City Council - Regular Meeting

I'd call this meeting of the Sheridan City Council to order. Would you please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Before we have roll call, I'd like to welcome our guests. And as required by section 84-1412 subsection 8 of the Nebraska statutes, notice is hereby given that a copy of the Open Meetings Act is posted for your examination on the wall inside the door to the City Council Chambers. Could we have roll call, please? George Klein. Here. Shane Shepherd. Present. Mark Graves.

Here. Kevin Alexy. Here. Clay Anderson. Here. We have a motion to approve the agenda. I'll move to approve the agenda. I'll second that. Motion by Shane, second by Mark to approve the agenda. Could we have roll call, please? Anderson. Yes. Klein. Yes. Shepherd. Yes. Graves. Yes. Alexy. Yes. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second that. Motion by Clay, second by Shane to approve the consent agenda, which includes minutes from the City Council meeting of April 6th. Um included in the correspondence through the template for lease agreements to be used in the future. Um obviously, there's a lot of filling in of blanks and changing things to adapt to the specific requirements of any lease. Um but it kind of puts everything in the same perspective. Um there is minutes from the BID, the Business Improvement District meeting that was held February 23rd and March 9th. And minutes from the Tree Board meeting held March 31st. Um monthly treasurer's report. Um one of the highlighted things is the sales tax for January 2025 was $192,651, which is a $4,456 increase over the preceding year. And I did notice that the under the line item or the category City Council Boards and

Commissions, we've spent almost 60% of our budget and the year is only half done, so you can't have any more more money. [laughter]

Um monthly water report. And Fire Department membership update, which is currently there 46 active members for the volunteer fire department. Anyone have any questions about any of those things? Nice having the fire department membership up. Yep. Limit of 50, so if you want to you got four spots. Yep. Yeah. There's no other questions, comments. Could we have roll call, please? Anderson. Yes. Klein. Yes. Shepherd. Yes. Graves. Yes. Alexy. Yes. Okay. The hour being 6:04, we would open the meeting public hearing to levy special assessments for maintenance of the Business Improvement District for the calendar year 2026 and Candace Nolet is here to tell us what they have in mind. Um is my name is Candace Nolet. I own TLC Salon. I'm part of the BID. Um the assessment we're going for we're keeping the same assessment that we've had for $1.75 a square foot. Um it's worked well. We've had enough money that we can do kind of what we wanted to do, fix sidewalks, trees, that kind of stuff. We have in just recently purchased four new planters, so we're putting on on the highway itself. Um we were contacted uh Drew Peterson, also Scott um Johnson, and they're putting up on those two corners, and then also on Randy Colors, uh Carrie Bailey's, and

then I believe it is PVC Bank, and then hopefully next year we can do two more planters for Nebraska Bank and then where uh is. Um we're also putting in extra flowers and that kind of fun excitement, so that's going to be a little more expense, but as long as everybody waters, with the grace of God, we'll look they'll look good. Um other than that, um the biggest thing we're also asking is with the specialist assessment we don't have the people across the highway as part of the BID. We are asking for the council to possibly be in really good favors and have them get into the BID so Peterson common sense whoever owns the PVC bank and they're close to the alleyway and then also with the other two banks. If we can get those to come in that would go a long way to help pay for these extra planters and and anything else that we've got going on. Um we've been real lucky with everything. Everybody's liked the flowers and that kind of stuff. We keep them pretty well maintained with thank goodness all the people that water for us. Also Scott watering a little bit throughout the the week too during the summer keeping trees and everything that way. And done up also trimmed. We've been very lucky with that kind of stuff. Um so far we haven't had any major problems. So let's we're just kind of hoping for that kind of stuff as you know that way too. Um if there's something else you have a question about So oh wait. In reading the the minutes um I noticed that you were addressing some of the tree trimming that's going to be coming up. Yes. It

might be nice for the public to kind of hear that. Basically any trees that are looking like they're they've had some winter kill or just some age on them. We've been lucky enough that um uh Kenny uh Groves we hired him to do some trim some trimming and that kind of stuff and it really just keeps everything out of the electrical lines and it just keeps them well meant much more manicured. And that's kind of what we're going for. Trying to keep them as maintained as we can without letting them overgrow too far forward much and it kind of lets [clears throat] everybody know that we are paying attention to what's going on downtown. I noticed last year when I was when it was down middle of summer and I looked going past the marketplace where the bus transit office is and I looked up there and those branches are starting to rub on the building. And I think actually that's I think I think that was one of the places was it not that we were looking at trimming?

Next next falls the big will be on the second second main the second three on the lindens are what they're going to trim out this year just because we have the gathering spot. So that we're going to focus on look right down there on the south side of those streets cuz they need to be limbed out thinned out because we have a lot of public a little bit more active public people down there. So the three on one side two on the other two on the other one trying to get those done right away this year. And then we've also got some new trees coming um that will go in um let's see in front of city hall. Yep. Where's the other Dr. Johnson's.

Thank you. And then the one over by the city parking lot that we took out the old hackberry. It'll be replaced with a hackberry. And those will be replaced yet if we can possibly sometime this spring or if not in the fall. But we do have new trees already purchased. Okay. Anything else? So so that new district or the to add on to the new district Right. So would that be the first block or first two blocks that you want to go on third street? Going south or just going

Going east and west. It would be the Petersons. Petersons from basically the alleyway and then over to where the Nebraska bank and and where are. So basically in a sense alleys. Cuz Safeway's already already into that and then that other parking lot is not considered you're probably just going to go in the 300 block one business Yes. deep. Yes. Yeah we're not wanting to go please no no extras. Um we're [laughter]

just trying we're just trying to get that where it's right along the highway itself so we can try to just do a little bit more beautification that way and so when people are driving through they go oh yeah nice place instead of ooh nice place. So um Shattern Avenue is is that Shattern Avenue on each on each side. Yes. Yeah. Because as of right now Shattern Shattern Avenue on the 200 block is each side except for where well actually is because it would still be considered Abbott Bank. Right. That way. So yeah. Yeah that's that's a great idea. Has anyone of the current BID discussed or had conversations with anyone on the south side just to see feel them out see what they thought? Yeah

[laughter] it's whether or not you guys agree with that kind of stuff and we're trying and there again that's the other reason why we stated a hundred or the dollar seventy-five. We're not trying to make monster money here. [cough]

Just kind of cover what few things we need and to kind of cover our bum. Right. So with learning your footage uh being on a corner does it extend both directions? So like down Main Street like Peterson Drugs extends down Main Street and extends down the highway. Yes. Okay. Cuz that's the way the bank like and um First National down here on the corner that's how theirs is. Casey Peterson's is the same way. Also the same with Dr. Dickey's. Cuz he has that also pink and Bean Broker are also on the same. And then I don't know I'm not sure who owns the business they're on across from Casey Peterson. But I know that that is also done up on that full corner. So yeah it's a little bit more expensive on theirs but that's where the dollar seventy-five kind of it keeps it much more maintained for everyone that way. And since I've been in I think we've raised it once and I think it was a quarter. So we're we're really not now if flowers and that kind of stuff really goes up a lot and we know that concrete is going up exponentially and we have I think it was I think we have fourteen or eighteen blocks of concrete that need to be redone on Shattern Avenue and the 200 block um would be there by Nebraska Land Tire and a few other places and then also um where the dentist office is here on Shattern Avenue. I believe there's

two or three right there in front of the Bean Broker and I think one one or two in front of um uh Betty and Norm Martin's business that need to be done and depending upon how thick they are we found out when we were doing here on Main Street some of them are really kind of not too bad. Some of them were a lot thicker than he had anticipated so then you have to fill them up with concrete again and [cough and clears throat]

from were a lot more a little more expensive than what we had anticipated but we need to have them done cuz we don't want anyone falling or getting hurt or anything that way. And just keeping the maintain maintenance looking Right. done. So have those other businesses been like contacted [cough] or might be a or they cuz I know like if I I'm mistaken a lot of the downtown businesses take care of the watering on their corner or something like that.

Yes. Yes the ones who the ones who are going to get the planters we've already contacted them. [laughter] They know that they will be kind of helping in keeping those maintained and it I won't lie it takes pretty much water every day and because of the highway it's going to get even more wind than what Right. the others do and so they're going to have to really kind of focus on getting and that's also why we did the smaller planters. Got you. That way. Anything else? [sighs] [cough]

Okay. There's no other comments we'll close this public hearing at 6:15. I'd like to introduce resolution 2026-33 and move for approval. I'll second. Motion by Shane second by Clay. Resolution number 2026-33 [snorts]

which is to levy Excuse me. to levy special assessments for maintenance of the business improvement district for the calendar year 2026. I think we've discussed it pretty well. Yeah. Have a roll call please. Anderson. Yes. Klein. Yes. Shepard. [clears throat] Yes. Graves. Yes. Olexy. Yes. Thank you everyone. Appreciate it.

Yep. Thank you. Proclamation for Arbor Day. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Scott Turney, Parks and Cemetery and Airport Superintendent. Tonight, we invited two of the tree board members up today. We have Lucinda Meis, who will probably be reading, and Steve Webber. He's part of the CSC's maintenance staff. He's now on our tree board now, too. So, they came tonight to the to do it for us. So, with that I'll take Thank you, Steve. Have you all met Steve Webber yet? Is this your first time meeting Steve? Shouldn't be. He's a dad in the community, has a couple kids that have gone through the school meeting. He and I worked together for, I don't know how many years, up at the college, and does lots and lots and lots of tree work. So, it's kind of a coup to get him on the tree board, so. Thank you for for doing that. So, the proclamation for Arbor Day, I would like to read now. Whereas in 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees. And [clears throat] whereas this holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska. And whereas Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world. And whereas trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water. Cut heating and cooling costs. Moderate temperature, clean the air, produce oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife. And whereas trees are a renewable resource, giving us paper. Wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, countless other wood products. And whereas trees in our city increase property values. Enhance the economic vitality of business areas, and beautify our

community. And whereas trees in our city wherever planted are a source of joy and spiritual renewal. And whereas Chadron has been recognized as a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation and desires to continue its tree planting ways. And then I'm going to hand this off to Joey.

Now, I got my copy. Now, therefore, I, George Klein, Mayor of the City of Chadron, do hereby proclaim April 24th, 2026 as Arbor Day in the City of Chadron, and I urge all citizens to support efforts to care for for our trees and woodlands, and to support our communities our city's community forestry program. And further, I urge all citizens to plant trees to gladden the hearts and promote the well-being of present and future generations. Dated this 20th day of April, 2026. City of Chadron, George W. Klein, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, honey. Mr. Scott. Hey. Thank you for coming. John. That's me. Okay. All right. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for having me again. Uh I assume everybody got a copy of the report this month. Good. We had another really good uh month. And um I wanted to point out a couple things that came up over Well, the first thing I wanted to do is a note I added uh right before I came over. Uh there's a rumor going around right now that the Mari Sandoz um display up at the college is going to be relocating to Kearney. Uh I've had two people call me, and one of the board members called me about it as well.

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She said she's been called too. That's not the case. They're moving the archival the archives in the basement to Kearney because right now the basement there is leaking. But, she wanted me to just kind of point that out uh as part of my report. It's uh the it's certainly staying there, and they're actually going to put some more money into it. So, uh that said, we have Actually, we have three new business loan inquiries in uh since I last reported. Uh one of them's going to be a pretty good size one if it goes through. And they're all very good for the community. So, I'm I'm really looking forward to getting those loans processed. These will be my first um these will be my first full start to finish loans that I'll do on my own. So, I'm looking forward to getting that under my belt. We also have JB Hemp uh opened. That's a new business. We've got Mohawk opening in soon in the old Helen's location. And the Ridge has been purchased, and that will be uh reopening by the end of the summer. And I always try to point out the new businesses, the new openings to try to take some of the doom and gloom out of Safeway and Pizza Hut because that always seems to dominate the conversation. So, I always want to bring a little bit of positivity to it. I think if we focus on the good stuff, a lot of it will come naturally. So, we did have our child care round table last month. We're going to finalize our presentation this Wednesday. That group will be meeting in my office. We're going to put together a real short slide deck, maybe eight or nine slides, and we're going to present that to the Early Childhood Laboratory up at CSC. We're going to present that to the student body. And we're going to try to present it as a Look, if this is the industry you want to go into, this is the profession you've chosen, this is the place to do it. Northwest Nebraska has so many resources available to that student body. And what we're seeing is a lot of them come here, they go to

school, and they can't get out of town quick enough. And that's really driving a lot of the problems that we're having with child care. So, and I think I've made it uh pretty apparent that child care and housing are the two uh outside of the baseline business development, child care and housing are really two things I want to focus on because if you're a new business or an existing business that wants to relocate here, if your employees don't have anywhere to take their kids, and the people have nowhere to live, we're not going to attract business. So, I really that's uh one of the key pillars of what I'm working on right now. On Friday of last week, I attended the Rural Housing Conference in Gering. That was hosted by the Panhandle Partnership. That was an all all-day event that addressed a number of topics, including land banks, how to administer TIF. There were round table discussions with construction companies that specialize in TIF programs for rural communities. Really, just a tremendous amount of information. We also got to tour a company called Family Built Homes. They do they build homes in a factory, and then they do site delivery for those within within the whole state of Nebraska. It's a huge step above mobile homes. You can put them on poured foundations, you can put them on slab, you can put them on walk-in uh full clearance foundations at their their cost their their projected cost savings anywhere anywhere from 20-25% off of the standard construction because they're doing modular building in the factory, and then they deliver them to sites. Really fascinating program. And they were there with one of the TIF construction companies that we were talking to. We also did the container homes. Um a a step down from the from the from the housing that I just discussed. Interesting concept. I don't know how effective it's going to be long-term, but it was really interesting to uh really interesting to watch. We also did

uh a presentation by uh the Five Rule Planning regarding vacant property registry program. There's a a system in place now that if we have properties registered on that program, uh that they can help they can literally come in, take over the legal aspect of it for a flat fee, as many properties as we want to address. $6,500 a year, and they do all the paperwork for you. So, uh I kind of discussed it a little bit before the meeting what that what our current abandoned property program looks like, but uh it's a really good program program uh that we might be interested in. If anybody wants to get some more information, just get in touch with me, and I'll put you in touch with the people that we talked to as well. Very good uh very good uh Friday spent down in Gering. So, uh I want to thank again the City of Chadron for their continued support of Golden Shovel. I met twice with them this month. Uh our hit count on our social media continues to increase. And we have uh made some revisions to our keyword search, which puts us at the top of a search inquiry. So, [cough and clears throat] if somebody wants to look into economic development in Northwest Nebraska or in Nebraska, we show up at the top of the list. Uh we also have uh a couple of That list is down to is up to about 30 words now. So, they really they really manage that for us really well. So, I'm very happy with the service we're sticking we're still getting out of them. And our uh we finished our electronic conversion to our loan application, so you can now go on our website, apply for a loan within NDC, get it all done online. We don't have to print out a PDF, have you fill it out by hand, bring it back, try to scan it in. Uh it's a much more simplified process. It was one of the big priorities I had as soon as I on boarded. Um the other thing I wanted to bring up, too, is uh we've decided to develop a spotlight on local business

feature. So, what we're doing is and once again, GSA uh has taken the ball and run with this. They're going to They're going to We're going to be in a process of highlighting business local business members of NNDC that we want to uh that we've either worked with in the past, are members, are predominant in the in the business community here. And our first is going to be Krista over at New Leaf. They're going to do an interview with her. They'll do written interview and a verbal interview audio. And we're going to put we're going to use that on all of our social media and I'm going to use that as a marketing tool as I try to attract new membership. So, right now my big target for new membership is going to be Sheridan County. We're doing a lot of business in Sheridan County right now. We really should be they really should be members. So, but this spotlight is going to be a once monthly. We'll move it around to different members of NNDC and try to highlight the the business. Um I'm going to skip over most of the recap on the Safeway and and um Pizza Hut and go to because a lot of that is a little redundant from last last month, but we I took a half-day course that specializes in backfilling large retail spaces that are empty and they actually specialize in in abandoned grocery stores. It's very very niche specific class. One of the strategies they use is to develop a network with they identify retailers that are in the process of it process of expanding. So, right now in this in this economy um there's not a lot of companies that are expanding particularly in retail. But, we did identify a few that are expanding that have announced they're opening X number of stores across the country. So, my goal is to build a network with these people and make my introductions, stay in touch with them, stay in touch with their

uh their any of the meetings that they might have, any of the announcements they might have. Keep Sheridan at the top of top of the list for any potential expansion. What would you put in there? A lot some I wrote down some of the recommendations, but the list was actually pretty long as well. Uh things like Dick's uh Picklers uh Solidcore. Solidcore is one of those indoor places that do like rock climbing and they'll they'll do pickleball and they have a a little like a uh more like a gymnasium type uh environment. Uh PopStroke, that's an indoor golf where you got the indoor golf driving range and the putt and a putting green and they sell golf equipment. Um Burlington, Dave & Buster's, Barnes & Noble is expanding. I had no idea who would think a bookstore would be expanding, but they're actually announced 22 stores across the country. They haven't identified the locations yet. LLBean, that kind of thing. I guess the goal here is that I'm not convinced that we should focus solely on putting another grocery store in there. I think we'd all be happy as a community and as a business community if we can get something in there. And if it looks like Safeway's going to sit on that property, which they seem to be doing, they don't seem to be motivated to to come off of their price or make any further efforts, I'd like to see something in there that will benefit the community that's appropriate for this part of the country. So, there are a lot of options and if anybody has anything they want me to look into, by all means shoot it over to me and I will put them on the list and we'll build that network to get us to get us up on their radar. Uh since the last council meeting, I've met with 19 local business leaders, residents and organizational administrators. I joined the Rotary. I joined the Chamber. I joined the NBDC and I've been working with Carrie on the tourism efforts as well. So, um I my goal I think I I clarified this

when I first on board. I really want to build a network with these agencies so that we can communicate with each other and leverage each other's resources as we have efforts or things we want to get out to the public. Okay. And the housing [laughter] strategy continues to be a big effort as well. And I think we're going to have you know, I don't I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I really think we're going to have a great 26 going forward. I got we got a lot to look forward to. Do I have any questions? Where's that All-Out Container Homes? Are they out of Gering or

Uh yeah, they were in Gering, yeah. They're in Gering. They're based out of Gering or they Okay. And they do and they don't just do the container stuff, they also do construction for like metal buildings and refurbing metal buildings and that kind of stuff. And I'm not I don't know how long they've been in it. The operation seems pretty uh relatively new. All the equipment seemed new, everything was but a lot of activity. I mean, I got to imagine at their price point there's people that want to put them up for like lodges and that kind of stuff. some really nice container

Oh, yeah, you can do it, yeah. If you get the right architect involved, they can look really nice, really modern. But, I see them I see them more as like recreational properties as opposed to primary residence. I don't think they'd meet much code particularly in a you know, within a municipality, but uh really I mean, great opportunity love to see that love to see that industry in Nebraska and close to home here. One last thing I will mention too is I did get to take a tour Friday of the new facility out at Swan. We are exceptionally fortunate to have that operation and that facility here. This is the most advanced facility in the state of Nebraska. This is the kind of stuff [cough] they do in Lincoln and Omaha and we have it right here in our backyard. It's it's run well and the equipment that we just put in out there is is incredible. Leaps and bounds over what we had prior. So, as a community we should be very grateful for what we have going on at Swan. Uh anything else? Okay. Appreciate your efforts.

[cough] Any Thank you. Item number F on the agenda. Someone care to introduce resolution Call I'll introduce resolution 2026-34 and move for its approval. I'll second that. Motion by Shane seconded by Mark for resolution 2026-34 which is to approve contract for the application for payment number one to Paul Reconstruction and Supply for the Stockade Road improvement project. Okay, this was for pavement [snorts] of the [cough]

out there on Stockade Road for the Department of Roads. And if you remember, this is going to be total reimbursement from the state. So, this is pay request number one in the amount of 222,143.55 and I was out of the office on Friday, but I believe they poured the east half of this construction project on last Thursday. So, they will be finishing up this project probably within the next week to 10 days. Um we did have a meeting out there on Wednesday of last week when they when we were talking about street lights. There was a little bit of conflict with our sanitary sewer and the placement of the street lights. So, we moved the street lights from the east side of the street to the west side of the street.

[laughter] So, hopefully that will work out. But, it's moving right along.

Good. Smooth? Pretty good. It broke down a little bit for a while, their machine. Yeah, their paver had had some issues and then also the day that we were out there they had a skid loader that was having some issues, but other than that it's going pretty well. So, it's I went out there and drove down it yesterday and nice and smooth. I I requested the first draw last week before I went on vacation. We'll see whether we get it or not. Thought we might as well ask for our Try. Ask for some money and instead of it all going out, ask for some coming back. I know you all saw that that claims on this meeting and it's quite large, so I thought I'd ask for a little bit back.

There's only a little bit of curb and gutter on on this. Where does that end up being? Um they're just at the very beginning to transition from the curb and gutter that's there to um taper it down. Because of the way the ditch system is out there and the drainage um we thought it was best not to put any curb and gutter in. The way the Department of Roads um is profiled on that east side of the street, there was just no way to have curb and gutter on that street at all on that side of the street at all. So, we opted not to have any curb and gutter on the west side of the street also. So, it's not the the way I would have liked it, but it's the way it profiled out the best for the drainage. Any other questions? If not, could we have a roll call, please? Thank you. Anderson? Yes. Klein? Yes. Shepperd? Yes. Graves? Yes. Olexy? Yes. And someone care to introduce item G? I'll introduce resolution 2026-35 and move for its approval. I'll second. Motion by Kevin seconded by Clay [clears throat] for resolution 2026-35 which is to declare property as surplus and authorize the same to be sold or discarded. Um anyone have any comments? Tom? I I can talk for that to Mayor Klein. Um basically what we've asked the streets or all our departments uh to provide any kind of items that they would like to get taken care of early on this summer. Um as we've been going through all of our processes with um our new

community service officer, we feel it's necessary that this the city is the people that take the first step. We have to clean up our own areas that we have. Uh trying to limit the the grass, weeds, trees, anything else. Um if we're asking our citizens to be conscientious of their own properties, the city needs to take the first step. So, this is part of that whole process that we're doing. A lot of the items that are on here are items that are no longer needed or wanted and we're hoping to be able to get them to a new home and have somebody else um have the ability to use them. Anybody say anything they really want to hold back not letting and not have the opportunity to bid on it?

[laughter] Well, I was going to say they they'll be more than welcome once we have it assigned to an auction, we'll let everybody on the council know so that they can place their bids. I want to know what model the yellow Massey is without the brush hog. [laughter]

Janet, you have any idea? I don't know what what model it is. No, it's old. You you probably really love it, George. Is it a Massey Ferguson or a Massey-Harris? Ferguson. Ferguson-Harris. Okay. It's it's it's old. It's not very big. It's just a little little Janet said it was cute when she was out there looking at it. but it's it's Would would it be one of the original Massey Fergusons like a 35 or No, it's not that old. or 50? It's not that old. No, okay. It's it's just a little guy. It's cute. I'm going to say it's a 70s unit. Yeah, like 71.

[sighs] Okay, any other questions? If not, could we have roll call, please? Anderson. Yes. Klein. Yes. Shepard. Yes. Graves.

Yes. Alexy. Yes. I'd like to make a motion to approve the claims as presented in our packet of information. I'll second. Motion by me, seconded by Kevin, to approve the claims. Um If you looked out on kind of in more detail than what it just Sometimes when you have a bunch of numbers here, it just kind of glazes your eyes over, but um did notice that we had to do an extra little extra work to adjust a grade on the pickleball course. Um When when they came out, George, they um said that it wasn't quite up to their standards that they needed. So, we asked Mr. Bittner to go back out there and do some more fine grading on it. Had to add another We didn't Did we add more? I thought we did.

add anything. Um we moved a little bit of of the gravel from one spot to another. And um it we could have done it with the contractor when they came. However, the higher-ups, the guys in the office, didn't like the shots and they wanted it done before the contractor came back. I had it all worked out with the superintendent that came and we were going to do it the day that he came back. But he was overruled. So, we had to have Eddie do it. Unfortunately. Hey. Um other things I noticed um the parks department got their 2026 Polaris. Yes, that for 30,000 bucks? Yep, that finally came in. Got all the parts and pieces on it. Scott picked it up. We made the last payment to Cooper Cogdell on the street department building. Correct. Almost $5,000. Yep. The Stockade Road, in addition to paying the the bill that we just paid, we had to pay the engineers. And that's reimbursed also. Right. I made claim on that also. Um And the biggie, I think it's the biggest one. 403 Uh $382,000 for the Highway 20 project, which Paid up front. explain that we paid in advance. Yes, we had to pay that up front. And that was for the center lane. And the sidewalk.

Sidewalks, right. Yes. And Olsen's engineering for the SRE building at the airport, $83,000. Yes. And that'll be a reimbursement 95 955 955 And $151,000 for the pickleball courts. The balance of the contract is $24,000. That's on the pickleball courts. And then then we'll pay for the playground equipment when it comes. Yeah. Yes.

[snorts] Hey, anyone have any questions? Gosh, I was I was ready to talk to you about the UPM from contract Is it contractor supply? Oh, the for 18,300 Contractor materials.

Contractor materials. The asphalt. Can I talk about that? Isn't that the stuff you're trying to buy in in bulk? That's for the for the patching. And I don't know, we were buying it like at four or five pallets at a shot last year and we were paying almost in what freight as it was for the material itself. So, this year Dustin bought a semi load full of UPM and um bought fit So, we got 15 pallets on a semi and um got it delivered or was going to have it delivered and like 3 days before they delivered, gas prices went up. And then so did our freight. So, otherwise we were going to get it for like 16,000 instead of 18,000. But still good very good buy for him getting a semi load full of of the of the UPM instead of doing three pallets at a time or whatever he was doing. Right. Still a savings. Still a wonderful savings.

Huge savings. Huge savings. We got 15 pallets for the price that we paid for probably eight pallets last year. So, he looked into that and huge savings. And now we have a place to store it. So, he has his building. Any other questions? If not, could we have roll call, please? Anderson. Yes. Klein. Yes. Shepard. [clears throat] Yes. Graves. Yes. Alexy. Yes. Uh we do not need a resolution to excuse any council members. And anyone now wishing to address the council on a matter not on this agenda may now do so. It's known as the public comment period. Individuals are allowed a total of 3 minutes to speak. This is your chance to girls to come come up here and um try to get that A from Mr. Nobley.

[laughter] You already got the A, so you don't care. [laughter]

Well. Okay, council closing comments or city manager's report. Thank you, Mayor. I just got a couple quick things. Just want to remind the public that um April 24th is Arbor Day and we as a city do do uh recognize that. Um and one of the things that I want to just let everybody know, transit will be closed that day too as well uh to allow the staff to have that that day off for a holiday. Um I just wanted to also thank the NRD and the parks for what they're doing for the trees throughout the community. And then uh as we are looking at our own items here in the city as far as maintaining the grasses, weeds, trees, and such, we will start beginning that uh throughout the community too as well. Um and that's some of the things that uh our community service officer has been starting uh to determine um how much of an area needs to be covered, uh what things that he needs to be looking at. He's been working with Janet and and Chief Hickstein uh to make sure that we're consistent with what we're doing and how we want to proceed forward with it. So, it is it's all coming around very quickly. And that's all I have for tonight. Thank you. Hey. Council comments, we'll start with Clay.

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I just want to say congratulations to all the recipients from the treasure treasure chest banquet that went on Friday. Everything that they do for the community and the surrounding area is great help bringing in tourists and income all that. That's about all I've got. Well, that was on my list to call on tourism carries program, but in case there's someone out there in the general public that hasn't seen them it's really kind of exciting to see the actual constructions being started on the apartments. Buildings and we hope that it goes well for them and they get done in without too much problems. And [snorts] welcome to the Nebraska volleyball team that comes this Saturday. There probably won't be very many of us here in Chadron to get and interact with them, but um be on our best behavior. Um and show show them that we have a nice community here. And so that they s- kind of reflect good on Chadron. Um I just like to um uh remind everyone I think high school prom is this week. Um so um probably be a lot of kids out. Um and this Nebraska volleyball team coming to Chadron is a great uh great event that brings a lot of people out um here in the mid- or in the western end of the state. Um

so let's show our support and appreciation. Um also like to uh remind people that SWANN is having tire amnesty day um on June 10th and 11th, I think. You can take out up to 70 tires each this year. 70 tires? 70 tires. Light truck and passenger or all tires? Um it is car, light truck, semi, and trailer. Large equip- up to 10 large equipment tires. So um if you got any tires, take advantage of it. Sure cleans up Chadron rather than having them sit around.

How many did you say each day? I I They're doing a certain ton. It's up to a certain tonnage and I'm not sure off the top. It's 175 ton total. Or I believe it's up to 70 tires per individual. Per customer? Per account? But it's like 25 light truck um up to 25 semis and up to 10 large equipment or ag tires. So The inspections I just did today had a lot. Oh. Yeah, there's a What days were those again, please?

Um the 10th I see the 10th and 11th. I believe. From 8:00 to 5:00. And once they hit 175 ton, they're shutting it off. So um and then in the spirit of Arbor Day, I want to say that my fiance and I we planted approximately 40 trees yesterday and got another 50 to go. So Yeah. making the world a better place, I guess. A little bit. One tree at a time. Just having you in it makes it a better [laughter] Uh during the course of my

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my job I ran across a gentleman uh when I was doing a locate over for the uh infrastructure there on Cedar Beach Drive and he he asked what I was doing and what was happening and I said, "Well, they're hopefully going to put a street in, make it so houses can be built." And he goes, "What's the point? Chadron's Chadron's dying. It's going to be a Crawford in the next couple of years." As we're standing next to a five or six hundred thousand dollar house just being built down the street from from Katie's. So I I refuse to to believe that to be true that Chadron is dying. Sure, we're going through some hardships with the losing a few businesses. Uh I love Crawford, but it it has some some problems itself. But I don't think we're any we're near near that. We we're talking about John and he sees talking about business loans and how he's working with other businesses and entities to help Chadron grow. We see uh the construction at the uh apartment complex, homes being built, people taking pride in their the community by the BID planting flowers. Um people cleaning up their their lots. So uh to that to that gentleman that that thinks that Chadron is dying, I I refute that. I guess that's all I have. Well said, Mark. Uh

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I just wanted to note that um also on Saturday, the 25th, there is a ribbon cutting for the uh portion of the Cowboy Trail um over on the east end of town. I got an email. Britney Helmboldt, who's on the Trails Association, notes we will not attempt to compete with Nebraska volleyball, but do have a few events planned that should occur when volleyball is done. Um so that starts at around 4:30 and goes until 6:30 um just to kick off and officially open that trail. Um I've my family has ridden their bikes down it several times and it's it's really nice little ride out to McHenry Road. Uh and it's just a nice uh additional activity in our in our town that is definitely not dying. So that's all I got. Make a motion to adjourn. Second that. Motion by me, second by Shane. Can we have roll call, please? Anderson? Yes. Fine? Yes. Shepperd? Yes. Graves?

Yes. Alexy? Yes. Thank you for bearing with me for a moment my cough.