Common Council - Regular Meeting

Oh, something like that. I did not mute. Do I need to? I'll call this meeting to order of the Common Council, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026, 7 p.m., Council Chambers. Can I have a roll call, please?

Criswell? Here.

Hill? Here. Howley? Here. Selby?

Here.

Klobeter?

Here. Sorenson is excused, private present.

Thank you. Number two, a seat for full attendees, which we do not have any. Number three, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Number four is general public comments, which we do not have any. Next is the consent agenda. The consent agenda contains items which staff considers to be routine and have already been discussed and recommended by committee, board, or commission at a previous meeting. Staff recommends that council act on all these items in a single roll call vote. If any member of council wishes to have any items removed from the consent agenda and discussed, the council may request that items be removed from the consent agenda prior to the adoption. Looking for a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second that. Motion by Victoria, second by Terry. Roll call, please. Criswell.

Aye. Hill. Aye. Hawley. Aye. Stubby. Aye. Cleveter. Aye.

Frye.

Motion carries. Thank you.

Number 13 is the Senior Center Transportation Program and Meals on Wheels congregate meal set update. The recommendation is to listen to the presentation and update from Ryan from the Aging ERC program. UNIT MANAGER WITH GREENLAND COUNTY REGARDING THE SENIOR CENTER'S PARTICIPATION IN GREENLAND COUNTY'S PROGRAMS. DISCUSSION AND ACTION AS APPROPRIATE. RYAN.

ALL RIGHT. HELLO, EVERYBODY.

HELLO.

LIKE YOU MENTIONED, I'M RYAN MAVERICK. I'M THE MANAGER FOR THE GREENLAND COUNTY AGING ADRC. AND HERE JUST TO GIVE A STATE OF THE UNION OF WHAT OUR NUTRITION PROGRAM IS LOOKING LIKE IN THE FUTURE AND OUR SENIOR TRANSPORTATION. So as you may or may not have known, the Roman Senior Center was one of our meal caterers for many years. I don't even know how many years. I've been here for four years now, and before that time, they were a caterer for us. We also have another caterer in the Green Lake County area that serves the southern portion of Green Lake County, which is housed in Marcus Ham. And then we have the Roman Senior Center. So this year, we have to always put in a two-year bid So we're in a bid year, and as you guys know, the decision was made that Bernie's Senior Center was not going to move forward with the bid for the nutrition program.

And I don't think I have to educate you guys on the reasons for that unless you want me to.

You guys discussed that. So where we're at, at the county-wise, we have our bid process up until July 17th for people to submit their bids. We have a few bids. We had Crossroads submit a bid, Family Triangle here in the Berlin area submitted a bid, and then we have our Marquee Sand Resident Home, which serves our southern part of Greenland County. So here for the Berlin area, the Family Triangle was voted and approved by my Commissioner on Aging, and then the Greenland County Health and Human Services. So the Family Triangle will be serving this portion of the county which also covers some Greenland area and the northern areas of the Portland area. I think there's about 40 to 45 homes in the Romeo, so I guess sort of out of here, five days a week. Our plan, and so right now what we're doing, so we accepted the bid for the triangle. Now we're looking at our budget and we're discussing now just more of the specific details of the formalities of how do we move forward, what's the best for our consumers, our goal and goal is because we enjoyed our partnership with the berlin senior center uh actually that was our most active uh congregate which we call it as people that come in and have a meal at the at the center um that's where most of our congregate meals come out so we're hoping that we will continue that partnership to have our congregate meals um at the berlin senior center so that partnership will still continue Really how this is going to look different is really preliminary things here. They'll create a full different menu than what they have on their menu. They have to meet our nutrition guidelines. And then they'll cook every day a hot meal. And then we hope that we will be able to bring these hot meals to the individuals at the senior center that want to eat there while we still serve to our home delivery meal participants. So for our consumers, won't really be anything that changes besides the fact of who's cooking the food they're still going to get that nutritious hot meal five days a week and still with the nutrition program it's more than just the meal as we find many times uh our drivers because they're interacting with them every day so they get that daily connection uh they we have they also they'll reach out to us at the county wise and say like hey this person seems a little off can you reach out to them we have found people uh dc's their own part of the program, which we've had family members who are like, thank you for doing that because we wouldn't have talked to them, we wouldn't have seen them for weeks. So we hear that actually quite a bit. So this program, you know, it's really beneficial for the community. But so for the consumers, they don't see anything different. We still have volunteer drivers. So as you guys know, too, with part of the Bruins Senior Center, there was drivers that were part of the city of Bruin. Now the Green Bay County will take those over. The difference is we don't have paid staff drivers. We recruit volunteer drivers. We give them a stipend and mileage reimbursements. We still get some money because we live in Wisconsin. You need to give people all the snow. I mean, people have big cars, but not everybody wants to get out there when it's sub-zero out there. So we still have volunteer drivers. If you guys see in the ad, we were, I believe, effective August 1st. we took over that route for the run for the city run we took over the route and uh we put it out in the road paper for that we got a lot of interest uh my nutrition coordinator told me this morning we are now fully loaded we were building that with some of the county staff and then we had um some volunteers that were doing a few more days but now we're going to be uh fully staffed with uh with volunteers, so we should have two or three new drivers that are volunteers. And then also we made partnerships with a couple banks in the area that will do some service days for us as well. So not only just, I think a positive of this was with, I know you guys had a lot of discussions about to move forward with the bid, but I think what this allowed us to do is, I mean, it's not a lie, I mean, now it's public knowledge. The family triangle was gonna be lower than anything that you guys were gonna submit. And we know that the cost of grocery, the cost of food, and the cost of doing everything is just going up. So it allowed us to kind of reach out, which in the years past, we've enjoyed the partnership. We always went for a listening center. We're just going to do it. But this allowed us to meet with other caterers, the people that are in the business with food that can buy bulk food. And they can supplement what they're already purchasing to help keep the cost down. And what that does for us is that allows us, because there's many counties in the state right now that have waiting lists. We do not have any waiting lists. And so it allows us to hopefully keep that trend where we don't have a waiting list and then allow us that we didn't have to think about cutting people out of the program. Because the way it looks right now by us going out to get other bids, still providing quality food, but also to then we don't have to think about starting that waiting list or to remove people. Because everybody that we have on the meals, we do a really good job of screening out. those would have been some really hard decisions. So I think all of you guys having those conversations, they're really challenging. I know for the community, I feel that a lot of folks, maybe you guys have talked to people in the community, were really worried about this and what was going to happen. But I think we're really in a good spot to continue serving quality food and give quality customer service to people. So it's kind of where we're at with the nutrition.

Great.

Does anybody have any questions for Ryan? I know it's nice to get facts out. It's nice to have, you know, we have a lot of those conversations in public, those hard conversations, and I know that I heard a lot of feedback, I don't know if others heard a lot of feedback, but I think a lot of it was worry and not knowing the facts for the future. So having you come tonight was a nice little addition and having the correct word out. And again, the facts, put it all out, I think it was a good choice. Thank you for coming here.

You want me to talk about transportation? Yeah, sure. So our senior transportation, just to give some brief knowledge about that, it's the 8521 Senior Transportation Program. The county receives some funding through state dollars, state grant money, nutrition, which means like food pantries, grocery stores, and educational or work purposes. So about 70 to 80% of our rides are medical appointments. These are routine medical appointments. As you guys know, in Greenland County, our transportation is very limited. And so essentially, us at the county with this transportation program, this is really what a lot of our seniors have to make sure that they're getting to the medical appointments besides their neighbors or friends or things like that. So from the Senior Center, they were a service provider for us. We would give them a portion of the grant to provide those rides. Really great partnership, too, with that. Then as even part of, we have to, as a county, we have to do a five-year transportation plan. I think we might be in the third year of it. So a couple years ago when we created this, we meet twice a year. We have community members that come to speak about it. One of the biggest issues that people brought up with transportation at that time is, so a few years ago, we had five service providers. and the Fox River Industries. So people were like, I'm confused. I don't know who to call. Do I call just my portion of the county? And everybody had different rates. So from that, the community was thinking, well, they really want us to condense and to make it more centralized. So a couple years ago, we worked to make it more centralized. City of Greenland, actually the mayor of City of Greenland, a couple years ago, met with me and said, hey, I have some of my assistants and administrative staff to provide, so we can't be doing this. We just can't handle the workload. Would you guys do a better job with the funding? And I was like, take it on, get more volunteers, we can do this. So they did that a couple years ago, and then the city of Princeton, their person retired, and then the next person was like, I can't take this on, this is a lot to do. And so they gave that back. And so now we're at the next stage, which is another positive thing, because we can make this more centralized. So moving forward, the portion that went to the Broadland Senior Center is coming back to Greenland County, and then moving to 2027, we just keep a larger portion of that funding. And with that money, what I'm able to do, I've added, since we've all discussed, I believe, three new drivers. So I've told our transportation volunteer drivers, and they can serve the whole of Greenland County. And so this way, people call us at the ADRC, and then we can not only give you the talk to them, fill out different services, but then we can get them connected to a driver. It doesn't matter where they live or what location, and then we can centralize they know where to call and we minimize some of that confusion. So again, we enjoyed the partnership with the senior center, but this, I think we're looking at the community. I make this more centralized and with extra funding that I'll be able to keep for the ADRC. It'll allow me to recruit even more drivers and do more things to keep expanding and enhancing the transportation program. Great. Because this is the easiest meeting I've ever had to talk about.

It helps with, right, we've had these discussions, and so this was, I'm not going to say I'm happy that we're finally finding a resolution, but we're finally to that point, so, yeah. Thank you for all the time, and to you too, there's, I'm happy we're at the end of this, and we've figured it all out. We can talk about something else. Yes. Sorry. Appreciate you guys' time. Thank you. Thank you.

We're going to start that off.

Okay, on to number 14, which is the October 1st, 2026 to September 30th, 2027. Employee health insurance and employee dental insurance renewal. Provider determination and plan selection. The recommendation is to approve the proposal of health partner for employee health insurance. Employer city overall provided to include the broad focus and select medical plan groups with the plan design of PPO. 3,507,100% and I'm stopping. As presented, we've discussed this last week. We started discussing this last week and before. Jessie, I'm letting you take this.

Two pieces that I sent you. The first piece actually was about life insurance, the Department of Insurance renewal. And I just wanted to let you know I received that this morning. And then this basically says that they are giving us a 0% rate increase. So the life insurance is actually funded by the employees if they wish to have a practice. We pay for one unit, and then they can supplement with additional units. So we have a 0% rate increase on that. So good news on that. So I'll have to pass that around to you. And then, the next piece that I gave you is on health insurance. So, just like we discussed last week, the strategy that we had to try to keep costs within reason was to move forward with the just under 12% increase, which we got started not much higher, but through working with our broker, had some really good conversations with all partners and we're able to do a rebranded job for us. Moving to a 90-10% cost share between the employer and the employee. Like I said, currently the cost share is at 92.5 and 7.5. So our employees are going to see a definite increase in their contributions. Because now you have a 12% increase overall. and then they are also taking on an additional 2.5% from what they had previously, for last year, for this current year, sorry. Part of that would mean a different schedule, and we went for all that last year. So what I wanted to show you, so you have, again, the same pages that I gave you last week, which kind of went through that strategy of offering three sets of plans instead of two. We currently have the broad and the focused. The focused is kind of, I would call it the standard bed in the middle. And then the broad is that it offers more provider options. Both of them have a signal wrap, they call it, so that if you have a loved one that doesn't live in this area, they should be able to find a provider that is in network. But we are looking at providing a third option, which is the select. The select, the big difference between it is that it does not have Aurora and it does not have the signal wrap. But if you are somebody who utilizes data, this may be the most cost-effective option for you. So what I propose is doing the 90 and 10 coverage on the focused as kind of the standard then, as well as on the select plan because that is actually less expensive. So there will be cost savings for both the employer and the employee because they're gonna pay 10% of a lower total. And then if they wish to maintain or go to the broad, we would only fund that at the same 10% level as the focus. So they would buy up, they would pay for it, that additional. So if you look on, in addition to that, in your packet, you have like three of these packets that are all the same. There's one for each of the different plans for the broad, for the focus, and the slot, and that kind of goes through all the things that works kind of the same way. But the other little stable portion goes through costs. So this front page is put together for us by our broker, and it shows how much the total plan costs, what the employees would pay, and what the employer would pay if the same number of people take the same plan again. Okay, so currently we have 10 people enrolled in the broad plan on the same below. So when you're looking at the chart. So that comes out to the costs. The bottom one, since no one is currently in select, just shows if everyone took select, what that cost would be. So the total cost of this is going to be somewhere amongst here, because obviously everyone can choose which plan they want, and then depending on their life situation, they may be in the family, they may be in the employee plus one, which we have two categories of, we have employee plus children, and we have employee plus spouse, and then of course we have the single.

So it could roll out just like it did this year, or it could be completely different.

That's, you know, it depends on the employee's profits there. The second page shows you a comparison of those costs versus what we're currently paying and what the renewal would be. And then underneath shows the employee's costs. So monthly and then to next year for, so you have the broad, current one, and then what it would go to, the focused current one, and what it would go to, and then, of course, select it or have it current, but that's what it would go to. So as you can see, all of them would go up. If you maintain that broad, it's going to go up very significantly because of both of those things that I just talked about, it would have focused on overall and then taking on that buyout. So that's why you see a pretty significant increase But all of the plans showing, just like we said, the Robin focused for a single is still gonna go from an additional $27 per month. It's just a single.

When you go down to the family, you're looking at 70-ish dollars per month.

The next stage is my spreadsheet where I try to put in everything that I got from the health insurance company into what I want to know. So for each of the plans, if you look over to that kind of left-hand middle, it'll say additional employee contributions. So this is how much more per month and per year this plan will cost at a different level. So the broad, and then it shows the focus, which is, like I said, that I'm considering that kind of our standard. And then at the select, so how that would impact employees and then what potentially our costs could be. Last time I talked to you about how I thought it was probably about a $60,000 difference, that is assuming that everybody takes the same kind of data right now. So it could be more, you know, we could end up having to contribute more than another $60,000, or it could be less if we have people either moving to the focus or moving to the select player from another plan.

So I can't answer that until people enroll, but that's my best guess at this point, if that makes sense.

any questions about any of this are you planning on employees paying the rate starting effective october 1st because i know last year you waited until january 1. yes that's an excellent question because last year the total impact wasn't real significant but this year um a quarter of that 60 will have to be absorbed in the first quarter, or excuse me, the last quarter of this year. So 15,000, I mean, I guess that's a good conversation to have. Well, and I don't know if it'll be 15. It could be significantly more or significantly less. So I would like to say that we can move forward. with a January 1 date, but I should re-run those numbers and make sure.

Yes, my only concern is whatever decision we're making, if families are going to have to or if anybody's going to have to pay considerably more, we need to communicate that ASAP.

Yes.

Yes, so you don't have action on here.

Yeah.

Is there? Oh, sorry. So you need that decision tonight.

I would like to move forward with the health insurance to the provider and get going on setting up at least the conversations, tappings, so that we can place that question and everything. Because the renewal starts October 1, so we have to have everybody signed up prior to that. like I have plans chosen and everything, so having a little bit of time. I can definitely come back in September if you want to think about the difference between the employees starting their contribution October 1 versus January 1.

I mean, I would like to give as much notice as possible, considering some of these are huge. And we're talking October, not before Christmas. I would like to give our employees as much time as possible to budget. So I think the sooner we can make that decision, the better.

It's hard that we don't have a... Yeah, calculating that number is, like I said, my best guess is $15,000. Is that accurate? I don't know.

Yeah. Sam, you're our insurance guru. But you can't say anything. I'm at Skolden.

i'm just wondering if there's something else you can do if you're gonna make if you're gonna increase the cost that much i mean their hsa contributions have been frozen for years uh who are you going to jesse

I would very much like to go January 1, just because you said that people kind of set a budget. But I do think those ladies are aware that this is an October 11 renewal, but we did last year, which there was a lot of change last year, if we could give them a little bit more time.

I need you to seriously consider talking to WRS in probably March of next year, because this isn't fair.

I will, I will again. I know the last time that we discussed it, there was a significant buy-up to get in.

So definitely going to do it. Because you're increasing the cost for the employee, but then if they have to use their insurance, they're also paying an additional $7,000 on top of this. If they need to.

That's true. That hasn't changed. We did not change the deductibles.

But that's true. But even if you're paying more of a premium at the state level, your deductible at max, I think, is $1,500 or maybe $3,000 for a family plan. So you're over halfing that. I'd have to look at all the state plans again.

Yeah, it depends on where you are in the state.

Well, it depends on what plan you picked. but I can tell you for a network health plan at the state level, the local state level, employees, I think on a family plan, I wish Ryan would have stayed, I think it's less than $150 a month, and it's a $500 deductible.

So. So buying that long-term is way, way easier.

because people are now gonna be dishing out. Focus is the one that's like the main, right? Yes. So,

looking for the additional because it's on this page if they max out their deductible i mean that's a huge increase when we have it's a huge increase with everything else right now

I know that the city can't absorb it, but I would highly encourage you to look at WRS.

So we're past that? Correct, this year you're past that. So we need to decide if we're going to absorb the cost pushing up the start date to January or if we're going to

Right, the renewal will be October 1, but whether or not the employees see the change in their contribution, October 1 or January 1. Correct. Right.

Anybody else have any input? Did we have any budget for any of it? What do you mean? What is your budget originally? Knowing from last year, when we did the budget, did you put anything in for this?

I budgeted for the entire year at the rate. Oh, you did not add any additional? I would consider that next year, too, for the last three months of the year, adding an additional 12%.

I think in the Workaday world, most people are accustomed to their premiums changing in September. That's what happens every year, so you get accustomed to that. I'm hearing what everybody's saying about the increase and not wanting to thrust that upon them, so I'm kind of a horse apiece here. It's standard to do it in September or October.

I don't know when anybody else renews in October, actually. Most people I know are January long.

I guess every business that I've been in does it in the fall. Or January long. Or January long as well. So I'm a horse apiece. Whatever you guys think is best for the employees here.

I just want to stick with whatever word. If we're doing it in October, then it needs to be October every year. I don't want them expecting that. Well, that's where this year was January the year before. We don't know if it is going forward. Anyone else?

My thoughts are if we did not budget for the increase, then we should enact the rates when they go into effect.

You also need to consider when the police are changing over. When does their contract change over, January 1 or the date of the renewal? I will have to read that specifically. Because I'm pretty sure that went by here.

I may have. I don't have it memorized.

Is there a link? Anything you have? I'm just kidding. Could you look into that and we could see what would be next ones? What if the police changeover happens to keep them in line with the city? I think it's also important we have to have somebody to go up to staff.

We can approve this and come back and revisit when they start paying next month, but we can at least get the ball rolling on this. Yes. We can get those involved.

Yes, I think that's going to cause us panicking confusion. If they're told, well, we don't know when you need to start paying this yet.

Or maybe they'll give input.

I guess that was my fault for not asking in the budget last year. Previously they had always budgeted an extra.

I'll make a motion to approve the proposal for health partners for employee health insurance as stated in the minutes, in the agenda, excuse me.

I'll second that. Motion by Victoria, second by Sherry. I'll need a roll call, please.

Yeah.

Thank you. Criswell. Aye. Hill. Aye. Cawley. Aye. Stubby.

I'm staying.

Clover. Aye. Sorenson is absent. We have four ayes. Then let's bring back the rest of that discussion next month. But I really think we really have to communicate it to the employees. In case of decision, because then next month we're just a month away. And they're going to have to, I mean, I don't know what our percentages are of family to single plans.

That's on the sheet too. It says the number of people. I just feel like it's going to be way more. How many people are in each of these? So ignore the bottom one, but the top one is how many people are in each of the plans currently. So 10,000, same abroad, 4,000, plus 5,000, yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, it's all here. So you need to make sure there's some kind of communication going on to them. that council did not make a decision, and the decision will be in September, but there's obviously a chance that the race could go on in October versus January. Anybody else, no other questions, we're good with that? All right. On to number 15, special event, Plano Revival at Grizzly Steiner in Stanford. diner and tavern from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on August 14th, 2026. Request for a temporary extension of premises of alcohol beverage license at 126 Broadway Street to include vests in outdoor area. Outdoor activity areas for alcohol beverage license establishment permits to allow live entertainment and serving of alcohol beverages and special events on streets, highways, and municipal parking lots to allow use of city and lots at 119 Commercial Street and 114 Pierce Street. Our souls as presented. for parking. Recommendation is to review the request and permit applications, discussion and action as appropriate. I see the face to the name. You want to come up to the podium? Do you want to introduce yourself?

My name is Colton. Good to meet you all. Good evening. I would first like to apologize that I'm trying to squeeze this in last minute. I am learning here, so I'm looking forward.

within the 45 days to respect your guys time as well and get that on the agenda so uh but yeah we're looking to do a live music event and i'll let you ask yeah it looks like a couple of them so yeah i think um i don't know how much we have two viewers on right now i don't know how many people follow along to our meetings but um we've mentioned several times that we are um excited for you to come to town i'm excited for your enthusiasm and all that you're doing so Anybody have any questions for Bolden as this is our first permit from him? No, it was well put together. Looks like you checked all the boxes. Good deal. Can we do both of these together or do you want them separate?

Can you do both of them together?

Just make sure you specify the two different dates.

Sure.

Did you want the three motions separate or all three motions together?

Yeah, if you're approving an outdoor activity area. I'll make a motion to approve the temporary expansion of the area license for alcohol sales and consumption under the current alcohol beverage license at 186 Broadway Street on August 14th and September 6th, 2026 from 5 p.m. to 10 30 p.m. I'll second. motion by terry second by samantha all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries i'll make a motion to approve the outdoor activity areas that alcohol beverage license establishments permit for grizzly is located at 186 broadway street on august 14th and september 6 2026 from 5 p.m to 10 30 p.m second motion by terry second by samantha all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion carries And I'll make a motion to approve the special event permit to allow temporary use of the city-owned property for event parking on August 14th and September 6th, 2026.

I'll second that one too.

Motion by Terry, second by Samantha. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Good to go. Thanks for coming.

Thanks for sitting through the boring intro.

Yeah, I hope we get it out, but I'm sorry. I forgot that was a long talk. No worries, no worries. Thank you, guys. On to number 17, which is accept the resignation of Parks and Rec Commission member. The recommendation is to accept the resignation of Pat Hanrahan. Hanrahan? I can't say his name. Hanrahan. Hanrahan from Parks and Recreation Commission. It hasn't actually been here for a meeting. It didn't work out.

So correct to the drawing board.

I feel like I say the same things here. We're still looking for help. So we're looking to accept that resignation.

Make a motion to accept the resignation of the Parks and Recreation Commission member Pat Henrion of the Parks and Recreation Commission. I'll second.

Motion by Victoria, second by Jamie. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Number 18. Discussion and action on the planning and development director position. and contracting for zoning administrator position entities. The recommendation is issuance of RFP for a contractor position to perform responsibilities associated with zoning administrator, planning and development director, and floodplain management entities.

So the only thing I noticed was most of the dates were good, except the background, effective January 1, 2027.

Yes, and to extend this question, Thank you, yes. A couple of things that were suggested when I sent that for a final review. Here it is, sorry. Had the dates squared away, as mentioned. And he did suggest, It probably makes some sense to maybe not specify our budget max. He suggested that it's possible sometimes when you have projects like this that costs can be charged back to developers and others when it is specific to that. We actually do have a policy that when a developer comes in and is going to require a specific review, they sign knowing that they are going to be charged for things that are specific for their project, for their proposal. Because the whole community shouldn't have to pay for an individual who's, you know, doing a big project. So if they feel that, you know, depending on what kind of products come in, that that's not attainable, you know, that wouldn't copy our cost, if that makes sense. So it wasn't, you know, that's obviously up to you guys, but I hope that was reasonable. And that's for what? that we might potentially receive? Well, taking it up is proposals. Proposals, yeah. Right. I mean, we could give proposals that we just feel are too far out there, obviously. But my hope is that if it is, you know, a higher cost, that they would break it down by what, you know, if we develop our costs, these would be our costs. And we can certainly ask a lot more questions about any of the proposals that come in if things are clear and make sure that that's all.

I think I would have to agree on omitting the maximum just because that will be where everybody aims even if they can go less.

And then he also suggested that we delete what our criteria for the proposal are because um we don't want any argument with anybody that we didn't come out the way that they would have gone with our criteria so that could be internal and then you guys basically are just making the proposal feel best for our community which is the first word sorry could you state that a different way the initial version that i gave you had criteria for how we're going to select the criteria and we got rid of some of those details so that it's just basically the council's going to decide in their own discretion what's best and just like all RFPs if they don't do this you need to remind that should You can reject all proposals. You are not required, just because we roll out a proposal, to hire a firm to do this or an individual to do this. If you don't get a proposal that you feel is beneficial to the city, we can reconsider and change direction, reissue the RFP with different parameters, whatever the council needs. You're not required to choose one. If you get a hundred of them, that doesn't mean you have to.

Just so you know. don't feel pressured if it's not right it's not right if it is i'm hoping that we get several great ones and you have a really difficult decision deciding which one you think is best but you don't know until you get them back i'll make a motion to dissolve the planning and development director position as of october 31st 2026 and to issue an rfp

for the contractor position to perform responsibilities associated with the zoning administrator planning and development director and floodplain management duties with the amendments that we drafted here today. I'll second.

Motion by Victoria, second by Tracy. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. On to number 19, Old Business. Does anybody have anything for Old Business? Number 20, New Business? I will just say a thank you to Samantha. Samantha, Sam, last night, we just posted our opening of our vacancy for an older person at large. Thank you. I thought that was old business.

It doesn't matter.

We're moving forward. I saw that posted. Has anybody peaked, responded? Oh, there's lots. I know. Well, somebody already responded on the Facebook list.

But thank you, Sam, for your years that you served, and I will miss you.

Anything else? On to number 21. I'll make a motion to adjourn. One last time. One last time. One second. Motion by Sam, second by Terry. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Meeting adjourned at 7.45. We're still live, so if there's anything you want to say.