Council - Regular Meeting

No, thank you for reminding me. to welcome everyone to the Monday, April 13th, Pineluff's Town Council meeting. Would everyone join me in the pledge of allegiance? Pledge 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.

The first item on the agenda is an award presentation for Officer Matthew Miller. Good evening, town council. Uh this is uh life-saving award. This is Matthew Miller's second award. Um on Saturday, April 4th, the Pine Bluffs Police Department, Pine Bluffs EMS, Larman County Fire District 5 and three was dispatched to a vehicle rollover on Interstate 80 mile marker 401. as determined to be a semi that had rolled over and blocked um all of eastbound lane. Officer Miller's quick response, he's able to determined that the sole occupant and driver uh lost his arm and was able to apply a tourniquet. um after talking to uh doctors later on after the fact that uh quick application of the tourniquet and correct application of the tourniquet uh ultimately saved this guy's life. So, um I will have EMS director Pat Curry present this award and we have a uh um medal for him as well.

I'm happy to say this is becoming a habit, right? Good job. Thank you very much.

Yeah, you want to session? Okay, first let's just do Pat and Matt and then we'll get the rest of the department in there. Austin, could you pull the sign away? Thank you. Great. Can we the rest of the the entire I'm sure everybody responded to that. Yeah, go ahead and keep that stay in there. So there you go. Cuz you trained them all. So you get blamed for everything.

Great. And then the one with the mayor. Oh, you're going to present a medal to Okay. Is that the medal from the town council or from the life-saving award? It's It goes with the life. It goes with the life-saving award. Okay. If you would hand it to Matt. Great. Thank you. Austin, you want to get in there with both of those? Hold that thing up. Great. Thank you guys.

Good job. Y The next matter of business is the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. I'll second it. All those in favor?

I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carries. New business and action items is resolution 2026-01. A resolution approving a proposition to impose a 1% specific purpose sales tax and use tax in Larmy County, state of Wyoming, for the exclusive purposes of funding specific purposes for specific amounts. The propositions to be voted on at the election to be held on August 18, 2026. This um this resolution is for the six penny ballot initiative. So um you'll see in this resolution it has listed out not just ours but every community's ask and the dollar amount um that correlates with that. Um after a handful of meetings, the commissioners have um the commissioners have decided that this is the the way we'll move forward. The ballot will be primarily very infrastructure focused. Um I think is because we all take an evaluation of our existing infrastructure. Uh as we take a look at the current fiscal climate, our inability to make revenues, that's where we've all decided to kind of lay our priorities in conjunction with public safety. So you will see that there is a good deal of public safety. We even will have a

rural fire um just its own little home within the ballot and that is for all of our rural fire districts um including the possibility of a new fire station for our fire district, fire district number five. Um, so if you guys have any questions, uh, feel free to voice those any concerns. But otherwise, we haven't changed anything for hours in Pimluffs. Everything that we had spoken about before is what went to the commissioners. Uh, they did move our airport and cemetery projects to infrastructure. Um, and that was agreed upon with everyone in the room. So, we're all good on that.

I wanted to talk a little bit about with the the origin of the sixth penny tax. It initially was to for oh like town enhancements. It was primarily focused at parks and community centers and and beautifification projects in the small towns. And as the tax environment has gotten tighter and tighter and it's been more and more difficult to run a small town, more of the items have turned into critical infrastructure items. And so I'd really like to encourage everybody to support the six penny tax because it's gotten to the point where many of the communities that are involved in this really need it to just function on a on a reasonable level. So, I would really encourage people when when it's time to vote to please vote yes on these ballot items because they are really becoming critical for the survival of of our our town and the the other surrounding communities. I think uh Commissioner Mom said in our meeting this was very clearly a list of needs not wants and and it was clear that we we all have a lot of them right now. So

thank you Kim for putting the work in to get this ready. You're welcome. Yes. With that I will move to adopt resolution 2026-01 second. Hearing a motion and a second. All those in favor I

opposed. Hearing none. Motion carries. The second item on new business and action items is to review and approve 287G task force fine bluffs police department. And I would like to on that one before voting on this, I'd like to emphasize that entering into this agreement is first and foremost about the security of our law enforcement officers. Without entering into this agreement, our officers are going into potentially dangerous situations completely blind. Entering into this agreement does not change the way our officers enforce the law. It neither enhances nor decreases the way our officers enforce immigration. So before voting on this, I'd like to encourage the council to put the safety of our law enforcement officers over the security of people who have entered our country illegally. Um, let's

I'll move to approve the 287G task force. I would second it. Hearing a motion and a second to approve 87G. All those in favor? I I oppose. I motion carries. The next item on the agenda is visitors comments. Yes sir. Pre please approach the podium, announce your name and

what you would like to talk about. So Steve Diamondus with Helena uh and our engineer asked me to come to the meeting tonight for the I guess approval of the building permit which was done and on a consent agenda with everybody. So if there was any questions on that, not that I'd have the answers for it. They asked me to show up for that. But I appreciate all the help that the city's done over shoot the last year on on the ground swapped and uh and we'll we'll start building here and getting dirt work pretty quick. And uh appreciate the approval from everybody. So when do you think you guys will start construction?

I he when he called me he said come here. This is approved. We'll we'll start dirt work here within within the month. So you're you're going to start right away. That's great. Yeah. And then there'll be a plan B that we another year from now we're going to have another addition on it. So Kim, when does it look like the sewer will be in Foxtail? They are breaking ground tomorrow. So they're breaking ground tomorrow. So I think the timing will be be close, but we can we can probably have the sewer line in there and get your project rolling. Yeah, appreciate it. It's been a It's been a two-year deal for us. So, yeah.

Yeah. So, appreciate all the help. I had seen a lot of the back and forth between the the lawyers out east and and all. Yeah. It's been it's been a work in progress for sure. All ours are paid by the hour. I think I'll leave I'll leave it with that. That explains a lot. Yeah. Yeah. We have the building permit in front of us, but for the benefit of everybody else, can you talk about you know what what you're building?

So for now, it's the fertilizer plant which I mean that that's been there and we call it working out of the FEMA shed for for the eight years that Helen has owned it and then you know previous to that when it was Centennial. But uh the the first phase on it is an office building. will have a brand new office building, a scale, and then a warehouse. And then phase two on that will be a liquid plant that'll be uh entirely enclosed. So for for rain or wash off for that and uh that'll probably be this is 26. That'll probably be spring of 27 before before we get that. I just turned that in for for capital. Uh and then uh uh probably a half a million to a million gallon fertilizer tank. on that. And then there's a future dry plant on there, but I'm pretty sure the way these things work, not saying anything about my age, but I hope to be retired before that thing gets put through. So, it'll it'll be a little bit on that whether whether that happens or not. But it should be a nice I mean it's going to be a nice facility and I

uh and we've been working out of what we have for all those years. So it's going to be nice to have something nice to work out of and have some room. So thank you. Thanks. Yeah. Thanks.

Hello. My name is Joshua Tangan. Hi Josh.

Um I have been working with Kim and uh Ali Litza for the church and I just didn't know if it needed to be on the agenda or just just to bring it up in the meeting right now. Um, what I think what happened is the church owned some property and were trying to sell a portion of it and 75 years ago there was some sort of a error at one of the new additions that was added to the town. It was 33 ft of the property and so I think Ally and Kim and maybe the attorney here have been working on figuring out a way to get a quick claim deed maybe to take care of that. Is that true, Alex? Yes,

that's attorney client approval.

All right. All right, then. Don't answer. Um, so I don't know what approval process I need to do to go through that process, but it would uh help with the sale of a piece of property. And then um I don't know if you need anything else on that piece from me, but there's a part two to that. And the part two would be by state statute, we're not allowed to move a line. And so there's actually six lots that the church owns. And to be able to sell the house, the first two lots would create a boundary that's only 2 feet from the church building, which violates the I think 5 foot limit. And so we've had the surveyors replat that. and I have a draft form for that, but we really can't get that done until the quick claim process is through. So, whatever I need uh to do to help that process along, we'd be grateful.

Mayor, um so u there was a appears to be a bust in the chain of title. I talked to Jonesy about Styles and uh he's he's usually spot on on that kind of thing. And so there were six lots that were defective and title was unclear. So we do need to straighten that out. Um, but as Josh was talking about there, uh, to satisfy the current setbacks and I think they're 10 feet, aren't they? Or

in I think they're 10, but but it's going to require replat to adjust where that line is. And I have a copy of that if anyone needs to see it, the draft version of that. So, we're going to require reserveying all of it and getting proper. It's already been surveyed. It's been surveyed. So, we're past that hurdle. Correct. Then what's the next step that we need to do? I need to get the deed done. You need to get the deed done. I need to do the deed. Do you have everything that you need to be able to do?

Well, um I was a little bit concerned. um just because I mean yeah short answer is yes. Okay. However um sometimes title companies can be a little pnicity about how they want things done. Yeah. But then I discovered that the sale they're doing doesn't have title. So I guess if you're not you working with a title company I I think that might be a misunderstanding. We are using a title company. Oh, which one? First American. Oh, well then it's easy. Do you have a title commitment yet?

Um, no. I will by the end of the week. Send it to me. Okay. We'll see how good Jennifer Page is up there at finding title defects. That should make it simple. That's what we're looking for. Okay. So, short answer, Josh. Everybody's working on it. as soon as we can get all the paperwork in order. I don't see any reason why it won't happen the way you wanted it to. Thank you. And then for the second piece, do we have to wait for the next meeting or can we can I give you that draft so you can see what that looks like to cuz that's a second step that I think we needs approval. So I just got this this afternoon.

Oh, did you? Okay, great. Um, anyway, I don't know if that's I can get this out to everybody. Okay, I can email it, too. It's already in a digital version if it's helpful. Yep. Cool. So, if you need anything else on that, that' be the only thing that's holding up the sale at that point. Okay. Thank you. You bet. Appreciate it. Thanks, Josh. Any other visitor comments?

You need to talk. Yeah. Go ahead. You ready for Yes.

Have a department update because it's been a bit um and then just some numbers for the council from the EMS department. And since the town is just kind of growing and and expanding, it's a good time to maybe just put something on your radar. As our population grows and we grow, obviously, then town services will have to grow as well. And EMS is often third fiddle everywhere, not just here, to EMS or to fire and and police. And that's normal. We're used to that, but I don't like that feeling. So, I like to get ahead of things when we can. So, just some numbers for you. Uh the last four years we've had 657 build EMS calls. Uh the number is way higher than that if you count refusals, you know, stop and goes or other type of calls, public assist, things like that. So we average 164 EMS billable calls per year. Uh this year we're at call number 58 and 19 of those were in the last two and a half weeks. We had kind of a boon here recently with calls. Not sure why. You can never you can never uh predict those kind of things but uh we are growing. Our staff is has maintained between seven and nine for the past 10 or so years that I've lived here. So the staff really hasn't grown to meet the new challenges. We lose a couple, we gain a couple. Uh we have put on three training courses though in the last two years since uh I took over as director. Three different levels of training we've increased. We took a year off for some budgetary concerns. Uh, but I foresee us having to do more training in the future because some of us have been doing this a very long time and I don't think we're going to keep some of these folks around forever and they want to retire and move on and we've been leaning on a few of these folks for decades and I'd like to see some new blood brought into the department

however we want to work on that uh recruitment etc. other small communities this size. The closest one is Kimble. They have a full-time EMS person. Uh it's a bit more robust than what we would need, but there are options where you could have a full-time EMS person, three shifts, similar to what the police department does. Not terribly expensive, but something definitely would have to plan for a couple years out. and or we'd have to find a way to increase uh the on call pay because currently as it sits we have a a two shift per month requirement for the EMS folks to pick up a call shift and because of our levels and staffing you could get a paramedic or you could get an EMT. They're both going to do a great job, but some calls warrant different levels of care and it's it's hard to really gauge those if no one is available or no one is on call. If you're unaware of our system, Larry County system, they you're going to have to wait 30 plus minutes for the next ambulance to show up from Cheyenne. Maybe Kimble if you're lucky and they're not busy. You got a 25 minute wait or longer. So my my fear is not currently currently we're okay. Not asking for anything right now. Now, I just want to kind of get ahead of the game and let you know that if if we continue our growth, etc., we're going to have to also find another staffing mode for the ambulance service down the road, if that makes sense. So, Pat, um, incentive is always something that that you need. So, you're talking about the paying incentive. How on the billing end of it. How competitive is Pine Bluffs with AMR or Kimble? How are we doing on

Great question, Mr. Mayor. The revenue level that we could could or should be at.

Was it two years ago? Right after I became director, I think I don't know if you were on the council then. I don't recall your time of service, but we increased rates to match AMRs. We did a survey and we match their current rates. So, we are the same. If you rode with AMR or us, it's roughly the same. They charge a bit more for mileage, I believe, but we're competitive with their rates. And we Kim has been hard at work um on the billing end because prior to this current administration, we had a a huge uh red account with previous billing that was not being collected. That has since ramped up. So, we should start to see those effects hopefully soon. And with the increase in call volume and transports, we should start to see more more revenue coming in. But, uh, the the quick fix would just be an increase in on call pay to get people to kind of give up their Sunday to to listen to the pager all day. More than currently, we get about a dollar an hour to do that. And then it's not if you looked at other uh other services that's way below what other if you pay a plumber to be on call or other folks to be on call they make significantly more.

So we brought our fees up to what AMR was doing two years ago. Are they still doing I couldn't answer that question at that at two years ago roughly this summer. a lot has happened in two years as far as inflation. With that new uh bill though that got passed at the state level that helps that Medicare gap that should help tremendously because a lot of our um demographics medic calls are Medicare. Yep. And that will pick up the difference because before we were getting zero to 30% of the actual bill back and that's going to cover that gap. So hopefully that will that

whenever that kicks in will help a lot. Yes, sir. Yep. So, not a complaint, not a request, just kind of a heads up that we're gonna you're going to see me again hopefully next budget cycle, maybe with some other with your help, some planning or some other solutions that you could assist us with. Can you remind me because I feel like in my time we never really got anywhere with it with AMR and when they jump in with you or you right

trade patient however however the rendevous occurs that sometimes we weren't being compensated for our time leading up to that. has that have you been able to find any success with that? Yes, great question. So, we did we remedied that when we changed the billing cycle

and prior to that too, our our personnel weren't getting paid for those kinds of calls, but we I fixed that right away because they still had to give up an hour or more of their time and that that was fixed also. But yes, if um say we transport to Eggert, that would be like a treat and release and then we would hand off care to AMR and they would continue transport. Or if the ideal situation is AMR jumps in with us, they can bill us, but I have yet to see a bill from them. It's called an intercept fee. They could charge us $200 or something like that for their personnel writing in with us. Uh I they haven't done that yet and that's pretty rare that that happens. Great.

But usually if if we need the help, they hop on and then we still get to bill the patient uh for the full transport. Awesome. Thank you. Does that answer your question? Yes, it does. Something that I'd like to say as an accolade to you is for a long time a number of the EMTs were all just basics. And at this point, what what is the level of the EMTs that you have. And that's a great question. Yeah, and I like to brag about that in our little EMS circles. A pat on the back for it, too.

Thank you, sir. We currently have uh two paramedics, but we were paramedics before. Jenny Mashad, Misho, and myself. Uh right below those folks, we have Brenda Armstrong, who's an intermediate, call them I99s, right underneath a paramedic. Uh, and then two folks you may know, um, Stephen Misho and, um,

Tim Misho. Thank you. They are both at the same level as Brenda. So, a town our size to have two paramedics and three intermediate level EMTs is not normal at all. So, you're you're in pretty good hands. Um, right underneath those folks are the advanced EMTs. You got Derek, Kyla. Those are the two because it was Stephen and Tim, but they moved up a level. And then underneath those folks, we have Christy Barker's an EMT. And then two new folks,

Kyla Kyla Gordon is an AMT. And then two new folks who are still going through some they're basically um EMS drivers. And don't ever call an an EMT or a paramedic an ambulance driver. worst worst thing you can do, right? Because they're vastly different levels of training. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, we've got you got a good crew right now and I just don't want to lose that level of uh patient care that we have currently in the next few years. So, thanks for your time. Appreciate it.

Thanks. Appreciate the report. Um, on with additional department reports. Uh, no, but I guess two points. Um, one, first, thanks Pat. And if there's anything that we could maybe start looking at now, um, I guess bring it to Kim since budget stuff starts soon, probably next meeting. Um, and then the other thing was everyone's aware of how dry it's been. I'm wondering if we need to start considering what water restrictions or something might look like. Yeah, that might be something that we need to look at. I know that's not fun, but uh walking in my backyard the other day and it's like crunching.

I'm being stubborn. I don't want to water yet. I know that we're on we're under fire watch conditions now. I don't think that they're Are they restrictions? I don't think it's a ban yet, but I don't think it's a ban yet, but it's something that's Yeah, it's getting it's getting critical. And there's already been a number of brush friars this year. And normally we don't have any going this time of year. No.

So, currently the BOPU has uh it's scheduled that uh folks can water up to three days a week. No watering is permitted between 10:00 a.m. and 6 pm. Um, and I would just like to also stress that, you know, the town has uh taken great strides to ensure that all of our watering happens um after 900 p.m. And that is primarily uh not only for the water use but our electric consumption. Um, as everybody is watering, we are draining our tanks. We need to pump the water from our wells to refill the tanks. So, um, it's great when people can can do that, you know, in the late evening or the very early morning hours.

And the the pumps are also on a demand. That's correct. They are charge. So, it works to our advantage to only run the pumps at night if we can while demand is low. Correct. Yes. And that's something that people need to be aware of is we're not filling the tanks during the day typically, right? And it's also probably not known by many folks, but our uh Pine Bluffs water company has to pay our Pineluffs electric company for the use of electricity.

You have a a sense of how much water the town uses as a whole each day or per month? I can get that for you here. Um, I have it based on a month. Actually, I can't put my hands on it at the moment, but if we move on to some other stuff, I'll I'll have it for you. I hate for you to wait. Can I ask a different question? Yes.

Do you have any idea how many hours the pump the uh well has to run to replenish the tanks each day? I'll have that in that same report once I put my hands on it. And in the summertime, it's actually quite a bit. It takes us uh close to all night long to refill our tanks. You have anything, Dave?

No, that was it. Thank you. So, I have on the the Laramie County Landfill has announced a pretty substantial rate increase on the tipping fee. We're currently at $40 a ton and I believe it's going to $60 a ton starting July 1st. I think that that's something that the town's not going to be able to absorb. I think that we're going to have to change our trash rates to reflect the increased tipping fees at the L County Landfill.

That's not awesome. Do

you have anything, Ally? Um, on the six penny stuff, I didn't talk about it during the resolution because that didn't feel like the right time, but in the next few weeks, I think you will see that the county commissioners will start putting out some messaging. Um, and so as that comes along, I will pass that on. The last time I talked to Gunnar, he was still trying to figure out what that that could look like and um if we all just use the same little penny guy who get shares a message or or what that may look like. But so so we all kind of have a cohesive um outward approach to that. So as that comes together, I will keep you guys posted. But, uh, I agree with Mayor Misho. Now more than ever, this is this is pretty critical for all of our communities. So, um, just keep an eye out for those things, um, for our for our residents. Keep an eye out for those things as as we release that. Um, and Wham has been pretty quiet as everyone takes a quick nap after legislative session, but um, I got a phone call about some interim things today. So, I guess we'll start getting

we'll we'll start get getting a move on on some some of those interim topics. Um, one of the things that we were talking about today is the potential of reclassifying uh, dispatch um, communications workers from just like a regular employee status to first responders, which would then allow them to have some mental health benefits through workers comp. And hopefully as that's kind of a quick turnover rate then then there's some retention within those positions. So that's one of the things that we were talking about today and hopefully um we can get the Laramie County combined communications crew on board to help us out to push that along. I think that's really important.

So that's all I have. Okay. So I have a question. The the sixth penny is broken into 13 different propositions. Are those voted on individually or is each proposition is voted on? So

So they're each one is individually voted on. Yeah. Okay. Is there anywhere is this on a website that the that anybody that's interested in seeing what these propositions are could go? Yes, it will be. Um I believe the plan was that after all of us have approved the resolution, which we have a May first deadline for each council to approve that. Um after that, they will be rolling out some sort of website. Um but right now the papers have been running this um I think Wyoming Tribune Eagle did last week and then um you'll see that it will hit the website probably May 1st. We'll have some sort of countywide whether it's on the commissioner's website and it's a link on there or whether we have our own website. I'm not really sure how that will look just yet, but we will let everyone know. And and it's something that we could probably just put a link to on our Facebook page and our website.

Yeah. Also, is the will the post likely put them in the paper? If we get it, we will put it in the paper. Resolutions and where to find open procedures and everything. Okay. Again, I'd really like people to strongly consider voting yes on all of these because they're very desperately needed.

Okay. You have anything?

I do. The senior center again had some changes in staffing, but Alicia's on top of it. Side note, through that um I started attending some community roundts and meeting with some people from CRMC and looking at some of the community parameans and community senior living and ways to get health care out here to some of our seniors that can't always make it to Cheyenne. And there's actually a lot of innovative thought going on with different options and ways. So, I'm going to continue attending some of those and looking at ways for it to be helpful out here and I will have synapsis and some ideas for us as a town as I get more information from CRMC. And then I also wanted to say thank you to Pat because what a lot of you guys don't see is he might not be on the call, but he's medical control for them. like he's walked out of a basketball game to answer the phone and provide like yep this is where this is or yep go ahead and maybe use this medication instead of this one or the after call on the way home that you did a good job you did fine you did your best the Sunday afternoon when they're doubting themselves and feeling they didn't do anything and he's answering his phone then so his call time is something that a lot of people don't see because it's not written down

and it's pretty significant along with the training that you brought up so as somebody who sees that side of it. I wanted to say thank you. Absolutely, Pat. We I I do know how much goes into what you're doing and and it is very appreciated. Thank you, sir. Alex, you have anything? Uh I have a lot of things, but we can't talk about them. But I did have a question for Ally. What's the total on the six penny this time? It's pretty high. It's high. Let I just put it away. Hang on one second.

I have the fancy gunner spreadsheet. That'll help. I think it's like one. I'm going to get that wrong. Hang on. Here we go. The total is 170 million. Yeah, that's a lot. How much of that is Cheyenne?

Most of it. A lot of it. Um, actually, Lar, the sheriffs have quite a high one. They do have a high one. Um, Kim, can you remind me? Did they decided 40% for each of for Cheyenne and Laramie County and the rest of us are splitting? Nope, that's not correct. 45 each and then the rest of us are splitting 10%. So equally the county and Cheyenne are splitting 45% or they're both getting 45% of that 170. They're each getting 45%. And then out of the 10%

and burns divide that up. So yes, $23 to burns. Yes. The sheriff's department alone was 24 million. That does fall under the county's share. Yeah, it does counter. Yeah.

Let me make sure I got the final opens draft, but I know the numbers, right? glance it looks like about 73 million for the city of Cheyenne probably. Yeah.

Anything else? That's it.

How about Austin? You have anything? Um, want to announce that, uh, I think everyone's seen the Facebook post. Uh, we do have a job opening. Um, want to announce officially uh, Officer Miller has, uh, um, accepted a position with the Montana Highway Patrol. Um, I know he's going to do great things with them. Uh, it's where he's originally from. And, um, I just I wish him the best of luck. We're sad to see him go. He's done great things obviously um about life-saving awards, but more it's more than that. Um he's his attention to detail um his willingness to respond when we when needed because we're a small department has been extraordinary. Um and so I wanted to publicly announce that we do have that opening. We are recruiting. um we're in the midst of of uh ramping that up this past week and uh officially announced that uh he has accepted that position and wish him the best of luck.

Um sorry any questions on that? I also would like to personally thank you Matt for your service here. You are a the community is is definitely losing a a patriot and I appreciate you. I appreciate what you've done while you were here.

You you will definitely be missed. And I would like to thank you again

for your time here. Uh second, we're uh ramping up our kind of summer focus. Um we are uh redoing our copy and safe program. Um we're going to be um working with uh um the park and pool uh project, getting that going. uh and excuse me and uh our regular uh um combination with the L County Sheriff's Office as well doing those extra projects. So that's all I got. Thank you.

I One second.

One more. I I I do want to as as a you know member of the first responder community, I wholeheartedly agree with everything Pat uh and being in different agencies throughout my career and then living in different areas. Uh we have it great out here. um between EMS and fire uh but especially you know EMS the level of trainings that his uh his guys have and gals are far above what I've seen on on volunteer departments and this is to include Sydney. So um I just I wholeheartedly agree that whatever we need to supply them um that we do that. Thank you. You have anything, Leanne?

Yeah. Um, I sent you guys or I put it on the council pack the Wampa. You probably saw the Wampa reservation. Wampa is having a board meeting in Gernzie, which normally they have it um up by Cody Powell area. So, this is probably as close as it's been in a while. They're having a board meeting May 21st and then a rate class following that that you guys are all invited to. And then also the dinner the night before May 20th. So, that's what I put on the council packs. If you guys want to think about it, check your schedules and then just let me know at the next meeting if it's something you want to attend. They have to have a headcount by May 8th. So,

a couple weeks by May 8th. Mhm. Okay. I think I would be interested in going to that rate class. Okay. Yeah, I think I think it would be good to attend at least a few of us. Is Justin gonna represent us? I'm sure at that. Yes. Okay. I'm I'm sure he's planning on it, but yeah, if some of if some of our council could go, that'd be good. I will try to attend. Okay. I'll get back with you before May 8th and we'll we'll get RSVP. That's all I have.

How about you, Kim? What do you have? um just I have been fully engrossed in the audit and then the budget. So I haven't had uh much going on other than you know getting the change order ready to go uh with the engineering firm for the industrial park. Um and just working through a few other uh concerned citizen issues. Um, and then I'd like to let you all know that uh this water report that we do on an annual basis goes to the state engineers office and um it generally runs from October through September and for the 2025 year uh report uh we used a little over 90 million gallons for the year or we produced a little over 90 million gallons. Um, of course with the largest uh the average during our summer months was uh 12.7 uh let's see the average yeah 12.7 million for the summer months. So um we go through a lot of water here in the community and again we also have to make sure that we are mixing our shallow wells and our deep wells. Our shallow wells are great producers uh but they are also high in nitrates. So we need to mix uh we usually have one deep well and one shallow well pumping at the same time so that it's being mixed according to whatever the formula is that the engineers have provided us um for that ratio. Our deep wells are the well five, nine, and 10. Um, and on on average they pump probably about

12 million gallons a year and then our shallow wells are uh also pumping at the same pretty much at the same rate. Do you know has our water level dropped significantly or how much it's dropped say from this time last year or is that information that we couldain as far as well level is that what you're asking about? Yeah. The water level. Water level. Um let me let you know that. Um so

so so Dave out on Tim's farm the water levels actually come up over the last few years.

Yeah our water it looks it appears that our water levels and I can share this report with you so you can look at each well um you know each well report is a is reports a little bit differently. Um it looks like uh for instance you know well number one looks like it has uh increased uh or should I say our depth to water has increased which is on on the negative side uh but at our deep well well number five uh that has decreased quite a bit. So, it's it you if you look at this report, it'll be very uh it's very easy to read and just see, you know, where our levels are. So, again, it just depends on which well.

So, Kim, does it look like the deep wells the deep wells are going down, but the shallow wells are are gaining. Um, let me see here.

Um, no, it just looks like it depends on the location. Depends on the well. Okay. that in on reports. Yeah, that's all I have. Sorry, I've been, like I said, pretty tied up doing some internal stuff. Okay. Announcements and meetings. Our next meeting will be Monday, April 27th at 6:00 pm. We will have a workshop that day at 4:30.

Okay. Anything else? Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? So moved. Second. You have something? Nope. Just moved it. Moved and second. Okay. All those in favor I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carries.