Council - Regular Meeting

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we got the agenda.

Second favor. Citizens fifth spacing. Anybody come up and talk to council? I need to have a phone number. I remember I was here about a month ago um making an appeal to the city and I came here to follow up tonight um to see what the city's intentions are. I have heard back from the city twice that you know you were working on it. Um and then a couple days ago I got an email request from the house at M and he's requesting some more information which which I can send. Um but the last two times that he got information from me after that I got radio silence and so I'm not I'm not sure what he's intending now. And so what I'm wondering is is you know does the city have a plan? Is it that committee uh for more?

So MORM as the city's insure it's been turned over to them and the city doesn't really have any further action to take at this point in time. So it's up to communication with Mr. Sherm. Okay. And then what happens if he sees his communication again? Where is my turn? Well, you need to contact him. But if that continues to be a problem, in contact. Let the city clerk know and we'll see what the problem is with follow. Okay? Because like I said, you know, this is this is the third time that he's requesting information. The last two times so they turned over to my

Okay. They are supposed to proceed with it at this point. Okay. All right. Thank you for your time. All right. Anyone else? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Try to keep this brief as I always do. There's a couple things that I wanted to talk talk about that you had on the the agenda here. Um, you've got written down here that you want to seal the bike trail at Patty Playground. Where's that? How is that being paid for? I probably park you all bud the parkour budget that last

I don't remember budgeting for that last summer you know that so I I talked to Jennifer today because she wasn't here tonight about a bunch things on the agenda she told me that there was 10,000 budgeted for Patty Joe's park and it was intended for the trail and benches.

Okay, that was um Okay. So, so when was that brought up? And and I guess it's going to be later on tonight that you're going to talk about that. Bring it up, discuss it, and then vote whether or not you're going to do it or not. It's one of the brand new parts. I don't understand why it needs to be received, but nonetheless, there's other things that could be done. I'm going to move on. Um EOC office, they're normally they're they're right now they're just right across the street, are they not? They are.

Okay. Uh, is there a particular reason why you want to move that office? Are they is it is is the office too small? Is it too big? Is it drafty? What? I don't understand. Why? Why do we want to relocate an established emergency operations center cross? Well, that answer that EOG director. The reason why they want to move it is the fact that they're making that the Route 66 museum. If there is a catastrophe or a disaster claimed by the may by the governor of the of the state of Missouri, I have to have a command center big enough for everybody to be in there. The Red Cross, the police department, fire department, anybody.

So, you're indicating that that's too small to They're taking it over. They're taking that over. Why are they taking that over? That one for Route 66 tourism. It's going to be a tourism information center. The tourism information center. Yep. Not have a welcome center with Indians and ample parking up there for that. Why can't that be put there? City at city of Cuba oriented. It's not Route 66 orient. Why can't you Why can't he go back into the corner's office? Where is that where you used to be? I just took over. It's been there ever since I where I was at.

Well, to my knowledge, Kim Rodmire told me that it used to be in the corner's office. That building looks plenty big enough. I don't know why we should make a big deal out of it being in this one right here. There's plenty of spaces. Put it in the public works building. There's not an empty room in there. What I have heard is the old public building. Yeah, that's an office building. Perfect. That's a humongous That's a humongous building. Plenty of space. You got a welcome center. We got We got a little Hey, we got a little baby thing going on here. Let's not attack that, you know. Sure. Go ahead. Thanks. Okay. We have a welcome center that should be promoting the tourism in this town. Okay. Yes. No. Well, it it really doesn't. It doesn't. No.

Okay. So, that sounds like an internal problem to me. You guys probably need to be get you need to get together and figure out how a a welcome center the can city of Cuba in that space over there should be. So, the welcome center is off of Interstate 44. Okay. So, that is a t that is bringing in traffic from 44. This is going to bring in traffic from Route 66. The one plus million people we get per year that travel route 66. A lot a reason why this town is what it is. The murals traffic off of 44. What did you say? All right. All right. I'm I'm going to interrupt y'all here. Dan, we are going to try to move it into the map building where there's plenty of room.

All good. They can have that building. We could have worked something out. If there wasn't enough space, we could have made it work. Exactly. because we can walk before we run on this whole deal. We don't have to have both sides of the building and make it huge right away. We could have walked before we run. If worse comes to worse, we'll work with you. You know what I mean? But just don't jump down my throat. Okay. Thanks for your input. Yeah, absolutely. Anytime, you know. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Anybody else? Good evening, Mayor and Cuba City Council. Yesterday, Crawford County Youth Football received a copy of our field use agreement forwarded from the city attorney. While we were encouraged to finally have something to review, I was immediately disappointed by what was sent. On September 25th, 2025, I visited city hall and requested a copy of the current football contract. The document I received at that time named QBU Football League, an organization that had been administratively dissolved for several years and lost its 501c3 status in 2011. On October 7th, 2025, Crawford County football presented a new field use agreement that we drafted, reviewed, and finalized as part of our original proposal. On December 9th, 2025, this council unanimously approved granting Crawford County football the contract for the use of the fields and facilities at the park. What we received this week is nearly identical to a 2007 agreement. The dates were updated to 2026 and one line was added stating that gate entry fees would not be charged. However, the organization name was not updated to Crawford County football. I understand that priority shift and I understand that the city attorney was out for a period of time. However, during the last council meeting, it was stated that an attorney was covering in her absence and working on updates to the public code of conduct. Meanwhile, this issue directly impacting our youth programs was not addressed. Given that, it is concerning that such a fundamental detail, the correct legal entity, was overlooked. This raises questions about the time, cost, and care taken in preparing this agreement, especially considering that a correct version was already provided back in October. We have repeat repeatedly advised the council since October that spring flag football begins the first week of March. We are now two weeks into registration,

already halfway to our minimum registration goal with practices scheduled to begin in approximately 4 and 1/2 weeks and as of today, our agreement still has not been fully executed. I did receive an amended agreement with the correct organization made this afternoon and I can appreciate that correction. I would respectfully ask for clarity on how students agreement can be signed and when locks can be changed and keys issued so we can access the facilities and begin necessary assessments and preparation. Thank you for your time.

Did we get that correct? Huh? Yes. Yeah. When can we get the keys? What can we get the keys? Let's see here. Want to know where they get keys? Have they got anything moved out? Is the old football team here? I'm here. All right. When can we get the keys? Uh, I can reach out to Amy and find out. Okay. Can you do that for us? Okay. Thank you. But I will say that uh when requested to return her keys, Sierra never did. So

hold on. Nobody ever requested that I return my keys. I still have a copy of the keys. But So you have keys to get in. I do, but I'm not going over there until I have a signed contract because I was there were accusations made towards me about theft and vandalism. So do you have all your stuff out there yet? as far as I'm aware. Yes. Okay. So, she has keys that she can go in though. Then she has a full set of keys. Yeah. Well, then she's got the keys. Okay. If this is not these are city keys,

they have numerous copies of them. You obviously have no clue has who has a copy, which therefore our building become accessible to everyone else. change. Hold on. Hold on. What year? Just change all the lock. We are. That's what we're going to do. What's your contract sign? You want to sign? Yeah. Change all contract. When's the cont?

Anyone else? Good evening everybody. So I have a couple questions. So the last meeting that we had there was an ordinance that was on the table that we were told as citizens that was only going to take the two minutes to the 3 minutes. Hit specifically asked what additional was in that ordinance to amendments. He never, to my knowledge, at least during uh public session, had an answer to that. What was the change that was in that ordinance and why was that ordinance not put back on the table?

That was answered today. Okay. And we are just waiting for it. It was actually announced at the very end of the last meeting. I just don't know. Apparently, it was not loud enough people here. It was announced. What was it? The only thing changed within that was two minutes two to three minutes. Two to three minutes. Okay.

All right. And then as far as the Patty Joe's goes as resurfacing, we were told numerous times by Jennifer that things have to be specifically outlined. You can't just take the total budget for a park and apply it to whatever was needed. Patty Joe's was never budgeted to be resurfaced. As Dan stated, um it's a newer asphalt. I mean that money could be going towards if you're not going to utilize that for what it was going to go towards poor events and more seating take whatever money reallocate it and do the basketball courts. The community has been asking for basketball courts for years now. We've been trying as the prior park for to get that done. We did surveys. We turned all all the information over and I've heard no talk about basketball courts, not about resurfacing or and expanding the old one. We were told by Joyce that there was plenty of um area to extend out as you all can recall and do basketball courts. That has gone absolutely nowhere. Where is that at?

Well, you didn't put that in the budget, I don't think, when you were on the park board. You did you did put put a pickle ball court in. But let me let me say something, Cindy. When when the old park board did their budget, they only put $30,000 in the pickle ball court. Okay. You advertised all through town, internet. We're getting a pickle ball court. Where do you want it? You guys misled the citizens in Cuba.

You only had $30,000 in there. Pickle ball court bid came in at $200,000. So, what are we going to do? So, Laney and I put together a 503C to try to collect money for donations, which Pit said I did not have a donor. and we worked hard and we got $150 to do these pickle ball courts that you all do not have the money for that you put in the budget misleading the citizens.

Okay, now I'll let you talk. If you want to talk about misleading, I guess you forgot about numerous conversations that we have which I could prove that conversations. You called me numerous times and you said you had a private donor and that you had it under wrap with with time to talk. Let me talk now. I'm answering what you said. You told me that we had the money and that if you couldn't get Ken Shyack to do it that you would pull the money from capital gains and improvements. So don't sit here and ever say that my park board or myself ever laid led any kind of community destroy. Be honest about what that conversation does. No, you're not. You just literally said that the park board led erroneous information. We were given the information by you which was what

after you put 30,000 in. We did not did not know. That's all we had to put in it. And you said the rest was going to be covered. It didn't after that. No, you sure did. Yes, you did. P. Did he say that? Yes, you did.

Thank you. Jeff and Pix were there for you being dishonest. If anybody Okay, we're going to move on from that because I have two older men that were there for that conversation as well. So, you absolutely did say that. Secondly, as far as what the posting goes on social media, it was in English layman terms. It was posted where it wanted to go and what other I could pull it up on my phone. And what else was wanted? They wanted the pickle ball court forks. It was 97% of those people wanted it on the side of the playground. The second part of that was what else they wanted to see. And it was by overwhelming basketball courts. In fact, my board never even wanted to push the basketball or the pickle ball courts for the majority. You said that it was going to be this straight thing and you had a donor and all that and that's why the board led to that decision. I have ex board members right here, three of them. So, we have four board members and they were also here for the conversations of you talking about having donors for that pickle ball court. So, don't ever sit here and tell me that I or my board misled the community.

When you done that budget, I did not have a donor. You told us you did. I've got budget. I got that later on. Well, you should be really careful here, right? Your honesty. Be honest, Cindy. You did the budget. I had no going. You should be really careful because you don't know what has been reported. Have a great day. Thank you, Cindy. Hi.

What Cindy was talking about the day that we did the budget, you spoke to me out in that hallway and told me you had a donor to cover the rest of the pickle ball court. Yes, you did. Thank you. Anyone else? Hey, I have a question. Was this all since the big giant playground piece of equipment that we bought and put or I didn't hear.

Has this all been since that big giant piece of playground equipment that you bought and put in? Yeah. Okay. And after we got that piece of playground equipment, we put a part where put a plan together, okay, to go around that. Okay. Now, I'm glad you brought that up cuz I had to break that tie in that new police playground equipment. And that is why we actually got a donation for the pickle ball court. That's how we got talking. They said we would have paid half that maybe, Kevin, but we can do something else. Wow. So, yeah, you can go back to our notes. And that was before the budget, right? Playground equipment before the budget. Uhhuh. Yeah.

But I did not talk to this guy until 68 down the road when he said that.

Anybody else? All right. Closing it. meeting of January 20th, 26. Have a motion to approve. Motion. Second. All in favor? Again. Exactly minutes of January 20th, 2026. Motion to approve. Second. All in favor? I thank you. Bills to be paid. Motion to pay the bill. Motion.

Second. Okay. Got anything? Anybody? All in favor?

Again? Guy warming center update. First of all, I want to say thank you to the city council for the people that donated time or donated other ways to help out the warming center. I also want to thank the police department for coming by checking on us two or three times a night for making sure that everything was safe and secure. I also want to know let know let me know that with the recline center being rented out on the weekends we had to go over to the VFW hall and I want to give a big thanks to Mr. Woods who donated the VFW hall to us at no charge so that we could so that we could have a place to take people and get them out of the cold. We was open 24 hours a day from January 22nd till February 1st around the clock. We had in that time people is paid overnight a total of 130 people for that whole time. That range anywhere from as low as seven to as high as 18. But the majority of them was all new faces. from last year there was only three faces that returned and two of them is elderly gentlemen that were in their 70s uh and they got in here and also I wanted you know we kept the center open we raised the temperature 25 because a lot of these people they might have a place but a lot of them don't have adequate heat or insulation in their places and 25 degrees you know people can still die there but the thing that I I know a lot of people that are wanting to to hear. Oh, before I get there, the the the the

citizens of Cuba and the businesses that donated food and stuff like that, I also want to give a big thanks to them. Without the donations, this warming center cannot operate. It's it's strictly all volunteers that run it. It's strictly all donations that take care of it. Now with that, like I said, we had 130 people that stayed on the night. Approximately, I can't be exactly, but in those 11 days, we serve approximately 600 meals to the people that come in to get something warm to eat. Now, with the warmer center dropping again, we're probably going to be opening again here and there periodically. and I'll get with the the city hall, make sure it's upgraded and stuff like that. But I just want to say thank you to everybody that chipped in one way or another to make this happen. But when we get down to about the approval of the bids of the EOC equipment, I need to come back up here and alert everybody of what's going on with the EOCC equipment. Yeah.

Is there any questions from anybody related to that picture? How much down time do you expect between moving from point A to point B to move the equipment? The way I was talking to the guy today, they could probably have it done in one day once we have a designated place to go to. If they're saying one day, I'm going to say probably two. Okay. So without services for a week? No. No. It be a couple days. And even without the services, we will have a manual way to set off the sirens if need be. Thank you. Were the sirens late today? Yes, they was. And I'll explain the reason why. I thought Yeah.

Yeah. I'll explain the reason why when we have the the about the equipment up here. Thank you.

Mayor's appointment to park board. I have one. President Torino Rice I'd like to appoint tonight. So I have a motion. Oh hold on now. The ter the term will expire May 1st, 2028. Do I have a motion? Motion. Have a second. Second. All in favor? I. Yes. No. Okay, Dave, new website update.

All right, so I believe it was last July, you guys approved to go out for a new city website to get rid of the old one, bring in a new one. The old one's a little not so much user friendly and it's kind of clunky and hard to navigate. Uh, so you guys approved a new website. Um, Jessica started talks with them in September and they said it'd be around 9 months and we're coming up on that 9 months now. But in December, Jessica brought me in to help her look the side and everything. Just keep it it'll run better with two of us that know what's going on rather than just relying on one person to be able to do all the updates. Uh so we have we've heard back from them. The site is all but done. Like the layout's there. Uh Jessica and I have both reviewed it. You know, it's user friendly. Everything's easy to look at and find all your information you want. So u we have some training coming up. Uh let's see. It is March 13th and 20th at 1 p.m. We'll each will have two sessions of 90 minutes a piece and for a total of 3 hours and that's where they'll teach us how to update the website with agendas, meeting minutes, uh calendar events updates like the the bicycle rallies, the hood park celebration on 911, stuff like that. So we'll be able to go on there and update. Um there are a few things that are out of date that they you know they pulled from the current website or uh like some uh there's some former employees that are on there that are no longer there. Jessica and I will be able to update all that once we get this training before the site goes live. So like we can view it internally now of what it'll look like. All the links were all the information is there. We'll just have to learn how to update it. We'll get all that done before it actually hits the public and at that time the uh the current site will be offline. So that's that's where we're at on that. Just want to give you guys an update so

you know where we're at. So expect some more stuff coming in March for training probably April space you guys can see. Move on to the propane bids. Thanks for

Yeah, no problem. I'm I wear a lot of hats. Uh let's see. the propane bids for the treatment plant. Um, when it drops below 20 25°, I have to burn a torch out there on one of my screens to keep it from freezing up. Um, several years ago, it froze up on us when the torch went out and we had like a 1 in sheet of ice, you know, 4 ft wide and just the length of the screen. Um, it was all froze up. So, we keep a torch burn when it drops below 20. Um, right now we just run on two like 100 lb cylinders. Um, and I have to worry about those going out over running out over a weekend. So like if I started on Friday, running all day Friday all weekend long when it's below 20° like he just mentioned the cold snap where he had the warming center open. Well, my torch is going when the warming center's open about the same temperature. Um, so I worry about running out. So, I try to keep the torch down just low enough to where I won't burn out all my fuel, but then the wind can blow it out. So, you know, my bar screen freezes up anyway. So, what I would like to do is get a like a 200galon propane tank out there to just sit there. That way, I don't have to worry about it running out over a weekend and I can burn the torch high enough to where the wind is going out. So, I'm just thinking I need to go out for bids. I think you guys always require three bids for stuff. So, I need to go out for bids for like a 200galon propane tank and and the cost of building.

Do I have a motion to go out for bids? Second. All in favor?

Okay. Next item is the UV system. Um, we had problems with it a lot last year and when I took over the plant in July of 24, uh, one of the first things on my list was UV system. Um, I wanted a brand new one, you know, to cuz this one hasn't been right since we put it in 2012. Um, but with the pending expansion coming from McBride, you know, we have to expand the plan anyway. Uh, we decided it was better to just try to fix this one and cuz we don't want to buy a brand new one now and then in a few years when we expand have to buy a new one that's bigger to accommodate the bigger plant. So, just piecing this one back together. And like I said, we had a lot of issues last year with our samples. Um, I just want to get it all running 100%. We had the manufacturer come down and do a site inspection. They went through with the fine tooth comb in October and we got a quote back from them. They told us, you know, here's what we need to do to fix it, but this should get you keep you out of trouble. You know, keep you in compliance. Um, so I've got a parts list and it comes up to $31,78 and that's all the parts. Um, we will still have to uh have another site visit from the manufacturer because there's two sensors on there that have to be down to the millimeter on their alignment. And the guy that I had helped me with the UV system, he said he works on treatment plants in Missouri and Illinois, all over. And he said he didn't want to mess with that. He said that's too precise. So, we need the manufacturer to come down and do that. And just to get them down here in October was like $5,100. So it would be that again on top of this just to get them down here to come and install the parts. Um so right now I just need permission to order the parts so I can get them coming here and get them here. We have to put the lights back in uh in operation April 1st according to permit.

Did you put that in the budget? Yeah, we have uh I put 50,000 in because I anticipated these problems. Um we put 50,000 in and minus the site inspection we had in October for $5,100. Uh, we've got 44,850 851 left in that. Um, so I want to use that to go ahead and order these parts. Like I said, I knew it was going to be expensive, so I put plenty in there. Motion to go ahead and order the in favor. Yes.

I'll just have to have you sign a meeting. I think that's all I've got. All right. Danny playground bid approved build by

I I had the bid. I think well I didn't actually get the bid. I told it was 2500. 2500. She really didn't have I don't have a bid. Jerry 2575. You got it. Yeah. That includes the parking lot draft filling and ceiling. How much was it again? 4575. $2575. Where is it from? Uh Diamond Limited did the pool. That's to fix the broken spots, too. Correct. Getting pretty bad.

Yeah. So, fill all the packs and see. We we we got to get that done. I don't think it's been done since it's been installed. And I don't know when it's put in what year. It's been several years. I saw some spots broken up. Yeah. On the back side. Yeah. If we don't get it down, we're going to lose it. Do I have a motion to accept this? Motion. Have a second. Second comments. Did you com Yes.

Since it was budgeted 25, we're at 2575 versus Yes. Howard. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. I'll get all be weathering obviously. Yeah. Just call them. Let know. Try to get it as soon as we can. Thank you. There really ain't been nothing done none of that park in years. I don't I don't know why there walking. While we're talking about that, how long is that bid for?

I'm sorry. How long is that bid? I don't know if it's on. Probably 30 days or I mean I don't know. I'm not an asphalt guy, but I don't know if laying that money can be frozen. involved and that kind of stuff would be a big thing. Within 30 days, we will be in our worship month in February. Do we just have to accept it within 30 days and then the work I got on the 14th? Sorry, got the bid on the 14th January 14th.

So, I can call him to see what, you know, if we're going to approve it, that's fine. But what's the time frame on this bid? If you can't do a weather say till March or April weather. My only thing is I I think that we need to do it, but I think we need to find out whether or not we can wait until we get out of February before we sign a contract with them or or approve because we have to do it within 30 days. That's not good. February is not a good

No, I I will call him and see how long this is good for and what time frames, you know, when he starts doing it because it's obviously I'll check with him and see what he says about how long this is for doing it spring. So, can we table this until we get the answer? No, we'll let you handle it. We got to get this done. That guy's going to know if we can do it or not. I don't think if we got to wait a couple months, fine. I got you. I'll just check. I'm okay with it. I just want to make sure we don't have I'll get a hold of it and see what he said about it and get back with you. Thank you. In your hand, you're right.

All right. NASA gas department material bid for Solar Ridge development. You guys have it. Matts brought this to me. I kind of made a breakdown here to show you exactly how much is being he's requesting from each location.

So there's a bid from Bremer and then one from Food's Gas Measurements. and he said okay he said that this does not include the pipe or tracer wire for the first phase as we already have plenty to do both. Um so the total he is requesting between these two bids is 45,65098 bit. Yep. I today good. So I have a motion. We got to do each one. I would refer to Yes. Okay. First one. Which one?

Grab what? Remember the total is 14,9558. All right. Do I have a motion for the 14,95548? Motion. Got a second. Second. All in favor? Again.

The second one is the gas measurement company. Motion the crew gas measurement for uh 30,69550. Motion. Have a second. Second. All in favor again. You have anything out? That was it.

T move the T the EOC.

I need a motion to go off for biz. I need to bring something up quick before we do that. U in answer to your question earlier, Mr. Yes. Uh it's been a couple weeks since I've been over to the office cuz I've been at the boarding center running. You know what office?

And got over there today. The computer was acting up. I got on the horn with the security company. We did some checks and everything like that. We was able to get the sirens to go off manually, but the computer system itself is down. So, but the sirens are set up manually. So, if I didn't want it on my phone, I can still set anything off. But with that being said, they're checking to see if the computer system is under warranty or not. So, waiting on a call back from uh the security company to let us know if that computer is under warranty or not. So, we might have excuse me, we might have a hiccup there. I don't know how much that's going to cost anything of that nature. And with this silo bridge development, I don't know exactly where the sirens are located at. I don't have a Mac, but I've been thinking about this and we might need to get with them and see about doing a sound test to make sure that the sirens can be heard where silo is going to be to be safe.

And we did a sound test once for town, but yeah, that's on our You're getting ready to add. I know what you're saying. So, that's something else that we might need to consider, too.

Yeah. cuz they I heard him moved a couple of sirens over the years and stuff like that. So I don't know if he'll be heard out that far or not. So we might need to give them about that. So this is something it's not just going to be a simple one phase thing. We can do it in several phases, but first thing we got to do is get the computer system up and going. And I've done I've done asked him to give me a bid when I was on the phone with him today about how much it would cost to move the equipment to whenever we designate a spot. So, I'm waiting for him to give me a bid back on that cuz I knew y'all was going to be asking about that. And then he's supposed to see if he can find the siren map, send it to me so I can see how far it reaches to know if we need to do another sound test or not. As soon as I get all that information, I will pass it on to the city council for them to look at. But yes, we do still need need still need to take bids for moving the equipment, the computers and stuff we can move. What we got to worry about is the antenna and the dish and getting a backax to the bike satellite to make sure we get good communication for all that. And that's where the bid is going to be for.

You might be wondering about the generator. Yes. Yeah. But the I guess your electric figure that out too. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I just would that we have motion. I make a motion. I got a second. Are we going to have to wait till budget time for this?

So is so according to Jennifer today in the EOC budget there is 1,500 in there right now. Um and she said that all we could do right now is wait to see what the bid came in to move the equipment. As far as the extras, I didn't ask for budget time. Well, it don't hurt if we go out with bids. Advertising is going to come out of that $1,500 and the computer could be coming out here. This computer, you're saying it's not working right now.

It's not working at all. It's not working at all. They're pretty sure by the testing things. I was on the phone with them about a half hour before I set the alarms off, about another 15, 20 minutes afterwards just to get the alarm going, the sire going. Uh, that I'm pretty sure that the computer itself is I I I'm going to make a recommendation that we hold off till we find out about the computer and then uh go from there. Except we got to buy a computer. Yeah. I don't know if that's what he could tell me off the top and see it.

Yeah. And if you need that mess cleaned up over there out of your side, we'll get that cleaned out so you can work there until I mean I don't like said, you know, like I said, God forbid if there ever a full emergency, I got to have a command center. So, I I'm going to say that we need to we need to get his side of that building cleaned out so he can use it until we do figure out what we're doing and we hold off on going out for these this until we find out about the computer. That would be my suggestion. Well, that computer is not going to affect our business moving that that antenna over there. It will if we got to spend the money for a computer.

We may have to no matter what. What I'm saying, I think go out bid at least we get in the budget. got an idea if we look at them and say, "Okay, you know what I'm saying? We as well know what to put in our budget here next month or two if we got to wait that long." That's up to you all though. It ain't going to take that long to find out if we can hear that, Kevin. It'll be a couple weeks before they get here. Yeah. It's going to be a couple weeks before they get here. What you got to consider,

we can still go off of this. But what you also got to consider is right now the only alert we've got is what I got on my phone if something comes up. If my alarm if my phone did not alert me if there bad weather or something I can't set the sirens off. So you got to look at that too. Have you gotten with the better? Have you gotten with the Crawford County Emergency people to see if they will notify you if anything's they will notify you, but they're getting a new EOC too. And you'll start the first of next month. So, it's going to be probably going back to square one again. I talked to the new guy. Yeah. Mr. Wilson. Yeah.

Yeah. And you know, so you know, there's going to be some hiccups. So, I just want to make everybody aware that, you know, god forbid, and I didn't mean god forbid, but you know, things can happen. So, we just got to be prepared. There's an alternative to that, too. Doug, you uh you guys are supposed to be trained on looking for disers. Officers can be trained as weather spotters, but it's mainly through the weather weather channels that contact our communication devices. And you have there's another

Yeah, like I said, we've got a backup, but I and I get what you're saying about the computer. I totally get it. But at the same time, we got to we don't want to put this off for one month, two months, four months, and then we're still trying. Then we're playing catchup when we get the flood season, tornado season coming in. So, I mean, I gave you a 10. You got to buy some budget. I really, but everything's working over here if we get the computer up and going. Yeah. So, as far as I know, putting it off a few months, finding out about that computer in a couple weeks,

we're better off. I'm going to come to this. What if that computer and I'm just going to say what if that computer says $3,000? That's not in the budget. Then what do we do? Then we're going to have to go to Jennifer and get her to find the money for it. But what about what about like you agree with that about that going to be for that student? So hey the EOC that's an important thing we're at your mercy on that. You know we've kind of we've drugg our feet already. We were supposed to have it open by this year. We drug our feet already. We're at your mercy the EOC. That's an important deal. So but I would suggest getting all that's just me whether we do the tourism.

I think God forbid move to buy computer anyway no matter what. Yeah. No, I mean if it's bad in the button and surely you can appropriate that somewhere. It's super important. Do you mind sharing your name? Oh yeah. My name is Ryan Meiser. I have a Missouri barbecue here in Cuba. I'm on the tourism board. I'm just very I'm just very advocate about Route 66 and the success that it brings to my business and to the town of Cuba. So I start the ball cuz you know I mean we got to buy computer. We got to buy computer. If we don't we don't. Like he said we can't drag our feet in that two or three months. What tourism aside, like you're that's important, especially tornado season coming up, springtime. You got to get that rolling.

That computer's not going to stop getting bids moving out. All right. What do you want to do? We got a motion second, I think, to get bids. Are you guys going to draw that or keep it and vote? I I only have a motion. We got first. I did not get it. I think we need to go ahead and go after this. He's right. We ain't working our feet. start feeding them then nothing gets done. It's just part of God's We need a second. That second cuz we're going to have to buy the computer anyway.

We don't move. We have to get that fixed. Okay. So, let me clarify. Are we going out for bids to move the equipment only or the computer the whole shebang? I would do Oh, I'm sorry. It's not my How would you do it? I would do the whole thing. I would do the bids, get the computer fixed and moved all one fell swoop. I know. I just like I said, I might be wrong. It's just you got to make a motion. What? I said we would have to find out about the money before we can make the the motion for the computer. A bid's a bid. cuz we ain't got the money that Emily the computer is not on the

You got to stick to the agenda. The agenda is only approval to advertise for bids to move the equipment first. No.

No. And only I'll caveat that but no only because we Yes. Did you call my name? Yes. All right.

Tourist committee park bicycle Missouri event 66 100 anniversary $5,000 sponsorship. So, at the last meeting, um, you guys approved for them to you to have the event to have it open park. Um, there was another portion within that memo and it was the a sponsorship of $5,000. They've done it the last couple years. I think I the last two maybe for sure. Anyways, there was no clarification and there was no motion for the sponsorship. So, that was in the original request. And did Jennifer say that? Jennifer said there is money. Then I make a motion that we do that.

All in favor? I against department. Okay. I talked to you about this. I don't about this. So, when Andy was adding up the material bids at the last meeting, he had a lot going on trying to get it done, but um he left out one and it's a wire. I don't really know, but it was for $12,625 and that amount is not included in the amounts from the last meeting. So, he's basically

basically he just needs to add this to it. Yes. And this bid is from Annexer. Annex West. I have a motion to accept it. Motion second. All in favor again. We close the control bid. I thought we did that one. No. So they changed the project the last meeting. This is the parts for the project and the bid in your packet is for $9,05 that he said he needs two. So that makes it $18,10 from Fletcher Reinhardt.

I have a motion to approve that. Motion second. All in favor again. Thank you for it. Um, I don't have anything. The weather is cold. Sidewalks are covered. How about the plane down here on 66?

I've contacted them. I thought I told you that last week. They're just I mean with weather, they're not going to get that done. But yeah, she's She's aware and she's going to get tak. So, we're we're going to give her some more time and then make sure that it does get cleaned up for sure. Oh, I got quite anybody else. Now, we got bill number 2207. Motion to have the third reading of bill number 2207. Second. Have

a second. All in favor? I two sentences. I can do it. An ordinance approving a bid by Brown's Tree and Bucket Service for tree trimming in the city of Cubis power lines off of Park Streets. Park Street motion to approve the first reading. Motion a second. Second profile. Yes. Yes. Halbert. Yes. Hugan. Yes. Yes. Motion to have the second reading. Got a second. Second. All in favor?

Hey, Lane. An ordinance approving a bid by Browns Tree and Bucket Service for tree trimming in the city of Cuba's power lines off Park Street. Motion to approve the second reading. Second. Roll call vote. Bass. Yes. Hugan. Yes. Hberts. Yes. Yes. Herza. Yes. Bill number 2207 becomes 956 on this third day of February 2026. Oh, unfinished business. Mr. P.

Yeah. I just want to say to the citizens, if you're not registered to vote, get out, get yourself registered, and vote in April. Mad House. Um, so I just cl I was asked to clarify the next park board meeting. Um, it's actually February 10th, 2026 at 6:30. Apparently our calendar is up here.

Okay. Um, apparently the calendars that are sticking up here are still 2025. So to clarify, the park board meeting is February 10th, 6:30. Yes. I have nothing.