City Commission - Regular Meeting

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Motion to excuse member Guttler.

Support.

Questions? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Will number four consent agenda. A is city council minutes of July 20th, 2026. Special, regular and closed meetings approved. And commission, golf commission minutes of June 9th, 2026.

I have questions on A.

On which one?

A.

Okay.

So under 500 Fred Moore. This is clarification made to negotiate current lease first. And if they do not want to renew, then it'll be advertised. I THOUGHT WE LEFT IT THAT, LIKE, IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED BASED ON DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE AT A FAIR MARKET VALUE, NOT A NEGOTIATED VALUE, AND THAT IT WAS NOT, IT WAS TO BE A MULTI-YEAR LEASE, SO IT WOULD COME BACK TO COUNCIL.

SO YOU'RE MENTIONING THIS JUST FOR CLARITY IN THE MINUTES.

YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN THE MINUTES. MM-HMM.

SO YOU WANT.

SO YOU WANT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO EDIT THE MOTION? In the minutes, it does say discussion included the length of the new lease. Correct. Would you like the minutes to be corrected to state the motion directed administration to discontinue the sale and instead initiate negotiation of a market rate rent for that property with the current tenants and length of lease?

I'm just, the discussion that took place, I don't want to change the motion. The motion is as you would have recorded it, I'm sure. Okay. But the discussion that included that it was going to be at farm market value and that we requested it was a multi-year lease so it would come back to council.

Okay.

And are you asking if he wants to amend the minutes then? Is that for my own clarity? Yes.

Okay, I will amend the minutes instead of length of new lease to say multi-year lease. Does that sound?

Correct.

Your market value, correct?

Correct.

All right. I'll make a motion to approve A and B as presented with the amended minutes. I'll support with the amended minutes.

All right, the motion made supported with the amended minutes. Questions? All in favor say aye. Aye.

Opposed?

All right, thank you. Let's go to number five, fiscal year 27 draft budget. Mr. Duchesne.

Mr. Mayor, members of council, I'd like to present the recommended fiscal year 2026-27 budget for your deliberations and future approval prior to the middle of September. Starting out, just until under review, so I'm not proposing any changes to that at this time, that we're going to go really in depth very much this year and take into consideration a number of factors. And I have the nice slides back now. All funds together show proposed revenues of the $18 million and expenditures of about $17 million. Overall, there's $606,000 revenue and dollars over expenditures. The general fund highlights proposed ending fund balance of $11 million. That's about 184% of budgeted expenditures. The revenue trend is projected at 6.4 million, which is about 1.7% over fiscal year 26. Expenditures are proposed at $6 million, which is a 4.8% increase. And again, primarily our budget stance is reoccurring revenues support, reoccurring expenditures, while continuing and been focused in the last year and will continue in the next year on capital improvements that replace worn out aged infrastructure and provide efficiencies for future purposes, avoiding future expenditures. General fund revenues, again, when it looks on the big board, it looks a little smaller, but as you can see, putting a few pennies away for a rainy day. The overall revenue increase is the 1.7. Taxable values increased about 5.92%. The Headlee rollback means we have a reduced tax rate of 0.15 this year, going from 12.72 down to 12.57. The increased investment income is notable. As you notice, if you can, the small green slice of the pizza up there is interest income. And I do want to comment and compliment City Treasurer Jessica Gilroy has been doing a real knockout job with investment. And the beautiful thing about investment income is that's income earned on the money already in the treasury, which means it offsets the need for more funding and more revenue. So doing a great job. State revenue sharing is plump this year at $641,000, which has been seriously debated this year. The funding had to be reworked, and we are somewhat stable. We did have a slight overall reduction in state support, so I'm pleased at 641, and we're hoping that certainly the economic conditions continue to be stable in Michigan. This is our sales and income tax primarily funded portion of revenue sharing which is actually a state collected revenue share with its municipalities according to the Michigan Constitution. We do have some reduction in one-time grants and donations because we certainly have had recently some very good news about grants. Overall, though, we are anticipating a slight reduction. Franchise fees. Due to state law changes, there's reduced franchise fees in a number of areas. In telecom, for example, there used to be a Metro Funding Act that has long gone by the wayside, and now the state collects that and shares less with the locals than it did before. General fund expenditures, we have 38% are on personnel services, 31% other charges and services, and then other financing uses. Again, detailed in the budget. The overall expenditures increased by 4.8. The police department remains the largest budget in the city at 24.8%, it typically does. TRANSFERS TO OTHER FUNDS INCREASED BY 13% WITH THE CREATION OF THE NEW PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT FUND AND TO FUND SEVERAL RECREATION PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED OR IN THE PROCESS TO BE MATCHED WITH SOME LOCAL AND PRIVATE DONATIONS. OVERALL IT FUNDS THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM WHICH IS PRETTY LEAN IN 27 BUT MOSTLY AGAIN IN STREETS, WATER AND SEWER INFRASTRUCTURE. Our capital infrastructure investments, we have, again, a combination of general fund but also a number of other funds. I won't read down through those. but as you can see, the general fund has several areas it supports for capital improvements, recreation fund, cable, street improvements, water and sewer. The significant ones are where you'd expect them to be in city infrastructure, both water and sewer and streets, where the money, where it meets the road, so to speak. And with limits on both fleet in our new scheduled multi-year view of purchasing, we are able to do reduced expenses there. And of course, we are hoping for positive election results to continue the 10-year Transportation Improvement Program for streets. This is another view, way to look at all funds expended and what the net result is. Again, a solid financial base, tax rate being reduced, investment in capital, I think are really key highlights to this. In fee staffing and some future considerations, I'll just touch on this a little bit. We are increasing garbage bags to cover costs only. Hydrant meter for private uses, we're increasing this notably, up to $300 for initial use because of the reexamination of our costs and the value to this private sales. Rubbish collection quarterly fees, Our $68.31 reflects the current waste management contract. Water and sewer rates are still under review. We have very limited budget position changes. but we do have one proposed part-time, full-time, and general administration office assistant. We eliminated the public works director position and we split the functions. We have a part-time golf course manager and lead operator at the sewer treatment plant is projected in this budget. Looking ahead, aging water, sewer, and street infrastructure will continue to be an increasing investment need. Rising healthcare costs and ongoing negotiations affect future budgets. State share revenue is subject to the legislative decisions that are outside of the city council's control. And the city will continue to pursue state and federal grants while enhancing reporting to the council and citizens as before you. And I'd like to take a moment to thank our finance director, Carrie Hepton, for a wonderful job and assistance in all putting this together, as well as all the department heads and staff, which are, I think, stepping into the swing of things about the new way of doing budget preparation. continue on look forward to working with council to bring home a plan and financing the strategic needs of the city that you've seen and addressed and appreciate council's thorough input and valuable feedback in presenting the budget thank you any questions from council if i go back to page 15. page 15 is capital improvement plan summary

a couple things could please recreation fund 1.195 1.1 million can you expand on that a little bit i didn't bring details but there are several different programs including completion of some projects that have been approved for clutch of park are underway

There are some other initiatives in the parks that are going to be supported by private donations. Obviously our recreation director Hawkins is out hawking money constantly for different improvements and things and she's doing a very good job with that. So that is broken down and we'll have that a little more detail. It is, though, following principally the capital improvement plan. So all the supplemental charts and things, I didn't bring those tonight to go into, but they are part and they will be part of the final budget to support that.

All right.

Anybody else? I have one more on the same page. Under sewer wastewater fund, excuse me, Is the sewer improvements that we need to make to the tune of three or four million dollars, is that in the capital improvement plan?

Yes.

Does that become part of this document?

It's the guide for it. So this document, the 27 budget, will take the first year of the capital improvement multi-year program, and that's where it matches up. So that's a first installment, if you would, of what's projected. What isn't done this year will then be rolled forward, and it will be followed in the capital improvement plan. So when they're read together, this is the first year of the multi-year that's laid out in the CIP.

Great. In balance? I have one last thing I think on page 17. Looking ahead, state revenue uncertainty, everything I see and read is saying that the state, considering doing all kinds of crazy things about property taxes, revenue sharing, can you expand upon anything you know about any of that and how it impacts us?

Oh, yeah, I can certainly Mr. Mayor expand on it and it all impacts upon us right now. Tentatively negatively. There are everything from wild theories and legislation that's introduced to eliminate all income and. income and property taxes without replacements being identified which basically i'm not sure how that goes forward because it really disables and eliminates all your city government's funding so that's the outlier there's some that do things like recapping where the cap on property tax proposal they used to bring upon sales would bring a new reset, if you would, of values, that they would continue to cap it, that that would be revoked in return. That one has an impact, certainly, on us, because for every property that is capped, That is not increased according to the rules. If the property is sold next door, it currently uncaps and then it's caught up. But if that is eliminated, then there would be no real catch-up provision. And as we noticed in 2008 with the great... RECESSION, WHAT TURNED AROUND IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE A MECHANISM FOR GOING BACKWARDS WITH THE HEDLEY AND THE PROPOSAL A LEGISLATION. SO IT DOESN'T WORK WELL IN REVERSE. SO THAT IS A BIG CONCERN. A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS I'VE WRITTEN ABOUT OR EXCERPT AND SUPPLIED TO COUNCIL, THEY ALL ARE THEORIES AND THEY'RE LEGISLATION THAT IN SOME CASES THAT IS VERY INCOMPLETE. but it certainly is the intent, certainly during another political year, you have people at the state level suggesting they have a means of cutting taxes across the board, but very unclear plans of what happens with that.

Anybody else have questions for Mr. . Thanks for giving me the short version of that. Thank you. Okay, this is just a draft. You'll come back.

This is the initial one. We will bring some more information back. We have the meeting on the 18th, and then we have a public hearing that has to be set and heard. So in between times, I would be happy to be available to sit with any members of council that would like to talk about certain things and things they'd like to do or see. collectively or individually at any time during this process and welcome your feedback. All right, thank you.

All right, we'll move to number six. We have no ordinance in the resolution. We'll move to number seven, reports of administration. Mr. Bouchain, you have something for us?

We have a very good thing for you tonight because we have a good man in the audience and we'd like to Have him be recognized. Been a little bit in the media, but you never know how much media picks things up. So tonight, the city, the mayor and council and board and commission colleagues and your administrative officers would like to recognize you, Mr. Jim beer. If you please stand up. Jim is being recognized with the Planning Advocate Award for more than three decades of volunteer leadership, public service, and advocacy for thoughtful planning in the City of St. Clair and the broader community of the County of St. Clair. In 1992, Jim was appointed to the City of St. Clair's Zoning Board of Appeals, where he has served nearly continuously, most often as chair. He has chaired the process to update the city's sign ordinance and led a committee responsible for the design and construction of a new city hall. He is currently involved in a comprehensive rewrite of the zoning ordinance. Because of Jim's involvement, the St. Clair County Parks and Recreation Commission has achieved remarkable milestones, including trail development, acquisition, and restoration of the Fort Gratiot Light Station and several millage renewals. Jurors said James has demonstrated extraordinary dedication to advancing planning and community development through more than three decades of volunteer leadership and public service. The Planning Advocate Award recognizes individuals who promote planning in the public sector. Its purpose is to honor officials and citizens who promote planning in the public arena, including community leaders and elected officials. To be eligible, a nominee must not be a planner by profession, and membership is not necessary, the Michigan Association of Planning. Selection criteria includes that the nominee must demonstrate support for planners, Increase understanding of planning and show effective influence and implementation of planning ideas and issues. Jim's decades of service, Reflect a deep love for his community and a brief commitment to making a quiet commitment to making St. Clair a better place for generations to come. His steady leadership shows how one dedicated resident can leave a lasting mark on the people and places around him. Congratulations to James Beer. The city of St. Clair is proud of you.

Over the years, we've been very lucky. Anytime there's any kind of issue or topic that is maybe controversial, is gonna take some real digging in, you can always count on Jim, and the signed ordinance is just a perfect example of it. So no, I always ask people when they get an ordinance, would you like to say a few words? Now, I know you, Jim. I know you wanna say a few words.

Well, first of all, thank you for the recognition, and it's greatly appreciated. I can say that actually receiving this award was kind of a shock. I was nominated by Dave Scurto, our city planner, and his firm. I was at first very flattered that they considered me to even be eligible for the award. We put it back together in April and May, and that was kind of the deadline to put it in, and then I didn't hear anything. And it's like, okay, that's great. I mean, I feel wonderful to even be considered. And then lo and behold, about a week and a half ago, I get an email and a letter attached telling me that I had actually won, and I was floored. This kind of award in the time that I put in on behalf of the city of St. Clair and St. Clair County, the things that have been accomplished have done in concert with so many people. IT ISN'T JUST AN AWARD FOR ME THE WAY I LOOK AT IT. THIS IS A RECOGNITION FOR THE CITY OF ST. CLAIR. WHAT A WONDERFUL COMMUNITY WE ARE AND THE TREMENDOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT THE CITY HAS MADE OVER ALL THESE YEARS. I LOOK BACK AT IT AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAKE ST. CLAIR UNIQUE AND I KNOW CITY SUPERINTENDENT STEVE IS SEEING THIS NOW FIRSTHAND. I'VE SERVED UNDER TWO MAYORS, AND JUST TO LOOK AT THAT KIND OF CONTINUITY FROM CITY STAFF IS OF CONTINUITY FROM CITY STAFF IS OF CONTINUITY FROM CITY STAFF IS AMAZING. AMAZING. AMAZING. AND THEN ADD TO THAT PEOPLE LIKE AND THEN ADD TO THAT PEOPLE LIKE AND THEN ADD TO THAT PEOPLE LIKE PAUL WADE, TERRY BEYER FROM THE PAUL WADE, TERRY BEYER FROM THE PAUL WADE, TERRY BEYER FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION. We have people who step up in the city of St. Clair and stay up and continue to do their job because we absolutely love the community that we live in and feel honored to everyday work to make it better. So this award is for all of us. Yeah, they're giving it to me, but it is for the entire city. And so I thank you and I will accept it on behalf of the city of St. Clair.

Good job, Jim, congratulations. I thought for sure you'd wanna spend a couple minutes talking about the year and a half you spent doing the sign ordinance.

I can talk about the almost three years I've been working on zoning ordinance. So that one is soon to go today.

All right, thank you. Go ahead, you got anything else?

The only thing I want to give them an opportunity is the St. Clair Police Foundation wanted a reminder that their golfs scramble on August 16th, and maybe you would like to just make a quick comment to that? We'll use a little of my time here early.

I'm Doug McClaren, 1065 North Riverside, Chairman of the St. Clair Police Foundation. Our second annual golf outing will be August 16th. So not this Saturday, but the following Saturday, the Marysville Golf Course. Sunday, Sunday, not Saturday, Sunday. COST IS $100 PER PLAYER, FOUR-MAN TEAMS, SCRAMBLE, START, WE HAVE A BARBECUE PROVIDED, HOT DOGS AT THE TURN, RAFFLES WILL BE DONE, A PUTTING CONTEST, AND A LOT OF FUN FOR A GOOD CAUSE. AND THAT'S AUGUST 16th. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING AS WE DID LAST YEAR TO HAVE SOME MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL COME OUT AND GOLF WITH US.

THANK YOU. Any questions for Mr. Duchene? Okay, we'll go to Mr. Downey. What do you got over there? Nothing this evening, Your Honor. City departments. Annette, I know you have something.

I do, yes. Just another announcement of the primary election tomorrow. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., all three precincts. And also a reminder to anyone who still has their absentee ballot, you can turn that in until 8 p.m. tomorrow. There's still... Couple hundred out there, so I'd love to see those come in. And then a couple other reminders just for everybody. One of the special events that was approved is for August 6th, which is this Thursday, is a event organization called Outstanding in the Field, and they are having a farm-to-table dinner in Palmer Park. So you will see lots of activity there on Thursday. They're arriving first thing in the morning to set up. It is a, I don't know, 150 person table that's going to be set up in the park. They will start at the museum and have a presentation. about Cargill, Diamond Crystal Salt, and all the history there, then walk over to Palmer Park for the dinner. So just wanted to let everybody know and let the public know that they do have a lease of the park for that ticketed private event, and there will be a lot of activity here. So let's hope for good weather, because it is outside. And the chapel renovations that we've been talking about for the last couple years. We've just completed phase two and it is incredible At the next meeting we'll do a reveal with the before and after pictures of the chapel It's amazing what wallpaper paint and some trim work can do so I can't wait to show everybody and special thanks to councilmember Gottler for his support and leadership on that and So next meeting, which another reminder for that meeting, which was mentioned, it's on Tuesday, August 18th at six o'clock because of a special event happening on that Monday. That's it, thank you.

Thank you. All right, many authorities, boards, commissions, committee chairs, council reps? number eight no unfinished business no new business number 10 claims and accounts for july 22 and 29 2026. no questions you're going to make a motion to approve as presented or any questions all the papers say aye aye aye opposed We'll go to number 11. Anybody have any non-agenda items? Three minutes, please, if you would. Come on up to this microphone. Tell us what's on your mind. Water.

Hello, my name is Elizabeth. This is my husband, Matt, and this is our daughter, Kaylee.

We're at 1531 Vine Street.

We just wanted to come to the board and see if we could get some answers to our questions about the building behind our property, the building that was abandoned that was supposed to be the senior living complex. We've been dealing with it for over two years now, and haven't really received much communication regarding the status. So we're kind of just looking for where is this at? Because the last that we knew, we went to the public hearing on it for it to be deemed a dangerous building. So we weren't sure what happened after that public hearing. And then we kind of also wanted to express our concern that come this spring, that there's going to be more flooding on all of our properties that lineup in that area because last spring that's what we encountered and i don't think anything has been done about the drainage with that then lastly we kind of wanted to just get some answers about the selling of the easement behind the properties because we had received notification from the city that it was going to be available to purchase and we responded right away that we were eager to buy that easement and we just really haven't heard anything since then it's been over two months

Yeah, I mean a lot of it too is the building itself is is greatly becoming cumbersome. I mean we walk right over back door. All we see is just a falling apart building and we got all the seating is all turning black. You hear even inside the house. We hear the house wrap flapping against the side is boarded up windows. I mean, it's the the security fence or construction fence is all falling down all around the property it's it's looking really bad and you know even our daughter mentioned was like two months ago and said daddy i don't like looking at this and i said ME NEITHER. SO WE WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE SOME IDEAS OF WHERE THIS IS GOING, WHAT'S THE STATUS OF IT. AND THEN ALSO ONCE WE GOT THE LETTER ABOUT THE PURCHASING OF THE EASEMENT, WE GOT EXCITED BECAUSE WE'RE LIKE FINALLY WE CAN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BUFFER BETWEEN US AND THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE PRIVACY FOR OUR DAUGHTER WHO LOVES PLAYING IN OUR BACKYARD. um and it's like it's been over two months i uh texted uh texted the agent and uh he didn't really seem to have any updates for us as well so we're just kind of looking for general information as far as like where things are at with those two items thank you thanks for coming and um i'm going to turn this to mr joshua because i know he's going to top all these things seriously every day he's talking worries with the building over there so do you want to just kind of fill them in

Yeah, we're in a situation that I can tell you a lot, I can tell you a little, I can tell you a lot that we don't have control over right now. The matter has been through a lot of financial challenges and issues. There is a receiver now been appointed to a buyer that had to buy it from a bank sale that the prior developer has.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt. Is that for the physical school itself or the new construction building?

The new construction. The school actually is going very well internally. It's not seen on the outside, but they're doing work in there.

Yeah, someone else took that over, right?

Yes, that's a different company, so I don't want to confuse the two. That one is going fine. The one that's the 300 North Kearney, that's burned into my head every day. Actually, we got a payment on some of the mowing and things. We've encouraged to go around it. We're waiting for a receiver to be finalized. The receiver... should have some authority to allow the proposed purchaser, which is not the old one, to actually take charge of the property and begin to do things. Certainly, Mr. Downey and others will say, it's a process. It's a lot of things that I don't have control over that we have to keep on top of. But on the positive, a new LLC was formed. They have... excuse me, purchased it from the bank, from the other owner. He's got some rights to try to reclaim it. So we're in kind of a hold there, but we are actively trying to maintain the property and to get some things done because our alternative is we ask the court to let us demolish it, but then we pay for it. So we're trying to work that out. Very sorry for you over there. It bugs me every day that you look at it. On the survey, the problem with the rights-of-way was we asked the first surveyors, our engineers, to prepare a survey for the division of the property. Ran into all kinds of entanglements, from easements to rights-of-way to things. So it's gonna take a lot longer than we anticipated.

But the intent is still to sell off the easement.

If I can ever get a survey company that's willing to take the challenge on and do it, that is still the direction that the city is going in. But it was much more, in fact, our company didn't want to do it. It was so entangled because it's got a lot of strange angles and properties. It's got some right-of-way issues. It's a lot of stuff. And I know that's a real scientific way to say it.

No, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, okay. SO IT JUST GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARIFICATION. SO IT JUST GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARIFICATION. SO IT JUST GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE CLARIFICATION. AS FAR AS THE PURCHASE THAT IS MORE CLARIFICATION. AS FAR AS THE PURCHASE THAT IS MORE CLARIFICATION. AS FAR AS THE PURCHASE THAT IS PROPOSEDLY TAKING PLACE OF THE AS FAR AS THE PURCHASE THAT IS PROPOSEDLY TAKING PLACE OF THE AS FAR AS THE PURCHASE THAT IS PROPOSEDLY TAKING PLACE OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION BUILDING, IS PROPOSEDLY TAKING PLACE OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION BUILDING, IS PROPOSEDLY TAKING PLACE OF THE NEW CONSTRUCTION BUILDING, IS THERE ANY INTENT, KNOWN INTENT NEW CONSTRUCTION BUILDING,

I don't think it's walk-away-able right now. I think that the new proponent... wishes to turn it to a legitimate senior housing or senior care center. They have a good track record. They've done it in other places, but they're not operators. They're smart enough to know they're not smart enough to operate one. They're going to own it and then contract it out. So I think there's enough money invested in it that they want to try that. If it became demolished, then basically start over again. The I don't wanna jump ahead and say, but the development that's going on at the old elementary school has some interest in making it more of a campus-like operation over there. So I think that's what you're seeing in the future. Sorry to ask for patience, but there's just nothing more we can do to push ahead any harder than we are.

Understood. I mean, we're looking for a lot of communication. Nobody seems to know what's going on, and that causes rumors. Then people get upset because people are spreading false rumors about things, and we just want communication as far as what's going on. I understand you have so much power, so much control over certain events, but we just need some sort of communication, as we've been dealing with this for well over two years, and it doesn't seem to really go anywhere, but at least getting some clarification as far as where things are at and where you see things are going is very helpful.

I just spoke to one of your neighbors this afternoon who has a very cute accent. She's an older neighbor of yours down there who's checked in with me a couple times.

Yep, I know who she is.

I filled her in, so if you want to give her a stop, or you guys please call me. Okay. I'll be happy to tell you what I, you know, I'm restricted to tell you, but I can give you much more information than broadly broadcast, but please call.

Perfect, thank you.

Thanks you guys. Thank you. Anybody else? Who's this guy?

It doesn't matter how many times I do this, I still get nervous and I forget things. So probably the most important thing is there's one person who was more instrumental in any of this than anyone in the room except her, and that's my wife Leah. So congratulations to her too.

Mr. Beer, that's called a save. Anybody else have to thank somebody they forgot to forget? All right, we'll go to number 12, Mayor and Council. Couple things, tomorrow, a big vote. If you get to vote, the millage renewal is on there. It's a renewal, it's not a new tax, just a renewal. So we can continue the program that we have been doing for the last 10 years. Our next meeting is Tuesday, August 18th, six o'clock. I'd like to congratulate the Harbor Commission, Dave Shorkey, Mr. Kufa, and Murphy Inn. Pulled up a Mardi Gras Saturday night in between a little bit of raindrops. It was a good event. They raised money for snaps on Fulmer Highway. Anybody else have anything?

I'd just like to add to the millage and the renewal. If you talk to anybody, any questions, please let them know how important it is, how much work the city's been able to do in the last 10 years with that money and the roads that are continually getting better. That makes a big difference. So get out there and support it if you can, please.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Okay, then we're going to 13 after a closed session to discuss the strategy connected with the motion of a corrective bargaining agreement with the employees represented by the people of CLS for most of that effect.

I think the motion.

We're going to make the most made supported questions. Call roll please.

Laporte?

Yes.

Paul?

Yes.

Bowles?

Yes.

Westrick?

Yes.

Kupa?

Yes.

Beater?

Yes.

Motion carries.

Thank you. You are welcome to stay up in the lobby up there and we'll come up and see if you want to come back down when we're done, but I can't have you stay here during a closed session. We may take action when we come back out of that session, we may not. But I thank you all for being here and to be safe going home. And again, congratulations to my wonderful couple over here. Have a good night, everybody. Vote tomorrow, please.

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