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all right
i'll call the special city council

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meeting today's friday april 30th 2021
at 6 30 p.m

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i'm gonna call to order we'll start with
the pledge of allegiance

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in the united states of america and to
the republic

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for which it stands one nation under god
indivisible with liberty and justice

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all right we'll start with the roll call
alderman johnson

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alderman here

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here

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i'm here
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so i'll open up the meeting with um
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just housekeeping i'm employing montana
welsh as the city attorney as a

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temporary appointment until
ratification at our next regular meeting

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for housekeeping purposes i know some
aldermen have already deposited their

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oaths of office
with the clerk's office the remaining

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elected officials have also
taken their oaths of office the

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city-wide officers
have procured and executed the necessary

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bonds
i'm going to provide them to the clerk

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right now
all right thank you

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thank you is there any public comment
i recognize i see dexter johnson

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alderman dexter johnson is right
any public comment

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all right hearing none we'll move on to

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the action items first we have an
approval of payroll for april 16

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2021 for the amount of
five dollars and 393 six cents is there

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a motion
motions made by alderman rita seconded

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by alderman fehrenwald
on the question clerk please do a roll

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call
alderman johnson no aldrin montoya

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yes ultimate renault yes
alderman fahrenwalk i alderman mcgee

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yes alderman carr hi

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next we have item b approval of accounts
payable for april 28

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2021 in the amount of 409
61 582.61 is there a motion

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i'll make a motion alderman car seconded
by alderman role

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on the question uh i have a couple
questions and

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a question fair and well it's my first
opportunity

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to address you as new mayor of public
congratulations and

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welcome to the diocese thank you you're
welcome um

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i just wanted to check on the payables
that we have here uh

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when we talk tonight i believe that you
said that some of these had already been

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approved for payment
uh can you tell me what those were one

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but we
since we had the meeting i don't think

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it was actually issued was a contractual
payroll clerk

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she's under the accounts payable because
she's not an employee

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okay i see all right so why is she you
know why she's not under the payroll we

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discussed this before and it's one of
those issues where

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we walked into a lot of vacancies today
and we need to address that all right

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all right
um okay any other questions uh

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i mean i have questions and concerns but
um again

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i i know that services have been
rendered and they need to get paid so

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i will stay okay thank you any other
question

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if not clerk please do a roll call
alderman johnson

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no alderman montoya
yes alderman rita

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aye alderman fearing law aye
alderman mcgee hi

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i'll join a car you can call me
mccarr i alderman roll

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all right

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all right motion carries we have item c
adoption of resolution 2021-10

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a resolution approving and authorizing a
contract with gotham insurance company

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and a service agreement for
administration of claims with scheduled

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claims management services incorporated
for general liability insurance and

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claims administration
with respect to the metro parking lots

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liability
i see attorney orbath the

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actual agreement should be the actual
resolution should be the one with

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scottsdale insurance company got them
withdrew its uh

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his willingness to contract with the
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so i sent you all a revised resolution
yesterday evening all right i'll amend

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my reading to the scottsdale
is there a motion

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motion by alderman fahrenwell seconded
by alderman johnson on the question

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hi hey um alderman mcgee
yes um i i think that i mean

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we should technically have multiple bids
uh but i know that we are currently

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uninsured
so and this is imperative that we have

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this insurance so um
yeah i uh but for the future for the

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next contract if
if we can come together on this a little

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bit sooner that would be great
um that's my comment thank you alderman

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farrell yeah so mr mayor i do have a
concern about how this is played out

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um you know we were scheduled to have
met with the last city council being

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last tuesday
and no members of your faction showed up

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so we didn't weren't able to have a
meeting

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uh as a result of that uh this policy
now has

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gone up and cost about a little over
three thousand dollars

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also we've had to pay a change
endorsement of 950 bucks and i'm sure

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there were additional legal fees so
this is now costing the city an extra

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five thousand dollars which if we had
just filed normal procedure

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it would not have uh so it's a
disappointment

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uh i wish that you had all been here on
tuesday so we wouldn't have to do this

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tonight
um i do agree with uh alderman

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with gate that uh we do need to proceed
uh and go with the scottsdale insurance

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uh
i would hope that this you know just

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would not be something that would happen
again

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i think we share the belief that
hopefully this doesn't happen again and

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i think we both can agree that
we've been dealt these cards multiple

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times in our joint administration as
aldermen

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and hopefully i agree go out to bid and
we have plenty of time to renew it

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before it expires
well and i had my reasons from the other

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night and i think
we're approving it now and hopefully

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water under the bridge well i don't
agree that not showing up for city

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council meeting is acceptable
i think we need to get past that we're

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all blue islanders now we're all in the
same party

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i still stand by my objection to i
appreciate it thank you

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alderman rita um i just wanted to say
that nobody uh

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the communication wasn't there from the
mayor

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the past mayor or from any department
heads nobody communicated that

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the importance of this i had no idea
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this insurance was going to lapse the
other thing is

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i do know with my personal like my
homeowner's insurance

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i get a notice months in advance that
it's coming to the end so i don't

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understand
how it got to this point where it just

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expired
i'm wondering if it was sitting on

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somebody's desk or something you know
what i mean

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they let us know

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we negotiated things of that nature but
then it came back

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the reason why they didn't want to renew
it because this is the second round

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and this wrote i did read this you know

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but they were but they were both april
dates that's why i was

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yeah i think uh if you address the chair
you mentioned your concerns and

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taking your consideration i think we all
can agree this shouldn't happen again

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so thank you any other comments i'd ask
the clerk for roll call

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ottoman johnson yes
alderman montoya yes alderman rita

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aye alderman farenwell aye

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aldermanic announcements any automatic
announcements i'll give a little update

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of my day today but i'll let the
alderman speak first

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alvin rita uh i would just like to
congratulate um

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all the new aldermen and the um
remaining alderman and um you mayer and

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uh clerk contello and uh
treasurer frasto so thank you and uh

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it's nice to be
be up here with the new board thank you

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okay so um i was able to kind of tour
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i visited the police station and i
visited

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uh public works as well uh city hall
um you know i i'm starting to get a

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grasp on on you know what can be
bettered in in the city

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i i know that some
equipment can can be upgraded and then

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we have some
standing equipment that that needs to be

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uh disposed of so
i uh at least i had the

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the privilege of kind of getting a first
glimpse at things

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but i encour i encourage uh
the of the other new um

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aldermen to uh go and uh you know
check out public works check out um the

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police department and and you know
uh get uh get a handle on on what what

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the the city needs
because um you know it does i mean we we

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we
we're working with the best that we can

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you know but i think that we can
we can do better the violet can do much

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better so and we we need to
uh support our staff that supports us

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so thank you any other aldermen
i've got a couple of comments holmen

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farewell um so
again i am appreciative of the fact that

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we have a new
administration and an opportunity to

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move ahead uh
and that's that's a good thing and i

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look forward to working cooperatively
as we can and uh mr mayor i appreciate

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your sending out the
early advanced copy of the proposed

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ordinance about
staffing and so forth i didn't get a

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chance to look at any detail
and uh many of the structural things i i

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think are you know things that that are
workable i am uh

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frankly very concerned about how the
staffing is going to be

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placed and that i don't think is going
to be a slam dunk frankly

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we i want to work as cooperatively as i
can with you i have some pretty strong

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feelings about it
and you know i just hope we can deal

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openly and
objectively about those issues i think

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we like we mentioned
we discussed we need to work out through

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a lot of things
and there's a level of trust has to be

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built and i openly mean what i said to
the ones i had a privilege meeting with

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so far
i want us to compromise with almost

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everything we do as much as possible
um there's some things that i see the

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vision for the city that i i don't want
to budge on we might see different

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avenues of getting there
but i think we all want to go to the

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same place so i look forward to working
with everybody i'll give an update of

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what happened today also with audrey
mcgee we kind of had the same tour for

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most part
um i'm familiar with some of the

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department heads um
we all know there's been a lot of

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deferred maintenance it's been very
apparent

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uh just in the mayor's office alone
first of all i walked in there was no

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staff the hr director i was informed
today resigned last week

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the mayor secretary resigned last week
or was fired no she was terminated last

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week
not to mention all the other openings

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that we already knew existed
we didn't have any real central

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administration for since
one of the directors uh resigned six

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months ago or so
the city clerk has stepped up take a lot

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of roles my father city treasurer has
taken up a lot of roles

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so we've been definitely a lack of
administration and leadership at city

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hall to run the day-to-day
that's very apparent i think to

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everybody and so i showed up and and i
brought tom logan with me

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and attorney was on call and uh
treasurer frausto and we came to an

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office that was was absent of anybody
nobody nobody'd give me keys nobody to

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introduce me to anybody else but i
already knew most of the people anyway

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tony the the maintenance guy was very
friendly to what we needed

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but it was um no easy transition
and there's buckets in almost every

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office of collecting
rainwater the air conditioning at the

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police station i was notified the other
day is completely

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gone at a 65 000 replacement fee so i
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if we can get up and running temporarily
right now until we address that

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there's buckets in every office there's
carpeting held together by duct tape in

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most offices
there's a room full to about halfway

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point not
exaggerating of garbage bags full of

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blueprints there's cassette tapes from
the 70s

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probably 25 percent of that room there's
more stuff that's on the walls from the

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previous administration meaning
the local prairie administration that

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was never removed most places haven't
been painted in 20 years

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and it's just multiple maintenance
issues

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and there's good parts too we have a lot
of dedicated staff that are here

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we have um employees that have been here
for a long time and some that haven't

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but they're they're here and they were
very welcoming

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but we have a lot of vacancies and we'll
get past that and we're going to have to

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rebuild the city
so may i just make one additional

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comment mr mayor yes thank you
i do i certainly appreciate the concerns

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you have about the current condition of
things and i understand

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that they're tired but i do also see a
maybe a bright side to that in that we

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do have the opportunity to kind of build
a new city administration

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and i guess my uh overriding concern and
the thing that i will press

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on with this is that we need to find the
best people we can

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for every single position and that
doesn't mean

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hiring the people we know necessarily it
means going out

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getting together the resumes
interviewing the candidates

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developing job descriptions and hiring
the

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best person and i i'm not opposed to
anyone

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and i'm not in favor of anyone but i
took some of your suggestions

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if you notice and your reviews that
there's job descriptions already being

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built and what i sent you
which we never had before so um please

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take a look at all the aldermen and
please let me know

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of suggestions but that's really really
it on my end it was just a

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hit the ground running and i've already
met with multiple community members i've

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reached out to some community members
that were planning on pulling their

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businesses out of town
to see if there's anything we could do

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and as we meet and get along i'll
let the council know where we're at but

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it's just a lot of people are anxious to
meet with the executive office because

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no one's been responding for so long and
it's been

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very apparent today especially when
people found out the word got out that i

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was
in so it's gonna be a lot of work i

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expect it to be a lot of work everything
i've ever done in my life i've worked

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very hard on
and i want to work with the city council

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like i've been telling you guys so
i appreciate the comments any other

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ultimate concerns or i'll treasure do
you have anything

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no comments at this time here alderman
johnson

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yes um affordable housing um
said they tried to get in contact with

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some people and they wanted to
i guess reach out with the uh first

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aid giving up the olive branch
for the ladies building uh that's on

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western
and wanted to try to make it a taxable

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income uh by trying to send out having
to sit down with you

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and uh maybe attorney quarterback or uh

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as we discuss aldermen very interested
in also meeting with them

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thank you is it
i think there's a lot of fires but i

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think it could be very well done within
the month of may

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so who are we going with as far as
i mentioned at the beginning the meeting

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i've appointed montana welsh as
temporary city attorney

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pending final approval at the next
regular board

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thank you any alderman comments if not
treasure do you have anything

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no comments mayor city attorney no city
clerk

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all right so we need a motion for a
german making motion we did public time

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at the beginning
make a motion alderman rita is there a

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second alderman roll
all in favor aye aye any opposed nay

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the city clerk wants to talk to all the
aldermen and elected officials on the

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way out we have a gift
and we look forward to swearing in on

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may 10th which will still happen at 6 30
i will get invitations to you very soon

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and we want to make it a good affair a
good swearing in