City Council - workshop

This is going to work.

No, I promise you I'm good. I got the main numbers. Yeah, I got the 200s. We're good. I just missed a bunch of zeros. That's all.

Yeah, on the left-hand side.

The first zero. Oh, that?

Yeah. I was just joking.

Oh, hey, Mike.

You got that email I sent you from that lady about the car, the Hummer almost running over and all that kind of stuff? Another cool one.

Hey, baby. How you doing?

Coming in with glasses on.

Another one? Another one with her glasses on.

It's bright out there.

Y'all are too cool for school.

It's the first day of school, too.

It was. Oh, my goodness gracious. Yes. I mean, tickets they wrote today.

I told Alan, I was like, good morning.

I blew my horn. Some kid was coming in a hot rod. He was blowing. He was flying down by her. I laid on my horn. That was late. It was earlier.

Hancock just did.

But they had police everywhere out there.

And everybody comes tomorrow.

I was like, happy.

Dude, Alan was directing traffic when I come through. Me, too. I said, man, get out the damn road. You got the lane blocked.

I know. I pulled it right off. And I was like, happy first day.

Oh, Lord. Drew was on the other corner. Yeah.

Well, I sent it to Alvin.

Yeah, and they've been over there. Okay, good. Nancy, would you like to lead us in prayer today? I'm sure that somebody comes through there like that. You can't sit there 24-7. Right, exactly. And the trouble with it, we're going to try to set two more the speed sign right so we're gonna get two more the digital yeah go ahead and get five of them if we can get as many as we can because i have spots all over i want to put it but that thing creates that i know yes and it generates it and very seldom have we seen anything Right. Are you all ready?

I'm like all chopped off. Yeah, I was. Let's roll. You are too.

You ready? Yeah, 532. Yeah, no, we're ready. All right. Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the July 29th, 2026 City Council Workshop to order. We'll start with a roll call. Ward 1, 2, 3, 5, and at large are present. I'll ask Councilwoman Moynihan to lead us in order.

Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Amen. Gracious God, as the City Council has been entrusted by the people of Bay St. Louis to be fair and diligent in our service to the community, help us to be good stewards of the resources before us. Amen. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

Mayor, I know you're probably familiar with some of the changes you made from the first one to this one. If you want to lead the way, point those out and we'll see if everyone's for or against them.

So under

Revenue, nothing's changed there. Again, this is a conservative, you know, with gaming. And again, you know, gaming, some of that ends up going into reserve at the end of the year.

If you will, give us page numbers. Since hours are cut, would you give us a page number just to make sure we're following with you?

Just in general, okay, yeah. But just in general, you know, and then our taxes, you know, we held steady on our taxes. You know, we're going to be good this year, but as we know, we've lost a few things that's really, Do you think that the the change in the percentage we get I know the grocery that we get a little bit more for fuel and so do you think that had a i know they cut it but now we get 18 percent it's hard to tell because you know we're not much over we get 20 something percent but but yeah we um it shows that we're going to be good and everything so we think we're good there yeah so that didn't hurt us it really didn't no we don't think it did it broke you know we looked at it and all and trying to figure everything and we've had some good months the last year has been good um So, you know, and when you go back from year to year, date-wise, the sales tax has been steady, a little bit above. Same thing with gaming. It's been a good year so far for gaming. We think the next two months, according to, you know, past history, now it's going to be two good months that's going to really put us over a few hundred thousand dollars for what we, you know, anticipated. But, again, you know, that's how we budget everything on that. in the revenue, you know, we talked last week, we do want to carry $600,000 over from this year that hasn't been spent, that's in, you know, in the account and everything. And what that's for, again, we talked about $200,000 of it going into our reserve. The rest of it, the next $8,200 is 82,000 is if we have an election for 2% hotel motel tax. If we don't, that 82,000 will go into the reserve as well. But each part, you know, we've got 75,000 administration for capital, you know, trying to do some work on that building. We do have 200. either two or 250 capex i'm not sure which one we've got two capex grants this year one for 200 i think it is one for 250 one of them you know we're gonna try to partner with the utilities out in wards five and six and get get you know help them fund some water projects and all so the other is for to start at least looking at hardening in the building we have at city hall and everything Then again, on this, you know, the buildings and grounds, you know, for beautification, signage and all, we want to get that done. So we budgeted $25,000 in capital for that, fire for caps, and you'll never know over there with that air condition. Hopefully we've got the majority of that straightened out now. Public works, you know, for roads, bridges, and drains, if we come across and need some extra funding.

The signage, is that the sign? They try to... McDonald Park.

Well, that... We've got another one, too, with... We had to restore one of them. We forgot what it was to do that. Five million, four million, something like that.

To upgrade the sports plaques and be able to host some tournaments.

I kind of feel like we have a parks and rec director, but we don't have. We have. Any additional vehicles?

Are we looking at the four-wheeler?

We're looking at a couple. For public works, we're looking at trying to get a few from the fastball.

We looked at those four-wheelers with the extended bed.

We got that coming, too.

Okay.

Mike, what did we buy, police cars, this past fiscal year?

What did we buy?

Yeah, didn't we get... So, what's our... Did y'all, and I know it's in here when y'all discuss that, but do we have a breakdown of kind of where we're at in our leases on all those vehicles? Oh, perfect.

Oh, you're getting little bitty print here.

Caitlin didn't help you. She's slacking.

with that again we got a pretty good bit of stuff coming off

That's two coming in the next month.

That what?

Pay off. We got two of them coming next month.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well, and those aren't included on the 518.

If you go down and see them three Durango. There's about six items down at People's Bank.

Mayor, is the 518, 839 what you're planning on carrying into it?

It won't all be coming from the general fund. That's what we gotta separate out. It wasn't coming from utilities at all.

The Nissan Rogue and the Dodge Ram, I don't see the total column all the way in that 518 column. You see what I'm trying to, you have all the, I'll just show you these. So here you have, in this column, that's where the total comes from, right? It's adding all these up. But when you look at the ones dropping off here and here, like this, the round, 1,500, the row, you see there's no total over here.

No, they paid off.

Oh, they paid off?

Yeah, there's nothing out there. They paid off. They paid off. And that's like, if you look a little further down, you'll see 321 guys, the rainbows. Mm-hmm. That's paid off as well.

Is there anything not in that?

Whatever. Not over there.

It'll tell you. The 24. I see the 24.

That's six months of payment. The first one was $35,000, whatever that is. $15,000.

Yeah, $15,000.

Okay.

But that 518,000 total includes some vehicles that don't get paid off until 2028, 2029, 2030. So I'm assuming, so if we're looking at strictly a 2027, that's 15. So we'll have the John Deere. We have 15 grand on that. the other john deere the 60 that's eight and then the new holland tracker 14 then the rest is going to hit next i mean the maturity date on that the payoff dates the 20 20 28. so we're still so that 518 is where most of that would still be paying throughout 20. just that 518 figures everything right even if it's coming off the book we got six months

but it don't expire until next year.

Yeah, so some of this we're still going to owe on it a few years.

Yeah, yeah. That is correct. This year we budgeted $403,000 in change to go into debt service to pay this. We don't see that changing for next year coming up.

To pay these off early?

No, not to pay these off early. To keep what we have this year, if we had four new cars, we still think we'll have to put the $470,000 in that thing that we did this year. For that 518, we got, I think, a fire insurance of about $60,000 going into it for the fire. And you got... What up?

on the police vehicles like do we have a total count and kind of where where we're at did y'all yeah what we're kind of aging out and what we need to replace i mean that'd be the thing it's i mean because i'm all four i think every every year you have to look at phasing out yeah so we can see that Mike that might give me a better idea kind of what the need is it doesn't help either that the interest rates have gone up it was at like 1% and now we're at 4%

but you see that also is that the rates have went up they're like double so while we still are just paying off the two percent ones now we own on the four four point nine nine yeah that's all that's all interest all figured in yeah i'm just saying it's more okay

And this other sheet is projects, correct?

We'll have that put together with the cost estimate, what we see coming. Again, some of these will be finished this year. Some of them still may not happen next year. It is to debt service right there on that page 19. That's the $407,000.

that we put in this year for that as well.

Anything in general fund we want to look at?

Is this water well, is that the one that's being built now?

It's going back by community garden. Okay.

All right.

I'm not sure about that.

I know they're working steady on that, but if you look at that.

I think they told me October-ish.

Yeah, it's going to be pretty close. If you look at our projects, City Park 88, we don't have anything for that yet, but we are looking at some opportunities there. Ida Repairs. Yeah, Ramanita Sewer, that should be done. Phase 2 of the boardwalk is going to be pretty close to being done. That's what they're working on now. We should be getting approval for Phase 3. But, you know, the match for that will be in Oldman Street ramp going down. So we won't have anything coming up with that. The match for this phase two is coming from Tideland for that match on that. And if you go down downtown Striping, We have $100,000 in this year's budget set aside. We're looking at trying to do some striping down through there. Ronnie's getting some prices on that. Try to put something together on that and see if we can get some of that done.

Striping for what?

For parking and all down through there. We haven't looked at the possibility of adding some crosswalks in there and trying to get them matched up across the street. He's trying to find out how much room it takes You got to have your slope and all that, which is not a lot. But he thinks you may not be able to have any parking spots for so big of an area. If it's the case, then we're liable to lose three parking spots for every crosswalk. So we might cut back on it to where we really need them at. You know, we got them in the corner of Main Street. Sure. Oh, maybe.

And the curb cutouts.

Yeah. But if we got to give up three parking spots for each one of these, we need to look and see.

Is that going to include ADA stuff?

It's going to be all ADA. And at the pier on Oldman, we're looking, we have to do something down there for access to the ramp.

Right.

So we're looking, we're also looking across the street on the corner to where we can put ADA parking over there instead of on Beach Road and use it on Alderman Avenue on both sides where you got access to sidewalks and everything there. We'll go look at that.

Do we have anything coming up? Decision was for the Boys and Girls Club, weren't they?

No, we sent an email out the other last week again I think it was waiting to hear from them. We heard back from them. We're trying to get a meeting set up now. What's that regarding, Linda? Yeah, we're asking for them to put something together and, you know, come up with the insurance and this and that. Small repairs, nothing to the building, things like that. Start taking care of it now.

Okay.

You know, we tried this year. It wasn't in that budget. We had some good talks with them. So this year we sent it out ahead of time and then, you know, expectations on this. You know, one of the things is, you know, we have about 55% of the kids in there. So Wayland has about 25% and about 20% of the county. So the suggestion was, you know, maybe I'll need to go talk to them to help fund, you know. I think they're all in.

trying to do something we just got to make sure you know we get something done hey mike i'm page five um and y'all may have discussed the last meeting um what's the what this main street director salary 35 000 what's the skinny on that so we talked about that last meeting and all um we have main street directors going to be at our meeting yeah and trying to establish main street but also

So they've been working on this, trying to put something where it will also run the depot as well, and for Welcome Center and Main Street, and be able to keep it open, and some of the ideas, again, we got Main Street coming Tuesday night, to clear up some things with that and try to move forward. So, you know, of course, eventually, we want it to be where they sell funding, probably take a year or two to get there. They're asking, you know, to us the city to help get it started. They're also asking the county as well, because you know, it can be welcome center for everybody coming in and on the train and everything else nancy's been working with a troop try to utilize best utilization for that depot and all and they have a pretty good proposal but again i think whether some of that can be reached in the first year but I think it's definitely very doable. Now one of the main things with Main Street is the opportunity to get grants. There's a lot of money out there with Main Street for grants. And we're missing a big opportunity. If you look at what Gulfport does and different other cities and all, with that Main Street program and all the funds they get, where it's just a great opportunity for the city, whether it's Promotional for the city, downtown business areas, or anything else that's just a big plus to have.

The parks. Parks as well.

Everything. So one of the things that I asked last meeting, I think I can be cleared up this coming meeting, is dues. And it's not dues-based from businesses. So it's not interfering with Old Town Mergent. It's got full support of Old Town Mergent. I think the Chamber is supportive of it as well. So it's just going to go hand in hand with them to try to continually bring in, whether it's events or whatever, into our city to keep things flowing.

Who's the current director? Is there one?

For Mississippi Main Street, it's Jeannie... I forget her last name, but Beth Rainey will be here on Tuesday. She's the deputy director for the Mississippi Main Street. We have an interim, I guess, we have no director at the moment, because we're in an application process.

But we do have someone willing to volunteer.

But the two, you know, the two becoming a Mississippi Main Street will be, serve as the vehicle to keep the depot as a welcome center. The two will work in tandem with each other. I don't know, you know, that one would work well without the other.

Some of that's based on when we went to Biloxi at One of the areas over there where they did the hearts on the wall, you know, selling space. So they're looking at that, probably built their tables with fresh local stuff there. They also, you know, have some ideas about bringing the performance market in on one afternoon in the middle of the week or something, you know. So a lot of good ideas going around. I think it would be very helpful to our city and surrounding areas as well, the entire county. that's the goal to have the city have that one focal point to welcome, you know, and that we can direct people to now have a board and you have reports coming back quarterly basis, monthly basis, whatever, they can turn their reports in and get them to it. But if you look at that too in there, one of the things that's in the budget for revenue is for the depot. They're wanting to pay $1,000 a month for the depot.

That's just the first floor of the depot, right?

We're looking at that and possibly expanding.

beats 150. Yeah.

So I thought on the top floor will definitely be a moneymaker. I think so. And anytime you want to go look at it. It's beautiful space.

So again, they pretty

So no cost to the city, but benefits.

But I'm saying the top four, if it's going to be an event space, that would be city. They would just be renting the bottom space.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Moneymaker.

No cost to the city, but it will benefit the city.

Talking about an event space. A rental small event space.

But they were pretty, I guess, encouraged with their revenues and expenses. And that's why they think they'll be fully supportive and be able to back off of what the entity gives.

So what other funding sources? Right now, I think the request budget's already popped up. The draft budget expenses or expenditures is 83,000. Is there any other entities?

They got City of Bay, St. Louis, Horton Harbor, Board of Supervisors.

Oh, I didn't see that last page at all. Okay, City of Bay, Horton Harbor.

It's a revenue sheet.

Ah, thank you.

Again, they do have to look through working on this now. But then there'll be a board that they just like anything else overseeing it and making sure one thing, one of my favorite, I mean, I think this is

When you look at some of the in return, year-round public access, abundant promotion for Bay St. Louis tourism and events, and then really highlight, glad to see this already in there, transparent financial and operational reporting to the city, especially with that big of a commitment.

Yeah, that's great.

A lot of excitement about it.

Yeah, I can. I can see that. It's awesome.

And then the goal is to get it, you know, eventually self sufficient. Yeah. And I mean, I think it would have support.

And I guess I can ask this Tuesday, but just looking at the hours of operation, right now we do have those volunteers that are out there for the train. So we won't have anybody that evening, I'm assuming?

At this point, that hasn't been discussed, that the daylight hours, which is what the depot was open prior to it closing.

you know possibility can they expand to the volunteers you know keeping it open right like working together with them to possibly have them it's pretty much the same budget that's putting this together yeah yeah I just hate to lose them I would love to support the ones that have been volunteering Bring them in.

I just said it before, too, like I just have a thing about safety, security and the little ladies that's out there at night, especially with daylight savings. And they're getting dark at six. So that's everything in the general fund.

I do have, if there's any questions that we've seen in the utilities and the harbor, I do need to make a change or two on increase of the harbor, I mean the utility. It looks like our wastewater, and I'm not sure about it, why, but... over budget this year and looks like it's going to be over. That's going to run steady for next year. So I'm waiting for it. We'll increase that a little bit more.

Hey Mike, what's the ask on the fire truck? What's what? Are we looking at a new fire truck?

Not this year. We do want to start talking about it.

I know there's been a lot of looking.

I think as long as, I'm not sure what the time frame is on a ladder truck if we do need another ladder truck coming. But I think we can get a regular truck is what Monty and them think without a lot of extra bells and whistles relatively in a timely manner. I think it's when you start adding a lot of extras to these vehicles, to these trucks, is when you're looking at possibly a couple years out. Would it be replacing one or in addition to? We just don't want to get into the – if we bought one tomorrow, it would just be keeping all of them for now.

So it's not a situation where we have a need to replace? We don't have anything to replace. Okay.

Nope. We ran into some unexpected expenses this year on them. Nothing major, but it just added up to a lot of money we weren't expecting. I think maybe $40,000 to $50,000, and it's on all of them. It's not just one of them. So it was unexpected to have that, and hopefully we got some of that fixed and taken out. But no, it would be, do we need a new truck tomorrow? No. And if we can still get them in a timely manner, But again, these trucks that we paid $500,000 for, it's $800,000, $900,000 now. It's a lot of trucking. I think Monty gave me an estimate of probably about $1.2 million for that. We'd like to have one more still on the books. But I'd like to get to where we don't ever get into that where we have three of them on the books. You know, get in that kind of shape. And one of the things we ever got, you know, I think it's something that could be instead of finances, I don't know how many years it was. I can't read that little writing on there. You might be able to tell when we purchased it and pay off on it. We purchased in 20 payoffs. That's a 10-year note on that thing. That could be something, you know, we could look at and designate a half mill or something and get it paid off in five years or something you know when time comes because the one we got the most recent one is a 2020 no the the latter truck is probably around uh it's not on here okay it's part of that huh yeah oh yeah 2020 is the last one we purchased so the other ones was between I don't want to say they. Are you still paying on it? Yeah, it was a 10-year note.

Yeah.

I don't see it on here.

It's down toward the bottom, First Bank. No, underneath First Bank. Bank Corp. Government. Pumper truck, 2020 pumper truck. $57,000 a year.

Oh, I thought you said, is that the same as a ladder truck?

No, ladder truck's off. Ladder truck, I'm thinking, gosh, I think I might have been on 13, 15, somewhere in there. Then we bought another truck. It just went off the books. And then we still have this one on the books. But knock on wood, they're still in very good shape.

What about vehicles or upgrading the maintenance yard for public works?

That's what we're looking at, trying to pick up maybe three or four vehicles by the end of this year. Like we've been picking them up. We do need some. And then we can get rid of those. We've done very well. We sold between fire, police, and public works. I'm thinking we're pushing about $140,000 we sold this year. Between last year and this year, we sold over $200,000. So with that now, we're looking at purchasing four-wheeler, parks and rec for the parks and everything, a couple side-by-sides for public works, another side-by-side, but a longer one for fire departments so they can what they call it, put a stretcher on it if something happens where they can haul somebody and everything. And taking some of that, we're just going to pay cash for those.

I think we kind of need like a longer bed for public works.

They got it so you can rig something. I'm not sure how it works, but that's what we're looking at. We'll have the information for the next meeting on that.

We saw those at MML with the extended bed.

Extended bed or something? Yeah, I'm not sure what it is. That's what they'd like to get. You know, they got the regular one. They can still use it for running day-to-day, hydrant check, this and that. But they could use this for emergencies and, you know, things like that. When they work in festivals or, you know, just big events, they can keep that down there. Someone's got to be transported to the outside. They'll be able to, you know, take and put them in there and get them out of there.

Yep. Good.

Also, one of the things they... We just purchased, or in the process of purchasing, we had to see them get fire hoses. That's a whole replacement set that'll be sitting on our shelf that we gotta have. So when the fire rating comes in and looks at you and everything, one of the things they look at is your replacement hoses. Make sure you got that. I think that was maybe $21,000. We approved a couple meetings ago with that.

Do you know what the diameter is of the fire hoses?

What is it? It's twos and threes, I think, something like that. One and a half, twos and threes, I think. Also, in the process now, again, a dress uniform. Yeah. That'll be in this year's budget. They have some uniform money left. That'll be ordered. But it's in the process of being ordered right now. The CEO went out today for that. They've done well with what they have in all of it. Again, over the last year and this year, we just got it where we were over 200,000 sale of items. So next meeting, we're going to try to have the whole package everything in between 001 and 400 400 to 450 on our finished up it's not a lot you know we don't have a lot of leaks coming we probably may be looking at one more which may come out of utilities another um excavator that can be used between those two. So we're looking at that possibility for that. And then also the police cars. And that's about the only thing we're looking at.

What about the motorcycle brigade? They're set, they're good. Because I think that's a good thing for the city to have. I think

So we'll have all that. We're relatively on a good timeline right now. We're within a day of what we did last year in 25. We're meeting today on the 29th. Same amount of meetings as last year. So we're a day or two early there. So we want to meet again if everybody's good day is on the 5th, August the 5th. Another budget workshop. We'd like to meet again on the 11th. And that will also be a budget meeting, but also a recess meeting to where we accept the financial year budget. Do the publication, authorizing publication, and the public hearing. And then we'll start our public hearings on the 13th, which is the first advertised public hearing. The 20th would be the second advertised. September 1st is our regular meeting in September, first regular meeting. We'll go through what we need to do there. We'll accept the budget, adopt the millage rate and everything, send the copies we need to do, publish the resolution, all that, and on the 9th, meeting to adopt the final budget at the council meeting, and that'll be on the 8th the following week. There'll be a recess meeting as well.

You got all that typed out, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So when's our next meeting? When's our next meeting? Next Wednesday, the 5th.

We meet on the 4th for a regular, right? That's our city council meeting.

So 5th for a workshop?

Yeah.

And the 12th? I cannot do the 11th.

No, the 12th, the 13th.

Okay, so you said something about the 11th.

I did. Is 11th Wednesday?

No, that's Tuesday.

The 12th is Wednesday. But that's not a regular meeting for us.

No, no, yeah. No, I got the 11th, and then I got the 13th, which would be Thursday.

What, workshop date?

That would be the first public, and you can't do 13th?

I cannot do the 11th for a workshop. That would be a— Or what is the 11th?

The 11th is a budget meeting, a recess meeting for the next fiscal year budget, authorizing necessary publications and hearings. If we want to move it to the 10th on a Monday, does that work?

But that's just after we agree to the budget to vote. That's just for advertisement. So you don't have to be for that. I'm just saying. Because we just want to agree to put it in the publication.

Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

So do what you want.

Hey, Mike, when would the potential referendum be? So we're budgeting the $72,000 or so for that election.

It'd have to get authorized. That usually comes out in April before the end of the session and everything up there. By the time we get it, the governor signs off on it, gives his blessings that we could probably get it done in the fall of the year again. Maybe I'll fall in with the county election. I don't know if you could attach that to it. I don't know those laws. But it would be ideal. And, again, if it does happen, then it would be very minimum cost to us since there's an election at that time anyway in November for the county. So that would be our goal. And it might cost an extra for the printing and all to add to the ballot.

I don't know how that – yeah, you just had to determine because you've got county and Wayland voters that would be – Yeah, it would just be the Bay voters, but yeah.

Yeah, well, you know, with the county, well, Wayland's this November. The county will be next November. So if it's just adding, and again, I don't know if you can add anything to a city, and if you can add anything to the county election. I mean, we're voting anyway that day, so my hope would be that we could just tie into the county. But I'll have that information, too. I'll check with Kendra.

But we go to different voting areas. for county.

Yeah, it's a little different, but it's still citizens here voting.

And we have to pass this resolution unanimously by the council.

We have to have a unanimous vote, right? That's one thing they do look at.

We ask, I think by Christmas, we need to ask for the draft bill

Yeah, this needs to be done so when they go to the local and private bill committee, we can have it there and everything and have it ready to go. But we also need to have, what are we doing with this? Correct, yeah. And we can do some workshops in the meantime, once we can agree to move forward with it and then put it together.

Yeah, I think it's just, I mean, the workshops would be key in education because you hear a 2% tax, but I think the way you roll it out, it's a tourist tax that locals benefit from.

We do want to reach out to the casino. We do want to reach out to the hotel and let them know this is what we're looking at. This is what we're doing. We're trying to bring people here that's going to help you as well.

Well, I wonder if that would have a little more meat to it if we're asking for that $4 or $5 million for that GCRF, right? So that, hey, look, this is going to be our funding source. And going forward, we're not going to have to ask you guys for any more money. This is how we're going to self-sustain is this 2% host fee that can roll into the upkeep.

So there are some options. So you have this tax coming in. Could you take, say, $200,000 and create a bond and make your note to where – We're buying $300,000 to do what we need to do for these fields. And you just pay your note out of that if we can't get the funding from the state to do it, you know, or grants or anything. So a couple opportunities to get the funds. You know, ideally it would be to get some grant funds and everything. You know what I mean? They go around to parks. You know, picky humans receive grants. They've all received grants for parks and rec, parks. Even parking garages and that, you know, so.

Yeah.

Money's available. We just got to show, you know, the revenue coming in from that and everything. We won't be up late. You know, we'll never be at Gulfport. We'll never be that big.

Yeah, I don't think you need it that big.

And, you know, if we just had a little better setup where we're at, we have a good little facility. It's just doing a reconfiguring. That's right. reconfiguring a little bit, get rid of a few things, create it and you could put your two more in between five and six big pathway there you go, you get across over here, behind those fields, and put two more fields there. And then you still keep the couple fields in here. And and you have a great complex with four or six people.

And the casino owns a lot of that land behind it too, right? So that could be, which is going unused, or you could show the benefit. I mean, if there's a way, and I know there is, even to divert some of that traffic from the resident area, you know, the Highland and Esplanade athletic drive, and then divert it even through Blue Meadow or some other way to where you can, because you wouldn't want all that going down those two areas.

The ideal thing would be to go back through and come off of, it was fun leaving my house this morning school traffic first first day of pre-k for might be crying tomorrow do we have any other questions right now concern look if you when you look it over if you see something Man, don't hesitate. Send it in. Okay. Again, DD, update to DD. She came in Monday. Full steam ahead. Got a lot accomplished. Her goal is to have an update and make sure, you know, Kim and I have been doing reconciliations. Dana's doing this and Katie and all this. She went over a lot of stuff they did. Doing very well with that. She wants to have an updated, make sure everything's done for the first meeting of August. It'll probably be the second meeting, but to have the reconciliation, make sure it's up to date with due to, from, reimbursement, where we at, make sure all that's been updated and to know exactly where we're at. And that's going to give us some insight, too, on what we have in some of these funds, you know, to carry over, whether it's for projects, just to show in those accounts.

And then also at the next budget meeting, will we have a payroll breakdown?

We're working on figuring that out.

Yeah.

Right now, we did put in for 3% across the board, but there is some positions in a couple of departments, especially utility and public works. We've got some great people there trying to improve some of those hours to keep them. They're getting a lot done.

Any other discussion? I'll call for a motion to adjourn the meeting of July 29th, 2026. Do I have a motion?

Motion. Opposed by Councilman Smith. Do I have a second? Moved and seconded.

Any discussion? Vote to motion.