City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

WELCOME TO THE JULY 6, 2026 REGULAR STATE AND COUNCIL MEETING IS NOW CALLED TO ORDER.

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.

Thank you, Curtis. Here, John Feiger.

Here. Mark Carr.

Here. Ross Worth. Here.

And again. Here. That takes us to our first participation. You are welcome to come up and speak with us. When you have five minutes, please come to the podium, write your name and address down. Anyone who wants to come?

Sure.

THAT TAKES US TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. SHELLY. ITEM 8, MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE JUNE 15, 2026 REGULAR SESSION.

I WILL ENTERTAIN AN OUTION TO PASS THE CONSENT AGENDA.

SO MOVED.

SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF PASSING THE CONSENT AGENDA, SAY AYE.

AYE.

ALCOHOL. ANY PASSES? FIVE IN FAVOR, ZERO CLOSED. APARTMENTS. SHELLY.

At the last council meeting, council reviewed re-appointment of Debbie Hahn for the Planning and Zoning Commission and the re-appointment of Nancy Leach for the Cameron Housing Authority. There were no objections, so this is not for a decision. I believe Planning and Zoning is our meeting next week. We have more applicants. We have people that are leaving, retiring, and now we have people for adjustment to the meeting next week. So we will have more applicants on the next meeting too.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, I'LL FIRST DO THE APPOINTMENT FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING. I, VICKI CURTIS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CAMERON, DO HEREBY REAPPOINT DEBBIE HONG TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AYE.

ALL OPPOSED, SAY NAY. PASSES 5-0. NEXT IS THE CAMERON HOUSING AUTHORITY. I, VICKI CURTIS, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CAMERON, DO HEREBY REAPPOINT NANCY LEECH TO THE CAMERON HOUSING AUTHORITY. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. Passes 5 to . That takes us to unfinished business. Yeah, that's right. I just walked right over that. Scott, city's manager report.

Yes, ma'am. So let's see, the items I have on here, this was two weeks ago. was out last week on vacation, so prepared everything . So I talked about 4th of July preparations in the report, which is obviously over. We do have an upcoming ballot item for the water sewer tax, and we'll discuss that at the next meeting. And Carl is here on the second item, which is the city hall repairs. Carl is in attendance, so he'll speak to us about that tonight. I reached out to HDR. I didn't get an answer. They're supposed to have the ends of the concrete culvert today. I don't know if they were delivered today. I'll try to figure it out. Getting ready to prep and put that in for the sewer extension project. So that's on schedule. That was a concern because if they didn't have those pieces, they couldn't proceed with the pipe. And then let's see. I didn't want to talk too much because I was here this evening about parking wreck. You want me to mention any of your stuff or wait until we get to you? It's fine. Whatever you want to do, Scott. Go ahead. We have the flood risk review meeting for Clinton County. It's scheduled for the 30th of this month at the courthouse in Clinton County. And that's just the floodplain management. They're here explaining how they do their floodplain mapping and data to get new data for St. County. Again, that'll be from 9 to 11. And I'll just leave that because Ira has some updates I'd rather you share with us.

Did you want to tell us anything? Instead of the preparations, is there anything you want to tell us, Scott, about how it went before the July?

The parade was good. It rained a little bit during the parade. The Veterans Memorial celebration was good. Our own council member, Peggy, spoke to Beth. She did an excellent job. It's always interesting to see the vets. I feel like I'm a younger guy. I feel like vets are always people like my dad. But going as a vet, it was touching to see all the generational, lots of vets younger than me, older than me, so... Appreciate their service. Yeah, the events around town were excellent. Well attended and a lot of cleanup. Yeah. It's just a lot of work to get all the trash and mobilization. And the fire department, I mean, everybody's been on a lot of traffic duty and directing. And it's challenging to have these events with all the people in town. It's a lot of work. But thank you to all the team and staff that put that together. All works went well.

Does anybody have any questions for Scott or comments?

All right. All right, now we're moving on to a discussion with J.R. and Company, City Hall Building Exterior.

So Carl is here from J.R. and Company. He presented the items and the materials in our last couple of sessions. He put together a quote. I believe there's some discussion around meeting, whether, you know, go out to bid, that type of process. If you have questions on bid materials, we're going to go on to do a an overview of paper?

Yeah, so basically, what we've done is we submitted the colors and stuff that you guys were looking at, put that on a rendering, kind of give you an overall what it looked like. As far as like the proposal and stuff, this is kind of the ACM panels that you know, we were looking at when we selected it, there will be a couple little things on there that um i couldn't really change like the front entrance would be straight across but not about like it shows on the rendering um stuff like that so um you know obviously the proposal i think it's pretty kept dry as far as like what's there what's not um type thing uh we put a contingency in there for a few things that um are unforeseen um obviously if we don't use it that money will get back But yeah, we broke that into the wall panel section and then the glass and storefront sections on it. So basically I just came up to Ben to see if he has any questions in regards to the proposal or anything there that you guys anticipated that's not in there or any of that. So no interior work is in the bid Not on this. We broke it out. This is an exterior pack. And then, this is kind of a dumb question, but are you really comfortable with this material and the product? ACM is like top of mind material. I mean, you're not going to find a product that's better than that. I just want to... It'll last longer than that.

I think that's a compliment.

I mean, there's 40-year warranties on some of the stuff, you know, as far as, like, paint color. So, yeah, it is one of the top-of-the-line products. And the concrete has to be up to grade on the front before you do all of that. Well, that's part of the underground that we have talked about. That's not included in here because there are a lot of unforeseens on who is going to take care of the concrete, how far down we have to go. So we're kind of looking for some as built on that as far as how deep it is at the front entry. Do we want to tear that out and replace everything? Some of those pillars in the front, do we really want to keep them if we go to that extent or not? so there's a few things on that that are just not answered yet so what percent of the building is has a new cover as far as the exterior yeah okay that's good yeah no bricks gonna be remaining we ran all the way down um to the bottom and everything on that I think maybe the only part is this side. It's a tapered look to it and we're just going to kind of make it straight and make it a little cleaner. No brick salvaging going on in there? Nobody would want that brick? Not really. They're cheap bricks.

Yeah, but none of that is salvaged. Just throwing it out.

The only bricks they're going to remove is on the east side.

Oh, they've got to go right over. That way we can do away with the brick. Do away with the brick, which is not bad. Yeah.

Plus, you know, we're washing a brick, and we have to work that part. You have to wash it, go through and touch up any of the expansion joints, stuff like that, and then obviously do a roll-on mark over the top of all that. And then we have an engineer that will look at... Two of the areas that are concerns, one in the courtyard where the long run of windows is, and then on the east side entrance.

Is there any way we can get that from our other engineer that we paid all that money to? We'll talk about that later. No, I'm saying for him. We'll talk about that later.

So, I mean, like I said, I don't know, you know, on the budget side of this where you guys stand on all that, but obviously the next steps would be an LOI or something to do stuff that doesn't require cost and stuff like that to get the ball moving. I don't know what the time frame is because we haven't built a schedule for you yet or we haven't been told what that like yesterday.

The only catch is we do have the building we're using now leased. So we're going to have to pay that.

So we can sublease it if we need to. Or at least potentially.

Yeah.

Sublease it out. I want to get us all back up there. I think it gets the IT rolling a little easier. I'm looking to have a deadline. Yeah.

Yeah, we don't want to set some type of schedule and stuff, but obviously work back to front, figure out how to get it accomplished for you.

It's really nice to be able to be talking about it now because it's been a long, dry spell trying to get this up to this point. Right. I did have a question, Carl, on this aluminum storefront, item five. where the furnishings only one inch bronze insulated over clears the remaining glass is that for the whole city hall or is that just for the front no that's the whole every window would get replaced with that type of glass that's a six month leave time though isn't it no that glass is a month oh come on yep So all the windows will be received in a month once they're ordered.

That'll be the last thing on the exterior part that they'll do, is the windows. So they could work around it and then they could, you know, feasibly then they take the windows out, put the new ones in.

That's impressive because our last company is quoted six to eight months of fab time. Well, I don't know what that would be, but...

We're liking you better all the time.

They must be using a handsaw. But no, I mean, we have sleep time each month, store from materials and stock, so it's rarely available. The only thing would be the entrance, whether we go with a slider or a pair of doors, you know, on that.

So can we be working on the inside while they're doing the outside since the windows are going to be in.

You could probably work on the interior walls, not the exterior so much until they get dried, everything dried in.

Okay. Yeah. And I mean, like I said, I mean, there's things we could work on pretty quick, you know, water proofing and stuff like that, you know, building wash down, get it rolled on, get it dried in a little bit, get the engineer involved for the two areas. You know, that type of stuff could move pretty quick. The other stuff, we'd obviously want to wait until there was a contract in place where we have a cost.

I would say that city staff has received a consensus of the council will bring this forward for formal action at the next council meeting.

All right.

We like it.

Any other questions?

Not a problem. Thank you for your time. If you've got any questions that come up or whatever, get a little pat and get with me on it or whatever. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Kyle.

All right, that takes us to our news. First reading of Bill 2026-16, Shelley.

Bill 2026-16, an ordinance authorizing the city manager to enter into an aviation project consultant agreement with Crawford, Murphy, and Tilly Inc. to perform professional services for an airport layout plan update and area.

I will entertain a motion to pass Bill 2026-16 on first reading. So moved.

Second.

Discussion.

brought eric here he'll kind of talk to you more about any questions summarize what's the plan this is kind of two things one one one we the fa moda requires uh professional services for the type of projects that we do at the airport they're not going to be done in there or run with that so uh every five years we have to go out and We've got a qualification-based program that we do. And Carpenter Barclay and Tillerson have had to, for the previous five years, they were the best qualified you start that five-year process we we have a first project and that's what this is the alp update which is something that hasn't been done since 2009 uh it's required by the fa and modot for future funding uh purposes because it's a detailed uh uh layout of our next 20 years uh 20 times a year basically so it's kind of it's kind of a big picture it's a really detailed This is what we get basically. It spells out basically the history of the airport, our current needs, our current facilities, what we need or could need in the future, how we build it out, a detailed property map showing our property as it sits now, runway services, approach services, all this stuff that they use for future, that everybody looks at, vote out in the FA, they look at all this and say, this is what the airport has, this is what we need, this meets our requirements for uh for grant assurances whenever we receive federal money we are required to operate the airport not only as an airport but in specific ways and that helps lay that out so it's kind of a hard thing to really talk about for a little short space i guess i go on an hour about what's involved right now is there a runway extension involved in this Not at present. We had wanted to do that all these years. They're coming out with new information that newer type aircraft have better performance. They don't necessarily need a longer runway. So they're kind of backing off on that a little bit. What's the length now? We're at 4,000 feet. Just replaced what we had before.

So what's different between now and 2009 out there? mean i'm just thinking i understand that we're probably going to have to to get this planned but if nothing's changed and we really aren't planning on doing anything well yeah what we're trying to do with the city in general i guess with the city and what's included is we're trying to prove what we have and that's what we've been doing and also being able to compete against

all these other large communities that have airports and have bigger facilities and stuff. You know, if you want to promote camera and grill camera, there's certain things that you probably want to do. We're not out here just to spend money.

Well, like, what, I mean, what are you talking about? Because I've heard for years, hey, we've got the airport. This is great. But I don't see a lot of business coming out here because of the airport. So I'm just saying, what could we do I mean, I'm all aboard. If we can do something to the airport and help bring in business, that'd be great.

Yeah, it's a piece of the puzzle. I think, I can't pinpoint it, but, you know, like Chillicothe, they've got a huge industrial park now. And they bring in some larger aircraft because of that.

But they've also got railroad, which we don't have. Exactly.

And that's one reason why I would propose it. think that we really need to have an airport because if we don't have an airport, we don't have water. Outside of an airport, we've got one source of transportation, and that's the highway, right? So I think we've always been on the cusp of having that type of business that meets the airport. There's some smaller communities that have pretty large manufacturing stuff in it that obviously use their airports. One thing, John, is the crop testing.

That's huge. But we don't get any money off that. Well, that's what we're going to set up a facility. That's what Eric and I are looking into is to charge them to use our space. Have a landing fee. Eric, so your AWOS and a lot of your electronics and runway extensions, those were all projects funded with the old ones that are new. And this is a checkbox to get required grant funding, additional state funding.

Because otherwise, if you get those types of projects without their assistance, you're paying for that all yourself rather than... Exactly, yeah.

For those who don't know, we do receive $150,000 total money, part of the entire money. But usually it's a 10% match. This particular project is only a 5% match. I think it's begging back for some COVID money. So we're taking advantage of that as opposed to waiting a year and doing it, and we got a 10% match probably. Okay. Yeah, there's things, we've always done things to promote the things that larger aircraft, larger businesses would need for our, to move here, basically. You know, so there's, you know, the city's got a bunch of things that come into play. You've got to know what they're going to do. The airport's just a small part of it, but we're definitely trying to promote ourselves and develop it with the need for larger aircraft, larger business identity, you know.

Hasn't other spray companies tried to come in and put hangers in there?

They have. We've had a couple of them. One of them just wanted the moon. They wanted everything. Couldn't want to give them so much. They come in and they're like bulldozers and they take over the airport, basically. If they're large, anyway. Another one we ended up building up in Rockport. So yeah, we've had that. Just haven't come to fruition, I guess. In fact, and we've got designated areas of the airport where we can let them build to get them away from, like Pat was saying, out of any other traffic. So we're kind of an open book in how we can build the airport and a lot of other things that's going on. How many flight instructions going on out there? Well, I just got another airplane that struck in. Oh, you did?

What'd you get? A Cessna 150.

Great. So it's just me right now. A couple years ago, we had another guy that was coming up doing some part-time work as well. Yeah. And that's another area where you can't discriminate. If 10 instructors want to come and struck down the airport, they can. It's got to forecast the business that he did.

The airport layout plan is a lot like a comprehensive plan for the future development.

Yeah. So how much of your money comes from fuel packs? I know.

It comes from the aviation trust fund. Fuel packs are a big part of that. So it's a big pot of money and then all these smaller airports can provide for that.

So how much percent would come directly from the city? of any improvements we do out there. In this case, this project, it's only 5%. Less than $15,000. I just want to make that clear, because it's not up to 5%. Oh, 5%. I like that. Keep going.

So this thing's at 10%, but I think this is going to be okay.

But this is real much just a temporary report. Right. I think it would cost almost $300,000 for this.

There's a lot of language that goes into it if you don't realize. Environmental studies, GIS information, demand forecast. It's crazy how much information actually goes into it.

To put that book together, it takes a tremendous amount of different groups.

Yes, yes. You've got GIS companies.

Put that all together and it makes sense.

I was going to say, that's a lot of excuses for it. Another way of saying the federal government spends way too much money. I've always thought that. I've always thought that. $300,000. It blows my mind. It blows my mind, too. All right.

Any other questions?

I could talk forever on this.

We appreciate your help with Blue Vest. That was awesome. I know there's a lot of work that goes into that.

Unfortunately, we always do it during the rainy season. It accomplished the low on Saturday, which was good. Got that in, so I'll save myself.

All right.

Thank you very much. All right. All those in favor of passing Bill 2026-16, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Passes, five in favor, zero opposed. That takes us to Resolution 2026-18, Shelly.

Resolution 2026-28. The resolution accepting the bid from Teddy John Auto for the purchase of two 2026 Chevrolet Tahoe police packaged vehicles for use by the Cameron Police Department.

I will entertain a motion to pass Resolution 2026-28. Second. Discussion.

These came in cheaper than I thought they would. Yeah, they did.

Sorry about that. We have a bad accent up on Walnut, so. Mayor Council, thank you. So we are looking to replace our special service vehicles, which is my vehicle, the captain's vehicle, and then they're coming up. We want to replace the detective's vehicle. The admin vehicles, we usually keep around nine or 10 years. Currently, right now, we have two 2017 Ford Explorers. And with the miles getting up on it, it's going to start costing us money. for maintenance. We submitted three bids. Penny Johns out of Bethany got the bid. Our local dealership did not respond to our request. And another dealership told us if we would purchase within 24 hours, they'd give us a bid. So Penny Johns got the bid. They come in at 55, 55, 996 each. So that's for the two 2026 Tahoe's. With that, we would like to take my vehicle, which is the Dodge Durango, and donate it to the airport or assign it to the airport to replace their 1950 Crown Vic that they have out there. So we would like to assign that vehicle out to the airport. And vehicle two, which is the captain's vehicle, it's the 17 Explorer. We would like to donate that to the juvenile office because right now the juvenile office cannot transport anybody without us. And we're always the ones that are transporting the juvenile office. So if we donate this vehicle to them, that does not take away from my police officers to have to go with the juvenile officer to Kirksville, Liberty. So, Kirksville's what, a six-hour round trip for one of my officers that I take away from the road. So, we're making money off of this. We're trying. We're trying. We're now losing it. Again, I know this is before budget, but we are going to take care of this out of our public safety tax. That's why we're bringing this to you now. And then we couldn't get this for the pickup, which we will get here in July sometime, and then we'll bring that to you to replace that third vehicle. The third vehicle we will sell outright and see what we can get out of it. to haul things if we need it. We don't, you know, you don't want to throw, we don't want to throw things into any of the new cars. Well, sure. Just depends if you have to go pick something up. Just to have, to haul things around if we need it.

Okay. Detectives use that one.

Detectives will have that one, yes. You don't have all the vagrants? We do not have that.

You can throw all the vagrants in the bag? No, we won't do that. Let's take the vagrants. Let's take the vagrants.

for like moving the command trailer that kind of thing yes these vehicles are the one step lower than the pursuit vehicles because

are vehicles we can pursue in because they're not marked, et cetera, et cetera. And the reason we can keep these vehicles longer is they're not 24-7 working out, driving, crossing medians, chasing people down, chasing speeders, stuff like that.

So they are unmarked?

They will be unmarked, but they will still have license irons in them. I'm assuming all of them. Upfitting and stuff is additional. There could be some additional upfitting Again, they won't have no wrap on there's no marquee. So we're good there We're hoping some of the most we're hoping most of the equipment that's in them Will transfer over like the interior lights and of course the console the radios and stuff like that should transfer over So we will incur a little bit of cost for the upfitting on it, but Haven't you guys done that a lot of times? We do have a gentleman here that works for us that has done all the upfitting to our details, but as right now, you know that we're short staffed, so we are going to have to send these out to be done. Okay. You got a question?

All right. All right. You're still standing there. What are you doing? Oh, okay. So we're going to vote on it. All right. All those in favor of passing resolution 2026-28, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Passers-by, paper zero. Opposed?

Thank you. Were you just making sure? Absolutely. I'm going to restart if we said no. It was the suspense.

It was.

All right, next I take this to you.

takes us to resolution 2026-29. Resolution 2026-29, a resolution of the city of Cameron, Missouri accepting the bids for the various agricultural properties and authorizing the city manager to enter into an agreement for the airport K ground site.

I will entertain a motion to pass resolution 2026-29. So moved.

Second.

Discussion.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. The reason for this resolution is Hildebrandt Family Farms, they were the highest bidder on the airport hay ground, and they chose not to back out on it. So we went to the next successful bidder, and that was C.J. Bogeroff. It's 53 acres of hay ground out there at $26 an acre, which is $1,378. That's the reason why we had to redo just the stable agricultural leaves.

Any questions?

Eric, have you ever thought about putting in a grass strip out there?

I've had people ask about it, but not enough to justify it, I don't think. The east side of the tax way would be more fun. Part of the point would be about 12 foot long uh but you'd have to maintain it as a grass grip right i've always thought you know liabilities or alcohols whatever you know whatever i could do it i suppose but i just don't have the demand for it i guess they're always fun to land on yeah that's what i said there's some guys prefer you know yeah any other questions

All those in favor of passing Resolution 2026-29, say aye.

Aye.

All opposed? Passed. Five in favor, zero vote. That takes us to our second public participation. Council, if you'd like to talk to us, please come up. You've got five minutes. Please write your name and your address. All right. We'll move on. That takes us to Ms. Elena's comments from the staff.

I don't have anything additional.

Nothing. I do have a, on the 8th, July, at 2 o'clock, we do have a bid opening at 2 o'clock before the capes and all the bids. We'll get that going here pretty soon. The street guys are out cutting out patches. I think they're doing three or four uptown here and one over by the high school. So those will all be poured out tomorrow. And I think they're going to get the para-patcher out and continue patching around town.

When did they, did they have a time limit on paris?

It's not until November. They're not far.

all right uh scott and i have met with most of the department heads and working on the budget for the next year and we're looking forward to meeting next tuesday night the 14th i believe is the date that was set all right we do need a time for that

Thank you.

This weekend we will be having the car show at McCorkle Park. And there will also be a 5K run.

Explain what that is.

A 5K run?

No, there's going to be something else too.

As in?

There's going to be a reenactment of a chase.

Oh, the Smoky and Bandit chase? Yes. Yes, I've heard about it, but I'm not involved.

Well, I had the guy who's going to be the sheriff in the car in my office talk about it. And I said, you guys should let everybody know. I'd love to watch it.

I don't even know. I just remember being at the chase.

Yeah. I used to be the sheriff.

Do you ever teach us this?

So that's going on this weekend. Like I said, we got the 5k going. The Barnett property, we finalized everything on it last weekend. So that's a done deal. Still waiting to finish on the community center sale. But it's all the they're working on a quick claim. So once that's done, they're gonna let everybody know that's involved and then we'll get the signatures and then we'll get that one done. And then the TDP has been officially given to the circuit court. And so if you notice in the newspaper, you're going to start seeing ads from the circuit court that they advertise that for public comments. And then I've been working diligently trying to get the final paperwork completed for Great Northwest Wholesale Water Commission. So I can't wait until our meetings get much shorter at Great Northwest Wholesale Water Commission. So that's what I got. Thank you, Mayor and Council.

We're seeing a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Right now we have six dispatchers up from the four. Two of those are in training. So that leaves us eight dispatchers short. We have 14 interviews scheduled for Wednesday. So hopefully we can pick some out of that. Hopefully in a couple weeks I'm out of dispatch finally. On the police side, we've hired three. They're doing really, really well. That leaves us one short, so everything's coming around back, hopefully. And I just wanted to give you guys an update on our dispatch center. I had Susie, our director, pull stats just for the police department, fire department, and EMS, just for Cameron. It had nothing to do with Caldwell County. We are... Our dispatch center, just for the city of Cameron, has taken over 14,600 calls half of the year since January 1st this year. Of those, 411 calls for service is the fire department. And I believe, yeah, 1,200 calls for service for the ambulance and then the rest is police. very very busy we didn't add in the colwell county stuff so i'm going to say we're probably 16 17 000 calls for service for about the last year like how's that compares i haven't looked i just want to throw this out here real quick i'll have it for you next time But it seems like there's a lot more this year. It's super busy. I-35, the construction, that's our fire and ambulance district. And then they call the police department because we're rerouting traffic through Cameron. So we've all been very, very busy, and the numbers show it. So I just wanted to throw that out to you guys. That's all I have.

Appreciate it. Yeah, maybe about a halfway season tool report. So far, we're about 43 days of operation into it. Out of those, we closed about nine days early due to weather. Out of those nine days, we're only closed four full days because of the weather and stuff. So it's going really well. We've got a good flow manager, a couple of system managers, all the lock cars are doing really well. Very busy. We haven't had any major incidents happen down there at all this year so far. did it twice. So yeah, it's going really well. So I just want to give you guys a halfway mark on it. So rec park Friday night, they had at least 200 people and it was probably pretty low. It's probably more than that down there. They had a band going on, they had a bubble party going on. We brought in additional bathrooms and stuff just because we do that every year just to help out and it really worked pretty well. The citizens, the boys was really busy this morning down there picking up all the trash and stuff. But far as the parking stuff, everybody used trash cans that we put out, additional trash cans. It was really nice. It didn't tear anything up down there at all. So Saturday, we were not able to do the free swim because of the weather. Kind of bummed me out on that, but that's the way it kind of goes. So the park board did a pretty good thing. I thought our last meeting The YMCA is hosting a soccer camp out to Somerville this week and stuff and brought in a couple of coaches from England and stuff. And the park board voted to let the YMCA happen fields for free this week, no charge at all. So the YMCA was able to use that extra money that they made off of foot golf and stuff and sponsored Lance with six, eight kids, something like that, because it was pretty pricey. It's like $175 per kid to have them come out there and do that, so... It was a really good thing, so they started it out there this week. So I wanted to mention that about the park where I thought they did a good job. And there's 30 kids? 26. I talked to Mary Jo this morning. There's 26 kids for the campus this week. And that's really about it. I just want to give you guys a halfway mark update on the pool. Got any questions for me?

I was surprised at how long we've had this new pool for. Is that third or fourth year?

That's like six years ago. Yeah, because I've been here two and a half.

Well, yeah, we had to get a new motor, because I was reading that it's a new motor, and showerhead, you know. Oh, yeah.

That's a plumbing issue a little bit. It has some drainage issues and stuff with the deep end and whatnot. But, I mean, we can get more into the budget. I'll tell you the big item when we do that. It's old maintenance stuff, but it's holding up really nicely. No, no major problems. I mean a few minor ones, but nothing too major, so going really well.

This is our busy time.

Georgia and Stony are rockin' and rollin'. There's a lot of, Stony's taking care of a lot of things. We have started implementing our citations. Those are our last resort. That's not something we're going to quickly, but it has started happening, so we will have some court dates and things hit next month. Puppies for Parole is going really, really well, which has been awesome. It's taken a lot of the dogs out of the shelter and going for a really good cause. Georgia's done a really good job setting that up. She's been spending a lot of time doing the TNR program, so traveling to release, trying to get a new cat so they're not procreating. Do it. So she's doing a really good job. We do have a lot of cats at the shelter right now. So if anybody needs a cat, I picked up two today. Just saying for the challenge out there, go get some cats. Building, we have a couple of commercial projects they'll be picking up pretty quick here. They pick up their building permit and all that. The school district, if anybody's seen where they've been started, it's... They're getting ready to get going on that addition. Demolition of the other wing will happen next year. But an addition and remodel going on. So we do the project for it. And I've been spending time at City Hall just trying to make sure everything's helping Pat out where he needs help. Get everything lined up as quickly as we can.

All right. Which one? Water? No, five. Five?

All right.

All right, Chief.

What's up? We've been, the fire department has been really busy, too, as Dan said. I mean, accidents are consuming us two or three a day. It seems like nothing large but time consuming. Traffic control, we're getting pretty good at that. But the fire department did quite a bit of work over the 4th of July, Friday and Saturday. A lot of the guys spend quite a few hours doing that. We're now into our season that we're recertifying all of our truck pumps and our SCBAs and our bottles. And that's kind of the end of the year, budget year type thing. So that's taking a lot of time, too. So keeping the equipment together and the heat and everything that's going on. So we've got business as usual, honestly.

So everything's going pretty well. I haven't gotten a list from Scott for a while so we must be we must be knocking things off pretty pretty decent.

Is he not knocking stuff off pretty decent? They're getting after it um the street size I'm trying to get the streets and water and everybody kind of work together to get these street cuts pretty done. Yep. There's a lot of them and You know, they do water and we do streets and citizens and companies do street cuts. When the list is big, it takes a lot of effort.

We'll get there. I've heard a lot of good things about you and Tad and the street department. People are really pleased. Thank you.

The city is sponsoring the Chamber of Commerce luncheon next week, next Tuesday. It's going to be at the Peace Department training facility. So the council is of course inviting you to come and do let me know so you can attend. I'm going to post a form that the city will be providing the food and the program. Okay, all right.

we're trying to shame you we set you up Shelly's grinning. I may get out of here.

I don't really know either. I just think that the voice was really great. I want to thank little Miss Danielle here for taking my spot when I couldn't get here. So with that, we will adjourn and go into executive meeting under attorney-client communications and real estate.

Roll call. Did I have a question? Oh, yes. Second.

Second.

John Figer. Yes. Mark Parr. Yes. Ross Worth. Yes. Eddie Gaines. Yes. Becky Kerr. Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

All right.