Board of Works and Public Safety - Regular Meeting

Guys, we'll start this meeting. All this merriment and fun needs to come to an end. Will you please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Can we do the roll call?

Jennifer Newell.

Doesn't appear to be here. Sorry. No, she sent me a message. She couldn't make it. Sorry.

Member Lewis.

Here.

Member Farkas. Here. Member Malata.

Here.

And I'm here. Sorry, yeah. Sorry. I don't know if I need to be in the roll call. Sorry, Tammy. I'm not used to being here. Wouldn't it have been great if, like, Jamie had said here, would you ask for Jennifer? I don't even know if you've met Jennifer before. Sorry. All right. Did everyone have a chance to read the minutes from the last meeting? And is there a motion for approval? I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the July 14th meeting. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. All right. We've got no unfinished business. Under new business, we have a special event for Dunkin' Donuts, the back-to-school bash. Are you by chance the Dunkin' Donuts guy? That's okay? No problem? I don't know if there were any particular concerns we needed somebody here for. It looked kind of simple, but just wanted to check to see.

Looks like a nice event.

Is there a motion on that or any questions?

Make a motion to approve the special event for Dunkin' Donuts Back to School Bash.

I'll second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor please signify by saying aye. Aye. It's us to the special event for Sanctify Souls Benefit in Concert. Okay, I just didn't want to assume, you know. Come on up, you are welcome to speak, you know.

All right, I'm Anthony Brewer with Sanctified Souls Lakefront Chapter. We recently just had our event this year at Founders Square, and it was a huge success, and we want to do it again. It's a motorcycle benefit ride and concert. Pretty much we're going to do exactly the same thing next year as we did this year at Founders Square. Bands, food trucks, Leroy's Beer Garden. We wanted to add one more band this year and have Nate Venturelli close the show. But same thing, it would be Saturday, June 26, 2027. We would want Founders Square from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. The motorcycle ride registration starts at 9 a.m., finishes at 10.30, with kickstands up at 10.30. The food trucks and everything would start around 2 p.m. and run till the close of the show. We would only need to do, what, South Founders Square, yeah, South Founders Square Road closed early that morning to line up the motorcycles. Other than that, we wouldn't have to close any roads or anything for that. This year, I did contact Portage Police when we left, and they escorted us through the city just to get us out of the city with all the stoplights and stuff, just to make it a little safer for everybody. But other than that, I mean, that's really, we are talking about adding maybe like a small kiddie carnival type thing this year for something more for the kids to do while they're there. But other than that, it's pretty much the same as what we did this year.

Yeah, I mean, I happened to be there just to grandstand a little bit. It was great. I think it was all really well ran, and if it's pretty much the application's the same, I would say this is a fantastic event, just kind of good to get set up again.

I'll make a motion we approve the special event for Sanctified Souls on June 26, 2027, basically from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and just coordinate with the police and fire as straight as you need.

Okay. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye.

Cool. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Did everybody have a chance to do the... I must be in trouble. My wife just came in and took the police with her. Something's... Find out what's going on.

I was like, man, this is... Is that her calling me?

No, it's somebody else. Sorry. I don't think I can answer a phone during the meeting, but when I felt the buzz, I'm like, is there... Are we all in danger?

Like, why did she... We'll find out.

Meg probably saved all our lives just now, but... All right, let's see. Did you guys have a chance to look at the Board of Work claims? Were there any questions, corrections, or motions?

I'll make a motion we approve the claims in the amount of $1,698,367.47. I'll second that.

We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. And then we have the payroll claims. Similar questions. If everybody had a chance to look at them, if there's any questions, comments, or corrections, otherwise a motion.

I'll make a motion we approve the payroll claims in the amount of $2,263,098.79. I'll second that.

We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. And we have bulk appeals. Randy, do we have any? All right. We finally stamped that out. That's great. Everyone's learned their lessons for now. All right, that gets us to any other business proper to come before the board. Mr. Cherry? No? Oh, you had a great, good job. That was well executed. All right, any motion to adjourn? Make a motion we adjourn. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Thank you.