Council - Regular Meeting

To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the same here. Halbert here. Hugan here. Okay, we have to agenda to approve her. I have a motion motion. All

in favor spacing. Anybody like to come up? Come on up, Danny.

Well, first I'd like to thank Jessica for saving our video from the last meeting. I understand she somehow worked digital magic and got it restored so we're able to go and see it. And I have watched it and rewatched it and each time I feel a little more ill at ease. I don't know if it comes from watching the mayor's treatment of city employee, who at least arguably might be considered his subordinate, or if it comes from watching him let Jennifer take the heat for what he did. To remind you of what happened at the last meeting, Alderman Musain stated that no one at the city council or mayor could instruct Jennifer to make a transfer from one account to the other in the city's accounting system. None of the alderman or the mayor disagreed with him. He then noted the entire council and the mayor were present and simply asked who told Jennifer to make the transfer. The other five aldermen did not speak. It was the mayor who broke the silence. He stated, "I didn't do it, but I'll say I did. That makes everything good. I will take the blame." Those of us who regularly attend these meetings are all too familiar with the mayor's newfound Marlinike behavior. I believe that meeting was the third time in his many months that he proclaimed his willingness to take the blame for something even as he simultaneously claimed he didn't do it. It is insincere. It is unconvincing. It is tiresome. But that's not what disturbed me about the video. I don't think I've ever seen a grown man put a woman into a virtually indefensible position and then sit back and watch her twist in the wind while when his misbehavior becomes public knowledge. So, I will get straight to the point. Mr. Mayor, everybody suspects it was you who told Jennifer to make the transfer. You were the only one on June

3rd who wanted the transfer to be made. You obviously expected to benefit from it in some way. Jennifer not only did not benefit but has suffered public embarrassment and humiliation because of your misbehavior. So my question is simple and I think all the men in here can take heed. Will you continue to hide behind Jennifer and throw her under the bus to protect yourself? or is there some place deep inside that's still man enough to stand up and really actually take responsibility for your actions? Thank you.

Anyone else? Good evening, mayor and members of the council. I just wanted to take a few minutes tonight to share a quick update and say thank you. First, I would like to extend a sincere thank you to the city's electric department for the work they recently completed inside the concession stand at the park. The improve improvements they made help ensure the building is safe for our volunteers and families to use this season, and we truly appreciate the time and effort they put into getting that taken care of. I would also like to recognize several members of our community who volunteered their time over the past two weekends to help improve the concession statement. We have had individuals donate their time and labor to install cabinets, countertops, move shelving, power wash, stand, and paint the interior and help us organize the space so it can function more efficiently. We still have a few things left to finish, but the transformation has already been incredible. I'm very thankful for the people who showed up ready to work and collaborate to make that space better than ever. Their willingness to step in and improve a community facility really speaks to the kind of community we have here. I'm also excited to share a quick update on Copper County football. We officially closed our spring flag football registration on Saturday with 165 children registered to play. Since then, we've added four more, bringing our total to 169 kids participating in our very first season. We also have 20 24 volunteers who have stepped up to coach and we couldn't be more grateful for those individuals who are dedicating their time and energy to help make this season a great experience for these kids. In addition, 19 businesses and individuals have stepped forward as paid sponsors for our first season and we would like to thank them for trusting and believing in our mission. We are proud how far this program has come in such a short amount of time and we are incredibly thankful for the support

we've received from this community. We would like to thank everyone, sorry, we would like to invite everyone to come out and help us kick off this season on March 20th at Hood Park. Games will begin at 600 p.m. and will continue throughout the evening. We hope to see many members of the community there, showing their support for the youth in our town. At the end of the day, this isn't just about football. It's about giving our kids a space to belong, a place to grow, and a community that shows up for them. And we're proud to be a part of building that right here. Anyone else?

All right. Good evening. I'd like to bring some matters to your attention, the city council's attention specifically, and actually would like resolution for these matters. Time after time, things are being brought to the council's attention of severity of issues being heard, but no resolution or no accountability of ever follow through. To bring specifically to your attention, I believe the date was January 23rd, 2026 and February 20th, 2026. Those are the court dates that Alderwoman Herzel made happen by erroneous claims against the cost the taxpayers money. It cost citizens money and due to her signing the erroneous claims of the exparte against Dan Edson stating alderwoman Herzel it brought the city's to li liable claims. I will ask the city, do they plan on paying for the citizens gas money having to go to these court dates, the time off work for these citizens having to go to these court dates? And and Edson's subpoena fees for these court dates. These claims were unsubstantiated by the court and in fact during trial after the testimony of Alderwoman Hartzol's witnesses was ceased immediately by the judge in the matter and thrown out of court not even needing to hear the rest of the testimony from it. Due to that, there's been no public apology from the city to everybody involved by this. The city's watching, the community is watching. And these things are important when you try to take somebody's freedom

away. And when they think he is a running mate of an opposed position. So reimbursement should happen due to that for these people having to take time off work and have to being at the disposal of the court because of these erroneous and fictitious claims. On that date things were dismissed and there's been no conclusion after that. So I I asked when are we going to start the impeachment process for Alderwood Park because of that? when you go to make claims against community members that you say to uphold and work for the community and you do that to community members that is not just wrong and degrading it's immorality and it should not be tolerated so I ask that if these were unsubstantiated by the court why is no action been done by council conclusion of that will be at the um council's discretion Again, the community is watching on how things are handled. That's not okay. Would it be okay if any of it happened to you fictitiously or any of the people here fictitiously? Um, second matter is the clicker. That's another issue that there's no resolution on. The flag football has started. They have not received the clicker of the operating scoreboard. That is fixated to the ground of that park. that has been weeks with no answers and they are actively in the season. The park board um and the park board committee are not getting the correct information to you guys on the agenda. As the derby people are here, I will tell you I was at the meetings and only partial things were getting to you. It's imperative that the park and rec board and the committee make sure to get the

appropriate things to council where everything is on there. And lastly, I brought this up at the beginning of February for the same date as the um meet the candidates night is for the park board night next Tuesday. I used to be your park board president. I was on that park board for several years. There's no reason that parkour date cannot be rescheduled for community members for both entities to be able to attend. To have to keep asking for that and it just not be done is very questionable and to the extent of why that's all I have. [clears throat]

Anyone else? Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Thank you for allowing me to speak. For the record, my name is Dan Edson, 505 Kidwell Drive here in Cuba. I'm actually taken back, but I don't have any. Congratulations on my recent court win. I already congratulated you. Oh, you did. I lost two days. You did. Thank you. [clears throat] The internet, too, didn't you, Jeff? What's that? You put an article on Facebook about it, didn't you? You're warm.

Uh, I'd like to address uh Mr. I'd like to address an issue that that we're seeing pop up here a little bit here. Um, a while back, Mr. Null Hendricks was lubed out to a soccer field uh by some people. Matter of fact, they were element and and uh council members. Uh, and he was verbally attacked by one of your aldermen. uh degraded, downplayed, downplayed. It it it was uncalled for and I've said something about it before. We kind of let it go because I felt it was just some type of a personality conflict, but we've seen it happen again. Uh this individual has lured somebody in with the promise of of helping their particular program out. Uh and requesting lists of stuff that he could help with and then verbally attacked him and degraded her. Verbally attacked her and degraded her uh for her choices and who she's supporting and what not. Um getting kind of tired of it. I really am. Uh, it's going to stop. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Anyone else? Getting that. Moving on. All right. the special meeting minutes of February 17th, 2026. I have a motive approved.

Motion second. All in favor? Yes. M October 17, 2026. Have a motion. Motion. All in favor? Excess October 17, 2026. Have a motion. Motion second. All in favor? Yes. [clears throat] Bills to be paid. Any questions on that? I have a motion.

All in favor? against street department retirement. Come on out.

Not as good as you are. So, Bill, you're retiring on us, huh? Yep. What day? Uh, March 15th. March 15th. Yeah. And do you have do you have anybody you of 2029 2026?

I guess you're [clears throat] do you have somebody that comes up in your place, I guess. Well, Allan's been working with me real close to hopefully take over, you know, so he'd be the next one. He's been there for 20 or 18 years, I think. Well, as as the street committee member, I would make a motion to promote Allen to the supervisor's position and save money from doing all this posting and crap.

Move up to the supervisor's position and post for the what do Can we just post in the house though? Why do we Why can't we do that? Well, that's not proper hiring procedure. So, in case that just make a motion to post it. No. Can we make a motion to post it in house for a week? Well, you could post it internally. See if you get see if you get qualified applicants. Do we have to do we have to advertise it in local paper for a position? No, go inhouse only. Well,

I think you need you need to do it both ways. You need to do it in house, but publish it if you I think you have preference for qualified candidates of the city. There's no reason you can't consider them, but I think you need to go ahead and publish it. We just went through this with the natural gas and forced it out. We did have this few months ago. I don't mean we can't do it in house, right? But you need to open it up. I figured we'd go in house first. If nobody wanted it, then we could go outside. I publish it. Can we do it for just one week?

Well, then let's do it the way we always do, you know. Isn't this the only department we have an assistant supervisor in? Unless you got one electric. No, I say follow turns by got you need to follow the same procedure you've always followed. You should not deviate from. All right. So if you want to make a motion, do we need to go out for an assistant supervisor position though? Do we need an assistant supervisor?

It's always been with five employees if there was no assistance. So you're going to end up if you do that, you're going to end up going on down to a laborer. Okay? So you're going to need three positions there to get it done, right? So Can you make him Can we do all of that together so that he doesn't supervisor? Why in the hell do we have that until it's pay scale if we can't promote within? We can still promote within.

So you have a supervisor and assistant supervisor. Is there another position? Well, if you take if you would take two from from the inside. Yeah. The ones that are coming up, then you're going to end up with one empty labor. Okay. That's I don't But I don't I don't think you can do that until you've promoted from within yet. You don't know that until you do that. I think you have to start with supervisor first and then keep going and going and going get there till you get there. It's a long process.

Unfortunately, I think we passed over here. I make a motion we accept his resation. Retirement. We need to make that motion. I have a second. Effective March 15th. I got second. All in favor? No. We're going to be in trouble. There we are. More than I wish you a happy retirement.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's [applause] get on to I make a motion we post it in within and in the paper I second it just the supervisor position start off right do we have to post two weeks can we do one what do you normally We're going to normally do two weeks. We're going two weeks, but it's going to Oh, this is the wrong calendar. And you're starting supervisor. Look up there and tell me what two weeks is.

Motion. We have a first and second. All favor. Thank you, Arthur engineer. Where's he at? Arthur engineer. I don't get retired.

No, you don't get retired. You're a little accept. Thank you, mayor. I'm here tonight to report on a few of our unknown projects um and then also to make some draft recommendations for the water and sewer rates that we've talked about over the last several months. So, first thing on the list is just a quick update on project at Tangle Creek Park. So, the pickle ball court, as you know, they're under construction. Um, the main playing courts have been placed. Um, whether depending they plan to install fence either this week or next week. And then there's some like concrete ribbons around the perimeter of those courts that needs needs to be poured. Um, and then after that, once the 28 day curing period is is completed, they'll they'll want to paint and stripe the courts. um and then do kind of the final touchup along around the perimeter of the site. So, um we're looking at project turnover within the month, assuming that the weather behaves. Um so, in time for for folks to to use those courts this spring, if you'd like to schedule or something, I would say sometime, you know, in April would be a good time to do that. So, um the only action item I think I need from the city, um we've yet to select the court colors. And I'm color blind, so I'm certainly not qualified to do that.

Suggested that we at least bring this to your attention here tonight. Um there's only several just a few standard colors to choose from for the paint manufacturer that we're using. So those are on the top of the page. Um I think around the country, the majority of the courts you see are either are either blue or green. um showed a couple examples there um of kind of the interior court paint options as well as what what folks have done around the outside of the playing area. Um you can make that decision tonight. You can collectively, you know, come back to me later. We just probably need to make that decision within the next two weeks. Can we let the parkour pick this color out? That would be fine. I can send you this by email and they can make I would like to keep the parkour more involved, you know.

Sure. No, that would be fine. And then we That'd be fine. I think um so that 28 day hearing period is up um two weeks from today I think. So they can't apply that paper till till after the 17th. So if you had that decision made you know by this next meeting or at the next week's park meeting you'll just inform me what that is. contour. Anybody here?

So, I can send this to Lenny electronically and if you can forward that be great. Okay, any questions on on that particular drive? How far out are they from doing the paint versus the fencing? Uh, the fencing I think can go up anytime. That's the next step. So the plan is to sink the sink all the fence posts. They'll come back and pour their rib in the concrete, finish the finish the paint, then a strip in seed and straw and they're done. So um like I said, I think within the next 30 days they should have everything wrapped up and issue a final request for abandonment on that project. [clears throat]

Uh should have a normal 12 month contractor warranty from substantial completion for that would be for you know materials workmanship and then I believe the paint has an extended manufacturer's warranty that we want to make sure we get the paperwork on and make sure you get a copy of that. Any camera? Mhm. So, are they are they bringing in top soil and uh seeding? I need to run the contract and make sure I was thinking we excluded they were responsible for the grading, but I think the city Okay. bringing in top soil, I believe. I'll double check that because I know we had that conversation before you did.

Uh any other questions on the court project? All right. Uh, next thing I want to talk about, get down in the weeds a little bit on the water and sewer rate analysis. So, we've done a lot of work over the last few months. Um, I've had some coordination meetings with your mun new municipal adviser. Obviously, you heard his presentation last month. um we've used some of those um debt service schedules and some of that financing information to kind of build some different scenarios um in order to make re recommendations on on your water and sewer rates. Um so just a real quick summary of our what we set out to accomplish as part of this this task order. So we looked at your current user rates relative to um your budget expenses the last few years. Um we've gone through some different scenarios trying to conservatively estimate what your population growth could look like over over the course of the next 10 years. Um we've compiled a list of of potential improvements with all the utility supervisors and kind of built some big picture cost estimates for improvements needed in the system both repairs and replacement of some existing aging infrastructure and also what might need to be done should the city continue to grow and the development um you know be successful and eventually fill in all phases of what's been submitted. So, we've we've looked at that. Um, and then we've also looked at um some different financing alternatives and we've talked about some grant funding alternatives for some of the future phases as well. So, just a quick reminder on on item three there based on what Northland presented to you in in the meeting in February, we're looking at at at moving through um capital improvements or major infrastructure improvements kind of in a phase approach. Um the first phase um relative to McBride's first phase is being paid for out of current city funds, but you do have a resolution that allow you to reimburse yourself should

you you know proceed with with funding for phase two. Um so phases one and two together we're estimating somewhere just just shy of $2 million somewhere between a million and a half and $2 million. So the debt service estimates that he provided you were for a for a loan initial loan of about 1.8 million. um phase three, which is kind of those long term longer term improvements um for some sewer treatment plant upgrades and also some water system upgrades. We're calling that kind of a five to 10 year plan. It's worth $5 million. And then phase four would be, you know, well beyond that. Those are very round numbers, but that assumes that you have continued growth with the the full development that's that's on the docket as well as other commercial industrial as well. Can I ask you a question on that?

Sure. when they do the war upgrade. Is there a possibility we get off the bleach or not?

Uh so that is an issue in and of itself. So you right now are voluntarily chlorinating. It's allowed you to do that um because you're not mandated to do it yet. You can do it a more economical in a more econom economical manner than if mandated did it. So if you would choose to as a council come off of chlorine and you have any bad samples show up over period of time, they will then force you to do it and then you have to build build it out to to to their specifications. So we had run some numbers. Um the cost to do that could be up to like $150,000 per well to install permanent chlorination in order to meet ENR standards where um you know right now you're doing it a lot more economically. So, I would highly advise against it. But in theory, um, if you continue to make improvements to the water system and you have a high level of confidence that you you know where those sources might have been that were causing problems before, I mean, by all rights, the council could make that decision. Just know that you would be taking that risk back in. So, I would say it's highly unlikely, but it is possible. Yeah. [cough] [clears throat] So, um just real quickly if you go to the second page, wanted to talk through what some of our assumptions were as we built the cost estimates um related to these to these rate recommendations. So, um as you know, you have a a fairly large base of industrial um users and commercial users in town. um in order to not um what we didn't want to do is take for granted that even if the residential population grows that that commercial industrial population would necessarily grow um at the same pace. So we converted your industrial baseline to a equivalent number of residential customers for the purpose of this these cost estimates. So what that does it

insulates you a little bit from from u counting on that compounded growth between residential and commercial. So what we're showing you for for growth and what that additional revenue would be would be purely for for population growth from a residential standpoint. It does not account for that additional commercial and industrial growth. So you know in a perfect world you bring more rooftops to town, you get more commercial users, you you bring in more industry, your your your financial position for these utilities only gets better than what I'm showing you here. But we didn't want to count on that being the case. So, um, as of right now, we've we we are only counting on kind of those additional residential customers and not building additional commercial into these into these rate estimates. Um, we've looked at some kind of immediate rate increases, you know, larger rate increases, but you know, one or two time increases versus kind of more of a steep rate increase over years. I think the consensus is if we can keep that to kind of a minimum and come up with more of a long-term plan of of some incremental increases that don't have so much sticker shop that that's probably better for your your citizens, your fan customers. So, um when we get to that point, you'll you'll see how we're we're proposing to do that. Um what we did here was just try to make sure that the adjusted rates covered the projected debt service payments that Northland has estimated for you based on the phasing. So, the one And I want to just make sure it's understood here. Um, you know, that's kind of our road map of how we would foresee things progressing over the years. That does not require you to borrow money at any certain period of time. What we wanted to do is make sure we had a reasonable way to increase your res revenue to a point where you can make the payments when the time comes. So, um, if this development doesn't happen as quickly, your financial situation improves, um, you know, you can pay as you go. you can use this additional revenue to chip away at it instead of borrowing that money. Um,

but ultimately we wanted to make sure that if we're helping you plan and we think we have that that looming debt out there, we wanted to make sure we could get to a spot where you can pay for it without having to rob from, you know, the existing water or sewer funds or even worse having to rob a general fund. So that was our assumption there. Um, we looked at several different um years of of budgets and also looked at kind of some of your similar um similar systems in other towns. Um, these these revenue projections or these rate projections assume about 60 cents of every dollar gets reinvested in the system and you have about 40 cents on the dollar what's collected to actually either do improvements or to make those cuts or payments. So, um, you know, ultimately your system gets larger. You end up having more people. You end up having more equipment. You have more repairs. So, not every dollar you collect goes into the coffers. You know, a good portion of that goes back out. So, I think that's a pretty conservative assumption, but you certainly wanted to point that out today. Um, the other thing just kind of you might find interesting. So, what we try to do is not overcommit to a certain amount of development in the in the short term. So what we've done is assume about 49 new residential customers by the year 2029. So that would equate to about um 10 new residences you know outside of the Mcgard subdivision and about you know basically that first phase completely fill in in the next three years. So I think the developers projections show that happening a little coming in any sooner than that. So that's what these are based on. If I'm reading this right,

the average use is going to go up 379.

That would be in the first years. Yes. So So basically what we what we assume is the first phase builds out by 2029. The whole subdivision takes another 10 years past that to to build out which I think if it's successful probably it makes sense. Um, so if you look down, this is a a very complicated spreadsheet that we built, but I kind of took a snapshot of of what we're what we what we think we would like to see um in order to cover those debt service payments, what you would need to raise your a your rates for your average water and sewer user. So we we tabulated several years worth of data. Your average you residential user uses about 3,700 gallons of water a month. Um, so for that 3,700 g gallon a month user, um, you know, right now their water and sewer bill combined is a little over $54. U, what we're looking at is is trying to raise those rates over the course of the next six to seven years by about 7% a year. So that would equate to a combined monthly increase of $3.79.

Yeah. So that would be for water and sewer combined. You would you would raise that combined sewer bill by just a little under $4 a month. And that that pace would continue um based on those projections that we reviewed with Portland last month. Um that pace would need to continue um until your existing SRF loan is paid off and then you know through the time when your your third phase debt service kicks in. So sometime around 2032 2033 uh it appears you could you could assuming that there is a little bit of growth in town um you know you could you could theoretically pause cause pause your rate increases at that point and then that additional population growth as it fills in would would continue to pay your bills and you wouldn't have to you wouldn't have to continue to raise raise rates. So um we could look at water and sewer separately. Your rates are pretty complimentary of each other. Uh it seems like, you know, the cleanest way to the cleanest way I would propose you to to um to do this would be to pass an ordinance that has an annual um rate increase of like 7%. You could call it 6 and a half. You could call it six. You could call it eight, but I think about 7% feels right based on the numbers that we've we've seen. Um and then, you know, basically that goes into effect at a certain date every year unless council takes other action on it. So that doesn't force you to have this conversation. It doesn't keep you from having this conversation every year, but it doesn't force you to have it every year. It does look like you need to do this for, you know, for several years until you can catch yourself up, you know, water and sewer.

When's the last time we had it? Uh, it's been 2014, I think, for one utility and and back then they should raise 2% and we never done it. So,

yeah. And what you've seen, too, I mean, just inflation has affected everything. has affected your materials, it's affected labor, it's affected, you know, diesel fuel over the last 10 or 15 years. So, you know, 7% I mean seems like a pretty large number, but you're also chasing inflation in that, too. So, it's not a it's not a tremendous increase year-over-year. What that would allow you to do is get to a point where um you know, your your funds are solid. You're able to do um emergency projects out of it. You're not having to continually try to find money whenever you have needs. Um, and you can also, you know, as as these larger projects come into focus and we know what year those are going to hit, you'll have rates where they need to be in order to make that debt service. It'll make u financing easier. I mean, I think you it avoids you having to do a massive rate increase at a later date. Um, it also um it also will put you when the when the time comes to do some of those larger projects, it might put you in a better position to pursue grants and some other low interest loans and things that require you to rates set at a certain percentage of median household income. So

our plan goes to 20 30. Yep. I like that. We got to keep that,

right? And so that basically allows you to kind of bring on what we're calling phases one and two and also being prepared to finance for that bigger phase three which includes some improvements in the treatment plant. Once again, those aren't improvements that you have to do if this if the city doesn't grow populationwise, but you do need to be financially prepared to do. Um, the other thing I would say there is even if you decide not to pursue that that large massive wastewater treatment plant as a as a finance project, you know, these these rate increases could help you put you in a position to to even do some equipment replacement and things in phases that I mean, right now you just don't have the cash flow to consider doing those kind of things. So, um you do have a pretty large project out there at some point just to replace the equipment. Even if you were going to go out and replace it one for one, it's aging. It's toward the end of its life. You know, in a perfect world, if we bring on some additional population, we need to upset some of that equipment. You'll get more bang for your buck that way. But that plant can't function forever without some attention. So, this allows you the ability to, you know, take care of your existing infrastructure, take care of your existing users. Um, and then it also kind of plants for some incremental growth from

and this bra if we needed a new water power out there at McBride that would we've included that in those in those long-term projections. So, we don't know exactly where that falls. I mean, we we think that's probably in the 5 to 10 year range. Um, but we definitely want to make sure when the time comes you have you have the ability to borrow that money and make the make the payment on that if we have to project. Cameron, didn't you say that we could probably get some grants to help with this, too, after our audits are up to date?

Yes. So, um, you know, DNR has a a facility planning grant that we intend to pursue. Um, and we know we're kind of we're pre-qualified by the city of Cuba. It's first come first- serve grant program, but the DNR has already said we're the city's eligible, but they have to see, you know, they have to see audits up to date before they'll actually enter into contract with you. But that's a $50,000 engineering report grant that's 80% funded through DNR. So, um, that's a great place to start. we, you know, we we kind of know where the threshold is, where you're over capacity at the plant, but that grant would allow us to do some of that planning and cost estimating and all the things you need to do to have that project on the shelf and ready to go. Um, so yes, there's that and there's others, but I think we would want to um we would want to pursue as many different grant opportunities as we can over the coming years. So, your recommendation is for us to make a recommendation to bring our prices up tonight and then do a city arms on it.

Yeah, I think you would have to you would in order to change the rates, it'll have to be an ordinance. So, I would work with you over the next few weeks to work out those details, but approximately 7% increase year-over-year for both utilities. Um, and if we want to just say that annually and it's reviewable by council annually, um, I think that's fine. But we we are projecting that you need to do that at least through um, if you go ahead and raise them in 2026, we would say you need to do that through 2032. Um, so it's you're somewhere in the seven year range, six to seven years that you would need to do that.

So So you're asking for a motion tonight to approve the rate, right? I would I would I think the way I would I mean it's kind of a confusing issue but I think I would say um that if the consensus is to to proceed with a developing an ordinance that increases the the water and sewer rates by annually by 7%. I think that's what we're recommending that we do. You just said 7% for both by 7%. But you mean 7% combined or you talking about it's I it works out the same either way. 7% combined.

Yes. So yes, 7%. 7% each I guess I should say. So that mean that works out 7% combined. Do I have a motion of any kind?

Are we going to make a motion now? It's just on for discussion about the study tonight. It's not on for anybody. So we can send this at least some of these projections to to Emily and kind of talk through what that looks like because you know you have different you have different billable you have a a minimum monthly fee and then you have you have a per thousand gallon fees. So we can look at what that looks like and try to come up with a chart that makes it really easy to do that year. Yep.

Any other questions? Thanks. Thank you.

Number seven. Moving on. Connie, go ahead. Good evening. I live at 1002 West Washington here in Cuba. That is just on the corner of Henderson and Washington. Henderson Street has been closed for many years and we use it as a drive. And I was told by a previous uh councilman to come to you and ask um if you're not going to open that as a street, can that be transferred to Michelle and I and well the owners of the properties that that street is beside. So that would be Michelle myself on my end. I'm not sure who owns the other property. It's the city owns the other part because the will is there but um So, that's what I'm going to ask you is if you would be willing to transfer that property over to us or if we could buy it or what needs to be done.

We we've done that before. Yes. Here we go. I'm going to make a motion to vacate it and transfer ownership. Yeah, we've done that before. Have a second on that. You got a specific process. I believe you're going to have to follow the street which involves petition and notice and requires by law. Where were you at when we gave away the street over at the marijuana? Not here. Not here, apparently. All right. So, I make a motion to start the process. Have a second.

All in favor? Thank you. Thank you, C.

Mr. Mayor, do you my friend

and city council? I have some concerns about my position of the EOC office moving of the equipment in the office to recline on on February 17th city council meeting. It was brought up by Mr. C by Councilman Hussein that he and the new EOCC director, Mr. Wilson, had discussion of moving the EOCC office to the recline auditorium. This discussion ended with the conclusion to what I understand of moving the office and the equipment to the dressing room at the recline auditorium. Now, I feel I should have been involved in that discussion and decision. In words of the city councilman that on the EOCC committee, were they even asked about this or on this commission? I have trouble hiring the position. I have been told that the moving of the EOCC office and equipment was expected in the near future. And even though I have asked about this multiple times, nobody has had a meeting with me about moving this. I have been asked my opinion about moving the office to the recline auditorium and I would like to include my thoughts on this matter. I do agree that the parking issue in the parking lot with all the officials in as mentioned by council is saying that the people the federal, state, county and the local department there's plenty of people to park their equipment and anything that is needed. I also agree that the EOC equipment needs to be near the command center. I agree with these facts mentioned in the city council meeting. My concern is with the citizens is if our county and our city the citizens are displaced from their homes during an emergency the and the recline via the full command center with the work with the workers. Where are the people to go?

Depending on the emergency cities may the citizens may be required for bed and wheels and that takes up quite a bit of space as we all know. I was told that the city received the grant for the generator for the recline auditorium that is a shelter for the citizens citizens to go to during an emergency. That is probably where the Red Cross was set up. Now, will the command center have adequate space and privacy if the displaced citizens are also in the auditorium? And another thought on the rental of the auditorium is for weddings and other events occasionally held at the auditorium. There are two dressing rooms that are used. And if the EOC is to move their equipment into one of those dressing rooms, then that might hinder people using the auditorium for that purpose. So either the auditorium needs to either be able to be rented out or it's not to be rented out and be designated for that purpose only. Any questions? Understand the the line is rented out.

If they move it into if they move my stuff into an office that's going to hinder people want to use weddings and stuff like that. So they either need to make a decision that break line is no longer being rented out and that become the EOC command center for everything or if they're going to rent it out then we need to find another place because

and I'm going to go on a little thing here. If you've got citizens down in the main corridors that are displaced and we're trying to have meetings for the commander center and everything like that, those people are already upset. their wound up, whatever you want to call it, social media will be on fire if they only hear part of a conversation and doubt everything. They don't know everything. That can hurt any type of emergency situation. So, we got to have a place where the citizens are nowhere near the command center for these decisions. So that's why I feel we need to find a place or even if that the recline lab is no longer rented out is strictly for EOC command center and things of that nature which I know that's not what it was set up for to begin with.

Why don't you get with your committee and come back with a recommendation? Well, I would like to get a chance I asked and nobody had never taken over there. I would like to go over and walk through the as I was told originally going to the vet building. Yeah. I would like to get a complete walkthrough of that. You can do that. You're Where's my room for all that over there? Right. You're in all room for what? Just the the command the people or what? The command center and and my equipment. I mean, what what kind of room are we talking about? Well, space just for the individuals. Well, well, if we got a major problem here, you're probably going to have

city and county definitely. You could have some state officials down here. So, I don't know how big of an office we would need or space, but you got to have the head of the departments that are going to be working there and everything like that. So, there's got to be, I'd say, a pretty good sable area to where we can have all gather up together, right? Yes. Might I make a suggestion? Yes, sir. Have you have you met with the county guy and

Yes, I've talked with Mr. Lain I mean Mr. I will I got you. Um and maybe tour it together and make a decision because the only the only problem I see with using the big building down there would be that we've got if we got people displaced but we have all the trucks and everybody here that's here to work. You're going to now have a lot of liability with everybody trying to sleep in there trying to run I'm not saying I'm not saying sleep over there.

This was designated. This is why the city of Cuba got that generator. Red line is designated by the American Red Cross as the emergency displacement center. If there's a bad enough, say a bad flood or tornado, god forbid, and I mean god forbid. If Red Cross is going to come in, that's where the Red Cross is going to set up. That's where everybody's going to go until they run out of room and then they would probably set up tents or something like that. But the EOC does not have to be the command center for an emergency. It's just we're just talking about putting a computer in a room and having a backup generator and having your you've got your sleep center, you've got your coal, you got your air condition. I'm just trying to make it to where you're all in one place, but your command center doesn't have to ride your computer.

Does it? It needs to be there so we can know if of any changes of weather or anything like that come up. Why would I have to go in two different places? Your your computer won't override everybody else's on emergency like that. That county would be running that. Our computer probably will not be running a major. I mean, that's why I'm saying I think you need to get with the county and you guys come up with a plan. rather than just sitting here going, "Well, we should move it down there or maybe move it there or whatever." I would just get with the county guy and you guys work it out. I mean, we got a committee. Who's on your committee? Mr. Mr. Howard and Mr. Mr. Cut. Okay.

So, what you talk about? All you're looking for is really an off. Well, I'm just I'm the way I was the way I was always explained and this is even by the state [clears throat] guy, Mr. Brett, the command center of the office pretty much need to be together. That's the way Mr. Bre of the state SEMA recommended should be and that's what I thought on a committee. If you want to get county, you'll be fine, you know, and have the meeting come to come back. What's the firehouse back here look like upstairs? It's pretty rough. I mean, we're going to

Are you talking about You need a place for people recline. I'm just saying recline for everybody to go. Then you need a place to gather all the officials. Officials work. You want them in the same building or no want? I don't think I don't think they need Yeah. I think they need to be separate because if you got if you got citizens there, you know, say you got a couple other people there social media and they try to hear they only hear bits and pieces of the EOC, whether it be city, county, or state, whoever's in charge, trying to make a plan and they don't hear everything. Yeah. Well, they're not doing this or they're not doing that. And that going to make our headaches go from this to bottom. Bottom line, you want them separated, right?

Yes. You want this display citizen separated from the command. Okay. So, you can either do look at me or like Jack said, you can look into this twotory over here. There's that middle part over there at MCO that somebody mentioned too. I mean, there's offices in the warehouse, but again, I don't know if we're talking 20 people. I don't know how many you just don't really know, right? I don't. But you got to figure it's going to be probably every supervisor department. But I think this could be an option over here for that to happen because it's a big open room.

But and then you know that would be in the warehouse. So we have to do some type of security to keep the people out of our Yeah. And I understand that heat in that warehouse to the offices. Yeah. The officers are control.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Treatment plant UV system install.

Um David Manardi is at state conference and Ray is not here to present it. So this is the message from David. If you'll recall, at the February 3rd council meeting, I requested permission to order $31,78 worth of UV system parts. During the conversation, I informed you, the council, that a site visit from Zyllem, the UV system manufacturer, would be necessary to install two of the precision sensors. The sensors have arrived. I also informed you in October of 25 that the site visit from asylum cost $5,149 to diagnose and troubleshoot all the issues with the system. No one had any objections or questions about it when I mentioned it. However, I did not actually ask for approval for the next site visit because I did not have a current quote. Since then, due to time issues, I've still not been able to obtain a current quote from them. Tonight, I'm seeking approval to get the site visit scheduled to install the sensors and get the UV system fully operational with the understanding that the total cost will be at least $5,149, but could be slightly more due to inflation and company policies that could have changed since October.

I have a motion accept that motion. All in favor discussion real quick. That's in the budget, right? um he did not discuss it with me, but David keeps track of all of his budgetary items. So if David is requesting it, he has already looked at his budget and knows that it is a budget.

All favor Hello Andy.

Hello. I need this quote is for some subdivision. Last reel of wire. I didn't know if I was going to need it or not. I do. It should be the last real wire I need for the first phase. One one quote because they're the only company that can get us the wire within a reasonable time. Other companies are 20 weeks out. It says 8 to 10 on there, but I talked to Jman and he can get us soon as you guys approve it. I can get a rail. Is it in the budget?

McBride has not been budgeted at this time. That was something that was discussed prior to all of the other purchases with McBride, but we have the reimbursement agreement. So, so it's okay. I notice on the bills you're putting McBride on all the We're putting McBride in capital. um project because this could the reimbursement is for all capital projects and the way the municipal advisor described the whole project. I make a motion. Motion second. Second. All in favor? Against.

I want to ask you something, Annie. Uh, with the Mc Bride project, uh, I hear that, uh, they went above above and beyond what they actually needed to do. I hear that they're going to run the wires to our poles or something.

Uh, pedestals, secondary wire. Normally, traditionally in our any subdivision or any place, we stop at the meter. So, uh the meter's on the house, we have to go from transformer to the house with the conduit and wire. They agree to stop at the lot lines and we set a pedestal with some connectors and then they go from the house to the lot. And what what how much what do you think that savings did you just a little bit ago? It's like 200 cab numbers like 250 280,000 something like that

over the whole project not over the whole project. All right. Yeah. That's awesome. They didn't have to do that. McBride tell that. I said, "Thank you." Yeah. They didn't have to do that. We'll be meeting with them next week for for roads. They're going to start putting roads in. So, we're going to try to get wired. Thank you. My planning zoning recommendation Did not hear about that

planning and zoning is not here but they planning and zoning had their hearing for two reasonzonings on in January and they made two recommendations to move forward. Um the first one is that Mr. Aldo Aloo he is reszoning a piece of property from R1 to R2 for he's going to build some triplexes triplex practice. Um the and zoning board did recommend and made motions to move forward with that resoning request. Um within the same meeting there was another public hearing for a different property. This one is um Jacob High and he's reszoning from R1 to commercial to operate an existing business that he has. Um there was also a motion a recommendation to move forward with that reszoning request also. So, thank you made the recommendations to move forward. I'm asking for approval to move forward with this and schedule the next board of alderman hearing. That's the next step in the process.

Okay. The hearing. Yes. Board of Alderman hearing. You do. Can you do these separately? A and B. I can. We We can. Yes. Um I because there are two hearings. Um we've done this in the past. It's up to you guys. I would request a special meeting to do the two hearings. Same night. Yes, same night. Just I would recommend either March 26, it's Thursday night, or March 31st, it's a Tuesday. I can do either one of them. It's up to you guys. So tonight, all you need to do is Yeah. I'm sorry.

Yes. Yes. So once if we can decide on night tonight or dates tonight then I can set the 26 a Thursday night do Thursday nights 26 works. Okay. We have a motion to that so we want to do each one of them. So we can do each one of them separately. So what time? Um we did the last at 5. So does 5:00 work for you? It does. I'll make a motion. I'm sorry.

Um, so this is to move forward with the first resoning request, correct? This is where the public comes to voice. Yes. So they already have the first one zoning. This is the second one with you guys. We have first and second for that one. All in favor? Again. And then for the second reasoning, the R1 to commercial. Same same night, same year, same time. Washington. Isn't that already?

It is not actually. We checked it. I I confirmed with Annie and she said a lot of them there there like throughout the years ago. She said they redid a bunch [clears throat] of them and that was not one of the locations because that came up here. Yeah. Before everything one block of Route 66 was commercial. Yeah, it it is not though. I think fing. Yes. All right, we got ground and property management.

Just wanted to give you a quick update on a couple of projects that we had going. Um, I went to a committee meeting in the airport back on February 9th. I think we were on the agenda to talk about the hay and the rush in and all that stuff. So, what was I was asked to do was to reach out if I knew anybody that did hay. So, I reached out to a few people. I got a response from one person. That's interesting. I showed him places that we do, which is the airport uh farway drive behind [clears throat] and then the treatment plan. He's interested and he's going to write up a contract for us to look at and approve and he's going to have detailed, you know, the actual land policies, you know, we've asked him to do. And so I'm kind of waiting for him to get that information back to me so you guys can address it and see what you think. I think it's going to be a yearly deal. He said he give it one year just and I told him that if the contract works and never how much word that he has first choice the second year as well.

That's okay, right? Work in as a Yeah. He said he does all provision and comfort and uh Peter does have an insurance so he will provide that as well and at the airport I just want to know through the winter we've got about I want to say 85% of it brush hog so we kind of pull off you know penny weather and we'll try to finish it can't guarantee but we got like I said 80 85% of it done and other than that out there pretty much cut it back as an airport. Um, and while we're on the ground, I'd like to go out for advertising for some.

I talked to Jennifer. She's good with, you know, some probably one. Yes. I'll make a motion go out on the road. I Yes.

Thank you. had a little bit on the buildings, this property that we've been doing. Red line is completely done on the inside as far as the ceiling when we did the repairs and put the light up and all this stuff. And we've uh replaced all the light bulbs on the I call dance floor and dining area. So, and that was all in the budget. And right now, we're going to paint here and there. Trying to get a few little things like that cleaned up the mat on there. Think that was in pretty decent shape. You don't need some stuff, but we was packing away little things, you know, depending on weather when you go inside do that. Um, and while I guess the pool, just so you know, is scheduled for week of March 23rd to address the floor. Companies have come down. We're going to drain it probably three or four days before that and get it clean so we can see what the issues are. It's no charge under probably I don't know exactly where all the bad spots are. If it's one I don't know but we're going to look at it then and you know whether

did they ever do the floors in the shower? Would it ever get done in the building itself? In the shower. Yeah.

Another thing real quick. Does anybody remember what we decided on that open? That was at the pickle ball. It's going to be moved out. We got to move it off by the playground. Is that something we still want to do? cuz it's going to need some work cuz unfortunately we broke some boards, you know, trying to move it from where it is now, you know, and we're going to have to move another something the park board needs to decide. I mean, if we're going to move, we're going to have to put a little money into, you know, if there's a temporary thing because is there a plan for a new pavilion and all that separate? That's all true, right? Yeah. So I didn't I mean if that was the planned move we you know the park on that I want to move it over there.

Good luck with that. I'm sorry. They said get with board and say good luck with that. I just we got to move it regards. It's got to go. You either try to go there. Yeah. I don't know if it's going to survive the move, but we're going to That's what I'm getting at. So it's going to need work on it, right? put some of the line replacing header boards that are broke from trying to move it. We got to go but we got to move it right over there. It's already moved. Yeah, it's out of the way.

Can it stay there? And I I would rather we need to either get it from there and put it over there or we get get rid of we're not going to use it because we got to do all that landscaping around. That's what I was getting that you're talking about, right? So we want to get it out of the way so we can finish all that project up. So we either we're going to move it over there and use it forever how long the park I'll stop the park and make it back to

anything else. Thanks for what you're doing here. Thank you. Oh, you're what some help under advertising for it. What what's the recommen?

We did. Jerry, I was I was told that you come to these meetings and we ask you a lot of questions, but you don't take time or overtime for that. You got to start doing that. I usually come on my own, but if I'm asked, I mean, I can do that. So, I got what's going on. We need you here because we ask you all the questions that you have. But that being said, if I'm here, do I need to take this information to these people? What's approved? What's not approved? What's going on?

You know what I mean? Take stuff back. I mean, but you know, you didn't want me to do it. You know, if I'm going to come here, love me to come to these and pass information, I can, but that's up to you. Come and tell the guys. Yes, Joyce does come after every meeting inform everybody. But if you're here and we're always asking the questions, you should Okay. clean up for tonight.

Thank you. So free clean up. Um Don has arranged this and the only Monday and Tuesday that we can get is April 6th and 7th. April 6th and 7th. Clean up. I have a motion to approve. Motion. Uh, April 7th is election day. They do it. It's a trash pickup. Like our notice should work. Second. All in favor?

All right. Now on the budget reision part general fund from within FY26 budget. It's on there. Who wants to speak to that? Explain it.

It's to move the people back under the park tax like they've always been. Um, and the reason for this is the park tax brings in about $227,000 a year. That should be plenty of money to do the things that we need to do and pay the people that are maintaining the yards, the lawns, the pool, and all the other stuff that goes with it. The park tax was told that that's what it was for. Now, somehow, who cares? the grounds people got moved out from under the park tax, which means that that that 35% that the park tax was made to help do is now being absorbed by the general fund. Well, the general fund is already maxed out. So now we've moved $50,000 of debt from under the park tax into the general fund. All I'm asking is that they be moved back into the park tax because how are we going to tell people that we need a part tax when it's not doing what it was in built to do. Um I I personally feel like the part the people need the grounds people the 35% that was I think that's the number that was given needs to be moved back into the park tax and let's use the part tax for what it was intended to do. We can't move them out and then expect next year to ask the people to renew our park tax when we're not using it for what we told them we were going to use it for. We need it. Without that $227,000 a year, it's going to be hard to keep our pool open, much less maintain all the yards in the park.

I'll make a motion to move it back, but that's kind of a safety death for you guys. What is it? One more year. Yeah, tax year.

Do we Let's We'll face not having them under the park tax when we don't get the park tax back. We're creating a problem for ourselves a year and a half in advance. And we don't need that problem right now because we have the end of the year coming up, a new budget coming in, and our general fund is is not in a position to handle $50,000. We we it was it was good to go the way it was. I'm not sure why it got moved. Don't care. I just want to put back so that when we go to the people and say, "Will you renew the park tax?" We can tell them that we're good stewards of the money. That's just my personal opinion and if we decide not to do that, I'd like a roll call vote on who decided that we no longer needed the park tax to pay the grounds maintenance because it's coming up for a vote. Park tax will be coming up in about a year's time, a little over a year's time to renew.

This is a huge vote. Now, u I I'm the one that got the park tax going. And I knew in the uh a park tax it does say you can pay them out of park tax, but again, we were looking at a half cent when the people, you know, talked to them about and we dropped to a quarter%. Did that say in there that you can pay it? You see what I'm saying? So, it's up to this board on this one. Shut up. You make a motion, I'll make a motion that we move the motion. I'll second. I'll second it.

Um, I would like to say something before the motion is voted on, just so that you have some clarification before you vote. Um, based on the following um, information, since FY26 is not ended, I recommend that the council could revise the budget to add the park transfer out and into the general fund for the grounds department wages at the 35%. estimation at the following. $115,000 for the salaries, $1,300 for the overtime expense, social security taxes at 8820, loggers retirement at 25,730, health insurance for the grounds at 19,200, life and AD insurance would be estimated at 1300, and dental insurance would be estimated at 780. bringing the total to $172,460. You take that times 35% brings it to $60,361. When it was first estimated at 50,000, the budget had not been completed. Salary um totals were not completed at that time and none of the estimations were completed. So um amount left in park budget surplus is $49,684. We have a reserve amount of $438100 $438,1858 um to use from reserves if we needed if we if the council would approve. Um we would take exhaust that surplus and um use $10,677 from our reserves.

um and an estimation because we don't know how the year is going to end. We may not need that full 60,000 for the transfer, but I just need to make you all aware that that is a possibility depending on how we end the year with their salaries and their their benefits. Um, or you could only vote to transfer the $50,000 and then I would only move the $50,000 if that's what council wanted to general fund. Now, Jennifer, that's all how you chose to make the motion.

Wasn't the way they were being paid was out of the park tax only when they were working in parks in the parks. Correct. So it's their wages at 35 their their their estimated time in parks is spent at 35%. So their they estimated that their time would be spent 35% of their time is spent in parks. So that is why we estimate and take 35% of their wages and allocate that to the from the parks back into the general fund. I I'm personally okay with just the 50,000 rather than going into our reserves doing whatever. I would just like to put it back as close as we can to what it was before. Let's let's be good stewards with what we got and not breaking the bank in doing so. But

it it's up to you. You'll still use a little bit estimated at this point a little bit of reserves only like 300. But it's my job to give it all the information to you up front and let you know if you want to do the the full 35% of their full wages or do you just want to do the 50,000? I'm okay with either one, but I want to make sure that you you have the full understanding of the picture before we make a motion and a and a vote. The motion was for the 50,000. Hold on. So the 50,000 what would it be? What would that transfer back to it be? Right now,

if you only make the motion for the 50,000 at the end of the fiscal year come June 20, June 30th, 2026, I will only make a recommendation after all all all transfers are in, I will only make a transfer recommendation to the council to transfer the full 50,000 that you recommend tonight. Okay. If you recommend to transfer based on their salaries and benefits at 35%, I will transfer. Let's just say it's the 60,361. This is an estimation of course

um tonight because the fiscal year hasn't ended. Then um I would make a recommendation to council that um what that time would be. You know, we would transfer to you the 35% at um their salary and benefits at the end of the fiscal year. So we're guessing it's either going to be 50,000 right now or 60,000 probably. I mean it could be somewhere between the two.

My motion was just motion by second for 50.

Yes. Yes. Howard. again. Pass. Yes.

All right. Mode testing bid at the EOT building. You're you going to bid on that mode or anybody or nobody? To be quite honest, I was never told to do it, but I reached out to Sir Cor. I'm ready to hear back from They looked at the building and they're going to come back with a bid or estimate or what their study is within the next within the next meeting. All right, that's all I got. Thank you. Thank you. Cubis Hood Park cross country meeting September 30th, 2026. Motion to allow a second. Second.

All in favor? Against Please keep recording. Okay. Um, I only got a couple things on the nuisance things. I know we spoke about uh the property over on Washington, stuff like that. I'm going to be making more contact with uh the owner of that property that's on the street.

It's Springfield in Washington. Um, and I know it's tax season for the owners and stuff like that. So, they're working hard doing that. not to make excuses for him, but to make sure, hey, listen, it's time to get cleaned up. It's great time. So, I'll get you get that taken care of. Um, the other thing, uh, approach spoke with Bill Dodson over some parking issues over on Commerce Drive. In fact, it's 202 Commerce Drive. Um, currently, right now, there is no parking between signs in a section, which we're not forcing right now because it's the only place people have to park for the new business. There's new business over there, you know, building all the prefab housing and stuff like that. Um, and the owners of the that uh terminal terminal business owner that's across the street from them. Um, they have a south entrance and they would like to have the no parking uh removed, the current ordinance removed and I've spoke with Laney. We were trying to find the older current one but haven't had time. It's It's an old one. It may I don't I don't know if it's even there to be honest. I have no idea to get rid of yet or not. So, we're still still searching for that. But we do want to like to create a new ordinance that would have no parking between signs um that would be 20 ft before the south entrance and 16 ft after the south entrance. That would allow their tractor trailer to get into the shipping and receiving area and that way everybody else could have their have their parking up there that they needed the people at the I don't know it's called they're building all the walls. I mean there's no parking there. So all they have is street parking. So I mean

no one's complaining about street street parking at all. I mean it is what it is basically. street, you know, even the uh third third wall uh people, they're they're not complaining about it. They understand 100%. They just want to make sure that they have that room for tractor trailers to get in and out. They don't want too close to south entrance. What are you asking for? No park between signs. They have 20 foot before their entrance and 16 foot after. I'm going to go a second. All in favor? Against. Do we need to make them up about a city artist now? Make a city.

That's all. Thank um we do need to state a clarification. The bill number on here is actually 2209, not 2206. All right. Go ahead. A motion for further reading of bill number 2209. Motion.

All in favor? An ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Cuba, Missouri on behalf of Ste City to enter into a contract with Showtime Pyrochnics LLC for a 4th of July fireworks display. Motion to approve the first reading of bill number 2209. Motion have a second. Second roll call vote. Besten Albert. Yes. Motion to have the second reading of bill number 2209. Motion second. All in favor?

An ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Cuba, Missouri on behalf of said city to enter into a contract with Showtime Pyrochnics LLC for a fourth of July fireworks display. Motion to approve the second reading of bill number 2209. Motion. Second. Rozel, yes. Yes. Hberts, yes. Hugan, yes. B, yes. Bill number 2209 comes discuss 958 on this third day of March 2026.

Old unfinish business. Joyce. No. H. Brett. Yeah. Yes. I do. I want to express my disappointment in our park board. At least with the park board you got rid of, Kevin. They were here every week to answer our questions, take things like this, and they don't even show up for meetings. And I think you need to tell them to at least have somebody show up. And

if they don't care, they shouldn't be there. That's all I got.

I have one thing. The Citiz Cuba. Uh I will not be making the meet and greet candidate night on the what 10th. We have parkour meeting. I'll be making that meeting. I believe the meetings are very important as well. So I just want the citizens that if they're going to go see me, I will not be there. I just want to announce that tonight I will be at the parkour meeting. That's all I have to say. Now I do want to say this. Everybody knew the park board met on this certain day. They picked that certain day to have a meeting at meet. So I will not be there. that night. That's all I have to say.

All right, we're going to discuss. I have a motion. Have a second. All in favor? Jeff.