City Council - Regular Meeting

It has been five weeks by quirk of the calendar. Most of the time it's four weeks, but every now and then it's five. So, and this was one of those times. If you bow with me, we'll have a word of prayer and then we'll move on. Our father in heaven, we're thankful for yet another day of life. We're thankful for the opportunity to gather here tonight. Thankful for our friends and neighbors that have joined with us. We're thankful for the folks that sit around this table and and work to make uh this a better place to live. We're thankful to have such a good place to live, but we're also uh mindful that we need to continue to work to keep it that way. We pray for those that are out there working in the heat that you'll keep them safe. We pray that you'll keep those folks safe that have to uh um manage emergencies, respond to emergencies, and all those guys and ladies that are standing out down there tonight directing traffic at the fair that you'll be with them in the heat. We ask now that you go with us and bless us and be with us as we do our business here this evening. forgive us our sins. Amen. Um, just thinking, not going to mean anything to y'all, but I was telling them inside my uh or in the room, my oldest son was is 39 years old today, and he was born 19 minutes from now, 6:21. You always remember that. And certainly the the mama does, but the dad does, too. So, uh, never really thought I'd get this far along, but I did, and I'm thankful for that. Okay, we got a set of minutes from, uh, July July 15th, I believe, is what this says. Yeah. Have y'all had a chance to look at them? Feel good about them? All right. Somebody want to make a

motion? I make a motion to approve. Second motion. Got a motion and a second. We have any discussion? All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Minutes are approved. Uh public business or comment. Anybody like to address us? Now's the time. If you would come up front and uh give us your name and and u you know holster your weapon and and it's not that bad. Good.

Those that don't know me, I'm Rachel Scanley. I come to you as a parent today um to tell you all about an incident that I witnessed that I feel like needs to be brought to the attention of the community and that I truly believe there's got to be a simple fix. So, um for those that don't know, on the morning of August 8th at around 7:20 a.m. an ambulance was called to the high school. Um I was sitting in the turn lane. This is kind of hard to explain, but I was sitting in the turnway on squad 5 waiting to turn into the high school. We all heard an ambulance coming behind us and the officer directing traffic at the high school immediately jumped into action, stopped all the traffic quickly. Um, I do believe that everybody there believed that the ambulance was just going to go through traffic at that point. So, none of us, including the officer directing traffic, had any idea that the ambulance was actually headed to the high school. And the ambulance didn't go around the cars by going into the lane of oncoming traffic as expected to go around everybody cuz that's the way the cop had kind of froze everybody and expected him to do. Instead, the ambulance pulled right up behind the car that the traffic officer had stopped that would have went straight on up spar pipe. The one car in front of me, I remind y'all, I'm in the turning lane turning into the high school. The car in front of me decides to go ahead and go like get out of the way, which is probably smart. This car that was blocking the ambulance went to get over in front of me. And at the exact same time the ambulance went to cut between me and this car because nobody had a clue they were trying to get to the high school. So um then so basically they almost collided and the point was no one was aware that the ambulance was trying to get into the

school. That's the main point of this. Um, and of course once on the school grounds there was a school representative directing the ambulance and everything was fine. But I called and spoke to Chief Hinderite about the unpreparedness of everyone for this type of emergency. And it was evident that the traffic officer had was completely unaware that an ambulance was coming to the hospital. Um, and complete truth to me this is unacceptable. Um, the Watertown Police should always know when emergency vehicles are coming through the area, especially when an officer is directing traffic of all places at the high school because you've got 16 year old kids that have just got their license that may or may not have been taught where to go and how to get out of the way to be one. Um, so, um, and if I understood officer gender correctly, Wilson County will not share the radio channels with Watertown police. Um, which most likely would have allowed the officer to be aware and better prepared and could have honestly gotten everybody out of the way. So, and also my understanding is when 911 is called, it goes to Wilson County Dispatch, but no communication is sent to the Watertown Police. Now, I may have misunderstood some of that. If I did, that's fine. But that's what I understood in the conversation. So, to me, this is unacceptable as the emergency response to one of our kids at our high school was delayed, you know, and I keep thinking it over my head when I was considering coming to speak to you guys. It was like, but it was only a minute. But in honesty, in a minute, that could have been the life or death of one of our kids. And if that the ambulance and that car, I'm telling y'all, it was close. Like, they both stopped just in the mere inches from colliding. If they hadn't collided, it would have been that much more of a

delay because I don't even know, do we have a second ambulance that's standing by over here to take somebody? if that ambulance is in a wreck. Um, but honestly with the front row seat, it was just too close for comfort. I felt like with all the advancements in technology that this could have been prevented with proper I word it as processes and procedures for better preparedness, but and as a parent, I'm calling for proper processes and procedures specifically in communications to be better prepared in the future when emergencies arise. I really do appreciate Chief Hinderite taking the time to speak to me on the phone because he spoke to me in length about you know cuz I said how did the traffic officer not know? I mean I know they're not even really that's not what they're even supposed to be doing and doing that as a favor to the community I guess is the way to word it to the school to be even to do that for us. But it was very disturbing to watch a traffic officer do his job and stop traffic and everybody just freezes because the ambulance pulls up and expects all of us to know what to do and then when they do try to make a decision what to do. We couldn't predict what they were about to do. So they it basically almost ended up in a wreck is the point of what I'm saying. And it could have been a lot worse than what it was. But even that minute, which it took a minute to get everybody organized, I mean, delaying emergency response to a child who, my understanding, was in desperate need.

Um, this wasn't just a simple thing. So, again, like I said, I appreciate the council's time and allowed me to voice my concern and request. Sure. And always, we are always here for public comment. Let me ask you a couple questions if you don't mind. So get to the Are you saying that the communication was from the the lack of communication was from the Wimma folks with the ambulance? I think so to us. I think so. That would that wouldn't have gone through the sheriff's department. Well, but that's the point is that if you've got a Watertown officer directing traffic that's responsible to get this emergency crew through or where they need to go, Yeah. I don't understand why the communication is not there.

Yeah. I'm not disring. I'm trying to pin on where to go. Yeah, it goes to the county, but the county is not there at the moment. And well, well, the wheel is in contact with Wilson County, are they not? As in like the SRO there, he would have got that call like through his radio and it I can't answer that. I I assume they are. I know. Even the SRO was already involved and was at the scene with the student is what you would think that he was probably the one that was they're the ones directing traffic outside the school. I mean, not on the ground, but they're like waving the ambulance telling them what number to go to.

And this wasn't it was one of the school secretaries was out front with those. The point was there was a school representative. Yes, there has to be where they needed to go.

They've got to plan A, B, and C when something like that. There was the assistant principal was not there was literally no adults in the area. I was grateful that the kids actually stayed where they were supposed to be on the sidewalk and let the crews get through and do what they needed to do. Even the kids acted prepared. I think that was the point or at least had acted with some common sense which for teenagers that's asking a lot but to me in that moment just one simple thing just to be prepared to how to if an ambulance is coming through to have a plan to get them through the traffic because this was 720 everybody's trying to get to school at the last second kids are going every direction they're just I don't it's one of those situations where you don't a problem until you could see the problem is kind of what the situation was. It's not something anybody would think about or prepare for until there was a problem.

Okay. And having a front row seat, it was pretty evident that there's got to be some simple little thing that can be done to better prepare because that one minute in that situation or if that wasn't wrecked, it could have been 10 or 15 minutes delayed for that child. Sure. And I don't want it to be my child or any of our children to be that way. We would I'll see what I can find out here. Um, you might also want to share your concern with the Wimma folks. Okay.

The main office in Lebanon on Book Street. Uh, Joey Cooper uh is the Wimma director. His children went to school at the high school and or at least a child. I mean, uh, but he would want to know that too because obviously his people need to get there on time and that's in he's in the business of managing emergencies. Gotcha. If you would share that with him as well. Absolutely. And we'll see what we can get to. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for coming. You're welcome here any any month. We try not to meet but once a month. Wouldn't help it. real quick.

Come on up, Mr. Dysfunction. Yeah. Um, the sign that's out here for Three Forks Park, uh, I volunteered this to repair it. And if anybody knows any history about it, the letters are carved onto the wood. They are. So, I mean, either cut the letters off and put them on new wood or something. But if anybody got any ideas, you can take a look at it, let me know. And I'm going to have to figure out how to save the letters to put on new because the old wood are still rotted. U that it's I track the pieces that fell off. I looked at it's got splintered really bad pieces still up there probably salvage. But then you're going to have two different color boards. Yeah.

So you start from top to bottom bottom. So I I like to read the whole thing. So just go out and take a look at it. If you got any ideas, let me know of how to get those letters because they're going to have to cut out. So, I wish I knew where we got those signs cuz they've been here 30 something years probably. They're that sign was the same one for the two entrance that say, you know, no alcohol and that and they're faded as they could be. I'd like to see those redone, too, if we knew where we got them. But I

I don't recall. signing graphics uh that we've helped before in our shop. They have a really wild rubber mat that's cut out all the letters on it and they sand blast that around the rubber mat and that makes the looks like it's carved out look. We have the other two pieces of Yeah, we've got the other sign over there. They have it at the So, you want to save the letters? What you want to do? Yeah, we'd like because it's threedimensional, we'd really like to make it look the same because it's the other ones because as I've told everybody at the end of this year, I'm done with any doing anything. So, I'm going to start getting into wood. So, I'll help out with projects, but I don't charge it anymore. John Juel

John Juul might know. Jan was the probably one that did it. Yeah, she's the one I'm sure when she was on the council. Yeah. Um, and that goes back 35 36 37 years. So, if you have, like I said, you got any hints, let me know. We'll see what we can find out there. But I've been looking from time to time. Not lately, but I we can't find anything here where we paid the bill or right with an idea how to do it. I've got the basic tools for doing a lot of work.

If we can get the letters off, I can get them to Jacob and Jacob has a pretty wild router. I would say that he could recut us in depth and put the letters back inside. That would be great cuz it's on both sides. So, probably on both sides. That would be great. You got my number and get my number after. Yeah, get your number. And I appreciate you. I know you don't want to be the lead, but I appreciate you taking the lead. public project like that. That's why Hi, ma'am. How are you? I'm good. Sarah, the chamber.

Um, so we have a couple of chamber events coming up that I wanted to go over. Um, but first, we wanted to apologize for what happened at our last food festival with the food truck. So, we addressed

well, we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. And so we want to kind of come up with a a plan that when when we're inviting these food trucks to come that we have a proper space for them to be at and it can kind of be the same area each time unless we're having like a big event and the square is closed. Um we know that we kind of have three spots to work with. We have the we we can fit two food trucks in front of the old city hall and then we were going to put one that sides up to the gazebo. So that would be three food trucks that we would plan on. But Heather at our last chamber meeting, we we kind of went over it and Heather made the plan. Do you do you want to go over it? Yeah, I'll go over it. Um, I created a really rough map that you can see approximate where the three food trucks will be parked for events. If we have three, we might have two, we might have one, but this event, the bluegrass event, we'll have three. Yes.

Um, and we'll talk to you about that. Yes, we're definitely always going to talk with April, let her know ahead of time which food truck is coming and then we also clarify with all the businesses. You know, you do if you're inviting a food truck to come, not only do you need to let us know, but you have to let go. And there was never anything um put in writing for as food trucks go with the chamber. So, I thought it would be a good idea to write something to put that in place. We had um a little bit confusion the last event because it like I said, it was never in writing. A local business had a food truck coming on a chamber event and that's where the two got

pickle.

So, um it it just you can read along with me. I'll just kind of do it very quickly. Availability 1 to three and the payment after approval. They have to get approval from us, but we don't do anything without talking to Miss April. Um, they can go to the website to apply. Um, payment has to be paid before requirements. Must have a valid food truck permit and comply with local, state, and health department regulations. Watertown city food truck permit. Food trucks must supply their own equipment and you can read the rest. Storefront invitations. This will help alleviate that. Local storefront businesses may invite food trucks but have to be um approved by the executive board. Um, we have the right to deny anybody that you do not want there or we do not want there. We also will not compete with other local businesses in town. Um, and then and then it says a brief um a thing about the craft vendors that might come, but they still apply to the keeping the town clean, respectful behavior, responsibility for their own power chip and display. So that's basically something that I think we need to get final improvement and keep in the

chamber bylaws. I have one question on that one. Do they the generators? Do you even have to provide your own generators? No, they provide they provide. We do not provide we do not want them touching any outlet in the city because what has happened in the past. Um, my my thing with that would be that the city put locks in all the services. Yeah. Because the historic we've been paying a lot of money to have those fixed. Okay. It seems like after every big event there's an outlet broken or something for the service panels, but we put a lock on it. They want to use service. They could come to the city and let them know they need to buy to rent or whatever cross. Are you talking about all the electrical outlets on the poles over on the square?

Yeah, the square. because they're getting they get pretty much they're not purposely deadlines but people get in the rush they'll pull the quarter out and break them out with okay and I just had my friend go through there again and so you I would suggest putting a lock on all the services if they need to get into one uh maybe historic have a key or have a key here and guys have a key we're going to have probably have to let somebody have a key besides here because we were not here Saturday and Sunday no that's up I'm saying the story. Uh they'd have to come Friday and say, "You have to get a key." Okay. Um or they could come to the store or the chamber to get a key to the service, but then we know that they're there. Okay. And if something breaks, we know who,

you know, but that's just because we're spending a lot of money repairing small things. Okay. So, but that'd be my suggestion for that one. All right. Um, so the other thing is we know we're building in front of city hall because nobody's allowed to park in front of there, but the night before are we allowed to put one of um the big barrels out in that one spot because if the food trucks are paying to come, we need to make sure that that space is available for them. I wouldn't see any problem that be after business, you know, after the businesses are closed. And I got a couple of comments cuz I got I was the one that realized at the last

festival that basically the way the food trucks had set up turned Main Street right there in front of the bank parking lot into a onelane road. Okay. Cuz you had a food truck you had a food truck going eastbound that was in the parking parking parallel parking spots. Okay. Okay. And you had a food truck going I meant westbound and you had another food truck going eastbound in front of the bank parking lot which was in a lane of traffic. Okay. And that was the problem. Um couple of suggestions because the gentleman that I when I had him move his truck, he said he was supposed to be in front of city hall and you already had one in front of city hall. Yeah. Well, we Well, sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt you.

No, what what I was going to say is one you don't have on here. You need to know how large their their food truck is. If it's just a trailer, if it's a trailer and a truck like this gentleman was. Mhm. Because between his truck and his trailer, he was over 45 ft long. Okay. They're supposed to park their trailer. And that's a good thing for me to put in here. Park your trailer and move your truck in an official parking spot.

Right. Well, he had his generator in back of the truck and had them together. him. We moved him and got him over in the parking lot. Fortunately, the bank had already closed and the parking lot was open, so I got him out of the street along with um I forget the officer who was on duty. Uh no, it is Warren Watertown officer showed up. So, one, you need to know the length of their vehicles. And two, if you're going to use the spots in front of the old city hall, I think those need to be coned off or something the night before because you do have people that live upstairs on that side of the square.

And I think that's who had been parked there overnight. But there again, they own the building and they have an upstairs residence. I don't know how happy they're going to be if you're taking their parking spots. We hope not to. That's where the um Drew lives or his one of his residences. Yeah.

I know it's not occupied all the time, but sometimes that upstairs apartment is occupied. So, but that was the other part of the problem is nobody blocked off any of the spots on the square the night before and someone got there early or overnight and therefore you had a problem on Saturday morning. M that's great if we're allowed to block them off the night before that that's going to alleviate a lot of problems. I think see that's the other thing I want to ask why can't all these parties the food truck be put in one spot why they got to be scattered out and find a place for them. I don't know. Well, because a lot of the businesses don't don't want the food truck in front of their business because

well I mean can't we find a spot somewhere? How many food truck have five? Six? Well, well, normally it'll just be three or less. If it's like a the Maron yard sale, that's when it would be a lot. But they have a section that's Well, it look like we could find a spot where you put three food trucks. We kind of have that solution right there that would only take up one spark parking spot and that's by the cazo. Nobody is supposed to park in front of the old city hall. Correct. So, put all the food trucks right there. Yeah, that's what we're doing. That's where the match. They're talking about having two here and one there.

And I'll put them all three right all of them right there in one spot. Yes, sir.

Um and then the other um thing that happened is so when we have a like a music festival and you've got the people coming on in on the train, they're not necessarily going to bring chairs with them. You know, we talk about it in the paper like, you know, bring a chair with you. But so at at the music festival we had in July, even if Bob had bought the bleachers, and he he didn't bring bleaches because we didn't ask him, but even if he had them, there was all there was people parked there. So, we were going to see if the one we're having, the bluegrass festival on August 30th, if the night before if the bleaches could get put out so at least people have somewhere to sit to listen to the music. I noticed that too and I thought at least that center area I don't think we should block off anything in front of the outside perimeter but that city area that will hold the bleachers right there what four or five parking spots in the past

and I think cuz I did notice that that was a problem that's something y'all can do on Friday on the 29th before you go home. Yes, we're going to bring the ones from the football field and soccer's over with. Okay. That's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Okay.

Yes. Okay. And then um the other thing is um it's time again for the train robbery and this is a big one because it's the 25th um anniversary of the train robbery coming. So um if it's still good, you know, we'll go with the same plan that we had in spring. That worked really well. and I'll get with um Chief Henderite about you know blocking it off for the hour so they can do the gunfight. Um I have um spoken with the Dentry Desperados and they're having um John Wayne's grandson come so that's a pretty big deal.

Yeah, he's Yes. And then somebody that's like related with I don't remember his name yet. So, so when when is this sir? So that is September 20 20th and what they have asked is if you know if people local people could dress up and our business owners on the square they could dress up like if we could all really embrace it with the anniversary. So So that's what we have coming up. You'll have publicity coming out in advance on that. Yes. Yes. You have access to a paper on it. I think so. I kind of know the owner. Yes. So, all right.

All right. Well, thank you. Thank y'all for coming. We got a young gentleman coming from the back who wants to speak to us about a nasty problem. Yes. My name from the water Tennessee City works. You know, we're having a very big issue with people flushing wipes.

They do not disintegrate. And when they hang up in the lines, you know, we do go and jet them out, but when they hang up two or 300t down the line, I have a hard time getting to them. Now, I did have a major blockage the other day that we had to cut the sewer in half and it took us almost two hours to get it undone and back together. So, is there any way, you know, we can get the message out that wipes don't need to be put in to they don't need to be closed? Because if I have a major blockage, say at the school or anything like that, I'm going to have to shut a road down, dig the road up, pull the sewage pipe up and fix it. So, if we can, can we just put tissue in the the the toilet per se, you know, and keep the wipes out? It says on the container cannot flush. So, they're not reading that. So, they might not read what we put out

cuz we actually had five calls on the same day when we cut the sewer loose. Can you tell what house it's coming from? Yes. Well, you're talking on the city property. We're not But if they do that over on their side, it's up to them. Yes, sir. It would be up to them or a plumber would have to come out and do it for sale. Now, we do help the elderly out, you know, around here. So, I mean, if they was to have a problem, I would address that. But once you stock the main up, everybody stops up from there. Yep.

And then, you know, we're real busy at the city right now trying to fix everything and get a lot of stuff done. So, we have to pull every guy that works for us on that one job. We're taking away from doing everything else around the city. I mean, one of the things city of Las Vegas did is they put it right on the sewer bill. Says that you're if you're evidence that you're responsible for for a sudden blockage that you may be charged for cleaning. I think that's a great idea, but it was on their bill so they recognize it as well. Make a fine for flushing baby wipes. Yeah, we can get them. You can't like you can tell where it's going to be heads up. Yeah.

And I've worked many of those crosses come backing out on the streets. And I just don't want to blocking the big mine pipe, you know, cuz once it goes in there and it gets to Mr. Gail's portion of the the sewer down there, we don't want it to hang up that. Yeah. So, but that's all I got for you. All right. Thank you, sir. Anybody else? Anybody out in TV land?

No, sir. Okay. All right. We will move on to the fire report would have been first tonight. Chief's not here. He told me he might not be here. Uh you you should have a report in there. I think just going on memory it had this first time I can remember. We had 18 calls in the county and 18 in the city. 50/50 I believe. That's where I hope I didn't dream that up. I don't have it in front of me. But anyway, you have that. Nothing going on with them that I'm aware of. Uh, yeah. Is that what it was? Okay. Uh, Dale, you're up next with the sewer report. Sure.

Looks like you're the only one show tonight. [Music] Last month I mentioned some issues with the pump station in the industrial park. Um, we did order a replacement pump for that station. I haven't got it in yet, but we'll get set up and back and running soon enough. Other than that, I don't have anything for you. Any questions for Dale? Comments? Appreciate you. Thank you. I guess you echo what Cody said about the baby wipes. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a problem. And it's not just a water problem. It's a

wipe problem. And it's everywhere comes back to legends. Yeah, I talked to Bob and I'm going to see if I can draft some letters up to send to some homeowners and if we can figure out who they are, send them letters and if it's a continuing problem, I don't might be declaring them a nuisance and disconnect them. Turn your water off. You might want to word the letter. Don't let Bob find out where it's coming from. It's hard to tell where it's coming from once it gets in the sewer. Yeah, it is. All right. And I don't know where Chief Henderite is tonight. I He sent me an email today. He didn't say anything about not being here, but

his truck was there earlier. I don't know if he got in the middle of the call or not. Truck was over there. They're pretty busy, too. Um, but he he put a report in there and I don't know of any problems. And I do think that he hired and filled his last open position.

He did. And then we had an officer get hurt night before last uh in a chief referred to it as an incident. I I'm assuming it's some type of scrap, but uh he's not seriously hurt, but he was going to be out a few days. So um okay, let me go into uh some items we need to deal with tonight. Let me say first uh April has been working solo since April. April's been working since April. And I have hired somebody to begin Monday. Her name is uh Tamara Oakley. Did I say that right? Um she is going to start Monday. She gave her two weeks notice. She is going to work part-time. she will work 30 hours a week except on the times when April is off or if she goes on vacation at which time she'll work all week 40 hours. Um obviously there's a reason for the cut off there because we don't have to provide health insurance. Um and I have received word in the last couple of days. I investigated this in the spring, but we didn't get anywhere. But Brena has let me know that they have a young lady who's interested in working part-time. So, I'm going to talk to her about maybe working the other 10 hours of the week. And then that way, it'll leave us two people on on duty and give April some relief. Uh, you know, we've heard how busy it is with the police and everybody else. It's really busy in this office now cuz we have got so many projects going on that she's having to manage money, keep it separated, and

that it's a challenge. It's a challenge. So, uh, hopefully with now, Miss Oakley will be hired on 90-day probation. And she is a resident of I hope she doesn't mind me giving her address. She's a resident of Church Street, so she lives in town. Um, that was one of the things I was going to say when it was my time to talk tonight, but I received a message that just said they wanted to brag on Miss April and said, "I just want you to know that when I call or have to come by city hall, I'm greeted with nothing but kindness. She knows what she's doing. She's efficient. Uh, if she doesn't know, she gets back to us in time." And she said, "As a council member, I just wanted you to know what a gym y'all have up there at city hall." So, I was going to brag at my time. So, thank you. Thank you.

That doesn't mean you can call in six more day. Yeah. Just don't do it the first day. Leave that girl in here by herself. Yeah. There you go. Oh, yeah.

Uh she's got some time built up for vacation. Hopefully, she'll be able to take it soon, but the young lady that's coming in needs a couple of weeks to get acclimated. and I will keep you posted on the uh and I don't know what the young young lady's name is the student, but she wants to do the work sharing type thing. So, and we have a young man that does that for us and helps Cody and him uh in the summer full-time and then he works what 8 or 10 hours a week when he gets off school. Doesn't he come over after school? Well, he don't right now, but when fall break, he's going to come back.

Okay. He's a good worker and uh good helper. So we've been fortunate to have some good young people work for us that that are workers, not just uh hangers on. Um we uh got our letter from the state of Tennessee. Our budget for this year has been approved and it was conditionally approved and the only reason they put a condition on it is because we still have a fight going on with the Tennessee uh T-board TB R. Um JC York and I had to go down there on the 17th of July. It started at 9:00 and they got to us at 3:30. We had to sit there for 6 and 1/2 hours. And the reason they had us down there was the two things we were supposed to have done by such and such a date. And we did them both on time. And it was there, as far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't have had to been there, but we were. And now we got an order in yesterday. The one thing, one of the two things we did, April did it. She took the information, prepared the report, and sent it in in a timely manner, and their objection is we didn't have a third party do it. And the order said, I know I'm on TV, but the order said if we didn't have that in by October 31st, I could be subpoenaed again. I don't know if that's going to work or not. They may have to come get me if that happens cuz she did her job. She did it for us. And there was I mean all the third party's going to do is take her work and transfer it onto there and send it in. So anyway, I'll get off my soap box. Y'all know I usually f about one thing

each month. That's it. Hopefully. Um I sent out some stuff to you. The sewer project is is going ongoing. I have uh uh visited with the uh the contractor's mother at the fair a couple of times and uh she was asking about it and I told her to please I asked her I don't I'm conscious you don't tell a woman anything I'm right

uh I asked her to encourage those people I said the folks on Commerce Avenue have been inconvenenced long enough and u they need to get busy and get that done. And I know there's a lot of rock down there, but that shouldn't surprise anybody. There's a lot of rock in Wilson County. So hopefully they're going to get that and they need to be in that creek doing what they got to do down there while it's dry and it's only going to, you know, we'll have a dry month this month and maybe next month and then we'll start getting more rain. So I I I hope that uh they'll move on with that. But that's that's pretty much the sewer. uh report right now. Uh but we do have several things going on for water. Uh Steve Jones, when we were here the other day, we had the preconstruction conference on the water tank work that's going to be done. Uh that's going to be a major project. We're going to they're going to take the water tank that sits up on the hill that probably nobody pays any attention to it because it's it works and we've never had any problems, but it has to be rehabbed and it hadn't been rehabbed totally in many many years now. There's been some partial rehabs done over from time to time. So, that will be done. I signed the notice to proceed August 26th or shortly thereafter and they hope to have that done by sometime in mid November. Um going to be a little nervous while that's going on just in case we don't want to have a big fire. I mean we'll have water it will be working. you you shouldn't you go to the faucet the water should come out but if we have a problem where it's a major drain on our supply we've got the emergency connection to the Wilson County Water Authority and they've assured us they'll take care of

what we need. So I just I'm anxious for it to get done. Now they have asked what color do we want to paint the water tank? Why are you laughing? You know where I'm headed, don't you? What's y'all's feeling? I told her we would present it to the council and get a vote on it. As long as it's not ours, it'll be okay. Well, that was suggested and I you'd be happy to know. I vetoed that. Yeah, I know. I saw the email. Georgia, we're not going red or gold or orange. That's right. But I would like I think I think it'd be kind of neat to have it purple. I think so.

If they can get the right color purples. I told him I don't want lilac or something like that. You know, we need to be purple. I liked the suggestion from Bob that came out in here email that if we can get the water town purple with a white W on the side of the tank. It's simple, tasteful, and it the reverse of that might work well, too. White with a purple W. However, if you paint the entire tank white, it's going to show dirt very quickly.

And I think the purple tank with the white W would would service well and not not appear to be dirty within 3 months of it being painted. Yeah, we we discussed the white just probably wasn't realistic because of the dirt problem. All right. What's the pleasure of the council? I make a motion with paint purple with a white W with the right color purple. Right color purple. Water town purple. Have to what? Be approved by you or has to be approved by somebody. I don't know what color to paint walls in my house.

It needs to be approved by somebody. I'm going to suggest to them that they go to the high school and get a football helmet and take it to wherever they're getting the paint and They can match it up. Yeah, that would be a good a good color match to the helmet. Yes. Doesn't the high school have stickers of the of the tire that color? I know who they might have paint actual paint color number like in the high school that they painted. Somebody that will have It's a mixture. It's not a pure. They have to I believe they have to mix. They have to but I don't know. Yeah.

We actually get that purple or water channel purple that we plant the dugouts with. It comes from distributed. Okay. Well, that's good. We do a lot of business with uh All right. Got a motion to do that and and a second. Motion. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion on that? Going to be hard to vote against that guys. All in favor say I. I. I Okay, good. Uh that's a that's a fun thing.

Uh when we were um talking when we had the pre-construction conference, Steve Jones, our engineer, made us aware of two other grant possibilities that will become available. One is the approval is a lead abatement grant. We have lead in our pipes in a lot of places here and this will help alleviate some of it if we can get it. And the other one is a planning infrastructure grant. So, one of those was uh no match. It was all grant money and the other was a $10,000 match which we had the money for. So, I'm going to recommend to you that we do uh that we do both of those that we apply for them. We don't have them, but to apply and one of them's got to be applied for by August 31st. Uh the other one by October 1st. I don't remember which, excuse me, which is which, but Amy Napoli with the Greater Nashville Regional Council is going to make the grant applications for us. And there's a fee of $750, which is very reasonable. If you've ever done one of those, you don't have to fool that paper.

Is that for both of them? 750 each. I think it's for both. So, I'm going to recommend to you that that we uh apply for both those grants. I make a motion that we apply for both of those grants. Do we have to do two to pay Amy and that or just uh you want to make it part of it? Yes. Yes. To hire her to do it. Yeah. Okay. All right. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay. Discussion. All right. Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed.

All right, that carries. And I'll try to let Steve and Amy know tomorrow cuz tomorrow is the 20th. Um, there was also something she sent out to me. It looked like a third grant. some type of asset management plan, which almost sounds like some type of inventory plan, but I don't have enough details on that to present it to you tonight, so I won't. And uh final thing underwater that I know of is the uh Ry engineering contract for uh some water system improvements. It's all a part of this $899,000 grant. It's doing the water tank. It's doing some improvements in the plan over here. Rye Engineering was the only uh company that submitted qualifications to do the job. So, we have to accept their qualifications subject to them giving us a contract. We're not voting on the contract, so we know what it is. But and and we I've dealt with Ry over the last couple of years. We have a soil. So I'm going to ask you to accept them as our to handle the project subject to giving us a contract we can live with. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Okay. Do you need a motion to accept Ry as our contract on the tank? Yeah. Subject to their I'm trying to um cost it. Yeah, it uh what water what they'll be helping us with is water treatment plant improvements. So, that's what uh I'll make a motion for Ry to give us a contract on water treatment plant. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Discussion. All right. All in favor say I. I

I opposed.

All right. Carries unanimously. We have got, as I mentioned while ago in the context of what April does, we've got a lot going on and um it's all right. It's all right. It it's time consuming. It is for her and it is for me and I'm glad she's where she is. Makes it easier for me. um street paving, nothing we can do on it till we get all that stuff done. But I hope everybody will just bear with us and we'll get there. Uh but it's not going to be this year because the sewer project's not going to be done and some of these water things won't be done. And then finally, our turntable project. We've got another uh conference call with the federal people Thursday morning at 11, I think it is, Steve, and uh they'll tell us where we are on the process. So, it's moving pretty pretty quickly. Um and I guess that's really all I have to report to you on the sewer, water, street, paving, and turntable. um had on here tonight to approve the sale of some surplus property. Um this would have been uh football helmets, shoulder pads from our youth league that are um outdated or you know only use them so many years without them being refurbished. And Jeff Tungst is going to get me a list of those or how many they are, but I don't have it tonight. So he asked me to defer it till September. So, uh, we'll be selling some surplus property. Um, I've already mentioned we had the, uh, treatment plant bid opening, uh, on August the 12th.

Um, I had on the agenda a report on the recent men's league. I'll hold that until September as well. But I do have three issues left that I need to discuss with you. I guess first is the burn pot. You know, we got a complaint a couple of years ago and people were taking stuff that didn't burn over there and we got a complaint from the Tennessee Department of Environment Conservation. Rightfully so. I mean, it wasn't supposed to be a a dumping place. So, we cleaned that up and limit it to rush. And y'all know we discussed it many meetings where we I think we wound up opening a couple of days a week, maybe one half day and another half day or whatever, where people could bring their brush and bring it over here and then we'd burn it from time to time. Well, somebody complained about that. And of course they won't tell you who, but I know who, but I'm not going to say public. But anyway, they came out and said there is a regulation that says we can burn our brush, but we can't burn anybody else's. And my question back to them in a real official letter was, "How do you tell it apart? How do you know where the limbs came from? Unless somebody seen you on in there. All the limbs look alike. You were nicer than I was.

Yeah. So, I never did get a response to that. I didn't get a request to sit down and discuss it. What I got was a letter back saying, "We're not going to proceed any further. We can notice the violation. We're not going to pursue it any further." Okay. Where does that leave us? They didn't say about bringing more brushes. So, I don't exactly know how to handle that because I'm pretty sure that the next time somebody pulls over here with a trailer with a load of brush where they've cut their shrubs or whatever, we're going to get reported. But we've had what, April, about five people want to know when the burn pile's going to open back up. Yes.

So, I guess my question to y'all is what do you want to do? It is one person causing grief for the rest of the whole city. It is. It is one. It is one as far as I know it. It's causing people to have to burn in their yards and they can't do that. Well, that's what I know, but they tell us we can't. Well, I mean, somebody with asthma, they can't sit outside because their next door neighbors burn and brush. But you don't let them because it's got to go somewhere.

It's got to go somewhere. I guess we could write them and ask them what they want us to have as a certified area to burn brush and other areas in our which I still don't understand because I couldn't find their stuff was very murky on what I read on everything I could read was how how to tell what a certified area is and how the certified area would be and how you would even change that. The only thing I seen about it was was location away from certain other things. And I believe that passes all of that. It does. It's got to be like 250 ft away. And it's it's What does Lebanon do when they go two times a year they go and collect the brush? People can put their brush out on the road.

They take it to the landfield when they have their spring cleanup. They take it to the landfield. The county, so they're collecting people's stuff. They are burning, but the county isn't burn. Well, the landfield is certified approved by TA. So the landfill is the methane gas burn treatment plant. So they burn everything. Yeah. So yeah. So I don't know exactly what to do. I know I can go back Kyle and approach them and throw out an answer. I don't think they happen honestly. That's part of the problem. Yeah. So So I'm not sure what the fine actually can be if there's no proof of what's been done either. one of those great awkward areas.

They could take pictures of me pulling in there. That would be the only way they'd do it. But they don't know if you're not hauling for us for the city. You're right. And that's the only thing I know that how they would justify surveillance on it is I think this is the type of stuff that gives government a bad name.

Absolutely. You know, I understood when they we had people hauling not trash, but they were hauling pipes and stuff in and that shouldn't have been happening. And we we stopped it. Once they told us we had to, we stopped. But hauling brush in, that's just it's got to be more important. Well, for instance, every night there's something on the news about storm water or sewer water or something running into the lake or the river. That seems to me to be a lot more important than people try burn. But uh now this this literally is the the problem caused by one person to it is to hurt the whole city. So it is and the only one I'm

Yeah. pretty sure of. Okay. Can we uh haul the brush like city pick it up? I thought about that, too. We'd have to hire other people. We I mean, we've got a dump truck. We don't have enough people right now to I mean, we might have to hire somebody part-time just to pick up brush, but I I think we should contact them one more time and ask for a rules of engagement on what we have to do to burn stuff in the city on our dime. Okay. That way, cuz that's by far the cheaper method of doing any of that regardless. And burning brush is very clean and efficient. I mean, yeah.

Well, this is a picking battle at this point. I I will do that. I'll write them back. Thank for the letter not to pursue it. But now tell me if we all write them one time, then all of us have an email out to them about that. And so you should answer someone back. If they don't, then that's kind of a rules and regulations aren't mattering if they're not going to respond to you.

All right. What I'm going to do then is I'm going to contact them again, but in the meantime, the burn pile is probably going to have to stay closed for third party use. Uh now, if our guys want to go pick up some brush somewhere and mix it in with ours,

one of the things I want, I never got a chance to thank the city. We cut an old tree down at our church and these guys were really they came over, picked it up and hauled it right to the golf course for us. I We're talking old trees that just died right next to the street. So, we were trying to get it all done. They came and helped us and took it. They picked it up and took it over there for us. But for our church, we've done a lot of that over the years and and don't mind doing it when we have availability. Yeah.

But all right, I'll write that. And in the meantime, Cody, you'll kind of we'll talk about it in the morning. Okay. Uh you brought an issue about the food trucks.

Yeah. I just wanted us to think about it because I've had I guess three trucks now come to me and say Watertown is the most expensive place in the county to bring a food truck. Um, Lebanon and Mount Juliet have both reduced their price. Mount Juliet due to a lawsuit. Lebanon following Mount Juliet suit. So, it's just $100 a year. $100 a day, $100 a year. It doesn't matter. It's $100 a fee. Um, and they're like, we pay double that. Plus, you have to get the permit and the inspection. Then you have to buy the year the year permit. So, it's quite costly. about $500 to get a water town.

Wow. Well, to have a food truck in Watertown. Actually, Lebanon and Mount Juliet both require you to have a health inspection just like we do. Yes. So, you and that cost is not just in Watertown. I mean, if they've got a health inspection from Mount Juliet, we'll accept that. They just have to have a current health inspection. Sure.

So, they're going to have that regardless. Um there are some things and I had a conversation with April the other week about this. There's um I do think we need to readress. We got an exception in there for twice a year which it that's confusing. Um I think we need to look at that and possibly rechange that and maybe make the exception be for the yard sale only for those two days a year. cuz that's our big days. We have a lot of food trucks that we would wave the city permit requirement on anyone for those, you know, that's coming in for that event. That was one idea I had. And I also had someone approach me about there are some I didn't know this. Apparently, there are some retirees that uh the lady likes to bake and from my understanding creates some pretty good baked goods and they're not really in it for as a business. She's in it to uh stay busy in retirement. So,

I was thinking if we could consider possibly putting a if the owner and operator of a food truck is over the age of 65, like we give the tax break on the property tax, we can give a break on uh you know, on the food truck permit for them because it's it's one particular lady who who did very who did fairly well the couple times she was here, but when she she clearly couldn't justify the cost of of the permit because it's a hobby for her. And uh

I wasn't being rude. Chief Hender Light texted and said he was on a call. That's the reason he wasn't here. Want to know if he needed to come over and I said, "No,

I think I expressed my opinion on this when we started this." We had about six or seven uh food trucks coming to Watertown and they were benefiting a lot of people that were getting their getting going, getting a sandwich or whatever. And we went up on this uh prices and went all through all these things that they got to do to come here. And we've lost them all now, I think, except one and that's a sweet pig. The barbecue is I think he's the only ones coming. and uh and they've gone up quite a bit on their prices, but because I talked to the guy and he said, "Well, somebody's got to pay for this the fees, too."

And then they're coming to other things like this, they're paying an additional $75 or they're coming to Milong Yard, they're paying additional like we just got to take a break because we enjoy having the diversity and options here. I do. Um, and we just I know when we did it, we were comparing it to the other cities and we were we were right along with them, but they've changed and I feel like we have to change.

Well, y'all talked about several different things here. Price number one, exceptions number two, but and another requirement in there, and I don't know whether people are doing it or not, but they're required to provide us proof of insurance up to a million dollars. and they need to do that. Lebanon and and Mount Juliet have that same requirement. Yeah. I would I'd like to I'd like to see us form a committee or or whatever and sit down and work this out where we can get these food trucks back and and uh

u the price and and and rework the prices. I recommend fixing the price part tonight. If everybody else is a $100 annually, annually or daily. It doesn't matter. I know. But you once you buy it, you got it for a year whether you use it or not. All right. I'm I'm okay with that. Yeah, I am, too. Now, the people that have already got one and paid for it, they're not going to get a rebate. No. Okay. That's just like, you know, I fill my car up with gas tonight and it may go down tomorrow. They don't. But their voices heard for next year, they're getting the benefit.

Yeah. So, I'm okay if y'all want to make a motion, and not that I have to be, but I vote for it. That's what I mean. Uh, if y'all want to reduce that to $100, the $100 fee annually with everything else in our ordinance stand the way it is right now until we can look at it. Just to clarify, we're going to all fees are being done away with and changed to one option, which is an annual fee of $100. No other options. No other options. cuz right now we have a staggered option in there. Yeah. So, okay.

And we have people that were calling and and I know April dealt with this I think a couple of weeks ago and they wanted u one of the prices for one day or for a week or whatever. And she said, "Why don't you just buy the annual?" And no, they didn't want to do that. So, this way will make it easy for me. I make that decision. Yeah. I'll make a motion that we charge $100 a year. One one pass. I second that with no other changes. We still keep the health inspection change. That doesn't change. Just the annual comment to say. That's all we're doing tonight.

Yeah. But I'm okay with the two days free because we have that in our thing too. But I'm okay if we say the two days are the milestone because it's hard for our it's hard for the chamber. It's hard for um the mile yard of people. It's hard for our police officers to man who's had who is this your first day or your second day? That will simplify it. It's just the mile long yard sale day is your freebie pass. Any other time you have to have the $100 permit? Okay. So, we we'll be going to $100. All right. Yeah. We're changing two things. Y'all you okay with that? I'm okay with that.

You okay? Any discussion around the table? Man, do we progressive group? Now, Raleigh Art Cell still has to have they still have to sign on the same forms. They have to have insurance. The chamber requires the chamber requires that too cuz they kind of take over the chamber does for the mile and dirtil event and they're requiring everything that we require. They're requiring that information too. And we're requiring everything that y'all require. Yeah, I would protect myself. Yeah, it's a wonderful world we live in where everybody can sue anybody they want to. That's why the importance of this is that we work hand in hand,

right? And the the the purpose of those other regulations as far as the health and the insurance that that is like you said simply to protect the city and our citizens from any kind of lawsuit because the last thing we want is somebody come in here that's selling bad chicken and makes 20 people sick and come find out they didn't have a health permit. You know, we we we can be or insurance or insurance. So that's why I think all the cities have those regulations in their ordinance. So all right, ready to vote? All in favor say I. I

opposed. All right, that's unanimous. One more thing I've got that is an action item. Um we repaired this room several years ago. Uh Lisa Baines got us all this um floor work for nothing. All we had to do was get it put down. We painted this. We stopped people from, you know, we had people who doing birthday parties playing pin the tail on the donkey and putting the donkey on the wall and that type of thing and and we had trouble. So we stopped that and CO came along about that time too and that made it a little easier. We've always let government had governmental use. Our meetings, beer board, planning commission, board of appeals, chamber meetings, um,

city court, city court, probably a couple other things. I've had a request. Y'all probably going to laugh at me. We've had a request. April, make sure I tell this right. But there's a group of about five or six women who do quilting who want to meet here every so often and do quilting. And I'm okay with that. They not likely to be hanging from the We let the senior citizens don't

we let senior citizen use it. Yeah. Um but we're getting into an area a little bit I I guess I don't know if they sell their quilts or not. We kind of had a, you know, we stopped people from using it and making money off of it. I'm okay with the ladies doing their quilting. And what was it, April? Once a month. I think they want to do once a week, but they do the um event room, but it's too dark. They need a more room. Yeah, they need a light. It's just a couple. I think it's 5:30 to 9:30 at night. once a week. Maybe

that might be a bit much cuz that may interfere with a lot of things, you know, but if anything else is going like I hope you had four meetings um you know different things that they wouldn't do that who would uh lock up after that at 9:00 at night. Who would lock up after them at 9:00 at night? Well, um probably the police or whatever. But what would be what would concern me about that is they decide they wanted to meet say on this Tuesday night and we have a planning commission meeting and we tell whoever's in charge but it doesn't get out to everybody and all of a sudden you got people coming here with their quilting stuff.

She said they would like maybe Wednesday night. Well I I I'm not opposed and I'm just one boat. That's a lot.

But once a week seems a bit much. And my my fear is we're going to get hit by somebody else saying, "Well, I've got a club that I do this and um somebody else I've got a club that we do this." And we hadn't really let clubs other than the senior citizens, I don't think. So, I'm I'm kind of open to suggestions of how to be fair, but not to open it back up. We don't need to have this place being used and abused, for lack of a better term. It'd be coming to us either way. So, it' be via approval regardless, right? It wasn't.

So, it'd be it'd be via approval regardless. It come to us or even if we let them and it doesn't work out or if it becomes something else and it can always change. The question always becomes fairness. You know, why are you letting this screw as opposed to this one? And certainly in a small town, we that's at their discretion. Their job is to call April and find out if it's being used that night. And if they show up and it's being used, I'm sorry. You should have called. That's Well, I don't know if too many people use it on Wednesday night. I don't either. What if we said every other Wednesday night? But they need to call you. That's kind of a compromise. I was thinking I was going to propose a compromise of twice a month. Okay.

Whether it be every other Wednesday or two Wednesdays back to back. That's for let them two Wednesdays a month. Two. Yeah. Two w two Wednesdays a month was going to be I was going to make that suggestion before you said twice a month or I'm good with that. You want to make that form of a motion? Yeah, I'll I'll put that in the form of a motion that we approve the quilting ladies to use this room um two Wednesdays a month as long as it doesn't conflict with any other official functions of the city that are occurring in this facility. Is there a second to that? I'll second.

I assume part of it's no alcohol, no staying over here all night, that kind of thing. That's a joke. Well, yeah, but it's meant to be a joke. Okay. Having done quilting before when I was a kid, actually with my grandmother, alcohol and quilting doesn't mix well because people most time it doesn't mix well with any of All right. Did we vote on that? We didn't. All in favor say I. I.

Okay. Uh just someformational items. You'll see some stuff go up over on the square during the month of September. We uh we participate in the uh suicide prevention awareness um project during the month of September. And you'll see the trellus go up. It's got uh ribbons on it and it's got a place for you to put something on there in memory of somebody that was a victim of suicide. So, when you see that, uh, we've had a problem once or twice with people tearing it down, but hopefully that won't be a problem, uh, this time, but Cody, that'll be coming along. I think Bob already knows about it, I think. Um, we're going to do our September 11 thing on September 11 like we've always done. And I am looking for a speaker. So, uh, if y'all know somebody that will come in and speak to us for 8 or 10 minutes, that that event usually lasts about 45 minutes, uh, during lunchtime. Water town.

I have a suggestion. Shoot. Brian Wilson, he was a part of it. He worked for Fox. He was on the grounds of the capital when everything hit. Okay. And they thought of the capital was going to be next. Mhm. He is the chamber president. Uhhuh. That he can give a speech and he can tell some stories.

Okay. Thank you for that. I'll follow up on that. Um but usually we limit it the speaker to about 8 to 10 minutes. We have the choir, Watertown High School choir, Watertown High School band. Um, and then we have cake at the end. Who is it provides the cake? April Cash Express.

Cash Express. They've been doing that for years. And we recognize our local people who are involved in uh emergency services. And our next meeting will be September 16th at 6:00. That is the third Tuesday. About the earliest it can be in the month except for one day. So now we're ready to go around the table. That's all I've got. I'm ready to go around the table. How don't have anything, Stephen? Uh I don't have anything. And what date was that in September? September 16th. Okay. And I will not be president next month, but I won't be out of town that day.

Okay. Do y'all want to talk about doing another night? I'm not going to be here. Then I will open it up. That's daddy's birthday. It's his big birthday. Daddy's who? my dad's big birthday. Oh, and I was gonna choose counsel, but if you're not gonna be All right. I'm I'm going to be out of town on a business obligation, and I've already got plane tickets, so mine's not changing. Uh, listen, y'all don't have to explain. We've talked about that, and y'all heard me say this for years and years. Probably ad nauseium, but family comes first. Now, we might be always cheat, but I'd rather spend it with him. Okay. When your big birthday is in like 50.

He's a former counselor. I'm third generation. You are? I am third generation. All right. So, we're kind of talking about that not being the night. So, make me a suggestion. I can't on Monday the 15th because that's county commission night. I have obligations there. But if you want to go to the next Tuesday, the 23rd 3rd, that's right. Caleb, sometimes you have to let work for everybody. All right. Thank you.

September 23rd. All right. Now, listen. Let me let me reiterate. Anytime you've got something going on with family or whatever and you need to be out of here or if we can't get a quorum or it gets close, we're going to we're going to yield to family. And the other thing we do is we yield uh many times to school stuff. If there's something going on, you know, when our kids have made it to the state tournament or something like that, we we support the school. Um so I'm I'm fine with doing that. I just have to remember to put it on my calendar tomorrow.

All right. Anything else? Miss Laurel, you got that notebook out. That that worries me. I just needed to brag on this. I've already marked it off comments. Okay. All right. You've done it, Cal. Let's see how they don't done what they were doing over there. No, we're not. And we're probably going to slow down for a few days. We've had a couple of our guys get sick and we're a little concerned about what they're breathing in there. As hot as it is, the u I'm hearing that the weather next week may drop down the high 70s, low 80s. We'll get back on that. can help somebody if I can help. I don't want to give away people's medical conditions, but Bob and Coach Dad have both been

Yeah. under the weather and pretty seriously. If we start cleaning out again, we need somewhere to throw everything away in the dumpster. Yes, sir. Yeah. Not Not in the burn pile. No. No. We need something to throw it away. That way we can discard everything. Can we rent a dumpster from Lee still? We probably do that. So just like a shoot off the window right down the side. We'll get him something. Yeah. All right. But that's not No, that's good. All right. Got anything else? Caleb.

Well, and April the council woman is not here. She is dealing with a family matter and that's as I say that's that's good. Uh, I know everybody that when they came here hates to give up the big checks you get for doing this job. [Music] Um, anybody out in TV land that wants to talk? Yes, sir. Okay. Well, I'm ready for one motion. The good one. Motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? Second. All right. All in favor, get up and go home or go wherever you want to. I