GE let's start with pledge allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for
[Music] all all right do we have anybody to in public form seems we do not um agenda any have anything to add Jen I do not no no Michael we are
going to add agenda item 5.5 is actually on your agendas that you have in front of you I added them um it is a resolution allowing us to transfer some additional funds into our 4M fund okay and then just so Council knows
too you got um minutes uh as a kind of an addition it's because we found some mistakes in the minutes we corrected those and um one of them was under 5.2 we added the language um to allow uh to include the
ability for other companies to bid insurance quotes for home repair and um we misspelled flattering Hood under my administrative comments and we pred that so okay all right okay um would anybody
like to move approval of the agenda is Mo by second by Jenny any discussion any discussion any discussion all in favor say I iose same sign motion carried all right consent
agenda minutes financials sewer forgiveness anybody have any to accept second motion by Kelly second by Ed any discussion any discussion all in favor say iose same
sign motion car new business budget for public tree removal um so each year we set a budget for how many Boulevard trees we're going to remove um this year we've already
already gone past our budget uh we removed quite a few on Grant and net I believe it is um they were the really big ones that were um rotting down and they were literally um putting like three branches in the middle of the road
so we had to take those down um we still have four applications due this year that have been submitted we're trying to figure out what council wishes are if we want to just wait for next year it does not seem like any of them are an
immediate danger to the public or to houses um the residents have just asked for the removal so our budget right now is 10,000 10,000 we've spent 14,200 so we decided to do it next year I mean are those homeowners are going to
be okay with that or do they want them down now we can definitely talk to them about it but I don't think there's any safety issues concerning and would they be put at the top of the list yeah we would do those next spring or even in the winter if it's if it's nice enough what does it cost to take a tree down
yeah so just well the three trees that they took down on Brant Street were very large that costs us I think almost 5 grand yeah and the time it takes yeah and grinding the stump out and all that fun
stuff we've done a lot of good work with that form though you know we're at least identifying trees that people want out of the way and I think that's really a positive all right Council what is what are your wishes
do you need a motion for them I would motion um if Council wishes to move forward to approve those you know um we'll get you a quote on the removal and we can approve that for next time motion to get a quote to see what
it would cost to remove them so we have an idea the overage so we could decide next time if we want to do this or we definitely can I'll second that is that motion by it sry second by done okay I just want to make sure any discussion any discussion
all in favor say I iose same sign motion carried Second Street he Bri good evening um I didn't have anything formally prepared I think hopefully you're all getting the newsletters um I think that's I guess the most upto-date
news that I have um basically what they're trying to do right now is continue with the sanitary store to get through the deeper stuff and that'll kind of get wrapped up around Renville Street and then they'll take that crew that's that's kind of their deep utility crew and then they'll hop back um hopefully if you know I guess well
they're permitting they'll they'll start on the Storm sewer and then continue continue with the sanitary with a different crew towards Brown Street um probably stopping at um well I guess it be Sibly Street or Edwood Street or CA 33 whichever side of the railroad tracks
you're on and then they'll um they'll kind of kind of halt there because part of the contract requires them to keep one of the three main intersections open so main either Main Street or henpen Street or um casassa 33 has to remain open so I think they're going to kind of stop short there try to make some
progress I think so they can eventually open hen Street before they cross um County Road 3 three so so again kind of depending on how the weather hurts or harms them they're hoping to get to right stop short sou 33 with the sanitary sewer and then kind of be
bringing storm swer up behind them and then depending on how it works out they also have to continue with watering and then behind the storm so they're going to be kind of doing a bunch of leap frogging probably over the next few months um otherwise I'm not sure how much rain they had here today but I know in my gauge this morning I dumped out
almost um 5 in and Henderson and then that was after 810 on Friday so um and more tomorrow and more tomorrow yeah so I we had I had three there's a lot of discrepancies about R yeah it's very spotty yeah even from like where I live
in the country to um where my dad lives in town it was quite a bit of a difference it's kind of just all over all over the board but but otherwise um from what from what I've heard from through Michael I guess is the um um good reports on the contractors being responsive and working with with the
folks um in the downtown area so that's that's always good to hear versus the opposite um otherwise any any general questions for me on the progress I think the newsletters are good I think they're really well received that's good that's good year so
are they pretty much on schedule I guess I we kind of know yeah today no but they've asked for some from not since the current rain but they have asked for some some um some rain days I guess from from earlier in the season um but how
the contract is written it's uh it's it's it's governed by Mot specification so basically how that works is um there's a special provision that we insert in there it's it's a cumulative day impact type of deal so if if the
contract is over I believe the substantial completion date on this one is July or excuse me uh September 15th so there's so many days they allocate for rain days or weather days each month so then really you kind of want to track what days qualify up until then and just
do one change order if you need to on the contract time but I'm trying to avoid it giving them what I I don't remember the number they're asking for but let's say it's 3 days I don't want to give them 3 days now and then we have hopefully like a early dry August and then they don't use any weather days or something and then it all kind of
flushes out so we're kind of it's kind of a wait and see how everything kind of pans out by the end of the substantial completion period they had one crew working today I thought I uh they just came in to set up some pumps I think this morning is all they had going on yeah have they had any surprises they
had a little bit of sloughing on one of the trenches um on Main Street so that's why they did have to hop over um that was on the south side because they were they're they're digging basically the sanitary in and then they were back filling with a smaller excavator on the side um so that that's why they hopped over to the the just south of the
parking lot um just because they didn't want to um you know worry about any any issues on that cell side anymore so they you know so they hopped over and it seems to be working well um since then so um it's I don't know if you've all been down there but it's it's quite an
operation you can't really almost even see the pipe at the bottom of the trench of here standing next to it it's so deep but um but yeah I think all in all all in all they're making pretty good progress I think good good any other any other questions or
concerns CenterPoint Energy also has contractors on site too they're not part of the project um but they're um going to start coming to the construction meetings CU they're kind of in the way sometimes so PSC I believe is a company
doing the the new pipe work for Center Point in the same area it right along yep right on Second Street so um we're going to be talking to them but I know that they've um impeded some business traffic and putting signs up where they shouldn't and just some things so we
we've been trying to be really on top of that kind of stuff when it when it is imp packing businesses so all right any other questions for Brian thank you very much thank all right uh 5.3 resolution
appointing election judges for the state primary we need action on this the list in your pcket and I corrected it there's only one a I know I saw that there's not two sorry got a little got a little happy with the copy paste super super
important am I should have capitalized the second one I was counting like how many judges do we need I second it all right most second by wanted to approve any discussion any discussion I would just like to say thank you to everybody who volunteered
to be an election judge um all those in favor say I I post same sign carried all right uh moving on 5.4 budget billing sorry I get really excited so we have been waiting for this since we
installed our old software this is for budget billing this is for senior citizens um families that have fluctuations in their electric bill water bills um this is going to be good for everyone so we plan to launch budget
billing in August but before we do so we want to just have a general policy and some guidelines when it comes to how the program is going to work so basically we now have been 12 months on our billing and utility through our new system so
now we can start um calculating what a budget Bill looks like for each resident so that's what we've been waiting for this whole time um so each uh month the same amount will be due uh all 12 calendar months until September and then
we recalculate and go again so if a house sells or an apartment flips you know there's going to be probably some fluctuations in that and in September that'll catch up to them if they move out before then we would read it just like we would any other Bill like a
final bill we would go read the meter we give them their final bill they would pay that um otherwise everything else Remains the Same our shut off disconnect notices Remains the Same we give them the same opportunity to pay their bill
as everyone else um if we feel like their account is not in good standing and they're not making their budgeted amounts um we elect as staff just like we do for other billing um to take that right away from them and so then we say nope now you have to get back on regular
billing um we are not requiring automatic billing with the budget billing for a lot of reasons but um Social Security checks um are are you know a pretty big concern when you're talking about the elderly population and their checks really vary on when they
come in and when the bills are due so we uh we're not a lot of cities um couple budget billing with automatic withdrawals and we're not doing that um we're going to let them pay how they how they can um there is just like regular bills
there are times where a penalty would be assessed at 8% just like any other bill um if they make a late payment both residential and Commercial accounts are eligible so if you have a business in town and you're really sick of the ups and downs you know air
conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter and you need uh something that's a little bit more consistent you can now use budget billing on commercial buildings um can they do auto pay if they wanted to they sure can okay yep they sure can
okay anything I missed Heather no we've been working on this for I don't know a couple months you'll see it uh online and after we pass this online um the utilities page is kind of getting a revamp I'm working on it and
um yeah I I I just think that a lot of people have been waiting for this I think it's a great idea agree it's definitely helps families and and people that have uh a tight budget so all right anybody want to make a
motion regarding budget billing some motion by Kelly second second by Dawn any discussion any discussion any discussion all those in favor say I I oppose same sign motion carried 5.5 transferring
funds we're asking council's permission to um transfer um money from our perennial savings account to our corm fund our Forum fund right now is gaining a little over 5% um when it comes to
interest um you know we'll we'll gain over $100,000 just in interest with our money at the Forum fund we would like to bolster that and to try to get our Levy down so we're asking to transfer the 6
some, um tomorrow into the forum fund where's the 600,000 from it's from our our money market savings so some of it's fire some of it's okay no none of it's fire they're different but just some of our our savings accounts from the Sip funds and that
fund is fully guaranteed I yep it is it's FDIC insured and it's guaranteed and the reason that we use 4M is that it's liquid so we don't have to put it in there for 12 or 18 months we can pull the money out in a day and they
said it's very quick and responsive if you ask for it the money transfers very quickly and right now it doesn't look like they're going to change their percentage anytime soon so if we can keep rolling at a 5 5 and a 12% all the way through it's very good deal we've
made great Headway um in our Forum fund so move by Wanda second by Ed any discussion any discussion all those in favor say I iose same sign all right motion carried transfer that
money old business um 6.1 resolution regarding debate M of the during property um so not last meeting but the meeting before it was in April um we uh asked Council to take a look at the
during property um I will tell you that there is a very large electrical cable now running the length of the property into the shed um it's at 240
um and there's also a colle C of things all over there until the other week when we towed them he left the same vehicles on blocks in the middle of the road almost 3 ft from the curb um we did decide to tow them for public safety
reasons what we're asking council tonight to do is let's let's get the final inspection from Darren and get that shed out of here um it is not in compliance and it um with that amount of electricity going through it I I fear
someone's going to get um or a fire or a fire yes which we don't need right now um so obviously we'll baate the rest of the nuisances there's trailers full of scrap metal and junk um there's also Vans and a truck
that are both plates expired so and um just so you know part of the provision of why we did not aate before is because he was supposed to get a building permit and get with Darren neither of those uh things did happen was he the older guy again yes right
there inste he just needed 30 days yeah okay will I move that we do the inspection that's what the what you're doing asking for order of inspection I'll do I move that we do the order of inspection I'll second motion by Don second by Jenny any further discussion
any discussion any discussion all those in favor of the um inspection resolution 16 say I I oppose same sign motion Carri what about um the other one the
other one that has the hole inside his house um cover it yeah I noticed that he did um he has not pulled a building permit right now but masterer Builders has given us a quote and they are working with it that's why we didn't bring it back to council they are
working on it good to know I trust big will get to all right this is this is quick um admin Eda report Michael um we're doing
the Eda meeting early so we're doing that this Wednesday um otherwise it' be on juneth with is now a city holiday um also we we do have a lot of interest in our facade Grant so we're approving three three Grant loans um one for ly's
Cafe one for the where the Dairy Queen was that helped fix that lot um and why am I forgetting the third one is it new business downtown no no
oh midcountry Bank also um when the street goes through they're looking to there wasn't there another one though thought there that one thank you I can just yeah there was the three plus the
other hold on oh no I just broke it oops hold up no it's not loing J TW win B supp bottle uh Napa and that
building they're going to get a new paint and uh Spruce it up a little B the outside those are going to be okayed or denied on Wednesday through the Eda they're they've been really busy I think the Eda has been doing great things so good um yeah and been really happy with
progress they've given back to businesses almost $20,000 now if they approve them on Wednesday through the Grand program nice and then since Troy's not here I'm just going to take utilities really quick just so everyone knows we are bypassing
our ponds right now obviously there's a lot of water uh and if we didn't do that uh basement would have been flooded all day so uh our on environmental health we have to do a lot of compliance um when that happens so
just so you know that's what they've been working on all day they're just pumping it straight into the the ditch the ditch yep most of it's just water yeah it's infiltration and they I mean they did a good job at getting the streets picked
up early today they were hard at work they were working all day long was so flooded in Winter we were pretty good I heard gayor did not fair as well yeah I heard that they had a lot of water so does anybody know about like
the street down by Pete's old house that one is I haven't looked I didn't see a water stand I did and I know that that pump has been pumping in the pond for like oh good nonstop good all right any other questions about
utilities um fire we don't have anybody here um the fire and ambulance committee's been meeting but 'll probably hit that um Library um yes we we met um we have the supposed to be the
summer KCK kick off for reading tomorrow night which was supposed to be in the park with all kinds of uh food trucks and everything like that but they've moved it to Hans so that'll be um still fun are they still going to have food trucks uh they're no I don't think so
there'll be food at home food will be available at home that's fine um and that and we're working on the uh stuff for the parade they're going to the zoo here in June um and things so they're very busy with summer activities and
everybody's working on that stuff all right any Library questions no um Public Works covered that already Planning Commission we have not met okay this is going quick neither has
RS fiber ambulance Ed what you got for us two minutes getting there uh ambulance really I have nothing the fire and ambulance committee um we met last week and we'll meet again this Thursday uh we're
progressing very well we've got some Geotech stuff covered already we've got um all of the what we think we need for amenities inside and and flooring and all that stuff and um in a couple weeks they're they're going to bring out
somebody with samples and and then we'll actually pick the stuff that we want and we should have budget numbers this week he thought he could get them to us so we could uh send Michael to the state with it and USDA and wherever else he can
scan money from um but uh it's moving very well um I think progress is maybe even a little ahead of where we thought we were going to be at this point exciting yeah I will say that Ed
has been the one poking it along so thank you to him for keeping us on track all right um please Logan what you got for Us's [Laughter]
got still I see the peanut gallery over here smirking so I don't know what he's got and I got one there I got one here um not a whole lot this last month but uh Wednesday we are getting the apron finished for in front of the
garage um so we'll have to be off that for like 2 weeks but uh then it should be complete and then Paul will have the pressure washer and the doors and everything else um ready to go for that uh background is still going good
for our open position and we're hoping that Karen can finish that up by early next week and then we can do the last couple steps plan at this
point that's pretty much all we got um with the building over there are they replacing those Eaves or doing something with those Eaves across the front cuz wasn't that really bad uh you mean right where the apron's going to be no it's right in like in
that door on the east side west side sorry on the west side like where we you can go in not up the ramp on the that was I know that one time there was a bunch of leaves up in there and it was overflowing I think that's I I don't
think that they have anything planned for it um does it just need to be cleaned out is that maybe what it was yeah cuz there's that tree there right on the south side of the building that drops a lot of debris I just didn't know if it was bad or what the deal was on that yeah it's nice to actually have that little spout that goes right by the
door there as long as it doesn't blow away in the wind like it does sometimes yeah we all have that problem once in a while right that's pretty much it oh thank you all right thank you thanks very much cable commission done and we were
supposed to meet last week I got canceled so it'll be June Park um we met on Friday night and um waiting for some plans to come back in yet to finalize
what it's going to look like but we looked at three options and talked through that and um I like the one that we picked so it'll be exciting try to um think about when they need to plow them
in the trail sidewalks in the winter and things not having so many curved or funny um edges so that it's easier to um Cloud that open and also like we the sun
sets and things so that like for the Pavilion that notle very good plan in the sun um with things and we're waiting on Final uh plans for the splash pad
design and then bathroom stuff will be finalized also and hopefully ready to go with the splash pad next spring where are we with the grant when
do we hear we won't here until June 15th June 15 yeah okay I've had a lot of people asking me about that yeah have not heard yet they I don't even think they've reviewed yet really M it's a process I mean people are really excited
about the prospect that Splash Pad oh and BD Island just opened one up oh did they oh did they yes I believe they did I saw some photos today one little boy that rides my CL from front they were up there nice just think they won't have to go to
b island anymore come down to Wi I thought that same exact thing was I saw the photo that' be good okay um anything else anybody make a motion to adjourn I so move
to my second my d all in favor post we are