City Commission - Regular Meeting

I just tried. Here we go. Okay.

All right. Now we're online. Okay. Are there any additions or corrections to the consent calendar? Motion to approve. Okay. We have to do a second.

Second. Call roll. Commissioners Garbers.

Aye.

Peterson.

Aye. York. Aye.

Carlson.

Aye. Mayor Lundstrom. Aye. Okay. Are there any visitors to be heard tonight on a subject that is not on the agenda?

How are you guys doing today?

Pretty good.

How are you? Oh, not too bad. Two things I want to bring up to you guys.

You got to tell me who you are first. Paul.

I'm from Montgomery. I was born and raised around the area. I grew up around here, graduated from here, but now I live in Sioux Falls. The first order I would like to bring up is bring an amateur baseball back to Canton. I currently play for Park here. Canton doesn't have a team. I'd like to bring it back to Canton again. All I'm looking for is usage of the field. Everything falls on the amateur team itself. We've got to do our own fundraising, find our own sponsors, league play and stuff like that. So I just wanted to get that on your guys' agenda. The second thing is summer rec program. I don't know if this is the right group to talk to about baseball as well, too. My nephew plays baseball and don't do T-ball anymore or anything like that. We haven't had T-ball, have we? I thought we were going to do that this year.

Or didn't we have enough?

I mean, I know we had baseball.

You're looking for T-ball? No, me, I'm looking for amateur. Get approved to start the amateur league. But then next year, I know I helped my brother with AU this year because my nephew was on the AU team. And a lot of those kids, this was the first time playing baseball, and I know how that goes. But they used the T or they didn't? No, it was coach's pitch. But the problem that I've seen – I'm 41 now, but back in my day, I had Rich Lundstrom coach me in baseball growing up, and that was the best thing I ever had in the summer. We do have baseball.

Huh?

We do have summer rec baseball.

We do summer rec baseball, but we also have – you know, parent coaching the teams that put leagues up out of town. Yeah.

With my brother. Yeah. I was just looking mostly for the T-ball aspects. A lot of these kids never played T-ball or nothing. And you could tell I need you. So I got real thin help from my brother. So. We'll bring that up.

But yeah. Don't think our T-ball is six and under though?

Huh?

Don't think our T-ball is six and under? Yep. Yep, they do. Eight and under, they go to coach's pitch.

Yep, eight and under, they go to coach's pitch. T-ball is up until, I want to say, six U now. It's different from when I used to play. I'm 41. So when I played T-ball, that was decades ago.

Stop it. So are you saying we have nothing below 10 U?

No, we have eight. They play, I mean, I go to my granddaughter's, and I've seen the

Yeah, T-ball, starting T-ball. They need earlier exposure.

Yeah. And that's just me outside looking in. I played baseball my whole life. I still play to this day. But my biggest thing was getting amateur ball back in the Gantons. instead of losing them to Ayersburg and Lenox and all them, so. Yeah, there.

Yeah, so we have a rec board, so.

Yes, well, it'll be part of the rec board, hopefully, but yeah, the rec board usually doesn't have anything to do with the amateur aspect.

Do they have anything to do with the ball field itself, though?

Who, the city? Yeah, well, not at this point, but they will. I mean, we do own the field, the city does, so. It is the city. But, you know, there used to be amateur teams here. I don't, I think everybody just lost interest.

Yeah, but as you get these Legion guys and VFW guys rolling out, they might pick back up again. True.

Yeah, and it is picking up in Canton, the baseball. So hopefully.

Having people be like a coach.

Yeah, they do.

Do all those things. That's awesome.

The last amateur team was back when Nick and Katie got married.

Nick was still playing.

Yep.

And that was 18, 2018. Can Parker, just the amateur team, have a formal agreement with the city or Justin?

So Justin, he manages Parker. They just let him use the field. Okay. But he had to go ask. So I'm helping Colton out. Colton, South Dakota, get their amateur team up and running as well too. And all they had to do was ask to use the field. City gives a blessing and they have a baseball association for Tri-Valley. that they sync up schedules and make sure it all adds up and no one's stepping on anybody's toes. Perfect. So with amateurs, a little different because technically we're all adults. So if we got it started, I would take the financial responsibility of getting uniforms, equipment, um, fires, and then baseball players. We pay about 125 bucks a year for the fee. Um, and that covers most of everything. The league I want to get Canton into would be back into the state line league. We used to be Corn Belt, then we went to state line before they dissolved. State line's where it's kind of at for us. Kind of younger, I'm thinking younger kids, it's fit right in there. State line changed their stuff this year to where they had 10 teams, five home and five away. So we didn't play anybody twice.

Well, you got my contact information. We'll talk more about

all right that's all i want to bring thank you thank you for stepping up okay anybody else matt will move on there is no old business we have one item of new business and that is the airport infrastructure grant agreement um united states department of transportation federal aviation administration has submitted the grant offer for infrastructure investment and jobs act project. And this is for the Canton municipal airport. And a motion is needed to approve the agreement and authorize the mayor to sign. And you want to explain that better that the agreement is not, it's just an agreement to apply for the grant, right? Okay. So,

sure it's not part of that well we voted on a month ago or whenever it was no it was i think the pre-application i believe the only thing that caught my eye was like 56 000 and i thought that amount was one of those amounts that was on yeah that would if they granted that whole amount then it would potentially pay for that project or that share of that project that's where you claim it right we wouldn't have to take it So we wouldn't have to proceed, right? Kyle, they awarded the grant. We could still say no.

Ideally, yes.

Yes, my ears to your support. What I got out of it when I read.

I don't think there's any. I mean, you have concerns, but still wait.

and tell them to quit sending me an email every day. Oh, me too.

You're getting it too?

Oh, yeah. You still come to me, thank you for taking that bullet?

No, the FAA is automatic.

So this is an agreement to authorize them to apply. Yes. There's no cost involved in this application of this agreement. Then I would make a motion to approve.

Okay, we have a motion to approve this. Second. Okay. Call roll.

Commissioners Peterson, York, Carlson, Garbers, May Lundstrom.

Curious. That's all we have tonight, folks. A little question or dialogue. Doug, do you have anything?

Not really. No. Always. The carnival weekend was pretty much a success.

How did it turn out money-wise? Have you heard?

It'll be a total of 33 out of pocket.

28. 28 out of pocket. 28 before we, if we're responsible for the port-a-potties and stuff, I haven't seen that bill yet, but 28. Chambers said they were going to carry the port-a-potty cost. Then 28 is what we paid the car. 28 is what it was. That was 18, then we did a 10,000 prior.

Yeah, we, yeah.

We had, you know, there's a little bit of feedback from the Baptist Church. The north was kind of frustrated. We didn't hear anything directly from homeowners on the east side of the park. On the west side, there was a homeowner that a big hang up was that they had a What kind of car York used to have? An EV. Yeah, an electric Tesla. And they would need to plug it in. Oh. But we got a new plug-in installed down at West Ball Field so that she could charge her car. We had already purchased the box because we thought we were going to install it somewhere for the carnival itself. So we already had it. We got it installed. People who have their own adapter now can charge their

Two things. The alarm, I imagine that's getting taken care of, but it's still laying on the ground. Is that Lincoln County or is that us? That's us. It's kind of stood back up where it's at or?

Yes. A new one. A new one, yeah. That one got destroyed. Federal signal, they're talking six to 10 weeks. They will send a crew out to install a new pole. Last I knew, they had to unhook the electrical to it. Right.

The thing they were waiting for was for Excel to disconnect the electrical to it. So, but yeah, I didn't know. We have a new one.

Or we send ourself up for not having something, I guess, isn't it? You say six, 10 weeks.

We've got some bad weather coming between now and then.

The other sirens work.

The other sirens work. Yeah, but we're moving about as fast as we can. We were able to get a quote from another town that already had a quote this year. So when you guys hear the sirens on your end of town, you want to call me out there because we don't hear it out there.

Splat from my house, I'll give you a call. Most of the time, if you have your cell phone with you, if it's a bad one, it all comes through your cell phone. It'll come through your cell phone, yeah.

And secondly, Chris, maybe you can chime in on this one. seeing it tonight again the railroad and their trees can we just they're not going to clean them up can we clean them up we can incur the bill and then send it to them and hope that they cover it they won't pay it's part of it you know your other issue is technically you're trespassing their property yep that's a honor but

I've done work within 30 feet of the railroad before, and boy, oh boy, they will stop that train and let you have it.

Kyle, didn't you say at one time two years ago that they had made a comment that if we wanted it cleaned up, we should pay for it, get it done, and then send them a bill?

Yes.

But that guy is no longer here. His promise of that is gone, too.

He probably doesn't have a job anymore. mean chris lives alongside i got that field alongside of it you can see that they put weed nozzles and they spray as far as they go and that's better than a doorknob as far as that spray hits and it's a jump after that well they didn't obviously the spray out here it's over the side right here we have trees down that i'm guessing is that right That's not part of the railroad.

Well, that came from his big tree. Same summer maple that's broke five times.

But there's a lot of dead trees. There are dead ones.

I think I counted that time like 130. 130 ash trees.

Just ash. In what, a half a mile stretch?

From here to the school. No, I did the whole railroad track.

Oh, okay.

From here to the school, there's a picture. There's a lot. 30, 40?

I just think there's more than just trees. The weeds where I come across 3rd Street are becoming so obstructive that you literally have to stop and look. You can't drive and look. You literally have to... I know he's loud most of the times, but the time he's not.

I mean, on a bicycle, it's worse. If you're high, you're in the car, but on a bicycle...

I understand some homeowners don't.

You just can't get caught on their aero property. They get awfully testy.

Not when you have to pay their person to come and watch you work.

I think we've got to hold the feet to the fire and get them to do something.

We ain't going to get paid for it. It's bad on Milton Street down by my brother's. YES. IT'S SO TALL YOU CAN'T, WHEN YOU COME BACK, YOU CAN'T ACTUALLY SEE AROUND THE WEEDS.

OH, WHERE IT'S A ONE-WAY?

YEAH. YEP.

SO THERE, THERE, THERE. IT'S THE ENTIRE.

BECOMING AN ENTIRE SAFE INSTRUCTION WITH THE HEIGHT OF WEEDS. COULD THE SOUTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION GET A HOLD OF IT? THAT MIGHT CHANGE THE ANGLE. THERE YOU GO.

WELL, I KNOW THEY'RE STATE-ASSESSED UTILITIES. BECAUSE IT'S A HAZARD. THEY'RE STATE-UTILITIES.

they assessed utilities I wonder if we can actually attack attack a bill under that they'd have to pay yeah okay that I think maybe you two are gone the guy that came talked about all the grams that we could be eligible for he brought up the railroad and he says if you talk to the right guy you can get somewhere oh yeah we need to we need to

I don't disagree with you. I thought we had our answer that day. That guy said, yeah, just do it and send us the bill.

I agree. I don't know. I think you're going to have permission. You're going to get yelled at.

Done?

Yep.

Okay.

Chris? I know the carnival went well. I was hoping the Civil War days went well. made a comment that said, well, the booms aren't that bad. And then the house shook, and I literally, just a personal story. I literally was in my garage, and my black lab was running down the circle. She left the house, ran out the doggy door, jumped the fence, and left, took over here somewhere. And then I was in the garage, and she runs up the circle, tail between her legs. I thought she was OK, because she was in the house.

I know they had 1500 people there Saturday. I think Lisa commented on it. Oh yeah. Is that more or less than?

They didn't have 1500 to wait two years.

No, I would agree with that. Lisa said she knew that there was more reenactors than previous years. You gotta get media attention too.

Kelleland actually put it on.

Sweet. And the other thing is, I can't believe it's already here, so heads up.

Chad, you're working on the task force for the scooters and stuff. Can they take them to school?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Because our principal rides one.

Yep.

Yeah. The bike rack is full of scooters in the morning. Scooter rack. It is a scooter rack. Scooter rack. We moved some of the crosswalk signs to around the high school and the elementary school this morning.

Okay, good. And maybe you changed it. There's one on Chad's corner, but there ain't one at the street corner. Did you change it?

No, we didn't change anything on Dakota. On Dakota?

There's one at Chad's corner.

Wouldn't you want to pull the one down on, is it 3rd Street up to Elder?

Now that the pools closed or not to get across Dakota, there isn't one of those signs unless we just did it.

No, there's still, like I said, there's the one at your corner.

Yeah, there's one in my corner and then there's one down. I think the school two more blocks at 3rd and 3rd and Dakota. What I figured that was put there because that's that's the main traffic area for kids going to the pool.

Yeah, we. We didn't want to put one at the turn like the high school because there's a turning lane, so it's kind of harder to place that crosswalk sign when there's a center turn lane. Gotcha.

I wish the stoplight worked.

We should do something at that intersection. That intersection.

Used to be a stoplight there. Serious?

Oh, yeah. Larry, do you remember that?

Yeah, but it worked. But it worked.

It worked. It worked. I was a freshman in 1968 when it was working. Yeah. We had a stoplight there. There was nothing there. Really? We painted the stripes.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it would stop.

I wish we had a stoplight there.

It's good, but I would move the one that's at Chad's corner down to that one if we don't have enough one. I wouldn't. You wouldn't? No. The amount of kids that use Longstreet to and from the schools, it's steady stream in the morning and the afternoon.

And then they stay on the west side, obviously? And cut through the... And cut through the... Behind Kennedy Mansion? Between Kennedy Mansion and... Yeah, there's a path there.

Yeah, there's a sidewalk there.

The city owns it.

Is that a city sidewalk? Yeah. That's Stilled Street right away.

But the school owns the property, don't they? Because they maintain, they mow it.

They mow it, but we... I think the school maintains it, but the city owns that sidewalk and about three feet on either side of it.

Okay. Sarah?

I was going to mention also, again, school starts tomorrow, so please be aware of the kids riding their bikes and walking and things and scooters. And then you also brought it up, so I had some really great responses for the along Fifth Street. I actually saw plenty of people actually physically stopping.

Yes, I did too.

At those. And I'm like, don't say nothing.

Yeah, don't say, yeah.

Like if people are physically stopping because it looks like a stop sign. Yep. I had so many people say there's a lot more people. But they're aware. They're more aware. Especially with the crosswalks being brighter and bigger. And then the signs that were there. I just, I've had multiple.

Still got Sioux Valley grill people walking in the middle of the block.

Well, yeah, you're still going to have that.

That'll always happen. That'll always happen.

Good.

So that was all we got.

We have. an employee that will be eligible for medicare coming up and i would like to propose that we would pay for some of the supplemental plans when they transition to medicare if we paid for all of the different supplemental plans that would still be a substantial cost savings to us when they come off the city he still worked so it'd be I'll bring some updated language for the personnel manual because it'd be something if we do it this time we should do it for anybody else but it will almost always represent a cost savings to us so our insurance that we already provide would it just envelope someone who's still an employee have it written because I worked after getting Medicare and I had to go find my own my company wouldn't cover yeah I'd want it to be a little bit more clear if I thought I could have stretched it I would have but I don't think it's it says you you'll take what we provide if we provide it okay supplement a lot cheaper yeah yeah adding the three supplements that this employee is interested in we'd still be saving nearly a thousand dollars a month oh easily easily it'll help that employee also transition towards retirement that they'll already be familiar with Medicare rather than waiting until they retire. They'll be more familiar with the program and everything too.

Okay, anything else?

No, ma'am.

You're gonna bring up the petitions.

Oh yeah, yeah, sorry. I completely forgot. The petitions we talked about last time, they ended up falling short on signatures. They received that information late last week. They've already circulated new petitions, and we have them in our office, and we are reviewing them.

Okay, good.

So we'll report back about if the petitions will, the finance officer is technically the one who will make a recommendation to you at some point, and whether or not we'll make a recommendation. okay five percent of the registered active registered voters and then uh the the moving bit would be whether or not it we could certify that it's a valid petition in time for it to be on the general election or if it would need a special election okay what's that deadline we're not 100 sure We're supposed to have our candidates certified to by the 25th by the 25th of August.

No, the 18th is tomorrow.

That's what petitions are due. OK. The county needs our information by the 25th to start printing.

Oh. For the mission respect, yes. 25th of this month.

Yeah, petitions are due tomorrow. AND THEN WE HAVE TO CERTIFY TO THE COUNTY IF WE'RE HAVING AN ELECTION AND WHAT THE NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES ARE IN VALUE.

IS ANYONE TAKING OUT A PETITION? DO WE KNOW? I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING.

TWO. OH, THAT'S GOOD. I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS THAT CLOSE.

YOU'RE THIS CLOSE?

ACTUALLY, THIS CLOSE. Less than 24 hours now. OK, I don't have anything. So do you have anything you need to bring up? Nope.

He did it for me.

Thank you. He did it for you. OK. We'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

Motion. Second. Kim Carrell. Commissioners York, Carlson, Garbers, Peterson, Lundstrom.

Aye. Meeting is adjourned.