City Council - Regular Meeting

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Silent. You're ready. You're ready, Gary. 6 o'clock. Welcome to the May 4th, 2026 regular city council meeting. Would you all please rise to the pledge of allegiance? 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. A little behind a little bit. Sorry.

That's all right. All right, Shel. Roll call. Thank you. Yes. John Fer. Yes. Mark here. Ros here. Ants here. All right. That takes us to our first public participation. Does anybody want to come and talk to the council? Okay. Well, I won't go into the details of it. It's coming up. So, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Are there any requests to move any of the consent agendas to the regular agenda for discussion? No. All right. I will do I have a motion to u let me read it. Yeah, you need to read.

Item A, motion to approve the minutes of the April 20th, 2026 regular session. Item B, motion to approve the annual liquor license renewals for Mccorals, Rudy's discount smoke shop, and Dollar General. I will entertain a motion to pass the consent agenda. So moved. Second. All those in favor of passes the consent agenda say I. All oppose.

Passes. Five in favor. Zero opposed. That takes us to appointments. Sh. Uh we don't have any appointments on the cover sheet that I put in the packet meeting this Thursday and that was not here to tell us what's going on. How many short are we? Three. But they still have Yeah. Well, when they show up, they still have a form. Um, I am going to be having a cemetery board meeting probably sometime next week or two, so that'll be coming as well. Okay.

Super. Okay. Well, that takes us to our city manager report.

Thank you. I um I'm trying to schedule a work session with the contractors that have looked in and kind of examined our city hall building. Um, tonight was not a good meeting night with with conflicts. Um, so we put that on the 18th, which is our next meeting at 5:15. Um, it's slightly before the regular meeting and it's going to give the council an opportunity to ask questions, go over different issues with the brick and the siding, the windows. Um, so it's more of an interactive. We still have to go out to bid. There's no obligation with what people do in the roof and proceeding on that, but it would be nice to get ideas of of pricing and options and what we're looking at to get the project moving forward. Um, so you probably noticed over on the BB highway, they have been commencing dirt work. It's getting ready to do the bore. Uh, that's kind of taking quick formation and coming together. So, if you go by there, that's that's what's going on down there. Um staff has been meeting with financial software vendors. The end of the month there's three demonstrations set up with different companies to kind of see what their financial software does, how it applies to different departments. Um so that'll be coming back. G Works and Simple City is timed out. So we have a little bit of time there, but we need to kind of act swiftly to get a decision made of which direction to go with that. Um I don't know if you were aware, but at Lightning Struck in Beavers Park, that's the park area. Um, so we had to have a tree inspector come out. They said it's not an imminent threat or dangerous to the public, but it does need to be cut down before the end of summer or it doesn't fall down later. Um, let's see. The first Lions Club meeting happened last week on the 28th. So, they're newly formed chapter and they're looking for members if anybody wants to participate in the Lions. And then the average

weather sirens. Um on the 26th uh we have the tornado warning and several adverse weather things and the issues on the interstate that our PD and fire were heavily involved in assisting with. Um on the 6th of of this month at 11:00 a.m. we'll be doing the testing. I know Chief if you wanted to update them a little bit about how that works. So yeah, you want me to do that out? Sure. All right. So, um, again, we had a, uh, tornado warning come through at like 4:03 in the morning. Yeah.

Last Sunday, Monday morning, Sunday night, Monday morning. Um, we activated sirens for Cameron, Kingston, Polo, and Hamilton. That's the track the tornado warning was taking. Um, so I want to clear up some confusion about the recent comments and uh, remarks that I've read in reference to the outdoor warning sirens. Um, these sirens are just that. They're they're outdoor warning sirens are for anybody that is caught outside. When these weather conditions um come up, either a storm or if there's a some type of emergency, our comm center will set off the uh sirens here. We will also set off sirens in CW County if necessary. Um, they are not designed to be heard inside of a residence. If you hear them in your residence, that's great news. Um we again we conduct monthly test unless there's severe weather for that day. If there is we do not do the test so there's no confusion. Um again he he said when the next test is going to happen. So so we're asking you know again it's outdoor warning. Um don't rely on that for your safety. If you're in a home make sure that you have a weather radio, a weather app, text caster. I just put out a uh a deal on our Facebook page. Um click on the link, you can sign up for text cer, you'll get uh you'll get camera alerts. You'll get storm warnings for Decap and Clinton. I am going to add Caldwell onto that since we do set into Caldwell County now. So um that's where we're at. Two quick things. One, I stood straight up at 4:02 in the morning. Great. Right out of bed. So I heard it in my house.

Hey, we're loud. And yeah, I thought they were perfectly fine. And matter of fact, I could also hear it in my storm shelter in my basement. So I I do realize that some folks may be outliers or whatever, but it I mean it may be set up for outside, but I definitely heard it. So I I do know that Clinton County had problems with their county sirens. They did not activate due to a radio issue, I believe, between the radio and the sirens. Okay. So, theirs did not activate. They did get those fixed. So,

still heard it out there on that end. So, anyway, uh the other thing I was going to say is is there a way that we could have uh someone try to get I know they have the weather portable weather station radios or whatever up on the wall right there.

Okay. So, is there a way we could as a group have some sort of a discount type plan like if if you went out and said, "Hey, we can probably get at least a hundred people to do this or if you could do that." I I'm not sure where that would go. Just wondering if we should maybe just make that as an offer to our citizens, at least here in town, where they could get a a small discount to get that. I'd have to look into it. Yeah, that's No. Yeah, I didn't expect you'd know right now. I just didn't know if that but would the counseling I mean go

I mean at some point people are going to have to take accountability for their own actions at some point. I mean being on the emergency management side as well. You're going to get into you helped these people but these people still couldn't afford it. So you're going to run into that. I mean well it's out there. The way I look at it is it's just out there. I agree. I'm up all all for them taking care of it. But if we could find some place that would sell at a discount rate or whatever, I don't think we need to be involved with that.

No, no, no, no. I'm just saying, do we want to have it out there? Cuz if he can have it, if he can somehow get a discount because they're going to buy so many and just put it out there. We're not involved. They're not involved after that. He's just looking at helping out our transports so they can drop the dime. And that might be something you're emergency management director people can fetch you in the city. So I know that's why I just looked at you. John, are you talking about a Noah weather radio? Yeah, something like that. Cuz I saw on on Amazon $ 35 to $50.

Oh, so they're cheap. Well, I don't. Yeah. I mean, you might get them a lot higher and a lot lower. I just glanced at it. We purchased seven of them for this whole building. They've got two back here in the fire department. Then we have them spread out through the police department. We've got one here in here. So, I think the one I got at Lake was only like 10 or 12 bucks. Yeah. Oh, okay. So, you can get some save time. One downside is when it's a stormy cycle, they just go off all the Yeah. I only turn mine on in my lake when it's severe weather. Otherwise, I hear every, you know, flood warning or watch. Get focused weather. Yes.

Go ahead. I know. My my weather radio went off and the cell phone went off and the sirens went off and so it was just like loud three ring circuit. Did you have a dog? Because my dog goes off too. So, yeah. and and our website, the chief the chief actually signs some of the staff up, but we can get text alerts. So, if you go to the website, most most people are kind of dependent on their phones. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay, never mind then. I didn't realize they were that cheap. I figured bucks. Oh, they're way cheaper than that. I rely on my son running. There you go.

We're going to die. We're going to die. We're going to die. Let's go outside and look at it. Yeah. All right. Anything else, Scott? I do I do just have another couple of quick questions. Um, one, can is there some way we can move up the uh work session for the city hall repairs? I again, I know we've got the roof on there, but move up like on the day. Yeah, just if if that's possible. Yeah, I I I pulled like some of the athletic venues at graduation. There's a lot of stuff going on. Yeah, that's true. So, I didn't I was looking at the 11th, but two or three of you had a conflict.

You're fine. That's fine, dude. I didn't think about That's also the cyber bullying. John, I gave him the baseball schedule and that pretty much wiped out most evenings. Yeah, it does. And and the cyber bullying thing is that it's at six. Okay. And then what financial software? What are we talking about? Like Peach Tree. What are we What are we looking at? This is our records management system. Okay. So, it's not to help us. It's proprietary um to cities. It that's utility billing. It's our financial management, payroll miscellaneous bill. It's not my side of finance. No. Okay. Good enough for me. That's it. Thank you very much.

Just just to add on to that, our our current software provider is going to the cloud. They went to the and we're forcing people to go to the cloud which was it it's a lot more money and we're finding out that it's a lot of them are a lot more money because that's what they're all going to but um they did force several cities to go to the cloud and it did not work and so we were trying to find an alternative solution before we hit that deadline where they're going to push us to the cloud. We're fine with going to the cloud. We just want a software that works in the cloud. So that was that was the problem. Is that it? Yep.

All right. Thank you, Scott. Next is unfinished business. We have a second and final reading of bill 2026-11. Shelley. Bill 2026-11, an ordinance authorizing the city of Cameron, Missouri to enter into a contract with the Cameron Municipal Band. I will entertain a motion to pass bill 2026-1 on a second and final reading with by roll call move second discussion. We did get that contract signed so it's ready to go. Okay. Um John, yes. Mark Carr, yes. Ross,

yes. Penny Gans, yes. Becky Curtis, yes. All right, that takes us to a second and final reading of bill 2026-12. Shelley, bill 2026-12, an ordinance for the city of Cameron, Missouri, authorizing an amendment to article 4, definitions of the Cameron zoning ordinance by adding definitions for flag lot, conditional prohibition of flag lots and frontage lots. I will entertain a motion to pass bill 2026-12 on second and final reading by roll call. So moved. Second discussion. Any questions for me?

Second reading. Yes. Ross word. Yes. Kenny G. Yes. Becky Curtis. Yes. John. Well, I was going to ask one question um before I answer. Okay. Um where where are they wanting this? I'm just curious. This is just this is just tightening up in general. It's just it was it was very gray and so we wanted to tighten it up because there were questions in the past on on this and we're like, "Okay, we need to fix this." Okay. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't as specific. Okay, cool. Yes.

All right. That takes us to new business. We have a a resolution resolution uh 2026-21 Shelly resolution 2026-2021 a resolution authorizing an agreement by and between the city of Cameron and fluid equipment DVA cogent company inc for the retrofit overhaul project on the Cameron wastewater pump station number 12 and replacement of the progressive cavity pump in I will got that right. I have no idea what that is. I will entertain a motion to pass resolution 2026-21. Second discussion.

So, so that's a lot of terminology and and trying to type this out and read it is a little challenging, but um so the first of these two items is actually um lift station 12 is put in service about 93. all of the telemetry, the electronics, the the system in the ground that pumps the sewer, it it's got rails now, they require stainless steel. Um the rails that are in there are rusted, they're decayed. The service pumps when you back these things up to flush them out and run them are not operable. Um so it's it's severely overdue for service. And so the Alliance team members, Keith Hill and Zach Johnson, took me out and we opened it up, went through the equipment. Um, it's fun if you ever want to look into a sewer lift station. Um, you know, not everybody loves going to the sewer plant, but it's it's actually kind of intriguing. Um, so so this actually is an it's kind of an eminent update, but we have I think we have 13 total lipst it stuff. It's important to have them on a regular schedule because because being from 93 like like when you first go and look at these things if you're used to seeing the new ones you're like wow how does this thing still operate on the telemetry and the and the equipment that's in there but it's still functioning. Um but when these things go down you can't just what would happen is if it fails we have to have a a vacuum truck we have to pump the manhole transfer it to another manhole which is right across the street from Eagle Landing. And so that's probably not an ideal operating status and then we would have to fix it as an emergency. So we don't want to get into that situation with this. So we put together um it's it's coming before you because it's $49,000 which you know the the purchasing threshold for me is 15,000. So I have to get quotes. We have to put it out there. Um we do want to get businesses that are close enough to

maintain and be here if we call u. But so this this is the first one. And then on the second part of this item is your progressive cavity pump end, which if you go down to the sewer plant, there's one line after the end of all the processing of all the things down there, it processes through a 4-in pipe and there's an augur. And this augur has been in service like 10 or 12 years. It's leaking and it's the main piece that pushes everything everything into the system to dry and airate and then go into the trucks that we spread. So this is also a time down. Most of the equipment down there is pretty pretty new and pretty regenerated and in good shape, but these two items are are pretty pressing. So it it's a little bit of expense, but these items are are critical for functionality of the sewer system. Um so I appreciate um the actually drafted the contract amends. There's an addendum to it because some of these companies give you kind of the you know, we're harmless and nothing. I mean it's just uh you know the the quotes that we got from cogent had their standard terms and conditions and we have what is essentially for contracting the cities our standard terms and conditions. So just pack those on and it's pretty routine do it all the time. So, in summary, um if if you guys want to add something, but this is is an essential element. It would be good, um this is about $50,000 for the lift station to try to maybe do one or two of these a year in our capital budget just so that we're not in this type of age system where it's like, you know, you don't want them all to be aged out and old. It's kind of like having a bunch of old tires on your car. Um so, we're, you know, being proactive with this one because it is also getting a lot of grease. It's all residential, but somehow we're getting tons of grease into this lift station, which is unusual

not having restaurants and things there, which is causing it to get closer to failure. So, just it's kind of an imminent need, and I felt like we needed to bring this to your attention and and get it fixed sooner than later. So, that's kind of the summary. Zach, can you find out where the grease is coming from? We uh we're doing a little investigating. I mean, that's interesting that Yeah, that much. It's It's a solely It's solely residential that this feeds, but uh uh Yeah, we we're getting just a lot of grease. I mean, equivalent to what our sewer line up here behind Third Street is. Yeah.

Maybe everybody in the in the throwing down the drain. Yeah. So again, it's something that we're we're wondering and and we've known this for a while. Again, we take we take precautions. There's chemicals and stuff we put in there to kind of help with that and things, but uh um it is kind of it is kind of strange that we are getting a lot of grease in this lift station. Any other questions? I had a couple questions. Thank you.

Uh when if we've known about this for a while, is I don't remember hearing about it before now and is there a plan in place now where these things will be looked at type of thing because I don't know how many sewer lift stations we have, but at 70,000 a piece that's going to be a pretty good. So we have 13, Zach, would you want to open?

Yeah, we have there there's 13 lift stations. Um, we started here several years ago going through and again like Scott mentioned just rehabbing one if not two a year. Uh, the first one we did was lift station four out there by the golf course. It was in the worst shape and it was the oldest one we had. We did that one. Then we did lift station number one, which is our largest lift station. We did lift station number two, which is our second large lift station. And now we're kind of into the point of just doing some of these. The rest of them are smaller. Um, I say larger. those those conversions were $100,000 plus. Um these are going to be more along the lines of about $50,000 to replace these the remaining ones we've got. But kind of the thought was to do to do one or two a year uh to get them up up to speed. And this was just the one that we identified as the next one that was in worst the worst condition and and the one to to to look at this year.

Okay. Okay. I just clarify making sure this wasn't a OARP. We didn't we didn't realize it type of thing, but yeah. Thank you. Can you just schedule it like so many months do another one? So many months every month you do one and and that well that's we typically try to throw that money in the in the budget in the past. The city's put some kind money in there for for this this purpose. And

yeah, I'd like to say we'd like to schedule, but sometimes other things come up that you got to use that money for. But uh um again, that's what our job is to kind of tell you guys which ones is is in most need. And uh this one with the rails being um corroded and we really don't have the ability to pull the pumps and put new pumps in makes it pretty difficult to to repair. So that's why it has to have a full full replacement. Any questions? All those in favor of passing resolution 2026-21 say I. I all the passes. Five in favor, zero votes. Thank you.

Next, that takes us to resolution 2026-22. Shelly. Resolution 2026-22, a resolution of city council of the city of Cameron, Missouri, updating the comprehensive fee schedule for regulating and assessing fees and service charges. I would entertain a motion to pass resolution 2026-22. So, Second discussion. Um the only change on this comprehensive schedule is

on the back page. Uh hydrant meters. It's time again the contractors are coming in hydrant meters for different projects that they're doing. And we did still have the old uh water rates on here. So instead of changing them and having to change both of these things every every time we do because I forget. I just put on here the current cost of service and the current water rate. And what happens with with these hydrant rentals is there's a $1,500 deposit that the contractor puts down. Uh we take the readings off the meter when they bring it back and we deduct that from what they gave us and we give them a refund check if that's um

if that's appropriate. Otherwise, we'll send them a bill for the for what they use above that. Any questions?

All right. All those in favor of passing resolution 2026-22 say I. I. I. All passes five zero. That takes us to the second public participation with council. Does anybody want to talk to you?

That takes us to miscellaneous comments from the staff. Um, the only things I had off of Shel's comment about the meters. If people are putting in new lawns like and it's dry hot, you can pay $100 and then that meter reading, they actually take your sewer charges for the consumption off as well. So you're not paying the double fee to have your water and the sewer if you're just putting it out on the ground, not going to the plant. So it's just good good for people residents to understand that. Usually it takes a couple of years for that to pay for itself, but in the long run it's a good investment to not have to pay the sewer on all the water that you run outside

and quarter inch meter for a residence $100. So if you're going to use like three months worth of water, some something to think about. Um I did want to bring up um council during our weekly meetings we talked about the November sewer tax is coming up. Um the expiration is it sunsets in 2027. So normally Patrick or the attorneys would work on the ballot language and things. So I wanted to bring that up and see if that was something wanted to get it in in motion for November. That's all.

Yeah, that is the sales tax that pays for the all the improvements that we make to the wastewater treatment plant. It's currently paying for two projects and I don't know when we have to make more improvements for the next um for the next permit. I don't know that's going to be coming up. So, it's it's a good idea to keep that that one in place.

I think I was sorry to mean to interject, but I think a portion of that does go to the water fund, too. I think part of that part of that sales tax says, "Yeah, just on your radar." So, It does it does expire in 27. I did receive a notice from the department of revenue that if we got that renewed before then then there would not be any interruption in those revenues. So we thought we'd get it on this November's ballot preferably so that there's no interruption. There it is. or later.

Should we get under the tables? The last picture of hands with the book. We We had a Northwest Council meeting in this very room and the fire alarm started going off and everyone looked at each other. We're like, "We're in the fire house. the fire. That's all I had for him.

That was all I had. Okay. For me, right? Just a routine emergency, right?

Uh yeah. So, I've been uh spending the last couple of months just kind of reviewing the entirety of the systems that the city has in place uh from servers to networking and all that kind of good stuff. Figure out what's in good service and what's not. Um I mean the plans that are in place for the um system main system admin system being replaced that that takes care of a lot of the stuff for them long term as well. It kind of falls in step with their hardware needs. Um, I've also been working with Secure Serve, which is the group that they do a lot of their outsourcing work with to review the contracts, see what it is that they're paying for. Uh, currently they're already um locked into a year contract with them on their current services. But I have been working with the um the new he's a new account rep. I'm a new IT guy. We're just making the stuff up as we go. But we did find that there are some clients and services that were extra that he's going to see if he can go back and remove those since he was new to the account as well. Um so he's checking in for that for us is on that point. Um but at the same time I'm also reviewing other vendors that could help us support stuff going forward long term because besides just their hardware maintenance they are also supporting stuff like um the licensing for their antiviruses, the licensing for the Microsoft. So I'm looking at another vendor as well that could potentially fit a little bit better than what their current one is. Um so we'll just kind of see how that goes throughout the course of the year. I've also had some long conversations with United Fiverr regarding their internet services across the multiple facilities. Um, it's neat. But, uh, what we did find and we agreed upon is there's some reductions that we can do with the main city hall as well as their temporary city hall, which should get us a reduction of about $600 a month going forward. We're going to start those contracts here shortly uh to get that changed. It does change us to a three-year commitment that we can go a little higher if we needed to, but it's always still going to be cheaper than what we're paying today. So, uh, we're going to go ahead and move forward with that.

And uh lastly, yeah, mostly just kind of um end user support on stuff. And we did replace the main firewall for the that controls all the security um letting people in and out, blocking people from the outside world and replaced that which um opened up a lot of different information for us to know what areas we need to be watching. And it's it's not Scott. It's not his fault. Not this time. No. So anyway, that's good.

But no, the um reviewing of those other systems. We know we have with G Works and Simple City about two years before they want to sunset their current application, which we have two years where our hardware would also be going out of support. So, the sooner we can kind of get that stuff going, the less risk we're going to have to all the systems within their city hall. So, that's all I got.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, so far we've been working on the $15 million safe streets for all grant on the BB bridge replacement. So far we've got three of our politicians that have already given us letters of support and we're waiting for the rest of them to give that. We're working with Moan and they're writing that up and then I'm supplying them with extra data and other items from the hospital and other places. So that's going along really well. We've got to have it in by May 26. That grant for 15 million. It's an 8020 split. So we're looking at 12 from MODOT. Well, 12 from DOT, Department of Transportation. And then the three million we're working with mod on how that we're going to work that either it's coming out of the TDD or it's coming out of mod itself because MDOT owns the bridge and so it would you know you would throw that think that they would want to throw some in. So we've been talking to a lot of the politicians about that and getting that on their radar. Also been doing a lot of planning and zoning. Uh we've had many people put in for some requests on changing of planning and zoning uh variances. Um so we're doing doing that. That'll be next week on next Tuesday instead of Monday because we've got the uh bully um session that's going to be on Monday. Then been doing a lot of Genwick financing to get to the end of that project. Um, we're there. Now we've got to finish it up and get to the easier part of just running the business. And I I think we all are excited about getting to that point. Um, then the kicking it in Cameron meetings. We've got a lot of those. We're getting ready to really push it out. If you haven't seen,

there's been two different TV stations in town in the last week. uh channel four and channel 5 came in and they've done interviews with Stacy, Emily and Pauline and then they've also gone to Suz and and then they've gone up to Robins as well and done interviews with them and they look really good. Uh, I saw that the Channel 5 was here today, so I've seen it, but um, we're getting a lot of press and then Stacy and Lana went around Friday talking to all the hotels and it turns out that all the hotel rooms on everybody they talk to are they're stacked in June and July. So, they are full. So, we are going to have people period. So, let's let's have fun and make camera look good. That's all I got.

Any questions? Go.

Um, I want to give a shout out to our uh 6-hour interstate shutdown on Friday. Uh, give a shout out to my my uh department, Cameron Fire Department. Uh, Tad. I called him. He sent some of his street guys to help us with traffic. We were running out of people. Uh Clinton County Sheriff's Office and they even provided lunch for us. Uh Dicap County helped us, Highway Patrol, Osborne, Leather Fire, MDOT. We had Lifellight Eagle on standby. And then CP excavating, they uh brought big dump trucks full of rock out so this truck could uh get off the interstate. Um we had two accidents. Actually, we didn't. It was north of us. Uh two accidents through that whole thing. one at the 56 mile marker, which is 2 miles north of town, then one at the 62, which is north of the Winston exit. So, that's three or four times that they've been stuck moving this stuff. Uh, this would have been the second time and then on Saturday they were stuck again down south somewhere. So,

was that not predictable? I mean, just the the arc of that curve trying right with the with the guardrail on the other side. Yeah. Was that not I mean I'm the dentist and I kind of thought that didn't look like was going to be uh so I believe what was it a million pounds? Yeah, that's what it said in the paper. A million pounds. So 400 something. It was too heavy to cross the bridge over I35 on 36. So mod give them permission to take the exit or get onto the interstate and take that turnaround to come back and then get back up on 36. Well,

but somebody with a compass should have said I think we need gravel here just like ahead of time to make that that might happen. When a trailer has 20 axles, it can only go to 50,000 pounds per axle. So that's a million tons 400 to 500 tons. We don't want those going over our bridges or across things that are collapse. Will they compensate us uh for all the man hours? We are.

We're going to build. They're going to bill. And I talked to Sheriff Carol. They are billing and he's reaching out to the fire other fire departments too to make sure that uh uh we're going to bill for our vehicle manhour. Uh, we sent our drone out. We're going to bill for that. Um, so my wife missed a very important watercolor class. Send them a bill. So, anyhow, everybody did a great job. Only two accidents and a six-hour shutdown of the interstate. That That's pretty good. So, thank you everybody.

Okay, chief. They covered it. We appreciate you both your department. All right, we're moving over to our water. Yeah, not much to report. Uh again, sewer, as Scott alluded to earlier, the sewer extension project BB is doing good. I believe they're they're working on the boarding there and I noticed they were laying some pipe actually today. So, uh that's going good. Um everything else regarding city came going pretty good. We did have a new employee, new uh utility worker start today. So, that department is now is now back to to full strength. Um, regarding Gen Wave, we had a little excitement here last weekend. Two weeks ago,

two weeks ago,

two weeks ago, we had a uh had a have a a 90 come apart that required us to shut down for a little bit. And uh but uh thanks to the quick response from these two guys next to me, they got uh they got everything isolated and the contractor came in and got it fixed and got it taken care of and uh um got things back up and going. So uh it was I think it was maybe a blessing in disguise. It pointed out some things that we need to be prepared for moving forward um on how we kind of handle some things. Not not anything wrong, but just what to be prepared for. Um and like I said, so I think it was a I think it was a it was a good thing. So, but uh like I said, we're just fortunate that Cameron was still kind of online and Mazeville was just they're not fully online yet. So, it it worked out okay. So, but again, so yeah, add a little add a little excitement there. So, other than that, things are going pretty good.

I just want to point out we did have a couple of things in your packet. that we did get our confirmation from the Arbor Day foundation that we are tree city. Um the Cab County and Caldwell County have been certified as work ready communities which is a big deal for economic development. Um and I will be out of the office Thursday afternoon and Friday morning I have a board. So, I'll be out those days, but then I'll be back in the office.

Just one thing. Bud Young is concerned about flushing hydrants. Is there are we are we flushing hydrants? There was just a post put out on that. There was It was in We tal I've talked to Zach already and it's in their plan. U that's that's part of their policy to Cameron. So we we can put that to bed. And probably where it comes from. Missouri American is currently doing their switch over to free chlorine and doing their their flushing.

So you're seeing a lot of flushing in in that area. That that's probably what's to this. But um yeah, that's like I said Mike and I talked about the last meeting that uh but that's on on our list for for things to do. So normally not to keep talking. I've seen you guys flushing hydrants probably in relationship to a broken pipe or something like that. Typically what will happen in the future um when Missouri American does their their flushing program we will probably do that as well to match theirs. Um we're not ready for that right now but uh in the future that that will probably probably carry over here too. So

yeah, that's all I have. Nothing. Ross,

my turn. Um, I attended the I spent three hours last week in prison. Um, surprised that I attended the National Crime Victim's Rights Week uh restorative justice event at Crossroads. Um, and that was really cool. They they had uh some offenders that spoke. They had uh some community partners there. Um I know Stacy Early was there from the chamber. We had guest speakers from Casey Mothers in Charge. Um they go to all the homicides down there that occur with kids and work with the parents through that. Um and then there were also children of homicide victims that were there as well. So, um they were very happy that um someone from the city was there and they also said that they uh are happy to provide um any raffle items or things that we need if we have any fundraising events coming up. They've got some very very talented um inmates uh there. So, that was that was really cool to have been invited.

Super. Glad you went. Yep. Three hours in prison. Nothing. That's it. That's it. All right. Well, I don't have anything. Just looking forward to seeing all the the interesting people that'll be coming in and kick it, you know, during the next couple months. So, and we also have the balloon fest. Yes. Coming up. Yep.

Short. They may have a report on how she's doing as far as funding. They're shooting for 100,000. Any idea? They're short of that. Well, I gathered that. I have no ide but I hadn't heard. We need She needs put up one of those little mercury thermometers or having a balloon or have a bullet there. That's a good one. Ira wanted me to pass on that they have started filling the pool. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And I think they've got everything. We should probably notify you guys. Yeah, I wish I would have knew. Like, why is the tape drop? I was wondering why I was getting behind today. Is this serious? Yeah, ain't serious.

Oh, yeah. We're supposed to tell them. Oh, you sound serious. Hey, we're filling the pool today. It's like 250,000. Joe's like, "Good thing you showed up." Yeah, I knew we had a leak this morning, but I didn't know we had a big leak like that.

And and by the way, that leak, that water man leak down by the high school, uh the lady, I won't say her name, but she was thrilled with what you guys did and and how clean he came back and back and and straightened things up, made it look a lot better. You know how some people are not happy? It's like you can help that, you know, but it's quite a little geyser coming out of her yard and it gone clear down to the veterans memorial and uh so she was a happy camper and understanding and appreciative of the efforts that the city made. Thought I'd pass that along.

All right. Well, I don't have anything. So with that I will now adjourn from the regular meeting into executive for turning client communications and real estate. All in favor I will move. Good job. Ros Kenny G. Becky Curtis. Yes. John Fer. Yes. Mark Far.

Yes. like a lot of yelling. How are