City Council - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon and welcome to our last meeting September still following the air invocation tonight. Please rise. Let's pray. To the flag of the United States of America to the stands nationy and justice for start our meeting today. We have a couple special but I just want to thank him for serving the last

city. Tonight we have At our organization, we have a lot of numerous citizens volunteers are to help us govern our city. Tonight I have always like family. This one's more coming up with the city of a lot of different capacities, but this capacity served planning commission for a number of years. But they have their time, service, talent. My appreciation is I'd like to read it and grateful appreciation for eight years of loyal and dedicated commitment to the city of Ashv. I had to get off

soon as I leave here. clean. [Applause] I'm turn the floor over to Dr. Thompson. by the community and I want to take this opportunity to thank the community what you've done supporting words. I saw in the newspaper saw you all

young. I had to bring that all you guys all my children. So I have to keep you. But anyway, I want to say thank you. Thank all of you. I also want to mention that I just say thank you app. Thanks again. [Applause] The minutes of our September 8th meeting were distributed. Any corrections or additions to those first Martinez all we don't have any old business tonight. We have five items of new business. The first item of new business is request consideration of an ordinance to amend division three of article two of chapter 42 of city code providing for the prohibition of unreasonable mision to our current ordision

The proposed revision modernizes our ordinance to specific prohibited noises of such character, intensity or duration which interfangers the health, peace or safety of others within the city. As you your packet or itself walk through a bit. You can see the intro86 and then 4287 you have specific noises prohibited which gives you a strong outline through I specific noises and this is a lot of the modernization to the place in this category of the code. Uh in this case we have motorized vehicles mufflers are required muffers to grab of the engine. So you often hear that somebody come by a table that somebody's dining atving and That's not necessary. Also included speakers, amplifiers, horn sireings, or any other harassing noises, mechanical devices, and that it does talk about construction, but I'll go into that in just a second. instrument

on the street. We often employ them ourselves. We just have a process in which you come to the city for that permit and then you're able to do that sort of thing. And so the goal there is not a lot of people together issues in that area. This was on books before the concert halls, dance halls. Um, and so that that's not a revision there. Uh, we shortened it up just a bit. And then the second uh the second part that's big of the itself is the exceptions. So the exceptions defines the um in this case. This is typical for cities to have this construction take place from 7 a.m. and 900 p.m. Monday through Friday and between the hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays and a little bit later on Sunday starting at 9 a.m. That's an important one. I think people have experienced that before, but you may be in your neighborhood on on a quiet morning and somebody decides to start work, start a new roof project, a contractor at 5 a.m. and that's just disturbing and that's a unpleasant noise. So, uh, this is standard these hours that cities have. Uh, it was good to find it and put on the books here. Uh it goes into also other alarms, emergency vehicles, uh bells, chimes, allowed of course aircraft and flight, railroad equipment, motor vehicles operation. And then we also have the exemption of ballparks, playing fields, amphitheater, stadiums or other outdoor facilities for recreational or sports activities or for different events or recreational activities

of course anything you can think of like those are allowed on the exemptions. And then if there's special situation your administration can review it and approve it as necessary. So again I would see that in a kind situation with that we might have some kind of plan that could come forward something of that nature that would make sense. The third session 4288 um this helps out uh give guidance to officers that would be enforcing this and also to help them in court define it. And so they define it by simply a common sense approach here. A the volume of the noise, b the intensity of the noise, see whether the nature of the noise is usual or unusual, whether the origin of the noise is natural or unnatural and the type of intensity of the noise, the nature of the zoning in the area is important. So is this a residential area? So consideration of the where this is taking place. So I I feel like it's common sense guidance to our officers to have this in the case of our officers and we do have Chief Stewart and assistant chief Carson here. If you have any questions on the enforcement side of that offices the officer's location where they are where they're tracking is the camera itself does that now it picks up great audio incredible So the offic

question. I think in my mind some of those questions are additional understand how property out there.

Yeah, I can I can speak not only from being here but from other cities as well how other places I've been but it's a to it. Uh you go to somebody's house if it's resist answering calls, that type of thing. Maybe an officer may or may not hear the likelihood of that is probably not realistic. It's realistically compression. In those cases, the officer walks up says, "Hey, listen. We had a complaint. This is what it is. Maybe a little loud. Maybe the band's a little loud. And that's usually it. Usually that wraps it up. You know, they're curious enough to say, "Oh, okay. We understand a little bit. Maybe it's at a neighbor's complaint." And so those get solved, resolved really that way. Um, and usually you know back second or third time you do have a problem and that's what it's not to stop somebody's backyard barbecue or guest coming over that's not the

only question I had under the exemption I know it talked about funeral service we have service hour sometimes lastbody, you know, having a service, you know,

yeah, the flexibility of that is to me is part of a plan event that's organized by by a group of people and you take in again pressure the reason of what they're doing and then that goes to H which is the authorized by the city manager so I can directly there and what I would be worried about the likelihood it's not too high but in this day this day and age you can have it um you have some type of event that's going on And then now that authorized is now being disturbed by a protester with a megaphone and that these kind of things you run into sometimes now we can deal with the person with the megaphone that's

so I I just wanted to reiterate I think Mr. manager uh did a good job of of setting up the work session. We had an attorney present. We had chief of police here answering quite a few questions here. The way I understood it um was similar to some of the language you use. Very common sense approach. I think this develops the framework for enforcement. Um a foot loose type of situation here, but it is uh to minimize anything that's disruptive whether it's for businesses or for neighbors. I think there there was a lot of thoughtful consideration in this. Um I'll do Dr. But I certainly believe that we need to If I come back again. Yeah, good question. This is that's a we talked about a little bit in the work session, but this is a little different than say I think I used in the work session the new handsree law in the vehicle and you may not be aware of that state of South Carolina unless you you watch the news and pay attention that got passed in this case. U this is a revision to a noise ordinance that we already have on books on that and cities um and counties have noise ordinances and that's a blanket thing. You should know that. Um and so in this case again it's a common sense approachment uh approach to it from the officer

standpoint and they would need to consider uh the intensity of it how unpleasant it is who is bothering uh what situation they're currently in but in that case I I wouldn't want there to be a grace period and then we we have a very um disturbing um person that's prohibating this ordinance and not be able to enforce that. So, the officer would take again approach to this. Maybe it's a warning to one person, but if somebody's blatantly violating this with the adoption of it, uh, and it's just a revision to what we already have on the books, it needs to be enforced. Again, they they can have their time in court and they can explain their side all day in court to the judge and we can play the body cam video and then the judge can decide. So, just it's a little bit different. passing a complete new law because that's not what we're doing.

And what did the fine Oh, so the fine um it's $500 in municipal court.

500 and then plus assessment. So it can usually goes up to $1,32. However, um that's not often the case. You go to municipal court. Um sometimes they don't even put down the amount. They just write on the ticket. Here's your court date. Uh you're not even written the the fine on there. is determined in court and then that will be up to the judge. And so that's how a lot of these are handled. It's not so much how you get a traffic ticket and then it has a tier system and you just write down the fine. Um it's just saying we're just saying the maximum penalty could be $500 plus state assessments. But typically when we write these tickets um it's you have a court date and then it's determined in the court.

Mr. New.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, this is actually one I've had the opportunity to go and and speak with some constituents on. I've shared it with some of the like several of the downtown merchants. I mean, they're very excited. Uh, this is actually one of those that's kind of been so far every I've talked to you universally supportive of it. And I mean, at the end of the day, you've kind of hit on it a lot. You know, it's the common sense approach. It's not just, you know, there's a difference between being, you know, loud and somewhat annoying, you know, and, you know, intentionally disrupting, you know, the peace, you know, the tranquility people. You know, maybe they're trying to, you know, they're sitting in North Main Commons trying to, you know, They're sitting outside, you know, Suma Joe's or Southern something, you know, trying to have dinner. Um, and I think we've all seen it, particularly down Main Street, but there are other areas as well. Um, I mean, I think this is well needed. Um, it's just an update on something we already have on the books. And so, with that, I'll make a motion to approve.

Second. We have a first, Miss Newton, second by Mr. John Roberts. Further discussion. I had a steel

I had a question. This may be for chief, but is there going to be um you know enforcement factors? There's, you know, our officers are going to be out and going to have to be the ones determining these noise using these factors. Is there going to be any training as part of that or are they just going to be kind of handed this ordinance and say go figure it out? And the reason I ask is we talk a lot about common sense approach. I agree with that. But I also know um in family court lots of people spend thousands of dollars arguing over different versions of common sense. And I I just I I want to make sure that if we're going to have it I I think I echo the comments that everyone else has said about this is highly needed, but I just kind of wanted to make sure that when we go into enforcement, we have good consistent enforcement that people aren't going to be able to come back and say, "Well, you did this for this person, but officer did something else down the road. Um, so if you could speak to that.

Yes, sir. Mr. Ste, that's a good question. Um, we have worked very closely with R Campbell right now and on our past ordinances, this is what we did. We will actually be there in roll call training with all our shifts, but we're going to have him present this to our shifts. So, we're getting the legal standard there in fact, and he will come to all four shifts. Excellent. For our other officers, we will just make sure that's explained very well through their division captain.

Excellent. Thank you. That that takes care of my major concern is I want to make sure that we had some training for for our officers so they know kind of what they're doing as they're going out and taking care of uh these things that we've all heard complaints about from from our people. So, thank you so much. Anything else?

Thank you. I know we messages back and forth over the years, talked about it. All of us have calls, but you know what? We've all experienced it. Everyone in this room has experienced it. And again, it's an ordinance that we're just strengthening, right? We're giving our law enforcement the tool to to to act on, right? Because we're not out here to stop someone that's, you know, just going about their day. What we're doing is we're stopping the offensive noises that disrupt your thoughts and your your piece of being even if you're at home sitting on the couch, you know, on a Sunday morning like said, the contractor shows up or you know what, it's that loud car that truly shakes your house, you know, that's that's all we're doing. We've all experienced it and I'm proud I'm proud of our staff and I'm proud to be part of this. So, thank you guys and we appreciate it. Chief, we support you and your and your your officers in any way in any way we can. So thank you.

Thank you. This is again growing pains of a growing city. So we appreciate everybody participating in law enforcement doing what they do. So we had a first and a second. Any further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. It passes unanimously on the first reading. A second item of new business is request consideration of an ordinance amending the business license ordinance of the city of Anderson update the business license class schedule as required by act 176. Mr. Mchuan,

this item has now become a essentially a routine matter, administrative matter to you guys. This is our third time having to do this. Um, every two years we will have to update the business license rate codes by state law. With that, chief financial officer Margaret Bart will walk you through this and um and what's needed upon um the recommendation of approval.

Thank you, David. Um yes, in September of 2020, the South Carolina General Assembly passed Act 176 to streamline and standardize the business license process across the state. This law requires all taxing jurisdictions to use the same business license rate class schedule. As part of this mandate, all cities in South Carolina must adopt, excuse me, an updated business license class schedule every two years. The city last adopted a schedule in 2023. So act 176 also requires cities to use the North American industry classification system or nakes to classify businesses based on profit profitability using IRS data. The state released the updated data in 2025 and the city is now required to adopt the revised business license class schedule. So tonight, I'll go into it a little bit further, but we are requesting approval of amending our ordinance appendix B to incorporate these mandated changes and a copy of the amended ordinance was included in your packet. So the classes are one through seven that are based on the Nate system with the class one being your lowest rate um and then your class seven being your highest rate. Sorry. So several businesses didn't have any changes to their current business license class schedule at all, such as fast food, restaurants, retail, arts, and entertainment. Only one category is actually increasing in its rate class from a one to a two, and that would be your transportation and warehousing, which is towing services, travel agencies, and delivery services like Door Dash. There were several um classes that had a decrease. These include real estate and rental services decreasing from a class 7 to a class six.

professional, scientific and technical services, which are attorneys, CPAs, engineers, decreasing from a rate class 5 to a four. Health care and social assistance, um, which are doctor's home health decreasing from a rate class 4 to a rate class three, and other services, personal care, funeral homes, linen services, those kind of things decreasing from a rate class four to a rate class three. So regularly updating the class schedule every two years helps prevent large fluctuations in overall business license revenue. Based on the 2025 class schedule, the estimated potential financial impact would be a reduction of $119,000 in our annual business license revenue which was considered when we were doing our budget for our current fiscal year. So staff is not recommending any increase to the business license fees. And with that, we are requesting approval on first reading of the amended appendix B of the ordinance.

Thank you. Any questions, comments? Miss Stewart, um Marggo, you mentioned there are seven rate classes, but I guess class eight would be considered what? Class 8 is mandated by the state and that is for the um contractors are contractors. And then we also have a class nine which is what they call them drinking places, bars, um nursing homes and car dealerships. It and Mr. Stewart um currently just happens to be on your your computer screen as well. If you refer to that, it shows you the the class eight and the the different things that fall under class 8. So there's nine red classes and not seven.

The seven are correct. You go ahead. Correct. But classes one through seven are the ones that we are mandated to change. Class eight is mandated by the state. We can't change any of those in that class. And then class nine are what the city when they originally adopted the business license considered discretionary and those were the bars um car dealerships and nursing homes. All right. Thank you.

I think also probably the One of the goals of the municipal association was to get some uniformity from city to city, county to county because you have so many different operations that operate in in separate um locations. Correct.

Yes, sir. Um it created an online portal. So if you were a business um and you were in four different cities uh which is often the case in areas where say you're in Charleston and all the municipalities touch each other in Greenville County they all touch each other you're doing operations and what you were having to do before is look at each city's rate classification which was completely different and do the accounting for that um and go go to each city and visit them to actually pay it in this case. Now there's an online portal. You have the same classifications. They can fill it all out out all at once and submit it to all four cities that they would be doing business in as an example.

Good. May pro Tim. Aren't there some exemptions to business license requirements? Banking for example, isn't that an exemption? Yes. You want to spend on that? Are there others as well? Um the municipal association does collect the insurance broker fees. So it doesn't come through us, it comes through them. Telecommunications place a hold on our actual license.

Yeah, sorry. So this is, you know, this is the retail side, but when it comes to you uh because of state law, what's been granted to us by having franchise fees and authorizing utilities to operate within public rightway within the city, they're actually licensed and so they have a franchise fee with us. So your Duke Energies, your AT&Ts, uh your Spectrum, charter, charter communications, so forth pay through that and so but it is that that's also a business license. Um and then your insurance brokers and so forth. Um they are actually captured. The municipal association has a collection program on that and they collect through that. So overall everything makes up 39% of our budget. This is 13% of our budget. Yes, I should have clarified it was retail business license.

But again, this is the retail side of Yes, sir. license. Yeah, retail side. And the other one the other ones are standardized, too. I mean, you can So, franchise fee, you can only go up to 5%. Pretty much everybody's up 5%. We're at 5% across the board for our utilities. Um, and so that's just a straight quarterly. Um, we re receive that from the utilities and it's pretty standard. Mog, no. I was going to answer the question about banking. Banking is not We are not allowed to do a business license on them. It is through the state.

Real quick, so I I noticed on the summary sheet it talked about the percent of revenue and changing these rate classes with our anticipated. Is that going to be, you know, talk about how we can increase the millage rate and different things? Is that going to be revenue neutral changing the business classes or do we have an estimate? We we do have an estimate of a potential financial impact of a loss of 119,000 but we took that into consideration in doing the budget for this year and so we we budgeted a potential loss in doing our current year budget

that Mr. Mayor I'd like motion that we approve this have first by Mr. Har second by Mr. Stew. Any further discussion? Two readings, right? Yes. All those in favor say I

oppose. It passes unanimous on the first reading. The third item is request consideration of approval of the electric city transit agency safety plan update. Mr. the electric city transit. Our transit system um runs six routes countywide uh Monday through Friday 6:30 to 6:30. Um connects to almost well all municipalities in the county and then transfers also to the cat system in um in Pendleton. And uh so it's a it's a system that uh is needed and and moves a lot of people around um gets people to their workplaces and the errands that they need to take place. We're seeing increased ridership and u we're have a ongoing uh modernization plan of our transit um our transit fleet. Uh recently, if you can remember, we ordered uh some new buses, if you will, but they're going to look like trolleys coming in and that that will that we have a lead time on that, but uh in production, and so we look forward to receiving those. Uh but that's just as an intro again to our electric city transit. Um so we are heavily regulated uh is funded partly from the FTA, Federal Transit Administration. And with that, um, I'm gonna turn it over to Keith Moody, our, uh, transportation manager.

Thank you, Mr. McHugh.

Mayor, city council. Uh, just to give a little bit of background on the agency safety plan. Back in 2020, the Federal Transit Administration, FTA, mandated that all transit agencies come up with a safety plan. Through the years, you'd make your changes as federal guidelines would increase. And now they've stepped it to another program to where annually we have to bring it before our governing body. So, we've just had our triannual, which is a three-year audit from the federal government. Um, our last one was in 22. They've already reviewed this agency safety plan. Um, but they wanted us to make sure that we got it before our governing body.

Thank you, sir. And the information was in the packet, several pages long. Are there any questions? Any comments to the material that was in the packet. I just appreciate the hard work you and your team put into it. That I'll make a motion to approve. First on Mr. Newton, second by Mr. Martinez. I'd entertain any Further discussion, comments. All those in favor say I. I.

Oppose. Passes unanimous. Thank you. Our fourth item of new business is request consideration of a contract for Main Street sewer line rehabilitation price. M. Muan.

Okay. You can visually see this project taking place uh on Main Street. um several different aspects to it to ultimately have a uh new paved main street and uh new crosswalks. Um with this uh before of course you put a nice new surface on Main Street, we'd like to rehabilitate any infrastructure that is under that under the ground which uh Main Street is a huge conduit for a lot of infrastructure. Uh through the years there's been investment from our other utility partners from uh fiber optics to uh Duke Energy replacing lines that are underground to and they have vaults as well that hold different uh different transmission services there as well. But we have a water line that's currently being replaced um that you guys previously approved. is well on its way has water flowing into it and the taps are taking place now and that's what you'll see them coming through and starting to connect the taps to the new line and convert it over. Uh we've done a full assessment of the current condition of the sewer line um and the sewer line is in need of replacement as well. U Mr. Scott Banks our utility director will go over the recommendation for that, the scope of the the project and the vendor that's recommended. Mr. Thank you, M. Mchuan. U as the city manager alluded to, we've done an assessment of that sewer line. It's mostly clay. Uh there are also a lot of taps that are no longer in service that need to be uh closed up or eliminated so that we eliminate in what ground water getting in. Uh and and the um the plan project scope is to make some point repairs uh as needed and then to uh line the pipe with a uh um fabric liner that that will um make the pipe hole. Uh the Houston

Galveistston area council cooperative purchasing contract which the city is a member uh we're recommending using that for this procurement. uh the pricing for that for the particular line items has been negotiated and vetted uh by the contracting agency and by doing it this way we can um speed the process along and and uh get it completed in a timely manner. Um uh the uh quote based on the contract pricing is $716,4764. Uh we've completed multiple projects with Bortex Services and we've been pleased with their work uh so far. Uh this meets our strategic goal by assuring sustainable growth by pursuing long-term infrastructure projects and maintaining sewer infrastructure. We have the funds in the sewer budget uh utility budget to uh for the project and staff is recommending approval of a contract with vortex services in the amount of $716,47.64. And with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you, sir. Questions, Miss Stewart, then Dr. Thompson. Uh could you explain to me like our relationship with the Houston Galveston area? To me that's you know I guess it's Texas Galveston Texas the Houston area and it would seem like their pricing under their contracts are whatever may be more expensive than what it would be in this local area and is this the biggest bang for the buck or you know just kind of help me understand that. Yes, it's a it's a it originated with Houston, but it's a national contract and they have pricing um multiple vendors u that that uh the pricing is vetted and you you so it's it's a maximum price and then we negotiate down based on local and other services uh to to make it in line with what would be in our area so to speak. Have we compared do we what did we have budgeted before? How did it fall in line with what or did we even have a budget is unforeseen or

Yeah, our budget was 750,000. So we're at 716 here. Um this is these companies do that do this work move around the country. Um and there's not that many of them. And so uh we are a member of this uh cooperative agreement and our procurement of course we're members of it allows us to be members of several including other state uh contracts as well and so this was a u method to get linear feet to do it. Uh we do expect there to be less than this actually for adjustment for pricing um which they acknowledge. I just wanted to make sure, you know, our pricing was competitive in this market versus, you know, a market, you know, in the south southwest.

Yes. And that's what we we did due diligence to make sure that was the case. Thank you, Thompson. Just want to ask about the water quality as it's approved. So, this is actually for the sewer line. Um and so but the the water line itself uh I mean the quality was was always

great u downtown as far as Main Street. It was just the need to go ahead and upgrade the water line um for the far future before we repave and then you won't that infrastructure will last a long time. You know get 20 years out of the pavement you hope. And so um the water line was needed replacement from that standpoint. So it would just you could expand the the lifespan to another 50 years plus. So we hope that with a new product these days it's more than that. So that's new.

I've had the pleasure of uh you know I'm downtown pretty much every day watching work. There's a lot going on each and every day cutting and grinding. I saw Ken out there last week Whitner and Maine at the courthouse patching stuff. I mean u that's a huge project. Um, and I've told people, you know, because people obviously ask about the roads and stuff and I'm very honest with them like it's going to get a little bit worse before it gets better, but there's nothing like worse than if we were to pave Main Street and then have to come back in the future and, you know, cut it up for water lines or sewer lines. I mean, this is just, you know, this this again, you know, mayor references a lot with growing pains and stuff. This is a huge project and I think the final result uh that the city of Anderson's going to have and we have a nice newly paved main street with also very good functional water lines and sewer lines underneath it. I mean, that's going to be huge for, you know, downtown and the city. And with that, I'll make a motion to approve.

Second. First by Mr. Newton, second by Dr. Thompson. Mr. Harvin,

so how is this going to fit in with the workflow that we have now? And how do they actually line 5,500 40 linear feet of pipe with cloth resin to keep it they pull it in from one manhole to the next. It's an inverted um fabric and the then they will expand it with hot water and that hot water will cause that resin to harden and it'll be a smooth um seamless pipe.

So it's no and so how are we going to plug the how long is that going to take? Usually with you they they'll align from one manhole to the next uh and they'll bypass pump long enough to for the that to cure out. Uh the curing is a probably two or three hour process. Uh sometimes it's affected by temperature. Uh but uh everything you know they'll come in, they'll line whatever segments they're going to line and by the end of the workday it'll be back open and flowing. There's any other questions, comments? Had a first and a second. All those in favor say I.

I. Opposed? Passes unanimously. Our last item of new business is request consideration of an engineering contract for the digested lid placement at the Rocky River water treatment plant and upgrade of the supervisor control and data acquisition system of the s of the Rocky River and the Genesis Creek wastewater treatment plants. Mr. Muan.

Okay. A couple of different things in combination of this project. you you've seen this and heard this project before is in our CIP um initially. You've heard of an engineering contract that we did um and also a contract that we did as well uh regarding the dig lid. So this lid itself instead of floating straight up um it twists and goes up and it was causing mechanical failure. And so to further assess that we had actually removed the lid that was we did engineering then we hired a contractor removed the lid. um because we're not going to use that form of technology anymore as far as the mechanical twisting. And then we had to do a structural analysis also of the entire um lid system. And so to we knew we were going to have to replace that part of it. Um so this is continuing actually the design part for for that entire system to be replaced. And then secondary to that is the SCADA system. So the supervisory and control um data system that actually you can view monitor the flow monitor the conditions of the plant uh from a control center and actually uh we can add controls and build onto that and automation features to that. So it replaces the SCADA system. Um we are expecting to we've been approved for state revolving loan fund. We re recently did that on another project. It was a waterline project. Um again those are subsidized interest rates and so we're planning on that um in 2026 a borrowing on it. This is a part of the process to continue uh the SRF which state revolving loan fund. uh you had to have the design done and submitted to them and then the department we you say deh now it's the department of environmental services reviews your design has to approve your design and then they have to stamp off

on it to approve you to actually borrow and so that's how that process works um so Mr. Banks if you would go through the actual PER uh the amount and then the recommendation um to our our using our dur. Thank you. Um as was stated earlier uh WK Dixon who is now our door engineers um in September 25th of 2023 meeting um was approved for that per excuse me um and as part of that uh PR there was a price uh pro potential cost that was uh evaluated that cost was two uh $2,190,000 of that the engineering was was included in that um into the uh the engineering contract coming before you tonight is for the design bidding construction administration and construction observation for the scope of work needed to replace the digest lid and coordinate the upgrade of the SCADA systems at both plants. The cost for the uh engineering proposal is 254,000 which as I stated earlier is was included in that original two.19 million dollar uh construction estimate. Um this ensures sustainable growth by pursuing long-term infrastructure projects and maintaining sewer infrastructure and regulatory compliance. Um funding is with the sewer budget through this through the SRF loan. Uh staff is recommending contracting with our DUR engineers for the design bidding construction administration and construction observation of the digest living placement at Brocky River wastewater treatment plant and coordination of SCADA system upgrades for both plants at $254,000. Thank you. Um through our capital projects funding, we

invest a lot in water and sewer for sure. Um and necessary things for a growing city. But any comments, questions. I'd like to make a motion uh Mr. Mayor that we approve this uh contract. Second. First by Mr. Stewart, second by Dr. Thompson. Further discussion. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. That passes unanimously. Having no further business. I entertain a motion to adjourn. I'll make a motion. First by Mr. Steel. Second by Dr. Th000.