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Part 1 (Video ID: 0hp6IQBDh9k):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order, Roll Call, Prayer, Pledge
- 00:03:15: Williston High School Girls Basketball Championship Awards
- 00:10:49: Recognition & Presentation of John Land Award to Jones
- 00:17:21: Employee Years of Service Awards Pin Presentations
- 00:18:56: Public Participation Begins: Veronica Harmon, Cornelius Park
- 00:31:31: Public Participation: Robert Langan, Street Lighting Questions
- 00:33:29: Consent Agenda Approval & City Manager Updates Start
- 00:41:06: Animal Shelter Improvements; Fiber Optic Progress Report
- 00:44:57: Airport Lease Negotiations, Lighting Project Bids Opened
- 00:47:55: Employee Of The Month Coin; Going Green Discussion
- 01:03:37: Police Department Staffing Changes and Fire Department Updates
- 01:11:21: Mayor Discusses New City Manager and Sunshine Law
- 01:13:05: CSX Transportation Encroachment Agreement Approval
- 01:15:52: Post-Retirement Health Insurance Policy Amendment Discussion
- 01:31:52: Tabled: Post-Retirement Health Insurance - Continued Discussion
- 01:37:03: Pasaro Agreement; Wastewater Clarifier Resolution Approval
- 01:47:39: Public Participation: Dan Kaufman, Performance Award Suggestion


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Today is Tuesday, May 19th, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. We're going to call this meeting to order. Is that me? >> Um, can we have roll call, Miss? >> Yes, we can. Mayor Charles Goodman, >> I am here.

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>> Council President Darkness Hines, >> here. >> Vice President Deborah Jones, >> here. >> Council member Michael Cox, >> here. Council member Meredith Martin, she is absent and it is excused. Council member Shaina Church here. City Chief

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Manager Mike Rolls >> here. >> Attorney Kirstston Belal Blue here. City Clerk Latricia Wright is absent and excused. And interim police chief Matt Borty. At this time, we have the opening prayer

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and the pledge of allegiance to the flag by Mayor Charles Goodman. >> Thank you. >> Join me. >> Lord, we come to you today in a day of celebration. Lord, this city is so proud of the young

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ladies who have applied themselves so hard. And as we're going through this celebration, Lord, I just ask that you help us all to remember the Bible says, "No greater love as he

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that lays down his life for another." Three men, Lord, laid down their life to save children in a school. And Lord, I ask you to be with their families and help us all to understand

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that it is a sacrifice that these men made. And I ask you to be with this council today. Give them the wisdom to make the best choices for our city. give them the strength to deal with

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whatever problems may come up. And I thank you, Lord, for every person that has taken the time out of their life to come here tonight to join this celebration with us. In your name, I

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

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justice for all. >> Thank you very much. Item number one, additions, deletions, changes, and approval of the agenda. >> Seeing none, I move we approve the agenda as presented. >> A second.

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>> We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed, nay. >> Motion passes 4 to zero. Item number two, presentation of awards to the Williston High School girls basketball champions, Mayor Charles

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Goodman and Chief City Manager, uh, Mike Rolls >> and Coach Will. folks. I want to tell you how we are to have I know that

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you worked hard yourself in the end. You are Batteries are dead. >> Check. Check. Miss Nana Brown, could you come forward? Miss Jamilia Robinson.

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Just stay with us here. Dennis Smith. He He's trying to get away. Willie Powers the second. Miss Jabara Joiner

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>> right here. Miss Ta Duncan. >> Thank you, Miss Ta. Miss Daya Smith, Miss Kayn Brown. Thank you. Miss Kyla McCrae,

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Miss Janiah Span. >> I'm going to shake her hand. You don't need to go over there. >> Okay. Trinity Solomon. Miss Trinity.

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Congratulations, Miss Ashlin Young. I could see it all over your face. Congratulations, Miss Kierce Solomon. Congratulations, Miss Delissia Dallas.

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Congratulations, Miss Nariah Dallas. Congratulations. Miss Bailey Cruz Cruz Cribs Cribs C R I BBS Miss Cribs congratulations.

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So, so everybody knows I was warned that some of you ladies have names that I might not be able to pronounce being an old man, but after listening to them, I think I could have got every one of them.

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>> You haven't got a panoramic camera? >> I'm gonna get in close here. Come on over here. >> There you go. >> No, ma'am. >> I'm not the important one. Thank you ladies and congratulations

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again. >> You're aware. I'll All right. Amazing. Amazing. Item number three will have presentation of the John Land Award by Mayor Charles Goodman.

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Thank you, Madame President. Would it be possible for Vice President Deborah Jones to meet me up here? Thank you. It's not easy to keep things from you, Vice President.

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I would like to read this because I think it's important. This is a resolution of the board of directors of the Florida League of Cities honoring Deborah F. Jones for 25 years

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of elected service. That deserves an applause. You don't hold back on my account. and presenting her with the John Land Years of Service Award in recognition of her selfless commitment to municipal

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leadership and governance. Whereas America's municipal governments have long relied upon the selfless leadership of their citizens for local self-government. and Florida's municipal governments

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share the timehonored role as the level of government closest to the people. Whereas the reliance places extraordinary responsibility upon citizen legislators,

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municipal elected officials who make significant sacrifices of their time and energies on behalf of their citizenry, making this commitment a true labor of

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love. And whereas municipal leaders strive for excellence in the governance of their city, their town or their village and commit themselves to providing quality services, governing effectively and

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working to improve the quality of life. And whereas the league has named its years of service recognition in honor of John Lan, the mayor of Apatka between the years of 1949

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and 2014, a leader whose dedication is unsurpassed at the national and state level and who modeled the way for decades of municipal leaders.

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And whereas several terms in office are a high compliment voters give to an official. And with these years of experience comes a strengthening of wisdom, discernment, and strong leadership

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that brings tremendous value to municipal governments of Florida. And whereas Deborah F. Jones has held office in the city of Willist for 25 years and is recognized for this

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achievement. Now therefore, let it be resolved by the board of directors of the Florida League of Cities Incorporated that Deborah F. Jones is commended for her dedication to the city of Willist and is hereby recognized as

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an outstanding public servant in Florida. This is adopted by the board of directors who assembled this fourth day of December 2025. Vice President Jones, congratulations.

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Thank you. I just comment that I know Mr. Lamb and it is a great honor to win any award that is named after him. And I'll also say that those 25 years, as you know, were not consecutive. I had a 10-year break in the middle. Um, but I asked

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specifically if they were if they all had to be consecutive and we were told that they did not. Uh, so I am very proud to receive this award. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right. So item number four, employee

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years of service award pin HR director Kim Troy. >> Good evening for 15 years. Thank you for your dedication and contributing to the city of Willist's success over the last 15 years. Joseph Moose, who could not be

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here tonight. Um 10 years of service, they also could not be here tonight. Thank you for your dedication and contributing to the city of Williston success over the last 10 years. Kurt Williams, Chad Williams, and Matthew

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Baton. Batton, sorry, Matthew Batton. Um, thank you for your dedication and contributing to the city's of Willist success over the last five years. Aaron Mills,

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Camden Pogue, Evan Miller, Joseph Brooks, Shane Bman, Baitman. There's a knee missing. My bad. And Keegan Baker. Thanks for showing up, Erin.

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Couldn't do it without you. Item number five is going to be our public participation. This is one of two times you'll have to speak at the podium. Please say your name and where you're from. Is this your public? >> Madam President, >> is this your public participation?

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>> No, ma'am. This is something that I omitted that is too important to omit. >> Okay. >> Mr. Dan Jones, would you come up here, please, sir? >> No, but she's your wife. This is a lapel pin for your wife. Could you put it on

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her, please? Don't be back. There you go. Thank you. I thought it was over now. All right, we will resume with public participation. >> You have five minutes to speak. If you come to the podium, say your name and

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where you're from, please. All right. Yes. Okay. My name is Veronica Harmon. and I reside at 21041 Northeast 40th Street. And I'm here in regards to um

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several uh letters that I got uh that were certified from um the city, one for myself, one for my mom's address, 21024 Northeast 40th Street as well, and my grandma. Both my mom and my grandmother

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is deceased. My grandmother's address is 21038 North East 40th Street as well. And um the letters were regarding uh our properties in relation to

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Cornelius Park. Um, I got a chance to look over on the agenda what um what um is planned for Canelius Park and um I just want to say that presently the way

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the park is, I'm not pleased with it because for it to be a park for the community, the kids in the community do not have access to it. there's no way for them to be able to walk freely um within the park and take part in playing

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sports or whatever you know the park is supposed to be utilized for. And also after reading um what uh came on the certified came with the cert certified letter um there was information about

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the agenda that I was able to look up on the internet that stated that um the park was granted uh a grant to further um enhance the

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park and it was supposed to be an AfricanAmerican cultural uh grant for that particular park. And um after looking on the internet and seeing what was planned for it, which is a sports complex, I don't think that um

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is relative what the grant is for. I think the grant should um provide a facility for kids to play. maybe a pavilion for um families to uh get together and intermingle, but a sports

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complex, I don't think that's representative of um what Cornelius Park should be about. If it's representing him, he would be uh more involved with something for the community that he

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lives in. Um the house where he lived is right across from the park and there's no way that he would be able to if he were still alive to be able to get to that park outside of going to Highway 27

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and driving in. Now, if it's for the community, you shouldn't have to go via Highway 27 to get into the park when it's right there in the middle of the community where uh nobody has immediate access to.

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>> Thank you. Um Chief, is there isn't there a gate there? Is it closed during the day or is it open? No, there there is a back entrance into to Canadian William Park off of 318. Uh and that's all part of the development of when they

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revitalize Canadian William Park, that entrance way will be redone because right now it's just a dirt road, grass dirt road. So part of the development of it is to improve that roadway. So there'll be two ways in and two ways out. One off 318 and one off Highway 27.

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>> Okay. So the community um the immediate community that's there where the park is located will be able to enter and exit during operational hours. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> Yes, ma'am. >> And I also um am hoping that you can

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include something that would benefit the kids of the community. >> Just having a sports complex there. >> I I do, >> you know, that's okay, but it's not enough for the kids of the community if that's what it's for. >> Right. >> The plan is actually larger.

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>> Yeah. than just the the just the um sports complex. >> Um when we went to get the grant, we were not able to get it for um

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the reason that we initially went for and um we ended up having to change it some in order to get a grant for that park to do the things that we wanted to do.

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Okay. Um, the name of the grant is AfricanAmerican I stand to be correct corrected cultural uh is for that is for that purpose only.

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And I don't see how a sports center is representative of the community and it's supposed to be representative of the kids in honor of Cornelius Park. What I'm saying is even if um it's going

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to be something bigger, which would be great, I'm saying include the kids of the community. There is a playground there now and the Raiders practice there now. Uh they practice there twice a week. Um and they have other games there

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as well. Um they do their their exchange games are actually at Williston Youth Athletic, but they practice at Cornese Williams. I will say originally his house was going to be moved into the park and it's come to our attention that

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it's not in any shape to pick up. If we picked it up and moved it, it would fall apart. >> Understood. Understood. >> So, we're not able to move it. However, there is going to be if you read the whole grant uh not just look at the site plan that was in the county that she's

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reerring to because it was on the count planning and planning and zoning um agenda yesterday. >> Yesterday, day before >> yesterday. Yes. and it was mostly just the site plan, but there are other there there's also a pavilion

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that's planned as well. Mr. Fuller made sure of that. >> Okay. >> I mean, he's been here the whole time trying to help us. >> Yes. I I remember during the earliest stages >> and and the chief's right. Um it is it does have a separate entrance into the Lincoln Heights area on on 38.

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>> Yeah. I I just want to be adamant about having something for the kids, >> not just a big complex that teens will be coming in to utilize. >> It's not It's for our local teams is what it's for. >> Okay. Okay. I'm just I just want to make

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sure that the kids of the community >> Yeah. >> are looked, you know, not forgotten, >> right? >> I don't want them to be forgotten. And I want I would like to see a facility where they would have access to, you know, maybe playing not just a

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playground, a bigger basketball court, >> you know, for the kids that like to play. The girls could have on their off time, off season or whatever, >> could go to the park and play, >> right? >> If you know, it had the amenities, you know, for that. >> I do believe, and correct me if I'm

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wrong, but I do believe there is some upgrades to the basketball court that's out there now, >> right? and the grant. I do believe there is a stipulation in there to upgrade those basketball courts. Okay. Correct. >> Yeah. Okay. >> People are also playing soccer too, but

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they're adults. Yeah. There's an adult league that plays out there on Sundays. >> Yeah. I'm just putting emphasis on the children, not teens and adults and all that. The younger generation is what I'm concerned about. >> There are quite a few events out there

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that I go to. They go throughout the year. >> That includes the kids. That includes kids between Miss Gussy and Miss Jackie. >> Uh they they keep us moving out there. >> Okay. >> Thank you for your concern. >> Okay. I just don't want it to be forgotten that I'm concerned about kids

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being able to freely >> Oh, yeah. >> You know, enter the park just like John Young. You got a nice park there. >> Kids can, you know, from their neighborhood just walk in there and have at it. >> Yes, ma'am. >> We like the same thing for our community. >> Absolutely. And they they will have

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that, you know, Canadian Williams Park is kind of in a unique location. >> Yeah, that's another thing that um I'm not pleased with. >> Yeah. >> You know, for the park to be there and then for someone to allow a so-called

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towing company to come in adjacent to the park. >> They were there, I'm afraid. And then well, I don't think a junkyard should have been approved by zone in a residential area

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>> and the park itself is surrounded by junk. That's another whole story. You know, the kids don't have access to it. >> You got junk surrounding the park. It's just totally >> I'm going to cut you off here. >> Unnecessary. >> Thank you. We appreciate your comment.

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If you're still here, we'll have another five minutes after. later in the um agenda. >> Okay. I don't have anything else to say. I just want it to be heard that I don't want the younger kids to be left out of this plan.

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>> We appreciate it. Thank you. Anyone else? >> Mr. Robert, >> I need to know. Robert Langan, 500 Northwest Fifth Avenue. I need to know who I need to talk to to figure out what

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is going on around our subdivision. Um, I was working with Robert. I know he's not here now, but I he had me draw where we want to put lights on Seventh Street. The agreement was that they y you all the city was going to put the lights we were going to pay the bills.

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Now I have since heard been told that the light poles that were going to put lights on are being taken out to put the cable underground. Who know I need to talk to somebody that knows what is actually going on and what is planned because there's no use putting lights on

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uh polls and you all take them down next month. And there's also shows pole poles shown on the drawing. They don't say light poles. It just says pole. Nobody knows anything about them.

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So, are they going to be installed? Not installed because last thing we need to do is Seventh Street get darker. >> Yes, sir. Can we meet out there tomorrow and take a look at them? >> Let me know what time. >> Let's go with uh 2 o'clock. >> 2 o'clock be fine. Where you want to meet? My house or down at 7th Street?

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>> I can meet you at your house. Okay, that'll work because there just a lot of uh miscommunication and seems like A doesn't know what B is doing and C's in a different county. >> Well, Alex, your ma'am. >> All right. Thanks. >> Thank you.

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Anyone else? Seeing none, we will move on. Item number six, consent agenda. Council minutes from April 7, 2026. Council minutes from April 20th, 26. May

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12th, 2026. Resolution 2026-31, a resolution of the city council of the city of Wilson, Florida, to approve the disposal and sale of F450 truck bed. Resolution 2026-32.

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A resolution of the city council of the city of Wilson, Florida, authorizing the city manager to approve a pending employment dispute settlement in an amount up to $15,968 and to execute a full settlement

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agreement on behalf of the city of Williston in a final form approval by Mark Gray, PA and the city manager and providing an effective I move approval of the consent agenda. >> A second.

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>> I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes four to zero. Item number seven, updates. We'll start with

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city manager Michaels. >> All right. Thank you. Uh I just have a few things that I'll just like to bring you up to date on and go over just to know let you know where we're where we're at and what we're doing. Uh Alex, myself, and Miss Vicki, uh you know, it's been a lot of talk about uh the

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barn over across by the police department and the uh condition of it. So, we went over and took a tour. Uh, we identified items that could be sold or disposed of that are no longer serviceable

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or that are no longer needed. Uh, we're in that effort, we're trying to clean up the area to make it more professional and more more of a safer workplace. Uh, we'll be presenting that list of items uh at a later date when we

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get some prices on some of the items that we feel that could be sold. We'll be presenting it to the council for you to all to review. And after your review, we will proceed with trying to dispose of that equipment to clean up that area. Uh there's just a lot of stuff over there that's just not serable or not

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usable, not used anymore that we could dispose of that would really make the yard look professional. So, we're working on that. Uh give you a quick FEMA update. Uh we're in stage four of seven in our FEMA reimbursement process

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in reference to Hurricane Helen and Milton. Uh Miss Vicki has taken the lead on that. Uh there's a few more documents that we must provide to FEMA. Uh before we move to step five of number seven. Uh but we're moving in the right direction

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as you know uh with FEMA sometimes it takes a long time to to even get any reimbursement. So to see that we're at stage four and shortly away from stage five and this sevenstep process is uh pretty good sign for us. So we'll stay

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on top of that and keep you updated on the progress of that. Uh today Morgan Megan I'm sorry Megan and I had a scheduled meeting with meeting with Edmonds uh to discuss uh identified issues uh and a plan on how

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to help us go green with our with our bills. Um, we spent a lot of money, somewhere roughly around 20 to 28,000 on mailouts per year. Uh, my big push uh for Megan

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is to try to convert as many citizens as we can to do it online without receiving the mailouts. Uh, they will have the option to uh to take that if they want. Uh the purpose of that is to try to reduce the cost of what it cost us in

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postage. Um and as we know uh we're we're sticking envelopes inside of our bills uh that are costing us a substantial amount of money and when the bills come back we may get one or two envelopes back. So uh the push would be

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to try to get everyone to go green. Um, we met with Edmunds today to talk about a a substantial uh reduction in the cost of citizens using credit cards to pay their bills. Uh, currently right now it's at 2.95%

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which to me is unacceptable. So, we spoke about that today. I'm waiting on an update from Edmunds u on how we can move forward with that or if they can assist us in reducing that price to for our citizens. Tomorrow night we have a meeting uh the

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planning board meeting in reference to Canadian Williams Park as the young lady spoke about. That's tomorrow at 5:45. Uh if anybody would like to attend, please come. Uh we can pro uh it's in Bronson. Yes. >> 5:45.

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>> Yes, ma'am. If you would like to come out and support the the process, uh 5:45 in Bronson, we will be there. Uh in our previous meetings, I've spoke uh several times about employee of the month awards. Uh Mr. Bensteagle, who's here,

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uh created a challenge coin, which is which Miss Vicki will pass around for you all to take a look at. In addition to uh our employee of the month award, Miss Vicki also created an

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employee of the month nomination form which will be used uh when somebody wants to recommend an employee for that that status. Um and you have that form in front of you. Uh so that form could be used by anybody. It could be used by

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council. It could be used by citizen. It could be used by staff to nominate an employee for employee of the month. So, uh, we wanted to create that so we can have some type of documentation, uh, as to, you know, all of our employees that received this award.

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On that note, you also have a form in front of you that was created by Miss Megan and it is the uh, city of Willist irrigation meter install services. Uh it

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pretty much outlines if uh a citizen was to request a irrigation meter, the responsibilities that the citizens have when that that meter is uh placed and their duties and their responsibility when that meter is installed at their

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homes. Um, this form was created uh, like I said by Megan because it's something that uh, we do not currently have that we can use to track our meters when we put them in. Is that right, Megan? Am I saying that right? Okay. It will help us keep track of all of our

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meters. U, so these are all forms that we're looking at. You have them in front of you. you can take your time, take a look at them, and let us know uh or let me know later if there's something that you approve of. Also, I'd like to give you a quick

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update on uh some things that's going on on the shelter. I won't take up much time, much more time. Uh BJ is doing an excellent job out at our animal shelter. Uh we have a shelter in this city that we can be very proud of. And we have employees

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that are working out there that we should be very proud of as well. Uh the shelter now is fully functioning and running on their new software uh that they utilize for adopting out their their pets. Uh they adopted out their

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first dog last week uh using a new system. Thank you, VJ. Uh so we're super excited about that. it will help BJ uh make her job a lot easier when she's adopting our pets. So, uh also at the

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shelter, uh Miss BJ has took it upon herself, which is something that that we did not do, but we should have is she's creating policies and procedures to establish a clear standard operation procedure for shel shelter operations.

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Uh I know she's reached out to multiple different places to get their policies and procedures so she can you know design one that we can use at our shelter which you know would not only carry us now but it would carry us in the future when uh the shelter of B miss

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BJ or myself are no longer here. There'll still be some policies and procedures for our staff to follow. Uh she's also continuing her search for a veterinarian to partner with the shelter. Uh on the 21st, she will be meeting with

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the Williston Community Animal Advocate Services on May 21st to discuss the possibility of working together again and moving the shelter forward. I look forward to the feedback on that. Uh and last on the animal shelter at this time

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we are currently caring for two dogs, 11 cats. Five of the cats have been adopted and will be going to their forever home on Friday. So once again congratulations BJ into our shelter. Quick update on fiber.

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Uh as of today we have converted 33 cow link customers to the Williston fiber. Uh currently we have 40 uh customers on uh cow link. So we're at 33. Uh three of

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those are in CLLE area. Uh but they're still being serviced by wireless. We have a little bit more work to do in that area before they'll be 100%. Um, so Aaron and his team uh have been doing a great job of getting this process started. I know this has been a long

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time coming. Uh, and I'm glad to report to you all and citizens that the program is starting to roll out. Um, so Aaron has also added five new commercial customers. Uh, I don't have

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the names of those, but uh, there's five new commercial customers that have been added. uh one resident residential customer as well as internet feed to the Williston crossings have been installed. >> All right.

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>> So, uh great work by Aaron and his team. Uh they the feed has has been installed at their office, but it hasn't it has not been dispersed out in the the park yet, right Aaron? >> Yeah, that was the agreed upon. We for them allowing us in there with the

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contract, we gave them access for their use. So this is for their connection for their offices or whatever they want to do with it. >> So as you can see, we've been working hard to try to get some of these tasks that's been before us uh to accomplish

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those tasks. So um quick update on the airport. Uh Mr. Benton and I met with a possible lease of 40 acres out at the airport. Uh they should be getting a survey done sometime next week.

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next week. And once that survey is done, hopefully we'll be moving into the lease agreement phase. Um I don't think they're wanting to put out what they're planning on doing. Okay. Uh but uh that

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would be a great revenue source coming into the to the city uh if we can seal this deal on this 40 acre land lease. Um the bidding for airport lighting project on the for the runway uh has started our

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opening. Yeah, we uh we had the bid opening um I think it was a couple weeks ago. We weren't able to report it because it was just past that um the last council meeting. Um, Trinity Electric was, I believe, the low bidder and Paso is

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actually finishing their due diligence on it to to confirm that all the bids were were appropriate before recommending an award. >> Cool. Thank you, Benton. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh, I got an update from uh Wright Pierce. Uh,

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let's see. When we met when we met last week and the week before, we talked about the FMA brick grant. The FMA had two programs in 2024 called brick, the brick grant and the

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FMA flood uh medic med medication assistance. Uh we applied for both of those grants. Uh one was to fix Northwest 7th Street and one was also for Northwest Fifth Place. uh we did not receive those

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grants, but Walt wanted me to let you know that those grants have uh been reopened and they're only taking applications from municipalities who had applied the year before. So, we fit that category.

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Um Wal's going to give me some more information on those grants. Uh I think the one on Northwest 7th Street was designed design design and permitting was 220K. Construction was 480K for a

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total of 700 700K. Uh they may require up to a 25cent cost of sharing from from the city. Uh fifth place was 981K and they may also require a 25% cost sharing on that. But um as we

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move forward, I will get with Walt and get more information to provide to you all for the next meeting and we can decide if we want to reapply for those grants. And that's all I have. Thank you. >> Any questions for the chief? >> Just one. Great idea. On the employee of

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the month, is there going to be a deadline like by the 25th of the month that any ballots are going to be turned in? >> Yeah, we if we when we do it on a monthly basis, Yeah. We will have a deadline. It has to be in before that month end in in order for us to

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recognize that employee for that month. Uh but you can recommend an employee at any time. Uh but just get them in before the end of the month so we could we can actually give them the award. So we're super excited about it. I think it's something it's a morale builder for our

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employees. uh they do work hard and you know they're out in the field and you see them but you know how many of us really take the time to say hey thank you and I mean I know understand that comments have been made that things are not moving fast or enough or different

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things but there's different reasons for those things but it's not because of the lack of the work of our employees so uh I'm super proud of the work they're doing as you can see as you move around the city we're getting these tasks knocked down as quickly as we can. So,

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I'm I'm super proud and I thank every employee for the citizen Willist that go out there and work hard and and do what that what our citizens expect them to do. >> Question. So, you don't have the answer right now. Um, but I would like to know

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how much it would cost to collect or pay for of the coin. Um, and is it a possibility you can instead of giving it out to everybody want some well someone every month give it when

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extraordinary things have been done um to that way I mean it just it's really nice so um for them to or what am I trying to

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um hold on for them to have but you know for like special like incentive type um for that particular piece. Um so yeah, how much would it cost

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>> okay >> for us to have to get it? I'm coming bitten. Hold on. >> I probably Yeah, >> he knows. I'm sure he does. Yeah, he knows that. >> But I mean, I just didn't want to kind of like put it on the spot, but just like say, you know. Um,

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>> and then also when we talk about going green with the bills, have we thought about not placing the envelope in to the bill? That'll save cost there. Not

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everybody is able to pay online. >> Um, so we have to think about those residents as well. Um, and I know, not that we want to add cost to the residence, but I know if I choose

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to pay my bill through the mail, there is a administrative fee. >> That's something that we can kind of like look out look at as well when we're talking about going green, but we need to make sure that we're taking everybody

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into account um, when we talk about doing that. Um, Mr. Benton, you can answer my question now. >> He can answer the first one and then I'll ask for the rest. >> Yes, ma'am. So, u the the coins we ordered 100 coins. Um, there were >> Oh, you already ordered them.

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>> We we have them in hand. Yes, ma'am. That's what that's what Chief Rolls was saying. >> Okay. >> Um, so there is a a line item budget for that in the HR budget um for employee incentives. And our plan with rolling out the coins was not just to have this particular set of coins, but as as we

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get a couple years down the road, we order different coins for that exact purpose. So it's not just a employee of the month coin, but it can be a, you know, an employee recognition award, you know, we if we have an attabo from from a citizen like we've had, you know, several in the past few months, we can

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hand a coin to that individual while recognizing them up here. Um, so it's more than just an employee of the month. Um, and then we were going to order, you know, different coins or other incentives uh possibly in the future future to to mix it up some. >> And and Troy,

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>> I'm sorry. >> It's kind of like uh the idea behind it is like military coins, you know, if you do something great and you meet uh like in Afghanistan, I met uh the Army Chief of Staff. I got it. I I did something, I

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guess. Oh, they gave me a coin for it. And it's kind of like though that's the kind of idea that we're we're trying to do. >> Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, just looking at the coin, I mean, like I say, it's really really nice. Um, and if we look at giving it an achievement, that's

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great. Employee month is is definitely great. But what if the same person is employee of the month three months in a row or you know, then are you have another coin to give them? I I wanted to answer all your questions.

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>> Okay. Go ahead. >> Uh number one, we don't know if we're going to have an employee of the month every month. Uh we don't know. That's something that the department heads or citizens or somebody would have to decide. So, uh to say we're going to give it out every month may not be the

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case. Uh but if it is and the employee deserves it, I'm okay with it. >> So, uh so if >> and that's fine with being okay with it. What I'm saying is you're going to give >> Oh, go ahead. >> Okay. So,

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>> I got you. >> Yeah. >> So, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. >> If their employees deserve it and they and the and the the citizen or the department head determines that that deploy that employee deserves it, I'm

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okay with giving it out every month. Uh it's a it's a small token of appreciation to show our employees that we appreciate their dedication and and their service to our citizens into our community. Uh now to go back, you asked me another question about going green.

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So yes, the envelopes that I spoke about earlier that we were stuffing in there, we have this month we've taken them out. Okay. And it's cost us a saved us a substantial amount of money. uh we understand, I understand, the team

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understands that, you know, there's a lot of things that get passed on to the citizens, you know, and we're trying to take some of that burden off of them by whatever means we can. So if

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if going green is going to help and we can we can pass that process on without passing that burden back on to the citizens, then that's the whole purpose of trying to do this. Uh and we just got to get the citizens to buy. We got to

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give them the education and the benefits of why we're going that direction. And the most important part is because we've all sat in here as as citizens and talked about our budgets and different things that's coming up. Well, my my job

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as your current city manager is to identify ways that we can save money and we can take some of the burden off of our taxpayers. >> Agree. That was the reason for asking about the envelope and they're still getting >> also but also making sure that we don't

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forget about those people who do not have ma'am access to the internet and things of that nature. N >> by all means let's go green but we still have to think about all the citizens not just >> going madam president >> just just going green. Yes sir.

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>> Thank you. >> Pardon me. >> Who said that? You said that >> I did. I did. I I have this loud voice. My understanding from what I thought I heard was this going green was voluntary.

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>> Yes. Absolutely. >> So if somebody doesn't want to go green, they don't want to get it in the mail. I mean in the email or however you're going to do it, they don't have to. They can still stay with the old way. Yes, sir. So, this is a city attempting to go

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green and the citizens have got to accept it in order for it to happen because we're not forcing it on them. Right. >> Absolutely correct. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. But that was the reason for my question because I didn't hear that. >> So, that's why we asked questions. >> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. >> All right. >> Any other questions from Chief >> Manager? >> I just had a general question regarding the employee of the month nomination. >> Oh, there you Um actually it's kind of two different questions. Uh one what would be the preferred method for

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submitting these and and basically an understanding for everyone to understand the process of it. So do they have to be approved by their their manager for in order for it to be accepted and then do you guys prefer this to be submitted via email dropped off to a specific person?

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Like what's the plan as of right now for that? >> Yes. If if if a department head wants to submit an employee for that nomination, uh they would complete the form whether it be retinar or an email uh they would send them to me. Uh I will meet with

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that department head review it and if it's approved then that employee will be employee of the month or vice versa if a citizen want to submit one they can submit it to me and I will review it and approve it for the employee uh for employee of the month. Do you have a

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process in place for if you have multiple nominations within the month? >> Same process. >> What's that? >> If the department head submits the form of say the department head submits two people in his department for employee of the month. Once again, like I said, if

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it's submitted by the department head or citizen or whoever submits that person, I don't have a problem with it. Um, it's not it's it's not a free-for-all. I I I I get where you're trying to go this uh thinking it's a freefor all but >> you may get that

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>> but that's what I'm saying but what's what's your process because you just said if they >> but if you get 10 and an employees deserve it then I'm then it's it's to me it's no issue if a department head or a citizen puts an employee in for employee of the month and they deserve it. I

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don't care if it's 20, you know, if they deserve it, they deserve it. And I'm not going to hold that back unless you tell me not to. But, uh, I I think it's important that we value our employees and and if they are submitted like we've seen here before where citizens have

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submitted employees, uh, for recognition, nobody questioned it. We accepted it. So, I'm not I'm not quite understanding where the questions are coming from now because this is not something that's new for us. We've done this in this city for

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50 years or however long. >> So, you're not going to do one a month? >> If there's more than one, they could there could be more than one. It could be one from utilities. There could be one from the airport. There could be one from the police department. I mean, so it it it just depends on how how many

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get submitted. >> And then the follow-up question that I had is is basically just because we do something very similar over at UF. When we have our monthly meetings, we not only recognize the people who won um or you know had specific submissions, but

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we also recognize entries. So if someone may have um received one, but another person received three, so they in that one unit or department got the coin, we also did a quick recognition saying these are the peaceful people also nominated and and the reasons why and we got very very good feedback from it. So,

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I thought that might be a good idea if we don't already have that plan in place. >> And if and if we need to establish a committee >> to review them, we could do that as well. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> And I'm thinking one a month, not one per department. It has more meaning when it's one a

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month. >> Okay. >> And I think they're going to submit people from other department. I don't think they'll just do their own department. >> I mean, that's just me. >> They could >> and I think it needs to be added on here that needs to Okay.

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>> Sure. >> I'm sorry that >> you have not been approved to speak. No, we're not doing that yet. >> This is just updates right now. >> Okay. >> So, what was what were we talking about?

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>> I don't even know what we were talking about. We got off track somewhere. >> Hey, so council, can council participate? >> Absolutely. >> He said so. >> Yeah, I already said. Yeah, council. Anybody can participate. Yes. >> I just think it it needs to be a little

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bit more structured um when you're when you're looking at the employee of the month, whether it's coming from different departments, which is was just fine or and great as well. Um but yeah, if if we have one person who got five

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nominations and someone else who got two and someone else who got three, then the person who potentially well I mean it just depends on what your your guidelines >> Well, as you as you know should be

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>> you know the city the city is the city is unique because we have so many different departments. So, if I'm hearing what you're saying, you you just want one person out of the whole city, which I can understand if we all did the same job. >> No, I said different departments. Yeah.

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From a different department. >> So, then that could be one from each department. That's what I said. >> No, you didn't really say that. You just said if 10 people are nominated, you didn't specify. You just It was generalized. >> Okay. So if if one person >> I think >> he's talking to me.

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>> If one person gets nominated from each department, >> you're saying that I only need to have one. So >> I said that she did. >> Oh, well somebody said somebody said I only need to have one. >> I mean I thought it was an employee of the month for the city of Willist.

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>> It it is but >> not an employee of the month for each each individual department. >> But but you can't you can't Well, you could if you want. You could break it down to just one award for the complete city, but somebody in utilities may do something that's deserving of it that

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the same guy, somebody in water may have done it as well. So, how do I >> Well, that's different if they do the same thing together. >> No, I'm saying the water department, you may have somebody in water department that may do something that's deserving of it and you may have somebody in utilities that do something deserving of

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it. So, you're going to get multiple recommendations at different times from different departments >> and you're going to take a ball. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Yes.

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>> Unless y'all tell me something. >> I just think it loses its value if you take a ball. >> I would agree. Anybody else? >> That's just me. Yeah. Miss >> Vicky, you have anything? Interim Chief Courtney.

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>> Um, we've had a few we've had a few um changes. So, we had a new guy that didn't make it through FTO and he's left the department. And we've hired Mr. Jordan Woods. And then we've also picked up a reserve that's got about 25 years of reserve experience. And we'll be I'll

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introduce him to everybody. >> Cool. >> Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Stiggle uh Stigle. >> Yeah. Back here on the back row. Uh just going to give you some uh update.

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There's a couple things going on. Last week I attended the uh Levy County Fire Chief's meeting within they've uh decided to uh re-evaluate how they distribute the funding. Um they're coming up with several new formulas. I actually submitted three formulas to

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them for evaluation the other day based off of population call load and uh how much uh capital infrastructure you have in your zone. Um they're going to look at it a lot different than they have in the past. I fully understand

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they're looking at reclassifying the response zones. Um you know for for us that really has no impact. um for some of the others it has some pretty significant impact. Uh so there's going to be quite a few changes coming up

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there in the future. Um this morning I attended the BOCC meeting because that was going to be discussed some. Um they dis one of the things they discussed there was uh economic development. Um they're looking at putting together a committee. Be prepared. One of you is

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going to be asked to serve on it. um they were very high on our airport in that discussion today and uh they will be asking an airport employee to serve on it and so you know just so everybody just needs to

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be prepared for that. uh you know and uh just a reminder that this next week we've or we've already started the upgrade on the radio communication switch to the uh required federal licensing now and next week the fire

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department will temporarily shift shift over to Levy County dispatch for 90 to 120 days until we get our system up fully operational for the fire service. >> Wow. So that's all I have I think.

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>> So quick question. >> So this red re >> redistricting. >> Thank you. Is is it going to affect us positively or negatively or not at all or you're not sure?

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>> There is nothing in this plan that will affect us negatively. >> Okay. Um, I will I will I will tell you like this in in some of the evaluations where we evaluated response zones and how long it took to get x number of personnel on the scene. Um, in our

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districts we exceed what what is expected. um the the Williston Fire Levy County Station 11 uh Bronson zones, we can meet the standard faster than anybody else in the county. Um we get

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more PE we get more bodies now not we don't get enough bodies but we get more on calls than any other east side's the best side. How about that? Um and and we're we're we're doing what we need to do. So yeah, everything looking at it

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because a big part of it is critical infrastructure on the formulas in the future and based off population. Um I think that they reported this morning that they've this quarter they've had 188 new permits for just housing in the

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county. >> Not anything in the city, just in the county. So put putting that in perspective, you know, and the majority of the growth and this is through from the economic development is coming on the east side of Levy County.

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>> Awesome. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. Yes, ma'am. Um, Chief Rose, Chief City, >> I meant to pass on earlier that uh Walt also mentioned Lamar, I'm not sure if you're familiar with it, that there is a grant out there now that could be

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utilized to purchase you a firet truck. >> There's also a grant out there utilized to hire new employees. >> There you go. >> I'll be bringing that back on the next agenda. >> All right. Uh >> oh. Uh >> oh. Uhoh.

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All right, Mr. Benton. Chief stole your Chief Stole your your thunder. >> He did. He did. Anyone else in staffing? Nothing from you.

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Okay. Anything from the council? >> Yep. I know I know uh Miss Latricia is not here, but I do do a reminder July 3rd

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is the Fourth of July parade. >> So, we would like to get as many of us on the float. That's council. Uh July 3rd, July 3rd, July 4th in Bronson. And I'm sure Miss Electricia will give

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us the uh >> And it's a night break. >> Uhhuh. >> Okay. >> Or afternoon at least. Late afternoon. >> Okay. >> I don't know that we need lights, but >> Okay.

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>> So, be, you know, I'm sure they'll be giving us more details. >> I want to say theirs is at 5:00. >> At 4. Ours is at 5 also. That's why I thought theirs was later, but maybe not. >> And then afterwards, we go over to the

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horseman's part, hand out watermelons >> on the third. >> On the third. Yeah. So, you just do it for a couple hours and that's it. >> Sounds great. Anything else?

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Fireworks at 9:30. We just want to remind everybody that uh we're still under a burn ban. The county issued on Monday, so we're still another seven days into a burn ban and it's not really looking good for us in the near future. >> We have two months, give or take.

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>> So, >> we're going to be positive and if not, we can go and spray a lot of water. I started to say we've shot fireworks in the burn van before >> because we have the best fire department that there is. Please don't say that again.

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>> Well, we we did. Well, we did. >> Yeah. >> Remember what we did? We watered everything down, including the buildings. >> That's funny. >> So, we'll make a decision when we get there is what I'm saying. >> Okay. But you see his face back there. >> No, I did.

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>> Okay. >> He was here when we did it before. >> I haven't forgotten her. >> I will never forget you. Oh, thanks. Mr. Mayor, you have anything? >> Thank you, Madam President. I do.

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>> Okay. >> What do you guys think of your new city manager for now? >> Think he's good, right? >> He's fine. >> Okay. I just want to point out that I think he's good and he's a good chief of police, too. Yeah, we we know

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>> and I would like to have him back sooner rather than later. >> Sounds great. >> If this council I don't know what you've done because that's not my business, but if this council would like to have an e, we have a problem in the sunshine law.

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You guys can't talk to each other. >> So the only way you can move forward with a new city manager is to have a meeting. Otherwise, you're violating the sunshine law. And I'm offering to call a special meeting if you would like it or

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any three of you. You don't need me, but if you want me to, I'll be happy to cause a special meeting so you can discuss moving forward with your search for a city manager so that I can have that fine chief of police back because I

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need him also. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. We appreciate that. You beat me to the point you was going to say something about it later in the night, but we appreciate you. And guess what? He may want to stay, but thank you. Appreciate it. >> And we can discuss it at a regular

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meeting anytime. >> Oh, we have. >> All right. Um, so >> are you Miss Bel, do you have anything? >> All right, we will move forward. He is upset. You can you got to hurry back.

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Not right now. >> All right. So, item number eight, new business. Resolution 2026-32, a resolution of the city council of the city of Willist, Florida, approving and enter into a facility encroachment agreement between the city

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of Willist and CX CSX Transportation Incorporated, authorizing city council president to execute the agreement and providing an effective date. Alex Rodriguez, interim utility director.

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>> So, this is for putting our three-phase power across the north side of the tracks for the grant we got for the lift station. Um, oh, apologize for that. Can you hear me better? >> I'm sorry. I say do what? >> I'll start from the beginning. So, this

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is to do the three-phase power across the north side of the train tracks going to the lift station we got the grant for about a year back. Um that's just what the screaming is for going onto their property. That's the encroaching part of it. Really nothing else to it.

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>> So is train tracks headed on 27 G. >> The train tracks heading east >> on the northeast side of town over there by Northeast 9th Street. The train tracks right before it >> on the north side of that. We're doing three-phase power across there

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>> behind the woman's boat. And we just have to have the encroachment agreement as we do that. >> Okay. That's what I was thinking because that's the only >> I I apologize. I forgot about the train on the side. >> Have that you Okay. >> And even though we're in the air,

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they're going to charge us to go over their property. >> But there's something goes down in the ground, isn't it? >> I don't know. That's what I'm asking. >> Yes, ma'am. Because of how the how close the poles are also. >> Okay. Is there anything in the ground or or that's where you have to put a pole in?

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>> That's where we have to put a pole in the ground to go across it. >> Cuz I knew I saw something that had ground there. Okay. I'm not good with specs, but I >> mean, it says encroachment, but I did. So, the poles are on their property. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. All I saw was the wire going

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across their >> Yes, ma'am. On the far east side of it, our poles right there on their property. Got it. I make a motion we approve resolution 2026-32. >> Have a motion. Second. Have a motion and

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a second. Any discussion from the public? Any discussion from council? >> Seems none, I move to vote. All those in favor say I. I. >> All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 4 to zero.

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Resolution 2026-34, a resolution of the city council of the city of Willist, Florida, approving an amendment to section 32.02 O2 C of the city of Wilston human resource policy addressing entitlement to health insurance postretirement authorizing

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appropriate appropriate parties to sign any document required to effectuate such change on behalf of the city of Williston and providing an effective date HR director Kim Troy. Hello. So,

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um, this actually was, uh, when I was working on it. It's in the this was promised back in it's on in the, uh, 2024 audit book, which should be one of the attachments highlighted. Uh, this was actually

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promised in back in I think 2004, and we never amended. It's current in the HR manual as it is right now that um at age 62 which was the original retirement age that we were going to pay for the um 3

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years of healthcare for up until they were um is it Medicaid or Medicare? >> Medicare. >> Thank you. Medicare up until they were allow um eligible for Medicare. So with

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this um what I have done is currently because we have two eligible employees that are immediate. I broke it down into immediate uh 10 year and then 15 years of who is eligible. So the immediate the

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two we have one in public works and we have one police officer uh as well on the police side. So where this health we have a current employee in public works who is not taking the healthcare and he is a full-time employee in I believe the gas

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department. We also have a police officer that is full-time employed that has t not taken the healthcare. So we can and it was budgeted that way. we can utilize that money to pay for the two immediates and then next year we can add

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in a budget line for these these two and then um I broke down the cost on the spreadsheet it's kind of projected as to uh so every 3 years I gave it inflation um because that's generally what looking through the audit book that's kind of

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what they have budgeted as well through uh for inflation so we add in the budget line but to because We now have 25 and out. They're if they're not 62, they're not eligible for that part that we promised them at one point because it's

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no longer six, you know, 62 you after 25 years you can retire. It's 25 and out. So, uh, looking forward into this, we can also in this year's budget, we can add5 or $10 to every person that is, um,

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so let's just say FMIT comes back at 805 this year per person because the city picks up for their uh, health healthcare long-term plan. we can budget 5 to$10 and kind of build like a a reserve type

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thing, you know, like prepaying it. And that budget line is strictly for those individuals that are coming forward because we have one person in uh at the 10ear mark and then we have two people at the um 15ear mark. And now that we're

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25 and out, not everybody's going to stay those 25 years. It's going to be, you know, a small handful, but it was it was uh promised when we originally started these uh retirement plans. >> So, you you're saying you want us to pay

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someone who retires after 25 years who is not age 62. You want us to pay for their health insurance >> just for three years. Unless unless they are eligible if they go and get another job, they are eligible for health care at that that job. Then it is voided

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because you take your your work job or your uh oh your work health insurance. Um because that would be your primary. Uh if you are eligible for Medicare, thank you. I got to mix this up. Then

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you are um it's you're ineligible. And uh for example, I'm retired military. I pay for triricare. If you're eligible for triricare, you you're not eligible for the city. If you have an option to take other health care that is available to you through

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employment or another retirement, you are um what's the word? Disqualified. >> Who's going to police that? Who's going going to to who? >> So if let's just say Alex has 25 years

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>> and he goes to retire. He leaves we're paying his health insurance for three years. He moves to Texas and it has another job. Now he has insurance there and we're paying his insurance here. Or he has the ability to have insurance there but we're paying it here. So now

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he doesn't have to pay that out of his pocket even though he's working somewhere else. Who's going to police trying to figure out whether or not somebody has another job, has the ability to have insurance? >> So, when you have two insurance, you

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have to set up a co uh I have to do I had to do it. >> Yeah. You have to tell the other one that >> what is it? A coordination of benefits. There's an acronym for it, but it's a coordination of benefits. So, like right now, I have United for myself and I have Tririare. United didn't pay for nothing

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until I called and let them know. >> So, how are you gonna know? The insurance company may know, but how are you gonna know? >> The insurance company will another job. >> The the insurance insurance companies do know and they do contact. >> They inform me. >> Yes. Cuz Tryare won't pick up anything

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until the coordination of benefits because they have to be my secondary right now because this is my job. So, I mean, not to dive too deep into my personal >> but but it but it says who has the ability to get insurance from another

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entity. So, what if they just choose not to get the insurance from the other company? Cuz you don't have to. And then they allow us to continue to pay for insurance, but yet they can get insurance over here. Who is going to police figuring out whether or not they

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have access to insurance somewhere else? You have any thoughts? >> That's an issue. So, >> yeah. Nobody Nobody's doing it right now. And um >> Nobody's doing what? >> Uh for the current employees that are done. So basically we just had an

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employee eligible for Medicare and um the individual notified us because I don't think you can can you have a med you can have to well the employee notified me that the they are

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eligible for Medicare and I had to fill out the paperwork to cancel it. So it' basically be on the HR department >> but they are of age to get Medicare. We're talking about people who are retiring prior to being of that age to receive Medicare.

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How how how do we keep the city from paying for something for somebody that they can get somewhere else? You understand what I'm saying? >> If you don't like that part, we can take it out. >> Yeah. Cuz right now there's nobody I need to hear.

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>> I thought it needed what her her rationality. >> Yeah. So right now nobody's monitoring it. If you want the honest truth, like I don't even know who's on retirement right now, who's collecting retirement. >> Well, Kim, you're doing a whole lot of things that weren't necessarily done prior to. We appreciate that, but we still have to

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>> And the pension board can tell you. >> Yeah, the pension board can tell you. >> Pension board can tell her who's collecting benefits. >> Okay. >> How long was this decided on? >> Huh? >> When was this decided on? >> Oh, the the 62 one was like back in 200

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>> 2004 October 1st to be exact. I I'd like to make a statement. I think I can clear up a couple of things. Go ahead. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Um what we currently what we current what we used to have, let me just say we had two we had two plans.

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>> Three to the uh Florida retirement for police department for the fire department. What we had was a police we had a a general employee pension plan. That's all we had. In two October 1st of 2004, we split out the police

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department. We created the 185 pension plan that's also governed by the Florida League of Cities on our behalf. Uh so they do the general employees and the um police officers. At that time, we didn't think about

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this. We didn't think about the fact that we that and they say they can retire at 55. Our plan says 62. So when we did that, we didn't think about that. So we created this little issue way back in 2004 and it hasn't come up until now.

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So we're trying to kind of figure out what to do about it. We also created the same issue again once we did the 25 and out which we did just a few months ago >> because now it doesn't state an age at all.

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It just says a 25 years and out as long as you're vested, which is five years. Um, so what we did, we have two issues there that we're trying to correct with this. We do promise them, it is a benefit that is currently listed in our

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HR policy that they will receive 3 years of insurance because they were all retiring at age 62. And if they had been here for 25 years and retired at 62, we were going to pay three more years until they got

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to Medicare. that's been a benefit in our plan probably before I got here which is probably 40 years alto together in the time I was here and out back again. So that's the little niche that we've caused. We've caused those two issues and hadn't even

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thought about it until now we have two people that are in that situation and neither one of them are 62. So we need to do something about it is what it amounts to. So what the issue is they could retire. They're I've not

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neither one said they are ready to they could be here another four or five years for all we know or or another 10 years for all we know. But what it says is if they decided to retire today, it doesn't say that we can give them that three

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years of insurance until they're 62. So number one, it will cost more if they're 62 than if we do it now. when they're older, it'll cost more. Sure. >> And if because it's going to go up every year, not because of their age, but

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because it's going to go up every year. and and also it's going to cause um and and that little add-on about unless they have other coverage, that was something that Kim and I actually thought about that would not make us

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liable for paying it because they had something else to take care of it. If you don't like that part, we take it out. >> Well, it's not just that. is who who is going to man the lines is what I'm saying to >> the age is easy. So when they get to >> to determine whether

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>> when they get to 65 it's easy enough to know they're at 65 and we no longer have to pay it. >> But if they get it from another employer that's the hard part. If they get it from another employer it's whether they're eligible to get it from another employer. You're right. We won't know. If they get it we will know

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because they'll notify us. >> Right. >> And it says if they're eligible. Yeah. And typically if you're working at another facility, more than likely you're going to be eligible >> if you're full time. >> Yeah. >> So know knowing that most people who are retired at 25 and they're are still

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young and able to work, they're not going to not go and work somewhere else. >> So then >> I agree with that. I mean I agree with you. >> That just puts us in a predicament. >> Chief. >> Okay. All I can say is my position. Um,

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I've been through the whole pension boards, all this stuff. We mentioned this multiple times over the years. It kind of get shoved back and forth. The issue becomes the employees been here 25 years. It's not entitlement. It was something that was promised and either one way or the other it's going to be

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paid at 62 to 65 or at 55 to 58, which is going to be cheaper. The thing the thing is whether they had it, they earned that time, they've been here and put in their time. I can think of maybe five, six employees that have been here 25 years.

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>> Right now, right now there's only two, >> right? But I mean, but but I'm talking about over and the 30 the 29 years I've been >> this one is 10 years away. The closest out of the 29 years I've been here. >> The thing is all it says in the manual is as long as I keep the insurance which like for my position I will. You'll have

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to pay between 62 and 65. It's going to be more expensive for me. If it's 55 to 58, then I pay the rest because I'm going to stay on the city plan. All I can talk about is what you know on my situation. So when you start seeing that, it's it's it was something that we

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were given and it was already in paperwork when I got here in 97. So it was changed in 2004 because we split the plans. Yeah. But the three-year was already promised >> back 29 years ago. >> I think it's been here since the 80s. >> Yeah.

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You're welcome. You're welcome. >> And we are currently doing it. Well, as of now, no, but we've currently been doing it >> for the 62 and over. >> Right. Right. >> Is the retirement age still 25? I mean,

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25. I'm out. I've been retired a couple times. >> I'm out 25. >> I mean, >> I want mine twice. >> Is the retirement still 65? >> I mean, or does it go >> You mean Medicare or retirement? >> I mean, yeah.

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>> Yeah. Social Security retirement is something totally different than Medicare. >> Well, Medicare is still 65. >> That's what this is related to. >> No, Social Security Social Security benefits have gone up and they have nothing to do with Medicare. >> Medicare is still 65. Oh, >> okay. That's the question I'm asking.

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Ask a Medicare person. >> Okay. So, it has not gone up. >> No. Okay. >> It's still the same. >> All right. Who had a question? Who else had a question? >> Nobody else. Okay. >> Aaron had his hand up. >> I was just going to try to clarify that basically you're just trying to give the

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same promise of three years of insurance to every retiree regardless of how old they are. >> I understand that. But based on the the wording is the concern. >> We can take the bottom part off if you want to. I I get what you're saying, but

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you know, um the A and B are currently as it exists now >> because we have promised it to them. However, we threw in that police department can now retire at 55 if

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they're vested and the 25 and out doesn't have an age at all. So, it needs to a revision. microphone, please. >> That's kind of what we're >> Sorry, I thought I thought I had it on. Could we revise that and have it come back >> if we know how we want to revise it?

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That's what we're kind of asking. How do you want us to do? >> We need direction. That way, we're not shooting arrows at a blank target. >> Also, on our pension board, we do have a early retirement of 55. >> We do with a much much

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>> I understand that, but just remember that is an option as well. >> That is true. And and and that's why that's where my questions are coming from because that's why the age needs to come out of other other things like early retirement. >> The age needs to come out of it. You you instead of getting full retirement, you

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can retire at 55, but you get much reduced benefit. >> Correct. >> Much reduced benefit considerable. >> And I I think that's what we need to look at. >> Yes. >> Um also you still have to hit the 25. So it doesn't make a difference now with

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the early retirement because they're 25 and out. So it's for us it's 52 and 25 >> or 55 but if you have the 25 it would still be the 52. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Still 25 years >> of service. >> Yeah. We're not looking for somebody

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who's fully vested at five years, you know, and they're 62. That's We're not You have to do the 25. That's right. >> And you have to carry the health insurance. What was it? For five years. >> The past five years. >> And you can't change your plan. So if

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you were at UHC3 for the last 5 years, you can't I don't know why you would, but uh 19 I think is a lower plan. You can't switch that. And vice versa. If you chose uh19, which is a cheaper plan, you can't at the 5-year mark, you can't

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um when you retire, you can't go to the UHC uh three plan. >> You can't get the better plan if you've been on the lower plan. >> Yes. And you have to have had that same plan for five years. So if you switch in between those five years plans, you so

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so why not have a different plan for 25 and out cuz it says the the current insurance plan that you have. We can't just tell them they have to take a 25 and out plan. It's uh what what is in everything

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is the current plan that they have covered. >> So like if I let's just say I'm a 25-y year employee, right? And the last 10 years I've had UHC 3 and you create another plan for retirees, you're violating your own policy by making me

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take that. >> And I don't think we're going to get into plans here. No, just >> no. It is the plan that you have for years for the last five years is all it says. any more than half. >> What are other municipalities doing?

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>> So I the only one that does this is Penllis County, but they cover a lot more than three years. >> And I called like six or seven. I didn't call all of them, you know. I just picked six or seven and the only one that came back was um >> But it really doesn't matter who else

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has it because we do >> and it's something >> and it's something we've promised them for 25 years. >> Yeah. And >> and that's the way I feel about it and that's why I feel like we need to accommodate the fact that we changed the plans on them.

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>> Agreed. >> It's nothing that they did is something that we did. We created separate plans and didn't think about the difference. What do you mean we changed plans? >> We all We had one plan. We had the general employee pension plan. That's all we had. >> Okay. >> And in 2004, we carved out the police

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department and said 55 is now your new age, not 62. And then we did the 25 and out. And we didn't put an age in it at all. Just 25 years. So we did that. >> I don't want to put age in. >> And we can't take away something we promised them because we created

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>> a kind of a little enclave there. entitled them to come back and get it at 62. >> Even if they leave at 25 years, they could come back at 62 >> because the pension plan says that >> Yeah. So, that that's the problem is it would cost twice as much when they came back, >> right? Because you're just literally rolling them out of you're just keeping

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them in the plan that's currently there. >> The way it reads now, if they left at 55, they could come back at 62 and ask us for three years of insurance. >> I'd rather give it to them now at a lower rate. But if it if it's in the plan, you're talking about the pension

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plan, right? If it's in the pension plan, that's not the same way as it is in our HR manual, then they can get it for three years and then turn around at 62, come back and get it again. >> No, no, >> no, >> no. Because we're going to change the HR. >> I thought that's what you just said. >> That's why we're trying to change the

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HR. >> They don't get it at the 25 and out. Once they've been gone for 10 years, five years, whatever, they can come back and say at 62 that the city owes them three years. >> I now want you to pay for three years of insurance for me because the policy says so,

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>> right? >> And that's like 3% times 10 years is what you're you're looking at. >> Yeah. 30% increase instead of doing it now. >> Oh, yes, sir. as long as they carry it the five years

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prior. So, you're going to have to carry it from the time you leave to the time you're 62 to get the three years because it says you must carry the insurance for five years. So, that's the only way you can get it. So, if I carry So, when I leave, I'm going to continue paying for my city insurance myself privately.

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>> Well, at the age 62, because I have to I'm not I don't plan to work again. Not a job. and at 62 then I would then after the three years but I'm going to carry it through the city for the next n eight or nine years if that's the case

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>> you know because I going to have to have insurance the policy does say that and we do have a current employee or a older employee that retired nine or 10 or 12 years ago Larry Haynes that actually still today comes in to pay for his yearly insurance because he pays for the

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health insurance >> I know somebody who's paying for their life insurance still >> so I think it's Larry Haynes, I think he still pays still paying. >> I'm just going to stop. Yeah, you're just making me even more confused. >> Yeah, >> we just you just are. Okay, >> we we want to do we want to

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>> So, you want us to try to tweak it a little better? >> Yeah. >> And bring it back next time. >> Did you say but say what >> do you want now? >> What would you like it to say? >> I don't know. >> If we want to tweak, tell me what

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>> I would like it to say. If you hit this age, you can carry it to this. If you do this, you can do this. Do something because like you're up here talking all different. >> You Matt was just doing it as far as um >> it's three years after you're over there

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will be 20 will be 50 47 >> 46 >> by time 46 by the time his 25 hit, >> you know. And >> so you want and then you pay it till 49. We just we just need to have I don't know >> if you don't know I definitely

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>> I just very simple you leave the age out of it and you say three years after after you >> Yeah. Yeah. You we can get rid of C completely and just remove A and B and delete the uh nope leave B with the age but A delete the age out of it.

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>> We need to state each each it needs to state. >> We need to state each pension plan separately. Right now it's kind of lumped all together. >> We need to do this for the 185 >> and this for the general employees.

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>> Okay, this will come back. >> No more questions or comments, sir. Go ahead, Chief. >> The big the issue is it it needs to say three years after you make 25 and you retire. simple, straight to the point.

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>> And and again, it doesn't make a difference what pension you're in, what it is, as long as you hit 25 years >> when and then you leave here and you retire >> and the three years >> you meet that >> or you eligibility requirements, >> right? It just makes it more complicated

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if you start, you know, this pension pay that it's three years after you leave. It's going to be cheaper for the city for the employees that are going to continue carrying the insurance because at 55 I'm I'm a lot cheaper to ensure than I am at 60. >> I think that's where you confuse Matt.

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You said carrying the insurance after you retire. >> Correct. So if I if I leave here I can pay. >> That's what I was thinking about. Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. But but we have it in our policy. I think Miss Troy that it says we can continue the insurance. So I know

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I know Larry comes and pays his insurance yearly for his 12 months of insurance. >> So I can do that when I leave also. >> That is if if you retire. >> If I retire and then I after and make 25 years >> or whatever time. I don't know if there's even a time limit on that. >> Yeah. I don't think Larry was here.

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>> But I continue paying it and I'm going to throughout that time. >> Yeah. Basically what they do is they come in, they pay the front desk. So you get >> and then once the front desk I give it to Megan but it shows up that employee shows up on the bill but since they paid

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cash for it you know that's that's pretty much what he's trying to do is >> how does that work with us paying the three years >> once we're done paying the three years if he wants to >> he will continue to pay out of his pocket the same premium

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>> that the city plan offers but they pay cash and then we when we recon saw the bill. We figured that in and >> check it doesn't matter. >> All right, I'm I'm I'm with you now. >> So, >> that took a lot, did it? >> The important The important thing is that we created the problem

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>> and we promised it to them. >> Okay. Well, we can leave everything as it is. Just that, you know, if they um >> Yeah. Anyway, >> I think we need to take the ages out and say 25 years and 25 years because that's

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what it is in both plans. Just so A and B remove the ages. >> No, no, we'll look at it. We'll bring it back to >> as they are and then just add the >> We'll look at it. We go back. >> Well, the next I won't be here the next meeting. I'll be in the Caribbean. So,

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it'll be the meeting after >> and then we'll get um approve it, too. >> We're going to table. >> Yep. Table it till we bring it back. >> I move we table item 8B. A second.

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We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion from the none? We're going to vote even though. So, all those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. >> Motion pass three to zero

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>> to table >> and we won't let it die. We'll bring it back soon as it comes back. >> We definitely will bring it back and I cannot think anymore. I'm sorry. You're doing really good. You're doing really good. All right. So,

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resolution 2026-35, resolution of the city council of the city of Wilson, Florida, approving the Pacero Associate Supplemental Agreement 26-31 regarding the taxiway F extension and runway 5 decoupling project at the

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Willis Regional Airport authorizing appropriate parties to sign any document required to execute same on behalf of the city of Willis and providing an effective data report manager Benton Steel. >> Yes, ma'am. So, this one was really this one will be really easy for you guys. You've already approved the grant

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agreement. Basically, this is Pasaro's work order and Miss Angela Wit is here with Pasaro. Um, you know, just to to make sure that, you know, we can put a face to who we're actually working with and you guys kind of see that. Uh, but this is their their work order for us to

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hire them for the project. U, which I mean is is part of every grant agreement that we have. It's just a a document that, you know, was my mistake and kind of slipped through the cracks when we were bringing all the other things to you. >> So, here it is.

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>> I'll do my best. >> Can I get a motion? >> I move approval of resolution 2026-35. >> Second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion from the public? Any discussion from the council? Seeing none, I move a vote. All those in favor say I.

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>> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 4 to zero. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. Resolution 2026-36, a resolution of the city council of the city of Willist, Florida, approving the removal and disposal of the Williston sewer treatment water wastewater plant

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west clarifier settlement settled solids and approval for the services of American pipe and tank incorporated. Authorize appropriate parties to sign any documents required to effectuate same on behalf of the city of Wilson and

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provide an effective date. Uh Josh form, did I say that correctly? >> Okay. Wastewater plant operator training. >> All right. How you guys doing? >> Wonderful. How are you today? >> Right. So, um we've got a a secondary

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clarifier at the plant that uh is it needs service. Now, our secondary clarifiers are a critical component for the wastewater treatment. Um, they're designed to separate our biological solids from our effluent for further treatment. And over time, you get a you

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know, excessive accumulation of those solids and it can reduce the treatment efficiency. It can impair our hydraulic performance and it can contribute to equipment wear and operational failure. So um the removal of lease halls is necessary necessary to maintain proper

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treatment capacity, ensure compliance with state and federal environmental regulations, preserve water quality standards, and protect public health and infrastructure. Um accordingly, we're recommending the removal and disposal of the settled solids necessary for safe,

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effective, and compliant operation of the wastewater plant. Can I get a motion? >> Move resolution 2026-36. This is so loud. >> Can I get a second? >> A second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any discussion from the public?

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>> I just want to make sure the money is in the budget. >> I don't want to give you an accurate information. I'm not sure. >> Yeah. Anybody know where the money is coming from? >> Any discussion from the council? >> 12,000 bucks in the budget?

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>> Anybody know? >> They'll be coming out of our wastewater uh budget. Yes, ma'am. >> You think it's there? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> Who said just say yes? >> Alex. He said just say yes. Huh? No. >> Sound like I heard somebody say just say yes.

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>> No. We have it in our wastewater budget. Okay, we have it. >> Yes, ma'am. >> We have it. Any further discussion from the council? >> Seeing none, move to vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed say nay.

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>> Motion passes four to zero. >> I just want to comment. You did a great job with the resolution. >> Thank you. >> Saw that you wrote it. You did a good job. >> All right. Item number nine, public participation. This is the second time that you have to speak for five minutes

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on anything that was presented at the agenda. >> Please state your name. Where you from? >> Dan Kaufman. I live at 32 Northwest 4th Street. I'm not going to say a whole lot. It's

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just one of the things that I kind of I wanted to ask back about two months ago, I guess it was, Mr. Goodman asked about the fiber and the squirrel possibilities of squirrel eating overhead lines and was

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it made of soy and he had requested them to give him the data on that line to make sure that it was appropriate for the uses that they intended to use it for. So I haven't heard anything else about that. So, I thought it'd be nice if we

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could go back to that one and see if we could go back and actually get that data and know that it's, you know, it's not that particular wiring because they use that silly co coating on wires in automobiles and it's destroying people's between the rats and the spoils are

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literally eating the cables out of people's cars. That's all I'm going to say on that. And the second thing, you probably spent way more time than I would have without asking to table it, but you're talking about the employees and a special award.

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Thing of it is is maybe it would have been simpler instead of calling it a a monthly is turn it into a special performance award and then it can be voted on by everybody and it can be used at any time anywhere that is appropriate. And to me, that looks like

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a simplified way of trying to fix a big problem. Thank you. >> Great idea. >> Thank you. >> Got it. >> I think you're right because employee of the month implies applies to me that there's one for the month. >> Well, I would I would like to see to where we do an employee of the year.

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>> But you're right. But you're right. you want to >> still have on the meter sheet. Um, I'd like to see added on there. We do give the uh customer the option or we

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did in the past where they could play pay for a year over a year's time pay a monthly charge to help pay for the >> uh >> cost of the service >> $2,500 is a lot of money. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. One year.

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>> One year or 18 months. Something to make it affordable for >> I want to ask Alex, what's the cost of the meter? Not the labor and all that that goes into it, but the meter itself. We need to get that up front. I think

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the rest of it I I could see paying over time. >> I can get you the price of that exact meter if you'd like to. I don't know. >> I mean, you know what I'm saying? If we're going to put a $1,200 meter in the ground, I think we should have $1,200 and then pay the rest over time. >> You know what I'm saying?

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>> Cost of materials and then you pay for the labor. >> Yeah. >> Over time. >> That's kind of the way I feel about it, too. >> Yeah. >> Yes, ma'am. Okay. No. Can't talk out of term. >> Kelly Bishop. I'm 15430 Northeast Forth

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Lane. I'm not in the city of Williston, but in regards to the uh recognition, there is a program called Kudos that you can use to recognize at any point in time. Um, we use it at our at

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our company. Um, supervisors get a larger amount of kudos. Every employee gets a certain amount of kudos every month at our business and they can give it to each other socially, you know, peer-to-peer. They can use those kudo points to go into the store. You can get

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swag. You can get Willis and swag. You can get gift cards. And you guys would decide how much those points are worth, whether one point is worth a dime, a penny, however. And they add up over time. They never go away. But it's just

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a nice reward and everybody can see because once those um if somebody puts in their a kudos for somebody unless they make it private it's comes across everybody's email everybody notifi is notified that so and so did this and

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they were awarded and um you recognize for what strength whether it's collaboration or you know whatever the case may be and there's a blurb that you write with it. Um, we also have quarterly, but this is something that

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can be done at any point in time by anybody that's an employee. Um, and if you wanted the citizens to be involved, maybe make some type of citizen portal on the city of Williston's website um so that they could access that. Um, there

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is a fee. I don't know how much the fee is. I can just tell you that I pay the bill for so many employees that are registered and it's so much per employee and then the city would have to pay for those points but only at the time that

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somebody cashed them in. So they just kind of sit out there until they go into the rewards area and cash in their points. Just wanted to throw that out there. >> Thank you. Anyone else? Joelby, did you have

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something from earlier? Anyone else? All right, we'll move forward. Item 10. Announcement. Miss Vicky. >> I just want to remind everyone that we

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are having um the where the Chamber of Commerce is having their mixer on Thursday night the 21st. Um it's going to kick off the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. So, we'd love to have you all there at 5:30. >> Thank you.

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>> Sponsored by >> sponsored by the chamber and and the CRA and the chamber, right? Are sponsors. >> Okay. Yeah, I think I think it's right at the Heritage Park at the pavilion, please.

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>> Yeah, he's cooking hot dogs. >> Hot dogs and hamburgers. >> Hamburglers. >> Her hamburger. >> I can't talk. Okay. All right. Item 11. >> Move. We adjourn. >> Got a motion.

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>> Second. >> We got a >> second. Any discussion? Mr. Mayor, >> I would like to have a meeting with the council president after this is over, please. >> Yes, sir.

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>> Any other discussion? >> Seeing none, move to vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those oppose say nay. Motion passes 4. We are adjourned at 7:55.