Township Board - 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. Father, would you please take a role? Mayor Prom Smith here. Council member Laskkey here. Mayor Sullivan here. Council member Gowski here. Council member Ruska here. City manager here. City attorney here. DPW director here. Finance director here. Community development director here. Police chief here. Fire chief here. City engineer here. Roll call complete.

Thank you. Uh disclosure of conflict of interest. A council member with a conflict of interest regarding an agenda item should disclose it at this time. Public hearings. We have none. Citizens comment on agenda related items. Any citizen with correspondence to be distributed to council should provide items to city clerk prior to the start of the meeting or after the meeting has adjourned limited to five minutes. Anybody on the agenda? Okay. Consent agenda. All items marked with an asterct are considered by city coun city manager to be routine matters prior to approval. Any member of council may have an item removed and taken up during the regular portion of the meeting. Items include approval of minutes, payroll invoices, consideration of the 2026 Laborfest event, consideration of tightlines for troops charity veterans event, consideration of the first annual Dune Jam event. At this time, council could take action to approve the consent agenda as presented. Is there a motion?

I'll make a motion. Second. I'll second it. Either would you please take role. Mayor Prom Smith, yes. Council member Laskkey, yes. Mayor Sullivan, yes. Council member Gowski, yes. Council member Ruska. Yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Consideration of resolution adopting the proposed city of Manaste master plan. Planning Commission has been working on developing a new master plan since 2024. The city engaged Williams and worked to develop the Manaste master plan on June 18th, 2024. On December 23rd, 2025, the plan was released for the 60-day review and comment period, and the public hearing was noted noticed. The planning commission held a public hearing on March 5th, 2026, where they adopted the plan and are recommending final approval by city council. At this time, council could take action to authorize the city clerk to sign a resolution adopting the proposed city of Manaste master plan. Is there a motion? I'll make that motion. Second.

Any discussion? Guess uh I'm just curious when it will be available for online viewing. Um, I made a little slide presentation. Good. Um, and congratulations for you. Short answer to that though is relatively quickly. Um, the next step would be we send it out back to that distribution list as a notice of adoption and then we post it on the website.

Yeah. Oh, I need the clicker. Um, this is a similar presentation that I brought back when I brought the draft plan forward, but essentially just a recap. The purpose of the master plan is to guide the city, where we see our future development going, where we see our land use in the future. Um, taking in community input for where the community sees that going, and then I kind of say, you know, create a unified vision. Um, again, the Michigan Planning Enabling Act requires that it be reviewed every 5 years. We meet the requirement doing so. And then RRC, I have on a different slide, asks that we do that annually. To recap the timeline, um, this started back February 2024 when we received a grant from MISTA, um, which we used to put forward to the new master plan update. Um, we sent out an RFP in March of 2024 and then reviewed proposals through June. Planning Commission selected Williams and Works um to recommend for the update. Um, fast forward to November of this past year, the planning commission and you all received the draft plan which was sent into um the public review period. Oh, down sent into the public review period um in December. Uh those were mailed out to a distribution list. I've got the list on another slide if you want to look it over essentially neighboring um municipalities as well as utility partners. Um we took feedback through February and then in March um we or February we sent out notices for the public hear which was held in March. Um and this could be adopted now through early April hopefully. Um bit of updates on the

review process. We did not receive any comments during the public hearing. I received one piece of correspondence which was um attached here and shared with the planning commission for review. Um edits prior to the review period came from council and department heads. I also got feedback from Katie at the county planning department. um those were incorporated uh as we saw best fit. The sort of Excel spreadsheet that you got outlines all of those edits and then the action that was taken between myself and the consultant. Um as far as grammar and spelling, that was another thing that came up with the draft. I marked up a document and shared that with the consultant. Um this can be a working document moving forward. So, anything that comes up in terms of spelling and grammar errors can be um handled administratively. Couple examples of feedback that we incorporated. Um blight was only mentioned once. This was something that came from the county. Um so, we included that under our housing goals. Um cleaning up neighborhoods and um addressing blight. Um the social district wasn't mentioned, so we included this with the downtown and River Street improvements. Um just sort of continuing to support. Um the gateway project was also not mentioned, so that was added as well under downtown. And then a couple of language clarifications. I just included one as an example. Man made Lake came up a couple times for a couple different things. Um eventually the decision we made was to tweak the language around the lake access as well as including pictures thistle which was not mentioned in the prior draft. Um next steps I kind of covered this already but ideally the planning commission will review this annually and um see where progress has been made on

some of these goals. Um this is an RC best practice so this is something that we will document and share with them. Uh, grammar and spelling can be handled by myself in the community development department. Um, another thing is the dates you'll see are not permanent. Those will be updated as the plan is formally adopted. And then here's the distribution list. And so they were shared with an intent to plan um invited to provide review. They were invited to the public hearing and they will be given notice of adoption as well. And that's all I got. Any questions?

It was you did a good job and I would encourage probably everybody in this room has read it but if anybody's watching it is available on our website. It is how many pages is it? It's about 60 160 but the beach master plan and the public participation plan take the comments goals and the things that the uh people said are very worthwhile reading. So I would encourage anybody because it is we are going to try to utilize follow it. So you know, and any comments just contact any one of us. So, it's it's worth it's worth reading. Thanks, Matt. Other would you please take role? Council member Ruska, yes. Council member Gabowski, yes. Mayor Sullivan, yes. Council member Laskkey,

yes. Mayor Prom Smith, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Consideration of a resolution supporting the creation of the Manaste Emergency Response Fire Agency Fire District. Public Act 57 of 1988 authorizes two or more municipalities to incorporate an authority or district for the purpose of providing emergency services. In 2024, city council made the fire district a priority. Chief H. Hearnden began working with other local municipalities on the formation of the Manatee Emergency Response Fire Agency Fire District, MERFA. at the time. MER FA would promote efficient delivery of fire and emergency response services, enhance staffing and response capa capabilities, and improve training opportunities to ensure sustainable long-term operations in the greater Manasty area. This resolution of support authorizes the allocation of $5,000 and two members to support a steering committee that will represent the city's interest concerning the for formation of MERFA. At this time, council could take action to authorize the mayor and city clerk to sign a resolution supporting participation in the creation of the Many Emergency Response Fire Agency Fire District. Is there a motion?

I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second it. Any discussion? Yeah. I want to know chief where uh any information I mean this is only the starting point I realize uh what is going to be the millillage to each township and and where's that going to come in?

Yeah. So that's what the steering committee is doing. So what we're doing is we're having um typically it's like bimonthly meetings and what we're doing is we're coming up with a funding formula to um to describe exactly how we're going to do that. We don't have um a set budget right now. We don't have a set millage or whatever what it's going to cost. We're working on that with with our partners and the people that are coming into the steering committee. Okay. And we're going to then you're going to be discussing the union people that work for the city compared to the volunteers that are in the all the other townships.

Yeah. When it comes to forming this district and coming in, we that is part of what the steering committee is doing is we're sitting down and we're talking about the impacts of how it would have with the existing employees and the new employees that we are intending to hire. Yes, everyone's included into that. Who are the two of the steering committee? The two on the steer currently right now we're meeting it's myself uh Mr. Gamble and Mr. Bradford is actually coming in. Okay. uh periodically as we get into more of the financial um discussions. Thanks. Anybody else?

I met with Chief and I'm not going to speak for you, but it was very worthwhile. I think you'd probably be open if anybody had any questions to just call or stop by. It was very worthwhile. He's very knowledgeable. Yeah. Anybody who would want some further followup on any discussions anytime is always welcome to uh stop by and see me. Right. Okay. Thank you. Other words, please take a role. Mayor Prom Smith. Yes. Council member Laskkey. Yes. Mayor Sullivan. Yes. Council member Gabowski. Yes. Council member Ruska. Yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Consideration of ordinance 26-01 to amend chapter 6 antillight and chapter 606 animals and repeal chapter 415 open storage of disabled inoperable junked and abandoned motor vehicles and chapter 1454 dangerous unsightly or unsanitary conditions of the city of Manaste Michigan codified ordinances. The ordinance committee worked with the city attorney, police chief, and code enforcement officials to recommend updates to the city's anti-blance and updates to related chapters. Highlights of the proposed updates include changes regarding domestic animal nuisance conditions, inoperable motor vehicles, junk boats or boat equipment, and clarification of terms garbage, rubbish, and junk. The goal of these updates is to improved compliance and clear standards for the property maintenance in the city. As an ordinance, two separate readings are required. If this ordinance is introduced at this time, it could be adopted at the next regular meeting. At this time, council could take action to introduce ordinance 26-01. Is there a motion?

I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second it. Any discussion? Well, the one thing mentioned, and maybe I read it wrong, that boats cannot be stored more than three months. Does that mean like I know a lot of people shrink wrap their boats around here for the winter and leave them in the yard. So that will no longer be allowed or

um I we it was related to they have to be actively working on it I think was more of the intent. There has to be a plan to fix the boat. So you can't just leave a junk boat out in perpetuity. You have to have a basically our code enforcement official would come approach them and just say hey what's your plan? Um is it eventually going to be fixed? What's your timeline? And just work towards making sure there's some sort of resolution with the it's not just going to sit there inoperable is the idea. But is that compared to having a car sitting on the street for three months, too? Right. We want to see them fix items up and yeah, what's the plan with it going forward? It just can't sit there is the idea.

If I may, uh, council member Gabowski on a public road, state law perhaps say. So, so that's governed under state law where this will be governed under city ordinance. The distinction. Why are we allowing them three months on the boats and then I mean, we're doing what the state law says. I mean, I issued the tickets before. Right. The boats are on private property and state law doesn't dictate on private property. State law dictates on a public roadway. So, this this recommendation is based on what we've seen in the community uh and is is tailored more towards junk boats, so to speak. Mhm. I guess maybe that's some clarification because I I believe it said that um the boats have to be licensed,

but a non-motori motorized boat doesn't need to be licensed like a canoe for example. I mean, I can see why somebody I mean, I'm confused reason reading that portion because, you know, number one, my boat sits without a cover for longer than 3 months cuz it's winter time and I'm not using it, but it's certainly usable and I use it. The same thing with my kayak and my canoe that sit outside. So, I'm I don't want to be in violation. So, but it says junk boats and equipment.

Yeah. So, it's really that unless corrective repairs are in process or have been scheduled. So, if if you kind of so you're approached, hey, what's are you working on this boat? You know, you say, well, I have a plan to work on it next month or so, you just have to be in in the state of repairing it or bringing it into uh so it just can't sit there kind of like an obvious disarray kind of thing is what you're saying. Yeah. And this this comes from complaints we've had from community members as well as council members over Yeah, I agree. It's good. It's good. Need it. So, and I know the ordinance committee did a great bit of work and sort of Tim Ball was here today did a great bit of work to try to tailor that towards uh um some regulations in the community. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think it's it's common sense. It's just like a lot of law enforcement. Um you're not going to my boat in my backyard that shrink wrapped for 6 months because it's beautiful winter in the middle of March. But if Miss Rosa has a boat with a that's got a hole in the hole or the out drives out and half the engines out, let's get that thing, right? Not your kayaks or your canoes. Okay. Discretion is the key. I think that that's that's what I wanted to be sure of. Okay. Are we good on this one? Might as well stay there. Chief Heather, would you please take a roll? Mayor Prom Smith. Yes. Council member Laskkey. Yes. Mayor Sullivan. Yes. Council member Gabowski. Yes. Council member Resa. Yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Now we will have a report from Chief Glass. He's running. We have a runner.

Okay. All right, here we go. Well, thank you for the opportunity to give a presentation. Um, every year this is a difficult presentation because um, every year the men and women of our police department do a tremendous job and I know you know that and trying to whittle this down to 15 minutes to be respectful of time is is quite a challenge. So, I'm very proud of them as I know you guys are. Let's get to it here. So, let's talk about staffing changes in 2025. Uh, Officer Dave Shans, we had a a retirement ceremony here. Dave Shans, a longtime officer with the Man City Police Department. Uh, very knowledgeable. He retired this year. Probably the one thing we miss most about him is his personality, a very jovial personality. Evelyn Sinsky. So, Evan Sloinsky came to us from the DPW. We used the employee recruitment program uh to hire him, send him to police academy. He did a tremendous job in the police academy and he's almost through with his field training program. So everything I hear from his trainers, he's doing a tremendous job. Um person of great character. A new face this year, uh right around July, uh we hired Tim Baller, code enforcement officer. We're going to talk a little bit about blight enforcement and some of the impact he's had. again a new face to the city of Manaste. Uh most notably his people's skills, uh common sense when using enforcement. So, and we'll get into it a little later, but that's that's a new phase this year. Now, someone I want to talk about who uh unfortunately I haven't talked about enough in previous years, Mary Dworth. She's our confidential secretary. And so, all of you who work in organizations where you have a central office, you know, the person who runs the office kind of keeps everything together. and I have been in

the wrong in previous years not talking about her enough. Uh she's a part-time secretary and she is the face of the organization when you walk in the police department door and this is just a list of her job functions. She does a tremendous amount. Sometimes I'm amazed at how much she does with the time that she works. But again, she's a confidential secretary, receptionist, time sheets, invoice data, all the state requirements she does. um anything from registering sex offenders, registering firearms to registering golf carts. She's a uh the first step for foyer for the police department. Sometimes I wonder how she gets it all done, but again, she is kind of the glue that holds the police department together. When the chief is out trying to do 12 things at once or we're overlooking some things, she kind of uh keeps us in line, so to speak. So, she does a great job and we're very fortunate to have her. Let's talk about statistics. Um, dispatch complaints. I've got a three-year comparison here. 5561 from the previous year. Uh, selfinitiated, uh, is down a little bit from previous years. Uh, tickets, tickets are up a little bit. Arrests are down by 10. Accents are so relatively flat as far as statistics. Uh, I like to use dispatch complaints. Um, dispatch complaints are when someone calls 911 and needs a police officer. By policy, police organizations can regulate when there's written complaints. So, uh, I think it's important. I don't control when people call 911. So, I think it's a true and accurate reflection of the needs of the community, not written complaints, uh, written complaints. Understand this, too, is is the more bodies you have, the higher the service, right? So, uh, in 2023, I think in 22 and 21, we saw a big fluctuation because of staffing issues, right? So, um, you the more staff you have, the more work you can do, the higher level

service you can provide. I've got this broken down. I don't want to bore you too much of details, but I've got it broken down last year and this year, crimes against property, just some changes. There's a little bit of uptick in larsenies and it looks like there's a down tick in damage to property. And so later in the presentation, I don't think I've done this before. I I pulled out five normal events and we'll kind of go through them, but as far as crimes against property, relatively flat. Um, and I don't have any philosophy or tactics to tell you how we, you know, how we deterred 10 complaints from the previous year. Understand as we go through statistics, um, these are as the people report them. So, if you call and say your car was stolen and come to find out your car was towed by uh someone a repo company or you lent it to a girlfriend, um that's not reflected. It's still reflected here as a stolen vehicle. Does that make sense? Y

crimes against person uh our sexual assaults uh remain relatively flat. Um, it's kind of a a hidden statistic and a very difficult one to talk about, but um, our detective handles the majority of our sexual assaults and we have a significant number in my mind of the sexual assaults that we investigate. Again, these are crimes as are reported and then we have a slight uptick in assaults. That assault can be a simple assault, a domestic assault. Um, it it kind of encompasses all that. So relatively flat statistically from 24 and 25. So some notable events. I've asked staff just to grab a handful of events we want to talk about. And so as you can see in 2025 started off with a a terrible tragedy, loss of life. And our detective led an investigation that included a number of different agencies. the tribal police department, the sheriff's department, the state police, MSP IAK, MSP Crime Lab, all their support services, uh, to run a wellorganized investigation that was determined a murder suicide. Again, it was a tragic loss of life to start the year off with, but it is a good example of major incidents in this county require multiple law enforcement agencies to collaborate on. It's very difficult in this area of the state for one law enforcement agency to do it all, especially when you have a major crime. So, like I said, although it's a very tragic loss life, I'm proud of the men and women and the investigation they led. You saw this US 31 bridge jumper, you saw an award be uh commended this summer. Um, so we we pull that. Why I want to highlight that is number one, you're going to hear a theme throughout this and and my last slide about mental

health in this community. But again, we had an individual on the 31 bridge who was dead set. They were going to jump off and our officers use good tactics and distractionary windows to grab the individual and to bring them to safety um without anyone getting hurt. And so you have people putting their safety on the line uh for the safety of someone else. The third item there, we had an individual reported stealing two motor vehicles in a matter of a couple days. Also stealing from motor vehicles, damaging uh numerous motor vehicles in the Reese Park area. Our officers were very quickly able to identify a suspect um make an arrest which led to a subsequent conviction. The property was turned back to the rightful owners. So successful successful conclusion of that type of case. The next UDA I want to talk about is oddly enough happened on Slava weekend. You know when when things happen they happen at the worst possible time, right? So we had an individual was dispatched uh stealing a vehicle. Our sergeant went headtohead past that individual, turned around, made traffic stop, uh engaged the individual. Um, it became a violent encounter. If it wasn't for three pedestrians at Westco who jumped in to help the uh, sergeant, that could have been a very tragic event. Uh, it was later determined that subject was uh, suffering from mental health issues, but we were able to eventually get that subject into custody, get them to the jail, get property back to the owner. Uh, next one is a um major CSC again led by our detective Kirstson Goodspeed um and other agencies such as the sheriff's office and MSP IAC team, Internet Crimes Against Children. uh were able to complete an investigation which led to the arrest of a subject, 13

counts of criminal sexual conduct first degree, 13 counts of child uh sexually abusive material and six counts of using a computer to commit a crime. So a pretty significant event, a very thorough investigation which has led to prosecution. I think many of you aware of the dog case on Maple Street. Why we wanted to highlight that is our officers obtaining a search warrant, conducting an investigation which included the removal of animals and unsafe, unsanitary conditions. Um that investigation led to the arrest of the individual. Um we relied on the sheriff's office and I believe it was Benzy or Waxford County Animal Control as well that had to come over and help us with removal those animals. So again, um, proactive measures by our police department from an animal cruelty standpoint, uh, having successful prosecution for animal cruelty and now that's being investigated and handled from a blight situation. And then the last one we want to highlight is Davis Street incident. Uh we had a situation on Davis Street with uh one of the residents had a court petition uh had exhibited some signs of violence and we were able to deploy uh police tactics with a little bit of creativity to take a potentially violent situation to a peaceful conclusion and take that person into custody and transports them where they need to go. So again, um just a handful of incidents from this year to uh to highlight grants. Uh we were very fortunate in 2025 to secure funding through several grants. Uh local revenue sharing. We were able to secure $27,000 or over $27,000 for um basically security infrastructure

upgrades for the city of Manaste. You're all very aware of that. But in the same year, we were able to uh secure 20 over $20,000 for body warn cameras. So we were able to get both those grants in the same year for significant upgrades uh for our equipment. The public safety acade academy grant that is a grant through the state of Michigan. We have been fortunate in the past to utilize that uh for our employee recruits and we were able to secure that at the end of 25 beginning of 26 for our employee recruit who's currently attending the police academy. Now uh that grant goes towards wages and tuition which would otherwise come out of budgetary expenses. Uh I don't know how long they're going to have those monies available. So for all the elected officials in the room, it's very important that if you get the ear of a senator or congressman, those funds are very important. We've hired our last five employees utilizing these funds. And so it cost anywhere from$10 to $20,000 to hire a candidate and to send them to the police academy for wages and tuition. and we have really relied on grant funds other than budgetary funds. So, uh, I rely on the elected officials in the room to keep banging that drum as far as continuing those funds, especially for small town departments. I don't want to speak too much for the sheriff's office, but they've utilized those funds as well. A lot of organizations, police departments, especially smaller ones have really relied on those funds as opposed to trying to use uh budgetary funds. Then we were able to utilize Michigan Works apprenticeship program to fund two apprentices again towards tuition and wages. It's a creative program. It aligns perfectly with uh an employee going to police academy and going through an FTO program. So it fits well. So again able to identify um some creative solutions to budgetary

restraints. And then actually the last one, the talent and growth barrier removal initiative. Chief Herman brought this to my attention um where employees were able to qualify up to $1,000 uh to purchase equipment that helps them do their jobs that removes a barrier for their jobs. So again, a creative grant brought to my attention by the fire chief that our employees absolutely utilize. I don't know if they're ever going to come around again, but it was we were able to but they were able to get things that we couldn't provide them with our budget. So, uh, I think it worth it's worth noting on grants. So, let's talk about community outreach. We're very proud of our community outreach. Um, you know, every year we try to push more and more what can we do for our community. Kids safety day is kind of a staple for us. Every year it seems to grow. I think the last year it was over 400 participants. Um, we have I couldn't even tell you how many organizations were there, but there are a lot. Every year there's more and more. So, I think it's a it's a it's a big deal for this community. It's a great way for us to have positive interactions with our young people and to kind of kick the summer off, right, for our kids and their parents. And that for those who haven't attended that that the presenters there are we ask they present anything safety whether it be wa water safety, body safety, boat safety, any anything safety that we can provide to parents and kids, we ask we do so. and and we we kind of cover the whole range. So, we're very proud of that. I know a lot of communities do something very similar. Um, and we plan to continue that shop with the Hometown Hero participated that again this year. The sheriff's office, Sheriff Brian Gatowski, uh, spearheaded that as you can see there. Safety Pup and

Sparky.

Sparky. Sparky. Um, two volunteers. They did a tremendous job. great job interacting with young people. Um, this is a wonderful event, not just for this community, but as far as having law enforcement, firefighters, hometown heroes having positive interactions with people in the public. That's something we can't overlook ever. National Wear Life jacket to work day, the Coast Guard and the police department go out raising awareness. It's just a good it's a good reason to get out in the public and talk to people about water safety. Simple as that. We do it everywhere. um city hall, the courthouse. I think I had a picture of safety pup getting wanded and frisked by the baiffs. So any opportunity we can to get out in the public and talk to them about safety or just have positive interaction. We're going to take advantage of uh something new community outreach picnic in the park. So with the parks commission, uh I think we had a wonderful event raising awareness in the community of our beautiful parks and again promoting positive interactions with law enforcement. I think we had a pretty good turnout there. I thought it was a great uh event and something we we hope to build on in the future. And a couple other things, we conduct presentations at the Wagner Center. Those presentations are anything from elder fraud to driving with dementia. Uh we presented at Prime Time Living Expo, president recruiting events. We're also present at Kids Safety Day. So anytime we can that our staffing allows it, we want to have outreach in our community and have positive interactions with people our school our school program. So we don't have a school resource officer in this community. So we have school leaison. What that means is you have a police officer assigned to each building and the expectation is they check in at that building each shift. So we call them leaison. And some of the things that we do is we do the state mandated

lockdown secure modes with the school. This year we've done probably a record number of tabletop exercises at each maps building. I know we've done at least two tabletops I think at each building and this year we've done uh reunification tabletop at the building. So again maps is the one that that really has to request that and we're more than happy to come in and work any tabletop exercise with them. I have told them if you need we'll give you 15 minutes or three hours. You tell us what you need and we're we're there to fulfill that. So, um very important as far as what we can do as a police department to help foster a safe environment in our schools. So, all we have to do is be invited. Uh school safety committee meeting, regular meetings every other month. law enforcement officials, school administrators get together, talk about issues, work some through different areas of school safety. Our officers teach water safety presentations in every school in this in the city. All we have to do is be invited. Um, and then continued collaboration. Things come up like a new building, traffic flow issues, uh, we have a high commitment to our school and to to be with them to collaborate any issues that we have. they might arise. So again, all we have to do is be invited. Let's talk about blight. Um, we talked about Tim Ball earlier and I've got some blight stats here. And so this represents the enforcement statistics. As you can see, it's it's broken down by category. And I want to say some things. So, one of the strengths I think Tim has is his ability to talk to people and his ability to get compliance through means other than citation. So, when we're talking about blight enforcement, what we want is compliance, right? And so,

his ability to get the majority of people to comply without writing tickets or have to take them to court, he's done a great job. I I uh I commend his communication skills, his ability to work with people. Um as you can imagine, as we've talked about for years, uh there's different reasons behind blight. So it might be the people financially can't do it, might be they refuse to do it, but again using uh our code enforcement discretion to determine what the best possible path towards success is. Success is compliance. So, I think the stat is I think Tim only wrote nine tickets in 2025 um as opposed to um a previous code enforcement officer, but it's a it's a difference in philosophy. We want to get to the same place. He's taken a different vehicle together. So, I think he's been very successful. He has participated in a lot of uh policy meetings or excuse me, ordinance meetings, worked with the zoning department in the offseason as we call it to help uh rental inspections and other needs they have. So there's the stats. 128 126 total cases, 108 closed, resolved. Pictures worth a thousand words. I just grabbed a just a few of these. Give you an idea. Although I know you know what kind of light we deal with. Here's some before and after shots uh that Tim's responsible for. It might be trash. It might be overgrown. again overgrown junk in the side of the house. These are some of the things before and after that we've dealt with. All right, accomplishments. Again, we're kind of traping accomplishments here to be respectful of time. Sergeant Doug Vanickle uh completed his uh level one uh command training. It was one day a month. Make sure I get this right. I think it's one day a month for 10

months. It's a long training. talks about things, supervisory issues, leadership, use of force issues. It's a big commitment from us and for him. We're very proud of him to give him the tools to meet the expectations of his job. UAS program, if you remember last year, we talked about how we secured funding for UAS, which is a drone. We were able to get that program off the ground with the fire department. That's a partnership type program, the fire department and the police department. And I will tell you, we're very fortunate to have that off the ground. Um, we've had a lot of successful cases, more so with the fire department in locating lost individuals, uh, getting a bird's eye view on people. So, we've had successful deployments. And then I I listed this for the first time that I've seen uh Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards. So the organization state of Michigan that licenses police departments and police officers, they are doing random audits or they were called them assessments. Uh this year we were chosen randomly for our assessment and we fared very very well which is a credit to the men and women who work at the police department. Some of the areas they look at as policy compliance, interview room standards, training records, firearms, personnel file records. So everything they require either by statute, by their policy, they come and they evaluate it and we fare very well. Again, it's just a reflection of the great work the men and women do downstairs. Mental health, again, if I had a slide here that would talk about challenges, um mental health would be on there along with staffing, but we've seen a rise in mental health. Uh certainly I mean you could look across the country and and and see that Manaste is not excluded from that. And so we've got some deceptive statistics up here, right? I mean tell you what I mean. We have 47

documentary reports involving mental health. Well, that's not many. Well, those are we require a report to be written when someone is taken into custody and taken to the hospital. Uh we interact with people who are suffering from mental illness on a regular basis. Um, if you can go through some of these things here, it is a is the second highest overtime cost for the police department. And lastly, there it attributed almost half of our use of force since 2025. And so when you look at the process, you well chief, how does how do the police get involved in mental health? How does that work? So when we interact with a subject who is suffering from mental illness under the Michigan mental health code, if we believe through our training experience that person is a danger to themselves or others, we could take that person into custody and take them to the hospital where a person who has more training, better qualified, screens them. And when they're screened, two things could happen. either they are released to go back home or they are recommended to go to a psychiatric ward. Sometimes that screening process takes hours or days. We've sat at the hospital for 5 days in a row, 24 hours a day on patients waiting to find a bed. So you have a challenge from the mental health side, not only screening people, but finding beds. And beds are really part of the problem. So what happens is when I make my beds is they're screened by a mental health professional and it's deemed by the hospital doctor the mental health worker this person needs to go to a psychiatric facility. Well now we have to find a bed and once we identify that bed we can get a petition from the judge to order that. that can take a long time. And if that person is violent, aggressive, our

police officers are with them 24 hours a day. So, as you can imagine, as mental health rises, the need for our police in the process that is described has has risen as well. We have had nine transports um to different areas. We we luck out sometimes and we've lucked out in 25 that we only had to go to we only went out of state I think a few times. You know, it's sad when we think that going to Grand Rapids is a quick trip, but again, we're transporting that person from the hospital in handcuffs to a psych psychiatric ward. So, what that means is we're taking those two police officers or generally what happens, we have to call people in in overtime, right, to remain to keep our level of service in the city. And so nine is actually down from the previous year. Uh so again, this is a this is a challenge for us. And so I meet monthly with mental health, I'll call them executives, leaders to work solutions to this problem. Um the police are not the answer to this problem, but we can be part of that solution at least. So, I wanted to educate you on on that challenge and what the process is as far as what does it look like when a police officer deals with someone who is in crisis. So, again, my commitment to the city is working with the leaders, figuring out solutions that involve the police, but the police aren't the solution to that problem. Does that make sense? And those conversations are ongoing. Hopefully, we have some tangible results. All right. And again, as always, thank you for your continued support. You guys have a very difficult job and we appreciate the work you do. What questions do you have?

Wow. Do you have a question? So, I guess along with the homeless, which sometimes is mental health, it sounds like the real problem is mental health in a lot of areas. And is it is it more people not taking their medicine or or just not having the ability to go to a doctor and get the appropriate and I know I'm putting you on the spot because there's probably no way you could possibly know that. Well, we had a good guess.

We spend a lot of time in that world. So, uh I think it's a combination of a lot of things and so you know we get a lot of repeat patience. What does that mean? It means we think that you're a danger to yourself. Others take to the hospital, they clear you. Two weeks later, same thing. And it's kind of a filter roll. Um, what I'm trying to work with mental health is finding out a solution. If someone's suffering from mental health, they probably aren't going to seek it on their own. So, they're probably not going to leave their house and go to an appointment.

We're trying to work on can we get mental health professionals in the field if it's a safe environment for them. Similar to what we get like CPS or APS, if it's a safe environment, can we get that service there? Um, one of the biggest challenges is SU substance use disorders. So, drug use and mental health intertwined and which one is it? So, that again for the central wellness folks that's a challenge for them to untangle those. You you are correct. A lot of our homeless population deals with one or the other, right? So, so it's a combination. So, it's challenging. Again, it's a human issue. So, it's it's complicated, right? But again, I want to be a part of the solution. I just the police department can't be the solution.

Joshua, whatever happened to the decision there a few years ago? I was reading some medical journals and they talked about putting a mental health worker with a police officer transferring these people.

That's a model. So that's a model um that's out there. That's not a model of this part of the state. Um there are different proposed models out there. Uh some of the models are giving a police officer mental health training and and having a mental health officer. Some bigger cities with bigger resources go to a a full CIT model uh and anywhere in between. So at this point I'm willing to work with uh leadership from Central to figure out some type of solution so they can better provide services to this community. But years ago, they used to tell us just bring the person into the office and we'll take care of them. And sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't.

So I don't I agree. They used to say that too. But we would bring them to the office. The first thing they want us to do is take them to the hospital to have them medically screened. As we've learned over the years, there are some physiological medical thing medical things that could mimic mental health symptoms. And um it's taken me years to realize that cuz I I didn't think I questioned that. But so we were told the same thing. Take them to the office or office hours and we can provide them services. But usually what we get is we'll take them to the hospital, make sure they're mentally clear. We'll get involved. Again, the most important thing and in Manaste County I found is a little bit rare. We meet regularly with law enforcement, the hospital, and mental health monthly. Uh I didn't realize how rare that was until I talked to some folks from Moskegan and Grand Rapids and and some of those areas maybe they're not talking as regularly. Um so that's that's where it all needs to start and understanding, you know, having open lines of communication, understanding who's responsible for what and who can positively impact the problem.

Thank you. Thanks. Good job. Uh, real quick, I don't have a chance later, but um, I know it's police and fire presentation, but I just want to give public kudos to our DPW. Um, they did a tremendous job um, yesterday. It was absolutely amazing to what I was told it was and what I came home to. So, again, I think we do a we do a pretty good job holding people accountable, but I think I could do a better job of publicly commending people. And those folks worked, I think, 24 hours a day all yesterday and they did a great job. So, thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Josh.

Now report from Chief Hernand. Okay, council. Uh, Mayor Council, uh, this is the fire department annual 2025 presentation, and I'm excited to explain to you all of the work and all the responses that your firefighters did this uh, past year. They worked really hard, had a lot of calls. We didn't have any injuries on duty. And I think that speaks volumes for the amount of work that they do and just staying safe in that. So, really proud and excited to explain what your fire department did for you this past year. So our fire department, we divide up our responsibilities into three different categories. We have our prevention division, our EMS division, and our fire division. So this uh or chart here is just a way that I wanted to show to you all the different types of things that your fire department does. So on the prevention side, we divide that up into inspection type uh categories and prevention type categories. And our inspections do things as we do plan reviews for new buildings that are being built. And we also go through and inspect certain occupancies to make sure they're following different fire codes and those types of things. On the prevention side of things, we do different things like we do station tours where we invite people into our fire department and we uh we use that as an opportunity that building to do different types of fire prevention activities and that teach them fire safe things, fire extinguisher demos and those types of things. We also uh get outside of our building and we do things like school visits and that where we teach the children different fire prevention things and we attend uh many different programs like the the the public safety day that we have in the summer that chief class puts on and that and we also have other things where we did our open house where we invite

people in and use that as an opportunity to uh just teach safe practices and have safe habits around uh think that's a really big part of what the fire department does because if we could prevent emergencies from happening, that's really the safest way to keep people and it's really the most inexpensive way to take care of emergencies, too. So, also in our EMS division, that's a large part of what we do. That's about 80% of the call volume that we do. And our fire department, we staff a ALS advanced life support ambulance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. and we provide uh transport to the hospital at the highest level that that that is licensed here in the state of Michigan. We're able to do that at no out-ofpocket cost to the people that we run on. So, our ambulance uh responses that we make for city residents. We only bill their insurance companies. We don't bill anything over and above that. So, that's really great service that um our our residents enjoy that. Then on the fire side, uh we respond to many different types of fire calls. We uh you know, structure fires, car fires, um different types of brush fires and that things that we respond to. And on the other side of that, we uh do something that we call light more still alarms where we respond to car accidents, carbon monoxide alarms, wires down. Uh yesterday we had six, seven different wires down calls going on with that. And those are the different type of responses that your fire department does. Um last year's incident uh count and types. So we ran 1,270 calls last year. 80% of those calls were EMS calls in nature. Our service calls are the calls like the wires downs, water emergencies, and those types of things. Good intent calls are calls that 911 fields, but when we actually get there, there's no actual emergency there. It's something just an investigatory thing. uh hazmat

calls, false alarm calls, and fire calls. Our fire calls last year, we were in 27 different types of structure fires. Those are actual fires, flames, and that with the response. That was up slightly from last year. Last year was 22. This year we're at 27. Mutual aid. Mutual aid is a big part of what we do. Also, uh mutual aid represents 12.7% of our calls. The reason why mutual aid is important is when there is a structure fire, we need uh more firefighters than we have um available to us here at the city. We run a staffing of two to three personnel per day and that. But when there is a structure fire, we require anywhere from 12 to 14 firefighters on duty to get there to help mitigate this emergency or to put out the fire. So that's why we rely on mutual aid. We have automatic aid with both Filer Township and Manasty Township. So whenever there's a fire call,

there they go. Um, that was good timing. Well played. Well played.

So So but but but that's the way that works. So in order to get those amount of firefighters there in a responsible time, we rely on that automatic aid. this past year um aid that our fire department received was 506% of the time and aid that we gave was the 44% of the time. So with those partners uh Filer Township we helped them 20 times where they came and helped came into our city 17. Manasty Township we went out to the township and helped their fire department for structure fires 21 times and they came in and helped us 13 times. Uh the big part of that is MMR. So they're our partner for ambulance transports when we're not available and that they come into our city and transport our patients. So we went outside of the city and helped MMR 19 times and they came in and helped us 63 times. So that's been a pretty big swing. They were able to up some of their staffing, right? So that does require us to go out, but we still have um some needs in this where we do require them to come in and help us. The reason why they come in and do that is because our ambulance is already out on a call and that we're just not available. So, ambulance billing, this gives some of the um information. Like I said, we don't bill city residents over and above what their insurance pays, but their insurance reimbursement rates. Um uh last year in 2025, we brought in uh $289,000 with those insurance proceeds. So that's um that that's a big number that helps us um uh keep keep our ambulance service going like that. So outside of the city when we do respond um outside of the city limits, we do uh bill um anywhere from $1,200 for an ALS call down to $450

for a very basic type call. Yeah. Fire prevention. some of the fire prevention activities that we had this past year uh in VU we have a fire extinguisher trainer that we got from an LRSB grant. That's a really popular way that we can uh we we can put our show on the road and tell people uh show people exactly how to use a fire extinguisher. We go to things like the forest festival, a lot of public ed. We spend a lot of time out educating the public. uh public safety day and we had our second annual fire safety openhouse and that we do that in October and we hope to do that again this next year. Training. Training is a big part of what we do. We have our big red trucks with a lot of tools and a lot of different things on them. So, we need a lot of different types of skills. Training is a big part of being a firefighter paramedic. Each paramedic has 90 hours of continuing education that they have to complete every three years. In addition to that, we have the different fire training where we have requirements that we have to do. And we're also putting two of our newest uh firefighters through paramedic school right now. That paramedic school is a really large commitment. It's about 11th month program. And outside of their classroom hours, which is 2 days a week, they have an additional 750 hours that they have to do with ride along time, hospital time, and a mentorship time there. So that's a really large commitment and time frame. They're both doing uh very well in school. And uh so we're we're excited to see them graduate hopefully this uh August/ October time frame. And that Great Lakes Burn Camp. Uh we were able to do our second annual root beer float fundraiser. We uh had a great support from our sponsors and even some people from the Great Lakes Burn Camp came down and helped us with this

fundraiser this past year. We raised uh $1,776. That was a great amount. It was a touch uh lighter than it was last year. Um our sponsorship was up, but some of our sales were down. Um, but we're looking forward to get that challenge next year and doing that. I got some ideas and we're going to keep going with this. It's a it's a good time. The firefighters uh volunteer their time and they come do this for a great cause. It's a great community event. Uh, with that, our fire station, our fire station got a makeover. We are round in the corner with a lot of our exterior improvements in that. We got a little bit of site work to do around the parking lot. Um hopefully by next October that open house um we're going to say the exterior stuff is done. But last year uh we Bourer restoration was able to finish with the uh brick work and the painting work that and I it's shaped up and it's place is looking a lot better. Uh there on the left there that's our our newest firefighter Joe Wnak. He is holding up the national registry uh paperwork and that. So, we uh we we got accepted into the National Register of Historic Places. Um we're excited for that. That also gives us an opportunity to apply for additional grants through the National Park Service with obtaining that. And uh we're hoping to do some of that, put it to good work, and um help us maintain our beautiful building. And with that, that is my report for this past year for your Majesty Fire Department. And any questions to answer them,

Chief? The Uh when the MMR comes in and picks up the people, do they charge or do they do they do like the city does? We don't charge them to go to the hospital. No, they get a full bill from MMR. So yeah, when when there's duplicate calls, um it it happened the other day and that it it's when our ambulance responds, it's only insurance bill, but if another agency has MMR or anybody else transport them, they get the full bill. you've touched on in the past on this. I believe it was a high school program like cadet program. Yeah. Do you have any news for us on that?

So, we weren't able to do that. I wasn't able to put that together this past year. But what we did in its place is we put on um I'm going to call it a field trip for the um cat the Waxford Masaki Career Tech Center in that and they were able to bus about 20 students in and we were able to do like a day in the life of a firefighter um where we ran them through some drills, we smoked up a building, they sprayed water and did it. So it was a smaller one-day event and that but it it was it was quite successful. the kids had a really good time and it's good for my personnel too because you know when they're teaching Yeah. I think that's a good way to reinforce and to train the habits and stuff. Just get out about having positive interactions. A lot of being a firefighter when you respond and and and the responses you're dealing with people, you know, they're having a bad day, right? No one no one wants that, right? But it's nice for the firefighters to have uh positive interactions with that, too. So, that's a great thing to manage, too.

Thank you, Chief. All right. You want Hey, citizens comment. This is an opportunity for citizens in attendance to comment on municipal services activities or areas of city involvement limited to 5 minutes. Letter submitted to council will not be publicly read. Anybody?

Good evening everybody. Want to stop up and say hi and introduce myself. My name is Kim Cole. I currently serve as the sheriff uh down in Mason County. And uh last fall I made an announcement that uh I was going to seek uh the Michigan's 32nd Senate District seat. Uh that'll be vacated by Senator Bumstead this fall this fall um due to term limits. That district covers Moskegan, Oceanana, Mason, Manasty, and Benzy counties for for the most part. Um I am a lifelong county resident, fifth generation uh person to the lake shore. my great greatgrandfather uh following the Civil War walked the shores of Lake Michigan and settled in Summit Township, which is where the pump storage plant is now in Lington there uh where our family was a fruit fruit farmed and uh he was a lifelong public servant. Served as a county commissioner, township supervisor, even did two two-year terms as a county sheriff from 1899 to 1903. So, uh my my roots are deep in in Lakeshore history and and in this Senate district. Um I'm a Lington High School grad. I know that's kind of a sore subject in Manaste, but my son did play hockey for the Manaste Chipua when he was four years of varsity hockey. So um uh graduated Letington High School, West Shore Community College, met my wife at Westshore. We've been married 38 years. I have two adult children. My son is 35. He lives in Spring Lake. Uh he is engaged to a beautiful young lady. And my daughter is 32. She recently located back to uh Michigan from out of state where she's a she's a nurse and my son-in-law is an engineer. I have two grandchildren, two little girls. Uh Reagan will be four in June and Kennedy is a year and a half. And yes, I have two granddaughters, a Reagan and a Kennedy. And I will have a grandson uh in two weeks. My daughter's going to have our our third grandchild and he's either going to be Lincoln, Jackson, or Grant. So, we're waiting to

see. Yeah. So, um, a little bit about my my time in in law enforcement. Like I said, I've I've been with the sheriff's office for 41 years. Uh, I'm in my fourth term as sheriff. Uh, I serve on numerous boards throughout the, uh, state and nation. Uh, some of my accomplishments, I I in 2020 received the Richard H. Austin lifetime commitment to traffic safety award for traffic safety efforts as a crash reconstructionist um, and uh, as sheriff. In 2021, I was honored to receive the Terrence Elj Jungle, Michigan Sheriff of the Year. I was nominated by five fellow sheriffs for that award. That had never happened where five sheriffs had nominated uh one sheriff for that award. Uh in 2022, I was the president of the Michigan Sheriff's Association. 2023, I was uh appointed to the National Sheriff's Association's board of directors, where I serve today, representing Michigan's 83 sheriffs on a national level. I serve on the uh Michigan Sheriff's Association's legislative committee. Uh we are dealing with lancing all the time, so I'm not really sure why I'm diving into this career, but uh it it it is what it is. Uh locally, I serve on the Lakeshore Children's Advocacy Center board of directors. I'm on the Mason County Historical Society. I serve on the scent board, which is a multi-jurisdictional drug team board. I'm on that board. Um, I serve on the, um, Mason County Child Death Review team and, uh, our Leeward initiative drug coalition team as well. And I formed the Mason County School Safety Planning team when I first came into office in 2013. Uh, my platform on a state level is very simple. We need to protect our law enforcement. We need to protect our first responders. We know where communities are safe. It starts with law enforcement and our first responders. So, we have to take care of those folks. Currently in Lancing, there is no state senators that have any idea what a police officer or a firefighter on the

street does. They don't. Yet, they make they dictate policy through legislative action that tell law enforcement and our first responders how to behave. And we we need to fix that. So, I believe in safe streets, safe communities, safe schools. My time as sheriff, we've started our we have four school resource deputies in our schools. We didn't have any when I took office in 2013. And quite honestly, I'm convinced that at any given time, someone somewhere in Michigan is thinking about grabbing a gun and walking into a school, a church, a shopping center, a daycare center, and doing bad things. And we have to take proactive steps to uh to address that. So, um yeah, that's who I am. That's what I do. Um and I look forward to getting to know you all better. And I'm really glad I picked this month because next month I give my annual report to our county board of commissioners. So,

chief and chief, thank you for giving me some pointers. So, with that, thank you for your time. I appreciate all you do. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? You were moving. Jerry, did you have something to say? No. Okay, Mr. Dragon, uh, Mr. Gamble,

thank you. Um, I'd like to acknowledge and thank the DPW Police Department and Fire Department for their work yesterday. It was a um it was a very treacherous situation with the winds, the downlines, the it was just dangerous to be out yesterday and so I'm just grateful and thankful for the work and that no one was injured too. So it was pretty bad yesterday. Um one thing to update just um chief mentioned the animal nuisance situation we had on Maple. So with the 15 dogs, we had a 70 cat situation. One thing in that blight ordinance, we had the first reading today. of the second next meeting. But um with that animal nuisance condition, we're hoping to have a tool to catch this problem earlier. Um and the city attorney is working on a forbearance agreement with the property owner on Maple to try to bring that to a resolution. So just wanted to give council an update on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Rosa. Um I noted in the financial report there were several capital outlay improvements on water. Um, Maywood Tower Mixer, Blacker Airport. I think I recall with the Blacker airport one probably is related to, but could you kind of I don't know if Jeff is still here. Yeah. So, the Blacker airport one's that water main installation.

Okay, that's what I thought. And then there was um well 10 building improvements as well. So the the state of Michigan is encouraging us to separate at the water wells the chemicals that we use and so we've budgeted for an addition to the chemical feed building so that we can store bulk store some of the chemicals reduce some of our uh purchasing costs for that and then also make it safer and make the equipment last longer. Um we've designed that, we've bid it out and we got one bid that was way over budget. Um so right now we're doing some value engineering and trying to and the engineers are talking to archite or other contractors. We're also need to step forward with the um airport and and then request that they expand the easement so that we've got enough room to do that. Um so we we're continuously working on that. So these are like the two were basically engineering fees that the Maywood mixer and the building improvements. It sounds okay.

The the Maywood mixer is especially this time of year um in those water towers you get cold water and you get warmer water. The mixers just continually mix that water so we don't get ice formations within the tower. That causes scraping and and damage to the interior painting. Oh, okay. That's good to know, I think. Um, and then there were two purchases, F-150s. Just curious what departments there were. I know. I thought one was a DPW, but um, guess I didn't realize. Yeah, we purchased two pickup trucks this year. Okay.

Uh, that were in the budget. Oh, I somehow I missed one. And then, um, I'm surprised Bill didn't mention it. the $50,000 awarded through the Manaste County Tourism Authorities Journeys Project. So through the what was it? There'll be a press release on that. But yeah, that's some good news. Yeah. So it was good news and that's it. Mr. Kowski.

Okay. Bill, there's signs down on the river in Maple. A watch for falling bricks. Are can they put nets around or are the bricks still falling? What's going on with that building? So I if you're talking about the one over Yeah, there's been a couple buildings that had that issue and I don't know if Jerry if you have an update on those but I think they're attempting to fix them. It's just more of a c precaution. But

so the Mexican restaurant had a situation this winter and we got that resolved I think rather quickly. I just noticed the cones and the signs. I've not been notified of that situation. I noticed no driving in here today as a matter of fact. So I'll look into it and see what's going on. All right, that's good. Smith, I'm all set. Thank you, Masky.

One thing I just saw those two bills and was it for last year or next year on the uh major street and local street for the $15,000 sidewalk grinding? And I think that's a good program. I'm not questioning the program because it they need it and it seems to work. But are we prepaying it or was that from the year before? That was for the work performed this fiscal year. Do we do that every year, Jeff, or is that Yes. Okay.

Yep. So, um, and I've put that in my annual presentation before, but when we started this program, we started on the north side and instead of doing spot repairs all over the place, we're trying to make a sweep through the community. So, we started at the north end and we we did the uh sidewalk grinding, which kind of bevels out the edges, takes the trip hazards away, the uh slabs that are not eligible for that. Then our DPW crews follow up and we do removal and replacement. Um we've made it south of the river and west of Maple Street and made it all the way down to 12th Street. So now we've started between Maple Street and 31 in the downtown area and we're about up to the second or third street area or uh area right now.

So it' be like next next year be fourth and beyond or so or third and we'll continue working south between 31 and Maple until we get uh up into Golden Acres. Then we'll reset east of the highway uh you know down where Scoobies is and continue working that through Maxwell Town. Okay. Yeah, that's a good program. So yeah, and that's probably not everybody call, but if someone had one, it might not be bad to even give a call to the DPW. Would that be okay? Or it's difficult because we're trying to get as many of those trip hazards eliminated as we can. So we're trying to do very we're trying to make it as economical as we can. Okay.

And kind of doing that sweep. Um it's going to take years and years to get through everything. Um, but we've we've gotten more efficient at it and we're probably impacting 8 to 10 times more trip hazards a year than than the than the old way that it used to be done. Good. And each year we're trying to budget a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, so it's not having a negative impact on how much streets we're paving, but but we're recognizing that the sidewalks are in bad shape as well. Thank you. Mhm. Anything else?

Okay. Consideration of a close session pursuant to section 8H of the Michigan Open Meetings Act to discuss a written legal opinion from the city attorney that is subject to attorney client privilege. At this time, council could take action to proceed into close session. Is there a motion? I'll make that motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Heather, would you please take a role? Mayor Prom Smith, yes. Council member Laskkey, yes. Mayor Sullivan, yes. Council member Gowski, yes. Council member Ruska, yes. Motion approved.

Thank you. Okay, we're back in open session at 7:02. Consideration of the purchase of 267 Third Street for the purpose of demolition. At this time, council could take action to purchase 267 Third Street and authorize the mayor and city clerk to execute the purchase agreement and the city manager to execute the excess access agreement with the city or I'm sorry, Massie County Land Bank. Is there a motion? I'll make that motion. You second, Jim. Any discussion on this? Ether, would you please take role? Mayor Prom Smith, yes. Council member Laskkey, yes. Mayor Sullivan, yes. Council member Gabowski, yes.

Council member Ruska, yes. Motion approved. Thank you. I will take a motion to Are you guys looking at me like that? Okay. Take a motion to adjurnn. I make that motion. Thank you. We have to save these.