City Council - Regular Meeting

basically brand new yeah this council meeting will now come to order uh august the 4th 2026 at 6 30 p.m would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for the invocation by reverend zane brooks first free will baptist church

indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Reverend?

First of all, I want to tell you thank you so much for continuing this. Would you bow your heads with me in prayer? Precious Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord God. In our society today, Lord God, we're all together recognize the fact that, Lord God, some of this kind of thing right now, this prayer, is not always favorable, Lord God. And God, I am so thankful that I live in a town that still believes in the power of prayer, still believes in God, still believes in the things. And these men and women right here, Lord God, they support these things and they help these things and God, we bring our hearts and minds together. It doesn't matter our faith. It doesn't matter our church on top of the door. But, Lord God, it matters, Lord God, that we are come together in unity and love, Lord God. And that's what this town's all about, Lord God. And I appreciate everyone that has played a role, Lord God, whether it's those that mow the grass on the roundabout or whether that fixes the leaks in the streets, Lord God, or does these mighty jobs, Lord God. Lord God, it's oftentimes overlooked. But it's not overlooked by us. It's not overlooked by those that need these services, Lord God. And, Lord God, that's all of us, really. And so, God, I thank you, God, for sending these people to this time, for such a time as this. For I believe the Bible tells us, Lord, that, God, the people perish because we have no vision. And, God, these people, Lord God, I want to tell them thank you. And from the bottom of our heart, Lord, I have this microphone at this moment. God, I want to encourage them to keep on keeping on, Lord God. In the name of Christ Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Thank you.

Heidi, can I get roll call, please?

Sure. Ms. Antonich? Here. Mr. Elmore?

Here.

Ms. Grace? Here. Mr. Hay?

Here.

Ms. Lucas? Here. Mr. Westmoreland? Here. Mayor Soria? I am also here.

All right. First off, audience participation. We have a proclamation for Drew Zika.

Come on up, Drew.

So, Drew, we meet again. Last year you were here, right? And we've done the same thing. Yep. Okay. Can I ask you a question?

Yeah.

Do you ever get tired of breaking titles? Do you ever, like, when you go and you go, God, do I have to break a number?

No, it doesn't get that tiring. Okay. I didn't think so.

All right. We got a proclamation, whereas Drew Zika demonstrated exceptional determination, resilience, athletic excellence throughout the 2026 Wellington High School track and field season. And whereas Drew delivered a remarkable performance at the 2026 Kansas 4A state track and field championship by capturing four state titles. And whereas Drew claimed the fellow students and the Wellington community. Now, therefore, I, Joe Soria, Mayor of the City of Wellington, Kansas, on behalf of the City Council and the citizens of Wellington, do hereby proclaim our congratulations and appreciations to Drew Zika for her exceptional accomplishments at the 2026 Class 4A State Track and Field Championships, and encourage all citizens to join in recognizing her commitment, competitive spirit, and outstanding representation of the city of Wellington. In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and cause the official seal of the city of Washington, Kansas to be affixed this fourth day of 2026. Congratulations.

Thank you.

I also want to say, You may not know this, but you've inspired a lot of young girls that are in sports. And I know there's a lot of young ladies that are looking up to you. And they're saying, if she can do it, we can do it. So you just keep doing it, OK?

Yep. Thank you.

Thank you, honey.

Thank you. Good job.

Mom and dad, congratulations. That right there is a very outstanding young lady. She's going to do good. All right. Next, we have Sumner County Economic Development Update Stacey Davis, director. You're up, Stacey.

Good evening. First off, I want to apologize for missing last quarter's meeting. Things have been, we've been very busy in our office. And so I'm going to try and get back onto the track of being here at least once a quarter. But I did, before you came in, set in front of you some of the things that we have done over the last seven months. And just wanted to hit on some of those. As of recently, one of our key achievements and project highlights has been Mr. Porter and I have been working with the corporate leadership at Jumpstart make that smooth transition of that becoming a corporate store and so we are working on currently still working on that we I once a month I meet with Suzanne Loomis of PEC which she's it's either in person depends on if she's here for a city meeting or over zoom and we talk about engineering and municipal infrastructure and ideas and look at grants together and things like that so that We are both on the same page and have the ability to work together seamlessly for the city. We provided hands-on business plan writing and technical development support for three local businesses that we're looking to do some expansion. And then Pinnacle is doing some strategic planning and purchasing of equipment and doing some expansion and we'll be doing some additional hiring. That's a good thing, and we were able to help with getting them aligned with programs through the Kansas Department of Commerce. One of the biggest things that I've worked very hard on in the last several months and has taken a lot of my time is, as you are aware, last year we were awarded one of three county positions for a pilot program through the Main Street program. With that, there were some caveats. The City of Wellington and the City of Mulvane were not allowed to be in that because due to population size. Well, I didn't think that was right. And so I lobbied for the inclusion of both of those communities. Technically, they said Mulvane could have been in the program because their downtown is within Sumner County, and they only have in their city limits just over 1,000 people. So that would have met the population guides. But Wellington, as the county seat and having a population over 7,200, that was more than the 5,000 cap. And so I met with the new state director for the Main Street program. And we lobbied to the Secretary of Commerce, who is also our Lieutenant Governor, to allow this to happen. And so Wellington and Mulvane were both now included in that, which gave us the opportunity we are going to extend our pilot program for another year, so we'll actually end up with three years on it. We do have some challenges with it. It is an expensive program to run, but the benefits outweigh the cost. For communities that have the Main Street designation, especially like in Wellington, you have the historic district. that puts you up a little bit higher on grants that puts you ability to apply for only certain grants like in the state of Kansas through the office of rural prosperity the rooms grant you have to be a Main Street program for that grant so I'm really proud of that it did take some time it took some trips to Topeka and some conversations but we were able to do that and so I'm pleased with that Uhm, we've held monthly local realtor roundtables talking about, you know, obviously our housing needs. We will be. I'm actually working on a grant right now through the Kansas Department of Revenue to bring and relocate people from out of state to Sumner County. We're looking at, I believe it's a $250,000 grant and there is a match to it, but we're hoping to get at least 50 families to come to the county. We had our regular advisory board meetings. That is a different advisory group than our board of directors. They meet once a month, which is the fourth Tuesday of every month. And they are people that want to be involved in the community. We also have a couple of businesses out of Wichita, ICON Structures and Ransom Financial are also members of that advisory group. And they're able to provide some insight on the construction side of things, what trends they're seeing. And of course, Ransom, we've worked with them as a city and as a county for grant writing and things like that. Over the last few months, I prepared and submitted six formal requests for information responses. Two were for the state, and four were for actual site consultants that reached out independently. working on as you know we have land rush rail our short line that has been developed and improved over the last few years they did have some damage when we had all the rain and they're working to get that taken care of but we are looking at some options to enhance that service and create some additional infrastructure potentially which would allow some additional options for logistics and things like that. We hosted the Lieutenant Governor for a site tour of AAR earlier this year. We attended, and I say we, I'm talking about Jocelyn and myself, attended the SelectUSA Foreign Direct Investment Summit in May. On the last sheet that you have, Did I not bring it up here? This is the paper that I handed out. We printed 500 of them. I brought back maybe 25. So we handed out these to a lot of people. And it has all the great information about why we are the best place for foreign direct investment to look at building, not even just foreign direct investment, I mean know companies in the united states as well we're centrally located we can get to two different ports we have we're within an hour of a major airport i mean we've got class one and two rail um you know i mean it's it's was definitely worth putting it together that did take some time to get together too making sure that we had all our our facts correct Last week I participated in the national stand-up rural America summit I can tell you the humidity in Florida is terrible. I will never complain about humidity in Kansas again But it was probably the best summit that I had ever attended the subject matter speakers were amazing especially those related to artificial intelligence data centers clean energy and it was great to be in a room full of over a hundred other people that were only focused on rural development that are going through the same thing we are going through. Everyone that I chatted with had similar stories. And challenges so that was that and some good actually opportunities as well So that was you know a really good summit to attend I'm active with the greater Wichita partnership. They do quarterly meetings and so I attend those and then the last couple pages are just the diagram of where we that all put together for you and And then where we are a summary matrix of the activity. So any questions?

I have I have one request.

Sure.

I would like to see you more often than a quarterly.

Okay. Would you like to go back to once a month?

Council. What is council?

I'm fine with that.

Yeah, I think that if you go back to once a month, I mean, I just feel that This is all good and everything, but I think we want to be updated on what's going on, what's not going on.

When was it? Was it a year or two years ago that we switched you from monthly to quarterly?

It was at the beginning of this year. Beginning of this year? Yeah. And I came, I believe it was like January and March. I feel like it was longer ago. Okay. Yeah. Trust me, it seems like that sometimes. So yeah, I don't have a problem with that. My concern is it being redundant, repetitive. But I will try my best to make sure that I'm providing you with new information as well.

I would appreciate that. Sure.

It's not a problem. And I think anything that we can help you with, I think meeting monthly, we might be able to do that, or whenever. Please be sure to request or ask.

I can do that. The mayor has sat in on a couple of meetings for me, which has been fantastic, especially the land rush rail. We had that one. That was a good one. But Mr. Porter and I do talk quite a bit, too, as well. I do appreciate that. Yep, no problem.

Anything from council?

I got one question on that relocation. Can we do in-kind to match that grant?

There are some things that, yes, you can do in-kind. Right now, I'm trying to figure out, because I'm going to all the city councils and have an ask of probably about $2,000 to be able to put towards the monetary donation of it. But there is a part in there that says the in-kind, which could be like, The rec center contributing swim passes for new families that come, that kind of thing. So it's through the Department of Revenue. And their goal is to, they don't want to attract people that live in states that are surrounding us. We're looking at people that live in Utah or live in Maine. We want them to come here and live. So we've got to get houses too, though.

Jeff's been working on it.

Yes, he's working on that.

So hopefully. All right. All righty. Thank you, Stacey. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. Next we have Leslie Carnes.

Yes.

And Leslie, you have like five minutes.

Great.

And you can bring that mic down. So we can hear you.

Can you all hear me? Yes.

Would you please state your name and your address?

Leslie Cairns, 1216 South F Street, Wellington, Kansas, 67152. All right.

Go ahead.

OK. Good evening, mayor and council members. I'm here to talk about the proposed AI data center. My name is Leslie, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. over the past several weeks i've attended both county and city meetings because i wanted to better understand how our local government works and how decisions like this are made i appreciate the time and effort each of you gives in serving our community thank you so much I'm here tonight because I believe the proposed AI data center is a significant project that deserves a careful and transparent review. Whatever our individual opinions may be today, I think we can all agree that this decision has the potential to affect Wellington for many years. I'm not here to ask you to approve or reject the project. Instead, I respectfully ask you to place on a future agenda the question of whether the city should establish a citizen advisory committee to study the proposed AI data center before any major decisions are made. such a committee could gather information, hear from experts, ask questions, and invite public input so the council and the community have the best information available. I hope the committee would examine issues such as infrastructure, utility, economics, emergency services, environmental impacts, contractual protection, data governance and privacy, and any other matters that could affect Wellington in the years ahead. The committee could include citizens, nearby property owners, local business representatives, an attorney familiar with contracts, utility or engineering professionals, emergency services, and others with relevant knowledge or experience. My hope is not to slow progress for the sake of slowing it. My hope is to ensure that any decision, whether it is ultimately yes or no, is made after a careful, informed, and transparent review that gives the public confidence in the process. As citizens, we all want what's best for Wellington. Taking the time to study a project of this magnitude demonstrates thoughtful leadership and help builds trust within our community. Thank you for your time, your service, and your consideration. I also have summaries of this that could give you each one. And you could tuck it away and go back to it.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

That was well said. Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, it's okay. Okay.

Thank you.

Okay.

Next, we have the consent agenda, approval of minutes, approval of appropriations, receipt of counsel and correspondence.

Move to approve.

Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? All right. We'll start with reports of mayor and council. And I will start with Councilman Westmoreland.

I've got a couple of things. Jamie, I received a message from a citizen that I put in a couple, actually four, co-compliance complaints three weeks ago. They haven't received anything back, any response or anything that they've looked into it, and they said nothing's changed. Do you have an address? I can get with you afterwards.

Yeah.

I'm not sure what the addresses are, but I can get with you afterwards. Okay. Appreciate it. And the last thing is, last week I spoke with Jack Patusik. We were discussing the Great Race, and he wanted me to express the – gratitude to the city staff that helped get that ready, get the events ready and stuff. So a big thank you to the city staff that did that.

That's all.

Councilwoman Lucas. I don't have anything. Thank you.

Councilman Hayes.

A couple things. Jason, on the report that the fire chief gave here, I think it was about a month ago, he said they were having difficulties with the Internet in the field. Has that been rectified or? I haven't seen a trouble ticket on that, so I guess to my knowledge it has been rectified. Okay, good. Because he was saying that he was having issues on internet connectivity, and I just want to see if that's been followed up.

It's similar to the way it was when you were there on some of that connectivity. They used the Verizon network to do that. Those Verizon devices come through me, so if they would have any issues with it, I would... I would be the one to contact, and I have received no contact.

So I'll look into it. Okay, yeah, if you would, maybe contact and see what's going on. And the second one, has Ascension ever reached out to you, Jeff?

I spoke to them. They would probably want to wait until after they finish their fiscal year in July to start doing a regular presentation, but we're working towards that. I'm meeting with them later this week.

thanks that's it hey councilwoman grace i don't have anything this time thank you councilman jerry councilman jerry okay

I did want to thank Reverend Brooks for the invocation. It was very passionate, and it was very good. Thank you. Jason, thank you for the quick response and getting that water main flushed for the resident that reached out about it. Jamie, I want to thank Brian. He's been working a long-term code issue. uh with a couple constituents and um i just i appreciate his dog determination on that and finally i want to thank uh miss cairns uh for the thoughtful comments and the thoughtful insight um i do want to say we are all very considerate of the impacts and we will take your advice under consideration so thank you appreciate it that's all i have councilwoman antonich

just want to make sure our employees are staying safe in this heat and this humidity because it's coming again i worry about them all the time it's hot on the asphalt and when you're outside in it drinking water is wonderful but you can drink out all your electrolytes too and then you're in trouble So just be cautious, please. Now, Jamie, I've had two compliments from people about seeing some bad lawns being mowed. I don't know whether it's been family members or neighbors or the city. But I was told, and there's been compliments. If it was the city or whoever did it, thank you for getting that kind of mail.

Thank you. I'll pass it on.

Okay, that's all I have.

I wanted to make a big shout out to Jason, your crew, working on the lights down on Main Street. I know they've been, what, going on three weeks now, maybe? Four?

We talked about that this morning. I believe they made the last push today, so don't hold me to that. But I think we got it pretty well taken care of today. If not, we got about another day's work, and we should have the whole thing taken care of.

So if I see Danny tomorrow, he might tell me something different.

He will give you an update, I'm sure.

He'll give me an update. But I want to say thank you, because they've been out there early in the morning.

Part of that is a lot of the work they have to do laying on the ground. So as mentioned, the ground gets pretty hot pretty quick. Oh, yeah. So we're trying to do that, trying to beat the heat.

Well, it's a big plus. So thank you, and thank you to your crew. I do appreciate that. All right. Moving on. Jeff reports of city officials. Jeff, we have one here.

So in 23, you guys, well, a different version of you guys, started a pilot program to try to get voluntary compliance to demolish houses that are in distress. We get, on average, maybe about two applications a year. We use some of the same funds we're using in the demo program to try to get voluntary compliance. This particular home is at 1201 East 4th. The owners want to demolish it because they purchased it and have determined it's beyond economic repair and it's more economical to return the lot to a pre-billed condition. The bids they got were about $10,000. The maximum under the program is half up to $5,000. You have the money in the fund if you wish to move forward with it. And we've torn down, I don't know, at least three or four structures at this point with this program that saves the city from having to spend probably $10,000 to $15,000 to get the same result.

I know for a fact where this house is at. I know the folks. And you guys have pictures of the house. The thing is, the house didn't have electricity or plumbing for the winter. So it's really in bad, bad shape. So I appreciate John and his wife wanting to buy that and get it torn down. So I'm all for it.

Name two. Make a motion to approve.

Second. We have a motion to second.

All those in favor?

All in favor? Aye. All those opposed? All right. Next, we have a street closing. Jeff or...

Or Valerie? Valerie's here, but this is the street closing that's associated with Fall Fest. If she wants to make the Fall Fest pitch, I'd defer to her.

You're here. You might as well.

All right. So thank you. Fall Festival, September 26th. Autumn in America is our theme. And so this is just our street closure. We're going to do the barbecue cook-off again, a lot of the same old events that we've done. I say old, but they're fun. Chili cook-off, the pies, the slushies. We've got a couple new little things that we're adding, but we're working on the details of those. All right.

Move to approve. Move to approve. Okay. We'll have a motion. We have a motion.

Then I'll second.

Okay. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? You got it. Thank you.

Thank you for putting it on.

Good to see you.

You're going to get in a big knuckle sandwich.

All right. No public hearing. We have an ordinance. An ordinance regulating traffic within the corporate limits of the city of Wellington, Kansas, incorporating by reference the 2026 standard traffic ordinance for Kansas cities, Kansas and cities, 53rd edition with certain omissions, changes and additions, describing additional regulations, providing certain penalties and repealing ordinance number 4355 of said city chief.

Mr. Mayor, council, we do this each year. This is just the adoption of the recommended changes from the legislature regarding traffic enforcement. I've prepared a memo for your review. Hopefully you've had an opportunity to look through that. If you have any questions, I will attempt to answer them. But I am recommending that we accept the changes and move forward for the 26-27 calendar years. Move to approve.

Second.

Second. Who seconded that? It sounded like there was three of you. I thought you did the motion. Who made the motion then? Cindy. OK, sorry.

Tell by the voice.

Well, you were all talking kind of at once.

We just couldn't wait.

Too excited. Would you like a roll call? Yes, please. Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Miss Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Miss Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland?

Yes.

And Ms. Antonich? Yes. That's six affirmative votes for ordinance number 4363.

OK. Second ordinance, an ordinance relating to the public offenses within the corporate limits of the city of Wellington, Kansas, incorporating by reference the 2026 Uniform Public Offense Code for Kansas City's 42nd edition with certain omissions, changes, and additions prescribing additional regulations providing certain penalties and repealing ordinance number 4356 of said city. Chief.

Mr. Mayor, Council, again, as previously stated, we do this each year. In short, this is referred to as the UPOC, or what we refer to as the UPOC, Uniform Public Offense Code. That is nothing more than criminal offenses that can be prosecuted in municipal court. Again, I have prepared a memo. Hopefully you've had an opportunity to review. And again, I will attempt to answer any questions you may have. But I'm recommending that we move forward.

Move to approve. Who's going to second?

Mike and I both.

I'll second it. OK. All right. Heidi, can I get a roll call vote, please?

Ms. Antonich? Yes. Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland? Yes. That's six yes votes for ordinance number 4364.

Chief, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Moving on to our resolutions. Jeff, we have a resolution approving common consumption areas requested by the Wellington Area Chamber of Commerce.

So moments ago, you approved a street closure. That was a necessary step to approve a potential common consumption area associated with the event. You've done it a number of years. So any questions, we'll try to answer them.

Move to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. Heidi, can I get a roll call vote, please?

Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland?

Yes.

Ms. Antonich? Yes. So that's six yes votes for resolution number 6456.

OK. Second resolution. The resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with Lee Matthews Company of Wichita, Kansas, in the amount of $505,302.95 plus shipping costs for the removal, repair, and re-installation of a feed pump for the electric production department. Jason?

Mayor, council, this is the pump that Jeff alluded to during our public pump session. We were still gathering details at that time. So, the cover planted from the map you show up, they had actually removed the pump already. They had removed the pump to assess the pump. They ended up having to cut the pump, shatter it, and block the sections where the pump was cluttered. It was blocked up. So the base, basically it's a concrete base that's fallen out learning. So we have one new product running at the steam plant. We're running tonight at the steam plant. So we're at a 10 minute load right now at the steam plant.

We need a second pump for safety of the steam plant. And it is under the SSC.

So I know it's a lot of money. The student plan makes up for it. We've been around since Saturday morning. Oh, wow. Move to approve.

Do you have a question?

I have a question. Yes. How old is that steam generator?

1970.

Okay, I was thinking it was older, but 1970.

That particular one. There's others in the building.

The other ones don't run? No. Okay. And this pump just cools the steam generator, or does it do the diesel, too?

No, it's the steam water. It's the water and the water.

Okay. So when you said this made revenue, how much revenue do you think that steam generator makes a year, the estimate? It all depends on how much they call it. Well, true, but give me an average. Just something off the top of your head.

That is so weather-dependent.

Yeah. Every month is different.

Every time we build a new wind farm, that changes.

I throw a number at it, but I don't know. Yeah. Well, the final question I had, I mean, at what point, I mean, they won't even insure it anymore, right?

Yeah.

So at what point do we say, hey, generator, you did your job. We're not going to throw any more money at it.

You got to remember, this reference is 20 megs of the entire KPP load. That is a non-trivial amount of load.

And it is under direct control of a KPP member. Much of the generation across the footprint of KPP is not municipally controlled. I mean, we have stakes in Dogwood. We have stakes in other power plants across the Midwest. This is one of the few local controlled assets that's actually in the pool. And losing it would actually, as Jason said, cause a fairly big ripple effect as it comes to acquiring more capacity. We're in a situation now where the SPP footprint is talking about going from somewhere in the neighborhood of 30% excess capacity right now to in five years going to somewhere in the neighborhood of single-digit excess capacity. There's a definite finite resource here that I think the KPP would also continue helping us try to stretch the life of this asset as generated or as shown by the establishment of the Generation Task Force and the previous pitch made by their CEO a couple months ago asking us to participate to try to keep this asset running for the KPP and our community for as long as possible.

We bring more capacity to the KPP pool than any other member.

I got a question. Yes. Just to kind of tag on what Mr. Hayes was saying, Jason, say we push off repairing this and then the functional one goes out. What's what are the media impacts and impacts over the next couple of great question.

So. Barring a catastrophe, which that could happen, it is a machinery, so that could happen. So we're going to take that off the table. But. With that not happening, we would start getting what we refer to as a haircut. So it would be in outage mode, and therefore, we don't get to count it as capacity. So every day we can't run it, we get trimmed on our capacity payments. We get capacity payments from KPP for that unit just sitting there and being able to run. The key is it's got to be able to run. If it's not able to run, we don't get those payments. That's in the ballpark area, Jeff, of $300,000 that we get for it just sitting there.

For a year? A year.

For just being able to run. So I guess if you want to put that number up against the repair cost of $250,000, maybe it's not quite as painful then.

OK. Thank you.

Questions? Do you have a motion? Yes, you may. Second.

I'll let Mike second.

I have a motion and a second. Heidi, can I get a roll call vote, please? Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland? Yes. Ms. Antonich? Yes. So that's six affirmative votes for resolution number 6457.

All right, Jason, again, a resolution approving, accepting bids and authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase order with RS Utility Structures Incorporated for the purchase of a 70-foot engineered pole for the utilities department. Jason.

So this is a pole to replace one of our main support structures in the main substation. So that's the one right outside my office down at the main sub next to the power plant. That support structure is the 69 KV line that brings all the power in from Evergy on our south loop So that's all the power coming in to that half of town that used to be our only feed Since we've got the Crusader sub we have another feed. So that's a good thing So when we go to replace it, we'll be able to carry everything on the Crusader sub go cold there and change out that pole that pole If you look around town, there'll be a few engineered poles that you'll see. One is out there, off the top of my head, is out there at Gaston's. It's a laminate pole. This one is not laminate. I'll be the first to admit, this is the first time we've done a fiberglass composite pole. A little leery, but we've done our research, looked into it, talked to some people that have used them, and they think they're great. We may learn our lesson the hard way, but it's got a 40-year warranty on it, 80-year limited warranty on it. Don't know exactly what the limited's going to be, but I think it's a good option for us to look into. And it kind of broadens our perspective as far as our next laminate pole or our next engineer structure that we've got to look at as far as giving us some options. And to be frank, we didn't get great bids back, so that's about the only option we got. The laminate pole people that we normally go through didn't even respond. So our recommendation is to move forward with RS Utility Structures for $30,720.16. There is a long lead time on that also. So that's just the nature of the biz right now.

So 16 to 20 week lead time, is that to installation or just arrival?

Nope, that's to receive it.

Just to receive it. And then do we do the install?

We're going to do the installation. It's actually, the other thing that's unique about this is it comes in sections. Oh, okay. So we can put it in section at a time and build it like a tinker toy type thing. Gotcha, gotcha. So yeah, we're kind of anxious to try it out. Okay. And make it a lot easier to handle versus the big laminate poles that we had to call in specialized equipment to deal with. Awesome. I don't have any other questions. Thank you.

Any other questions? Move to approve. Second. I have a motion and a second. Heidi, can I get a roll call vote, please?

Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland?

Yes.

Ms. Antonich? Yes. So that's six yes votes for resolution number 6458.

Okay. Jeff, we have a resolution. I'll let you explain.

So we re-bid this at council's direction. The bid tab was in your packet. There was a note in my memo that went along with it noting that the bid from the family services department Was a little anomalous from a couple of perspectives the other thing I will point out and it wasn't captured in the bid tab was that Rourke and Rourke the one of the things that they actually disclaimed in their bid was they would not give us credit for any salvage materials, which was laid out as one of our expectations in the bid documents and So you actually have two of the bids and the two lowest bids that technically don't meet the bid document requirements that we had put out there. As counsel, you can waiver any irregularities in bid documents. So that's part of the reason why the resolution is kind of in a fill-in-the-blank form. You technically have only one bid document that was submitted that meets all of the requirements, but we will leave it to your discretion as to what option you want to pursue.

Counsel? Questions?

um the big d's repair bid uh so they met all of the bid requirements correct for the rp jamie have you been over there lately or and you guys been over there lately you see uh what the status of that is is it stopped completely reversed or looks about the same that same

I'd like to go with Rohrer and Sons because they're familiar with the owner and the property and the bid is less. And I really do think we need to stop moving this down the line and make a decision tonight and get that place cleaned up.

Which one did you say?

Roar. Roar. Is that a motion?

No, it was a suggestion for others. My concern is we have bid guidelines in place for, I mean, I don't know. I hesitate to make exceptions to our expectations in the bidding process. And waive any part of it. But I also think that the only option that met it felt high. It's also a local business. I know you mentioned Rohrer's was. But I don't know. I hesitate to go with them simply because they were given, laid out the expectations of the bid and didn't meet it.

Anybody else?

I move that we go with Rohrer and Sons. I agree with Mary's assessment, but I think with this particular nuisance abatement, I think we need to move forward on it.

A second.

Mark, do you have anything? No.

Can you do a roll call on your motion and second?

Did we get a second?

Yeah.

We'll call roll then.

Miss Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Miss Lucas? No. Mr. Westmoreland?

Yes.

Miss Antonich? Yes. Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

So that's five yes votes and one no vote to execute an agreement with Rohr and Sons in the amount of $10,500. That's resolution number 6459. OK. No study items. Mr. Helmer?

Yes, I move that we recess into executive session to discuss consultation with the city attorney regarding potential enforcement of contractual obligations. Available legal remedies and actions necessary to protect the city's legal position in connection with potential litigation arising from a contract matter. The justification for the executive session by state statute is consultation with an attorney for the public body or agency which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship statute 7543.19 . The session shall include the council, mayor, city attorney, and city manager. We will reconvene an open session in the council chambers in 15 minutes at 735.

You can do all those in favor. Now you can say all those in favor. All those in favor. Aye. Opposed?

About six straight.

All right. We're back. And the council reconvenes in the open session at seven, seven, 35, 735. No action was taking.

All right. I move that we recess again into executive session to discuss consultation with the city attorney regarding the potential enforcement, contractual obligations, available legal remedies, and actions necessary to protect the city's legal position in connection with potential litigation arising from a contract matter. The justification for the executive session by state statute is consultation with an attorney for the public body or agency, which would be deemed privileged. The attorney-client relationship, statute 754319B2. Session shall include the council, mayor, city attorney, and city manager. We will reconvene in open session in the council chambers in 10 minutes at 746. Second. Second. Need a motion to approve?

Motion to approve. Second.

That was my motion. All those in favor? Aye. All those in favor?

We're back in the executive session.

Council reconvenes an open session at 7.46. The council took no binding action during executive executive session. Jeff, tomorrow we have the budget.

Yep, yeah, work session. Sent the packet out yesterday. So, you know, if you've got any questions ahead of time that you have, you know, send them my way. Otherwise, I'll see you all there. I'm also going to ask that, you know, the lead conference registration is coming up. I've heard from one of you, you know, check your calendars and let me know tomorrow so that we can get anybody who wants to get registered registered.

Is that the one that we went to last year, Wichita? Yeah. Same? Okay. All right.

Can you just go the two days instead of the three?

So they have like a one day or they have a three day. So depending on which way, if there's a certain day you want to go, one day is the way to go. But if you want to go two days, the full conference registration is probably the way to go.

Put me down. Okay. Session starts or work session starts what time tomorrow? Six. Six o'clock.

All right. I move that we adjourn.

Second. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed?

We're adjourned.