Town Council - Regular Meeting

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. minutes from the last meeting. There's a motion to approve them. Second.

Uh would be a follow up on the ordinance but call isn't here. We will get by that. Uh, new business echelon's quote project for Ker Island Bridge Inlet.

Yeah. On um the guys found this winter when they were plowing that couple of the castings on the going out to Kur Island on the bridge were broken and then when they pulled those up the it should be a concrete manhole that they're setting on, but they're setting on brick. So, they're not good and they're starting to collapse. So, we had um Ashelman come out and give us a quote to fix those. I think there's four of them out there and they would come out and do what they did to the other ones on Hy Drive so that they are how they should be and won't be collapsing. This is only

I I used them because they did the other ones so I know. Okay. Second. All in favor? Can you sign one of those and date it? Thank you. Dana is lawn care service.

Yeah, I think this is just to let you know that they're they're not changing their price from what they've had. We got that back in January, didn't they? Well, that was for the sewer plant. This is for the town hall. I see. So, their price is the same. And I just wanted to know if we wanted the same service as we had last time, which includes mowing and then they do the um fertilizer in the spring. If they do anything in the fall, say that they do

this right here with the sewer. Well, there's a lot of acorage out there at the silver plant. I can't tell you on the top of my head. But JN JNS does here. That's quality lawn care. Quality lawn care does the parks and then JNS does the the dam and Sigmore park two companies. They been doing it for I think it's like $40 mowing. Um, have you had any issue with them? Yeah. Has there been any issue with them? No.

They always um blow off all the sidewalks when they're done. JNS 26. All in favor? And since you're here now, could we have um a follow up on the ordinance?

Uh January, I sent out four letters for abandoned vehicles. Two letters went to one and Western streets. One of those vehicles was repaired. One is currently garageed and being worked on. The other two I talked with Deb. Um she was going to have her nephew take her minivan, but she can't find the keys to it. So they're trying to find the keys. Um so right now wants to uh when the truck is done in the garage and brought back out then move the van in to the garage. to work on. Um, so one of the vehicles that was repaired was dropped off Thursday by a tow truck uh un working again, not working again. Um, so just went by there a little bit ago and um they got the hood up on it and working on it again. Yeah.

Um, vehicle at 295 Weston is supposed to have Junior Hicks is supposed to load that up and take it. Um, he's not yet. So, I got to talk to him and see when he plans on taking it, if he plans on taking. Um, vehicle over on 1635 Northshore. The plate was expired, but I'm assuming it's nonfunctioning. I don't know. It's been sitting in the pl same place for a while, but they put a car cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over cover over car.

The ordinance says it's supposed to go in a garage or some type of structure, but they put a car cover on it. Um, five letters for nuisances that were written. 114 Park Drive had tires. Those were removed. Uh, 355 Bernese Street had a couple stacks of tires. Those have been removed. 1635 Northshore had two TVs and a couch. That those items were removed. Couch. Couch. and TV.

Uh 910 Northshore had a old camper trailer that has been removed.

Um I just sent out some new letters. Uh 108 Park Drive for two abandoned vehicles. 204 Herman Street for an abandoned vehicle, 910 Northshore Drive. Um it's got a plate that's expired, but it's falls under abandoned vehicle. 580 Bay View Drive um for abandoned vehicle and then nuisance violations 215 Spring Beach for a uh trailer frame 355 Bernice for a stack of pallets with the nuisance ordinance and 750 Kelly Street extended for junk grab under the nuisance ordinance. Do you have a follow up on some of the stuff like the

like your abandoned vehicles and stuff? Do you have a follow-up process that you use? Yeah, that's right. And then do Yeah. Okay. So when do you start enforcing up? I try to work with like de Yeah.

Um so last year I wrote two tickets and if the one on the other one on West Street is not removed are going to be removed as I was told it's going to be um then because I assigned him once. So, I'll probably take his citation. I gave him a $50 one the last time. It'll probably be a whole lot bigger this next time. And then we'll probably go through the courts to get court action to be able to have it removed from the property. So, um

it's sad that you have to do that. We did it. Uh well, Bill went through um one up on Lions Drive last year, Lysa Jacobs with that motor home that she had up there. And uh so that was two years ago. It was two years ago. They tore it down last year. So

thank you. report. Um, I had 16 meetings for the month. Plan commission, we had two subdivisions that were approved. One was Noble Trails. And then Carpenter subdivision, which is out on the corner of Northport and 200 East. So, it was a I think it was a 20 some acre parcel and they took it into three lots.

I'm assuming I'm sure you're going to buy that because that area corridor 200 is an area where they're moving in. So those were both approved and then we had three building permits in February, two demolitions and one remodel on Northshore BZA. We had one variance that went with the Noble Trails Plat. Um they have their little parcel for where the trail runs through. It's an acre parcel has no road frontage and all, you know, pieces have to have road frontage, but it had um an easement so that it actually does have road frontage, but it's, you know, at the end of the trail.

Yeah.

So, they needed a variance and that was approved. Um this month for BZA, you have three variances, three properties with variances. Several of the properties have more than one variance they're requesting. We don't will not have a plan commission meeting. We don't have anything on that agenda. As far as Weisen, Larry Weisenberger, um I'm still in the process of getting the evidently pieces that they can't find in the record that they have. I know they have these items because I've been looking through it and I'm like, they have them. They just don't know how to attach the email with the attachments. They've got them separated somehow. How somehow that becomes my problem that they separated the documents. So now I get to spend oh, I don't know, probably half a day to a day recreate all this stuff again.

I might get it done this month and it might not. I'm not in a big rush. Um, conservancy district paid bills. um type the minutes, bounce the books, posted gateway, and then we're working on updating the district plan, and then we are going to do a review of the emergency action plan the end of the month at the meeting. So, I'm working on going through that to make sure the names and all that stuff is current and our um engineer will update all that so we'll have it ready for the meeting. Um part board, we're working on the concerts and the Fourth of July food truck thing. While I'm thinking of it, Paul met with the end people on site and they had indicated that they may be done before Fourth of July.

So, we'll see. So, if that's the case, then we will need to um have board be added to the agenda so we can have Front Street shut. I was for the the food truck event. I wasn't going to come to you because it's already closed, but we'll just have to play it by ear and see how they're coming along. Did someone ask for I haven't heard anything from them. So, it could be that they're not going to stay, you know, have play later, but I think they should still ask just in case. Well, something happens with, you know, you don't know what'll happen with the weather. It could rain and then it would clear up and it just pushes everything back by an hour.

Yeah. So, it's just easier to do it ahead of time. Yeah. Um, bike trail, the the I'm still working on finishing up buying the few items that we need for our section of the trail. And then Noble Trails, that piece on 900 North,

which is the piece that we just platted for them, is the last section they needed to get the bikes off of that section of 900 that turns there by um sour. So hopefully they'll be paving that this year, this spring, we hope, if the weather cooperates. um chambers working on the spring roadside cleanup. That's where we have volunteers go out and clean along the roads. And then if you've noticed or not noticed, the buffalo's missing, so don't think somebody stole it. Um I had the guys take it to Corey Bowen, his dad's shop. He's going to repaint it all because it was starting to all chip off.

And we're gonna um I think it was about $2,000. Um, and we're going to have him add the America's U50 logo on the side since hopefully we'll have it back in time for that celebration, too. Um, sent certified letters again to our industrial park owners. We have two that have not sent the contract back, which means they're not paying their portion of the watershed. I talked to Bill about that and he said, "Send him certified. we don't hear anything from them, then he'll send a letter. So hopefully that takes care of that.

Um the LTAP, which is um and I cannot think of what this acrement stands for right off the top of my head, but it's the group that sets up the training for that community crossing grant that I was talking about that I have to be certified for that. So I went through that webinar and then I passed that training that I needed to have and then they're also the ones that have the road scholar portion. So I'm on module eight out of 12. And then as I was doing it I'm like this is a good good well-rounded. It's very long but has a lot of good information in it and some of it's even new to me after being here for as long as I have. So David is taking that.

Okay. And then um I wanted him to tell me which ones he which modules he thinks that we should have the rest of the guys go through because some of it is you know like purchasing and um asset management which they don't need to know but some of it is like signage and how you put the signs up. Um how you set up a work zone area liability thing like why not um a sign falls down and you don't get out and put it up right away. what the liability issues are with that and potholes and that kind of stuff. So, so far we're agreeing on the ones that we I think that um

they should take. And you know, some of them are kind of long, but some of them aren't too bad. And if the weather's bad, like David's been doing it when the weather's not good, it's and he's gotten a lot out of it. So, um I think that's pretty much it. Oh, NIPCO. Um, they have contacted me. They are going to be replacing poles this spring and

I've go ahead and told them they're okay to replace them, but it's going to be Spring Beach, Bay View, Lakeside. Um, Spring Beach and Looks like Pleasant Point, 850, Liberlos Trail, and maybe some Well, no, Eastgate is not their section. So, because Eastgate is Noble RC. So, okay, they're by Antlers. Antlers Point. So far, that's what they've sent me.

Yeah. So, that worked. will begin. And I said to him, I said, I don't want to see a bunch of path poles. So, if you're taking the poll out and you're putting a new one in, I want some coordination with Bright Speed and Mediacom so that we don't have what we have on Main Street here. Yeah. A half pole and a normal size pole because they didn't get MediaCom didn't come out or Bright Speed didn't come out. It's old. They're supposed to be coordinating. We don't have

um sure it's old property. There's a telephone pool right here. It's been there. They've never picked it up. Is it a new one or an old one? It's an old pool. One that they took out. I can have the guys get rid of it. Probably Shorts told him they wanted it and then when they left, they left it. It was after he'd already moved out. Was it okay? I can have the guys run over and get it because, you know, we use them, cut them up and put them that down in the ground at Sycamore and that'll last forever. You know, they disintegrate. So, we could use them down there. So, that's the end of mine. And then force

trying to figure out if we have changed the laws on figure out. Hopefully not for eight houses. That's really not. Well, actually everybody

that's done them recently. I'm checked into some other towns. have them do a financial plan say they do a good job but it's not that cheap their services avoid that skip that part at least do some sort of expedited financial plan on Yeah.

Every time I've looked at the whole 40 page, I was scared that that would be what we I don't I don't know that we need all that. I'm trying to see if we process a whole subdivision or something that

voluntary too voluntary. So they require Right. So they require that Do you want to just take home the statements? That's fine.

Mileage squad one 1439 miles. Last three 699. Squad 4 117 and a half Dustin 151 Daniel 162 part-time 44 and reserve 16 ordinance violations man vehicles three follow initiated events business checks 46 Six assists assisted other department 16 times extra patrols. Two, park security checks, 83 community policing, eight traffic violations, traffic tickets written, three written warnings, 77, vent checks, one complaints, animal complaints, one, juvenile complaint one, miscellaneous complaints 13, suspicious person one, suspicious vehicle two, suspicious activity one, disabled vehicle one, Welfare checks, four uh accidents, three medic assist two, one 911 call, three alarms, one citizen assist investigation, molestation of possession of marijuana, OI controlled substance which was one traffic stop. uh operator never licensed and possession of pledge of drug, possession of meth, possession of paraphernelia, and the hearing of a handgun. Meetings attended. Uh police prosecutors meeting on the 5th, town council on the 9th, drug county justice and prevention

meeting on the 10th, school safety commission meeting on the 11th, and then met with the insurance for risk management on the 24th. training intended or conducted. February 3rd, we did deescalation. February 17th, we did bleeding control. And then I didn't get it in there, but under notes, uh, squad one went to Max Plaz for an oil change, D rotation, found the right rear upper ball joint had plate. They end up replacing the uh right rear knuckle and the hub was seized. So that had to be replaced and then did a four-wheel alignment to a tune of $1691.36 um for incidences um in town. November we had 77, December 79th. January 86 and in February 104.

Outside of town November was 126, December 138, January 180, February, February 145. The sheriff's department had 10 incidents in town. Um, in February they had 26 in November, 27 in December, 12 in January, 10 in February. And outside of town in November, I have 74 instances, 78 in December, 67 in January, and 60 in February.

The extended speed summary. Um, so I'm hoping this was an emergency vehicle. The top maximum speed that was recorded was 139 miles per hour. Is that going out of town or that's coming into town? So, I'm hoping that was an emergency. I didn't even know vehicles went that fast. Yeah. Um, we got some guys out there that think they're driving Formula 1 ones out there. I've seen them. It's It's amazing. Amazing. Um I haven't seen that kind of action since any engines. You know,

the average speed is 25.32 in the 25 m hour speed zone, but um so average volume per day, 510 cars coming into town, total volume, 14,200. Be interesting to see if that goes up. Well, it shouldn't come down. Barricades. Are you talking the the traffic? the amount of traffic that

but that most of them will probably turn down Gale because the barricades are stopping them from well they still come through. Yeah, but I see that's what they're supposed to

Well, we'd love to take issue with the accident that we had on the bridge. Okay. Um I I think that would have gone a lot smoother had the officers um stopped traffic at Northport. They didn't. And there was a lot of messing around that. I told him the same thing,

but I didn't know how soon it happened when I came upon it because it just I couldn't tell if there were like somebody was up there working and they had cars there to get the traffic to slow down or if there was an accident. So, by the time I got up there, I figured out there was an accident. So, then I had to turn around. But I didn't know how soon the call had come in when I got arrived, you know. Yeah. But and I said to Paul, I go, "Maybe they didn't have enough help, too." Yeah. So, as far as like our officer worked the accident um Walk

assisted. So, Walkabel kind of went down to Northport. Yeah. I think they and I thought that well maybe he was afraid somebody would go through the light when it turned green. Yeah. Not knowing I don't know you know how people are. Yeah. Ignore stuff and just go. Well, the light said it was green. I should be able to go even though there's truck in the way. Yeah. I I Me too

because I thought maybe they were opening up because when I was sitting there they let kept try to go northbound but then it stopped and then the fire truck showed up and I think it had happened not too long before I got there because there was no fire truck there. Maybe you guys ought to work out a plan. Yeah. Because evidently we got hot rockies. Well, if you saw how many warnings they wrote. Tell them, Paul. That was what five days. Five days. Before Yeah. Before that

really all got shut down. So this month will when we do March's end of month report should be Yeah. But I of course you know from my kitchen window I can see that whole intersection down there you know and it's been like like four nights in a row you guys had somebody stopped right there pigeons yeah they uh because it's 25 out at the moment of miracle center is where it starts 25 and basically the same spot going north is where the 25 ends. Yeah.

Um and which I was going to talk to him anyway because the end work sign is laying in the yard out here. It's never put up. Yeah, I noticed that today. I don't know because they've got other signage up because they're going to do more road work south of town on nine. They're going to replace a couple tiles um which Culver's which will probably close tonight south of town. Yeah. So um and then they're gonna then they're going to pay then they're going to repave uh mill and repave

all of nine from six back north um up to Northport. So that's all scheduled to happen this this summer this year. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I know Dustin called me the very first night that they had it closed uh or traffic restricted and he's like, I just finally had to draw a line of where I'm going to write a ticket at because nobody's following 25 mph speed. So,

lots of warnings and tickets here. Okay, let's pay the towns 139,0006 and sewer operating 57, 367.99. All right. Our next town council meeting will be April 13.

Thank you for coming out. Is it down here? Oh, yeah. I can't remember. I thought maybe since I was just telling them earlier that Martha came in like a lamb, I thought maybe