City Council - Regular Meeting

Council order. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. 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. As required by section 84-1412 subsection 8 in Nebraska statutes, notice is hereby given that a copy of the open meeting act is posted for your examination on the wall inside the door to the city council chambers. Before we have roll call, I'd just like to welcome all of our guests this evening. It's nice to see all you here. Could we have roll call, please?

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we have a motion to approve the agenda. We'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. Motion by Mark, seconded by Clay to approve the agenda. We have roll call, please. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Shepard. Yes. Yes. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second that. Motion by Kevin, second by Shane to approve the consent agenda, which includes minutes from the January 5th, 2026 council meeting, monthly treasures report for December 2025, water report for 20 December 2025, fire department membership update. Uh they're currently 47 active members and they uh have a roster their space available is 50. So that's looking good that we are close to that 50. um special designated licenses. They were administratively approved. Nights at Columbus at the Assumption Arena on January 31st for a fundraiser which was a chili supper and Nights of Columbus at the Assumption Arena on February 14th, which is a Marty Gro fundraiser. Anyone have any questions about any of the items on the consent agenda? If not, could we have roll call, please?

Yes. Anderson, yes. I have to abstain since I was not here at the last meeting. Yes. Grace, yes.

Okay. Item number B on the agenda is introduction of Santana Martin, new water water wastewater operator. Uh Tory Zoover. I'm utility superintendent 1590 South Maple. Um this is Santana Martin. He's been with us for almost a month now. Um I'll let him talk and you guys can ask what you want to ask, I guess. But uh He's been a good addition so far. So, still learning, but he's been doing good. So, slowly but surely, I guess. Good. Yep. Hello. I'm Santana Martin.

So, how'd you get here and where did you come from? You been around for a long time. Yeah, I grew up around the area. I'm from Pine Ridge. So, and then I moved off to Albuquerque down in in 2016, kind of 2017 around there. lived down there for about eight or nine years. So, and then I just moved back recently in April of last year. Tori is showing you what valves to turn on, which ones to shut off. Yes, sir.

At least you haven't had any cold water breaks yet. Yes, sir. Congratulations. Hope you enjoy it. Thank you for working for us. Yes, sir. Work hard. Okay. Introduction of new city transit bus driver. I brought the whole crew with me here. So, first I'm gonna introduce Whoops. Um, introduce I know you want to get close to us, but

our newest driver right here is Ben. Is it Grecer or Grer? Gryer. He started um a few months ago, December, and jumped right in and loving the job. Then um we have Bob here.

Bob who is our next one that was hired in 22 or 24 I believe. Sorry. And then Gary who he's our old I say our oldest our senior as in higher date. So this is the crew right here that takes the citizens around town from the youngest to the oldest. Um, it's an adventure and especially today with the weather, it freezes up the lift. So, it's like, how do we get this to work? So, um, anyway, they do kids, they do seniors, do everybody, and anybody that calls, we get out there and take everybody where they need to go. So, this is your crew right here. And I just wanted you guys to see them. Everybody see who you'll meet on the bus.

Are you all having fun driving the buses? You learn a pick up a lot of gossip. Oh, yeah. Okay. Is it repeatable? No. Okay. I like I like the coats. Sharp. They're nice. They look official. So anyway, um so kids, you guys need the best to go anywhere. $2 Hop on will take you where you need to go. Relates to school. We'll get you there. I don't know if you guys know, but you're you're very important people to have in this community. It's it's the bus is used quite often. So, I love your dad. He keeps me on my

toes a lot. You just gota you just got to let him go. It's a good thing. It's a good thing. Trust me. So, anyway, thank you for taking that say hello and we're out of here. Can we get a little background on on Ben? back. What do you want? So, if I see you around, this obviously is not your entry level job. If I see you around town, can I call you Butch? Yes, you can. All right, you can. Back in high school, that's what we called them was Butch. Oh, yeah. I Some people call me Ben. Benny. My wife calls me Benny. He knows me by Butch. Yeah. Well, it's good to have you back.

Yeah, it's nice being back. It's been nice. Thank you for coming to work for us.

Pardon? Oh, sure. Where are we going? Get right up here, guys. We can just Do we need to get up front or just stand behind him? Stand behind anyway. All

right, scoot over a little more, George. You got to scoot over a little more. Yeah. Thank you.

Yep. Thank you. Okay, continuing on with introductions. New telecommunications clerk.

Evening, mayor, council. Uh Rick Hickstein, 125 Main Street representing the SH Police Department. It's my pleasure to introduce Kayla Schoenberg. I hope I pronounced that right little bit. Um as our new 911 telecommunicator uh she started with us in December and is in training right now. Uh training encompasses about three months of uh basically telecommunicator to telecommunicator training. It's very indepth. Uh it's a long process but she is actually going through very well very uh very fast actually. So she'll be up and running on her own I imagine by midFebruary to March. So ask her all the questions you want. Tell us how you got here. I've been here since sixth grade, so

Okay. Just liked the town, so I stuck around. Well, good. You think though they're going to treat you nice down there at the I'm hoping so. It's been good. It's been good so far. All right. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Item number E on the agenda, John Reid from executive director, Northwest Nebraska Development Corp.

Well, good evening everybody. Happy New Year to you. Thanks for having us again. Um, I'll kick it off with our business assistance summary. We actually I think we talked last time we did have two applicants that I was hoping to have an answer for by today. Unfortunately, one of them was a little long in getting their application in. So, we're going to be doing our loan review with them tomorrow. Uh they both look pretty good. So, uh I'm hoping uh we'll be able to help them out. Uh one's an expansion and one's a new business. So, uh hopefully uh if it works out, uh we'll be able to bring a at least one uh one or two good wins to the city. Um and we are expecting one more before the end of the year or before the end of the quarter, I'm sorry. And uh my understanding on that one is we already have a loan in place with them. So it'll be uh somebody we've already done business with and that looks pretty good too. Um I want to take a little bit of time on our partnership with Golden Shovel. Uh I've met with these folks four times and I have another meeting scheduled with them on Wednesday. Uh, and in all honesty, uh, the first couple times that I've reported to you guys and that I've met with them, I didn't really understand the relationship between the city and how we got, uh, hooked up with Golden Shovel. Uh, and I just want to say that I think this is one of the best investments we could have made as far as, uh, trying to grow business and attract tourism to, uh, to this part of the state. Um, these guys are super knowledgeable and they are very very uh, helpful and open to meetings. They take my calls whenever I need it. And uh uh everything that we've discussed so far has been really really good ideas that I think uh we stand to gain quite a bit. Very very good investment and I suspect we're going to see a good ROI this year for what we've done with them. They're they're they're great. Um the one of the big things too that they're helping us with is I I think I mentioned this last

month too was um we are going to automate our online or automate our application process. So it's a little more simple. Uh right now it's a little arcane but they are uh they're helping us with that as well. And from a technical standpoint that's that's a giant giant step. Um if you've if you saw your report uh Deb uh went into quite a bit of detail on the Heartland Expressway. I'll summarize a little bit. Uh they are uh that associate is sponsoring a big leadership trip to Lincoln this year and this is an opportunity for her as the chairman of that board uh to go down there and rub elves with the decision makers in the state and federal level. Uh they come in uh for this uh annual meeting that is real high profile and is going to really help her raise visibility for what they're trying to do over here. And right now uh they have some projects planned from Menitara to 385 and there's another uh survey going on on this end of town on north uh the north side of town that is part of that program. So she um she's really kind of keeping track of that because that as everybody knows that's been her baby and u she's very very much invested in it. So when you see these reports as part of my report that's where that's all coming from. Um so workforce development right now uh I'm in the process of bringing together Shadron College and uh the childc care development center for an opportunity uh that I believe you guys are going to be reviewing uh next month's meeting. Uh that's going to be uh uh once that if we get that through that's going to be a huge opportunity for us to start really making uh progress on uh child care here in Chatter. right now it's just a a we're really short-handed and we don't

have a a whole lot of um uh interest uh without this. We really need the help. So, um that effort is going to uh that effort will kick off as soon as we have approval from you guys on uh whether or not we're going to get that footed. Uh I've also found an now uh there's a typo in uh that report uh when I talk about apprenticeship that should have been internship opportunities. Uh right now the uh Shadra College is also re uh restarting their internship program. Uh it's been off the radar for a couple years now. Uh the lady that runs it has been uh was wearing about four different hats over there. So she's she was buried. She and I taking a couple meetings. We're going to be presenting to the chamber. Uh we'll present to Rotary. We'll present anybody that that'll talk to us. But she has a lot of really good uh opportunity for internship there. Uh part of the uh part of the workforce development is also going to include a website called Make My Move. I'll be bringing these guys in with um Golden Shovel. Make My Move is an organization that takes uh local employers that are offering relocation services to employees that want to relocate to this region. So, uh it's a website you you type in where you're at, where you want to go, what your job skills are, and they'll marry you up with anybody that's uh that's offering relocation services. Huge opportunity. We need to get that in front of our business community as soon as possible. the more uh uh participation we get with that, the more like we are to direct to attract qualified employees to the region. And all of that is uh uh if I can get this if I can get the right people in the right rooms at the right time, there's a lot of really good opportunity here. And I think we're going to see the first quarter of this year is going to be uh quite a quite a

bit of high-profile effort there. Um so Safeway back um I if everybody heard this, but Aldi bought uh is putting in 40 locations on the front range in uh Colorado all the way up to Wyoming. And uh I got a hold of those guys as soon as I read the article and told them about our situation here with the Safeway store. They are they were interested, but they're um distribution network doesn't reach us yet. So, while they saw it as good potential, they're not in a position to to step in and help us out with that yet. But, uh, I did make a really good contact there, we are on their radar, and um, if if something does change, uh, they're going to let me know immediately. Uh, I also got a a appraisal, a cost to do an appraisal on that property. Right now, one of the problems we're running into is um Safeway thinks it's worth about three times what we think it's worth. So, uh my effort with them is give let me get a local real commercial real estate agent up here to do an actual appraisal with real market value to give us a a realistic number because we actually do have a couple interested parties in that property, but nobody's taken anything seriously from uh Albertsons and Safeway because their number is way out of whack and they don't have anything to back it up. So, um the uh we have we have a quote in hand for about $5,000 to do that appraisal, which is less than I figured it would be. I figured it'd be closer to 10 based off the square footage. So, uh now we just got to get Safeway Aldi to commit to paying that and let us get it done for them. So, and I I think I mentioned last time too, I did sign an NDA with them. So eventually I'll get keys to the property if they need to show it to somebody or uh if they have uh anybody that uh needs to

get in for anything outside the maintenance contractor that they already have in place. So uh and then uh the last thing on my list is I want to just remind everybody we are having our annual uh meeting this uh uh the 30th uh Friday the 30th at noon at Country Kitchen. Uh it's open to the public, everybody's welcome and we encourage everybody to come and participate. One of my main focuses this year is going to be increasing our membership. Right now, uh we are uh we're losing membership at about uh six to seven a year and uh my goal is to turn that around as quickly as possible. So, does anybody have any questions for me? Appreciate your effort.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Appreciate you guys. Yep. Thanks for all your to the meeting on the 30th again. Thank you so much for Golden Trouble. It was really worth it.

Okay. Item F on the agenda. Someone care to introduce that resolution? I'll introduce resolution 2026-8 for its approval. I'll second motion by Shane, seconded by Kevin for resolution 2026-8, which is to approve specifications for a new 2025 or newer utility tractor with an equipment trading option for the Shadow Munis airport and authorized notice to dealers. Scott's here to give us information.

Good evening, mayor. Good evening, council. Scott Shary Park Cemetery and Airport Superintendent. Um, as you can see, um, it's just time for the upgrade for that the tractor that we have out there. It's a we had to take it in last year. We spent over 6,000 last year. They had to break the tractor apart. The the clutch in the transmission is not going to last much longer on it. It's just we can buy with it. It was a used tractor when we purchased it back in the day and it's served its purpose. But it m uh we have a agricultural uh leasey that does about 200 acres out there and the rest of it's ours to maintain and we have to keep it keep it down. It's a we're regulated by the FAA. Uh everywhere on our runway, our big runway where the ILS is at the instrument landing system and the weather station all has to be a certain height. Uh the runway in lights, the reels and papies all have to the grass has to be a certain height around them. So this is a pretty important piece of equipment for us. So uh we speced out. One thing about this tractor is that if we purchase it and we have it, it's something we can use anywhere. So last year when we broke down here in town, uh the street department had their tractor that's basically non-existent, you know, because it it was broke down. Ours couldn't get back and forth into town. But with this one, we'll have availability. If we get a new one purchased, we can bring it in and help out in town, too, if we need to. That's one nice thing about this kind of piece of equipment.

Will this have a loader on it? I don't think so. We can't really We didn't budget for that, George. So, I mean, it'd be an added 15 any time. Yeah. I like that this one had the cab on it. Yeah. It can be a little more universal.

And it's nicer that way, too. It's more protection for our folks out there because it'll have to have radios in it. If you notice that we had a spec for two different radios. Uh it'll have an aircraft radio in it along with audio radio in it. And it's nicer when when the planes are coming in, when they announce, you can hear it, get out of the way, get in the safety areas. Right now, you know, we have we do a little bit with a tool cap, but it's only got a six foot more. And the rest of it done with the the old mos a 48 inch mo and a six foot moore that's been pawned off from the parks department out to the airport. So they're you know just basically for going around lights but it's pretty dangerous. We have to have somebody out there monitor when we have somebody running those machines. So it's a twoerson job this way we can get it down to one person. We don't have to have two people out there constantly. One person monitor radio as we improve the equipment out there as we do it. We always put an airport radio in it so it makes it a lot safer so the pilots can actually talk to them. Does anyone have any questions about the specifications? I'm I'm a farm boy, so when you talk about tractors, I get kind of interested.

Well, I'm glad you are because if that if I miss something, George, let me know. I grew up farming, but I'm not not a tractor.

And you know, you're you're getting rid of Massie Ferguson. I think I'm not absolutely certain, but I think my dad bought the first Massie Ferguson tractor in Butler County because he kind of wanted me to stay on the farm and I probably should have, but it was a Massie Ferguson 85. But boy, it burned gas. Then we traded it for a Super 90 diesel which was a lot more economical run. But you know this is the days when you know everything was conventional farming. You got your four bottom plow and spent a lot of time on

Yeah. plow and stuff. And this is a pretty This where this tractor goes is pretty rough. It's been the one we have has been stuck I don't know how many times. just you know when we do get moisture I know it's a rarity right now but it's pretty rough country out there where this thing has to go so that's why we requested an allhe drive with it too so well okay anyone else have any questions about thanks Scott yep if not could we roll call please yes yes yes yes yes okay service officer report.

Give us the what for.

Mike Troub, community service officer. Uh we first started mailing out letters uh in November, November 17th. And so far I've sent out oh 113 letters and 82 people have taken care of their violations, which isn't too bad. So far, uh it's mostly overhanging bushes in the alley or branches in the stuff like that, side instructions. So, that's not too bad. And then we're doing thank you letters, either hand delivering them or mailing them also. And I think people like that, kind of reaching out to them. Um, they started training me on parking violations. I haven't done much with that except for trailers on the streets. We've gotten rid of five of those so far, so that's not bad. And next, it's going to be snow if we ever get any. You know, making sure people shovel the snow and There's no snow plowed on the corners so people can't see stuff like that. So far, I think it's going pretty well. I don't know if you have any questions.

I I talked with someone uh citizen in chat and said that she was tickled about getting a thank you card. Oh, good. That's good. Nobody's gotten too mad yet. No, not yet. But any other questions or liking it so far? Yeah, I like it so far. It's not bad. Most people been nice. Statistically, it looks like we're making progress.

Yeah, I think so. I think it's not bad. Some of the deadlines weren't until today anyway, you know, so it's not bad. I think we've had four more done since the report was made anyway. So, yeah, I think I'm noticing a difference. I like that you put it in a bar graph. It's easy to visualize. This is, you know, how many nice touch. All right. No other questions. Thanks, Mike. Thanks.

Plan on doing this report quarterly and then obviously as it um progresses, Mike's duties are going to change more and more. We're going to give him more stuff. Um, I personally think Mike's doing a wonderful job. It's taken a lot off of me. It's taken a lot off of um, Chief Hickstein's department. I think it's really going to grow. We've heard nothing but compliments from multiple people and um, they've come from areas that I would not have expected. So, I think it's it's it's come a long ways and it only and it only can go up. So, I'm very pleased. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. On the agenda, item H. Someone is resolution 2026-9 reports adoption. Second

motion by Shane, second by Clay for resolution 2026-9, which is to designate certification administrator for the Shaton volunteer fire and rescue department in accordance with the volunteer emergency responders incentive act. Um that's if it's members of the volunteer fire department, if they qualify according to the rules that were set up by the department of revenue, um they get a a break on their income tax return. And this is to designate uh Pat O'Brien as a certified administrator. And I think he's presently doing it.

He Yes, he is the one that's been doing it for the last several years. Pat was planning on being here to answer any questions for the council. Uh but he uh has a training in Lincoln or Grand Island, one of the two towns. I don't know which ones he told me, but he said he didn't want to drive after our meeting to go to it. So, he took off earlier this afternoon and apologized. But he said that if you had any questions, council is more than welcome to reach out to him or pass them through me and we'll try to get the answers for you by the next meeting. I won't have any questions. Anyone have any other comments? It's kind of a necessary item to make sure that the volunteer fire department workers um their fire department individuals get credit that they're eligible for. If

not, could we have roll call, please? Alexi, yes. Yes. I'd like to introduce resolution 2026-10. Move for it approval. Second. Motion by Mark, second by Kevin. Resolution 2026-10, which is to approve payment application number two to Fuller Construction Company LLC for the Sixth and Maple Repair Project.

Okay. Good evening again. Um, this is payout number two for the Sixth and Maple project. Um, the only thing we're holding out on this is a little bit of retainage because the only part of the project that's not done is the soding there on the northeast corner of that intersection. That won't be done until the weather permits, probably when it's actually springtime and we can put some water on the and I believe they are going to saw it. So, as I said, um, we're just holding back that $2,000 $2,317. So asking for you to pay the 39,73470.

At the agenda meeting, I I made the comment that even though I hated to spend the money, it was really a good thing that that concrete buckled up and it smooth out that intersection. It was. It's very nice right now. It's made a It's made a huge improvement to that intersection. Yes. I didn't want to spend that money either, but it needed to be done. Yeah. So, anyone have any other questions about it? Comments? Not. Could you have a roll call, please? Yes. Anderson? Yes. Yes.

Okay. Item J. Someone to introduce resolution 2026-1 approval. Second that

motion by Clay, seconded by Mark for resolution 2026-11, which is to approve payment application number seven to Fuller Construction Company for the construction of the ADA restrooms for the downtown plaza. Okay, this is the second to the last payment on the restrooms here over on downtown Plaza in the amount of $7,89659. The only remaining um items on this were the punch list items which are now done. Um but at the time of the submitt of this pay request, they were not done. There were just a few things that needed to be cleaned up. There was just a little bit of painting on that privacy screen that needed a touchup. There was one place in the um mortar on the east wall that needed to be um repaired and some splatter on the cleanup of the brick and um there was a fourth thing and I don't even remember remember what it was but everything was very minor. All of that is done and I would expect that we'll be getting a final pay request for that $13 13,425 in retainage and it'll probably be on your next council meeting. and then they are complete.

I know it wasn't that big a building, but Fuller did a nice job. It is a very nice It is a very nice building. Um I think the brick really complements the downtown area. Um I like the privacy screen. I know it's not what we were expecting, but I think it turned out very nice. Um I think the whole project turned out very very nice. So that I still still have to write um a report for the last claim on that last grant of $20,000 to the tourism and then we'll be done with it. It's been a long time coming.

It's been a very long time coming. 10 years. So hopefully 2014 is when we started. Okay. 12 years. Thank you J. Okay, no other questions or comments. Could we have a roll call, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Okay. Um item K um needs to deal with the city manager salary. A couple months ago, we held the evaluation. Um, so I've since I missed the last meeting and um, everyone was brought up to date as about the where we sit with the our peer group and where we sit budget wise and salary wise. So anyone I'd like to make comment. Um, I uh I think Tom's What is this? Three and a half years.

Three. Yeah, a little over three years. Just over three years. Um without a raise or anything. And um I would like to make a motion to give him a 3% total raise. Um since he hasn't had a hadn't had a raise in three little over three years, I'll second. Motion by Shane, seconded by Clay.

And yeah, just discussionwise, when Shane talked to me a little bit about this, um the breakdown of the 3% was one and a half% merit increase and 1.5% cost of living. I remember the information correctly. Yep. I I feel that uh Tom's done a good job and probably wants a little more than that, but that's what we came to conclusion on.

It's okay. Any other comments? Do we have a roll call, please? Yes. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Like to make a motion to approve claims as presented in our packet. I'll second that.

Motion by me, seconded by Shane. Approve the claims. Um, as usual, they're big enough. a mule. You can take that back to your class. Um I I did notice uh kind of an abnormal abnormal thing that we had to repair the jet a fuel pump out at the airport. Um and then there's quite a number of items and some of these are maintenance type things or contract for maintenance for in link but that bill was pretty healthy at $4,10 and other thing of course we're paying the engineers for the they're part of the six of maple project. That is about it. I did notice that uh Mike True Blood is apparently acquired a pickup from the water or some other department parks I think it was. I had to do a little work on the heater to get it going. So, I'm sure he appreciates it having heat. He does. So, any other questions?

If not, we have roll call, please. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Uh we do not need a resolution to excuse that council member since everyone is here. Uh public comment. Anyone wishing to address the council on a matter not on this agenda may now do so. Individuals are allowed a total of three minutes to speak. doesn't appear that we have anyone wishing to speak. Um, I was going to save this for my council closing comments, but it's election year for everyone. So if you're interested in public service u incumbents I believe have to file by midFebruary and non- incumbents by March 1st. Don't hold me those dates exactly. So I'll put that out there for anyone interested in serving on the city council. We'll have three positions coming up. Um, and I am not going to rerun. So, I I've enjoyed it. Uh, but at my age, I think there's probably someone younger that jump in. So, city manager report.

Thank you, Mayor. I just got a couple quick things for you. Um, backing up with Mike True Blood on the community service officer, just want to let uh the public and the council know that he's also compiling a list of people that can assist um our citizens throughout the community as far as if they need branches cut down, snow shoveling, things like that. So, he's going to also be a resource for us to help trying to get people where they need to have the best contacts for for some of those things. Um, and I agree, Mike's been doing a really job. Uh we just need to continue that that whole process and he's still got a lot to learn, but uh he's he's gaining really quickly. Um the last or second thing I've got is just a reminder, the library is going to be doing a remodel here uh into February, first part of March or thereabouts. Uh they're still working on trying to figure out where they're going to be doing the placement of where the library will be doing its operations uh until possibly November, first part of December. So there's going to be a few things that's not going to be the full library service. There's just no way they can do everything. But if we can ask citizens to be uh patient with us, I think they're really going to enjoy what what happens after we get uh the remodel done. And then the last thing is is I wanted just to thank the the council for the consideration for the salary adjustment. I truly appreciate that. That's all I have for you guys. Thank you.

Council closing comments. Believe we started with Kevin. And I don't have any comments this evening. So glad glad to see all the uh guests we have in attendance tonight. Uh I guess that's a common thing in January. Everybody tries to get out of the way right away. So hopefully we haven't dragged our meeting on too long for you. That's all I got. Have a good evening.

The Shatter and Shark Swim Team meet is coming up at the end of the month. Um if you haven't didn't get to go see it last year, uh it was a really good experience for all these kids. Um it's a great opportunity for them. I know they're still looking for sponsors. So, individuals or businesses that are out there looking to sponsor the swim meet, you can get a hold of the Shatter Starks uh there at the aquatic center. Drawing a blank for the coach's name now, Barb. Uh that'll be it's a good time. I know my kids really enjoy the swim swim team there. A lot of others with the election cycle. This has been a really good experience for myself anyway and really humbling to say the least. That's all I've got. Hey, thanks. Um I I have this speech writer at home. She's called Emily and she does a really good job. We had a really impressive thing happen in Shadron over the holidays. It is a mystery. The Calvary Cemetery graves were decorated with American flags. Thank you to whomever performed this beautiful patriotic gesture. Also a big thank you to our egg community and the chamber of commerce for recognizing the jobs that they do for all of us. The egg banquet on Saturday was a big success. There was special recognition for our Asmuson

who made a big and positive impression on our community. Um, I think about Al's death was such a kind of a shock to us and he was a good friend and a client and and just almost every day I think about it and and of course today um Martin Luther King Jr. Day um I don't know how many people in the audience uh would have been alive when he was assassinated. That was 1968. That was kind of a big year for me. I graduated from college. Martin Luther King got assassinated. Robert Kennedy Jr. got assassinated and I got drafted. So, um, kind of a big years, but appreciate all that came about because of the impact of Martin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Um I just have to um I went to the a banquet this week and uh Shatter as a whole um depends so much on agriculture and or people that do agriculture and um it was a it was a good turnout. Um I want to thank all the businesses for uh donating um their time and and all the gifts, door prizes, everything. Um they they really did a nice job out there and all the volunteers out there um that put on the food and stuff. It was uh it was a very nice day. I guess along with the community service officer report uh and the the NRD grant, I suspect we'll be seeing some some nice things going on in the as far as the trees being removed and trimmed and more clearance in our alleyways. So, I look forward to that. Also, it's a George said, it's a election year. I know there's a lot of lot of people out there that are qualified to be on city council and I implore them to put in applications, participate in Hey,

most important motion of the evening. Well, maybe I'll second that. Motion by Clay, seconded by Shane to adjurnn. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Yes. Anderson. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you all for coming.