Council - Regular Meeting

I'd like to welcome everyone to the Monday, April 27th, Pineel Bluffs Town Council meeting. Will everyone join me with in 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.

First item is approval of the agenda. I move to amend the agenda to add the uh review and approval of a plat for the Baptist church. For the Baptist church. Could I hear a second? Second. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. I move to approve the agenda as amended. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed hearing none. Motion carries.

New business and action items. Consent. We'll do the consent agenda. I'll move to approve the consent agenda. You did. Okay. I'll second it. So, it's been moved to approve the consent agenda. I heard a second. All those in favor? Opposed hearing? None. Motion carries. Were are any of you here regarding the permits on that were on the consent agenda?

Okay. I just know sometimes there are and people sit through the whole meeting and their permits were approved. Um so on the new business and action items, review and approve the restricted watering schedule.

Um yes. So something that I would like to point out is at the last meeting we discussed how there really wasn't much change from last year to this year. But, you know, when I went back and looked further at data from 2023 and 2024, during the winter months, we would have a significant recharge in our wells. Um, last year's data was very similar to this year's in that we had a dry winter and we didn't have the recharge that we would normally expect to see in our wells. Um it it doesn't appear as though the the moisture is going to get much better this year. So um I recommend that we uh put watering restrictions in place. uh and those restrictions uh would be something that we normally try to suggest uh but now I think it needs to be enforced is that watering be prohibited between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. and that mo and that residents should only be able to water three times per week. Um while it we cannot really enforce how long they water um I think it will be evident if we have some people that are maybe taking advantage of that and we just need to maybe have a conversation with them. Um, if you elect to go to the this restriction um of three days a week, um, I included an excerpt from our, um, from our code of ordinances, chapter 12, on what we have the ability to do. I would imagine that you wouldn't want us to jump into turning off somebody's water right away. Um, but that we at least have that conversation with that resident first, letting them know that, you know, we we are in a

drought situation and a significant drought situation and that it has been for two years now and um that um it it could be impacting everybody in the community. So, while we have plenty of wells and while uh you know, we want people to be able to enjoy their yards and their lawns, we we really need to look at the long-term health of our water system and uh have everybody work together to um ensure that we follow these guidelines. Um and if you agree with that and the flyer that is attached, we will get that flyer mailed out to every water customer that we have. One one of the things I was concerned about, Kim, I I agree we could we need to go to restricting the number of days so that people aren't watering every day, but one of the things that I was thinking about is for oh, let's say some of the elderly citizens and that they want to take good care of their their yard. But is grandma going to have to be out there dragging her garden hose around at 6:00 in the morning to get her lawn watered because she can't do it between the hours of, you know, and I suppose you could water between 8 and 10.

Sure. And that's okay. But something that maybe we could do on the website is suggest that people purchase the watering timers. Yes, absolutely. And they can put it on their on their hose and and tie it to like an oscillating sprinkler so that it'll come on Yes. in the middle of the night and it'll water for an hour in a particular area because but I imagine that doesn't occur to some people that they they could do that. They think, oh, water my lawn, you know, they have to go out there and set the sprinkler and then yeah,

set the oven timer and run out there and change it every few minutes. You know, when when we look at our utility billing every month and and you look at some of our folks that have the higher water consumption during the summer months, I can assure you that 99% of them aren't our senior citizens that are out there that are overwatering. Okay? And chances are they care about their lawn. They've got their lawn already trained to accept water probably on just three or four days a week. Um, you know, they've probably got great great uh turf. Uh but we absolutely can can make other suggestions and um you know I know that our PD is also inclined to uh help help seniors whenever they need extra help. So I am quite sure that our police department will get out there and assist them if they need help with with those things.

Okay. For for those of us that have a sprinkler system, it's easy. You just program it to run in the designated hours and and then just make sure you're not overwatering. Yes. It's hard to keep an eye on it to see it's overwatering when it's coming on at 4 in the morning, but Yes. Um, I'd also like to let everybody know that, you know, we've already had this discussion with our public works team and while they generally don't water any particular area uh more than three times a week, it has been stressed that they absolutely not do that. I do think we also need to have a concession in place for anybody that is planting new sod, new seed or trees.

Yeah. Where you have to water every day or it's not going to make it. But they they keep it watered every day. And I think they just need to let us know at the town hall that they're doing that. And with this flyer, we will include, you know, a a letter to our residents, you know, outlining some of these other things and and other tips. I think the flyer is mostly uh it's colorful. It's eye-catching. Jerica did a great job with it. I think that that's really to get their attention when they first open the mail. And then we'll we'll toss a letter in there with some other information. Um the the BOPU website had some really good tips on it that maybe we could snag, but they also had a like new lawn permit. Yes, they do have

maybe that's something like that's their way they can let us know that yes, they planted sod and can we be a little lenient on that? Um, the other question I did have was about uh bullet point three with the search charge for water use that exceeds a certain number of gallons per month. I think that could get really tricky as yard sizes fluctuate. Like if I have a bigger yard than Amy, like my gallon usage would be bigger from the jump. So, I think that would be really hard to enforce. Um,

yeah, absolutely. And and like I said, I think that that would we'd have to bring Alex in on that one. and do we need to do like a resolution or an ordinance or something like that? But um again, when we run the utility billing, um Leanne sees exactly how much water every household uses and you know, she generally sorts the bills so that she can catch all those that are

high use mostly because we're looking for leaks. Um but you know, we're in the habit of doing that every month. So, I think that, you know, if we see somebody that's using upwards of, you know, 40,000 gallons a month, we can just have a little conversation with them. Yeah, for sure.

Is there So, is there a a base fee that you guys that we can you say per household? If you're a threeperson household, your typical usage should be this and then allow so much for some amount of watering in the summer and then anything beyond that, you just charge kind of a punitive rate for the water usage beyond that. So, if it's their choice to overwater, they can do it. Going to cost them a thousand a month to do it, but sure.

But they can do it. Our um water rates will be reviewed this year by y'all. And you know, one of the things is we have the different break points that if you use, you know, your first 12,000 gallons is included in your base rate. Um and that generally more than covers most people most most people maybe not in the summer months, but even somebody that takes care of the yard, you know, maybe they use 20 to 25,000. Our rate structure takes it so that between 40 and 60,000 is I think you jump up. Is that where they jump to five? Yeah.

And then over 60,000 is is 10 um per thousand. And so I think once you hit that 60,000 I think that's probably more of a an overuse even for somebody with a fairly large size y yard. Yeah, that's that's quite a bit of water.

Yeah. I mean, you know, we know of several people who have gorgeous lawns, and I think the most I've ever seen them use in a hot hot dry summer was around 40 to 42,000. Um, and usually when they hit that rate, they're like, "Woo, it gets their attention when they get their water bill." But, uh, you know, if we have anybody that's, you know, so we just might want to look at that. And I think that that would be, um, a little bit more of a deterrent. We could step that rate up like the 40,000 go to something higher than 10. Yeah, absolutely.

And I I think that's good moving forward period. Um because you know at some point then it's just really overwatering. How much of that water is just going down the street and not actually soaking into the yard anymore? And with the fine, do we have the like first offense is this second defense? Like we do not. And that's why I said I think that what we could look at is um you know, like with any fine, it would be up to the discretion of our PD to say, "Okay, I'm kind of giving you a warning.

Um you know, next time you could potentially get a fine of up to $750." And um usually that that gets folks attention. But I think the goal is not to just jump to a fine in any of these cases. It's to really educate the folks and you know maybe somebody got their mail and they said you know this is junk and tossed it to the side or

they didn't get their letter in their post office box or whatever the case may be. So, I think it the the goal is to educate and then if you have somebody that's basically uh just, you know, saying I really don't care what the situation is, then we would by all means probably give you guys a call and say here's the situation and we're probably going to move forward with a fine on this one. So, um it would it would take a lot to get us to the point where we just shut off their water and charge them. I really don't like the idea of just shutting somebody's water off.

No, we we wouldn't we wouldn't do that. Um I just put that in there so that you are all aware of what the ordinance states. Um and uh again my recommendation is just we just try to educate the public first and right

um you know again if we have somebody that's really pushing back or being nasty then we do have options. And maybe this isn't a today answer, maybe this is a Chris Lidstone answer. Do you happen to have any information on the draw down of well five? Um like it looks like it refills itself at some point in the middle of last summer. Um but it never really went back up after that. like it had a massive draw down in July and then it refills really like pretty nicely. Um but then and maybe it's just because we ended the summer on a drought, but I was curious if there was any sort of information on that.

I may have an answer. Hang on one second.

The rest while they had some draw down, it wasn't as significant as that one. Is well five the one that has high nitrates? Um, no. Well, five is a deep well, so it's a high producer. I want to say that we had issues with well five. We had some transducers that weren't working at one point in time. So, it could be maybe an off reading.

Um, and I know that Chris is working with Andy and Lauren to make sure that everything is calibrated correctly. So, um, that may just be um an anomaly in the data due to poor transducer data. It just it seemed odd like compared to all the others. Well, they did have some draw down that didn't really get refilled. Um, that one was more significant than the others. So, I I was just curious if there was maybe some sort of technical thing or if we were really using that much water, right?

And I do know that for a while there we had, remember, we had well nine that was down for a significant amount of time, which is another deep well. And we also at one point in time we didn't have well 10 fully online yet which is our third deep well. So well five was just going double time there for a while. Oh. Um, so, uh, would you all be in favor of then of going into watering restrictions officially?

Yeah, I'll move to approve the restrictive watering schedule. Second. All those in favor? I opposed hearing none. Motion carries. Next item is review and accept letter of intent. A letter of intent to purchase real property. Um yes. So, if you all look at the map and we have um we have Tim and Wyatt here that are the the parties interested in that particular lot.

This the one that's just north of the rear building and south of uh the uh uh daycare academy. I don't want to touch that. Yeah, we want to purchase that so that we can build garages on it to go with our town homes where we just tore down the Masonic lodge. That was a chore. Oh my gosh, it looks wonderful. Thanks. Yeah, it's nice. Nice to have it down. Yes, the big giant hole is better than the ice.

I didn't realize they had a basement party. That's fine. We can Yeah, you can share. So this is Fourth Street. This is where the Masonic Lodge used to be. And this is the lot right here that we're talking about. And I had Styles mark the corners, the corner pin of the property. And uh that took me and a half because they're working on plan for you can give it to them. you can share with them. I have I have

one of the things that we look at on our proposal is to um give the city the rightway easement in between the two buildings by the daycare. Um and that would be for the rightway easement would be listed as um and that'll have to go to your attorney but for the life of the city. So, in perpetuity basically um which would not have to go through the repling process or separating that off in a separate deed um but just to basically donate that to the city and allow the city to maintain it at the city's expense so there wouldn't be any disruption in between the two buildings and where you had that nice rock garden and everything that was going on there and that surface drainage there's a storm drain in the middle of that

right that rocky area landscaped zeroscaped area in between um 311 and the uh um daycare and where that would come out in the east side of the building toward the alley. Um there's a drain that comes off of the roof. And if you look where that drain is, Wyatt put a little rock out, a bigger rock if you will. I can paint some to post it, but you know, it's it's there. It's about um about 4 feet away from the sidewalk area for the kids. six and about 2 feet to the west is there. So, it still has that area that will go all the way through to the alley that would be to for the city.

We would not interrupt their sidewalk or anything at all, but it's going to remove uh four of their parking spaces that are in the back on the alley there that are actually on this lot where you can see that I put uh garage um three, four, and five on garage five basically, right? Yeah. Well, three, four, and five is on that lot. Okay. It still seems like there's a lot of like frontage back there for them to park. So, yeah, there is. And they don't hardly use those other spots. They just use the ones that are kind of to the to the south of their building there, which is kind of interesting. I don't know why they use Yeah. Um

the GIS map has a little bit of a discrepancy. It's skewed about six foot. Those lines are six or eight feet to the north further than they should be. Not surprising. Yeah. Yep. I after like about Main Street, some of those assessments are off on the GIS. Just a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little off, which is why I had it marked out. I don't see any reason why they can't park back. Yeah. I think there's plenty of frontage.

Yeah. whether they did straight parking or angled parking, you know, um and maybe the city later in in time made that a one-way uh direction so alley that way they angle parked. Um they'd have more spaces that way as well. Lots of options. But the letter of intent would be to give the city the uh rightaway easement for that. Um allow the city to maintain it, do whatever they wanted to do with it. um totally then we would donate it um that to the city and just take the land for the garages. Great. Then we would maintain and and take care of that that space there. Perfect. I'm move to approve.

Thank you. I'm still looking here. So, um would the town then be responsible for everything outside the footprint of the garages? No. the we would take from the garages to the south uh of that area right there and the city would basically have the just where I wrote access ement yeah that access the red part in between right yeah and that would be the cities basically what you're already maintaining and currently have maintained and developed

um before we we vote on this Alex may have um a legal concern about how we would have to handle this particular uh property sale. Way to go. Way to blame. Well, it's likely worth more than $500, which means we have to advertise it and take bids. We'll give you 500 bucks. $4.99. Well, yeah.

Fair market value. Fair market value. And and and we want to do what's right. um and whatever the city requires to be done. Um you know, and and we look at that as a kind of a a way to develop so that we don't take up as much um street parking for the development of the town homes. Yeah, I appreciate that. So, what do we have to do, Alex? Do we just have to We have to follow the statute on sale of public property. Okay. So rather than approving this letter of intent, we would need to make a motion to put it out to bid. Is that what you're suggesting then? Okay.

So is that to bid or would that be for public record? So you'd have publish it and then whoever wanted to possibly bid on it would be the process if I'm correct. So we'll get it listed in the Pine Blast Post this week, right? And uh we can have this turned around and do I have to do it for two weeks? Uh I think it's two weeks. Two weeks. So two weeks and then there's going to be another reading at the next council meeting then. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So once we open the bids then all all is said and done provided we meet whatever minimum we set in the advertisement. So can you do can you put a bid that's the highest bid plus a dollar? I don't think so. That's That's not fair.

There you go. No. And and if anybody has any questions on the project uh altogether, let us know. Happy to answer any questions because like I said before, one of the things we want to do after we get done with this is maybe take a look and see what the city has for abandoned buildings and and get some rentals to help your 300 acre development. Um because we're already hearing rumblings um in Cheyenne and Burns about how they're going to be able to transport even us uh subcontractors to be able to work here without extra gas search charges, especially now with the prices going up. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that too. Kim, are there any utilities underneath where the garages are at or where the approach would be that we need to worry about? No, I don't believe they are.

I had them all located. Everything's in the alley. Gas and electric are in the alley. sewers in Fourth Street. Um uh the gas to the uh existing building comes in this easement, the utility easement that I left here between our new tone town homes and 311 Main Street or 311. Yeah, I can double check on that for you as well. Yeah, but if there's any utilities there that need to be moved, we'll we'll have to pay to move them. say, I know Lauren looked at all the town utilities, so the only question was gas and Right. Yeah. Yeah. Black Hills is so wonderful to work with. When they when they finally showed up, we found them.

Yeah. Good. I'm I move to put um guess the I I I don't know how to identify this piece of property. Uh the east 40 the east 40 ft of lot 15, east 40t of lot 16 and the north 20 of the west 100 block of lot 16 block 12. Okay. out for bid. Second. Hearing a motion and a second to put the property out to bid. All those in favor? I

I opposed. Can we amend it that we It is three publications. Three publications. Okay. Three publications. Do I have to change anything the way it stated it? No, no, it was okay. Have it. Yeah, we have We need to get it appraised, right? What's that? Does it need to be appraised or can you just do it by a square foot a square foot basis or I think the consensus is that it's worth more than 500.

Well, yeah, I'm sure. You can't buy anything for $500. So you don't you don't I mean you don't the only reason to appraise it would be to set a floor on the bids. You could and sometimes that happens. We do that with equipment. You know we'll take a bid of X but how many square feet of land are we talking? You know um it's on the GIS. Um it is that that part is actual on the GIS um

as far as we know. But the one thing um that I looked at was we were trying to find out what to propose for the city and what to be able to do and looked at it and looking at your comparables for your vacant land uh per square foot or per acre. Um that's kind of what we went off of. We're real close to right at that fair market value. And what was that value? Uh 10,000 10,000 and what we looked at was the value of the garage space, not the right away because the rightway wouldn't have any value. It's uh 4,000 square feet. Okay. Okay. So, it's the portion we would be using. Yeah. But yeah, it's about

But it's also a really awkward shape which somewhat decreases the value of the property. And the frontage along Main Street is not wide enough to be usable property. Yeah. So, we ought to take that into account when we're Absolutely. deciding what we need to do. If you're going to put a data center in there, it's going to cost you two million. Yeah, right. I just did the math. And it looks like it would be about half and half. 2,000 square feet and 2,000 square ft. Okay. So, it's 4,000. Okay.

So, when we put it out, Kim, do you just put it out for bid? I do. I can put a minimum on it if you would like. um or just put it out for bid and see what happens. So, I don't know. So, I don't think uh I just don't see it as being a huge uh draw for people when they because chances are they're going to call and ask about it and we'll say, "Well, you can't build anything on Main Street." So, Alex, what what would you recommend on that? Yeah. Can I put in there something to the effect that 2,000 square ft needs to remain a town easement?

Well, we haven't in the bid for or in the advertisement. Is it that much? 500. So, you're only getting 2,000. Correct. Correct. And so, to what I would recommend or suggest um is point them in the direction of Larmy County GIS um and maybe have the link to where that's at. um in your publication so they can see what it looks like and what what the actual footprint is and that way Oh yeah. might save you some phone calls. Yeah. So based on from your knowledge based on 2,000 square feet of land, what would the GIS value be at that point? Um depends on where you're from, where location.

Yeah, location and everything. And when you're looking here in Pine Bluffs, Pine Bluffs can r run anywhere from $75,000 for 5 acres. Um, and it can go all the way down to around 35,000 per 5 acres depending on what you've got for rolling hills, land, um, how depth you got to go down for water and how the utilities are and everything. So, it's a a a wide variety. in town city lots. Right now, you're looking at around that 35 to $50,000 mark for a city lot. So, okay.

The only thing I would recommend is when we put the description, a legal description, we should also state in the ad reserving unto the grantor or the town of Pinesos an easement, you know, described as. Okay. what they're getting. Can do. Okay.

So, where did that leave us? We're good. I think we're good. you you know I I guess um there might be some merit in putting a minimum bid on that. Well, that's kind of what I was thinking too. It might actually help the overall uh goal here. That that's the only

Do do I hear a motion to put a minimum bid on Do we need to have a number for that? I think so. Offer it already. You've got some guidance on I move to make a minimum bid of $10,000. I'll second that. All those in favor? I I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carries. Is that a minimum bid for each lot or for the whole thing? The whole thing. For the whole thing. Okay. You have to You're putting in each lot as a separate thing. It's one lot. One lot. Yeah. Oh, it's all one lot now. Yeah.

Okay. Thanks. Next item on the agenda is the mayoral scholarship selection.

Well, first I just want to say we had a great selection or great set of applicants. Um I think we're all pretty impressed with the quality we got. Yeah.

Um based on the I guess letters and the goals of some of the students. We're actually going to be awarding three scholarships. One for uh the Tom Warren scholarship, Tom Warren scholarship, and the other two would be the mayoral scholarship. So, there will be three that were named tonight. Um, and we I'd say speak for you guys, but as a council, I want to say I think we're pretty pleased with some of the ideas um that our students had regarding how to improve our community and the impact that the community has had on that. Um, so I guess thank you to um our Pineluff seniors for taking the time to do this. Um, we have a good bunch of young people. Jana, would you please comment a little more on the the Tom Warren scholarship, what the primary focus of that is?

Yes, the primary focus of that one is to award uh it to a student who is going into law enforcement in some capacity. Um what else is there any other law enforcement and public service public service? Um and based on the applications we got, there was at least one student who looked like fit that that category which we haven't had for a couple years. So, it was nice to see. Thanks, Jim.

I will move to make applicants A and H the recipients of the mayoral scholarship and for applicant I to be the recipient of the Tom Warren scholarship. Second. Hearing a motion in a second. All those in favor? I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carries. I will inform those parents and we'll get them those scholarships at the next meeting if they're able to attend.

You look forward to that. I'd like to say that it was reading through them. This is a really tough thing that we have to do because all these guys are very,

you know, it'd be great if we could give them all a scholarship. We can't do that. But I want to personally thank everybody that applied and wish you the best in the future on what you whatever your endeavor is and thank everybody for putting in applications. We're We appreciate it. The next item of order is visitor comments. You have any visitor comments? We have that plaque also. We have a plat to approve, right?

Yes. Oh, yeah. Well, Kim, can you do you have Do you have that? It's on my desk. Thank you for reminding me, Ellie. It was the one job Kim gave me was to make sure that we got that done. We got that done.

And I'm sorry, but we don't have a scanned in copy, so you'll have have to take a look at the larger uh plat. And then uh we'll need the mayor's signature and two council members. So um whatever two want to I already signed it. Oh you okay? Yeah. Hopefully it passes then. So this was just to um this was to

was to split the house off from the rest of the property. So it it is this right here that is being replatted. the lot if all was one and that way they can sell that property or so what we're looking at is we're separating off the parsonage from the church uh crossroads correct church and they're wanting to sell off the house separately the parsonage the house from the church property and that's what we're approving right now. Yes.

If Alex will let us I'll let him get through the legal before I make Yeah.

So, did they get the deed? Yes. Yes. And has it been recorded? Yes. And we don't have any easements or rightways anywhere on that property, I don't think. No. Well, I don't know. Jonesy signed it. So, I guess I'll have to take his word for it.

I move to approve the replat for Pine Bluffs Baptist Church. Second. Hearing a motion and a second to approve the plat. All those in favor? I opposed. Hearing none, motion carries. Now we'll go on to visitor comments. Any visitor comments? No. On to department reports.

I've yet nothing. Um, I didn't report the last meeting, but the joint powers board met regarding the historic high school on March 31st. And I would say that their uh their financial situation is a little bit improved from what it was say a year ago. They have uh seven uh full-time tenants in the building now. There's only actually two rooms that aren't rented at this point. They did raise their rental rates by 20% last year and um they're doing a little bit better than breaking even on their expenses to to revenue. So um kind of going to watch that. We're going to have more frequent meetings, meeting every quarterly instead of twice a year and discuss how that continues to look for the rest of this fiscal year and decide whether any other changes in rental fees needs to be considered or not. But overall, it looks more promising than it did at our last meeting. That's what I have. I guess what I have to report on the Eastern Larmy County landfill is that there's been a pretty substantial rate increase on the tipping fee. The rates starting July 1st are increasing from $40 a ten to $60 a ten which will substantially impact the town of Pine Bless, making us have to review our our trash rates yet again. It's not something that's ideal for the town, but it's I suppose a necessary item. And other than that, there wasn't a lot

of new news out of the landfill other than they're proceeding with the next cell development and they're running into a lot of cost overruns that are driving the rate increases to a large degree. You have anything, Ellie? Nothing for me. I've got nothing. Nothing even you, Alex. Aside from the fact that I'm behind on the zoning ordinance, I think I'm all right other than that. Okay, Leanne, you have anything?

I do have a few things. Um, you guys all got this if you will. It is the invite to the Burns quarterly dinner. It will be at Burns May 20th. Oh, yeah. That's in your envelope that Yeah, I didn't get that yet.

Yeah, you did. So, if you will let me know in the next couple days or after the meeting, I have Janna's. Just let me know if you'll be able to make it. Check your schedule. I will RSVP for everyone. Also, the dinner meeting for Wampa and Gernzie. Are any of you interested in going to the dinner or maybe just the board meeting with the rate plus the 20th and 21st? It is May 20th is the dinner and a board meeting. The same that's the same as it'd be the same night as Burns.

Oh, it is. Yeah, you're right. So, workshop was the next day the 21st. Yes. The 21st. Yes. Is the Let me see. Let me make sure here. I was going to ask for clarification on the time. The workshop starts at 11. Yes. Or 9. I think their board meeting starts at 9 and then the workshop was the class was at 11. So you guys probably if you do anything would probably be to go to that rate class. So do they stream that like Zoom or Teams? A lot of times they do. A lot of times they do. Let me check with um I could do it then or be interested in it otherwise. Okay. No.

All right. I'll check with Michelle and find out if they stream. And that isn't open to just elected officials. So, um I know that either Leanne or I will plan to attend that as well. I have Zahara. So, no. And I don't think it's uh like I can just RSVP and say there'll probably be about three of us. They're just trying to get an estimate probably. So it's not like official. If you say yes, I want to go and you don't go. I'm not going to get I'd like to attend. Okay. Yeah. See if there's a link or anything.

Yes. I think school gets out at noon that day. So I'd also have the boys. Oh, is it the last day of school? Yeah. Okay. Um, I was thinking there was something else I had to ask you guys, but I guess I No, that's it. That's all I have. How about you, Kim?

Well, we finally wrapped up the uh three years of audits that we were working on, getting ready to start another one. Um, but before that, we will be actively working through the budget process. Um so uh hand inhand with that goes you know the request to have another council workshop on May 11th so that we can do that budget workshop at that time.

Um and then as you all have probably seen the uh report from HDR that you know construction is underway on the industrial site and um things seem to be moving along pretty smoothly. So, um, sure the weather will hold out and we won't have any issues there, but, uh, I think moving forward, we'll see some great things out of PCI and HDR for that industrial park. So, um, that's all I have. It's busy finance time of year.

Thank you. Our next meeting um oh our next meeting is May 11th the workshop at 4:30 regular meeting at 6 but the meeting after that is on Memorial Day. So when would you guys like to do it? Tuesday. Is Tuesday okay with everyone? That's good for me. It won't be a workshop. It'll just be a regular meeting at 6. Okay. I think that works. Okay. What's the date on that? 26th.

All right.

I move to ajourn. Motion and second. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. Okay.