City Council - Regular Meeting

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Okay, I'll go ahead and call to order today's council meeting for Monday, June 15th, 2026. We'll start with the pledge. 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. I've asked Pastor Linda to say a prayer.

Our Heavenly Father, please be with everyone this evening. give them guidance, give them wisdom. We ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior. Amen.

If I can get a motion to approve consent agenda. We'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Yes, sir. It's been moved and seconded. Any questions? All in favor? So moved. Public comments? I see two here. Remind you, you have five minutes to address the council. When you come up, please state your name and address for the record. James Beltz.

Good evening. My name is James Beltz, and my address is 20746 East 1100 Road in Pleasanton. And while that is not a city address, I am a property owner within city limits and have been a resident of this community since June of 2009. During my years in Pleasanton, I've seen many things overseen by city administrators and city council, both in a positive and negative result. During that time, Pleasanton had always remained a community that was both close-knit and proud. They had built a strong relationship between the city and the school district, which was beneficial to both parties. And when disagreements arose, community members spoke with their elected officials, who then would speak with their council members and make decisions that would benefit both and build the community, excuse me. Recently, I have noticed some visual changes in our community appearance and some differences in our representation. I would like to start by talking about the appearance of our community. Springtime is my favorite time of the year. The world is awakening, the grass becomes green, you can see life happening. However, with that comes added responsibilities. We have lots and ditches that in the past have been maintained by city workers and by the city, both being mowed and trimmed, which are not being consistently maintained. Two examples of this would be the entrance to our city coming in from Fourth Street, where there are unmaintained culverts and ditches with weeds almost the height of myself. And the 10th Street lead up to the USD 344 campus where the ditches have fescue that's heading out to seed. And while they have been mowed once since March, it still does not give the proper visual representation of what our city is. This also includes the water plant property. which is a city utility that I do partake. Secondly, I'd like to talk about the Northeast Corridor. When that corridor was developed, its purpose was to have an area with city resources available to businesses who wanted to build by the 69 highway corridor. Early on there was a lot of success with that as Casey's when they made their decision to move out there not only moved their store out there but expanded and it became the truck stop that it now is and years later when the Sechrest family decided that they wanted to change locations for Cox Motor Company that was an attractive place for them to go and they ended up building what is now Bob Allen Ford. What I've noticed lately is that when you come off of 69 Highway, the maintenance of that corridor gives a horrible first impression. The ditches are unmowed or untrimmed. They're almost overgrown, and this is not just right in front of Casey's coming in on the street, but if you turn and go north towards the clinic, all of that has not been maintained. This gives the impression that our city is not being properly maintained. And to anyone who is considering bringing their business to this city, it shows little support for those city businesses or civic pride just by the appearance that they've heard their first impression when they come off a 69 highway as the state properly maintains the entrances and exits onto the highway up to a point. We have... Very nice parks, in my opinion, in our city. Dr. Dunlap Park is a wonderful place for kids' parties or kids to be able to blow off some steam or ride the swings or parents to take their kids for an afternoon out. General Pleasanton Park, there next to the community center, has the bust of our city's namesake in it. The 6th Street Park is a nice open area if people would want to go out and play football or something where you need a large area. However, during this year, two of those parks, Dunlap Park and General Pleasant Park, were mowed and trimmed by community members when they became frustrated by their shoddy appearance. general pleasant park being mowed and trimmed after the community center had been rented for an event and nothing was done to improve the appearance prior to that event is that my five minutes yes sir okay motion has been made to allow them to finish and seconded all in favor

Please continue, sir.

Our lakes have long been a point of community pride. They would draw business from out of town as people would come to fish and stop at Casey's or stop at other places to get bait or to get fuel or other things like that. And a lot of this has to do with the West Lake. I did go out and look at the East Lake, but most of my comments have to do with the West Lake that many of the shorelines out there are unfishable. There's an entire pier that has not been mowed. I don't think it's been mowed all year. I also understand that when it is wet, that pier is difficult to get to with a mower, as I had worked previously for around eight years in the summers with the Public Works Department. But there's dead overgrowth along those shorelines from previous seasons, still up. And you can see the new growth happening around them I can only assume that most of the areas that have been cut to where you can fish have been done by the fishermen themselves. This appearance of our city has caused me to vocalize personally to my spouse on more than one occasion that I was embarrassed to drive into my community. because it looked like we had just carved it out of the middle of a pasture. That we weren't worried about upkeep, that we weren't worried about showing our civic pride, and that embarrassed me. Now, in my view, the responsibility on this lies directly with the head of our council. Due to, Article 2 of the City Code, Section I-205, which states that the mayor has superintending control over all officers and affairs of the city. And since it has been brought to my attention that there are not any duties or responsibilities that have been delegated to other members of the City Council, that that is reinforced by Section I-207, which states the governing body may designate whether the administration of a policy or the carrying out of any order shall be performed by a committee, an appointing officer, or the mayor. If no administrative authority is designated, it shall be vested in the mayor. I don't get heavily involved in politics. I never have. I've always made it a point to kind of stay on the outside. But in my 50 years of observing, this is what I have come to know. Our government is accountable to its people. And representatives are representatives more than just in their meetings. They are elected to be representatives of their constituents. 24-7, 365, from the time they're sworn in until the time their term ends. The democratic system that uses all of its members to serve the people is the best possible system we can have. And one person does not rule the day. They need to always remember that they are a servant to their constituents. This has been the expectation in the past. and remains the expectation now. Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Next we have Greg Stogstill. You're going to get it one of these times. Stogstill. I'm so sorry. I added a letter, didn't I? Stogsdale. Yeah. So sorry, sir.

Greg Stogsdale, 601 East 6th Street in Pleasanton. Is that all you need? Yep. All right. I'm on the call. He pretty well, you know, said a lot, you know, that I've, what is that? But honestly, you guys have done a pretty good job on the lakes in the past couple weeks. So they're looking pretty good. Except for, you know, like the path between Steg, on Steggy Lake. On the south side, it's still narrow and, you know, and we, you know, so spread your arms and still get through there. The weeds are almost as tall as me, you know, and so it's like a narrow path. It's kind of hot. It's going to get that way. It's been nice weather. So it really needs to be widened out. He did go back and widen out the other after the first mow, you know, and got the stobs and stuff the first time around because it had been so overgrown. But need to do that. And then when you cross the bridge, there's no weed eating or anything around any of the, we have these little benches out there. You can't use them. because they don't mow around them and they don't weed around them. This is at all the lakes, okay? East Lake, you know, and on the north side anyways, and so forth. So you just really need to, you know, just try and finish off. And there's a path, there's a walking bridge from shelter house one over across to the other shelter house at the West Lake, just south of the compactors. Okay, they only, you know, the landowners mowed up to it on their side and it's nice and pristine. But what we did, they didn't mow it. So there's no horses on the path, but that's the only thing that should be on the path, because it's not mowed, you know? And so it's just a little section. I guess whoever mowed it didn't realize that, you know, that was a walking path, you know? So it's mowed on one side, but you can't get from one side to the other, can't use the bridge. I mean, you know, unless you want to walk in the ticks and bugs and stuff, and they're just going to get worse. Okay. That's a, you know, so, but all in all, it looks a lot better, okay? These, like, though, the dock, it's just the ramp, but to the dock, it's separated, and so it goes way up and down. It's kind of a dangerous thing that just the first section, and it's just a couple, some stove bolts and a couple of straps and galvanized straps on there, and that probably... Solid it up where people could actually get on there without it being an actual hazard Okay, because it does, you know, I've seen it up this high, you know and cockeyed and so forth It's pretty simple fix. The other thing is is I'm just wondering up on the west on the Stegee Lake Dam, you know Yeah, I know you guys are trying to figure out how to bid on something, but you need to remediate the problem immediately, and it can be done cost-effectively, and you're going to have to do it anyway. You might not even have to spend... tons of money to to repair the thing yet once that once the water gets down you got a fire department you got some city workers that get a get a truck load or half a dozen pallets of bentonite and go down to the to the local sawmill maybe the Amish or something get a truckload of sawdust and just you know you can pump out you've already got a mixing bowl there where it is where it is washed out and as soon as the as soon as the lake stops running over and that that thing's still going to spin and then what if you do run out of water you know that that's not working through there you you can just start adding betonite when you see the gray come out down the bottom you start adding a little more than that and thicken it up and add a little bit of sawdust to it and just keep doing it until it stops it will seal it I'm telling you and it won't cost you you know more than less than a thousand dollars you know I mean it should I mean I'm not sure what the cost of bags of bentonite are now and how many you're going to need but you got everything you need to do it or or you can get it you know cost effectively and you know and then if that doesn't work with that that has to be done anyways Because unless you decide to dig that whole thing out and replace everything, you know. And then once you do get it sealed, then you can pour a little bit of concrete in that crater, you know, and cap it off, you know. But you got to get it sealed up first because it's just undermining around the dam. I mean, it's been doing it since last May when I first told you about it, you know. I mean, last year. Okay. Okay.

Max McLean.

Hi, all. It's great to see you guys again. The reason I'm here today is to go through all the process we're about to embark on with getting your guys' water treatment roof replaced. And with that, I have a preliminary calendar and This is preliminary. And what I hate about calendars, especially the preliminary ones, is that, well, a lot of times these dates will change. However, it is a good starting point for us just kind of goes through the process of important dates and what we'll be doing at that time. Today, we're going through the calendar as well as we will be passing a reimbursement resolution that I brought with me today, which the reimbursement resolution just means that for this project, you guys can start spending for the project. And once we have the funds, well, that'll be expensed and reimbursed back to the city. Just if the engineer needs funds quicker and you guys have them, you can spend them and it'll get reimbursed within the issuance. And then some other important dates that are subject to change. As you'll see, July 6th, preliminary official statement will be distributed to the council. I'll be sending that. You guys will have a meeting that day. So I will attend and I'll bring that. And that may change just because, well, legal might not have it done by then. what the official statement is is all the bond documentation all the legal work that if you guys are having trouble at night sleeping trust me read it it helps other things that are subject to change is the kansas attorney general review of the bond documents because it is a general obligation bond which is backed by taxes will not be paid for by tax revenue though In the state of Kansas, you guys do not have to vote bonds. However, a general obligation bond is the strongest credit because it is backed by property taxes. This will be paid for out of utility receipts, so out of water revenues. And sometimes they say, well, we just need a little bit more time to read this over. And then on August 11th, you guys will have your funds deposited in your bank so you can move along with your project. Some other things we need to decide is how long do we want to be paying this back for? It's about $215,000 for a new roof. We can do it for 10 years, we can do it for 5 years, we can even go 20 years. I would imagine you guys don't want to be paying off a roof for 20 years. And so 10 and five, I've kind of looked at the numbers slightly before I have all the costs of issuance and the rate increases that are necessary are not a lot. And that is based on, what was the number of connections? It was about five. It's okay. But the number of customers was about 500. Yeah. And so with that number, the rate increase necessary is not that high. Does anyone have any questions so far? I do not know that off the top of my head for five years. And I can send you an email tomorrow with what I have roughly.

That would be great if you had for five and ten what you kind of predict.

Absolutely. And I can do that. And I can also send, when I send it tomorrow, I'll send what it looks like per customer, what it'll cost per connection to be paying that off with, because I have your last five years of audited financials. So I was able to look at those.

So five and 10, and then, I mean, you said not 20, but maybe just put the 20 in there just to see what our ranges are. And then what percent... And then also with the, I don't know, go ahead. I don't think of it.

No, you're okay. The next thing we will need to do is pass the resolution, the reimbursement resolution. And I actually have this here for you as well. This is just going to be the easiest. I brought both of them. It's going to be the easiest when it comes to filling it out regarding minutes. You'll keep a copy. And I'll read from this copy. However, both need to be signed. One will stay with you. The other I will send to legal. And this is we'll go into that official statement bond documentation that helps people sleep at night. I don't have any questions so far.

Yeah, I thought of it. When you send it out, can you also send out what the interest is going to be too? Absolutely.

And I think so. It'll all be a rough estimate with the interest just because we're going to be putting it out to bid. The way we think you guys are going to get the best interest rate is by sending it out to as many underwriters across the nation as possible. And we think competition is a good thing in that sense.

Okay, perfect. That's what I wanted. Thank you so much.

Of course. With that being said, I need someone to make a motion for me to read the resolution. And we don't have a resolution number yet and that can just be filled in. I need someone to make a motion for me to read the resolution.

I'll make a motion for you to allow you to read the book, the resolution. I'll second.

A resolution of the city of Pleasanton, Kansas authorizing... Please hold. Oh, sorry.

Motion set forth and seconded for allowing him to read the resolution that he's proposing for the council. Any discussion? Any discussion? All in favor? May we read the resolution, sir?

The resolution of the city of Pleasanton, Kansas authorizing improvements to the city public water supply system and providing for the payments of the cost thereof. Now I need someone to make a motion to adopt the resolution. That is the first resolution just saying we're moving forward with this project. If we don't have interest rates or if no one bids on it, well, we can go back to the drawing board later.

Kenny, would you mind making copies of that for everybody, please? That's going to be the easiest way to do this. Okay. I didn't know.

Yeah.

And so we just read the first page of this packet. And the next resolution we'll be getting to will be right here. However, it is in the meeting minutes right here, same as the resolution. Page one has the resolution in title. Page two, or page three, my apologies, also has the resolution in title plus the other legal garb.

So this does not need a resolution number?

It does. However, since we do not have one currently, it can just be put in tomorrow. If we have a resolution number right now, we can also do that.

And do we know the next resolution number? I believe it's 2069. That would be the ordinance.

OK. Mr. Dean, does all this look good to you? It's pretty standard, yes. Okay. So can we read the resolution then?

I can read it again, absolutely. Sorry, read it in title, as in what the resolution says.

what the resolution says. Yes. You read the title, I would like for you.

A resolution of the City of Pleasanton, Kansas, authorizing improvements to the City public water supply system and providing for the payment of costs thereof, whereas KSA 65-163D through 65-163U, as amended, the Act authorizes any municipality to acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, equip, rehabilitate, or extend all or any part of a public water supply system, and to issue general obligation bonds to pay all or part of any cost thereof, and whereas the City of Pleasanton, Kansas, the City, is a municipality within the terms of the Act and operates a public water supply system, as said term is defined in the Act, the system, and whereas The governing body of the city hereby finds and determines that it is necessary and advisable to improve the system and to provide for the payment of the cost thereof by the issuance of the general obligation bonds. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the governing body of the City of Pleasanton, Kansas. Section 1, project authorization. It is hereby authorized, ordered, and directed that the system be improved by constructing water filter building improvements, including roof replacement, and B, making all other improvements related to thereto. Section 2, project financing. The estimated cost of the project, including the construction engineering fees, acquisition of right-of-way, easements contingencies and administrative expenses is $215,000 cost of the project interest on interim financing and associated financing costs shall be payable from the proceeds of general obligation bonds of the city issued under authority of the Act the bonds section 3 reimbursement the bonds may be issued to reimburse expenditures made on or after the date which is 60 days before the date of this resolution pursuant to Treasury regulation 1-150-2. Section 4, effective date. This resolution shall take effect and be in full force from and after its adoption by the governing body of the city.

So you need a motion to adopt resolution?

Mm-hmm. It is the resolution.

Can I make a motion to adopt the resolution? I second.

It's been moved and seconded to adopt a resolution for the city of Pleasanton, Kansas authorizing improvement to the city public water supply system and providing for the payment of the cost therefore. Any discussion? All in favor? So moved. Perfect. And then we'll get the resolution number to you all tomorrow.

What's the timeline on all this? When it's going to get started?

The timeline of the actual construction? I believe the engineers said they wanted to start in August. And so that calendar I gave you guys earlier is trying to be as quick as possible within those boundaries. And these will just need to be filled out. Who adopted it, or who brought it, who seconded it. And I guess the signatures as well. And if you want, I can either pick it up tomorrow with all the signatures filled out, or you can just mail this either to me or directly to the leaderboard. But I will leave this here with you all. I will get things moving. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

My name's Howard Brown. We just moved here in February, 601 West 14th Street. I've been working with Jeremy with the city on getting the property fenced. We've run into easements, street easements, as to where to place it. What I'm requesting, well, let me show you this. We're on 14th Street. We're bounded on the east by Sunset, which is a vacated street. I figured that out. That was one of the things I wanted to find out from here. It is a vacated street. We're bounded on the north by Park Street, and that half of Park Street that bounds us appears to be vacated as well because there was an electric pole right in the middle of it. Then we're bound on the west by a diversion ditch that has a street name, but it's just a ditch. What I don't know is the alley between. And the alley between the property on 14th and the property on Park, we want to turn into a driveway to exit on Park. What I want to do is... be able to gate the end of that alley, hopefully a vacated alley, so that we have dogs, I can keep the dogs in. It's gonna be a circle drive where we can exit, but I need to gate that end to keep my animals in. Jeremy told me the best way to find out whether I can do that or not is to come to the council. So that's why I'm here. We seem to be surrounded by vacated streets, but I don't know whether the alley is or not. So the alley has Crawcan comes through it. Evergy is overhead on the south edge of it. The city water comes in from Sunset in the corner of the property that's located on 14th. The sewer is all on me. It's clear down in the middle of the alley on down is where the city owns the sewer part. So as far as easements, the only easements that are needed or would need to stay in effect is Craw Can and Evergy. But they would have access because I'm talking about gating and continue that as a driveway. I guess I'm requesting that you vacate that alley if it is not already vacated. It may be because everything seems to be west of there vacated. I mean, Park Street is, Sunset is. I have title to the west half of Sunset. And be able to gate that alley. So either way, whether you vacate the street or whether you don't, I would like information to gate that street or gate that alley.

I do know that even vacated streets and alleys still have right-of-way for utility stuff. As far as the city not running through there, the two companies that do would have involvement in that.

You would want them?

even though the city may not have utilities running through that alley the two people that do have utilities running through that alley would still have that right-of-way right through there that makes it a little difficult to vacate itself in that facets because all streets and alleys that are vacated there's still that right-of-way of utility right that's there i might say one thing about utility right-of-ways though i mean um i have one property that we just sold

The pipeline had an easement on 200 acres. It was just a broad. What an easement amounts to is they have access. They can get in, and if they tear something up, it's not their fault. It's, you know, they'll fix it, whatever. So, I mean, that's what I'm saying about Crocan and Avergy. They'd have access, you know, which their easement is going to give to them.

I think we need to figure out if it's been vacated, which probably would have been a resolution. It would have been an ordinance to vacate. So I think we need to check into it to see what...

Okay. You would think when they vacated Sunset, which I don't think it's ever been a street, and it appears that Park... That end past the houses is vacated. It looks like if they did vacate those two properties, that they would have vacated the alley as well.

Usually the alley is.

We went through this with Cedar Street, along the way across. They had to stop and maintain ease because of utilities. But that would be the same thing you'd have to do now. You wouldn't be able to walk off Sunset because it's tilted.

It wouldn't be blocked, it'd be gated.

Average ease. Evergy's overhead, yeah. Evergy's cheap. Our sewer line goes out to the center of it, and then you've got, the crawl can's going to be on the back side of that. You've still got to give them direct access to their equipment.

And they would have. Just like the Evergy, the big poles that have come from the power plant going across, they've been replacing. They have an easement to go in there and fix them. What they did... Because they went into those properties, they put new places in there where they could get in. So, I mean, they put a gate and put a whistle on 7th Highway and County Road where they could get in. They had access. And that's what I'm saying. They would have access. They would have the same access they have on 7th Highway for those big power lines.

Does our attorney have a thought regarding this?

Well, look at the... Understand that you're talking about This is this this is the shape of the property looks like it's a straight It looks like from the county's website. There's still some part of this East West They did vacate sunset all the way up and down and they got all of it so I mean if the council wants to do so it's not hard to vacate what remains in that east-west alley. But it's a good point that you'll have to deal with the issue.

You know, it's actually marked the wrong direction. Do they have it? Yeah. The alley should come from this way.

One ahead of the other side, too. So what we have to do, though, is if the council wanted to do that, it's not a problem. They can vote by ordinance to vacate that. It may have to go through planning and zoning, but it's easy enough to do. You are probably going to want to check with the other easement holders to see what they're They may want to work with you, but it may be that they don't. It just depends on the day you catch them and who you talk to. But better to have that discussion before.

Most of the time, they're easy to deal with.

Usually.

be then to check with the other easement holders on that and then if you can get a clearance letter from them then submit to planning and zoning a request to vacate that and then once planning and zoning looks at it they'll present it to the council with their suggestions okay that's what we'll do thank you i appreciate it Before we get into any executive sessions, I do have a couple of letters here. Got a card, a thank you, that says, just a note to tell you how much we appreciate the service you provided for the citywide cleanup. It was a big help for my family. To the city of Pleasanton staff, from the Williams family. And then I wanted to give a thank you to Joe Pointer, Walt Kimler, and the Wills family that was able to help in the work on getting the pool up and going. You can see the bottom, the pump is running good. And then a big thank you for our mowers that helped from the community mow some parks and community center. So thank you to those volunteers that were able to give some time, effort, and energy into helping with those items. I do not know all the people at the moment. I know that James Belts was one of them. Thank you, sir, for that. Really appreciated.

Yeah. I'm not sure who all those people were, but thank you much for that.

And if I could get a five-minute executive session for non-elected personnel for job performance to include the city clerk and the attorney.

I make a motion for a five-minute executive session for non-elected personnel job performance to include the city clerk and the city attorney. I second.

It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? We'll be back at 6.50.

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Yeah, but that still needs to be done.

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You know, just a little tiny bit of weight shows. Seriously. I mean, really, you're supposed to be on scene almost all the time.

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Do we need a second one here? Yes. Okay. Executive session ended. Resuming normal meeting.

I'll make a motion for another five minutes for non-elective personnel job performance.

To include?

To include Candy and the attorney. I second it.

It's been moved and seconded for another executive session of five minutes to include for non-elected personnel, job performance, to include the city clerk and the city attorney. All in favor? We'll return at 6.56.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. The one person I need a picture of is Shelton. I don't know if he was there or not. I saw that she was hanging out with him. I'm going to ask you the same question.

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We're all United States citizens. And I don't agree with it. We're all United States citizens.

I hate the national one.

It's on national TV, yeah.

I do get this one press release.

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Thank you. Thank you. It was gel, group one. It was gel. Okay, executive session ended. Is there any normal meeting?

And if I could, go ahead and get a 10-minute executive session for non-elected personnel to discuss job performance to include Jeremy Gallagher, the city clerk, and the city attorney.

I'll make a motion for a 10-minute executive session for non-elected personnel to discuss job performance to include Jeremy Gallagher, the city attorney, and the city clerk.

I'll second.

It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? We return at 7-0-8.

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I mean, I can do so much, but the council has to approve the way it's done. Well, I took Nancy's EC, regulators, all that up there.

Yep.

I know what you mean. Yeah, it is. Okay. Saturday or Sunday, I should have finished up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So when they're outside, they're in this enclosed area. Yeah. um um And so I've got a culture out here. So if I run something, I've got a culture out here. Well, there may be somebody here where they can see that's what I'm talking about. Every once in a while, I hear coyotes eating out in the field. So for a view, they're kind of just trying to get me out of this. And there are. There's a problem. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. It killed it. It killed it. It killed it.

It killed it.

It killed it. It killed it. It killed it. I'm a big old tall guy. I don't know what to say. I was just a baby. I was just a baby.

I was a baby. I was a baby. I was a baby.

I don't know if it's the same thing. There exists one that went by the church in New York before we went on vacation. It was like five or six of them. I didn't see if it was going to roll. So they can see if nobody else makes a change. So if you're having something like this, and all of a sudden you're living with this guy, and you go ask for it, whether you have to go to the church or not. And they don't know.

They don't know.

They don't know. Well, let's see. So this one, you've heard me on this. They all do this right on the door of Slinger's. He's had here a bunch of yards. So they pull all this stuff up. We have one now. So they just put everything here. So it's kind of just like a gear. It's like a natural path. This is a school. And they turn it right here.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.

That was wrong.

I think you guys sweat.

I am not sweating.

Executive session ends at resuming normal meeting.

I make a motion for another 10 minutes executive session for non-elected personnel job and performance including Candy and the attorney.

And Jeremy Geller. Next second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? We'll return to 713.

Is this the house?

Senator Miller. Very good. Well, more Senator Miller. His parents were like a mile, well, two miles south of Senator Miller. And they like, he sort of grew up in the Senator Miller. And he also ran... Oh, yes. Oh, that's true. Oh, yeah. Oh, she passed.

Well, she passed. Oh, I see. Right.

So yeah, so he was still here. His farm supply from his place out in the center of Illinois.

I guess he's been embraced pretty widely.

What's going on? What do you know, stranger?

Nothing. Me neither. The more I know, the less I know. Amen.

And I was just telling Mike, I said they keep having more executives because they're hoping that none of us will ever come.

Well, you know, they're winnowing down their audience here. All these people are leaving after all.

I wanted to tell James Belts, you must have missed a bunch of meetings. They couldn't be doing any of that stuff. They were busy fighting.

Everything is looking fine, especially for all the rain we've had.

Well, I didn't have the heart to stand up and tell them, but the city does not own that land. No, they don't.

I wanted to, but I didn't. The city doesn't own that.

In front of the south side of the dealership, that's owned.

Does the city have a special order that can do those dishes at all?

well we use ours is over which is our we have our regular writing of zero terms and usually we can get the pitches unless if there's standing water yes that's the issue we have with the church there's standard water um used to mow it you gotta get that mower

They'll go on that skid. Yeah. And then you take those banks and you go up and have an angle.

Now, Jimmy is trying to take care of all that, but he's trying to take care of the pool. So the kids can have something to do.

And I know. That's what I keep telling everybody. If you want it done, go out there and do it. Or come in here and tell the council we need to hire some more people. Yeah, you can't do anything. Freddie did. Freddie uses the push mower. And he goes like this, down to the water and back up again.

It takes an hour to school. No. Wade calls it a poem detector lake.

I'm just running your mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We're responsible to the middle of the street. It's not safe. The middle of the street.

You don't want to lose your property. No, we will have it. He bought it. We can't build anything in there. It does. You can take it on a hell of an incline. But it stays left on. It just... I'm sure that was inexpensive. Well, it was a basket case, but we got it going. You're talking high and high. Looks like what they got around here.

That's a lot of standing water right there.

It's worth it. That's a big thing we're going to take. Nope.

We're going to watch that video.

Executive session ending. Resuming normal meeting. If I could get a motion for an executive session for security reasons for 10 minutes.

I'd like to make a motion for 10 minutes for an executive session for security reasons.

I'll second it.

All in favor.

Do you need anything included? Yes, we need to include candy and the attorney.

That's an amendment to the motion. Second to that.

I'll second.

All in favor of the amendment. All in favor, but now amended to include. All right, we will return at 726. Okay.

and find out if all council members are going to be at the 4th of July activities and the General Pleasanton activities. I think that ought to be a rule. Yeah, ask them to go help them. That's what I'm saying. I'm not going to ask them. They need told. They want to be big shots.

You've got to join them. Leadership starts from the heart. I think so. That's what I think. They should help. I agree.

And if they can't make it through the day, they should be on the day before.

That's a good thing, right?

Why are we playing in the air?

We're still innocent. It was your fault.

Okay, I'll take it. Because you're so innocent. I am innocent. It's innocent until we're guilty. You don't want to live away from her.

It's innocent until we're guilty. Not you.

You're guilty. What are we trying to cover her car with?

Getting council members to work at Fourth of July activities and General Pleasanton days. Get on it. I'm calm. I'm calm. So I am in need of a DJ or somebody to perform at Stars and Stripes for the street dance.

Why? Tristan will do it. I do not sing. Who made the plans?

I had a lot of DJs.

I was going to ask Morgan.

Yeah.

I'll be here.

I'm working on it. I'm trying to.

That's right. I'll be here. I'll be here for a second. I'm worried about the sets. I'm trying to. No, he sent the schedule. Sent it to Jackie and then she put it in the paper.

It was a blast.

It's on its way.

It's on its way.

Did you make her a note?

Probably not. No.

Make her a note. I sent her a text message.

No, that's not a note. You know what she has to deal with?

Come on. One of them.

Have you guys been busy over there with your bed breakfast? Yeah, actually we have. We've got a couple guys coming in tonight.

We had somebody Saturday night, Friday night, Saturday night.

Good, good. We've got another three or four nights coming up here. It was really slow, you know, starting in the spring and then all of a sudden it's just kind of... Picked up. That's good. I'm tired of ironing bed sheets.

I don't blame you.

Iron bed sheets? That's right.

No, I don't know iron bed sheets. This is like the Hilton...

Well, listen, mine was fancy too, but I did not iron sheets. I take them out for a minute, they're done.

Well, we don't. Flat them out. We don't iron them all the way down. We just iron them. We bring them over to the blanket at the top, and then we need to pull a case. Yeah, I know what you mean.

Yeah.

So, yeah. It's a lot of work, though, still. That's one of the things I never... Ironing sheets.

My grandma used to iron sheets. Remember with the Coke bottle and the sprinkler on it? She'd iron sheets and hankies and underwear. She ironed everything.

Well, we do it on the bed, which is a lot easier than trying to put it on an ironing board and dragging it around. Yeah, it is.

So, like I said, we'll... Good job. I told him it was his fault. He just write you a note. Yeah. Texts are not good enough. Sticky note.

We don't have text messages. I would look at it, and then set it down, and then...

I said, with the evidence you got the other year? You did. Let me see.

I'll tell you, I've been here the whole time.

But this is kind of... You sure have a few followers? No, no. No? No. Oh, yeah. That was a good one to hear. I said, by the way, when are you going to come here? I'm having a nice time by myself. Good. Good. Sometimes that's what you want to do. Oh, yeah. I used to. I go with that to meet my grandkids.

What do you do with this crew? Jacked up. I know. Thank you.

I'm trying to figure out what this is. No. No.

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I'd like to make a motion for approving funds for 21-24. Was it for security updates? That's second. It's been moved and seconded to spend $2,124 for security upgrades for the city. Any discussion? I will abstain.

All in favor? Passes four with one abstention. Departmental reports and financial overview. G. Snyder.

Between June 1st and June 14th, we had 132 calls for service, two citations, 30 traffic stops, 14 fishing licenses checked, three arrests, three drug cases, 10 case reports, 11 call outs. Some of those calls for service, two burglary alarms, four animal calls, two mutual aids, one animal bite, 12 citizens assist, one citizen complaint, three civil standbys, one DUI, one harassment, two juvenile incidences, one sink case, one mental health, one sex offense, two suspicious activities, two thefts, one check welfare, one fight, Um, as of June 9th, uh, part-time officer Farrell put in his resignation. So that now just leaves me and Cartman or I'm sorry, officer highly. Um, we made some changes on our schedules, which I've pointed out to you guys. I'm not going to put it out there for everybody. Uh, For the call-outs, our call-outs involved burglary alarms, reckless driving DUI traffic complaint, civil standby for a meeting within the city limits, mental health crisis, assisted other agency, dog bite, internal city issues, 911 hang-up. assist with vehicle search of two registered offenders and a medical call a dog a large call which I Initially declined but given the fact of the situation with the dog I went out and took that anyway So there wouldn't be any liability to the city We've had several people call about full-time and part-time positions However, we haven't gotten any applications yet on any of those. Two people asked about pay. They were told where we'd roughly be for them, and we haven't heard anything back from them.

I mean, it's only been like three or four days, so maybe we'll get an application in, but right now we haven't received anything for part-time or full-time. I did call Cody about the dog taking care of the dog. He gets 30 minutes every day at straight time and it's paid, I'll have to ask him again but I believe it's paid once a week or once a month on a separate check from his salary to pay. That's all I have. So I'm waiting for KPOA to put the ad on because I just got that to them today. Other than that, it's been Facebook at the moment. I was going to do the see if the Kansas Sheriff's Association put it on their website and I was going to try Indeed.

Chief Wisdom?

The last few weeks have been a little busy for the City Fire Department. First and foremost, Tyler Clarence, who is one of my city firefighters, On behalf of Tyler and the Swearens family, they would like to thank you all for allowing us to be part of the escort for Adam Swearens and then being part of the funeral services as well. I also, in that instance, I want to thank Linn County Fire Department for covering while we were out of the city and we were back as quick as possible. back in service so but tyler wanted me to specifically thank every one of you for allowing us to do that june 4th we had some kids from the ceca program come to the fire station and tour and they've got to talk about fire we talked about fire safety we talked about things we let them flow water out of the truck we let them play with the nozzle just a little bit things like that Had a great time. The adults that was with them had a great time. And I hope that to in the future have some more of that to their positive things for the city there, for the fire department and the city as a whole. June 6th, there's been pictures in the newspaper. There's been posts and things like that. We had the KU, and I'll actually give you the name of the trailer. The KU Fire and Rescue Training Institute brought down their burn trailer for us. We had it here that morning. We started it. We was here at like between 630 and 7. They ended up leaving somewhere around 330 or something like that with the trailer. I had... Several of the city firefighters, I had firefighters from the county. I had firefighters from Scott Township in Bourbon County. I had firefighters from, I think the one was from Douglas County, but I'm not positive on that with the trainers and everything to come down. Everybody had a great time. I do have a letter here from Lucas Everett, who was the coordinator of that. I will pass that out and...

or if the mayor would like to read it, doesn't matter.

Lucas Everett is the fire program coordinator with the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute.

Want me to read it?

If you want to.

To whom it may concern, on Saturday, June 6th, the Pleasanton Fire Department hosted an interior firefighter class presented by the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute. The training consisted of simulated residential structure fire scenarios designed to enhance firefighter skills and preparedness. I would like to express how exceptionally well this training was conducted. Every participant arrived eager to learn, followed instructions without hesitation, and worked diligently throughout the setup, training, evolutions, and teardowns. For a department of its size, the level of teamwork, communication, and group dynamics was outstanding. The day's activities flowed seamlessly, and each scenario was completed safely and effectively. Any corrections to technique or recommendations provided during the training were received professionally and immediately put into practice. The willingness of the firefighters to adapt and improve created an excellent learning environment and demonstrated a strong commitment to professional development. I would also like to commend Fire Chief Jeff Wisdom and Renee Marshall for the significant effort they invested in organizing and preparing for this event. Their work before our arrival as well as their leadership throughout the day played a key role in ensuring a smooth operation and a successful training experience for everyone involved. The Pleasanton community should be proud of the dedication and professionalism demonstrated by its fire department. It was a pleasure to work with such a motivated and well-prepared group. All of us at the Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute look forward to returning and training with the Pleasanton Fire Department again in the future. Sincerely, Lucas Everett, Fire Program Coordinator, Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute. That is fantastic.

While he was here, Lucas's boss was here as well. They are putting several more trainings online to where we can get signed up for. We talked about they are in the process of getting an online Firefighter one training class getting he said hopefully he didn't know if he'd have it ready by July but if not it would be ready by August to where we could actually sign up. It would be a three month program to where we do our work. at our pace and then every three months throughout the state and he said he would have to move it around to make it equal for everybody but throughout the state we would come together do the practicals that we actually trained on and then we would move forward into the next part so That is something that I'm kind of excited about. And there are so many other opportunities for exterior firefighter training, driver simulator trainings. There's so many trainings that we have the opportunity. We're in the process of getting signed up to try to get them here to where we can do that again. and it seems like whenever we do this and they put it on their website firefighters throughout the state are looking at this stuff like i say one from douglas county and a couple you know we actually had two from bourbon counties and only one of them showed up but you know they're looking at this for training as well lucas did say that this will go a long ways in our iso and because this is certified training hours from the institute itself so that will help us out there as well we've had three calls for assistance since our last meeting and Saturday evening storm we had one tree on a house tree limb and power lines on a vehicle and then tree limbs and power lines throughout the town that were down so not only was the city fire out Public Works was out, City Police Department was out, checking everything, reporting everything as much as possible. So, you know, everybody was working well together and to make sure that the community was taken care of and safe. So that's all I have. If you guys have any questions, comments.

Amongst the departmental reports, I would like to point out the fact that I was told today that regarding the lift station out at Casey's, John was able to contact somebody, get some instruction, get the parts, and fix what was needing to be fixed for under $500. So that is a great leap from the exuberant amount that it could have potentially been for us. He did say, let's not hold our breaths. At some point in the future, we might need that. someone to come down but as to right now not meeting that he thought was a great asset to the city to not have to spend that money can we get an update on the pool please Yes, we could definitely do not get on a pool. Let's go ahead and have Morgan Wills come up too in respect to the pool itself. We're expecting to open.

I think we're going to be good to open on Wednesday. Tomorrow we're going to have like a lifeguard swimming training type thing going on just so they can get in the water and get in their gear and be ready to go. We had a little pool meeting today. They did some cleaning up there. Pool is looking much better. It's not perfect by any means, but it's getting there. I don't know what else.

I don't do this part. With the pool also, we had BG consultants, a whole posse of them out there rolling to all sides of the pool and the building and everything looking to see what all is not functioning right, what is in need of. We did discover that when the water is on to the building, we're losing about 10 gallons per minute. That's just...

That's like good city water going elsewhere.

City water going elsewhere. We can keep that off when the pool's not in use and the water's not needing to be done. That way we're not wasting that extra water in and of itself. So we did discover that and BG Consultants made a lot of observations they'll get back to us with what they discover and that i know i was talking to jason and he was eager to give information but wanted to make sure he didn't speak out of turn or speaking to the rest of the team that was there on their suggestions four of them and they looked they all were there for different aspects of it yes we had from building architectural person to a flow system person to just covering every aspect of the pool itself building flow-wise structure a pool, etc. So I'm looking forward to a really good report from them as to what we can do to improve the pool without spending an exuberant amount of money. And then Morgan had a request that she kind of put forward. Do you have a little bit of that in your packets?

So I know in the past I've been told that if the pool closed for extended amounts of time and we've already hired lifeguards and whatnot, that we compensate them for keeping this job and not going elsewhere. And I know several of my lifeguards have asked, like, hey, when are we going to be open? Should I go find a new job and things like that? And, of course, I'm trying to get them to stay with us. So I put together an idea to pay them for... I think it's like a solid week, May 28th or June 7th, because I had the schedule made up for that day, those days. And I didn't make it up after June 7th until starting to Wednesday because I didn't know when the pool was going to be open. So some lifeguards were going to have a bunch of hours. Some lifeguards were only going to have one or two shifts. I kind of thought after I was like looking at it and trying to figure out the best way to pay them, but not. give up our whole pool budget to times that we weren't open. Um, so there's, I think there's two guards that would have worked eight hours. I, my suggestion is just to pay them for their eight hours that they would have worked. And then for the guards that would have worked 20 plus hours, pay them for 60% of the hours that they would have scheduled been scheduled to work. Um, I just feel like that's our way of thanking them for not leaving us and going elsewhere. I mean, we've already invested money in them, certifying them and whatnot. Um, I'd hate to see that wasted because they leave and go elsewhere. And I really do think we have a good group of kids that are going to be lifeguards for us. They're always willing to do anything I suggest or ask. So that's just my thought. I also did not include myself in that because that was the time that I was going to be gone regardless. So it's just for the lifeguards that I'm asking this. So I think that's all I got.

Did any of these guys all get the pool cleaned up? They have been, yes.

Mostly lately, it's just been me up there because it's just balancing chemicals. I don't need people under my feet for that. So they haven't been there as much as some possibly say they could be. But I mean, I've just been balancing chemicals and trying to get it cleared up that way. But I get texts every day, all day long. hey, is there anything we can do to help? Hey, when is this going to open? Are we ready to open? You know, things like that. So I appreciate them for their willingness and patience in all of this.

Who is your assistant manager? So when you're not there, say that if the pool was open, because this goes back to what I said two weeks ago, that it should have been worked on in April, in the April 1st of May, but here we are. Who's your assistant manager that could have done this if you were gone?

Riley Crowder and Strickland Caton, except his availability is very limited now because he took a new job. I mean, but he is still willing to work. He wants to work some on the weekends. I just, I can't make myself put him to work for seven days a week if he's working five days a week manual labor. So I'm just going to schedule him as I needed, as needed.

There's a few different pay rates. Yeah, it varies based on person. Brand new this year or they're coming back for another year and then what their actual position head lifeguard assistant is. Baseline approximation, we're looking at if we pay them in accordance to what she had said, the two eight hours and the 60% to the other ones that would have worked, we're looking at just under $30,000 for all of them.

Rough estimate. Will we have to make a motion or?

What is our pool budget?

The pool budget is $52,000.

At the start of the year, I believe so.

At the start of the year.

Yeah, because I know it wasn't very much. Yeah. At all.

I do have two pool parties scheduled already. I've already gotten one family pool pass bought. So, I mean, we're going to start bringing in some money. I know pools don't make money. That's just not the way they're designed. But we're getting ready to be open and bringing in something.

And Candy, can you put out on if the businesses would like to donate money like they did last year? Yes. Please and thank you. And whoever else, it just doesn't have to be businesses. It could be anybody that donates money. And they just donate it to the pool and say,

kid wants to swim and they don't have the money or the kid wants a snack and they don't have the money they can go get it it's kind of the same process we used last year yeah the swimming pool challenge i didn't know enough about it to start putting it out yet but i i wanted to be open i wanted to show that we have we have something for them and ready

Yeah.

And I'm hoping... Swim lessons have been asked about a lot. I personally don't know a lot about them and how they are ran. I do have a friend that works in Laceen that is willing to help me with the guards and getting that started. I just want to get the pool up and going first and then go to the next step. Instead of just, as soon as we open the doors, here you go, let's teach them to swim, you know?

I talk so hard today, yeah.

As well, same with water aerobics, but I'm... Hopefully, we can start that soon. Sorry. I thought my volume was off.

Do you motion on the flight guard hours? Yes. I'll make a motion to approve the payment of the hours for the lifeguard. I second.

For clarification, as she had mentioned, 60% and so forth. Yes. Okay. Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Any discussion?

Yeah, I would like to discuss, since we're going to talk about her pay, and we're only talking about lifeguards, I am okay to vote for that. I just want to be clear. There will be no conflict of interest there.

All in favor? So moved.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Will you put it out on Facebook that you're opening on?

I am. I was going to wait until tomorrow afternoon. I just want to be sure.

So, yeah. Because everybody's going to be excited. Yes, very much so.

And as long as you guys are good with it, I mean, we were going to do a free swim for the first day. As a thank you for your patience. I feel like we probably better still do that. For the first day.

Can we do a free swim on the 4th of July?

I know the free... generally free swim on that day. Do you want the fourth also? Yeah.

Can I interrupt? Sorry. I was kind of thinking we do like a late night movie at the pool that day. So what if we do normal admission during the day, but if you come back and swim in the evening free that night?

I mean, just an idea.

Is that good with you guys? For the fourth? Yeah. I kind of thought that would be good.

So you're going to do an evening movie and just do free admission for that? Yes.

That's kind of what I thought. they want yes whatever yep is that okay with you that i mean it was just an idea i kind of had in my head that's fine i mean i just know that um usually there's not well there's nothing going on in our town yeah yeah so we would like to have something for the kids yes at least to do something yes absolutely yeah i would i i've been thinking i really would like to play the sandlot that night because there's you know the big fireworks scene in that movie and i think it'd be kind of cute but it's just an idea i had so So we're doing admission, but then we're doing... Free movie night.

Free movie night and swimming.

Yeah.

On the 4th. Yeah, on the 4th of July. And 27th, the free swimming. Yes.

And one more thing for the pool itself. The summer reading program at the school was wanting to know if they could get some free swim passes to give out for that. Is there any objection? to giving them some free swim passes for that summer reading program.

Did they do that last year?

And if so, how many did they give out?

I don't believe they had the program last year.

No, we didn't do it last year. This is the library?

No, the school. Oh, the school. USD 344. Mr. Meek. Is there an age limit on that? It's the elementary swimming program.

Yeah. I dig that. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, yeah. And how many are we going to do?

I don't think there's very many.

I don't know that there's very many.

It's not the whole school.

No. I mean, I didn't know if there was like 30 kids, 40 kids. Your motion on that?

Yes, please.

Can I ask a question? Is that like one free swimming day or is that like?

It would be a swim pass that would just be given to them to use.

For the whole season or just a day? Just for their program.

So every time they have their program.

I think the program ends in June. I mean the end of June.

Okay.

And I'm not sure if I can tell you after the meeting who you can contact.

Okay.

I was just curious. I mean just trying to understand. Yeah. Would we extend that a little bit since we're getting a late start or? I think we should. I think we should too.

I think we should extend the poll. Yeah, completely.

I just thought you were going to start it.

I was going to say now.

I make a motion to allow three slip passes for summer reading programs for the school. I'll second.

Any discussion? All in favor? So moved. We need to set another budget workshop or work session. And we haven't seen the information for R&R yet, but that's supposed to be sent to us today. So we should have what the R&R is for our next budget work session.

I checked the emails twice, once in the middle of the day, once at the end of the day, to check on that, and there was nothing.

So we can contact in the morning?

First thing in the morning, if there's nothing, I'll make a phone call. And have you made a phone call for the auditors to see if we, what I asked you, if we could take? I did put a call in.

I got no return. I did try to call them again, still no return.

And if we could, could we make the work session on Saturday? Because I have ball games all week.

I'll do my best to attend on a Saturday.

We don't have to.

I just would like... What did y'all have for work?

I mean, this time the strike is... Like the next 27th 20th 20th. I just said he would recall their statement.

I mean, you guys can have it on the 25th.

We have deadlines that we fast approaching. We have to let the county know in July whether or not we're going to exceed revenue neutral. And then we have to set the hearing for that and get everything approved. So we'll need to move pretty quickly on this.

So what about the 27?

That's starting the stripes. Do you have a ball game on Wednesdays? Yes.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays?

I mean, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I can do a Sunday.

I'll do it on a Sunday.

I know we got to get the budget going. Yes. Get that worked out. So whatever day, whatever day it works, we just got to get together and get it done.

We're going to do the 28th. At what time? 6. 5, 6? Yeah, I'll give you the time.

I'm right out of church. He's at lunch every day.

What time?

Kenny said 6. Do we want to do a little earlier so we have a little bit more time at 5 o'clock? 5 o'clock first?

I'm open all day that day.

Probably till seven.

I'm gonna try to do five to seven, that's two hours.

Okay, budget work session, the 28th, five to seven. Okay, billboard signs. We had a few people that submitted some ideas regarding billboard signs, so the ones coming into town, and they're over there on the table. Morgan, you want to grab those and kind of bring them this way, if you would, please? The paper that's there, and then that board. The two designs present and everything, what is kind of what council is thinking regarding those billboards themselves and how could we respond to them on for, against, up, down, do's, don'ts, any other suggestions that we can give or do we want to take one preference over another and see what a professional rendition of it would look like? And then to what extent do we want to release any funds for that professional rendition of, and that would be opening to bids for people to work on?

How quickly are you wanting that project to start? I'm just asking because if we have time to play with that, would it be out of the question to maybe ask our senior class next year to submit Some ideas to take from our children?

I did get asked by a few people at the school to please not do that. Okay. We tried that a year and a half ago or so, and it kind of overloaded some people, ideas, and so forth. And some of the teachers were like, please don't.

Aren't we kind of crunched to get something going?

And we really need to get the signs fixed and up and bettered because we could be in danger of losing them and it's not also we need to open up for people to look at the boards themselves to see what may need to be fixed on them that's your first impression

I think that's something we need to get.

So which of those designs kind of giving an idea to the people involved in presenting stuff, which of those two ideas are y'all thinking? More simplistic or more here's a bunch of stuff that we have?

I like that one. That one.

That one? The more of, hey, we're not just a town over here. We've got amenities that you can stop and explore and get. okay so this design needs to be more billboard-ish highway style and so forth okay and then we want to there's a paper like this okay then I can ask this person to kind of elaborate that onto more of a billboard itself. And then we want to open up to get bidding on looking at those or what we would do. Who would you like to look at the structure of those boards themselves?

I think the people that actually do those billboards that are actually going to put them on, they should be the ones that look at it because that's their profession.

Okay. So we need to ask those that are capable of doing it. Who did the last ones?

City installed them.

We printed the billboards, but the city installed them.

Okay.

What do y'all want? You want to find a company that's...

I just assume they have a company to come and do it. And then we know it's professionally done and they'll back it up. Yeah. Okay.

So we've got companies too.

Do you know? I think several months ago we talked about this. And Norris, I think they're out of Chinook. Okay. Said that they would do both of them for, I think it was like $5,000, something like that.

Can you spell that?

N-O-R-R-I-S. But they will inspect the billboards and do any repairs and then whatever design we come up with they'll put on the board. The other people I contacted never replied back to me.

So I'll contact them about the design and then contact them about what it would cost to actually look at them and what it would cost to actually put it up with us providing the design?

You've got local billboard people right in this county.

We do.

Yes. You've got Sherry Gentry.

Gentry?

Yeah. SIR. They do that across the nation.

If we keep it local, I'd rather keep it local.

Yes. Not that I can think of. They do it nationwide.

and regulations for the lakes.

Being indirectly or indirectly involved, we don't want to recuse lessons.

So the lakes themselves, does anyone know what other regulations for the lakes themselves and postings of those? Like the fishing or? Well, like most of the time, like camping and et cetera. A lot of our boards that we have that information could be displayed on are kind of blank. And so some of the people, unless they actually stop by City Hall and ask questions, they don't know that there is camping allowed or not allowed and what type of camping. Things like that.

Wasn't there signs up there? There have been signs up there saying how many fish you can take out, how many, how big a fish you can take out. And as far as I know, there was never a camping. Maybe out at the West Lake.

Your career limit signs are still there? But your, like, primitive camping and things like that, people are not aware of what they can actually do time limit-wise. If there's noise ordinance or curfew-type situations out there, we get calls here quite regular about how long can they stay. Can they move between the lakes? And I think there's a code against that. Yes, there is. There's a 10-day limit, and that's...

my understanding too there's been a lot of trash and things left out there by people who camp so i mean it should be posted out there but at like the lakes where i mean you allow the tent and camp but i mean because there's no camera over there Okay.

Are there certain regulations that may not be in the codes already or with the parks that you all would like to see posted out there and so forth? Because not everything is posted and we're far less information wise at our lakes than what other lakes typically are. So in updating that information and boards and so forth, is there anything specific that you all would like to see as a regulation or something?

I don't know if it's already in place, but driving ATVs on the piers.

No driving on the piers, because that's one of the things that there was a lot of people driving all the way out on the piers, and that kind of damages the piers if they're not driving right.

Which I know that's in there somewhere. I don't know where, but it is in there that there's no driving on. Because I have some interest in yellow fat people for doing it.

My understanding, they're driving where the water's running over. They're driving down through there and pushing, sitting in their vehicles, fishing.

So just make sure that it's posted out there, none of that, et cetera. And then what I'll do is I'll go through everything that we have and send to all of you all this week just a list of all the regulations we have for our lakes. And then we can go from there at the next meeting then.

Yeah, and if there's something that we need to add or whatever, we can add it to the next meeting.

Yeah, because I know we need to have it posted because we have incidents with – A couple of people with Don was at the fishing derby that residents were out there in the boats that weren't registered. They didn't know there was a limit. So we do need to make sure to post it so they know.

Yeah, which the limit is.

The person that made an excuse that they've been there, you know, fishing all their lives and didn't know that there was a limit or anything. So to, you know, get around that, to make sure it doesn't happen, people know that these are regulations. Okay. Because we all know that, you know, not knowing is not, you know,

CAMERAS AND EQUIPMENT AND CITY VEHICLES. COUNCILMAN KENNY. CAMERAS AND EQUIPMENT.

I TALKED TO VERIZON. THEY HAVE A PROGRAM THAT THEY WILL PUT FORWARD AND BACKWARDS FACING CAMERAS ON THE EQUIPMENT. ANYTHING THAT HAS A CAB. THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SENDING ME A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT IS GOING TO COST. per vehicle, per piece of equipment, and what it's going to cost monthly and yearly. But with some of the instances that's been happening, I think it's a wise choice. Because then it's not only protecting the employees, but it's also protecting the city.

Which is also something we can talk about in the budget session too, to add it

would be so I'm just because we are we get that quote before then that'd be great to see Skylar Gabrini wants to do a car show on September 5th he's thinking noon to 5 he's done a few in the past and Where are you on this? Says they're trying to find a lot anywhere in town really. Usually do Main Street or the Stars building. This year he's trying to see if he can do a possible burnout on test and be able to donate back to the town as well as doing a food drive. If it's not possible to do, they would still like to do the show, just trying to get everyone more involved in it. A designated area is what they're seeking to be available to do the show for the community. If we could do a burnout contest during the show, that would be awesome. If not, he understands. Would it be possible... Would we possibly be able to maybe use the infield of the airstrip east of town was a question that he placed. The airstrip being owned by the county, that would be the first step there. For him to do that... He was trying to get ahold of somebody from the Stars building to see if they could do it over there. He just would like to know that he has the city's governing body's support for this show and for everything for the city. I know that burnouts on Main Street are not pretty on the ground or safe in some respects.

I don't recommend it. I'm I was just throwing an idea. Maybe since Tucker is not a busy road anymore, if you turn left off of 6th Street, maybe we can close that down for him. There'd be more room than Main Street.

Is it Tucker County Road?

Right, there'd be city. Portions of it is inside city limits. Because on both sides it is also city.

I don't think so.

Because we have like a...

The city limits goes a half mile south, a half mile north. Okay, that's what I was thinking.

Yeah, because we have like a sewer pump on the other side of the road. Yes. Which I knew we had to have.

Well, let me rephrase that. The southbound lane of Tucker is... like 300 or 400 feet, but the northbound is almost a quarter of a mile, or a little over a quarter of a mile, so between a quarter and a half.

We wouldn't want to do northbound since it's towards the clinic.

Yeah, but eventually, I don't know if we'll have enough room to do what they wanted. You'll agree to it going south. Now, north of 6th Street, we have both sides of the road there for all the way up to MSR and the clinic. But you're also going to shut off any entryway to CHC or the clinic, depending on what day you're doing it. I was trying to find a bigger spot.

CHC is open seven days a week.

Yeah, CHC is the clinic I don't know about if they're open seven days a week or not.

And they're talking about a Saturday. Okay.

Does he know how many cars it could be? He doesn't know.

I think last year he had like ten. Yeah. He's working on trying to make it bigger and better. Consistency is what does that. But he knows that Main Street itself is not really a burnout spot. He wanted to try something a little bit more exciting with everything. You sounded pretty open to suggestions.

Can we table it? Okay.

Okay. I'm going to see if I can come to the next council meeting. Yeah, that's fine.

I mean, instead of sitting here trying to think about it.

Just another idea, maybe the grass area right there between the lake and the horse arena. Yeah.

But then if you have horses, I don't like that.

Okay, our new city attorney, do you have anything that you need to bring to our attention?

I do not. I am going to get with the clerk and get her a script for the executive sessions. You guys like cheat sheets too, just sort of read it and check off the box so you know exactly what to say. I've got that in several cities and I'll get that to you. If it works, I'll be happy to let you use it.

That would be great. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you. Councilwoman Rochelle?

Yeah, I have a couple. um let's start with the stars and stripes um i noticed that we really haven't talked about it so who um you said the city is providing the means so the stars and stripes set up and everything that was released yes because we haven't talked about it at all is the the same concept that happened last year and the council had agreed to do it again this year okay and then the fire department is where are they going to be because if they do bingo Are they going to be between the bank and the community center, or are they going to be across the street when they do the phone thing? Because if they do it between the bank and the community center, nobody will be able to park there for the handicapped and stuff. I'm just asking where the fire department is going to set up for the phone party.

The phone party last year was between the bank and the community center in the same place that the fire trucks were set up previous to that spring.

haven't really been absoluted on where anything is going to be set up or would y'all like to see things set up if you'd like to see it differently i mean i think the phone port is good but i'd like to see them set up somewhere like maybe across the street or you know between that box over there so what i thought more reason of time in that yeah yeah right straight across right right straight across okay and everything that way Because if you have people coming in for bingo or the dinner or something, they don't have to figure out, where am I going to park?

So last year, the whole place was flooded. So last year, I was thinking that this year, where Tanya's hair shop is, if the fire truck parks right there on the intersection, because water flows north, so then all the water would stay on that side and not be up to where the party would be. That's what I was saying last year. Just get rid of all that water and get it going. Go down to the next block.

Just get a bunch of rubber ducks and I'll grab them and make my property. So you're saying move the fire truck and the phone down a block? Yeah, like. Or north of the block, I guess.

Put it like on Main. Or just on Main Street there? Like on Main. I don't even know what road that is. Yeah, 7th. Or is it 8th? It's 8th for the time. It's not 7th. 7th is too far down. It's 8th. Yeah, it's like 8th and Main. I mean, just because if you park the truck over on that little corner, little deal right there by the ambulance, it's still going to flow to the community center. Okay.

So are we thinking just block that whole area off and have them take that whole intersection kind of deal?

That's what I was thinking last year. Just to get rid of all that water that was up there around everybody else. It's just a pair of the one you want.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so have the fire truck there and then have the phone party there also. Same right here.

Sound good for everybody?

Where are you putting that?

8th and Main.

8th and Main? Wouldn't that be at Connelly?

Yes, it'd be Collins and Iconius intersection. Okay. Yes.

Right up from you.

Right across the street. So I'll be by. It's a kiddie house. The phone will be in the water.

Okay. Is there anything else on Stars and Stripes? I can watch my campers come by. Is there anything else on Stars and Stripes specifically that y'all would like to see in a serving fashion? I'll weigh on that. Have you got any vendors that come in? We do have a couple of vendors that have agreed to come already, and I know I'm waiting to hear back from a couple more.

And who's in charge of the parade this year?

We do not have somebody in charge of the parade yet. I had asked.

I heard that Michael Miller and Rose Trotts.

So Michael Miller and Rose Troth have agreed to do the General Pleasanton Day Parade. So I asked Rose, Mrs. Troth, if she would like to help out with the Stars and Stripes Parade also, her and Michael Miller. And she said that she would be out of town. And Michael Miller might be interested, but I have not heard from him yet. So I can contact him and find out if that's something that he is wanting to do. And if so, then that would be in charge of the brain. If that works. Do any of you all know if he'll be there to be able to help with anything game-wise or anything else?

I mean, I'll be there so I can help with anything that anybody needs help with.

Anything particularly you want to help with?

Dump tank.

You know, we could get a dump tank and the entire governing body could take turns going through it and we could sell vaults for a dollar. I don't know. Make sure that the mayor says $5 a ball. Especially if there's slime in the tank instead of water.

I spoke with Two Lane Highway. They cannot perform for your street dance, so we'll have to find somebody else.

Okay. That was my next question. Who was going to perform?

It is open. We are needing performers, DJs, street dance people to head that up. So if you know somebody, please have them contact City Hall. I'm going to reach out to a young person that I was introduced to last year that is getting into, wanting to get into that more. And maybe they might be interested in helping head that up too.

And like Johnny Taylor? He had done it in the past. I mean, for small things, but he does have the DJ stuff. Maybe we could ask him. He'd be interested.

OK. Can you ask him? I'm a context person. Anything else regarding that? Yeah, write yourself a note.

Not on stars and stripes, but I have other things.

Anything else, stars and stripes, that y'all can think of that you need to make sure we got pinned down?

Okay.

So...

The mowing's been hit on a couple of times tonight from the speakers and stuff. I've had people come to me out of town that comes in here from out of town. They're wondering why are they just mowing and not doing the weed eating? I mean, we have to figure out how come we're not weed eating. Isn't that, Candy sent out the descriptions, and it is in the description, mowing and trimming. So trimming is weeding. So, I mean, we either have to do it or we've got to get it done. And our seasonal mower started Tuesday, but Brian Cook had to remove the, the, um, park over there because they did not weed. And he sent me pictures and called me and said, come look at this because they didn't weed it again. So, I mean, something has to be that.

And then like on 6th Street, I've seen everything's been molded. Was it like around Napa and going out towards Casey's, but the ditch area is just high. In what area? Along 6th Street, on both sides, going towards...

Probably right there at 6th and Tucker, right there in front of Cargill. Yeah.

the area in front of the chiropractor that is an interesting dilemma there because the way it's set up the city owns an awkwardly shaped piece of the road there and everything what i'm wanting to do if i can get the council's approval on this is see what we need to do to actually put the road there and take that property that the city currently owns and either gift it to or give opportunity for the people that are there to purchase it from the city. Because even Dollar General, the parking place that they paved right there in front of Dollar General, the city actually owns that piece.

Well, the city actually owns the senior citizen piece right there on the corner, too. So, again, it goes back to my statement. Something has to be done. I mean, we've got to take pride in our town. in our town. They have to weed it because people are coming back. Fourth of July is coming. So, I mean, we have to take pride in our town.

Yes, and one of the things I told the city workers this week is, okay, you may not be able to mow when it's raining, drizzling with the wetness and everything, but you can still, in between those drizzles and everything, get out and weed it. Because that's a primary thing that needs to be done. And they said, okay, they can definitely do that. They can still weed it whenever it's even raining a little bit, because that needs to get done and it has to be done so it can look better.

Was it Napa on that side of the street? It's been mowed, but the ditch has not been touched.

And this is why I'm asking what portion, because every property owner is responsible for the vegetation all the way to the center of the road and to the center of the alley. So what's in front of Napa is Napa's responsibility. Now the signs around, kind of what's in front of Casey's is Casey's responsibility. The land owner besides Casey, that's their responsibility to actually get that done. If the city's doing it, then the city's needing to bill them for doing it, because that's their responsibility within the city limits, according to our codes. So.

So what's wrong with our water departments, the grass and the grass across the street and the showmate building and the pool? They're not being weed-eated.

And they were gotten onto this week on that. They have to get them weed-eated, and they're working on those tomorrow.

Can I say, too, the woman, I can't remember her name, she's with chiropractic office. She had come in, and she said that they don't mind doing it. They just want to know... Do they need to do it? Are we going to do it? She said it really wasn't a big deal either way, but just for the beautification of their business, they wanted it done. So we were to let them know if they needed to do it. I know there's been issues in the past with code violations concerning grass on that corner, which ended up in some pretty heated conversations with owners of those properties in the city, causing bad relationships. I know last year we mowed the little ditch right there in front of Dollar General just to save peace with one gentleman in particular. I just kind of feel like regardless of whose property it is, sometimes you don't want to fight with your citizens all the time. If we can go over and spend five minutes to knock the ditch out, or if they're willing to do the same for us, isn't that neighbors helping neighbors, citizens helping their community, and vice versa, back and forth?

Which is what I was bringing up about that particular piece, because they're not responsible to the middle of the road if, in accordance to all of our maps, the road doesn't actually exist. It's city property. So can we move forward to actually split the road there and split that property? Do we want to offer them to purchase that property from the city? and have them submit a bid for it.

I would say give them that, you know, offer it to them. Give them that option. If they want to buy it, let them buy it from the city and then that way, you know, they'll take care of it once they've been pretty much doing anyhow.

Yeah. So they can, and then work on getting that road actually put in there, splitting that property out. which would give the city a corner on one side, a little triangle on one side, and then two awkward shapes for the chiropractic place and Dollar General, and just give chiropractor and Dollar General opportunity to purchase that from the city and submit a bid for it. That's what I would suggest.

Okay. So without going, like, in front of the planning and zoning board?

I would need to get with the county on that too and see how that split might be and the planning and zoning board. So we would have to get all of that flow and then from then it would come back to the council and at that point we should know those willing to put a bid for that and how that would look splitting that out with everything. I would say that we will probably most definitely need a survey of that area done for that to be split that way.

Because new lines, property lines would have to be drawn.

Didn't they already survey that when Brandon took it over before he sold it to Chase Hartman?

The chiropractic place. Right. But would they have, because we would need someone to actually draw new lines and deeds if we're splitting that. Okay.

And if he did have a survey and registered it through the county, the county would have that?

The county would have it, which is why I was going to start with the county to find out for that. And then I'll let the council know. We'll find out about that as we move forward with it all. And in the meantime, those things, do we want to ask the chiropractic place and the realtor place to actually do that? Or do we want to send our people out there to keep that area moat? Since it is technically city property at the moment. I don't know if you can keep up with it.

I think until we decide what we're going to do, the city needs to continue to take care of it.

Okay, anything else?

No, not at this time. Councilman John? Do we know when we're going to start working on the ADA at the community center? We don't know what we're going to do there, but I know that hasn't started.

I'm not sure. I can ask Jeremy tomorrow when that is on the list to do so we can get that done as soon as possible.

And then the gravel area there, are we putting that just back to grass or...

I would love to put a sign right there at the tree line that's there, a sign that just says emergency vehicles only. That way it's not a pull-in or a fight over that, but it's available for a police ambulance or whoever may need to come to the community center for an incident. Those are my thoughts, too. Is that good for everybody to do?

Because I'm still seeing people park up there. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. and there's barricades there that aren't being used or coming, so.

Okay. So I'll have

Like I say, I'm just glad this council meeting went pretty good. I'm glad everybody got to work together. There are no arguments. I'm just really glad that happened. That's all I have to say.

Councilwoman Sanders?

I've had some people come to me in reference to nails that are laying around out of the trash compactor. They picked up several while they were out there. I was wondering if we had something that we could take out there and kind of walk around where the people drive up there. Like a rolling maggot? Yeah.

Public works have one of those two-foot maggots on wheels. I don't think so. I think we ought to purchase one. So purchase another one? Because it would not only be useful there, but it would also be useful around the back of public works.

I know the last time I was at the compactor, I realized that they need a rake out there to kind of rake up. They have a little broom, but that broom on the gravel ain't doing nothing. So we want to get them a rake also.

And they have to keep it clean because we'll get complaints about drugs being everywhere.

nobody coming out of the building to help our elderly and then how is this the trash behind city hall are we getting that taken care of getting it hauled off yes i know that he was working on some of it today he wanted to finish the

Very few that are left to grab from the city and then get the rest of that. But today he didn't have a driver for the vehicle to follow them out with the machine to actually load that.

And we have everybody's stuff picked up that they called in to get on the list.

From on the list candidates, they have three spots left.

Yes.

So I know that that's over on the other side of the track. So anything on this side of the track is either household stuff, stuff that was put out after they came through, or stuff from houses that were not put on the list. So if anything on this side of the west side of the track, people need to clean up and take off.

And they do have a list that they were given as we were taking those names and addresses here. They were given that list, so there is a way to, okay, 102 East 1st Street or whatever it was, was not on the list, but now they have this pile, so that just kind of goes to show that they were not on the list to be picked up, so.

Councilman Kinney? Yeah, I've had some concerns from some citizens about how some of our city employees are dressed. I know the city doesn't have dress codes in the employee handbook. And as well as how they're conducting themselves within the business with vulgarity and everything like that, that should not be, should not be taking place in, you know, being your city employee. It should be addressed and I think that part of it should be stopped immediately. Okay. It doesn't say good on the citizens and it definitely doesn't say good for the city. So that's a major thing that needs to be addressed. Other than that, I've had another person that's got property in this town that's outside of town that said that, you know, with the way the mowing's been done right here, he's about ready to get 75 volunteers. He said he'd come in and mow all of it, but he's afraid that, you know, After they got to city mode, right back to the way it is now. He said he's actually seen and he's a long time residency. He's actually seeing the pride in this town from its citizens on the city. City workers just go to hell. Pretty upset about it. So he'd like to see the city workers actually do what they're being paid to do.

I do know that in past council members and so forth have been concerned with potential liability against the city with people helping or doing different things like that. Would our attorney like to speak into that possibility of volunteer helping with different things like that? Because even the people that we've had help mow the parks or something thus far. What is an appropriate way of being able to have those volunteers

Well, I've got a – I have somebody doing a memo for me right now to get you a waiver. We do not have liability for them if they just volunteer. What we want to make sure of is we don't somehow backdoor them into being covered by the War Comp or a Tort Claims Act. And it shouldn't be just a short waiver. They can sign – we can require them to sign, and if they don't, we can hold it against them if they do get hurt. That's my only worry is if they roll through there with a bunch of mowers, if they mow over somebody's foot or something, and then they retroactively claim that the city has a work comp, which would ruin our experience modifier. So I should have that done. I've got somebody doing it for me today. Hopefully it'll be done late tomorrow, and then I'll get it to you.

So I know I had some people last year wanting something like that, and it just didn't seem feasible. But that ought to help us out with that. That'll protect the city.

Yes.

Yeah.

Anything else, sir?

No, that'll take care of it for now.

Okay, I'll give a reminder for the Stars and Stripes on the 27th. Come celebrate, let's have fun. Lots of things going on downtown, and then the fireworks out at the lake of that evening, so that'll be good. Spoken with the people that are doing the fireworks, they're excited. Looking forward to that and everything.

and with that i will entertain a motion for adjournment before we start i'm sorry no sorry um do we have a backup plan if it rains do it on another day not currently do you want to put one in place i mean if it's gonna i was gonna write yeah i was doing on july 4th yeah if it rains i think yeah

But I checked with the people who are doing the fireworks. Oh, they're doing it.

I think they're doing Mountain Force, I think. But I mean, maybe we could do it like the third or something, you know. I mean, whatever. But we just need to have a backup plan because our citizens are expecting some fireworks. Yes. So we just need to have a backup plan.

Okay. I will talk with them and see what date they might be available for a backup plan should the weather not permit it on the 27th.

You never know. It's raining.

Around here it could be snowing. Okay.