City Council - Regular Meeting

Now that you're seated, call the meeting to order and rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the One indivisible and justice for all Susie the roll call please. Council member Ritzma here. Council member Chambers here. Council member Salido here. Council member Vargas here and Mayor Dor. I am here. Uh motion for the consent agenda tonight. Regular and closed meeting minutes. I'll make that motion. I'll support it. Discussion or changes? Sue. Council member Ritzimo, yes. Mayor D'vor,

yes. Council member Sal, yes. Council member Barkus, yes. And council member Chambers, yes. Citizen comment for agenda items. Perfect.

Old business number A, fire department update, chief. All right. Good evening. Welcome to October or I should say in the fire service uh fire safety month. So yeah, it's a hot day today. We're hoping for rain. Um but otherwise, welcome to October. It's been a little bit since I've been here at the council. Think maybe six months. So I'm just going to kind of give you a little bit of a preview of what we've been through over the last six to nine months of the fire department. It's been a busy year to say the least. Um so far for uh 2025 in the city of L we ran 359 calls for incidents here in the city. Um we're almost to a thousand calls on the year. Um so it's been a busier year. We're up about 10 to 12% on calls from the previous year last year. So we are moving a little bit. We're getting out there. We're seeing people. Um we have had some calls from mutual aid just to mention them uh in the area of where we've gone to help out other areas. We've gone out to Ada for houseire. down to Elto for some accidents on the highway. Uh Cascade for house fire, vehicle accidents in Sarinac Grant for some bar fires. So we are helping out our neighbors as much as we often times ask for our neighbors come in here and help us quite a bit as well. Um just for uh understanding where we're doing in the city of LOL here. 65% of our calls are for medicals in the city. Um so that is kind of right on pace with what we would expect to see. So the statistics kind of saying, hey, things are pointing that direction. Um for comparison sake, we tend to see a little bit more for medicals in Little Township and a little bit less in Virginia Township. So the city's kind of right there in the average range there. Um some of our bigger incidents we did have in the area here. Um I think everybody did hear at some point in time about the plane crash that we did have throughout the summer here. An unfortunate event, but again was a large event for us as for a lot of help out of that. Um was a very unique situation. We did ask to do

some after action training with our team. We did some command follow up with the other chiefs. They did show up just for learnings that came out of that opportunities for improvement. And we did the same thing for hot wash all for firefighters just action report. What they felt like, what they went through, what was it like um any issues they saw of things of those nature. Um another one of our more recent items that we did have in the area is we did have a condo fire over in township as well. Again, another example, we had 18 firefighters turn off that event. Uh just a good opportunity for us to residents, but uh no one was injured. Um the turned out well. We had some mutual aid support on that call as well. Uh from a training standpoint over the last six months, it's been uh extremely busy the number of trainings we participated in. Uh we did host an EV training course with electric vehicles in town here. Uh we did that with the Bside Fool groups, another group that comboed with us bringing in outside departments. We had 10 other individuals from varying different departments that were able to join us for that one. That was an all day course here that we were able to bring in a forward vehicle uh electric vehicle here from Ford. apart, tear apart, learn how those vehicles work. Um, they are different. They are definitely different to say the least. But we did some uh water supply nursing operations internally at the department here. We did go out and train at Gerald Ford or Gerald R. Ford airport. Did some nursing operations out on the runway with them and Cascade. We did some water supply backup operations, fire attack operations with Cascade. We had an internal medical blitz. We did a driver's training course here. We sent some individuals out to the statewide Great Lakes hot class to learn about uh nozzle for hose operations. We had some wildfire burn control operations we did in the area, some master stream operations. Uh we also did some team training with getting to know your area, seeing size up. Uh did our normal operations of ropes and knots, ladders training, portable entry, um nozzle hose and deployment, and of course everybody's favorite is administrative policy updates. That is the fun that says great. we get those cheap. Um otherwise, community prevention and wellness. This is just where we get out

to the community, where we see people over the past few months. Um we had the K County Youth Fair uh was great events. Minimal types of response out there. Nothing as serious, which was great. Great to see people out there. We've had many uh spring and fall sporting events that we did cover for with the high school. Uh we also did some Merk training drills as schools picked up again. Riverwalk took place. participated a lot of the river walk down here, concert series, Safety Town. Um we've done elementary school visits not only in the spring, but we now are kicking them off here with our fire safety month. So again, a busy month for us. Um and of course then the smoke detector installation program we have with getting smoke detectors from the state. That has really paid off opportunity for residents to get smoke detectors from the states and even on some of these alarms we've done with people that have seal issues in their house right there. get a new smoke detector. So that's a good positive resident. Uh from a support services standpoint, uh trucks, they always require maintenance, improvement, fixes, as I say, opportunities. Uh DOT testing on all the trucks took place. Um that is a good thing. Has to be done every year. All trucks passed, which was good. We did do some pump testing. We found that our oldest truck, Ninja 3, had some issues with our valves that needed to go and get some replacements. Those parts did take a little bit to get taken care of, but they are supposed to come back. The truck is supposed to actually come back tomorrow. Pick that truck back out. So, that's been one of those things we've been looking to get done. Um, engine tires, got engine two got new tires. Also needed a new sending unit for the death system on it. Um, it's consistently been a troublesome issue on all these trucks. The death system on the emergency vehicles is a problem, but again, we just deal with it as it is. Um, engine one had to go back to the manufacturer due to electrical issues. We lost entire electrical to the back end of the truck. moisture in the truck. So again, just some issues that we work through. Um otherwise, that's kind of uh big picture items are where we're at for our support services from a financial standpoint. Uh the good thing is we just

had our audit. Audit came back clean. That's a wonderful thing. Everybody likes to do a clean audit. We ended up our year with about $120,000 going towards our fund balance. We were under budget. Um a lot of that under budget was due to we did sell off uh pickup and boats. some of our assets that we didn't feel like we needed and kind of change direction what we were doing. Um, but we were all also under budget with just some of our payroll type items and some of our cost recovery areas that we can take out some of our expenses that we had throughout the year from a long range planning standpoint. I appreciate all council members that were there for our September 22 meeting for longrange budgetation. I think we all know what the needs are. Uh, I think it was well received and so questions thoughts. Do you want to talk about Halloween?

Oh, so to to top it all off, um, everyone is invited in this room. Please come out October 25th, uh, 5 to 8 in the evening, the last Saturday in October, to our annual openhouse trunk or treat. Fill your bucket with candy, that person leaves without candy or some type of treat. It'll be a wonderful evening that night to have kids out. We are expecting even arrow at this point sounds like they're going to land a chopper for us that night uh in the park nearby. We'll have a lot of visitors, local tow trucks, uh, Kent County Road Commission. We're hoping late PD shows up and, uh, but all of our partners, friend, Kent County Sheriff will be there, a lot of our local departments. It is a fantastic event. So, we encourage everybody to show up, take your kids down there, fill your bucket up with candy. It's wonderful.

Any other questions? You said you're running about a thousand calls right now. Yes. So it could be more than a thousand for the year. We're expecting probably to end up in about that 1300 range is what the estimation Hastings is twice the size of us and they're running about the same amount of calling what was it five townships. Yeah, five township. Five townships. So they're twice our size. They have twice as many people. They have a huge on call staff. And yet our fire department here is actually doing the same work with more work.

More work with less equipment and less people. So they should really be commended for what they do. It was very impressive to hear them, but it's more impressive to know our numbers because we got to see it. And they got a ladder truck. Don't tell him that, please. Well, I kind of want one. Meeting is adjourned. Any other questions? Thanks, Chief. All right. Fantastic. Thank you all. Y Hey, Rich. How about an act 51 amendment?

All right. So, in the process of doing some research on the history of the Chattam Street Culvert west of Smith Street, it came to our attention that a portion of the street maintained by the city is not included in the Act 51 maps. The act 51 map is a tool that visually represents Michigan's road network and jurisdictions and works with funding by defining the mileage and classification of roads that determine each local agency's share of the Michigan Transportation Fund. So money's involved. Uh local agencies annually submit mileage certification maps which are then used by the MTF or the Michigan Transportation Fund Distribution Formula and allocating funds based on the type and amount of roads. They are responsible for ensuring that a datadriven distribution of state road funding is followed. Uh the portion of Chattam Street west of Smith Street formerly known as West Street is platted as a 49 and a half foot wide public street for the plat of the village of LOL dated 1870. However, the section was not included in the current certified act 51 calculation for road revenue. Public act 51 of 1951 uses a formula based on length of road center line amending the act 51 map to add the 249.25 25 ft of local road center line may increase the city's road funding revenue slightly. Uh the attached resolution is for street ad certification that can be used to amend the city's act 51 map and I put down a sample motion for you as well as a couple of attachments. One being the resolution 1725. Uh another attachment being a portion of the plat of the village of LOL from 1870. Uh segment of the act 51 mileage certification and map legend just so you can see that it was included and then a professional survey and description of the Chattam Street center line representing the 249.25 ft we're discussing.

Any questions? No. But it shows when we say we're trying to find every penny we can. Yeah. We had to go back to 1870 to find a road that we don't have, but it's on paper and we can use it. So, good job. Thank you. All right. Anything else? I'll look for a motion for resolution 1725. I'll make that motion. I'll support. Any other discussion? Sue. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Let's stay with Rich Lawn Mowing.

All right. All right. In October of 2022, the Department of Public Works solicited bids from qualified landscape firms who possess the necessary labor, skill, and equipment to provide mowing and trimming services on a variety of municipal properties. Mowing and trimming services are performed by a contracted vendor over the course of the summer growing season, which lasts approximately 24 weeks. Maneski Landscaping of L was awarded a three-year contract for the years of 23 through 25. Uh the contract provides for two optional one-year extensions. Uh Mr. Menesi has expressed interest in a one-year extension of his agreement for the 2026 calendar year mowing season and has provided a a quote to us. Um, one cycle of mowing is going to be $2385 or for the entire season $57,240. The quote represents a 34.37% increase from the previous contract amount of 42,600 per season or 1,775 per cycle. However, Meneski's quote is still lower than the next low bid received back in 2325 solicitation. The next low bid ranged from 91,000 to 93,000 when we bid it last time. So, Benzeski is still quite a bit lower. Uh, Moing is a routine contractual service and funds have been allocated in the various accounts to pay for the service. The duration of the proposed agreement will be for the upcoming calendar year of 2026.

Is there a reason he doesn't want to do more than one year? Well, typically what we do when we extend him is for one year at a time. And so if he wants to do another year, take his other option, we'll come back to you next year and do that. Rich, are they the only ones that gave a bid this for the 26 year? Because you said the other was a 23 to 25. So I'm assuming that that 91 to 93 was sent to us in 2023 for a threeyear contract.

So we bid it in 2325. I wasn't here but there was a couple of bids received. Menzeski got the contract and so now he's operating as or executing as optional extensions. Okay. So we only bid it through again through Meneski. We give him an opportunity to adjust his prices basically based on inflation and other factors. Still less the bid in we did get a bid from them three years ago and it says can you do less than 57,000 or no? We just the last one. Okay. Any other questions? Is the 91,000 is that for three years? So for a yearly cost, divide that by three.

It's not 91. That was 91,000 for the first year. N The second year was in between 91 and 93 and the third year was 93,000. So that was a per year cost. That was somebody else. For somebody else. Yeah.

So 270,000 for three years. I think he does a good job. I agree on Wreck Park. He he's phenomenal, but I think the 34% is a little much for me at least. I'd like to see three quotes. So, we'll have to revisit that if that's council's preference. Next year somebody has to come back and ask for an extension. I think we at least owe it to him. I would argue too that that's with this it's a uh he has the option. Correct. But the bid is still significantly less than what the second lowest bidder was last time. We can go out for a bid. That's not an issue. However, just understand that there's time involved preparing bids, going through that process that takes us away from other tasks that if we're still getting a significantly less savings than what we did the last time, from where I sit, it just makes sense just to extend the option.

I don't think we owe him anything to be honest with you. I agree. To say we owe that's that's not right in my mind. 34% increases quite a bit. I'm I'm quite sure you will find that somehow in the budget without affecting other services. So I'm okay to move through this next uh cycle, but after that I think putting it out for a normal bid in 2026 after that season. I think that's fair.

Anybody else? I'll look for a motion to accept the bid for one year of mowing. I'll make that motion. I'll support discussion. Sue member. Yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh Rich again utility service box.

Okay, let's just scroll down here. All right. The department Department of Public Works has received my deal bid pricing for a new utility service box for the recently purchased Chevy 3500 HD cabin chassis. The utility service box is manufactured by Aloom Line and will be custom painted and upfitted by Truck and Trailer Specialties of Duck, Michigan. The box is constructed of aluminum which makes the body lighter, rust and corrosion resistant and longasting. The DPW has used this utility style of service box for the past four truck purchases. The utility service box allows staff to complete their work more efficiently with sufficient tool and material storage to complete most work activities in a single trip. The quoted my deal bid price for this service body is $40,766. This price includes fabrication, painting, and installation. Funding for this purchase was budgeted in equipment fund. Uh I've provided you a sample motion and attached the quote for you as well.

Questions? All right. Uh motion then to accept the truck and trailer specialties bid. I'll make that motion. I'll support. Any discussion? Sue. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh social district.

Yep. The city has received a request from a new restaurant or a new yeah new uh liquor establishment being added to the social district. The applicant Moravian Sun's Distilling located at 315 West Maine falls within the boundaries of the Showboat Social District. In order for these entities to receive social district endorsements on their liquor license, they must fall within the district boundaries and approved via council city council resolution. they are in the district and attaches resolution 1925 for the for the uh for your review. Um I don't know if anyone from the distillery is here tonight. Okay. Okay. Excellent. Any questions?

All right. I'll look then for a motion for 19-25 for the social district. I'll make that motion. Discussion S. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Eric, how about some board and commission reports? My trails and historic board have not met in two months. Hopefully this month.

Oh, let me see what we did at Low Light Power last month. Um, man, I'm sorry. I'm just not prepared. I know it was a short, very short meeting. We were out of there very early know they continue. They did have no outages last month. They did have some plan outages on the side of telling you the upgrades, but other than that, they they had a perfect month. So, they continue to run like.99, 59 or something like that. They just do a fantastic job.

Uh, no, none. Um, all those black walnut trees that were taken out of the city a couple years ago, uh, those seem to have Yeah, reduce the number of schools. But yeah, so that's it. All right, Marty.

Uh I have planning commission coming up, but I will not be here Monday for that. Uh my wife and I get very little bit of time off from our busy lives. I am taking my wife. We are going to Augenac to the St. Mary's River. Uh we're getting away for a week and we're just going to enjoy life. In fact, I could care less if I brought myself home with me. So, uh there's that. And sorry, Mark. Yeah. Last parks commission meeting was cancelled, but uh supposed to be this.

I got fire authority on Thursday and nothing else. We didn't have DDA last month. Uh how about a city manager report?

Sure. Um couple of items. Um Thursday evening the uh Michigan state budget was approved. Um and um it does have some impact for the city of LOL. Um if if you heard during the budget um process there was they obviously talked about a significant increase statewide um for uh local local uh roads. Um as as you all know local roads are not very well funded through um Act 51. Um so um there but also there was also issues with school funding. Um and um there was also some there's been some concerns obviously with revenue concerns about spending. They they've made some significant cuts in spending and revenue as well. Um so what is this what is how what's the impact for for LOL? So, one of the one of the things that caveats to offset the uh the the hike for the road increase, they initially they had they had initially planned for about $3 billion in um road funding for local streets. They they came about to about one and a 1.5 to$ 1.8 million statewide for for roads. Um they did they did add a wholesale uh marijuana tax. So that's basically on the wholesaler is where the where that tax is initiated. How that gets passed about I I I don't know but um it was it was a wholesale tax to the basically to the growers. Um there was a 6% statewide redu reduction in um revenue sharing for uh cities, villages and townships. So, um, the city, um, as a result of that, uh, we did receive about a $20,000 revenue sharing loss for the upcoming fiscal year. Um, however, um, we did see an increase of we will see a projection I I

was able to look at this today. There's a projection of about $193,000 added to our Act 51. And that is actually for only nine months of the year. um the funding will not come into place until January 1st. So that's about 75% of what the projected um revenue is. Um they I listened to a MML uh video this afternoon and they anticipate a 54% increase over five years for what they're allocating now for for for uh revenue sharing. So, I did the math at least with the 193,000. If we were to get the full 12 months, it was like $240,000, which is that's substantial to the uh to the uh general fund or to the to the act 51. So, I think even though we lost $20,000 in revenue sharing, probably can offset that. Um we can we contribute $150,000 out of the general fund annually to the local streets. you probably with the increase that we're getting from um um the uh the act 51. I would still want to accelerate the street street plan. Um but we could probably reduce the 150 to like 130 and we would still be whole. We wouldn't have technically lost anything. We wouldn't have to reduce any services or or or make any cuts to any plans. So I think we can I can through pull that off. We also received about 9.4 $9,400 in public safety revenue sharing. They really haven't defined that what that means yet. And all I know is it's only supposed to be for a few years and they're supposed to take that away. But for us, it's the way the formula it's basically tied to your how much violent crime you have in your community. So like Grand Rapids, Detroit, Wyoming, they got a lot more money than

we did. Um, and it was tied to your it was tied to your to the your level of violent crime, which in our city is very minimal. Um, so that is what I know as of today. I I got all the information today. So, I'm still going to be looking at that. And then, um, we're about ready to finish our audit. Our audit's about finished up. So, once I get the numbers, I can go back through the sevenyear street plan and probably move some projects up. So, uh, and move some projects around so we're going to have a little bit more money to work with. So that's I I I see that as good. Um so yeah, the audits we're just finishing up the audit. From what I understand, everything's good. I do know we're going to be getting some significant I do know that um I haven't gotten the final amount yet, but we did get a pretty good amount coming back to fund balance between revenue and expenditures. Our our revenue and our revenue and end our our fund B we were able to build some fund balance based on being conservative and so forth. So we how much that dollar amount is I I don't exactly know yet. I want to say I I've heard as low as 200,000. I've heard as high as 300,000. So I don't know what that number is um just yet, but I should know very shortly. Um as we all know the uh incident in Grand Blank Township last week, um obviously very tragic situation. Um, I've asked uh Chief Albert to reach out to all the churches just to understand what their security protocols for their churches are and uh he's in that process and I know we're trying at least we have an idea when the services are trying to make sure we have a patrol area car visible for those services. You know, we're in the area of those services if we can. Um so, um we're we're trying to address that the best we can. Um the the change of the hours for the social district, that paperwork has been finalized with uh LCC. Uh Jessica sent it out last week. So I did send out certified letters um

to all the uh social district lences. Um just explaining what the changes were. Um and so uh they they should have went out Thursday. Um so I don't know. Did you get yours, Marty?

Okay, good. Um so so there's that. um Wreck Park. So, um I would say since the beginning of the year, Rich and I have been working with Ken Pachchowski, Ken Pakowski, um who is overseeing um the LOL youth football. Um they are partnering with LOL youth lacrosse. They they would really like to make significant improvements to all the facilities at Rec Park, including the athletic fields, the King Building, the um the Wreath Barn. um they really want to they they and they believe they have the the financial wherewithal um to partner with the city um to make improvements. There's a lot of opportunities for public private partnership in this instance. So, we've been working on this, I want to say probably for about 9 10 months and since the beginning of the year um and we're going to be presenting to the park board um at their meeting on October 21st um just what what they would like to do and see if there is really interest in doing this and then we'll be bringing that to you as well to see if there's uh interest in doing this. So, we we've worked quite a bit on this and um hopefully I I think I think it's a really I think it's a really good opportunity for Recre Park if we can do it. Um it but there's a there's a there's there's a lot we have to discuss. So, um but we're going to start bringing that to you here very soon. Um we do have an issue with Riverside Drive. Um, so as part of with the community development block grant funds we received from Kent County, one of the requirements was we had to have a state historic preservation office review. That's not uncommon when you have federally funded projects. Um in that in that review um they found that back in 1990 the city had done some um water hydrant repairs and they found uh Native American Indian bones and um so as a

result of that um with that with that knowledge as part of the project that we're that we're doing through Kent County um we're going to have to have an archaeologist on site um to uh to for for any time that we're excavating in that area. Uh the good news is being a milling overlay, that's not a very long period of time and we're not going to have to go into the ground. Um because basically all we're just coming to is we're going to mill it. We're going to fill it. So it might only be about maybe 10 days or two weeks, so to speak. Um the we're getting a we're getting a more detailed quote from Kent County for that for that archaeologist because it has to go through them. And um the last time they had it was about $1,500 a day four years ago. So with inflation, I'm figuring somewhere between 3,000 to 5,000 a day for for this to occur. But I'm waiting to see what those what those estimates come in. Now the underlying the the question that I don't know the answer to yet is will we have to do that with phase two when we loop the water line. I could see that being if we have to do that that's going to be very costly but in order to get the project done we would have to do it. Um, so what I'm thinking of, obviously I I'm haven't gotten the the general fund numbers yet, but to offset the water fund and the local street fund, um, I would suspect that if we did have the fun the the fund balance, I'd probably want to put it towards those things just especially with the water one because that's going to have to that's going to go directly on the rates if we if we didn't do it that way. So I'm looking to see what we can do to avoid that. Um and so uh I should know more here hopefully pretty soon. Um we will be interview we will be doing interviews this week for um engineering firms. We received RFQS from

seven firms. Um so we will be uh we will be doing that this week and then we'll probably bring based off the interviews we'll probably bring them back for second interviews. So um so we'll I'll I'll keep you across once I go more. Um and then also Brandon Mirus is here tonight just to give you their monthly uh engineering update. I have a question. If they do find artifacts, bones, whatever they may be, what does that do to the project? I mean, it's got a delay and a lot of stuff has to go through. So, so you don't have those answers.

No, I can tell you from my experience, from what I know is the project stops until they until they until they sort out and hand till the archaeologists come out and do whatever it is they have to do to excavate and remove them. Um I know of projects that have taken been delayed for months because of it. Um and when that and hopefully that hap doesn't happen, but if it does, it is completely out of our hands. So that's just unfortunately that's the nature of what happens with dealing with some of these areas. And and one of the one of the things I didn't realize until I received word of this, if you actually look on an Apple map, right in the location where they found them literally at the uh corner of Foreman and and Riverside in that area. And if you look on an Apple map, it'll actually say burial ground right on an apple.

It says it down by right A, too. Yes. Right. Yes. So, all right. Any questions for Mike before we go to Brandon? I just wanted you to get up and down one more time. It's all yours.

Good evening. Thanks for for having me here. I'll start. This was not in my prepared notes, but the Maro Island uh the pavement markings were completed last Friday. The center line stripe uh down the road there kind of swerve that offset parking for the for the early vote for the voting and things like that has been done. So that's complete now. Washington Street, Georgetown has been on site. They've installed a little catch basin in an area where uh where we're holding a little bit of water. So that should alleviate that problem. Martin J was supposed to be out here last week. They were not there. So we are going to get on them. Katie called them today. I did not hear how that went. So we'll get them back out here pronto because Georgetown showed up. They said, you know, Martin J said they would be here on the second. They did not show up. So So we know the story there. Uh Riverside Drive might talk about that a little bit, but we've got divided into phase one and phase two and plan development has begun on both those phases. Foreman Street. We're in the M dot closeout. So we'll move that as rapidly through the M dot closeout process. That was I believe a category B funded project. So there's a little bit of followup paperwork with MDOT after upon the completion of that work which is done. So 2025 streets Dean Excavating has begun investigating the lead service lines. Uh to date they have inspected 34 of them. So that's 34 more off the list. were identified as galvanized and replacement of those lines began last week and will continue this week. Uh on James Street, uh our survey team is currently processing field data to initiate the work on the plan. So that'll be coming up very soon. The wellfield capacity analysis out there by the water plant has been completed. So our hydro geological engineers are confident that the wellfield can support another well about 600 625 gpm which is needed for the expansion of plant. So, we need to get that report uh to Eagle, get them to visit and to affirm our

report and then they can and that will authorize the drilling of the well. See, and then at the uh the wastewater treatment plant, the rerating report, which we're going to try to we're arguing we can take that plant up to 1.56 mgd. That's an increase from the 1.42 average state capacity it's rated now. be an extra 140,000 gallons potentially of treatment capacity without putting a shovel in the ground without any other changes. So that report uh had been reviewed by the plant staff sent to the city. City authorized us to to submit that. So we sent Boring Brown Eagle for consideration and then since the trail came up we're working on the trail due for the low area recreation authority and there's a plant survey. So the Eagle and the DNR have moved the so many times on this project. So, we're at the point now they're I believe they've completed the plan survey. So, that'll have to be they're working that that report has to be submitted or approved. But hopefully we'll have all the eyes dotted and the tees crossed and we can get that project bid.

Questions? I do. Can you go back to the wellfield and the 625,000 gallons? I 625 6 minute gallons per minute. I just want to make sure we can we're the goal is to double the capacity I think from 1.5 million to 3 million in the water plant. Is that possible with this added well? Yeah, because there's I believe there's five wells out there now. So this would be a six well. So that would increase capacity. There's kind of an extra capacity now, but not it needs one more to reach the firm capacity needed for a 3 million gallon per day treatment capacity. Great. Thank you. Anybody else?

For those 700 gpm is or 695 is actually a million gallons a day. So, we're looking at a new well that'll do 67 of a million gallons. Perfect.

All right. Thanks, Br. All right. Uh, public comment for items not on the agenda. Good evening. Wendy Price with Flat River Outreach Ministries. Quick update for you guys. First off, I know that today didn't work out for a visit and a tour. So, we're looking at October 20th. So, just let me know if that works for you. Couple quick updates. Um, I didn't hear you talk about Jefferson at all from Williams and Works, but there's work going on there. So, um, things are progressing nicely in terms of our construction, but a bit a bit nervous about the work at Jefferson. Just wanting to make sure that that doesn't, uh, slow our project down. So, I know our folks are meeting with Katie uh, tomorrow down at the site. So hoping to and I've been in touch with Rich and uh that as well just trying to make sure that we we keep timely there so we can hit our occupancy. Um the other thing I wanted to draw your attention to uh for the 524 East Main Street, that's the gas station. There is in fact a tank underground still at least one. There may be more than one uh behind the uh storage unit. There's a storage uh section behind the garage uh that have something underneath it. So, we're still trying to research that and find out exactly what's going on there, but uh we believe that Eagle will likely help us remove those tapes. Um so, we're still working through that process as well. So, just wanted to give you an update. Thank you.

Thank you. Anybody else? Perfect. I know Rich has been sending out weekly things to the people that are affected by that city doing a good job. Thanks. All right. Uh council comments. Eric, I'm good for this this time. Thank you. Birthday boy.

Yep. Not for 10 more days. But anyways, uh the last two Mondays we we had some opportunity to spend some time with the folks from Hastings. And one good thing about it, they have some of the same problems that we have. They also have a lot of the same successes that we have as a city. Uh they are also financially pretty stable. So when it comes to asking for grants and things like that because we are at at a higher rate of not being a poor community, um it's up to the same thing. We we don't just don't get those opportunities. We went out to the airport today. They built a new terminal out there. Never thought the airport was actually that big. It really surprised me for for a little airport like that. So, I'm quite sure these guys have some comments on their finance the last couple days we spent with them, too. So, that's it.

Good. Mark, I thought it was uh their downtown is extremely busy. They've got little unique shops that makes the downtown very vibrant. And I thought that looked really good. It's like we're talking. Wonder if we can get that here. I'm not. You guys were pointing at me at that time. Yeah, we were. But that was it was a good time talking with them. There are you know their airport is self-sufficient. It gets no money from the city or the county. It is self-sufficient.

Okay. Uh their airport's also got a 5,000 ft concrete runway. They sell jet fuel and they sell regular aviation fuel. When we asked what the cost of jet fuel was, I was kind of had to step back. Now, when you get fuel there, you walk up to the pump, you put your credit card in, it's just like you're filling your car up, right? And it was $411 cents a gallon. And I'm like, well, that doesn't seem like much, right? But they don't have no manh hours into it. Uh, one of the other things we did was their mayor uh lives on Mill Street and as a lot of you know, I collect a lot of different things, right? And I did a house where the lady used to live on Mill Street and the mayor lived on lives on Mayor Mill Street. So I presented him that 1930s road sign and he proudly hung it in his office. So I was kind of happy with that.

Good. Yeah.

Yep. high will second and third all that they showed us their downtown and there was a lot of similarities and very much like we do here their downtown stores support each other and support the events and put the events together together um their park system is really really nice they have an old DNR fish hatchery that they turned into a park and they use the old hatchery building to rent out for weddings and um and their number one problem was road funing So, same Hastings. Um, but they, yeah, they were more than welcoming to us and they were more than complimentary of what we had here when we showed them last Monday. Um, and their airport's incredible. Really, very much like ours, a city airport that is completely self-funding and separately governed, just falls under the umbrella of the city because it has to. And yeah, I had a really good day. It was really fun. And they invited us to lunch at Rotary. Um, so that was pretty fun too to see that, you know, a lot of similarities. So I don't have anything for appointments or to boards or commission. So yeah,

motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor Oh, hang on. Before we do that, if there are no objections, we don't have new business or old business and we will be down a couple council members and a city manager. So if there are no objections, we will not be holding the meeting on October 20th. Okay. Now hearing none. All those in favor of adjourn signify by saying I. Opposed. Get out of here.