City Council - Regular Meeting

Uh join me tonight in the prayer. Oh God, creator and our lord of our city as well as of our individual lives. We humbly acknowledge your interest in your presence at this council meeting tonight. Before we begin our business, we deliberately open our minds and spirits to your holy will. Help us to be worthy of the trust of the citizens ofi of alliance have placed in us. Guide us in each decision we make that it might be as fair and just as it is economically sound to the end that our community may achieve its highest potential and become all wanted to be. Amen. Join me in the pledgece 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 justice for all. For the public's reference, a copy of the open meetings live posted on the northeast corner of this room in the audience area. This posting complies with of Nebraska legislation. The first item on the agenda is a proclamation for Arbor Day. And I will go ahead and read that. Whereas in 1872, the Nebraska Board of Agriculture established a special day be set aside for the planting of trees. And whereas this holiday called Arbor Day was first observed with planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world. And whereas trees can be a solution to combat climate change by reducing the erosion of our precious top soil by wind and water, cutting heating and cooling cost, moderating the temperature, cleaning the air, producing lifegiving oxygen, and providing habitats for wildlife. And

whereas trees are a renewable resource, giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, and countless other wood products. And whereas trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality of business areas and beautify our community. Whereas trees wherever they are planted are a s source of joy and spiritual renewal. And whereas the city of Alliance has been recognized as a tree city USA by the National Armor Day Foundation and desires to continue its tree planting ways. Now therefore, the City Council of Alliance, Nebraska does hereby proclaim Friday, April 25th, 2025 as Arbor Day. In the city of Alliance, Nebraska, I urge all citizens to celebrate Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands. Further, I'd urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden the hearts and promote the well-being of present and future generations. Tonight's second proclamation is frontline workers month. Yeah. Yeah. I would I'd have Chief Le come out. He's represent frontline workers and anyone else that want represent frontline workers, EMT, fire, police, EMT, fire, police, first responders. [Music] I think I talked Thank you very much. Whereas frontline workers are the builders.

Whereas frontline workers are the builders of our community exercising curiosity, compassion, courage, and creativity to provide essential services that ensure the safety, health, and education of our residents. And whereas over 9 million health care workers across the United States serve in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, often placing themselves at risk to provide life-saving care. And whereas firefighters respond to an estimated 36 million emergency calls each year, over 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers nationwide work tirelessly to uphold the law and ensure public safety. The Emergency Medical Services, EMS, personnel respond to more than 240 million calls annually. And whereas teachers dedicate their careers to shaping the future of our communities with over 3.7 million educators in the US providing knowledge and guidance to our youth. And whereas frontline workers embody the essence of builders, flexible thinkers, constructive problem solvers who respect the dignity of all people by dedicating themselves to overcoming challenges and uniting communities. Now therefore, the city council of Alliance, Nebraska does hereby proclaim the month of May as frontline worker appreciation month. In the city of Alliance, Nebraska, we encourage the residents to join in recognizing and honoring their heroic contributions to the healthcare workers, firefighters, law enforcement officials, EMS personnel, and teachers.

[Applause] That's yours. Is there anyone here to accept the daycare provider appreciation? I see. [Music] Thank you, ma'am. [Music] This is a proclamation for the providers appreciation day. Whereas childc care has provided a safe nurturing place for the enrichment and development of millions of children nationwide and is a vital force in our economy. And whereas the pandemic illuminated how indispensable ch child care providers are for the well-being and economic security of the city of Alliance's young children, families, and communities. And whereas children child care programs, which are mostly small businesses, run and staffed predominantly by women, continue to recover from the health and financial hardships stemming from the pandemic to meet the needs of more families. And whereas the city of Alliance recognizes that child care has been and continues to be a lifeline for families, communities, and the economy. As such, it has provided much needed support for providers to help sustain the viability of child care. And whereas the future depends on the quality of the early childhood experience provided to young children today. Support for highquality child care represents a worthy

commitment to our children's futures. Now therefore, the city of city council of Alliance, Nebraska does hereby proclaim Friday, May 9th, 2025 as provider appreciation day. In the city of Alliance, Nebraska, we urge all citizens to recognize child care providers for their important work and how valuable they are for our community. [Applause] Can you look over here, please? Thank you. It's up to me. Is anybody here from public public transit? Excuse me. Public transit. Okay. Whereas public transit provides our citizens access to medical, business, employment, social and supportive services. And whereas public transit allows individuals to remain independent, contributes to economic development, reduces traffic congestion, decreases emissions, and improves mobility. And whereas public transit provides the only public transportation service to many of the smaller towns and rural counties in Nebraska. And whereas Alliance has numerous public transit professionals who provide service to our citizens and must maintain educational requirements and standards. And whereas the Alliance City Council recognizes the important role that public transit professionals play and wishes to acknowledge that role. And whereas public transportation alliance is provided by the collaborative efforts of the city of Alliance, Nebraska Department of Transportation, and Federal Transit Administration to provide resources to transport

individuals every day. Now therefore, the city council of Alliance, Nebraska is here proclaimed the week of April 12th through the 18th, 2025 as public transit week. And the city of Alliance, Nebraska, we urge all to increase their understanding and awareness of their local transit system, any services [Applause] provided. How about volunteers? Do we have any volunteers in the crowd? Randy, your volunteer. Oh, great. That's a good one. Whereas the citiz citizens of Alliance Nebraska are deeply enriched by the countless acts of service and dedication of its many volunteers. And whereas volunteers play a vital role in strengthening our community, addressing social needs, and improving the quality of life for all residents. And whereas Boxview County RSVP has organized senior volunteers for over 50 years. And now the volunteer youth alliance has begun organizing youth volunteers to also meet needs of nonprofit organizations within the county. Whereas National Volunteer Week, which is April 20th through 26, 2025, provides an opportunity to celebrate and honor the contributions of volunteers across our nation and in our community. And whereas we recognize the importance of volunteerism in fostering civic engagement, promoting social responsibility, and building a stronger, more vibrant city of Alliance in Box County. Now therefore, the city council of Alliance, Nebraska does hereby proclaimed the week of April 20th through April 26, 2025 as National Volunteer Week in the city of Alliance, Nebraska. And we encourage all residents to participate in volunteer activities

and to support the efforts of our local organizations and nonprofit [Music] [Applause] agencies. Can I get a picture in front of the podium? The podium's right in front of you. Can I get a picture in front of the podium? If you guys can come in front of the podium blocking you guys. Take away from the focus. Okay. Thank you. [Music] Tonight's consent calendar includes the approval of minutes, payroll claims, and council proceedings. Resolution number 2546, library surplus surplus shelving. Resolution number 2547, public safety radio support purchase. Resolution number 25-48, interdep departmental loan from electric fund to refuge fund. Resolution number 25-49 APD wingou which is memorandum of understanding agreement and resolution number 25-50 city of alliance micro tiff. Mr. May I make a motion to approve the consent calendar? Second. We have a motion and second. Is there any discussion? Chief, I have a question on 2549. Do you have a copy of it? I knew you would ask, so I memorized it.

you have um number three and number five seem to be can you explain it says reimburse salary expenses and overtime and then number five it says go ahead um will subject to availability of funds reimburse the AP for a percentage of the overtime so in conflict is so basically Wing has applied for a salary reimbursement grant through Scots County. So Scottsel County is where Wing sits. So Scotts County is who applies for the grant. Scotts County is who uh is awarded the grant. Our officers who are working on wing are reimbursed through Scottsluff County as a result of this grant. subject to if we give the grant if the funds are available and the overtime they work would be reimbursed. Okay. Well, it says all it says overtime and then it says percentage. So, can you just pull that till we get a little clarification? It's not mortgage. I'm not understanding the vers. Do you have No, I have this one. This is [Music] Which one is it? Three and five. So number three is what I just talked about. Sheriff's officer will reimburse us for salary expenses and overtime for the officers that are assigned to Wayne. Number five maybe remain responsible for sale benefits. It's the last part of that first. So depending on the overall the grant we request $150,000 they may only get 50. So if they have to divide that up through the year, they may agree that we can only afford to pay reimburse for half of the

overtime or 25% of the overtime. So it's all subject to how much grant money were actually awarded. And is Alliance PD a separate award or is it all of the agencies that participate? So the award goes to the Scottsboro County Sheriff's Office. And if it's 50,000 total, it says if it's 50,000 total, that would money would be divvied up to reimburse for overtime. not just for Scott Countyy's office they have on the maintain but for all the participating agencies from the 11 counties and the percentage comes into play where if we have a total of $200,000 in overtime but the grant only ends up being 50 then obviously they wouldn't be able to reimburse for 100,000 or 100% of the overtime. Does that help? And it's just strictly the overtime wages not the regular salary. Is that right? It's just strictly the overtime. It's any overtime they work for Wayne. Okay. Because they'll work full-time for us. So any work they do for Wing will be on as an overtime. Correct. Correct. They'll work full-time hours with us and then when they're working for Wing, we've we've submitted with a grant, we actually had to submit each officer on the team's rate, a time and a half. So they would have that for calculation purposes. And how many do we currently have on William here at one? Is that Sergeant Libby? That is officer Dolberg. [Music] Are we comfortable then? I mean, we just have to understand that we may only get reimbured a portion of the overtime division on what brands are. [Music] John, do you see a conflict in those two? No. I mean, I think that as long as we understand [Music] As long as you don't see a conflict if

no if the expectation is you get full reimbursement revise this but the understanding is% we've actually had the discussion how how much overtime we're able to commit to wing may depend on the amount of the grant and how much they're able to reimburse because we do have limits on what we can authorize as far as overtime goes. And I'm I'm pretty much in my within my parameters for well over time budget. I'd like to stay that way as much as possible. We would that was my next question. If it was going to affect your budget we ran over or if you're allocated enough over time. We have we have allocated enough overtime, I think, but it's likely we would run over because there might be a lapse in getting reimbursed for that overtime, number one. But number two, with seven vacancies in the department authorized for 19, I'm not going to feel that bad if I go over on overtime because we're literally doing the work of 19 full-time positions with 12, right? Are you comfortable with that then? Yes, I'm comfortable then. I just [Music] wanted anybody have any questions about this one before I give it back? I do have a question on your other one for the repeater or for the radio. Yes, sir. Um, with the current federal funding situation, I see we're asking Adrian Smith's office for 1.2 million for repeater. Will these radios work without

them? Yes. So, we are going to We've already ordered these radios. In fact, they were supposed to be in by today if I'm being honest. Um, I'm sure they'll be in any time. We're going to use these radios with the FirstNet system that uses the cell phone towers, but for the sake of redundancy and for the sake of reliability, it would be much better to have a repeater in town. For the main two reasons are if cell tower should go down, that's going to affect our coverage. Number one, and number two, um with a repeater site, you're going to get better coverage inside the buildings and things like that. Um however, I will mention that the sheriff's department has been using um the same radio for at least over a year now and they've had zero issues other than occasionally a dead spot inside of the building. So I would assume you guys take priority on the cell service anyway. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. Questions on that? No, but there are four other places that you might look for grant money um with regard to repeaters. So, I'll email that to you. I'm sure you've looked at all of them, but there's Homeland Security, the Nebraska Wireless Commission, and Ren and positive possibly region 23 21 emergency management, right? We and that they all have grant funds available, but they pale in comparison to the cost. Um, the good thing about Adrien Smith's office being willing to help us out, I've had some really positive conversations with him and with his staff. He's literally been looking for a project to do in the western panhandle because he feels like the western panhandle has been overlooked. And we are right now sitting at the very top of his list for fiscal year 26. So I'm told that we're in great shape to get this assistance in getting this repeater. But I would caution you that Wayne just lost

$150,000 [Music] um from some money that Senator Fiser had told us was a sure thing. Um because at the last minute it was cut at the federal level. So the way things are right now, I'm not going to I'm not going to count my chickens. Thank you. Thank you. And then we have the resolution 2550 which is about microchiff. Um Seth do you want to give a little explanation of microchip and how that is going to be helpful? Yes. So microchip is a micro tax increment financing uh area. So this is typically our blighted and substandard and blighted and substandard doesn't need to have a negative connotation. uh by Nebraska law, it just means that it's of a certain age. Um and the buildings are also of that age. And if you look at Alliance's history, a lot of our buildings are older than the 60 years that's required. And so a lot of alliance is eligible for this. Uh one of the benefits of microchip and this was just adopted by the state in the last three years is that it allows for an exped expedited plan review. Uh which makes it that much easier to go through. It authorizes the mayor and the clerk to sign that paperwork rather than going through the planning zoning commission going through the city council. Um, and these are typically for your smaller projects that normally would qualify for normal tax increments. Um, so this would be infill lots. This would be rehabilitation of homes. This would be filling in empty lots been developed that have been flatted for 60 years. So this is a great opportunity for some some infield development redevelopment in a much faster fashion. I just add that this is one of

the first steps that the council put housing is one of our priorities um and this is one of the first steps that we're addressing and trying to provide it make it easier for people to re rehabilitate homes or build homes um in existing areas in the community. So, we're kind of excited to kind of get that ball rolling and hopefully inspire some some additional activity. By the end, the questions on the consent calendar, please call the role. Councilman Turman, yes. Councilman Liptac, yes. Vice Mayor Mashurn, yes. Councilman Weisber, and Mayor McGee, yes. Next item on the agenda is a presentation from Eric Casease who is a construction manager for Sand Hills electric and he'll be updating us on the solar field3. Street just a little bit better. Microphone sh of age has become less of a speaker. So sorry about that. Good afternoon. My name is Eric Case. I'm construction manager for St. Louis Energy. I'm here today to provide an update on the soil project and to express our gratitude for all the help, cooperation, and patience throughout this project. Uh today we are pleased to announce that we're 92% done with the project. Uh it's nearing completion. Uh we have teams doing final final things. Uh we're very excited about the positive impact we'll have on the community. Um some highlights are substantial completion should be by April 18th

Friday. We feel like that all the milestone this milestone signifies that major construction activities are finished and the facility is nearing operational readiness. Um today we had an inspection with the Nebraska state electrical uh teams. The inspection went great. This is a critical step uh to ensure the safety and reliability of the electrical infrastructure. um commercial operations on track the the first two weeks of June um between now and then there'll be system checks uh final commissioning parameter setting uh and then integration with the local grid that all place that's what kind of takes place between now and and going forward June here at Samuel we uh deeply appreciate the strong partnership we forged with the city of Alliance uh throughout the development and construction of this project uh your support and understanding have been invaluable to the project. Thank you very much. Um in particular, we'd like to extend uh thank you to the electrical department and Curry Bridges. Uh his collaboration and flexibility working with our team have been instrumental in navigating the complexities of this project and ensuring a smooth integration to the city's infrastructure. Mr. Bridges expertise and willingness to find solutions have been truly commendable. As we move forward from the final stages of construction and for commercial operation. Sand Hills remains committed to maintaining open communication with the city. Uh we are confident the solar project will be a value asset to your community providing clean power for years to come. We're excited. We are excited to reach substantial completion next week and look forward to successful commercial operation solar. Thank you very much. Any questions for Mr. For those who may not be familiar with the solar field, it's located uh west of town and near the wealth field. Um if you heading out towards uh the country

club west west side west side event center. Um it's just straight ahead of you. Um as you get out there, you see a sign say solar field deliveries, but that's that's where it's located. So it's exciting to see it come to completion. It's it's nice. I'm brand new to Sam Hills. There's a lot of pieces coming to me at one time, but it's it's nice to go out to a project today, it was clean, very the inspectors are great to work with and so it's not always like be on board like that and it's you come to a project that looks this nice. So I understand there's lots there's lots of layers to these projects. I've been doing a long time, but it was really nice to show up today and really be proud kind of day one as I step on out here. So um if you have questions, reach out. Like I say, I'm very new to Sand Hills and their portfolio, but I've been doing this for a really long time. So as we move forward if there's anything next item on on the agenda is ordinance number 29.99 and on second reading before council for the annexation petition from West Co a chemicals the petition request 14.99 acre track of land on the southwest quarter of section 26 township 5 north range 48 west of the six principal meridian Foxview County, Nebraska to be incorporated within the city of within the limits of the city of Alliance. Mr. Mayor, I have a motion to approve ordinance 29.99. Second. Have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Believe Mr. Briggs is here from West Co. If you have some comments to make the term good evening council bra and encourage you to support this approve [Music]

this annexation I was hoping we hear so we'll have further hearing and very happy about how we developed the west side of Alliance. Remember a couple years ago we had fire and fire department did a great job helping us with that. That was kind of impetus to move to the west side of town that property for about 30 years. I actually worked on this project for about 25 years on how I wanted it to look and how I want the buildings to look. But every time I got ready to start building, I had something else to do and buy somewhere else. But the insurance funding out from the fire help. So I started tire center is started building dry fert that direction is and this first season. So we're very happy investing happy to be here part of alliance been here since 1942 and that's where my office is is actually location started once association that time was called consumers cooperative now it's a chemical [Music] question. I just have you state your address. David Brightens and my address is [Music] Thank you, David. On behalf of the council, David, I just want to thank you for the huge investment that West Coast made that you've been a valuable asset to the community for those 70 years or 80 years and uh this add to that. So, thank you very much for that tremendous investment. It looks wonderful. Thank you.

Any other discussion? Please call the role. Vice Mayor Mashurn, yes. Councilman Weisber, Councilman Turman, yes. Councilman Liptac, yes. And Mayor McGee, yes. Final item on the agenda is executive session to discuss the city court andor view. And I will just point out that Mr. Mayor, I ask that this be open to public. I have no reason for this to be going into open session for my review. That's your at this time. We'll work on the new. All right. Who would like to go first? [Music] Ordinance number 29.99 an ordinance of the city of Alliance, Nebraska annexing real property of Jordan Agra Chemicals Inc. Situated in the southwest quarter of section 26, township 25 north, range 48 west of the six principal meridian, Bos County, Nebraska, repealing existing provisions of the city code not consistent with this ordinance and providing for an effective date. Sorry, I missed that. Okay, this time we will begin the city review. Anyone like to go first? I will go. Do you want to come up or you just want to talk through there or shall we? Okay. It doesn't matter. Um I just used the evaluation sheet that we sent out and it covered leadership. Um and I gave you a plus in that because you work well with city manager. Um employees follow

your lead and you do a wonderful job of taking initiative and um fixing problems that you find your management. Um I think you've done a good job of helping um with the new secretary in the office managing all the secretaries within the municipal hall. Your accountability I have always known you to take responsibility for any mistakes that you've made but you also defend your actions and your positions and decisions that you made. and I do appreciate that when it is needed and your community engagement. I thank you for your volunteer work. By today, you said this is your 14th Easter egg hunt. You are a great asset to the city and you have saved us millions of dollars and you have helped clean up many messy projects. So, I appreciate you and I think You're doing an excellent job. I don't have any concerns. Thank you. I can go next. Um Shelby, I pretty short term of being in this position. But in that time, you've been impressive in your fiscal responsibilities. just to name one off the top of my head was taken under the insurance review and getting that all squared away. Um that was a major undertaking for you and that's greatly appreciated. Um so I rank that as a plus and with that your initiative is also a plus. You seem to be very motivated and driven in

taking on projects. That's greatly appreciated. Shelby, I just would like to know what training you took this year. Like if you could explain a little bit about your annual training, the trip to Canada and what you learned. So Canada was I got a scholarship for I MC which is international institute of municipal clerks. So it is a degree that you get which is your certificate of municipal clerks and also your master municipal clerk which was fully funded through the INC besides what my funding was for my hotel and my food. um which you go and collab with other clerks throughout internationally and earn your certificate and then once you earn your certificate through your cert your certificate of municipal clerk then you move on to get your masters of municipal clerking. And what would you say your most favorite project of this calendar year has been? Definitely my insurance project. Yes, by far. Um, when we come down to it, which I'm still working on, I have been working on this for over two years for the city. I have walked through every piece of property that the city of Lions owns and has. We have had buildings that were not insured, properties that um were insured for hundreds of thousands of dollars over what they needed to be insured for. Um, vehicles that were being insured that we didn't even own anymore. and things like that and which will be presented at the hopefully tentatively the May 6th meeting for council to look at. Um, and I'm going through with department heads for that and we will have a entire

booklet with a picture, a property assessment of the properties and a layout of all the properties along with the vehicles and all the equipment that the city owns over $5,000 that can be shown. And with our previous insurance, our deductible was 3% of our overall costs, which came to be this year would have been about over $2 million for our deductible. And with our new insurance company, it is a flat rate of $25,000 for occurren, but that's that is our total cost for if it's hail, if it's occurrence. Now, vehicles are a flat cost of a $1,000 deductible where our last insurance was a tiered deductible where it started at 15,000 and we worked our way from 15 to 10 to five. So, that saved the city of Alliance a lot of money. Thousands. Millions. Yeah. So, thank you for that for that work. And I'll have I'm actually also closing out the hailtorm claims that we had in 2020 and 2021. I had my meeting with Neiman and FEMA yesterday. Um, which I'm still gathering a few documents that were needed that were started previous to me and we will have a total number of what we spent on that and I closed that project within a year of getting everything done and the stuff that needed to be done without the city having to pay back all that money and grants. Thank you for the work. Can you hear me now? I can. Shelby, I want to thank you for everything. Um, you're a big asset to all the community, not just the city council, for the work you do and the time that you put into your effort and

usually it's a complete success. Um, I appreciate you everything you did to get me through this and um, I'm sorry about all the BS you went through in the last couple weeks. It was important and I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Why is Bill S, I guess? Um, and going lastly, you do wind up echoing a lot of things that were already said, but kind of going through the in the leadership role, what I've seen within the city is you stepping up and getting people involved within the city to take on projects and to work together as a team. Whether that be the the city meetings quarterly or the annual meeting that we did in January or just what you may do on a month-to-month basis. So, as far as taking on that leadership role just within the within the city amongst the employees, that's noticed and very much appreciated. Um, leadership for the council. Uh, you've been a good resource for me as I continue to learn. Obviously, I forgot to have you read the ordinance again. Um, so you've been a good resource for me and helping me to to get a little bit more comfortable in my role. um when I have questions, you're available to me and you have answers and if you don't have them at the at your fingertips, you get them and you get them to me. So, um you show a lot of initiative and accountability in your role as as the city clerk. Um, I'll echo also your efforts on the insurance side, not only uh with our new contract with Laur, but the immense amount of work you did in sorting through all of the claims that have been left unattended from two hail stoms four years ago or three years ago. uh making

sure that we didn't lose any money that we could have that we had to by getting those claims through and working with insurance companies, working with FEMA and whomever needed. So, um I will echo all those efforts that from other council members recognizing those efforts that you made to clean that up and get us to the point where we where we are. Um with LAR, I think um people don't understand how much effort went into researching one to begin with and then starting the process of working with that company that that agency to uh provide the insurance for the city and the advantages that that are going to acrude to the city as a result of that. So that's also very much appreciated in this initiative uh that you took on to to make sure that what you felt the city got the best benefit. [Music] Um, no one's perfect. So, the one thing I would would ask you to is be a little bit more careful maybe with typographical errors from time to time in resolutions or ordinances. Um, that happens to everybody. But I just I guess that if I had one thing to ask you to be uh to work on would be being a little bit more careful with grammatical errors or or punctuation in ordinances so that they're we can be proud of when somebody else looks at it down the road. So on that I've been extremely happy with the efforts that you put in and the work that you do for the city. I would like to comment on Jay's that as a member of council I apologize for the comments that you have received these last two weeks when it was highly inappropriate for a proposal and nothing more than a proposal be released to the

public. And I do apologize for the hurtful things that our community has done and said, and I hope that they see the value from all that's been explained here tonight of the job that you gave to the city. Thank you. And I as well no one no one deserved the comments that u a city employee received um through a lack of information uh in inadequate information and then trying to draw conclusions from that. So I'm disappointed and I'm very disappointed that it was even given out to anybody. So Shelby, do you have any comments you want to make? Um, I just wanted to point out that I filled our economic development boards that have not been filled in probably eight years. Also, Seth and I have worked together and filling our CRA board, which has been a huge accomplishment because together we could not have done that. That is a very hard board to fill in to get volunteerism. Um, I also want to say it's great to have a working relationship with a city manager that we work together, not against each other. And that makes a huge difference. and seeing our employee. It's not even our employees, we're a team. And it's great to see that within the city. And like I have expressed, I've worked for the city for 13 years and I've seen ups and downs within the city. And within the last 3 years, the morale of the employees go up has been tremendous. And that's what matters to me. I'm here because I have passion about my job and passion about the community and it's not just a job to me. So, [Music]

what happens next? You just make a recommendation for increase. That's why I was curious. It's an annual review. Is that right? [Music] Make a proposal to the next tier. Does anybody know what tier that is off the terms? Did you start at the first tier, Shelby, when you got your promotion? Do you know? When I started, I was at a I don't even know. I started lower and then once I had my year valuation, they moved me up to what the city perk position was supposed to be at and they did it at the comparable rate of what that was supposed to be and then I got a bonus with that. Um, so it was up to how they move forward with it. [Music] I don't and no action has to be taken tonight. You guys can discuss it and have it as an extra. Yeah, we we seem to get a lack of information to that's If I could I guess if I could sum up I would say the consensus of the council is a positive review for the city. Is that with that? Is there any comment from the public since this is an open

item? If there's some [Music] [Music] commens I like to thank Councilwoman Shelby I I heard that there is um some controversy which I'm not part of that page. So um but Shelby has meant a lot to me through the past two years or so. She's helped me through some difficult times as a citizen here in in alliance and um I just feel as a community individual that she has been a great asset to the community from what I read on her page because I stopped her this week because of her gum first and I really liked her um input on that. But she is she has been there time and time again for me and we all know how. So um I so whatever council does I know it will be a great thing for the city to know her heart is here and I appreciate that. Thank you. Anyone else? Any questions? Okay, without having meetings adjourned.