Borough Council - Regular Meeting

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I'd like to call tonight's burough council meeting uh to order for February 10th, 2026. May I have a roll call, please? Council President Cooper here. Council President Cman here. Council person buyers here. Council person Zinc here. Council person Easy. She's out. Second. Council person Murphy here. Council person here. Mayor Lux here.

Um we have an invitation from Pete Petroski. Let's bow our heads. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity you've given us to gather together together this evening. We thank you for each one that could make it here tonight. I pray for a sense of discernment and wisdom as decisions are made as discussion is is held. I just pray for a sense of unity and respect amongst each of us. In Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thanks for the opportunity to be here tonight. Yes. And I do want to mention Pete is the chaplain of man's house.

Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Pledge of

Allegiance 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. Announcement of executive sessions. There were none. Additions, deletions, and reorganization of the agenda. I would like to read or I'd like to add section nine action items. Letter D. authorize staff to proceed with um starting I don't know how I would say it

begin the process to begin the process of trying to get a tax construction tax anticipation loan or a RAM RAM RAM revenue Okay, that will be item D. Any other changes to the agenda, additions or deletions?

Can I get a motion? So move a second. I have a motion to accept the agenda. Second by council me Kelly, second by Councilman Byers. All in favor say I. I. I. I. I. I sit in comments non-aggenda items. There are none written down. Anybody have any comments? Yes, Frank.

Eric, you are going to talk about the tan note then? Yes. Okay. All right. And I'd like to ask just for my information, do we have an ordinance for a towing service here in Colombia? An ordinance? I don't believe so. Say we don't. So, who do we how how do you figure who you use? Chief Chief can better explain it. Okay. Frank, we were in the process of developing a policy within the police department

uh for uh the use of toads. So, I just sat down with Lieutenant Art within the past week or two. We went over a document that's just about finished and uh we're going to roll it out to or I'm sorry, discuss it with our management staff in the police department next Friday. We have a uh meeting and then we'll be able to roll it out to uh the public and start to uh enforce it within the department too.

Can I ask you who have we been using? Uh for the most part uh there are a number number of toes that are local you know within maybe a five mile radius of the uh burrow. Uh unlimited towing is one company um you know there are some others. Patriot towing you know we also Yes. All right. Thank you.

Thank you Frank speak. All right. Minutes for approval. Consider approval of the Burough Council meeting minutes for January 27th, 2026. Second. I have a motion to approve the minutes for January 27th, 2026. Councilman,

thank you. and second by Councilman. I know. Hold on. I'm down. Ziggler. Any questions or comments? All in favor say I. I. I. Consider approval for the Burough Council meeting minutes for February 3rd, 2026. So move. Second.

Have a motion by Councilman Byer, second by Councilman Ziggler to approve the meeting minutes for February 3rd, 2026. Any questions, concerns? All in favor say I. I. I. Mayor Lutz, I have nothing this evening. I don't know if the chief has anything. I do not for police. Action items. Authorize bill payments.

Make a motion to payments. I'll second it. I have a motion by Councilman Cooper, second by Councilman Buyers to authorize bill payments. Any questions or concerns? All in favor say I. I.

I have it. approval of RFP for the sale of McInness property. I'm gonna turn this over to Heather since she was the architect behind it. Has any questions, concerns, or

All right. Um, I didn't know we were going to formally approve this at this point. Um, but all of the all of the dates and amounts and everything else has been um has been entered in. Are there any other changes or does anyone have any questions on it?

I like I like the evaluation criteria there. Only note was um submission can be made via any of the following. Doesn't have a entry in the email section yet. So we'll just need to put somebody nice. Thank you for catching up. But that's the only thing I saw. Seems great.

This was definitely interesting. I've never done anything like this before. So, I want to I mean I I want to kudos to uh the Langster EDC for giving me the the an examples to look at um to know how to do something like this. Do you want to read those dates off?

No, the dates are um the the bid It's going to be released March 30th, 2026. The bids and proposals are due May 15, 2026. Um the uh the pre pre-bid meeting is on here. I have it. What did we seven days probably?

No. No. The pre-bid meeting is like the se the first week. April. Yeah. I couldn't find it as I was scrolling. I didn't wear my computer glasses. Um had stuff my regular ones on. So yeah, there is one thing that I'm just looking at as I missed it when I went through it. Um I believe that language should be minimum bid required rather than requested is 62 million. Yeah. Q and I'm gonna have them emailed to Bur manager. Yeah.

All right, that's in there. So, what does the pre-bid meeting? basically a pre-bid meeting. We do it for pretty much all of our bigger our bigger projects. Anyone that is going to be submitting a bid goes to a meeting. It's generally at the site or you know somewhere they meet with Derek, they meet with you know the engineer there may be others there. um they can so they can see the site they can get you know verbal discussion on what's required. Is there anything else you want to add there

with and you're right we normally don't do them for every single contract but what you'll see during this period and what has been outlined in this RFP is there'll be you know question period so this will hit the streets there'll be a window in which uh prospective biders can ask questions and then we have you know basically as those questions come in we will respond to those questions now the way that those responses work is all qualified biders get to see the questions and get to see the answers. So I can't answer Evan's question and not tell Eric what I told that information is available to everybody. Okay.

Um so when you do the pre-bid meetings, it really kind of opens up the question period. We'll we'll talk through the we'll talk through the in this case the RFP. Uh hey, this is exactly here it's written. Let us tell you what you're looking for, what we're looking for, what went behind this. Does anybody have any preliminary questions during that meeting? We'll take those questions, answer them if we can. If not, we'll just take them and we'll take meeting minutes, log any questions that were received, any answers that were given, and then the answers that weren't given, we'll fill in, and then that would be your first contract addendum.

Okay? So, it really, if you recall the last time we were talking about this, there's kind of a sweet spot in you want to get this in the contractor's hands in enough time that they can read it and kind of come up with some questions that they might have. Then you can prompt some discussion at these meetings to really get their mind into thinking about the project, clarifying the clarifying what you're looking for. And then you give them enough time on the back detail. Oh, wait. I didn't forget about that. I forgot to ask this. This wasn't clear to me. You give them enough time after that pre-bid meeting to ask additional questions that we can then answer. Then usually we do kind of a radio silent couple of days. This is it. Here's all the questions, answers. It's cut off. Nothing else. All right. I'll give you this.

Yeah. And I think we gave seven days. Yeah. The seven day cut off. That's like the Yeah, that's the radio silent area where everybody has all the information. Nothing's going to change in that period. And then you get your final number. The point of the pre-bid meeting is basically to be able to uh cut down on the number of questions that you're getting in that time because otherwise you know five people might write in with the same question. You got to answer it five different times. Yeah. Whereas you know if it's something basic that can be handled right at the pre-bid meeting. That makes sense.

Thank you. In this case, did we state the pre-ID was mandatory? Yes, we did.

So, that's another that's another benefit a lot of times benefit to the pre-bid meeting that meeting mandatory so anybody who doesn't come can't bid on the project. You're flushing out wild cards situation. So, we've already I'll be honest, we've already had, you know, not necessarily a project like this per se, but I've already put a street project out, had a mandatory pre-bid meeting. I show up and there's two contractors here. I got a problem. And there you you kind of pause and you might extend the bid windows or you reach out, hey, why weren't you at the meeting? What's going on? And you can adjust as necessary. That could happen here where we hey mandatory pre- bid meeting and there's an empty room. And if that's the case, then we do some information gathering. We probably stop the contract and we pivot this to be what it needs to be to be successful. You don't have to wait all the way till the end of the bid to find out, oh wow, nobody offered a school what we were looking for. Find that out really early in the process.

Or you have people here that are going to potentially give you feedback to say, you're crazy. We need this or we're not paying this or I need more time. You flush that all out of the pre- bid meeting. So you leave that knowing that all right, I've got a group of qualified biders. They've got enough information and time that we get solid bids. We've done everything we can to say what we want. That'll drive it home. Right. Thank you very much.

Appreciate that. Are there any other questions or any other questions or concerns? Derek, concerns? Derek, could you re I don't could you re I don't Did I send you the Did I send you the finalized one? finalized one? Yeah, Heather, I I didn't I mean, I went Yeah, Heather, I I didn't I mean, I went through the only thing I was doing. I through the only thing I was doing. I actually I actually ran some I ran some actually I actually ran some I ran some tests. I was I was kind of testing your tests. I was I was kind of testing your rubric just to see how it how it played rubric just to see how it how it played out. And I'm I'm good with it. Are there out. And I'm I'm good with it. Yeah, I

I think it puts the weight on the things that are important to you. Um, and again, if somebody comes in and absolutely knocks your socks off with an incredible price, gives you something to think about. Right. Well, and I think I I mentioned it multiple times throughout there, what our goals were, so I I didn't leave that up. I don't I don't leave anyone guessing what our goals were. Yeah, pretty

I'm sure when we have the when we have the pre-bid meeting, I I imagine that that'll be one of the biggest things we talk about is this scoring system. I'm sure there'll be question, well, how do I get a five instead of a you know, how do I get a 10 and not a five or what what does it take to get a 20? We could probably go into some of that. So,

um what I would recommend if you even if you don't approve this tonight, between now and when the pre-bid meeting goes out. I think all of you on council need to kind of read through this and maybe think to yourself, what am I looking for? If I, you know, maybe you haven't heard it yet, but start thinking of some of those things like what are your hopes and dreams so that if a proposal hits your lap and you think, "Yeah, that's perfect. That's exactly what I'm looking for." So, just just take some time. There's no real right answer here, but we all need to be prepared when this pre-bid meeting comes to basically answer some of those questions. What what are we looking for in a perfect world? And then obviously once the bids come in, those decisions are

awesome.

Um, a question and a com but you can go ahead Frank. Okay. Um, first I wanted to let you guys know we have the press release ready. I took out I had some extra paragraphs sort of explain the information in the case that we weren't able to have the RFP available but um otherwise I have it ready uh I'm going to CC you on it Eric and I'm going to send it to Jack as soon as we get the approval on it. Um really simple and there's just a space at the end to add the hyperlink to the RFP uh wherever we end up posting it online. Um, so that'll give almost 60 days before the bids even open of additional time for them to take a look at it and start planning. Um, and then the other question I had is I know it's currently uh zoned as light

industrial. Um, no, it's light business. Light business. Right. Thank you. Um, I was wondering is there a scenario in which with a project that we would consider changing it? This isn't like a I want to change it. I'm just asking if that's something we would be doing. Probably not, right?

I mean, you went um you guys went through and changed your zoning ordinance to allow out there what you'd like to see. Yeah, I I mean certainly it's possible that if somebody came in with the project and you guys said, "Oh, we didn't think about that, but that's something we'd really like out there." You absolutely can change the zoning ordinance again. But that's um but yeah, there was that long exercise prior to as far as getting the zoning ordinance, how you'd like it to try to shape what projects would end up out there. Okay, great.

Thank you. Let's talk about that a little more. You have we have a we have a zoning criteria. You're putting a bid out based on that zoning criteria. I would think if someone once could bid to do something other than what is allowed in zoning that should not be allowed. You would have to discount that and if that bid if you don't award that bid then you could have that discussion with that entity. Yeah. Right.

Absolutely. Yeah. And I think that would based on Heather's rubric, if they came in with a project that wasn't allowed in the current zoning ordinance, it likely would knock that Yeah. that down pretty far. It would be hard for them to win that. And then you could come back around if if nothing was if if you you didn't accept any of the other, you come back around. Because people bidding will be bidding based on that zoning criteria. So it wouldn't be fair to accept the bid and then change the the zoning. I think if it doesn't comply with the zoning, you could very easily give it a zero for realistic scope of work and a zero for community benefit goals.

Yeah, I was just looking at that. Yeah, there's there's 40 points that you'd lose. That's pretty significant unless you see something that you go like tweak the ordinance with text to make this work, but this is something we never thought of. Yeah. door open, but you don't have to. Yeah, that was really like the the case that I was imagining that happening is if somebody came with a mixeduse development thing that was primarily businesses but also some you know low density apartments. So like currently I don't think that would be allowed but on the pitches that we do end up getting I was just wondering if that was an option. I just wanted to make sure that was understood.

Yeah. That's right. You brought that up. Uh going back to the property that I bought from the burr uh out on South 12th Street. When I bid, I knew what the zoning was. I think it might even been on the card there. Let people know that they're bidding. Here's what the zoning is. It wasn't but a couple weeks after that that the board changed the zoning. I just thought unfair that it should have been announced at the meeting. I didn't care what it went to. The zoning didn't bother me one bit, but I just thought the way that that went it should have been announced at the meeting.

And it was announced at the at the actual auction. Well, then I missed it and I use an apology, but I didn't think it was and it surprised me when they changed that. So, that's my fault. Um, and I don't know what you changed here just now. Um, and then correct me if I'm wrong. I went through this real quick like, uh, what is the longest period of time that this is going to be open to the public? 45 days because that's state law. Yeah. You remember when Brenamman was here, he said it could take years to get a bid on this, right? Why such a short time?

Because state law says we can't have a bid open for more than 45 days. That answer my question. I just was wondering why because the more day can you put another 45 on after that or we could do a second a second? Yeah. Basically send out the same thing again once that first one expired. If no one and no more than 45 days cannot be more than

I thank you. Yeah, and that's why we're sending out a press release sometime soon to get awareness about the property up before 45 days opens. Any more questions, concerns? Is the council prepared to vote tonight on this? Yes, I think so. Yeah. With the suggested changes.

Yes. May I have a motion for approval of the RFP for the sale of Min property based on the burough manager's email address being added and um the minimum bid required changed. Make a motion. Second. I have a motion by councilman Cooper, second by Councilman Buyers

for the RFP of the sale of McInness property. All in favor say I. I oppose. Thank you. and mail, right? And the press release is in your email, Jack.

There it is. I wonder what that could be. All right. Um the next item is approval of estimate on replacing transmission for freight lighter dump truck. I'll uh make a motion that we consider approval of the estimate replacing transmission for the freight lighter dump truck just to uh initiate conversation. Just to what? Initiate conversation from council. Okay, I'll second it. Okay, so let me see if I understand what you're saying, Mr. Murphy. Hopefully we

we can't discuss until we have a motion. So he's making the motion so that we can put it on the table. You second to approve it. Yes. So now we have comments.

So now we can comment. Um, I just wonder I realize we need it. I have no question about that and it's been a good truck and there's been no other problems with it. So, I realize that I want you to have your new transmission. You don't know how much I want that. I want to know how we're paying for it, where that money's coming from. And once I know that, I will vote to put it through. But I'll vote no until I know how we're paying for it. Well, it's not coming from a grant, that's for sure. So, yeah, it's going to come from the bureau of funds. Um, I I mean I I brought it I made the motion because I think we really need to

talk this through. I mean, I've talked to Jake about this already. Um, problem is, you know, it's $14,000, a lot of money, but the second problem is a, do we really need that truck in our fleet? Because if we do, then we got to get it back on the streets and running. Because we all know if we were to get hit with a storm in the next, we're not supposed to, but if something would happen, we get a a serious storm again in the next couple weeks, you're going to be paying the contractors, independent contractor about 7,000. I'm just saying you're going to be paying it again to bring them in. Yeah.

And it won't take long to pay off what transmission costs. Second thing is, you know, there's no guarantee it's going to crap out next week. Hopefully, we'll have Jake's kind of luck and not my kind of luck and uh it lasts us another few years. But the last the other thing you really need to consider is to if you don't fix it, if you just leave the condition it is, we can't sell it as is. We'd have to put on municipal bid and what probably get five grand. Maybe you sure as heck ain't going to get what it's what you know maybe 30 that you might get 30 35 40 if if you sold it. Yeah. I don't in working condition, but he has to sell. I don't want to see us get rid of the truck.

No, no, I'm just I know, but um I want to see it get fixed. I'm just I know timing couldn't be worse. I get it. How about you, Jack? Do we have the money to pay for this? $14,000. Well, you know, you know what the bills are, right? I've been communicating with all of you about our financial challenges, right? And uh we are probably at the lowest point we've been at in a long time as far as our current balances. Yeah. Um it would come from our general fund balance. Yeah.

You know what that amount is? Mhm. Can't take that electric,000.

Let me see.

Highway equipment maintenance in liquid fuels. Is that what you're referring to? Yeah, that's 7,500. So then out of the general fund, I assume it would then come out of uh fuel and vehicles, which is 51,000 for the year. Um Well, you're looking at the budget. Yeah. Yeah. I I know that's a different conversation. I'm just trying to even with the liquid fuel. Yeah. Yeah, it's still going to be.

So Jake, my question to you is the 14,000 is an estimate. Um 14,13930. Out of the big trucks we have, we have what? Four big trucks. Three. Three. And the the one with electrical problems, that's fixed. So, we have two big trucks down. We only have one right now in service. Okay. And unfortunately, that's a concern

there. And while this week and next week doesn't look like snow in the forecast, doesn't take much to build up and we are already behind because not because of anybody in particular, but the snow is a bad snow as far as ice and build up and it's just not melting. So I I don't know, you know, but I it has

and without knowing what the other, you know, what the electoral issue is with the other one that's, you know, that's a concern, too. That'll have to be paid as well. Can you say that I mean electronic module? Yeah. labor to do it, labor to find it. Labor is always a killer when it comes to electronical stuff.

How long would the truck be down? U the um transmission repair on this. They said about a week or soy. So that's a rebuilt transmission then. That's not new. Last week, didn't you say this was your most

years? Frank, hold on. Are we done? Are we done discussion up here? No, I'm just looking something up. Okay. But but you can talk to Frank. Yeah. So it is a 2005. Yes. I was going to ask Freight Liner. Yes. Um does it have an hour meter? I'm sure. Does anybody know what it is? What was some of the other bids? I believe they took it to our standard mechanic. Yeah.

Yeah. What? What? So we didn't do no other bids. Well, as as Jake just said, it had to be towed there. So it was stuck out in the street. Had to be towed there. Yeah, but that don't say you got to give it to them to fix it. No, but do you tow it to another garage to get a bid? Do you tow it to another garage after that to get a bid? If if you saved quite a few thousand, wouldn't that have been beneficial? Is this stick or automatic?

Is automatic. Um, probably from the people's supper at Keller, you're the only one that knows this. Back when the sewer plant dissolved, I thought there was going to be a big sale of all the equipment, but instead everything was turned over to the highway department and they had some big dump trucks. So whatever happened to them? Didn't we have Didn't we have two of them that we got?

Oh, yes.

Okay. Thank you, Frank. So, Mr. Murphy approval of estimate on replacing. Do we do we don't know? I just But I I think we needed to have this conversation and let people know the situation that we're sitting at right now with

with our equipment. It's it's a crappy situation either way. But, you know, and it's not just snow. you know, something could happen to, you know, um, I don't know, our storm sewer could fail or something and a road collapse or, you know, anything could happen. You're going to need that. You're going to need more trucks and one one, you know what I mean? I don't know. I I can't see in the future what's going to happen, but, you know, it's not a good situation to not have it and not a good situation given our financial situation. So, I think we just have to Kelly made me think of it. Other than snow, how much is this truck really being used?

It's probably used mostly when we're doing paving or not. I do agree that I think that just based on the reliability and some of the other factors of the truck, I do think we need to get it repaired. It's just really do we do it in the next two months or not. Um like a two week turnaround was the you said like about two weeks. I mean, if we have the one we have being repaired for its electrical issue, um maybe we just keep an eye on the weather coming up and if we see something that starts to get us worried two weeks, you know, we try to get it dealt with as soon as we can. But

what do you propose to do in the meantime? go tack down the yard and let it sit. Where is it? At goods now. It's at good now. You can't let it sit. Goods won't let they won't let you sit there because they don't want the liability sitting on their property. Um, when you talked about the financial um, is that coming out of the general fund? It can't be out of capital or do we not have anything there? I mean, it is equipment. I didn't know if that would count for I'm just spoking what our funds are at right now. That is capital. That's including capital. It's a combined. Oh, yes. Yeah. Okay.

Um I was a little surprised at the labor. The part parts looked pretty reasonable and then the labor came in over 13,000. That was pretty shocking. 3,000. Oh, well this paper says Oh, well yeah, because right here it says the labor total labor is $13,57. It says total parts are $353. That's why I'm not understanding that. I guess I don't know why. Yeah, because that that's the work order estimate that's here. Just transmission,000.

Okay. Now, is that because it comes in two parts?

Sharon, there's the breakdown from the screen. Yeah, I was just looking at the board packet because it's you would have that I think in your packet and it it it clearly says the labor was I thought, wow. But I see what you're saying, Dick. There's another page there. Thank you. 33 is the labor and four, five, and six are parts. I mean, if we want to come up with the chance of not being able to pay our bills, I don't know what you've got coming up, Jack. So, here's my proposal. We have three outstanding bios

payments submitted. Correct. Actually, one's a bios. You were talking about what I pulled. No, no, no, no. Okay. You submitted draws. Three outstanding draws. Yes. Um, we're meeting with buyers or we're meeting with EDC to try to speed the process up. I recommend fixing this, but once funds come in, funds come in. Yeah, because the first draw that we receive, the first full draw we receive should be a decent draw. That's 200 some thousand. Well, we received 50,000 already. Right. Right. And that was a small one. That was the very first draw.

The first draw, right? Yes. The second draw was around 200 to 300,000. Right. Have we received the um the grant portion from the EDC yet? We have not. Okay. That's one of our questions for them on Thursday. So Eric, you're saying basically vote with the contingent of when that money comes in, send in the repair order, not before. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think we can say based on when upcoming storm's coming. Yeah. That's probably too late. Yeah, I think so, too. But at the same time, I don't think we're in a financial position today. Yeah. To authorize it.

But once that grant once that draw comes in, I think we'll be in a position where we can do that. Absolutely. What kind of time? Unknown. It is unknown. Unknown. Unknown. I mean, in two weeks, Jake may have may come back and say it has to get done. I don't know. But I I don't know what else to do. Can you ask I think I think you need to fix your dump truck. Jake, can you ask goods if they can hold for two weeks? Okay.

Well, we'll be talking to CDC. EDC. like net 30 or something or something. It may not even be enough time. You can use your next item of business if you approve it.

Yep. So, what do we want to do, guys? All right. Did I get a motion on that? I forget. Yeah, we did. We had a motion. Excuse me. We had a motion in a second. All right. That was Heather. Oh, you were

I second. All right. So, we're looking at just getting it fixed. I think I think how you vote would say whether you think you get it fixed or not. I mean, well, I mean, the motion was to fix it. To fix it. Yeah. If you vote no, then you're saying postpone it. Okay. So, I have a motion by Councilman Murphy, second by Councilman Zinc, to approve replacing the transmission for the Freight Liner dump truck. All in favor say I. I. I.

Oppos? No. I

it's not an ideal situation either. Yeah. So, as was just discussed, added item 9D, authorize staff to process either a line of credit or a tax anticipation loan or a rent anticipation. Revenue anticipation note

note. There you go. Um, all we're doing is authorizing staff to move forward with it. We would have to vote on the final process once we have terms and and and the amounts. So that's what this is asking for just author authorization to move. And how soon would that probably come in the terms? You have it at the next meeting? You think it should have for the next meeting? It's two weeks away. Mr. President also probably want to mention any use of that would require council approval of approved right any of the ram okay

do you need to make a motion I think once once we see if it's a if we get it or not I think I would think that' be the time we'd say hey you know any money from the ra would have to be council approved to react to We have this motion. Oh, direct. I thought we did. I'm sorry. Did we make a motion to direct staff to continue with truest bank for RA an open lining of credit or a rand? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

I didn't know if it was ran or run. That's right. So, if you wanted to, you could pay for the transmission out of this. Yes. Okay. And I will tell you, back in the 80s when I was on council, every year, just about every year, we had a tin that didn't 2008 2009 my first two years on council we did and how do you set an amount on that

we made in on a discussion with our finance people so we're looking at a $2 million bridge loan okay thank you

any other questions concerns So I have a motion to authorize staff to process for either line of credit or RAM. RA. Uh motion by Councilman Cooper, second by Councilman Murphy.

All in favor say I. I have it. New business consider a contract renewal with Cidium for infrastructure firewalls and switches. Um manager Brahmer explain this.

Yeah, the timing is very poor. I acknowledge that. However, uh this is a project that's uh not been going uh unresolved for over two years and we are out of uh we are out of time. Uh we have till about the middle of March and then our software will not be supported any longer. It's $23,000.

That's correct. So this goes back to when basically when we brought CDM in and uh they requested certain certain things be done and they kept requesting kept requesting kept requesting. Mhm. We didn't do it. That's correct. I just don't think there's any follow through. No any follow through on that? No, on on the manager's part. Okay. So, Jack is bringing it to our attention. Is this a budget idea? That's what I'm trying to find right now.

This is part of the capital budget. Uh there were, I guess, a $50,000 total amount, a number of infrastructure improvements under uh city. So what I had them do is look at the overall and identify those items that are critical and this is uh this is where this is where we're at. Yeah.

And so just for the general public's information, this is most this is mostly like security related stuff for the municipal, for the the highway department, for the police department, all sorts of technical security. That's correct. Okay. Yeah, today's uh today's environment with Yeah. all the hacking and uh even people that have safety measures in place, they're still getting hammered. Yeah. I think it's crazy if we again the timing could be could be better, but um to go without proper security is

you're really playing with fire. I mean, I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't say the same thing for the truck of if we can wait until we have the money come in, I'd feel a lot more comfortable voting for it. Yeah. March. What? Right now, this the project is scheduled for the beginning of March, so about two to three weeks. So, we do have a little bit of time. Okay. But here's the problem. they need to actually order the hardware. Yeah, the quote expires on the 28th of February. So, we'd have to have it decided before then.

Yeah. The I mean, considering the sensitive material that we the police department keeps, you know, we are liable for uh protecting those things around the clock. Um, if no money comes in, I don't know what's not going to get paid because of it, but it has to be paid. So, something else is going to suffer probably. Something that would need paid in March as opposed to this. Yeah.

Yeah. Could we table this until the next meeting after your conversation with Lancaster EDC so we have a bit of a better idea of what that sort of situation is with the BIOS money coming in? I'm understanding that we're going to potentially run into a timing issue with ordering the equipment. Okay. So, it would have to be tonight that we would make the decision. They requiring any kind of down payment to put order in for equipment. No,

they wouldn't give you any time on it, would they? Um I think the so after the work is done, we'll have about a month to pay the invoice. Yes. Okay. All right. They should give us like 30 April 1, it would be due. Well, it starts in March, so it might be 30 days from the end when they April, which would be after we get

So, if we don't have to pay them until then, then I'd say let's go for But if we have to pay them beginning of March before they do the work or order the parts and it's kind of Well, we're going to be informed about the bridge loan though. What? We're going to be informed about the bridge loan or the possibility of it before we have to pay this bill. So, yeah. And like I said, the sensitive data that we may and you know, oh yeah, I this is this is a pittance pays if that if that information's leaked. So, but a lawsuit

I'm not saying don't pay it. I'm hoping we can hold Yeah. Yeah. Not a great situation.

If we're able to do that, then I would be comfortable paying with it because it's already sort of laid out in the budget as something that we were expecting. It's really just a during these first three months, that would be problematic to pay it. But if we're able to pay it, you know, up to 30 days after it's installed, which could potentially be mid to late April, then I would be fine with that. It's under new business. Is everybody comfortable with this tonight? Yes.

Yeah. All right. May I have a motion to re consider a contract renewal with Sidium for infrastructure firewalls and switches? So move. Second. I have a motion by Councilwoman Ziggler, second by Councilman Zinc to renew the renewal with Cidium for infrastructure, firewalls, and switches. All in favor say I. I.

The next is a special event application waving the fees for go green go green on April 24th, 2026. This is the sad salvage and SNH uh thing they put on down to River Park. Um, and the reason it's waving fees is it is a a public service. It's a local company. And uh anyone have any questions on this?

Nope. I know one thing that I was highlighting here said about burough council will need to decide if the food trucks will need to get a transient business permit. So okay. Uh, do we need to discuss that as well as far as proving this or when I looked over the transient business definition, it seemed pretty clear that they would need one. I don't Yeah. So, I think that might have just been them being cautious, but I think they would require one. Yes, we generally do. Yeah, but Megan's to your side. I just want Is that correct, Megan?

What was the question? Um, there's a note in here saying burough council will need to decide if the food trucks will need to get transient business permits for the river park, but I assume they would. I would imagine that they would. Um, I'm not specifically handling that aspect of the event. Um, but I think the expectation would be that they would they would need transient business permits. Thank you. Yep. I think that's standard. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't sure since it was Arbor Day involved with that. Yes, Arbor Day is involved. fun, right? Yeah, that's a function. Yeah, since it was highlighted in there, I just wonder if the question came from I wasn't sure if the question came from you or somebody else.

Yeah. Um, and just to for my sake, um, the actual food truck owner is required to get the permit. We are just required as the event organizers to make it known that that is required. Yes. Do they give you a copy, Megan? I don't think so. Um, in the past when they show up to the event, I ask them if they have one and they show it to me. Okay. Um, it's not like required. It's just a formality that I do. That's sufficient.

So, what's our question? Approving the event with waving the fees. Waving the fee. Okay. I make a motion. Oh, that's right. How much is the fee that we're waving? Um, $50. I say I thought it was $50. The same way with the other two that appreciate and everybody's okay to vote on this tonight? Yeah. Yeah, I'll make a motion to uh approve the special event application waving the fees for go green on April 24th. I got a second.

Okay. I have a motion to approve the special event waving the fees for go green 4242026. Motion by Councilman Buyers. Second by Councilman Cooper. All in favor say

I. I. I have it. Consider special event application and waving the fees for Bridgeer Outdoor Recreation Expo on 627206. I believe this one is both SNH and the Columbia Parks and Recck are working together to do an event down there for the burning of the bridge. Well, the River Expo on Saturday is actually just it's SNHA and River Towns. Um, Saturday evening and Sunday we're working on some additional events, but we will come forth with and submit permits additionally for those.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. The um the expo has happened in conjunction with the Bridge Burner Challenge race and it wraps up by 1:30 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Okay. And then again any food trucks that would be involved if any the expectation would be again with the transient business permit would be required. Okay.

Same pay $50. A motion for the special event application waving burning bridge burner outdoor recreation expo. We need a motion before discussion, right? Yeah, I'll make a motion.

I'll second. I have a motion by Councilman Byer, second by Councilman Zinc for special event application waving the fee for Bridge Burner Outdoor Recreation Expo 62726. I wanted to ask on the application it says are you charging a fee to participate? Yes, but then if so, how much? It says no vendor fees. I just want to ask for clarity. Because the race, we do collect fees to sign up for the Ridge Burner Challenge portion of that, which is the the run and paddle race, but the river expo that happens on the lawn in the park is um basically recreation partners that are local to the region. So, we do not charge a fee.

And how much is the fee to participate in the recreation? Um well, in the application, there is a range because there is an early registration fee which is less than the fee that happens after May 1st. Okay, Megan, do you reach out to the fire police directly? I do. I usually reach out directly to Floyd. Okay. Thank you. Yep.

That answer you question. It does. Uh I don't I'm having trouble finding the the fee the range on the application though. Yeah. I'm not finding it. So, I was looking at the website right now. It's $55 for early registration and $65 for the whole thing. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. It looks like the digital application cut it off. Oh, okay. That's what I thought might have happened. Okay. Thank you. That's the racer fee. All right. which they'll use the trail and the river.

Yeah, it uses a section of the trail. It's about a mile section and then the paddle across the river and back. Right.

Any other questions? No concerns. I have a motion by Councilman Byer, second by Councilman Zinc to consider special event application waving fees for Bridgeer Outdoor Recreation Expo on 627 2026. All in favor say I. I

consider special event application waving fee for Junth paddle 620 2026. Megan, would you like to explain that one? Yeah, not a problem. So, this is in conjunction with DCNR. Um, most of the event will actually take place on the Mifflin Farm property in Writesville. Um, the event will end with a paddle across the river. Um, I wanted to submit the application because there will be getting off the water, loading up kayaks with the outfitters, and then shuttling people back to the Mifflin Farm Park. Um, but because this is on the same day as the car show, I just thought that, you know, the bureau should know that that was happening. We will need to get a PA fish and boat permit as well.

Okay.

So, really boat dock around around the bridge now. Yeah. Um, we'll be using the SNH A Vandanda shuttle, which is about with the driver, 11 passengers. So, it might take a couple passes. So, we're looking at maybe an hour will be in the park, people enjoying the building in the park until they're shuttled back to their vehicles. Will there be any impact of parking? No, because all the people paddling will have already parked at the Mifflin Farm, done the hike portion, paddled, and will need to go back. Okay, sounds good. Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you guys.

Do I have a motion to accept the application and waving fee for Junth paddle 62026? Second. A motion by Councilman Cooper, second by Councilman Meyers. Sorry there. Councilman Buyers uh for special event application and waving the fee for Junth Paddle 62026. All in favor say I. I. I. I.

I consider special event application Raven Ridge Wildlife 411 2026. Now Megan, if I remember correctly, we approved this once already and then it changed the date. Yes. Um, what they had not realized is usually for Saturday, but because of Easter this year, they wanted to change everything. Okay. Actually, I don't think this one came to us yet this year. Oh, you know what? I think it was it was sent to us and it was tabled and then you're right. I'm sorry. Okay.

And we're not waving the fee on this one. No, this is an outside. Okay. Okay. This is for Washington Barrel. Uh, I'll make a motion to approve special event application for the Raven Ridge Wildlife Cent's baby shower. I'll second. Any other questions, concerns? No. I have a motion by Councilman.

You got it. Second by Councilman Zinc to approve the special event application for Raven Ridge Wild Life on 411 2026. All in favor say I.

I. I eyes have it. Staff reports, comments, and announcements. Bur manager Braomemer, I just wanted to uh give an update. I had mentioned about two weeks ago that um I had applied for an extension for the Maple Park project so that our grant funding was not jeopardized. And uh I'm pleased to announce that it was in fact approved by GCNR. So we are good uh until June 1st. Thank you. Do you have an update on light post?

So the uh light post order was cancelled. uh we were looking for an alternative and uh now we want to actually order the uh the post that that we had planned on initially installing. So we're going to reorder. Yes. Why did you cancel? When you say we contract Delaware electric why did they cancel the order? Um because of the timing. um because of the

they found a they found a uh a type of post that uh was going to meet our needs wasn't ideal. So the original order was canceled and we were proceeding with this uh and they didn't wait until we heard back from DC&R regarding the uh extension the time extension. Gotcha. So now the original um light post is uh what we're going to pursue. However, it's not going to arrive until sometime in March, maybe early April. Okay. The saga continues. This wasn't a decision made by us, right? Yeah, I know. Understand?

One calamity after another. I don't think we'll be using them again. Anything else? That's all. Um,

usually if there's anything from legal oral engineering, but that's not going here. So, are we not I know your first cut your time. Derek doesn't get to talk anymore. Dererick, you don't get any time. Evan doesn't get any time. Oh. You can have my time tonight. Okay. I appreciate that. But I

I just have just one. I will give you an update. We did receive the um signed easement agreement back for uh the crossing at the wastewater treatment plant. So that is with the attorney for JG Environmental is going to record that easement agreement. He has all the paperwork that he needs. Um, so I I didn't get a chance to to talk to him early this week, but my guess is it may have already been reported. So, I'm hoping that we can move quickly to uh to getting that settled and sold now. So, just just a a heads up. I wanted to provide that update to you. Thank you. Great. Thank you.

Boards, commissions, and committees upcoming meetings. HARB is tomorrow. Parks and Wreck is 212. Planning is 217. Actually, this says harvest today. That's why I said um shade tree is 22326. Minutes approved the civil service December 9th, 2025, January 13, 2026, and Alaska 1218 2025. Burough council comments. We'll start with Councilman Buyers.

Uh just really quick, um uh I was thinking a bit more about how we can specifically what we what would be possible for us to do as far as improving the um live stream. Um, so to start, I know this is going to open a can of worms, but anyone wa who regularly watches the live stream, feel free to email my burrow email with uh common complaints or suggestions that you see or, you know, things you would like to be improved on the live stream so we can start getting some of that feedback together and talking about what we can do to improve it. Um, and keep it keep that quality regularly into the future. will be your first call.

I hope so. Um, you can email me at my burough council thing. I'd love to hear any comments about what we can do to improve that. But that's all I have. Thank you, Councilman Cooper. No, I don't I don't have anything to Thank you, Councilman.

Um, I was expecting Leo to mention it. Um, but since he didn't, I guess I get the I get the pleasure of of talking about it. Um, we had the honor this weekend, several of us, to attend the banquet for the fire department. Um, to hear all of the highlights from 2025, the number of training hours that that some of those people put in is incredible. um the number of calls that they run I think the highest the person that ran the highest number was something like 53% of the total calls that came in last year one person went on I mean it was incredible um you know hats off to to our first responders and you know thanks for publicly thank them for inviting inviting us to the banquet and uh enjoying a nice evening with them.

I'm glad you brought that up. I may put in I talked with Jared Baringer after the after dinner and Chief Rum was going to get with him on a date to bring those guys and those award winners in here so the public can see and hear what you just spoke about the amount of hours which is incredible both training and operation. I forgot to bring my paper in. I left it in the I got I got an extra one for the chief. Oh, okay. That's all. Well, I had mine in the car and I was going to bring it in and then I it was under something else and I forgot till I got in here. So, that is all.

Council Murphy. Uh, nothing specific. We do have our first uh legislation uh meeting between myself and Heather and Jack and and Paul next Wednesday. So uh you should be hearing something if not for not for next week but for the uh March workshop workshop. Thank you. Council Z. Um public safety does have a meeting tomorrow with lifeline to discuss our ongoing EMS situation. So any input uh is appreciated. Additionally, we will be meeting with the fire department on the uh

19th of February. Uh, and we're going to be meeting with their leadership and representatives and discussing our furtherance of cooperation with the fire department as well.