Pc Meeting - Regular Meeting

There it is. Yeah. New to this microphone, too. Hello everybody. Welcome to uh City of Plymouth Council Megan meeting agenda. Um Thursday, April 9th, starting at 6:32. Can we please stand for the uh pledge of allegiance? Oh, roll call. Sorry. See, I'm jumping ahead already. Council member Bottomley here, Council Member Cranford here, Council Member Dill here, Vice Mayor Hornish here, and Mayor Nun is absent. Thank you. We have a quorum.

Okay, now we'll stand for the pledge of 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. All right. Thank you everybody. Um look for approval of the city council regular meeting agenda of April 9th 26. So moved. Second. Second. Council member Bottomley. I. Council member Cranford I. Council member Dell. I. Vice Mayor Hornish.

I. Thank you. Motion passes. Moving into regular meeting of public comment. Um is there anybody that Elizabeth come on up? U button.

My name is Elizabeth Swassen. Um and I'm a local business owner from uh the Plymouth Hotel Kitchen of Art. I have to say I'm here to make public comment about something that I heard just from other people in the community but also on the Zoom meeting that a local business woman stepped down and didn't want to do the flea market and um frankly it was inferred who that might be and that's not the case. It has been sponsored by the Interact Club of Amador High School. It's a Rotary youth organization for a few years now and they unfortunately were unable to do it this year. So I needed to make sure that was clear for everybody. I see. Okay.

Also that's really important because there was inference about being a Rotary member. Um I'm still a Rotary member but I don't think that was appropriate for that to be discussed and then recorded on Zoom. Mhm. Like it was whole discussion about what happened. Okay. I think I made myself clear, but I also think that it's really important that the city council and the city manager understand like the Plymouth Flea Market because it has been over 30 years has always been sponsored by a nonprofit.

Rotary in general took it over in 2014, but before then there were historical like it started as a historical kind of like save these trucks, fire fire trucks preservation kind of thing. And I do think after 30 years, everybody on the city council representing our community and the city manager should be well aware of the history.

Okay. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. Anybody else for public comment for items that are not on the agenda? All right. Sir, if you could please state your name and residence and hit the silver button there. Thank you.

My name is uh Glenn Carter um from Sutter Creek, but I'm a teacher at Amodore High School and I've been the Interact Club um co-chair with Elizabeth for about 15 years. Okay. Okay. And I just wanted to let you know that it was a decision by the the Interact board I that we did not have kids who were willing who were able this year to step up and co-chair the Plymouth Flea Market. Okay. So, it was their board decision that they could not do that this year. We have done it in in many other years as far as helping serve in the kitchen and and out here and and so forth. We just weren't able to do that this year.

Thank you, sir. Okay. Appreciate your time. All right. Okay. Yeah, if I may. I apologize. Microphone, please. Thank you. I I apologize. I I was giving the information and trying to relate and I didn't mean to, you know, for those that was you guys were dropping the ball or anything. It was just Yeah. organizations take care of it. Yeah. I didn't even realize an organization was involved. Okay. All right. Well, thank thank you for clearing it up for me. Thank you. Appreciate you.

All right. Moving on. Uh no presentations, proclamations, or appointments. Uh consent calendar items. Oh, closing public comment. Thank you. See, I'm rushing. Uh, consent calendar items. Um, can we approve all items listed? Looking for approval. I Well, you need public comment, too.

Oh, okay. Is there any public comment on the consent calendar online, maybe? All right. None. Closing public comment there. Looking for a motion. I'll motion to approve the consent calendar as presented. I'll second the motion. Council member Bottomley. I. Council member Cranford. I. Council member Dell. I. Vice Mayor Hornish. I. Thank you. Motion passes.

Okay. Moving on to regular agenda items 7.0. Are there any public comments for item 700? 7.1 presentation on water and wastewater rate study. Okay, closing that public comment for 7.1. Uh, and Sarah is here from NBS with a report. Good evening everyone. Sarah Mars with NBS. I do have a brief presentation regarding the water and sewer rate studies. It is by and large the same presentation that you saw the last time I was here but whittleles down for water in particular just to show the option that you selected. So um at the pleasure of the council I will proceed with giving that presentation um and we'll move through that. Okay, briefly we'll talk about why we're doing a rate study, why it's an important thing to do. Um, it is required to comply with Proposition 218, which is a part of California's Constitution and sets forth both procedural and substantive requirements regarding rate setting in California. Those are typically prepared every 5 years. So, it's been a little longer than that uh since the city has completed their last rate study. And a rate study demonstrates the fairness and equity of customer rates. In general, the methodology includes three steps, which is a financial plan. That's where we're looking at the sources and uses of funds to determine the amount of revenue needed. the cost of service analysis

which proportionately allocates the revenue requirement to the customer classes in compliance with the cost of service standards um under state law. And then we have the rate design analysis which is where we consider the rate structure that best meets the city's needs to collect the rate revenue. When we're pursuing the financial plan and running those calculations, we are estimating all of the cost to be recovered from customer rates. So, we're looking at the operation and maintenance or O andM costs. We're looking at any debt service that may need to be paid, capital costs, and we're subtracting any non- rate revenues you have, things like licenses, fines, or application fees. From there, we determine what that net revenue requirement is. We also are going to consider funding for adequate levels of reserves and that's a really important thing that we're looking at to make sure that there is funding available um there in your reserves in order to meet future needs of the systems. The cost of service analysis is where we proportionately allocate the cost based on the cost of service to each type of customer. Water costs are typically allocated by looking at the system capacity costs which is generally based on meter size, the commodity cost or the actual water itself and the customer costs. And that's those are things like billing um of the utility um rates. Those costs are allocated to each customer class based on their proportional share of the above criteria. For sewer costs, we look at things in a similar manner, but a little bit different just given the utility. We're looking at the flow, which is the amount of effluent that's generated. We're looking at the strength of that effluent. Um, and this is a little bit different than what you all have done in the past. Your uh rates and your edu

calculations previously were based on flow and did not include calculations that were related to strength. So, that is a change. And we're looking at what's known as the biological oxygen demand and the total suspended solids. That is um that it helps us understand what is required to treat the effluent that's coming. And we also look at customer costs there as well. In terms of the rate design, we are making sure that those rates are proportional to the cost of service. Again, that's required by Prop 218. There have also been several cases that have come through starting in 2015 with the San Juan Capistrano case and then in the last couple of years um and even as recently as December of 2025, there have been additional cases that tell us how to interpret the language in Proposition 218 to ensure that we are demonstrating the cost basis of those rights as required by the constitution. We want to make sure that rates are equitable and non-discriminating, that there is an ease of administration and understanding. We obviously don't want to create rates that are so complex that no one can understand what their bill is going to be. And we want to ensure that your utilities as enterprise funds have revenue stability. First, we'll go through the water rate study. The objectives here include ensuring rates are able to cover all operating and maintenance costs, that you're building appropriate reserves, and obviously complying with legal requirements. This is the financial plan for the water utility. And the option selected here is the alternative that was discussed the last time I visited council, which includes rate revenue increases in the first year um at 30% and then the percent increases for rate revenue taper

off after that. Those year 1 and two rate increases have been smoothed, but those adjustments are still required and critical to addressing existing budget deficits. And you'll see on the next slide that the um fund actually carries a negative balance right now. The years three through five rate adjustments are necessary to continue to keep pace with inflation and begin to build back reserves. This slide is a graphical representation of the financial plan and it shows you the um ON&M expenses. Um there are no rate funded capital expenditures depicted here because we have allocated funds to building reserves instead. So this plan does not anticipate that you will be able to fund needed CIP. This is the uh slide that shows your reserve fund. You can see those current negative fund balances. Even there at the end of the 5-year rate setting period, we are getting to a place that we are not yet fully funded in terms of that reserve fund, but we started to build back a reserve. And these are the rates. Um, you can see that there is a monthly fixed service charge based on meter size as well as a commodity rate that is based on usage, which is pretty typical. That's and that's um similar to your current rates. your their structure of your current rates. Pause there and see if there's any questions on the water utility before we move to sewer. Good. Okay. Um the Oh, this is the regional comparison just so you can uh see where that sits. The um current rates are on the left in green and the proposed rates are right

there in the middle. there are several agencies regionally that um have pretty significantly higher rates than even what you're proposing to do. So, this is really bringing you up to the middle of the pack um in terms of that rate comparison. And I will note regional rate comparisons are are never apples to apples. People uh different agencies have different types of systems. They're dealing with different infrastructure problems um and that sort of thing. So, just keep that in mind when you're you're thinking about how you compare the sewer rate study um that we go through a very similar process here. We are uh have the similar types of goals. We want to ensure that the sewer rates will be able to recover all of the operation and maintenance costs. We want to ensure there's sufficient funding for essential capital improvements. We are anticipating some capital being funded through the sewer rates, maintaining appropriate reserves, and complying with our Prop 218 requirements. I mentioned this a little bit in the beginning. Um we do we are talking about the equivalent dwelling units where we are considering both volume and strength of the effluent. Um that residential property which is most of your customers is one .edu per unit. So that is not a change for your residential customers. But your other customer classes all of that non-residential are now calculated those edus are calculated based on volume and strength. And so your non-residential properties will see some changes in terms of those edu calculations. And this is based on uh current data. The data that had been used to calculate those edus was um several years old. Uh and that that's still being used for your edu calculations that are in place today. So we've updated all of that. This is the financial plan for the sewer

utility. You can see we have much more modest rate revenue increases here. This utility does not have a negative fund balance. There are some reserves on hand um and it it's generally a little healthier from that perspective um financially. So we were able to keep those increases um much more modest. You can see here again the um there is debt service. You can see a little tiny bit of red there. Um that'll be paid off here very shortly, but we're able to continue paying that off. And um in this case, we're able to fund the capital expenditures through uh capital reserves rather than through rate funding. So you already have some of those funds on hand and so you're able to maintain that. And even with using some of those reserves for some of those capital expenditures, you're still in a situation where you have have healthy reserves. They're um actually slightly higher than the reserve target that we would be looking at. And in this case, you can see that the rate per .edu actually goes down a little bit the in the first year. And the reason for that is that we have done that reallocation through those .eduus use so that the non-residential is paying for the strength of effluent that they're generating and so they're in terms of the system as a whole they're taking uh some additional financial burden um in terms of those rates and so that rate peru actually goes down a little bit but there are more edus allocated to some of those non-residential properties

and this is the rate comparison so again you can see the the lighter green is the current and um you know just a few dollars less. There is the darker green which is the proposed and again um very low actually compared to most of the other agencies in the region in terms of where the city is sitting even with that proposed rate on a per edu basis. We are uh sitting at step two. This is the process that we need to go through. So we had uh come previously and been provided direction on the proposed rate adjustments. We are now at the point where we would be asking for direction to send out the Prop 218 notice which goes out at least 45 days ahead of the public hearing. So we would be setting the public hearing date. Then um there's an opportunity for property owners and customers to provide either written objections or protest. The directions for all of that are included in the rate notice that will be mailed out and then you would hold a public hearing to consider the new rates. Um hear any objections, hear any protests, receive that documentation, and if there's not a majority protest, then you would be able to adopt your new rates. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

No questions for me. No questions for me either. Me either.

Well, you already explained the uh why we had a dip going from our current rate in the sewer. Um so that's good to know. I appreciate the presentation. Um so this goes live technically July 1st with our next next fiscal year. Um what is the given timeline? Now we give you direction. Uh it kicks off the 218 and then how long does that take before the 45 days come into play?

We need a little bit of time to produce and mail the notices. So, um, we would anticipate mailing the notices on, um, April 21st and would anticipate having that public hearing on May 25th. Okay. All right. Thank you. I said May 25th. It's June 25th. I'm sorry. Oh, June 25th. Yes. I'm sorry. I was like, wait, that's not 45 days. Yep. June 25th. 45. All right. Um, so what do you need from us now? Uh just direction to set the public hearing on June 25th and mail the notices. Any objections to that? Nope. Nope. No. Let's roll. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah.

Yeah, it's exciting. Uh item 7.2, review and approval of updated uh personnel manual. Um, do I take public comment on that? Okay. Public comment on the personnel manual, please. All right. Seeing none, we will close public comment and go to Mr. Cameron Begby. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Um, we're presenting to you tonight the employee or personnel manual. um that's we're going to refer to it as personnel manual um that we've been working on the last couple months based on your feedback, citizens feedback, what the city needs. Um so this is kind the product that we've presented um for your consideration, discussion, and possible approval. Thank you. Um council members, assuming you guys had a chance to follow up, are there any questions or new comments? So, I'm going start down there with Debbie.

I didn't have any new comments for it. Okay, Wendy.

Wendy over here. The only one I had is I thought that we had discussed multiple times about um when we do a recruitment process like when because part of the reason this whole thing came into play to begin with was we did not want the situation to be oh we have a person in mind for this position we're going to fill this till or keep it vacant till filled. Then the city manager, not you. The city manager then, you know, has a person in mind, interviews them. Oh, it's filled. Like, I thought we were going to put deadlines around. So, for timing of hiring and recruitment processes, we we felt we discussed that and we felt that wasn't really appropriate to put in the employee handbook. We're going to do a separate written policy for that. Basically, administrative policy that's separate from the handbook to set define timelines of how long recruitments have to be open for. Okay.

Where would that I don't mean to cut you off. Where would that fall into then? Or how would it would be just a separate policy. It would be an administrative policy like an internal this is how staff has to do this sort of. What is our timeline on getting that done? We we I could probably have it for you next meeting. Perfect. Okay. Let's do that because I want it to be really cut and dry for not only the public's sake, our sake, but Cameron's sake so that there's no question about when there's a hiring for a position. We have guidelines we follow strictly um and it's fair across the board for everybody.

One more point on that. Admin policies typically aren't approved by the council, but we can bring it back to show it to you on what we come up with. we can approve this and then Cameron will present what he's put together the next meeting. Exactly. So, the only issue I have with that is if that's not something approved by the council, then that can be changed by an admin at any time. It theoretically could be changed by the city manager, but you're free to request that policy any time and take a look at it. You okay with that? Are you comfortable with that? I am I am at the moment, but we don't always have the same city manager. We don't always have the same city council.

Yeah, I understand the the hesitation there. I mean, I'm fine with approving this, too, but maybe we can work on that secondary piece going forward and even come up with a different rule.

I I could think somewhat how we can make that a more permanent fixture. Yeah, I just that's why I kind of had hoped it would be in here. Um I see why you're this is more about personnel versus and how we hand I get what you're saying. I just feel like because there's been a lack of policy. Um and then if the policy is still in the hands of the city manager, whoever that is at the time, to just change that policy and it doesn't have to become before council, then we're still kind of back in the same situation. I'm hearing the page and I'll I'll think some on how best to kind of make that a durable thing going forward. I would appreciate that.

Thanks. Okay. So, what do you need from us? A motion to approve the personnel manual as presented. Can I get somebody? I'll make a motion to approve the personnel manual as presented. I'll second the motion. Thank you, Council Member Bottomley. Hi, Council Member Cranford. I council member Dell. I Vice Mayor Hornish. Hi. Thank you. Motion passes. All right. Coming up on city manager report.

Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. Um, right now we are looking at a new company um to kind of watch over our our short-term rentals. Um the city had entered into agreement a couple years ago with a company that um we didn't know about really. Uh they their contract came up for renewal and when I asked what they've actually done for us and present present those to us, what they've done the last year, they weren't able to. Um so we've been interviewing some other companies and we think we we've landed on one. Um, and what they'll also what they they'll do is is cross check with Airbnb and the different VV VBO sites to see what properties are permitted, you know, and and c and cross reference them with what we have with the city. Um, and they'll help us send letters out. They have um formats that that we'll use. Um, it'll also help with business licenses and and kind of tracking and streamlining that system because right now we're all paper with that. And when we bill, it's it's a timeconuming process. Um, and the rates were very reasonable for what they offer. Um, and I'll have an update for you by next meeting with that.

Yes, sir. Do you know what we've been paying the previous company? Um, it was close to seven grand a year. Okay. Um, way to go. Uh, and will this new company also help us with the Airbnb um toot payments or the lack thereof or um they won't not collecting the payments, but what they'll help us do is identify who's operating um an illegal for lack of a better term Airbnb. Thank you.

And that way we can address it as a city. Um our public works, they've been grinding. I know the weeds and stuff have been just kicking up. Um they've been grinding. they've moved over to Zipidel Ridge and started working around the pond there. Um we're starting to identify some properties that are um out of compliance or or getting close to there that we're going to start sending letters to to address. Uh we do have an official now uh work ticket in with CALR to come take care of the walking path. Uh they told us today or tomorrow, which with if rain's coming, I don't see that happening, but we are on their radar and they are accepting responsibility for it, which is awesome. Now, is it true that they have an app or like how can anybody lodge a file a

I I've never done it on a personal level. Um but we we called them andounded them and went back and forth and argued with them a little bit and next thing you know we got a ticket. All right. Thank you. A work ticket. Um let's see. Can I just comment? Thank you for doing that. Absolutely. I you know it's not been a secret to anybody that I have been on the record about how frustrating the whole thing has been with Calrans and this was not something that the city it's not the city's job to maintain that is is my stance on that. So I appreciate you reaching out andounding them for that and and I hate to ask our public works crew to kind of fill in for them. I mean we're already short staff and running on you know

unless we can build Bill Cal transform their time then. Yes. Yeah. Well, they they they don't mind billing us and bill them double. So, I just looked it up. There is a CALR page where you can submit service requests. What is that? Um, if you just put in a CALR complaint service request in Google, should come up pretty fast. Terrific. Thank you. Fairly complicated URL.

Um, we we've we've received a couple complaints. um one in form of a written letter regarding still these GPS apps driving people through neighborhoods instead of to the casino. So we are uh we're working on reaching out to Apple and these that they seem to be the biggest offender of this um and sending people to their business offices versus the casino. So hopefully we can get that fixed, but it's it's not an easy task dealing with Apple. No, I've uh firsthand experience with that with my date job and uh it is Apple sending them to a different location half mile down the street. Um I was told that if you have an iOS device that you just submit um a report of incorrect address, but I it hasn't fixed it for me yet. But no,

no. Um, we have received uh since our last meeting, we received new or three new P requests. Um, all these were handled at at our permanent staff level here in house. Um, which which was great. Totaled about 10 hours. One was for somebody wanted building permits uh that were issued between uh January 1st and the end of February of this year. Another wanted a list of any paving projects which we had which was the fastest one because we don't have any currently going on or um in the hopper. And the other one was an inquiry uh regarding an old business that's already that's since been closed. Um but we provided them the information that they wanted. Um, we, uh, it was also while we were working on that PR request, um, we found, well, and I say we, I'm going to take, uh, Ricky's credit, uh, for this. He found, um, we have a lot of developer rebuilds that haven't been taken care of for a lot of years in the city. Um, one is over $225,000 that should be owed to the city that we never collected. We are um looking into avenues to see how we can do that and collect it. Um but some of them are you know 5 6 7 8 9 10 years old or more. So um that's a project that that we're working on with Ricky.

Is there moratorum on on on bills like that or like like an expiration date like you no longer owe us this? It depends depends on what kind of it was how it was incurred. How is there a contract underlying it? All sorts of things. That's the best attorney kind of lingo I've heard. Yeah. And that's we have to we have to look at all the avenues because I mean that's it's a significant amount of money that the city has let go very much. So um Well, I appreciate that. That's that's what we have. Yeah, Ricky's been I I got to give Ricky a lot of credit. He's been doing a real good job with this and I mean our whole city staff has just been really crushing

what they've been doing. So thank you. Appreciate it. Moving on to mayor and council members reports and council requests for future agenda items. Starting with Debbie.

I don't have anything to add to a future agenda. Um, but I just wanted to mention that Cameron Huler and I met this week with uh, Congressman Tom Mcccleintoch and it was nice to talk with him and get his perspective and he had asked if there was anything that he could do for the city of Plymouth um, from a federal level and I know Cameron had mentioned we're hoping to possibly look at getting some grants in the future and his office offered their support in in that respect. If we find one that we want to apply for, that'd be great. Wendy,

um I have a couple things. Uh last Thursday I met with the ACTC um and it was it was a good meeting. They're definitely making some headway on getting the um asphalt crew out to start doing some pilot projects around the county to see how much it's going to cost to actually do them. They sampled a few different types of uh roads with different

potholes and some were straight, you know. So, they've got, I think, three out there now. Um so, it'll be really nice if they get that going. It's it's been a really slow process, but I think that they're um they're working with that. Yeah, if I can expand on that. Um, what the council was talking about is ACTC and all the cities and the money we put in. We bought a paver um, that's at the county. The county is going to run it. County has a crew that's going to be trained for it. Our public works, all the city's public works will supplement the work, whether they're shovelers or traffic stoppers and all that stuff. Um, to help lower costs, we'll be able to do our own projects. Um, but for the time being, they're going to um they're choosing roads that aren't traveled or really um occupied to kind of test out the process and see what it's going to cost us, but it's going to be a heck of a lot cheaper than hiring out.

Can you practice on the road to my work? I've got a few pet projects, too, that we've been helping E5 for for a while. Yeah, I I I tried to get some of ours. I I I did, too. And they were buying it. Yeah. No, they they laughed at me when I said old sack. you want to do that road like yeah so um but that was good it'll be exciting and the work will be done quicker because the list is quite long so we had to wait for all these done um the other thing is I came up with um a possible idea and we're talking about the policy for the employment recruitment

can we start a policy a handbook or something like that so all the city's policies that are kind of outside of a you know the employee employee handbook. Can we start like a keep them all somewhere so we have something to reference? We we do have a list of council policies that that anybody can take a look at and we've brought back some of those for some edits. Okay. I just and everything we have is online as well. Um but I mean if you want a physical copy we could probably put

No, I don't want a physical copy. I just it didn't appear that they're all in like one spot like okay you know here we've got here's all the city's policies whether it's in electronic format or anywhere I just like like they'd be all over the place like we just condense them all into one but maybe not I'm just it's just a suggestion we'll take a look at it if we can clean it up we absolutely will more streamlined online perhaps okay anything else um no

okay thank you uh Wendy Uh, I don't really have anything to report except um there's an event Saturday, April 25th that is coming up called Celebrate Our Children. It's at the Italian Picnic Grounds in Setter Creek, but I thought that uh as a as a city, we should support that and just make people aware of it. Um, I'm sure they'll put flyers up here in town. If not, I can get some to you to hang up. Head share. It's from the resource connection. So they just have a lot of events that they do and it's it's more focused on younger kids and stuff like that. Lots of resources there. And do they have activities like is it for families?

Yeah, it's so it's called Celebrate Our Children. It's music, fun activities, free lunch, face painting, car seat checks, um community resources, fire and police are there, outdoor activities. It's rain or shine. It's free entry. Nice.

Um and it's just something they do every year. uh kind of gather all the different local entities that work towards helping kiddos in the communities. So, just so everyone's aware of that, April 25th at 11:00 at the Italian picnic. And then, um I just wanted to thank you, Cameron, for trying to follow up on the situation with the traffic for the casino. Um it is very bizarre. If you're on Google Maps, it's fine. But if you go to Apple Maps, it shows that it's on Village Drive, but as soon as you click it to drive to the location, it takes you down the street I live on. So, so, um, it's definitely been aggravating. There's a significant amount of people that come down our street, ask where the casino is, turn around. In fact, a neighbor of mine, they I think because of the way the directions show, they drive all the way down their driveway. So, um, can we put the, um, electronic sign out there on weekends when traffic is the heaviest?

We can. We actually purchased permanent signs that the interest of those neighborhoods saying no casino access. Oh, right.

Yeah. But they're they aren't they're great. I'm glad we have them. They're not huge. I think for whatever reason when you come down Bush and you make that right on Sutter, which is my street, there I think that the map shows to go that way to try to get to the casino because we have them come in front of our house and then to our neighbors. So, I think we need to entertain the idea of putting a not a through street sign or something at the end of specifically my street once they've passed cuz they're going past the initial ones that say no casino access and then they're coming all the way down. Burks has a extra sign laying around.

We do and we could put it right. I'm not sure it's going to help but So, what you're saying it's an Apple I know. Yeah, it's an Apple Android issue. It's not a It's not happening on Google Maps. Yeah, see, it's only happening on Apple Maps. So, um yeah, if people I do know a couple people who already filed a report through their device, iOS devices as well.

Um so, yeah, I mean, if it Here's the thing. If you don't live down those streets and it's not affecting you, you don't care, right? So, nobody's going to file a complaint except for the, you know, people that live in chicken flats that are annoyed. We can uh, you know, ask the our lovely citizens to pitch in. Yeah, I guess I could. If you have an Apple device, report it. Yeah. Probably by mass. I mean, one or two Apple's just going to

ignore. Yeah. Anyway, it's a nuisance. Um, so there's that other than that. I don't think I I don't think I have anything else. I think I'm good. Cameron, um, I have a suggestion that may help getting a hold of Apple. Um, when I had a problem with Facebook, I went through Call Curtis. I don't know what the CBS um, media, but they have an in with them, and that may be your way to get it fixed. Wow. Maybe I'll call Curtis. Awesome. Put me on TV. Wendy, read my list.

Uh, well, thank you guys. Um, ladies, um, yes, we met with Tom Mcccleinto. That was fine and groovy on Tuesday. Um, the exciting news I have is that the Donut Street Cafe is ready to be open tomorrow at 4:30 a.m. right next to City Hall. Um, and if they kept their regular hours, it's 4:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Um, I look forward to frequenting them again and get my number seven, no tomato. Uh the only other thing I have is it had come up during the rainwater um study. Do we have a program in place of subsidizing water and sewer um and who how ins and outs? I just would love to know who qualifies, how do we help them? Um I'm

that that's a policy that we're trying to still refine. Oh, lovely. So, um, we're we're reaching out to others to see how they they do it and Okay, you be careful cuz we'd like to help as much as possible. I have one more thing. Go ahead. Since I was sitting here on Facebook to find the celebrate your children thing 7 minutes ago, the city of Plymouth posted that the pool is going to be open on June 6th. That must be a scheduled post since the entire staff is sitting in this room. We multitask well, man. Awesome. I see that. So, yeah, swim lessons uh registration opens on May 1st. So, yay.

And Wendy, how do they register? Oh, let's see. Let me read. Swim lessons registration opens May 1st. Poll will be open for swim June 6th. Contact Victoria Mckenry. No way. At the city of Plymouth. V. mcckhenry at cityoflymouth.org. Awesome. You're welcome for me.

Okay, let her inbox. Uh before we go to close session item 10.1, is there any public comment conference with real property negotiators? One, two, three. None. Okay. Uh closing public comment and we'll see you when we report out. Thank you. 7:15

M. Oh, here we go. Hi. All right, we're back from close session at 10 7:41. Talked about item 10.1 in close session. Uh, we're reporting out that the city council met in close session with labor negotiators and directed the city manager to enter real property negotiators. Where did this come from? Uh, real property negotiators and direct the city manager to enter into an agreement with Urban Futures Incorporated to act as the city's municipal adviser. The agreement shall not exceed $40,000. The council vote was 3 to one with council member Cranford voting against. And that is all, folks. We're reporting out at 7:42. Thank you.