Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

All right, wonderful. We have a we have a beautiful day in Startville. This is our um work session in preparation for our last meeting in May, May the 19th. And so we will call the work session to order. And um I am very excited because we have the civil link um results that they're going to give us. and and we know I'm I'm absolutely biased about this program and I couldn't be more excited with what I think are going to be the results that they're going to share with us. But before we do that, I'm going to during the work session and I will do it again uh at the board meeting acknowledge that this is our last work session with Mr. Bernett. He has been an extraordinary um employee for the how many years now?

You came in in 13. So 13 years time flies. um and he is the um he's the initiator of this and so that makes me uh very excited that we're going to be able to get this presentation um before he leaves us. So um I will uh say it again but I know that the board feels the same way. We we have been delighted with all that you have done and we'll miss you and wish you the very best. So all right with that in mind I will leave it to you to uh make the introductions and and move forward the work session presentation.

Yes ma'am. Thank you. So we have sibling with us today and they're going to give us an update on our roadway maintenance program. So uh quick recap on that program everybody. We started this in 24 and the uh this is our third year or we finished three years of the program. So we committed to a 10-year plan. So we're about 30% through that plan. So at this point in time update will include an update on what we've done in the past three years. to remind you what they have done for us. The the first thing is they assess all of the streets that we have. So they they ride the roads and they get a ranking for each of those roads. It's on a scale from 1 to 10. One is the worst, 10 is the best. So every road in Startville, we know what the condition is at that point. They also tell us for all of those ratings, what is the treatment type? So for any road we have, there is a treatment for that rad. And then lastly to me where the the magic really happens is they provide us a funding allocation plan. So what that does is it says with this budget and the type of road you have if you spend the money this way you will gain life. And that's really where you need to kind of know how to spend those dollars. The way that works is is for each of your categories of two a three or four the plan will tell you how much funding to put in each of those categories. Okay. Civil Inc. does not tell us what roads to be, although they could. Um, they don't tell us to do these roads. They they tell us how to spend money. So, we still have a full economy over picking roads, but when we do that, we make sure the money follows the categories to make sure we're gaining money. So, if I was listening to this presentation, the things I would want to listen for are how much has our average road condition grown the past three years? I would want to know how much have we paid down on our debt. So, I remember Mr. Dan say that first time we have a $34 million problem. So how much does that come down to three years? And then the last thing I want to know is what happens at the end of year 10 when we're finished with

the program. So I won't let the cat out of the bag. This is Chase Navs. We've got Cody Oserson and principal Mr. Dan Cornell. Okay. Wonderful. And thank you for being here. Cody, do remind us where we were in terms of the status of our roads. or maybe they're going to do that. But that change that we've that we've seen. So where were we in and where we are now in terms of status of the You mean like total roadway condition improvement? Is that what you're asking? Yeah. All right. Great. Well, don't let me get in your way. I'm sorry. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Go ahead. Well, thank y'all and good morning everybody.

So, I guess standing right here is okay. Uh couple things I want to touch on was kind of some project goals that we were looking to do with this reervey. We want to evaluate all roadway conditions, review our long-term preservation strategies and the progress we've made toward that. We want to continue to maximize roadway life and infrastructure investment through limited funding available. Reduce costly reconstruction through proactive maintenance. And the another big goal of this report right here is to see is the plan working. So we came up with a plan three years ago that y'all implemented and we're trying to see track the progress and see how we're doing on it. So methodology and Cody kind of touched on this a little bit. So we go out there and we ride all the roads and then we have videos that we take back. We review. We're analyzing the pavement distresses. Based off those pavement distresses, we do assign an RSR from 1 to 10. One being the worst, 10 being the best. For each RSR, there is an associated treatment that we use. We break down our roads by functional classification. This just kind of lets us rank the roads of what would be a priority to treat. Roads that typically see more traffic. You want to treat those first because you're affecting more people that travel those roadways every day. And then like I said, we determine the appropriate treatment for each road. We get into our engineering considerations here down here at the bot. I'm sorry. There we go. trying to get point. Sorry. So down here at the bottom you see these are our treatment models here. What we're this is how we treat roads from 1 to 10. So roads that are ranked as a one or two there's going to be a full depth reclamation. So basically that just means the road has to be completely reconstructed because the roads in pretty terrible condition. Gets better from there. Three still a major overlay on that roadway. You're doing major rehab on that roadway. Four is your typical inch and a half overload. Once the road once the pavement's run its

full lifespan, just replace asphalt with it. Five is what we call a double treatment. So that's going to be a mic. It's going to be a double layer of micro or a micro and a scrub seal combination. That's considered preservation treatments. Everything from five up. Six is what we call a single treatment. That's just a single lift of micro. Seven and eight are our fog seals. And then any roads that are rank nine and 10, we defer treatment on those. We did under this year's uh reservey, we updated all our bid prices. Previously, we were estimating bid prices just based on industry standards. Now, we actually have gone out and gotten turn bids or y'all have gone out and gotten turn bids. So, we updated all the pricing in our model to reflect the actual bid prices that y'all have. When we updated it to the actual prices, it did lower the overall network cost by $3.5 million. So, that was a big step in the right direction. We've also gone through with this reservey and updated our patching percentages just to better reflect field measurements. Some of the previous patching percentages we were figuring were a little bit high and had the cost inflated a little bit. This is a map of all the road work that STAR has completed since our initial survey in 2023. So since 2023, the city's been spending approximately $3.2 million annually on the roadway network. They've also done capital improvements in addition to that. If you see right down here at the bottom right corner, this is the total amount of lane miles we have treated since 2023. About 106 lane miles, which is about a third of the city's road network. So, we've made a lot of progress in the past three years in treating roadways. This is a map of the or graph of the current system conditions. So, you basically have your breakdown here. You've got all your different road types. Overlay concrete, gravel, chips, gravel, chips, asphalt, concrete, and asphalt. And then everything's broken down per RSR and the amount of lane miles that are in each uh rating. I would like to note everything. So from

five up again, that's what we consider preservation treatments roads that we can still preserve. That's 75% of the roadway network is ready to five or above. And then 25% of the roadway network is what would we consider overlay or reconstruction. So 75% of it is in very good health. We also break it down by two budget scenarios. We have a seven and a 10-year budget. The seven is a little bit more aggressive, but it requires a higher annual allocation. The 10-year budget is the opposite. Doesn't require as much annual allocation, but you are allowing more time to go between the treatments. Couple things I'd like to highlight on here. So, as Cody was saying, we break it down by how much you we recommend that you spend under each RSR rating each year. And those are broken down here all the way down on the columns right there at the bottom. If I get my pointer to work.

Okay. Yes, sir.

I think my fingers are too fat. I'm hitting this button when I'm hitting that. So, right here, this is your total network problem right now. So, basically, it would cost you $19.9 million to treat all your roadways and bring them up to a five or better right now. Based off of a 10-year budget, you'd be treating roughly 24.5 lane miles a year at a cost of $1.9 million. At a 7-year budget, you'd be treating 38 lane miles a year at a cost of $3.1 million. Survey comparisons. I know this is what M really wanted to see. So, there was major improvements across the whole roadway network. So, our overall RSR changed from a 5.2 to a 6.2. for three years we've almost gone up the whole point on our road service rates. Also too, our total network cost went down from 35.4 million to 19.9 million. Now that's a lot of that is credited to the lane miles that we've been treating over the last few years, but also to mention lowering our passing percentages and updating our bid prices did amount to about $5 half billion worth of difference. But all the remaining of that is just the amount of investment that y'all put in treating the roadways to improve their health. recommendations. So, we've seen across the board that utilizing these preservation treatments are extending the roadway life and increasing the RSR across the city. So, we like to continue to use those preservation treatments so we can treat as many lane miles as we can. The idea is to treat the roads before they fall down into a reconstruction uh rating because at that point, it's much more costly to treat those roads than it is if you catch them early. And that's kind of demonstrated right here in this table. You see your cost per square mile or excuse me, per square yards. If you're doing a micro, a single lift, a micro, which we call a single treatment, or a double lift to micro, you see you go from $11 here to then you're at $20 to overlay. And it even

gets even costly if you let your roads fall all the way down into a RSR two. Also too, over here on the side, we just put in basically the life extensions you can expect by using these treatments. So by using a fog seal, three years, single treatment, double treatment, you're going to get 7 to 10 years life extension on those. So it allows you to treat a lot more lane miles and keep those roads from falling down into those worse RSRs where it cost more money to fix. Uh at the end of so also at the end of year seven. So you saw back there the seven-year plan was a $3 million allocation, $3.1 million allocation annually. If you continue that $3 million allocation in seven years from now, all of your roads should be an RSR five and better, meaning that they're all preservable. You can use preservation treatments, which are a lot uh more inexpensive to treat these roadways. Ultimately, just keep your roadway network out of all. I know I breeze through that kind of quickly. I don't want to take up too much y'all's time. I'm happy to answer any questions y'all may have. I'm sure they've got some, but I I just want to, you know, want to say I did have one question. So, we were 75% now. What were we before?

Did I miss that? I don't know that I'm 90. Yeah, it was at the bottom I think of another slide. Yeah. Right there. 78. I did not see that. Okay. So, we were So, here's And I should have Sorry, I should have emphasized this a little bit more. So, you lost basically 20 lane miles that were in rehab state. Yeah. And then you gain those miles in your preservation state. Okay. All right. Cool. I This makes me such a happy person. Go ahead, Ar. I think it's pretty fabulous, too. Um would you go forward to the the slide that that uh that slide? Yes, ma'am. Um so, so roads that roads that get to the point where they've got to be rebuilt. Yes, ma'am.

Um it's going to cost us six times as much to rebuild it as it does to do a double treatment. But we're only gaining 8 years more of life. Is that So yes, ma'am. So for full depth reclamation, so once the road gets to be that level of treatment, really the only thing you can do to fix it is a full depth recation because you have structural issues on the road. You didn't do an MPR on a road, you could expect about an 18 year life on that roadway. But if you had caught it earlier, it would have cost you less to treat it and you would have gotten it basically cost you a six of the price you could have that life seven to 10 years. Right? Okay. So, the idea is to catch them early and to keep them preserved so they don't fall down into those categories that cost so much money.

Exactly. And you don't want to spend all $19 million in one year because then that $19 million problem rolls back around at the same time. That's right. And so in in what you've provided us, we are we can see the status of the roads that you rode and their their condition and and all the same thing as as last time, right? Yes, ma'am. So, there's a map right there. I think you're on it, mayor. Of course, that map right there shows already. Okay. And everything that I included in the slide is also included in your packet there. Okay. I just was kind of touching on my high points, but yes, I know all the information that's shown on that map. Okay. At at Go ahead.

I was going to say at at the end of the process, right now we're we're um we would spend about $3 million on on this this program annually. at the end of the process about how much in today dollars do you think we would need to to spend? Initially, we had thought of a couple million. Yes, ma'am. So, it's kind of hard to estimate that once we get all those, it's definitely going to be less than where you're at now. So, your annual allocation, if you were going to do a 10-year plan, you're at $2 million currently. So, you would probably be at around a million or a million. Okay. So, maybe maybe a half half to two going down. Yes, ma'am. Okay. That would free up a lot of It does. It just allows allows you to use that money for something else.

Each one of us obviously there's a reason we're all divided into well except for me. All divided into wards because we all drive our own streets probably more than anybody else, you know. And so I I don't know about um how y'all feel having ridden and driven in your wards, but I can tell you that the places that I try to go to and I try to take a different way each time I go somewhere in town. I can see the difference. Uh it's a quantitative and a qualitative difference in what I'm seeing in terms when I'm driving the streets. And it also has manifested itself in hearing less chatter about my street. You know, I I need I want this and you know what's wrong with our streets. I think we've done a really good job. Testament to Cody and the street department touching on the places that have some major problems, but in terms of treating the overall streets in town, I believe we we we're seeing success. So I I just want to say that as as a part of uh thank you for the program and and all that it's done to make a difference for us. Yes.

Go a little further. By the way, I'm Dan Qu and he skipped over but to go over a little bit of what you're indicating now. There are a lot of indications that the program is the plan is working and it's improving. One was the overall rating improvement, which doesn't sound like a lot, going from a 54 to a 62, but he talks about the original 10-year plan y'all obligated to was 3 million, 3.2 million a year, which would put you after 3 years, as Cody indicated, you're really seven years left. And if you look at the seven-year plan, you're still looking at about $3 million a year. So, it went from a 32 for 10 years, but your remaining seven years now is around a 3 million estimate. So you see you're making improvements by obligating that 10-year program. Uh so it's not just you're seeing the improvements, the numbers, and you've treated a third of your roads and you spent that much money and your rating is going better. So by the end of the time of the seven years, you will see a significant decrease in. And by the way, it's been a pleasure to work with this man. So you know, we're all going to miss him. Well, we are we are going to miss him and and MD dot will be the better off for him, but it's always nice to have somebody in MD dot that you can call.

That's true. Anytime. All right. Any other Yes, ma'am. Do you want to talk about this program having been successful enough that Cody's now in demand as a speaker and he's going to be

and so Cody Cody's last day with us uh is the 28th of this month. Uh but uh he's staying on through June, working remotely, but staying on through June. And he is in demand as a speaker at the um supervisors meeting down the big supervisors meeting down on the coast. I think sure they have a name for it, but I don't know what it is. And he's in demand as a speaker at MML, which we all almost all of us go to down on the coast. And he's also going to be giving this presentation at Rotary uh in June. So all of those things are important because they reached out to him. I mean, we didn't go out and go, gee, we got this great idea of somebody that ought to be talking to you. That's how important this program is in terms of each one of the municipalities in each one of the uh counties and trying to save funding. And I know Octavaha County is is looking at it. I'm not quite sure how they're approaching it, but they're still looking at pavement preservation as an option. And so, uh I think I think it speaks very highly of Cody and I think it says a lot about us that we were uh we were willing to take this on. So, I'm I'm excited about that for you. and I think your representation for the city will be wonderful and so thank you for that. So, any any other questions while we while we got these folks in the in the building. So, there was nothing of note that you would share with us based on what y'all have seen beyond beyond the presentation. No matter

Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you so much. I can't tell you how many times I have referred to this over the uh last three years or so just in kind of looking at it. So, I I appreciate that. And do we have the PowerPoint, Joel? access to that for our website and for this for the website. Yes, ma'am. Outstanding. All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Yes, ma'am. Appreciate it. All right. Great. Cody, anything else before we move from this particular element and go into the agenda? Uh, no, ma'am. I appreciate the kind words. Those guys get way more credit than I went, but I I do appreciate it.

All right. Good deal. All right. Uh, the agenda for the Tuesday, May the 19th meeting. We've got a couple of sets of minutes. Mr. Muskson, those are good for you. Okay, Miss McLaren, you as well consent for those two items. Okay. And then we've got we're going to have some employee introductions. I need my reminder of the sanitation memorial day garbage pickup which will be uh citywide on that. Of course, there he is back there. Citywide on the on that Tuesday. Um and Memorial Day celebration I Oh, shoot. I think it starts at 11 um out in front of the courthouse in its usual location. So um that will be that'll be the memorial day. I think there's there's planned participation. It's usually a very a very nice event. So um then we've got public hearings. This is this is Ruth Road. Um, and I'll go back to a a slight explanation that I think I've we've discussed in the past, but Ruth Road is the property that we dealt with um over two years ago, and we were we were in court for these for these past two years. And unfortunately, 211911 code section does not allow for a tolling of the time if we're in litigation over it. So, we have to bring it back. you have a two-year window in which to uh deal with the 211911 issue. And so we're at a point where now where we have to bring it back to the city for action again on these four properties. Mr. Huskinson, did I say that correctly?

Yes, ma'am. Okay. And so u but but the original litigation associated with it has been closed out. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. All right. So there it's 2011 Ruth Road, 245 Ruth Road, 305 Ruth Road, and 325 Ruth Road. and all of them we have seen before but obviously all that information will be updated and they will be public hearings. So all right so under mayor's business um I I want to pull item A or or take item A off and we will consider that at a at a time later in the uh in the meeting under an executive session. So um if we'll pull that one. So Joanna if you would mark that one. Okay. Thank you.

Does this qualify for the day of session? it will as a part of the discussion will come out and then vote on it. So I'm just pulling it for now so that there'll be clarity in executive session. I understand what you said but my respectful inquiry is this is an agenda item about extending the contract. Yes. So without getting to detail does this qualify within the meaning of the law and after all the detail by by itself. No it does not. Thank you. But it it will rise to the to a level of information. I got it.

All right. Thank you. Um then the next one is the lean and these are leans for um properties that we have um prior to found them in violation of 21911 and have cleared them. So if we could do consent for those items.

Okay. And then there's a resolution vacating a public lane. Okay. So here's a little story that goes with this and I'm almost embarrassed to say it. I used to own this property, so I don't own it anymore, so we're not talking about conflicts of interest. Um, but the particular property that we're talking about, I guess I had it I had it for like 20 years and did not realize that it was a public land. And when I purchased it back in 2002 or three, um, did pay no attention to it, did not recognize it as such, and it was used as access to um, apartments that, um, that I own. So for absolute transparency, um when I sold it, I was surprised a couple of years later when this came up as a discussion because I just ignorant what I tell you. But it is apparently a public lane and Mr. Husk Huskinson has researched it and um we have it goes nowhere and it serves no purpose for the city. So, it is truly an entry to a private area that is accessing it for access to the to the apartments and the the town houses that are located adjacent to it. So, um I think this is a very reasonable thing. We don't want it. We don't need it. We certainly don't want to obligate ourselves for keeping it up. So, um I think this is a reasonable resolution. So, um is there anything further that would need to be done on this? Because doesn't state law kick in and then the whatever we have abandoned seeds to the adjacent owners

seeds the owners. Both the owners are aware of the abandonment. One is in support of it. The other one is silent has not has not come forward for or against. Okay. Well, and one of them actually sought us out because again we wouldn't but for Yeah. but for that request. So, um I think it's consent worthy, but you know that's up to y'all. Anybody have any objection to putting on consent?

Hold it off. Okay. All right. Um, under board business, um, Mr. Bernett has filled the landfill authority position now for, um, well, couple of years now, but the the term is yet to go. So, we need to, uh, offer the landfill authority a replacement for him. So, um, if we could do that, consent to that one. Okay. Um, and then we've got a board order authorizing the opt out program for the power of change. I believe I've communicated with y'all that that statutoily um with an AG opinion also is not something that is authorized. So, um, we need to resend that board order that we passed on May the 5th. Consent for that one. Okay. Thank you. Pass 61 vote.

Yes, sir.

Um, and then we have Alderman Bone um, as a voting delegate and then William Pokeup as an al alternate de well says alternative. How about alternate with an E? All right. Thank you. As an alternate delegate and uh Alman Vaughn has conceded to do that. So consent for that one. All right. And then we have a resolution. Uh we have a request to keep that off the consent agenda, but this is the TIFF agreement associated with the uh car dealership that uh we have seen on a couple of different occasions. So we'll leave that one off. Airport has no items and Mr. Great. There you are. Mr. McCasky is representing um community development department on these two items. So,

all right. So, the first one is a preliminary class 251 for Sterling Ridge. And so, this one's uh near Mockingberg Road. This is in like the north uh west side of town. And it's 163 lots. Uh the uh plans commission unanimously voted to approve the request conditions that were attached to. Okay. So, it's a preliminary plat. Any concerns with Oh, go ahead.

I I I would just like to ask there were five conditions attached to it and that was formerly in my ward. It's now in Alderman Morland's ward. The area has um flooding issues and um the streets in that older neighborhood were constructed um not to what we would require these days. Do those standards, those conditions that are attached address those issues sufficiently? I'll let the city engineer speak specifically to it. Mr.

I'm happy to. Yes, ma'am. So, the for the drainage specifically, they're they're non-prescriptive conditions. This is what we want to happen. And generally, what it says is that flood water cannot increase onto the existing properties to the south. So, we're protecting the existing neighbors that are there. And then for all the new homes, knowing that this is likely going to be in a flood zone one day, we're conditioning them to be requested well to be built to current standard, which is 2 ft above that flood eleation. So that would address in my opinion the flooding for the existing neighbors and the new neighbors. And then for the roadway condition there is a strong history of very poor soil the worst because we have um a condition that requires an additional buffer under the roadway. This is to preserve the integrity of the road not give us a liability um in the near future. And this is consistent with other developments. We've done this in Portico subdivision. Uh even in cornerstone, we undercut our home roads 3 ft. And so this condition is to ensure that we're getting a good road.

Okay. And that's just that's just one of the features of that part of the of our town is that poor soil. It is. Yes. We've we've had a third party geotechnical firm look at the report and give a recommendation. meet cross reference with INDOT's requirements and we feel that the requests we've made both from a technical perspective and a monetary perspective are well within reason for the site. Okay. All right. Thank you. Any further questions or discussion? Thank you. I I think I if if the engineering group is um comfortable with it, I'm comfortable with it. Put on consent. Okay. Um and then last but not least for community development, Miss McCask.

Yes, ma'am. All right. This is going to be final plat 2605. This is going to be barter row. It's more easily known as the it's a lot area behind regions bank and this is the first step in many towards a development potentially coming behind there. So you're looking at five lots being mer.

Let's just expand on that just a little bit because this is very exciting to me. This particular project is going to be, you know, the bank is there now, but um the paper folks are looking at creating the bank's going to take a lesser portion and then they're going to have um some retail or office space down or commercial down and then they're going to have residential up. So that puts us, you know, headed down the path of having residential downtown, which has long been one of those things that we have have wanted and I think certainly benefits the the energy and the vibrancy of the downtown 24/7 instead of just 9 to5. So I think this is really exciting. I'm looking forward to it. So uh consent for that one?

Okay. Uh then engineering uh street improvement list. Um Cody, this is this uh has a little bit of a change. Yes. And if you'd highlight that for the vice mayor, I will. Because he's worked on this as well.

Yes, ma'am. Originally, we had Welty on the list for patent preservation. When we inspected that road, which we do for all the roads on the list, it was in our opinion had fallen into a condition that that was no longer appropriate so that have some extra funding allocation available. Void road um one of the roads we've annexed out that way is in terrible condition and it's in a condition that I feel we could lose it to a four-we rehabilitation in the next year or two. So we have recommended to um allocate the funds to that road as well as to uh a microsurface barbecue road which will provide a wearing surface to preserve the soil sequence around $90,000 rounded up. So it's a it's a very good deal for the city and it will make sure the roads last for a long time.

Yes. And I applaud the vice mayor for continuing to work with the county. I also applaud the county for um continuing to support the things that are sometimes people forget that the roads in the city are in the county. So uh I appreciate that shared effort and uh and this is uh supervisor trainer, supervisor um Marvel Howard has been helpful in the past and this is supervisor trainer. So uh I did listen to that board meeting and he did make that request of the board and they did approve it. So, um, we do have we have them on the record. So, uh, anyway, I think that's very exciting and and I'm greatly appreciative that they saw that and saw the value in sharing that with us. So, um, can we do a consent for that one? Lovely. Um, and then access and maintenance agreement. This is the easement for the roundabout or the Yes, roundabout. Go ahead. Sorry, Cody. Go ahead.

This one is rather innocuous. It's just an easement from MSU land to construct the multi-use path. It's a far roundabout project on Highway 12. It um it keeps us from having to do a lot of unnecessary grading. So, it's a proven its approved it. So, we just need to get on the record that we approve the ement.

And this is that grant that we got for $8 million. So, for for what's going to be a wonderful entry into town. Very excited about that as well. It's all good news going today. So, consent for that one. Okay. Um, and thenou with Main Street. This is the Main Street revitalization grant. Oh, there you go. Okay. I was going to say Steve, you pointed to Stephen. I'm looking over here, Chris. So, the Main Street uh folks working the partnership Main Street uh Paige Watson, they got a $500,000 um grant to improve between Main Street and uh 182 on Jackson. You want to give a few details? So did a $500,000 grant that they got. OA is going to do the match for the $100,000 for us. Um and then

so we're not out of we're not out of pocket. OC is picking up. Um and so then what we're looking at as well is to be looking at next year's pavement improvement and be able to do the pavement, you know, with our pavement. So be able to put the pieces and parts together. So this will do our ADA. So we've got our bookends of the two projects. 182 is going to be ADA. Main Street's going to be one. it's going to be ADA and so this is start working on our north south connections um to do that. So we're looking at street lighting, street trees, sidewalks and then restriping and being able to put parking as well on it. So have it really start turning into a downtown area for that piece as well.

That's going to be cool cuz the sidewalk instead of going up to like cadence, it's going to go in front of it. you'll be able to see the see the mural, make the mural, you know, the folks that you will be able to walk through there a whole lot easier now. Cool. So, consent for that one. All right. Great. Uh, we'll skip the claims docket. Financials. Anything uh web from a financial statements perspective. So, we consent for that one. Okay. And then acknowledgement of the privilege licenses. May have to lobby for the state to keep us from having to do that, but uh as as of right now, it's a statutory requirement. So consent for that one is it

and then renewing the property vehicle equipment insurance services. Um any what was the up what was the increase? It was about 7%. Um the majority of that is coming from new properties we put on. We read it in the key and that's the biggest driver of that. So probably about 6% of it is from new properties 1% increase. So Okay. All right. Consent for that. Okay. Um and then nothing for the fire department HR. We've got um this authorization to hire a firefighter, non-certified firefighter. Yes, ma'am.

Where is he? There he is. I'm looking I was looking for the chief. Okay. Um and they've got a couple of firefighters. Um so, and these are positions that are needed for vacancies. Correct. One of them is for the vacancy, the first one, and the rest of them is the list that if we have a vacancy, a if you have another one, you can pull from it. Right. Okay. So, consent for those two. Recognized. Certainly. Oh. Uh chief, um will the um approval of this particular position by the board put you at your maximum staffing level? Yes, sir. The one that we're requesting to hire, it will put us at the maximum level. That's the funny question I ask you. So, answer. Yes, sir. Thank you. Um

which is also exciting because we don't have the turnar we did. So, very exciting. No, that's great. Um, so we have a under utilities, we've got a meter technician, a water treatment operator. Um, and both of those are Where's Edward? There he is. Both of those are vacant positions, right? Okay. Consent for those. Okay. And then we have police officer um, one Drew Wigington. Wig Wigington. I did say that right, didn't I, Chief? Yes, ma'am. Okay. And that is, uh, a vacant position. Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. Consent for that one, sir.

Okay. Thank you, Chief. Uh under code enforcement, these are uh properties that are in need of mowing or cleanup or both. Um 49 Chuck, 111, 112, and 113 floor. Can we get consent for that one? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Once again, let me just say one thing. You don't have communication this this morning.

Yes, sir. I just want to make sure and I was aware this on the agenda for we got with this morning but this ordinary shop time it just regularly stays before and the only reason I'm mentioning this now I just want us to be sure because it's on more than this and we need to be sure and I hear from this regularly these constituents are well engaged over there and uh this is on the agenda we've had public hearings before the time expired for whatever reason it did. But we um and I went over there and the property is a mess. The grass is tall. The uh there's wood up against the back of the house. There's debris in the yard. Of course, there's a old structure in the backyard. The garage door is is visibly inoperable. Is one of those automatic doors. It has a twisted look to it and the neighbors um middle class families primarily are there and they do their best to keep their wellestablished family oriented neighborhood looking good and the poor John obviously got removed not long ago stayed out there forever and I brought that to your attention and you mentioned that this is what's needed and the only reason I pause here today so as we plan to teach Tonight all I'm doing is very respectfully requesting today that we take all the action so when we go over there we can be through with 49 shot once this propert from a third world country so the people cannot hear from these people. So I appreciate the board in advance and our

humble mayor for we can get this done and I would be forever grateful humble and appreciative. Thank you. Does it Yes, sir. Does it rise to the level of a 211 1911 property sub one? No. Cuz uh Mr. McMullen has been over there a couple of different times and it has not risen to that level because when it came to us the first time it was at that level. It was. But if you recall Mr. Stark, who is now deceased, uh, said he was going to fix it and he got a building permit and did some work and then he passed away. So, it became it'll be back there before it's all over. Well, okay. It's got a roof. So, at least from that perspective, it's not Oh, I'm sorry, Chief.

Also, we have a early court as well. There are some charges that have been filed with the ownership at 49 Chuck in our municipal court as well, Vice Mayor, for early June. and I'll I'll get that date to you, sir. And and chief, one last thing, May one last time. I wouldn't say this if it wasn't so repetitive for the board.

Chief, of course, you as the department, we appreciate you, but I'm representing the these constituent before this honorable mayor board and a very respectful request. I stay in my lane with those words. I'm very hopeful that I know you're going to be a part, but I'm hopeful that our prosecutor and we'll understand through you that we're sick and tired of being sick and tired of coming with this same thing. So hopefully we'll get a maximum prosecution of that same mayor. I'm asking that he give you a report about that and you can report I'll get a report.

In fact, if you will give me that date, I may decide to attend court. Yes, ma'am. do that. Thank you. All right. Thank you very much. Um, under utilities, Mr. Kim, we've got a low quote for a pump at the influence station back in station. They think a lot of their pumps don't replace one. Okay. Consent. Thank you.

And this is herbicide spraying, which is what we typically do. Correct. And this is the same contractor that we use for our easements. Uh while they're in town, we're going to get them, we're asking to get them to spray additional areas that we don't want any vegetation to grow, such as substations, our new construction rehab, some areas around the places. There's a variety of locations that basically do the same service for the spring. Okay. Consent for that one. Yes, sir. Okay. Low bid for Curry Street generator. Very exciting. And and Curry Street is back up now, right?

Curry Street is uh is is working. We have samples down at the health department waiting on clearance from those as soon as back. All right. Excellent. They put all of them online then, right? They will all be online. Fingers crossed. Knock on wood for the

All right. Consent for that one. Okay. And then we have a contract extension with SNS. This is for the uh clearing of the lines. Um which I'm going to do also a promo for what you've done as it relates to that because I think our reliability if I would like us to be able to research what our reliability was I don't know seven years ago, 5 years ago to what it is now because I think it's made a huge difference. And I will say to you that I I think in particular for example um Southwire who's one of our largest users in terms of their need for that absolute reliability um have been extremely um supportive and complimentary of what we've been doing to maintain their ability to keep up and running when they when they absolutely need to. So I kudos to you on that. So

yeah, we we over the last 5 years or so we've done a lot of catch up because there was a period of time where we went away to the same level and it definitely affected reliability. Many of y'all know Chip Petty that helps run that SNS line crew. He does an excellent job. He's a local resident. He knows our system very well. Um I recommend Okay. Uh consent. Okay. And then change order for increase for the influent lift station rehab project. This is just a minor change order due to um the way the configuration of the flanges are on bypass connections.

Okay, consent for that one. Um low quote for um installation of a new check valve at Academy Well, six and seven are semi- related but different components. Um we have some water that's happening at the academy well is received in that line. So we have some valves over there that need replacing. They're not working right now. So okay. So both of those are consider control valves but same location same need to do the same solve the same problem. Okay. All right guys. Well that takes us through our open agenda. Yes ma'am.

Hey Ever. I want to ask you a question real quick. I know that the road clearing you know we we're playing catchup. Could you contribute some of the stuff that's on there for the water? The same thing that we were just trying to save cost. So that's why we need to invest in it.

Yeah. Y'all notice the agenda, there's been a lot of valves and pumps and motors that we've been placed over the last 6 to 12 months. A lot of them were either on their last leg or have failed or we're buying a backup in case we do have a problem. So, I would I would uh definitely give kudos to our water treatment team and water operations team for being much more proactive in their approach and what we want without trying to have spare parts on hand. We're not in a in a pinch if we do have a failure. No, I just want to say I'm excited about everything y'all done with that. So, well, and let's take it back a little bit because how long ago did we do that assessment? Two years. Three years ago. This is 2023.

Okay. So three years ago when we did the both the water and the sewer assessment and I and I remember discussions around the table uh particularly like brownwater and so we get I get a monthly report and our brownwater reports instead of going from four pages are now down to one page and half a page. So I think uh again you've done a really good job of addressing things that communitywide have been have had an impact and that have created some angst within the community for for those issues. And so I don't hear them anymore to the extent I think I've I've seen one in the last month or so about some brown water and and of course um uh Patty Draala uh Mr. Turner brought that to our attention at at our board meeting and I checked in with Miss Patty and it actually is her line. So um she you know she appreciated the the notice but we checked in on her and that was it was her line which was old as opposed to ours in this case. But nonetheless, I just think you've done extremely well in making those improvements. So, congratulations and kudos to you as well. All right. Okay, guys. Thank you everyone. Let's hope for a good baseball week this weekend because that means we might have a

and softball starts tonight. Yeah, but I'm just talking what's going to Oh, here.