[0:21] And welcome to the La Prairie City Council meeting. Today is Monday, November 20th. First order of business is the pledge of allegiance.

[0:38] The United States of America, and to the Republic for which stands, one nation, under that individual with the liberty and justice for all.

[0:52] Good evening, everyone,

[0:59] here I read that

[1:05] first order of business the approval of the minutes from the November 6th Council meeting

[1:14] Those in favor, please say aye

[1:20] Then

[1:24] the consent agenda right I'm three a b and c including the finance report correspondents and then claims for the approval

[1:34] So that we had an addition to that for the consent agenda, does everybody have that?

[2:04] If I didn't want to run away?

[2:07] How are you just a wee bit?

[2:09] A wee bit.

[2:20] A wee bit.

[2:21] I'll move to a couple.

[2:24] One more second.

[2:25] There was in favor, please say aye.

[2:28] Aye.

[2:28] Those in post.

[2:29] consent agenda is approved. Thank you. Moving on to public forum, we have no public.

[2:38] Anybody have additions to the agenda, Lisa?

[2:41] Yes, I have two. One,

[2:45] Pre-carding the F-350 truck frame, possibly adding it to the sand blessing priming and painting

[2:57] quote that we already have.

[3:00] And then we can do that under six G-3.

[3:04] So these equipment, that's all right?

[3:06] Yes, ma'am.

[3:07] And then the other I have is the liquor license renewal for bottles and brews.

[3:15] Okay.

[3:16] Okay.

[3:19] Consider it done.

[3:25] All right.

[3:28] Maintenance is not here.

[3:32] I guess the only question I have is we're waiting on the part for the ASV is that

[3:36] in and in wrong.

[3:39] We've got the same.

[3:41] A little more changeable in and wrong.

[3:45] ASB or...

[3:47] Yes, we are the gear.

[3:49] ASB. Oh, sorry.

[3:50] Yeah, that one is pinnain.

[3:52] Just wait and do what we want to bring in.

[3:54] Right. Okay.

[3:56] All right.

[3:58] Now would be the time since we're not really dealing with much snow.

[4:04] I would say that if, yeah, because it looks like I mean, fairly.

[4:11] Or depend upon when we get that truck back.

[4:14] Right.

[4:14] I have to be the only thing.

[4:16] It's going to be at least a week.

[4:19] Okay.

[4:20] So I can, I think,

[4:21] borrow whether we're going to do that.

[4:23] Sorry for not?

[4:24] Sure.

[4:25] I'm welcome.

[4:26] Okay.

[4:29] Uh, nothing from the attorney engineer.

[4:33] Nothing from law.

[4:35] Uh, Lisa.

[4:36] Let's do that, uh, safety group update.

[4:38] Yeah.

[4:39] Um, I had a meeting today.

[4:41] And we set up a regional safety group called Attastic Counties and we have six cities.

[4:52] Oh, we do.

[4:53] We do.

[4:54] Five was a minimum, right?

[4:57] They have a group.

[4:59] Okay.

[5:00] And then there are two other cities who are interested, possibly interested in joining us.

[5:06] If another city has added, which they didn't mention this part,

[5:10] If another city is at it, we need to have one more additional meeting.

[5:16] So anything over six, you have a seven city, you have seven meetings for you?

[5:21] It's eight meetings for you.

[5:24] And I asked how the cost and he would work out if we had eight and eight meetings.

[5:30] And he said it would be the same as if we had six and six meetings.

[5:42] That's consistent from three on up, the 1200,

[5:49] well that's reasonable as far as what we're getting out of that.

[5:53] definitely. They're working on a schedule. We should have it by the end of the year so that we can

[6:00] then schedule the transfer. Sure. And implement that from for a festival of 2024. Okay. Yeah,

[6:07] that's awesome. It's nice. So what is OSHA giving us the needs meetings for training? Yeah.

[6:15] Um, I don't know. I just don't even know. Yeah, I don't even know. But it's just. Yeah, it's just.

[6:23] Yeah,

[6:23] I don't know if I provided, I didn't provide a list of the services in the US already.

[6:30] And some of them, of course, are required and then some electives?

[6:36] There are some electives, yes.

[6:37] You mentioned like mock, OSHA inspections as well too.

[6:41] Those are other opportunities for options that we have also.

[6:47] I would say that that would probably be the number one priority, at least to start.

[6:52] anything else I related to make sure but if there are some electives that you know maybe it would be nice to at least have one

[7:03] person involved in that meeting

[7:07] all right so twenty twenty four

[7:13] have we well we'll get to that. Never like anything else

[7:21] Okay, okay, Council have anything?

[7:25] There you go, okay.

[7:27] There are anything for committees.

[7:32] Like, a rinks ready to go for, for ice,

[7:39] tentatively looking at the weather coming up,

[7:43] behind shooting for right after Thanksgiving dinner,

[7:47] starting to stop some ice down that night,

[7:49] so hopefully the temperatures don't rebound too much.

[7:53] during the day, but 20s and lower at night should be good for a start, and the only one that will be doing it, just trying to pump up there.

[8:05] I don't, he had been talking about the fire department at one point in time, too, about possibly dividing that base coat.

[8:12] I don't know if that's the thing or not, but as of now, he's pining on flooding, so.

[8:22] The facility-wise, they got the Great Landed, and I think Brian's got it to have full already, so that's raised utilize that.

[8:37] All righty.

[8:39] Mike, what were you saying about the Gator, something of the park there?

[8:44] Well, we had both the sweeper, unit that we bought and the blower.

[8:48] They both use the same undercarriage connection, the order the strong one, or the crush that came in,

[8:59] but the correct one is coming with the other unit when that gets here with the blower.

[9:05] And we don't want to do them because they're like $700 per night assembly, so we're just going to have to open that and hopefully that one's early too.

[9:14] Anything else on the 12th or something, I heard that?

[9:18] This was a lower question, sorry, and so on, okay.

[9:21] Thank you.

[9:23] All right, and in addition to facilities equipment is that

[9:29] a denim that Lisa handed out six G-3.

[9:37] The truck has been delivered to pro-blast to have the truck

[9:41] that and wheels sandblasted, primed and painted.

[9:44] And there was a suggestion made to have the frame done while the other work was being done.

[9:52] So that, essentially, is that the same material as first like a bed liner material?

[9:59] Or are we just talking primed and painted?

[10:02] I believe in primed painting.

[10:04] Okay.

[10:07] I think any of this is bed liner.

[10:12] Okay.

[10:12] Yeah, nothing here on the truck bed, but I would say that if we have some issues with that frame that

[10:29] we should actually get that done, I think going to get any better.

[10:33] That would be my recommendation, it's the box is off.

[10:39] About 100 bucks.

[10:40] Yeah.

[10:41] That's a better video than that.

[10:43] They would charge us that just to remove the box again.

[10:46] Yeah.

[10:47] Well, why don't we,

[10:50] We need a motion.

[10:51] Yeah, we do want to make motion.

[10:54] Well, second.

[10:56] All right.

[10:56] Those in favor, please say aye.

[10:58] Aye.

[10:58] Those opposed.

[11:01] Motion is approved.

[11:02] to have the frame on the F350 done as well for a sandblasting priming and painting.

[11:10] Money will spend.

[11:11] It certainly is.

[11:13] Wonderful.

[11:14] Thank you, Lisa.

[11:17] I think that does conclude section six, seven.

[11:25] We'll business the engineering services proposal.

[11:28] That's from November 6.

[11:38] We want to go over there.

[11:48] Okay.

[11:49] all right well yeah I haven't have you okay so I'm the odd man out again

[12:10] what are your feelings on the proposal as I didn't get to least the

[12:16] Today when I didn't know whether or not I would make it just stay with that CH. Yeah, that's my vibe. I guess I kind of felt that all along truth be told

[12:28] But you know just we have a good familiarity

[12:32] With Jason. I've always found it to be helpful and his group on the back end. I'm about you guys

[12:42] We had one of them that was what 50 bucks less an hour. Yes

[12:48] I mean, I guess looking at cost-wise, what would that save us going to, you know, new forum?

[12:57] I know you're bringing in new people and, you know, starting from scratch, type thing, but...

[13:04] Well, sometimes that when you are starting from scratch, it can end up costing more, as far as

[13:11] coming familiar with. Initially, yes. The other thing too is that there are those occasions

[13:21] where, you know, this is a bit situation. And sometimes, bids get, you know, dropped in order

[13:28] to secure business and then such a point bids become more reasonable. I don't know.

[13:38] I guess

[13:39] that's just my humble opinion that, you know,

[13:42] beds are one thing, rail is another.

[13:48] And forget it, you know,

[13:50] I would be in agreement that I think what you're,

[13:55] what I've ever looked like,

[13:57] maybe a cost sentence may and reality

[13:59] turn out not to be, because here we have,

[14:04] might again, my opinion, the name broke, don't fix it.

[14:07] We've got the establishment relationship. Everybody knows what's going on with everything and anything pops up

[14:14] It's not a crisis situation

[14:17] Get somebody new in and all of a sudden that $50 dollars an hour could

[14:22] You know could have been money wall spent by staying with what we currently have and and again. That's just my opinion

[14:30] Put your phones

[14:33] We're looking at it a little bit wrong.

[14:38] Our cost per hour really isn't going to be a mitigating factor,

[14:45] especially for the next year.

[14:49] I mean, in all likelihood, we have no major projects coming up next year, right?

[14:53] So we're looking at sub $10,000 line item on our thing.

[14:58] As far as continuity.

[15:00] I agree with what you guys are saying as you each has been our step fast.

[15:07] Yeah, they've been left for a long, long time, I guess.

[15:12] But two things that I'm kind of looking at here

[15:17] is local, right, that's where this bolt in and make their internal. So I have another internal option, I'm big on doing business local.

[15:30] But I guess the big thing and what we've been running into a lot these past couple of years is funding grants support that financial aspect of these projects that we don't have the experience on.

[15:47] rely on our partners in order to provide,

[15:53] I guess I would challenge console to take a re-look

[15:58] at, you know, these outfits with that aspect in mind and not so much what are we paying,

[16:06] but what can they possibly brain services, tables, as far as helping us, where's the nicer pants

[16:15] and we can afford otherwise, if that makes sense.

[16:19] We don't need to make this decision until the urbanization meeting, but if we wanted to bring

[16:24] somebody in to, I guess, give us a further review of their services, I guess, and they would

[16:32] all probably jump at that shop, so again, I lean like you guys do towards that solution, continuity,

[16:42] But, like I said, I think we got to look at that bigger picture too, so I was just

[16:49] what we're paying, but what they can bring in financially, and there's, I was, there's

[16:54] some high openers in there, so.

[16:57] Well, certainly, SEH doesn't provide,

[17:03] and I think last time we did take a look at that organization,

[17:06] And they didn't have a local office here, right?

[17:13] So certainly, there's going to be a few, but yeah.

[17:17] I mean, we're certainly not married to TSEH.

[17:24] And if you guys feel that way, what have you and I, take a second

[17:31] harder note.

[17:32] I think it's the excellent idea, maybe add them all, give us the presentation.

[17:39] It would be nice to have for a refresher.

[17:41] Because you're going to read the perspective of the long side, the same thing.

[17:46] It's that in the person.

[17:47] It's going to be responsible to come in and say, oh, I don't know if it's Jason or I think

[17:51] of potential counterpart or whatever.

[17:53] Here's what we'll offer.

[17:54] Here's what we're going to do to the table.

[17:56] Excellent idea, Mike.

[17:57] Yeah.

[17:58] At least a top three, we need to look at everybody, but maybe put an emphasis on what they've done and what kind of grant money they've brought in for specifics.

[18:14] Well, if actually, you know what that's a great idea. Maybe what we could do is when we asked them to come in is weighted to the what they provide that SEH does affect.

[18:28] So that way we've got it, but yeah, that's a great idea.

[18:31] I'm a comparison and I guess I'd realize that we only need to bring two in.

[18:35] I mean, we need to work with what we have with SEH, so it's two other options.

[18:41] Maybe that, so if council wants to maybe just drop a note to me,

[18:45] so I guess on your top two alternatives.

[18:49] That's your discretion.

[18:51] All right, we'll do.

[18:54] Yeah, that's a great idea.

[18:57] So be it.

[19:06] Okay, so we got that. And then item eight, we did add, assist the removal application for the liquor license for bottles and brews. So I think we need a motion.

[19:25] I'll move. I'll side down. Those are driver. I think those are posed.

[19:32] Right models and grooves has been approved again for a life in

[19:44] Tony's not here.

[19:47] Who wants to take the mantle for item nine?

[19:52] I hear the surrogate. I can't do it.

[19:56] Yeah, but he's a member in our heart

[20:04] adjourned at 6.19 p.m.

[20:08] No second.

[20:09] Those in favor please say aye.

[20:11] Aye.

[20:12] Those opposed.

[20:14] All right.

[20:15] Ocean is approved.

[20:17] We are officially adjourned.

[20:19] Thank you very much.

LaPrairie City Council - 11-20-2023

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