City Council - Regular Meeting

This council meeting is now in session August 18, 2026 at 6.30 p.m. Would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for invocation given by Reverend Zane Brooks of Free Will Baptist Church.

Pledge of Allegiance to the Father of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it

First of all, again, thank you so much for allowing me to do this. Precious Heavenly Father, we want to tell you first and foremost, thank you. We don't deserve it. Mercy and grace. Lord God, we don't deserve it. We deserve nothing but death, hell, and the grave, the Bible says. So God, I pray that you'll bless this city. Bless these men and women. Lord God, it's been hot. So God, I pray that you'll protect everybody, whether they work financially, for this city or whether they drive in and out, Lord God. They belong to this city. And Lord, we love each and every one of our residents. And we thank you, God, for every one of them. They are very important to our city. They make up a great city. And Lord God, I'm proud to be here. I'm proud to be able to stay in here and give you honor and give you glory, Lord. We thank you for the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Lord, that is our town's desire and that's our town's hope. We love you and I thank you. In the name of Christ Jesus, we pray. Amen. Thank you, Reverend.

Thank you. Heidi, can I get a 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, audience participation. Cowley College Sumner Campus Update. Zach Cooper, director of Sumner Campus.

Well, I'm glad to be back. Sorry for my small absence. So they actually started our first day of in-person classes. And next week, we'll start our online classes. And so with that, I'm really excited to start seeing all the kids come back to campus and just getting that new educational opportunities going forward. I did check this morning. and looked at our enrollment. And it looks like our center campus enrollment is actually higher than it was last year at this time. So that is great news to hear. But I also want to caution, because we do have classes starting next week and there's add and drop dates for the next couple of weeks, those numbers are going to fluctuate. Hopefully, they fluctuate up and not the opposite direction. But once those numbers become official at the following meeting where I give you guys updates, I will give you those official numbers of what our campus looks like and what Calais College as a whole looks like. But speaking of enrollment. We do have Golden Tiger enrollment happening Saturday between 10 and 11 on our Wellington campus. For those of you who have not had an opportunity to take those classes, if you are ages 50 and older and experienced, These are just classes where you could just get a chance to learn something new or maybe take a class with a friend and have fun, make memories. There are four trips scheduled for this fall semester. I was looking at a couple of the other classes that are offered. There is a diverse option every time we offer these Golden Tigers classes. There's woodworking, there's book studies, there's an AARP class on driver safety. There's even a class this semester where we're doing breads around the world where you can learn how to make different kinds of bread and then compare and contrast them and then even sample those with other people. So I thought that was pretty good, but again, it's food, so I'm already sold. Another class that actually was just added today, so working with the Sumner County Extension agents and K-State, we wanted to see if we could offer a class in collaboration on our campus. And so we are going to have a Sumner County Gardener and Master Gardener informational meeting next week. Tuesday, August 25th on our campus at 6 o'clock. And what we're going to be doing is discussing about a Master Gardener class that's going to be happening this fall, starting in September. So if you know anyone who's interested and wants to just get a green thumb or maybe figure out why they can't be a green thumb, come on in. We'd love to talk with them about what that class is going to look like. And then before you know it, I know Fall Fest will be here, so we will look forward to seeing everyone there. We are going to be sponsoring the apple pie contest, because I can't say no to dessert. and also part of the barbecue contest. Do you guys have any questions, thoughts, concerns, emotional outbursts? Yes, ma'am. I like the fan, by the way.

If I want to go make bread, do I just go out, walk in the front, and ask Linda where I need to go?

To make bread?

to make this for the class.

Oh, so yes. So you need to enroll for the class. And if you can make it to the in-person one, you'll just show up to the short building, which is the building on the north side of the campus. Walk in the front doors. We'll have signs that say Golden Tiger Enrollment. And there will be arrows pointing to the community room. And once you walk in there, Micah Frye, who is our community education coordinator, she will be there to help show you what classes are being offered in Sumner County and Cali County, the trips. And then she'll hand you a sheet where you just sign up with what classes you want to do. Some classes do have a fee, like the woodworking class. There's a fee associated with that because it's for the wood material, but you also get a set of tools to go with it. And then once you are on that class, Just make sure you put in your calendar that on this date, I have this class at this time, and we'll see you then.

So I don't get to go bug Linda?

I mean, Linda will be there. But if you can't make it on the 22nd, you can go to the college and bug them. But they do have enrollment sheets there after everybody's already enrolled. But this is the big enrollment. but you can bug Linda at either time.

I mean, I'm a bread maker anyway, but when you said from all over the world, that caught my attention, and the horticulture thing.

Yeah, and so speaking on the bread one, I think she's going to do four different compare and contrast, so like Italian versus French, nom versus flatbread, and then there's a couple others that she listed. So definitely caught my attention, and I'm right there with you. And then, you know, I'm already a green thumb because I like to grow things as best I can, so. If only I was 50 years of experience, I would be signing up for those classes. But I'll be there supervising.

How about that? So when does that start again?

So the Master Gardener, there's an informational meeting next Tuesday at 6. And they'll be in the community room on our campus. And then once we get all that, I believe it's going to be every Thursday and starting September all the way through December, there will be a couple hour class with those who are interested. And K-State will help Zoom some of the lessons with it.

Okay.

And then the Golden Tiger enrollment is this Saturday? This Saturday. What time?

10 through 11.

This coming Saturday?

Yeah, this Saturday, yes.

From 10 to?

10 to 11.

I can do that.

Well, I'll make sure I see you there. I may even have the little one there, so I mean.

All right. I'd like to see that.

Well, he's got to make sure his feeding schedule matches up. I'm hoping to take him with me so mom can get a break, so hopefully.

He'll get it.

So I was really impressed. I had to give my grandson a ride because he's taking welding classes. Today was his first day. Then he goes back to the school. But seeing all the cars driving up and a lot of the young students that have graduated, I was like, wow. Very impressed that. We have a lot of students, even some from out of town, that are attending classes there. So I would like to say to some of the naysayers that say, well, what's this college done? Maybe you ought to get up early in the morning and just kind of drive out there. If you've got to go to Walmart, you can see that we have young students participating at that college. And I was very impressed.

Well, thank you for that, good sir.

It's a good thing.

I'm excited for it.

Higher enrollment? Can't beat that.

Oh, no.

I wanted to say congrats again, Zach, since I was out when you were here the first time.

Thank you very much.

And welcome sign status update. You know I'm going to ask you about every quarter.

No worries. I'm actually going to turn that over to Jeff since he gave me an update because I was gone for a month. So we're good.

Working with KDOT, they actually rejected my initial application, so retooling it.

Retooling it, okay.

Anything else?

Close.

We will get there.

Yes. We will get there.

Anything else from council?

Well, thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

Thank you, Zach. Appreciate it. All right. Next, we have the consent agenda agenda approval of minutes approval appropriations receipt of council correspondence.

Move to approve.

Second. Well, motion of a second. All those in favor. Aye. All those opposed. Reports of mayor and council. I'll start with Councilwoman Antonich.

Okay. I'd like to let everybody out there know and tell everybody that Annie Oakley's going to open tomorrow I think tomorrow after the flooding and everything they have worked and worked and worked no more wooden shells metal shells and it's a wonderful place they're great people great clothing very affordable go visit go see them okay and I'd like to give a thumbs up to Hummingbird Printing for being fast, accurate, and very good at what they do. I ran into an emergency. Of course, I've used them for years. Ran into an emergency, had to have some things printed, and boom, it was done. I was in and out of there in under 10 minutes. And, Have we, this is probably for Jeff, heard any more from the CAT outbreak in the 400 block of North Poplar?

Not presently.

OK. That's all I have. Thank you.

Yeah, I wanted to thank Reverend Brooks again for the great invocation. I want to thank Jeremy's crew for the patch on North Washington that was getting pretty rough. I'm glad to see you guys got out there and were able to get it patched. Or Jeremy's crew, Jason's crew for quick service on those waterline breaks we had in the last couple of weeks and fire EMS team for the work they've been doing out here in the heat. So thank you, folks.

Councilwoman Grace.

All I had was to thank everybody for working in this heat. That's every department, everywhere, because it's unbearable for me to walk from my car into this building. So I can't imagine being in the heat all day long. So thank you, and thank all the employees.

Councilman Hayes? I have nothing. Councilwoman?

I don't have anything. Thank you.

Councilman Westmoreland? Jeremy, I know we put this out for bid or looked into it a couple of years ago, but can you remind the citizens and me, I can't remember, but what it was going to cost to dredge out Donut Bay, since that's kind of a hot topic right now?

We didn't get a hard number. There's a number of issues. I mean, just cost-wise, we had PEC look at it. They're saying we're looking at $150,000 and up, depending on as you dredge that out, if you get into what we assume is going to be a clay liner in there. If you get into that and have to do some repair, the cost is going to go up. There's potentially a lot of permitting. that's going to have to be done through various division of water resources, Corps of Engineers, Department of Ag, like five or six different agencies. And then we would likely have to test that material that's coming out because of it being silt, could have a lot of fertilizers and different chemicals in it. So then we may run into some disposal expenses as well. We did have PEC include that if we proceed with replacing the dam. Since there's going to be large equipment there, there's going to be some permitting involved that we do that at the same time. But as of right now, we don't have any Woods Park dam money slated for 2027. I just went through there before coming here, and it's dry right now, and somebody was walking. They had rubber boots on walking in it, and it looks solid, but it's still pretty soft in there.

And we don't have the equipment. I say as we, your department doesn't have the equipment to do that, correct?

No. That's going to take much larger than what we have to... I mean, we could, but we'd be there for about six months and probably pulling stuff out every day, getting stuck.

And breaking equipment and stuff like that. So I just wanted you to go over that again because I know it's a hot topic and people are wondering why we couldn't do it. And I knew it was going to be expensive and we didn't have the equipment. So thank you.

All right, I just want to remind the public, all of our students, our young students are back in school. Please, please watch your speed limit. These young kids are our future. And for the high schoolers that are driving to high school and pulling out on the highway, please be careful. I just want to caution everybody and obey all the laws. Otherwise, you're going to pay some hefty fines. And I don't want to see anybody getting hurt. So please be careful out there. That's all I have. All right. Reports of city officials. Heidi, 2025. Report Gordon CPA. Auditors, communication letter to management.

Yes, so we laid on your areas up there the audit report. We received these Friday or Monday. I don't know. Was it Monday? Was it just yesterday? It seems a lot longer than that ago. So Jeff's getting our auditor, Sean Gordon, on the line, and he's going to go over a few points with everyone. And then if you have any questions, you can ask him questions.

Hi, if you record your name and reason for calling, I'll leave this.

This is Sean.

Hey, Sean. What's going on for you?

Hey, Sean.

Hello.

They can hear you.

I'm sorry, say it again. They can hear you. OK, perfect. All right. Well, I'll get started. This is Sean Gordon with Gordon CPA. We performed the 12-31-2025 audit of the city. So I'll go through that audit report that you have in front of you. We'll start with pages 1 through 3. This is called the Independent Auditor's Report. Here we discuss the opinion that we issued the city's financial statements for the year ended 12-31-2025. Further on down we talk about management and the council's responsibilities for the city's financial statements as well as a few more of our auditors' responsibilities for the audit and how that's conducted. But the most important paragraph here is page one. The third paragraph down you'll see an italicized heading called unmodified opinion on regulatory basis of accounting. This paragraph states that we've issued an unmodified opinion which is the highest and cleanest opinion that we can issue. the city for the year ended 12-31-2025. So it reflects very well on the financial and internal control management by city staff during that time period. The next section forward is pages four through five and it's called the summary statement of receipts, expenditures and unencumbered cash. Here we present all of the different funds of the city in the left hand column followed by for each of those funds beginning cash, receipts, expenditures and then ending cash. At the very bottom of that right-hand column on page five, you'll see that the city is reporting a little over $24.5 million on hand as of 12-31-2025. The next section forward is the notes to the financial statements, and that runs from page six through 17. For those of you that have heard me speak on auto reports before, this section is mostly the same as what you've seen over the past two years. So there were no major changes required in this section by the state of Kansas. Here we present a variety of items, including different accounting policies that the city follows. We also present information on the different types of deposits and investments of the city, involvement in the KPERS and KPNF retirement programs, budgeted transfers that were made, long-term debt activity of the city. Like I said, a bunch of information presented in this section. And then the rest of the bound copy of the auto report that you have in front of you, which is page 18, excuse me, 18 through 40, no, I'm sorry, page 50. Those are just more detailed breakouts of those funds that we saw previously on pages 4 and 5. So, page 20 through 22 is the presentation of the general fund. So we break out the different and give more detail of the different types of revenues and expenses that take place within this fund. We also present a prior year comparison column which would be the 12-31-2024 activity of the general fund. And then you'll also see a budget column so you can compare how the general fund performed against the budget that was adopted for 2025 as well. That's it for the bound copy of the audit report. We did not have any auditor's recommendations to communicate to the mayor and council members tonight. So again, that reflects very well on the financial and internal control management by city staff during the year ended 12-31-25. And then I will leave you with, we had another good audit with everybody there at the city. Heidi and her staff and everybody else involved did a great job of answering our questions and getting us items that we requested. So we do appreciate that. With that, any questions for me on the audit report or the audit process?

Yeah, I have a question. Yeah, thank you. And thank you, Heidi, and your staff for going through this. On page nine, there were mentions of three violations of KSA 9-1402 as far as how, I guess, some of the city and our board funds are secured or unsecured. Could you explain that in a little bit greater detail? And is there anything that we can do to mitigate that? Does that have to be mitigated? What are our options there?

Yeah, so the three entities that we audited, the city, the library, and then the healthcare authority, all had bank balance deposits as of 12-31-2025 that were over the FDIC limit, which is $250,000. So you take your deposit, minus that $250,000, leaves a balance that needs to be secured with plus securities or other letters of credit or other vehicles that are available to the individual banks that the city does business with. So yeah, it looks like all three of the entities had a little bit of money that was unsecured as of the year end, 2025. That is something that the, by statute, that the banks should be watching for. So I would probably put that more on something that the bank needs to make sure that they're extending coverage if needed, especially that last day of the year every year.

Hey, Sean, this is Heidi. I wondered if that had something to do with the fact that they've switched how they're doing their insurance coverage. Now the state is doing more of that instead of the banks doing it individually. They have more of like a pool that they're involved in. Do you think that had something to do with it maybe? Anybody else? Yeah.

We've seen that a little bit more this year. I do agree that it has changed. The state is now managing that process. However, that was supposed to start January 1st of 2026. Oh, okay. So it was still up to the banks, statutorily, to make sure that there was enough coverage as of December 31st of 25.

Heidi, could we get an update later on to make sure we're just meeting our requirements as far as that goes? I appreciate it.

I can tell you for the library, at the very end of December, we get deposit the last deposit from from them so we're under and then we're over and then we're back on because we get the last state deposit oh for like a period of like a few hours well yes so we're under and then we get the state the mill The last thing, and that usually does that in this year with construction, I can probably tell you we're not going to have that issue.

Yeah, my bigger concern is with the HCA, because that's half a million dollars there versus $75,000 and $100,000 for the city and the library. Just as long as we're making sure that we're meeting our obligations, those funds are secured, and it would be a non-issue for me.

So the only thing I would say about that, Mr. Elmore, is that the city staff doesn't look at the HCA records or the library records. The auditor does. But as city staff, we don't look at those.

I guess, ultimately, who is responsible for ensuring that compliance?

So it's an interesting question. And Sean can probably talk to it more. So the library, the health care authority, the housing authority, these are basically component units where they are technically part of our umbrella, but because of enabling statutes, they actually operate independently of the city proper. So they have their own authority to enter into contracts, enter and sue and be sued, all that fun stuff. So they also get to make the depository decisions. So they should have an eye on that as part of their overall financial management strategy. And, you know, Jan kind of alluded to what's going on at the library. But we can make sure that, you know, the various component units are aware that this is something they need to keep an eye on and just, you know, make sure that they're aware of it. But at the end of the day, they are kind of responsible for their own compliance.

Okay. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Just make sure they're aware of it. And God forbid we have a bank failure and they lose half a million dollars, right? So. All right, that's all I have.

Anybody else?

Anybody else have any questions for Sean before we let him go? No? I think we're all good. Thank you, Sean.

Thank you, Sean.

Awesome.

Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.

Thanks.

All right. Next we have the League of Kansas Municipalities Voting Delegates League Convention of Voting Delegates. And for Jeff.

So there's a memo in your packet, but the annual e-conference is coming up. We get up to three voting delegates right now. There are three council members signed up. I will also be signing up. Generally speaking, the council has traditionally appointed the members that would be attending as their voting delegates. Technically, you could appoint a different person if there's interest in just going to the business meeting. It is in Wichita this year, so it would, I guess, be potentially different. um something that somebody could just go up and attend if they wanted to uh and represent the city but usually it's again someone who's signed up to attend the conference but um just need some direction on on who you would like to point as your delegates and your alternates i move that we appoint those council members attending as our voting delegates second that's us three do we need to vote on it I mean, you got a motion, so you need a voice vote.

Voice vote. Just say all those in favor.

All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? Thanks.

OK. Seconded that.

Mary. Mary. Next, Jamie, we have an update on 1314 North Stewart Street. Jamie.

Mr. Mayor, Council, on July 7th, City Building and Codes Department presented a matter regarding findings of possible building violations brought by the residing tenant at 1314 North Stewart. The tenant requested the city conduct an inspection of the property due to concerns regarding habitability. During the meeting during that meeting it was motioned and approved by the governing body to allow the owner 30 days to repair the items presented at that time We this past Friday August 14th myself accompanied by City Manager Porter we went to the address we made arrangements with the owner to look at the progress I've prepared a memo to you on the progress and the items that were presented at that meeting and how they came Probably the two, the biggest, couple of biggest ones were the egress window well. At that time, it was inaccessible, did not work. It was all solid, put together. When we went and rechecked it, the owner had made corrections. The gate was fiberglass with some treated lumber, pretty lightweight that a small child could easily open up the window if it was an emergency situation. Also, he added some weatherproofing around the rear sliding glass door. with some caulking, needs to get painted to probably to keep the wood for extended life, but it has been put on there for weatherproofing. The other major concern from the tenant was that the locking mechanism didn't work. We did do that a couple of times, locking mechanism worked correctly, as it should. And then the last one, regarding back to the egress window, I was able to open the window, just in case it was one of those crank style. It did open, and a new weather-treated wooded ladder was placed. And for that window, A permit was needed, needed to be issued, and I did issue one to the owner, and so everything is okay. I mean, it looks to me like he has met the criteria of any of the issues. And so that's where we stand, and so I just wanted some guidance where we want to go from here, or do we need to do anything else?

You're making counsel?

Yes.

How much more do you think needs to be done to make it livable, safe?

These items were brought to us by the tenant, so those were the ones that the tenant was like this needed to be fixed. And in my opinion and from staff's opinion, they are corrected. I wouldn't have any hardship of someone living there. I feel it's safe. So that's how my contention is.

I thank the owner for fixing it quickly and getting it done. No, there's no audience participation at this point. And Jamie following up on that, on both of that. So you got it done when we asked, and you checked, and it looks good. These pictures look good.

I move that we consider the compliance efforts at 1314 North Stewart as sufficient.

Second. I'll go with nine. Motion to second. How do we do with ED?

Up to you. OK, just say all those in favor.

All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed?

All right.

30 days.

30 days. You're out of order. Please leave. We are leaving. You're out of order. Leave. Thank you. And next time you show up, take your damn cap off. Disrespectful. The sign on the door says no caps.

Next item. Sorry.

That's OK. Never mind. Let's move on. Resolution. resolution approving accepting bid authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with FTC Equipment LLC for the replacement of chlorine scrubber media for the water production department. Jason.

Mayor, Council, this is kind of the next step. I brought to you the actual media material here. I think back in May, we've got that in-house now. Now the next step is actually replacing the media. We thought we could kind of split it up and maybe get a little bit better competitive bids. Unfortunately, that didn't probably work out to our favor. We sent out bids to three different companies to replace the media. We received one of those back. A little disappointing on that front, but it's something that we need to get replaced for safety of the people out at the lake and the staff. This is the media that was there originally when the plant was built, so it's due up. It doesn't have enough capacity to contain the one-ton cylinders that we have on site, so it needs to be changed out. Unfortunately, we're a little bit short on budget. I guess the fortunate part is one of the projects that we've done earlier this year, the lagoon cleaning, came in significantly under budget. So the funds are there to go ahead and complete this job. And that is our recommendation, is to move forward with FTC equipment, LLC, for $18,000 to change the chlorine media out.

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

Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland?

Yes.

Ms. Antonich? Yes. So that is six affirmative votes for resolution number 6460.

Okay, Jason. Resolution approved and accepting a bid and authorization of the city of manager to execute an agreement with the Pinnacle Fire Automation LLC for the upgrade of the fire alarm system for the water production department.

Mayor, Council, this is a fire alarm system on a water production plant. It was actually noted on a Department of Labor inspection here probably close to a year ago, maybe even a little bit more than that. Funding just wasn't available to get taken care of. We've now got it budgeted, so we reached out again to three vendors. Unfortunately, we only received one of those back. It seems to be a growing trend. We're not getting exactly competitive bids anymore, and the prices just keep going up. Hence the reason we had $25,000 budgeted, and it comes in at a little over $26,000. Again, the funds left over from Logie and Cleaning will be more than sufficient to get this taken care of and maybe checks the box for the Department of Labor inspection next time around. So our recommendation is to move forward with pinnacle fire automation.

Move to approve.

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

Ms. Antonich? Yes. Mr. Elmore? Yes. Yes. Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland? Yes. So once again, that's six yes votes for resolution number 6461.

OK. Jeremy, a resolution authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement with Garber Surveying Service of Wichita, Kansas for the lake boundary survey in the amount of $28,513.

Yes. So for a few years now, we've been kind of looking at the property that the city owns that doesn't necessarily appear to be city-owned around the lake, particularly on that north end. It appears just by the surface water that it ends at Clearwater and 30th Avenue. But we actually own property to the north and to the east of that intersection. That land may be beneficial for certain activities that we could use it for. Some of it is being farmed or pastured. So we were able to get $27,000 approved in the 26 budget for this purpose. Exhibit A shows the original parcels that we're looking at, A, B, and C, to the north and east of the lake itself. Earlier this year, we had something come up that we added parcel D, which is simply a property line, not the entire parcel, between the city and two separate properties. A lot of these areas are very wooded, very hard to distinguish where these property lines are. If we can get this done, it helps us establish what we do own, and then we can kind of go from there if there's potential for revenue-generating uses or for cleaning the properties out, making them look a little better. Some of these may help the inflow to the lake when we do get the rains, let that water come in a little quicker. So similar to what Jason said, I think we sent out to four survey companies, and we got one back, and that being Garber Surveying. Their base bid for the original three parcels was well under budget. Doing that property line for an alternate was about $8,000, so it goes about $1,500 over the allotted $27,000 in the budget.

Move to approve.

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

Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland? Yes. Ms. Antonich? Yes. Mr. Elmore?

No.

Ms. Grace? Yes. So that is five yes votes and one no vote for resolution number 6462.

Okay. Resolution authorizing the city manager to sign an agreement with Dollinger of Wichita, Kansas for the removal and replacement of approximately 180 LF of clay tile SWS pipe with 12 inches or 12, is that a 12 foot?

12 inch.

12 inch. SDR 35 pipe in the amount of 39,500. Jeremy. Okay.

So as mentioned in the memo, this is an area we notice the actual majority of the backup of stormwater at the intersection of 3rd and G, where we have, I think, four inlets. They have not drained for 15 to 20 years. Recently had wastewater department come out with vac truck, clean those inlets. Still not draining. So further looking into the issue, we noticed a block south of there on 2nd Street, there is a clay tile line that has collapsed. So we would like to get that replaced. It's about 180 feet of line from the intersection of 2nd and G going east to the alley where there's another area inlet. We also have a little bit of ponding in the alley further up north of there. So we believe that this will alleviate some drainage issues in about a 500-foot area from where we're actually doing the repair. This was not an anticipated expense. It's one of those that we've fought for years and years. And then when you finally figure out what the issue is, we wanted to try to get it taken care of. We'll just take the funds out of our operating budget for this year.

Is this going to alleviate the flooding down by the park? Or is that going to have anything to do with that?

No. OK. No, it's going to be a more localized remediation of an issue just right in that area.

Move to approve.

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

Ms. Grace? Yes. Mr. Hay?

Yes.

Ms. Lucas? Yes. Mr. Westmoreland? Yes. Ms. Antonich? Yes. Mr. Elmore?

Yes.

That's six yes votes for resolution number 6463. All right.

We study items, Jeff? Anything? We have no executive session. Future agenda is on the 9th, 1st, 2026 budget hearing at the auditorium. Anything else from council?

No.

Move to adjourn.

Second. Second. We have a motion and a second to adjourn. All those in favor? Aye. All those opposed?

We are adjourned.