City Council - Regular Meeting

In the Chatham City Council 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 as required by section 84-1412 subsection 8 of the nebraska statutes notice is hereby given that a copy of the opens 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 like to welcome our guests to this evening's meeting. Could we have a roll call, please?

George Klein? Here. Shane Sheppard?

Here.

Mark Graves? Here. Kevin Elixie?

Here.

Clay Anderson?

Here. Could we have a motion to approve the agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. Motion by Shane, seconded by Clay to approve the agenda. Could we have a roll call, please? Klein yes Shepherd yes great yes Alexi yes Anderson yes make a motion to approve the consent agenda motion by Shane second by mark to approve the consent agenda which includes the minutes The regular city council meeting held July the 6th and the special city council meeting that was held July the 7th. The correspondence, we have a thank you from Father Matthew Nash regarding the paving that was done on the south side of the Catholic Church correcting some parking area that sunk into the ground. We had monthly water report for June, fire department membership update. We have two new members, Andrew Baldwin and Zach Hague, and we have currently 45 active members. And we have a report from the community service officer And that's it. Does anyone have any questions about any of those things? If not, could we have a roll call, please?

Klein? Yes. Shepard? Yes. Graves? Yes. Oleksii? Yes. Anderson?

Yes.

Okay. Time being 6.03 or 2, 6.02.5. We open a public hearing regarding liquor license application for retail Class C beer, wine, and spirits on and off sale liquor license for Mohawk Sports Bar, LLC, which is located at 950 West Highway 20. and open the hearing and be good if the those seeking the license would come and explain their business so that we can understand and the general public out there in TV land can understand. Okay? Come up to the podium. That's where the microphone is. So you want to be recorded well.

All right. I'm Travis Muir. This is my wife, Rebecca. We just thought it would be a good idea to open a sports bar up in town. Different food. Different food. And just just a different atmosphere for everybody to go to. What makes the food different? Well, just from my experience with what's in town now and us, the steaks are going to be different. Just the option of food is going to be different, tastes different. Obviously we're going to have some of the same stuff that's going on, but it is going to be a different, a better product. We've really worked on having the prices to be very competitive. What?

Is it accommodating?

Yeah. So it should be a fun place to go. And we're going to have a little arcade room for the kids in there and stuff too. Just fun for everybody.

Looks like you've done a lot of work to the bowling. Looks nice.

Oh, thank you. Yeah, we've done everything. I just couldn't do a little bit of it once we started, like the electrical. We started in, I was just like, let's just gut it. Do it right the first time. It was bad. But it's ready to rock and roll now. So we're excited. We got a big hiring process going on starting tomorrow. And then we'll start doing some soft openings and some trainings, and hopefully we'll be up and going in three weeks.

We've had 40 applications so far.

Yeah.

Which is crazy.

And to provide jobs, too. And we're going to be open Monday through Sunday. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We're going to give it a go and see how it goes.

I've been in there multiple times. Even today I was there, and it's looking good.

Yeah, thank you. Nice. Thank you.

How many employees are you guys going to have?

We're going to have about 35, 36, you know, part-time, full-time, just because we're open seven days a week with the shift, like breaking up all those different shifts, you know. So not too much overtime, but enough. Maybe some will probably get some. But we're going to have cooks, a couple cooks. Because we've got, like, a pizza thing. Then you've got, like, your fire kind of stuff. Homemade pizzas. We're going to do homemade pizzas. Dishwashers, hostess. We just kind of want to run it right and correct and, you know, efficiency wise. is huge to us so how are you going to handle the off sale it says on and off sale the off sale is like so the colleges approached us ron did a lot of stuff for the college especially rodeo oh i see and we've had we've had some people approach us if we would do that yeah oh okay yeah that's nice yeah that's the on and off so we kind of can help also outside of that and okay provide there too

Looking forward to it.

Yeah, we are too.

What are you hoping for your soft opening then?

We're kind of hoping in the next week and a half, just depending on our hiring and all that and how the food comes. But the food, once we say we want it, it'll be here every Tuesday and Thursday. And then getting everything stocked up the way we want.

Mm-hmm.

So yeah, we, we put, we put some money into the pizza stuff too. So we've got a, we've got a pizza maker that'll cook a six, 16 inch pizza in five to six minutes. And that's going to be real dough, real toppings. Everything's going to be good.

Yeah. Yeah. There's everything you can think of. We've got pasta on there. We've thrown around a salad bar. Then we went back to regular salads and Yeah, we've got your fish, your pork, kind of a little higher end fish we wanted too because there's nothing like that around here. There's a lot there.

The ribeyes will be hand cut.

Yeah.

So.

Well, this is exciting for Shatter.

Yeah. That's exactly. I can't wait. I really hope it does turn out and we can just keep her going.

Yeah.

I'm blown away by the application, so for sure. To me, they just keep rolling in, and I'm like, this is awesome.

Are you going to be able to get any of your meat from the local processing places?

All the beef we got is from Nebraska. Okay. So I forget the town where those steaks are coming out of. the prime ribs, but, um, there was one over by Rushfield and I don't think that's where we're getting it. No, but we were working with them, but they need to work on their price a little bit with us. Okay. Cool.

Well, they just came up with, they've come up with like a brand new burger that is specifically cut. They were cash. We was trying to explain this to me that we might be able to, and their prices are supposed to be really reasonable. It's supposed to be a kind of like a high end kind of burger. Right now we have like a half pound cut kind of just a bang for your buck kind of burger, you know, it's still good. And our prices are cheaper than people have in town. So, but that's just how it should be. So we'll see. And maybe we'll go to their burger and it kind of, I want that same kind of price and hopefully same quality. And it's, Thick and it's a big juicy burger too.

Nice. Anyone else have any questions?

No one asked about desserts.

That's because that's your favorite.

We're going to do ice cream. So scoops of ice cream and it's ice cream no one's had. We're going to do shakes and malts. And that's going to be good. Real malt. Real malt.

Well, thank you guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

There are no other questions or comments. We'll close this public hearing at 610. Item C on the agenda.

I'll introduce resolution 2026-59 and move for its approval.

I'll second that.

Motion by Mark, seconded by Clay, Resolution 2026-59, which is to approve the liquor license application for retail Class C beer, wine, spirits, on- and off-sale liquor license for Mohawk Sports Bar, LLC, 950 West Highway 20 here in Chadron. Anyone have any, we've discussed it, so I don't imagine there are any additional comments regarding the resolution. If not, could we have roll call, please?

Klein?

Yes.

Shepard? Yes. Grace? Yes. Oleksii?

Yes.

Anderson?

Yes. Okay, thanks for coming. Next on the agenda, John Reed, Executive Director of Northwest Nebraska Development Corporation.

Well, good evening, everybody. Did everybody get their copy of the report this month? Great, okay. I've got a few events I want to report on this month. We're going to be co-hosting an event with PAD and Six Regions One Nebraska for their ROJO, which is a traveling event that they're doing in three communities in northwest Nebraska to help raise awareness of the baseline starting point of building housing resources in a community. We've already attended the event in Gearing, but they're bringing it here. And one of the ways we're going to support that event is NNDC is going to host an event on the 11th, which is going to kind of work in tandem with their event. They're gonna start with the broad strokes, and then we're gonna drill down into some of the resources we can bring in locally. I think I sent a list of some of the people that are gonna be participating, and what I tried to do was bring in things, this community, these type of public service communities have a tendency to go to the same meetings, seeing the same people over and over again. What I really wanted to do with our event was bring in people from outside the region that we don't have a lot of visibility to. So Make My Move, the, the certified apprenticeship program through the Department of Labor, and also Five Rule Planning, which does a lot of civic planning for these types of efforts. They'll all be doing presentations as well. And then we have a speaker from Gordon that has a project that they just finished that came out really well for him. So those events, very first part of next month. And I'm really looking forward to it. It's our first one. We've already got about 30 people that have responded. So I think it's going to be a really good turnout. Looking forward to that. Our very first Good Life Spotlight has been published, and that was for the Museum of the Fur Trade. And they're very happy with the way the article came out. We published it on Facebook. I think I sent links for that as well. A very good article and very indicative of what Golden Shovel is doing for us right now. Basically, I partnered with them to get the article written. They took the research end of it on their plate and did what you see in that article as far as the history of the region, the history of the museum. We're going to be doing at least three more of those before the end of the year. And I'm really happy with the way that came out. Really good resource for us. We're currently engaged with two loan opportunities, one here in Chadron and one in Gordon. I'd like to get all the money that we have to loan out in the market working for us and working for the community. And I think... I think between these two, we'll land at least one of them, which I'd really love to see go through within the next couple months. We've got three new members onboarded. Two of those are in Gordon, and I'm going to leverage that in my presentation to Sheridan County as a motivator to get them onboard as a new member. I also want to take this opportunity to remind everybody that we have a large amount of grants and co-loans available for childcare and new business startup expansion. I've engaged with two local families in an effort to help address the childcare shortage we're facing, and I'm hoping we can make some effort on that. I also, this weekend, I've got some bonus notes on the backside that aren't included in your report. I spent this weekend starting a new effort for childcare that's just in the early phases, but I'm really looking forward to taking a big step forward with childcare in the community. I think we have a huge opportunity that I want to leverage as quickly as possible. I also want to remind everybody that there are some very low-interest disaster relief loans available through the Small Business Administration. I provided that link in the report, but it's also on our Facebook page as well. The fire resulted in 16 counties in Nebraska being designated disaster relief, and the 16 counties that the fire took place in are the primary counties, but they've also included 16 contiguous counties as well. So you don't necessarily have to be in the exact county. If you're attached to it, you can still apply for those disaster relief loans and grants. The program is pretty straightforward. I hopped on the website just to see how difficult it is to apply, and it's not a difficult application process at all. So if you know anybody whose business has been... And this is... I should also clarify, too, this is separate from everything that... that the rural farmers and ranchers have access to. This is for brick and mortar businesses. So it's specific for everything outside of what the USDA grants can do for them. The counties that are affected were listed in that as well. So my summary since our last meeting, I've engaged with the president of CSC. We had a really good conversation. And senior administration staff at the Chatham Hospital in an effort to identify partnering opportunities between my office and theirs. My hope is that our event on the 11th, there's a lot of people in both of these agencies that are engaged in the housing process right now. But I'm also looking to start much more, regular engagement with the city on these efforts as well. I don't think we've communicated well with the city at this point, so we want to improve that communication. But basically, there's a lot of people that are really focused on making these efforts a success and I'm hoping that these events will help get that ball rolling. We helped work the grill at Fur Trade Days this year. Great success, made a lot of introductions, introduced ourselves to all the vendors as well as a lot of people that were attending. We still continue to partner with the train and the travel division tourism to ensure the best opportunities for strategy and networking and That effort has been really well received. Everybody feels like we're doing really good with that. So Regarding general administration efforts. I have begun with the review and updates of our employee handbook and our loan procedures Those efforts will require most of my attention after we get through the bulk of the summer events it's not really as complex and difficult as the bylaws were but I want to get it all done before our annual meeting at the end of the year. So I have a couple of additional notes to the report. The fire department first responders are looking to plan an event on August 4th in the Safeway parking lot. We've solicited the insurance requirements from Safeway Albertson. They've got them over to us, so hopefully we can get that wrapped up for them in time for their event. We had our semi-annual review two weeks ago. That seemed to be okay. I still have keys to the office, so I guess I'm okay for now. I had a good meeting with Rex Coghill at the Dawes County Museum. They're going to be hosting a Smithsonian event, a traveling Smithsonian event on economic development. It's going to be a really, really neat presentation. So I went out there and visited the site and familiarized myself with that museum. Really nice place. Our next board meeting is going to be on next Monday on the 27th. That's when we're going to do our bylaws review and certification. And again, I started that new childcare effort. Any questions?

Thank you for your continued efforts.

Oh, you're welcome.

You're a busy guy.

Yeah, I'm hoping we're doing it. I think the thing that I try to set for myself is not to put too many irons in the fire, because I want winds. But we've got winds coming. There's a lot of really good stuff happening. And despite what you might hear in the grapevine, we're very well poised to stay stable and grow for the next few years.

Have you heard any more progress through the grapevine or anything for the Safeway building or Pizza Hut?

Had a discussion on Safeway about two hours ago. There's a regional real estate broker that has requested direct contact with both Alberts and Safeway and their their real estate broker out of Denver. Not privy to what the conversation is, but it's a well-respected, if I said the name, everybody would know the name, real estate broker that has expressed interest just today. I should also point out, too, that that program that I mentioned the last time I was here that we're cycling through trying to identify possible backfill outside of grocery. That list is now up to 32 companies. So I have them on a call rotating call list where I basically just stick my head in any meeting that's public or drop them emails with pictures and say, Hey, don't forget, you know, you've got a great opportunity here. to backfill the grocery store. These are businesses that essentially look to backfill grocery stores because their business model requires that kind of square footage with very minimal conversion and TI. So again, nothing yet, but I just try to bug them until they go ahead and buy the place.

Persistence is key. Yes.

I just bother them.

Sounds good. All right. Thanks, John. All right. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.

I'll introduce resolution 2026-60 and move for its approval. Second.

Motion by Shane, second by Kevin, resolution number 2026-60, which is to approve change order number two to Paul Reed Construction and Supply for the Stockade Road Improvement Project.

Okay, so this change order for Paul Reed Construction is basically mat to stabilize that bank, and it's been installed. Tom and I were out there last Wednesday, I believe. And hopefully the contractor is supposed to be watering it a couple times a week so the vegetation will come up and grow through the mat. And hopefully that takes care of our issues. I walked a little bit of it, not a whole lot, because it was extremely hot that day we were out there. And the bank felt, at the top of the bank anyway, felt pretty stable. I would say let's go ahead and approve the change order and get them paid. The state's on board for it. So hopefully this takes care of all our problems.

Our exposure is still limited to the Lighting for something.

Yes are are are actually Matt do what we have to pay for this project is just the streetlights.

The state is reimbursing everything else Anyone have any questions for you Not could we have roll call please? Thank you. Yes.

Yes Yes, Anderson, yes

Okay, item F on the agenda. Ordinance number 1448 is before the council for its third and final reading. Please read ordinance number 1448 by title.

An ordinance to amend chapter 16 traffic regulations, article four rules of the road of the municipal code of the city of shattered Nebraska to enact section 16 dash four 21 engine breaks, Jake breaks in section 16 dash four 22 violation penalty to repeal all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with directing the publication of the ordinance and prescribing the time when this ordinance shall be in full force in effect.

Okay, I move that Ordinance 1448 be approved on the third and final reading.

I second the motion.

Is there any discussion? We have the same amount of discussion that we had on readings one and two. well um i think it's a worthwhile cause hopefully it'll work there is an out for truckers in an emergency situation that they can be used so i think if they need to use them in an emergency they won't have to be afraid of getting ticketed for that No other discussion. Could we have roll call, please?

Klein?

Yes. Shepard? Yes.

Graves? Yes. Oleksii? Yes. Anderson?

Yes.

Ordinance number 1448 is hereby passed and adopted on its third and final reading. I think that's it, right, Adam? Okay. Go on to item G. Tom, you want to explain what's going on?

I'll try to the best I can, but Adam's probably more versed in it with the... new state legislation on this what we are asking from the city council is to approve the new vehicle and equipment procedure policy guidelines in which the state legislation has raised the formal bidding threshold from 30 000 to 90 000. with adam's help we've gone through the process which was all included in your council which would allow us to do some more of our business without having to go through some of the procedures and policy or some of the purchasing and procedures that we've done in the past if the council finds it reasonable and acceptable. Adam might be able to explain more.

Well, it just streamlines business. I mean, the $30,000 was woefully inefficient for buying vehicles even. Right. With the cumbersome bidding process and notice, the state's seen fit to... Raise that limit to 90,000. The council did have a policy in place. This is just more full-bodied. It deals with more things. Allows for business to be run more smoothly, in my opinion.

Are a lot of municipalities going to follow this guideline?

I believe so. Katie's done some research on this, too, as well. I think so.

And it's just that $30,000 mark? Those other limits are going to stay the same?

It went to $90,000, and then I think it goes to, it's in there, Clay. This actually just became the law on the 18th of July. We were just ahead of the curve. So we went, we bumped it, so we got 90,000 bids, 10,000 to 90,000 written quotes, the three quote thing, and then under 10,000 informal quotes, phone calls, those kind of things.

Yeah, I encourage everyone to read the, That section 7 on page 3 was quite informative. I thought I had to get the highlighter out this morning when I was reading it after I had my cereal. He extends it to page 4.

That's a good explanation of the process.

Yeah, it really is.

Pretty straightforward.

So what we're looking for here is a motion to repeal the vehicle and equipment procurement policy guidelines. So we're adopted on February 20th, 2012, and adopt the City of Chatham Purchasing Procedure, which follows the new state law that, as Adam said, became effective two days ago.

I'll move to adopt the new City of Chatham Purchasing Procedure Protocol.

I'll second. Do you want to include repealing the old policy?

Yeah, that would be included to repeal the old policy.

Yeah.

What Adam said.

Repeal and adopt. Yeah.

Motion by Mark, seconded by Clay. To repeal the vehicle and equipment procurement policy guidelines that were adopted on February 20, 2012, Adopt the city shatter and purchasing procedure that been presented to us tonight Any other discussion or questions If not, could we have roll call please?

Clang?

Yes.

Shepherd?

Yes.

Graves? Yes. Oleksii? Yes. Anderson?

Yes.

I'd like to make a motion to approve the claims as presented to us.

I'll second that.

I made the motion and seconded by Shane to approve the claims. Discussion on those and going over the bills. The item to Bittner Construction I thought was quite interesting and the work that was done and what had to be done and in connection with the water lines on First Street and the connection to the railroad and to a piece of property that's owned by Jack Rembrandt. Janet, would you, or Tom, you want to give us? I think that for $12,000 we kind of ought to have an explanation of what went happen.

Yep. As per directed by the council, we were asked to move some of the water lines or find alternative methods to get water over to the railroad. When you look at the piece of property, there's actually a line that would have been underneath The current owners building that he is out there right now and that is one of the things that we ask As a city not to have those kind of issues with potential problems down the road And so we abandoned a six-inch Line there capped it off at the first in Pike or first in you know pine. No first in maple. Excuse me first in maple and And then what we did is we went back up to the railroad and past the, or to the south of the Forest Service, we connected a service line to their property to connect to all their office buildings and such. And that's what most of this expense is being involved with. We did install a different water meter and a meter pit for that to be utilized in this area. And this is the bill that was part of it. I do want to thank the railroad and Jim Collins in particular who had assisted us in making sure that everything was working to their satisfaction and what they're needing over in that area. But we did abandon a line that could potentially be an issue for us down the road because it was built in 30s and 40s, we estimate. And it could have been earlier. So it is one of those lines that was abandoned. So it was a good move on his behalf.

Were there any other homes or anything on that main line?

No, it was strictly all railroad service possibilities for it. It did end up abandoning a couple of the hydrants that was up in that area, too. But those hydrants were questionable at the best in case we would ever have anything. So it was a good deal for it. And like I said, Bittner did a good job keeping the cost at a very reasonable for this. The next process will be for us moving that water dock to an acceptable area too as well. Was there any questions that maybe I didn't explain properly? Or, Janet, is there anything that I forgot?

OK. Was the work on First Street pretty minimal? I only noticed digging near the railroad.

It was basically just a spot where they had the pipe, and they capped it off, and then they put a thrust block on the backside of it, basically abandoned the line in place. And then it was about the issue of getting the other one-inch service line to their office and their restrooms that they needed to it. It turned out very well for us.

Well, they had to go around a forced sanitary sewer and a lift station.

We didn't know about. Yeah, I mean, there was always got to be something.

It was all exploratory. Nothing was on the map. Yeah.

Mr. Bittner and his crew did a very, very good job. And Tory, with his guys, helped out some over in those areas as well.

It'll be on the map now.

OK. Other items that I noted, of course we have the thank you letter from Father Nash and the concrete for that project along with the work for doing it is included in there which totaled up to $44,295 if I had it right. Yes you did.

a perfect example of why we need to up this purchasing policy. And I'll come to the microphone to explain that because I had quotes on that. They were under the $30,000. You get to the site and you find out that you have to do more than what you thought you did. So we had to break it apart so I could stay under the $30,000. So we had to break out the concrete from the bill in order to abide by our policy. Nothing's ever the way you think it is when you start digging in the ground. Opened up a manhole, not a manhole, drop inlet over here at the alley, at the end of the alley on 2nd Street between Main and Chatham Avenue. Drop inlet for stormwater. They open it up, nothing underneath. I don't know what was holding the grate in place. So then that one's going to cost us more. aging infrastructure. So this is a really good move to change our policy so that we have some lead way when we get into the things that we don't know what's underneath the ground. So I really, really like raising our limits. Thank you.

And then S&J Construction, it says sidewalk replacement, 202 Main Street. But I know that on the invoice there's a pickleball course, and I think all of that is on the parks on the pickleball, isn't it?

It was. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, he had the wrong address. Yeah.

And that will be halved with the state of Nebraska's part of that portion too. Yeah.

Yeah, he gave me some quotes for another project. So he just had the wrong address on it.

And that's pretty well all I had. Anyone else have any questions about the bill? If not, could we have a roll call, please?

Klein? Yes. Shepherd? Yes. Graves? Yes. Alexi? Yes. Anderson?

Yes. Okay, we do not need a resolution to excuse a council member. 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. I think that's going, going, gone. City manager report.

Thank you, Mayor. Just got a couple quick things with another successful fur trade days behind us. I just wanted to thank all the staff that we had from the PD, Park Streets, Utilities, Library, Pool, City Hall staff. All of these guys helped make this accomplished, but obviously we couldn't do it without the Fur Trade Days Committee and all the businesses that partake in all of this. It was a well represented celebration and I think for the most part we came out pretty good. I hope the fur trade day committee guys feel the same way. We're going to plan on having a debrief in here later on just to see if there's any things that we need to improve or any other things as we move forward. And that's all I have, George.

Very good. Okay, council closing comments. I'll just make mine short and leave more for other people. Reminder, Dawes County Fair is coming up July 25th through the 31st. Be sure and get out there and support the fair and all the 4-H'ers. and open class exhibitors and then still time to attend performances at Fort Rob Playhouse and enjoy our state parks and get ready for the Sturgis motorcycles coming through. Are you going?

No. I'd like to just give a shout out to Kevin, president of the fur trade. Vice president. Vice president. I used to be vice president. And I know it takes a lot of work. It's a whole year just about planning For trade days and it was the big 50 50 year this year and I think everything went pretty well for the most part but It was uh, it filled the filled the streets it looked like and looks like it was a good success and

Well, if you drive around town, you see a lot of the projects that we talk about here going on with the water main replacement, the curb and gutter replacement. One of them I noticed particularly was the dangerous cracked concrete by the city parking lot got replaced, so I was happy to see that. some good progress in those areas i think so good good expenditure for the the tax dollars and i'm happy to happy to see that going on this summer

everyone's being brief so i'm going to be long-winded for a moment um yes just just over a week ago 50th year for trade days uh big deal and i it did go off pretty much without a hitch and i wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks to the city and its staff the county The chamber, the travel board, local law enforcement, fire department, the numerous sponsors, supporters, volunteers, tourists, and citizens of Shattern who made this weekend an overwhelming success. The bands rocked that new stage. It felt like we achieved something greater than the sum of its parts. And I should also mention thank you to my wife, Jo, who, is not a board member, but puts in about as many hours as I do and frequently does things that I cannot because I'm on the other side of town doing something else. I'm doing something else for Fairtrade Days, so I appreciate that. I'm depleted, I am exhausted, and yet I can't wait to do it again next year on what is always inevitably one of the hottest weekends of the year. So that was a 50th. I wanted to also mention a first for Shadron this past weekend. Shattern hosted its first Pride in the Park event. I did have to work that day, but I stopped down for about an hour just to see what was going on, how that looked, how folks were doing. I ate some delicious Mexican food, listened to good music, talked with some awesome people, bought the latest book by a retired college professor I've admired for nearly two decades. And while that was going on, there were two groups on and around the courthouse lawn, On the one side was a group, frankly, shouting, carrying on, wanting to force its beliefs and ideologies onto others. On the opposite side were folks attending that Pride event, offering a message of respect, love, equality for all. It was a lot to take in, but I know which group I perceived was acting in a Christlike manner. I think it's important to remember that Chadron is a city of people, people of different ages, ethnicities, birthplaces, different political and religious views. Chadron has room for all of us. And I'll say that again, Chadron has room for all of us. Chadron is a community of good neighbors who help each other out, look after one another. But even the best neighbor has to know that sometimes what's needed is mind your own business, stay in your own lane. I lost my place. And then I just wanted to extend thank you to the Chatham police officers and Dawes County Sheriff's deputies who helped everyone on Saturday stay mostly in their own lane. I think it was a successful event. And everybody went home safe. So thank you.

Over the last couple weeks, I know there's been a lot of discussion coming up lately about the flock cameras. Some people call them the automated license plate readers. I've been approached by quite a few about them in Chadron, and I've reached out to Chief Hickstein. He's been very accommodating on the information, and he's expressed that if anybody wants to talk to him, he'll answer any questions they have. complicated subject, I know, and I have my own views on them. They vary from time to time, but it's something that we'll have to work out together as a community, and we'll go from there.

I make a motion to adjourn. I'll second that.

Motion by Mark, seconded by Shane, to adjourn. Roll call, please.

Klein?

Yes.

Shepard? Yes. Graves? Yes. Alexi?

Yes.

Anderson?

Yes.