Remarks by Courtney Johnson
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And even like how much work it is to flush hydrants. Yes. We have almost 500 fire hydrants.
Before you go to the next, you talked about street maintenance. Can you talk a little bit more? We're not using the street maintenance. we're not using these funds for street maintenance because we have another pot of money to use from for very specific needs that are related to the water system. Can you kind of give examples of that for our, again, for our tens and tens of people who are watching and it doesn't make sense to them.
And it's that same dig once, replace while the ground is open, and there's construction already taking place kind of philosophy on that.
Any thoughts, you guys? I feel like this is a little redundant because we kind of went through this in the long-term financial plan. But, yep, go ahead, Christy. All right.
Okay. The sewer jetting, Andrew, so we're not reaching that LMCIT threshold of 20% of our sewer lines per year?
Okay. So... While I appreciate wanting to save money, I would appreciate knowing that nobody has to worry about a sewer backup in our community. I would value that over saving money because I wouldn't wish that on anyone. So I think whatever we need to spend... that's $70,000 less making sure that we can get closer to accomplishing that goal. I would like to see I think, you know, this is the water bill and I bet that every single one of us utility bill. And about every single one of us in this room have heard residents opine on the price of our utilities. I think you can not like something…
Let's see. I'm a little all over the place. So let's talk about the LMC IT correspondence.
So what do we do with that money? We'll get a difference.
Thank you. All right. Council requests or communications. Laura, you want to go first?
All right. For me, just a few call-outs tonight in our consent agenda. We unanimously approved the fire department compensation study and implementation of the five-year compensation plan, which is going to be our start of the work to get our fire department folks paid a little bit more in line with the market rates for their type of roles. We also appointed our election judges for November 3rd on that same consent agenda. So huge thank you. These are our neighbors and friends. A lot of names on there that we recognize. Appreciate them working some long hours to help us in the democratic…