City Council - Regular Meeting

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Good afternoon everyone. It's high noon in GD. We'll call this meeting to order. I ask Vice Mayor All to lead us in the pledge to you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Father, we thank you so much for your goodness to us and to our community. And we ask that as we conduct the business of the city that you would guide our our hearts and our minds and our decisions. And um we just thank you that we get to serve in the community of Goddard and we thank you for your favor. We ask all this in Jesus name. Amen.

Okay. Moving right along. I'll make a motion to approve this afternoon's agenda. Do I have a second? Second. We have a second. All those in favor say I. I. I.

Motion carries five and zero. Thank you. Welcome Naomi. She joins us on the phone this afternoon. So item D, citizen comments. You got three minutes. If anybody like to come up and make a make some remarks to the council, the opportunity to do so now. If not, close some comments. There's such a big crowd here. So, um, exparte agreement. Does anyone have any conflicts of interest in conversations with people in the last couple weeks or last eight days might affect today's meeting? No.

Okay. Item appointments. Good afternoon, mayor and council. Uh, as you are aware, we have been, the city has been hosting a steering committee, a main street steering committee for the past few months now. The steering committee has made great progress on uh, organizing what our downtown revitalization organization looks like. It'll be called Goddard Main Street. Uh, we have worked on our mission statement, a vision statement, uh, bylaws, and what our focus area is going to be in targeting downtown revitalization. So our next step as we are in the process of adopting bylaws is to set up the board of directors for the organization. So our board of directors is a great cross-section of the community. It includes representatives from the school district, downtown business and building owners, uh the library. It will include a representative from the senior center. We would also like to include a representative from city council. And so um my ask before you this afternoon is to discuss who amongst the five of you would like to serve. Uh the board term is 3 years and again this will be a standalone 501c3 organization uh that functions again as a a nonprofit focused on the revitalization and further development of downtown Goddard. So, uh, at this time, city staff is, uh, is is providing technical assistance and guidance to what will become the board of directors. Uh, but we would like to have a representative, the steering committee has asked that a representative from city council serve on the board. Right now, the board uh, the steering committee and we're hoping the board will meet on the second Monday of the month at noon here in this room. And it seems to work well for for everyone's schedules thus far. So, uh, with that being said, I am more than happy to answer any questions you might have about this responsibility. Uh, but again would ask that the council discuss and vote on a representative to serve on the Gerard Main Street board of directors.

Now, you're already on the board. I am as a as a business owner. Business owner. So, how many total board members are there? 14. We also have some citizen at large members. So, just a shameless plug to anyone that may be listening. We are looking for uh two more citizen at large representatives that would like to be involved in the organization.

Anybody have any great interest? Um you know I've been unable to attend the last few meetings, but I'm already plugged into this committee, so I'm happy to do it and continue to show up. Hopefully actually start showing up again. I apologize for my absence for the last few, but um Main Street is a pretty big thing for me. I'd like to see some really great things just being able to do the community events come to life over the next few years for this. So, any thoughts? I'm good.

Yes. Um, I uh absolutely recommend Amanda White for this um awesome opportunity. That's a motion. Is that a motion? That will take that in the form of motion. Second. A second. Okay. All in favor say I. I. I. Okay. Thank you very much, Amanda. Thank you. Appreciate you serving in that capacity. to look for the great things that I close my eyes and see what it'll look like in 20 years. A statue of you at the end of Main Street.

We hope to put that on the golf course that we built. All right, moving on to the consent agenda. I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Thank you. Chris has made a motion to have a second. I second. Cory seconds. Any questions on it? Pretty straightforward. All those in favor say I. I.

Very good. Motion carries by zero. No unfinished business. New business. City manager Greg Croette. Something about a park. Honorable mayor and city council, it is my uh pleasure to uh give you an update on the uh Legacy Bank Park project as it will be officially named after uh our meeting today. So, uh as you know, the city has been working to advance the development of the Gddard North Park project, a major community investment intended to serve as a premier attraction for our residents and visitors alike. The city would like to enter into a naming rights and sponsorship agreement with Legacy Bank to support development of the park through a sponsorship contribution of $500,000 payable in 10 annual installments that would continue from uh this year till the end of 2035. This proposed partnership reflects a substantial private investment in a public project that will help the city deliver a high-quality park amenity while also creating a strong civic and economic development partnership with a very respective regional financial institution. I'd also share that Legacy Bank intends to expand its presence in Goddard with the future branch branch location. Uh hopefully the uh building that they will be um going in will be under construction this year and we will be welcoming them uh into our community as a bank branch next year. Also want to add as we look at the pretty pictures that uh here uh with us today is their president and chief executive chief executive officer Stephen Solenrop and I'm going to let Mr. Solenrop come up here when I get to my presentation here in a few moments with you. Um, I think some of you guys have all seen the pictures, but if you haven't, we'll, uh, look at a couple of

them here real quick. You can see all the project partners here, uh, leading off with Legacy Bank, uh, Shaper, you know, and our design team, and then at the last council meeting, you awarded the contract to Comco Construction to go out there and build this thing. You see here we got the indoor and outdoor pavilion. The private meeting spaces in there. Maple Street is going to be rented back here. Um we're going to pay homage to the former farmstead that was here. We can date it back as far as 1882. The Martin Holm family uh homesteaded here. And uh the windmill that's out there today is believed to have existed dating back to uh the very early 1900s when the home family was still there. Uh looking to the east, you got the dog park and the three pickle ball courts. And then the much anticipated uh pond amenity is going to be here to the south. Excuse my clicker. This is a look at underneath the pavilion. So, it should look very similar to this. Um, you can see here there's actually two garage doors there. Um, there's going to be like a little kitchenette in there. All the audio visual equipment you could need. So, we can have private gatherings anywhere from corporate events to reunions to birthday parties, all sorts of things. Um, rentable space is a hot commodity in Goddard, so we're super excited to have another option. Uh there's three uh restrooms over here. On the north side is going to be like your utility closet. We keep some lawn equipment over there and those types of things. The food truck area. We actually have some ballards over here that separate the parking lot from this big concrete area. Food trucks will be able to pull just

right up into there. This is kind of your top area. Uh so for the younger kids and then as you move to the east, you know, the older kid equipment, I think they call it the 5 to 12 year olds. Enjoy. The PowerPoint doesn't really like the large file there. So hopefully you guys had a chance to see all those exciting renderings. So uh a little more analysis here. The city grants Legacy Bank the exclusive right to have the park officially identified and referred to as Legacy Bank Park. It's a 50-year agreement. Legacy Bank has a right of first negotiation at the time of renewal. I do plan to still be your city manager. Then Legacy Bank will receive a recognition in city publications, maps, promotional materials, event materials, and project related public events. Uh compliment complimentary use of the park's event space on a first come first- serve basis subject to our regular procedure for scheduling. Uh we'll have physical recognition of Legacy Bank throughout the park on the way finding signs, the entryway signs, and then the uh roundabout at 183rd in Maple. You guys might recall I shared fantastic news with you a couple of weeks ago. Um last night, last morning actually, uh the Wampo Technical Advisory Committee uh approved there's three groups have to approve this suballocated funding uh for the 183rd Street project. The mayor's group is up next, I think. When do you guys meet?

The 12th.

Sorry to put you on the spot. So, in a week or two, uh, one final approval and then we'll have, uh, 80% of the funding for the project that pave paves 183rd from Maple to Central and then constructs this beautiful roundabout. That'll be an amazing entry point into uh, the park. So, super excited about that. It's a major financial relief to to have not only the funding from Legacy Bay for the park, but to have the suballocated funding from Wampo to include improve the transportation in that area that's starting to become a little congested because of all the great development that's going on. So, uh, some of this is a bit redundant. Uh, I'll just add that on the 183rd and Maple roundabout, uh, the city will contribute up to $50,000 for the monument within the roundabout. Um, if Legacy Bank would like to build something, uh, more grandeur, they're welcome to match, uh, any amount above that and we'll put it out there. So, uh, the legal team, uh, Morris Lang, uh, put this together, uh, did a great job of working with the, uh, legal team of Legacy Bank, and we're real happy with where it's at. And so, with that, Mr. Sol, I'd like to offer you a chance at the podium if you want to share anything with the governing body. Good afternoon. Uh, really just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity. Uh, Legacy Bank, if you're not familiar, we were founded uh we're celebrating 140 years this year. We were founded just down the street in a neighboring community of Culich. And uh we are identifying as a as a community bank as we always have. And so uh through this opportunity um uh for the naming rights of the park. Uh we have a lot of excitement. We are a commercial bank that uh has a niche in uh commercial real estate and

residential real estate development. And so you may see our signs around uh the community. uh we worked with a lot of develop builders and developers that you are familiar with and um have relationships in this area and felt that uh through the opportunity with the naming rights as well as um the affforementioned uh future future branch plans uh we're excited to uh help carry forward the momentum Goddard already has very uh very much appreciate the opportunity. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Thank you. We do really appreciate uh the donation and and your investment in the park. I mean, that's been a big answer to prayer as we've gone through this process. Uh and uh stretch class this morning, I mentioned that you're going to build a branch here in town and a couple people were pretty excited about that because they live south of Kellogg and and they don't like crossing Kellogg. So, would be easy for them to get there. So already you you've got customers I think that'll appreciate being in our community. So we really do thank you and it'll be a great partnership for for both of us. I think so. Thank you,

Mayor. I want to extend a personal thanks as well to Mr. Solenrop and the Legacy Bank Board. It was really a a seamless process and fun to work with them on bringing this to fruition and just so grateful for their for their generosity. and Mayor Lee and I had the privilege of um going to their ribbon cutting for their new branch on Maze Road and it all felt just right walking in there and feeling like we were amongst family and friends. Several of our community partners uh that we work with all the time uh were there celebrating as well and it was kind of like you know that Spider-Man meme where you're like what are you doing? So, it that was just a really cool moment and it it it just felt like everything uh was right and we're really grateful um to have these have these guys coming to make the investments in our communities and just to further our partnership with them and uh for the betterment of God. So,

all right. I'll make a motion to approve the contract. I second. Those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 5. That was closer. We do have an audit which may be of interest to you. So the rest of your day you bet. Thanks. Thank you. Take care. Thank you. It's almost like we should take a break and have a party. The party's coming. Yeah, we'll press on. CFO. Make sure still on.

She she's I think she's silencing. Okay.

All right. Um good afternoon, mayor and council. It is my pleasure to um introduce our auditors today um with our 2025 audit. Um Randy Ford and Amy Hedrickk are here to present the audit. And I just want to say um thank you to all the staff that helped me with the audit this year and also extra thanks to BFR for all of their assistance. They had to take on quite a bit more work this year just because of several factors. Um the Tyler Tech implementation cleanup, they they really assisted us with a lot of that that work and made sure that you know we're going to be ready to roll forward in our new software appropriately. It also um since we received over a million dollars in federal funds, our audit actually jumped up to have two audits this year. So, we had a single audit with our regular audit. So, there was a lot more scope, a lot more work that was done and they worked very diligently to make sure everything was done timely and we were here at this meeting today and not one in May. So, um keeps us in schedule with our budget um and all the things that we have to do that's coming up with that. So, with that being said, I'll introduce Randy and and Amy and help them together.

I know this will disappoint everyone, but I don't think I'll make the 50 years with Craig. So, you're all going to have to find between now and 50 years. So, just just to get that out there for nobody's surprise. So, maybe Mr. Rhyr will make the

uh No, I don't. So, if you were compared this to lasters, it's much heavier. um single audit add several pages to it. So I'll just go through here a few of the highlights and then if you have any questions I'll be glad to take those. So if you'll flip to the it is the third page end which is on our letterhead. That's our opinion on your financial statement and that's what you've hired us to do. So um there's two opinions given. Uh second paragraph is an adverse opinion. You've elected not to follow generally accepted accounting principles. virtually there are very few government entities in Kansas that do so. So as a result we have to issue an adverse opinion because this is used for issuing public debt those types of things. Most important is the third paragraph which is unmodified opinion on the regulatory basis of the county which is elected to be made. So what that means is based on our audit we didn't come across any variances or any errors as far as your reporting in accordance. Then after that is just a little more opinion related to those opinions. A little more information related to those opinions. On page two, it indicates your responsibilities for the financial statement. I'm going to come back to that here at the end. Um our responsibility when we do the audit, we exercise judgment. We do professional care, understanding and understanding of internal control, those types of things. And then lastly, there is supplemental information that supports the financial statement, but the financial statement is on page five. A new thing this year is on the bottom of page four, there's a new paragraph. I'll jump on that here in just a little bit. So page five is your financial statement. It's a summary of your activity for the year. Beginning cash receipts, expenditures, key column is the ending incumbent cash balance. Your funds are all positive or zero, which indicates compliance with the cash basis law. You'll notice you have one incumbrance or accounts payable. That's

actually an adjustment we make that relates to expenditures made in January and it's specifically related to your capital projects. I actually always recommend that the city not record that accounts payable because during the course of the year you've got to monitor those projects. Well, all of a sudden if you recording accounts payable at year end, you've got kind of one exception to the way you're monitoring and monitoring those projects is really important. So as a result, in my opinion, it's really better let us make an adjusting entry for the audit, but you continue to do your thing because like I said, you just it just creates another issue within those. So that's why it's done. You can easily do it. Brook's aware of it. You know it's coming and so as a result like I would continue to do that. Then after that are the notes of the financial statement. They're really intended for third party users. They explain what the city is, information about the basis of accounting we talked about earlier. On page seven is your budget cycle. Then starting on page eight are just general disclosure that are in a governmental set of financial statements. Information on papers that goes from 8 to 9. Um information on your compensated absences. Um just like I said, more general information, contingencies, uh litigation. There's information on your investments in cash on page 12. Um I will note that there were no uh violations as far as collateral transfers are on page 13. You do have on page 13, note 13, you do have IRBs that have tax abatements to them. Those are calculated. That's in essence a tax that would be collected without those abatements. Capital projects are on 14 and Brook does this schedule. um we have to audit it accordingly but she she prepares this does all the calculations and which is a lot of work I the only city that I have that does that um then starting on 15 is new this year you get add leases you have conduit debt which

is related to IRBs um then then you did do an advanced refunding this year on 17 that's basically where you take money set it aside and the earnings on that pay part of the debt and then your then your long-term debt starts on 16 over 0 to 17 and ends on and that that's changes constantly as your volume. So that is your financial statement. After that I will be very brief your regulatory information. So this is the supplementary information that supports the financial statement a little more detail. Page 19 is actually an important schedule demonstrates compliance with the budget law. Shows your budget. The key column is the far right. Those negatives are under budget. So no budget violations. And then this time is a good time to mention when we do the audits there's about 35 to 40 compliance requirements you got to consider. Not all of which are applicable but there were no violations of any statute. So I'm going to skip to this next part because like I said it basically everything on this next part is um detailed information of course those first two schedules. So if you're bored tonight you can take that home and look at that. Then starting on page sorry 40 is some additional information. This kind of has a feel of gap to it. It it provides some information related to activities for the year that are slightly different. I mean it's more summarized you know what you see in your other schedules. because this this information isn't required but it's added in case you ever wanted to do a GFOA certification or anything like that. Um I won't go through those in detail. So then the next session section I want to go to is on page 46 which is once again our letter. So this is the federal awards portion of the audit. So when we do a single audit,

we conduct your normal audited financial statement and then we step aside and say okay now we have new standards we have to follow and new auditing we have to do. So the first thing we have to do that's different is a report on your compliance with internal control and um compliance matters. So this isn't an internal control audit. So what that means is during the course of the audit we have a transaction that has either an internal control component or compliance component which virtually all of them do. We just have to make sure that the internal control is in place and operating or that you're in compliance. Like I mentioned earlier, no non-compliance. We didn't have any internal control problems. So as a result, there's no findings. Flip two more pages once again on our letter head. This now is another opinion. We issue a specific opinion on your federal programs of the test. So the second paragraph um is once again our opinion which is unmodified opinion. So during our test of your federal money, we didn't come across any non-compliance with federal requirements which are different than anything else you guys do. So no issues there. And then it goes through with the more the same things that the first one does. But uh the key thing is that is that so 51 is your schedule of federal expenditures for the year. You have two programs uh one for $1,423. Uh we ignored that one. And then we looked at the big one, the $1.18 million. So we have to look to make sure the expenditures reporting within that program comply. So once again, no non-compliance. Uh 52 is just some information rel regarding that schedule. 53 is kind of a nice addition that's required. So this is a summary of your audit really from start to finish. Uh mod unmodified opinions, no findings, no deficiency deficiencies, no findings uh related to your federal program, what we tested. And then the one thing I do want to

point out number nine says you're not a lowrisisk audit. That's an audit concept. It doesn't indicate that there's a problem. Several criteria. One is you have to have a single audit for prior two years which obviously you haven't. And you also have to follow a gap. So it's just a once again a audit concept as an indicated problem city and then after that is a schedule that says we have no prior year findings which is obvious audit report but we still have the federal government that so that's the audit somewhat in summary um I did hand out a two-page letter this is an overall summary of the audit have we had any findings difficulties um significant adjustment they reported in your in there aren't any. And then lastly, I just kind of want to mention that um you know, Brooke is actively involved in in in as far as pulling the financial statement together. We actually meet for well over an hour at the end. We've given her a drafted report. She's looked at it. She always has some things she wants to change, which that's part of when we do the audit. We have to have some assurance that the client's looking at this financial statement. We're pulling it together with insurance. and she obviously has because she'll find typos. She'll line things that she wants to reward. So, um, several of these notes she's tweaked to to better fit your city. So, we really appreciate that. That's something that's really important as part of the audit. So, um, like I said, it's great to work with with that kind of staff and that that type of support. So, hopefully that's relatively short. expect a bigger turnout, you know, when the on board

I think they're all waiting the overflow. There they overflow responsibility. That's right. Well, we appreciate the work uh that you do on the audit and work. We appreciate the work that you do every day. Plus, I mean, it's amazing. We heard this was quite a bit uh tougher for you this year as well. It took a little more time. So, um I just want to make sure that you're recognized as well because you've really overhauled the way that things are done financially here and it's a lot more transparent and again color coded which I appreciate. So, I just thank you guys for all of your hard work this year. We know um it was a little tougher and just seeing the value in getting this done. So,

great job. All right. Need a motion to There's no motion. Well, file and receive it. Yeah. So, okay. The motion. Yeah. File and receive the report. All those in favor say I. I. Curious.

Four zero. Okay. Let's see if we can get Thank you so much. I'd like to take a moment to say hello to two of my grandchildren that are watching. Also, they can't understand why grandpa's on grandma's phone, but uh it's pretty funny. I get a little message here. So, let me close there. So, Yeah, she's back. All right, on to the next item here.

Okay, I want to back up just a tad bit um back into the consent agenda just because we got some data in after um since 10:00 this morning on item number four bid award. I mean, excuse me, item number three, the temp note sale resolution. And so, um just want you to know there's two note sales that happened, a tax exempt and a taxable. And um on the toxic sense, we had three bids and the winning bid came at came in at 3.17%. So that's a pretty good interest rate for that one. The high um was a 3.25. So out of those three bids, they were very competitive. Um on the taxable um note that we sold, we had four biders and it came in a little bit higher at 4.39%. The the highest bid was actually 4.55. So, um just wanting to give you some some information on those two sales. Um again, one is is taxable and one is non-t taxable um for our development projects and our CI project. So, just wanted to give you an update on those items

and that's the primary difference in the rates that tax on tax. So, all right, lots of stuff to go over today and I'm glad we were able to get this get this on the agenda because we needed to do the first quarter financial statements so we're in alignment with our budget calendar and a lot of these numbers are being rolled right into the budget as we're preparing them right now. So, um on our agenda today, it's the same items that we talk about every single time. I haven't haven't changed it up this this go around. So these are the items on our agenda. Um we do this every quarter and this has been updated on to the website already to ensure our transparency and consistency in our financial reporting to you all. Um we'll go right into the general fund. So this is this is our first quarter. So again we don't have a whole lot of data other than first quarter and then comparison to our this time last year. So you will see our blue columns are our 2026 year-to- date numbers. The green is our 2025 year to date at this point in time. And so and then the pink is our year-over-year change. Um everything's looking really good for first quarter based on um you know considering our year-over-year change. I'm noticing a significant increase in our alcohol taxes that we receive in um that comes from the state. And so I I believe the reason that that number is up is we've been classified as a city over 6,000 now. So I think the calculation and the formula gives us a little more revenue. So we're going to beat this. Um we've already beat our budget projections. So I I didn't do very well in projecting those dollars out. So it's always better to be way over budget on a revenue source than way over on an expenditure source. So but we will take that. Um, building permits and fees are up substantially this point of the year and

that's kind of I think to be expected because it was kind of slow going last year with all of the rain and just kind of being pushed out and I think the cycle is showing that you know with the dry dry first quarter we're starting to see a lot more building permits come in. Um, so that's why it's probably higher than than it was this time last year. um court and police income is still down and it's continuously kind of going down, but again I think that's due to a a decrease in our police staffing um and just being able to patrol when we're low staffed and also have to you know do trainings and and things like that. Um pool revenue is up just a tad bit um this time of year. That is for our pool party um reservations um that that are already starting to come in. Top five revenue sources for the general fund right now is our property taxes. Um sales tax, franchise taxes, comp use tax, and some miscellaneous income. So again, those are all right um where we expected them to be. Um going back to property taxes, um we are we've increased 14% um over this time last year and that's to be expected with our you know roughly 11% to 13% valuation increase and a little bit of mills that we we raised the mill last year. So I mean that's that's to be expected with that. Um any questions on revenue at this point? Moving on to our general fund expenditures. you will see um everything's looking really good. I do want to mention that the year-over-year change may look slightly skewed. Um because if you recall back last year when we did our budgets, we reallocated salaries around to different places. Um you're going to see some of this in our enterprise funds where one's higher and one's lower and it's kind of

substantial. But um you know we reallocated a lot of the administrative costs um there in for salaries. So that's kind of where you're seeing some increases there. Um and also down into the economic development and planning and zoning. We totally took salaries out of one and added it to the other one. So a good portion of that is related to that. Also first quarter um we did have to double up in some staffing. Um, if you recall, we, you know, Lori and Kathy were retiring and they were still on our books. And so that's going to show higher this time than last year. Um, and also there were some retirement payouts that that that accompanied that. So again, um, I think all of these are to be expected. Capital outlay discretionary. I had a hard time kind of determining how I wanted to present this to you because it looks like we're way over budget or getting really close to being over budget and we're it's just first quarter, but we had a had a substantial amount of dollars come in in first quarter that were for 2025 street projects that we had to pay. So that's where we had said we were booking those costs to. Um so $314,000 of that line item is really related to prior year projects. So to make it seem reasonable, I increased budget number there um by those dollars that are coming in from 2025 to show you that we're really not overbudget in that category. I I'm trying to make that transparent to you. So um when we go ahead and spend the rest of the $400,000 that we have budgeted there, you're not seeing $700,000 on that line and being over budget. Does that make sense?

Yes.

Okay. Um first quarter also transfers in the general fund have been made. Um special highway fund received their transfers equipment reserves and special parks and recreation. I want I also want to mention that just kind of differences and we talked about this last year in the budgeting. We are paying all the streets projects out of the street fund this year. Um last year we kind of had to go to several different places. Some of it was paid out of the general fund as you're seeing it come out here. Some was paid out of capital improvement fund. We made a choice last year during budgeting, we will transfer all of the dollars for those projects to the street fund and they can flow through the street fund um appropriately. So you will not see those types of items within the general fund other than through the transfers from general fund to finance that. The top five expenditure categories you will see our capital discretionary our capital outlay discretionary line item planning and zoning community center and senior programs court and police administration. Um really all of these are pretty pretty standard. Um yeah moving forward into our special revenue and enterprise funds. Um again the these nothing really here has changed. These are the same um funds that we've had last year and we'll just kind of go through those um revenues. Our special revenue and enterprise fund revenues everything's looking really great here. Um special let's see special highway and streets shows a 21% increase. that is strictly due to the transfers that we are transferring in to that right now and the little bit of highway tax that we receive in. So again, um that's to be expected. Um special parks and recreation, our community impact fees

are up just a bit due to building permits. So you can kind of see why that is that is over last year's amount. Um, I do want to mention tourism and promotion fund revenue is down and that is that is due to our our transient guest tax being way lower than expected. And in fact, I I reached out to the state and asked what what's going on here and they said it's due to some of the tax collections that they're they have not received yet from some of the entities out there. So, that should catch up once that gets rectified. But again, it's I think we've only brought in like two two or $3,000 when typically I would have expected to see 15 by now. So, um I am monitoring that. I don't think there's really anything I can do about it, but I just wanted to make sure I didn't have somebody have a calculation off somewhere that it wasn't happening even where it should should be going. So, um let's see.

Broo, I just quick note when we were looking into that, we learned that one of our new city attorneys used to work for Kayor. So, we've got a pretty good asset that if it does seem like it's a lingering issue, we can set set Morris laying onto it to figure out what's going on.

Yeah, enterprise funds, um, water and sewer and storm water all look excellent. Um, they're all up. Um, little bit of miscellaneous revenue down. Um, I'm not real sure why that's down a little bit. It's just probably those are the miscellaneous things that come in. um reconnect fees and and so on so forth. But overall um enterprise funds are looking good revenue and we'll talk about those in in a second. Um expenditures in all of these funds looking really pretty good. The only one um tourism it looks like our year-over-year change in debt service is up a little bit. That's just due to new debt coming on and new issuances that we have to pay. And I mean it's it's all expected. Um tourism promotion is up 90% this time last year. I think Danny just started so we hadn't really had any expenses. So you could definitely see a difference in you know just the timing there. And like I said at the end of the year that should probably level out. Um water utility and sewer utility. So here's an example. Um when those expenses are up and down, we reallocated salaries um around. So some of it went there, some of it went went to water, some of it went to sewer. We we leveled those out, divided those between streets, water, and sewer. So those are some of the differences that you'll see um within those transfers year to date in these funds. They've all been made. I went ahead and made 100% of the debt service payment, our debt service transfers for water and sewer. Um, last year I kind of ran into running the fund really close to the edge just because I had waited to make my transfers and it was because I didn't make those transfers. So, I said, let's just go ahead and make them. So, we don't have to worry about them anymore. Um, and

they'll be there at the end of the day. So, transfers overall are at 68% but they really should be at 25%. But with those two items, we had the cash flow to make it work. And I didn't want to run run it right up next to the edge like like that go cry in Craig's office about oh my gosh, what have I done type thing. So um moving on to enterprise fund performance. We'll talk about the water fund and how it's working. Um overall the water fund remains stable with strong reserves and consistent consumption trends. Hopefully you all are looking at the water consumption report that we provide monthly um in your packet. Kayla and Stephanie up front helped me put that together. So I appreciate their help on that. Um our total operating revenues for first quarter are 403,000 operating expenses 298 leaving us with a net operating income of 104,000. We have additional nonoperating revenue related to the water fund. We have some interest in both the water fund and the water reserve fund and then we bring in some extra money through equity fees. So um with that being said, we transfer out um as we mentioned earlier um to the debt service fund, water reserve fund, equipment reserve fund, capital improvement fund. Um overall we have a net decrease in net position of 92,000. that I kind of look at that number and just make sure um how does our metrics look when I get to the second page here. So I look at our total water utility fund balances and in our water water fund and our our water reserve fund we have 1.4 um remaining as of first quarter. Um we had some capital and financing activities that some affect cash and some of them don't. Um, we had about 87,000 coming out of the water reserve fund for um I want I believe that was

for the Evely Trails projects that we're working on. So, we financed some of that stuff just straight out of cash. And then we have a couple of projects um the SCADA um a portion of that comes out of this is is allocable to the water fund, but it's being held within the capital improvement fund. So that didn't affect the fund balance in the water and water reserve funds, but it did affect the capital outlay or capital improvement fund cash. Um, and then we had about $246,000 worth of water looping project costs that have come in. So that that did that doesn't affect the fund balance in those because that's a project held outside of this, but they're related to this and I wanted to factor that in. Our operating ratio is at 74.05. 05% which is excellent. Um we would want anything under 80%. So as long as we're maintaining under that we feel pretty good that even if we are eating up some of our fund balance um as long as our reserve our operating ratio looks good. Um net income as a percentage of operating re revenue is also good at 25%. Days of cash on hand 1732 and debt service coverage ratio 2.24. So again, those are all excellent ratios. I feel like our water fund is very healthy. We don't really have any any needs or issues at this moment. Any questions on water?

So the fact that you transferred a little bit money out more money out of the debt ser debt service and transfers out, it had an impact on your cash position. So it going forward in the next three quarters. that'll correct itself because yeah, you won't have any more debt service transfers. Um you will have the rest of those, you know, an additional 50,000 coming out for transfers, you know, but if you had done the quarterly transfer, that number would probably be correct.

Sir utility fund, same drill. Um, we looked at our operating revenue at 478,000. Subtract out our operating expenses of 264 leaves us with $213,000 of net income. So, that's looking really good. Um, then we have some additional revenues coming in for our interest for the sewer and sewer reserve and some equity fees of $36,000. And then we transfer did our transfers out leaving us with a negative 17621. Again, that's kind of high and but like you said, if we hadn't made our our complete transfers to the debt service, that would have been positive in this instance. So, we would have been looking really really good. Um, but we have to make those debt payments. So, it's all it's all still good. Um,

our sewer fund balance, sewer utility balance, including both our sewer and reserve fund, we're sitting at 2.2 million. So, that's really good. So, um, we're going to be looking at being able, you know, to finance some projects through that and probably bring that down a little bit. I know we have some things pegged in 2026 and 2027 budget items. I think I've gotten another list of items from the team that things are needed to be done. So, that's a good good thing that we're studying on that kind of cash. Um, capital outlay. um we have spent about 169,000 from reserves which those I believe were all budgeted projects um that we plan to do that with. So that there's no surprise there. And then um $127,000 for tent node projects coming out of that as well. Um operating ratio 55.31 again anything under 80 is good. Um net income is a percentage of operating revenue 44.69. Anything over 6% is good. So, it's it's sitting really good. 3,000 days of cash on hand. Um, debt service coverage ratio 1.31. So, again, everything's tracking really good there. I really like to see that because that truly means that I believe that our rates are where they need to be. Um, we may be accumulating some cash right now and those days numbers of cash days of cash on hand are pretty high. high and they're really high or they're honestly extremely high that I know that we're going to need those dollars. Um and when we get ready to finance the water loop and in the public works facility and all of those things um that's going to really help us in the long run with that. So

it's called being prudent in financial terms.

Yeah. All right. So we'll go on and talk about our capital improvement and reserve fund overview. Um right now all capital improvement um funds that includes our projects temp note developer projects and cities we're sitting at $50 million right now for those projects and a breakdown of those projects right now you can see all of the developer projects and then I have got you know in orange there's a city project fund so um 30 30 million of that is is um tent note projects 20 million Nevada is our city projects and you can break that down into our capital improvement fund is setting at 1 point let's see 1.8 million a little bit of those dollars are related to SCADA still because we have a SCADA note that's out um but I will be you probably utilizing some of those funds in the future budget in 2027 to kind of you know start using some of those dollars to pay for things. Um, let's see. Our water looping project fund right now is sitting at 6.7 million. Um, public works facility of 5.5 and North Park is sitting at 6.2. So, our total city projects funds are sitting at $20 million.

Rick, I might just add to the city projects there. The water looping public works in North Park, those numbers include capitalized interest. So, we're not necessarily building a $6.7 million Waterl project. Um,

yeah, those are total bond proceeds and proceeds do include cap interest and um issuance cost. So, that is a total project dollars in there, right? Reserve fund balances right now. Um, and our equipment reserves, we're sitting at 27 271,000. sewer utility reserves at 831 and water utility reserves at 236. Those have really pretty much stayed pretty level. We earn some interest. We have some equity fees that come in. We could buy something and kind of just keep playing this game. So, they're really kind of staying pretty steady. Um, and even as I'm projecting, I've started working on 2027 stuff and I think even with that and the needs, it's going to stay pretty constant. I don't I don't envision us taking those down a whole lot. Things that we purchased in the first quarter, we we have some computer and office equipment for about 23,000 and some vehicles and the components that go with those for 87. Um, just as a reminder, and you'll see this probably during our budget presentations and stuff, but you know, we contract with Imagine It, and they provide us each year with a budget um of their services and then capital projects that we have to we have to do. So, we have everybody's on a schedule for a computer replacement and everybody, you know, we're going to do these these projects and those are all within um the budget. So the computer and office equipment that's a good piece of you know people got a new machine because it doesn't update or whatever it does. And the vehicles and components is our police vehicle that we purchase.

Where does the because we have a public works vehicle as well that's under a different fund is um public works vehicles are just a little bit different because they go um we on our capital they're they're chosen through the operations Okay. They're just in a different place than that. They're in a different place than that. So when I budget for for vehicles and equipment, they all get divided between 20, 30, and 40, which is streets or sewer, water, and streets. And so Jerry, you will see that on the capital ex it's got its own line in the operation. So yeah,

if by chance we were having an issue with financing or paying for those out of those lines and our budget, we were going negative there, I may try to maybe utilize it out of the equipment reserve fund, but I I don't do that that way. Who knows?

Thank you. debt summary. Um, as of 331, we have a total of 104 million 104.9 million in total financed debt. Um, not all of that is related to city projects. Um, 49% of that or 51 million is is related to developer projects that are in progress right now. Um, special assessments, 23 million, that's 22%. So, those are items that have gone to permanent finance and we're paying with those through specials. And then we have city projects right now at 29% with 30.4 million. Um, that does include permanently financed and tent note projects as well. So, I always think this is a good schedule to show just because we feel like we issue a lot of debt and oh my gosh, is it all our is it all on us? And it isn't all on us. At the end of the day, if everything went bad, it is on us. But, you know, we are counting on, you know, tax revenues to support a good portion of these projects. So, treasury update. Um, happy to report that interest earnings right now are up 95% in first quarter, but we're setting on an additional $40 million of cash as we're trying to find or, you know, pay for these projects. So, that's that's what that's why that's that way. Um, all the interest rates right now are really pretty competitive. Um, I think they're I think these are these are all going well.

I might make another comment because I don't know if others have caught this. I think the mayor probably knows because we talked to him about this stuff quite a bit, but most of that cash like that $40 million in People's Bank and a couple of the other ones, those are if you go back one slide, those are attributed to that green right there. So those that's those are temporary funds that we are earning interest on. Um and when we when say trails in second and third edition you approved a water line out there you know there's a couple million bucks of that that'll be floating around in that green there. Um when we get those temporary notes we're able to go invest them and generate interest earnings on on those dollars. So the growth has so much economic impact. It's maybe one that folks don't think of often, but um then those num the balance will dwindle down because typically those tent notes are only open three years or so and then they're permanently financed and that $40 million is drawn down. However, when you're constantly issuing more temporary notes, you know, you're kind of replenishing as you're expending, so to speak, uh like tonight, you just you just uh sold notes to bring in a couple million more bucks to to put in there. So, the we're using their money to work for us and earn interest.

Any questions on that? It's just a just a pretty little chart that shows the interest rate graphs and where everybody's at. It's fun to make. I don't know about it a whole lot. Okay. Um got pretty colors. It's important.

Um the first quarter treasur report has been sent to the paper. This this is um pretty standard. It shows your total fund balance. Right now we're sitting at 61 million. Um total cash should tie to that number and it does to 61 million and it also shows our debt that we just talked about of 104 million. No additions or reductions right now in in this category. Um principal payments would be the only thing. Um you'll see this what we issued for de today show up there as an addition next time. Um, and if we have any principal payments, which I don't know if we will. Do we have one on the sixth one? It's a principal payment. If not, most of them are due in October. So, you'll see that change a little bit more. Um, change in fund balance. This just goes to show the beginning of the year to first quarter just kind of the changes in that. And the overall change is a is a decrease of about 3.6 million. But again, we are paying for our projects. um, North Park, all of the tent note projects, you know, that's a good portion of just showing that work's getting done in those spots. Um, fund balance compliance review. This just this is our drill to make sure that we're staying above the 25% um, fund balance based on your expenditures so far, and we're way over that right now. Um, all operating funds remain in compliance with the city's 25 minimum fund balance policy. The 2026 council approved city projects is um this slide and I just went ahead and added something just so we can remember and help me remember. Um if you see an asterk by these items um it indicates that this was an unbudgeted item that we decided to go ahead and do or there was a material change to something that we decided to do that was budgeted. Um this does not include developer projects. Um, this is just

city projects that we approve. It helps me keep track of, you know, and help you all keep track of what we do throughout the year because this will get pretty lengthy and then we'll wonder, you know, um, maybe check statuses of these projects. Finally, um, just some some things to talk about and then I kind of want to talk about the budget just real shortly. But right now um we are in stage two of six of our Tyler ERP implementation. We went through our first data extract to the week of the 20th and everything went very very smooth. I want to thank Sarah and Kayla and and I think we were the only ones working on those reports this time around, but we had to coordinate with G Works. They brought us our data and boy they were they were really quick to give it to us. So it was really nice of them. Um then we we've sent all that stuff to um Tyler and they're analyzing all of that data right now. And then we also had to download a ton of reports that are they're going to try to match to the data. So we as a team we got all that stuff to them. Um Kayla and I have completed the first round of trainings. Um there's about a million more that we need to do, but that's kind of where we are at this point in time. Um 2027 budget prep. Um at your table you will see that I provided you an updated calendar and also a budget summary uh a budget survey and the current results as of today. Um our next big tasks um as a council and as a group will be for um our budget meetings will start happening in June. So, we are going to receive hopefully our data um from the county clerk on June 15th. And that's when I will be able to really make sure that we are where we want to be um in the general fund. Um I am working on the general fund right now. I've almost got it completed. Working on streets is almost complete. Debt service almost

complete. So, I feel like I'm sitting really good right now with getting all the numbers in there. Just kind of waiting for the county to give us those numbers. Um but on June 23rd and 24th, those are going to be our first council work sessions that we'll bring all this to you um with that information. Um House Bill 2043, if you have all been following, got vetoed last night. Um so we don't have to try to incorporate any sort of crazy changes in the middle of budget season this year. Um there may be something that happens next year that we need to worry about. Um but for now, we're safe. Um, with that being said, projections. I anticipate there to be issues next year with um the budget process and mill levies and property taxes. So, I may have a tendency to pull back um my revenue projections just a bit just to comp those potential changes. You know, typically I probably would do 11 or 10 10 to 11% increase, but I may drop it down, I don't know, 8%. So, just to kind of see, kind of give me some room to to wiggle just in case at the end of the day. So, 2027's going to be okay, but when you start seeing my projections through 30 2030, they may be a lot more

colorful. Yeah. To talk about as long as they allow us to capture new dollars based on new rooftops, new businesses, new construction that is, and they don't try to limit our levy ability to service our debt, then we should be fine. There'll be other communities that could suffer greatly, but we're well positioned um because of our growth. So, long as we can continue to capture the value from the growth, we should be in good shape.

Yeah. Um, also at your table you will have an updated budget survey and as of as of today we've had 42 responses. So we're getting up there. Anyway, tell your friends tell our friends take the survey. It's kind of interesting to to read some of the information in here and there's things that I'm starting to read it and I'm preparing the budget and I'm talking to Craig and this is kind of what I'm seeing. Should I do this? Should I do that? Um, I just want to highlight just a couple of things just for you to think about. Um, our city, the city's five and five street program, um, are we meeting expectations, meeting expectations or not meeting expectations? And 61% say they they feel like we are making um, meeting expectations. So that's that makes us feel pretty good. However, in the next in the next question, um, beyond the five-year time frame, um, do you do you support this? And 42% said, consider extending with adjustments. So, I don't know, that might be something to think about. Um, again, this is only 42 people. Um, you know, maybe maybe they don't maybe they want us to spend dollars elsewhere and we can visit that at that point in time. It's just kind of interesting. Um, another one is on page five. Um, which priorities um for means park, linear park, and water pool splash pad should receive the most emphasis in the 2027 budget. As I'm preparing budget discussions with department heads, the pool is starting to have a pretty high dollar and you guys will see those when I get there. But I'm trying to summarize all this stuff together. We're starting to find quite a few expenses related to the pool that we hadn't really I mean we thought about putting some dollars to it but just isn't going to cover it. However, we did plan in our 10ear CIP to put $150,000 towards mean means park playground equipment. And according to

this schedule, people think pool is more important than playground improvement. So, I think Craig and I are kind of thinking about juggling some money from that maybe over to the pool instead to try to, you know, accommodate that survey question. Um, again, you all will be able to make the final decision, but these are just some thoughts in our pro in in our processes. Um the current uh the city's current budget approximately um has $46,000 from the general fund for senior center operations um which are most important to the community. And right now meals program is ranking pretty high along with health and wellness programs. The next question related to the senior center program states um should it be increased, decreased or remain the same? And right now it's it's 59.5% saying remain the same in the funding level. And I know that we are discussing increasing senior meals, senior transportation, and senior center fund quite a bit. So I mean, I just want you to know that this is what I'm seeing on here. We're going to proceed with, you know, the direction that I have with putting all of those things in place, but that that is a conflict um with with this survey. So, get your friends to take the survey.

Yeah, I'd like to definitely see more. Like 42 out of several thousand. Yes, exactly. Um, that's about seven times more than took it last year. So, we're we're getting better, right? Yeah, we're getting better. Um, maybe.

Let's see. Moving on to our enterprise funds. Things that are most important to people are water quality and keeping rates affordable. So, keep that in mind. Um, and out of every out of the 40 people that have taken the survey, 81% of the these people are Goddard residents. Um, and 45.2 have lived here more than 10 years. So, that's just a tad bit of some information. Again, this is going to change based on who takes it. And I want to it's on the website now, the current updates. so people can see what I'm seeing and and what we have to work with. Um, coming up with that, staff training and updates. I just want to mention that Kayla is taking the Emerging Leaders Academy and she's graduating in June. So, we're really proud of her for taking that initiative. And on May 19th, um, the city of Goddard is hosting the area finance director's meeting um, through WSU and Dr. Guo. So, we're pretty excited to be able to host that here and bring everybody in. So, That being said, that's all I got.

Thank you so much. So, any questions? So, our current population is 6,000. What is it? Six. No, we we think we're over 7,200. But that's a really difficult

estimate. Take take that water steady 2640 m and take it times three and then take it times 2 and a2 and somewhere probably in that range is a number or if you want to be real aggressive take it by 3.2 too. But, um, it'll be interesting to see when the next census comes out and we can match that off with those meters and we can get a more accurate number of how to project that. So, but I think it's in that range.

Well, I have a question. It's I was present at last year's meeting. Um, so I just remember hearing that at one point the the Tangana was down. Looks like it's not though. Like they're doing very well. Um, their sales tax revenue.

Yes. And so for us, because I think a lot of what they're getting now, just the way they're structuring is outside of Gddard um tourism. And so what does that look like for other areas like our sales tax and like Walmart or do we have any idea how that's benefiting us or maybe just not benefiting us? We need to be careful in the way we have that conversation about these private enterprises and Brooke is privy to data that she is not shar but based on

because we have a starbond district is pretty easy to figure out you know how much sales tax is being collected and knowing that Walmart's like 90% of it you know that Walmart's probably worth three quarter to a million dollars a year in sales tax revenue to It is huge. I don't think that all that all that money in the star bond district that's being collected is going to pay the star bonds which is correct. Yeah. I just remember hearing the conversation that at one point last year there was talks of like that that number being down. It was down last year and I want to I mean this is first quarter right?

Um and I mean in compared C tanga um it's down 9.42% and it's down you know from last year. Um I think at the end, if I recall, for 2025, it ended right where we wanted it to be. I think it just picked up um probably with construction stuff going on out there. I first that didn't help. Yeah. Sorry to interrupt, Rick. Are you Are you talking about the thing specifically? I Yeah, cuz I they're just kind of who I saw on there. I'm not picking them apart, but I know like I mean the ball fields bring in outside sources as well. overall sales tax is is up. Mhm.

per se. Um I mean if we look at our you know one of the first charts here our sales tax is at 15 something%. So I mean overall sales tax is good. Tanka is kind of a little bit different just the C that you're seeing there. Um I think it's seasonal. it's, you know, it's outside of that whole number and we don't, when you see sales tax here, it their money is separate. So when they get their CI money and

it goes directly to them. So it's kind of a separate it's a separate piece of of the puzzle. But, you know, sales tax, if you were looking citywide, looks like it's up, you know, 15%. We could probably assume that sales tax in the Starbond district is probably in that range as well. I was just more thinking the foot traffic and the way that some of these places are structuring to bring in like outside sources like our gas stations are or just our local businesses in general and what that looked like.

Councilman, I I think anecdotally is very happy with how the last year has gone. Um and I I serve on a board with Mr. FS and he shared a statistic last week with us that and I hope I don't get this wrong. The numbers were 80% and 60% I believe that 80% of their patronage comes from outside of the county and 60% comes from outside of the state, which is huge for Goddard. And it's why I tell people we're a a regional tourism attraction because when you factor in that and the Genesis Sports Complex, which we know 7 800,000 annual visitors, we are it's a huge value to our community.

Um, you know, that 1 cent sales tax that we have, that's what allows us to do 1.25 25 million a year in roads while still having one of the lowest mill levies in Cedric County. So great great assets to have in Goddard. Very unique for a community of 7,000 6,000 whichever you want to go with. Uh very great for us to have. That's great. I uh this is just kind of a little bit of a side note, but I would love to know like as we're looking at these numbers, and these could have been further talks before I was on council, but I'd like to know how we push some of those people coming down onto Main Street into those businesses as well. we've got another one that's open and so I think what I think action that you guys take Monday night will help greatly in in that uh vision that you have.

Yeah. Anyways, thank you. I've got some ideas on that, but I'll have to talk to the chief about it to get some people downtown. This is why we need painted cameras. Thank you.

Okay, we are moving on item number. All right, this will be brief. Uh but again, this is all about Main Street today. So uh on Main Street, one of our initial goals is uh seeking designation through the Kansas Main Street program. Uh so Kansas Main Street is the state affiliate with the National Main Street Center based out of Chicago. And uh as part of the uh designation process, we do have to go through a formal application process. We are seeking to become what's called an aspiring community with Kansas Main Street. And so one of the requirements, one of the things that the state is asking all communities that are going through the application process is to pass a local resolution stating that the local unit of government is in support of uh in our case Goddard Main Street's efforts in uh becoming a designated community and supporting in general downtown revitalization. So the resolution is attached to uh the staff report as as well as in the agenda packet and uh it's very brief but again this is just part of our application process hoping to again become uh starting at the designated level of aspiring committee

questions questions questions pretty straightforward yes it is I'll entertain a motion to approve this I make a motion to adopt the resolution supporting Main Street's request to join joining the Main Street Kansas program. Kansas Main Street program, sorry. A second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 5. Thank you. Thanks, R. All right. Moving on. City manager report. You going to skip or you going to dance?

Mr. Mayor, no dance today. I just want to thank uh Danny, the neighbors United Events Committee Pathway, and all the other unnamed volunteers who uh locked arm in- arm to serve our neighbors uh over the weekend. Um awesome event, awesome cleanup day led by our public works department. Um just grateful to see everyone and their servant hearts out uh making our community better. So that's all I got. Pretty good. Do you have anybody comments? Start with the lady on the phone, Naomi.

Hey there. Y just want to say thanks to everybody for all your hard work uh for a great overview as always. Uh super excited about the park. Uh thanks for our partners at um White City Bank. So um thank you guys. Thank you Christa.

Um I feel the same sentiments. Neighbors United was awesome. I was with my grandchildren that day, but I saw a lot of activity happening. Uh, Ace Hardware and all of their efforts and um, you know, flowers and everything around our community. It's awesome to to have a a partner like them as well. So, um, yeah, moving right along. um neighbors United as well. But I just want to take a second to also notate um we had two high school students, Brandon and Riley, who really like had this entire thing. Um each year Dan's got somebody working with him and so we happen to get those two this year. Really, they did the majority of the work. I think Danny would conclude. Um it went very smooth. So I'm very impressed. And it was cup filling as always. So

Oh, my turn. Your turn. Yeah, I'll just continue to echo all the support for Neighbors United. We really appreciate everyone that came out, everyone supported that. We got a lot of good things done. Um, I also wanted to thank the city and the rest of Main Street for hosting first graders last Friday for a field trip. Uh, my son was one of them from Explore, but they loved it. They loved getting to see the police station and some of the shields that were in there. They loved touring some of the businesses down there. Um, getting to see the donuts being made, getting to see iron nutrition, the library. It was just, it was really awesome. I got good feedback. So, um, thank you for everyone that helped make those first graders an exciting trip to Main Street.

Working to develop future voters. That's Couple things. One, uh, I will read this tonight. I I am geeky enough to do that for a week or two. Good stuff. Uh, and sometimes I don't even fall asleep when I'm doing it. We're all looking at work over here.

The other thing is Friday we'll be hosting a group of high school students uh government classes. They're going to come in and Naomi and I are going to entertain their questions and uh I'll sing a couple songs and Naomi will tell a couple jokes and uh hopefully the kids will go away happy. Um, want to thank the staff for all their hard work. We made it through April. uh a lot of unbelievable things. Uh I mean, if you think back two years ago, if somebody would have said, "You're going to be able to raise $1.7 million in in grants and funding for a park," we would have all just been, "Oh, that would be awesome if it would happen." And u I just want to say that is awesome that it has happened. Um it's humbling to see God's hand of favor on our community. Um and and we have a lot to be thankful for here in GD. So, um, just appreciate everyone and hope you all continue to do I know everybody shows up ready to work here because if you don't, you're going to get run over. So, thank you for giving me and, uh, and with that, uh, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn today's meeting.

I make a motion to adjourn today's meeting. Thank you. Have a second. Second. It's been seconded. All those in favor say I. I. Meeting