try to get rid of most of it but it doesn't always go away um so they recommended the inside of the slides having that that white color to it um like I said there's no cost to it but he
said overall the long-term maintenance um with the you know with the heat and UV it's more UV resistant so he said you're going to get a longer life out of it so um so I just wanted to run that by you before I give them a year or nay I
have to let them know by 8:00 tomorrow morning so would they would they do the enclosed one white too on the inside yeah just for the sake of yep just to match them that's a good idea um so you're just asking for the approv for
the white for the inside or you ask just a discussion in case there was any concerns there shouldn't have been but we just wanted to R the colors of the outside of them the outside if we change the color it's 4,000 a slide cuz they'd have to double coat it to make make it
cover decent so if you want to leave them the same then you know it's whatever the bid was like 73,000 I think okay we good again this project was originally um budgeted
46,000 and that's where right now we're looking at the money for the the the snake and the the raft right now just trying to get it taken care of this year and they're planning on starting this uh the Thursday of Labor Day prep week so
about the same day the beer tent goes up so it's going to be an interesting week goes up the slides come down yeah we also plan our seal coating is going to happen that Monday too so it's going to be an interesting week so you're not going to be busy at all that week
no Shane as long as we're talking about the pool any idea when the pool is going to close for the season uh so 25th 25th will be the Sunday the 25th will be the last day
yep it'll be uh pretty sketchy in and out of there um we've got a couple days over the next couple of weeks that uh we're uh Tom and I will be uh shorts and and not lifeu cuz you don't want life I'm
surprised it's staying open that late y well it was a you know just the timing this year and we had uh we had some extra lifeguards that's awesome yeah that's good hopefully it warms up yeah for kids they'll swim in the water's
still pretty warm so don't you remember us standing there like this cuz it wasn't heated we cuz it was at the lake it's swimming season for God sake doesn't matter the so we really didn't need any uh um any votes on that
we were just giv the uh the courtesy of of what we plan on telling them tomorrow morning at 8:00 so all right Tyler if you want to thank Shane uh yeah don't go too far Shane I I I got I got a little relief here yeah a little relief um 2025
budget um we just wanted to announce here you know a little bit if there's any questions for Tyler on what was put together again I'd like to thank Tyler for all the work that he's uh done on this and uh um you still have the spreadsheet on there which we will go
through again and he will go through again just to make sure we're not missing anything but so um main thing I just wanted to recap was for the public is we're going to have a 4% Levy increase which is down
significantly from last year it was a 7% increase so property taxes will still increase but not nearly as much and um I thought i' just go through the projects real quick because it'll be of interest to the public so um turn out GE
for the fire department reshingling the Bandshell roof at Central Park um we'll be replacing uh one of the Public Works pickup trucks um books for the library and then we have $40,000 slated for Central Park improvements and there
might be some improvements this year purchasing the playground equipment um and then City Hall tuck pointing um that's fixing the bricks the groud in between the bricks here at City Hall and then safe routs to school $40,000 if we get a grant and that's
just putting sidewalks going to the school and were there anything was there anything that you guys wanted to discuss about the budget maybe I don't know if you guys had time to go through the spreadsheet at all but we
could I'm thinking it's going to come up here on 10 A1 you know because we had the discussion because I thought we were already replacing a pickup in 2024 here it's one of the unknowns when we come up to the you're
right okay that's so I'll just you're you're absolutely right so well Tyler I really appreciated the amount of information on our finances that was presented at the workshop that preceded this meeting it's uh since been
on the council this is the most information that the council has gotten this early in August so it it I appreciate it I I think it's going to help us make better informed decisions
on finalizing the budget so thank you and even to be able to answer questions from the public that when they ask us I feel like I'm more informed to be able to explain more or
what we are going to be getting for the 4% Levy increase that's great that makes a big difference cuz the public want to know and when we were doing eight and 7%
increases it was hard to explain exactly what was all being done with the money not that there was anything questionable or shady I just don't think we were as educated so I agree with Seth thank you and then
just to clarify one point the 4% increase in the levy is what's proposed at this point correct you know we we don't certify our Levy and our PR preliminary Levy until
September and then the final Levy is set in December December uh September 23rd and cuz it has to be turned in by September 30th to the county and then yes December the I'm almost sure that's what it is cu
that'll be here before you know it um yes the 9th is when we will uh have the meeting for that just you know so if you guys get really inquisitive and start pouring through that spreadsheet you got in the email and have any questions about any of the
line items just send me an email thanks thanks Tyler thank you all right um K just getting you some exercise the abatement process for the nuisance properties um this is this is not something that just because there was uh um three individual three
homeowners here tonight talking about a particular property but this has been something that the city's been dealing with for quite some time and and I and I would like to to preface this with the the fact that we have about
870 880 houses here in the city and we have uh I want to complement 810 820 of them or you know I don't have my exact numbers of how well people take civic responsibility and take care of their houses and take care of their yards and
and do everything else um but we it seems like that we always we always hear from the public we hear about the the the other 50 um there in nowhere in this process is there going to be any names that are going to be brought up but we were we've
had a a uh um a few meetings already with with Chief licky and Jason and I and and Tom and we've already put some things into place but um I will tell you it it it took a step forward this past
week um we're not prepared to talk a lot about this Shane you want to come up real quick and um but I had uh working with working with uh um Matt and Shane last week on the phone on a three-way call and uh and what you
got in the the uh your notes from us that that Diane sent out I I encourage you to read that it's about eight pages but a lot of it's repeating itself but there's a process of how we need to do some things and and it's going to be an abatement process and we are going to go
go ahead and and start abating properties um and we're going to we're going to do our best to we're not going to discriminate it's not going to be a oh how come me and not them or how come it was was me and and not the
next person you know this is a this is an ongoing process that we've all talked about we all know how important this is to make our city look um like it needs to like it needs to look um so uh we uh have a process in place that shanee and
I are going to be going over with or going over over the next couple of weeks you're going to have a a resolution coming on one of the issues with this it's it's not free um it's not overly expensive
but when we're trying to take care of property values you heard it here we have I heard the word varmints twice today and I don't think I've heard that since uh you know I don't know how long um but it really does concern me when I hear people talking about property values and how someone else's property
affects somebody else's property values um there's a lot of other things that come in with that you know taxes paid there's so many other things that come in with it but it was going to start so it this just pushed it a little bit ahead and we are going to start a
process so next in two weeks there will be a resolution on a particular property that we will start with that that we're going to be going in and abating that property um we would have Abad that property on Friday but uh I will just tell you that
uh the our attorney gave me the advice after I said yes go he gave me the advice he said no stop um because the uh the fence was locked so we didn't want to we so we're going through this process we've Abad a
lot of properties or not Abad but we've we've uh um with noxious weeds and gone in Mowing and then we assign that money that it costs Shane's crew you know when it comes to gas using of the moow and the the person time going to the place
we assign that to the taxes we put it right onto an special assessment well this is going to be done the same way um but we have to uh we have to start someplace by a bait you mean getting a court order or getting getting legal
that's a piece of it yes U to actually physically go on to the property and correct the violations yes yes there will be a uh there'll be something served to them by our Police Department then it'll have to be come in front of the and we'll take care of that I
believe before we have the the meeting in two weeks and then we will uh serve that person that particular person and then we will um bring it to here for a resolution for that property then it has to go to through a court system and the
the estimated amount that it's going to cost per household would be that needs to be done is is $1,500 that was the estimate given to us in the in the information that you were given that the $1,500 in there don't get overwhelmed by the eight pages like I did uh it there's a lot of things in
there that are just you know our rules and regulations that are in there wasn't just Diane rambling no it wasn't just her rambling on um so how is it handled when the property owners do not live I
can cover that thank you okay so Code Compliance just to summarize that multi-page uh list of steps that uh Matt Gross put together for the packet um so step one would be certified mail or PD
delivery uh notice a violation so whether it be noxious weeds or um if it's a nuisance violation that Jason would issue um That official notice would have to be served to them um typically with
like a 30-day on average um for most things 30 days is more than enough uh for weeds it's probably a little too much but um if we're going after someone for multiple different um I guess violations then um we'd probably want to
do it all at once if we do a court order we don't want to do we don't want to go with two filings we just want to do it all at once so um after that compliance um deadline is over and nothing things been completed uh the council would then put
on the agenda to consider a batement of the nuisance if the council proceeds another order must be sent um this is by personal delivery so the PD would um usually serve that and usually give a 20
to 30day uh notice if the person can't be found so if it's a vacant property and there's no one to be found to serve um we have to publish it for 4 weeks in the local newspaper um in hopes that they'll they'll get it and then we fulfilled
that portion of it um if no compliance after all those steps um then it goes to District Court they must issue an order to aate um it's about $1,500 uh is what um Matt figured it
would cost per property uh per time so um it is a little bit costly and then it' be on top of that whatever the disposal cost would be so you know if they have a whole dumpster full of junk we're going to have to and I don't know what what the retention time is we may
have to hold on and store it is it 60 days we can make the determination of what is junk and what is not junk and if there is any question then we have to keep that particular items for 60 days stored so technically someone
a neighbor would have to wait 60 to 90 days for anything to be done correct one of the places that we hopefully you know somebody asked about an abandoned property if we can't get a hold of that um we have to go through the steps of sending the letter to the address that
is on you know the tax statement that's you know there's the only place you know we can try to figure out who it is but if we can deliver this in person it's going to be a lot easier it'll it'll sa short the time shorten the time up yeah
so you know as well as I do snow will be flying before you know it as long as we can find the person yeah well and it's the same like just with tax forfeited houses too it's like there's a certain period of time you can't do
anything but I think as a as a council though going through all that we need to applaud the 820 houses that do such a good job the number of projects in the city in the last s or eight years that people have taken a house and put the time and
effort in there need they do need to be applauded because there is a little bit of civic pride yeah sometimes it's done for money but soose everything else we just have a certain amount of properties that that need to be addressed that's going to be something that Shane and I and and uh um Chief licky and and
actually Tom will be a part of just putting that that list together I mean it's not that there isn't already a list but it needs to be acted on now now do we have to put it into resolutions and then it it's hard because it's extra work and it's not like we have extra
people to do some things so we have we have to figure that out this could this will open it up too I I'm you know you might be getting phone calls I'll be getting phone calls I'm sure about well how about my neighbor how about the property that I'm talking about so people will have to be
very patient it would apply to tax for well not tax forfeited but if they're delinquent that still has an owner so if they're you know five day 5 years or four years overdue as long as you get the process done before it switches over
to the county you can still charge it but in this case you know they're probably not going to pay their taxes and they're not going to pay their special assessment either but um you know it's all going to probably fall back on us but it also takes care of the issue too so will this help us at all
with the Anderson building downtown no not right now so be looking in two weeks we'll have a uh a resolution that'll be something that chain and I and Dy will work on bring that up we just want we're not trying to pick
on anybody we're just trying to make sure that the city gets cleaned up and because we don't feel it takes that much just to pick up your yard first thing will happen is we'll get the notice sent
out the initial one step one and have it either certified or or delivered probably delivered so save save some extra time but um then that gets the clock ticking on especially the ones of concern right now so the police department have already
been we had a meeting with them this morning so they've already been um they've already told about you what our actions are they I me we've had that we've had that meeting together already we had the assistant district attorney from
mine County here with us the one time and that was kind of the process that she was talking about that day and she went around and looked at the houses here in town with the chief of so is this going to be just this particular property that we're talking about or is it going to be all of the
any and and that was my what I was going to say may or I'd strongly support this as long as we are consistent and follow through on other problem properties because there are a lot of other properties in this city
besides the address mentioned in the public comment period so but I I think it's a great idea and hopefully the word gets around if the city's getting tough with this that other people just take their queue
and get their act together and correct their problems and like Gail was talking in the in the public comment tonight this could be a city-wide project and I believe there's help out there if needed okay thanks Shane my next yeah your next
you just stay there um mayor yeah let's move on uh we're going to give Shane next in two weeks off he doesn't have to give a coun or uh department head well I there'll be a couple more things right new new business City
administrator uh resolution 20247 of2 approval for City to use arpa funds to buy needed city road machines so um a few things were sent out in your packet I think Shane do you have anything to put up on the board or do you want to just talk about a little bit I just
wrote it down okay um I don't know everyone look at that memo that I put together there isn't much out there for decent used machines um and we're looking
at probably a $20,000 savings unless we go with a high hour machine um say 4,000 is kind of the Prime where a machine exits its prime hours where you start
putting a bunch of parts into them um there I don't know if uh you had any questions from from here on those so we can have them announce what were some of the uh the potential ones that we could look at that we looked at Ogden Utah and most of them were several
states away um they're in that 2021 range um anywhere 155 they have won for 115 um that had 22 hours they have W for 19 195 that had 300 hours they have 125
200 that are 455 hours so and I'm not I'm not scared of a few hundred hours um just a matter if you want to save that difference or not so what kind of warranty comes with a new machine I know you can extend it but I
think it's 3 years typically I know they're all a little bit different but Jane if you got a new machine how many years do you think this would suffice for the city a 20year life 20 25
easy his life quite with the last one did they'll have to replace it in 2100 I guess I I just want to stay for the record I I don't have a problem with the new one but I wanted to hear what you did research if there was something out there
less cost and we could use some of that money for something else and we're kind of pushing towards deer just because of the diagnostic costs between equipment um in the future most of our stuff is now out of warranty so if we have to purchase a
diagnostic platform to service them we're not buying three different brands um just helps us out on that side of it and then there's similarities between them too but so what's the the arpa
money What's the total amount with the $144,000 that he'd be looking for for this particular machine unless you decide to put it off and and you know give I don't know what more information we can get you on some of the older ones but that 144,000 would put us right at
200 spent 135 135 that 135 that was with the uh that was with the trade that was with the trade in the estimated trade in so I'm just wondering is there any money left in that arpa fund for us to cuz I where am I getting that we were looking
at replacing the pickup that was if used if they had decent used ones if we get a decent used one at 110,000 then there would be 34,000 that we would went in which we found out last week can't get that either we can't find
what we're we're going to be looking for pickups are still from still from Co they're they're hard to find right now for for for fleet vehicles I was just looking to see if we would have that then the money we budget in 2025 for a
pickup if we were buying it in 2024 we would have that money to either purchase something else or that's what we looked at too Jerry is that's same exact thing is if we Sav that then where are we going to go with it and we talked even George we
talked about a different machine I said well let's look ahead at 2025 maybe buy get that pickup taken care of and that's when he looked into that and he said we don't know if we can do that we we're probably going to wait for this to get certified or us to certify the the budget and then go that we're going to
have to order this and hopefully we will get it I think uh which one the pickup the pickup yeah they're they're hoping um last I looked uh about a week and a half ago they're hoping that model 2020 the 2025 models will be
easier to purchase on a fleet vehicle cuz you can get like uh you can get EVS or you can get like more of a loaded vehicle but not a work truck range so I mean you're talking $20,000 just between loaded and not
loaded so and we don't need anything fancy our set of town so and we're getting rid of we would be uh retiring a 1977 and then out of the other pickups within the the city that would everybody just hand me down where the city up here
will nothing really gets traded it gets goes to the salvage yard when we're done with it so so just so I have the stengthen my mind buying the back hole at the 135 the new new back hole there will not be any arpa money
left or there is still a little arpa money it'll be about 11,000 left with with the trade in so then we're not going to leave that money on the table no I'm hoping when we present that possibly next Tuesday or week from tomorrow um when we go to to present
with the for the county money for the for the housing for that and for help with the tearing down of houses that we're going to be presenting to them a week from tomorrow we're hoping that they just give it all to us now do we have to spend that other $111,000 they might ask us to do that but I'm assuming
they would just just give us the whole 200 since we've spent 189 of 190 yes we can find we can find a spot to put $1,000 somewhere too if that's what we need to do infastructure I just don't want to leave $1,000 on table I have
four valves on Green Town that don't work that's infrastructure that's that's infrastructure right there so we might be able to get that as a uh you know even if it went over maybe we give them a little bit higher or whatever n that sounds good to me
am I still next so we need a motion on 72 y yes so I'd make a motion to approve resolution 20247 to to buy the new I'm
assuming new equipment for the or the new bco cuz that is here correct it's it's sitting here is that new equipment sitting here already I don't know okay it's probably I don't know if it has to be ordered or
if it's sitting in Marshall or if it's something on the lot I don't know it's probably close I'll thinking that okay first and a second do we have any further discussion well just that I agree that for the value the new is better has a
better value for the city than they used the biggest thing is how they use it in its PR life it's it throws a factor in but okay roll call please Henri hi TS hi
land hi yes Jones I yes Corman I see all right resolution 202 2473 approval for seal cating project quote
over $50,000 something we had to go through you regardless because it was over $50,000 but also it it changed a little bit because at one point we couldn't get a second quote even the second quote that we got said that they can't do it till they wouldn't have been able to do it till when next year next
year sometime yeah and this will be the seal coating for Orchard Lanes and a number of streets here in so I have a project map should that one is up above if it printed all right I don't know how it looks on your end but it was on x 17
so I don't know if it shrunk on the way through on the scan or not but anyway we got two quotes um one from Allied Asphalt or Allied black top I think it was for $2.34 a square yard uh for fa2
seal coating chip sealing um the second quat was Pearson brothers and that was at 88 per square yard so I think we had 3 7 or 39,000 square yard um I think I had the amounts on the memo
but is that this one that you sent out yep yep so those are the areas U if you're curious on where those are so it's Orchard Lane Greenwood Avenue we're going to do again just to preserve it it's so it doesn't get away from us
um all of phase one so be the east side of town be part of Fourth Street East East Hallet second East Long Green Lane Circle Drive um part of East Emory Emory Street uh for
the it be the 100 block of Emory and then uh be like one block of Park Street is on that project so you think it hurt us to go so late
after bid looking for bids n not really I've been talking to the one for a couple months now but we're just going to get anybody else to send me another quote um but they are working up in Marshall um I think the week actually
next week um late next week and they plan on going from there to here um if everything's approved here um on Monday so it'll be Labor Day Monday or Monday before Labor Day so I got a couple more I'm going to talk
to next year two um they plan as early as March so usually in March I don't even know what a roads look like cuz they're covered in snow but um I already have the map put together for next year so I'm going to try to maybe send that out in like
February see if we can get a little better pricing there but um I just happy to get two quotes this year so and we have 70,000 budgeted for road maintenance this year
we using it all up yeah try to do whatever I can with whatever's budgeted just so keep preserving things especially after waiting 10 years and not doing anything it's kind of took a toll on roads but
and then this is protecting a lot of our new project and then next year will be the next project and then the the 3a2 project be after that so and that's quite a big area too with 21 blocks so it's going to be an expensive seal coat project that's going to be a couple
years out yet but better than replacing it yep ceiling is a lot cheaper than repaving so but a couple years out it'll be easier to budget when we when I look at our debt service when it oh I think Sunrise Drive was on there too yeah sunrise North Street too remember North
Street but I remember Sunrise Drive being on that one okay is there ever talk about finishing that Sunrise Drive street or not really should there be on well there's a house that goes past the street depends on if the owner wants
to pay the assessment well I don't know I'm just it's been discussed but you didn't like the price tag so I don't think anybody no it'd be easier for us
but I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2024 73 to the seal coating project second any final discussion when when would this work be done Shane be Monday before
Labor Day Monday so was that 20 26th of August Labor Day Is Here Yeah it's knocking on the door already unfortunately I know it's depressing right you need to okay roll
call please come done talking sh hi te hi yes yes land hi Henri hi Corman sorry so you can all see with the number of uh items that Shane was up here for that uh I think I were a lot of
hats within the city but uh he must have a closet full of of hats with as many things as he juggles on a day-to-day basis and and then I don't let up at all and they just keep throwing in more things and more things talk to him about so he ain't listening but we're glad to
have him here we're lucky to have him here so that's all I got bless you so I just want to bring up two things the filing for a council ends tomorrow at 5:00 sorry so tomorrow at 5 tomorrow at
5:00 so out there in TV land with that many how many have replied so far just one okay and there's two other okay second thing is the primary
is thr the polls are open from 700 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. um so come on out and vote yes maam thank you in the primaries you're only voting for the party not the person
you cannot cross votes in the Premier you have to vote a straight ticket and I think the only thing on there I'd have to look again but I think it's just Senate seats that are on the primary just to
narrow it down okay all right do we have a motion to adjourn um mayor I I would just we missed mayor uh Council Communications this tonight but I just wanted to shout out some kudos for the park
board they've uh put in an extraordinary amount of work working on these uh uh plans for the new playground equipment and trying to get some uh aggressive fundraising efforts going and I'd
especially like to thank them several of them have put in a tremendous amount of time working on some new Gardens in Central Park Park um so if you're going walking through the park sometime take a
look at what's U been done it really looks nice and hasn't cost the city any money and it's all been donated labor and donated uh plants and donated
seeds well we do kudos to the parkboard for all of that hard and how did night Uncle really good I thought it was a little bit slow at 5:00 made me nervous but then all of a sudden they whoh it was people everywhere lot
of folks too bad we can't get some participation like that for Thea night cuz that the park was full I thought of people when I got there about 6ish and the burgers were great bur band improv too okay okay okay no motion we make a
motion we didn't get a motion yet I'll make a motion to Second all those in favor I oppos thank you carries see a PA