City Council - Regular Meeting

Well, at least we can do it here. But I told this time I'm bringing like some appetizers. [laughter] A shrimp ring. Well, we're just plastic. No, we keep it low enough the camera doesn't see it. [laughter] Turn that off. You can put a cover over the top. That's right. to finish a meeting without

It's a lot more fun with the sound off.

Well, I don't know. I have a short attention though. It's hard to stay on.

Why shooting his horn?

[snorts] Graceland. My brother was director of student activities there. But you're you're talking about Elvis. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Elvis Grac. Never. [laughter] No, he didn't do that. But he was he had a band. I'm sure he played some Elvis songs.

He must have gone on vacation there. Welcome to the November 3rd, 2025 regular city council meeting is now called to order. Would you all rise and say the pledge of allegiance with me?

I aliance 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. [clears throat] All right. Shall we roll? Becky Curtis here. John Breenidge here. John Fer, yes. All right, that takes us to our first public participation. It looks like we have Mr. Hello.

And I distributed a handout to his presentation as well. This is this. Yes.

Hello. My name is Scott Airheart and I reside at 52 804 Norwoods, Hannibal, Missouri. Um, and I'm here today to uh give you guys an update on where we're at with our our project uh our TIFF project, Cameron Common Tiff. I'm joined today with Laura Lashley who's with D2 and she takes care of the numbers, financials, and the the TIFF related nuances of the project. Um, and on this presentation I got for you guys is the goals and objectives of of the project is to develop a challenging piece of property. You guys have been out there and seen the the quadrant between um I I 35 and Highway 36 there. It's a lot of undilations, couple waterways to navigate and our our design is to uh construct a ring road around that property in order to uh develop lots for commercial development. Uh so we we we want to provide a quality business establishments at the doorstep of the city. Uh we want to provide an environment for a sit-down restaurant and we provide a nesting for for a quality hotel. our our main my main focus of business is hotels. Um you know developing land is kind of a kind of an offspring or side s side shoot to that. Uh we are we are proven developers that that can get the job done. And one thing I want to stress is that any of the issuance of tiff bonds are not city obligation bonds. They're there's totally the burden of the developer and that would be that would be me. So uh on [clears throat] the third page there you'll see the boundary of the uh tip is is that purple area there and uh you know you it shows kind of the waterways there that need to be navigated and it doesn't really show a true picture of the elevation changes there but there's pretty pretty extreme

elevation changes that need to be conquered. Uh so the site issues are accessibility and the significant grading issues and utilities whether it be storm water electric uh throughout the site there to the different different pads. Uh so this is kind of a conceptual site plan of what we have designed. So comes with a mix of different retail businesses in this environment. But we feel like uh the visibility off of I35 uh and the connectivity to that near the overpass and we can bring in some some quality businesses here to the community and we feel like we can do a quality job of doing that. So um the site layout there shows um the listing of what we've seen that would would be in this development. So, a convenience store, the uh and one thing Patrick pointed out is, you know, it's not two restaurants really. It's it's a lot two would be a restaurant about the size of a 12,000 square foot. Uh a hotel would be um in that third lot. The fourth lot would be a sit down restaurant. Uh, one thing I might stress is, you know, we we we like sat sit down restaurants and we ideally would love to guarantee that one would be part of this package, but since we aren't the sit down restaurant operators be tough for us to commit to the sitdown restaurant would be part of this, but we definitely want to create a nesting for that that sit down restaurant so that uh we could get one as part of this development. Um, a couple other drive-thru restaurant spots. And then, uh, seven and eight would be, you know, your your bigger retail areas. And we feel like having that visibility for those retail areas is pretty pretty key to getting them pulled off the highway and and those

shoppers knowing that they would be close to uh accessible to uh to the the businesses and things. So, the current area is we're we're pretty much a green space. um not much developed there and we would like to see that enhanced, but it gives you an idea of what you you would see from the interstate from the highway. Um then there's a couple other different aerial views. This will be one uh coming down Bob Griffith Road, which um you know, I want to congratulate the city on getting and passing the the current SID that's that's there for Bob Griffith. uh some of these businesses would be in that SID and they would help contribute to the the the SID payoff there that that you guys just getting going on. So, congratulations on that. Um then we got you know the now versus the future type of thing. And this on the future one that would be one a view of point of coming down from um from the north heading south on I35 see the big box retailers first and then and the restaurants. So why a tip? Uh a tip does not take away the base. Uh the base is always there. tip only pulls down incremental value. Um the public infrastructure is needed to make this project happen. You know, we there's not accessibility to a lot of these lots. Um it needs to have roads and utilities. And then and the other thing is developers on the hook. So um you know the city's not really responsible for any of the debt service. Uh we'd appreciate your support on this project and um the next steps are that we would need to get in front of the tiff commission. You guys have a have a tip

commission and you'd like your all support to get in front of that and work out the details. And there was your five. You did very well, Scott. I'm at six. I got you guys. It was Yeah, it was going off, but I was like, you're almost there. Very good. Is there any questions in case my time I can answer? Do you think there's going to be any changes that MODOT makes with on ramps off ramps in that area? I don't think so. I mean, I think pretty solid

there. You know, especially with making the improvements that we're making to that that intersection there with the STI. Um, you know, I would I would I wouldn't think MDOT would be interested [clears throat] in changing much there. Well, that's what I thought that get that established and then there's less aesthetic for them. They wouldn't think that that was Well, and Scott, you want might want to bring up your conversation with MDOT about trading off trading off some spots about moving that commuter lot farther away, opening up that area in the front.

Yeah, we we we've made it a couple different stabs at that and I think uh most recently I think they're they showed some interest in in moving that and that could you know that that commuter lot. Can we make that part of this development in in a spot uh to to make it where it pulls it away from the main intersection there? It gives you the ability to improve a gravel lot into something that could be, you know, better developed and still have the commuter parking but just move it back. Who owns a lot? The state. That's a nasty line. I mean, just to look at something attractive or welcome to Cameron.

Yeah. I think once once this u your your sit improvements at that intersection, I think the entrance to that commuter parking is going to be it's kind of like the failed entrance. If somebody coming in uh would want to be turning in there and back traffic into the intersection. So mod finally realizing this that something needs to happen. So we're we're open to working with Yes. Where would they put it? Uh well, it would kind of be up to MODOT, but we could incorporate. But you said you they considered moving it back. If you look at our site design there

Yeah. You see um where the hotel is and then the sit down restaurant right across there. There's a small little area. Yeah. That I would say would be kind of equal size. I think the the parking is about a half acre right now, more or less. And [clears throat] that that can fit right in there. And it's not used. It's never full. Yeah. Yeah. Kevin Mod likes it. They like I know they like it. Yeah. Could they be committed to making a concrete? No. They're not going to put any money towards us. No. They would want ST dollars for that. Yeah. That's exactly what would happen. It's too bad that they won't do for us what we have to do for ourselves

in a commitment in a city like this. Yeah. What's your time frame from one to eight? Best case scenario, worst case scenario?

Um I would I would say um probably I would be comfortable with a four to five years of 1 to eight. Um and I mean worst case would be [clears throat] uh you know probably that six six I mean um it just depends on you know negotiations between you know users whatever that big box person could be and those those big boxes are pretty critical to developing and and getting the sales tax dollars that are needed for this project. So, do you have I I know you said you don't have commitments from restaurants or what have you. Um, do you have any uh commitments from big box as well? No.

No. No. Okay. So, but you've worked with both, right? You've worked with bringing in restaurants. This isn't your first rodeo. No. So we we we were in the Hardies business before. We we had we had operated a lot of Hardies restaurants. We currently operate hotels,

right? Operate hotels. So but it's just I think when it comes first chicken or egg, I think you gota you got to be able to have a design, a plan, and a commitment. Sure. and and then then I can go out and market this to different big big box retailers be able to bring that in hotel wise would it be more of a nicer brand than what

different brands that we do have are Holiday Express Fairfields we have some comfort ins uh we have Spring Hill Suites I have a residence in so I have different brands but uh but this this location would be like a Fairfield or Holiday Express. Yeah. Hotel, not a hotel. Yes. Inside. Yes. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes.

All [clears throat] right. Well, I thank you for your time. I really appreciate it. And we hope to get things rolling and and get on down the road with this. Long drive home tonight? Not bad. Oh, you're going home tonight? Two and a half. Yeah, I was just there. Isn't Hannibal? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Great quilt shops there apparently. Oh, yeah. No, Hannibal. Oh, yeah. Yeah. My wife has to go to Hannibal twice a year, but Hamilton. Yeah, she does do that. Patricia Welder in Hannibal. Yeah, she has the down. Yeah. Very good. and watch for deer. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Anybody else would like to talk to the council?

Thank you. Not tonight. All right, that takes us to the consent agenda. Is there anyone want to remove an item from the consent agenda to be on its own? If not, shall it. Item A, motion to approve the minutes of the October 20th, 2025 city hall advisory committee meeting. Item B, motion to approve the minutes of the October 20, 2025 regular session. I will entertain a motion to pass the consent agenda.

So moved. Second. All those in favor I

all opposed it passes. Four in favor, zero opposed. That takes us to appointments. Shelly. Um we do have appointments early this year for the library board. These appointments will take effect in January. There are three park board library board seats that um are expiring. Jennifer Wingler, Juliana Art, and Michelle Roach. Um Juliana and Michelle have uh submitted the documents to reapply for their seats. I I don't know if Jennifer um termed out. They do have term limits um on the library board or she just you know was no longer interested in serving. Um there were um three people who applied for that empty seat. Those are in your packet. And at the last uh library board meeting um the library board recommended the reappoint of Miss Art and Miss Roach and also appointing Miss Brett Bula [clears throat] to the library board. And if there are no objection, those will be on the next agenda for decision. All right. Um, [clears throat] also we did receive one resume for the interim council seat. Um, I did distribute that. You should have that in front of you from Rob's work. The, uh, date, the deadline for that in my advertisement is this coming Wednesday or Thursday. The apps are due on Thursday, so we'll still be taking them um through Thursday. Actually, we'll probably get him after that.

Get one. Here. [clears throat] I can look at this one. Oh, yes, I did see it. [clears throat] Oh, I didn't know what I didn't know what that was. She doesn't know how to read. That's the only one I've received so far. And we are still taking an application. Okay. All right. Very good. All right. That takes us to our city manager report.

Mayor, council, thank you. Um I spoke with Robbie today. Um he's installing the cabling at city hall. It's the uh cast 6 cable. Um he's done a pretty good job over there. He'll be done tomorrow with it is what he told me. Um they've got everything ran to uh all the stations that uh had it previously. So uh that should be uh sealed up tomorrow afternoon. Um I talked with TAD. The fire suppression system should be installed sometime in the middle of November. And uh we're still in a holding pattern with PST on phase two with city hall. Um so at this point nothing's being done over there. Uh, so we're in a holding pattern. Third Street Buildings, um, again, they've been given the green light by DNR. The 10-day waiting period to elapse. Um, demolition should begin any day. They do have I talked to Jason uh today. They've got some folks up there that they're working on taking a roof off of that West building, the old Vision Center building. And he did say that they will most likely be moving equipment in Friday. say they haven't even mobilized yet,

right? So, um waiting, but he said I kind of put a damper on him because we didn't want them to start due to March Fest and a couple other things. So, uh they should be bringing uh equipment in Friday. Um the staff is still working on the MOA, the Bob Griffin and the Hair Street projects. Um and the tiein of the water line is in progress right now. So, Yeah, I've heard that like 100 times. It's It's Yeah, I've heard that 100 times, too. There's actually a hole in the ground. There's pipes in the ground. Okay, that's the first time I heard that there was a hole in the ground. It'll be finished tomorrow.

I've heard that 100 times before. I can show you a picture. [laughter] That's all I have. I'll believe it when I Any questions? the cabling you said everywhere that the the that we had the the lines before. Is there any anybody else that we should go ahead while we're in there? Should we just go ahead and and get the rest of it? Not at this wiring. They don't need it and keep wherever else. Okay. I just don't want to tear it down. No. In 10 years and put in new cabling because we forgot,

right? It's it's all going back to where to all the offices everywhere needed everywhere it was is where they're replacing. Well, but I'm saying is there anywhere else in addition to that? Has anybody ever thought, hey, it'd be good to have here and here as well. That's all I'm asking. I think all the places where there could be desks or Yeah, there's all We have a lot of jacks that we've never used before. Okay. in areas that we haven't used for that. So, I think I think we're pretty good for expansion. Okay, that's Yeah, perfect.

And then in all of our work rooms, we had electronic equipment. So, and all the work rooms have that access in multiple walls, you know, all the coffee machines and printers were all integrated into the system. So, perfect. That stuff. Okay. I just don't want you guys, you know, having to deal with this in five or 10 years. [clears throat] Should be good to go. Thank you. I appreciate that. That's it for me. Any other questions? [clears throat] All right, that takes us to unfinished business.

And now we'll go on to new business. Shelly, first reading. Bill 2025-34, an ordinance approving a service agreement between the Cameron Fire Protection District and the city of Cameron, Missouri to provide fire protection and emergency services outside the Cameron city limits. I will entertain a motion to pass bill 2025-34. Second discussion.

Thank you. Um this is the annual service agreement between Cameron Rural Fire Protection District and the city of Cameron. Uh it's a yearly uh agreement uh for 2022. Um it it encompasses u basically 144 square miles outside of the city limits of Cameron providing fire services, fire and emergency services total um for that area. Um and again [clears throat] to pay for that the rural fire district is a tax imity. Uh they pay the city of Cameron 60% of their income uh to the city of Cameron right on off the top. 40% of it which they hold actually

[clears throat]

uh is money that that they uh spend for the fire department uh buying equipment. Uh in the end the city of Cameron gets 100% of that money from the rule. Um so um it's it's a good um program for both entities, the rural and the city. Uh it's given the fire department the opportunity to buy equipment over time that we would not have had the opportunity to have done because cost factors. So um I would see no no nothing changes. That's the same year to year and other than the money kind of goes up just a little bit more every year. So, and it's a it's a property tax. So, property taxes in the rural is actually on an incline every year. I've never seen it.

It's Yeah, it's been a good partnership to say the least. Is there an reason? Do we have like a legal reason that we have to do it yearly instead of just saying, "Hey, let's do a fiveyear plan or a 10-year plan." So that just to make it I'm just curious. So some of it's going to be annual appropriation. Uh the Cameron Fire Protection District is its own political subdivision. So some sort of five-year rule would always have to be subject to annual appropriation. So I'm guessing that as part of this just knowing the time of year that it comes up that part of it is yearly just due to okay we've agreed here's what it is one year now it's in our budget now we appropriate it where you could do a five-year one but it would always be subject to them deciding not to annually appropriate the amount. So I think the one year is just cleaner from a just management perspective. I think it's seems like extra paperwork, but luckily Mike has kind of gotten it figured out with them to the point where it's the same contract every year.

Okay. Any other questions? All right. All those in favor of passing bill 2025-34 say I. I.

All [clears throat] passes. Four in favor. Zero. That takes us to our first reading of bill [clears throat] 2025-35. Shelley, Bill 2025-35, an ordinance authorizing the mayor of the city of Cameron, Missouri to enter into a lease agreement with the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for ground surface for a welcome to Cameron site. I will entertain a motion to pass bill 2025-35 on the first reading. Second

discussion. Um, this has previously been a five-year agreement with Mo DOT and it's for the welcome to Cameron marker at 36 and M. What's it cost? It doesn't cost anything. Well, that's what I thought.

We just have to provide insurance. So, every July when our insurance renews, we provide them a new certificate of insurance. So, we have insurance on it. Um, when I contacted them this time, they the the gentleman who's doing doing it now, who's different than I dealt with five years ago, said that a license was more appropriate than a lease and it's a license is for 10 years and so that we don't have to come back and do this again for 10 years. Um, we're going to do a license. [clears throat] What are we insuring it against? Um, against damage to MODOT ground because it's MDOT's ground. No, I mean that's what I thought.

Yeah, we just How come it's only one? There's really two of those in town. This is the only one on ground. This is Oh, the other one's on private property. Yeah,

we're ensuring the ground always questionally. Yeah, this one this one there's less of is MODOT property and I'll agree with Shelly, but the license does grant us a little bit greater authority and allows MDOT a little bit more authority to let us do it. Um, if you look specifically at like our rightway use agreements or our own franchise agreements, those are licenses. We are granting them a license to utilize the property for the purposes necessary. And then here I would say that the insurance part of it is making sure that we don't damage MDOT ground and this sign is pretty significantly far away from active roadway. I I would assume that in part to answer Councilman Carr's question a little bit. Part of the insurance is just in case somebody lost control of their car was driving and ended up in that area where our sign is and they hit our sign that we would be the ones that would end up involved with that potential litigation.

No land aspect. Yeah.

Any other questions? All those in favor of passing bill 2025-35 say I. I. All oppose. Do that for another 10 [clears throat] years.

That takes us to resolution 2025-60. Shelly. Resolution 2025-60. a resolution authorizing the city of Cameron, Missouri to enter into an agreement with BTC bank for the investment of public funds to the Intrify ICS and Cedars programs. And I have Michaela Smith and Kim Baru here. Um, we're ready for discussion. I will entertain a motion to pass resolution 2025-6. Second

discussion. I'm Michaela Smith. I'm the retail banking officer for BTC Bank and I work out of our Bethany office. And this is Lissa Pendleton. Kim actually came up and visited with you previously. Um she's our market president here in Cameron over both of the branches that we have here. Um and we are the um depository institution for the city of Cameron and we do um have to cover everything. FDIC insurance. We'll use securities of the bank um or we'll use a federal home loan bank um letter of credit to make sure that all the city funds are in in essence secure. Um and so we have been using the Entriy network for several years now um with other public funds that we've worked with and we use those as a sweep account. So you always have access to your money every single day. It's just another opportunity for us to use this network um to make sure that that FDIC insurance coverage is there for all of the the deposits. And I apologize, the ENTI network is a it's a network of hundreds of banks across the United States. Um so we place funds at the different banks under that FDIC limit. It's all organized um and set out for you in a in a monthly statement. uh daily access and um just really does this the same thing um and it works well for us at the bank. So we would like to be able to to utilize that um for your accounts

and in return we'll get a little bit higher interest on our deposits and we'll get even higher amount on the amount that's been swept out. So the the higher amount that was in your note that we have there that was in talking about the Cedars amount. So we have the insured cash sweep which is more of like a money market account that we we move the money back and forth um and and have that higher interest rate. Um if there is idle funds or funds that you know might be we're not going to need this for 30 days then we essentially put them into a CD account. Um, and so the CDs, you know, our 90-day CD right now is at 3.99 for the annual percentage yield. So, we can increase that where you're making 0.15 on your money right now with us. So, um, definitely getting you a lot of interest in return in order to to use this.

Yeah. Yeah. 4% on a CD, a 90day CD. What are we using now? Because I know we're already working with that other I can't think of the name. We're working with PFM, right? We've been with them for approximately a year, right? And we have a series of CDs and it's a similar product and they are lthered and um roughly in the 4% market too. Okay.

There are some at 4.1. I've seen today there's one at 3.9 but that's a separate mechanism and I I would like to keep that mechanism and also have this mechanism that way this this will be easier it easier for us to communicate where we can walk next door versus typing on the internet.

So and also this is encompassing our um our daily um operating account. So instead of us having to manage and how much money of this can we put away, this is money that's going to be swept in and out of our operating daily operating fund. [clears throat] And so we're going to be earning higher interest on that and have access to it every day. But the higher interest is only going to be 1%. the higher interest 4% is if we have a lump sum and at that point the lump sum should be put over in something that's well I Michaela said on her the recent is 3.99 for a 90day right

so they're not doing the CD right that that's if we were to do a CD with them which would be very comparable to the PFM accounts that we have right but We're saying we're just going to be using the sweep account which is 1% instead of 0.15 specific or is it FDIC at that point? That would be FDIC. Okay. That and that would be five program and then that's where we're separating out all of our monies to keep it under 250 so that we're guaranteed if something happens to a bank correct we'll be covered. Correct. [clears throat]

will actually be a little bit curious for the amount over but they would wouldn't have to, right?

We would be able to or perhaps not have to um purchase like the the letter of credit at the federal home loan bank. Um especially as we come upon tax seasons, so in November, December when all the tax money starts rolling in, right? um just managing that process is a little bit time consuming on behalf of our finance department at the bank. Um, and so the the sweep account just automatically moves that money over and so it's always um FDIC insured and we're not missing anything if there's a large deposit that comes in, you know, from a from a tax payer. And that's so if if this large sum whatever sum that is this large sum comes in it's over 250 you're going to send it out to the uh what did you

it's the interfy network interfy network sorry the banks potentially can change every day that it's part of that network

so they're all you know certified FDIC insured financial institutions and so if we have you know if we put out $5 million there, we reciprocate and we receive that $5 million back. So that's kind of I mean that's what I like about this program. So the the MOSIP and I think I think it's MO cap with like school districts, they they have those functions, but it's not necessarily reciprocating and keeping money in the community. Um they are really good interest rates, but it is, you know, a different type of program. Whereas this the money is really always staying in the community. And you're saying right now we're at about 1% on the sweep account.

Correct. What we're what we're banking without doing this is 0.15%. On our operating account. Yeah. I wish it would. Well, that's our operating account. That's what we have to have on on hand at any given time. And we're going to set our limit at about 500,000 because every month that's about what close to what our power Yeah. power is that that makes sense to us to always keep about that. Then they'll just have to pledge securities for the other 250.

Any other questions? All those in favor of passing resolution 2025-60 say I. All oppose passes four in favor and zero opposed. That takes us to resolution 2025-61. Shelly resolution 2025-61. A resolution for the city of Cameron, Missouri to accept a proposal for a Bobcat compact excavator from KC Bobcat. I will entertain a motion to pass resolution 2025-61. Second

discussion. Thank you, Mayor Council. Uh so this is to purchase a new excavator for the electric department. Uh we went out [clears throat] for bids on this. Got four competitive bids on it. They're listed out there on your your letter. Uh Casey Bobcat was the lowest bidder [snorts] about four to six week lead time on the delivery. This be replacing our 2004 excavator. It's getting up an hour starting to cause maintenance issues. So, and this also will declare that uh old excavator a surplus to sell it off cost.

Is this in the budget already? Yes, this we had 110,000 budget. Yeah, that's right. Do they ever trade in equipment? Typically, no. We can usually go to to auction and get better. If it was newer, maybe on a 20-y old piece of equipment, you're probably better off at an auction. It's been road hard. All of our equipment gets really hard. [clears throat] I just threw that out there. I didn't know you'd bite on [laughter]

Well, it's true. Did it? Yeah. Have you ever noticed you guys like Dunky? You know, by the time it [clears throat] came by email. Yeah. All right. Any questions? All right. All those in favor of passing resolution 2025-61 say I. I. All opposed. It passes. Four in favor. Zero opposed. That takes us to our second public participation. Please come to the the first and signing your name. You have five minutes. We'd love to hear from you.

All right, that takes us to miscellaneous comments from the staff. Um, [clears throat] I just want to give a shout out to all the city staff. Um, I appreciate all the city staff and all the hard work that they're doing. Thank you guys.

Nothing. Uh the electric department uh has been doing quite a few meter change outs. We're kind of been getting to the early end [snorts] of life on a lot of the electric meters that were put in about 10 years ago. Uh so we've been replacing I replaced 65 meters last week. So they're they're starting to die a pretty good clip. Uh, also we're working on our fall tree trimming and still got several new construction projects that we're getting utilities hooked up to. Uh, water department, they've had still several more water main breaks. Uh, I'm sure you've seen we have a blow advisory out for we had a leak at between 5th and 6th on Malberry over the weekend and also had one Friday out off I35 out in the timber an old water district line that we took ownership of years ago. So, they've been busy fixing water [clears throat] leaks. All I've got

Oh, I will give you an update on the uh the pipeline to discuss. They've got the 12 inch tiein done. Uh they've got the 6 inch tie in back to the nursing home done. All that's left is one more 6inch tie in going to Enzy Trace, which they've got dug out and ready to cut into tomorrow and then tie back to the 16inch uh pipeline. So that should all be done by the end of the day tomorrow hopefully as long as everything goes well. So all that'll be left at that point is for us to get our power to run down to the the vault and get the SCADA system installed on it. Hopefully within a couple weeks that'll all be done and we'll be taking water.

Everything's been disinfected. Uh we're waiting they're waiting on one sample to come back on the water tower at Stewartsville [clears throat] and once they get the results from that they'll be able to start pushing water to Mazeville and we can get water now just not at the rate we would need to be able to get it out because pressure issues. So they've been uh making sure that they they've been fixing leaks is another thing. As far as I know they have all the leaks fixed that I'm aware of. Well that they're aware [laughter] of

for now. Everything's been pressure tested now and it's been disinfected and tested. So everything both at Mazeville and Cameron should be good to go. They just have to put tower in service. Speaking of things I don't

the Malberry Tower. Uh we did have the police department put their drone out there and flew up there and it does appear to be uh an old patch that's failed or something to that effect. Uh utility services who is our our um has our maintenance contract on all our water towers is going to be here tomorrow morning to to start repairing that and they'll have to weld a patch inside, repaint, disinfect and refill the tower. So that'll probably be at least a week process there. The tower has been out of service since since we found the leak. Doesn't cause any other issues around town. We're able to maintain with any tower one tower out of service. So, uh, the tower was was repainted in the summer of [clears throat] 204 [snorts] and it has a a annual inspection. Every other year it's drained and inspected and then the off year is just a visual inspection. So, it was inspected about three months ago. So, this is just a thin spot that finally popped inside. [cough] [clears throat] Well, I walked up there when I heard about it. Dan sent us a message. I went up at night, which is you don't do because I heard water running and it was windy and I walked underneath there and I was on the sidewalk. All of a sudden, boom. I was totally saturated because it just blew over there.

Yeah. People were saying they need to get the cars washed. Yeah. Well, there'll be people disappointed in town that it wasn't somebody shooting. Oh, I know. That was so Yeah, that was the excitement for the weekend. I guess it's a common thing. I said that to somebody in my office and they're from another town close to here and they said that they get their shot a lot. Yeah. Not a wise idea. Why would anybody's a federal offense? Shooting a water tower.

I'm [clears throat] thinking I needs to get out there, get that water. We take it up here up town. Get our ice skating rink back. I know you do. No, I'm just my thumb. I still want that ice skating. [clears throat] I don't ice skate, but I still want to get that back up there. I used to live across from that park and in the summer it would fall. Oh, down there. Yeah, that's Beaver's Park and Mosquito. Oh, you're talking about down there? No, I was talking about They used to have one at Beaver's Park. It was That must have been before I got Is that where the baseball diamond is? It's where the um there was a little park.

Oh, it is. There's like a little tiny pond there. Is that what is that? It just was a little like two foot BM square. Yeah. Yeah. I've been through that a couple times. I didn't remember that. Now, I didn't know that. All right, Mr. Parks.

Um I'm going to work with the parks department is going to work with Mark and the water department guys. mostly probably this morning because I know they're busy with water leaks, but we put a little money, bought some new tires for the air compressor. We're going to start winterizing, start with the pool probably this week, probably tomorrow, and then start on some of our other facilities, start getting those shut down for the winter. Um, also the guys went out, started testing Christmas lights, and we'll probably start putting those up in the corporate park in the next week or two, getting those up. So, um, other than that, uh, the new scoreboards for Somerville ought to be here this week sometime getting solved. So, I hadn't heard anything out of today, but I did hear something from them last Thursday and it's supposed to be this week sometime. So, other than that, that's really about all we're working on.

Um, did you have a parkboard meeting? Uh, when did I have that? I think it was a couple week ago. two weeks ago, something like that. Um, we did not have enough for a court and a few not show up. And, uh, we did have one member resign, Alber, she resigned the very next, well, that Sunday or Monday, she sent her resation email in. So, we're down to seven seven spots there. So, we'll just keep moving forward. Thanks, Mayor. Economic development.

Um, right now we are working on a brand new chapter in our zoning book, zoning ordinances for a C-1A downtown commercial district, which will run from Walnut Cherry. And that's going to be basically down that little run to make that a little different than the regular commercial commercial area on the C1. And so I've written it. We're going to discuss it again. We threw it out there the last meeting. U made comments. I re-uped it, rewrote it until we're working on that. Once we get that all together, we'll have it for you all for approval. after they decide everything.

It's from Walnut to where? Walnut to Cherry. Basically, that run that goes right there by the 200 block of Third Street right by it. It's It's not the third. It It includes it. It includes the downtown area, just down Third Street. Well, that's something if if you change that, you're going to have to ask all the business owners if they want to buy into that, if they want to be a part of it. You can't just do that and public hearings and the whole nine yards until we have something in hand though that we can say, "Hey, this is what we're looking at." Are you going to be able to utilize those empty lots as part of this? That's the whole idea.

That's good. I mean, the food truck thing was maybe a viable idea. We've got them sitting around all over town and it would reduce some foot traffic. And that that is something that we're looking at and how you know like the iron district down. Yeah, I love that. And that's awesome. You know, stuff like that. Right now, our zone wouldn't allow that or anything like that. Well, so we're trying to be more pro progressive to come up with different ideas like that. And it's a far cry from being the Iron District and being something like the Iron District that looked really bad. And that's that's why it's fun writing it because it's one of those let's limit this.

So, we're working on that. That's one thing we'll be discussing next Monday night. The Bob F. Griffin Road C project, it should be at the highway commission tomorrow. And so then we'd officially be able to say who the the lowest most responsible bidder was. And they'll start signing contract for that. And we got a meeting tomorrow morning at 9:00 with the local politicians at MOD on the BB bridge um project for the TDD. We got five variances, lots of variances right now in planning and zones. We got five of them we're going to get to discuss for board of adjustments on Monday night. Uh still waiting on the report back on 112 East 3rd Street on what to do with that wall. uh working with Patrick on selling the Mac Wayne property. I said it right. I never get that right. So I got that one right. Plus we've been working with Mike and everybody on the TIFFs, the CI, the TDDs, and all the other acronyms that have to do with economic development. So that's what I

a lot of uh acronyms going on. A lot of them and [clears throat] the variances. That's that's really good news. That means people are wanting to do things. People are building outside the box. Now, a lot of them, three of them are outside [clears throat] for some places. That's still a really exciting thing that Well, that means that there is a there is an actual house that got built there. Yeah. And so it's on the sidewalk. So, yeah. So, yeah, there's a lot of building going on. That's all I got.

Uh towards the ends of last week, I had the street crew start bringing the snow equipment, making sure everything is going to be ready to go. Once I had them start doing that, it would warm up. Everybody's welcome. We have found a few minor issues, but nothing major. We'll get some parts ordered, get them up and going. Then we'll get the spreaders and everything calibrated. way we're putting down the right amount of salt. That's pretty much it. That's what we're working on right now. So, I know in the past they've used beet juice.

Okay. Is it is it less expensive than the salt or is it just because it's less juice gets the it keeps the salt working at lower temperatures. So, our spread, our spreaders actually, we've got two nozzles or we have the big long spray bars. We can actually just put just nothing but liquid down or we have two sprayers that'll spray on the salt as it's coming out the truck to activate it. And plus, when we put the salt in the bin, we put beet juice on the tail here. Don't smell the greatest, but it works. [laughter]

Tastes great. That's all I've got. All right.

Um, they activated multifactor authentication on our emails last week. Um, the secure serves project team is still working diligently on getting everyone uh [clears throat] up and running. There's extra steps that we have to go through to get the cell phones and everything in sync with each other. and um still they've been a big asset and we could not have done this without their assistance getting this project done. We have approximately 60 plus active emails and in various stages on different types of computer software languages. So it's I'm glad we haven't had to do that. That's all right. Sorry.

Um, Chief M and I the Murma conference [clears throat] which dealt mainly with the insurance and police departments. Even though we're doing a lot of things right, there's a few things we probably change to help that out, but we're on track, I think, with most of that. They're going to be providing regional training for a lot of for all their departments that they in cities that they cover. I think we're going to host several of them out here center which will be nice to have other agencies over here utilize that with the end of the year. Just trying to get everyone up to date on all the post hours and hours and do not shoot the water. [clears throat] A bad idea. So I take everything on Friday night when everybody was out running around. Coming home I was coming home around 7 and [clears throat] the town was so busy with cars.

I couldn't believe it. I was just hoping I wouldn't run into people but I think they were gone by then. Oh yeah. Busy busy. Michael, we host fire department hosted Halloween fire station this year for a couple hours. So just basically business as usual. We're still doing public education programs which is beneficial calls just daily stuff. There's just something. Okay. Okay. Can I get one more? Oh, please.

Uh, I just wanted to introduce you guys to the new operator for the Denwick pipeline back in back here. Paul Ryan Hard. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Been introduced. You might know him. He looks familiar. I figured his capacity. Yes. He is now working for Alliance uh doing all the operations, maintenance stuff on the pipeline. you got questions, you can call him. And I have one more thing as well. I did get a phone call over the weekend about hunting at the reservoir. Oh, really? And so we need to reiterate that there is no hunting at the reservoir.

Interesting. I did have a conservation agent tell me he did not understand why I had that same conservation agent yell at me about that. You sure guy this guy doesn't usually yell. Oh, he yelled. Did he? Oh, yeah. These guys got to hear it. We got We had to get a supervisor involved. Were you hunting at the reservoir when that happened? No, but he didn't like when I said real out there. Yeah, it was all about him hunting. Is it because of public land? You think we should let anybody go public? Yeah, because he and his son live there

and I was going to make his son and I said, "Well, that's not purchased purchase some property that this this goes back to safety for the residents that are walking out there. Period. We can't have rainbow up in the tree stand up there. And there's some that live out there. I know that the residents around the reservoirs have thanked me. Yeah.

About and I'm like, it wasn't me. It was we started looking at all the rules and none of them made sense because they were all just out there. So now everything is the same way. Consistency is a wonderful thing. So Terry and I went to the Loggers annual meeting last week and I do have a little bit of a recap for that. Um Loggers was recreated um just over 58 years ago for county um local and special taxing districts as a retirement plan. They have 31,000 active benefit recipients right now. Retirees receiving monthly uh payouts. They have 81,000 members. They have 11.4 billion in assets. The program is 92.3% funded. Of that, 72% of that comes from investments. 26% comes from employer contributions and 2% come from member contributions for those um agencies that have their members contribute. Last year they paid out 596 million in benefits and of that they estimate approximately 495 million of that got reinvested in their local communities. Um I will be gone next this coming Friday for a board meeting and tomorrow is voting day. However, Clinton County does not have anything on the ballot. So, there will not be any voting here. And CAD County does have one issue on the ballot. So, there will be voting at county.

Very good. Thank you. That brings us to our city council comments. So, I had a question about PST and the engineering reports. When is it? We have it down on our minutes that [clears throat] November 17th we're going to be discussing the engineering that they've come up with. Is are we going to have something in hand?

It was communicated to PST that the city expects to receive the services as noted in the original agreement approved by the city council regardless of what is ongoing of what has been approved in the past not by the city council. So yes would be the answer. So we will have them in hand for the 17th meeting. We should not be in breach if they don't. Right. That would be a possibility. And are we prepared for that contingency if that happens? Yep.

Because this is drug on so long. Months and months of sitting here. We've already paid for it. We're sitting here waiting for this to happen and we need to get started on this building. city staff has actively prepared for most all [clears throat] contingencies that they could. Okay. So, so we're confident that November 17th we'll be able to discuss the building something [clears throat] engineering. When does when can that be that we could start on rebuilding that? Have to bid it out. Yeah. Have a plan. Usually three weeks. three weeks to get a usually put out the bid for three weeks

for three weeks. So then and and that will they will tell us what we need to bid. PSD will and we'll have to decide on the roof what we're going to do with that and that's on the 17th as well. Yeah, we are with the committee. We're going to have a committee meeting at the next meeting with the advisory. So even so three the 17th is six weeks away. or this keeps getting kicked down the road so long. It's two weeks. Two weeks. Two weeks. Oh, it's November. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. But you're right. And then you've got Thanksgiving and then Christmas and then New Year. So, you're going to push it at least until January, February.

I really despise things like that that you know, it's like we don't forcefully keep moving on that project. So, okay. Thank you for that report. We're we're moving forcefully forward. They're not cooperating with us. No, I know. I know. And that's and that's what that's what really irritates me is is I'm always ready to play our ball if somebody breaches their contract if they're not doing what I immediately go to that next step, which is get this over with because, you know, we're we're not at fault here. We've done everything that we're supposed to do. Another thing you need to consider is that we're going into winter here and we have a building that has zero insulation in it.

Yeah. We have to keep it heated enough to keep everything free. Yeah. And we can start by putting in some walls and insulation and doing some things that I mean you about have to go to a family reunion with them to get them to agree on something because they're all tied together. Okay. So around town, who's responsible for the trees that are in the rightway, the area between the sidewalks and the roads?

Okay. So, this is a Spencer [clears throat] project then and he's not here, but there's a lot of trees, a lot of dead trees that have been dead for years that [clears throat]

um that's surely a code issue. There's one right by the police department. You go just south just a hundred yards, there's one great big tree that hangs over the road and uh you know it's just time before those fall down and branches fall off and and there's kids that walk up and down those sidewalks and streets and there's a bunch of them on Fourth Street, too. There's a row of them. They're probably all those old ash streets or something. [clears throat] But is that something that Spencer needs to notify the property owners? They've been working on a lot.

Do we need to put a match to them? Like Mark said, [laughter]

what's it take to get them to you know because that that's a one phone call project. I always say right Jerry one phone call project and uh and they call Bob Dorton say hey tree in front of my house let's cut that out and uh and it's done. So this isn't something that needs a lot of debate or conversation. It just they need to be told to do it now. Now it's expensive, but somebody has to. When it involves the city streets, then that's a special preparation there to get that blocked while they do fall the tree, get it cut up into firewood. Okay. So it so Spencer has been working on that, notifying those people. Okay. Um Okay. And we got noticed of of the water man brakes on the water department did a fantastic job. I mean just getting them all repaired so fast that the uh water tower was a big hype and many people are disappointed it wasn't gunfire. Random gunfire. Um Spencer has done a really good job too um with uh with cleaning up properties because if you drive around town you'll see these properties that have just grown over and at least they're all bushwacked down to where it's not as big as a fire problem or something. So we've done a good job there. That's all I have. Thank you you guys guys and gals. You're doing a great job. Appreciate it. Well, [clears throat] I was looking forward to Lance or Tad going up on that water with the trunk duct tape and diving into that thing.

Everybody kept saying that that tape you can make a boat out. [laughter] That's out of the question. You think the drone will hold me? What' you say? I say you think the drone would hold me. I got some I got some swimsuits. Two piece or one piece?

Um I really don't have a lot. I just want to go back six months ago, nine months ago, a year ago, and just think about the communication that I was getting from you all and from the city manager. And I want to say thank you because I've gotten more communications than I've gotten well in the in the short time you've been doing this than the entire time when I was back here when Steve was on. Um, so, uh, I've also seen more smiles, but we won't get into that. That could just be they're nipping on something that I don't know about. Um, but anyway, so I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you. Um, and then Carmen never gets thanked, but I always appreciate you for the finance stuff. you know that Karma got a cake the other day. Oh, wait a minute now. I didn't know that. So, um yeah, I don't know if if I things were rather stressed or what, but um I my second the old my middle daughter, she got married about three weeks ago. So the month the Tuesday after I came back to work, the staff had decided they started a new program, a quarterly employee

that needed recognition and appreciation. So I w Dan was peeking around the corner of the building trying to make sure everybody was in place and they had a a cake. I believe it's made by Don Harrison. Yep. It did not go to waste. Everybody, I think enjoyed the cake. I I know I did. But no, it's very nice. Very appreciative of the staff to give to Yeah, that was nice. I did not know about that. Congrats. It's weird. So now I think So that was in October. So probably the next event would probably be in January. So now you have to make the next day. [laughter] I can make it pretty. Heck yeah.

Yeah, we might have to. So we'll do something. Yeah, actually I have a program. It was nice. Well, that's awesome. Anyway, just I know that we don't get to to say a whole lot other than during budget time with you, so I appreciate it. That is it for me. Okay. Well, thank you for coming. I don't really have anything. Um, and I will entertain a motion to exit and enter into a second amendment. for attending client communications and personnel. Second. [laughter] John [clears throat] Breenidge. Yes. John Tiger. Yes. Mark Carr.

Yes. Becky next time you guys bring too