City Council - Special Meeting

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All right, I'll go ahead and call to order tonight's special council meeting for August 19th, 2026 at 6 p.m. Read this. The Pleasanton City Council requested Mayor Matthew Young to call a special meeting for today, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 at 6 p.m. at Pleasanton City Hall, 1608 Laurel Street, Pleasanton, Kansas, for the purpose of discussing water pumps at the lake. That is where we are. Josh and company. If you want to kind of tell us what's going on out there right now and where we are on what is needed at this particular point, please.

So right now we discovered Monday night that most of the piping is overriding and most of the bolts are too. And right now the pumps are very fragile. Many of the bolts in there around the fittings, the colic joints, they are rusted out. They were quartered bolts and they're down to nothing. Them are the bolts that we took off of the check valve. They rusted quite a bit. Most of them have wallowed out. pretty much rust keeping everything together out there. So our goal right now is to set up set a tee and an elbow in our lake building that bypasses the pumps entirely. Hook up the temporary pump in there so we can close off the pumps out there. Dig up gravel around there not to tear anything out but to inspect it all because if it is rotted inside that well we will have to replace it because sooner or later if we hook better pumps on it's just going to blow out right there and we can't risk that because we got new pumps but no new pipes which means we still lose water to the city And that's what's happening right now. Yes, it works. We got it throttled down to the point where it's doing as well as our pumps now. It's keeping up with the city. It's just that we're going to have to relocate it and shut down the boat ramp to make sure nobody messes with it. We'll also be running a wire out there to help with the SCADA So everything will be automatic.

There's several reasons why we're going to change the location of that pump. First reason is we got to get closer over to the, you call it the boathouse, whatever. The lake building. The lake building. We want to get closer to that building because there's an eight inch pipe there. So we can tie into that line and pump through there. We alleviate the can that's going on right now and all that just rotted out infrastructure. And I will tell you it's rotted. and we can pump from there and we can get more pressure and more flow from there. So that's one reason. The second reason is security, right? That pump is just sitting there on the side of the road. If somebody goes down there and messes with that at all, we could blow something. We could cause a lot of problems. So by securing it over by the fence gets us closer to an 8-inch pipe source as construed to a Four inch pipe. Yeah. So we're going to give it more flow. It's in a more secure area. And then that gives us access to go dig up around that can. That can is rotted. I have pictures of it. This stuff here should prove that it's rotted. The bolts are rotted. I got a guy who cut his hand yesterday because the pipe, as that pipe rots. It looks like razor blades glued together like this in a circular motion. When he put his hand under there to catch a bolt, he ripped the top of his hand. Not a big deal. That stuff happens to us every day. Like I said, the infrastructure and the pipe work, it's done. I'm not going to sit here and say it's done. I have pictures of it from earlier.

I just want to make sure that everybody understands. So Monday we were talking about blushing the line and trying to push something. Yes, ma'am. And so what you're saying tonight is the pipes are bad enough that that is not able to happen? Correct.

We have not done that because my guy that's out there on site was looking at the pipe condition. He's like, if I turn this up even another two psi, I'm blowing this whole structure and we're done.

And that's the pipe there at the pump. That's the pipes. I followed that.

So for everyone to understand, let's just say there's two locations, okay? We'll call one location the can, and that's where the pump is now, and that's where your pumps are in the can, and then the other one we'll call lake house. Okay, that's about, I don't know, 500 feet from the can. So there's two separate locations. Once you get to lake house, the pipe goes to an 8-inch pipe. We prefer to pump from there on down. The can is done.

Do you have any way of inspecting that? from the can to the lake house? Excuse me? Do you have any way of inspecting the pipe from the can to the lake house? Yeah, I think... I mean, if it's loaded at the lake house, or at the can, what's the possibility of it being, you know...

It's probably pretty high, and yes, we are. We're going to bring out some machinery and start digging.

What kind of pipe is it from the can to the lake house?

From the can to the lake house, it's a four-inch pipe. It's not really... So how it's set up is there's a wire section so you can isolate the pumps. So if you need to work on one, you throw a blind on, and then that. It goes into the 4-inch pipe, into the 8-inch pipe, the 4-inch, and then leaves the ductile iron. It's iron?

Yeah. Down at the top?

so we're going to be digging that up over there most likely replacing a valve which we have in stock because we tried turning it to isolated Monday night we couldn't so we had to do a quick repair to get the pipe set up and running.

But if anything's not corrosion resistant, it needs to be replaced, right?

Yeah.

That's why the stainless steel pumps, right? And they're going back in the can That is correct. Okay, but you're going to be able to pull those out. We'll have winches or something. Yes. Yes, sir.

And you can go and you can grab each one of those pumps and pull it out. And on top, there's a quick disconnect. You literally unscrew it with your hand, put the electrical here, you kick the pump and do whatever you want with it. Put the new one in, screw it on, and send it back down the rail.

a wash tube down it so you can hook up to it, pressure it, and clean the silt and stuff in the bottom. Probably the reason why the pumps fail to begin with.

The pumps that we're using are called grinder pumps. When the grinder spins, it creates a foot pump that's about this big, each one. So as the pump turns on, it will blow back and create its own vortex.

going to have silt filled up again when the light turns on.

So it will blow everything this way. They're designed to do that. And we've done these in Racine and we've done them in St. Paul. That's exactly what they're doing.

We also found the discharge pipe, was it yesterday, Kenny? Yeah. Yeah, we found a discharge pipe. It hasn't been worked for at least three years that we didn't look. So that'd be another thing while we're out there, switched up the pump. to the lake building that we can drive.

So there was a young woman that introduced me to a bypass that's out there. We did find the bypass or a clear out. We can't use that because inside the tube there's an open gate. The gate will not close because it's So I cannot close that gate to create a blowback feature. That's all that's done to fix. That's going to be a diver in a very, very close position.

the pumps? I mean, we're going to run a cam down there.

We're going to run a cam down through the water to kind of look at the condition of that tube. I can't answer that question to you right now. All I can answer to you is, as you can Again, we're just trying to get you guys going. So the very first thing that needs to be done is tomorrow. We're going to move over to Lake House. And we're going to go ahead and tap into the 8. And we're going to put our diesel generator pump onto this elbow.

And we're going to pump what we can pump through there. What was the normal pressure on the line to the lake prior to the vaccination?

From what I was told from other people is that that pump area was able to hold 400 PSI, but they kept it back off to no more than 250 because of the condition of the lines. And they just left it back there at that PSI. That's good. And then that 250 PSI supplied the whole city without any issues. I don't think you ever ran 250 on the line.

Right now, at the lake, we're talking 250 gallons per minute.

So each one of my pucks does 250 gallons per minute. So that would be about 10 million, a little over 10 million, or 100 million gallons per year. I heard we normally use 50.

About 52 to 60. On a typical year, we use about 50 million. Last year, we used almost 60 million. Correct? Right.

So, 250. And then, obviously, as the pressure goes up already, your pump curve is going to drop significantly. So, you're overrating it by 60, 50, 40 to 60 percent.

Correct, but due to, you know, future city expansion, and due to factory usage, car wash engines and all that, or whenever you need extra water, we want to have the ability to do this. Totally agree. So I'm going to supply two pumps that can do 250 gallons Now, as soon as we tap in tomorrow, we're going to know, and if we can clear a line, I'm hoping that instead of pushing any PSI to push now, we'll drop to about 50, maybe 40, and we're good to go. The main thing is I don't want you guys to feel like we're defeated. We're actually moving forward at this process. We're figuring things out. We're getting to a solution, so I don't want this town feeling defeated. We're not defeated at all. This is just Another kink in the chain that we needed to figure out to get us to that. Yes.

You're three miles from the pumps to the water plant. Are they looking at those? Is that? Is that pipe is corroding? Do you think as the as the parts you got there?

No, because it's a different style.

Well, we also have electrolysis going on near the pump, which also helps keep it growing.

That pipe is at raw steel like this. That pipe's got, it's made of material.

So I guess the key is to find out what kind of pump we actually have in the output of the light house as well when you're taking it.

I have a pressure gauge in there right now. We are pumping, got 60 PSI going through. When it hits the plant, we're down to about 10.

There might be a restriction or something like that. you kind of need to know what you're looking at heading to the city. Because then we can calculate log loss, friction loss versus gallons per minute and so forth. And we can look at elevation differences and so forth and make sure that when they put it in, it's probably not too perfectly level.

Yeah. What's that? Could your loss be a leak? The loss of pressure from one end to the other.

Talking to his on-site man, because I did bring that up, like could it be a leak? He said, no, it most likely not. It's more of a blockage. We wouldn't really be getting it.

If you stop the pressure, it says that it will build the pressure up at the other end. You won't lose pressure unless it leaks somewhere. If you stop the flow. Yeah.

I just don't think we have a way to plug off three. That's the problem. There's no way to plug or open anything within three miles. That's the problem we're having.

There's no intermediate areas to get into that. At the plant, do you have a input, a pressure gauge to know what the pressure is coming in? Yeah, I have a pressure gauge. Okay. But no kind of flow meter?

Yes, I have a flow meter in the plant, not at the leg fill window, which I was recommended by KRWA to try to get a flow meter out there.

You can't shut the valve on the plant fluid. You see what comes up here? You're going to have a soft regulator on here again.

That's called a deadhead. In a situation we're in right now, we do not want to deadhead those pumps. those pumps out it could blow yeah it could blow and click out of the can yeah well they're just going to bypass and then just fail yeah

The line is going to go up hill for a ways and then back down hill. So your pressure, it's going to cycle because the plant is lower than the lake. The pressure is going to drop as gravity pulls it towards the plant. Correct. That's common physics also. So how do you account for that and your numbers from the lake?

Yeah, like I said, it's 10 psi at the plant and then I got 60 psi of pressure at the lake building.

If you push it up that hill before it drops over, it's going to play its own game and you'll lose pressure.

At this point, regardless of all the pressures, we're just trying to do the gallons.

We'll deal with the pressures and all that. I understand what you're saying. Once you get the pumps in, they're reliable. You don't want to stress the pumps.

At 10 gallons per minute right now, it doesn't matter.

I'm just trying to.

That was the old temporary pump. Right now we're getting about 120 gallons. Because we took another pump too, yeah.

Did everybody kind of understand what the issue is then and what we're looking at with everything and so forth? So let's jump to solution-wise. What are we looking at? What is the expectation of cost within that and what do we need to do?

He said right now, yeah, around $30,000. That's why he was saying that.

That's because of the valving, the clamps, the stainless steel pipe, all the products that we needed, the material costs.

And the 30 is for having to replace all the piping in that section.

And it's not like it's one line of pipe. You understand? These are all...

And then also talking with like the guy that's out there, he also said like 30, but if he really wanted to put a hard number in, but he really don't want to do that because it could possibly charge the city more than what it actually could. He would really like to see like time and material and to possibly save the city money because if it is cheaper, it's 20 or whatever. I mean, I'd like to be time and material, but don't exceed over 30. Okay. So if it does cost 15?

100%, we're going to, yeah. We're not out here telling you hard budget and 30. Like I said, if he can do it cheaper, you know, we had a conversation today with our company and his company about do we want to put stainless in there or do we want to go back in with cast? And the question, the answer to that is we want stainless in there. We do want stainless in there.

Yeah. With Kim and Michael. So there won't be a whole, like in the whole spot, there's like 12 connections, flanges, connections. What they're offering right now is stainless steel welded connections. So it'll be one piece in there and not 15 different fittings with all these different valves that can sit there and twist.

So they're going to have welded fittings.

We're going to do, what did he say, triple welds with a clear pass. So four welds. That's going to be four welds on each one of those phalanges. And when we put the pipe down, we're going to do a root, we're going to do two covers, and we're going to do a finish weld. That's just the professional way of counting. And I appreciate it.

Thank you. So all hardware is going to be corrosion resistant. Probably stainless. Stainless is terrible for rating.

The reason why we're doing stainless and not regular cast pipe is that raw water is corrosive. I don't want people freaking out thinking we're going to die. That's not what I mean. Raw water is very corrosive to pipe. So once it hits your water treatment plant, John retreats it. to get it to the pH that it needs to be, you guys are fine. But before it gets there, that's corrosive water. There was an old strip mine in this town. They used to harvest coal or mine coal out of that. And some of those leftovers would fall into that lake. So it is corrosive. It's not going to hurt anybody. No one's going to die. It's just how we deal with ponds and lakes all around here. Once it gets to And it's washed over by several different Kansas Raw Water Associations and Environment Associations that pass you guys every year on that plant. The other thing I want people to know is Josh has been going 11 o'clock, okay? This young man is staying up late at night. He's going out there. He's doing what needs to be done. He just took this job on, and he's new to it. And he's busting his butt to make sure things get done. I want the city to understand that the young man is doing everything he can and I don't want anybody to attack him or

We can take it out of the special project fund, part of it. And then we can take part of it out of the, we don't want to take everything out of the water utilities because, I mean, we might really need it. eventually down the road too. So I say take the $16,223 out of the special project fund and then take some of it out of the water utility. So divide it if we're going to do 30.

You said 30, right?

Not to exceed.

That would work great on that idea that Kevin and Alex can talk about the time and the materials. Which is what Kevin was ready to do. He said time and materials. That would be bigger.

That would stay perfect. So my suggestion would be, because the special project fund is, we have $16,623,000 in there. And so we could take that money out and put it towards the 30 and then take some of it out of the water utility and the difference out of the water utility because I don't want to take a whole bunch out of the water utility because, again, if we have another water break or water issue that we're going to need that money for, we really need to have that money in there. So that would be my suggestion.

Okay. What's in that fund? Which fund?

The water utility. The special utility.

But especially to the $16,623. Also, remember, you guys, this is going to be at a net 30.

So it's not like you have to have it today. It's 30 more days once he pulls on site.

Yeah. We're just trying to figure out where the money is going to come from.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am. And what kind of timeline are you looking at? That's going to be the question all these guys want to know. What kind of timeline is it? We'll get a direction about that. Approximately.

Yeah, I know. According to the prefab, it takes a little bit of time. It's going to take a couple weeks, I think.

Yeah, Kevin said it'd take a couple weeks to prefab.

30 days?

Yeah. This is what our original plan was. The thing with that is, remember, once we hook this diesel generator pump up to the aid, I'm hoping to get enough flow to where you guys can proceed with your lives and go on and let us worry about this ever.

That's what I like to see. You're still going to put that flush water in at the water tank before you start pushing?

Yes, that's what I wanted to do, yeah.

Okay.

I kind of want to locate that and be set up.

Yeah, tomorrow we're going to hook up that diesel pump, hopefully. We've got parts, correct?

Yes.

We're going to hook that up and that should give us enough flow to get you guys back to your normal life, out of emergency. Let's go back to life. And then let us keep jacking with this thing so it doesn't you know 30 days 40 days whatever it's going to be doesn't really matter because you guys should have full pressure coming off the gas now he's going to have to go out there every hundred dollars to fill up gas they've been doing pretty good

This $30,000 is just for the work that you're going to be doing now. This does not include the pumps.

This does not include the pumps in that pump deal. He still needs to give you guys a price. Now, he told me he's almost positive he can get under $100,000. So the $30,000 is just to rebuild the infrastructure that he even tried to hook our temporary pump up. It literally shredded in his hands. He was there and saw that. I don't know if you were, but he was too.

So, I just want to make sure that the citizens understand that this 30,000 is a different amount. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Was that 30,000 includes that, like, 10,000 to rent the generator. No, we really be closer to 40. so do we need to add the generator?

I don't know how the generator was done. Yeah.

30 day deal. So we did the 30 day deal on the pump. So if it comes back around it's an additional I believe 5,000 plus some hoses so around 6,000 or something like that I think is what it was going to be for an extra month. It just depends on how quickly all the rest of this gets put together again and how much longer than a month we need the pump that we have. That's what we're going to do the best we can to get down to 30. H13 guys. Okay, I will point out that Morgan was working hard today and got where we are in all the budget areas. of everything. So right now we are $59,000 under expected expenditures from the general fund as to where we would normally expect to be at this time of year. So we're only at 61.43% use of the budget where we would expect to be at 66.67% at this time. So that's about a $59,000 difference from just the general fund availability that we have in our yearly budget for 2026.

But I would still recommend to pull from the special Project fund.

So, in addition to that, the water utility fund is at 60.25%. As opposed to the 66.67% that would be at and according to that amount for $25 under the expected expenditure that we would. Expect to be at at this juncture. So we do have a little bit of funds there that is in excess of where we would expect to be expenditure wise for this year. So you were talking about pulling part of it out of the Special Projects Fund and the rest out of the Water Utility Fund. We have about $25,000 roughly that is under what we would expect to be at this time of year from that Water Utility Fund.

But I just didn't want it all coming out of the Water Utility Fund because if something like we have a major water... Right, I agree.

Because if we use $14,000 out of that, that's going to leave about... I can do that. 11,000 still in there.

So we can take that 16,000

other than just marking it out of general fund.

Guys, keep in mind that when he charges these lines for one of these line breaks, we're going to have to replace that as well. Yeah.

In addition to that, I was going to point out that The general fund, some of that $59,000 that hasn't been used within the general fund itself was originally allocated to the swimming pool, which is now closed for the season, that leaves $15,000 from that expected budget expenditure.

We can take it out of three.

The main thing is the general fund expenditures cannot go negative. Um, but which 1 goes a little over a little under is just an adjustment with the funds. Now, what we want to do for definite is check with our auditors and make sure that there's nothing specific that we should do to. Readjust those ahead of time before the end of the year, but that is a potential within that.

Also, what's the water utility capital?

Yeah, so take it out of the special project.

Capital improvement reserve.

Yeah, I think that's a good idea.

I think take it out some of it on the project on page 14. I think take some of it out of each department out of each. So, what are we taking out of the that's what would be my suggestion.

Do you want to just kind of split 3 ways then between special projects? What are utility and capital improvements for utility?

Yeah, I mean, that's whatever. I mean, yeah, I mean, because I mean, that way it kind of leaves some in because we have to leave some, because if we have an emergency or something, we have to have this in money to come back. and getting money out of that or we're not robbing peter to pay paul and as much as we can keep from the general fund that would be yeah so that's what my recommendation would be is to take it out of streets water utility capital and the um water utilities three ways

Not streets, but special project wanted to make sure to clarify.

I mean, where we don't even have to touch the water for itself, but it could be blessed. Yeah.

So, yeah, do the water utility fund last that we don't have to touch it.

We don't have to. We don't have to.

Yes. That 8,000 doesn't show one.

So can we change that 8,000 and take it out of some of the other parts?

Do we have to say that? I'm not sure if it's an improvement because it's only temporary.

This stuff that he's talking about would definitely be an improvement.

We need a motion from the investor. Yes.

Hey, Josh. Yes. We don't have to, I mean, we're just figuring out where the money was coming from. So you said that it didn't have to be paid tonight. So when is the payment due?

Actually, so it would be the billion net for the project completion.

Okay. I just wanted to make, I mean, I know that we.

trying to figure it out but so once we know what the bill is that will come to the next council meeting that's a that we have after that so if any adjustments or anything need to be done for that bill draw out it can happen at that point okay after it's completed right yeah after it's completed yeah so he's gonna pop through two phases he'll probably do the front i'll talk to him i do not know this for sure but i'm almost going to do two phases one phase will be

Repair of all the can piping and all that. That's one that will be built for that at net 30 and then we'll do the pump.

Okay.

Yeah, we'll divide it 3 ways.

We divide it 3 ways. Yeah, that's 10,000 each.

Yes. Okay. So, do we need on the motion? Do we need.

It would be good to have that in there.

Let the citizens know where we're taking the money from. I make a motion to allow

I have a guy that's working on the pumps to do time and materials for all the piping and not to exceed 30,000 and the money would be coming out of special project fund and the water utility capital reserve fund and also the water utility fund.

And I will second.

Um, for the record, just on that, since they passed the motion, which has been moved and seconded, um.

Name, which is valid. R. I. C. H. A. R. D. Smith. S. M. I. T. H. Okay, thank you, sir. My contractor Kevin K. E. B. I. N. Starbucks T. A. R. B. U. C. K.

Does everybody understand what we're doing, where our funds are coming out of?

So the motion, yes, exactly what I was fixing to do. The motion that's on the table that has been moved and seconded is a motion to approve the line work for the pumps by Richard Smith and Kevin Starbrook, who are working this, with the funds to be split coming out of special projects funds, water utility improvement reserve, and water utility fund. And not to exceed over $30,000. Any discussion?

Did he say we're going to put in two pumps?

Any other discussion? All in favor? So moved, unanimous. Council members, any other discussion on the water pumps themselves?

No, can I just say that some of the things have been found?

Yes, so some of the Paperwork from 2004, 2013, and 2014 were found underneath stuff in an area not expected. They were dug out today. They are over there. Mr. Stark, Councilman Stark, was able to actually get a call back from EVH and such also and got some other materials there. So we've learned quite a bit regarding a lot of that. Not a whole lot of information about the pumps themselves, but a lot of information about the lines and the other things that are around in the town themselves. So that is a definite improvement from what we did not have up to this point. We have found those. I contacted our engineer to let him know so that he can get a copy. We can get a copy to him too and move up all of that. Anything else?

I don't really want to make sure that the

want a copy of those plans come by I'll make sure you get a copy of them if you want. And then you can see what I've dug up. I don't have the copies of the plans they had up there but I've got emails of the copies that I didn't see. That way you guys can see pretty much everything that we brought in.

Councilman Stark we appreciate you finding these for us sir. You're welcome. We really needed that. And we're going with 250 gallon per minute pumps. They went with 300. They went to 300s previously, and we're putting in two.

We're putting in two that can run simultaneously, or one before only could run one at a time. So you could never get over 300 gallons. Now we're capable of going over 500 gallons.

Also keep in mind that they're also going to redo all the electrical lines, so when they switch back and forth, everything will pop properly. Okay.

Will each pump have its own well guard panel to shut off and on?

Both pumps will be in one single panel. Each pump will have its own VFD, its own starter, its own relays, its own specific dedicated electrical. But it will not have two separate control panels.

After tomorrow, will the emergency thing be lifted then?

I'm not sure about that, ma'am. We are gonna start tomorrow and we're gonna put that pump on. Hopefully we can get you your gowns permitted and if we do, Don't know who called calls the emergency you that would be up to the mayor to thank you to probably remove that.

So the plan at the moment is and council correct is once he tells us that we are good to go that we have the volume that we need. It's up and running with no problems that we want to call another meeting so that we can come out of that water supply emergency. Yes. Yes. So.

I would just like for all of us to be a part of it.

Absolutely. That's what was needed because the council would have to convene and pass a resolution to bring us out of that.

And let me say, for anybody out there watching, if you guys have any questions, please reach out to one of your council members, reach out to the mayor, anybody. We'd be very glad to answer any questions that anybody has. And if we don't know the answer, I guarantee you one of us will find the answer.

Yes.

Please reach out to us. We're all talkable.

When we were talking before the meeting started, you were talking about the engineers and that you're getting ready to go and have to fix some stuff that they were involved in. Can you let the council know about that?

Our company next week, we're going to be a senator to rebuild the same type of situation. I think that your previous mayor used the same engineers you guys have.

So hopefully with all of this that we're upgrading and everything, that maybe our water improvement, because we know that the lines have been rusted, that that's where our discoloration is coming from and coming in, not that it's anybody's fault.

So it's definitely going to be on the backside of your plant, right? That's from enemies. They said that they're getting rusty water coming out of their pipe.

Well, like certain times in the year, like it's raining.

Yeah, and it's harder with just the chemicals.

Yeah, so we'll probably, Josh and I will sit and have a talk on what happens. When that does happen, that will adjust chemicals a little easier.

I didn't know if it was just from some of this rust coming through. Of course, a little bit.

Yeah, because the chemical that we use attacks both iron and manganese, oxidizes, and then we have another chemical that feeds in that collects it and then in our clarifiers, it will settle down. So if you're not feeding up chemical, it will hit the filters, bypass the filters. Then when it hits our chlorine reservoir, that it will then oxidize it and that's where the brown comes from. And once it does that, there's nothing really I can do. It's just that the chemical feed is not right at the beginning. It just trickle it all down, bypass it there.

So again, once we set your new pumps and get some things done, we'll sit with Josh, and he's doing a great job now. But we will sit with him and kind of go over his procedure again, what he's doing to get the water clean.

With all of us, with Josh and these guys who have done all the work on this, our biggest concern is to make sure that everybody and all our citizens get clean water that they pay for. That's what we're up here for and that's what we want to do.

Mike, did you have a question?

It's my understanding we're running one clarifier right now. Yes. Will you be able to run both clarifiers at the same time?

Yes, because really the reason why I haven't, we might have got the equipment fixed up top, but for me to start it up, I would have to stop producing water for the town to fill it back up. So I'm waiting If we can get a good enough flow with these pumps, hopefully like four hours. Just right now with them moving slow and take an all vein, I don't feel like I want to be in a situation where we barely have water and can't really do anything.

And that's been part of the problem thus far. With the pumps running as low of gallons per minute as they have been, we've had troubles keeping up with the water plants and the water supply to the city. So with the faster pumps, that will enable us to get more water faster and produce and be able to keep up easier. That also means that with the faster flow, the pumps will work less hours during the day and end up saving the city some money in the constant electricity and everything else uses also.

Right now... I have my pumps at max power to do a third of what they can do. And we're assisting with the pump.

We have another pump that we have on a platform out there that's pulled out of the lake that's assisting these two pumps. This is not the diesel driven pump that I have ready to roll. So we're just assisting with an electric pump and helping him push what he's got. 80 gallons per minute or so, and we're at 110. So we are increased, we just haven't turned on the vehicle yet. On both lines.

Anything else regarding the pumps?

So under Josh's already said it, but for the program, he's talking about running a line across there. So that would mean closing access to the west Boat ramp right there. There is still the other boat ramp. I haven't been over there in forever. It's fine. But yeah, so. Yeah, just kind of sit down and get them.

So you guys are going to clean it all up so you can have a boat ramp.

Yeah, we need to make sure that we're not using the boat ramp where my pump's at. If somebody hits that control panel or that pump, it's a disaster city.

So for right now, we need to close that boat ramp at the moment.

Once it's open, we're going to move everything. We're going to need to close it.

So, just as long as you make sure that that's blocked off and ask that he did not move the blockers.

You want to make sure you post that on the city's website. So everybody knows.

I would say no thoughts at all for a while. Can you say that?

You guys can move them to get in and out.

Yeah, probably be a safe.

Yeah, let us be able to talk in there first and then, you know, stop.

So I just put no boats at Eastlake while pumps are being worked on.

Yeah. We don't want nothing to happen to them.

You mean no boats at all?

they're working hard on their and they don't want to that's a no way play they don't want the thumps hit that's why we're asking this for just a little bit all right saying it's no way doesn't mean people are actually going to listen to that yeah but it is unfortunately not at all i know yeah i got a question on the pump yeah on the diesel pump is it is it a one month rental this is yes and is it based on because i'm running big generators and stuff in the past

based on a 40-hour week. Is this generator going to be based for the pump going to be based on hours? No, we're just day. We're just day. Okay. I'll just make sure in 15 days before I'm going to be out and about. No, no, no. We just did a day around from so-and-so.

I know you can check that and see what the cost is. Thank you.

And we did shop that around. We did pull from the

top, that was the lowest price out of three pump rental companies. Well, I mean, just the generators in the past, people were like, hey, we rented it for two weeks, but that was based on an eight-hour pay, too.

We told the pump company exactly what we're doing. As a matter of fact, we've modified that pump a little bit as well, too. We've got a different electric.

He's just able to hook up the skate assistant to it, so... When the plant needs to run, the pump can kick on. So it's not overfilling anything and it won't bust something else. So, thank you. Okay.

With that, I'll entertain a motion for adjournment.

I'll make a motion to adjourn. I second it.

It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? Aye. We're adjourned. Thank you, everybody. No, I've done my part.

That's why I know what it's about.