City Council - Regular Meeting

Thursday, February 12, 2026

The Pleasanton City Council held a special meeting to discuss the critical condition of the water plant roof and receive an update on the ADA plan. An engineer from BG Consultants presented options for the roof, highlighting the need for immediate action due to structural compromises.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
Pleasanton, KS
Meeting Date
February 12, 2026

Transcript

57 sections (from 134 segments)

0:00 – 0:17Speaker 1

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2:20 – 4:18Speaker 1

All right. Uh, as we get started tonight, I'll go ahead and read this. The Pleasanton City Council request that Mayor Matthew Young call a special meeting on Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 6 p.m. at Pleasanton City Hall, 1608 Laurel Street, Pleasanton, Kansas, for the purpose of discussing the possible decision regarding the roof at the water plant and to give an update on the ADA plan. Um, and with that, I'll call to order the special session and remind everybody that we can only discuss the topics at hand for this special session as called. I will go ahead and pass this around so you all can sign that. Say thank you to everybody that's here joining us for this. Becky, could we get the podium over here? I wasn't thinking while ago or I pulled it out. Let's uh for the sake of clarity of one of these mics. Okay. Uh, so as everyone's aware, last Wednesday we actually had an architect and engineer out at the water plant filter building. Um, sir, if I could get you to take a step up here. Uh Jason

4:18Speaker 1

with BG Consultants kind of give us a rundown of what we're looking at here.

4:24 – 6:24Speaker 1

We run down. So uh well good evening mayor council. I'm Jason Hoskinson engineer with BG Consultants and uh I included a memo that I think you all have seen if you've had a chance to review that. Um, I'm going to hit kind of the highlevel aspects of what I've got in that memo and kind of talk you through where we're at and kind of maybe some next steps for the council to consider moving forward with the filter building. So, uh, I do want to just clarify before I mention anything here. This is I I don't know the age of the building. We we weren't involved with the design of it. I haven't seen the design plans. I don't know all the components to it. Uh we really haven't had any invol BG hasn't had a lot of involvement with the water plant itself. Uh we do a lot of work around town. We were asked to come down and kind of we weren't out there with tape measures and laser levels and stuff. We were just asked to take a look at the the conditions, make some observations and and and report back. So that's why I'm here tonight. So, uh I think you all know there there's some concerns with the roof on that building and we did take a look at it. Um there uh it's it's the the building itself. You've got a block wall building. The block walls are in pretty good shape from what we saw. There's some cracking. We'd expect to see some of that in a in a structure that's been used for a long period of time. Uh but nothing alarming with that. Um there's a lot of equipment inside the building. Electrical attached to the ceiling. Um and some HBAC equipment. um clear uh uh excuse me um filter basins on the west side of the building and um o over that is a woodframe structure stick built roof. Okay. The we were able to get some access through through the opening uh kind of stick our head in there and take a look at it. It's not quite what I

6:22 – 8:21Speaker 1

would have expected to see with modern-day construction. I can't say that it wasn't built to the code that was applicable at that time. uh is just not quite what I would expect to see if it were built today. Uh it's missing some components. The the rafters, the wood rafters, those are the the the structure components that are going up and making the triangle. A number of those are cracked and kind of split. Uh if one cracks, it's it's not great, but there's others there to help spread that load out and transfer it ultimately down the walls and into the ground. Well, you got a bunch of them that are cracked. Um, at some point too many cracks cause too much stress to go in the wrong spaces in the wrong directions. Um, the thing that as we got to looking at it and really talking about about the conditions with staff back in at the office, the the center column, there's there's a col wood column in the middle of the building that a lot of this attaches to and there's kind of some beams that they're acting like beams. They're not really beams, but they are acting like beams in the middle of the building. They're all resting on that column or trying to rest on that column. Uh the columns in pretty bad shape. It's leaning uh it's about 3 in over 10 feet or so out of out of plum. And um our concern now, we didn't do a structural analysis on this, but it it looks pretty strongly that's a single point of failure. Meaning if that column were to fail, I think the whole roof's going to come down. Uh staff has informed us uh while we were there. Um well, I did fail to mention Matthew and Alex were there with us and then city staff was there as well. They did mention that um that that beam I was talking about that's supposed to be sitting on that column has opened up a little bit over the past maybe 6 months, I think is what they mentioning. So

8:20 – 10:19Speaker 1

something has kind of moved. Something has shifted. I don't know if it was snow loads on the roof that maybe caused some cracking and some changes that that occurred there. Um but but we know it's compromised that the roof structure is compromised. Don't know what caused it. I don't know what it would take for it to actually come down. Um there's no way to predict the timing of that. I would say if you don't do anything, it's not going to fix itself. Um, and it's trying to hold up it's trying to hold itself up when there's load placed on it. So, if we get snow or if people are up on the roof or something like that that is adding load to that roof, that could increase your risk of a roof failure. Um, if it comes down, you're out of out of water business. Um, there's equipment in there. There's there's the CL the excuse me the um uh the filter basins all that would be contaminated need to go through a process to and working with KDHE clean that up and and take care of it from there. So I'm going to talk a little bit about some options to address it. Are are there any questions at this point of what I just kind of went through? Anything burning on your mind? No. Okay. All right. So where do you go from here? Um, couple of options really. Uh, I if time and money were no issue, I'd say look at a new building. You've got an older building. It doesn't make sense to keep putting good money at something that keeps aging. Um, but going through and and to build a new building, um, we looked at some rough square footprint cost, uh, foot square foot footprint costs, uh, you're probably one and a half to two million just for a structure of that size. plus, you know, another million to 2 million for all the equipment and the the the upgrades and the the piping, water piping and the structural

10:17 – 12:14Speaker 1

stuff inside the building to go with that. And it's probably going to take you about 3 years. So, a lot of money and it's going to take some time to go through that whole permitting process, going through the code reviews, getting KDH approvals, and building it. Um, that gets you through two more winters that I don't know if that roof will support two more winters. I don't know how many more snow loads it would take to bring that thing down or wind to take that thing down. I think um because time's not necessarily on your on on your side, replacing the roof is not necessarily a bad option. Um if if we could shut the plant off and just replace the roof, it's not a huge structure. We'd typically see a roof replacement of $100 to $150,000 for something like that. Um, talking with the mayor and and with Becky, it doesn't sound like you have a backup supply. So, the logistics of replacing the roof becomes a real challenge. Not impossible, it's just going to be a challenge and and there'll probably be some cost associated with that as well. Um, I think probably the the ideal solution at this point would be to um, uh, as far as the engineering side of things go, we could take a look at what it would take to shore up and kind of provide some additional bracing. If there's some points of failure that we see or that looks bad, here's some ideas of how we can try to deal with that because like I said, you got that that column in the middle is a single point of failure. engineers, we like redundancy. If one thing fails, we want something else to be able to hold it up. Right now, you don't have that. So, that's kind of what we'd be looking at is maybe some additional bracing, some additional supports and columns. Um, trying to trying to beef the thing up and buy you some time essentially. Um, I can't guarantee that it would work. I

12:13 – 14:11Speaker 1

think it's just going to help provide some some uh mitigation of risk, if you will, um to try to get you to a point where you could implement a repair project. Concurrently with that, I think, you know, it's not a huge building. Uh modern day, we can we can uh design or or have designed pre-engineered manufactured trusses that could span the whole thing to where we don't have to deal with a column in the middle. Uh those things can be built off site, brought u just just like building a house. You know, you may have seen them go up on a house, but they could be brought to the site. Uh a good contractor can put those up in a day if if all the demolition's done. They can put them up in a day, have a sheath maybe the next day, roof on the following day. It can go pretty quick. Uh it's going to be the demolition and the logistics of getting it prepped for that that's going to be a challenge. We've got some ideas on that, too. Um, it's going to kind of hinge on what your water production and water use and water storage can take. I don't know how much water you can store in your water tower, but there could be a scenario where you run the plant, fill the water tower up to 100 100% till it's overflowing, shut the plant down, go in, cover up the the filters, and cover up equipment. Try to detach equipment from it. If you need to run the plant again, if that takes a handful of days, maybe run the plant again, fill the water tower up, keep usage down to a minimum in the community while that's happening and get the basically work in stages of construction to try to get the old roof off. Uh we'd want the trusses for the new roof there when that happens. And then um you could periodically bring the plant back online. And I mean that that there's there's some effort in doing that and some days to treat some water, fill the water tower back up, provide your

14:09 – 14:52Speaker 1

community with water, flip the switch, shut it back down, put the new roof on, and then, you know, it's it's kind of a all the stars are aligned, and it works. But, um, there are some scenarios there where that could happen. So that's I think probably your best choice moving forward with what you've got today and given the conditions that the building is in that the roof is in um and time and money and investments that you've made in the in the structure in the past that that you're still paying on. So I'll kind of turn it over to the council and see if you've got any questions that I have a question. I see you got a question. Go for it. I do have a question for you. Sure.

14:50 – 15:05Speaker 1

Okay. Okay. So, you said the trestles you um make them and bring them in things. So, give us the ballpark of if you know it, how much it cost that would cost that to for that to do.

15:02 – 16:09Speaker 1

Uh I I don't know off the top of my head. Um that 100 to 150,000 price range that I mentioned, that would be for engineered trusses to replace the roof. Um, what I don't know is what additional cost a contractor may charge for, okay, well, we're going to spend three days demolishing dem demolishing things and re detaching stuff and then we have to move off site for a few days and then we come back and then we do some more work and then we move off site. There's some price tag to that that only a contractor is going to be able to quantify. So, you know, I I don't know if this approaches 250,000 once you add in some of the complexities of that. Maybe maybe more. Um it's um the the structure's been up a long time. I don't know how long that roof has been there. Everything has a service life. I just I think at this point this one has probably reached its service life and um needs to be replaced. The challenge is how do you replace it?

16:06 – 16:19Speaker 1

Can you tell by looking at the roof? I mean, obviously I can't, but um if it's been like from the storm damage or is it just wear and tear?

16:16 – 17:33Speaker 1

No, I I really don't know. I mean, the we could see the wood the brakes the wood is inside the brakes. It's it's yellow. It looks sort of fresh, but I mean that could be two years ago that some of them started breaking. And it might have been over a period of time where maybe a couple were broken years ago. I I don't know. Um maybe a recent snow has caused some damage. Um I will mention one thing there and and I think Becky mentioned she might reach out to Southeast Kansas Planning. CDBG does have an urgent need grant that might be able to be used for this. A lot of the urgent grant urgent need grants though require some type of event to and documented to have caused a failure and and maybe the grant writer can can smooth talk through that and help get some funding. I think it's 100,000 is the grant for that. Um but uh short of that I don't know that there's a lot out there um for funding other than your through your utility rate um your utility fund.

17:27 – 18:41Speaker 1

Yeah, that was my question about grants. a new building, you know, we could go through a process of doing a PER and and looking at uh you know, the whole system from lake to plant through the town. Um, and I don't think that would maybe be a bad thing to be thinking about uh to see where you may need to be going in the future and you know what does 10, 20, 30, 40 years look like. And there are some uh well the city's gone through USDA rural development and we got some grants through that and there's some lowinterest long-term loans to try to help mitigate that cost impact. But but in the meantime, you know, like I said, you know, 3 to 5 years to implement some type of a project like that. I did that's a number of winters here that we're going to go through with a jeopardized roof. And I think you really need to look at fixing the roof. And even if we were to consider like switching to wholesale 13 or something um in the meantime, I mean because there would be a process. So we'd have to get an engineer and run a bunch of things and run the lines and everything

18:39 – 18:54Speaker 1

from that point. Even if we were to go that way, we would have to do something with the building to support that roof. Yeah. Or or replace it. Anyways, that correct. Yeah.

18:51 – 19:38Speaker 1

Yeah. If there was if there was a way to establish a backup water supply or if you had one that would um that would make the logistical component of this easier. Um you could run off the backup supply. A backup water supply has to be approved by KDH though. It's not you don't just put a pipe in and make a connection. It's there's a process to go through. It's got to be permitted. That takes time. So that's what I'm saying. I think at a minimum you need to at least temporarily look at trying to do some type of temporary bracing and shoring to buy yourself some time and and do a roof replacement. Uh get yourself in a better position.

19:34 – 20:19Speaker 1

Okay. Um on that Josh, our daily water use right now is around 150,000. Around 100,000 right now. Around 100,000 right now. Yeah. Okay. So, how if you filled the tire to the top as it can go, how long would it last? Well, generally with that through the top, it would last us a day using a water 100,000. But you can't use all of it because then you lose pressure in the line. So, so real capacity would be 60,000 probably 80,000 60 80,000

20:19 – 21:00Speaker 1

so we'd only be able to fill it use it for one day and how much what is the capacity the ground storage 100,000 it's 100,000 so that would actually give us two days yes with conserved water use possibly two and a half to So, if we took the Oh, if we took the roof off, but uh like how you seen that all of the wiring that goes from the breaker box over to the panels all up on the roof. Yeah. So, we'd have to rerun that like temporarily.

20:57 – 21:25Speaker 1

Yeah, that would have to be detached. Um there may be ways to um either rerun it in a new permanent solution. Uh we'd have to take a look at that. Uh might be just temporarily supporting the conduits. I think there were some galvanized conduits um carrying that. That's typically what we'd see inside of a building. So right now it's attached to the roof that we want to take off.

21:23 – 22:15Speaker 1

We could detach it and have it supported elsewhere or or you know supports from the ground. It's it's going to get kind of messy and it's going to start getting tight in there. Uh but there's ways to do that and there and that would that could actually take place potentially without taking the plant offline. I mean it completely there may be you know we got to kill a breaker for an hour and then flip it back on when we lower stuff that kind of thing. But there could be some logistical things where we can keep the plant mostly running from time to time with with short short duration shutdowns to get stuff taken off of the ceiling to where then when we do a longer shutdown to demo the roof um you're ready for that. So

22:12Speaker 1

So what are we looking timewise for all of those?

22:16 – 23:39Speaker 1

Sure. Um, so, so right now, um, I mean, our firm's ready to go if the council wants to proceed using us to help you get through this design process, bidding, construction. Uh, we we've done this in the past. We do this all the time. Not not quite on an emergency basis quite like this, but um I can get some contracts over to you or a contract over to the city pretty quickly. Um certainly by the next Tuesday meeting when the council meets. Uh and I think the first step would be get some temporary bracing plans in place and get a contractor hired to implement that. I think we could put that together in a matter of a week or two. Uh some temporary ideas and solutions and then you could get a contractor. So maybe a month and you could get some temporary bracing hopefully short. If you can find a contractor available to do that, you're probably I'm I'm going to guess maybe a threemonth time frame to get the roof replaced. Uh and there's going to be a lot of weather dependent type work because once that roof comes off, we want to make sure that there's not rain in the forecast because that that would destroy your equipment. So, or could destroy your equipment.

23:37 – 24:00Speaker 1

So, I just got a question. So would it be the best thing to have like emergency hookup from someone else? I mean just in case like if something ever happened to your water plant. I mean I mean even like a for wipe it out. We are out of We have no other way to get water.

23:56 – 24:45Speaker 1

Yeah. I I redundancy is a friend of an engineer. If you have a backup supply that's always better than not having a backup supply in my opinion. Um, I did help I recently helped uh city of Effingham kind of northeast Kansas. I helped them get a backup supply. I want to say it took about a year to get through the permitting process and they had a roll water line right next to their water tower. It was an easy connection, but there was just there's a lot of permitting process stuff that we have to go through to to make that happen. So, they might KDH might expedite things if they know a community's in a situation. I'm not saying it's on a brink of failure tomorrow. I just I don't know what it's going to take to take that roof down. We know it's compromised. So,

24:42Speaker 1

yeah. So, if we braced it up, we know it could give us a little bit. That should help buy you at least some time. Yeah.

24:56 – 26:00Speaker 1

Just information wise, I know that a lot of people have said, you know, water 2 has a main right there and everything. I have learned that Pleasanton used to provide raw water to to them. Um that pipe from everyone that I have spoke to's understanding is not connected anymore. Um and it wouldn't be a matter of being able to just connect it and use it either because they don't have the resources to provide the water back. Yeah, that's the other component with a backup supply is we need to be looking at it's one thing to just connect it, but if their system's lower than yours, the water won't flow uphill without pumping and then now you're $500,000 for a pump station and 6 months in equipment delays and everything else. So, it it's backup water supplies would be great. It's figuring out how to make it happen is the challenge. So, what route would you all like to

25:58 – 26:41Speaker 1

So, I have a couple questions. So, um are the insurance um won't cover the rep on the the building at all or what? I mean, do we I mean, I'm just asking it wasn't caused by like a you know, it wasn't caused by a tornado. It wasn't caused by a fire. it was basically lack of maintenance. So my question is um there are these grants out there and we already have u things that we're paying on. Yes.

26:37 – 27:06Speaker 1

Have we paid at least 20% of what we owe to be able to qualify for these other? None of the grants that we have open right now are CPG grants. Okay. So, do we know if they factor in our debt when we apply for these? Um, I'll I'll call Carrie tomorrow and visit with her. I don't know. I've never I've worked with a lot of CDBGs, but none under the emergency.

27:07 – 27:51Speaker 1

Yeah, we've we've done a few urgent grant needs. Um, we typically don't do the admin engineers don't do the administrative sty administrative side of the grant. Um, but yeah, this some of the same stuff holds true though, like one CDBG CDBG grant open at a time. If you don't have one, that puts you in a favorable position there. Um, depends on how much money they have available at the time, too. Um, they have an emergency fund. That's what it's there for, but just have to do some research and hopefully Carrie can get back pretty quick. And the grant that we would apply for, do we have to put any money? We have to put money up. I I don't know anything about it. I've never worked with one. I'll have to call her tomorrow and find out.

27:49 – 28:24Speaker 1

I I don't It's been a little while since I've done that, but my recollection is it wouldn't be enough to cover the cost anyway. So, you would have to There's still going to be some cost borne to the city. It's not going to cover 100% of this. in current infrastructure stuff we have. We don't have what we have in those funds or anything.

28:31 – 28:58Speaker 1

I can have more together for you on Tuesday, but auditors have just left today and haven't had time to look at anything else. from a best stance or a best process forward. Um what is your suggestion that the council look at?

28:56 – 29:42Speaker 1

Okay. Um, my suggestion would be I can bring a um I can get a uh design agreement or a supplement to our current design agreement that would bring in our services to help you develop uh some type of a temporary bracing plan and then help you through the design bid construction phase of the roof replacement. Um, if you don't have some other direction to build a new plant or something else burning right now on on on the the process, I think that's your best path forward to keep the building shored up and keep you in the water business.

29:40 – 30:11Speaker 1

So, if we did temp brace it, what would be your estimates? I know it's a real rough estimate of how much more time that might or is it still in limbo because we don't know. Oh, well I I mean the temporary bracing. Oh, are you you're asking if we temporary braced it, how much time does that buy you? I I really don't know because really any of the temporary bracing isn't fixing the structural members that have already broken and been compromised. It's simply,

30:10 – 30:38Speaker 1

you know, like the big thing that that concerns me is that that column we know is shifting and moving and if it goes, the whole thing comes down. So, in my mind, I'm thinking, well, how do we brace that beam? How do we maybe mitigate some of that load without causing problems elsewhere? It could be a little bit of a challenge. Um, but it would definitely lower the the danger.

30:34 – 31:19Speaker 1

It would it would lower that inherent risk. Yes. Um because yeah, if you place more, like I said, I don't know what it would take. You know, the next snow might be enough to stress it. Would that be a dusting? Would it be 10 in? I don't know. It It's really hard to say. And now that components have been compromised, now it's well, okay, that was carrying load and that's being transferred to the others. What are the condition of the other structures? There's a lot of whatifs that that come into play that we can't quantify. So, so would the council like to add to that as to get them working with us to get a plan going?

31:17 – 31:33Speaker 1

Like a plan going I mean to get like a a temporary like fix on the roof now I think would be a really good idea. Okay. Um so that contract adjustments.

31:32 – 32:14Speaker 1

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say, do you want me to bring a contract adjustment or I mean, we we'll need to have a contract in place because um as far as our risk and our liability, uh if we don't have a contract, we're it's at our own risk. Um and that's that's not good for us or the city. Um, so I think the best route would be for me to get a um a supplement to you guys on for your Tuesday night meeting and that'll line out the the temporary bracing and uh are you wanting a roof replacement too with that? Go ahead and design that and I think we need to figure out

32:11 – 32:56Speaker 1

how how we can bring about the grant and where our funds are going to come from. The only thing is we don't have a lot of choices. We're going to have to fix it. I do. We have the funds to fix it. I I don't know. I I don't know. But if you don't fix it, you're going to lose your water supply. You say embrace it. I like the idea of the T tr trestle and doing the trestle and bringing in and brace it up. That's what I like the idea of. And that way it'll give that beam um some you know, support and then eventually get a roofing. That would be a roof replacement. That's a replacement. Yeah.

32:54Speaker 1

The beam would be gone at that point and the trusses would the whole road. That's what I like.

33:00 – 34:59Speaker 1

The other thing that you all have to consider is that um that water plant, treatment center, whatever you all want to call it, is the sole source of water for this entire community. And so notwithstanding the finances whether you have them or you don't have them, you can refinance your bond. Um you can apply for the emergency grant funding. You can relook at your budget to see where else you can get monies from. But the liability associated with failing to supply a community with potable water for an unknown amount of time, it's not like there is another option that is within reach where you could tell the community in 72 hours or in a week or in two weeks we're going to have water again. Uh you have an unknown amount of time. So you're talking about sewage and sanitation. Um you're talking about mamas and babies. Um, and the ability to to deprive an entire community uh of potable water is of immense risk um to to this community and an immense amount of liability to the government of this city. Um so it is my opinion that you do need to proceed with at least evaluating what the options are. You all sort of reaching a consensus that um this consultant group BG consultants provide you with a contract supplement that outlines how to brace or shore up as well as replace the roof obligates you to nothing. It is just a consensus that you're inviting him to present that to you and at the next regularly scheduled meeting you could make a motion to either accept or reject such a proposal because the truth is you don't have another option today and it seems like it's going to be quite

34:56Speaker 1

some time before you do have another option

35:01 – 36:45Speaker 1

and in that for the purpose of clarity uh would that be um the contract for the next meeting or the contract So, yeah, and and I was going to add a couple things coupling on to Jacqueline's comments. Um, yeah, it would be a supplemental agreement. It would be a contract basically adding in our services. Um, I don't want to say our services are are minuscule. I mean, there's there's a fee for it. Obviously, construction is going to be your bigger dollar cost. And we don't we don't quite know what that is. You honestly probably won't know what that is until you actually do the demolition or I'm sorry, when until you do the bidding. Um because there's some other components we need to be thinking about here too is we don't know if there's asbestous in the insulation or in the shingles there. There needs to be some testing on that before we can really quantify well how do they dispose of this once they demolish it. So there's a lot of unknowns and an unknown amount of time. Our services are to help you start getting rid of those unknowns and making them known. Uh and then in that mean in the meantime, you know, staff can look through budget, through funding, through your your balance sheets, through grant programs to find out when the construction costs come, which will be the bigger dollars, how do we pay for it? And so, I don't know that you necessarily need an answer for that right now tonight or maybe even Tuesday, but like like she was saying, you know, at least having a path forward to try to start figuring out what those unknowns are. I know doing the whole roof is what we need to do, but can I mean I'm just throwing it out there. So, can you do half of the roof and then

36:43 – 37:07Speaker 1

the worst part of it and stuff? Not really. No. Um just because of how that thing's I was just asking the the position it's in. I I also don't know that you'd be able to get a contractor that would be willing to take the risk of doing that um in case something did fail as they were trying to do it. I think it's an all or nothing on the roof.

37:04 – 37:42Speaker 1

I mean I mean that and her I mean I mean I would also like to see with our city to have a like somewhere else where I mean to where we can get water cuz this ain't I mean with the old equipment it might happen again when we're going to be in an emergency situation. So, I mean, I would like to see us at least go forward to see if the engineers with water 13 if we're able if they're able to take us on as like emerge.

37:39 – 38:19Speaker 1

Are are you asking if he could add to that proposal a proposal for an emergency water source? Yes. Okay. Yep, we could do that as well. And uh some of this I can quantify and provide just a lump sum fee for us to do it. Some of it I might provide an hourly component like this, a backup supply because it would include some discussions and I I don't really know how far or where we'll get with it, but I know until you if you don't take that first step, you're you're never moving forward. Um, so that first step forward is a good step to try to figure that out. So I can include that for sure.

38:17 – 39:01Speaker 1

And then plus like I mean even not even at the water treatment plant. I mean, anything that happened out there at Diesel Lake with like semi- rollover, we're out of water. Yeah. Cuz when we were terminating, so we'd have to have some if something pollutes our water supply or anything like that, we would have we would have no water. We have to have a backup. And I do know that Wholesale 13 said that they would have to have an engineer look at what it would take to even connect to us whether providing for or even a backup which right now they provide to rule two also. So So we have to pay them to come and do the engineering. We have to pay them for

38:59 – 39:57Speaker 1

the way a lot of money. So at that could uh I I didn't know if there was a different engineer like parts like because they said like they have their own engineer. So would you be able to do that also or would we have to go through that engine? um they are probably going to have their own preferred engineer um that they hire and pick and choose to do their analysis, but they're going to be able to get it to a point and then from that point into the city, you're going to need an engineer to help you through because the city is going to have to have a hold a permit with KDH that's been engineered and and a whole process gone through. So there's really both entities are going to have engineers helping them through that process to get to where they meet in the middle somewhere.

39:55Speaker 1

So if we had you all look at that emergency water supply also, then at some point we probably have to still pay their engineer to do that side of it.

40:04 – 41:09Speaker 1

Yeah, I mean that that would be something you could negotiate with the the entity at that time whether that's in um you know if there's a connection fee and they just lump it into that or I I don't know how that would work. Um, but we need to see kind of what they can supply, how much they can supply because that's the other component is how much water do they have to supply to you and that backup supply usually there's restrictions on how much you can use. If if they if they don't have an unlimited supply, which most most entities do not have an unlimited supply, they just have to figure out how much are they willing to contractually obligate to you. I'll spell all that out though so you can kind of see a breakdown of what I'm thinking and where we would go to get to the fee that I'll have. So that sound good to everybody? Um on that

41:16Speaker 1

any other questions? All right. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

41:19 – 43:19Speaker 1

We'll be in touch. Okay. Uh the other thing that we had for discussion was the update to the ADA plan. We did have um a meeting with them, walk through the buildings and so forth and she is putting together the completion of the rest of the plan, the whole thing. But we wanted to get into everyone's hands where we are right now with that plan. Um that way our city attorney can get that over to uh the state to let them know that hey, here's the plan that we have in action. um and where we are with that ADA transition plan for the city. So, this is just a preliminary is definitely not complete, but is just a preliminary of where we are on that. Anybody have any questions on that that we might be able to answer? My plan would be to um provide this document to the state. They have requested that the city update them regarding our progress in improving uh the accessibility of our community. So what I would tell them or what I would plan to tell them would be that um as we

43:17 – 45:13Speaker 1

had previously discussed we had hired an ADA consultant. She has provided a proposed um plan that the council is considering that will be reviewed in depth at the next meeting and potential supplements to come from her as well. Um so that I'm not obligating the city to do any of the things that are are suggested here. Um but they have requested that we keep them updated as to the progress that that we are making. So unless you all are prepared to agree to implement any or all of this, I would recommend that I simply allow the state to know that that you all are considering this report, that this preliminary report has finally gotten into your hands for your review and consideration. Does it sound good to the council for her to do that? And that gives us more time to go through it before Tuesday's meeting a little bit more and know that it still is just the preliminary good. Um with that we have ended the two points that we um gathered for. Did anybody

45:12 – 45:28Speaker 1

have any questions or anything else on those two points? Is there a motion to adjurnn? Make a motion. I second. Moved and second. All in favor?

45:24 – 46:06Speaker 1

We are journed. I understand.

46:02 – 46:25Speaker 1

Oh, maybe. Yeah. We'll see. I like these pins. Yeah.

46:35Speaker 1

So, we're three years Yeah.

47:02 – 47:18Speaker 1

Compance. So, oh, did you get those numbers whenever I was having them? just take it. Yeah, I did. Sometimes good, sometimes not. Yeah. Like what?

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