Town Council - Regular Meeting

gearing up. But do you want to go ahead and do the pledge? We stand. 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. It's a delay. follow up on ordinance violations.

We have uh one resident yet needs to remove tires and one that needs to remove a a trailer that's inoperable with inflated one that had the weed issues been somewhat resolved with the snow. Um we tagged a um abandoned vehicle which was taken care of with a 72-hour tag. And then we had another separate issue of vehicle maintenance on Front Street at 102 Western

that was now a nephew, okay, who was recently released from prison working on the car. So I stopped one day on my way home from work when I saw him and gave him the information about working on the vehicles and uh so I haven't seen a so hopefully that's resolved Well, I haven't seen

since you thought it's been in the driveway.

Second reading. Yes. So, I have that here. Um, we didn't put an effective date on the last reading. So, I didn't know if we needed to put that as January 1 for this reading. Yes. Okay. Then that has already been signed. Then

you still have to do a motion to spin rules and pass on second read. Any motion that we approve to the office 25-05 on second reading second favor.

Here is the salary ordinance. 202 holiday schedule.

I do a motion on the salary ordinance.

506 approve the 2026 wage and salary. Sorry. One in favor. It's the how it is. That hasn't changed. It's the same format as the previous years. Yep. Just the dates have changed.

That hasn't changed for the previous years. Yeah. The dates have changed. You need to do an appointment motion on that.

Make a motion approved. Sorry. insurance coverage for

your perfect um well thank you for taking time What we did this year was the past carriers. Um, we actually reached out to travelers, Liberty Mutual, EMC, um, Selective, Trident, who you currently have is your incumbent in HCC. Um, Liberty Mutual has a higher deductible $100,000 deductible larger price. Um, travelers really their sweet spot is 100,000 and premium like we have but they just quote a good thing. We don't want to keep the 100,000 right. Um selective decided not to quote I believe

soci right now. So HCC untried it were the two that came came to the table. credits to your expiring in HCC. We actually have HCC and also county public libraryities. Um so what I've presented here is Trident which is your commercial package. The commercial package to pick up liability your public officials for you all law enforcement practices the property and the auto. So that's really critical policy. Um you'll see that coverage comparison which we tried in that HCC that is on aggreate limition policy has a $3 million aggreate meaning periodic period $3 million you can have $1 million claim in that situation But HCC does they cap it in 1 million aggregate and they put what's called an excess policy on top of milliona what's called a silent though normally what what you'll see on excess policies is say law enforcement you got Republican officials, you have to liability. It will eat into that $5 million for all HCC million silo 5 million

plus everything. So there's actually more there. That's the biggest difference that we saw between Trident and FCC. They're picking up picking up uninsured motors on your vehicles. A lot of that will be picked up under work through but they are picking that up. So you can see from our cost about $15,000 from the prop. So all things being recommended that you all move HCC to cap that cost savings and action less than your expiring $25,000 less than you're expiring that lot information you package that's the commercial package the other policy that we have that's coming up renewal is your accident sickness is reserves.

Yeah.

So under workers compensation policy the summer under working compensation policy for employees you got two two parts of that that work. You have your medical employee gets hurt and you have lost weight for the police saying they're working if they get a reserve very generous to his employees but there's not work comp for that BZ would have compensation to could compensate for their loss of wage that's more than access to pick up those those loss of wers. So essentially it's the protection for the return

state. Yeah. Yeah. six, seven years ago when they they changed the statute they had for years.

Yeah. and then go home. But that's that coverage cyber cyber liability break down agreement with HCC.

Yeah. Yeah. From what I saw, I don't have a question. The other question I do have is on the loss runs. Um, obviously you said a company did not want to quotas. That's more so for what were those? You know what those were? The losses. Okay. I just want to make sure it was the wreck.

Yeah, it was probably the two. The two would be my guess. I don't think the two accents. I don't think it had any other claims outside of those. property property's kind of the excess umbrella that's getting tighter too companies are actually offering that's from the person on that and also items of work compiler too protects allows us to send takes care of all the information we're going to send to all people.

Yeah. Okay. Cyber's really picked up in the last few years. That was a hot topic here a few years ago. um picks up not only cyber liability but also the extortion side of it. That's what we're claim on the extortion. 10 years ago we need to get covered. There's no such thing as cyber, you know. Auburn just got cyber attacked. Auburn was the cow county. Auburn

just cyber attacked I don't know month or two ago. is they assign the token. Key is to find it quick, right? And then we get turned in and then they get somebody that team on that thing right away and then they decide they figure out, okay, it's a better unfortunately, right? Yeah. And that's just the nature. So they can keep doing it because they keep making money on it. I get it. Why? Why do we keep

It's kind of like when you settle out when people sue the police department and they've done nothing wrong. Don't get me started on that. Everybody get in. Oh yeah. City's on it. No county is on it. So you can develop on and we're turning in like claims for everybody to approve

you look at it may too small to do this but yeah your your premium isn't quite there.

Investment too. Yeah, there's a lot with the capital. Okay, good question. Yeah, we're more of it especially for those migate and some of the harder to replace.

I'll make a motion that we approve the second. All in favor? Hey, Cheryl. Would you mind signing that one just so I can keep it in the record?

Thank you. We appreciate your time as business owners and property owners in the front business.

I'll go first. so everybody else can have a chance to talk. Uh, some of you know me. My name is Mark Shaver. My wife Heather and I own four rental properties in downtown. We've committed our time, effort, and dollars into those properties over the past 12 years. We did this because it's our community. This is what we call home. With our first purchase with the rental property in 2012 of the old helping hands building, we knew we could contribute to maintaining a vibrant downtown. We completed a front street face lift and a responsible exterior renovation of the second floor apartment. The recent effort of Joe Ry and pepperonis to beautify the front street district seemed to be in vain when after turning the corner you see a previously blue tarp vacant storefront full of trash and across the street vacant storefronts with broken windows. Not a very welcoming impression of downtown. For the past eight months we've noticed a significant increase in the amount of suspicious activity. This started with large volumes of foot traffic all hours of the day and night with as many as 12 to 16 round trips between two front street rental properties. The efforts shown by the owner on Friday afternoon appear to be a start in resolving some of our concerns. Both of the aforementioned rental properties are owned by absentee landlords. Both properties appear to be in violation of multiple fire building zoning and nuisance ordinances. Both properties have histories of criminal activities being committed by tenants resulting in law enforcement intervention.

We no longer feel safe on our own property. We've been cussed out, flipped off for simply looking in the direction of an individual walking in the street past our property. We've installed cameras, posted no trespassing signs to divert foot traffic and vehicle traffic across our properties in an effort to assist law enforcement. Recently, we've struggled to find a tenant for our newest fourth building project. But because of the noticeable activities, both prospective applicants have declined our efforts even after we offered them some incentives. I'd like to return to you all in about a month to listen to your course of action to correct the issues plaguing downtown Front Street corridor. Hopefully those solutions will stop this decline before it's too late.

And where are the absent landlords at? Is that the um Well, one lives in Warville. And the other one lives in Andrews. Okay.

And you say that those properties have violations of all different kinds and matters. Oh yes. I have a background in this those fields. Fire and building safety and zoning enforcement. Yes, I can tell you that from standing on the sidewalk. I mean, they're dumping garbage out the upstairs windows. They're running. Are you talking about the apartments?

The grocery store. It's It's a toll. I I've had people come in from in sitting in the dining room and say, "What is going on?" I mean, I won't now it's winter, but I won't walk home. And I love my walk back and through to my place. I don't It's not comfortable. It's when you have customers coming in from Michigan and all over the place because, you know, they're hearing about your pizza place and then they look out the windows and they're like, "What is going on? What?" You know, and you can't answer it.

Yeah. I I can't answer it. I don't know what's going on. I'm not in there. But, you know, we've been broke into three times. We never once gotten any restitution from any of it. We are not seeing our police officers do a wonderful job, but I don't know when the last time. I don't know if they're still doing it or not, Paul. They're going and checking our doors. I I just know that we are we're just uncomfortable. I mean, I was just telling Ellen tonight. I want to try to get some kind of a and I sorry, Heather, but we need something in the alleyway there because it's

pitch black. It's pitch black and there's people there. They're stay They're trying to hide in the stairwell there. I'm just uncomfortable. I can't keep putting Well, I can attest to the fact that it's dark in that particular alley. Yeah. I don't know if we can put this as a motion detector. The last time you were robbed, I couldn't see the person that ran. I couldn't see the third one in the alleyway because it was so dark in there. Yeah. So, we just testified. We just said we've got to do something. It's

We love We I mean, we love being where we're at. We love our peaceful town. That's why we came here. But

it's it's really tough to try to explain to people that are coming in from other towns. Well, why should we I don't you know what, three weeks ago, the three young kids that I had mentioned were walking around with backpacks and they come and they jerked on my front door. Then they went around and came running up through the side, jerked the door open, screamed really loud. And you got gentleman in a wheelchair that just about fell out of his wheelchair because it scared the living up. It's just hard. I mean, it's not your guys's fault. I just I don't know. I guess I just would like to know that we can get more traffic. Something's got to

Yeah. you know just to make all of us we're all investing so much in dark security issue will go to Paul and his department as far as building issues and that I'm not sure where we stand with that other than to notify county building inspector those kind of things the property owners won't let us in there that's the issue there and They're not going to let you in there unless we have complaints from the people that actually live there. So, the renters would have to make

Well, I'm saying the renters have to make a complaint to us and then the property owner has to give us permission to get in. That's the way they've always told me. So, and what about about fire code? What about fire code? send a fire marshal to inspect. I don't know if they'll let him in wiring or anything. I don't know if they'll let him in there. Still got That's what Watville is having some issues with, too.

Scott might know more, but I know that they've had a lot of issues with that. Well, we can if if if the one place you're talking about is on Front Street past Weston Street. That one I tried that with. I don't know if it was this owner or the last owner.

They came in to get a building permit to upgrade the electrical. I said, "We need to get in and inspect the rest of it. And you basically told me no one's getting in there. So I mean I don't know unless we have a complaint. Dustin, what do you think? Police sending a search problem.

Um I echo the same concern of all other property owners. I'm Stan Rose with my wife Nancy Karen Fox Pat Fox we together home specialy house the old bank building and we also have the concern suspicious activity of individuals in that area that's been going for at least a year and yeah we we feel unsafe around our property also just because of What properties are we talking? It's the old store.

116 Front Street. Yeah. 255 Front Street. And I want to invite everybody in this room tomorrow. Anytime you want to go up there, park in front of the building and walk up. You can go out tonight. The lights. There's a light on all the time. Now, right by and 116,

I don't know what the laws are, but if you ask me, I think you have some kind of doing something about bill that's in that building. That's why you had their kids like garbage. Well, maybe. It was outside. If there's nobody living in there, the health department won't do anything.

But my understanding is they've been down. suggest that whoever is in charge here calls contact your legal advisor for the town and see if you can tell them that they have 30 days and clean that mess up or have to be some kind of violation the windowation put it on the sidewalk and look through the window. But I'm not certain that we can control what people keep in their house if they want to be a

what drugs. Okay, go kick down your door

because you mentioned you mentioned something about This is brought in their knowledge. Well, the owner is so that well that's what I'm saying. Is there a problem with reaching out to them and saying, "Here's what we're looking at. We like your cooperation, but we need to do something to do. I understand." I get that. I understand. They don't want to take care of their own property. And and we can't force our way in.

Of course, I have a couple of thoughts about this because so I'm Kim. I own store street and I Mark and Heather D and Karen and Nancy I have been observing suspicious activity um for a couple of months. My cameras show people walking up and down the street all hours from one property to the next backpacks, carts. Suspicious. That's that's all I can say. Um, I will say that the people that um came to Dubs and uh knocked on the door also came down to my place and kicked my can that's outside by my fence.

We were outside talking to these individuals saying, "What's your problem? Like, you need to come down and knock on a door and scare people and then try to break something." They did not break my can, but you know, kicked it. I've never seen them. We saw them at that time probably four days in a row. Backpacks going back and forth. Um I had some thoughts because from what I understand the tarps had been on the place and the people who were in the bottom of this place

did not have permission to be there. And from what I understand, the door had been unlocked this entire time. So, there are a couple of thoughts that we had as business owners about this. One, we were wondering, could we get the business checks? Again, I haven't had any cards. I haven't seen anybody on the camera come, you know, and and check like in the evening, law enforcement to see, is the door open? Is anyone in there? Like they had been doing years before. It seems to me as though maybe if that was in place, someone would have opened that door and seen that it was unlocked and maybe looked at some of the disgusting things that were in there. Do you have a video of piles of stuff?

I don't know what they are. I I have no idea, but it's piles of stuff. And it's different. People don't do that. The other thing is with businesses down in the commercial district, we can't have living on the ground floor. It is an ordinance that we talk we cannot have living in the on the ground floor.

There isn't a way that law enforcement or US town officials can check on that if we have windows covered completely. So what we were thinking and I was thinking why don't we come up with an ordinance in the business district in the commercial buildings if there is a window facing the main road one window has to be uncovered and visible from the street or the sidewalk. In this case this could have been prevented. We went through months of all of us looking out our windows, being afraid to walk into our vehicles, worrying about our property when we're not there, checking all the pings on our cameras from all the activities. And it seems to me like if we would have had those two things in place that we could have prevented this and that maybe also we can prevent this from happening to other properties that are still vacant in Rome City in our commercial district.

So I don't know what your thoughts are about that window. Never heard of such thing. Never heard of that kind of a thing. Forcibility. I don't know. I mean, that'd be like somebody telling if you live on the street side, you can't go to the grave.

I understand. But it could be just the commercialzoned businesses vacant or with the business in it in the commercial district. Doesn't have to be one a residential owner occupied home. That was the second thought that we had. There are some out of town owners that the properties are not owner occupied and those are around, you know, downtown, those are on the lake.

Would it be helpful if we had a directory as town of people who owned properties that were not owner occupied? So that if any of us neighbors see anything that's suspicious, we have a contact or at least we can come to you and you have a contact and you can call someone and say, "Here's what got reported. This is strange. Are you okay with this? Do you want to check your property out?"

That was another thought that we had. Have you been getting anything from I'll tell you Friday um the owner brother who was doing maintenance for him went into the building 116 Front Street opened the door saw people inside he called his open the sister-in-law or some other type of family relation who's involved in the ownership of the building which is best deal rental

they called the sheriff's department we ended up out there um long story short the brother-in-law ended up coming back he had left he came back um long story He allowed us to go into the building. He called the owner of the property who's in Hawaii and I talked to him on the phone. I found out that he had evicted uh the renter from the property about a month ago. So, we got the building cleared out. So,

we trespassed uh everybody that's that we know that's associated with being there. Um from going back we asked him to remove the tarps because with it being enclosed, we can't see in, nobody else can see in and then you have a problem. So, he took the tarps down and yeah, it's a mess. Um, but as far as I know, he has resecured the building and nobody's living there.

And we have criminally trespassed um three people so far from the property. And I know I got a phone call um today that uh maybe they'll there'll be another one that I'll trespass on the property. So, um, so the tarps are down. The tarps are down, but they were still trying to get in this morning.

So, he's put up no trespassing signs in the windows. Um, so I think they're they're trying to resolve the issue. Um, he does have a bright light on inside. It's on that long. Um, we are doing extra controls on that section. We still do business checks. We don't have the cards anymore. They're all gone. Um, and short of buying more business cards. Yeah, we are still doing business checks. Um, so as far as people, you know, walking up and down the street, any time of the day, as long as they're an adult, they have that legal right. There's nothing we can do to to stop that.

Irregardless of how suspicious it may look, uh, we can't interfere with people's civil rights, and otherwise we'll end up getting sued and paying insurance claims. So, um, Paul, did the gentleman that came, his brother, did he make comment that he clean that out in there so we don't have rats? That was part of what he was there for was to to do some work, I believe, on shutting off shutting off the water or doing something. Um, so, as far as I know, it's He had commented that

that building was not high on their priority of of properties. No kids to take care of

Well, we don't want that anywhere in our town. We don't um but Well, if it's in the building, our hands are tied. I want you to see it. Um, clearly

I pretty much look at it daily on the corner house, you know. Um, but that's the way they choose to live and there's nothing I can do about that even though it offends me. Um, I don't think that they should have a pond car in their front yard. I don't think that they should have a broke down, horrible looking pickup truck that never moves sitting in their yard, but it's got a license plate on it. There's nothing I can do about it. It hasn't moved in years. 9301 or But it's got a plate on it. Those things. It has a plate on it. There's nothing else.

Excuse me. I'm Caroline North Carolina. So in some ways from that simple speak and I just want to say that my customers don't come from this area. They come from Ohio, Illinois, Indianapolis. But the ones that come in from the west east north corridor come in with Google. And when they come in with Google,

they go past um very mother mercy. They love it. They ask me that is so beautiful. This town should be so proud of that. The lake is beautiful. I mean when you come into this town, Lord, this town is beautiful. And Google takes them down front street. And I am a recipient of many negative comments

and it's embarrassing. If we can make people cut their grass because it's too long, I'm not sure why we can't do some other things. I I understand invading somebody's personal property to stop busting and things like that, but and there's snoopiness like observing something that's been going on like a car sitting there for 10 years, but there still has to be something. There's grass growing around a car. I that simplicity and I realize what I'm saying seems simple,

but we have a lot to be a lot to be proud of. There has to be a way of grow. It seems to me there has to be a way. And that place at 116 Harry would be rolling over his grave. He would be rolling over his grave about the house on the corner too. It's just sad to me. It's very sad.

The city of Goan has a annual rental inspection by their ordinance. The inspector goes into the building. Yeah, that's not too far. City of I know that inspector. They don't have somebody on the staff to do that necessarily work. It's in the budget, but I can see what the code.

One of my concerns with um whole old property is is that um I personally have never seen anyone update the electrical. So, um the lower part of it was at one point because they had the dance studio and stuff in there, but the upstairs apartments were not. And they used to have the rag wire up there. And um

and I know that when Nick and Tula, who had the old dairy point at the time, she told me that one of their ceiling lights um was put in with an extension cord wire that was hooked up to the switch on the wall. and uh they don't use it. They just didn't use it. They put a lamp in the house.

So, so here's my concern. When I saw things going the wrong way at the property, I went to the front door and there's a permit posted from Rome City. It had the owner's name and the owner's phone number. I texted I said, 'Hey, you might want to know these are the things that are going on at your property. He texted me back. He said, 'Oh, I didn't know that. Two weeks passed. I texted him again. I said, "It's not getting any better. Here's what's going on." He responded with, "I'm starting the eviction process." So my first question right here is how many times did the town contact the individual who owns the property when they saw that things were going the wrong way?

Hello. I don't hear anything. I had I have previously talked to him several times and he was not very pleasant to talk with and we resolved the issue of people living in there previously back in 23. So this is this has just been an ongoing thing with this owner. He is not checking on his people.

Right. We think we probably we could have avoided just looking back on it, you know, like in any any situation where people mess up, you know, all of us, whatever. Looking back on it, where where could we have done things differently so that we can prevent this from happening again? because there are more vacant properties in Rome singer and because there are many more of us that continue to invest in the properties that we do have and trying to make it look nice. So, the tarp situation, the covered window situation, and having a directory of non-owner occupied, and maybe even looking into doing some kind of safety checks with non-owner occupied rental properties. Those seem like things that will help us to prevent getting into this situation again where we feel like there's something not right. we're coming to you, but your hands are tied. If we have o other things in place that people have to cooperate with because we decide as a town that this is the ordinance and this is what we agree on, just like the pet ordinance, we're supposed to have all of these things. If we have pets, descriptions and photos of what is inside of our own house. If we come together and say that this is important to us to make sure that buildings don't get in this condition and we don't have suspicious activity that scares people, what's wrong with that? Suspicious activity is coming from the environment. We're allowing these rundown places to be rented illegally over and over and over. This is the second time there's been people squatting in the bottom of that

commercial building. I mean, as investment rental owners, we'd be glad to comply to an ordinance that says we need to let you know who is supposed to be at our rentals. We make sure our renters follow the ordinances and so that there's no disturbance to the town.

I mean, we keep up our rentals so they look nice and we get good background checks and good people. I mean if the owner doesn't care for their property care who they rent to hard observe and report once we get a We can do something. We don't have the ability to put a lane on a property

right how can we get in there to check that out? That's what we're trying to get. Yes. Comments. I'm going to defer this more to Stan. You drive by there and look at that. You talked about the electric drive there and look at that at night. That isn't a fire hazard. I don't know what Yeah.

you know, unless there's a complaint from someone um you know, a homeowner saying, you know, I don't think it's, you know, the wiring's good in this apartment that I'm running. So, can we as homeowners in the area say, "Hey, we need you guys to go check it." I don't know. Call. I would encourage all you're gonna find that potential fire. That's just what we can see. That's not what you look like. It's all flammable. All flammable. I don't know that it's illegal.

Well, I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying is we're dealing with individuals that they try to get back in again. What's going to prevent to ignite that because they're they're already laws that supposed to prevent a lot of things. I understand what you're saying. We're going to look just like Bill pretty soon. You know what I'm saying is there's potential hazards.

I'm just not sure what kind of ordinance or what kind of limits we could put on. I I really don't think for months and months about the pets and I didn't even agree with all the ordinances that we came up. I am sure and I honestly feel like some of the pet ordinances is a violation of my privacy and my right because who cares what happens in my home with my pets? But you guys did it anyway. We all did it anyway and they exist. The ordinances exist. So I can't believe that we can't come up with

Oh, I can believe we can come up with something. I'm just saying that off the top of my head tonight. I can't tell you that we're going to put together an ordinance for this, this, or this. say this is a get our heads together and do something about we are not saying that we we want answer this nard that's all we want we appreciate you guys bringing

said whatever we come up with down there too whatever Yes. And and those of you who are out there, you've done wonderful jobs with your places. They're beautiful. They're wonderful. The people who go to your businesses, enjoy them thoroughly. Um but what I'm saying is is we have to find the legal framework.

You know, that's that's all we can do. And as for the safety issues. That's all. Well, that's something we can do and um we can go forward with contacting the property owners who are neglecting their properties down there and see if we can get any further with them. Sure. What about the old Canac house that's set up here for Yeah, I've been in the process working on that for a year.

Every time I talk to him, he says, "Oh, yeah. I'm getting somebody out there to do it." I gave him a quote from a guy that'll come in and do the work. Told him all he has to do is hire him. Nothing happened. Called him up. He said, "Well, my guy that's going to do it broke his foot, so he can't do it." So then it snowed. nice people come in. Well, they won't even sell it. Because people are have asked him numerous times. He will not sell it.

He lives in a ride off for him now.

Yeah. He did cut the trees around the sign. That's all he did do after I sent him a letter, you know, and at this point were to go back to residential from commercial. Maybe there's someone who would like for a beautiful home again, you know, whatever. But he's not even consider selling it. No, it was a definite no tax write off. Paul, what what assurance can you give these business owners? Um, what actions are you going to take?

I've already established that the guys do extra patrols specifically for 112 116 Front Street. So, that will also cover all the other businesses right there as well. Um, they're already doing business checks nightly when they work. Um, you know, as as far as how do you people walking and I mean, please speak up if you guys don't agree. We need to know

November there was 43. Yeah, I was actually going to recommend you get from Staples for something. I can go pull their records and tell you exactly what businesses, but um so uh I mean we'll continue to do extra patrols and business checks. As far as people walking on the street, there's civil liberties. There's nothing we can do to infringe on people's rights. uh if it's not a juvenile that falls into um age restrictions on what time they can be out

there's you know there's nothing we can do about that it is it's juvenile well passing a lot of when you're saying juvenile then it's nobody it'd have to be somebody that lives maybe on the corner maybe on the corner around the corner, I'm pretty sure. And they go down by the dam down there in cars also. They run down in their pajamas down clear down front street. They walk in the morning, but they're fishing.

No, the guys are out till Okay. So, they've not come across anybody that time of day for ordinance violation for any restrictions. Okay. for curfew. And I'm not seeing anybody on my side, the back side of your businesses from my I'm not seeing anybody in the alleyways at the library area, liquor store area. I'm just not. What is curfew and what's the age?

So 18 and older is an adult. So there is no curfew there. So it impacts 17 and below and it's across the board for school school hours doesn't matter if it's summer, winter, school break, whatever. Um time frames are the same. Uh, so it's 15 and below, I believe.

I'm trying to take this off top of my head. It's 15 and below is um I think 800 PM every day of the week. Above between 15 and 17 is uh 10 p.m. If they're with an adult, there is no they're fine, right? So So if you got two 15y olds with an 18y old Thank you. All I can tell you is this. We'll do our best to see what we can come up with.

That's all we want. And we appreciate you hearing us and our concerns. We don't want We want to be proud of this town. Well, if it's your concern, it's our concern. Thank you. Truly, because you know, we're all in this together. you know, it doesn't, you know, people come in from out of town, you don't want them think she lives in the d, you know, we take pride in in our business district, in our area. Yeah. Um it it would just be great if we could get those people um who are owning and neglecting their property to

to go ahead and sell them. Give them to somebody else who would like to have it to do something. That's the way it is. It just brings criminal just I dealt Karen and I dealt with that for years. We dealt with because the guy was absentee on it. When you have the abs, you have all these issues. Yes. Because they don't care. It's just bringing in the money. Yeah. I don't know how many times Paul does it. They had a guy that was shot to death on that one. That's a lot of extra work for you guys. We appreciate what you do also. Yeah. I mean, I can talk to the uh brother-in-law and ask him to put the tarps back up, but

take the tarps down. make sure that nobody was in there and they did actually see it. So, yes, it unveiled as well. At least we know that there's not somebody in there doing garbage. And I would personally being straight across the street seeing it. I'd rather see their junk than not know what's going on behind closed doors. Correct. I personally I don't like what I see in there, but I prefer what I see in there to see what's in there. I can see if somebody's sneaking around.

So, thank you for having them pick the tarps out. That's my whole point about maybe some kind of ordinance. When I first started the pet salon at night, I was closing the windows and like putting all the lights off. And my husband is a reserve police officer in Chip Shaw. He said, "Why are you doing that?" because I don't want anybody to see what I have in there. And he goes, "No, that's not what you do. Leave the windows open. Turn the lights on because the cops coming by can see if there's anybody in there doing anything they're not supposed to." And I didn't think about So that's one of the reasons why I'm bringing that up. It's very easy when they're on their patrols at night if we have a window that's open and we decide that we want to leave lights on. Not that that's But if we have a window that's open and we do leave the light on, it's very easy for them to go by and go, "Okay, there's no one in there. No, nothing looks funny. I don't have to call Kim. I don't have, you know, everything looks fine. You don't have anything to hide."

Yeah. I have nothing to hide. None of us do. I find I can't do that. But I'm not there. And I see things in the alley all the time. I do see the stuff. I've seen I It's just sad. That's all I'll say. And I see it coming down street, too. But I think that um it is an endangerment to our officers. It's an endangerment. The citizens in general, Cheron, you know, for years right there beside me, I had a mess.

Yes. We found junk in the bushes and beautiful pipes and hand covered marijuana stuff and and a and a neglected husky. Let's not forget our neglected husky. Oh yeah, a lot of things going on. So I'm not immune to this. I just I want everybody to be safe and I guess that's where I'm coming at things. Um there are evenings when we're up here working in gardens and It's quiet. This town is lovely. It has everything off the ground and I'd like to see it stay that way.

An angle that could be approached is the local fire chief does have the right to ask to do a pre-plan of commercial buildings. What he's doing is asking the owner if he can enter the building in order to know the layout of the building. that in the event of a fire, he and his command structure know know what the layout is so that when it's full of smoke, they can direct people in the right direction. The owner can say no. But they can but he might say yes.

If you're using that If you're using that as a means of deceit to get into the building to do an inspection uh to address other things that's going to end up I mean it's the township not Rome city but that's going to end up in a lawsuit right violence. Yes. Yeah. That's That's

I think it might let the owner know that they might at least get in. If they think he's coming in, they might go in some of it. Maybe. I mean, hell, if it was my building and someone was coming and I had something I wasn't supposed to have, I can guarantee you. Yeah. You know, you clean up like, you know, your mom's coming over. You got to hurry, run through the house, clean everything up. Hey, I did. I used to do that.

All I can tell you is we'll just do our best to look into it further. Well, at least we're all in the same page. But our legal guides here, we will we have an ordinance for Airbnbs. Like we have an ordinance for rentals to keep them respectful and get good people and not I personally agree but I need to do legally. Yeah. Right. I'm not suggesting there are days I would like to I think all of us. Yeah.

We're asking what can be done. We'll move on as resurface tennis and pickle ball course. This is a second bill that we received for the pavement. So,

yeah, they did the asphalt part of it. So, I'm not sure if that's what is on there. And then the second billing will be for the t the I can't talk striping and the painting of the lines. So that we want to encumber next year because they did not have enough time to do that work this fall. So we just need permission to encumber that 23,500 to next spring. I don't know. Do we need a motion on encumberment? Yeah, might

as well. All in favor. All right.

And the good news about that is that they can fit in four pickle ball courts and then they're going to do the one tennis court. We originally thought we were going to have two pickle ball courts and a tennis court, but we're going to have four and a half in Grant Park $15,750 and fencing at the tennis court.

Yes. And we got a couple other things to add on that. This is money that um the park board has currently for this year, but we didn't have time to spend it all. So, I talked to Palver Asphalt about putting in a pathway to the dog park from parking lot because that is something that people have been requesting and we do need to do it for ADA purposes. So, that's what the 16,750 is for. That would be Lakeside Park. And then also in Lakeside Park, we want to get another bench with the cover on top that's like the bench that we put in in the large dog area. We want to put one in the small dog area. And then also do fencing. We have to re put additional fencing in on the tennis court and also we want to purchase fence to fence off the small dog area at Lakeside. So, the fencing amount, that's what that is for, for the tennis court and for

um the small dog area. And then I also contacted the people that we purchased the mulch from for Lakeside. So, we put in the play equipment structure, but there's still the the two swing sets and the Oh, what is that? the Margo round that do not have the mulch around it. So, knowing we need to do that anyway and we have money left over, um I asked them to give me a quote. So, that's around $4,000.

So, if we could just get an approval to do an encumberment on the fence, the bench, the mulch, and the walkway. So we could just get then that money will be saved to next year for the encumber and the fencing and then the mulch and the bench. The bench. You don't need to do the dollar mouse. Just say what the items are. Kelly Park.

So, Kelly Park would be fencing for the tennis court. Um, it's actually three of the parks. So, Kelly, Lakeside, and Grant. So, Grant is fencing and the walkway. Lakeside's for the mulch. And then the bench is for Grant. And part of the fence is for Kelly. We need more parks. Second in

favor. Ordinance number 2025-07. No parking in the con sack on top. Okay, so this came to me because we had that first snowfall and on the the west culdeac. Yes, the um guys could not pow snow because people were parking at all up. So since there's culde-sac on each end, I just decided to do the no parking both sections

so that when they park there again, we can just tow them

all the time or just Yeah, no parking any time. Okay, because the school bus has to get back there. If not school bus, then Noble County disposal because we did get a call from them said not going down there. We can't turn around. So that's only two. We don't have a problem on the east end. At least I've never had any complaints from that end. But I think too it's open and they they have driveways where the one on the west end doesn't have driveway. Second. All in favor?

Cheryl, could I get that? It makes sense. I think it's the one right underneath the your left hand. There's paper right underneath that one.

Yes. Any spending plan redevelopment annual spending?

Okay. Um, this is required by the state of Indiana that we do. It's it's a small quasi budget for the redevelopment group. Um, and it's it's pretty generic. not in here. So, we just did a we know we have $10,000 that we pay towards the street building. So, that's in there. Um I think we had $50,000. I I should just go grab it because I'm not going to remember it off the top of my head because you don't have the copy.

So, if you want to move on the next grab it. Yes. Six. No. Number six. She's gone to get wershed agreement 26 to 2029.

I'll try and highlight this. Um we the wershed the current wershed agreement is expiring um in February of 2026. We have um sent submitted a new agreement for 2026 to 2029 for um uh Red Sea which is Fruition Industry, Momentum Properties, Stag Real Estate, which is aggregate, LD farms LLC and Orange Township Part There are now five entities instead of four.

Four. Well, four and then the fire department.

Um but attached is also the um annual statement for our beginning balances and what has been paid through 2025 um and our ending balance as well. So that um the council would just need to sign the agreement that we agreed to to continue this agreement. Um we the only thing that was changed was we reduced the annual payment per entity to $3,000 from $4,000 because we added one more. Okay. And I'll go back to the redevelopment spending plan. So, we have the $10,000 on the street garage debt. Um, capital expenditures, we just put in $100,000. Not that we have this money. This is just a budget. So, if we would get some money, we could spend it. Um, the other items are professional expenses of $1,000 and that covers the county has a company figure out what the tiff distribution is, so we have to pay that back to the county.

Um, $450,000 we could spend if by some chance we would get a grant in that amount. And then other anticipated expenditures of $50,000. um for a total of $611,000 and we just need your approval on this spending plan. Um so we have something in the Second all in favor

liability waiver for firearms range for those use there. Um they didn't use 2025 only one of their guys uh I think did some stuff with us in 2024. So um this liability waiver that with them every year generally they don't use it but it's something that they wanted to

wanted to have available

and Do we need to make a motion? Agree for them to use this for all in favor. Right. Werville.

Um, yeah. Last week, Scott and I had received a call from Wookerville asking if we could come down and salt and sand their roads because it was like sheets of ice down there. So, I had sent the email out to you to let you know that we were going to do that. Then we figure it out with the dollar amount of our cost to go down there, gas, the guy's time, the amount of salt and sand that we put down for reimbursement. I think it was 350. It was right around because I know the salt and sand was two. It's around 350. Um

I mean it took them what less than an hour, Scott. Two guys. about 45 minutes. Yeah. So they they only have the one ton dump truck and evidently they were not getting any salt from whoever they were purchasing their stuff from. And if you don't put salt on it when we have temperatures like this, it's never going to melt. So we did it one time. We sell them salt or is this I said to him, I said,

"This isn't going to be a continual thing because we don't have time to do that." But we have a salt distribution coming up that we have to take. And I had told them that if they're interested, we can figure out what that would be and sell it to them because I don't want to sell them the sand and the salt together because that's labor that we've expended to mix it all up and I don't want to do that. So, if they want some salt, they're more than happy. They can come get some. We'll charge them for it, but I haven't heard back.

We have I do know um I did make the call today. Um we have a 100,000 or 100 tons that we can take. We have 100 tons we can take. It's like a hundred and something dollars a ton this for this um portion. And it it'll take about 10 days for them to deliver it to us. I don't Is that the full amount or we going to take it? because we only do 80%. Correct. So, we may just take 80% right now. How much? Anyway, that's we can talk about that later, but I just wanted to let you know and I would like a motion for your approval to do that retroactively. So,

let me ask you this. So, how much did it cost us to do all that for them? It's like around 350. We charging 700. Well, I was just going to charge him the amount that it was since they're an old town near us. No, I know. But you're wearing

You know, they're having a hard time up there. Yeah, they got a lot of things going on. Their water man was two water mane breaks. Oh. in the last week. So, yeah, they had that going on and then the issue with the road. So, find the title release for the October. She needs to charge. Yeah, we're charging cost. I don't know. I think we did. Yes, she's our total cost.

I think we did. Make sure

I second it. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Moving forward. I guess what B's trying to say is you'd like we told him it would be a one time situation. Thank you.

So, there are three different papers to sign. This one um just needs your name, phone number. If you want to use a town hall phone number, you can. And then your signature and title. This one just uh needs a signature to for the mileage. And then this one is the back of the title that needs completed. Yes, your name just needs to go on the first line.

And then you'll have to sign it and put your like town council president. I think we'll There's something discussion regarding new sleep vehicle with Austin Chandler via conference call.

Yeah. So, uh, Austin works for GM and he's going to be able to answer some of your questions and kind of tell you a little bit about the Chevy um, electric vehicle Blazer. I've got I have copies or not. Yeah, I gave them a copy of all the all the things you So you have the Kelly and then Shephard's quotes for that

Jordan Ford and Max quotes on a Ford Explorer hybrid. Um, and the reason I went with the hybrid is because it's a standard it's a standard option. um the cost of that along with the difference. The only one that was more expensive was the turbo uh the 300 turbo was like 27.

Um the other standard engine was the same price. Um Jordan over Hey, Austin. Miss Paul. So, I've got the uh board here in front of me. Have Gerald Clipton, our board president,

Kurt Klein, board member, vice president, and Ken Cook, uh, who's also board member. So, you want to kind of go over the uh Chevy Blazer with them and and then answer any questions they might may have.

Sure. Yeah. Well, pleasure uh to virtually meet you guys and uh thanks for having me and allowing me to jump on this evening in talking with Paul. I thought this might be an easy way to answer questions and and kind of walk through the vehicle. Uh just a quick introduction. I am Austin Chandler. and the government sales manager um for the Midwest region of General Motors corporate. So any municipality, state entity, etc. that covers within that territory of mine, then I'll go through myself when it comes to government vehicles uh regarding anything police, fire, department of public works, water, you name it. Um been in and out of the fleet business both from an electrification standpoint and an internal combustion engine standpoint for about 15 years. I started my career in Cumins was there for a little over seven years and went to private equity in the electrical and power generation space where we acquired a bunch of electrical contractors that ended up and that's where I dabbled in the EV game at first. Uh we acquired a handful of contractors that were installers for charging stations all over the southeast of the United States and of the East Coast and really got to know the business there. Then once uh myself and the partners we sold the fund and sold the firm, I exited. I was brought on to General Motors to help build out our commercial energy infrastructure side. And then an opportunity on our fleet business in the government sector, both for internal combustion and electric vehicle engines. Um our motor and power trains came available to be the person to to lead that sector for us. So definitely see the world from both lenses. Um I'm I'm not for or against either one of them. Um but I I try to, you know, when it comes to electric vehicles, I try to see where they make sense. Uh the discussion for me is primarily it's all black and red. There's no blue and red to this. There's no, you know, for me it's by the numbers. Uh sustainability is great in some aspects of the world, but you know,

quite frankly, I try to stick to as much of the numbers as I can on these. Um, and that's where Paul and I kind of had our kickoff conversation when Paul sent in an inquiry and we talked to the vehicle and then you guys got to take it for a little while and test it and drive it and demo it, which I loved and and loved that you guys got to do. And here we are this evening. So, I know that was a little long-winded, but I I I don't have a per se presentation I would want to give more or less. I have some data, I have some things here, but I more want to hear from you all. What are the concerns? What are the questions? What's the anxieties? What's the heartburns? All of that. And I would say let's address those things if possible. Is that okay with you guys?

That'd be fine. Thank you. Yeah. Well, I will let you guys start and and if there's a list, a long list, short list, and then I think it'll coincide a handful of the data points I have. I work with Paul to get some data on your vehicles and what you guys are doing currently. But I can kind of tie this in as we go down that path. You guys tell me

I if you could um explain what the warranty is including the battery warranty for the for the town council. Yeah. So all EVs in General Motors are battery and propulsion which is the drive motors on the batteries. Um equivalent to that it would be it's on an ICE vehicle it's a transmission right um that is eight years or 100,000 miles and given the mileage that you guys are currently putting on these vehicles now you'll approach almost seven years under these vehicle circumstance before that warranty would run out on you. you'll hit the 100,000 before the eight years, but by one year you'll beat it.

Um, so it's 100,000 miles in eight years of warranty. And and one thing I wanted I Paul told me earlier that battery changes were a concern cost for you guys. Um, obviously if it's within that warranty period, you're not paying for anything. We're we're replacing that. But our battery technology has changed dramatically since the first set of EVs have hit the marketplace. You know what the biggest anxiety factor in batteries with everyone was? The first sets of batteries that were single battery frames on single battery rails and having to be replaced. That's where you saw the news channels and everybody else take off and oh look this is $30,000 $25,000 to replace a battery. Our battery technology isn't like that anymore. So how our battery technology is set up on the Altium platform is they are modular packs. So depending on the size of the battery and the size of the vehicle is depending on the modular size of the battery. Um so in this case for the Blazer EVPV it's what we call a 12 mod battery setup and each of those modules internally has 24 cells in them and they're all individually operating and then tied into a single battery frame. But if one of those modules goes bad, we don't have to replace the whole battery. We just have to replace one module. And give or take today, if you were to pay for it right now, it's about $1,800 to replace one module.

But again, for the next seven years, that battery is under warranty. And battery costs and things like that are going to change dramatically these seven years. These are already getting cheaper than they used to be.

One modular used to be somewhere in the neighborhood of about $4,600 and they're already down to 2,000. So, we're getting smarter. We're making them smarter. A lot of the new modular packs are going to be made in northern Indiana Carile. It's where our battery plant's going, right next to the Amazon data center or across from. So, a lot of them will come out of there or Tennessee. So, they're going to be in the USA and made here and done here. And it's a partnership with Panasonic on our new technology that we're doing today. So even even if at the end of the day in seven years if all the modules went out at once you're looking at about 20 to $22,000 24 grand to change them but that's very rare and unlikely that that would happen that they'd all go at one time.

Do you have a question? What's up? Okay. I did too. I I really don't have any questions. Um I've already done the research on the product, but I thank you for your time and trouble.

Yeah. If I can give you guys really quick just some comparisons I ran for your fleet by the numbers and I've compared this to Ford. I have a great counterpart at Ford that I've, you know, gotten to know very well and we do a lot of cross collaboration with each other. You guys on these vehicles, you put about 14,740 miles driving on your police cars a year. Your idle vehic idle hours and idle mileage is about 35,640 miles equivalent.

Every idle every hour you guys sit idle is 33 miles equivalent on a Ford PIU. And so a combined total of about 50,380 miles is put on the engine for a Ford PIU or a Ford hybrid electric vehicle a year. And with that, the burn rate of those is about 16 to 17 mile a gallon on a Ford PCE and 24 miles per gallon on the in the hybrid electric vehicle. That equivocates out on the ice vehicle to about $8,974 in fuel spend a year. And that's given today's price of $285 a gallon in Kendallville. that I looked up.

If you go to the the hybrid, it's 6 thou just over 6,000 a year. 6,61 for your electricity bill. And I talked to Nipskco today. You guys pay a rate of 21 cents a kilowatt hour, just shy of that actually. The Blazer EV does an equivalent of driving miles of 14,740 like your ICE vehicles, but your idle hours and your idle mileage drops to 2916. when you drive an EV because when you sit idle in an EV, you're burning a kilowatt an hour roughly or less depending on what you're doing

because all your uppetss, your computers, everything that are in that run off of an entirely different 12volt battery system. They don't run off the main battery

while you're driving. So that equivocates out to about 6,440 kilowatts in total you would use on these police vehicles. Now, I'm going off of duty hours, by the way, but that if I compare that to the cost of what you're paying in electricity in Rome City, that's $1352.40 a year it would cost you to fill this car up for an entire year. That's fueling. If I if I drop that down to maintenance, that's the other money maker in EVs of Ford, and this is Ford's data. The average maintenance is $1,140 a year on a PIU. That's just maintenance. That's consumables. That's not including major repair. And that's $3,430 over a threeear span. Uh hybrid is the same. Their their maintenance costs when Ford does it, they're identical. Um and the Blazer EV, I'm equivocating out to about $1,950. The primary what I'm putting in that three-year run is tires and brakes. At least a set and a half of tires in one set of brakes will be changed in that threeear span in my eyes. That's really your two big ticket maintenance items on an EV. There's no filters, there's no oil, there's no nothing with that. I even equivocated out a charger installation. Um, you guys, I know have a little bit different of a situation. You have somebody in the garage that has uh electrician background and has ideas of how to install these. I'm pricing this as if our installer base and buying this charger from us and our installer base would come out and do it. An 11.5 kilowatt charger uh would be about $2,500 and that's on the high ends. A 19.2 would be about $3,000. That's also on the higher end for this. And majority of that is the charger cost itself. When I look at the cost in fueling difference a year between the hybrid or

the ice, I'm doing the hybrid in this case. The EV is saving you about $4,7955 a car a year in fuel. So, you'll pay for your charger in about the first six months of having this car or more or sooner if you got somebody to do the work for you. That takes a dramatic amount of this cost. And you don't have to buy GM chargers. You can call electrical contractor local and see what they have. That's that's not mandatory, but it's an option and it could be something that's ordered on the car when you buy the car as an RPO code. So, overarchingly, I did my last point of this is I did an eight-year projection with not depreciation in this, but a total cost of ownership over eight years between a Ford PIU, a Ford PIU hybrid electric vehicle, and a Blazer EV BPV. And over an 8-year span, it's about $127,739 for a Ford ICE PIU. For an HEV, it's $102,443. And for a Blazer EV PPV, it's $64,519.85. And that's taking a a starting MSRP for the Ford at 468 for the ICE, 448 for the hybrid, and 455, which is our starting MSRP of the Blazer. And that's adding in maintenance over the eight years, fuel costs, and then I put the charger cost even on the Blazer. Even if you have to replace an entire battery, I put in a buffer in there. If you added another $24,000, that still makes it $88,51985, which is still about 20% cheaper than the hybrid

over a course of an 8 years span. So, by the numbers and just given the amount that your officers drive on a daily basis, the EV is a vehicle that makes sense in the long term of it. And we're seeing agencies that do the exact mileage you guys do, the exact way you manage it, switch to this thing hand over fist because of that. And in Indiana, Senate Bill One has become a big fire starter for Indiana agencies looking at this as well. Okay.

So, I'm happy to answer their questions. My email is always open. My phone number wide open. Paul, you're happy to give that out to everybody in the room if you'd like. I have no problem with that at all. This is, you know, just strictly by the data. So, have no problem talking to anybody. But, thank you, sir. Yeah. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

So, that's that's part of my push toward that vehicle. Uh, I realize it's about $3,000 more than than other Ford, but um when I went I went back and I looked at from 2017 to when the when the vehicle got how many gallons of gas we put into it. And um gas.

We put in roughly 7,720.99 gallons of gas through that truck. Um, if you take that times, you know, whatever the price has been, a low of 222, a high of $3, whatever the case may be, um, somewhere roughly $22,000 just in gas um, for that car and

doesn't include the repairs that that have had to have been done on it, um, oil changes and the other maintenance issues. So, um that's part of the reason why I'm pushing uh toward the EV, but I've got quotes for for two different cars for you to look at and make your decisions.

Manager report. I've had seven meetings for the month. We had four building permits issued in November. for one electrical, one modular home out in the county. One house addition and one deck repair planning commission did not meet uh BZA had two variances. One was on lakeside for lakey yard setback and sideyard setback to expand a deck and that was approved. The other one was on Northshore to build a barn and that was approved. The Sweeney settlement, we're still waiting on Mr. Sweeny to comply with the um agreement

to let us in the garage and move the utilities to the other side of the house. Um the appeal for Larry Weisenberger that hearing date has been set for April 6th. I typed the agendas uh the minutes, the legals, the notice interest parties and finding effect sheets for BCA. The conservancy district paid bills, bounce books, posted gateway. Their um year end meeting is Wednesday at 5:30. Park board type the agenda in the minutes. Um we talked about the tennis courts already.

Bike trail update. Um I'm finishing up purchasing the rest of the items to spend that $28,000. Noble Trails is working on the trail from 900 to the Jean Strap Harder section. Also, they continue to work on the Ailla section and then um to get to Lraange County Line. Uh trail maintenance is on hold until spring. The chamber has their 35th chamber celebration and that's this Thursday at Southern Sellers. The tickets are $10. If anyone is interested, I'll send you the link. It's just um like orders and we have some nonprofits that'll be there letting people know what they have to offer and just little discussion about what the chamber has done in the last 35 years. Um Corey Bowen is going to paint the town Buffalo as soon as we can get it thought out enough to get it to a shop. I should have moved it. I didn't know we were getting this cold weather this quick. Um, the work on the watered plant, both roofs were replaced and they fixed the exterior block and then the guys painted it and as you know, we're working on the contract renewal. uh Liberlos Landing. Dustin and I are working on the annexation and we working on the agreement so that the sewer line extension can be taken over by the town. Reviewed surveys and plans for building permits and then the video store cleanup. I already talked about that. town um was denied the 2026 community crossing grant to repay Pleasant Point West Pleasant Point in

2026. So, I'll reapply and hopefully we can get that done in 27 out to build the bill to Lumber Landing for their last um portion of the sewer installation project and they paid that I put paid in full but it's paid in full. Um, I took the water samples for the street department and the town and sent those to IDM redevelopment commission agenda and then the capital spending plan and type the minutes for that. And then the Indiana Pump Works completed um lift station 4D that was that $118,000 project we approved. Um they started it like third week of November and they finished it up right before Thanksgiving. So that is

completed and that's the end of my report. questions.

We had 955,231 gallons from that 6,4242 on 1122 this month.

So we shut that down. uh co-ops. We had options but five of them being for road station had 36 month didn't we did a lot but mainly then we direct that pretty up. Uh, one thing was curious about what counts were I figured that just curiosity cost 17,800,000. Thank you, sir.

I'd like to uh have that cost of between 17,000 and 40,000 for rate pickup um for lead pickup um published on our Facebook so that the residents know what the town is paying for that service and hopefully more of them will use it. Yeah. Yeah. You guys do a really great job. Yeah, but you guys really do a great job. You do.

Back in the yard.

Vehicle mileage squad 749 miles. Squad two, no miles. That car is still squad 3 564 and squad 471. Hours worked

I worked 64 hours for the month Dustin 142, Daniel 187, part-time 21 and a half and reserves 24. ordinance violations. We had the two abandoned vehicles that I talked about were both Delta Officer initiated events made 43 business that assisted other departments. One extra patrol, eight by park security checks and seven community policing events. Traffic violations, three tickets were written and 26 written warnings. Other events, three vents complaints, one juvenile complaint, four or miscellaneous complaints, three suspicious vehicle, one suspicious activity, one disabled vehicle, one welfare check, one family fighter disturbance, two accidents, six medic assist, two 911 calls,

five driving complaints, three citizen assist, one mental health We had one page that was open for theft meetings attended, drug free county justice and prevention committee meeting. Uh town council meeting, training council meeting, police prosecutors meeting and chief's meeting.

Training attended or conducted. We did a low light note uh night qualification. Um, Daniel and Rich went to an AR-15 M16 AR-15 armors course and then we did defensive tactics training um, which included six Albian officers and then uh, special events activities board for Dustin's nephew and then Daniel received a servants part award from the American Legion Auxiliary and um of course the letter that I did for ordinance violations that went out with

for incidences uh in town our agency in August 210, September 163, November 159 and I'm sorry October was 159, November 126, August outside of town 102, September 104, October 107, and November 77. The sheriff's department had in town in August 32 incidences September 34, October 28, November 26 there as to what they were. And then outside of town in August, they had 60 incidences. 55 in September, 65 in October, and 74 in October. September, 55,

the feed sign summary report for November, which is still on the front street. Um, facing for traffic coming eastbound into town. Maximum speed was 5 miles an hour. Maximum speed 81 miles an hour. Average volume per day is 578.2. Total volume of traffic 17,345.

Doesn't seem to be slowing them down much. I was going to ask what is the what's the purpose of this survey? Um, this kind of gives you an understanding of how many cars are on the street. On the back, it'll show you it gives you a breakdown by hour and it's more our benefit more so than yours. But

are you guys spending some time? It looks like 1400 to was it 14 to 1300? So we have the average number of vehicles um during those time slots. That breaks it down. Then as far as the like the max speed was 81 miles hour that happened sometime between 6:00 and 700 p.m. in that sign block. What day of the week by this report I couldn't tell you but um it kind of an idea of what the majority of your violators are. You guys try to spend some time out there.

Okay, good. He does.

Yeah.

Clock. Oh, those two. Yeah. One's a crappy red car and one.

You're right. We can hear him coming from a couple blocks. As soon as he hits turns off a nine, he's flooring it. We have challenge presented for payment 252,524 and 7. So we're operating 180,67787. All in favor? Our next town council meeting will be January 12th.

Thank you everyone. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

Want to get the electrical vehicle. I don't know. Thank you. If he doesn't