Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

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e e e e good evening it is Tuesday February 18th 2025 this is the Carney Board of alderman meeting call the meeting to order please stand for the Pledge of

[Music] Allegiance Al 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 so you had a chance to take role I have taken role everyone is present you have the quum thank you and I'll notate that our finance director is joining us remote this evening she uh is dealing with some family uh stuff but uh Stephanie I appreciate you uh being here tonight even if it is remote uh we'll move on to public hearings we do have a public hearing noticed up this evening a public hearing to receive public comments regarding the proposed Water and Sewer rates uh if you wish to speak for or against the proposed Water and Sewer rates we have you come forward state your name and address for the record and then you will have the floor floor is open for public comments there's nobody here um inside City Hall I don't see anybody on Zoom either so I will close the floor for public comments we'll move on to the consent agenda any items of discussion or questions on the consent agenda this evening see none if we can entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so move I'll second all in favor I I oppose consent agenda passes next item um uh is ordinances first item this evening is a motion approving bill number 4 2025 presented by Stephanie Harris our

finance director an ordinance amending ordinance number 1553 d224 in the city code section 700 section 720 of the city of Carney Missouri prescribing the amount to be charged to customers for water and sewer Services Stephanie you have the floor thank you and can you hear me yes ma'am thank you um thanks for letting me attend remotely um this is this ordinance is related to the water and sewer increase um our notice was published in the Carney Courier on January 17th regarding the rate increase that we are proposing um obviously um with every budget process we go through a review of our um costs related to uh producing safe drinking water and the proper treatment of our waste water those being um two of our main goals of the public works department waste of water and wastewater departments and this Pros rate increase is necessary to cover the costs for the energy chemicals the equipment um that we use to provide clean and safe drinking water and to treat our waste waterer these costs have increased significantly over the last couple of years and we do not have any indication that that trend is going to change um increased maintenance and inspections on our water and our Wastewater systems is something we've made a priority and this allows us to identify problems before they become significant and very costly in addition in order to expand the capacity as our city continues to grow and to replace our aging infrastructure we need to begin planning and preparing for those changes so we

had proposed an increase that would add about A1 53 per month to the minimum water and sewer bill and then BAS on the average Carney household use which is about 3,000 gallons of water a month uh we anticipate that this will be about a $378 per month increase to those average residences thank you for that report Stephanie are there any questions or items of discussion from the board on the proposed ordinance seeing none if we can read the proposed ordinance on the first reading by title only please and ordinance amending ordinance number 1553 d224 and the city code section 700 and section 720 of the city of Carney Missouri prescribing the amount to be charged to customers for water and sewer Services make a motion on this first reading I'll second all in favor I oppose second reading by title only please and ordinance amending ordinance number 1553 d224 and the city code section 700 and section 720 of the city of Carney Missouri prescribing the amount to be charged to customers for water and sewer Services make a motion to approve on second reading second the board please Alderman King hi Alderman Holt hi Alderman Leman hi alderwoman Barker hi vot is unanimous ordinance passes on the second reading next item is a motion approving bill number 5 2025 presented

by Shila erns and our city administrator in ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2026 annual budget appropriating expenditures from revenues of the city in fixing the compensation for officers and employees for the city of car Missouri Sheila we went into a lot of detail um at the last meeting our entire meeting last time was dedicated to the budget and uh this ordinance will approve the budget for fiscal year 2026 any questions uh from the board uh to staff on the proposed budget make a motion to approve on first read I'll second it all in favor post second reading by TI only please an ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2026 annual budget appropriating expenditures from the revenues of the city and fixing the compensation for officers and employees for the city of Carney Missouri move to approve on second reading a second pull the board please Alderman Hol hi Alderman Lan I aloman Barker I Alderman King vote is unanimous and ordinance passes on the second reading before we read in the next consideration uh I am going to excuse myself from the room um and not be present during the official vote in any conversation uh regarding bill number 6 2025 uh my my bank is financing this project so I I feel even though it's not a conflict the best thing for me to do would be to uh excuse myself from any conversation or consideration so if somebody could please uh grab me after the vote has been reported

please um before we get we get on this um is there anything Kathy that you'd like to mention on this I know this went plan zoning um there was not much discussion on this it was it was approved pretty much as presented okay da Yeah final plats are like that you know as as long as the phasing follows the preliminary plat engineering plans are approved for this phase um the important things to note about this phase are there are two benefits to this uh Greenfield ath plat one is the road connection from Prairie Creek Drive around fish uh Foxtail Drive uh happens so we have good loop system in the subdivision and then two the Green Field lift station down uh at the bottom of parre drive by the pool will be decommissioned as part of this phase so that be grabing sewer rather than a lift station right but this this phase does not tie into 33 correct correct yeah any other questions from the board please read on first reading an ordinance approving a final plat of Meadows at Greenfield 8th plat a sub division in Carney Missouri and accepting dedication of RightWay and easements thereon I motion on the first reading I'll second all in favor say I I I please read an ordinance approving a final plat of Meadows at Greenfield 8th plat a subdivision in Carney Missouri and accepting dedication of RightWay and easements thereon move to approve on second reading oh second Alderman Lan hi Alderman barer hi Alderman King hi Alderman h i

pass next item on the agenda is a motion approving bill number 72025 presented by Chief Mark Thomas an ordinance adding section 3429 to the municipal code of the city of carne Missouri related to handsfree driving Chief Thomas thank you mayor and board uh this uh ordinance basically is a mirror of a state statute that was recently passed and put into play in January of this year uh it is a uh ordinance allowing our officers to issue uh a summons for the violation of uh driving without a hands hands-free device it is a secondary violation in other words the people cannot be stopped for a primary violation you have to have a primary violation to get stopped it's like a seat Bel is the best way to explain it so you can't be stopped because you're talking on the phone however if you're stopped or something else and it's you see that someone's talking on the phone without the hands spree they can be issued in additional SU thank you for that report Chief are there any questions um regarding the proposed ordinance see none if we can read the proposed ordinance first reading by title only please an ordinance adding section 34029 to the municipal code of the city of Carney Missouri relating to hands-free driving move to approve on first reading I second all in favor I I oppose second reading by TI only please an ordinance adding section 34029 to the municipal code of the city of Carney Missouri relating to handsfree driving motion to

approve second pull the board please Alderman King hi Alderman Holt hi Alderman Leman hi alderan Barker hi vote is unanimous ordinance passes on the second reading next item for consideration is a motion to approving bill number 8 2025 presented by David pavich our community development director and ordinance amending chapter 405 zoning regulations of the code of ordinances of the city of Carney Missouri David yeah I do have some comments so U this zoning code Amendment uh was put together to help meet one of the board's priorities of reducing lot sizes and adding some flexibility in our commercial and Industrial zoning districts um it was presented to you at the last last meeting well at a meeting last month the board had some comments we went back to Planning and Zoning commission for their meeting they add some additional comments at their meeting before your last meeting um the changes today um are highlighted they're bullet pointed in the memo um and these were approved by the planning zoning commission uh so the recommendations approval changes from the last meeting include updating the lock coverage requirement which were were comments from the and Zoning commission so on the residential side we increased the lock coverage and then on the res on the industrial commercial we reduced a little bit what from what was originally proposed um we created an r1b zoning District to separate the changes in in the R1 District that was a recommendation by Alderman lhan um essentially the uses are the same in both of those districts it's just that the development so lot size uh is what is is different than the r1b um we also increased propos multi parking spaces for 1.5 spaces per unit to 1.7 spaces per unit and one space per

studio and efficiency unit there was discussion in the planning zoning commission last uh at their meeting last week based on the board's concern about parking and and they felt a little bit of an increase from what was proposed last time um gets us not at the bottom of our peer communities but also not at the top and so increased a little bit to 1.7 and then um we removed accessory dwelling units from uh the zoning ordinance it really wasn't part of the board's priorities necessarily um there were some questions at the pnz meeting or the board of Alman meeting last time about those so we just pulled them and and we'll put together a separate ordinance for you guys at a later uh later time this this year so based on those changes again planning zone recommend the thank you for that report Alman Barger planning in Z do you have anything on stad um I think dve covered up really well we spent a lot of time talking about parking and and the necessity for allowing for visitor parking and all that so I think I think this was a good compromise from where where we started um and and making sure that like if we have a an apartment complex that's an efficiency a complete efficiency unit that we're not requiring them to follow those same rules so okay any other questions from staff or planning zone is on have you had any uh feedback from any Builders or developers on on this CH on the Z it's they're zoning things they're not really they're not building code things well I mean it's out in the wind yeah we haven't do inside it no yeah we haven't at least there's an option there you know right modifying a little bit if there's no other questions we can read the proposed ordinance on uh first reading by tit only please an ordinance

amending chapter 405 zoning regulations of the code of ordinances of the city of Carney Missouri move to approve on first reading all second all in favor I oppose second reading by TI only please an ordinance amending chapter 405 zoning regulations of the code of ordinances of the city of Carney Missouri motion I'll second pull the board please older woman barer hi Alderman King hi Alderman Holt hi Alderman Leman hi vote is unanimous ordinance passes on the second reading uh next item on the agenda is our January monthly financial report presented by Stephanie Harris our finance director Stephanie thank you um the financials that you have in front of you are the fin finial statements for January 31st um we are 10 minutes or 10 minutes 10 months through our fiscal year or 83% of the way complete um property taxes are continuing to come in for the year um really there were no other areas of concern uh for revenues and nor anything concerning uh in any of the expenses or any of the other funds so I didn't really have anything if you guys have any questions um feel free to ask or if you need any additional information always don't hesitate to call me or email me thank you for um last meeting I asked you to to get me something as time permits and you got it to me within a couple days so thank you for that um just wanted to pass that along to you I don't know if I responded to that email or not but does the board have any questions on the report thank you so much for that report you're welcome uh I have nothing on mayor's

Communications this evening we'll move on to City administrators I'm sorry I skipped right over it's okay we can do it under City administrative yeah so as I'm just hopping along there um I did skip our third quarter operational results so um you have the floor would you like me to sh you want I'm going to try and share yes I'm GNA go toh first we're just kind of gonna have a team effort um this these are our metrics um and we want to report these to you from October 1st through December 31st that's our fiscal year third quarter and um I think that the city hall slide will be first and Stephanie's going to start us off okay can you see it Stephanie um I can uh next slide we got Jerry looks like Jerry Siler in the audience too is that Advance Stephanie um not on my screen [Music] it's here we go let's try [Music] this when I did the budget one David I had to just there okay so this slide um is the third quarter metrics for City Hall and City Hall metrics um are shown for staff members or areas of the city's operation that serve all the Departments and all the staff those various departments and functions are shown on this slide

some of the highlights for Q3 are um we had two new hires and our staff completed 57 professional education training hours City Hall staff worked 23 overtime hours which is less than Q2 um we issued 549 paychecks 971 payments to vendors we produced 11,449 utility bills and sold 74 million gallons of water um we had 31 water shut offs for delinquent accounts and um Our IT staff member uh continued to handle an increased number of help tickets and worked diligently to maintain the Safety and Security of our data all of our certifications and our equipment um City Hall was at 66.2% of budget for year to date through December and therefore our expens were trending favorably um moving on from metrics just some other things that City Hall did during Q3 uh we continued to hold monthly engagement Employee Engagement team meetings and Communications team meetings which are really integral in building our culture and um helping especially new staff members um become familiar with our priorities and all of the things that we emphasize um our Economic Development uh Team worked on uh the Westside CID uh last quarter I think um might remember that we amended that CID to add projects uh and in Q3 we actually

expanded the boundary for that Westside CID so that CID sales tax that is collected within that district will pay for projects in that area such as water lines sanitary sewer storm water sidewalks and more the first plan project in that area will be the extension of the water line from 6th Avenue South to 92 and then West along 92 and tie into the water line at Academy Bank also last quarter we reported that the board of alderman approved the K 35 development plan for downtown and we currently have three projects in the pipeline for that uh we worked with two new property or two Property Owners at the new interchange on the west side of I35 and the board of alderman approved the all new Gateway West CID uh that CID will fund the water line down Nation Road will improve Nation Road to a complete Street standard and will allow the future inter connection of Sandbar Drive between 92 and 19th Street this was a critical initiative because it will um bring water bringing water to that site opens up almost 570 acres of land for commercial industri and Industrial Development along I35 so pretty important um Economic Development also worked closely with Community Development to update the future land use map um which was approved by planning and z and that map provides a visual representation of carne's desired future land use when development begins to occur um the finance department uh was hard at work all staff was involved in the fiscal year 26 budget process culminating in the presentation and

approval this evening uh business license renewal letters were mailed in December staff issued W2s and 999 to all applicable parties we held an open enrollment for employee benefits we transitioned to a new health insurance provider we implemented a new flexible savings account benefit as part of that enrollment process um we assisted on the administrative side and with the multitude of phone calls related to the transition uh to Redgate disposal um to date that transition and our interactions with red Redgate have gone wonderful wonderfully uh we completed the selection of a new carrier Midwest public risk for the city's property and liability insurance coverage uh passed an ordinance to establish a formal procedure for leak adjustments and delinquent account shut offs and we uh transitioned our utility meter reading software from uh census logic to census analytics um that is probably enough from me on city hall because then I'll roll right into Municipal Court um in Q3 Municipal Court cases continued to increase uh they had 677 total cases compared to 302 in the previous quarter overtime hours continue to occur due to the volume of court case as well as our court administrator administrator tending to a backlog of some cases uh there were five warrants that were cleared during the quarter and 439 cases pled guilty which was a large

increase um it was 175 could guilty in Q2 so that is a large change um the Municipal Court department was at 73.5% of budget for the fiscal year to date um their for the Court's expenses are trending favorably as well my [Applause] report Community Development so David pav here um this last quarter we issued 36 building permits with over $6 million in investment almost all of that was covered by 10 new house permits um a couple of those probably were issued in Green Field and I said that because of we have in our audience Jerry has joined us on uh online um also a new project in Innovation Business Park and then a major remodel at one of the senior housing projects in town we also performed 384 inspections during the quarter um the beginning of the quarter we hired our new code enforcement an animal control person as result of that uh we respond to 67 total complaints which was more than double the previous quarter um she was able to get hit the ground run it and and and start um during that quarter not so much weeds is that's during the spring and summer months more along the lines of unlicensed Vehicles it seems like that's what we key on about this time of year um we issued 31 dog licenses the past quarter which happens to be the same as the previous quarter um we process five submittal to planning zoning commission which include a site plan for sports training facility also an innovation and we hope that starts Construction in the next couple of months our accomplishments the last quarter included updating the 28 to the 2018 building codes which went into effect earlier this month um and also we successfully captured spade and returned

our first TNR cat um we've not done any since then it is winter we don't want to trap cats and have them sit in a trap overnight so we'll wait until spring and the weather gets a little nicer maybe we can continue to do some of that um and then uh tonight's zoning code amendment was one of our priorities for this current quarter so we appreciate your the zoning cment thank you uh Chief Mark Thomas with the police department in the third quarter we had 495 citations we had 1,63 calls for service uh we had 1,52 traffic stops this is this is a a one of those statistics that I'm proud of it's not that everybody gets a ticket every time they get stopped it's a great contact that our guys use to reach out to the public to not only educate but but also to uh uh you know we sometimes we do have to write tickets and that's seen in in the increase in the court uh activity um I always say that uh you know our guys have some great tools right now with uh our e ticketing uh that you guys approve for us to have but you don't get any e tickets without an e stop so actually a real stop so that's that's what our guys are out there doing um our detective unit had 41 assigned cases and and uh char charges were filed in one case we continued working on 13 more Active cases and then we had 24 inactive cases at this time they're carrying a case load of 80 cases between the two detectives our live training for our officers was 6362 hours for uh our officers uh Havoc I'm happy to report is is had 41 a half hours of training and he's coming along really good really well um uh when I talked to Corporal Parton recently um he is going progressing even faster than what he anticipated um he's a really

smart dog uh his uh he's still got a lot of energy of course that's what those dogs have but um he's catching on really really well and he's he's socializing as well uh even better so uh is he going to be a uh somebody's lap dog never um we don't want him to be right and so but he's doing a really great job uh not only in the drug detection uh but uh in everything all all last he's he's way ahead of the curve um we have our SRO in place at the schools um and but we still continue to do a lot of stop buys uh our guys are still stopping by at the drop offs and and uh pickups and and having fun with the kids we did four community relations uh presentations and we took 29 crash reports uh our average response time is still under 4 minutes um and I'm happy to report that we completed the homecoming parade and the winter parade in this uh in this quarter and the the success the SEC I'm sorry the success measure of a parade is when nothing bad happens and nothing bad happened I I did have a little girl uh that was brought up to me about 2 years old uh during the winter parade which was after dark and it was she was a little scared she walked out of her house um and decided all those people out there having fun on the sidewalk she was going to go out and have fun with them well they brought him to the first police officer and that happened to be me and and uh I I didn't even get to hold her yet but uh dad came frantically running down the sidewalk and picked up his daughter and all was well so that's that's that's how the story ends in a happy fashion so that's it thank you um Eric Marshall Park uh Department our Department's vision is promoting Health Fitness and Community well-being through our Recreation opportunities or welcoming trails and

green space we occupy 215 Acres of Park land and over 7 miles of walking trails and approximately 12% of our City's population will have participated in Carney parks and recreation activities during this fiscal year we have three full-time staff Ryan marott Ray Kendall and myself we have one part-time employee Jeff Anderson um he allocated 1,000 hours of this fiscal year and we were hoping to have him back working uh this month in March but little weather problems um as we uh we need to get preparing fields for games because our season spring season is just around the corner uh on the screen the 11 hours of overtime you see is uh in the third quarter was for the October Fest event um our seasonal Heth uh is done for the season um and we had three of those um allocated a, hours and they worked uh 818 12 hours of the 1,000 hours uh allocated uh as you can see mowing slowed down significantly in the third quarter as we wrap that up in October um we dumped 250 barrels of trash in quarter 3 slowing down significantly from our Peak uh quarter 2 numbers uh a lot of that was during the October Fest event uh we still colle pet waste stations once a week probably not this week as all the parks and on the trail uh people still walk but again probably not this week tree trimming and removal of dead or dying trees uh were six and quarter three and we're happy that we had no vandalism cases in our third quarter uh Ray Kendall our certified

playground and uh Spectre um did three full inspections this past quarter and only mild uh safety issues were uh reported and uh those were uh remedied we had over 800 participants in our activities in quarter three um with flag football volleyball soccer pickle ball and our basketball being our offers um our budget to actual is at 73.6% at the end of quarter three and naturally our shelter slowed down significantly with the cold weather with 12 in in uh all of the parks over 4 3 the community events as I mentioned briefly October Fest there were 565 um people that attended that event through our Placer Ai and our Christmas parade had 2200 visitors and um like I said even though it doesn't feel or look like it right now we're preparing for our spring season uh reducing the amount of cont contract mowing we have we're writing our contracts with vendors and uh have a lead with a radio station inquiring about a Christian concert at the ampath theater all with this goal of meeting or exceeding the board of alderman priorities for fiscal year 26 in Hall Park uh we had a meeting just the other day with our engineer we're closer to finalizing those plans and starting the process of the bid process for construction and actual development of the hall Park Pro property so we're we're getting closer on that and I'll keep you updated and things as we go on that so that's my report thank you thank you now Fairview Cemetery um again this is

uh quarter 3 October 1st through December 31 um Marcos had 23 Marcos Barbosa our Cemetary ston had 23 hours uh he spent on cemetery cleanup uh we did have some tree trimming and plant removal 14 hours um we didn't have to till any Graves or uh plant any seed during that quarter we marked nine Graves for burial and 26 grave plots were sold um as I mentioned Marcos has been working with Jamie and getting all the mapping up to date and all digitized we anticipate bringing you the final recommendation of the cemetery rule sign that you guys uh briefly looked at earlier this our late last year um for the rule sign board for Fairview Cemetery um we hopefully will have that for you in April for approval and uh visiting with uh Marcos and Jamie there are 178 available lots available in Fairview Cemetery out of 3 , 623 total Lots um spaces that are available or were available and Fa sary So 178 Lots still available thank you thank you good evening I'm Lauren Snider partney city engineer and acting Public Works director until Thursday when Shelley Daniel returns from vacation uh the public works department supports the City by managing public services including drinking water Wastewater Transportation RightWay geographic information systems or GIS engineering and waste management there are currently five full-time Public Works employees in public works City Hall a new metric that we're tracking this quarter captures our Waste Management Service performance the

city's responsible for bin delivery and removal as part of our contract with Redgate disposal we are also responsible for making certain that Redgate provides service to customers who rep report a missed service on any service day our team provided service for 178 bins in quarter 3 uh when we were under contract with the previous Waste Management contractor is is those 178 there's been a significant um increase in service um over the last last month and I think these numbers will will go down next next quarter um the city secured another two grants this quarter the first is from Mark or Mid America Regional Council um to steady Traffic Safety at the intersection of nation Road in 162nd Street also from Mark the city received funds to steady and plan the connectivity of sidewalks bicycle accommodations shared use paths and trails across the city a special focus of this study will be to revitalize downtown by making it readily accessible for all Transportation options this quarter our GIS map has 19,00 326 mapped data points that include our water lines sewer lines roadways Street Maintenance work and many more items there were 39,0 58 online views of the gis data to give some perspective that's up from 9,774 views last quarter this is an increase of nearly 30,000 service touch points with our community stakeholders we have been actively planning and Contracting work there are 17 active construction and consultant contracts there is one active construction project at this time and that's the water tower replacement project which is a $5 million capital investment the Shadow Brook culbert replacement project and the coring conversion projects completed

in the third quarter below budget while the water tower experienced a change order that added time for additional project scope while reducing the project cost we have six planning studies underway including two Master plans for storm water and transportation and two additional planning studies beginning the first is the connected Carney plan which develops a Citywide connectivity uh plan and pedestrian plan for sidewalks and trails and the other is an integrated management plan which helps with long range planning for our Capital Investments for water sewer and storm water we have three active design projects the first is the m Porter Park Trail extension around along Route 33 the pathways project which fills in sidewalk gaps and neighborhoods and enhances sidewalk Crossing including flashing beacons on Route 33 the last one is the 19th Street complete Street project between Meadow Lane Street and wat Street and Watson drive to continue the complete Street design and improve the Route 33 intersection during the third quarter 119 RightWay permits were issued and inspected the majority of these were related to the ongoing intercept and United fiber projects Public Works operating public works' operating budget is 63% act budget to actual Public Works City Hall had no overtime hours in the third quarter we had 43 A2 training hours for our team looking ahead work will pick up at the new Carney water tower off of I35 as the weather warms up the city's ms4 permit will be completed at the end of February work on Grant projects along with contracts to design several water main projects west of I35 will be keeping us very busy next slide so there are currently eight employees with the water department in

the third quarter staff responded to four water main breaks completed 31 shut offs for delinquent payment and installed 8 meters for new construction 46 million gallons of raw water were treated compared to last quarter 60 million gallons one of our wells was out of service and this reduced our flow coming into the plant that's why that that number is down a little bit the city sold 74 million gallons of water 41 million gallons of water were purchased from Kansas City this quarter down from 48 million gallons last quarter the water department operated the treatment plant a total of 1,297 hours or an average of 14 hours each day water staff performed over 9,000 252 treatment tests 56 distribution tests and flushed 123 hydrants due to the ongoing fiber installation um across town the water department responded to 854 locates in the third quarter this was up from 698 locates the prior quarter the department replaced 15 MERS replaced no Mains and operated 128 valves during the quarter during this quarter we successfully completed the forming disinfection conversion with the startup of this treatment a full system flush was completed these tasks required water department employees to work longer hours to make certain that the water was safe to drink during the conversion this quarter we also submitted our lead and copper inventory report to Missouri BNR and we're able to confirm 86% of service lines to be non-led materials we are required now to confirm 10% of the remaining 542 unknown service lines in town each year going

forward the water department is at 80.1% of budget over actual logged 86 hours of overtime and completed 64 hours of training for the quarter next slide please there are currently six employees in the sewer department for the third quarter we treated 87 million gallons of waste water with a total of 22 million gallons through UV through the UV system our regulatory permit with Missouri Department of National Resources requires us to run the UV system from April 1st through October 31st and that's why there's a difference between the total gallons treated and the UV gallons treated we processed 125 dry tons of sludge and we performed one lid inspection and 625 tests we did 84 lift station inspections and responded to one CLA our average flow for the last quarter was 950,000 gallons per day plant capacity is currently at 85% the first quarter we were at 62% in the second quarter we were at 90% plant capacity does fluctuate depending on the weather and if school is in session our budget at the S department is at 59% to actual in this quarter we had 112 overtime hours with the majority of those due to three employees taking a 10day Wastewater class we had 231 hours of training next SL laen yes Mass question so the difference of looks like our facility third quarter treated 87 million gallons of stuff to treat but we only sold 74 million it was is it safe to say that 13 million's I I

or you're looking at the water numbers yes 13 million gallons is just for maintenance keep in mind it was the cor me conversion we had to flush the entire system so that's a lot of water that that was wasted I'm so I meant um specifically the looks like our Sewer Department treated 87 million gallons in quarter 3 but we only sold 74 million gallons in the water department so I guess just that difference sticks out to me of what we sold what was actually treated through our system and that's I yeah 13 million of it is IAI uh the difference roughly okay thank [Music] you we currently have six employees in our streets department fall is when we tackle the bulk of our crack ceiling efforts and we completed 44,600 lineal feet of crack ceiling We performed this maintenance work along Watson Drive Meadow Brook and at a variety of other locations to prevent water from entering the pavement and causing freeze thaw damage staff completed five tons of asphalt patching around the community uh we did no Lane miles of overlay and maintain our pavement condition index rating of 589 gallon with the leaves falling from the trees we completed 7 62 hours of sweeping and 270 hours working on roadway beautification that beautification includes Flags banners and Christmas decorations that were maintained along Jefferson and Washington streets with the fall weather no ditching or mowing was completed in the third quarter uh 75 lineal feet of sidewalk panels were replaced and with no curbing gutter um we responded to one winter

weather event in the third quarter that requires snow removal we did not complete any storm pipe cleaning or pipe replacement due to the cooler weather conditions our budget to actual is 53% with 15 overtime hours and 148 training hours I have a question do we ever take a street sweeper and the residential streets and clean out the storm grains can we you know with that roller can we cuz there's a lot of leaves that pile up on them for RS can can we do that I mean cuz I mean I always see it on the main roads but do we ever take them into residential just to not to do the whole street but to do the you know storm clean out I'd have to defer as staff Lauren is it I have seen the sweeper in residential neighborhood but I think ween on our our Mainline roadways but I can check on that yeah cuz I mean a lot of those catch you know just I didn't know if that would help our St water believe that concludes the third quarter operation results uh safe to say that we remained very busy uh a a lot kind of sticks out to me um but specifically uh we're talking about I had no idea our water department located that much of our INF structure that is crazy that's enough to keep a person busy in itself but um the 17 projects the active contracts that we're working in public works is exciting too so a lot of good things appreciate each and every one of our staff members um that has helped us be successful uh move on to City administrator's report just that the

next regular board meeting will be on Monday March 3rd right here at 6:30 p.m. we'll move on to Alderman discussion Alderman king I don't have much much right Al barer I want to take a minute to commend everybody that has worked on this budget I think if somebody tuned in this evening and they said oh they just rubber stamped that it was just there and they they have no idea how much work went into this with City staff and with this board and and so I just want to commend everybody is it the perfect budget for me probably not probably there's things that everybody would change in this budget but the way de democracy works and the way that budgets work is that you do the best you can with what you have and everybody should get a little piece of that pie so I just want to commend everybody there was a lot of hard work that went into this and and I'm really proud of what's been accomplished thank you Alderman um tomorrow evening is a celebrational life for one of our business owners in town of Brad Brown who had uh passed at an early age and U he uh you know with Remax here in town he he touched a lot of people the office touched a lot of people and so um I just want to remind people that his visitation is yes Thursday Thursday from 5: to 7:00 um I I got my days messed up with all was going it's Thursday 5: to 7: at Hidden Val funeral Alman lemman um just want to piggy back on Alder Barber's comments on the budget

um you know there's there's no perfect budget um but you know there there were a lot of manh hours spent on this budget making it the best budget that we could um I know I personally partly because I'm retired and had the time but I personally spent more time on the budget this year than I have in the years past cuz I had the time and uh so for those naysayers out there that uh you know it looks like we just take a vote and we're done uh little do they know the the work that goes on in the background so kudos to staff all of staff and and it's the best we could do this time all right that concludes Alderman discussion can we entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting moved second all in favor oppose we are adjourn everybody have a good evening thank you for being here everybody have a nice evening than