Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

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6:00, I would like to call this meeting to order and ask everyone to please rise for pledge of allegiance and prayer. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. John, if you lead us in a prayer, please. Heavenly Father, we come to you this evening, Lord, and we thank you. We thank you for your son who died on the cross for us. We thank you for this country. We thank you for this community. Lord, we just ask that everything we say and do tonight would bring honor and glory to you. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. I'm sorry about that. Oh, that's all right. All right, next up, roll call. I am present. Alderwoman Dent. Present.

Alderman Kinsey. Present. Alderman Wayland. Present. Alderman Letchworth. Present. City Administrator Burbridge. Present.

City Clerk Kohler. Present. City Attorney Webber. Present. Public Works Director Payne. Chief of Police Chase. Present. Finance Director Stacy Houston. Present. Economic Development Director Carrie Satterfield. Present. And the only other city staff I see is Miss Melissa from Parks and Rec. All right, next item up is the approval of tonight's agenda. Mr. Mayor, if I may, we probably need to remove this evening, just due to a mistitling on the agenda, the closed session. Okay. Okay. So, I'll ask the board to add that into your motion. Make a Okay. Make a motion to approve tonight's agenda with removing the closed session portion from our meeting. Do I have a second? I'll second. I second the motion. This time I will call for the vote. Alderman Letchworth. Yes. Alderwoman Dent.

Yes. Alderman Wayland. Yes. And Alderman Kinsey. Yes. And next item up is the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. And do I have a second? I'll second the motion. This time I will call for the vote. Alderman Kinsey. Yes. Alderman Wayland. Yes. Alderman Letchworth. Yes. Alderwoman Dent.

Yes. I see we have no one for public comment tonight. So, we'll move right along. Uh next up would be declaring the declaration for the results of the municipal election. Resolution number 6-2026, a resolution declaring the results of the municipal election held on April 7th, 2026. Be it resolved by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Salem, Missouri, as follows. Section 1, the City Clerk has presented the Board of Aldermen with the voting results of the municipal election held on April 7th, 2026, as certified by the Dent County Election Authority for the offices of A, one mayor to serve a two-year term. B, one alderman from the West Ward of the city to serve a two-year term. C, one alderman from the East Ward of the city to serve a two-year term. Section 2, the Board of Aldermen having canvassed the return of the municipal election held on April 7th, 2026, declares the results of said election as follows. Mayor, two-year term, Greg Parker, 304 votes. West Ward alderman, two-year term, Katherine Dent, 112 votes. Kyle Williams, 104 votes. East Ward alderman, two-year term, Nathan Kinsey, 76 votes. Dylan McGinnis, 61 votes. Lana Grove, 58 votes. Section 3, this resolution shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and approval. Thank you. This time, do I have a motion for resolution 6-2026? I make a motion to approve resolution 6-2026. Do I have a second? I'll second. All right, I will call for the vote. Alderman Wayland. Yes. Alderman Kinsey. Yes. Alderwoman Dent. Yes. And Alderman Letchworth. Yes.

Now, it's time to administer the oath the oath of office. Do you want them up here or down below? Whichever. Uh depends. We'll stay up here. I get you know, I'm not as young as I used to be. I'd crawl under try to fix that. So, we will just do three at the same time? Okay. Get them. Go get them. Oh, come on. Get your shoes on, buddy. Congratulations. Okay. I, state your name, I, Greg Parker, do solemnly swear that I possess all the qualifications for I do. I, state your name, do solemnly swear that I possess all the qualifications for mayor or alderman at the next election. that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri, that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Missouri, the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class, the provisions of all laws of this state affecting cities of this class, and the ordinances of the City of Salem, Missouri, and the ordinances of the City of Salem, Missouri, and faithfully demean myself in office, so help me God. and faithfully demean myself in office, so help me God. Need a pen.

Mhm? Yeah. You need a picture. Come on. Hat on or hat off? Hat on. Hat on. I see. Uh hat on. Hat on. Cover it up. Probably with your certificates. Hat on or hat off in the picture? Is my hair hat proof? It looks good. leaving the hat off. It looks good. It's not as nice as mine, but it's pretty good. [laughter]

I'm going to keep that. Might fit in the photo. And before we continue, I'd like to personally thank my lovely wife back there that's kind of holding her head and putting her head down. Uh for continuing to support me in my choice of pursuing this role of public office. Um You know it's love when your wife listens to you ramble on like I'm doing right now and it's continuously rolling her eyes. I also want to thank my father and my mother-in-law for their continued support and my father-in-law always interrogating me, making sure that I make the right choices and always asking me to explain why we choose to do what we do and he definitely keeps me on my toes.

[laughter] Thank you, Dave. All right, moving right along, we have reorganization of the boards. At this time, I'm going to need a motion for first board president. [sighs and gasps] I'll make a motion for Letchworth to be board president. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. Well, [snorts] at this time I'll call for the vote. Alderman Kinsey. Yes. Alderman Wayland. Yes. Alderwoman Dent.

Yes. And Alderman Letchworth. Yes. All right, committee appointments. Everybody ready for the long, lengthy list? We'll start off by Planning and Zoning. We have Keith Emmen as chair, serve for 2027 until 2027. Sherman Odom will be serving He's been serving since 2024, so he's up for reappointment. Uh Kyle Williams for vice chair, Dr. Wayne Burks as secretary, and a new addition of Rick Stegal. Board of Adjustments, Bob Parsons for chairman, Ryan Whitaker, Rob Benowitz, Martin Kulick, and Kyle Williams. For next up, we have Park and Rec Board, Crystal Pilkington, Angie Curley, Carlos Lopez is serving as president, Christy Rushing, Luke Hightower, and Kayla Sisco.

[snorts] For the Finance Committee, we have Alderman John Whalen as chairman, Alderman Rick Letchworth as co-chair, David Weiss, Patty McEwen, [laughter]

Kyle Williams, and Lauren Tolman. Utility Committee, Alderman Nathan Kinsey will be serving as chairman, Alderman John Whalen as co-chair, David Weiss, Kyle Williams, Lauren Tolman. Community Involvement, we have Alderwoman Katherine Dent will be serving as chair, Alderman John Whalen for co-chair, Roma Jones, Skip Dom, Dylan McGinnis, Carley McGinnis, Dana Sandberg, Amber Harrison, Christina Sells, Trina Potts, and Janette White. Airport Board, uh I'd be serving on that will be uh first and foremost, we have Administrator Burbridge will be there. We have Alderman Nathan Kinsey will be serving, uh Tyler Nearmore as president, Jim Haven as vice president, John Maholka as secretary, John Mulady, Steve Spencer, Rich Parks, and Chris Holiday. Capital Improvement, we will have Alderman Rick Letchworth as chairman, Alderman John Whalen as co-chair, Annie Detheridge, Denita Williams, Lauren Peru, and Michael Rushing. Uh Enhanced Enterprise Zone, we have Dan Salyer, Willie Strader, Jamie Holmyer, Dean Jones, Dustin Howard, Jeff Dotson, and Nathan Wells. And I think that covers all of that. At this time, do I have a motion for committee appointments? I'll make a motion for committee appointments. Yes. I apologize. There have been some changes on the Park Board. Mhm. Kayla Sisco has resigned.

Okay. And then, I believe at our more most recent meeting, you appointed James Taylor. Okay. Yeah. I need to scratch that out and change it on my list. Well, I'm glad that you caught it, so I'd rather change it now. Can I make a motion again now that we have James on there? Would you like me to reread through all of that again? I don't What do you think you need to Oh, no, I don't. I think that we can accept it with those changes that you just recommended.

If Alderman Whalen is willing to amend his motion. Yep. Yes. All right. Then with the addition of James, I make a motion to approve appointments. Do I have a second? I'll second. At this time, I will call for the vote. Alderman Whalen? Yes. Alderman Kinsey? Yes.

Alderwoman Dent? Yes. And Alderman Letchworth? Yes. Next up, we have the audit presentation. Ms. Krista DeLuca, would you like to come on up? I'm going to go over the balance sheet But this is your audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30th of 2025. Um I'm sure you're all aware, but you had to have an additional audit this year, what we call a single audit, and that's because you spent more than 750,000 in federal funding. Okay? So, that added another 10 pages to the back of this. Um that's probably where I'll spend most of my time tonight because it's new, and I just want you to know what's there. Um but I will work through this pretty quickly, show you the highlights, so you know what's in there. If you have any questions today though, just stop, okay? Um if you'll turn to page one, you'll find the independent auditor's report. The city received what we call an unmodified opinion, and that means that after performing the audit procedures, I feel these financial statements are fairly stated. Okay? Those statements [clears throat] get started on page five with the statement of net position. This shows you the assets, liabilities, and the remaining net position. It's broken down between your governmental activities and your business type activities, and then it shows you the city as a whole in the column on the far right. So, looking at that total column, you'll see the first subtotal shows you the city had assets on June 30th of 40,729,000. Middle of the page shows you the liabilities came to 10,852,000,

leaving you with on the bottom line a net position of 30,662,000. Okay? The next statement on pages six and seven is the statement of activities. This shows you the revenues and the expenses for the fiscal year. On the left-hand side, it's broken down between major program or function to give you an idea of how those performed before we added in general revenues. Okay? [clears throat and cough]

On page seven there, the third line from the bottom shows you the change in net position for the fiscal year. So, for example, your governmental activities reported an increase in net position of 2,223,000. Your business type activities had an increase of 3,469,000. The city as a whole, 5,691,000. Okay?

Okay. Statements three and four are just more detail on your governmental funds. So, these are the statements you'll use if you want to see how general did, park did. If you want to look at those individually, you want to look at statements three and four, okay? So, for example, on pages 10 and 11, this is the statement of revenues and expenses for those governmental activities. If you look at the third line from the bottom, you'll see the general fund had an increase of 1.4 million, park an increase of 41,000, and so on. Okay? Statements five and six will do the same thing for your business type activities. So, here you'll find the breakdown, you know, electric, water, sewer, so on. If you'll turn to statement six, which is on pages 14 and 15, and look at the third line from the bottom, you'll see that electric had an increase in net position of 1.6 million, water had an increase of 915,000, and so on. Okay? There's one more statement I'll point out. It's the next one, statement seven. This is the cash flow statement. You're only required to prepare this for your business type activities, so you won't see this for general or park. Okay? But this shows you what happened to your cash during the year, actual cash in, cash out. In the middle of the page, 2/3 down maybe, you'll see um the net increase or decrease in cash for the year for each fund. Okay? The next major section starts on page 20. These are the notes to the financial statements. I haven't counted, but I bet there's 15

to 20 pages here of required disclosures. They'll explain the statements that I just went over with you, and they'll give you some more information on the significant balances. Okay? Um but then, I want to go to the new section, page 40 four. This is where we start the single audit piece. Okay? On page 44 is the schedule of expenditures of federal awards. This shows you the funding source for all federal dollars spent during the fiscal year. Okay? This is why you had to have a single audit for this period. Right. Okay? Page 46 is the independent auditor's report on internal control. And I'm very pleased to report there were no written findings. Okay? Thank you. On page 48 is the independent auditor's report on compliance with your federal programs. So, this is the single audit piece. There were no findings, and I congratulated Stacy already, but that's that's a big deal. Um that's rare for me to see, especially when you haven't had a single audit in so long. You forget some of the little um ins and outs on it. But, everything I asked for CC was able to provide. We were able to check the compliance boxes, and um we're in really good shape. Page 51. This is what's this called the schedule of findings and questioned costs. Um this is all good news. All those no's mean there were no issues we needed to report or take further. Okay? Um then there's one loose letter in the

back. You get this every year. It's required at the end of the audit for me to provide to the board. Um it gives us a chance to talk about any issues that may have come up or um challenges I faced. Everything went very smoothly. Like I said, this was it it was a lot of work. It was a lot of extra um documentation we had to go through, but it was passed with flying colors. All right. Do you have any questions for me tonight? How many years have you been doing this for the city of Salem? Oh, I'd have to go back and look. A bunch? It's been a few, yeah. Okay. [laughter]

A couple that I can think of. Okay. Uh maybe 10? Okay. And how many other municipalities do you do this for? Um right now, probably uh six total. Six? Mhm. Okay. Yep. All right. If we have any like further questions, we can email your contact info. Absolutely. My phone number and email are all in here in multiple places. Reach out anytime. Okay. Kristen, I know in years past there's always been a statement about delegation of duties Mhm. in our Is that in this year's audit?

not. Okay. I was able to remove it. So, one of the things, you know, we've talked in the past about the addition of Devin to staff. Mhm. And one of the things that he has allowed us to do is to provide for that delegation of duties among different departments of the city, so that we no longer have that statement. So, I just wanted to point that out. Thanks, Devin. It's a good point. Appreciate you, buddy. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Ms. Kristen. Thank you. Thank you. All right, next up we got a request for street closure. Tanna Ketner. Good evening. Good evening. Uh my name is Tanna Ketner, and um I'm representing Yeah, there we go. Um the SACBA and also the Salem Area Arts Council. I'm the vice president of Arts Council, and Danielle Norris, uh she's the president of Arts Council. Um I'm also on the um SACBA board. Um but anyway, we'd like to um request uh well, in the past we've done a um art in the parking lot in the parking lot of the uh complex of uh SACBA, um OACRC, the farmers market, and so on. Um and we have kind of outgrown that, and we um also had some conflict um at being having been the same time as the farmers market. So, um we it was brought up to us of the idea of um bringing it to Fourth Street and trying to do it there. And we like that idea. We had already set the uh date for September 26th from um 10:00 to 3:00 was what we were thinking.

Um and we just wondered if we could request um the blocking off of that maybe from um the Bank of Salem up to at least the local, you know, maybe those two blocks um on that day. So, it would be a Saturday, the 26th. Um And then, I guess I'd also put in there some question marks. We've never done this before. Um and so, um I know that other events, they bring in port-a-potties and stuff like that. I don't know how we would go about that. If you do that, and or we pay how I don't know anything about that part of it. And then, um we'd like to get some bleachers. I didn't know the city brought in bleachers for us at the um when we were over at the complex. So, that would be another thing. Um if you have some questions about the art in the parking lot, uh Danielle has some more things.

want like a breakdown of kind of what we do, we can And to the board. I've been to that. Okay. I'm good. What How long would you want the street blocked for? I think we said 10:00 to 3:00. 10:00 to 10:00 to 3:00, but yeah, we would um Yeah, that would be the main part. that a set up So, we'll be setting up, but um It's their time. Okay. Um we're hoping that maybe we can get the um the bank courtesy room or something where we can put our things in there. So, then, you know, at 10:00 we can start pulling things out and getting it up and that kind of thing. Okay. And then, at the end would be taking down kind of the same things.

[snorts] All right, thank you. If I may, um I'm thinking if they're if they're wanting the road closed at 10:00, it's probably easier to close it earlier in the morning before cars get parked in in Yeah, and block it off earlier in the morning. Um just like I said, just because of the a little bit of time to set up cuz we'll have to set up. I was trying to get at. Right. For set up and and like I said, so the folks don't already come downtown and start parking. Yeah, so we had that issue even in the parking lot. So, you think What do you think? 8:00? Or earlier.

7:00? 7:00? 7:00 or 6:00? Do you have any suggestions if they're closing off Fourth Street between the Bank of Salem and the local, how early in the morning if their event starts at 10:00? Okay, 8:00. Okay. Okay. Give them 2 hours. I can't hear you. That should be. Okay. So, 8:00 a.m.? Okay. How about tear down? How long [snorts] would you time to tear down? It usually goes pretty fast for tear down. Okay. I every like all the people last year just even in our parking lot complex, pretty much within like, I'd say a little over 30 minutes was like completely packed up. So. So, do we want to give an additional hour? Yeah. That'd be great. So, 8:00 to 5:00? Yeah, okay. 8:00 to 5:00 then? Is that what we're looking at? 4:00 probably. Yeah. Oh, 4:00. Okay. Yeah. That'd be good. All right. Any other questions? No. All right, do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the request. Do I have a second?

I second the motion. This time I'll call for the vote. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. Alderman Letchworth? Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. You're welcome. Do you as far as the port-a-potties and stuff, is there any questions on not our It It doesn't involve you guys at all. It never has, has it? No.

We We can't We find out by ourselves. Sure. So, so we have provided port-a-potties for the rally. We have. Mhm. What do you guys think? It's up to you all. All right. I mean, I don't see I don't think it's a I don't think it's a problem. Huh? I don't think it's a problem. They can put that on your list. Okay. Okay with these guys. Yeah. And bleachers? Yep. [laughter]

Well, and that's a bleachers more of a Melissa question, right, Melissa? So, that's it. Kind of specific to parks. Yes. Yeah, we did bring them on Friday. Yeah, if it's downtown on the street, that's the problem. If we got If we got permission uh from uh Skip Doll or something like that, if we could put them like in front like in front of his business or something, then maybe I know that they were light enough that we could move them out to the street after that. I guess. Yeah. Or maybe off like to the Or take them off Yeah. Yeah, that'd be good. I should think figured out. Yeah, that'd be good. Well, I wish we had an apathy here. I appreciate it so much. Thank you. I appreciate All right, good. Okay. All right, thank you. All right, next up we got uh um board and committee appointment [clears throat] for the Salem Housing Authority. Um they're asking for Brandon Snyder to serve in place of late Richard LeBrasseur's passing Okay. for the [snorts] remainder of his seat. Any motion? Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve the uh Brandon Snyder for the Salem Housing Authority. Do I have a second? I'll second. This time I'll call for the vote. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. And Alderman Letchworth? Yes. All right. Next up, it's my turn. Uh so, this evening I'd like to take a moment to recognize an institution that plays a vital role in our community. This is Salem Public Library. Libraries are much more than buildings that house books. They are places of learning and opportunity. They serve

residents of all ages by supporting education and encouraging lifelong learning providing access to information and offering a welcome space to our community to come together. Each year the community the communities across the country observe national library week. A time to set aside to celebrate the important contributions of libraries and library professionals professionals make every day. This year National Library Week is observed April 19th through April the 25th and is especially fitting that we recognize the dedication and impact of our local library and its staff. The Salem Public Library continues to be a valued resource for our citizens supporting students, families, and lifelong learners while strengthening our community. Tonight is my honor this evening on behalf of the city to present a proclamation recognizing the National Library Week and express our appreciation for the Salem Public Library and those who work so diligently to serve our community. If you ladies wouldn't mind come on up. Another photo session. I think I think it's going to have to happen in the chamber each one photo session. Yeah, there you go. Now they come on up.

[laughter] It don't happen very often. No. You think he was running for office?

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We were walking in this building. All right. Next item up is to amend the previous motion to approve the bid for a Mid-States pipeline for the wastewater treatment. [snorts]

Good evening, Mayor Alderman. Evening. Evening. Let's see. We're starting with Okay. Digester projects. Okay, so at the last meeting I ran you through uh this is the lift for the it's three different panels basically a FEMA mitigation project to make sure that these don't get damaged or uh don't become inoperative in a another flood event. So when I contacted Mid-States Pipeline and said the board approved the second bid not not the lowest bid but the second bid because of uh the reasoning of timeline and ensuring that

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um the contractor that's doing the project is one that we we wholly trust to get it done. Uh there was a miscommunication so I when I asked them to give me the contract to put before you uh the cost savings I was told was going to be so they came in at $169,700 uh initially and the cost savings I was told was going to be 10K that they had 10K mapped out. It turns out the 10K that the project uh individual I was talking to was he was talking about a couple of panels that they were going to put in that they were not going to charge us for that was the 10K savings. And I said, "Well, I've went to the board and I've got a number." And so they went ahead and walked me through uh what they call contin- uh not contingency costs but uh costs that savings that we m- should get would be um find it here. Uh putting the contract together cost savings to be $5,200 with a potential savings of another 3,000 if the wire that they're pulling is reusable. This changes the overall cost of the project to 164,500. Uh the board would need to amend the contract approval for an increase of $4,800. Um and like I said, given our experience with these vendors the fact Mid-States Pipeline is currently working the phase 2A project we'd recommend the that change to the contract Okay. so that we can get this process going. Um Apologies. I it they they surprised me with this one so It's not a big deal. It was to me when I was looking at it. I was like, "Oh good lord." So And I see this comes out of prior year fund balance. Yes. And that will change

the the amount we will pay from 39,925 to 41,125. So not really a whole lot different. And and this is this is we either leave them on the ground and we run the risk of of flood damage again. I just Uh [sighs]

tonight there's a couple of topics about this raising things so that we ensure this doesn't happen to staff and and the public well after we're gone. Right. It's about planning for the future. So It will happen again. I believe it. I mean in We had 200-year floods in a 7-year span 2017 2024. We'll probably see another one. And I I think it's for us to accept that and elevate them as recommended. And I've spoke with the the engineers. Was it Perryville? Perryville had a flood that that took over like ours went over their levee wall and got their plant by a couple of foot. And then it happened again within I forget how [snorts] many years and it went 6 ft over. So we're just you know, we're not the only ones dealing with these issues. So I think the the the stronger we make our plant the better off we are. I agree. All right. Is there any discussion? No discussion. All right. Do you have a motion? Based on the recommendations of the public works director I'll make a motion to approve the amendment. Do I have a second? I'll second that. Okay. Uh excuse me. Sorry, Mayor. The wording needs to be very specific to what's on the staff agenda in order to make it right since it's an it's an amendment.

Okay. Okay. So didn't I say amendment? Huh? Didn't I say amendment?

needs to be all this verbage. Oh yeah. Recommended motion moved to amend the previously adopted motion on March 10th, 2026 approving an amount of 159,700 for the wastewater treatment plant phase two improvements by striking 159,700,000 and thereby increasing the amount to 164,500. Thank you. You're welcome. I can read barely. All right. No. I'll second that motion. This time I will call for the vote. Alderman Whalen? Yes. Alderwoman Letchworth?

Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. And Alderwoman Dent? Yes. Uh next up is the reading of bills. Second reading for bill number 3700. Bill number 3700 an ordinance authorizing the Mayor of the City of Salem, Missouri to accept and execute an access easement from HMH Properties LLC for permanent access and utility purposes. Thank you. So this was on for you all last meeting. This is the access easement two access easements um with HMH otherwise known as DMK Fencing Mhm. um for access to the pretreatment Yes, the water pretreatment building.

Yes. All right. There's no discussion. No. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the access easement granted to HMH Properties. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. This time I will call for the vote. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderman Whalen? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. And Alderwoman Letchworth? Yes. Uh next up for new miscellaneous business we have resolution number 4-2026. So this is the lease that's referenced in the access easement. Um so the lease is for a period of So there's 2 years rent free in exchange for the access easements um and then for 10 years after that at $100 a month. Okay. Automatically renewed for two consecutive 5-year terms if no action's taken by either party. Okay. Any further discussion? We've discussed it a couple of I'm ready to make a motion. All right. Waiting on you, buddy. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve new miscellaneous business resolution number four, 2026. Do I have a second? I'll second. There's no discussion. I'll call for the vote. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes.

Alderman Letchworth? Yes. And Alderwoman Dent? Yes. All right. Moving right along, next up resolution number 7-2026. Resolution Resolution number 7-2026, a resolution approving a contract for control panel improvements and authorizing the mayor to execute the same. Any discussion? I should already know this, but this is for the control panels at the wastewater treatment plant.

Yes. Mhm. Okay. That was just talking about this. I'll make a motion to approve resolution number 7, 2026. Do I have a second? I'll second. There's no further discussion. I'll call for the vote. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. And Alderman Letchworth? Yes. Uh next up is the sale of surplus equipment to be put away. [sighs]

So, these are vehicles and equipment that staff has identified to move out of our fleet. So, you see a few of those are 40 years old. But Yeah, if there are any questions, myself, Steve, and Miss Bloom will be happy to attempt to no questions. No. Not for good. Okay. You're thinking about buying them Husqvarnas, aren't you? [laughter]

It's popping shop up here. Uh This time, do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the sale for these. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. This time, I'll call for the vote. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman Letchworth? Yes.

Alderwoman Dent? Yes. All right. Next item up we have camera system for the city park bid. I'm Jonathan. Hi, Jonathan. Hi. [laughter]

Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I didn't write this up. Jonathan did all the legwork in it cuz we wanted to make sure that whatever we had was compatible with the PD. Um but I will present it. So, if you guys have any questions, I will not know the answer, but I will pretend like I do. I'm thankful to see this, though. I love Me, too. Yeah, this is We opened the bathrooms on a Friday and Monday we came in and there was toilet paper in all the trees from the bathroom so we just opened. So, this is this will be really nice. Yeah. I'm excited. And I appreciate him putting in the effort cuz he's way smarter with camera stuff than I am. So. Yeah, it's just the constant hassle that we've had at our city parks being vandalized and destroyed. Uh it's just gotten out of hand that we had to reach this point. So. So, this this is will be in addition to the existing cameras we have? Yes, not all I don't Not all of them would go to the PD. The ones we have at the pool will still be able to be read via the app that we have for that, but this is new. So, but like the bathroom would have been videoed. Yes, not in the bathroom, but Right, right, right. No, no, no. Right. I wanted you to say that. Yeah. Okay. And maybe we can eliminate some of the vandalism. That's the hope. Yes. They should be able to track movement after someone

we spend a year, you think, just ballpark, on vandalism in the park? It just depends. Is it significant? It It's quite a bit in time. A lot of time. A lot of time? You know Okay. The graffiti paint removal stuff isn't really expensive, but it takes a lot of time to remove it. And when we did the Christmas lights, we had vandalism issues, didn't we? Yes. Made it almost impossible to do. We just recently had to repair the dugouts for the high school softball field cuz somebody took it upon themselves to just Excuse me. The softball [clears throat] field Okay. I thought you said high school football softball field. It's the city's.

Well, they play Yeah, this is the city's, but yeah. Yeah. Um the dugouts have been pushed apart where the metal comes together cuz they were Okay. Would the camera systems been able to catch that? Um I think it would because you'd be catching people who are coming in and out. Okay. Right. I think it's I think it's much needed. It's sad that we have to do that, but it's needed. Uh there's no further discussion. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion uh to move forward with a park camera bid from bear with me, Romo Lock and Alarm for the amount of $14,250. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. This time, I'll call for the vote. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman Letchworth? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. Thank you. I know it's a lot of money, but I appreciate you guys supporting keeping our stuff nice. So, thank you. Thank you, Jessica. Thank you. Next up we have the animal shelter improvements. So, the summary you have in front of you is a part of our CIP from last year, capital improvements, and this was a part of our shelter repair. What this was basically doing was replacing is the windows in the front office area, the front door, and all of the sliding windows that run uh through all the kennels, the cat room, things like that. They're not as efficient uh and they're I mean, they're old. And so, we have some that are

non-functioning, some that that don't work at all. And so, with this new system, it'll allow us to uh It will allow us to uh more easily heat, cool. Uh especially like with the temperatures we're having now, we can open up windows instead of having to run air or run heat. And the bid on that is not correct for some reason. The uh Roberts Judson bid was uh I don't know why that one's off. 5,000? 50, 45, or something like that. It's 50, 55.

Yeah. And so, that puts him in the 0.95 range especially. They're It's actually a better bid than Menards. Uh and Menards was somewhat not participating. I'm sorry. It's right there. You just passed it. Yeah, they were uh both bids are there. Menards. Uh and they were not very committed to the project. It was just like, hey, you know, you just come pick it up. And uh whereas Judson's offers warranty, service after the sale, Probably delivery, too. Well, and delivery, Mhm. And so, our local our local resource was a better option. Is that your recommendation? It is our recommendation that we go with the bid from Roberts Judson. So.

Any discussion? No. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the bid from Roberts and Judson's for the repairs to the animal shelter. Do I have a second? I'll second. This time, I'll call for the vote. Alderman Letchworth? Yes. [clears throat]

Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderwoman Dent? Yes. And Alderman Wayland? Yes. As a side note, we had our inspection from the Department of Agriculture today. Uh animal shelter scored perfectly. No No remarks, no dings, or anything. Everything was in complete order. Uh like they like. That's the first time that's happened since we reopened it. So, things are moving along well. Thank you guys for all the hard work out there. Appreciate it. Next item up we got Resolve IT Services. So, we currently use Resolve IT, and this is a renewal of their services for April 2026 through April 2027 um to continue to use their services to manage our servers and network. Open it up for discussion. None. Do you have a motion? I'll make a motion to renew the IT services with Resolve. Do you have a second? I'll second. Time will call for the vote. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderman Woodall? Yes. And Alderman Letchworth?

Yes. Next item up, reading of bills for the first and second reading for bill number 3703. Bill number 3703, an ordinance approving change order number three for the Salem Wastewater Treatment Facility Phase 2A improvements project and authorizing the mayor to execute the same. Permission to read second reading by Captain Owen. Yes, please. Bill number 3703, an ordinance approving change order number three for the Salem Wastewater Treatment Facility Phase 2A improvements project and authorizing the mayor to execute the same. Thank you. Little discussion with this one. Or This is a request for change order contract extension so that they can make sure they get the materials that they need. Some of the electrical stuff's taken some time. Nothing.

Sorry, am I jumping in the wrong spot?

No. So, for the necessary to accomplish the IMPS pumps installation. So, they're having a hard time getting some of that material. So, this would uh Oh. Yeah, you I was a little confused with two staff summaries. Okay. There are two staff summaries for the one resolution. Okay. Cuz it's a change order for time and for amount. I could have lumped them together, but I was ex- feeling extra, so I typed out two forms. Sorry, this is a for a request for the approval. Uh this is a request to reallocate and elevate. This is This is another looking forward panel that they're going to put into an existing position on the ground, you know, low level that you can walk up to panel. And they realized as they're doing the process out there, keep in mind when when all this was engineered out, we hadn't had the flood, the November flood. So, this is another one of those panels that they're like they got a hold of me and they said, "Hey, Steve, you're going to want this leachate pump station panel to be elevated." So, they they drew out plans and they gave us this uh quote of 9428 for engine- engineering materials and construction to put one more panel up onto the UV station, which is it's it's easily a 6-ft up above if not more by the time you mount the panel. So, this is I I hate to ask, but this is one of those necessary evils to make sure that we we set our uh you know, our public up for success in the future. So, uh this work is part of the 2A upgrades. So, it'd be 9428 to be pulled from prior year funds to elevate another panel. So, Are you all clear on the difference between this one and the other panels we were discussing?

Mhm. Yeah, it's going up on the UV station versus Well, they're all going up on the UV station. This was engineered and planned before the flood, and it sounds like a good catch. This was a yes, this was a panel that was engineered originally as part of the 2A, Phase 2A. So, we were going to get this new panel regardless, but it was going to be at current elevation. So, the other panels that we talked about earlier in the meeting are already there. We already have these panels, but due to the FEMA mitigation, we're raising or elevating those to a higher level. So, then it was okay, so then we'll have this new panel down here. Right. This change order is to bring the panel that was already planned for up with the others. Okay. Does that make sense? So, two distinctly And and we have to be careful through FEMA and through the ARPA funds that are paying for 2A, we've had to send in signed statements from the engineer as well as from staff that know these are separate funding pools. We're not double dipping. They're separate pieces. Okay. Um so, I just wanted to make sure that you all were clear what the distinction was here. That's what I thought it was. So. And it's not just the possible destruction of the this panel in particular, but the fact that the functionality would be hampered. And you know, we just we lucked out with the flood we had that that Josh and the team went out and were able to get some of this stuff. And we you know, it functioned. We we lucked out. Some of it did, but Is there any way later later [clears throat] on that we could probably get after this is all complete, maybe a total cost of how much was spent just uh I mean, for just the recovery from the flood? Just to recover from the flood? Yeah, from all this elevation that we we've had to do. I mean, Stacy, you're going to be my hero. Steve, put the pen down. She's got this. Right.

All right. Any discussion? Discussion. Do you have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the change order to ensure the finishing of the project with the DNR mandated timelines. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. There's no further discussion. I'll call for the vote. Alderman McKenzie? Yes. Alderman Wayland? Yes. Alderman Woodall? Yes. Alderman Letchworth? Yes. Next up, we got reports of city officials, boards, and committees. Sally, would you like to go first? So, I just wanted to give you all a just kind of update you. We you know, we had issued a few months back request for proposals for ERP software. So, potential replacement of Incode. Um we received a total of eight proposals. And so, that's a pretty large number of proposals to try to wade through. Um we have been um we've done several kind of assessments on it. We've had a staff meeting last week where we kind of got together and discussed, "Okay, how do we move forward with this?" Um we think we might know what our top three are, but um each of us kind of from the meeting, we each kind of had homework where we took, "Okay, let's take the the actual printed versions of each of these and dig into them a little deeper and see what additional questions we come up with and make sure that those are the ones we want to maybe move forward with some demonstrations. So, we're going to continue working through that process. Um And I said, I was surprised that we received eight of them. Um

So, yeah, we had we had three that followed instructions correctly, and another three that didn't quite follow them correctly. We told them we'd accept them, but if it came down neck and neck between them and one that followed that yeah. I agree. I just wanted to give a quick update kind of where we are on that. It is in process. Um it is a pretty big task. You think? Um anyway, just wanted to let you know that that was in process. All right. Um One other piece I kind of talked with the mayor last week about. So, we have put out the dry not the drywall, the plaster repair work for this building twice. Those bids close later, I think this week. Um but we've not so far received any interests. Um and so, kind of looking at changing direction on that. And so, rather if we can't get anyone to respond to a bid um for plastering, we kind of want to change direction and look at just overlaying the areas that are in bad condition with drywall. So, not tearing out unless it's already coming loose like in the basement men's restroom ceiling. Um we'll tear that out, but then go back with drywall there. In all the other places where we have damage, we'll just overlay it. And so, maybe in some future generation, if they decide they want to restore it, we won't have torn out sections. So, so that's kind of where we're at at this point. So, I'll be looking at reworking that and maybe um doing a request for bids for drywalling um all the areas we were looking at plaster work plus the old council chambers. So, and see if we can't get some traction that way. Okay. So, that has been part of the hold up in in doing some other things here in the building is it just not being able to find someone to perform the work.

So, okay. So, I just wanted to give you an update on that. Um one other thing, and then I'll end for now. I have been approached um I've had messages from Tom Hein Haynes. Some of you may know him. Um he is curious about seeing about having maybe an art contest to develop a city flag. I don't know if any of you are interested in such a thing, um or you know, want to move forward with it. Yeah, I've I've explored a lot of conversation with Mr. Haynes at this time, but but he has reached out. I know it's been discussed during SACBA meetings um about the possibility of of doing something, like I said, of a public art contest to develop a city flag. So, I just thought I'd throw it out there to you all, see what your interest is. See if it's something you all think you want to move forward with. So. Never thought about it. Got you. Got you. A city flag. So. Anyway, if any of you would like to reach out to me later about it, please do so. Okay? Okay. Okay. That's all I have for now. Thank you. I'll chime in real quick with my report and I'll keep it pretty quick. At our next meeting, hopefully I'm going to have staff draft up. We don't have, I forgot to mention this earlier, we don't have in our ordinances on committees for subcommittees. And by law we're supposed to. So, I would like to put that in front of the board for consideration to add subcommittees to our current ordinance of underneath committees. Maybe try to grow some of them, you know, even though we're struggling right now with a lot of committees. But uh I also, last but not least, I want to

thank the public for everybody that came out and vote. Yeah, even though it was a low vote voter turnout, um I think that's one freedom that a lot of us don't ex- exercise enough. I mean, and I would encourage people if you want your voice to be heard, come out and vote, you know. Don't matter who you vote for. Exactly. But that's all I have for my report. Move right along to Miss Stacy. Come on up and give us some financials and crunch some numbers and now let me look at a calculator. Okay, so an update on our sales tax revenue. This is what we have collected through March. Revenues continue to come in strong. Year-to-date we are up to 2% over last year. General fund sales tax has generated 2.6 million year-to-date with parks and rec bringing in approximately 485,000. And capital improvement sales tax has brought in 647,000. And if you'll scroll down just a little bit, sadly, the graph illustrates a year-to-year comparison if anyone likes to look at graphs. Okay, if there's no questions on that slide, we'll move on to utility usages and revenues. So, year-to-date of this fiscal year, and again, this is through the end of March, we have billed around 39 million kilowatt hours. That is up slightly 1% compared to the same time frame as last year. Generating 5.3 million in sales revenues. Purchase of power, that is what the city pays to MPUA to provide power to us. We paid out three 3.9 million. That is

12% more than the same time frame as last year, and that is due to winter storm Fern that happened in February. Water consumption, we have billed around 93 million gallons. That's down slightly compared to last year. Water revenues generated is around 878,000. On sewer consumption, we billed around 87 million gallons, and sewer revenues billed is at 1.2 million. Okay, next slide unless you have any questions. Okay, this slide lists all of the city funds. It shows the beginning balance of this fiscal year, then the revenues and expenditures, and any transfers between funds. Then the last column shows the ending balance in each fund as of March 31st. And then at the very bottom shows the total of all funds comes to just under 17 million dollars. Any questions on that slide? We'll move to the next one. Okay, this last slide shows the total fund revenues and expenditures compared to what has been budgeted. Through 9 months of the fiscal year, the city has brought in 65% of budgeted revenues and 58% of budgeted expenditures. Both revenues and expenditures are trending behind what we would have expected for this point of the year, and that is due to grant-related revenues and expenditures occurring later than originally anticipated. That's all I have. If anyone has any questions. No. No. No. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Miss Geary, do you have anything tonight? I don't think you do, do you? I think you have to wait till the end of the month for labor reports, labor board.

Uh let me roll on to Steve. Come on up. See here what's going on in the wonderful world of public works. Smile, it's not that bad, man. All right. First off, I'd like to say uh congrats to the elected officials for your

Congratulations. Uh congrats to Stacy for killing it on that audit. Yes. Not afraid audits. Uh we'll get into the wastewater treatment plant. Daily testing continues. Your plan is healthy. Uh water departments, um as you as you've seen and heard, the water tower is up, welded up. Hopefully we'll see them moving to paint work coming up soon. Um once they get that one done and operational and online, we can hopefully move towards getting the industrial park tower uh redone this fall, which will be really exciting to see. All that baby blue. How exciting. Uh electric-wise, oh sorry, fire hydrants are being maintained across the east side of the city. They'll be doing roughly maintenance on roughly 60 fire hydrants as well as paint work and um documentation on those checking valves and such. The electric department crew has continued replacing poles at an accelerated rate. These guys are really putting in some work. It's uh it's a beautiful thing. They have identified a pole over on 8th Street that's going to need immediate um well, as immediate as they can. They got the locates in. They plan on replacing it on Friday, and it is a uh one that they're going to work on. They they can't work on hot. It's just too much. So, they're going to we're going to have a power outage uh from 8th Street heading out 19. [clears throat] We'll put more information out in the morning with the exact location of who will be out. Um they're hoping to do it in an hour, uh 2 hours worst-case scenario, so we'll we'll start that at roughly sometime 7:45, 8 8:00 a.m. prior to 8:00 a.m. and get kicked off and get it knocked out, so uh yeah, that's the electric. Did anybody have any questions about that? It's This is really This is a necessary

one, and we don't want to put anybody at risk, so they'll they'll knock the power out for a little bit. Construction crew, as you saw, finished up the Salem uh uh park parking lot there. I thought that was a nice new addition. That's three-man crew that's out there uh putting that work in and getting that done. It turned out pretty nice. Um so, they'll be moving on to some other projects. I've [music] got them on. Jennifer Street has a concrete ditch that had had a wall fall over, so they're they've put that back together. They'll be putting steel reinforcement in. They'll be moving around and doing some other They took care of um we'd talked about over off of Warfel. They explored that today to help that gentleman with his uh yeah, issues, so. Uh street department's built uh street department stopped what they were doing, and uh as most folks have seen, we had a it's a 6-ft tall culvert that runs underneath Fil Mart's drive-thru that was starting to cave in, so street crew stopped what they were doing and built a ramp to so that we could reroute help Fil Mart uh Marathon gas station reroute their traffic around and still utilize their drive-thru while we met with Toth Engineering and walked that down to look at what it's going to take to replace and uh uh strengthen basically your uh storm water system that runs underneath their drive-thru area. So. Yeah, so when we uh looked at it with Toth, um and this is just so that you guys kind of have a heads-up. Obviously, this is not a project we had budgeted. Yep. Um and so they were asking me, "So, do you have any idea how you're going to pay for this?" And it's like, "Well, we do have reserve funds, we have prior year funds." And they're say- yeah, Steve and I are yeah, I I didn't really know what to anticipate, but they're talking hundreds of thousands um because we're not going to be able to simply go back

in with another metal culvert. Yeah, we're not going to be able to put So. How old was that culvert? '95? That's nearest guess, somewhere in that ballpark. 1995? Yeah. Yeah. So. And it's it runs between the backside of Fil Mart and then where they've got the auction house there, so it's it's going to be a humdinger for sure. Steve, had that culvert been repaired? Had it been braced? There were braces up in there. Someone had shoved some done injury or something. So it didn't last. It would It didn't last till 2025. No. [laughter] They got a pretty good run out of it. I'm just glad that they identified that their concrete was

Yes. Yeah. Or we we might have ate a car. All right. Yeah. So just a heads up. When that comes, it's it's going to be a chunk and we'll have to have board approval for the funding to get that moving. So. So uh street department knocked that ramp out like I said. Uh they're continuing to clean out ditches and drop ins in preparation and after rain storms. So streets are really uh taking care of business. Mechanic John Roose is departing on the 22nd. So we we thank him for his service and uh he's moving on to pursue things that he he would rather be doing um and maybe maybe even educational programs. He wants to teach mechanical stuff and I think that's great. Uh we'll miss him. He was he was the goods. Cemetery crews beginning the mowing season. I believe we started a new part-time um Today. high school student. Mhm. Which is great. Who's graduating in a few weeks. There we go. And so uh we'll we'll see more ramping up of the mowing out at the cemetery. So. Uh just as a reminder, I always want to remind citizens to call the main office at 729-4811 if they've got electric, water, sewer, street issues. Um I I get a lot of uh messaging and stuff and that slows down the process. If it's after hours, if they call the police department immediately, that's the proper way to do it at 4242 for after hours uh issues. Uh electric, water leaks, etc. Electric, we prefer them to use hometown grid, but the police department's available. That gets them to the on-call roster and gets a response out as immediately as possible. So. Um I had a couple other notes here. Talk about the outage. Uh Missouri lineman day was Monday. So. Thanks to our linemen that do get out there and do the work with the stuff

that will kill peop- kill you, you know, the electric. Uh we appreciate them. [clears throat] Uh that's what I've got. Did anybody have any questions? Uh no, just a a note. Over on I think it's Cardi where we have our contractor over there trimming trees. Cardi? Yeah. I don't know if they pulled the line loose or something, but there's like a cable stretched across Cardi. I'd have to look it up on Google Maps. I could tell you later. It's the corner of Cardi and I think it's I don't know. Let me look real quick.

I can have the guys spin down by there. A lot of times, anytime you see something dangling, 9.5 times out of 10, it's it's calm cable. Yeah. And uh Yeah, I mean, I think that's what this is. I just you know, low hanging stuff might tear it down. It might hit someone's vehicle over there. Better safe than sorry. So we'll we'll jump on that. Okay. It's the only thing I got, Steve. You guys are doing awesome job. All right. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Can I add a little bit to Steve's report here? So. Yes. Yeah, I can see the look on your face like, "What did I forget?" So Steve and I spent a good portion of yesterday with um some folks from Toth Engineering, so our new engineering firm. Um going to various project sites. Um just showing them what it is, talking them through what those were. Um we'd had a previous session um where we video chatted uh kind of going through our CIP about big projects that we had coming up. Um and so it was good to have them here in town and be able to show them, take them to the project sites and show them exactly what's going on, help them understand better. Um and so I know uh you know, looking forward to working with them. It's I feel like it's a a a good rapport, good communication, good rapport. Good. And comfortable with them. They've already given a couple of suggestions about, you know, maybe looking at something a little differently or questions to ask about some some projects that we have in process. So. Um I appreciate that. So. One of the nice things that I I I noticed too was um let's say you've got a 200 ft of storm water drainage and we're looking at, well, okay, this has to come out, you know, most likely be replaced totally and they're like, "Well, hold on. We can dig this and check it and we can line certain parts of it and we can replace certain parts." So they're not they're not jumping out and just trying to automatically um drive up the costs of projects. So I'm looking forward to working with them. Absolutely. It's all I have. Thank you, Steve. Oh, Ms. Melissa, you kind of Come on up. You missed your co-worker Jason was here earlier. So. Was it Jason? Or John. John. Jonathan.

I ain't stepping in. Oh, John. Yes. I'm getting old. Yeah, I'm Melissa now. Yeah, you give me 10 minutes, I'll lose everything. You lost me for a second there. Yeah, it was just like, "What's he talking about?" Go ahead. Um just a reminder, uh summer ball registration is open, but it closes on the 16th. Okay. And I always have people that are very sad when they contact me and ask if they can still sign them up and there has to be a point where I say no. Um I don't like to do it, but just a reminder for everybody, if anybody's watching, to please get those registrations in as soon as possible. So your kids are happy. Um I've heard a rumor that the pool's not going to be open I can prove that, too. So anything that I heard probably isn't super accurate. Um just throw that out there. The plan is for the pool to be opening. Um I wish people would stop posting stuff on Facebook cuz it spreads like wildfire. I get stopped at Walmart. I can't go into public without people stopping me. It's great. Um but the pool will be open. That is what is planned. Um I can't say that things won't happen and we might have issues, but we will deal with those as they come along, but the plan is that the pool will be open. So. Want to clear the air. Okay. That's good. I'm glad you did. If anybody has any questions, please contact me directly. No, you just answered my question. So that's that's one of the things too with the public like you there are multiple ways to contact me and I I try to be quick to respond. Um I have people usually reaching out on my private Facebook, work Facebook, cell phone, private cell phone. Just ask the question and you'll get the answer from the horse's mouth. So. I'll just put that out there, too. All right. Uh anybody have any questions for me? Makes sense. Have you got enough coaches for your league this year? Never. Never. Let's put a plea out there. Come on, people, step up.

Yeah. Usually it's really really hard to find coaches. And then Seems like John over here is interested. No. No, I've got him. I've got I've got other things going on. [laughter] Yeah. No. I haven't looked yet for the the softball and summer ball situations yet, but soccer was really a daughter coaching. So I'm tied up with that little team. Yeah. Soccer was really hard to find coaches, but we did get we did end up getting enough, but Good. Yep. All right. Well, thank you, Melissa. You're welcome. Thank you. Tammy, do you have something for us? I actually have a couple things.

All right. So first off, I would like to thank the mayor for authorizing the closing of the admin building on April the 3rd for record management day, what we were calling it. We were able to get so much accomplished that day. Um we started here in this building. As some are aware, we had a large closet in this building that when we started on last year when we had this day, we couldn't get the door open. There were so many files in that closet, you couldn't get the door open. So we last year we were able to get part of the way through that closet. We've recognized uh records that we are able to destroy per the Missouri state retention schedule. And then this year we have gotten to the back wall. Um we are able to go all the way to the back wall. We've recognized more records that are um ready to go. And I want to thank the staff for everything they did that morning getting in there at you know, the dust and and all the things. We had lunch and then we headed back to the admin building where staff worked on uploading files to Laserfiche. We were able to get 16 years of minutes uploaded Good job.

That will help with uh records requests, staff that need to find items. It just will help so much um in so many areas. So we are I'm I'm thrilled. We're all thrilled. Everybody got in that we work well together. We have a great team of employees that I want to recognize all of them. Uh second, this week is telecommunications week. And so for our dispatchers, if you see a dispatcher, thank them for what they do. A lot of people don't realize that it is as a dispatcher, the minute that phone rings, you have to be on it. You don't know what's coming in. Um so they have to know which questions to ask and what people they need to get in place to make sure that the person on the other end of that call gets the help that they need. Um so, I want to thank our dispatchers at the police department because they are phenomenal people. So, I I think that's all I have. Well, thank you guys for being awesome. Yeah. Thank you. And hopefully we can do the uh records some more of those records in the future to get a little bit more of that cleaned up. And we do we had planned on having that list for approval to destroy this but we just we weren't there were quite a few things that we were trying to accomplish and so we just weren't able to pull it together for this meeting but I plan to have it on the next one. Yeah, Sally took me on a nightmare of that closet so yeah, I didn't realize that there was that much. Mhm. You don't need a word mayor to get nightmares. How many decades of records do you have? Back to 19 uh 30 something? 30. [clears throat] 30? 1930s? Yeah. And so We got 16 years of it knocked

out. Mhm. Of the minutes. Well, of the minutes. minutes. But 1933 is how far back that we've seen so far that there are records stored in this building. And so, here's the other thing that tells me and if you just think about it for a second um we have a long history of just shuffling files from one building to another cuz this building was built in 39 and opened in 40. Right. So. Yeah. So, you do you want to add to that? Yeah, I just I don't We were saying closet size. It's a small closet. Yeah. [laughter] That's a garage? Uh Yes, that's Looked like a janitor's closet. It's close to the size of the state. Yeah. Yes.

Maybe not the full length but About half. close to Oh, better than half. 2/3 probably.

That's one car garage. Yeah. I am glad that you guys got that out of the way before the tour because I am very well insulated so it took a while to walk through those halls. And I I forgot and I apologize the electric department came up and helped that day as well and they cleaned out the old clerk's office and and organized it and it's yeah, it's awesome. And Steve. And that guy Steve. Yeah. Right there at the end. Steve. It was a great day and and we were able to accomplish a lot. Good. That's awesome. It is.

So, thank you very much. You're welcome. All right. Now, we'll step it up to the last part of it. We're going to start with the board reports. Alderman Whalen at the end. No report. Alderwoman Dent. I met with Angie Curley and had a talk with her about how to get people out to vote. So, the community involvement committee will probably be involved with the county trying to get people out to vote for the primary in August and the general election in November. All right, sounds good. Alderman Letchford. Uh just wanted to say again thanks to the dispatchers. It is their week and I've been on the end of dispatchers telling me where to go and how to get there and and uh it's nice and so not just for the city of Salem but for the county too. I want to just thank those guys for what they do and I talked with some folks over the last couple weeks and we're talking about issues that you've seen in the news like kratom and things like that and so I would I'd like to just take a moment and and just to say that I I think that there's a good census behind with the residents here of of trying to get behind something of a ban or something like that anyway uh start taking steps to looking into that to see where we can we can go with that within the city limits so All right. Alderman McKenzie. Nothing to report. Mhm. Well, it's been fun. Do I have a motion for adjournment? I move that we adjourn. Do I have a second? I'll second. I will call for the vote. Alderwoman Dent. Yes. Alderman McKenzie. Yes. Alderman Letchford. Yes. And Alderman Whalen. Yes. Thank you all for attending tonight.