City Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. So, there won't be any kids here, but the one I pulled up doesn't have that.

I just want to say somebody's worthless. very changed off to the side here. Jake is supposed to That's where I checked it. Larry should I said they're both there. Yeah. So do eight before seven. Yeah. And then provides it. He said he knew that it consultation

I'll let the other people go before that. Okay. Maybe I should have gone a little We also thought about that session. feel good. They either want to take this off or they don't

just say delete item. You want to do during You make the motion of ours. Yeah.

Oh, it's 7 o'clock. to order. I pledge algiance 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. So stuck together.

Are there any additions or corrections to the consent calendar? Motion with um some contingents. Pardon letter E. if we would get into a dry summer that we don't have work that we have the ability to send them home if there's no work to be done not guaranteeing 40 hours I guess is what I'm getting at yeah we don't usually because it's seasonal health just like that in the record okay is there a number we have to guarantee them like 34 32 nope Okay. Second.

Okay. I I'd also like to make a motion to uh amend the agenda. So, I'd like to delete item number eight and amend item number seven to um change it from just union contract to union contracts and consultation with legal counsel under SPCL 12523. Okay. Do what now? Eliminate eliminate number eight and revise number seven to have an executive session for union contract negotiations and for consultation with legal counsel under SDCL125 section.

Okay. And to section three legal counsel. Okay. You need a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second that. Okay. Um call roll. Call roll on her amended motion. So, commissioners Garver, hi Peterson. Hi, York. Hi, Carlson. Hi, Mayor Lens. I now have to approve the agenda with the amendments. Yeah, I think that's right. This is all that rules of parliamentary procedure, which I'm not up on as much. I think you did it with that vote.

Okay. So we don't have agenda which right amend we'll go with that. All right. So um next we'll have visitors to be heard and there is a group from the airport here that would like to speak. So I'm going to invite you up. Well we're waiting for Jared right here.

Oh Jeremy. Okay then we'll do that first then. Did he sneak in there? Okay. It's um my great privilege to read proclamations for the um state championships that passed through our community and I've been mayor for eight years and I've had the um pleasure of doing this for eight years in a row. So um and there was more before I was elected. So but I'm I've had the pleasure to do this for eight years and um this year is extra special. So, um, I'm going to read the the girls first because Jeremy's here. See if I can find it. Okay. Um, this is an executive proclamation from the city of Canton, office of the mayor. A city commissioned commemoration. The Han High School girls wrestling team finished their season as state champions for the first time in state in school history and for the first time in South Dakota High School Activities Association history. Whereas the Canton High School girls wrestling team has two individual champions, Brooke Warka and Finley Ejun and seven place winners and 13 qualifiers. And whereas the Canton High School girls wrestling team and staff informed a co formed a cohesive group with contributions from team members, coaches, trainers, and staticians. And whereas head coach Cameron Grankkey and assistant coach Jeremy asked, Jason Bartell's and Brandon Garman led the team and now therefore be it commemorated by the city of Canton Commissioners that the Canton Seahawks be honored for their achievements at the 2026 state wrestling tournament. This is dated April 6, 2026. So congratulations

You gonna accept the boys award also? I can. Okay. All right. Okay.

Are they going to make it? Yeah. Okay. You got And if they did, it's been so long ago and nobody reminds us, you know, us or them. Yeah. So, got that, Paul? Here. This is the girls. Okay. And I will read the boys while you're standing here. Okay. Okay. Got that? Sure.

Okay. This is another executive proclamation from the city of Canton, office of the mayor. Um it's congratulating the high school Kent High School boys wrestling team for winning the 2026 state B wrestling championship. Whereas the K high school wrestling team finished their season with the state B wrestling championship and for the first time in South Dakota high school activities association history. The school won both the boys and girls championships. Whereas the camp boys wrestling team has had three individual champions. Aiden CR, Connor Gid, and Kale Vanderbrook and sixth place winners and 12 qualifiers. Whereas the Canton wrestling team and staff formed a cohesive group with contributions from team members, coaches, trainers, staticians, and whereas co-head coaches Jeremy Swenson and Parker Swanson along with assistant coaches Kyle Zebo, Mike Walker, and Braden Ser led the team. And whereas this is the team's the wrestling team's ninth consecutive championship. And whereas this is the wrestling team's 11th overall state championship and the 22nd consecutive year that they have placed at state. Pretty amazing. Now therefore, be it commemorated by this camp city commission that the camp Seahawks be honored for this achievement and for the 2026 state wrestling championship. Thanks. Thanks.

Ah, okay. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you. Congratulations. Okay. Lots of stuff going on here. Okay. Now, visitors to be heard to the airport committee.

Good evening. Good evening. Uh, chair, chair, and commissioners. I don't know if a secondary Okay, I'll start over. Thank you, mayor. Um, and city commissioners. I just wanted to come up and provide an update uh at the airport and kind of um give another um push to what I'm um proposing at the airport. Um, last fall I came and and uh I would work, you know, I'm the one that works with the FAA to to um start the process of getting a grant. Um, and typically a federal grant with the FA is at 90%. Um, and last fall I came with the pre-application for this next project and and there was no money in needed, you know, to invest at that point um, in the fall of 25. But now Now the grant apps are going to be due in uh the beginning of May here. So time is of the essence. I asked um to kind of present this project a little bit more um for fiscal year 2025 and 2026 instead of the FA um funding at 90% it's actually at 95%. So it gives you um better bang for your buck there. I've got a and this is for expanding your fuel um at the airport which can in turn over over the future of your airfield it can bring in additional revenue which I think um you know talking to the commission in the past has been one of the goals. Can we, you know, find ways to, um, you know, make wise decisions at the

airport? Um, and this revenue generating project that can, you know, one way an airport can make money is by fuel sales. And, uh, you could do more with that if you have a card reader, which a lot of GA airports have, and then if you have increased capacity, which is what this project that I'm presenting is all about. So, I have a letter here that I can um share with you that just kind of explains the project and has a cost estimate on page three. And then I would I would you know want you just to consider it and then um we if there's any consensus to um to get a grant in for this year it would have to be you know like I said the grant deadlines are coming up here in May. So, we would have to probably get in the agenda for next time in April here. So, and I'd be ready to answer any questions or um and I and in the past I know the commission has asked for you know add additional voices um for the airport and we have there's two board members here um along with me your airport consultant you know on the engineering side. So, do you have anything you want to add? Yeah, I just wanted one of the one of the things that first sinking camping South Dakota airport um just one of the the things is that with the state of South Dakota in the past they have not participated in their match in revenue producing uh grants right now they are matching that with revenue producing for both the year fiscal year 2026 and the fiscal year 2027. Um, and just to give you a little bit of a an update, I talked with uh Marshall Christensen, our airport manager this afternoon just in terms of where we are on fuel this year.

Excuse me. With the with Dakota Aviation coming in, uh, Joey Johnson, um, right now he is either on his fifth or sixth instructor he's hired. They're four aircraft. They are also bringing in back a senica which is a twin and be doing some uh instruction with that in this next year. So right now they are looking at um about uh just with the regular fuel about 12,000 g a little over 12,000 almost 13,000 gallons. They figured the Senica this year will use about 4,000 gallons. The challenge he's running into right now is our tank is is 10 thou is 2,000 gallons. So it he has to be very mindful and they can not always get it on a timely basis. So um usually has to get down to about 500 gallons which can be a bit of a challenge at times um in order the timing so that they don't run out of fuel but also you know get the fuel in the tank that is with this um is what the airports and the FAA is recommending. One other note too is that in the years past the FAA was kind of reluctant to do that for us because we weren't in a growth mode. They have changed their mind. They think that we should do this now because again it's a revenue producing thing. Um we are at what 29 aircraft. We have two um new more two more hangers that are in in the works right now. A gentleman and his wife came in. He's a 767 pilot for UPS. Uh, and he has a twin that he wants to build a hanger on here. So, we are in a in a growth mode in that way. The tank that they're recommending is a tent that they use is a 10,000galon tank. What that enables you to do, Paul, you would

know this, you can get uh 8,000 gallons at a time with that because that's what a load is. Um, and of course, there's a significant cost savings if you can go to a load. Right now we're limited to to 1500 and even then you have to split it. So he has to make arrangements with partial loads on that. Now this isn't going to happen right away. We know it's going to be a year or so and they're aware of that. But that's why it's it's important right now to get the first part of that approved so that we can get the grant application for the for the design phase of it with the hope is we can then get it built by 2027. And again, this is you're talking a project that's like 340,000, but it's going to cost us 5% for the initial and two and a half and then it's 5% that uh before that. I don't know where you're going to get a return on investment with that kind of input what it is. And and again, the FAA is on board with this. They weren't before, but they are now. So, with that, um, we can take any more questions or

this paper you got, is that the email you sent out? I was looking for my email and I can't find Yes, I do. We've got here too. Would you like Yeah, we both ended up making copies for it. So, I you know, I I've emailed most of you. I think all of you would as well. Thank you. Yeah, it's easier to read a hard copy. Y I I agree. But it's nice to have we're definitely we knew we

knew we weren't on the agenda today, but I just wanted to be able to come and answer any questions if there was any because it just feels like a really good I've been putting some leg work in on this because it seems like a lot of uh GA airports that have beautiful runways and and and hanger spaces like you guys have at your airport, a lot of airports have a better fuel system that's not, you the manual. Um, your airport manager is is a young guy that's busy with with other things and it's tying up a lot of his time to to manage the fuel level all the time because it's a undersized capacity and and the credit card will only increase sales over time um because you're missing out on two notes on that. We we did some checking of Davidson and I kind of looked through we both came up this there's about 30 airports about our size right now and he didn't count the large ones he didn't count like Watertown and Aberdine and S Paul's and Rapid there's about 30 of them that have the card readers in there and one of the things that there's a website called AWeb that you can go on and you can list um prices that are and at some point AWeb mistakenly put on that we had the card reader. We got people that were coming in thinking we had it. The good news, we were able to accommodate them. In fact, even those on the board, you know, there our numbers are up there. So, at one point, I ran out there and I filled the fuel, used the set it up for him, and I got it got it taken care of. But, um, so there's a number of airports that are in. So, it's not just us. You have something to add.

Yeah. Dave Ammonson and, uh, I'm on the airport board here in Canton. And uh this afternoon I just wanted to get a little bit of a perspective of some of the airports in South Dakota that do have card readers with their fuel systems. Uh South Dakota Department of Transportation publish publishes this airport directory every several years and it has every South Dakota airport and what their facilities uh are like and so forth. And I went through the book. I'm not going to list all of them because I I came up with 30. And like Bruce said, that does not include the larger airports that don't need it because they have 24-hour uh personnel to be able to do the uh the fueling. Uh but I was surprised at some of the uh communities that were on the list. uh Belfoo, Bison, Britain, Faith, Flandrew, Gregory, Lemon, Milbank, Mobridge, Parkston, Phillip, Platt, uh Sturgis, Webster. That's about half of them that there uh another 15 or so uh because there were a total of 30. But that just helped me get a little bit of a perspective of some of the airports in the state that have that capability. on this page, the last page, it's got numbers on it. Can you explain that you got a total base bid cost of 281,000

and you got the engineer supplement cost below that optional probable cost opinion for 26 and 27. So what would the total cost of that project be? Does it all those added together?

We're going to break it up now into um we're getting a little behind on getting a grant for construction this year. So, it only be the 59,000 total in 26, which 2 and a half% local share makes it 1,475. $1,475. That's two and a half% match share of the of the share. And then the the following year or whenever the you know once you have a design and you have a a place to build it, we can wait for um a grant for construction at any time. You know, we don't have to go forward in 27, but the need is there. We're explaining the need um tonight, but if the funds aren't there at the city level for the match eventually, I mean either 27 or if you wait another year and 28 to build go into construction phase, then it's the the bottom boxes there where it's 338,000 for a total project and a local share highlighted in yellow at 16,900 and that's 5% match of the of the grant.

Of course, the danger of waiting is that cost to go up. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just an estimate based on my research, my my my work with uh getting supplier supplier details um for this year. And of course, every every year, yeah, you just have add a little percentage on if costs go up. Mayor Duke, can we talk conversation or is this visitors heard? We just listen to them and Well, they're they're presenting this to us. You can ask I guess I deal with this stuff enough to be a little dangerous with it.

And I look at your mobile anyway. I look at your chart here. You come up with 281,000. I don't want to tell you how to do your job or your business. Mhm. But I put a 12,500galon tank, double old tank at a dairy two years ago with a not a card, but a keypad to secure because unless you know, unless I know your keypad, it ain't going to work for me to put your number. I put that whole system in for $47,000. Yeah.

So, where's the difference coming from? Well, um I I don't know. I would have to look at comparisons and and and I could point that out if but there are there are uh other airports that are that have costs that are similar or higher than what I'm estimating and I'm trying to give you guys the you know what you guys need but only that you know like I'm not I'm not putting anything in you know any other bells and whistles. Um this is this is I can show you that other projects um you know for airports around the um region are this price or higher um South Dakota usually can get lower than than Minnesota comparisons and and other states. Um but yeah, around around us these there are other projects that are going on, you know, that I know of that are going out for bid this spring. You know, some haven't had the bid numbers yet, but based on estimates, this is this is a very good estimate, much lower than a lot of projects that have happened in the last five years. um you know after CO contractors and and manufacturer suppliers have came back down to to very reasonable bidding numbers and stuff like that. So I've been you know I've had conversations with two different suppliers and that's what that's where my costs come come in on on that. And then of course it's it's those suppliers factoring in uh the specs that we have to put together and and meeting the you know the criteria that the FA review and uh you know pulled us to for a design

and unfortunately sometimes those are just the costs that are in there because the requirements from the FAA you know it's like putting up a building on the on the grounds. You could probably do it, an individual can do it and probably at half the cost, but if you don't do it right, you don't get the money. And if you don't do it right, they can, you know, the the ramifications are the building could be up. So, it has to be done to make sure that the regulations and everything are done properly and design studies and that. So is it

I guess I'd like to see those regulations before I I personally would approve it and I got I mean we've had meetings with you guys too and I guess what we can we can sit here and say it really don't cost the city maybe two and a half or 5%. But I think the commission's well well aware of it. But I also want the people that are listening that when we sign this, if we decide to go some a different direction and not have an airport, we are tying our hands for 20 years. Correct.

Mhm. Well, just on a note on that. So, you have between five and 10 million in your back pocket. Did you close the airport? That's probably what you're going to have to come up with. And the other thing would be is you have three businesses out there that if you close the airport, you can bet they're going to litigate because it's it's not you can't just move like your egg spraying business somewhere else. You can't just move the flight school somewhere else. Um our our airport manager is an A&P airframe and power plant. you can't just move that somewhere else. So, it seems to be pretty shortsighted, especially considering if you go to the economic development site, one of the things they tout is having an airport 10 minutes away from the industrial park. So, what would you say then, Paul, when someone would come in and and have a business in here knowing that they are and we already have businesses in town that use the airport and then say to them, "Oh, by the way, you're building an airport in here." But we're closing the airport in in 10 years or something. I mean,

oh, correct me. I did not say that we're closing the airport. I'm just saying we are tying our hands for 20 years. And well, I guess I'm talking is if I'm going to have to pay this back and I'm not saying that you can't get that that when you say what payback. What you mean that the money is

if we if for some reason we weren't have the airport here in 20 years, what we're going to have to pay back is we're going to have to pay back that 95% of this. And I guess I don't want to be rushed into something because I guess as a businessman that I am, if I can put this in for 50,000 two years ago, I guess I'm going to do my paperwork, my my math, and my homework before I agree to 300,000.

Right. I I guess part of it might be is from our perspective. We're hiring engineers to do it. These are people that's what they do. That's what their business is is working with airports. They are the ones that know what the cost is. Can you put it in for 50,000? I doubt you could because they know what goes in to take it to do it. It's like any other project.

Let me just real quick comment here. Um I think that's a very valid question. uh of why there could be such a price difference. Uh I'm saying this as a non-engineer, but just as as as a pilot, I know that the FAA requirements for safety are really high. And I'm guessing that some of the equipment that is involved has to meet a certain standard that is different uh than for automobiles. And uh I'm saying that not understanding all of that, but I'm guessing that Erin, you would probably be able to talk to the FAA and find out what is different about this installation versus uh you know, like for an automobile and I think they would be able to come up with with an answer for that.

I'd like to talk to that person. Yeah. And and I you know just to show you how strict they are, there was a Morton building that was put up at the airport hanger that was quite expensive and it was when it was almost completed they determined I think it was what 6 in uh off. It wasn't almost completed but they it was in the design project. Yeah, it was it was 6 in off and they had to start over and correct that because it infringed on the wing clear wing tip clearance for the taxi way. I mean, that's that's how how strict they are.

And I'm I'm always for um you know, I I celebrate and cheer once we go out for public bid, which all airports have to do um because it's federal dollars. So, you have to go out for public bid and I celebrate when we get the lowest price. um and it's below where I expect it to be. Um so I I'm not trying to ever put in more than more costs than what the client wants. So I'm an open book. So we can talk about each of these um bid items in my estimate. So I would love to have a meeting and we can just talk about that if you want. So Okay.

What kind of deadline are we on for getting the first phase? That's the that's the question. We're just uh the the real deadline is May 1st for getting a grant app in and it should be at the next um for fiscal year funds, you know, to move into design phase. We would have to be on the agenda for next meeting at the 20th of April. So then we could be ready for getting our grants in, get the grant application in. So that's that's the timeline that that and I don't want to take up too much of your time tonight. So I think I think I presented it pretty pretty thoroughly and and thanks for joining the board.

Thank you. So just one more quick thing here and this is has not to do with the airport itself but David if you want to step forward here a little bit I can embarrass

probably embarrass you a little bit here. So David and guy who've been flying a long time, he has a whole lot more hours and experience. And so David at 1:00 on Thursday afternoon, uh David is going to be getting the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award from the FAA. They're going to present that to him. And just some of the criteria is it's named in honor of Oral and uh Wilbur Wright. um pilots um named after I guess obviously the Wright brothers. They have to be uh have to be flying for 50 years either civilian or military. So they have to be old.

They have to be alo have to be old, right? Um and uh they cannot have any hair can't have a certificate revoked or anything like that. So basically they have to show that they've been a safe and great pilot for this. So this is like a a huge deal. So he is going to be awarded that valley. Sou Valley is going to be there. There might be a television station there too. I've got my daughter working. What did you call it? Wright brother. It is the Wright brothers master pilot award to do what? 50 50 years. 50 years. Yeah. 50 years. So okay. So, all right. Want to make sure I get that in there, right?

Yeah. Yeah. So, so I congratulations.

Okay. Moving on um to Oh, yeah. Are there any other visitors to be heard before I move on to new business? Okay. If not, um I'm going to jump around a little bit here. We're going to go to item J and K before we start at the very beginning. So item J is the West Road closure parking. You can do that one first or K first and then go back to J.

Yeah, this is Yeah. And um so do we have somebody here to explain what if the motion is needed to prohibit parking on the detour route for the West Road closure?

I got some neighbors here. I know I'm going to guess that's why they're here, but has been brought to my attention that since we are detouring West Road while they're under construction around and coming up Bridge Street, I'd like to see that we don't park on Bridge Streets while the detour is going on. And I did I talked to the the engineer for the the detour project and they were going to talk with the the county and the contractor about some temporary no parking signage to they going to maintain the gravel. Yep. That was that was part that was part of the discussion too that they would get a lot of traffic

that they were going to be aware that they might have to get a a motor graater out there a little bit more often than especially with their equipment going on it dust control and everything else. I mean I mean one of the reasons and reasons I got notice on this is we got farm equipment coming down West Road and now we can't we do not want a big four-wheel drive tractor with a 50 foot disc getting stuck that they can't go forward or backwards or so I guess this to me this would be the simplest thing is just no parking on Bright Street. Okay. Is that your motion? That's my motion. Is there a second? Second. want to call roll. Commissioners Peterson. Yes.

York. Hi. Carlson. Nerbers. Hi. Minster. Hi. Motion carries.

Okay. Um the next item is a justice center annexation agreement. Um we will have discussion on that. Mayor, good morning or good afternoon, good evening, excuse me. My name is Larry Nelson. I'm on the city attorney staff with the freeberg law firm. Uh I'm here to tell the commission that we have reached a tenative agreement with the county. And that tenative agreement involves two agreements. One is a road and utility construction agreement and the second one is an annexation agreement. What the two agreements do is they assign responsibility for who is going to do what uh out on the west and what is going to happen on West Road is completing a sewer line that will service a new industrial park which was upsized and that goes across the city the not city the county's property from the new justice center and we went from an eight to a 10 inch sewer line and we paid for the upsize and the dewatering And that line will connect onto a sewer line that will be from the entrance into the Justice property, the southern entrance, and we'll go down to your sewer main on on West Road. and the county will put that in. And like the the U uh easement or the work that went across the county's property will be going from an 8 in up to 10 in paying for the upsize, paying for dewatering, and then paying for uh stubouts to properties that are located along that portion of the road. Um when that is done uh and the whole project is complete and there may be a second phase for sewer um the county is going to pay for and put in a

new road surfacing that would be five inches in in depth um from the southern portion of the road as it abuts Highway 18 and then going to the north edge of the county property. The city has asked for the opportunity to get the numbers on what it would cost to extend a sewer main from the entrance to the Justice Department, that southern entrance up to the north and for the the city to um see if it can save some money and it's affordable for them to pay for um putting that sewer line from the southern entrance to the north property line. and we're waiting for that number. And there's language within the agreement that says if you like the number, we can proceed. If you don't like the number, we can just say we can't afford to do that. Um the county has uh agreed that when the the project is done, it will sign um the put on markings for the pavement. we're exploring and they've agreed that if there is sufficient room on that southern entrance to the to the campus that that we'll put a turning lane in there. And we've agreed that if there is a turning lane uh on the the north entrance, which is what goes to their sally port, they may uh put in a turn lane. and that if we elect to put a turn lane in on what could be the innovation drive into the industrial park that either we can each pay for our own or we can cooperate on doing that together. Um the significant uh portion of the agreement is is that the county is agreeing to ensure you uh for any liability on this project. It's green to accept any responsibility and demify you as it relates to the installation of the road

or the utilities that it is responsible for. Uh it will agree in the U if if you take that uh 66 feet to the north. We've asked that you be given that and you're willing to give us a deed and say you do with that as you want that 66 feet knowing that we're looking at it for a rightway and their only condition is is that we not assess the cost of constructing that road back against them. there would be no cost for that that potential road going in that 66 foot rightway which I think is very generous on their part and it you know recognizes what could happen as a development for the city plus gives them the added benefit of potential fire protection ambulance coming in that way and then of course law enforcement if the the need arises. Uh Drew Groo is going to be presenting the same agreement uh to the county commission tomorrow and that's why I called it a tenative agreement. We spent a good part of last week and today coming up with language that was acceptable in both of those agreements. That has involved meeting with city engineer staff, your city administrator and your finance officer coming up with what is appropriate language. I believe that both of the documents are in appropriate form and I think I need uh two motions. The first one would be to authorize the mayor to sign the road and utility construction agreement and form a manner acceptable to the city attorney's office. And the second motion would be to have the mayor sign the annexation agreement between the city of Canton and Lincoln County, South Dakota and form a manner approved by the city attorney's office. I want to tell you that they're they're ready to go uh and start this project. And the project is putting the

sewer and water first, not water, excuse me, sewer, getting that done to serve the courthouse. Secondly, to look at at uh seeing if there's a way they can accommodate the expansion of additional sewer that you folks would pay for. And then the third thing is to put in that road. So I I think we're at the point where the agreements are in appropriate form and that would be my recommendation. One question for you just to clarify the 66 feet of right away on the north end of their campus. Yes. That is not something we have to put in right now. No, that doesn't I mean I knew that but I wanted

there there is no there is no obligation that that you do anything with it but they would deed it to you for that use understanding that you may never do that. Um but at some point in time if the city grows it's it's something that would be beneficial to not only the city um but also I believe to the county. Any other questions for Larry? Do you? No ma'am. No. Okay. So we need a motion and a second for the construction agreement. Road and utilities agreement. road utilities agreement. Excuse me.

I'll make that motion. Okay. I'll second. Have a second. There's no other discussion. You want to call roll for that? Commissioners York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Garbers. Hi. Peterson. Hi. Mayor Lstro. Hi. And the next one is for the annexation agreement. That's to authorize the mayor to sign both as well. Yes. And authorize me to sign both of them. Make that motion. Okay. Second. Second. You want to call roll? Commissioners Carlson. Hi. Garbers. Hi. Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. Mayor Lro. Hi. Thanks. Okay. And we'll go back to the beginning. You ready?

Yes, ma'am. Okay. Um, first item that we had on the agenda was for the Canton Community Center raffle request. And Lisa is here to talk about that. Lisa Hanker, Canton Chamber of Commerce. Um, I am assisting the Canton Community Center on doing a fundraiser. Um, May 30th is the event and between now and then we would like to sell raffle tickets for a grill and a meat bundle from Belcanton Locker. Okay. And the tickets are $10 each.

Yes. And um where can people get these tickets? Any one of the community center members, they'll have them for sale available I believe at HEAS also. Um and then here at the chamber office. Okay. Just wanted to put that in there so people would know where they could get them if they don't know anybody that's selling them. Well, this be posted on Can Pardon? that's being posted on the Canon website or Yeah, we could put it on the app and the website. Yeah, we have once we get approval, we'll be sharing it on the website for the community center senior center also.

Okay. And so we want to make a motion to approve this raffle. A motion. Second. Okay. Call roll. Commissioners Garver. Hi. Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Mayor Lstro. Hi. Thank you.

Thank you. Um, next we have estimates for the concrete at Kennedy Park. Um, ISG submitted two estimates for concrete for the it's for sidewalks and a viewing area at Kennedy Park. Um we all what what tipped this project off was u we received a grant last April for um $13,423 that would go towards this this project. Justin, do you want to come forward and talk about you had two estimates?

Yeah, just real quick. There are two estimates in there. Um in review, they are equivalent or I would say the low bit is even a little bit more favorable. So, there were some good questions uh just in regard to some of the bid items on there. So, there's a little discrepancy just some based how the two contractors split those up. Um but when you break it all out, uh that low bidder actually does have just a little extra quantity and concrete. Both biders were provided the same document to bid off of. So, that low bid that is presented there um will include everything that was desired. Um and that was based off of a site visit with Dennis previously. The only thing that the city would do would be removing those bleachers. That way the contractor can come in do the work. All work would include the concrete back fill clean up and get the site nice and nice and good to go. So my recommendation would be to go with the low bid as presented here.

Okay. Um is there an estimated time uh of starting this or they said they would have it done by the end of the month to meet the grand timeline. So Okay, good. Yep. Um yeah. And is it okay for me to read the bids out? Yeah, absolutely. Um so the low bid was um High School Construction of Canton uh with a bid of $18,248.82. The other bid was with Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek's estimate is $25,579.50. So we um have a motion and a second to accept high school construction.

Is that Charles or Charles? Make a motion to approve the high school construction bid. Thank you. Second. Have a motion to second. If there's no other questions, you want to call roll. Commissioners Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Garver. Hi. Mayor Lstrom. Hi. You step here for the next one too. Okay. Um the next item on the agenda is the slurry seal part project. Um the project was bid by the city of Sou Falls and we connect with them and they have awarded the bid to Aztec um out of St. Cloud, Minnesota and that's who does it

every year and um their contract price was for $113,856. Um and you recommend them, right? Yep. We had a targeted budget of $125,000. So it came in about 12 grand on her. Recommendation would be just facilitate what we had planned out. Uh save the 12,000 bucks. So recommendation would be to approve that $113,000. Uh once we get approval, we'll get contracts executed and then work with the contractor for timeline. Generally they start planning it out. I haven't heard any indication on that being canon, but about two days worth come in, get out. So okay. So,

are we keeping them off the streets that are within three or four years of Yes. Yeah. infrastructure? Yep. Can we add anything to these? I'm going to bring up the manhole covers. Yep. So, the manhole covers that we got approved last fall. Parker with on on our team is coordinating with that contractor to get those up and going. So, in the near future here, I should have an update for you on this. I would say as part of this project, no two different contractors. These guys will just come in and do the slurry seal and they also got a crew that does pavement markings. As part of this, we were intentional on getting pavement markings at stops and crosswalks included with this program. Okay.

So, someone will make a motion here. Motion. Okay. Second. A motion and a second. Call commissioners York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Garbers. Hi Peterson. Hi Mayor Lundstrom. Hi. Thanks Justin.

Um next on the agenda is a special malt beverage retail license application hearing and um I will be reading a um hearing for that public hearing for that. This what is the 25th first. Okay. Um this is the time Oh, you stand there and listen to me. Okay. Good. This is the time and place for the hearing on the special event on sale malt beverage license application from the Canton Chamber of Commerce for the Canton car show for generations. The public hearing is now open. The purpose of this hearing is to hear the request for a special event on sale malt beverage license for the Kent Chamber of Commerce for the car show of Generations for July 25th, 2026 at Chicago Park that includes parcel 200.72.23.421 and to take in public comment. If any member of the commission has a conflict of interest with this issue, they should so state and abstain for participation in this hearing. Anyone? Okay. Um Lisa, if you have anything to present for discussion on this. Um we are requesting this for both days of the event. That's our next item on the agenda. Um we will be checking IDs. They'll be wristbanded. Um and they will not be able to leave. the confined area of where the tractor pole will be any open containers.

This event is going to be held at Shiagua. Yes. The car show is this is for the tractor pole. Oh, for this is for tractor pull. Okay. Okay. We're bringing in. Okay. That is being organized through the car show. Correct. Okay.

Specif Good thing it specified that. Okay. Okay. Um, does anyone on the board have any questions they would like to ask Lisa tonight besides me? If not, um, are there any proponents to this issue? Anyone? No. Are there any opponents to this issue? No. Okay. If there's no further questions, um, hearing nothing further from the public, the clo hearing is now closed and, um, I would now entertain a motion to regarding the application for the special event on July 25th at Shitagua.

Motion to approve. Okay, a motion. A second. Second. Okay, call roll. Commissioners Carlson. Hi. Garbers. Hi, Peterson. Hi, York. Hi,

Mayor Ler. Hi. Um, now we are in public hearing for the same event on the 24th of July. And so this is the time and place for the hearing of the special event on sale malt beverage license application from the Canton Chamber of Commerce for the Canton Car Show of Generations. The public hearing is now open. Um the purpose of the hearing is to hear the request for a special event on on sale malt beverage license for the Canton Chamber of Commerce for July 24th, 2026 at Shitagua including parcel 200 72.23.4021 and to take in public comment. If there is any member of the commission that has a conflict of interest with this issue, they should so stay and abstain from participation in this hearing. And I'm assuming no one is. Lisa already presented the except for this is a different date.

This is the day before. Yes. Nothing changes, right? Correct. Okay. Does anyone on the board have any questions for Lisa? If not, are there any proponents to this issue? Are there any opponents to this issue? There are no further questions. The hearing this public hearing is now closed and I would entertain a motion to regarding the application for this on June this item on July 24th. Motion to approve. Okay. Second. We had a second. You want to call RO? Commissioners Garver. Hi. York. Hi, Carlson. Hi, Peterson.

Hi, Mayor Lstrom. Hi. Skipped over there for a second. Huh? Skipped over you for a second. Oh, okay. Those two taken care. Okay. Now, um we have a surplus mower. Um it was recommended to declare this as a surplus the 2000. What is it? Grally. Grally. Yeah.

PM Z260 mower and order its tradein. valuations have been received from three different shareholders for the city of Canton. The appraised value was $9667 and it's based on the average. Um, this item was tabled from the March 16th meeting and um, is there anything that anybody wants to talk about before I ask for a motion? We did talk to local vendors about anybody who sold commercial grade uh riding mowers in town and we did find one. Checking with checking around, we did find one entity that sold commercial grade mower. It's substantially more at $7,000 higher than ours than the the one we intend to buy from a vendor down in Bo. Um and it it you know so we did our due diligence but we feel like to best use of our tax dollars be to continue on with the the vendor out of blo um he also is going to give us a trade in value. He services it locally does his own warranty work and uh then it would match the rest of our fleet and we know how to work on it.

Okay. Any other questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion for this item. Motion. Okay. Do a second. Second. Okay. Okay. Then call roll. Commissioners Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Garver. Hi. Mayor Lstrom. Hi. Okay. I do. No. Okay. Good.

Okay. Okay. The next item on the agenda is a personnel manual policy updates. Um we're updating um policies 7.03 for sick leave um two for sick leave for both of them for 7.03 6.06.1 for health insurance and 6.061 for health insurance updated policy. So your recommendations?

Yeah. So the substance of what we're doing here is um we would like to take the the cap off of the amount of sick hours that are payable to an employee who is leaving but only if they are leaving for retirement eligible into the South would define that as retirement into the Southakota retirement system. So I can't leave tomorrow and just say I'm retiring and leave with more sick time. somebody needs to actually be eligible for retirement as defined with the retirement system. Um, and the second item is that uh right now if I were to, this is retirement aside or no, this is for retirement. If I were to retire, eligible to retire and I left tomorrow, I of course can pay COBRA and continue on with my health insurance. through the city. And what we would like to do though is make a change there is that if me for example I have my family on my on my health insurance that right now I wouldn't necessarily be able to pay COBRA and keep my family on as well. So, we would like to change that or at least make that clear that taking the full cost that I could pay the COBRA and also continue with my family on that on through COBRA, there's no cost to the city for the for that COBRA system. So, it really should be enough skin off our back to allow that to happen. And you know, lots of times people are eligible for retirement, but they are not eligible for Medicaid or Medicare um get the two mixed up. So Medicare um so that that having that COBRA window is very valuable for people who aren't quite eligible yet for Medicare but they are eligible for retirement.

Okay. And the the first one where we'd like to make people um eligible to cash out more of their sick leave. Um, you know, that's something that we would be able to predict and and and for a year in advance, we' be able to budget towards that in any given year because we know who is eligible for retirement in a given year. Um, there's only one employee this year. There one more employee in the next few years. So, it's something that's very predictable. It would should never catch us off guard to to be able to cash out a higher amount of of health insurance. sick leave.

I'm sorry, sick leave. And also, one of the things just uh that we do do with our sick leave is that when you do cash that out, it goes into um a special play pay plan with the Southakota retirement system where it is shielded from taxes until such time that you withdraw it. So, that is actually where that cash out would go and does go according to our ordinances. So that's not entirely the change. I mean the change entails more than that. So we removing the 25%. So prior to it said the policy is on voluntary resignation. So that's just quitting. You could get 25% of the employees accured sick leave up to 120 hours. So if you had

less than 120, you only got 25% of that. 25% with a maximum payout of 120. So it' be 480 hours that you

Right? So what I'm saying is 25%. So if somebody had less than 120 hours, they would get 25% of that. But now we're saying if they have less than 120 hours, they get all of it. That's what it's saying. So if they quit, we are changing it from 25% of whatever they have in their bank to all of it. So when you say that we could we could make sure that we're prepared, I mean, you can't tell when someone's going to quit. So I mean, if someone's got 12 if that someone has 118 hours of sick leave, we're paying out 118 hours of sick leave, not 25% of 118 hours.

We can restore that 25% for for other separations. I mean, I just don't know why we would change that. I I would be for putting that back. And I I don't want to be a Scrooge, but I feel like we should be putting that 25% back because that's I mean, you separated the words, you know, the resignation from the from the retirement, but then we removed that 25% and made it a whole. Yep. So, so sir, are you making that we're leaving the voluntary resignation in or are we going to just just make it retirement?

Well, I'm good with separating the two thoughts. I'm fine with that. But which should say it is the policy of the city of Canton that upon voluntary resignation from the city, the employee shall be eligible for payment of the payment of 25% of the employees approved sick leave up to a maximum of 120 hours. So that of 25% of employees should be back in that first sentence. Okay. Is my what I believe should be there. Um if you put it back, what's the change? It's I'm not saying I disagree with you, but what's the change?

It's still it's still removing the cap for the retiring employees. Yeah. She's saying as it was as it's currently being proposed, the new language that it also was removing the cap for other employees. whereas we were only asking for it for retired employees, retiring employees. We're good now. I'm good with that one. And I had questions on the health insurance one as well. Okay. Um so on the health insurance, I I don't have any issue with it. The only question I had was um the city when it bids out for health insurance policies. Yeah. Um, does having people on it, good question,

employees? I don't know if it does since it's a group policy, I don't have an exact answer for that, but I don't believe it does. Uh, we've only had in my tenure here, I think we've had one, maybe two employees that have used I mean, if they aren't if they aren't currently on it at the moment that you're bidding out, right? Yep. Unless they changed something in the last three years. Speaking personal situation, it didn't make a difference on the employer's premium. If it if there was a policy getting used a lot.

Well, that's the case with everything, but when you're in a group policy, you're shielded a little bit, but you're always going to have your annual increases. Well, this is on a group one, but it it's still I mean because I know that because of my wife's cancer. Yeah. Yeah. To have a Cobra employee or Yeah. a Cobra user, I guess, if you will. Um, final check on that one before we guess right now

to create an issue when we go to bid that we have this policy and then these insurance companies look at it and say you have this policy to keep these to just provide insurance to whomever and you know it would only be

and we could be we could be providing Yeah. And we could be allowing someone to have Cobra who has cancer or profound medical issues that is now using our insurance which could ball up into, you know, raising the cost for all the employees. So that's just where I just don't want it to create an issue with the employees with their policies. Um, you know, because if somebody's taking on Cobra, there's there's a good chance that they need that insurance, which is why they're taking on a super expensive insurance plan. It's not cheap.

No, Cobra is not. That's why people don't aren't on it very long. Right. Right. Oh, yeah. We can do some research on the 6.06. Okay. So, do you want to vote on the first on 7.03? Yeah. 7.03. Make a motion first. Pardon? Need a motion first. Yep. Yes. So, I'll make a motion to approve the change to 7.03 with my suggested change of putting back the words of 25%. Okay. Do we have a second?

Second. Okay. So then you move to do roll of that. Uh see where am I at here? Uh Commissioners Garbers. Hi. Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Mayor Lstrom. Hi. And so we will I'll do a motion to table 6.06.1 policy for next time. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Call roll. Commissioners Peterson, hi York. Hi, Carlson. Hi, Mayor Lstrom. Hi, Miss Commissioner Gerber. Oh, I missed you in there.

Okay. Um, next item is the tattoo and piercing establishment. Justin Bus has submitted an application of fee to have a tattoo and body piercing establishment at 102 West Fifth Street. That's sweet 204. According to ordinance 116, a license issued by the city is required to conduct business at a tattoo piercing establishment. An inspection shall be conducted and upon proof of compliance, the city shall grant a license effective for one year. Chad Skyles has completed the inspection on behalf of the city to ensure compliance with the applicable South Dakota administrative rules. So, take a motion to allow him to have a license. This is something we uh what Chad did. Is that something we do yearly or

All I've ever been asked to do is just on new initial ones at at new locations. Yeah. Yeah. like the one the one gentleman moved from the old bank building to a a location on Dakota Street. So you did a a new inspection at his new location. So if the license is only effective for one year, how do we know he's going to say next year? Isn't it just like the FD or the the food and drug the restaurant places they got to be inspected every year, don't they? That is our local ordinance that other towns don't meddle for this or for food for for this. Other towns for tattoo. It's ordinance. Yeah. Yeah, other towns permit tattooing without any inspection, without any commission action at all.

So, with this, we need to follow up with this somehow and have either Chad do it again or what what are we saying? I It's up to us. I mean, because we're already, I feel like, going above and beyond the those the minimal requirement of state law. You know, we we could approve this with with a signature at city offices with no inspections like other cities. There is administrative rules under the Department of Health that requires certain things of tattoo shops. So, right. I mean, I don't think the Department of Health is going insuring it, but there are administrative rules that do say that. I think it would just be a state

or a statement. Yeah. So, we're just approving a license for them to open. But we but we do perform these initial initial inspection. Yeah. Question. Is there a a fee on the license yearly? Say that again. Is there a fee for the license? Yearly fee. I believe so. Is it schedule? I can't remember if that is. Okay. We don't we haven't done it very often. So we're we're a little So I mean we can we can make a recommendation. Yeah.

Only if you go on microphone. Here's my recommendation. I think it's great that we're doing that initial one because it just it proves that these these folks are are up to speed and have their shop set up. I'm also um completely on board like when an existing one moves from one location to the other because that's the types of things that when on the checklist that I'm given by the state through city hall is compliance on how they have things set up and all that. To me, I think that's enough. And then maybe if you want to put something in there instead of having to do it every year, maybe make it complaint driven at that point. As long as they stay in one location,

they're good as long as it's not um or there's a complaint registered with the city. Just my suggestion. Thank you.

But that would have to be changed to ordinance, correct? Yeah. So, we could still allow this y at this time. Okay. So, we want to make a motion. I'll make that motion, but I guess I would like it in there that we do. I'm just thinking about I got a motel out there that I change from daily to a monthly or less like an apartment and that's my rules, but that we go in and inspect. We do we can do a walk in every month because people can promise. I'd rather check them in a yearly than wait for a complaint.

I'm I'm kind of on board with the same thing. I complaint based think you can get Yeah. So drop in. They know they're coming in a year or they Yeah. Let them know you're coming and if if they're coming up, they ain't going to worry they ain't going to worry about it. Yeah. That' be my motion. Okay. Get it? I think so. I'll second. Okay. Call. Commissioner York. Hi. Carlson. Hi. Garver. Hi. Peterson. Hi. Mayor Lstrom. Hi. Last thing on the agenda is um

just say we got Yes. Oh, okay. Last one last night.

Yeah, we we did those other ones. Um the a permit for public location uh it's being requested for the city commission to authorize alcohol to be consumed but and but not sold at Kennedy Park in conjunction with the adult softball league games during the months of May, June, July of 2026 following the ordinance stating this. Um so we have an ordinance it's 112.05. its permit public location notwithstanding ordinance 112.04. A person, organization, or entity may consume alcoholic beverages at a public location on terms and conditions authorized by the city commission pursuant to the written permit. A permit fee or security deposit may be at the discretion of the city commission to be charged. So, is there any any comment on this or someone motion for this?

Yes, the the adult softball group is asking Yes. for the ability to to drink booze at the candy park during their Sunday games. Um didn't want to necessarily limit it to just Sundays in case they're doing a makeup game. Um but limit it to to their particular league. Um, if you wanted to add any restrictions like no glass. Yep. No glass.

Um, or anything else like that, um, you certainly yank it at any time if they're leaving a mess, for example. Um, but it'd be nice if at some point in the future we actually could have somebody selling it, but so maybe we open way more cans of worms. I don't know why we're not selling it. Uh, they'll be buying it locally, I guess. Hopefully. But yeah, beyond that it we is it a much bigger thing to buy it there? Are we open a lot more cans of worms?

Right now I don't think there' be enough activity for it to be worth our We have to have an employee there, right? Temporary or somebody else to operate. Yep. Yeah. When does this all start today? You know, next

I hate to really be a I don't want to be the party pooper, but I don't know. I My husband was on the league last summer and there's a lot of kids. Lot of kids there. Lot of kids. Like every adult there has kids and we all bring them. Um you know, we start to say, "Yeah, just bring your coolers full of alcohol." And pretty soon we got we got some pretty intoxicated folks playing softballs with giant balls and getting hit at people's faces. You grew up where I grew up, right?

We had pretty healthy adult softball league selling beer.

Oh, I I know. And so I'm experienced. Um I don't know. I I'm really I don't know. I'm not I don't know that I'm for it and I and I'm and I'm not a sober all the time person. So, but I just I don't know just the thought of um unlimited unrestricted use of alcohol during these games with all these children around and then people are driving there. I don't know. I What are we doing when we they use the picnic shelters? I mean, I don't know if we they're not allowed to have alcohol at shelters.

Not unless they've asked for it beforehand. And then does that happen very often? No, it has to be written, but most of the time there's an open container for the parks. So,

yeah. I mean, we we we talked about that dynamic for sure. I mean, because the pool's open on Sundays, so I mean, everything else aside, if they didn't bring their own kids to that event, there's it's a it's it's a it's a very youthful area. My concern is the trash. My concern is, let's say they play Thursday night and then let's say they play Wednesday night and Thursday's youth league. Now, you brought a whole bunch of grandparents and young kids to the T-ball League and the trash cans. We do inspect the parks every morning so we would know before it would be seen by someone else.

The summer refues that area, too. So, we we we would see the issue beforehand and be able to to clean it up and come back to you. Starting early enough, empty garbages before the It is one of the first starts. It is one of the things that they do in the whole right away. That's right. That's the mayor. So, we would know and be able to nip it in the bud, but uh and we quite frankly would report back to you that we're having an issue and ask you to revoke it to revoke if the trash was an issue.

I kind of agree with Sarah. I'm not a party pooper, but I think there's other places to drink. Frankly, I my husband played fast pitch softball for 40 years and our kids always went to the games and there was alcohol. I mean, I never saw a ball player get inebriated that they couldn't play ball or couldn't drive. So, you didn't grow up in pier then falls. So, I have a tendency to go along with this because I just you got to you got to um give them trust them that they'll be responsible adults.

Most of those people are friends of mine. I would say almost the entirety of most of those teams were friends of mine and yet I this wasn't brought up last year. No, nobody had brought it up. So, that's why I'm wondering Well, I was talked to about it last year but they didn't bring it forth. Yeah. Well, they wanted to fill you out a little bit. Yeah. He was like Matt Vanam is a very good friend of mine and he's never brought it to me that this was something that they were looking at and see and I know you know I know the people who lead this are probably very good they would

but it's it's it's the outliers you know the few that hear oh there's going to be alcohol allowed at softball and suddenly we've got an influx of people who want to play adult softball which is great but then they're only doing it because they can come and get loaded. I trust that they'll be adults about the situation unless I'm not going to monitor adults. What are your times of your game? They're late at night. 7 I do not know what their schedule is. 700 p.m. and 8 p.m. Is there anything that you would like us to try to figure out or discern and bring it back to the next meeting?

I mean, yeah, it was like motioning the terms and conditions. I mean, there I think we'd really have to hash out a good terms like are we allowing like vodka bottles or are we allowing just like beer cans and no glass no glass no glass at a minimum right and I think it'd be up to you to make the distinction between hard liquor and and beer I just say yeah I think it beer not hard liquor good luck to the leaders of this league are going to have monitor some of this stuff. Anyway, I don't want to monitor an adult night. You just sent out this this week's uh police report that they got enough,

don't they? So, give me some times of when these games are and give me some dates of the week at which these games are. They are. They are almost always Sundays. Wow. I work hard for a living. I mean Monday rolls around I'm not playing softball drinking on Sunday then board and 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. like these are but that's what it was last year. I don't know if it's Did you make motion? No, she hasn't done nothing. No, I just like to table this for two weeks. Okay. There's been a motion to table this item. Suggestion. Bring somebody bring suggestions. Bring somebody from the league. Yeah. Okay.

Nice. Is there a second on that? I'll second. Okay. Call roll. Commissioners Carlson. Yay. A I Garbers. Hi. Peterson. Hi. York. Hi. For the table. Oh my golly. Okay, that was the last item on the agenda. Up now for commissioner dialogue. Sarah, I'm gonna go with you because you're on here. the hard service ordinance agreement. Okay. We talked about this I don't know earlier this year. Was it last year? Last year remember now. Y

but we talked about um that we had a whole bunch of people that got ordinance violations for gravel driveways. We talked about how many of them are in town. We heard from a lot of people. Um, and so I went out and I looked at lots of different ordinances in some of the small towns like Del Rapids and Lennox and Baltic and Vermilion and um, Burke. You know, I went and looked at a lot of the small towns because those are the ones that have gravel driveways and things like that. So, I came up with some language that I pulled from those to put into ours. Um, and so I just would like everybody to take a look at this. Um, I'd like to know ideas, thoughts. Am I missing anything? Are we, you know, are we missing something? Are we missing the point? Um, so I would really like to know what you guys' thoughts are on moving forward or whatnot with um allowing to move forward with having ground asphalt, gravel, pavers as an allowable hard surface in this town.

Okay. um the processes that Z because it's it comes down to a zoning ordinance. So it has to actually originate its process formal process at the planning and zoning board and then it has its two readings at the the commission level. Okay.

Um you know like Sarah did taking the time to get around town and see some examples is really helpful for this discussion. Um, my house is a good example of one side of the spectrum where I I just have like a a linear pull off from the from the from the alley all the way to the people who have um pavers down just you know just where the tires go. Um and otherwise it's grass in between the pavers all the way to folks who are just parking everywhere. And um I think you know there's I've got parking everywhere but I have a gravel driveway.

Right. So there's a lot of variety out there and we we won't we want to be mindful of putting too much on on folks for sure. Well it's and I and I will specify it is not just for houses. Um it does change the word the surface hard surface for all hard surface. So that would be our businesses that have the nice gravel lots, you know, I mean, if we're talking about paving, you know, thousands of feet of of lots, I mean, these businesses are going to say no thank you and just up and leave. Um, yeah.

And so, you know, I I wanted to put in there that they need to look nice, like you you know, we have a you need to keep it free of weeds and also it includes that it needs to be edged. So you can't just have it, you know, you know, you throw down the gravel, then eventually it spreads out and out and out and pretty soon you've got dirt in the middle and the gravel's out in the grass. So, you know, it needs to be contained and it needs to be packed. You know, you can't just throw down five pieces of gravel and say that's it. So, there anybody here that wanted to talk about that? Nope. We're not. No, I just want to make sure we can look at this.

Hey, you did a lot of work, Sarah. Yeah, thank you for doing this. I'll bring any suggestions that we have for you and then you it can be presented in the planning and zoning. Yeah. Do you want to have it back here though for Pardon? Get more in. I got to bring it back here first. Okay. Yeah, because we can't vote on anything now anyway. Yeah, it's got to go to planning and zoning. So, but I don't know if everybody's had a chance to look over this. So, contact Sarah. Okay. Public too. Huh? Public too. Yeah. The public can contact Sarah also as well.

Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to know everybody's thoughts on on this. You know, I'd like the the good, the bad, and the ugly. I'd like to know it all. Okay. Good. So, do you have anything, Chris?

Uh, I do not. Paul. Yes, I got a call today and I actually have the answer and that's why I didn't bring it up but and I got a text why I didn't bring it up. So on West Road, I talked to Drew before the meeting and if you have a how do I get out of my property? How do I get my garbage picked up? You have to call Henry Carlson because that's their general contractor for the job. So yes, you have to go see and they should have somebody on site while they're open working. I think that's a requirement or you can call Henry Carlson. The city has not can't do anything about it.

Chad, has there been any communication about emergency access? I was as surprised as anybody when I drove by the first time today. Okay. So maybe we should do it and post it, but it has to come from Henry Carlson. How they're letting people get out in garbage access or whatever. Okay. Doug, do you have anything you'd like to bring up? No. Okay. I have nothing at this time. So I'm I'm good. Thank you, though.

You're good. You talked enough tonight. Okay. Um I need a motion to enter into an executive session for um union contract negotiations and legal counsel and that is South Dakota codified law 1-25-2 second second call roll commissioners Garver I Peterson I York Carlson I may have a motion pardon Is the heat on? I'm over here freezing. I'm sure it goes down.