City Council - Regular Meeting

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.

Heavenly Father, you are so good, Lord. I just want to first give thanks to you for the many blessings that you continue to pour out over our community, Lord. I thank you for the privilege that it is to serve our community, Father. I just pray that your Holy Spirit be in this room this evening and you help give us discernment and guide our decision-making, Father God. It's in your Son Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Thank you.

Before we approve tonight's agenda, I'd like to add an item L2. This is an item at the end of the meeting for consultation with the governing body's attorney for a matter of union privilege communication in the attorney-client privilege relationship. So that will be item L2. I'll make that as a motion. Do I have a second?

Second.

Seconds? No, that's fine. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Now I'll entertain a motion to approve the agenda with the amendment.

I make a motion to approve the agenda with the amendment. Thank you, Naomi.

I second. Christa seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you. Moving on to item D, citizen comments. opportunity for members of the community to come and speak. It's three minutes and it's not a dialogue or anything like that. It's just an opportunity for us to listen. Is there a sheet of paper there so they can sign in and open citizen comments?

Do we have a sign-in sheet up at the podium?

Hello, I'm Kevin O'Brien. I'm running for the 101st District House of Representatives at the state level. Our current representative, Joe Seiward, is retiring after 18 years. Got to know Joe a couple years ago. We also run the arena out at Cheney Lake. And he was helping us with some drought issues and stuff like that and got to know me a little more. And he suggested that I run for politics. And that was kind of a joke because I am not a politician. And I told Joe, I said, I'm too bold to go to Topeka. They'll stick me in a corner and tell me to shut up because they won't like me. And he said, that's exactly why we're gonna have you run. So he did handpick me, he's endorsed me. cheer me on to this to this level of course I got about two weeks left before I know I do have a contested primary so pro-life back by Kansas for life they were Kansas family values other Mike Murphy from Reno County, the senator out there, has endorsed me. The commissioners out there in Reno County have endorsed me. Like I said, Joe has. One that maybe some of you remember, Republican or Representative Steve Hebert has endorsed me also. I think this used to be his area before they rebooted the districts years back. And I'm just wanting to represent and be a guardian of the values for our rural areas. I know Goddard is a growing and thriving city. To me, I can still consider it rural, I'm sorry. I live out between Garden Plain and Cheen and I just feel like our values were starting to slide years ago, our moral fibers, and it just, there's a bubble in Topeka that I think needs popped. And I know a lot of you are politicians also. You felt the need to either serve or be a guardian for values or saw something that needed to be corrected. So I feel like city councils, fire departments, police chiefs, school superintendents, those are the people that I want to work the hardest with when I'm elected. So just wanted to introduce myself, say hello, and August 4th, thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you.

Thank you, Ken, appreciate your time. Anyone else this evening? I don't want to rush anybody, but it looks like we're good. So we'll go ahead and close citizen comments for the evening. Item E on the agenda, just checking to see if there are any conflicts of interest. Council with any of the items on the agenda this evening? No. So we're good on that. You don't have any appointments or proclamations, anything? We're down to item G, consent agenda. If everyone has a chance to read through that. I'd entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

I make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Thank you. Kristen makes a motion to approve it. Do I have a second? Second. 40 seconds. All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries by zero. Thank you. So that is our new HR director, Jeannie Campbell. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

I appreciate that.

I'd just like to say welcome to the show, so here you go.

Yes, I do appreciate that. Hello, everyone. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, thank you for letting me speak tonight. As Mr. Mayor said, I'm Jeannie Campbell.

I'm the HR director. I've been here 18 days. I did count since this morning. And my topic is health insurance renewals and freedom clients.

As this is my first time to present, I am so, so glad it is an easy and well understood topic. And I understand about this time of year that we talk about health insurance renewals. And to lay the groundwork, as is almost every time the case, health insurance goes up nearly every year, every time, everywhere. But, in anticipation of this annual increase in premiums, we rushed it 10%. That's pretty normal, pretty standard. And for our partnerships with Freedom Claims, we also have a health reimbursement arrangement that has helped build reserves. The industry trend So the industry trend is that costs go up year after year. That makes it tough on the smaller municipalities to stay competitive in our retention, in our recruitment.

Last year, our increase was 12.87%.

And we used all of the 10% that was budgeted, and we pulled from our health reimbursement arrangement another 2.87% to cover that. This year, we saw a decrease. I've done this a year or two, and it never goes down. This is a phenomenal year. This is a date to be remembered. And with that, it provides us a cushion and an opportunity to maybe go out and check other benefits that we could offer. We've talked about vision, we've checked into a couple of vision plans, and if we find something that makes sense for our employees, for this city as a whole, we may come forward at a later time and introduce that, make some recommendations based on that. We did our market solicitation. I shouldn't take credit for Freedom of Claims. Freedom of Claims went out, and they talked to the big three. Blue Cross, United, Aetna, wanted to make sure that the rates we were being told were competitive. They were really kind of industry standard. Found that they were. And the rate increase, again, is a decrease at 2.06% this year. The impact to the employees? No payroll increase, no changes to the planning, no nothing. It's going to just be a smooth transition starting September 1 when our planning changes again. With our budget planning, because we can't expect two years like this in a row, We're putting 10% back into our budget for 2027 in anticipation of a premium increase. With the financial, with the decrease, that savings will go into our health reimbursement arrangement. So we've got that there. Again, goes towards that cushion that we might offer benefits or other options to our employees. For legal considerations, oh, I'm sorry, I'm not changing that. I'm just talking to you. Let me catch up here. Okay. Approved as to form. And the recommendations and actions... Where was I? Up there? Can you go up there and turn it on? There you go. So we recommend that the authorized city staff to execute the Blue Cross Blue Shield renewal. Why does it say Blue?

I'll let them know it's a motion and a second.

Oh, do I wait for this? Do I wait for something like that?

You make the first recommendation, give an option, voice in a second, and then you can read the second one if you want to, give them an option for voice in a second.

Okay. Staff recommends that the City Council authorize City staff to execute Blue Cross Blue Shield renewal. Do I...

Okay, we'll consider the first one, we'll do the next one, the one-two step here. Somebody go ahead and make the form of motion on number one.

I make a motion to authorize city staff to execute the Blue Cross Blue Shield rule.

Thank you, ma'am. Let's make the motion. Do we have a second? Second. Naomi seconds. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Okay. Thank you. For the second recommendation from the staff, they recommended the city council authorize the city manager or mayor to execute the Blue Cross Blue Shield and Freedom Plains Incorporated renewal documents.

Okay, here's the second step of the B-step. I'll make the motion to authorize the City Manager and Mayor to execute the contract for Blue Cross Blue Shield and Freedom Plains as renewal documents. Is that a second? Second. May I be second? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. We're getting our security slides in.

Thank you all. Thank you. With me tonight is Hadley Dillon. He's with Freedom Claims. He can answer any questions you've got about rates or trends or comparisons, what he did, what he found when he went out for the analysis. Anything in general? I see her from Great Bend and I appreciate you being here. Will you have any questions for Hadley? In the back corner, I'll ask him to step up there.

I just, anybody that drove all the way down here from Great Bend, we ought to just ask them to say a few words.

Absolutely, I agree. Okay. Thank you so much.

You did great for your first time. She made my job easy.

She said, my name's Hadley with Friggin' Claims Management out of Great Bend, Kansas. Any questions this evening?

Maybe just summarize kind of what's happened here this year with the 2% decrease of not the standards.

Absolutely. If you guys would have had an identical demographic or enrollment from where you were previously, it would have been a little over 11%. But as she mentioned, you guys had kind of a changing of staff. Looks like we maybe hired some younger individuals and therefore Blue Cross and Blue Shield looking at you guys from an age perspective. brought that down to that 2% increase. So if you would have kept your pool the same, it would have been 11% increase, which was kind of on trend with United Healthcare as well as Aetna. United Healthcare was about 15% increase, and the other one was about a 16. So they're all in that double-digit range. Blue Cross has been anywhere from the 11% to 13% range on those A-rated plans that you guys are on. So a very favorable renewal. I will talk a little bit about your reserves. You guys have... A very significant amount in there. It has grown quicker than we imagined. I think that's a good problem to have, if we'll call it that. And this year, you guys will actually cross the threshold where you will have more in your reserve than in an absolute worst-case scenario you could possibly have in Miami. So things are moving in the right direction. We like what we see.

That's great. Thank you so much.

You bet. You guys have a good evening. You as well.

Thanks for making the long drive.

You bet.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

First item up here is item I-2, Amendment to the 10-Year Capital Improvement Plan. And this is about the time of year after we've done quite a bit of work, we're in July, that it's time to just update our CIP. As you recall, we did this back in January where we just, you know, realigned our capital improvement program. move things around, got better estimates, kind of set our stage for the year. And now that we've gone through three of our four budget workshops, we were able to kind of gauge that, fine tune that again. As you know, our CIP is a living document. So what we've done is made some updates based on the 2027 budget workshops and also to update the CIP for developer projects that we want to keep out of our off of our debt limit so again this is an annual update completed default for following the 2026 budget workshops and it incorporates all of our council approved projects it updates our estimates revised schedules and current development activity It aligns the 10-year CIP with the city's current financial plan of long-term infrastructure priorities, includes a resolution identifying developer-funded street improvement projects for the inclusion of CIP. Qualifying developer-funded projects are excluded from the city's statutory debt limitation under campus law and provides a comprehensive long-range view of both the city-funded and developer-funded public infrastructure investments. These are some of the changes that we've made and a lot of these you're going to be familiar with already because you've been to the budget workshops. But some things that were added were the city branding and promotions. This was a 2027 budget update. The senior center should be planned for 2027. We also made sure we had dollars in there for our comprehensive plan year two. Facility upgrades, we have decided to move forward with our council chamber audio-visual upgrades. We have incorporated in the 2027 budget the police station and justice center engineering and design study. In 2028 we're projected to do the police station and justice center engineering as well. City Hall Engineering and Design, we bumped that up to 2028 from 2029 for the engineering piece, and then we moved up the City Hall Modernization from 2029, from 30 to 29. So those are some projects that have moved around on the schedule. And I forgot to mention, at your table is the new updated matrix too that we like to keep updated to kind of map this stuff out. Parks and recreation, we were able to include our legacy bank park naming rights of our $50,000 a year that we're planning to receive against that project. And we added in our city pool filter replacement and city pool rehab program for 60 and 72,000. And our future pool maintenance is gonna be at 25,000. We're gonna bump that back out to 30, to 2030. If you recall, in our current version before this, we only had 25,000 budgeted for 27 for pool, but then we identified a bunch of needs that were needed with the pool, so we had to do some juggling and were able to push those out. Pathways and streets. In the 2027 budget we budgeted 110 for the roundabout revamp at 183rd and Maple. The engineering on that and then also the engineering for the US 54 and 199th street expansion for 300,000. So those are some street projects that we've updated in there. Of course, I want to mention that these are just updates, so there's still things on there that we haven't changed, like our five and five program and those things. These are just changes that we've either moved around or added or taken off. Water, sewer, and stormwater projects. We added in the strategic capital improvement program for $150,000 to take place in 27. In 27, also the ground storage tank rehabilitation that we need to do. 2027 water tower booster program, or I guess it wasn't a program, it's just a function that we need to do. 5 and 5 water main program, we extended that out. I think we'd only, in our 10 year CIP, only really only had it out five years, but I went ahead and bumped it all the way out $100,000 each year for water and sewer projects all the way through this CIP out. Our area well expansion, we've updated that. There's stuff happening in 26, 27, and 28 for that project. Right now we're estimating that total project to come in at about 3.65 million, but with that, Coming online, we did take off the Evergy area well expansion project because we feel like the Everly trails will accommodate and accomplish the goals that we're needing for our city right now. So we actually removed $9.1 billion on that. Generator equipment, I skipped over that one, for wells four and five. Jason Public Works says that we can probably push that out. I think we had it scheduled for next year or the year after. He says right now we're just gonna let it ride. He doesn't feel like that's something that's high priority. So again, we always make adjustments and determine the best use of our dollars and the projects that need done most immediately. Development projects that are added to the CIP. We've got about 9.2 million dollars of street projects related to our development projects and again we want to add these to the CIP so they are not included in our debt limit. The resolution that will be adopted tonight is really structured so those items are included on that resolution in our CIP. So overall, our 10-year CIP right now is coming in at about $120 million. Seems like a lot of money, which absolutely it is, but it's strategically planned through 10 years, and we make adjustments as we need to through each budget season. I'm sure this will change again, but again, we like to keep this updated and as fresh as we can since it's one of our living documents that we work with all the time. Financial and legal considerations. This doesn't mean that we're adopting any projects tonight. We're not approving any dollars to be spent. This is all just approving that they go on our schedule and everything will obviously come back to council for approval before anything is set in stone. the key point here this agenda item updates the city's long-term capital improvement plan does not authorize new spending or debt so you can rest assured that city staff isn't just going to go back after this tonight it just starts flowing through cash so we can still bring everything to you for approval Legal considerations, the resolution was prepared by Kevin Cowan at Gilmore Bell, so it should be ready to go. Shouldn't have any issues with it. And so tonight staff recommends that the city council adopt the resolution updating the 10-year capital improvement plan and identifying qualifying developer funded capital improvement projects for the inclusion in the CIP and authorize the revised 10-year capital improvement plan as presented.

Mayor, can I add a couple things and then ask a question? I missed this in my review. Just one thing we'll want to change, and we can adopt this with amendments tonight. It's not going to delay the process. The Justice Center construction, we'll want to move that from 29 to 28. We intend to start construction in 2028 on that. I wanted to also add some color. The Everly trails, that 3.65 million, that number is kind of floating. We know kind of what our engineering costs and stuff are for that, but the construction, I could see us coming back next year. If we approve the task orders tonight from Burns and Mack, we're going to get a much more accurate construction cost figure. And when we update the 10-year CIP next year and we do this annually, we can refine that one a little bit.

I wanted to also add, just for the public's... Just when we bring that well online, 135 million gallons of water is delivered on that. Seven. 137? Yeah. I hate to be off. Sorry. We don't want anyone going through... I'm glad I understated it. But I think it's important for people to know that this is a process that we're securing our water future with this. We've been very fortunate to get this done for the cost and expense that we have, and this is just a really good thing. I just wanted to be sure we highlighted that.

Yeah, thank you for that. As you probably saw in the agenda report for this couple items down the road here in the schedule, a lot has gone into that. Could you go to the development project slide? I just wanted the public to know that all of these projects are not being paid for by the citizens at large. These are developments that are financed through special assessments, so they're paid for by the lot owners that have purchased properties and built homes in these neighborhoods. I know Kevin couldn't be here tonight, so I'm not sure how he would answer this, but I didn't notice before that Goddard Galleria was missing from this list, and so if that's one we're able to add in, then okay, no. That's all I have.

One other thing that we should also mention is on the facility construction of the police station and justice center, we did have that originally budgeted around 20 million. Craig and chief have done a bunch of research to reduce that cost down to be a little more accurate. So there's quite a cost savings in that project to the work that they've been doing on that.

Any other questions or comments?

some a lot of great projects coming got some good things going on right now mayor we just ask that when you uh request a motion that you uh put we're the 2028 three stations

So would someone like to make that motion and make that adjustment to the e-station at the start of 2028?

I make the motion to adopt the resolution updating the 10-year capital improvement plan and identifying qualifying developer-funded capital improvement projects for inclusion in the CIP to include the date adjustment for the Justice Center of 2028.

We have a motion to have a second. Second. And second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0.

And I authorize the revised 10-year capital improvement plan as presented in the motion.

Second. Very good. Thank you. Motion moved and seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Passes 5-0. Thank you. On to item three. Still at the plate.

okay so now it's time for the 2026 second quarter financial report um hard to believe we're already here at this point in time and um you know, the budget season wrapping up, it couldn't be any better time, right, to be halfway through the year. So this presentation looks just as it always has. The purpose of the report is to provide an overview of the city's financial position and performance through the second quarter, highlight fund-specific activities, balances, and compliance with the budget authority, and discuss any significant trends or variances. So we will go through the general fund. And I'm really happy to report everything is really lining up as we had projected, maybe performing just a little bit better in those categories than we had planned on. But overall, everything is right on par. Some of the more performing revenue sources for the general fund, our comp use tax is up 15.97% from last year. Our franchise taxes are up 5.74, property taxes are up 22.56, and sales tax is up 7.97. Last year we were kind of nervous about our building permits and fee income because it was down quite a bit due to the rainy weather and some backlog of work. But it is performing 31.7% better than last year. So I think we're catching up and we're doing a little bit better there. So overall total revenue, we are at 68.42% of what we expected to receive at this point in time. So really anything over 50%, my book, looks pretty good. Year over year, we're up 16.54%. Our top five revenue sources are really pretty standard. We see this pretty much every quarter. Our property taxes, followed by sales tax, comp use tax, franchise tax, and building permits. I think last year building permits didn't really show up until almost third quarter or fourth quarter almost, but they're starting to get right back up there where we expected them to be. General fund expenditures looking really good. Overall, our total expenditures are at 48.73%, and we would expect that to be anything under 50% or under, so we're hitting right at performance. Capital outlay, discretionary, I want to just make a mention of that line item that we have. So there's a lot of dollars in that. that bucket right now about three hundred fourteen thousand dollars of 2025 expenses coming through in 2026 so that looks a little bit high just just for that those items but really overall all in the departments within the general fund are really performing right where they need to be really nothing nothing to really be excited about. If I notice somebody maybe over a 50% mark, I kind of look and I judge and maybe we did our trainings or something early in the year front-loaded costs with software and stuff that kind of even out throughout the year. So overall, general fund expenditures are looking really good. Top five expenditure categories. Again, really no surprise here. Our police court animal control ranked number one in expenditures, about 1.2 million, followed by administration. Capital outlay, the discretionary line item, which again, just as you remember, those are kind of capital projects. It's where we put our big ticket items in the general fund, software, grants, matches, consult teamwork, Also, as you recall, through our budget processes, we will not be doing that next year. We'll be actually moving those around to different departments so it's not kind of jumbled up right there in that component of the budget. Any questions on the general fund? All right, moving on to special revenue and enterprise funds. Again, these are funds, our special revenues have these different revenue sources, either transfers or gas tax or mill levy or debt service transfers get funded through these different components, and then we have our enterprise funds. Everything's looking really good in all of our enterprise funds, or all of our special revenues and enterprise funds as well. Debt service revenues down just a little bit. That's just some taxes revenue that we kind of expect to receive in any day now or any minute really. I think once that hits, that will catch up and be where we want it to be. Let's see here. I wanted to make mention of the CID for Tanganyika. It's up 91% from last year, so their sales tax and sales and business seem to be doing a lot better than they were doing this time last year. You're going to see in the budget presentation we do Wednesday night that we have to budget so much that we can give them through that tax. They're going to have probably like a... They brought in too much money that we can't give to them, so they're going to have more given to them probably in January to catch up and kind of zero out that fund. Let's see. I will get into detail in the enterprise funds next. I'm going to skip down to stormwater utility. It's looking really good too. Revenue's up 9.2% from last year. So overall revenue in all of these different funds is about up 3.66% on average. Expenditures, looking really good too. Everybody stand within their budgets. In the water utility and sewer utility fund, it is looking like they're doing really well, but I want you to know that that doesn't include the transfers. These dollars up on top don't include the transfers below. So I think once you get your transfers up into that grouping, the water transfers and sewer transfers, they'd be right at 50%. So they're doing really good. Operational-wise, everything looks really good there. We've been able to make 100% of all of our transfers, 50% of all of our transfers, 100% of all of our water and sewer transfers have been made. And again, I think I mentioned that in first quarter, I like to do all the debt service transfers out so they're already done for the year. So when debt payments hit, we're not trying to juggle fund balance and make sure everything is in balance there. Enterprise fund performance, we'll talk about the water fund. Water fund's looking really healthy, a lot healthier than it has been. It just keeps getting better and better just the way that we've been working it and the way that our rates are set and the way that we manage it and just keep an eye on things. But our total operating revenue so far this year is at $870,000. Total operating expenses is about $521,000, leaving a net operating income of $348,000. We have some other revenue coming in through non-operating sources and through the reserve funds, so we bring in some interest and some equity fees. Equity fees are down a little bit. As we've talked about in our budget workshops, those are down and maybe they will get back up when things start getting built and they're catching up with some work that needs to be done. So our total non-operating revenue was $61,292. Then we transfer out. We have all of our different transfers to the debt service fund, the water reserve fund, equipment reserve, and the capital improvement fund leaves us with a net income of $137,000. So even after all those things, we're still doing really well. Total water utility fund balance as of 6-30, which includes water fund balance and the water reserve fund, $1.62 million. I think when I came on, what were we like? Maybe... I was going to say a couple hundred thousand.

I think it's worse than that.

Yeah, it might have been. So, you know, we're keeping that balance where we would like. Capital and financing activities, we are doing some things within these funds. Within the capital... The water reserve fund and capital outlay, we spend about $118,000 on different water projects, the Everly Trails projects, some other, whatever seems emergency or something that we budgeted for comes out of that fund. And then we have some capital outlay that's really non-cash projects. it does not affect the water funds because it's either coming out of the capital improvement fund where we've got fund balance built up over there to do projects or it's been financed through tetanomes and it's handled outside of the water fund so with that being said we've spent you know 84,000 in the capital improvement fund and 720,000 in it within our tetanome projects which would be the SCADA and the water living project so those are those are the projects we're doing there operating ratio 59.89 percent excellent anything under 80 is good so again this means that our rates are where they need to be to to handle basic operations so that is that has been used Net income as a percentage of operating revenue is at 40.11, also excellent. Days of cash on hand is 1157 days and our debt service coverage ratio is 4.83. So those may seem like really good metrics and somebody might wonder why we keep that much cash on hand. We have purpose for that as we work through our budget and we project it out through the next five years how that money is going to be spent either paying off debt early pay down debt, cash flowing some of these projects on our CIP. So those dollars all have a plan.

Any questions on water?

A precious resource that we need to guide. Take good care of it.

Sewer funds doing good too. Really no complaints here. Total operating revenue $941,000. Total operating expenses $495,000 leaves us with net operating income of $446,000. Other revenue coming in, just like the water fund, we have interest income and equity fees coming in at $75,000. Transfer out for debt service, sewer reserve fund, equipment reserve at $477,000 leaves us with $43,994. Now that number seems a lot less than our other one, but if you take into consideration We've done a hundred percent of our transfers at this point in time to our debt service fund that it's going to get better and better I think unless something happens in the next quarters Our revenue will be just fine. Our metrics are still okay as well total sewer utility balance sewer balance and reserves is set at 2.3 million, excellent amount of cash to have on hand. Capital outlay, we spent about $201,000 on different projects within the sewer fund, sewer reserve fund. There's just a lot of projects that they've been working on, like Catwalk, and I can't think of them honestly right off hand, but they were on our list when we were working on our budget. Nothing has happened in the capital improvement fund. We haven't used any dollars there for projects. There's no need to at this point. Tech note projects, $227,150. That is data. So that's what that is. Operating ratio, $52.6. Net income as a percentage of operating revenue, 47.4. Days of cash on hand, 1765. And debt service coverage ratio, 2.58. Again, very, very healthy. We'd like to see our utilities performing. Any questions on that? Okay, so now we will cover the capital improvement funds, all of our reserve funds and our capital improvement fund. So first quarter, we were setting at $50 million in our capital improvement fund and our project fund balance. Now remember, our projects also include All the developer projects and our capital improvement fund, that's why I worked those down. We dropped down to $46,279,000. That's no big deal because that just means projects are happening and things are getting billed and those dollars that we borrowed are being spent like they're supposed to be. So there's no concern, really, even though that arrow's going down. Maybe I should put a smiley face on it or something. We're spending our money and doing our projects, so that's what that means. To break out all the projects that we have, this is the balance of 630. Out of the 46 million, 19.9 million is allocated to city project funds, and you can see the breakdown there. 2.6 is in our capital improvement fund. Part of that 2.6, within that 2.6 million is dollars for SCADA. I wanna say there's about probably $586,000 left on the SCADA notes when held in that group of money. And then we have those other projects there. Arbor, I want to make mention that the Arbor Creek phase three and the Bridger at Maple phase one are the two temp notes that we're getting ready to convert to permanent finance. So those two will be coming off of that and then going on to our geo on debt schedule. So that'll change, but we're also, when we bring that note to you, we're also going to add some work to it. So you're going to see um the note for the 2026-3 coming in there with the meter cans and some 167 projects and 23rd edition projects coming in there too so again this thing juggles around and this is this is where we break it out right now reserve fund balances we have an equipment reserves sewer utility reserves and water utility reserves all of those levels really kind of just staying I mean, we are spending money in there, but they have revenue, they have interest income, they have transfers in. We kind of watch that, just kind of keep them at a level that I don't ever want to bring them down, but we want to keep them ready to use. In our equipment reserves, we have spent $132,000 on these sort of projects. Computer and office equipment are $32,000. That's our annual computer upgrades, our cloud migrations, our firewalls and all that stuff. That's all planned. I mean, that's all within the budget. That's not a surprise. Our vehicle is a component. That's police car and outfitting that we budgeted for. Camera equipment for the pool and public works equipment repairs. They bought something to tire something, but now they don't have to go pay somebody to do tire work. They can do it themselves. Sometimes you gotta spend money to make money. Isn't that what they say? We like the explanation too.

Just to explain what it is they got.

Right, yeah. Debt summary. I'm almost done, I promise. As of 6-30, we're sitting at $107,405,000 in total debt. 50% of that is developer projects at $53,645,000. 22% of that is Special assessment projects, stuff that's already gone to permanent finance. And then our city projects is about 28%. So out of that $107 million, $30 million of that is city, city of large really, the ones that we really got to keep on our radar to make sure we're covering those payments. Everything else is handled through special assessments. Treasury update. We're sitting at about $59 million in cash as of 6-30. Our total interest earnings as of 6-30 was $1,056,000. That's up 57% since last year. So that just shows that all the cash we have on hand. We're constantly looking at the interest rate. You know, I kind of juggle between People's Bank and First National Bank kind of based on what I can do there to kind of get us the best interest rate that we can get. We will be moving money from, and I have moved it already, Farmers Bank and Trust. That's our Freedom of Claims account. So you can see at that point in time, the $241,000, we have moved that out of there to First National Bank right now. There are some FDIC issues that I wanted to make sure that were being covered. So it's easier managed there as well. Quarterly charges report. This has been sent to the paper. It's ready to go. Again, this just shows your funds, your beginning balances of 331, all your revenues, expenses, so on and so forth. It's pretty self-explanatory. It's required to be published quarterly in the paper by Kansas statute, so we make sure we get it in there. Change in fund balance. This just goes to show what our fund balance was at the beginning of 331 and the ending at 630 and just kind of show where we are overall in all funds, if that mattered really. We decreased in total fund balance by about 2.5 million. Each fund is going to do their own thing based on what's happening. A good portion of those is our capital project funds down there at the bottom that are moving and sending those dollars out for the different projects that they're financing. Fund balance compliance. This is always a fun one just to make sure we're where we need to be with fund balance compliance and have it dip down below somewhere where we don't like it and everything's performing exactly where we want it to be. So when Brett and I are on a call with the bond rating agencies probably in the next week, we want to be able to show them that we're following all the rules and they're willing to loan us money at a good interest rate. I put this in your packet just so you can have an idea. I like to put it in here. Council approved city projects. Just something kind of outside of this. This doesn't include any developer projects. This is just city projects. Just to remind you, we did approve these projects. This is what we did. To start going through the year, we sometimes forget all of the stuff that we do. So it's just kind of a running total. And finally, just some projects and planning update. The Tyler ERP implementation is moving along. I think we're still in stage two of six. They haven't told me the next number if we're there or not. But the chart of accounts is in progress and it should be finalized this week. So that's really exciting. That's the heart and soul of our accounting system. So we'll get that finalized. our financials um so my main job will go live in november of 2026 is what we're estimating payroll and hr is going to start taking off in december and january and possibly go live in march 27 utility billing we can't do them all at the same time so we have to push it out so we're looking at may of 2027 so my goal of getting this all done this year wasn't in tyler's plan i guess so I got to work with what they're doing, but we work timely with them to get them exactly what they need so we can move this along. Keep that in mind. I do. 2027 budget prep. Our final budget workshop is Wednesday night, so congratulations. We've made it this far. Our R&R hearing and budget hearing adoption will be at the meeting on September 8th. And then I'm hoping to have the GFOA budget book done in August. So that's kind of where we are. Lots going on. Be happy to take any questions.

Questions?

I was just going to say, I know they say this often, but I said it again today. For us little people who are not numbers people, I really appreciate the way you break this down because sometimes questions that I probably would have, I don't have to ask because you're so thorough in the way that you explain it and the way that you put it out here for us. So I just really appreciate that.

Thank you.

A couple of dittos and we're very well done.

Good job, Brooke. Thanks, Brooke. Thank you.

Shout out to the Boy Scouts.

All right, how about now? Thank you. Auburn Mayor and City Council, it's my pleasure to bring to you during the item of new business, the Everly Trails Municipal Well, preliminary engineering for both the well and the transmission line. Before I get started this evening, I sent some communication to you guys about this, but I just want to reiterate this Everly Trails opportunity came to fruition because of due diligence by our longtime city engineer, Harlan Foraker, who found these water rights and helped us get this process underway. And I want to publicly extend my gratitude to him for that work. And as you would have seen in the agenda packet, there was a lot of detail. And basically going back to the beginning of spring of last year, there has been hurdle after hurdle after hurdle that we have had to get over to get to this point. And a lot of that effort occurred due to the work and diligence of Carl Swartz, our attorney at Morris Lane. So just grateful to those two for their work and helping get us to this point. And then really for the last six months or so, the Burns and Mack folks have taken the baton and worked with city staff to kind of get us to where we're at today, which again is including a lot of time and effort. And Brian Meyer is here with us this evening to assist with any of the technical questions that you're gonna have for me that I can't answer. So you saw a complete timeline of the planning milestones that have occurred over the last 18 months or so. The remaining work is primarily selecting the transmission line route and completing the formal engineering and regulatory submittals that are going to be required by a couple of our state agencies. So Burns and Mack has helped us thus far with the hydrogeology. Say that five times fast. Regulatory and preliminary planning matters for the project. Attached in your agenda packet would have been two task orders. One relates to preliminary engineering for the water well itself, and the other would be the transmission line. We've got to take an 18-inch pipe from the site near 135th and 13th, central-ish area, to our 18-inch transmission line on Kellogg and find a proper way to do that. So the purpose of this agenda item is to consider approving those task orders so we can continue with haste on the process of the preliminary engineering. So these two assignments will be completed by Brendan Mack concurrently. Obviously the alignment is going to affect some of the disinfectant process where that's located in relationship to the well itself. So the task orders do not authorize final design or construction. So these two task orders are going to get us most of the way there. As you would have seen in our budgetary conversations, we've got some funding set aside kind of for the final engineering and construction administration. If all the stars align, maybe we're building a well by the beginning of 2028. things are really lucky maybe the end of next year. So I'm not going to go through all the specifics of the task order. They're very comprehensive scope of work. You can see that there's two costs here, one for the well itself, $153,000 and then $90,000 for the transmission line. So working with our CFO Brooke, we're going to fund this partially from the Water Reserve Fund and partially from the Capital Improvement Fund. Depending on what the council and the CFO recommend when we issue temp notes to finance this construction of this project, we could consider paying those cost centers back with temporary note proceeds, or we could keep our annual debt service down by just using that cash and not reimbursing those accounts. With that, I want to offer Brian Meyer the opportunity to share anything he'd like about where we're at in the process and what's to come and then open it up to questions from the City Council.

Thank you, Greg. Good evening, Mayor, City Council. Brian Meyer with Burns McDonald. I'd probably echo a couple of things that were just said. Talking about water and how important it is to the community. In this day and age, there's nothing easy anymore. So the work that was done to secure this water source is phenomenal. And it really can have a tremendous positive effect on the city going forward. And two of the things I would add that make this have such good potential is when we're looking at new well sites, new sources of supply, quantity and quality, first things that come to mind. This potential source hits both of the marks. So that's exciting because we need to have, first, sustainable. supply we need to meet both of those objectives so we're honored to be able to work on this project we look forward to it and as craig said there's really two pieces to this looking at the configuration of the well site what's going to be right for the city long term from a strategic well development standpoint and infrastructure and then looking at the routing how are we going to get the water into the system what is the most cost-effective route, including selection of pipe size, material, and the routing. So we're looking forward to it, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

Any questions?

Thank you for doing the work with it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Alright, Mayor and Council, we have a recommendation here for you on the slide. Staff is requesting that you allow the Mayor or City Manager to execute the task orders.

I make a motion to approve Task Order 2 and Task Order 3 for a total amount not to exceed $243,000 and authorize the Mayor or City Manager to execute the task orders.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

All right.

This is the resolution for US 54-18001 West Highway 54 annexation. So just kind of a brief background, but this is a property that's on the south side of 54, which is kind of east of 183rd. You've probably passed it when you're at east of Wichita. I've seen it a couple times. This does qualify for what we call a unilateral annexation under state law. Brian Peck is our attorneys here today to testify to this if you have any questions about the legality of the unilateral annexation. Step one is the resolution, which you guys see in your agenda packet. That's the first step. You have to adopt that resolution. It sets the public hearing. We have to wait 60 days. We have to send out letters to all interested parties, which includes not limited to Board of County Commissioners, fire district, township, school district, and others, of course, the property owner themselves. at which point when you guys have that public hearing we'll go through what's called an annexation service plan which is outlined and included in your agenda packet we'll go through that agenda that annexation service plan will outline once again the legal qualifications for this property at which point you can hear from any interested parties if any show up and then you can adopt an ordinance later in september to annex the property But as I mentioned, here's kind of the five steps. You have a report, you have a resolution, notice of affected property owners as well as others, interested parties, a public hearing, and adoption of publication of an annexation ordinance. The report shows the extension of services, resolution to be sent to all affected parties and sets a date for the public hearing. The public hearing must be held not less than 60 days, no more than 70 days following the date of adoption. The public hearing will take place on September 21st, 2026, which is February Monday. The resolution must be published in an official newspaper not less than one week and not more than two weeks preceding the public hearing, which is September 10th of 2026. The nominating sketch map must be published with it. We'll handle Sarah Simon, which is the city clerk and myself, we'll handle all these requirements, and we'll send out all the certified mailers to all the entrusted parties, just like we did, as you guys have experienced with the Hawkins Lane development. So purple is our city limits. The area that we're interested in is this one. I will mention that we also sent out an annexation petition request and came out with this property right over here. That one they actually generally verbally consented to, but they haven't signed the petition yet. Once they do, we'll bring that before you guys can send it to Gen 9, but they haven't signed the petition yet. This one is the unilateral intersection that we're considering today. At some point, we probably should consider it as just a little triangle here too, but we figured we're just going to start with these two first. This is what we would consider making the city when it's harmonious, because as you can see, it's a sea of purple all around what we call an inverted island, and so we're going to make the city when it's harmonious and continuous. Next. So there's a small publication cost because we have to send out a lot of letters. And we don't need to publish the resolution. Like I said, we have a specific time window as it gets close to that public hearing date. But that resolution has to be included in a lot of letters that we send to certified fellow protected property owners. So here's the legal. As mentioned, Ryan Peck is here. If you guys have any questions about the legality of it. It is recognized that the council adopted the resolution setting date for public hearing and authorized the commencement of the unilateral annexation of the property. Questions?

It's just unfortunate that things like this have to go through this process. You know, a property that's halfway burning around already with vehicles and different things on the property. It is what it is, I guess. Any other questions or comments? Corey, you want to make a motion?

Yeah, I'll make a motion to adopt the resolution setting a date for public hearing and authorizing the commencement of unilateral annexation.

Second. Thank you. Please give the motion. A man has seconds. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Danny, the show is yours.

Yeah.

Use your inside voice.

All right, I'll use my inside voice.

OK. Wow, shoot.

I am here today to present our fall festival and clinical 5K request. We've had a lot of committee meetings, and this is what the board had voted on to change the pace of things. So, we'll stick to this one. In previous years, the Goddard Fall Festival has welcomed approximately 11,500 visitors for tournaments, a parade, Kids' Corner, carnivals, vendor shows, food trucks, and of course live entertainment. Last year, approximately $1,970 was spent on the live concert and fireworks portion, which drew an estimated 200 attendees. Due to the limited participation, the Fall Festival Committee is recommending a new approach for 2026. On July 7th, 2026, the committee voted to move forward with a proposal to replace the stage entertainment and fireworks with a great and affordable 5K, creating a more interactive experience designed to increase participation and appeal to a broader audience. Music entertainment will remain part of the festival with a DJ schedule throughout the park from noon to 5 and 107.9 providing music in the morning and as well as in the evening during the carnival. To move back around, the Saturday morning event will feature the great football 5K, a fun non-competitive 5K experience featuring 11 great giants and playable obstacles designed for participants of ages 8 years and up. The great affordable 5K company is originally from Naples, Florida. There used to be three throughout the United States. Once COVID hit, two of them decided to settle and shut down their business. And so the only one that is truly up and running and responding is from Naples, Florida. Each registration registered participant will receive, of course, your typical 5K initiatives like a t-shirt, race band, medal, and then access to all 11 inflatable 5Ks. inflatable obstacles throughout the course of the day. Festival attendees will enjoy unlimited access to all inflatable attractions during operating hours for an anticipated admission price of approximately 10 to 15 per participant on Saturday and Sunday. This format allows both race participants and festival guests to experience the attractions throughout the weekend while maximizing attendance and community engagement. Transportation, so some of the big costs that we see having them come is a truck rental and fuel, event staffing and labor, which is their team, marketing and paid social, which is what they'll provide as well. Pretty well everything listed they'll provide, unless of course I have a previous or continuing sponsor that would cover the cost of something they would need, gas for generators or a first aid station. And of course, there are a lot of other things like traffic cones, just miscellaneous things you need for races like this. Marketing and paid social, of course, 4,000. Lodging and meals, 2,500. Along with lodging and meals, depending on the sponsors and what people would like to do, we can probably save some money there as well. So a lot of these prices and estimated costs could significantly go down. Insurance will not, unfortunately. That is permanent. But Fort Cliff Rental could be an easy supplement for the United Rental. Business overhead, equipment depreciation, and operational reserve is going to be $8,000. Our total estimated cost would be about $43,250. The proposed minimum revenue guarantee is intended to cover the estimated cost of producing the event, including participant materials, transportation, staffing, business overhead, equipment depreciation, and the overall operational commitment required to transport, set up, and manage the event in Kansas. Analysis continue. Minimum revenue guarantee $43,350. All gross revenue between the grant affordable 5G registrations, festival and affordable admissions rate. From if total gross event revenue reaches or exceeds $43,350, no payment from the state is required. If total gross event revenue is less than $43,350, the city will contribute only the difference between actual gross event revenue and the guaranteed minimum. So one more thing to go on. Projected revenue will vary based on attendance, weather conditions, marketing performance. Based on comparable grade, affordable 5K events, and anticipated revenue sources include anywhere from an estimated $35,000 to $45,000 for registrations, then for festival open play anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000, an estimated gross revenue in the game year from $45,000 to $65,000. So, where will it take place? I have already been in the works of talking with Dane and he has given us his blessing mr superintendent of our schools to use the school's property for where this race would take place which would ultimately ensure soft grass considering the only other time i have seen in history where an inflatable 5k came to wichita kansas or around the area was in 2020 and their inflatable 5k was in centric county park which has a lot of stickers based on just people who have ran the race that were in this community that gave their feedback they recommended soft cracks that was the number one they were picking stickers out of their hair and their clothes for about two hours after the event so initially we would have our course go around the baseball fields so that attendees and vendors would be able to see the race going on in the morning and throughout the afternoon. We would have tiers from 8, 9, 11, 12, and 1 p.m. And then we would give room for 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. so that everyone pretty well make it to the parade and enjoy all the aesthetics. So we would move, they would have their registration at Clark Davidson. I always get these schools mixed up. It's so fresh. But Clark Davidson is where registered participants as well as people coming in for the race would come and park and get set up. This would be your starting point and then it would go around from there. And our next question would normally be. logistics would it be in the way of the parade schools kickballs by seven so we've got a kickball tournament this year from five to seven on Friday so it won't interfere with when they will be there which is Saturday and Sunday so here's the overall map and then just for to fill everyone in we have moved grade check-in due to safety precautions from previous years last year we had a lot of people queuing off of Kellogg and it created a traffic jam and also I would hate to imagine kids on a parade float waiting on Kellogg. And that just screams danger to me. So we, Lions Club, really initiated a pathway, doubled down and said they would love to do security for the crowd. So we're gonna check in here, down at Goddard High, queue from to the left and up onto Main and then they'll circle back where that yellow dot is, it's 4th Street. They're gonna queue back to 199 and head back to the school. so that they never cross Kellogg and also so that they don't intersect with other things going on in that morning. So for instance, when they're getting ready to queue for the parade check-in, if there are vendors in the morning that are still checking in, they'll be coming down main so they won't intersect with each other. And of course, vendor registration will close an hour and a half, actually three hours before the parade starts. They start, they close at 7.30. So just so everyone has an idea of how the layout is going to be this year, we've got our volleyball, cornhole, and pickleball tournaments happening at Sandbox. Our carnival will of course be where it was the previous year. Instead of live music, we will have a movie in the park held by Blast Off Bay, as well as a touch of truck. Held by hopefully sponsors from previous years, like our good partners on Prairie. And then we've also got free swim Friday night. And of course, free parking at Blastoff Bay during the day. So if all the streets are crowded, you can always go there and they'll provide some shovels throughout the day for you. Alright, so the revenue sharing partner, the great little 5K proposal includes a revenue sharing opportunity for the city of Goddard. After the final really agreed upon minimum revenue guarantee is met, 20% of all gross revenue collected above that amount would be credited to the city of Goddard. The minimum revenue guarantee may be reduced if the city secures donated services, sponsorships, discounted pricing, or other local partnerships that lower direct event expenses. Any verified savings would be applied before the event and the revenue sharing threshold would be adjusted accordingly. This structure also allows both parties to benefit from local cost saving efforts and the event's overall financial success. It is recommended that the City Council move to approve the proposal amounting to $43,350 to be a part of the grant approval plan.

Any questions? Questions?

Is there a weather contingency on this if it rains?

More or less, we have them for two days. So we have them all day Saturday and all day Sunday. And so, I mean, I would hope that it doesn't downpour all day. But a few hours won't make or break them, by any means. We would probably just set those times back a little bit.

And if revenue is down, just like worst case scenario, what does that look like as far as the funds that come out of it? Absolutely.

So with projected sponsorships as well as just even if, you know, let's say we had registrations come in and they paid for the race, we would need to spend about $13,712. With the $20,000 we saved from, that we plan to not use towards the live music, that would go towards that $45,000, $43,000. Sorry, I round up in my head. Yeah, so... Overall, we're looking to have about $1,000 in sponsorships this year. And right now we are at $8,000, not including, for instance, golf carts, blast-off-base sponsorship tournaments. And then the revenue so far that we've brought in for vendors is $10,000. 800, I believe. Just with registrations from vendors. And we're projected to make $18,800 in projected vendor registration revenue this year.

Mayor Lee, could I address the council? Please do. Councilman Hall, I think, and I don't want Danny to correct me if I'm wrong, but if we are taking all the sponsorship up front and people are registering up front, I don't know if it's a no refund policy, but assuming it would be, then the dollars and cents wouldn't change for us. That's something we need to verify, it sounds like. Thank you.

Do they have any feel or estimate, kind of knowing the area, how many participants they would have?

We would need pretty much 1,000 to cover the cost.

Are they fairly confident coming to this area? They would feel, yeah.

They feel confident just in the numbers that surround this town that they could bring in that amount, as well as, I mean, we've got partnerships with Run the 316. And of course, the Prairie Fire Marathon event staff. And so having the outreach to the running communities is a big step in the success of these events. And knowing that we've got those first hand contacts to help us really navigate how to execute that is vital to this event.

So if we know anybody that might be willing to sponsor, we should send them to you. Absolutely.

And you've reached out to the running community around here regarding this specific event?

I have reached out to Genesis' Running Club Foundation and they would be more than happy to be a part of it as well as help promote it. And then the 5K event that used to or at least had previously taken place at Fall Fest a few years back, I mentioned that they had interest in helping even volunteer at this event.

I guess as I thought about this, I think it's It's kind of a unique opportunity, something that's different. And if we have a good first year, this is something that can grow over time. It's totally different than anybody else right around Wichita is doing. I think there's a minimum amount of risk, and I know you're gonna continue to work hard on sponsorships. And I think it'll just be neat to see a couple of these running organizations. I know I've got some kids down in Clearwater. There's about 20 of them that run regularly, so maybe I can get you 20 runners.

In the videos on the Facebook page, it's not just kids that do this. Mostly I see adults and college kids, high school kids doing it. They do it in teams. And they have a Facebook page that you can follow and look at some pictures and stuff.

I mean, off chance that any of our senior center walking group is watching, we could go from a 1K to a 5K by then. So I just want to put that out there if any of them are watching.

Well, and by all means. You could do a 1K and sign up for a 5K.

I don't think they'll argue with you if you say you're done.

One thing I want to say is I think it's a creative new idea to bring to Fall Fest. My biggest concern when I first started reviewing it was just how it would conflict or how to de-conflict it with the parade because the parade is such a big part of Fall Fest. But with what you've laid out about moving the starting and the kind of parade route, I think that that looks like it'll deconflict pretty well. So I'm not as concerned as when I originally saw this and thought, how are we going to put a 5K in the same city as a parade? But it looks split up enough that I think it makes sense on the layout. So I'm less concerned about that. So I'm a little more excited now. So thanks for letting that out.

They've done such a good work. They've de-completed it with the pancake, they've de-completed it with bingo, and they've de-completed it with the parade. They've done a lot of work to de-complete everything. I'm sure everybody can do all the things.

And this year it's going to be 75 and sunny. It's always 50. Somewhere.

It might be in the street's locker, but...

Come play golf with me. The golf dome that covers every time we play golf, 70 and 75. Someone said it was 95 the other day I was playing golf, but it was 75 where I was.

There's bingo on the Saturday night as well.

Friday and Saturday.

Friday and Saturday? Yes.

There'll be no conflicting with that either.

I mean, there will be a movie in the park for 8 or whenever it seems to get dark. Friday nights. I feel like the movie in the park isn't there. It's like too much to think of Friday night. Saturday night. Sorry, Saturday night.

Because Friday nights.

So as you're talking about just sponsorships and things to go with Fall Fest, you're doing a movie in the park, you're doing Touch a Truck again, back in that same area. Yes. Are we doing inflatables still? We are. So it's still the kids corner, this will just be a completely separate, okay. Yes, well, and that is a great question. And for these, what kinds of sponsorships are you still looking for in these areas?

oh i don't want to put you on the spot we're always looking for more sponsors to help cover the cost of entertainment for the kids we've got our playful area with bounce houses we've also got acrobats coming this year um i believe 107.9 and union stockyards are confirming their equitable Bull ride. And then as well as they'll be providing a stage for judges. And then in the evening they'll be able to play out this way. And then go from 1 to 5. This street will be blocked off for Basically open streets, so you're welcome to rollerblade, ride your bike, play hopscotch, do what you feel on the street. I was joking, I don't necessarily know if I was joking, but I made the comment to Dan Funke, you know, if it gets big enough that bingo can't fit in the community building anymore, you could. He was this whole street. And 107.9 would just love to announce you. They loved to be on B12.

Did you follow that up with saying the words, I'm joking?

I mean, I mentioned it. We'll see you all on Main Street for bingo. If it gets big enough. I offered him that there's a safe space here. It'll be blocked off already. I was just letting him know that. And then... We also tiered our food trucks this year. We would like for our food trucks that are closest to the carnival to be up and running all three days. And so they paid a little bit more than our other food trucks. So any food trucks that are yellow, oranges, they paid $300. And then specialty ones like oh like roasted nuts or cotton candy they paid 150 and they will either be if you're cotton candy will be intermingled somewhere in the park or if you know depending on what you are you'll be intermingled with the blue vendors that are surrounding the park and so we could always use sponsors for I mean, we could use prizes for the parade. We could use sponsorship prizes for the motor show. I don't think I've even mentioned that we're having a motor show, but where it is located is TBD currently. Kirk doesn't believe in me. I believe our parking called out. I believe it's going to be done. And if it is, then we have to go through the phone and register right in here. But if it's not done in time, let's say construction is backed up, then we may be moving a motor show down here or into the vendor loading station, depending on the flux of the event. But while also we are having our public works department, we've got some artsy... builders in our public works team right now. And so today I was billed $12 for engine parts to be welded together for our custom trophies. And so our trophies are coming in. Going to be polished, cleaned, platinum. Yeah, shiny silver.

If I see you hanging bricks over there on the apartments, then I'll believe that they're a physical building. Any other questions?

Time is moving on.

I'll make a motion to approve the contract with Great and Playable Sidekick. I second.

Any other seconds? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries 5-0. Okay, moving along here.

The next event item is related to 611 North Spruce. This is a resolution saying that hey, we've notified the property owner multiple times related to particularly an RV. Christina Silva with Morris Lane just took up the agenda and resolution, so it's approved as to form. This is saying that this will give us the city legal action to remove that RV as it's deemed a junk motor vehicle. And we are working with that property as much as we can. We're also working well within the confines of city code and state law as it pertains to that particular property to bring about remediation at multiple different levels. This RV is one of those levels that we're trying to address now. So as mentioned, Ryan Peck is here as the attorney. Do you guys have any questions related to this one? I know we've kind of discussed it briefly.

Any comments, questions? Is this the long-drawn-out process?

Yes, there's more to come, but this resolution only states that we're going to remove that, just that RDS, but it's not appropriate.

Okay. I'll make a motion to adopt the ordinance. Ordering the abatement of a certain nuisance condition at 6... This should be a resolution. ...resolution. Okay. Yeah, okay. As I said, I recommend that we adopt a resolution in order to abatement of certain nuisance conditions at 611 on this first. Street Goddard, Kansas. Do I have a second? Second. I'll make a motion and I'll make a second. Is it fair to say aye? Aye. I wish to carry this by zero. Thank you. Thank you Mike, I appreciate it. Thank you. Item J is the now version 4.

I don't know, Mayor and City Council, I'd like to just submit my report to you for your review for the sake of time. We've got a couple of empty closed sessions to come. Is there any questions you've had a chance to review or go as free to ask me later? That'd be fine. Appreciate that. Thank you.

Do we have any body comments? I really don't have much.

Thanks everybody for coming out tonight. Thanks for all the work that's been done to get the water well. I know you guys did a lot of work over there, Marlon and team, but it's going to be a great thing for God. So thanks for all your work that you've done. Thank you for working with us and finishing it through. We're pretty excited about having those water rights and getting the water flowing. So thanks. Danny, thanks for all your work, you and your committee. I'm super excited for Fall Fest this year, and I'm totally signing up for that sale. Can't volunteer during that time. I can shift you out.

It'll be my lunch break.

I don't have anything else. for a great job on the financial for our second quarter. So thanks for bringing that together and making it pretty. It is, it is. We love the colors. Thank you to the city staff for all your hard work in continuing to move our progress forward. And that's it.

I just kind of want to echo that and yeah, excited for ball fest this year and it sounds like a lot of new things and thank you to everyone that came out um excited to see all of the upcoming projects in the clp so uh yeah i'll just echo all the same comments just looking forward to progress on the well and the water rights that's really really exciting stuff also if you haven't been out

On Goddard Road, the public works facility is going vertical pretty quickly, so it's pretty cool to see that coming along. Thanks for the updates on that. I appreciate that. I think that's all I have.

The other thing I think is maybe nice to mention is I think Apex and the work that they're doing in the street repairs on the tree streets from Spruce Pine to Oak. They've been working long days. It started about 7 and I think tonight as I was coming up to them about 6 they were still grading and they'll be putting down asphalt next year or two. And then the work on the water and sewer lines ties into that. A lot of work is being done and we're doing a nice job of it. With that, we'll move on here to, we've got a couple of item L's.

One more. Thank you.

We put 60 minutes on there, but it's up to you guys.

Can't come back early, so go short and then add later if you want. Yeah, that's it.

Let's do 45.

We could always extend it.

I move to enter executive session per KSA 2015 754319 for consultation with the body's attorney for privileged communication and confidential data relating to the financial affairs or trade secrets of corporations, partnerships, trusts, and individual proprietorship to include the city attorney, city manager, and community development director with the public meeting reopening at 915.

We have a motion to second it. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. We'll see you all if you decide to stay. Scouts, thank you for coming tonight. If you decide to come back in the future, let us know. I would love to have you guys do this in the Pledge of Allegiance. You can be a small part of our meeting.

We do that every meeting. Thank you for being here.