Village Council - Regular Meeting

Yeah, crawling. realize that stuff was looking. Yeah, bad shape. There's some photos in there, but some portions of the play area are just gone, taken out, broken, disre You can't get any replacements for the campground or put this new one in. How much wooden?

Okay, we'll go and get started. Thank you for being here this evening for village council. Uh it's April 20th. Um we will start with a prayer and pledge of allegiance. Please bow your head if you so desire. Gracious heavenly father, we come to you now. We just give you thanks as the community, for its staff, for its residents, and for everybody that visits here. We ask you to be with us and guide us as we make decisions for the betterment of this community. We ask you to be with its emergency personnel and its residents as they go through these times. We ask you to be with the military and be with those that are sick and just uh need your healing and and your praise and upon them. We ask you to be with those um and guide them each and every day. Thank you for all you do for this community and guide us and direct us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, roll call. Egley here. Miller here. Elena here. Basset here. Sedike here. Need a motion to amend the U council agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the amended agenda. Second. Roll call. Asset. Yes. Sed. Yes. Yes. Eggley. Yes. Miller.

Yes. Okay. Uh, we have some guests here this evening. We have Jen Kemple and Steph Mazzour um discussing a little bit of what's going on with the Hicksville Community Service Center. So, ladies, you are up. Um, first and foremost, thank you for allowing us to have the community service center next to the police station. I actually taught six students CPR for first aid and babysitting to get ready for this summer. So, it was really nice to have a facility to take them to and have that last night. So, thank you. And we're not really going to talk so much about the Hicksville Community Service Center except for what we have been um doing for many years now, supporting the children of the Hicksville community with summer lunches and summer programs. And that summer programming is really at the heart of what we want to address today. Um for the last four years I have um with community volunteers um handled a community service kid event all summer called Monday Funday. Tony knows about this because her son partakes every year. So um in 2022 my girls were bored. Um they were second and fourth graders and we tried to figure out something that we could do to keep the kids in the community. So we used Monday Funday. We came up with Monday Funday. I originally didn't work Mondays, so um that's where we came the name. And every Monday we did a different activity, mostly at the park. It's the last year that we had the pool, so we would hang out all day until three and then the kids after lunch would just swim at the park to get them excited about potentially a new pool. Um so then each year we've kind of as my responsibilities have changed at my employer, we have kind of done every

other Monday different things. Um, one big one big event every year is we go to Blackbeard's Bay. All the kids love that. That's like their favorite thing to do. Um, we've done arts and crafts in the park. We bring in the um volunteers also.

We've all of the volunteers have been moms within the community. So, um, it's been really great. The first year we did pool safety. We did a pool party back to school. Every year, Hillary Carneahan has done some sort of fitness from Tik Tok dances to we did a fun run and then we tie-dyed our shirts afterwards. We've done Zumba, Art in the Park, Blackbeards Bay, of course, we did a safety training, so fire and police came down and talked to us about first aid. We built first aid kits. Um the Hicksville Hospital when they were still open did a try your sport. So like Hagerty and some other um members of the CH came down and they did different sports. We did nutrition um prepping snacks after school all without using heat. We did Leo splash pad. Each year we've went and toured the fair and did 4 because everybody always thinks it's just for animals. So I think we did have a few more kids sign up for 4 after going through and seeing that you don't have to have animals. Um the first two years it was free. It was anywhere from 2500 to $3,500 that the Hicksville Community Service um gave me a budget and we stayed under the second or the third year rather, I'm sorry, we did $50 per kid just to cover expenses. And then last year we had a donation from a community member who didn't want to see this fade. So she donated the full $2,000 so that we could entertain kids throughout the summer. So we're just here to ask if there's any way we can do something for the kids this summer. I am not able to do Monday Funday anymore. So any community members that would love to help would be welcomed.

Yeah. And it and it would be something I think because we do have money set aside to help fund for kids kids issues, kids programs, but most of us that are on the board are busy. Um and everybody's busy, but you really just need someone to step up and take charge of a part program. So, what we're asking you all um it used to be something that um the village actually helped us with when Sandy was doing it and I was helping Sandy down at the park. We had it every year and we had programs and beads and kids of all ages came and we kind of like to see something like that especially. There are of course kids in the community that don't really have a lot to do in the summer and busy kids are a lot better than not so busy kids. Yeah. busy is much better than bored

when it comes to kids. So, that's basically all we want to present to you is is trying to find a way or help us find a way to get a summer program going. Maybe you have someone in mind that could take charge of that. Um maybe it's something that we can partner um in again and that would be something a partnership would be something we'd really really like to have happen. Any questions?

Um what were the hours usually did the program and how long was the duration? Um the first year it was 8 to three. Um after lunch, after they had the free lunch that Hicksville Community Service and the local churches provide, then the kids would go swim at the pool. The next year the pool was gone and there was a gaping hole and I didn't feel super comfortable being responsible for 87 kids at a park with a gaping hole. So we the last three years we've kind of focused on field trips and so it's been 8 to noon. So we dismissed at noon so we didn't have to provide lunch. Um and then we always had snack and drink that was provided by parents donating each week. Some a different parent stepped up. So 8 to noon the last three years. Okay.

And when you did the field trips, was it the parent parents responsibility to get the kids to the venue? Yes. Have you reached out to the school at all to see if like any of the teachers I mean they're I know they teach kids all year long. They probably want a break, but I didn't know. I mean they're off for the summer. A lot of them are off for the summer. I mean, some a lot of us are off in the summer. This is true. But when they're off in the summer and they can have a chance to have their kids somewhere else and someone else taking care of them, it's it's a time to just breathe and so they're although there are a lot of teachers who do volunteer. Well, Sandy Brown was one of them that did it for many years.

Yeah. And she and she said she's another one who's now back on the center and she's willing to help guide and make steps and and show how these things can be done. Um But yeah, I mean, we can reach out to teachers, but I'm going to say it's probably going to be a bit of a struggle. What What ages.

Um, so initially it was prek through like fourth or fifth grade. Um, but even my daughter who's going to be a seventh grade, she's went every year. And so we've tried to kind of mentor the older kids, like find a kindergartener and that's your buddy. And so they could still come, but they had to help. They still got to do whatever we were doing, but they they would help with bathroom breaks and snacks. And if somebody was scared, they just kind of worked with someone smaller than them. So, and that's also the way the older program worked when when Sandy was in charge of it. Um, we would have groups K through six, but then older kids would come and volunteer at those times to help.

And how how many months did you do it? Kind of the June, July, August. We ended each summer at the Bian County Fair. Um, the 4 um her name is Rebecca, I believe. She would walk us through all the barns and talk about the different opportunities in 4 and we always get a free shake. So, that was super fun. Is this one day a week or all week? So, it it's always been one day a week. It's called Hicksville Monday Funday. So, um we would kick off the summer with everybody got shirts and we would either tie dye them or do a fun run so that we can identify which kids at the park were with our program and which kids at the park were just, you know, at the park. So, um, but Monday was typically the day that we

the old program when our kids were little, Mike, that was the one where it was, um, in the morning, but it was different weeks. So, you'd have different grade bands down there for those three hours and then lunch, um, and it would skip throughout, but then the like the field trips were open to all the kids. So, it can be remade. It can be reconfigured. But it's the Monday funday is something that we went to because one day is a lot easier to find volunteers for than and initially my day off was Monday and that's changed. So

what about partnering with like area colleges some like young teachers programs like that? Do they need hours? Do they need something like that? I don't know. the the first year we had quite a few um community memorial hospital interns. So they were paid to come down. I think we had five or six that showed up every Monday. And so instead of reporting to the hospital, they were down with us. But um individually on my own, no, I have not been able to make those connections. I I personally would love to see something like this. I went to it when it was week long. My son went to it when it was one day a week. Um and I worked at the pool for 10 years. I know who that serves. Um, it obviously isn't something we wrote into our budget this year, and it doesn't sound like you guys are necessarily asking for money, but I wouldn't be opposed to maybe next year looking at what a like semivolunteer paid position would look like to help with something like that.

And I really think that's the key. I think the key is finding someone who would be willing to spend those three months and kind of creating a program with our help. Yeah. and and being willing. It would be a great summer job, I think, for that college age student or, you know, the juniors or seniors. I know that even my nephew wants NHS hours all the time. That's something that we could obviously partner with um the NHS kids here at Hicksville to to help with, but I really think that you hit the nail on the head, Tony, by saying pay because I think that that it is a good summer job for someone who wants to get into education or health field early childhood. Yes. Yeah.

Sounds like a good senior project, too. Yeah, that's what I have reached out to the National Honor Society in the past to look for volunteer hours. Unfortunately, I just didn't get a response back from the school in regards to students who were interested four years ago, three years ago, and then truthfully, like I just stopped. I I would love to see us invest in our parks program and truly um step up like some of the area parks and and offer a seasonal type position where they help with that that programming aspect of a parks program. Um I would love to see it get to that point. You know, I I don't know what that looks like in the future, but I would hate to see this die because I do know who it serves.

So, I would encourage you I know I see most of you in here and most of you know how to get a hold of me or Jen, text, email, and kind of see if we can get together and and work this out so that we can, you know, just make this a stronger and safer summer village for ours. And I think especially this year as we're heading into it's tight for a lot of families that having something for the kids to do. Our community kids deserve more than just looking forward to the fair every year. Do you know was it primarily funded by United Way before?

No did part well that was back from lunches but Nok and then we oh my goodness I'm trying to think of how many years ago it was. Um but there was a can't remember the name of the used to be called um Sandy would know this, but it was a partnership, but there was a time when the village was helping with with the costs. So, I don't know. I think we used to pay like 1,500 bucks if I remember right. Yeah, I I remember that we partnered with the village. I just don't remember what the cost was.

I think it was 1,500 bucks a year is what we paid for somebody to run that program for the summer. And United Way, we did just get a grant for summer programming, which our summer programming at Hicksville Community Service is also the free lunches that we work with the community for. So, we do have if we have a capable person who would like to help. We do have some funding where we could help fund it this year. We just need we just need bodies to help. Yeah. Have you talked to any churches? I know because usually churches already partner with us for the summer lunches. I mean, they take turns. are really great about providing food and things like that. Um, in fact, the cost of our summer lunches have kind of gone down since the churches um have been helping. So,

any other questions? I think like I said, we can put the word out. Uh, maybe um are you able to start the program at all this year or is it like if we don't get some volunteers?

I would be more than happy to help. I just um one of the big things is you do have to have liability insurance. Somebody who is cleared by the FBI doesn't have a you know you have to do a background check and first aid and CPR certified. So I always felt obligated to be there because of the volunteers. I was the only one who qualified under all of that. But yes, I'd be more than happy to help with the liability, the program that we've already set up through our insurance agent and then like just different programming, what worked, what didn't work. So your umbrella they're umbrella under the service center. Yes. That's nice to know. Does the service center have a Facebook page? Yes. Okay. We do. Have you put anything on that? That

not yet because we're not sure what direction this programs take. If we don't have bodies. Well, I meant I meant for looking for someone to take to help out to take over, not necessarily the program itself. In the past, it's been moms. Um, mom's volunteered each week and that's really worked. One of my biggest volunteers though had twins last September. So, I don't know that she's going to be able to be there every Monday like she has in the past. So, baby. Yeah. Any other questions? I mean, thank you for all you've done in the last couple years. You know, it's been a nice program. You're seeing the kids down there on Monday night. So,

Monday days. So, if you guys have any questions, just contact one of us and we'd love to meet up with this. Sure. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, guys.

Uh, next we have the uh approval of the council meeting minutes from April 6th. Question. Make a motion to approve as written. Yes. Second roll. Yes. Miller. Yes. Yes. Melena. Yes. Site. Excuse me. Yes. The bills list in your packet. What's the park restroom?

HBAC 4,000. You put uh air conditioning in those. I'm kidding. Those nothing would surprise me, I promise you.

Um, that was for all the new stools up at the little league diamonds. There would have been uh three new stools up there. Uh, a new one at the uh concession stand for the softball. That one was all cracked and broken up there. And then we found out over the winter time the two stools at Froggy Park had broke. They froze and broke. Uh, so that was two more of those. And then there was some additional work that had to be done um to the flanges, the closets on the ones at the little league. They had to be raised up. Actually had wood shims in there when from when it was built. So that's what that is. That's pretty much all the stools in the park except one of them at the softball concession. I know that the baseball ones have had some problems in the past. I mean, it's probably going to be more than just a toilet, but did it they kind of fix that as well?

It was toilet issues. Yeah, I think that'll resolve it. They'll be excited about that. I'll make a motion to pay the bills. Second Miller. Yeah. Valena, yes. Sid, yes. Basset, yes. Egley, yes. So, I don't believe any boards or commissions that met or council committees met here since the last meeting. So, that puts us up to administrators report.

Uh, just a couple things. The storms that came through, we did have some more insurance claims. Uh, we have a dugout that got destroyed on field three in the park. They were out today. The claim adjuster was out today. was also out today to look at the roof on the street department. Um not sure what he's going to do. I did get one estimate back for that roof. Um did have it done, which was 124,000 to have that roof redone. Uh also, you know, there was a lot of underlying issues under that. I mean, it's pretty rotted. Um Ohio Asphalt will be in in the next few weeks. There's quite a bit of locations that we're going to be patching and I'll be meeting with the new guy, well, new guy to us from district 2 with ODOT to see what they can help us with on the state routes um this spring as well. I really don't think it should be on the village to fix every bit of the state routes that need repaired. And with district 2, they like I said, they seem to be more uh gung-ho about that. Uh the guys will be out replacing all the flags around town uh yet this week and then hanging the American 250 banners on the intersections as well. That's all I got.

Do you do you know when the banners I think she left Steph left but the banners for the veterans? Yeah, we're working on those. Buying the brackets and everything to hang them up on the polls. You any update on those? I have nothing. I have not talked to I talked to Corey about um I think there's over like 170 veterans that signed up for this. So we're putting one veteran on one side, one or the other. Um so that would that's a lot of polls. Yeah. All I had told Mike they said we'll offer all our services and our lift and we'll do all the all the manual labor that we need to do to get them up. But yeah, I haven't heard anything. But talking to the uh name Oh yeah.

Yeah. Um, and the money she raised. I don't know if she has enough to buy brackets and stuff like that or if I had approached council before about we purchased some. Yeah, purchased some brackets for the poles. Were those for the banners? Those we got some brackets for the green poles, but not the wood telephone poles.

Um, cuz downtown a lot of the poles are busted, the lower poles, right? Or stripped out and busted the bases, the lower level. Um but yeah, we want to kind of spread them around town. I mean, maybe go up along through high and then um maybe along main too and kind of highlight them throughout the entire community. So, and a said just need the poll numbers for them. They were very giving with letting us there's parameters we got to follow and I think most of them we can follow. So, here any update on the handrail? The handrails been built. Okay. Uh just waiting on them to get here to do the curbing. Okay. And any update on the hospital purchase? Have you heard anything at all?

It did not close. Okay. I haven't seen anything, but trust me, I've already been in contact because they've already done extensions and Yep. Have one more, but probably later. And I know Mark Pierman had talked to me about an issue with some a letter he got in the mail or whatever hang on his door for having a storm water go down into the ground. So you'll want to talk about that later too. Anything else for Corey? Um, solic

final reading of ordinance 20261 to amend chapter I believe it's actually 505-03 keeping animals near dwellings. That's the one you guys just got changing the 100 to 50 ft and then uh taking out the excluding roosters. I make a motion we approve.

Is there a second? I think that's what we got tonight. So, um with that, it doesn't mean that there's no second on the reading, right? With the changes that were submitted at the last council meeting, it goes back to the original ordinance. No second.

So then we have final reading of resolution 202610 by caption only authorizing the sale of unneeded obsolete or unfit village property including by internet auction for the calendar year 2026.

Second roll call. Yes. Basset. Yes. Miller. Yes. Lena. Yes. Side. Yes.

First reading of resolution 2026-15 adopting the Hicksville Emergency Medical Services bylaws and declaring an emergency. Does this need to be passed as emergency? It's not here tonight. Is there a reason why? He wanted it done. So that's why um the bylaws were last looked at in 2019. So they're pretty old. So that's why I wanted it done. It doesn't have to be an emergency. If you want to just have the first reading, I'd like for just the first reading. Yeah. These are what Bruce sent out here what a couple weeks back.

Yeah. First reading of resolution 2026-16 by caption only approving an employment training reimbursement agreement between the village of Hixville and Joshua Meyers and declaring an emergency. Section one uh might need adjusted or I don't have the most updated copy. It says he's attending the academy beginning in August and ending in May. Is it the wrong year in May or it should be started in May and ends in August? No, August 26th, May 27th.

Okay. Then the year needs changed to May of 2027. Say 26. Yeah. This one here. May 2026. This one's different. Yeah, this is the one that Marcus had sent everyone. it was set separate, but this was the contract for them to sign. So my question is, does this resolution just need to be basic? Because if we decide to reuse this in the future, we're going to have to do this all over again. Can it remove names so that it can just be a basic contract?

So that'd be the one the change. Yeah. So, we may as This is kind of specific for the future, too. All depends on where they're intending. Well, this doesn't have any actual numbers in it. Yeah. The resolution I kept pretty Yeah, it's pretty basic. That's why I thought maybe it would save us in the future if we did this, but I I agree with you that Yeah, terms are a little different. So, that's why

Yeah. Does this one have to be an emergency? I guess you would understand time frame better than we would if it's not in seems like we'd have a little bit of time to work with. We would have I mean it wouldn't have to be because we would have two meetings in May and one first meeting in June. Okay. I want to discuss the contract anyways before when I go up to speed.

Yes. And that's kind of what I figured. I mean I'd seen emails but we didn't have any conversation. So Okay. Yeah. I would prefer it not to be that's fine. An emergency. So then that's all I have. Thank you. And that's Joshua if you guys didn't know there Mr. Denny. Uh but with that uh I think we are department heads. Um you want to do Chris Parks department first since she's here. Whatever you want to do. Let's do park first and then we'll get into uh Chief Denning. So

I apologize for that. I got a bunch of these. I got all that back here.

You got to share.

Share them. A minute to kind of browse that over. Since we exonate on the pool, um, we wanted to do something different in the park. A big issue with Froggy Park now is the damages. I mean, it is unreal how much of the casing you have exposed metal, rusted metal that these kids are playing on. Um, it's a trip and fall hazard in most most of the spots. We have vandalism that's all over all the slides that is not going anywhere. I believe Froggy Park is probably well over 20 years old. It's been there since I was a child. Um, so since we're no longer going with the pool, we'd like to take that fund and put it towards a new playground. I kind of go in with what they were talking about earlier about bringing the kids back to the park and having a community like the kids the park is a hot spot for the summertime. Um the basketball courts, baseball, everything. There's kids down there all the time. That's what they love. That's what they enjoy. And everybody goes to Froggy Park, but it's becoming it's getting to the point where it's becoming hazardous. Um, I do have photos and images of all the damages as well at Froggy Park. We can always get those to you as well. So, this is the proposal. I don't know. Did you give them just the the first one that they sent us or the second one that Kelsey sent me today?

Today.

Okay. So, our first quote. Um, so we're going with game time. Um, we got we Excuse me. I'm sorry, I can't get words out. Um, we had another company come in. Um, their price was a little too high for our liking when we can go with the end time and essentially get the exact same thing that I wanted. Um, so everything that's in the images is not a final, it's not final set in stone. Um, she actually sent it the final rough draft to me today. Um, I didn't have the hard copies with me obviously. So, this is what you kind of get the idea. Um, there is a zipline in this proposal. is not going to be in the final proposal. We're going to actually do a cone spinner instead. Um it's actually pretty exciting. So, I'm really pumped about it. I think it would be great for our community. I think it would be great for our kids. Um this is coming out of their 2026 catalog, so it's got a really cool stuff. Um the great thing about it, it's handicap accessible and all of our children that um especially at our school, I know that there are a lot of kids with sensory issues. Um they need to be included as well. um when you go down to the park, there's no way for a wheelchair to get through the mulch. Um this way we would have I think the same thing that the school has where um it's it's going to be flat ground, so they'll be able to access it from the um sidewalk and they could take their wheelchairs right on. All the slides are handicap accessible. Um if a child is in a a wheelchair, they can wheel they have um platforms where you can wheel their wheelchairs up there and they're able to crawl up there if they can. And there's spots for their parents to go up there with them. Um I'm trying to think of anything else. So it would be dedicated um from left to right. From left to right over on the left hand side will be more so for toddlers. That's another thing I said when I wanted um we have nothing down there for toddlers. So I would like to bring um smaller

playground equipment just fun things for our toddlers to do as well. Our two to five will be on the lefthand side as well. So toddlers and two to five will be in the same zone. It'll be split up with a set of swings with swings on the lefthand side will be more accountable for the two to five and then on the lefth hand side more for the 5 to 12 and then on the on the right hand side it will be more zoned for the 5 to 12 year olds. They'll have seating and everything else. That's another thing I'll be incorporating as well. That's what the little shelter house is. So, remind me um Grant 800. I know it's matching, but what up to up to 750?

750. Okay. Um we're only going to get half of this project. We've already lost half of that grant. Okay. It's gone. We've We've kicked the can down the road too far. They split up between the other places in the finance county, right? Yep. It'll stay within the county. There's some other communities that are going to be getting some of our our grant money. Um, so this is really our best shot at utilizing what funds we can get. You know, the all-incclusive is, I think, an awesome thing. And it's it's, you know, in person it'd be fairly large.

You know, it'll be the entire park down there. That that price seemed reasonable considering that that includes the ground. Yeah. 245,000 was that I was going to say that we we did have another company here. um they were closer to eight on it and then this game time came in and had a couple revisions, but um we seem to like their stuff a little bit better and they were more reasonable on their pricing as well. They're the same ones that put in the school. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's And this will have the concrete curving all the way around it.

So all that kind of like a hard softish rubber will all be within that. All have drainage and stuff into it. the same place that the current playground is. It puts that same place as the current for the most part. Yes.

So, it's not going to get extended out. So, like you know the little red wagon that we've had literally a staple piece, it's been there for years and then the little metal slide down pole. So, we're not going any further than that. So, it's going to be able you're going to see your children from the access point to the parking lot. And the whole main point, the one thing I said too is I wanted to be able to have seating and shade. So parents can sit there and they can they can see their kids over on right hand on the left hand or the right hand side. Oh, I've got my 5 to 12 over here and I've got my toddlers over here. They're able to see all 360 degrees. So I just think it's important for our kids who have sensory issues. We have a lot of them. Um and there's nothing for them to do within our park. That is the one thing. Um it's hard for them to move around, especially have kids who have crutches. Um not even wheelchairs, just walking wheelchairs as well. They just they can't do it.

Yeah, we've been blessed to have Froggy Park. And absolutely. This and this and that's the one thing you saw the little frog statue. This will be the new and improved Froggy Park. I know it was never Froggy Park, but it turned into Froggy Park, but I think this would be a good I know Hicksville does not like change, so this would be the new improved uh Froggy Park. I think it's beautiful. I think it's a good idea to move forward. I don't want to lose the money. I mean, um I think it's a nice attraction for the park. Absolutely. Consider advertising that for sale. Yeah, we would we sold we sold all the last our old equipment at the school and out the park.

Yep. We would we would probably list it on Gov Deals. Um I think that's where we listed the last one in that last playground that we tore down. I don't think it went on Gov deals and the gentleman out of Edertton bought it just north of town here town. Yeah, remember we had it advertised somewhere and bought it. Yep. Whether it sells for $100 or $10,000 from demoing it. Yep. Worst case scenario, we demo it, which I really don't want to. I think I think there could be a a campground or a school or somebody that would be interested in it. Um, would you guys preserve the donor bricks? I mean, we can.

I I mean, I don't know how that What does that look like normally? Do they normally get them back to the people who donated? I don't They walkway to the park that would stay. Oh, okay. Well, here it was like blue. So, that would Yeah. Yeah. They I think it was because of their design team. No, that would be your walkin point to get the flat surface. I would stay because beautifification also plants flowers and makes it look really nice. I wouldn't pay for that. Don't get two parks. They get they give credit for two parks. Uh what's the timeline for something like this? It would be after the first of the year. Okay.

Obviously, we'd have to uh budget for next year for us. Yeah. And then we would um wait until after fall to demo. I mean, we wouldn't take this out before Yeah. Yeah. Okay, nice. Do we risk losing the 375,000 that we have left if we wait too long? No. Uh Roy Cloenstein is we we talk all the time about this. This is Yeah. He's aware that you guys are going to have to see this and we're going to have to budget for it before we can do anything that it wasn't something we could do next month. Right.

Yeah. But they will earmark that funding for us. But I think they still want to know if we are a go with the project. We need to tell them right now that we want to use that money for this, get their approval and then get everything locked in but and give them a guarantee. We successfully drug our feet long enough that the grant is reopened, right? Yeah. Which we can't apply for it. Yeah, we did, but they threw it out because we haven't used any of the funding from the previous one. And it's every other year. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's two more years before we would get to see any of that money again, which we talked about the first time that Yeah.

You know, it's you know, the pool is going to be something for the youth and all all families and you know, yeah, baseball fields are one thing, but this is the most utilized piece of equipment in the park all year round almost. Yeah. So you want council's kind of vote blessing to move forward with the the project and that way we can they can Yes. That way they can get everything reallocated to the village. You know I have not sent Roy this proposal to I didn't want to send him anything until it went in front of you guys. So half that would be covered by the grant. This isn't the final

we talked about with No, no, no, no, no. It could potentially go down. Um, I can move things around if I need to. I think their design team added a couple extra benches or added this. I didn't get to talk to her. I talked to her at the end of the day before. I was like, I'm presenting this tonight to council. So, she's like, "We can do this, this, and this." So, we could put certified playground mulch underneath where the swings are to save cost. She said, "We can do that that way. There's different ways." She said, "We can make this." I Yeah, I know. But I was like, there's ways around it. I was like, as long as we can get a yes, I'll do what I can, but I don't want the certified playground mulch, but to have one soft service, that would be it'd be great.

Uh, I was going to ask Eric working with this company for the school playground, right? Are they, you know, great to work with. Yeah, we've added, we've changed some swings around, made them tandem swings, which you guys have on here, too, for part of them. I will say I know you say this is for they'll go wherever. I know. Yeah. I had to kick the junior high kids off K through three this this afternoon. So So they'll go wherever they want to go through source. Well, the biggest thing would be if there's any if there's any type of seating around the perimeter, if there's any type of shading that could make sure they had shading for parents that are setting.

Well, that's why I was kind of wanting that because both proposals that I got, they had moved it closer and closer away from the trees. I was like, I want my littles over here, so I want them to be closer to the shade. So that big tree that we have down at the ERI park will be actually covering most of that area over by where the littles will be. That's why I was kind of keeping them to the more towards the left. You say source well price go up. Source well. Yeah. Most of our stuff is through source. Well, last two things I've got quoted it's more expensive using going through them. We don't go through them. I know. But use them as one of their like right

I see they're on the bottom of the one page omnia that's consortium like source well yep as long as they're there that way we wouldn't have to bid it yeah that's what she was asking what do you think folks think you like that would look good in your backyard for your grandkids it would look awesome Need a motion for a motion to move forward. Yep. I'll make a motion that we accept the quote. Does that lock in that quote then too? I mean, are you this the quote can go down? But does that also kind of lock in? I mean, I I

will it go up like if we don't start this project until 2027, is there a potential that that quote will go up? I could probably get it locked with Kelsey if I I'll talk to I can talk to her tomorrow and get a better answer on that too because I kind of told her I was like it's kind of up in the air. I don't really know. I don't know when the project will start. So I can ask her tomorrow. I mean even with this too, do they need money down? What's would they Okay. And we we motion do they need a 10%? They really haven't got we haven't got that far. It was more so like setting up the design, getting pricing that way we can propose it and get this ball rolling. Oh, Brian made a motion. I'll second that. Always ask Cheryl. Cheryl's the money there.

You don't have any reserves or bad feelings about it? Is it Do we have money? Next year. Maybe next year's budget, but we're going to do the pavilion this year, right? The pavilion is getting reskinned. All the stones coming off. That's like 175. Yes. The pavilion is that's a whole different ball of wax there. Yeah. But it's all general fund. Sure. So if we don't have to spend it next year, then we can use that money for something else.

Yeah. The pavilion capital will be pretty low next year. Okay. Well, we have a first and a second. Roll call. Miller. Sorry. Yes. Meena, yes. Cike, yes. Basset. As long as we get the grant for it. Guaranteed the grant will go for this. We have nothing else to put it towards. I mean, I understand that, but they're going to approve that is that's what Roy is saying.

And I also Roy had mentioned the same thing to me as well that he had been in conversations with Corey and that this was the plan and so he's very well aware of it. to keep it here. He wants us to have the money. I mean, they do. They want us to get done. If if we didn't get half, I wouldn't even be on board. Okay. That's what Yeah, it's a lot of money. That's a lot of money, but if there really is that much damage to the one we're down there, we need to think about you. Yeah. See it in person, right? It's going to become a liability issue,

right? Christine, I thank you. Thank you for looking into it. You and Cory and doing all that work on there and those are nice wonderful. Now we have Chief Danning. I think everybody else is here. You're up. All right. Uh pretty silk sign here. Uh so we had PNR communications out to look at the sirens. Uh so we got a quote uh to fix that. they're compatible with the uh the technical stuff that needs to be put on the sirens to make them compatible. Uh the quote is for 12,000 and some uh to fix both of them, but they have to uh basically about 6,000 a piece to fix both sirens. So uh so that's from PNR. I know Corey has uh was wanting

it's federal field services. Yeah. To take a look at it too to get a quote from them on that. So, so I don't know if he forwarded any of that quote to you guys or not. Okay. So, yeah, it was 12 that was less than 13,000. So, I think it was like 12725 or something like that. So, What window when those have to be switched over by what time? December 31st of 2028.

So, uh second thing is the the one issue that we talked about in executive last time uh one officer possibly leaving he is staying. Uh so we don't have to worry about that issue. Uh the other one is uh we did have one leave. His last day was yesterday. Uh we'd like you know village of Hixo and the Hixo Police Department would like to thank Garrett Frans for his 12 13 years that he has spent here. Uh he's moving on to the next chapter of Defiance Police Department. So we wish him the best. Uh his last date was yesterday. Uh third thing is I have I think I told you guys this in exactly the last time I don't remember. Uh I have another one is probably leaving into May June after their baby is born. So so and then the final thing is is contract with Josh. I sent out a thing on the thoughts. Uh there was discussion about having wages put in this contract and I figured out um I sent out the the wages for a year or for the 740 hours in the academy. Um obviously I sat down and talked to Josh about this. Um he's not willing to sign on anything that's that would be a repayback on any type of wage. That's a lot of money. Uh, I talked to Bruce Silkcott uh to see if they ever done anything with wages and any of their uh contracts for the EMT stuff. Uh, they have not um I didn't get much feedback from other chiefs on wages.

Uh, they've done contracts for paying for the policemies and things like that. Uh, our scenario is here Josh for his own academy. Uh it's no different than when I've hired I think I've hired three in the seven years I've been here. We've hired three straight out of the academy. Uh we did not have any one of those three signed any type of contract for work. Uh we had to outfit them with vest and equipment. Um I think out of one out of three is still here with us. Um and Um, and with the equipment cost that I had put in there now, it may not even arise to that amount of money because with Garrett leaving, some of the stuff might fit him that we have for him. Uh so uh I also think a contract for any new hire, I mean if we do a contract even for the equipment and the uniform expense, um I think that's going to hinder us trying to get anybody to come here to work. All right. Um, you know, I I don't think we've done it for EMS or fire unless we've paid for their schooling. I mean, when we discussed the contract was uh mainly about because we were going to pay for the academy, which was probably about 10 grand. I think 10 is what they had figured that we're going to pay. And I get that for a contract for that. You want you want a commitment. That's a lot of money. Uh I mean, this is still a lot of money, but I also think it's going to hinder us because we have never done that before. Uh, so I I leave it up to you guys on

what you want. I know I'd sent out an email last Monday. I got one response back from Eric about what the wages were. I talked to the mayor. He told me to figure it up a couple different ways. So that's what we did. Um, so I guess I leave it up to you folks on how you want to do it. know we you know even when we hire somebody our training that we go to u they're all paid to go to that training u you know I I think the biggest issue is I want to bring him on board before he starts his academy u and the reason for that is to knock out 25% of his training in a 90-day cycle that we normally do because we spend it on computers policies procedures protocols courts, you know, how all that stuff runs. I think we can knock out before he starts the academy, we can probably knock out probably a majority of that stuff and then 90 days we can spend out on the road and uh working with the criminal side, teaching the criminal side of it and investigations and traffic side and all that. So, but I leave it up to you folks. Uh you guys control the the purse strings and things. So, how you guys want to do it. So,

I had a thought too and I don't know if we talked about this chief, but um with you get an account, you're going to get an accounting background too, right? Numbers numbers guy, right? That's cool. Um but having a backup for Jennifer too in administration kind of thing. Was that something you were going to maybe work with? We're going Yeah, we're going to try to squeeze that in a little bit. Right. Um because I know when she leaves it's kind of you're in limbo a little bit with some of the paperwork and the computers and things like that of because she's pretty in-depth entailed with keeping track all that kind of stuff. So it was just a thought with him being on board um having you know maybe as a somebody could fill in Yeah. during these months if she's gone because I know she's doing training here this week too or

she's going to the mayor's mayor's court. Any thoughts, questions? I already responded to them. I I didn't I was not planning on adding wages in on that on mine. That was my thought as well. It was just for whatever we had for cost of, you know, ammo or guns or equipment or anything. Was the only one thing I was thought we were considering. I didn't realize wages was one of the things that was might be on the table.

Yeah. As as far as the ammo goes, uh what he's paying for, they will f they they're furnishing uh the ammo. So, we don't have any extra cost in that. The only thing that's not on there that I just found out today is we'll have to pay for his physical. So, he's got to have physical under police and fire. So, he'll have to have distress and that anyway. So uh so yeah, Northwest State does not do that. Uh so uh so yeah, so like he's we just furnish him the gun, which we've already got, you know, and we would have done that anyways.

Yes. Yeah. I mean, I think the biggest discussion was really around paying for the economy. Yeah. So I don't and I get that because that's quite a chunk of money. There's a lot of different choices too on where he was going to go in the cost difference. There's a big cost difference. So he he's registered right now at Northwest State. He's also looking at Owens. All right. Because Owens starts sooner. Correct. It starts the same time, but it's Oh, it is start I thought the dates were No. So I called them. It starts in May, but it's Okay. So the dates are wrong on their site. Okay.

That's why I thought they originally told me it was the same time. Okay. So, Northwest State's probably the better option for him. So, uh but yeah, as far as most of that stuff's all included in his wages, what we were going to have to pay at the Ohio State Patrol Academy, that was free, but we're paying for a lot of clothing, ammunition. So, well, I think this meeting can look at the budget and figure that out as well. But it seems like if those are things that we would already supply, we wouldn't have them sign a contract. Yeah. And

because we're gonna have at least one other position, if not two, right, that we're going to have to re Yeah, we're going to have to Yeah. So, he's basically filling the position that we've been down since last May. Right.

All right. Now, we have to fill Garrett's position, which I have uh we've gotten I know Corey handed me about three or four resumes this morning. Uh three of them are they're not even certified. Uh and then I've got one that's in the academy now that has applied. He's at the Banish Academy. He's from Pauling. We're interviewing him on Wednesday morning. And then I have another local uh currently in the process doing the background check on him. Uh, so we've got two hands at least for Garrett's physician right now. Um, so and then I think there's a couple more on my desk, but I think those neither one of those were certified. So I think it's a big key, especially being local, born and raised here, lives here. It's a big part of our police department for backup and and being a part of the community. I think that's huge. It's hard to find. You know, when you start looking at EMS and fire and police, uh you want to hopefully they they live here and they they sign up for the job and everything. So

So I I had asked Josh to come here tonight. So just in case anybody had any questions uh for him. So are you sure you want to be a police officer? But with the program, everything's on the table kind of here. If we're okay with him, we'd, you know, accept that motion to uh bring him on board and have

you guys are fortunate that he wants to come because his his parents, his grandparents are an asset to the to the village and people aren't knocking on the door to come to work at Hexville Police Department because the pay, the benefits aren't there, and you know, a Garrett could leave and make seven more dollars an hour and be fine. So, we got to be thankful we got people that want to work here. Oh, yeah. Yep.

So, what's your thoughts? Prove it to the next one or you guys, we talked about that earlier about making this emergency tonight or move forward. It's up to you guys. I think make an emergency tonight and move forward with it. But this is for him to sign the contract, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, I guess we have to decide whether or not we want him to sign the contract. Is that we're okay with the contract for to pay back things that we would have already supplied to other officers

because he's paying for the academy. So that's the other the reason why I was going to have the contract if we were paying for the academy. Correct. Correct.

Is there a motion to hire him? I make a motion to hire. Second. Roll call. Miller. Yes. Delena. Yes. Sed. Yes. Egley. Yes. Mess it. Yes. So the condition would be he's got to pass the opposite the medical. So and I would start him probably in the very first pay period in June. So he graduates May. So

welcome aboard. Okay. Um I think that's all. All right. Thank you. Pleasure for Nice. Um, we got Brian Demlin, our zoning inspector here tonight. You're up, buddy. Charlie's talked about.

Yeah. The biggest thing is uh Charlie as we know has been bought by Justin and he wanted a portion of the land. I think he talked to the one committee of Mike and Tony maybe. Yeah. About 100 foot on I think it's east end. It went through the planning commission and everybody's approved it. West End, huh? West End is Yeah, West End. Sorry. Town's all

Yeah, West End. so he can make a drive-thru to the back window and kind of help everything. And then we'll have provisions in there if we need to get on there for anything. We can get into the land and it'll be just better if it's his or whatever so we have the true line in the sand. What's going on, but we'll always be able to access that if we have to for the city for the village. Wanted to make sure you guys are aware of that so we get the blessing of the council. So, I think that's the only thing we got left and he couldn't come tonight. So, I said I would at least bring it up. I don't know how we have to go forward with that. But yeah, survey. Yeah, survey. The survey. Okay.

I already told him about that. He said he's paying for all he's paying for all the He's paying for all all the surveying. No money is going to come out of our pocket. It's just basically to help him try to revitalize Charlie's. Are we giving him the land? It'll be going through the CIC. What's that mean? We give the land over to them and then they donate it to the business owner. And the way I look at it, we're bettering our community. We're not really giving it away for nothing. We're bringing people back and bringing another business into town that's closed down. How that Do you know if he plans on black topping that? I don't really know. I thought at one time he thought about it, but if it's going to be stone or what?

I just didn't know how the agreement would be. If there's something underneath the dig anything underneath the road in the parking lot right there, he's okay with that. And we'll have that all in the writing on everything. Anyway, you got to dig a black top. I mean, who's put it back in and Yeah. No, we got we had all that. We've had nice conversations. We got came up with a good number of 100 foot. Cory still has plenty of room if he wants to do anything by the new lift station. I think that's what I was just going to ask, Cory. I know that it after our committee had met, you had expressed that you wanted some of that. This would still accommodate that. I went to Corey before I went to Justin. Yeah. To see what Cory wanted.

He's not building. None of that would be over any of our new infrastructure that's there. We're probably still about 80 feet from being over top of anything. So, it's good. Everybody worked together really well on that. So,

that was the one thing we wanted to bring up. We'll get the survey and everything done so I can get everything properly done right. As new the zoning, I've been throwing things that I have not had a clue what to do. So, we're kind of running on a whim, but we're trying to get better at that. And Cheryl's been a big help telling me what direction to go. Uh, and then the zoning now, we have everything in the computer. It's all computer- based, so I can go back if we have a residence that we go to multiple times. I can pull a case report and then at the end of the year instead of Corey coming, hey, pull all these files out, I can run a report of what we've done for the year, what fines we've assessed, what ordinances have been uh violated the most. So, that's the biggest thing the mayor wanted me to talk about. I mean, we have some issues with some fencing around the pool right now that I got to dig into a little deeper, but other than that, cleaning up on Perry Street has been on the list and that's been a fight since October, since I started. That's coming along. Okay. And then there's a spot on Ogan Street that we're we're trying to get our village to look like it should be and not just stuff everywhere. And it's not being singled out to anybody. It's just everywhere we can try to find to make this village better. It's what we're doing. So it's not singling out nobody, but it's trying to clean up and trying to uphold our ordinances. You know, we've had people in the past saying, "Well, this wasn't done. That wasn't done." Well, we're trying to stop all the fingerpointing and just try to find a good common ground to move forward. I think that's with our ordinance

committee. We'll be seeing that some of our ordinances are kind of outdated, what people's telling them. So, I don't know when we get them if I give them to you and you guys can look at them or what, but for the most part, that's what we're kind of doing. I was probably going to give it kind of an update of, you know, the different I talk about different projects in town. It really tries to work with the residents to get them to move forward with some cleanups and car removals and things like that. And if they're moving forward with it, you know, it gives them a little bit more extra time. But then at the same time,

if they communicate That's fine. But if you don't want to communicate and don't come to me, what else is there to do? You go to some. You go to mayor's court. Then you talk about it or you try to come up to a common ground. Some of them don't and then they get really upset and barge through your door. That's another thing we need to talk about by having secured offices. I mean, it's it's crazy. That'll be another topic for another day. You can't, most villages I go into, you can't access your mayor or anybody without at least going through a door that's locked. And they can come through there at any time of the day. And if we have our doors locked, if the garage door goes open, they're like a cat or a dog. They'll fly in there right through your side door.

I know it's part of the job some, but this day and age is kind of crazy. Well, we need you to be safe. That's I told them to lock the doors during the day, you know, and if somebody There's a note on my door now I put on there due to circumstances. It's by appointment only until we can get some kind of something. There's times these guys are out in the road, you know, they're out doing site inspections or or doing things too and the the garage is sometimes open, you know,

or you're trying to do a Zoom meeting and they'll barge in there and if you ever want to stop and see the computer program, not as fancy, but it's makes it nice to know what we have and what we're dealing with on a weekly basis. Do you know how many letters you sent out for uh sanitary or I guess drains going because I've had a few people contact

that comes more from the wastewater but there's been a ton of them and 95 and Cory could correct me if I'm wrong 95% everybody complies without having any issues. I mean it's it's an ordinance been on the books forever that now has got to be enforced more so because we're getting pushed by the EPA. Yeah. our our first round, Eric, was about 27 properties the first first round that we did last year or

Yeah. Okay. Last year, um we sent out uh probably another 20 25. I think there's about 40 more on the board. So there's Yeah, there's a lot of them and a lot of them came from a book when the village had the um town smoke tested. That's where a lot of those came from. That was a lot of them from the first round. But then as the guys are out and about reading meters or doing whatever they're doing, they'll spot addresses, you know, and then then you're at the point like if it's on a certain street that's already separated, you're like, "Well, is it in or is it not in?" You know, we've had um we had an incident and Chief Denning can attest to this where out on West High Street resident was uh very vulgar when he came up to the office and said his downspouts weren't in to the sanitary sewer. We had reason to believe that they were. Um so he gave us permission, well gave wastewater guys permission to dye it and then they ran their garden hose in it. And lo and behold, hair come out on the West High Street in the sanitary. Of course, he was very belligerent from the start. He ended up just pulling them out and then putting rubber fern co on him. But every time we get a rainstorm, Chief Denning just heard my latest voicemail from me. Every time we get a rainstorm, he's on the phone let me give me the business. So, yeah, it's there's a lot of them out there.

Some of those we have, you know, actually we try to inspect them all. Um, but we do know some of them are legit. Some of them go into a lot of the popups out by the road. So, some of them are I know a couple of them on West High when that separation when I first came aboard. There was some homes that had downspouts tied into that storm sewer and it's actually on our prints as well. So, I guess I got a question. So, we have somebody here in the crowd that I've talked to the last couple days and I know he's talked to you and he's had Joel out the house a couple times and he's asking to try to get an extension so he doesn't get fined. And I don't know if sewer committee needs a meet or if you guys are still working on it.

Yeah, I I spoke to him today. Yeah, I don't have I don't have any issues with an extension. Um the the issue comes to where where is the water going is I know Joel said there was um what he's seen down in in the um in the clay pipes that are sticking up. It's like sand and stone, right? But the water is going somewhere. Is it is it leeching into the sanitary somewhere? Is it going out into a French drain into the ditch? Where's you know where's it going?

Sound like you guys are going to do a diet test. I spoke to Joel like little after 4 today. Um Joel doesn't think a die test will work because of all the sand and stone. Um so Joel's to reach out to to Mark and take our push camera down into his down in his clean to his lateral and run it out and to see if there's any taps going into that. And I told Joel, I said, "If you find no taps, then we'll give it a clean bill of health." I mean, we have to do our due diligence as well. So, I don't know if he's reached out to you since then. Okay. It was after 4:00. So,

anybody that reaches out, I think on all of our ordinances, we do the best we can to give him extensions. I had one call me today and his tenant didn't give him the paper till Saturday and I took it upon myself said, "Yeah, we'll give you an extension because you didn't have the paper." It's not trying to rule with an IR. Yeah. Tell him too. is not not one of those things you're probably going to get a fine you know you know right away you go to mayor that's when you prolong it you prolong and you don't want to talk about it and a couple things I deal with that gets up to 6 months then yeah well he's he's trying to get to the bottom of his I'll let you know and right he's had plumbers come out and look at it and he's run his own camera down it and everything else and he just

he has to go in the ground but we just want to make sure whether or not it go actually goes into the sewer or storm or not. Yeah, there's there's no storm out there unless they go into the ditch. So like when you see something like that, if you're driving past and you see those going into the ground, it's like, well, you know, there's no storm out there. I got called at the school. All of ours go into the ground, but I have all the prints showing they go to the retention pond. Yeah. You guys across the drive, but but the village called me too and asked me where all of our storm water went. I get it from the same thing for the PD. Yeah. And theirs actually go straight out to the street into that storm sewer. Yeah. So, just just another day in the office. Thank you. Thanks,

with I'm I'm sorry. Back with Justin stuff. Do we need uh legislation on that? No. Do we need a vote on it? Nothing. I haven't seen a survey yet. Well, I don't. So, I'll get that all going and make sure to stay on top of it because we got a couple other projects we're working on, too. Sure. Thank you, Brian. I got one more thing. Uh, roof leaks. So, we had another roof leak at the police department. It's in the center of the building this time. Uh, we had Liers out there the other day. Uh, he talked to Cory. The rubber was split. Is that what he said?

Yeah. A couple slits in it. Yep. So, uh, it's in the middle of the building this time. So, he's supposed to be getting a quote around uh what's going to cost. Yeah, we got one here on this building, too. So,

a lot of rain. Yeah. All right. Well, thank you everybody. Uh fiscal officer, you have nothing on their fund status and your cash summary like you always get. No reports

question. I need to be the bad guy. But what are we doing on his animal back? It goes back to the original. It still needs cleared up. Back to the original. It doesn't cleared up, but go back to the original. So, what's the original ordinance? No chicken. What? What's on the books now technically? Okay. Okay. So, I can get a cow. No, it says no hook animals on it. Does it? The original on the existing

The original existing one states 505.13 keeping animals near dwellings part A. No person shall keep, harbor, or maintain any horses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, rabbits, chickens, geese, or other fowl or animals except dogs and cats within 100 ft of the inhabited dwellings of any other person. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. I can have ft of shoot. The price of meat's going up. You might want to go. I I guess so. I mean, that's a curve. We've already Well, never mind. It's been what, two years? I yeah I don't understand why but it's it's done past so let's move on all that work exactly it alone

that's hey think of all the work you did on on the the hospital we didn't buy it all the work you did on the pool we didn't waste of time I could have been doing something else y hospital ain't dead yet you want to check to see if that flooded May 1st is going to be getting some nuisance signs. I can tell you that grass is getting a little high.

Fell not good. Any other questions? I just had a quick couple. I wanted to thank the village staff and the residents. With all these rain events, it seems like every spring we're getting hit with a lot of rain, a lot of flooding, and I know people get upset. Um, we can't stop it. I mean, our pipes back up. Um, just the nature of mother nature, right? Um, so I ask for people to have patience. I mean, the street department's out there, the police department, everybody's out there doing what they can to warn people of high water and different places, but depends on how much rain in a given period of time it it comes down and it flows wherever it wants. So, um, I ask for patience uh from our residents and and calling the staff if we don't want your property damaged, but there's sometimes we can't do anything about it. um just uh the way things worked. So, but I want to thank our staff and and the residents for you know look dealing with these problems that we have and it's not just us, it's other towns. We had the the tornadoes and high winds and everything and that's unprecedented. Um but want to try to keep people safe. Um Hickville Beautifification Committee will be having their Mother's Day plant sale. They do this every year. It's a way to help with our downtown plants and and they keep Hicksville looking very nice with those um planners and different uh corners that they they put together. U but their plant sale is at the multi-purpose building at the fairgrounds May 8th and 9th. Um they do that every year and that's a nice thing to do. Um Bruce, myself and I know Cheryl uh the township um EMS and fire contracts are up at the end of June. Um me and Bruce went about a year ago and said we probably were going to revamp the contracts and Cheryl's been working on numbers and Bruce has too, but uh we met with all the townships here this last week and had a sit down with them and kind of told them where we were at without the hospital. U being a full year in operations and budgeting and

everything and cost of goods services, everything's gone up. Um staffing's gone up. You can tell with the numbers and everything across the board. So, um, you know, we're asking them to help a little bit in regards to the budgets for this next next round. So, but thank Bruce and Cheryl for that. I think that's all I have. Oh, the festival. Got to say the festival um committee still working uh planning a lot of events for uh June 4th, 5th, and 6th. Um, if anybody does want to help, uh, they can reach out to myself or Chris Fer at the Huber, but uh, the committee's meeting about every week now to keep things ramped up and, um, making, uh, a nice event for the community. Um, Bill, Bill's part of it, now Murphy and Chief and M Corey and, um, put Christine on the committee. I guess some more things going on at the park, but uh, it's fun stuff. So, but that's it. Um, anything for me, council? I'll make a motion to no executive session.

Oh man. Second. All right. Roll call. Do you need to roll call it everybody? Yes. Yes. Meena? Yes. Miller? Eggley? Yes. Thanks. Is it here?