County Commission - Regular Meeting

Do we have any minutes or reports received? No, we do not.

Okay, liaison reports, upcoming meetings and events. I got the Fridays.

holiday and saturday and then it's day you'll say spin tractor pull at 9 30 in the morning and then salute to america festivities downtown and freight at six o'clock yes

I have a meeting with now holds tomorrow too. It's a bi weekly meeting. We have on the juvenile building and it's Eastern district commissioner said Friday's a holiday and Saturday is the solution 26.

Yeah, I told you like, of course, and Harry and I are going to be double team a lot of different things. And then I do want to remind everybody on July 8th, which is next week, at 5 p.m., we will be reading the Declaration of Independence down at our monuments. The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4th. They had to make copies of it, and then they had to make copies of it. And communities, and it was officially read to the public on July 8th. So this is kind of a thing that's going on. Every community throughout the United States. On July 8th, 5 PM, and we also have an ice cream social, so come down, eat ice cream 1st and then and then do that. So, anyway, okay. I'm going to kind of switch our agenda around a little bit and go to our proclamations and the retirement proclamation for Pat Case after 27 years. So, Mr. Case. He was a classmate of mine as well, but he was much older than I in school.

You can stick around for the audit report afterwards.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on up here. Come on up here. I took a shower and everything this morning. Okay, whereas on May 3rd, 1999, James Patrick, Pat Case, began his career working for the Cole County Public Works Department, and whereas Pat worked tirelessly for numerous directors, including Chris Yarnell, Larry Benz, and presently Eric Landwehr, I'm going to skip a lot of these whereases and go down to whereas during retirement Pat plans to take it easy, he will continue to work around his farm and enjoy the good life. Now therefore be it resolved that the people of Cole County do hereby thank and commend Pat Case for his 27 years of faithful service and loyalty to the county. We also wish him the very best in retirement and many enjoyable years ahead as we will truly miss you. Thank you, sir. Yes. It's been a great adventure. Great.

Yeah, it's been great having Pat with us. All my 21 almost years at the county, 27. Pat was part of the beginning of the building code and building permit program and done it ever since. It's been a great adventure. I'll tell you that. Man. It's been a long one.

Thank you, Pat. Thank you, sir. And you are welcome to stay because we have a nice... Full agenda. Okay. Now we will go to presentations from staff, consultants, and invited guests. And I'm not sure what William's Keepers appear, which of those you fit into. But we have presentation of the county's 2025 audit report.

Go ahead. All right. Well, I'm Ashley Brondell. I'm an audit manager at Williams Keepers here to present our audit report or really just our summary report here today. We did present this last week to the commissioners, so I will keep it pretty high level for everyone today. um but i will be covering our summary report which hits the highlights of the three different reports we issue as a result of our audit so starting with the financial statements um the financial statements contain the county's annual financial statements for the year ended december 31st 2025 the highlights of this report are that we issued an unmodified or clean opinion on the financial statements So in our opinion, the financial statements present fairly in all material respects, the financial position of the activities and funds of the county as of December 30, 2025, and the respective changes in its financial position and cash flows for the year ended in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. So all that to say, you know, that's a clean opinion and the best opinion you can get on your financial statements. Ultimately management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements and that does include the design and implementation of internal control It's a common practice for us as auditors to prepare the financial statements So we did that again this year, but they were reviewed and approved by management before they were issued We do use our judgment in a risk assessment process and determining how to audit the county so we focus our on attention on areas where the financial statements could be misstated. We evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies, the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates, and the overall financial statement presentation. Consistent with prior years, the full financial statements do contain two different sets of financial statements. There's the government-wide financial statements that are full accrual and include all of the funds of the county. And then there's the fund financial statements, which has the governmental funds broken out by fund and includes a little bit more detail. At the top of the next page of the summary report, there are highlights from the government-wide financial statements. So that includes some comparative information from 2025 and 2024. The full set of financial statements has a management's discussion and analysis on pages 4 through 17 that Jane prepared and really covers the fluctuations between any balances year over year. So there's some great reading there if you haven't already and want to read that. Consistent with prior years, the county had federal expenditures that exceed $1 million. So this year they were just over 4.1 million, which triggers what's called a single audit. So that increases the work that we must do as auditors. We do some additional compliance work and we issue two additional reports as a result of that single audit. So the first report is on internal control and compliance related to financial reporting. And there was one significant deficiency in that report that I'll cover here in a couple minutes. And then there's a report on internal control and compliance related to major federal programs that was a clean report. As a result of our audit, we also issue an auditor's communication letter. So this letter has comments about the audit process and its results that we are required to communicate under our professional standards. So again, just the highlights of this letter. We noted no transactions that we considered both unusual and significant. There was one new accounting standard, GASB 102, that was effective this year for the county, which ultimately did not have an impact on the financial statements. In 2026, there will be two new standards that the county will need to implement. One is on financial reporting model improvements, and one is on the disclosure of certain capital assets. So we'll work with Jay on getting those implemented during this next year. And then there's one standard that will be effective in 2027. During our audit, we evaluated the estimates affecting the financial statements and found them reasonable in relation to the financial statements as a whole. All of the required disclosures are included in the financial statements. We did find the accounting records to be in good order. We proposed a couple adjustments as a result of our audit procedures, though. We had no disagreements with management on accounting or auditing issues and no difficulties in performing our audit. So again, just really appreciate Jay, Rob and Jessica and all the team's help as we went through another smooth audit process this year. The last letter we issue is the management letter and that's used to communicate any findings we have about the county's internal controls and any other matters that we think are significant enough to warrant your attention. So as part of our audit, we do consider internal controls when we're going through risk assessment and any areas that could have any misstatements, but we don't do enough work on internal controls to issue an opinion on internal controls. So all that being said, as a result of our audit, we did not identify any material weaknesses in internal control. As I mentioned earlier, we did identify one significant deficiency in internal control, which is consistent with last year, and that relates to the circuit clerk's bank reconciliations not being completed timely, but I think at this point in time they are caught up. So next year that will roll off these reports. The letter also has a few other best practice type recommendations that we went through last week, so I won't plan on going through those in detail, but that was all really quick. Does anyone have any questions about these reports or our audit process in general?

Will we hit the million dollars next year?

I'd say so. Historically, it's probably my 10th or so year working on county funds. And we're still, prior to COVID or pre-COVID, it was all over the threshold pretty significantly.

If we don't, we've got some other issues ahead of us.

First year it was a million and it was 750. That's correct.

Yep. That threshold just changed last October. So yeah, it's one million for the counties of 2025 and going forward. Okay. Yep. Okay. Well, we appreciate the opportunity to present our report and work with the counties. So thank you all.

Thank you. I just got a few comments. Again, I want to say that I'm pleased with the audit. It is a good result. It's basically the same as the past years. So I want to thank staff and Jessica and the audit staff for their work. I want to thank the previous auditors that have got us to this point. We have two documents to sign, and we can do those now or we can do those later. But I would request that the commission accept the audit that Williams Keepers has presented. And again, it's been a great appreciation to work with the professional staff of Williams Keepers. We are very fortunate in Jefferson City and this area to have an accounting firm, audit firm, with those capabilities here. Do you want me to, those documents now or do you want to wait until later in the agenda?

And I would think let's do this.

So we've got two. The first document is the management presentation letter. This basically confirms that the information that the county's provided to the auditors is complete, accurate, and meets accounting standards. And this document I've signed, and then Sam is presiding, Commissioner, you need to sign it.

Do we need to have the acceptance of the audit first? Yes, it may be worthwhile to accept first. I make a motion to accept the audit as presented by Williams Keepers.

Second. All in favor? Aye.

And then the second document, we're required by statute to publish the financial activities by fund. And all three commissioners need to sign this, and then we'll get Steve, of course, my county clerk, to sign off, and then Jessica will get that published in the newspaper along with the elected officials' annual salaries.

I think we need a motion.

I don't know. I guess it doesn't hurt. We can have a motion to publish and sign. I'll make that motion to order the publishing of the financial statement in the local newspaper and to sign where needed. Second.

All in favor?

Aye. Aye. That's all I have, and I think we have at this point in time. We are also required to submit the audited financial reports to the state auditor's office today, and I will work with Jessica on getting that done as well. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Okay, any commission comment? retirement, bids and contracts, discussion on shop expansion bid, opening results.

So on June 17th we opened bids on this project. We had seven bidders and Versalois Construction read low at $2,620,000. The high bid was $2,960,000. So a project like this with seven bidders, it was a pretty good range there, which indicates a pretty good set of plans that the contractors all understood and made good decisions on their bids. And there was bid prices given for unsuitable materials. Those are shown as units one, two, and three. And pricing was individual for those. For First Voice, it was $160, $83, and $72 a cubic yard. They also, their calendar day count was 320 calendar days. And compared to the others, that was on the low end of the scale there. So that's good in our eyes. And there's also, if they don't meet that requirement, There's a $500 liquidated damage charge for each day beyond 320. In the project, there's a $50,000 contingency allowance, so they figure that into their final bid, and that's to allow if there's change orders or overruns of materials or things that come up that weren't expected and adding on to an existing building, sometimes you run into that. But we think we can... we can stay under that and save some money there at the end of the day. Once we get the building out of the ground, more or less, get all the foundation work and concrete work done, once it comes out of the ground, it should be pretty straightforward from there. The estimate range was 1.9 to 2.614, so this was just on the high end of the estimate range. We have looked at and been meeting with Architects Alliance to look at items that we could reduce the cost or change out some materials to reduce the cost to save some money. And these are things that typically they bid just a standard, but you could change to a different type of, in the case of the panels, the wall panels of the roof, you could change to just a standard color instead of a premium color to match. There's other items, such as the wash bay grate could go to galvanize instead of a cast iron. We could use aluminum feeders instead of copper for the electric coming into the building. And then we could just rough in the upper level. Don't recommend that. That was only a savings of $12,000. So I sent this to you all last night. So roughly, if we took all of these options, we could cut out about $50,000, $55,000 or so. And then there's some other items that were looked at, could be done but may be impractical or not recommended. So, based on what we talked about at the April 28th meeting, to go forward with this project, we're gonna request the exact same numbers of the 806 sales tax side, and that would be 1.65 million, still take 500 out of the road and bridge contingency, And then a couple weeks ago, we received a settlement from the insurance company on the fuel spill, and that was $446,000. That more or less fills the gap to get us to that $2.62 million for the bid amount. So just a little history on how we've gotten to this point. So discussion about expanding the building, primarily the shop. For a various number of reasons, we just don't have space. We're too tight. We have to work on some equipment outside, especially due to height issues with the current building. We don't have a wash bay. So we've been talking about these items going back to even before my time as the director, but really kind of zeroed in as we started looking long-term for what we want to do with this facility. So ultimately, many, many years down the road, we would take the road and bridge side out of this building build a separate building up on the hill where we have that extra fill area and then this would just become all maintenance central maintenance is ultimately the direction to go so this is really just a phase of maybe the ultimate master plan that's you know 25 30 45 or so years down the road but as we've talked about this is a much needed project The time to do it is right now. We've got a good contractor in Verslois Construction. They're local. I have not dealt with them directly, but I know people that have, and Architects Alliance has as well, and they highly recommend their work, and this would be a good project for us to get completed. And we strongly recommend award to Verslois Construction for this project in the base bid amount of $2,620,000. So I'd like to take any questions or comments or feedback or thoughts.

How much do we have in our road and bridge contingency? I forgot about that. Yesterday when we chatted about this, I know you were up to half a million. I was curious what we had in there.

Jay might have that number exactly. I believe it's... I don't have the exact amount. Roughly.

Yeah. There's still going to be some left, isn't there? Oh, yes. Yes. Not quite a million, but it'll be around that number. Okay. I didn't need an exact number. I was just curious where that was at, so how much you were spending it down.

One thing to add on that is we have, and I think I mentioned it on April 28th, we have $170,000 or so in the salt budget. We will not buy any more salt the rest of the year. We're full up, and we do not need to buy any more, so... that money ultimately would just carry forward to the next budget year.

To start the budget year, we have a little over a million in contingency, so we haven't spent a great amount or transferred a great amount of that.

Typically it's higher, but there was some, the way money came in on the property tax side, it was a little late last year, so some We didn't get in as far as doing the budget, but we're already over projected right now and we'll get more at the end of the year.

I really don't have any questions. I've kind of been along the lines of pumping the brakes on some of our spending and stuff, but we've been working on this for a while in our mechanical mechanics section. I think they've proven to be very efficient and effective and saved us money on a lot of the equipment we've been able to reuse and adapt and make work. I'm fine with moving ahead with it. I was a little hesitant. I made Eric a little nervous at first. I said, go talk to Sam and Harry first and let me know if you've got it. That's why I saved you for last.

The insurance settlement made a big difference. And I like to let Curtis' hair turn gray. I still like to keep it at like two and a half. Well, we're definitely going to try to keep it as low as possible. I like it, you know. But really with that settlement, I'm fine.

That was the thing that kind of made the difference, really.

Two and a half million. If you had to guess right or die, when will we cut the ribbon and raise the big door and say, here it is publicly? But we did it. We pulled all the triggers today.

So we'll give no... Just backing into it a little bit, so... In talking with the contractor, they've said once we turn all the paperwork around, contract signed, everything's turned in, bond, insurance, about three weeks before they start, it's about a 10-week lead period for order and steal for the building itself. They should have the building erected and under roof by the end of the year. And so it's just a matter of finishing everything into next year and in spring. So basically we're probably looking at May of next year. maybe sooner, depending on how weather goes initially.

So they'd have one more winter of putting all that stuff on outside?

Well, it's possible that they could get one section of the addition done where we could move into there, and then they'd work on the existing section, changing that out. So that was a conversation the other day. But realistically... We're kind of in a limbo kind of between, see, we'll move over to the other building across the parking lot temporarily. We'll move the shop over there. And so we'll be a little back and forth until this is all done.

That's what I was going to ask, if it was going to interfere with Tyler being able to do his work by doing this.

I'd just buy a big canopy and have him work outside. No. Yeah, we'll make all that work. Yeah, we've got room inside to do it. We will have to park trucks outside. We normally don't, but it will be temporary just for that couple, three, four months or so. We've got contracts. So I don't. I didn't prepare that, not knowing for sure where we would go. But if you agree to award it today and vote to award it, I can do the contract and have you sign it. Just bring it next week or so.

Well, make a motion to award a bid to Verslois Construction Company for the base bid of $2.62 million.

Second. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. Curtis, $2.5 million. Okay. Approval to run sole source ad for the Knox Company.

Today we're asking for the approval of the sole source for the Knox Company, which is the only known source of MedVols that meet the EMS requirements and can be integrated with their current ambulances and IT infrastructure.

I'll make a motion to run the sole source ad for the Knox Company. Second. All in favor?

Aye. Okay. Thank you. Approval and signing of William Woods Tuition Discount Agreement. Kathy, come up here if you don't mind. Sure. I've known Kathy for a long time. She's been with our workforce development. Correct. And I presented her with the Department of Defense National Guard Award. And then today's her last day as well. So that case, you two can get together, go out.

We should go out and have a cocktail or something. So I'm Kathy Groves. I'm Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at William Woods. And what I have before you is a simple memorandum of understanding to offer a tuition discount to all Cole County employees and their families. And what it offers is 20% on all of our online programs. and 60% tuition discount on campus tuition, which takes a private tuition down to about $10,000. It's very simple. There's a lot of other added benefits to it. We have a lot of added in things. So I don't know where your law enforcement trains, but we bring in 15 hours from Luddy if they train with Letty toward a criminal justice degree. We have a fully online criminal justice degree. So there's a lot of added perks. We ask for nothing in return other than sharing it with all your employees. And it's a simple, simple agreement. It can be ended at any time with 30 days notice.

And it's for our employees and their families. And their families. So if Kathy would want to, you know, get a degree and say, I'm too good for you and leave you. I might get another master's degree. There's also a lot of, and then the $99.

The Sophia, we have $99 per month gen eds. that is great for anybody that's in high school or an adult thinking of going back and wants to get their gen eds out of the way. You can transfer in 30 hours. It includes the books. It's less expensive than dual credit. It's a great hidden little benefit. We also have professional certificates such as, gosh, any IT, any They're escaping my mind, but accounting, bookkeeping, project management, those kind of things. They also carry hours. And so we prepare all the materials. We send an email to Sheila that she could send out along with the materials branded for you. It's an easy partnership. And you all, it would be a pleasure for me for you all to become my 50th on my last day.

That's a great benefit for our employees and their families. It really is. And there's no cost to the county. There's no cost. We are not obligated. No obligation. So it's... I know our health department is very interested. Some of our employees have children actually going to Wakewood.

Anybody that has children or spouses that maybe want to go back to education. And it goes from, our online goes AA through PhD. So it's a great savings. And I have copies for your consideration in signing if you're so interested.

Definitely. I was thinking we need to figure out a way to get it to the employees and take advantage of these programs a little bit more.

I don't know if Sheila or HR could send it out.

We're going to make sure that it's included in our benefit offering information for the new hire packet and then through open enrollment we'll promote it as well. You all are going to get us some branded information.

I'm going to do all of that today so that it can be effective upon signing before I sign. On your last day. Just like Columbia College.

I'm sure everybody's like me and read everything we got when we got hired. Yes, of course. I'm going to say we need to try to go out of our way to just provide people. I think it's a great opportunity for the employee organization.

We can post it on the website, too, like we do with Columbia College, if she has a flyer or something, because we have that posted on our website. Yes.

I don't think about it sometimes. Thank you.

There's three copies. Sign one for Kathy to take back. Yes. One for us to keep, and then one for the record for Dawn.

Okay. Do it, Harry. I'll make a motion to approve and sign the William Woods tuition discount agreement. Second. All in favor?

Aye. Thank you. Congratulations on your Thank you. What are we going to do for our workforce?

I'm going to do something. They didn't accept my resignation. So I'm going to hang around and I'll do something else so that I can still do that. So you're not getting rid of me entirely, Sam. Good.

We're hiring.

I was going to say, you just walked in, and so they're hiring. You all got your law enforcement training. You said, what, 15 hours?

Yeah, 15 hours. So that's a great. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'll get your materials, and I'll get everything to you. Thank you. Are you wanting the thief to attest to that signature? I'm sorry. Does she not?

Kathy, do you need one with the testament on there as well, or do you just need our signed copy? Because the clerk will sign it and attest to it.

It just is our signature and then... Does she stand until the end of the meeting?

You'll get it right after the meeting if you want to hang out for a second.

Dawn, you can stand, but can't you? Yeah, yeah.

I just can't do it until after the meeting. New business. Accounts payable for you? There is none. Okay. Signing of the 2025 Audit Management Representation Letter, that's what we, we did that. Approval of support documents for West Green Enterprises LLC application to the Missouri Housing Development Commission. And this is something we had done last year. This is, West Green Enterprises, which is Bo West and Eric West, and it's for their property at Cedar Ridge. And they are just applying for a federal or state, I guess it is, Department of Housing Urban Development program. So we did a resolution to waive remodeling permit fees And we sent a letter, which we all signed, to Director of Affordable Housing in Kansas City. And anyway, so once again, the West Green Enterprises is applying for this, and they asked that we would do the same thing as what we did last year.

and they uh they were unsuccessful their application was not accepted i guess it's uh you know it's competitive and uh we're just repeating uh the entity is repeating their application and we're supporting it again yes I'll make a motion to sign the approval of support documents for the West Green Enterprises LLC application to NHDC. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Yeah, I will have Melody re-type this up and change the dates and then we can, we all need to sign that one, but anyway. So, okay. We are done with that. Discussion of JC Rep for Show Me Home Ownership Assistance Corporation. This is another, it's kind of like the William Woods. It's a benefit that can be applied for our employees who are either buying a home, building a home, either to help with up to...

I'm more comfortable with $100 coming out of my monthly paycheck. Generally, the general public prefers option two. The biggest barrier to homeownership is Americans just simply don't have the savings to cover the down payment. The median American savings is less than $2,000. There's a lot of people out there that can afford to own the home on a monthly basis. They just simply lack that lump sum to get past the closing table. We come in and put those funds up, so that way they can get into a home and start building wealth.

And to make this work, It takes a political subdivision, a la the county in this case, to appoint three directors. Is that right?

board members direct directors um yeah essentially one of the most pivotal mortgage programs for first-time home buyers fha loans um 46 percent of first-time home buyers utilize fha loans because you know maybe you have a ding on your credit from a couple years ago that's going to put you out of the running for conventional loans that are very cookie cutter you got to have Low debts, high credit, it's just not something that the average person has. So the majority of people go through FHA. These appointments to that nonprofit board, Show Me Homeownership Assistance Corporation, makes this FHA compliant so we can help more people.

And Cole County is the sole member initially. We are the entity. We appoint three people. Three folks to serve. We can pull those appointments any time we want and replace them with any one we want. So our duty today would be to, if we so choose, move forward and appoint three persons to serve. The entity is named Show Me Home Ownership Assistance Corporation.

Yes, sir.

So I visited with Luke. I have visited with a local banker and a fellow research on Internal Revenue Code section 115, which is this is under there. There's a not-for-profit going to be, is this entity, and our duty is to name three people. So I do have three names that I would submit to make this appointment. appointments and those three names are Luke Schneider and Tom Jensen. So the motion is to make this three appointments through this entity.

Second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Thank you guys. So this was a This is a wonderful benefit for our employees. It's kind of like William Woods. We're offering benefits to all of our employees to help them. And they can actually use this to build a home, not just purchase a home. Absolutely. So, again, it's a benefit. The county is not, you know, there's no cost to us. We are just kind of a... So I think it's wonderful for our employees.

And this was just the first step, so then after that, what's the next step? There's no calls to the county or anything, but you all will basically be, we have some information to provide to the employees. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, I think it's good to understand, too. So by making these appointments, it then allows anybody within Cole County, so not just Cole County employees, to have access to down payment assistance up to $10,000. And so that kind of from the first step perspective, that's what these appointments unlock. Then as Josh has mentioned that there is a, you know, it's really designated or intended to be an employer benefit in an employee assistance program type benefit. And so the next would be a conversation about the county becoming an employer offering home per down payment assistance, which would then unlock all county employees for down payment assistance with no threshold as far as the $10,000. So it would be up to whatever down payment assistance or down payment would be per transaction. So this first one unlocks up to $10,000 for anybody within whole county. If moving forward, the county would like to be a partner entity with Humpurk, then that would allow any employee of Cole County to then have access to down payment assistance with no limit. So the $10,000 threshold goes away.

And that, in addition to our relationship, still would not have any cost to the county as well? so yeah we'd love to do home buying seminars and things like that to just create awareness for the employees as well and then yeah as we've mentioned anyone in the county after these appointments will then have access to ten thousand dollars so somebody's you know on the edge of the county line and they're looking to buy a house it's going to make a whole lot more sense for them to buy in cole county than anywhere else no cost and also to the county no risk there's no liability to the county as well yes Thank you guys.

Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. Have a good day. Okay. Gosh, we breezed through that. Do we have any unfinished business? Yes.

Not unfinished, but just additional. Yes. Just to give you an update on the United Way. Pace Center campaign, the golf tournament, we're sitting at about 21 teams, which is about five more than last year, I think, so that's really good. We do need some more sponsorships. We're a little lower on the sponsorships, so we still need to appeal to some of those. One thing I did want to mention, and this came about yesterday, so CDW, that's one of our vendors that went by computer equipment and whatnot from Brian Ridenour works with them. He called yesterday. He said they've been donating to our raffle various different prizes or whatever. Well, this time they're giving us three. 13-inch iPad Airs with Apple Pencil Pro. This is a $1,400 value. So this is beyond what we ever would have expected and probably a little too much for just some random prizes at a golf tournament raffle. So we're going to do a separate raffle. The exact specifics aren't, you haven't determined that yet, but it'll be probably a specific raffle. Just, you know, we'll get it out and we'll have it going on for about two months until

So you don't have to attend a golf tournament to get into that raffle.

You know, there's three commissioners, and there's three of those. So, embezzlement.

I mean, sometimes maybe a parting gift, like retirement gift. Sam, you just have to buy a bunch of raffle tickets. I will do that. I will do that. Brian, he was shocked. This is a tremendous gift from CDW. put towards this so we're going to do our best to try to raise as much money as we can from that just dollar wise is where we stand now in the gulf currently we're a couple of thousand above what our total was last year but still a little more time to go so things are tracking really well yeah yeah mother's going to be perfect too that day are you in charge of the weather uh no wait i asked the bishop we'll see how we did last week at the statute dedication

Do we have anything else?

So I've talked to each of you individually. I just want to bring this forward. We had an outdoor warning siren struck by lightning in late May. We are proceeding with an emergency repair of that siren and working with our insurance. But there will be a capital expenditure there. So we are working through emergency procurement, and I will have that contract and for formal approval next week. Thank you.

We need all our sirens to work. Okay, anything else?